THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORT LAND, SUNDAY - MORNING, JULY 27, 1919.
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I 1 THEIR STRANGE DISSENT
0s N WHAT reasonable theory could
Supreme Justices Burnett and
Benson hold that the Pacific
Livestock company should not
be made to restore Oregon school,
lauds known to have been obtained
by fraud That Is the effect of their
dissenting, opinion. .
" v The state has a suit against that
corporation. Thousands of acres of
'school land, declared by Attorney
General Brown to have been obtained
by forgery and fraud are held by the
company. The attorney general of
s the slate Is trying, through the suit,
to secure restitution of the illegally
'held land, the same as was done in
the P. A. Hyde case. ,
The corporation Is alien -and rich.
Who wilt say. If it holds lands il
legally obtained, that it should not
be required to make restitution? A
" stolen automobile is always seized
2y the" authorities and restored to the
ovner. Should hot the same rule
apply in the case of thousands of
acres of school lands unlawfully
acquired?
Justices Burnett and Benson held
' that because a wrong complaint had
. been filed, and demurred out of court,
Ihere could be no further trial.
It mattered not that the corpora
tion holds school1 lands worth half
a million which belong to the slate.
It mattered not that the facts in the
, Kit it have stover been brought to the
-attention of the court. It mattered ;
'not that courts are established, and
maintained to hear the testimony
arid adjudge between the parties. j
All that had weight -with the two
justices was a trivial quibble, and
that quibble bore down upon them
so heavily that they deliberately stood
lor relinquishing to the Pacific Live
stock company all the valuable school
" lands In its possession, no matter
.how obtained. . All this they "pro
posed to do without the hearing of
scintilla of evidence by the lower
court. .
- Are courts maintained and judges
supported to prevent presentation of
. J. no facts in a pending cause?. Oh
ijnue contrary, what are they; for but
. lo see that the facts and all the facts
bearing on the issue are fully and
ireely presented? If they are not for
that, what are they for?
The dissenting opinion Is not good
- law. 'It Is not good morals. It is not
, good common sense.
: Justices who present such views
r- aught not to be on the bench.
r - " J.:r -
With net earnings of J7.757.939
t above its fixed standard income, gov
rnment control of the Southern Pa-
clflc for 118 was anything but dis
astrous. The irritatinsr thing; with
thevnanagers is that, under. Inter
etate Commerce commission regula
tion and goverament -control, the
. Voads were not permitted the unre-
iftricted profiteering In which so
nany activities ran riot.". '
COSTLY CARELESSNESS
fHIS season, in common with nearly
' I every , one ct the past, forest
I fires are dteslroying property
which cannot be replaced during
the lives of the : present generation.
The federal government, , states, and
private owners of timber have given
tserious thought to prevention of fire
and- yearly spend; thousands of dollars
with this object in view. ; And still
the greatest menace to our magnifi
cent forests continues to be 'fire.
, The , question ' may well? be asked,
?Vhy is It impossible to- prevent
most of the fires which yearly oc
iur V It will be conceded that the
problem is formidable but the need
) for solution -is likewise great' It" will
jt uo uv cuucfueu progress nas
been made, but the present fire3 in
- Idaho - and .Montana and' ithe' lesser
ones ins Washington and Oregon show
- plainly that we have far to travel
before it may-- be. -claimeI - th.tt our
forests are effectively 4 !-;VearUed
-ajrainst fire. " ' . -
- it -is neueven : mar nrnrcirnon
rigencics are doing efficient work but
' tii.it the public generally is not prop-
tily backing up their efforts. There
- PLAYING WITH BANKRUPTCY
HERE is testimony at the rate bearing Thursday:: r v'M -,
The livestock rale from Pendleton, 216 miles, to Portland , Is 17
a" car, ai 74 a car from Pendleton, 401 miles "through Portland,, to
Seattle. - ..." 1 , -: .
i Seatite is 185 miles farther. Would a primitive freight wagon haul a
shipment from Pendleton-to Portland for 174, and, if the shipper so de
sired, haul it on 185 miles farther, to Seattle, without extra charge? Cer
tainly not. The old prairie-schooner freighters did not do a frenzied and
foolish business. , '
Ho steamboat5 line : would haul a shipment 216 , miles, and then If the
shipper so wished, carry it : on another ' 185 miles without added charge.
Ifjs only on railroads with a rate structure made to favor some particular
locality that such an arrangement, ever appears.
; The ' Investing public has lost confidence In the railroads, and refuses
to invest in railroad securities. No wonder ! No railroad can afford to
haul a train load of livestock' 401 mtles to Seattle for the same charge
that it hauls it 219 miles to PorUand. If its 216 mile haul to Portland
is reasonable at 974 the added 183 mile haul to Seattle for nothing Is a
heavy loss to the road.
i What incentive or what sense in hauling the shipment the added 185
miles for; nothing? Not one solitary reason can be advanced for thus
throwing away the money of stockholders of , the road. A bank doing
that sort of business would have its charter taken away by the govern
ment. ; A private business applying such methods would end in bank
ruptcy. ( "-.
It is such unbusinesslike, light-headed methods that have brought raiir
road finances into disrepute. Lawyers
ing at the rate hearing are still further undermining publio confidence m
the roads and their methods. . There can be no faith for investment pur
poses in transoortation systems whose managers haul a trainload of live
stock 185 miles without a penny of compensation. ; -
This is not an isolated case. The
money and the public's money Is presented in routing traffio over moun
tains where 'four locomotives are required to do what one locomotive will
do on a nearby and available valley
And we recently had the spectacle
from Puget : Sound, through Portland, San Francisco and New Orleans to
Cincinnati, 4176 miles,: when it - could have reached ' its destination by
direct routing in only 2483. The shipment; was needlessly hauled 1693
miles without compensation, : : ; 5 f
I Every railroad man knows that this is wastefully ruinous. The public
knows it. Yet the railroad managers ' whine and are constantly; before
the interstate commerce commission for Increases in rates.'.
The railroad managers are ever before the publio with ; claims that
their earnings are Insufficient. Why" do they f not manage the roads on
natural laws with a due regard for common sense and economic truths?
While bedeviling the interstate commerce ' commission and the public
for increased rates,; they are ' forcing traffic over unatural, and, therefore,
more costly routes. By trying to force all traffic through '"one Pacific
port they recently gave us the spectacle of 4000 to 6000 cars used mostly
aa warehouses standing for 1 more than a year, in Puget Sound terminals
and on sidings far Into the back country. It was, largely the 'result "of
making traffio move along unnatural . instead of natural routes.,
The practice wastes railroad resources, piles needless ' tasks upon rail
road equipment', uses trackage to the least advantage and results in monu
mental inefficiency. ' . : . :,- : i .:
Julius Kruttschnitt laid down a fundamental that is inescapable In the
economies of railroading:
One foot ! of adverse grade Is equivalent to 344 feet of level track..
Then there-is another fundamental that Is inexorable:
Once the train is loaded and in motion it costs exactly twice as much to
haul a train two miles as to haul It one mile. By adhering to these
unchangable laws and ignoring the heresies and fallacies which communi
ties and railroad lawyers urge for j violation of these laws, the railroads
of the country can be made to pay, and. the cost of moving "the nation's
traffic be greatly reduced. 5
Until that s donej regulation of railroads will be a failure, and the
roads remain in turmoil and trouble. , " -
Artificial rates, defying natural laws, with a trainload of livestock
hauled 185 miles without added charge is chaos. It Is, disorder, and cannot
survive. Until the interstate commerce commission ends the " chaos and
compels the roads to apply natural laws the public will continue distrustful
and the, roads remain an unsolved problem.
is a tendency to deal too leniently
with those who cause fires.
The publio should realize that de
struction of timber means retarding
the development of the state and
helps to increase the cost of lumber
and so the cost of living. It should
be demanded ? that violators of our
fire laws be brought to justice.
The time has arrived for the publio
to take a real interest in this sub
ject and support those struggling
to protect a great resource. Forest
replacement and perpetuation of our
timber supply depends for success
upon Tirst solving the fire problem.
" The solution rests very largely with
the public.
Veteran i of the Franco-Prussian
war of 1870, J. A. Chollet of Mon
treal faithfully . kept his vow of 48
years ago never to have his hair or
beard eut until Alsace-Lorraine
should come back to France. Close
ly cropped hair and an imperial are
all that is left now of half a cen
tury's hirsute growth, and a perpet
ual smile sheds Its radiance on the
righting of the great wrong of that
evil day when France lost her prov
inces. AMERICA S GREAT RECORD
COLONEL .LEONARD ,P. AYRES,
chief of 'the statistics branch '.of
the general staff, has compiled a
statistical summary of the war
with;; Germany which shows the mag
nitude of 'America's, s participation in
that conflict. It ' shows , more than
that, for it demonstrates the amazing
speed with which the United States
overcame the inertia of peace to hurl
Its every energy into the cause of
the allies. '
America ; put 4300,000 men under
arms, of whichr 4,000,000 were in the
army, the remainder in the marine
corps, the navy and the other
branches of the service. Of this
total; 2,086,000 men were sent over
seas, while out of that total 1,390,000
fought on the battlefields. -
In transporting this - mass of men
the maximum sent across the ocean
in one month was 306,000, while the
greatest number returned in the same
space of times after the tide of war
had turned, was 333,000.
; A total of 7,500,000. tons of supplies
were-shipped from America to France,
while the, cost of the war to April
30, 1919, reached the total of $21,850,
000,000, of which f 13,930,000,000 repre
sents the cost of the army up to that
date. . ;
The record as compiled shows that
there were 1,200,000 American troops
participating in -the Meuse-Arironne
battle, during which there were 120,-
000 American casualties. - During the
war 50,000 American soldiers were
killed In action while 236,000 were
wounded, t; American deaths from dis
easeduring ,the war totaled 56,991, a
greater J number, than were killed in
action while ;the "total deaths 'from
all causes' amounted to 112,422. ' .
When America entered the war the
British government had a little more
'NV ; r.- " .
now defending that sort of balloon
same principle of wasting stockholders
line.
of 150 cars of soy bean oil routed
than 2,000,000 men in France. "which
number decreased : until,: In 1918,
America had more soldiers in France
than England did. It required three
years for England to reach the two
million mark, which was topped by
America, in the face of the long dis
tance transport problems, in half
the time.
One Deculiar feature nf tha nm-
pilatlon shows that the smallest pe?
cent of drafted men"passlng the phys
ical examinations are grouped in the
New England states, New York, Mich
igan, ; Colorado, Arizona. .California
and Washington, where from 50 to 59
per. cent of the men; drafted passed
the tests given them. In Oregon,
Idaho, .Nevada, Utah. Pennsylvania.
Virginia,; Tennessee, South Carolina
and Georgia the per ent was from
60 to 64. In . Montana, Wisconsin,
Missouri, Illinois. Indiana. Ohio. West
Virginia, North 'Carolina, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama and Florida it
was 65 to 69 per cent, while through
all of the remaining Middle Western
states and Arkansas and Kentucky
it ran from 70 to 80 per cent a con
dition which furnishes food for
thought. ;
On the morning of Jalv 10. A car
rier pigeon flew out of the gondola
of the R-34, then one day out of New
York. on the return trit to England.
On the afternoon of the 11th, 30-odd
hours; later, what is believed to be
the same 'pigeon fell to the deck of
the West Kyska in mid-Atlantic.
The bird was so spent with Its long
flight that It suffered itself to be
picked up, and was so famished that
it ate voraciously. In its vain search
for the ; home loft m England, the
wonderful bird, as it flew on and on,
saw only a vast expanse of waters
ahead, and, with ; its .strength at last
gone, It followed the example of
Hawker, and took refuge on a friend
ly ship. ' .. -; ; . t i-v .'
UNFAIR TO FARMERS
m:
ANY - Eastern newspapers assail
the - wheat price and intimate
that .the , farmers n should have
voluntarily released the govern
ment from its pledge of a $2.26 basic
price. ' -
What? about the dollar Ja bushel
and more that the government' cut
away from .the wheat- price during
the war? . ;.
Wheat was selling at $3.25 a bushel
when ; the government assumed con
trol "and fixed the price. Flour was
well on the way. to $25 a, barrel and.
would; have reached that figure had
not the government intervened.
1 Long , before the armistice was
signed; wheat, with nearly the whole
world under 'arms, could easily have
soared to $4 or $5 a bushel. We
have only to look at the uncontrolled
price of barley and oats flour, which
sold at ' nine ' cents a pound when
wheat fiour ' sold at -five, to realize
the enormous prices to which wheat
and wheat flour would have mounted.
.Xonsumers.'' werd saved huge sums
in the purchase of -wheat and flour
during the war, and it 'was denial to
the farmer of wa r prices ho could
have obtained, that gave J them the
saving. - - ' -
Nor did. we know when the pledge
of 256 basic wheat' was made that
the war was to end ' so soon-i - We
then expected it - to continue into
1919, and we fixed tue-price, both to
protect consumers and to induce
farmers to plant the utmost total in
wheat acreage. It. was a precaution,
not for the farmers alone, but for
consumers, and It' is neither fair
dealing nor in. good taste now to in
sist that tbe farmers should have
voluntarily released the government
from Its pledge.
Eighty per cent of the 500 Ger
mans Interned at Fort Oglethorpe.
Ga., and Fort Douglas, Utah, should
be deported; was the statement of
John R. Creighton of the federal de
partment; of Justice before a con
gressional Investigating committee.
Only about 40 of those. Interned can
be deported under existing laws,; he
saidfc in urging additional legislation.
Let the legislation be enacted. Men
traitorous to America In time of war
should have no place bere in time of
peace, whether they be" Germans or
of any other race, v
WHY BOTTLE IT .UP?
T
HE public, whose lightened pock
ets" bear the expense of main
taining the publio schools, of the
city," including the board of direc
tors, have a lot to be thankful for,
after all. In the . first place the
board, at is special meeting of Thurs
day evening, "stated a definite policy
governing- tours of inspection made
by its members. That Is something
to ' be thankful about. Everybody,
from now on will know just what to
expect when the dog days breed the
wanderlust In the bosoms of the
board and the treasury is open, and
the road is too.
; It w-as thoroughly understood be
fore . Director George B. Thomas left
on ; his $600 "tour of inspection,"
Dr. Sommer told his colleagues that
the "district would stand the ex
pense," not only for: Mr. Thomas but
for any other members of , the board
who "would benefit the board by
their experience." 0
It ,1s unfortunate, perhaps, for Jhe
future education of the young that
the other members of the board did
not take advantage of the general
understanding and "beat It" for the
humid East along with Director
Thomas. It may be, of course, that
the cause of education and beneficial
experience will profit more if the
other members await a time when
some other experience besides, a
Shriners convention . can demand their
attentive investigation. Maybe, seme
dear day, there will be a Moose con
vention, or the Odd Fellows will meet,
or the Elks, or the W. C T..U., or
the Anti-Saloon league. Then the
boys can all go and absorb beneficial
experience, or grape Juice, or any
thing, they can gather for the benefit
of the school children.
. It Is too bad that the beneficial
experience which Director Thomas
bought on his $600 "tour of inspec
tion" cannot be passed on to the tax
payers who paid for it. Why bottle
it up for the board? Why not. let all
of us In on some of these good
things ?
I have no hesitation In saying that
there are evidences of unlawful prac
tices In the traffic' In foodstuffs,"
said Governor Cox of Ohio, in order
ing the attorney general to conduct
a statewide , Investigation of" food
prices. "The war is over, but 'too
many interests do not seem to recog
nize it," he said. The most impor
tant domestic problem In America
today is the riot of high prices. The
profiteering during the war is con
tinuing in time of peace;"
BUILD WITH VISION
OREGON is ' now embarked " on a
great road construction program.
On those who have been instru
mental in the bringing about of
this situation is the added responsi
bility to see that the millions of
dollars provided for shall be applied
to construction which will ; be rea
sonably ' permanen t and adequate to
the demands of traffic. The func
tion of the good roads advocate has
changed. It used to be necessary to
educate '' the public to the value of
improved highways. .It is now neces
sary to point' out; what is required
in proper construction.
If It is considered. that a well payed
road should be giving service 20 years
hence, we must look 20 years into the
future and visualize the volume of
traffic it must then carry. ,
Motor truck transportation is yet in
its- infancy and no one can foresee
what it will b even 10 years, hence.
lt has been established that' the lm
provement of a highway more than
quadruples the volume of traffio it
carries. While a traffic census, of
aa unimproved road is useful, , it is
not a sure indication of . the amount
of traffic when the road is Improved.
The Oregon standard calls for a
roadbed 24 feet wide on the main
trunk roads and for a 16 foot wide
pavement. ' In . some instances this
standard has been departed fromo
a a ' a . a a a..
save cost oi construction, nut mere
is a question whether this has been
in the interest of real economy or
not
; There is also a question whether
a 16 foot pavement, or even a 20 foot
one, will ' be adequate a few years
from now. :.-
: Take' the Rex-Tigard road : or sec
tions of the Pacific highway "which
have been paved." It Is already ap
parent that the ; 16 foot pavement is
quite narrow and, throws traffic on
the edges, resulting In a breaking
Iovn of the material, allowing water
to ' penetrate and set up deteriora
tion. 'While Jt . is Impossible to foresee
the volume of traffio whlco will be
developed In the next 10 years, it Is
certain that it will, flow steadily over
our main roads 'both ways and that
our roads should; be jwide enough to
allow not only forjtwo lines ;or slow
moving freight trucks, nut also two
lines of the more rapid moving pas
senger car. . Provision . should be
made for' this ultimate development.
STRATEGIC
FRONTIERS?
No Such Thing in the Sky, end the
Sky b What Counts Now.
,,: I -rrona..tha. Chicago Post :
Leas and less does it matter whether
nations prone to quarrel are separated
by- mountain range and river, or even
by oceans. Not only is there no longer
such a thing as an impregnable natural
defense to land forces or to navies, bat
barriers that once offered the service
of delay are useless to halt the . flight
of aeroplane or dirigthle.
promise - no assurance of security In
the future.. .
Once 3000 miles ' away meant three
months away; steam " narrowed It to
weeks and days ; the aeroplane reduces
It to- hours. Once a mined coast, well
patrolled, might be counted upon - to
hold a naval foe at bay;' now the foe
can come by air and rain destruction
on inland cities.
There is no strategic frontier in the
sky. . -; '
We haU with enthusiasm, as an evi
dence of human progress, the achieve
ments of the last, few weeks, in 'which
three types of aerial craft have ven
tured successfully a flight across the
Atlantic ; ,
Everywhere ' men are talking of the
commercial possibilities latent in these
triumphs of daring and skill. Nor can
we prophesy, too boldly. They will be
developed beyond the range of our
present imaginings. But - let us re'
member that as commerce perfects
this means of communication it per
fects also a means of warfare. .
And the aircraft not only- destroys
the strategic frontier it -: annihilates
the front. - No more can there be a
battle line," a restricted area of r war
fare measured, by the immediate " con
tact of armies. The xone of . slaugh
ter and of devastation will be limited
only by the .flight radius of the bomb
ing plane and the "blimp. . .
If we are to have another world
war we must reckon that when It
comes there wUl be no ' such thing as
civilian immunity. "
It has become customary to speak
of the war from which we are emerg
ing as a war of nations in the new
sense that . it .'compelled the Industrial
reorganization of whole peoples in or
der to maintain Its vast armies. . But
the next war the war that must not
be will be a war of nations in a stiU
more terrible sense. No man, however
old or Incapacitated, no woman and no
child wUl be safe from its weapons.
Chicago may be as open to the foe's
attack as London was to the Zeppelin.
We will not have to cross the ocean
to find "horrors. We could not keep
out of his war, but ' we kept It in
Europe. If war comes again we shall
be able to do neither.
a '.. .
Is It 5 not ! evident that If the next
war fs to be never, we must - depend
on something more than armies and
navies to avert it? '
The physical barriers that once af
forded a sense of security have gone.
The spiritual barriers that have pro
voked misunderstandings , and fostered
prejudices and suspicions must go, too.
Nations must learn to live and work
together , for the common good and the
common peace. In this alone lies our
hope that civilization will be saved
from the utter overwhelming that
threatens If ever its destructive forces
are again unleashed.
Letters From the People
Comnranicatioaa sent to Tha Journal for
publication in xbis department aboold.be written
on only one aide of tha naner. ahould not exceed
800 words in lencth. and moat be signed by the
writer, wboae mill address in lou must accom
pany toe contribution. J
Bibulous Ancestors
Athena, July 24. To the Editor of The
Journal. A great many people are ex
tremely jealous of their personal rights,
especially with reference to any restric
tions that may be put upon them in the
treatment of the liquor question. They
seem to imagine that the greatest boon
to mankind since creation 'was John
Barleycorn the only material , thing
that God did forget at creation, and
man supplemented it. And they have
mighty curious ideas' as to what their
personal rights are. One could laugh
sometimes, if it were not fer disgust.
How they will hang and haggle for that
precious ; liquor! And Mr. Ltlnscott's
plea is about the most laughable and
least logical, I have seen ye$. But of
course he proved nts case, au right,
beyond a - perad venture, when he Intro
duced his grandfather story. - He. must
be the same ! old grandfather I have
heard of before so many times. : He
lived in Iowa, Arkansas, Texas. Illinois.
Minnesota ahd, - lastly, Missouri. He
must have been a fine, grand old man.
They all said he was., How placidly he
went down to his death at 98 years
(Or was it 198? Oh, well, it doesn't
make any difference) with a pipe in
one hand and a bottle In the other, smil
ing sweetly and serenely- the . smile of
the just and i only demised in the end
because he came to a place where the
demising .was good, and also because he
wanted to assert a personal right. , It's
enough to make the old man rise from
his grave if he could know what they
have done to his beloved demijohn. -
Too bad a great majority of people
in their blindness and their remissness
to " their personal rights have been so
arbitrary, , and - cut off absolutely cut
of f the possibility for - any future
grandfather to achieve what that grand
old man did. Who knows but what one
of those old" gentlemen will get ob
streperous one of these days and just
refuse to die at all. ' F, B. WOOD.
. Hisses Ills Beer
Portland, July 28. To- tha Editor of
The Journal I fully agree with J. H.
Clark, who, . according to his letter of
July 23, "views the future with alarm.'
I was born and raised in the beautiful
city of Portland I have had beer to
drink an my life. Am I dissatisfied? I
should say I am. --, Why? This is the
very reason:1 I lived "n a certain dis
trict in Portland., and after work
would get off the car. and stop off at
a grocery store that happened to be on
the same corner as the car; stopped, and
buy my groceries. This groceryman is
a strong prohibtionist. row he tells me
I can't have my glass of beer, ' and
profiteers on me. ,1 used to go to base
ball .games, read Shakespeare, Tolstoi,
etc, and studied .a certain - branch - of
art. ; Now I have dropped It all, and
after my .day's work all I do is sit down
and . grieve, wondering , it I . VfiU ever
be able to have my glass of beer. The
touch of -snorting nfe- is - surely taken
out of me. Yes, I am married ; have two
THE REFORMER
By John Greenleaf Whittier
ALL grim and soiled and brown with tan,
I saw a Strong One, In his wrath, .
Smiting the godless shrines of man
t " Along his path.
The Church, beneath her trembling dome,
Essayed in vain her ghostly charm
Wealth shook within his gilded home
- With strange alarm. 4 -
Fraud from his secret chambers fled . .
Before the sunlight bursting in:
Sloth drew her pillow o'er her head
To drown1 the din.
"Spare." Art Implored, "yon holy pile;'
' : ' That grand, old, time-worn turret spare;"
"Meek Reverence, kneeling in the aisle.
Cried out. "Forbearl"
Gray-bearded Use, who. deaf and blind.
Groped for his old accustomed stone,
Leaned on his staff, and wept to find
- I His seat o'erthrown.
Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes,
O'erhung with paly locks of gold : -Why
smite," he asked In sad surprise,
"The fair, the hi.V
Ytt louder rang theStrong One's stroke.
Yet jiearer flashed his ax's gleam;
Shuddering, and sick of heart I woke,
As from a dream.
I looked: aside the dust-cloud rolled
The Waster seemed the Builder too;
Upspringing from the ruined Old
I saw the New.
'Twas but the ruin of the bad
The wasting of the wrong and ill;
Whate'er of good the old time had
Was living still.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By" Fred
f Thta la tha eonehidini article of tha two
prepared by Mr. Locale j to recapitulate the
career ol U K. -Alderman, wno naa neiu uw
moat prominent public achool poaitiona in Ore
awn and wboae work in behalt of linkine home
and achool naa been recognized as notable tha
country orer. .-. .
"While I was county superintendent
of Yamhill county, I worked out a sys
tem of school credits for home work,"
said- Professor Lt. R. Alderman, "who
has Just returned from France, where
he addressed more than 60.000 soldiers
on vocational guidance and other edu
cational subjects. "Under the name of
'the Oregon plan of school credits, this
has been adopted by almost every state
in the Union. One of the most pleasant
results of this work came ' from my
writing a book called 'School Credits
for Home Work. As it Is -widely used
throughout the United States I find
that, no matter where I go, some edu
cator will say, 'Are you the Lewis
Raymond Alderman who wrote the book
on 'school credits for home work?" It
has made me friends all over the coun
try. Today, when I travel through
Yamhill county, X can still find in the
gardens throughout the county, water
melons and popcorn that came from the
seed I distributed there many years ago.
"From McMInnvIlle I went to Eugene
as city superintendent Of schools. I dis
covered that a good many of- the boys
who were idle and mischievous and who
made trouble for their teachers were
not Interested in : their studies. X waa
In' a quandary Just what to do to keep
these boys Interested, for I knew If I
could hit on the proper thing, some
thing in which they would take an Inter
est, lt would - solve - the problem. , I
finally hit on the plan of having the
boys build bird housea The . schools
took up nature study. Most of these
boys who had caused so much trouble
in the past, laid aside their airguns
and flippers and. Instead of killing the
birds, became their defenders. They
studied the habits of the birds, and took
pride in being able to name every bird
they saw. They studied their nesting
habits. I gave a prise for the best
birdhouse bunt by any boy in the city
schools. Four hundred and twenty-three
birdhouses were entered In the contest
for the prise. ; These birdhouses, when
the prize had been awarded, were put
up In the trees and on poles and Eu
gene became a bird-loving city. I doubt
if there is any city In the state where
birds are so tame as they$ are in Eu
gene. f " ..V
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The buUdlng of the birdhouses led to
the Introduction of manual training In
the schools there. The plan worked so
successfully with the boys that I se
cured volunteers . from the Women's "
club as Instructors to the gTrts. Thirty
two women volunteered to teach sew
ing in the schools. We were fortunate
in finding a graduate of Columbia col
lege who could give these 38 volunteers
lessons in how to teach. We estab
lished a sewing course, which resulted
In bringing the home atmosphere Into the
school and the : school Into the home.
There have always been two separate
worlds for the child the home life and
the school life. There has been a lack
of understanding by the teachers of the
home problems and by the parents of
the problems of the teacher. This move
ment resulted in mutual understanding
and better cooperation between the home
and school. We. organized sewing con
tests and held exhibits. We also or
ganized classes In breadmaklng. We
tried to teach the girls the duties of
home life and how to become home
makers, realizing that the better home
maker a girl is the less liability there is
of domestic infelicity, and divorce. I
believe that education should not be ar
tificial that i the schools must devote
their attention to the human problems
and not to artificial problems.
. t . a . a . .
"After beln in the city schools for a
while I was elected professor of edu
cation of the University of Oregon. After
children. - I worked In the shipyard for
Uncle Sam and did my best, -while some
of our profiteering prohibitionists reaped
the harvest- AN UNRESTFUL ONE- .
Names That Fit
From tha New York Erenlns Poet
"Scapa Flow," "Quidi Vidt," Cardinal
piffl (of Austria) and General Pilsud
ski (even though he has nothing to do
with prohibltionf; are names so suited
to their purpose that it , is hard to
imagine anything more so, unless lt be
"East Fortune." They bring back the
days of the Dreyfus trial, when Paty
du Clam took -the palm for. appropriate
christening. What names In fiction are
half so fit? Beside them Bleak House
and Bareacres, and even Z. M areas him
self, seem Ulfltting and Inefficient.
"AhVasJIenry James says, "life has
a trick that you can't catch I"
Turkish Humor
- ' From the IxmarrOJa OonrieisJoarnal -
The sentence r ol Enver Pasha and
other Turkish leaders to death in their
absence from Turkey argues a sense of
humor in a Turkish courtmartlal which
Gilbert and Sullivan would have de
lighted to celebrate In comic opera. It
Is prohibition of life without possibility
rtt nfnrrnnnL V"
Lockley
two years' work in the University of
Oregon X became state superintendent
of public Instruction. Here I was able
to do for the . children of the whole
state what I had tried to do as county
superintendent and as superintendent
of city schools. ,
"In 1911 the Bankers' association, at
my request, gave me a check for $2500,
the Union Stockyards gave me a check
for a similar amount. This 95000 was
to be used)n doing for the whole state
what had been done for the children of
Yamhill county and of Eugene. - That
Is the creating of an Interest on the
part of the school children of the state,
particularly in. the rural schools, in
farm life. I organized a potato raising
contest. I arranged to furnish seed
free to any child in the state who would
promise to compete in the potato grow
ing contest. I found : a man ' named
Klppel, who had a farm near Salem,
who was raising some remarkably fine
potatoes. I got my seed potatoes from
him. The contest closed -in September
and the children were required to bring
their potatoes to the state fair. Trie
prize was to be given' to the child that
raised the most potatoes from the sin
gle potato furnished him. ' A Linn coun
ty boy, Eugene Dumond, whose father's
farm was near Albany, broke the
world's record for raising the largest
number of potatoes from one potato.
cs - j J- ': - '- - - ' '
. ; T shall never forget that contest Nat
urally I was keenly interested In It. A
child would bring to the Judges In the
pavilion a gunny sack half full of pota
toes, raised from the one potato he had
received. Another child would come
up with a box of potatoes and In his
Wake would be the father and the hired
man, each carrying a box with sworn
evidence that these three boxes of po
tatoes had been grown from the one
original potato. Finally a sturdy red
headed boy 14 years old drove up In a
wagon with what looked like' a load of
potatoes. His father and the hired" man
brought In 11 boxes of potatoes. The
potatoes were in regular sized apple
boxes. He . claimed that all of these
potatoes had been grown from the one
original potato. The Judges felt this
was impossible. In fact, one of them
told me that the boy might take a prlxs
as a prize liar, but he couldn't make
anyone believe he had raised 11 boxes
of potatoes from one potato. The boy
produced a certificate from the county
judge of Linn county In which was set
forth the method by which he had raUed
his 11 boxes of potatoes from th one
original potato. The potato X had sent
him had 13 eyes. He had cut the potato
up carefully, and planted it In a cold
frame. When a shoot would get a few
Inches long he would pull It off and
eplant it. Another shoot would come out
where the first one naa been removea,
until he had 300 hills planted from this
one potato. He had looked up the po
tato growing business and had found
that this was done with sweet potatoes,
so he thought he would try It out with
Irish potatoes. If you want to know
more about this you can find this boy's
picture In Adam J. Puffer's book on
'Vocational Guidance " ;
"To wy popcorn clubs, watermelon
clubs and potato clubs were added corn
clubs and pig clubs. If every child In
a country school would keep JO chickens
the revenue produced from the eggs and
sale of chickens would pay the entire
cost of running that achool. This sound
like a dream, and yet it Is a dream
that could be realized. If the teacher
could Interest all pupils in chicken
raising.
.
"In 1913 I became superintendent, of
the Portland public schools. You are
fairly familiar with what has been done
with the public school system during the
past six years. Now about my - work
overseas I never enjoyed work more,
and I believe X" have never done work
that will prove more helpfuL It was a
wonderful experience."
.Help Our President Win
By Tlrzab Lamond
Hold up bis henna!
He ia maktns the fiht for yon.
lt him know that wa etaad -In
one eohd band,
t To help make hia-vision com true.
Hold op bia handil
Lvten not to the traitor refrain.
, Let democrecjr'e Ualit
fined Ha twye thrones the stent;
Follow not toe fa lee prophets again.
Hold up sis handil '
- Ti humanity' crjr that you hear.
- The hearts that are still
Foocht oar ficht wit s wtn.
; Let u pTOTe to the is sow we're line ere. ...
Hold up hie hands!
Do not let him stand ail atone. --.
Or we'U anare in the blame
" Of ear senatori' ehame.
And oar country is tear will atone. -Wolf
Creek. July 2.
Souvenir of Service ,
' From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
It Is to be noticed that a lot of dis
charged soldiers have almost gone back
Into civilian costume, but not quite. They
still retain the wrist watch.
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
of Journal Headers ; ,
. ' OREGON NOTES.
Clarence B. Moffenbpior nt Mi. anrrl.
a member of the old Third Oregon, was
welcomed home on - his arrival- from '
overseas. - -.;....'-:
SDOntanootll cnmhuat Inn la hlamrt fnr-
fire which destroyed 2a tons of alfalfa
hay on the farm of A. J. Noble near
arineviue. . .
A larre run nf MrrllnAa ha, annar
In the UmDOUa and Kiunlaw rivra and
Coos bay, hut no effort is being made
u uw ma iisn commercially.
HarveBtinir In IJnn county has started
and about 30 machines will soon be at
work threshing the grain, which is
estimated to be worth approximately.
a.,uiv,uuv. . v
"Jsv walking" on Astoria's buiilnra
streets has been made a misdemeanor,
and yellow lines have been painted to
' praminani oonerve tne law,
which provides a fine of ft to 910 for
v lui&uoiia.
Lieutenant Flovd IX Brawn ef KM.
verton, whose airplane was damaged
in a fall unil who sold the machine, has
gone to Han Francisco with Lieutenant
rVanseen of Fortlanrt to purchase a nw
iane lor commercial use. which he will
ly home. t
Duncan Don a Ian. son nt W Tl TVtur.
las. an attorney of Marahfiinirl. has
been named United States commissioner
ior tne coos Bay territory, succeeding
A. IC. Peck, who - quit to - reprsMent
squatters on Coos Bay wagon road
grant lands. , - - -
C. B. Common, a rrrhrrtlt. tiaa
filed suit for divorce against Marie T.
K. Comoton. whom, he married while
doing army guard duty at EI Paso.
mrs. uompion was a nurse tn a military
hospital at the time. Farm life, ha
alleges, proved too tame for her.
Alleging that a caro-o of onions, com.
Prising 8129 sacks, shipped from iSan
'ranctsco a year ago, whs so damaged
as to be a total loss, the T. I'mmon
company of San Francisco has sued the
Great Northern Pacific Steamship com
pany ior s.ou.iB in tne Astoria courts.
A deputy fish warden ronflsrtatMl "SO -
salmon. 16 to IS inches in length and
wBisnmn jess man inree pounds eacn,
which were brought In by the purse
seining boat - Chinook. It is reported
mat inousanas or DaDy salmon, ap
parently killed and thrown away, are
floating outside the mouth of the Col
umbia. ; WASHINGTON. ' '
Confiscated liquor " valued at more
than 19000 was destroyed In Jdontesane)
by Sheriff Bartell. i .
The annual meeting of county com
missioners of Washington will be held
in Vancouver, September 11-13.
Plans- to establish a cooperative fish
cannery at Cathlamet were discussed
by 60 gillnet and trap fishermen and
others. . '
Yakima pear growers were paid $60
a ton for the first carload of pears
shipped to Eastern markets. Apricots
brought the growers 6 cents per pound:
plums 4 cents a pound, and early
peaahea are selling for 75 cents a box.
H. a Hudson, supreme master Arti
san, and member o the board of di
rectors of supreme i assembly of the
order, visited Centralia Saturday, look
ing over sites for the proposed Arti
san home for aged, dependent and sol
dier members of the lodge;
GENERAL
The railway . strike In England has
oeen amicamy settiea, ana au trains are
running on schedule time.
A sensational high treason trial has
Just come to its close In Berlin with the
acquittal of Gorg Ledebour, Spartacan
leader. ..
Postal savings deposits gained 934,
000.000 during iha war, , despite Liberty .
loan and War Savings Btamp cam
paigns. -. - -: - ....
Germany Increased her - stock of
gold during the war, but lost 9122,000,
000 between January. 1 and , May 7 of
tljls year., .i . , . :
A contract has been-signed for 100,000
tons of coal for France, and negotiations
are proceeding for an additional 600,
ooo tons. ;;..':; '-'. ::.;'-;;
It Is stated that 886.673 families of
soldiers find sailors In the United 8tatea
are still being assisted through the me
dium of the Red Cross.
The Belgian government next week
will Issue regulations governing trade
with -the Germans. Every transaction
will require a license.
Secretary Baker tells congress that
to keep within the appropriations for
this year the army must be reduced to
225.000 by September 30.
A mob of 1000 men, all heavily armed,
has destroyed the telephone lines and -private
system of the street railway
company at Tulsa, Ok la.
The French and Belgian guards on, the
Rhine have received orders to "shoot to
kill" every suspicious person approach- ,
ing the left bank, of the river.
Theodore Patterson, mine superintend-
ent and a British subject, was killed by
Mexican bandits at his camp in the
state of Zacatecas, Mexico.
By a vote of 969 to 47 the house has
passed a bill providing a minimum was
of 93 for all government employes ex
cept those In the postal service. .
Judge F. II. Taft of the superior court
at Los Angeles has ruled that hereafter
when women are asked their ages In his
court they must give the exact years.
The department of agriculture pre
dicts a sugar crop this year of 2,216. -000,000
pounds, 147,000,000 more pounds
than the average of the preceding six
years. , - ' .-'-'.:.. ;;.--'
At Vancouver,- B. C, Annie and Nellie
Hunter, sisters, aged 91 and 28, rented
a. rnwho&t. rowed out into the stream.
deliberately jumped ' overboard, and
were drowned, .
Arrangements have been made by th.e
representatives of Germany, Franceand
Switzerland for the repatriation of 800,
000 German prisoners in France by way
OK owiuerjapo.
The prohibition act passed by the Call- -fnrnla
learlalature Is held ur by refer
endum until the 1920 general election.
.Kauiicauon o l" imerai cuniuiuuuimi
amendment also goes to referendum.'
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
A - whole lot of ; learnln' hi bllm
blammed foolishness. There's been a
lot . of learned men a-sittln "round
Portland argufyln' that It don't make
no difference whether you haul your
spuds up a long- hill and then down
agin, or haul 'em , over a graded road
along on the creek level ; to town
thout no hlil pullln', What s'prises
me Is the guv-ment sendln' out . a com
mission to listen to 'em. It seems
to me some of them there smart rail
road fellers the guv-ment has on Its
payroll - could .tip a pool table up a
inch or; two at one end and find out
right off - which way the balls rolled
most-. easiest.;; -..;,.::',...-. .
War Savings Stamps Really
. Of Double Value v
f Stories of achievement la the sooasae
latin of War Sarin Stamps, aent to Tne
Journal and aeeepted for publication, wUl
be awarded Thrift stamp. J
For savings small and large,
regular and recurrent, unparalleled
oportunlties , are open . to Americana
at present. Governmental securl''
ties, safe, sure, profitable, income
bearing,; non-depreciable, non-taxable,
- non-fluctuating, , are offered in
tempting scope and variety, to say
nothing of -savings banks, endow
ment policies. -and other unques
tionable; safeguards and invest
ments. And - money - invested in
government securities. In the War
Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps
so easily purchased, - means money
twice saved, really, since Its profits
accrue to the individual and the
government , as well. .
Thrift ' Stamp and 1919 War Sarlnr
Stampa now on nU it nraat asanda. - .