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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1810. Alt ISIEPENDEIT WEWBPAFEB O. B. JACKSON. . . . .Pub Ueber ' ?"ubbhl very day. afterwe an 4esoept Sunday ttawoon. at h? Jorojl httUdiog, Broadway , end Ismb.111 txeet, : Portland. Oregon. . - . EoUnd at Uw Poatofflee at FarUad, Omcoa, for tranemiasjoa throae the maila ja m00 elaaa matter TELEPHONE Main J"! Mora.. & ii - nuM b these nunbera. Tail the operator what department m want. FOREIGN ADVERTISING EPRE8ESTATiyE , Benjamin a, Kwitnor Co.. Mntnswiek b"; 225 fifth aenu. Saw ort; 800 Malieia ' 8ahserint4ca tenna by mail, or to any address in .'the United Utaa or Maxieo: DAiLT MOKSU OB AFTEB!005) On yeer.V. ..$5.00 I Ona month. ....$ .60 , SCNDAT Ona year.. .$3.60 I Ona month. . . . . -26 : DAILT tMORNING OR jrTERNOOS) AMD . . I 8CIAT Ona year. . ... tT.BO I Ona month . Whsnerer you aea a man who la success ful in ociety, try to diaoorer what makes htm pleasing, and, it possible, adopt his system. Beacenafield. WITHOUT PARALLEL N 1908 the Ford Motor company was offered to Wall street at a price of $6,000,000. It began business in 1903 with a capital of $50,000. .. Its value is now placed at $213, 000,000. It borrowed money the other day, the first time since Its organi zation. The loan is for 90 days with .three renewals up to one year' at 5H per cent interest, and the figure 'In the promissory note is $75,000,000. The money was borrowed for the purpose, of taking over the minority stock of John and Horace E. Dodge and other stockholders, of whom , there are fewer than a dozen. When the transaction is completed there will be but three stockholders in . the Ford' company Henry Ford, his son Edsell Ford, who is the 25 year old president of the company, and 'James Couzens, mayor of -Detroit. Mayor Couzens owns 2180 shares of the. par value of $100 per share. The present actual value per share is 112,500, and' Mayor Couzens' holdings In the company have a market value Of $29,250,000 out of the $213,000,000 at which the entire stock is valued. Henry Ford says that the purpose In. buying out the minority stock holders isto prepare the way for the employes to share in ihe dividends and To have a part In the melon that has been annually cut with the other shareholders. When the Ford com pany was offered to Wall street mag nates in. 1908, Henry Ford was ill, .wanted relief from the cares of busi ness, and said he had money enough. Wall street declined the 'offer, say ing that the Ford company was "too ambitious" and that it asked too large a price. Within ii years Henry Ford increased the value of the com pany's shares 'to a figure $207,000,000 above the $6,000,000 for which the business was then offered. ' From a $50,000 beginning in 1903 to the $213,000,000 of the present is the story of the Ford automobile in dustry. The car found its place among the people and Henry Ford reached fiis place In the financial 4.6Un. ' , American industry affords no par allel or precedent. In Oregon there Is no need for an extra session other than for ratifica tion of the suffrage amendment and possibly correction of a clause in the " Roosevelt highway bill, making the measure conform to the requirements of congress. No new legislation is ..necessary. We have too much law making already. One short day . of perfunctory routine on the suffrage and Roosevelt highway amendments Is as much as public sentiment would jutify-,'and, if that is done without charge from the legislators, it would probably be styled a good day's work. r . RAGE HATRED- farVCE hatred, blossoming sporadl I J cally In nearly every section of ; j the world into riots and murder, Js a peculiar condition. It.de- flea education, culture and civiliza- ' tion to ' flare up in the hearts of men, sometimes upon slight provoca tion.' The Jewish people have, long been Us victims. It has kept the conti nent of Europe disturbed and has set "4it aflame time after time. It, or the distrust that springs from it, has barred the western doors of America against the Chinese and the Japanese. It has swept periodically over the "black belt" of this nation Just as it : has lately flared up anew In Wash ington and Chicago. The Washington disorders had their inception in grave charges against colored, men of 'that city, the old, . old ; story of J,he South. ' Out of ' these .amd the dormant racial hos tility that turned the capital of the nation, into an armed camp. It is de plorable. The attacks , of colored men upon white, women - were, undoubtedly, ,mor an excuse for than, a cause of, ,the f murders that have been staged on both sides, " The law, the courts, the processes and punishments of jboth. were swept aside by passion J and. hot blopck It is- not a good sign. It show that' obf ' civilization Is still part veneer, ai superficial polish that hides the elemental cave man instinct but has ' not subju gated It. : ; - " i" - - - ' ' . The report is that the .soviet gov ernment has fallen in Hungary. There can be ho sound, government without a responsible head, the bal lot and a majority. These are ail in the American system, and It is th true system. .The Illusions will have their day because humankinds were disjointed by: the war. The reason will ultimately assert itself. ' . HE KNOWS HE Columbia highway is the finest road In America." There Is nothing to com pare with It. either as a won derful engineering feat or from the standpoint of .the wondrous beauties it unfolds to the touring autoist." "Your highway is worth a trip across the continent to see." "But you must reach out for more tourists and you must 'prepare to take care of them after they get here." "You must have hotels on Mount Hood and along the highway." "There is an assured eight months' business for such hotels, and prop erly advertised, there should be a good winter business through those who want to enjoy winter sports." These are expressions from a "man highly trained in the" tourist busi ness. His specialty is to create tour ist travel for Western railroad lines. Through years of training he has learned in an intensified degree the factors that cause people to visit scenes of interest. His advice is un doubtedly sound. Perhaps it will have weight in directing thought in Portland to a field in which little has been done. Here is one of his predictions: While travel to the Pacific North west this year will be many times grefit- er than ever before, next year and the year after that, and for many years to come the Pacific Northwest will be the objective of the tourists of this coun try. Even those who go to California will come to Oregon if the Columbia highway. Crater Lake and other scenic wonders are well advertised. There is room on the ..Pacific coast right now for 50 new hotels ; and do you know that tourists become country de velopers? They invest In ranches, in mines, in Industries. Give them com forts and they will stay. The advice is from a man who knows. It is his business to know. The receipts of the Porftand post office were $238,000 larger for the past year than in the year preceding. The increase alone is greater than the entire receipts of the office in 1900. The last year's business ran around $1,750,000. If there are doubts, here is the proof that Port land is a growing city. AS EXPERTS SEE IT A5KED recently as to what they considered the immediate ocean problems of the coming struggle . for commercial supremacy, ship ping experts at New York expressed belief that, among other phases, the greatest opportunities are to be found in the Pacific trade. They said trade routes have un doubtedly been opened to great change by the war. They said that the Suez and Panama canal routes will be found more attractive to commerce than before 1914, and that more vessels will ply the routes to Australia, South Africa and the Ori ent. They held China to be America's greatest trade opportunity. One said : Just as in the early days of odr history, the West offered the best op portunities to our pioneers, so now the great ocean in the West holds great mercantile prises to those who will try for them. Our sales In the Far East now average about $500,000, 000 per annum as compared with about $100,000,000 in pre-war years. Half the world dwells In the Far East and our greatest primary markets are there. New York, more distant by oyer 3000 miles from that vast trade op portunity than is the Pacific coast, is preparing to seize the business. ThiB shipping expert added: .If we have the initiative not only to press the sale of American manu factures there but also turn the cur rent of our exports here so that we can manufacture and distribute Orien tal products, we will be able within a few years to control not only the bulk of the world's trade but Its wealth also. The Pacific today holds out marvel ous prospects to us. If there is opportunity for New teork in China, therd is better oppor tunity for the Oregon country. China wants our flour, lumber - and fruits and many other products. We can also manufacture machines, imple ments, tools and a thousand other things required there. We are nearer by more than 3000 miles. Many a fortune will be built up somewhere on what China offers to enterprise. A dozen very small Bartlett pears at a Portland fruit stand for 40 cents is a reminder of days not so very long ago when for 40 cents the farm ers would deliver you a bushel. It would be Joth interestingand illu minating to know Just how much the farmers now get for the undersized BartletU doled Out to you by the fruit stands at three for a dime, TITLES FOR HAIG AND BEATTY AN EARLDOM and half a million dollars each are to be granted by the British government to Field Marshal Haig and Admiral Beatty in recognition of their war service, i. This is a well established ' British custom and with it no special criti cism is found as in the abstract a title, however high sounding, : does not mean much. i -, To the American mind tfce only tltlawortn while is that of' Mr. - applied to an honest man who has done a real public service and sustained a good reputa tion, who has remained a friend of truth.' " " ,".' ' It does not matter where or- how he may have served. lie may have been ,. ". . " . , "Statesman, yet friend te truth, of soul sincere. , i . In action faithful and in honor clear. Who broke no promise, serv'd no pri vate end, Who gained no title and who lost .no friend." . , What is to be strongly criticised is the dispensation of titles for purely party purposes such as contributions to political party funds. Just now this is a live question in British politics and the new National party which has fa 'few members in the house of commons has taken it up as an issue. It is proposed to prove before any . judicial committee that since 1910 one member of parliament has rsjected an -offer of a title in return for a cash payment to party fuads and that the father of another member was ' offered a baronetcy for $123,000. It is also charged that another, member -who jwas created a peer after the beginning of the war, subscribed a large sum of money to a newspaper which supports the premier.' Another charge is that a title was given a politician who was so notori ous as to be regarded as unfit to be a candidate for parliament and that a man previously involved in a notorious social scandal was like wise honored. The natural result of this practice will bring titles to such a low de gree that even an Englishman will no longer dearly love them and come to the conclusion of Burns that A prince can make a belted knight, A marqulr, duke and a' that, Put an honest man is aboon hU might. Cangress is Indignant because President Wilson urged it to forego an August recess and remain at work until the railroad situation could be remedied and means be taken to stop the advancing cost of living. Why should it not remain In session? It recently had an extended vacation. Other folks have to work, and many of them go the year through without vacations. Members of the senate and house are paid to render service, and when there is anything to do, they should vdo it. FIFTY YEARS HENCE THE town of Madras, over in Cen tral Oregon, was thrown 'into a state of excitement a few days ago by the arrival of a covered wagon drawn by a team of oxen. The unusual Sight soon ' drew a crowd which filled up the main street, gazed at this reminder of the past and 'listened to old men's tales of their trips,across the plains, while the oxen unconcernedly chewed their cuds . and switched their tails. While the picture drew .back the curtain of the past it was not wholly a faithful one. There was a con cession to a later age in the fact that the oxen wore a .harness instead of a yoke. Instead of the tradi tional command of "gee" and "haw" there was merely a pulling on ihe lines. It would not be strange if 50 years hence the present automobile will look as out of place as does the ox team today. Senator Penrose has blocked the house bill reducing the war tax on the loganberry and fruit Juice indus tries. He has shown no disposition to assist in the passage of the meas ure, and for the time it sleeps in his committee. It is the Penrose type of senator that holds back the country and gives the interests power to prey upon the people. Those who want the perfecting of America to go on have him and his kind to sweep out of the way. A BURNING QUESTION THE Reverend J. M." S. Isenberg. there may or may not be some thing in the name, believes in making his congregation, par ticularly the male portion thereof, kg comfortable as possible .during the heated days of summer, while he preaches to them of the punishments and possible rewards to come. A few Sabbaths ago, so the Philadel phia Ledger informs us, when the worshipers gathered at the ' Trinity Reformed church, the pastor Invited the mere men of his congregation to take off their coats and be comfor table. He called attention to the fact that he had six electrio' fans working to capacity, that ha was trying to keep cool himself and that he saw no reason why his auditors should not do the samel Orasping at the invitation the men doffed their coats to sit with their multi-colored gallusses peeping above, the pews while the reverend pastor compared the present to the uture torridlty for the information of those whose feet itched to stray from the straight and narrow path. 4 The next day there was a hubbub In the staid and conservative city of brotherly love.' The president of J the New Century club, whatever that Is. was mildly shocked. Why. shouldn't men wear nice thin coats, he asked .modestly, "wnica wouia compiy witnt, good taste and yet not cause'' any ; discom fort?" The query has not been an swered, had - not, at- least, when the Ledger went to press. whiie I can not say what 1 would dd , myself one of the , leading phy sicians says : cautiously, ' should heartily approve a movement for the shedding of coats If it were started In. Philadelphia. -. Thert is a precedent, I believe?. Judge Shoemaker ventures cautiously, "for the removal of coats in a court room.' .-In the .Orphans court, I am informed, the " practice now obtains. I can not say how I should rule if the question came before me.", A leading - attorney . had his doubts about it, "fearing- that the spectacle of a perspiring orator hitching bis suspenders in front of .the Jury, might react against his client. And so it went. :: " t - Yet is it not possible that the Rev erend Isenberg has sound sense on his side? "SQUARING AWAY" IN THE G. O. P. By Carl" Smith, Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal. Washington. August 4. The so-called Republican insurgents in the house of representatives have again received a spanking. Ever since the old crowd of seniority rulers, reactionaries, Jim Manns and Joe Fordneys took command of the organization theinsursrents have been talking of, what they would do as soon as things were "squared away. The squaring away process was com pleted at a night caucus of the Repub licans .when Nicholas Lonaworth and his comrades of tae insurgent ilk were run over and flattened out. Their cher ished plan was to increase the steer ing committee by four members, so as to provide some representation for laDor, rarmlng and the Pacific coast. Their motion was beaten by 84 to 74. The caucus vote was secret. It Is understood that Representative Mc Arthur was- the only Oregon "insurg ent." He has always contended that the friends, of Speaker Glllett, after electing the speaker, should have laid hold of at least some of the responsible places of leadership Instead of allowing all the high commissions to go to men who follow the lead of Jim Mann. There is no clear line drawn between the organization and the insurgents, so far as issues are concerned. It has mostly been a struggle over chairman ships and official toggery. Long-worth insists he is leading a Progressive movement, but that is a subject of dispute. The Progressives are unde cided whether Gillett or Mann is the more reactionary. The Republicans of the ways and means committee have started in to smash the reciprocity law which applies to Canadian products. This is ex pected to please the farmers of the border states, particularly of Minne sota and the Dakotas and on down Into Iowa and Nebraska, but there may be heartaches ahead. It is recalled that this law was passed, after an historic fight, during the Taft administration. Mr. Taft caused several ripples in the party before the Job was done. It be came a subject of recrimination later on, when Roosevelt criticised the presi dent for putting it through, and the Taft men replied that Roosevelt had not raised his voice against it when the fight was on. It is now represented that farmers in the wheat belt are apprehensive over possible future importations of wheat from Canada. There can be no such situation this year, as there is a guar anteed price in Canada on practically the same basis as in this country. But it Is said that Canada free listed wheat in 1917 and potatoes in 1918,, and under reciprocity the United States must ex tend the same free entry to these com modities from Canada. The proposed repeal is the first rumble of the ap proaching fight over the tariff. In due season the Republicans will offer a high tariff revision, captained by Fordney in the house and Penrose in the senate. . Chairman Fordney of the shipping board has written Senator McNary that ship sales in England, as shown by data Just collected, have reached un expected levels. A 6000-ton vessel which Is 18 years old and sold in 1914 on the basis of $16.66 a deadweight ton has recently been resold for $54.16 a ton. A 10,800-ton vessel sold on the basis of $195.61, and aehip of 2980 tons, four years old, sold for $147 a ton. The ex planation for these unexpectedly high prices, says Mr. Hurley, probably lies in the withdrawal of government regu lations, which in all countries seem to have been designed to hold down the capital value of tonnage. New ships cannot be built for less than three and one half times what they formerly would have cost. J. T. S. Lyle of Tacoma has received from Secretary Baker formal aonroval of title of the 62,000 acres of land do nated by Pierce county. Wash.," for the site of Camp Lewis. The completion of this step will serve to ease the minds of Tacoma people who have feared, de spite all assurances ' and appearances, that Camp Lewis would not be per manently taken. It is on the list for one of the permanent divisional head quarters, the future home of the 91st division, recruited from the states of the Northwest which furnished the men who made such a brilliant record for that division in France. a From W. Q. MeAdoo,' former secretary of the treasury, Senator McNary has received a letter congratulating him for his "admirable presentation" of the League of Nations in the senate. The two "Macs," despite their differences in political point of view, became very good personal friends while MeAdoo was "running, the railroads," and by way of reciprocity MeAdoo enclosed a copy of a speech he recently delivered on the subject of the league a a a Representative N. J. Slnnott has been informed by Director Smith of . the United States geological survey of favorable acUon in several cases in Oregon under the etockraising home stead act. He has been urging desig nation in many of these cases for some time. A-nesignatlon effective August 14 includes among others the following applicants: Horace V. Mitchell, Her bert It. Booth, William ll. Booth, John M. Booth, Charles H. Zurcher, Hum phrey Best, Carl Roe, Adna W. Hag gerty, Robert L. tay, Ben Weathers, Harry II. Nottingham, Frank A. Boyd and George Irvin of Wallowa county i Lowell Williamson, Joseph R. William son, Edna L. Williamson and Hallie I. Adler of Union county; and Henry Gamble of Grant county. Consider Washington City, Its . Riots andjts Rulers From the New Yfcrk World. - Sueh government as the -city of Wash inton enjoys or suffers from is admin istered by congress through its commit ters on the District of Columbia. In view of the desperate race conflicts now under way at the capital, in the presence of which the agents of the senate and house apear to be almost powerless, the personnel of the senate committee at least is of interest. At the head of this body as a sort of ehairman-mayor we find the redoubt able Lawrence T. Sherman of Illinois. Associated with him in the Republican majority ; are Senators Dillingham of Vermont, Jones of Washington, Calder of New York, New of Indiana, Ball of Delaware, Capper Of Kansas and Klkina of West Virginia. All . but ; Senators Jones and Capper were signers of the round robin in opposition' to the League of Nations, and these gentlemen after ward enrolled themselves in - favor of amendments- , In th mery work of treaty-smashing the senate ; committee entertains no doubt of its -own infallibility. It knows all about Shantung, and Kiaucbau ; It has the problem of the Saar valley. Flume, Silesia, Dansig and Checho slovakia at its fingers' ends : it is well versed in reparations and self-determination, and it is more famUiar with, th Monroe doctrine than the men who originated It ever, claimed to be. It has in effect set. itself up as a manda tory of the whole earth. Bnt it cannot keep order In the Dis trict of Columbia, where only two racial elements are at loggerheads, and it must depend upon the army and nary, whose work elsewhere it is trying to undo, to help it out . of its troubles. This la why some of us are beginning to lose confidence in Senator Sherman as a ruler. ' Letters From the People Communication sent to The Journal for publication in thu department should bo written m Dnly one side of the paper, should not exceed 300 Voni in lungth, and must be signed by taa writer, whose mail addresa in full most accom pany the contribotioo. ) f Challenges Wetj Athena, July 25. To the Kditor of The Journal Robert Burns was a great ad mirer of John Barleycorn, and more than once, in his gifted way, he eang his praise. But while thie praise, as literature. Is- fine, as fact it is spurious. Like many another man in these days, Burns liked the kick he got out of it. We know what it did to Bobby, and we khow what it has done and will do to every dupe who has thought or thinks he can play with fire and not' get burned. Why men with all the facts before them will still insist upon a resumption of the liquor traffic is a mystery to me, and it is really funny how well posted they represent themselves to be upon opinions of the public with reference to the liquor question. They will tell you ex actly the public mind, and it is always in faver of the saloon, of course. Call it 'what you .will sixth sense, intuition or sub-conscious knowledge they know, and it's exactly 65 per cent, no more, no less., of the people who are now. right now, in favor of saloons. But I don't know why they are talk lng majority, for one of them says ma Jorlties are always wrong anyway. It's odd they are so down-hearted, with a majority like that. One would think they would be throwing their hats up in boisterous celebration, with a major ity of 65 per cent. But they are not. They are whining around telling us how wrong it Is to have their personal rights curtailed, and being compelled against their will to submit to monstrous sumptuary laws. Why don't some of those people who want this monster back again tell us of some real good there is in it. This autocratic minority, who have their monster shackled, might listen to rea son. It seems if there was a single virtue to be found, one redeeming qua! ity, that now, In their desperation, they might get their heads together and find it. They might look down the scroll of 2000 years of pretty authentic history and if there was a place anywhere where the liquor traffic ever benefited mankind they . might put their finger on it and say, "Here it is. We fed the hungry. We clothed the poor. We nursed the sick. We brought peace and happiness, prosperity and contentment. How could we then refuse them? If there Is an element of good, of truth, of virtue in it, let them, produce it. There' the rub. They have a hard proposition. F. B. WOOD. A Woman's Defiance Portland, July 29. To the Editor of The Journal I want to say to the men who are striving so hard to bring the saloons back, that they will never succeed.- Women are determined to keep that evil stamped out for good. After fighting the gallant male so long for the privilege to vote, do you suppose we will now sit -idle and allow the use of liquor to blight our homes and send our children to ruin? No, never 1 Get that, Mr. Boozer? I said. Never! I believe a large majority of women, and, happily, a large percentage of men, are for prohibition. Unfortunately, however, there are a few women for booze, just as there are a few scatter brains against equal suffrage; but as a rule women stand for right andmay I say? for progression and not retrogres sion. The bid soaks lament their thirst In terms of "personal privileges." If guz zling a poison which renders them not only revolting to decent folks, but dan gerous to the public be called Indi vidual rights, thfn it might as well be said it is one's personal privilege to go out every morning before breakfast and kill somebody. Every drunkard doesn't consider himself one. A man very near to delirium tremens will declare he Im bibes only occasionally "in a friendly glass." But that's the way they all talk. Even the ones who go home and beat up their families and starve their babies. Only an occasional glass of beer! If that Is true, then prohibition ought to be a trivial incident In their lives. Why so much yappijig about it? The liquor interests are epreading their propaganda. One reads. 'IKnglleh- people make a joke of prohibition In America." What class of Englishmen make the jokes? Why, the boezeflghters and brewery- Interests, of course. Their opinions are of no value to honest folks ; so let them rave and spread their prop aganda. We expected them to do Just what they are doing. . But they are only wasting their time and their ill-gotten money ; for liquor has been banished for good. v How much better it would be If they united -their energies to advance Civi lization rather than hinder it turned their thoughts into constructive chan nels rather than destructive? A WOMAN. What Hotel Is Your Home? From the Spokane Bpokesaaa-Rairiew The apparently unlimited willingness of capitalists to Invest millions upon mil lions or dollars in the erection of mag nificent hotels makes natural the specu lation as to whether we are on the way to becoming a country of hotel dwel lers. Asrast as each new hotel, with its thousands of rooms and ingenious re finements of comfort and service, Is com pleted it is Instantly filled, starts a wait ing list, and only regret that it has not a few hundred, more rooms to be let at a minimum of $5 a day. Americans who can afford such luxur ies and there are more in" this class than ever before are flocking . into hotels because living conditions, particularly in the greater cities, are abnormal. If the abnormal conditions become perma nent and therefore normal the hotel dwellers will Increase and the American home will become a new sort of thing entirely. The-multiplicity of .new for tunes has intensified the search for luxurious living conditions and made consideration of expense negligible. Then there is the great shortage or suitable houses, created by the suspension of building during the war years. Finally, we have the servant problem. It Is this last more than any other factor that ir hastening the trend toward hotels. All for the League V '"From tha Tout County Itemiier f Here's dmethlnr to think about. At least slxHof the lecturers on the Chau tauqua course Just closed here are sup porters -unreservedly of the League j of Nations. - These nersons Dr. W.-J. Hindley, Mrs. Robert C. McCredie, Miss Ida M. Tarbelt, w. J. Bryan. Dr. w. L. MeUtnger and Private Peat are not COMMENT AND - SMALL CHANGE Ctvfflzatlon cries out for blimp-proof ekyligbta, A contemporary aptly remarks that a man stop dictating as soon as he mar ries hie stenographer. .... After this the man who has a little brown Jug in his home will never have to worry because his neighbors fail to call. -a. :- .;: a a. a .. : , The best plan to adopt In selecting a bathing suit is to apply the same good taste that you use when you buy a street dress. We're not too old to remember back to the days when the butcher would actually give us a piece of bologna for running an errand for him. . . The "most ' Important invention made during the srar for war purposes was the tank ; and that was British, though America, may. take some pride in the fact that she offered the inspiration in a tractor. . : a a Senator Swanson was discuss frig what wHl happen to those senators who op pose the league. "They'll fare like the plow boy," said Swanson. "He was plowing his field when an inquisitive passerby asked him how much wages he received. 'Wage? said the boy. ' 'I don't git no wages. I git nothln If I do, and hell if I don't. ,r OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN ' v By Fred Lockley - (In this article Mr. Lacklay diseaaaaa tha putting of the "port" into Portland, with ftiweiat reference to Alaska. Ha -present aa timndinc fienres as to what that almost un touched land already ueaoa to trade and shipping man. thereby indies tin what ft- may be. and will -. when Its potentialities shall ra the future be reduced to actoantiaa. The obrkrui appeal Is hammered - home. ) My nephew. Lieutenant Robert J. Shepard of Alaska, has Just returned from France, and with hie wife Is visit ing at our home. After the signing of the armistice an extensive educational program was put on among the troops.. He waa one of the officers selected to serve as an Instructor. In speaking of thiajart of his work he said i "To my surprise, I found the soldiers more Interested in Alaska than in any other subject I discussed. They were par ticularly interested in the resources and possibilities of Alaska." a A week or so ago I crossed the "Mor rison street bridge on a Mount Tabor car with an old time Alaskan. Pointing to the Idle ships' along the waterfront. he said: "Today Is Portland's -opportunity. Do you remember what Shake- speare says about there being 'a tldej. in the affairs of men which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune? Well, so far as Alaska Is concerned, it la flood time for Portland. Portland has the idle ships. Portland has the prod ucts Alaska need a Freight rates are j excessive from Seattle. . If Portland would only seize her opportunity she would win an empire for her future trade relations. I wonder if Portland wholesalers and Portland's civic lead ers areblg enough to see and seize the opportunity?" . Alaska recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. It waa in 1867 that Wil liam H. Seward brought upon himself a storm of ridicule and abuse by paying Russia $7,200,000 of the taxpayers' money for "that worse than useless district, of perpetual ice, inhabited only by polar bears and Eskimos." It was declared that it waa a white elephant. We were told that it would be a perpetual ex pense, that we would never derive any revenue from it, that it waa a liability, not an asset, and that If we were lucky we might wish it onto some country we had a grudge against. The press and public united in terming It "Sew ard's folly." Now, let's see what we have got back for our investment of $7,200,000 when we bought "Seward's folly." In 1870 we leased the Prlbelof islands, in the Bering sea, to the Alaska Com mercial company. Long ago the roy alties paid by this company for the privilege of killing fur seals there, paid into the United States treasury more than the purchase price of the whole of Alaska. In 1917, the imports to Alaska amounted to $44,481,600. During the past 60 years, Alaska has Imported more than $415,000,000 worth 6f goods. She has exported gold, salmon, timber, furs and other products to the amount of $708,000,000. What did if mean In shipping to handle this more than a billion dollars worth of business? Take the last five years as an example of the. business at our very doors. From 1913 to 1917, Inclusive, Alaska imported goods valued at $141,000,000, and export ed products valued at $267,500,000, a total business of $408,500,000. Isn't this j alii Democrat either, and they come ha1v aana.ra.teul narta of the COUn- try and in private life are of different professions, yet every ona oi me n unhesitatingly indorsed the draft of the n.,A tr,t ,o it wn brouaht back fmm Paris and submitted to the senate by the president. Miracles of the'' Movies From Ban Francisco Bullstin Scarcely a week passe but w view in suooosedly . serious film drama the happy miracle of uccesful anthorship over night or wmuar jmengm. uv - ii,!.. A,nh,n fnr ezamnle. 1 sent UUUl 1 1 1 1.1 v? v. -- - to college. Her grateful heart yearns to repay the benefactor. She wrinkles her brow very prettily over the problem. "An," she say ina imiiM, w, an author." ' ' . . , Thu far It 1 logical enough for many ...um think and aav such naive w J ui y ba w wa - v r absurdities. But in film they do not stop there. " They taxe an evening on in the dark of the moon so as not to Inter- m - t.v. lAvms lcfn.r and dash off a best-seller, an epic poem or a light .opera that sells on eight. It t charming to contemplate, but the editor do not like It For every picture ef thi ort brings to the magazines ana jiuwhiuwb . . mVMMi MlUM ttd with oi nppew - .. - - . : ..titm rfamrw ArrUSion riDDOu, iuuiub - ' without an idea, technlqueless, un gram matical, pioues pjauiuuaB u " professional reader frantic. ; A a matter of fact, one doe not "Come down" with authorship, a on doe with - i Mi f Via rn1r1lit One niesMitrB w w ' - -- achieves it. most laboriously by year of patient, unremitting iun- -a Ana kindnens fcr their urbane iU tla eav v11 v "w - - - r delusions of the public mind. Editor are sufficiently overworaeu suv novelists too numerous and too Incompe tent as It la- Portland' Rale Flflbt rroa the Eafaa Gaant ? For the first time In history Portland Is making a fight to secure ner snare oi the trade of the great inland - empire. - .,u,ii i thmt it. la eheaner to haul freight oft a water grade than it is over th mountain. In the past. Seattle has had a better rate than Portland and the freight had to be shipped ; through cLfu) m a Reaf.flA. If the metroes oils of Oregon succeed In a readjustment or- rates, it wui yrvusui mu u . m,Hm iiiMis avllt tsna. flted a well a the -now favored port! OI can r rawisvv awiu oisiuv" r NEWS ' IN BRIEE. OREGON SIDELIGHTS a a- u..Hs ffaa VtAMVel sSsLbsV saV lctd Ui date October 2-J for th county lair ana uio iviiffore iaw o av-- ,.. "Wltn the world going dry and hops selling at 40 cents a pound says the Eugene Register. 'he reputation of the hop as a freak crop is still further en haneed." , - Heppner'e council la busywtUi plans for a better water supply. Propositions looking to the city's taking over thejj isting privately owned plant are -under consideration. " Marion county In July paid out $428.10 for scalps' of moles, gophers and gray niggers, and $1255760 since January 1. TbV tax provides $4200 a year for thie bounty fund In Marlon. ' P"erv effort Is being made by the Comm7rcW club nd the city officials of Bakw. the Democrat says, to provide every comfort for auto touriaU at the city's camp grounds, and a large num ber .visit the grounds each night. Bryant-park: at Albany, according to th. bernocrat. Is J?m'?f v" feVMrynuTht1 unTber o7touri.timp in the park, and Pic nics of some kind are on- the program eveVevenlng. In one evening six pic nic were in session at one and the aime time. . . - business worth going after? Wont se curing a share of this business help put the "port" in Portland? We have the "port" and the "lend" here at Port land. Let's hitch them up so they can do good team work. We have the land, the port, the ships, the water and the market. Let's get action on them. Let's utilise Alaska's gateways her water ways. The highways as well as the gateways of Alaska are her waterways. Jt we want her trade we must utilize our and her liquid highways. . e Alaska has more than 26,000 miles of Coast line. President Wilson said re cently, "Alaska Is a storehouse. It should be unlocked." Portland has the key to hls storehouse. Shall we use It? a a 'Pick up Alaska and lay It on the United States. Ketchikan touches Jack sonville, Fla while Attu touches Santa Barbara, Cal. That's how big It Is. From Dixon entrance westward to the fartherest of the Aleutian islands you, must travel in an air line over 8000 miles. If you took the Job of counting the Islands' of Alaska you would have to visit over a thousand separate islands. She has 46S islands containing one or more square miles. One of the Islands of Alaska Kodiak, the island of large bears has an area greater than the combined areas of Connecticut and Rhode Island. It is 101 miles long and 68 miles wide. Prince of Wales Island is 131 mile long and 39 mile wide. Alaska is twice as large as the 13 origi nal state of our Union. It ha an area of 686,400 square miles. It has a coast line 6000 mile longer than the combined coast line of ' the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coast line of the United State. e a "Seward folly," that barren and in hospitable land of perpetual snow, ha 64,000,000 acre of good agricultural land available for farms. Finland ha less than one-ninth of the available farm land we have in Alaska. Finland and Alaska are very similar in climate and are both largely located, between the fifty-eighth and seventieth parallels of north latitude. Look up the record and you will find that a year or so ago Finland, during one 'season, pro duced 86.731,660 bushels of grain, Z9, 887,39$ bushels of potatoes and 26,585, 600 pounds of butter, and -during that same year she exported meat, game and butter to the amount of g,70,4UO, ana wood pulp and paper to the value of $46,012,000. If Finland, witn less than 7,000,000 acres of agricultural land, can do that, what can Alaska, with 64,000,000 acre of farming land, do? Alaska is destined to be a great farming and stock raising country a a a W paid $7,200,000 for Alaska. During the past 83 years Alaaka has shipped $394,739,691 worth of gold, copper, sil ver, tin, marble,', gypsum and other metals. Alaska has shipped out $51. 278,561 worth of sealskins .and $26,032, 036 of Other fur and pelt. Up to De cember 31, 1917, Alaska shipped from her ports $298,988,852 worth of salmon, cod, halibut and other fish. a I Alaska worth cultivating? Do Portland merchant want her, trade? If we really want to act. and not Just talk, now Is the time to put the port In Portland. . Curious Bits of Information For the Curious . Gleaned From Curious Place Robert Burns died at Dumfries, Thurs day, July 21, 1796, at the age of 27. Sun day evening, July 24, th body was car ried to the Trades' hall. In the High street, and from there, on Monday, July 25, It was borne to the churchyard of St. Michaels. The poet was buried with military . honor. Soldiers lined the treetfr and a firing party, with arm reversed, marched first. The coffin waa carried on the shoulders of the poet' brother volunteer. To the musio of the "Dead March in Saul,", the long pro cession walked down the High street of Dumfries and along . St. Michael street to the churchyard. The soldier who took part In the funeral were the Gentleman Volunteers of Dumfries, to which the poet belonged; th Fenclble Infantry of Anguaahlr and the regiment of cavalry of the Cinque Port. Th two- latter bodies were at that time quartered in Dumfries, and offered their assistance. Among the Junior officer of th Cinque Ports regiment was the Hon. Robert Bank Jenklnson, afterwards the second Earl of Liverpool and prime minister of Great Britain from 1112 to 1827. The principal inhabitant of Dumfries "and the surrounding countryside walked in the procession and a vast concourse of people witnessed the funeral. - Olden Oregon Flax Raising Date From 1145, Intro duced by ; James Johnson . - . The first flaxseed In ' Oregon was brought from Indiana la. 1844 by James Johnson and planted near Lafayette the following year. It grew well. . From the fiber were made towel and other do mestic article, by Mrs. Johnson, on a home-made loom. John Klllin, a pioneer of 1945, raised flax on hi farm in Clackamas county near the present town of .Hubbard. Towels and bed ticks were made out of the fiber by hi wife. - Turn of the Wheel . . Nit used to be said that every American laborer could hav meat three time a day If he liked. JNowaday th salaried and professional classes in America look upon meat' three time a day as th ex travagance of the rich. The . News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benent of Journal Readers ORKQON NOTES wo?kPtht1,Il,K00.J,ri," wer furnished mer'-ia?"'- ?' ?1- aWat the ag". of VVramV'r Va"ey Band concert will be held each Satur a'LrV. P..t"?:''tCdrawlrlg ------ cwiuruay night. Threst ntn m ... . ... Miiw,- . I iv' rrom t oqu . wfc "?W',,ton Coatee and Jame - - tuuua m XNewoerg. totaff VI'k Q.Jy amounted Ho-vT, " ' win exceptionally tt,rdln I" leather Observer Mrs. J. vt Ch.iM. i . i-. d Thrsxir at the home or her ShU!' iMr'- J' M- Harris. ia Eusn. A 'Isrea u,t M,ki.u i . . . . beach near Newport, caused conslder-fh-,?,v cltement, as people on the beach ...wuBi.t ,fc t u.n a wnaie. Drilllne tni- nit - . . . - - - -. .jf control lea by the Oregon Oil company at the xTnTii. V"' J1'"' south of Mo- Minnville, has- been started. Plana rYi fniinitn . i. , . . chool in Marshfield have been an- V. . . vt icuevitt of at. Monica's church of that city. . tAS apptepacklng school Is to be opened in Roeeburg in an effort to raise th efficiency of worker, thu gaining relief from a prospective shortage of help. A shipment of 1120 lambs, sold for 13 cents a pound- and averaging about 79 Ppunds each, was sent to Denver by S. 15. Miller, a Cove district sheepman. A reduction of approximately 30 per cent in fire Insurance rates for Astoria, Ui result of a recent survey by the state Insurance department, ha been an nounced, s A part for the airplane piloted by Lieutenant Kiel waa received by mall at the capltol In Salem, the first parcels Dost nnrksra nf Ita irinri , .... tat building. The Columbia River highway, between -Hood River and Cascade Locks, which Was tft hAVA h,,n flnaAS. i A ... : . paving, will remain open until the latter aa eve) n W Ka s V Mlf TTQClVs natflAmAn .-It Trmerllta ..... ... y wsaisahiaaassb WUII ,J WkTm planning- to winter their atoclc at home, 7. tvam irum aoaea cost of sending the cattle away 1 equal to losses due to hay shortage at home. w Bute hospital Inmates at Salem nnm Pfr 1724 and the per capita coat la $15.57 ; Inmates at th feeble-minded ln- aHfllfA mirrK4. ill . , . . , . . - v wvm vi f ll.Ui each; the training school ha 150 at a trm , Sin j, .i ..... v av.io, .jiu WIO lUDCrCUlOSIS hospital 75 at a cost of $45.98. WASHINGTON ' .hen a threshing machine engine ex ploded near Garfield, Jerome Tid well, the engineer, waa Instantly killed. Three Cathlamet boy a George Stener, Ralph Smith and Richard Olmaiaau, have returned from oversea service. Th presence of hog cholera near Fair field, where one owner is said to have lost 20 head, hi entire herd, has' been reported. ' A prisoner at Aberdeen gained pos session of a hose and drenched the jailor, prisoner and th Jail before the hose was taken from him. Lieutenant W. W. Judson and Carl ton Hampe. Sergeant Loren Stephen and Rudolph Overly, service men from Cen tralis, have returned home. L. M. Holt, superintendent of trrlga gation on the Yakima reservation, re port 98,600 acres on the reservation In crops and that the yield will -total .ap proximately $8,000,000. ' Private J. Vincent Robert. son of Rev. John T. Robert of Yakima, Is a proud father In France, hi wife, a niece of General Mangin of the French army, presenting him with a son. The Todd shipyard ha v laid off another 1000 men with a statement that th reduction in force la permanent and the men will not be taken back should the striking blacksmith agree to return. GENERAL -The Spanish senate was unanimous In approval, of Joining thecLeague of Na tions. The naval seaplane NC-4, which crossed the Atlantic, may fly to the Pacific coast,, it is announced. t Amnesty to political offenders during the last electoral campaign has been granted In the' republic of San Salvador. The house way and mean committee Voted to recommend a bill to license dye stuffs imports and plac a heavy tariff on them. - . The tax of $20 on Japanese who en- frage in fishing In California was upheld n an opinion by Attorney General Webb of California. The portfolio of minister of agricul ture In the Dominion cabinet ha been . accepted by Dr. A. V. Tolmle, member of parliament for Victoria, B. C. Nine-year-old Virginia Byineton re turned to 'her home In San Francisco after being sought all night, saying she had visited "friend In Berkeley' Annual Bflolarah!n Daring $100 a year at Gooding college, Gooding, Idaho, are to be orrerea oy in,wsujiiwn k the American Revolution of the college city. a formal ball wa given by the Ban Francisco Knight of Columbus at the close of, the officer' training camp a th Presidio in honor of the departing officer. Inhabitants of Shantung are gather ing together 20.000,000 yen to pay back the loan made by Japan to China for th railroad In the province. In the hope that Japan will cancel the railroad agreement In accordance with her offer to China. Uncle Jeff Snow Saya ; Some of these here Corner fellers' ha voted Tllden Mocker plum crazy 'cause he left hi farm on the medder and .went to town. He uster raise 80 ton of hay of a season, but now h run a sorter aafety razor pushcart thing on a patch of grass. that he won't let grow more'ri a Inch or so high 'fore be har vest his crop. II don't git enough eras offen a little patch about a big a a. half a chicken run to feed a calf. but he work away at it moat a hard a he uster do in real hayln'. Tilden low the children's bound and deter mined to tay in town and 'tend school, movie and other elevatln' and tnspirlu' adjunct of civilisation, and he Jlst play at th Job be ha tuck up fer health and exercise, and In no way ezpect to store up much hay. Government Thrift Campaign" Helps All Savings Banks 1 f Stories of aehieeemeni ia tha encuma UUob of War Marinas Stamps, sent to Tha Journal and accepted for publication, will be awarded a Thrift Stamp. ) The purchase of government bona aif Savings Stamps ha increased rather than decreased savings depos its in the bank of the country. Re cent statements from various sec tion, from Portland to New Tork, how that sine th armistice wa signed the savings bank of the coun try have been flooded with deposit. - Th postal savings bank hav con ducted only very limited educational campaign In th past, and credit for present big Increase i freely given to the work done In the Saving Stamp campaign. Person who get th thrift habit practice it In savings deposits a well a in Thrift and Saving Stamp purchases, it ha been shown. .- Thrift Sumps and 1919 War Savlnci Stamp now on sale at nsu&l ancies.