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'lull: OIILGOII DAILY JOUiiNAL, PO RTLAND, FRIDAY, AUGUST S, .11J. AW IN DtPEKDEST 1CEWSPAMEB a s. Jackson.. , . . . . publ"" Published (very day. aftarsooa and morning teieept Sunday afternoon), at The Journal Building; Broadway , i aa4 TaaabiU suae. Portland. Oregon. I Entered at tha Postofflee at Portland. Oregon. lor trnnlio through tha saila aa ascend . . alaa matter. - " " ' .-Telephones Main jmi Home, A-spsi. AM inriwuM. r.irh b thes BOmbera. TeU too operator what department yon want. JXRKION AOVEBTISL-O BBPBKSENTATITK - Benjamin Ac KenUtor Co., Brunswick uUdins. ,. 225 Fifth, avenue. Waw Tork; 600 Mailer 'Building, Chicago. - .'Subscription terms by mail, a to any address in . tha United States or Mexico: DAILY (MORJtWO i OB AFTERKOOIf Ona year.... .86.00 I Om month..... $ .SO - StTNpAT fOnw Tear. .. ..82.B0 j Ona month. .... .2B DAILY (MOR.NINO OB A rTERNOON) , AND SUNPAY 'a year..... $7.50 J One month..... .88 Thar t no uea in sweeping ?- chamber if ail tba dust cornea out of the broom. Whately. i. 1 ! . TIIEIK COSTLY LESSON c OSTLY lessons in the value of water competition are being brought boma to Northwest wool men. Their former rate of $1.25 from ) ,Portland to Boston has been increased I to. $2.39 ptrr 100 pounds. The in crease is' $1.14, or nearly 100 per cent. The former rate was based i a . MAn-.nMt:.n in.iltM v.rltK 4H0 .'railroads which the railroad admin I 'istration holds does not now exist. I Officials of the, railroad adminis ) ration, following a former ruling by ,the interstate commerce commission, f -hold that actual water competition I land not potential water- competition t Is ' the only basis on which lower I 'rates can be granted. Otherwise j 'stated. It means that the ships must be in service and actually carrying wool from Portland to Boston before ports can expect the lower rates to be continued.' There is no way to misunderstand the situation. Actual water competi tion is a factor in rate making. Po tential water competition is not. It is a position toward which Inter state commerce rulings have long been trending, and at last it is em phatically and powerfully here. Its I penalty is an added charge of $1.14, I or a "nearly doubled freight rate on 1 wool from Portland to Boston. It j 19 a toll upon every head of sheep I owned by every wool grower in the J' Pacific Northwest. In its long .time insistence that steamship lines out of Portland' are I a fundamental factor in the economl- cal handling of products, The Jour I nal is now proven to have been I right. The benefit is not merely ' for Portland. Here we see how lack of steam- l ah In Ilnpa artverae.lv nffWfa th waaI j grower. It has nearly doubled the ( freight rate on his outgoing wool Clip. It similarly affects the or- :hardist, the dairyman, the lumber- man and the grower or manufac turer of every other product used on 'the other side of America or abroad. To fail to provide the lines is to further increase the tolls on products already groaning under the burden Of high freight rates. Twenty-five ,per cent added recently to rail rates ifA a factor In the situation. Other 1 i increases in rail rates may be I counted on. Nothing Is mpre1 unsettled than the I railroads. They are now confronted I 'with the most gigantio demands for . wage increases in their entire his : ,tory, They were 'Wrecked by the I .dishonest stock jobbing processes of I itheir managers in a 30 years period of railroad corruption, and must have f 'huge butzZ for betterments. Nobod-y f, .knows where rail rates will ultimate ly go to. -The sea Is open and free. The Jsh'lps 'are within reach.. Water i (transportation is the lowest known j. to, man. j-'.; Their, way jut of an ugly situa- 'tion Is for the producers of the in t 'terior and the great business In ' 'terests of the port to turn to the t 'sear for relief. . With, the ships in motion, it will ; tmatter little what the railroads may -see fit to. exact in increased rates. Chicago chorus girls are promising Z strike unless they are given extra k i pay for Sunday performances. When f , they threaten to kick' in unison, it is I 'enough, to make even Chicago sit up I and take notice. JAHES M'CAIIV T fjHE legal profession of Oregon loses one of its foremost mem bers . , the. death of. James McCain of McMinnvilfe. Born in Indiana . he came to Oregon as l a small child, lived his life, received f his education and practised his pro f fession in this state. ... " .Throughout his career he was ' recognized by-. the bench and - bar h of the state as an able- lawyer, faith- rui- 10 nis clients ana rair ; in ; the conduct of his practice, while the .multitude of his friends bespeak the character of his citizenship. A ' decade or more ago, his name was of frequent mention in a public way, and ; the ; round ' of his :. activi ties a part of the life of the com monwealth iai whleh he was long an actor. 1- "TV : -;" ' " Chicago bakers have raised tha price of ptes, which is causing some little turmoil among the lunch-eaters of the Windy City. If the Increase were to become general throughout the nation, there would be no ques tion about the high cost of living be ing due for a tumble. If public senti ment could encompass it. reaY, bank smashers w HAT has happened to the North Penn bank at Philadelphia? They can't find out yet whether the shortage is $800,000 or $2,000,000. The casnier is out on $23,000 bail, a paying teller is at large In his $3500 automobile and the bank is a wreck. The most that is known is that both officials and employes passed through gala days while they were spend ing the resources of the institution. A $35 a week teller lived in splendor in a fine house, had a $3300 auto mobile . and two other cars; was a brilliant figure in the downtown cafes and gave $5 tips. Another em ploye received side money of $50 a week for. permitting an automobile firm to overdraw its account, ex tended the same privilege to his relatives, who overdrew $15,000, and had similar side allowances per week from other patrons of the bank. The bookkeeper said he saw the others using bank funds and con cluded that he might as well do it too. A $25 a week clerk ad both a five and a seven-passenger automo bile, employed jazz orchestras for frequent parties at his home and lived on a scale of expenditure to have made even a bank president wince. The plundering is astounding in that it was so widespread, and ex tended over a period of years. The examiners even declare that the wrecked bank reached a state of In solvency two years ago, but the facj was concealed and the' stealing went on as usual. The call of the great white way, the lure of the cafes and the ways of luxury and swift living have often worked havoo in banks. But here is wholesale bank wrecking that smashes all records, and, by compari son, reduces all former bank thieves to mere bungling amateurs. If China were to start a world war, it would almost be worth the trip across the Pacific to hear a Chinese regiment sing Tipperary in the Chi nese language. PUNISn PROFITEERS S' PECULATORS are withholding vast supplies of food from the market in the hope that hunger impelled strikes mayi bring higher wages with which to purchase their stocks. , Such is the staiement of the federal trade commission in a report made public yesterday. Accompanying in formation is that stocks of food held in cold and dry storage were 19 per cent" greater on June 1 than on the same date last year. The commission points out that in Juno a year ago United States stocks of food were in demand for feeding the armies of the allies as well as civilian . populations in Europe. The, fact that many import ant stocks of food are nruch larger now than at that .time while prices are as hlgk or higher than in June last year, means that they are being held speculatively for a world de mand. There Is no reason to be doubtfql of the trade commission. It was created by act of congress. Its members are men chosen by reason of especial qualifications for the work, and they are under oath to investigate and report illegitimate and Illegal business operations as they are commanded by statute to do. There is not the slightest reason for' them to be unfair or partial. It may be accepted as true, from their report, that greedy men seeking- unconscionable profits through profiteering in the foodstuffs of the people are in part responsible for the high cost of living. The IS -year-old lass from Hailey, Idaho, who tried to choke a moun tain lion to death and nearly got away with it will probably have her way about the way things run about the house after she changes her name. WILL CLEAR OUR VISION" T ;IIE country will wait with more than normal interest for ' the result of the government's prose cution of the big packers should those suits or prosecutions" be com menced as promised by the attorney general. Then we will know, or at least we hope we will, whether "those big concerns are really hoarding food supplies of all, kinds and controlling tarkets and prices against the in rest of the public and for . the In terest of their bank accounts. , The attorney general says publicly that his office has evidence on hand which Indicates a "clear violation of the anti-trust! law." The packers deny that this Is true. Tha public undoubtedly, leans to the presump tion that the betting, odds are with the government and its legal , department.- A full and vigorous Investigation and presentation of the charges be fore the courts arid their juries will do ' much to clear the atmosphere if nothinsjjjmore.' ? Now the bulk of the people firmly believe tlrat the pack ing concerns are robbing both, pro ducer and consumer alike; that they control ; the prices : paid to the pro ducer, to the Jobber, the wholesaler, the retailer and ultimately, to the consumer. If they are wrong they will be glad" to know it. The Ameri can peopla are not prone to howl at what they have to pay when they know that the price is a reasonable price. They ; will, ; and do, howl i if they' believe that they are being forced to pay more than a reason able price for ..what they most; con sume. ' The packers contend that they , will "welcome" investigation by the gov ernment, which makes everything lovely. It makes . it easy for the government and, if they are honest in their assurances, the outcome will soothe the ; public ., mind. But, should the prosecutions show that the packers have been profiteer ing the anger of the common man will be slow to cool.. He has been bending his back beneath Increasing cost burdens for a long time, stolidly and uncomplainingly, because he has been taught to believe that they were "on account of the war" and necessary for its winning. But the war is over and the time' is coming for things to shake back to normal. The man or -the -group of men who arbitrarily hold costs up for their own benefit will not be jpopular In this country any more than the kaiser, who started everything. And people have a tendency to think more strongly of the fellow nearest to them than the reverse. MAX H. HOUSER MAX H. HOUSER has. views. . They are sound views on the subject at least of Portland as a port. He voiced them in Wednesday's Journal. We cannot go into shipping on thousands, because Portland's ship ping requirements will be In mil lions, he said. We have to figure, nat In small change, but in fortunes. We cannot expect our maritime future for the price of an outfit of office furniture. The start must Derforce be modest. but it must be backed wmi a wealth of money and public interest. "The trouble seems to be that we have been aiming at the stars with noth ing to shoot with. We are not going to make a seaport of Portland overnight, nor are we going to turn the trick with a few thousand dol lars in the pockets of a few, inter ested nen." Here is one of Mr. Houser's proposals : Would it not be a splendid thing for the shipbuilders, whose plants . are now largely idle, to launch this shipping: de velopment era by agreeing to build tor local interests one or more vessels at cost? Do you see what an Impetus such a thing would automatically be to ship ping? In sum and : substance a big capitalization ana a big and general pub lic interest are the essential necessities of the port Just now. Given those two things I think the shipping future of the port would be assured. Mr. Houser says of any, sound pro gram of investment, "I shall gladly be a part." Are there not many other men ready to join with Mr. Houser? Realizing what his own financial rise has been, how can anybody question his business judgment? If able, sound and successful in his private affairs, is not Mr. . Houser a safe counsellor in public affairs? Mr.. Houser can do a great deal to put Portland where she belongs commercially. He can probably do a great deal more than he thinks he can do.' Having advanced to a posi tion of financial Independence, would it not be a call to his ambition to use his great talents in behalf of his adopted home city? Is there not something more for every man fi nancially independent thad the mere piling up of money on money? By and by, as the shadows begin to fall over men now in the full strength of life; what consciousness more satisfying to each than realiza tion that he has done something that beneficially affected a great com munity? Howiinsatisfying, on the other hand, must be the conscious ness in such a time to a man who has used his great powers for self aggrandizement alone? By "his record and his reputation, Mr. Houser Is able to move other men. He has all the qualities of leadership. To, him and those he can draw around him, Portland's shipping future, well realized, would be a lasting monument. If one forest patrol airplane has stopped the hens of one chicken fan cier from laying and scared the cows of a dairyman until they have re fused to give their usual quota of milk, what will happen to the birds and beasts of the Willamette valley when the six planes now ordered to that service get into dally operation ? SIGNBOARDS FOR THE SKY NOW enters a new need into, the rapidly growing . complexity of our dally, life. Airmen are de ... manding signboards, i upward turning towards v: the heavens; for their guidance as they journey across the skies. ; '; Nearly all towns :- look alike from high aloft, they 6ay, so that a few moments above the fog at a hundred miles an hour leaves the pilots float ng over an unrecognizable world when they come within sight of the land again. Forest patrols making their headquarters at Salem already have lost their ;way.' after wandering through the clouds a little while and have heen forced to cruise in circles above the . valley until , they could spot the "copper dome, of the capltol building and come home again. ; , So they are' advancing the conten- tion that the names of Willamette valley towns and villages should be painted on the tops of their most prominent buildings In yard-high let ters to chart thero on their journey tags frpm -hangar to forest and back again. - California towns, they . in form us, - are already heeding the suggestion and have provided such, guide posts for the aerial highway. We live in an advancing world. Ages ago we had buoys I upon the sea and lights upon the promontories to guide the mariner safely into port. For other ages we "have had the oc casional sign board at theT cross roads to show us how to turn. These we met with a level eye because we Journeyed on the sea or on the land. But now we must tilt our chartings toward the heavens so they may be seen from above. Man is flying, as well as time. THE RECORD 'OF A SENATORIAL FAKE Senators Inconceivably ' Ignorant, or Playing It to Fool Others. From the New York World. The full text of the treaty for the de fense of France was published in the tf ternoon newspapers of the United tates on July 3 and in the morning newspapers on J uly 4. Many of the senators expressed their opinion about it in newspaper interviews, including Borah. New, Curtis, Spencer and Ken yon. It was discussed editorially by the daily press and the weekly periodicals. Previous to its publication President Wilson had issued a. statement in Paris defining its scope and purpose. In his address to the senate t on July 10 lie said : "I shall presently have occasion to lay before you a special treaty with France whose obiect in th tin protection of Franc from nnnrnvnktil aggression by the power with whom tms treaty nas been negotiated. Its terms link it with this treaty. I take the liberty. hbwever. of riuurvin i rvw special explanation on another occa sion. Exactly three weeka &ftr rhl had been printed in the American news papers, Harvey's Weekly appeared with the text of the treaty and the amazing uBciaraiinn mat in lhA hut at m, knowledge it has not been published in this country." althoue-Vi "it an- peared 1ft England." The attack that Harvey's Weekly made on President Wilson in connection with the treaty had evidently been nla.nnr1 1 tion with Chairman Hays of the Repub lican nauonai committee, for two days oefore the Weakl-v was leaner u.... sent the following letter over his own signature to various campaign fund contributors from the committee's head quarters at No. 452 Fifth nvpnn - "You will of courso hear of. and no doubt will sea in full, the editorial by Colonel George Harvey, published this week in Harvey's Weekly, relative to the proposed -Franco-American treaty. I want to be sure that you see this with Its remarkable subject matter; hence this letter calling your attention to it." The night before the editorial made its appearance, Lodge, Knox. Brandegee and Borah held a conference in which plans were made for attacking the president. The next morning Brande gee read the editorial in ' Harvey's Weekly to the senate. Including the text of the treaty.' In the course of his re marks the senator from , Connecticut said: . j "Here is the Thunderer, the London Times, of July 4, and the whole cove nant Is here; every Britisher knows about It as well as their own, but we do not- know about it and cannot." And this from Lodge : "When the senator from Connecticut showed me this article before the as sembling of the senate, it seemed to me Inconceivable that the fourth article should be there. I supposed the editor. Colonel Harvey, was very accurate and careful, but it seemed to me simply in conceivable. I saw a copy of the Lon don Times containing the fourth article from the White Book, which was laid before the house of commons, but I could not get a copy in private hands. However, I afterward found a copy of the French paper Figaro. It is a Paris paper under the date of July 3, and carried on Its front page this article, headed 'Guarantees of Peace.' " . What Senator Lodge found with such painstaking effort In the British White Book and In the Paris Figaro and in Harvey's Weekly he could have read In every American afternoon newspaper July 3 and every American morning newspaper of July 4, just as the "secret" labor clauses which he found in Elihu -Root's copy of the original draft of the peace treaty had been printed weeks before in all the Ameri can newspapers. The fourth article of1 the treaty, which Beemed to him "slm-i ply inconceivable," is right there word for word. There is no more mystery about it than there is about the text of the president's recent public address toi the United States senate' in open ses sion. What is "simply inconceivable" to us Is that Lodge and Brandegee and the" other participants in the staging of this senatorial fraud are as ignorant as they pretend to be. Tet they must be. or they would not have taken such pains to make themselves, ridiculous before the country. a Jn the meantime, while Lodge is clam orlng for the president to submit the treaty with France, his committee on foreign relations has had the treaty of peace in its possession for. 16 days and has not even finished reading the text. It Is said that it wiU not have com pleted the work of reading the treaty before August IS. Tet, whUe it is hold ing up peace, Lodge is assailing the pres ident for not submitting another treaty for it to mess and muddle, and Will Hays blissfully believes that this crew of disUnguished fakers is creating a political issue that can be helpful to the ReputMican party In 192 Bourne Hotly Denounced by League to Enforce Peace . From the League; Bulletin. The so called "Republican Publicity association," which is conducting a cam paign of propaganda against the League of Nations, has no authority to (speak for the Republican party and does not represent, in any: way, the Republican .national committee. , j. The Bulletin is led to issue this warn ing because many persons have given attention to the pronunciamentos ofj this associaUon In the belief that they express the official views of the party organization. The Republican PnbUcity association is purely a private organi sation, controlled by a few office holders and ex-office holders who include im placable enemies ef the League of Na tions. Its statements represent the opin ions of the extreme group among the opponents of the covenant. The president and one of the chief moving spirits, of the association is the Hon. Jonathan Bourne Jr.,-" ex-senator from Oregjn. Mr. Bourne ooes npt even represent the majority sentiment ot hie own state.' where both senators one a Republican : and tne other a Democrat favor the ratification of the league covenant. It Is well known that the association not only has no authority to speak for the Republican party but through Its unreasoning attacks on the league covenant is. causing serious em barrassment to the Republican leaders who are opposing all . efforts to make the league a party issue. The declarations Issued by the Re publican Publicity association show that this organization, or rather its officers and executive committee, for it repre sents no constituency. Is unalterably op posed to the entrance of the United States Into any league of nations or other International agreement lor con ttnuing the cooperation that enabled the free nations to win the war. It advo cates a nolicy of national selfishness, which the American people repudiated forever when they entered the struggle for world freedom. Letters From the People tCommnnicationa Bent to Tha Journal for publication in thia department should be written on only one aid of tha papar, ahould not exceed 800 worda in length, and must be cigned by tha writer, whose- mail add ma in lull must accom pany tna contriDttUon. Booze Traffic's Bad Company Athena, Aug. 5. To the Editor of The Journalr Mr. Llnscott in The Journal of August 2 says that I remind him of a '- lawyer Dleading a case. xnanics, Well. I will say that he does not remind me of a lawyer at all; one expects at least a little logic from a lawyer, me wets remind me most of a drowning man grasping at a straw, and they have been clutching at a straw for some time now. One day they are howling about their personal rights, their beloved, HP alienable constitutional rights. One would think the constitution was espe cially formulated to preserve, protect. and further the liquor traffic, to let them tell it. Next day, they are quoting scripture In such a fervid manner that one would think the one great purpose of the Bible was to encourage drunken ness. And now Mr. Linscott has made his crowning discovery that the mem bers of the legislature that voted pre hibition had their cellars full of booze. and he calls them the rankest kind of hypocrites, to boot. I don't know how he came to find out that these legisla tors had their cellars full, nor just why they voted for prohibition If they were so fond of liquor as that. Now, as far as I care myself, it doesn't matter how much booze they put away surreptitiously, so long as they did the right thing. As I look back through my life, and visualize the thousands of men I - have seen ruined by whiskey, I feel thankful that my son will automatically escape the pitfaUs that I, through good for tune, escaped. And let us nrft be too hasty in calling those who differ with us fanatics ; they, by chance, might be right and we, by chance, might be the fanatics and dupes. An institution that has not a single virtue but has a thousand evils, and is the mother of a thousand, more, is in bad shape to argue the matter. There Is no argument to meet. I: have noticed in my travels that most men and women of questionable charac ter, or of a questionable business, are in favor of the liquor traffic ; that the criminals, blacklegs and human wolves are all in favor of ,the liquor traffic ; that where you find vileness, squalor, dirt and disease, there you are sure to find the liquor traffic. Now, I don't mean by this that aU men who favor tha- liquor traffic are of question able character, but I do mean they are going with that crowd. That which makes for degradation will have a fol lowing of the degraded and low. That which stands for cleanUness and moral uplift will have a following of those who believe : in advancement, : culture and virtue. F. B. WOOD. Concerning Prohibition Portland, Aug. E. To the Editor of The Journal A. F. Wilson "Is right in his condemnation of prohibiUon, for it has been carried to extremes through the insanity of Its founders. Prohibition is all right to a certain extent, that of duttlng out the liquor traffic, but when it forbids the making of home made wines for the use of home it has en croached on the legiUmate rights of man. For thousands of years wines were made for home use and were not condemned even by biblical authority. They were and are, healthful, and the people of those ages lived longer, even past the century mark. Pure wines and liquors are essentjal to health, or they never would have been used by the ancients, for In those days they prided themselves in the strength of their bodies. In this age it is fast living that has" reduced the standard. Wines and fruits were the main goods of the past. People lived plainer and ( studied healthier dress modes. But now, what? They have to resort to all kinds of thfatgs to try to preserve health. Look at te fashions. The body Is hampered in its natural growth. Less study of dress and more of the body will Increase the standard of age and beauty of man. Home made wines and plainer foods will be its best contribution. We call this a free country and a free age. It Is a misnomer. We are abject slaves to fanaticism, and prohibition is the greatest enemy of all. As A. W. Wilson says, there ,wlll be a reaction. The people are waking up, and the govern ment must act in regard to the food question and also to the rights of Indi viduals and their home rule. The home is a sacred place and its rights no one had a right to say what a person or family hall raise or make for their own use. - I am 75 years of age and have never been under the influence of liquors. Neither am I a total abstainer, and a good glass of beer was the best medi cine and tonic 1 that I ever drank, and only occasionally; . If there were purer wines and liquors we would not have so much use for medicines and adultera tions of that kind. A. OSBORNE. Idle Men in These Days ' From tha Astoriaa Wages ' around Astoria are high enough , to tempt almost any man to '' work, but nevertheless it is hard to get men to take Jobs unless they are hard up. There have been more jobs than men who are willing to work, all sum mer. At the government employment office yesterday a call for four men to work at the Port of Astoria for Martin & Wills, the flouring mill contractors, ; came into the office. The wages offered were $ 6 per day, yet several men who had droppd in to look over the board and see what Jobs were open, refused to go out on the work, although they said that concrete mixing was agreeable to them. One man said he did not care to go to work for a few days and another said he would think it over. In walking down Bond street one would thlftk there are enough idle men in Astoria to supply any number of workers and there are. But as long j as there is sunshine and they have: money in. their pockets, . they will not work, i There Is plenty- of work for everyone around Astoria these days and any men i who are Idle are so by choice and not of necessity. . v ' Speaking' of Houses From tha Brooklyn Eacla Most houses now on the 'market have two stories the buyer's and the seller's ; and then there is the tenant's but that's another story. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF - SMALL CHANGE ' The war Is over, but peace 'isn't. Help It i ... ... - It's a sad Joke, but it's the soft pedal for PeidL . .... ' a ...So far, nobody has talked about "handing the postal system back to the corporations." . "Price of shoes not warranted." says the esteemed headline. And. what's more, neither are the shoes. -One thing we'll say for this chap Bela Kun : You can pronounce his name, whether you know how to pronounce it or not. The fellow who "says It to your face" Is usually the one who doesn't say it to the face of the man that's bigger than he is. , One could think better of that, man Lodge if he ever cracked a Joke. Just think of Old Joe Cannon. And then think of Lodge! We should worrv ahnut TVir-tlanrVn k!o8ing out on that army bacon. Fel lows we Know say army bacon aln t much shakes nohow. a A Michigan" man has been convicted of putting adulterants into bologna. Howeaer, the Jury must- have made up the verdict on the theory that he had been .putting bologna into the adulter ants. : Our fellow-lucubrator (not lubricator, please Messrs. I. Compositor and Ct Proofreader) Jay E. House is of the opinion that, with the nation dry, the chronic soak who would be a brilliant and successful citizen if he would only "let it alone" will be forced to frame up another alibi. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF, THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley """"" Further experieneea of William Comfoot are detailed by Mr. Lockley today, thia article brins ins tha atory up ta tha point whera Mr. Corn foot decides that the west coast of America is tha beet of coasts and tha city of Portland tha most beautiful of cities, and it'a Portland for him and no mora the seasoins life. ) "After being at sea for some years," said William Cornfoot of Portland, "1 was asked to superintend the building of a ship at Greenock. She was christened the Adato. She was a 6700-ton steel ship. I went with her as chief engineer. You will be interested to know that for com mon labor I paid 20 shillings a week and for skilled mechanics 32 shiUings a week in the building of the Adato. That means that we paid $8 a week for the highest priced labor. This ship was the first ship to put in to Selina, . Texas. The canal had Just been completed. We went there to ret a load of cotton, wheat and vegetable oil. When our new ship pulled into this new canal they held a - big celebration. A number of railroad mag nates were there and - helped celebrate the event. On our way to Rotterdam the cotton caught fire.. We closed the hatches, pumped water In the hold and ran for Falmouth, where we beached her and pumped her hold full of water, finally extinguishing the fire. When repairs had been made we went to Malta to get a cargo for Liverpool. We were then sent to Calcutta to load for London. From London we went to Cardiff, where we got a ' load of coal, which we took via the Straits Settlements to Hongkong for the use of the British navy. At Hong kong we got orders to go to Portland, Oregon. This was In 1899. We were chartered for three years to a Mr. Graham of Portland. We went to Port land light, and took on a cargo of flour at the Portland flouring mills. We were here 10 days. I went about quite a bit in Portland and liked the city very much, though I hadn't, the .faintest Idea i at the time that I should ever make my home here. ' ' a a ' "We were held up at Kobe, Japan, for a month or more. The man who chartered us was unable to carry out his agreement, so we were chartered by" the Pacific Export company, of which7..W. D. Wheelwright was president, We were again ordered to Portland to take on a load of lumber for Manila. We came to PorUand, where we took on 2,500,000 feet of lumber, which we tin- RUSSIA IN By Paul Special Correspondence to Tha Journal and tba CbJcaso Daily News. Ufa, Russia At Mlas In the Ural mountain the other day I Saw them building a house. ,The foundation was in place and waiting, but not a timber had yet been laid upon it. A few yards away was the house itself under process of construction. The log walls were nearly all In place. The carpenters were at work with their hatchets and no other tools. A Russian peasant carpenter can do wonders with a hatchet and this may be the only implement in his bag. In a week or two the house will be con structed and when that day arrives the same carpenters will proceed to tear it down, taking log from log. and then, erect It anew on the foundation that has long, been In readiness. Quite satisfactory, of .course, but the question persists. What would happen If that troop of raw recruits marching meditatively down the wide street sim ply had to hurry? Suppose it became a question of life and death, of national existence, whether they, could adopt the Ii4a it tii nan .nations that long SCO learned to step quickly . and vlgorously.- And what would nappen n itusma ieu suddenly had to move faster to catch up, at "ST moment when the affairs of the whole world and of Russia were at a crisis? - . The wisest Russians saw the approach of the hour when their nation would hear the world call to "Fall in!" with the rest. They knew that a change was Curious Bits of Information For th e Curious " . . Gleaned From Curious Places Of the 10 known existing skeletons of theV great auk in the world, the United States Is the only country pos sessing two. Greater Boston has these, one being in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History and the other In the Harvard university museum. The Boston museum contains also an egg of this extinct blrd.v In view-of the fact that a single egg has brought as high as $535, this Is considered a most valu able relic This flightless sea ' bird formerly was distributed along ' the northern coasts and islands of North America. In Its coat f sobe coloring with a-vest of snowy white it resem bled nothing so much as a short man Tn evening dress. Since- it was flightless, the bird was easily exterminated, the natives relishing it as a food. It prob ably was whony exterminated by 1844. Shortage of Teachers From' th Canyon City Kacla Th school teaching crop is getting woefully short and some districts in the county are going to find it hard to get a teacher at all this year. One can scarcely expect to get a - man teacher for. the wages that have been paid; for why should a man work for 175 or 185 a month when he can do much better at employment that is calling for him from every, direction? , ' - ' - " r ' OREGON SIDELIGHTS A course in farm mechanics is to be co-related with the vocational agricul ture at the Hood River high school next yW; ' a a a ' .,- ' There are 75,000 automobiles in Ore gon, according to figures Juat announced, and fishermen, the Eugene Register drily observes, are often willing to swear that half of them go up the McKenxie every Sunday. - . ..... ,-- The "baby lodge of the state," that of Bend, will go to the Elks convention at Klamath Falls 150 strong, and- will be housed in their own large tent, with all the housekeeping fixings, prepared, it seems, to do their own cooking and eating.'' . .. ". A family touring through In the old fashioned covered wagon drawn by a team of horses appeared on the streets of Burns last week, the sight of which, the News says, caused the -pioneers to become reminiscent. "It was an old fashioned family, too just as many children as possible between 18 years on down to a babe in arms, with all patient, happy and seemingly contented. It was a novel feature both the family and the mode of transportation." says the News in conclusion. - - J a a "The roads are in excellent shape here now," writes the Baker Herald's Long Creek correspondent, "except for the dust in some places, being almost aa smooth aa pavement. The bands of sheep passing over them smoothed out the ruts, and the cars have packed them until they are better than they have been In years. The sheep did great dam age to the Long Creek-Prairie City road through the mountains,' however, kick inar atones Into the road and caving off embankments until in some places it is little better than a trail." . loaded at Manila, taking on a load of hemp there for San Francisco and Port land. We made three or tour trips to Portland. - On one leg of one of our trips we took on coal for the Dutch East Indies. All I need to do is shut my eyes and see the brown skinned natives in their little canoes taking on the coal as we lay out on the roadstead. There were no facilities for landing the coal, so we unloaded It in native canoes. Over would go a canoe. The coal would go to the bottom. Up would pop the native, right his canoe, and signal for more coaL The natives are at. home in the water. They can swim like seals. a 'a "After several trips to .Portland we took a cargo of phosphate at Singapore for Wallaroo, in Spencer's gulf. Aus tralia. I: had been married while our ship was r being overhauled when she was beached at Falmouth the first trip. This was in November, 1900. "1 married a schoolmate of - mine, who had been raised on . the same street as myself. Miss Elizabeth McDougall. I had been married but three months when I signed on' for trip for a year, intending to Come back and get a job ashore. When the year was. up the captain asked me to sign up for one more trip, which would, be for four months. When the four months were up we were away from home and he asked me if X wouldn't sign on for another year,. The last year's enlistment expired at Sydney, Australia. The captain tried to get me to sign on for another year, but I was arfklous to see my wife. I had been : away three years. He finally paid me off, let me go, and I took passage for home. a . . "After I had been home six weeks my wife and I talked It over, and decided that I had better quit the sea and go into business for myself, v I had been all over the world and it seemed to me that of all the countries I had visited the west coast of America was the best, and of all the cities X had seen that Portland was the most beautiful, and that ocnortunities were best there. My wife - and I took passage for Portland. This was in 1903. I had one friend in Portland. - a fellow townsman, Alex wrie-ht assistant cashier ot the United States National Danav ana j. anew oana would stand by to give me a lift If I needed it" RECOVERY R. Wright " cominar and welcomed it, but they hoped that Russia might be so prepared that the quickened pace, with the meviiaDie easting aside of, much impediments, would not bring absolute disaster. But they reckoned without the Bolshe- vikl, these impauent souls who anew what they wanted and insisted upon having it at once and In their own way. Doubtless some of these were zealots and enthusiasts, and doubtless others were purposeful and keen minded exploiters of the Russian people. In either case the result was the same. If ever there was a time when a na tion needed to make haste slowly it was backward . Russia, engaged In a deadly war and engaged also In throwing off an outgrown system of despotism, bureaucracy and autocracy. .These Impetuous Bolshevik! devised a system that on paper was quite beauti ful and alluring. But no paper scheme Of government will work when tried out upon a people not ready for it. And the Bolshevist system would not fit the most enlightened people on earth today. Yet the Bolsheviki insisted that it should be tried upon the unlettered and ontralned inhabitants of this wide, slow moving Russia. ' " The result is as you see it. The land is deluged in blood. When Russia was compelled to quicken her pace she stum bled . grievously. : - Other nations' have stumbled and have risen again; There is reason to believe that Russia Is now recovering herself. Copyrl't. HIS, by ChlcaHa Pally Wawa vo.) Olden Oregon First .Catholic Missionaries Came to Oregon in 1838. The first Catholic missionaries came to Oregon In 1$38. They were the Itev. Francis Norbrt Blanche!, afterwards archbishop, and the Jtev. Modeste Dem ers, afterward a bishop. They were French Canadians, and thereforetBritlsh subject. The noted Jesuit : missionary Pierre De Smet did npt come to Oregon until 1840, remaining only a short time. ... Tho Bigehderal Pronoun . From ' th , Corralli GancUa-Time Every writer has yearned for a new pronoun that1 would, represent both" the male and female. When in an article the pronoun V'he' is used it refers hi many instances to "she" also. 4 There should be pronouns that would mean "be r she," "his or hers" and "hira or her.7 -Woodburn Independent, i "Than" is a simple contraction of "that one" and should be used in all cases where either sex or both sexes are referred to. Instead - of saying "Each member of the congregation should con tribute "bis share or "his or her share," we Should say "Each member of the congregation should contribute thon's share." The word is not a freak for it has found its way tot the regular list of words in the Standard dictionary, which says it has been in use since 1858. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Brlered for Benefit of Journal Readers OREGON NOTES .Ilrl?,!LvinS.Ma"onB ra completing plans to build a $15,000 two-story brick temple! s "t-'Htenan' t. Kennon has returned to Salem after 20 months in overseas aS'ftrvica , The Sclo milk condensary Is to be en larged because of the growing demand for its product. TJ1." ',m c,tT council has chosen Robert Craig a member, succeeding J. S. Austin, resigned. Eighty XJnn county schools lack teach, ers, although all of the grade school positions are filled. . -.Plans are being made to ask the next legislature to pass laws licensing and controlling air pilots. John W. Houston, Crook county live stock man. died Sunday. He 1 survived by his wife and six children. Portland gymnasiums are to b stud ' by J. E. Wicks, architect of tho new $25,000 gymnasium to be built for the Astoria nigh school. Salem volunteers gave up skin for Erroa King, 11 years old, burned severely while on a berry nicking trip, and hope for her life Is held. . - Th Oregon Interstate fair will be held In Prtneville, October 1-4, and the Sher man county fair will be held in. Moro, October 8-11. - A Salem boy, Victor Cooler, son of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph II. Cooley, warn one of the 6000 marines landed Sunday at New York from overseas service. Mrs. Ralph Gibbons, widow of Chief of Police fVibbons of The Dalles, has been voted $500 by TheDalls council. Gib bons was killed by two of the youths who robbed a bank in "fVaahougal. Heirs of William A. Reynolds have agreed to pay off bin Indebtedness in order to save his holdings In the liver ton Lumber company, estimated to be worth $49,000. The expenditure of but $900 in fighting fire In th Deachutea national forest has been necessary tb'w season. For pre ventive" measures $6000 had been spent earlier in the, season. V. W. Marx, former Portland man. was named city engineer of The Pall. succeeding T. A. Garrow. who relgnel when allegations were made .that h wn working in the interests of paving com panies. R. R. Emmons. Investigating a window seat In a home, which he likd pnrohawfl in Aibany.'wmcn na neen rented, dis covered Inside a coffin, with a system of electric wires and switches and a pillow. Indented as though It hd been used at some time. Remains of a three-toed, meat eating horse of the Miocene, are and -a tlnv camel. In slae shout as big as a modern Jackrabblt. hump'eaa though otherwln Hrrillsr to ttione of the rtrent are, werw found by University of Chicago sclen tlats In rnven between The Dalles and Chenowlth. WASHINGTON Richard Cowan. 78 years old. ft fIoneer timber contractor, died in Seattle. An order forbidding Seattle policemen to lean on posts or buildings while on duty has been posted. For the f Irat time since record rf rainrall nave neen Kni at urayn nar bor, no rain fell In July. Carpenters and bricklayers are needed at Chebnllw owing to the large amount of construction under way. A right crew been put on at th National mill In Hoonlam aa the result of Increased orders for lumber. Funds were raised at a dance In skimp, to defray cost of ahlpment of five tons of fruit donated for the baae hospital at Camp Lewis. Premiums offered fnr the Grays Har bor ounty fair at FTtmn. An runt 27 M. will approximate $10,000, of which $RO0O Is for hoYse rao. Imitation dlam'onds. valued at Mfln, were taken by thieves who broke a window of a Taooma Jewe'ry atnre. They left valuable Jewelry and watchea. Formation of a "HardInr-for-prel-dent" club In Waphlnston la protxiaert bv Colonel C- R. Forbea. so overwea veteran and friend of the Ohio senat or. . '-- .'-": ,. - Ilnrrv Allen of Freewater. a" surviv or of the famous "Lost battalion," was severely burned while flrMlng a sep arator fire near Walla Walla, caused by smut. Thlrtv gallons of -moonshine whlrfkev were seized and six men arretted In th Miwen coulee section ef central north ern Washington bv federal and county officers, but the still was not found. Mrs. Kate Worst, a Bnoanalmle In dian woman. 89 year old, will christen the wooden steamer flnoonalmle. to be launched at Seattle Monday. A hun dred of her tribe will attend the cere mony. Exnene of 'the government In fight ing the Rattlesnake creek forest fire to taled rrotft $10 000. aocordlnr to Runr visor Fenbv. Two men ohnrr! with leaving unextinguished fires In tht sec tion were fined $10 each. Tn accordance with the terms of a law passed by the last legislature. Mrs. Alma I.lsfer. widow of Governor Lister, who died In .Tune, will be paid $5ono hv tii state. .The supreme court upheld the law. . GENERAL Approximately 150.000 Iron foundry workmen in Rome struck, demanding wage Increases. The Order of Merit lias been inferred on Premier Lloyd George by King George of England. Senator Chamberlain will speak Eun- if.v r,im-ht at Khelhvvllla. Intl.. and Wednesday night at Shelby ville. 111. A violent break In money rates cause the French frano to drop In value o 7 to the American dollar. Before th war the dollar equaled b' francs. Mineral salts In the Sioux City, lows, water supply stalled a dozen locomotives hauling freight trains and cleaning will bar necessary before they can be used again. . Winter barley from a 10j acre traet. running approximately 60 bushels to th acre, netted Charles Coon of th Kes I'erce section of Idaho more than $100 an acre, w Tk. lmlMn armv flvera ar vio lating Mexican sovereignty by flying across tn ooroer is tne rnarge man in a protest by Mexican military authori ties. The Americans deny the charge. Uncle Jeff Snow Says : The - way these here profiteers and food pirates ts a-acUn' makes me think of a buckskin hoss Bird Meldexter traded fer one time at Tailholt. Tulare county, Callforny. That animal hadn't no limit fer eatln', and the more, he et the meaner tempered he got. Bird kep' a-feedln' of the beast till one night It kicked the barn down on itself and died of a broken back. Treasury Department Wants ; - to Help You Save ' (Stories of achievement tn tha aceum ti ls tion of War Sarincs Stamps, sent to The Journal and accepted for publication, will be awarded Thrift Stamp. 1 The treasury- department pledges its full aid in making th habits of real thrift, thoughtful and Intelligent use of money, and saving for a real and worthy cause a part' of the na tional habits and activities of the American people. With the idea of promoting this habit among the peo ple and affording them an oppor tunity to Invest their savings safely and carefully and at the same time, by so Investing them, to obtain an Increased participation in the gov ernment and take a more intelligent interest in our government and Its activities, the treasury department Is continuing the Savings campaign and the sale of Savings and Thrift S tarn pa Thrift Rtampe and IBIS 'Vfsr Ssrlngi Stamp now on aala at msual .acenciea.