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THD OREGON DAILY; JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919. ...Pttbllebe cum mttr. - - - . All drpartnwmU reached T tbeeo Bnaabers, leu uw operator wnat ntmiMw ' IfOHKION ADVEifHSXNO JtEPEESEtAWB i, vfiin fVi - RrtiiuwicK Muamz, 225 Fifth feline, Wew Tort; 19 MUw ftabeeripUo term or Buiil. or to any addreaa ia v tb United statea o Mexico DAILY (UOILsna OB ASTEBSOON) ( On ar... . .15.00 f On month. .(0 .. ' 8UKDAT ' , One year..... IJ SO On month . . . t . DAILT '(MOBJONO OR AFTIBWOON) AKD iv SOlVtT. , .Os yaf.,.. 87.00. Q month..... 8 .08 V 'ItTOT ia not alway the effect of forca and annanent i not a victory. Edmund Bark. IF AN Oregon legislative member does' not favor an extra session to ratify? ther suffrage amendment, will.he not Incur the enmity of the women , of the ste? A l Will j. he , not be confronted with opposition from them in future elec tions? These kre questions- which ' every pregdjn sen'ator and representa tive must answer for himself or her self. , ; .' ' Nor I will it , escape the attention, " of these members that, on the other band, Jtheir -expressed willingness to , ; attend an extra session without cost to the state in. per diem and mileage will ppl them In better standing wfth the women voters. If the members thus make a personal sacrifice in order! to hasten ratification of the amendment and thereby render a service to the unenfranchised women i in othier states, it cannot stand other wise than as a future political asset. The! suffrage 'cause is very deep in the hearts of Oregon wOmen. They were among the pioneers in the movement. ; With them, suffrage is a. cause, and not . a diversion. And it. is a matter of history 'in Oregon . that the mass of f women are very faithful to those men who stood In Its hour of ; need for -woman's equal ,' ity before ithe law. ' AnJ extra session for ratification of c "the ., suffrage amendment In Oregon ' would ; undoubtedly have weight with other isuffrage states. The fact that Oregon legislators had waived per diem and mHeage to ratify the amendment would give the women in such states an argument for - appealing . to their own legislators. There, (as here, it would be diffi ' cult for menbers , of the legislative body to refuse ! to waive legislative .expenses in order to ratify. - It is hard to see how Oregon legislators can refuse. The Sacrifice .that the Women ask is very small. A day's, per diem is the price of a few ' cigars., Mileage, l.except to distant, counties," is Ithe 'cost of a dinner , and tickets to the theatre. The . end to h& - attained - is the 1 probable admission of millions of women: to exercise of theballot In time f6r the' 1933 election. The re-.- ward cannot be other than the good . will of a very large parti of the voting ' population wjf Oregon. "Wax weddings in seven cases out of 10 proved failures," said a Chi cago Judge, In announcing that the .j 12' months just -ended wilt go down . irtjcourt records as the greatest di 1 vorce year in Chicago history. "The young brides . are. afraid of the : strangK men they hastily married .two years ago." he added In explana tion in. fpart cf the increased num ber 'of I domestic tragedies. The Chi cago' percentage ' of divorces is a ' little bver. one Jto every seven mar . ' riages. ' - - v ' ' . : ' - v ITS GREAT SERVICE EEY ."people realize the wide scope and effect of the work done by tit$ -federal employment agency ' : throughout the country. The re- , suits in Oregon, through r. the work of . the bureau headed by Wilfred P.' Smith,? are surprising. ' Mr;. SmiUC has Just filed hfs report of the., work done by the bureau ' during the period between - July J, . 1918, - and June 30, 1919, inclusive. ' During that time 131,568 men' regis tered, with; the bureau in search of employment.. Of this number 113423' were furnished with work at remun ' erative wages. : " ... t The report also shows that 9710 returned soldiers, sailors and " ma rines have been furnished wihf po sitions in the fate of the; fact that V-sInca;, March & last -. most of this work iias- been done through the . Liberty 1 Temple. - During the same vperiod 7680 women were placed in 'posiifons,' and at the present time an average of 20O men are being located in positions daily. , 1. " This -reeorcl-has been jnade In spite of the fact that the' work , of the bureau has been 5 hampered .by lack of funds and consequent curtailment of activity. Its results, however, , demonstrate the wisdom of the law which created the bureau,' and ought to be compelling reason for the continuance of the -work, not only in Oregon, 'but throughout the- coon try. v , ' , In the ' fullness of health ! and strength she' alighted from a Union avenue car. 'But an auto was pas8 ing. ; It struclc her.; One . le i broken. ; Dot any of us realize the mosientou8nss of the auto problem ? When, in the next year or two; their number la doubled,, what of the acci dents? .,..,..: - ' -v ." ' v CITY LAND SCANDALS WILL oppose to the finish tiny at tempt to obtain excessive prices .from the city for, park sites. Prop 1 erty for that purpose will doubt less be secured, through condemna tion proceedings, and U the verdict of the' jury is anything other ' than what X 'would consider a good 'buy for tho city, I will vote against its ac&J ceptance. City Commissioner Pier. Fbe hundred thousand dollars of public money is to be spent for park sites in Portland. Experience in buying land for public . uses in the past ' has been disastrous. Marquam gulch" prices? were a public scandal. Juries fixed valuations for lets in that district at more than double the figure aUwhlch.lots In the heart of Irvington were offered the city by the Irvington club. . The expressed purpose of Commissioner Pier is as surance that the scandals of the past will not be repeated. The other members of the city commission made similar pledges when the measure for purchase of park sites was pend ing before the people. It was on those campaign pledges and on them alone that the people voted the appropriation for park sites, Even with the pledges of the commissioners to back the measure, it was adopted only by a slender majority. The people trusted the commissioners on the campaign pledges made, and committed to them the expenditure of a great sum for parks and playgrounds for the bene fit, of the city's expanding popula tion. There is every reason .to believe that profiteering on the city in land transactions is to end. A great deal of good intention has been shown by the present city government. There is no field in which it can dojhore to further prove its high purpose and efficiency than by put ting an end to city land scandals; I there were ho rail lines and, as City Attorney LaRoche points out, a waterway were constructed over the mountains to Puget Sound, raising the slow-moving craft over the ridge by a tedious series of locks, wouldn't the difference in cost of transporta tion be obvious enough to secure for the natural route along the Colum bia a differential in freight ratea? Why not, then, a differential in rait rates?--f ONE GUNMAN IS BEST FREDERICK A. DOWSEY, the spe cial agent of the United States shipping board, whose sudden death at Seattle not long ago has been the occasion of much ex citement because of the theory that he was murdered to prevent disclos ures of j widespread shipbuilding frauds, came to his end from natural causes, ' according to - the findlngs of the ' coroner's jury.- In spite of this verdict the government agents are not satisfied but will still con tinue to follow the murder .theory. It is difficult to believe - that men of sufficient prominence and stand ing to be engaged in the building of ships would commit or instigate murder even though they might have been engaged in fraudulent transac tions. . Such things have been "done but usually , by -men in other walks of life. There are gun men in New York, or used to be, who hunted men down when marked by the vice leaders and head gamblers of that metropolis. But out in this country the hired assassin is' a rare bird. Men here are their own gunmen wfcen they reach the point of 'taking hu man life. . . It is riot a nice thing to think of men hiring murder done. Whatever may be the result of the further in vestigation into Dowsey's death, it Is to be hoped that he .was not killed by proxy, should it finally be de termined that his death was not as the coroner's jury, found. It is more comfortable i to bave direct action if there should be murder co'mmitted. Then there is but one murderer to punish, andThot two or more. . The shortage of houses in all Ore gon cities and towns is often reflect ed. It waa brought to mind in Pen dleton the other day, 'when a "for rent'i, ad In the East Oregonian brought 17 replies.. The ' house waa rented within an hour. Most of the 17. calls were' received ' within three hours ; after the paper r appeared. Some of the applicants offered a pre mium In their . effort to secure a lease. . i - ; : u ; . A FABLE' AND A FACT 0' NCB : upon a time, a long, time ago, ' some f little children were robbed ot their - heritage by a big corporation. , . . . At last the legaj guardian of the little .children asked ai lawyer "to get the heritage back for th benefit of the little children, and their children. " The lawyer, after a while, sued the big corporation and, alleged in his complaint that it had i entered Into a 'conspiracy with , its hirelings and paid them to steal the heritage frcm the little children. . The big . corporation went before the ; circuit ; judge .and argued that the lawyer's complaint did not have enough facts stated In it to enable him to brin .lhe suiL -- The circuit judge overruled;' the plea of the big corporation and , said it would have to defend itself against the charge of the lawyer. ; : . . ' AftW 4 f while Tlhe jjawyer'. went away and the- legal guardian asked another lawyer td try the case against the big corporation. - The new lawyer studied the case and "found, out that the big corpora tion, bad not paid his .hirelings to steal the heritage of the little chil dren, hut that it had forged j the deeds to the heritage J and was ; the thief itself. So the new lawyer asked the circuit Judge to let him tile a new - complaint so ' that, he : could prove that the l!g corporation had stolen the heritage of i the little children, and get it back for them. The .circuit judge was a Just Judge and let the new lawyer file a new complaint so that he would have a chance to . recover the heritage of the little children. ' : Now the big corporation realized that the new lawyer could not get the heritage of the little . children baok tor them if he tried the case on- the complaint of the old lawyer, so it asked the supreme: court to make the new, lawyer , use the old complaint because it had told' the circuit judge it was not a good com plaint and the - circuit judge would not believe it. t - - Five of the Judges of the supreme court were just judges and they, told the big corporation that the new law yer ought to 'have a chance to re cover the stolen heritage of the little children. There' were two other judges who did not agree with the five just Judges, and they told the new lawyer that he ought -to be forced to use the old complaint and not have -a chance to recover the heritage of the little children which had been-stolen by the big corpora tion. 1 So, because there were five Just judges and only two other judges in the supreme court, the little children were given a chanco to get their heritage back from the rich corporation which had forged the deed and stolen it ' from them and their children. A boy 41 has been adopted by Widow Duff Of New Rochelle, She has no close relatives, and a court has confirmed her adoption of this foster-son. He has neither father nor mother. He Has a " 12 -year-old daughter by a former wife, whom he divorced-in the state of Washington. He Is a captain in the army, and has lived with his foster-mother 10 years. LOSING THEIR INSURANCE OF THE 4,000,000 war risk insur ance policies issued 'during the war three fourths have -ybeen al lowed to lapse. ' A government commission is striv ing to reach th insured service men in an effort to restore .as many'' as possible of the policies, v In their youth and inexperience, the soldiers and sailors do not realize the great value of their war risk in surance. The terms are remarkaniy easy. The system was designed . to supplant future pensions. It is the effort of government to give the fighters a privilege in a . measure recognizing the sacrifices "they made. It is the most beneficent program ever offered by a government to its service men. Only the thoughtless ness of immature years can account for the high percentage of policies thaf have been allowed to lapse. Parents can scarcely render their boys a greater service than to advise them to hold fast to the policies and meet all of the few requirements of the government in keeping them intact. - f " War risk insurance is" a far better system than the dole of a pension which ' inexorably carries with it, whether just or not, the Idea and atmosphere of "a gratuity. It hasn't been named or explained. But a big NewYork concern is. buy ing wine' grapes and wine-making plants in the Lake Erie grape belt and assures grape growers there that their vineyards will be as valuable as ever, In spite of prohibition. That the product he is to manufacture from the grapes is not what is, known as grape juice is the statement of one pf the firm; and that it will be wide ly accepted by the public is a -further assurance. Curiosity ..reigns In the region. v.- ' . HIGHWAY; DEFECTS mWO general ' conclusions reached I , from a survey of the state road I work, completed are that not enough attention has been given to questions of drainage and width both of grade and pavement. It. has also been demonstrated that it is not agood nplicy te put an expen sive pavement on a new grade which his not i sufficiently ; settled, gone through one winter at least and de veloped its weak spots. ,; " , A concrete example in which are illustrated all these defects of past construction, is ' the section of the Pacifie highwajr between Oregon City and anby. The results following sufficient! and Insufficient drainage are found here In immediate -contrast . Of this section of highway the stretch between Canemah, and New Era was poorly drained and the pave ment was put down on a green grade; Water penetrated the road. The pave ment became rough and broken.: It gave way , under th,e traffic. Thls has brought the necessity of correct ing thevneglected: and faulty drain age at" a cost far in excess of what It would 'have, been had the proper attention been - given during original construction, - The width of th pavement is only IS feet. Not only la this too narrow to accommodate the- traffic, but it adds to ' the ' drainage problem by encroaching in the cuts on the slopes Of the bank to such an extent as to make it difficult to put In. the side drainage to care for surface water. This condition shows that the .road bed itself ought to Jte wider. Contrasted with .toe section Of 4he foad between Canemah and New Era is the section between New Era and Canby where :- the " old county road formed the principal part of the foundation and' where the drainage was good. On the hill: going out of New Era where a new ; grade was built, the soil conditions 'were' bad but' especial attention' was, given to drainage. . As a consequence the road here; is holding up well, illustrating that drainage is. the fundamental support of r highway. ' Further emphasis of the need of wider roadbeds here'r there . is a heavy traffic, and - the intimate rela tion of width, and uralnage, may ne fqund on the lower Columbia river highway in Clatsop and Columbia counties and also in Tillamook county and other parts of the state where there is a heavy rainfall.' , ' With a- 16-foot pavement on a 20 foot grade there is not sufficient room on - the. sides.; The natural drainage of the ground is poor and the ..space between, fee foot of- the slopes and the edge of the pavement is Insufficient to Install artificial drainage: ' ' ' . FEDERAL DRY LAW'S TEETH By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor respondent or The Journal. .. Washington, August 2. The wets la the bouse of representatives' spent nearly 10 days -hammering at the drastic pro visions of the prohibition enforcement bill as It had been reported from com mittee, and at the end of the 10 days they were rather worse, off than they started. The drys had about two votes to one all the day, and wrote the bill as they wanted it. These are samples of the teeth the .bill possesses : . Any room, house, building, boat, ve hicle, structure or place of any kind where liquor Is kept, made or sold in violation o the act may be declared a common nuisance. If a person has knowledge or reason to believe that his property is used in violation of law, the property becomes subject, to a lien to pay the fine of. the occupant. . Upon' affidavits of improper use, an injunction may be - issued without the giving of a bond for damages by the complainant. A physician, may have a permit to prescribe . liquor if he is duly licensed and actively -engaged in practice, but he may prescribe it only after a care ful physical examination and after the conclusion that this "medicine" is neces sary in good, faith to afford relief from a specified ailment.' The quantity may not be ver one pint in 10 days. It is made unlawful to advertise liquor, or any recipe sor formulaxptf, the home made kind or to give any information as to where a "speakeasy" may be found. . . ' No one shall permit a sign or billboard advertising liquor to remain on his premises, and the revenue officers may paint out such signs when necessary. - Senator Chamberlain has Indicated that he expects soon to address the senate on the subject of military jus tice, using as the text' his new bill to wipe out, courtmartial sentences for minor offenses and illustrating it fronj records in -his office of individual cases. The Oregon senator has a collection of complaints which have coma to him from military prisons and from other sources, some of which he. feels are amply substantiated, concerning sever ity of sentences and: mistreatment of men. He spoke with unusual feeling concerning these cases. "I propose now to wipe out these courtmartial sentences where the of fense is less than a felony tinder civil law," he said, "and to discharge these boys honorably, as though they never had been convicted, remitting all fines and forfeitures1 of pay,-' I -want the pub lic to understand not only the severity of sentences, but the cruelties which have been suffered. The Spanish in quisition ,was not a marker to some of them." Senator Chamberlain - said be had pre pared his bill "without assistance," and it might, need some amendment, which could be made in due course. Suggestion that the Big Five packers are going into the berry packing busi ness and affecting the loganberry In dustry were made by Representative Carner of Texas during the hearing on the fruit juice tax before the ways and means committee. Arthur M, Churchill of Portland, .representing the fruit, juice interests, said he thought the packers bad a part in it. ' That is the impres sion, he said, but he had no. direct knowledge about It.' Representative Moore of Pennsylvania thought prohi bition might help the fruit, Juice indusr try and, by increasing the volume of sales of soft drinks, enable the makers of fruit juice drinks to pay sonle Of tho revenue lost 'from alcoholic liquors. Churchill replied that while there was practically no limit on the price people would pay for a drink with a "kick," there was a, definite limit oh what they would pay for a drink minus the kick, and, that point had already been reached. - ' . 1 . The Western Pine -Manufacturers as sociation has appealed to Senator Mc Nary to support legislation " to restore the power of suspending rates formerly possessed by the interstate commerce commission, so important changes may be reviewed before they go: into effect. Senator McNary states he favors this and will support' it . .- - .- - - Enlistments in the army bave reached the rate of .1000 a day. If continued, that would be mora than 104,000 a year, and, therefore, more than enough to fill the ranks of the 'army now provided for of approximately 240.000 men. This seems to dispose of the argument that recruits could not be had In the number needed for the regular army. Rural Thrift in America, and Francejebrripared From the Review Commenting on a recent article in the Review by 'an A. E. V. major-entitled "Fed Up With th French,, a corre spondent writes : " :: "? - M-Ws.1;?. ' . I bad had a conversation with a young New Englander; ; recently discharged, firbo expressed great bitterness because Hie had had to pay a large price for a knife In France and had, he thought, been overcharged for eggs. It happened that we got off at the same station, and I inquired his name and learned that his father was one of the selectmen of. the little lake . village where X "spend my summers. Then I recalled that th se lectmen had assessed my cottage twice as much as that of the mora valuable property ot the farmer next to me J tba wis same ooys aunt cnargea us aoove th currant rate for eggs and was so careful to pick out all the big ones, for the Boston market that at times I have wondered whether .she had not changed her bens for pigeons : that this boy's cousin, who plays golf on our hillside links, had a short time since 'borrowed' a doxen golf. balls from my locker; that the village clergyman, who Is a distant relative of - this boy's, after selling me nay property on the lake, arranged with a friend to claim that the title was faulty and that the lake front had be longed to him and not to the clergyman, and the two had tried for six months to blackmail movant of an additional sum of money for ihe land.: all these things because,! am to these people a New York millionaire., though In. reality a college professor on an inadequate sal ary." ' Letters From the People i Commanictkn unt to Tb Journal for publication in this department ehonld be written an only onfl aid of th paper, ahonl4 not exceed SOO words ia lenrth. and mnat bo aicned by the writer, whose mail addreaa in tali unit accom pany the contribution. ) , 1 Syndicating . Athena, July 30. To the Editor of The Journal Tour editorial relating to the syndicating of the fruit interests of the east by the big interests is timely. But what are you going to do about it? The war ts over, and greed' must have new avenues of exploitation. Every indus try, every public utility, must .in the end succumb to the" grasping power of greed.- Abie apologists are filling the magaztnast in the Interests of the money power. - Thousands of newspapers are heralding the downfall of public own ership of the railroads. The money power is rampant. The signs of the times are pointing to a new day of open, unrestricted plunder. The red rag of Bolshevism is waved before the eyes of the mad bull of discontent and his horns are getting sharper all the time. I.t them not bait hirn too long. It will then require more than a bugaboo' to stop him. v The money power rules, but how long can it rule at the present rate? There are extremes to which people will not go. The care" can only coma when the disease has made its run, and the reme dies may be drastic. When our mines, our forests, oar lands, our- industries of avery kind, our products,-the bread w eat, the water we drink, all are syn-. dicated, and the only thing left is the air we breathe and the sunshine, I sup pose we shall sing of the "land of the free and the home of the brave," and syndicated patriotism will shout "Bol shevism!" if anyone. has the presumption to kick about conditions. F. B. WOOD. . The Question of Who's Selfish Portland, July 30. To the Editor of The Journal There is a peculiar thing I have noticed in letters written by pro hibition sympathizers and published in the papers. They almost invariably speak of anti-prohibitionists as being selfish. We have all. heard of the pro verbial dog in the' manger that did not want the hay himself but would not let the starving horse eat it. Is the prohibitionist- any less selfish than ' the dog?. Nit. Because they do not want to use wine, beer or liquor of any kind, they do not want others to have the right to do so No matter how badly one may want it, or how badly one may need it, no matter how weak and debilitated one may be. bo matter how badly one may require brandy to stlmu-, late, or alcohol rubs to brace up during severe sickness, they must not have anything - of the kind. That is the theory ot the prohibitionists. For in stance, last winter,' when more thaft a dosen children died in one baby home in Portland and the physicians claimed that if they could get brandy the lives of those little ones might be saved, a letter was published, in a daily paper in Portland, written by a woman, in timating that it was better to let the babies die than to have brandy used. And they call anti-prohibitionists ' self ish. It strikes me that the selfishness is on the other side of the fence. J. H, CLARK. , Epidemics and Barbers -Portland, July 30. To the Editor 'ot The Journal There is some cause for alarm in the city on account of the epidemics of scarlet fever and small pox. Wars are nearly always followed by epidemics, andy we have taken a great many precautions in our city; but our danger is not all over yet. A doc tor and noted health authority who re cently visited Portland, in speaking of the recent fever epidemic, said that one of . the very best combatants of these contagious diseases Is the barber shop, because the barbers use lotions and - antiseptic washes that are pre ventives. 'Returned soldiers say that Whenever they were on long, weary marches, weakened through deprivation of food and also of soap and water, they welcomed the sight of the little barber shop. And they say that-when they -were stationed where the barber shops were accessible there was little contagion, and that when they were ill yn hospitals, these same ministrations not; only hastened their recovery, but prevented further spread. i Almost 1 in the heart of Europe a great many of the people live without the civilizing Influences of soap and water or clean linen. In parts of Si beria and Poland, where there are no bathing appliances or barber : shops, Btnallpoz and typhus sweep away thou sands upon thousands. It is necessary for us to make a deep study along these lines, because many of our boys have been exposed by association with . men from these region a It is too hard to rid the country of these epidemics after they get a foothold. - A READER. .. Replying to One in Distress The lady who asked The Journal, for information as to -legal means, if any, for preventing her husband from un dertaking' a hazardous feat which he contemplates, is advised that there is no way he can. be legally prevented from, attempting the purposed exploit. Ekaterinburg. 5 Fronr tho Cleveland Plain, Dealer. -On 'July 1. 1918, Nicholas Romanoff, the man who had been czar, was stood against a wall in his prison at Ekaterin burg and'ahot to death. AJ the same time the BolahevikI executed the former czarina and the tour daughters of the czar, the youngest only 17. The fate of the boy Alexis, heir of the Romanoffs, is uncertain ; but If he was not butch ered with his parents and sisters he has undoubtedly since been disposed of. Less than a month after the slaughter of the Romanoffs Ekaterinburg wa cap tured by the JCsecho-SIovaks. These mod ern crusadera gladly turned the city over to Admiral Kolchak, and It appeared to be permanently lost to the Reds. Now, on July 16, 1919, one year to the day after the execution of the royal family, Ekaterinburg has fallen ' to the Bol ahevikI. The horrors - Incident to the new occupation of" this blood-stained city '-can - scarcely be imagined. The . frightful punishment of the citizens who were almost unanimously " hostile to the . COMMENT, AND SMALL CHANGE .- . Ws won't mind the . Increased tele phone rates so much if we don't have to pay them.. , , ? Food profiteers are to be prosecuted, and a whole lot of people wouldn't care if they were electrocuted . . .. The price f foodstuffs Jumped 88 per cent in five years, according to the dis patches and still jumping, say we? France is gettls ready to reduce her army. But for France's stubbornness, the Germans would have had that all done long. ago. . , They're still launching a ship once irt a while In Portland, though the papers don't make as much of a play about it as they did a few months ago. . - , .Though some loose steers were round ed up. by automobile near Portland Fri day morning, the usual old-time methods are to be followed in the big gams at Pendleton. In the fall. The strike of the. London policemen is declared a failure. After nerualnar annua ll??Zl..T?.?C J?-4 land's Beavers are tn the same fix. "School Commissioner Evan Essery of Washtenaw county." says the Detroit New", "while pondering over, requests which be could not fill, f or v-teachers from 23 dlstrictaJof the county, received a letter from Stevens county, Oregon, asking him to send a few of Wash tenaw's surplus teachers to the Pacific coaat." To teach geography, perhaps. OBSERVATIONS ANDIMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN . By Fred Mr. Bryan, in this article, the conclndinc na of Uie eerie of three that Mr. Lockley baa presented, express bie mom of t&e primary rata of Um well crowded religious life aa aa ele ment ia the rntdance of pnbUo affairs. Be proceeds thence to rejoice in the auooeaa of equal uffraie and in the downfall of Kins Alcohol, pre dicting fraa theee aehieTementa further notable trlumpha of America's reform forces. "What was the most important thing In my lifer said W. J. Bryan, ms he repeated my Question. "There are a great many important events in a man's life th choosing of his parents, the choosing of his wife, the choice-ef his friends, his choice of his life workand many other things. I believe the most important event in my life was wbenI Joined the church. It has shaped and molded roy whole life. I was 14 years old when I joined the Cumberland Pres byterian church. My father was a very active worker in the Baptist church. My mother was a Methodist, but because of my father's great interest In his church she also joined " the Baptist church. I joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church without any particular knowledge of its church doctrines, but because when I joined the church the Baptist churca was very small and held only one meet ing a' month. Moreover, there were very few young people who belonged to the Baptist church there. Seventy of my schoolmates Joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and I felt more at home with them. I have always taken a keen interest in the ' Presbyterian church. , In f acW I am, and have been for many years, an elder In the church; and at the last general assembly I pre sented a resolution which I think will be adopted. It provides for a board of councillors . or pastorja, to take up the various problems of the church. - " e "In my day I have had a very large number of brickbats heaved in my di rection. For years the press iwas full of criticism, abuse or good-natured fun, because X preferred grape juice to liquor. A real man will never sacrifice his con victions, even though the maintenance of these convictions leads to the defeat of his cherished ambitions. I have been a teetotaler from youth. Neither Mrs. Bryan nor myself has ever permitted liquor to be served in our home, and now I have come to see the day when liquor can no longer be served In any home. I am not so lonesome as I ones was. "Yes, the church has always ben one of the important elements of my life, and I attach whatever success I . have had more to my faith in the triumph of right than to any foresight that I have exercised. Some one has expressed It as faith in the wisdom of doing right, e 'One of the heavy prices a person pays for being in public life is his en forced absence from home. Only the urgent call of duty .can Justify one's sacrificing home life. No profit nor pleasure that comes from absence from home can compensate for that loss.. "X have three children and eight grand children. My daughter, Ruth Baird Bryan, is now Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen. W. J. Bryan Jr. is my second child. My third child is Grace Bryan, now Mrs. Grace Bryarv Hargreaves. My eldest child haB three children, my second child has three and my youngest chiM has two. I usually . describe my grandchild dren as one, two and. three In series one.; one, two and three in series two, and one and two in series three. Bolshevik cause -may mark a new high water mark of Bolshevik terrlbleness. V The loss of Ekaterinburg Is undeniably a severe blow to the forces that are de voted to the redemption of Russia. - The city Is the center' of the Ural mining region, and its possession will be- of In calculable value to the BolahevikI. More over Ekaterinburg was Kolchak's, last Important base north of the trans-Siberian railway. He is now forced back on the railway and continued Bolshevik successes may drive him across the Urals into Asia. The only definite hope Is that the success of Denlkine's Cos sacks In southern Russia may divert the Bolsheviki from their seemingly ' ir resistible advance against Kolchak, In- time Ekaterinburg will again be redeemed. When that, day comes the wretched city may have a new tale to tell that will dwarf the horrors of the former Bolshevik rule. A year ago the followers of Lenin and Trotzky wiped out the imperial family; now they may determine to "execute'.' the entire citi zenry of Ekaterinburg i - e - The Right System . From the Eocene Begister Out of a motor trip of some 4000 miles and covering many states, the thing that most impressed E. J. Adams was the ex cellence of the carefully patrolled roads of Wisconsin; Back there, he says, they patrol their highways Just as the rail roads patrol their roadbeds, and the re sult is distinctly pleasing to the man who drives a car which is rapidly com ing to mean everyone. An automobile can be allowed to coast - swiftly down bill. Mr. Adams reports, with the com forting certainty that there will be no racking holes at the bottom, and bridges can be crossed with no checking of nor mal speed, because ther are no bumps. Thechuckholeand therut are conspicu ous in Wisconsin by their absence. That is what the patrol system does. - Quite Within the Limit ' From too Philadelphia Public Ledaer They were kidding Lucretla Borgia about poisoning several . of her dinner guests. c j. . "Some kick to those cocktails, sister. remarked Cesare. , . , "Nonsense ! laughed Lucretla, girlish ly, "I put In only, MS per cent of ar senlc ;. ;' ' "' : v ' ; NEWS IN BRIEF. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Thrse'lllllsboro men were victims Isst week of auto cracking accidents thst resulted.. in broken arms. This is the Eugene Guard's definition : "A pajfur Bolshevist is merely a molly coddle .under & new name." s . , . With the cooking ovens and other improvements contemplated. Eugene, the Register promises, will have one ot the finest camping places for tourists on the coast. -' v.-,. . -, . Recognising the need for action In exterminating black tail rabbits and sage rats in Central Oregon, the United States biological survey, the Bend Bulletin says, will send a representative to that section within a month to initiate a, relentless war against the pests., e How would Baker people like to see 1000 men -employed In the copper sons near this city?" inquires the Baker Dem ocrat,: which goes on. with the answer, thus: "It would be .nice, wouldn't' it? Well, stranger things have happened ami it In not imoossible that such will occur and before very long. Watch the development now under way.' Three thousand dollars has been sub scribed for the erection of a cheese fac tory in the Lewis ana Clark district to take care of the surplus milk of the dairymen's league, the Astorlan says. This will be the second eheese factory to be built in Clatsop county as a result of the recent trip made to TiUamook county to Inspect the cheese factories there. - . . Lockley "What do I think of private owner ship of railroads, telephone and tele graph . companies, water companies street railways and electric UfAtlng plants? Well, I think a' private mo nopoly Is indefensible and. intolerable. If the government can successfully ad minister the postal service it can cer tainly take over the telephone and tele graph companies. The trouble is that the men who are put in charge of these industries under government control are frequently' not'. Interested In making them a success,, as they prefer to have them held in private ownership. If a city can successfully - operate - its - own water system and fire system and most of them do it can also successfully oper ate a street railway. The trouble with thpRA nrlvaf lv owned monopolies is that they are able to employ the best of legal talent, not to protect the citizen-in nil fights but to take his rights away from him. If the government . Is powerful enough to draft a man for military serv ice It should be powerful -enough to re dress his wrongs and protect , his rights. The trouble with moot of us is that when we see a condition that Is wrong and which needs righting, we can see onlyH that one thing, and we become Impatient when others cannot, see as we do. Though reforms ; may seem , to move slowly, yet they move surely. No ques tion Is settled until it reaches its angle of repose. Do you -remember what bit ter controversy there was over the slavery question? It has reached its angle of repass. ; You never hear It discussed any more. The same thing is true of the liquor question. Ws shall no more go back to the day when we shall auction off our boys to the liquor interests than we shall go back to the day when we auctioned oft the' bodies of. black men. Do. you . remember tnat verse In the Bible where they sent for Joseph and Mary to come out of Egypt? The messenger m.m,; Tiny are aeaa that sought the young child's life. Yes. Herod, the Blayer of children, was dead, and . so today King Aioohol is dead. Where Herod slew hishundreds. King Alcohol has slain his hundreds of thou sands,. Woman suffrage will also-soon reach its angle of repose, for it Is is now recosrnlzed that it Is .not only a woman's right but her duty to take part in gov ernmental -activities and to neip make and enforce law. . "There are frtany questions that must be met and solved. They are questions that require, our best efforts to find a wise solution. -1 can remember wnen i was considered an anarchist for advo cating the income tax and direct election of senators by the people; yet you hear no further discussion about those quet tloris. They have reached their angle of repose. Oregon and otner progres sive states have long ago adopted the initiative and referendum, and soon that, too, wilt reach its -angle of 4-eposs and be nationally adopted.- Everyone will realize that in a democracy all of us should help to form as well as obey the laws. . .'" " ' e . Yes, .1 am an optimist. I have seen so many vital measures brought to pass; so many things that have been bitterly fought by the forces of evil at last triumphant; so fren seen righteousness prevail, that I believe all of. our prob lems reconstruction capital, and. labor; a more equitable distribution of wealth, and all ethers which now seem so serl nn. will fin&llviabe settled, and settled right, through the wisdom and sense of. Justice of the American peopie. Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places .The first number of the Gazette - ds France, the oldest "newspaper in France, was published May 30, leair, under the Editorial direction of. Dr. Renaudot. This most powerful of the early Journalists of France was born in 1514, and, after graduating in medicine, established him self In Paris about ieiZ. TUcbelleu and Pierre d'Hoiier, the genealogist, are said to have inspired Renaudot in estab lishing the Gazette, which was published weekly and- consisted . of . two small sheets, the first bearing the title of the Gazette and the second Nouvelles Ordl naires de Dives Endfroits. Dr. Renaudot established the precedent, long followed in European Journalism and by no means extinct, of presenting foreign news first and relegating domestic and local news ,to the last page. Soon after the establishment f the Gazette, Dr. Renaudot was granted an exclusive monopoly of printing and selling news papers in France. The title of Gazette de Franca was first used In the middle of the eighteenth ceitury. It has been published under that title ever since, with 'the- exception cf a brief period during the Revolution of 1848. when the name was temporarily changed to Le peuple Francals." 1 I : Olden Oregon Slavery -Question. Delayed Territorial Government in Oregon It was .not until two years after the settlement of the Oregon question- be tween the United States and Great Brit ain that -congress took acUon- looking toward Che - formation of a territorial government In Oregon. The delay was caused by members from the Southern states, who objected to, the anti-slavery clause : In the proposed organic "act After a long and determined fight by the pro-slavery .element the Oregon ter ritorial bill became a law August 14, 1848. ' On March a,. 1849, Joseph Lane, first territorial governor, arrived at Oregon City. - . . . - The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed lor Benefit of Journal Headers . OREGON . NOTES A movement has been started In Asto ria to secure an Internal revenue office for that city. - . - A Michigan society' was formed m . Salem at a picnic attended by about 100 former Wolverines. - . 5j"h Plcnk;ked at Montrose park. on the vuiumwa juver niRnway. An option on a Halem residence ha been taken by Private Pent, chautauuua lecturer, author and aoldier.- A contract for the second unit of the Eugene "Fruit Growers' association can nery, to cost snnrAilmiii.lv tfinm t.ua .been let. . .' .. ... ' . . Posters warning the people of Gaston to be careful of fire have been distribu ted by the volunteer fire department of that town. t - i r The Pelican Bay Lumber company ha wuriiiaeeu a ju-acre tract near Klamntu tails and plans early construction of a new box factory. Plans for a new cldr plant are be ing discussed by Hood lUvur growers an a result of the, low price offered for cull apples, 8 par , ton. The' Columbia river highway between Hood River and Cascade Lock will be closed Monday for. approximately two weeks that the 22-mlle stretch may be paved. . ,. An automobile was stolen from J. 8. Leclercq of Dallas, Texas, a tourist, at. The Dalles and was located two miles S southeast of the city the following i morning, , George "I Cooper", former American ; vice .consul at Lima, Peru; ha been named district deputy of the Modern Woodmen of America, with headquarters at Salem. . . s Clark Hemdon's new barn and giraare -la Fossil wa destroyed by fire, the re sult of a short circuit on an automobile. A team of horses, a calf and the car were burned. c Leroy' Chllds, superintendent of thn Hood River Experiment . station, ha warned Oregon fruitgrowers to sprav their trees If they would escape having wormy apples. A plea for skin' to graft on the body of Erma King, 11 years old, who was burned while- on a camping 'trip, hn been-made from the sanitarium in Salem where she ' was taken. Hood River authorities -stopped the progress of a - steam shovel which waa tearing up .the streets and compelled the owners to repair the "caterpillar treads, which had become worn, A $10 a month raise in salaries was granted Fossil teachers and the follow ing were elected: Miss Flo Otldan. Ml on Laura Simmon and- Mrs. Fred 'Welch of Fossil, and Miss Clara Luther of Al bany. , With the exception of 1500 left to each ; of two great "aunts, tne estate ot a. L Jessuo Strana- of Salem, is left to the STFlrst ConpregaUonal church of Salem and the - Knights Templar lodge of the Capital city. . - ' f Holding that an ordinance' recentlly passed providing for a purchasing ae-snt and naming Earl Race, city auditor, for the post would give the place per manenUy, Mayor Wilson of Salem has vetoed the ordipance. -.WASHINGTON Vancouver teamsters and chauffeurs bave organized a union. ', The organtzaUon of a Victory, girls' chorus has been completed In Vancou ver. r -. Charges of wearing I, W. W. buttons have been filed against 30 men in Spo kane. : 2? Former Councilman Nelson Smith of Yakima died Tuesday as the result ot a stroke, of apoplexy. : The' Spokane council went on record In "favor of a municipal streetcar system and against use of the streets by Jitneys. The League of Nation was urged by former United States Senator Oeoras .Turner In an address before the Wash ington State Bar association at Spokane. Plans are said to "be under way to gather In Tacoma all shipbuilding mate rial owned by the federal shipping board in the district, estimated; to be . worth $30,000,000, for disposal. . Bricklayers at Toppenlsh struck when they found work had been done by. un skilled men, . and the . contractors are building a sugar factory in that city re fused to- have the material torn out. '..""v 'general. - Mall between Francs and Germany has been resumedr A Santa Fa freight train plunged into a washout near llackaberry, Arlz.,and the engineer is missing. The California supreme court has up held the criminal syndicalism . act passed by the last legislature. Offers on "straight wheat flour" will be received, beginning Tuesday, by the United States Grain corporation. Albert' Clavellle. French minister of public works, urged before- the cabinet measures to hasten build. nK of the tun nel to connect England and France. The Shipping board has nold 100 Steamers built on the Oreat Lakes to the Anderson Overseas corporation of New York,- th price being approxi mately 880.000,000. Pictures taken In France were of fered by Privates C.' H. Johnson a evidence that millions of dollars worth of airplanes were burned there by American soldiers, under orders. . In a clash? at Kuangchengku be tween Chines and Japanese troops, 18 of the latter were killed and 17 wounded. An assault -oh a railroad employe by Chinese Is said to, have beenvthe cause. Chinese casualties were not given. Frank Bowers Sr.,- 64, 'of Loftus, Cal.. Frank Bowers Jr., 88, and Frank Bow ers, III, "18, Joined the army at Han Francisco. They were assigned to serv ice in' - the Phililplnes In the quarter masters corps.;-! The father had seen service before. Through the efforts of Representative Slnnott, rauiiette Coudin. a French or phan from Bordeaux, was adrnitted to the United States to be taken to La Grand by Captain Jerry Husk, former speaker of the Oregon nous of repre sentatives, where 'she will make her home with mm. . . . Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The Good Book tells us we hadn't ort to lead folks Into temptation,1-and when a feller draws down a roll of a thousand or so and flashes' it ever time he buy a bottle of sody-pop or a shoelace, he's playln' fer trouble, leadln' others Into temptation, .and . makln' Jobs fer cops, courts and lawyers. I hain't got. as much sympathy Xer him as I uster have. There's plenty (of postal rsavUVs banks, traveler's checks, Liberty bonds and safe deposit-boxes nowadays, and if he'll be his own money-herder and then gits doped, rolled, robbed and busted, I'll glv him a meal and set him to work cuttln' wood In the back lot, but I hain't a-goin' to weep none fer him. Educational Feature ( Big In V S. S. Campaign t Htorlea of eeaiveeraent In Uie aeewntt ht&a War Serine StanSe, eent to The Journal and accepted for publication, will be awarded. Thrift Sump. J - . " "To glv permanent value to one of the great lessons which the war has taught us, the treasury depart-, ment is conducting a campaign to make thrift a universal element In American life. In this work. - th object is to better the financial con dition of the American people. This object Is to b reached by teaching th people To put . aside, as their first obligation an&Jbgfore they spend at alh part fthe'r incomes forJaWfe" us. ' , ,-"2. ...To- mvest the .money that they save out of their ,-lncome in , some security which pays a reasonable rate of Interest, and Is absolutely safe, preferably Thrift and War Sav ings Stamps; . ;-.! Thrift Stamp and 1919 Vltr SaTlori Ststopa now va.aale at usual acenc-Ui. v: