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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,! PORTLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 11 1319. c V - I '- l' . t I HiM AH trfDEPENDEXT KEWEPAPEB f .J. g. JACK80H.i....,..w -. . . . i . I'lnet - - - , ; ' Fubiiehed : (tt day. afternoon and nJornin nuiniot, uroenwaj am - Portland. Oregon, lor tran.raia.Ion tbrouih the aaaJta a second claas matter. - TELEpnOMES Mainj ?1T$S Hema. A-SOM- All department readied hf tbe Bimken. fell toe operator wnaa aeperancnv ERBIUM aDVEtVUMJfO RK PKi-8 K5. T A TIT K 223--Fifth avenue. New York; BOO Mallei BuiMho. CMea. : - 4Mw4t kv mail m in uy address ia 1 Uie United State or Mezieo - ? DAILY (MOE.VINQ OB AFTERNOOJO 1 One year.;... 13.00 I On month.. ... .50 I .... SEXrUY Oae month. ... .V .za FTEHNOON) AND " titirv iunnvtxn ok a K-4na ar.'v,..T.50 ' Qua month -68 oflkjn w ' - j Every roan should keep a fair-iired cemetery in which to bury the fault of hia friends. Henry Ward Beecher. WHAT WORKERS CAN DO IJI1 HE laborers of the nation, those who live by the price paid them for their effort and their toil, have had a bald picture, un- 4 pleasant though it may be, painted I before them by President Wilson in his address to congress upon U.3 1 underlying cause of continually in- creasing livjng costs. j -What he there says applies more potently to the organized workmen . ' than to those Who are unorganized, Tbecause of the very fact of their or- ganlzatlon and the unity of "action J .hat may 'flow from 1t. S. tIUS warnings and his, advice are serious food for thought to every tinan; to the producer who must sell Jvhat he grows In the raw; to the J Manufacturer who converts it; to - J the business man who handles it; J to the consumer Avho is the ultimate J buyer eut of the earnings of his labor. j ' 2 Increased wages are not the remedy 2 for excessive costs. They are made, justly In some instances, perhaps, unjustly In others, the vehicle for mounting and ever mounting de fmands upon the purse. They may . jbe necessary as a stop gap, but un- less the source of the difficulty is I reached they breed the disease they 1 seek to cure. The president says: w it Is a matter of familiar knowledge t that a process has set in which ts likely, unless something is done, to push prices and rents and the -whole cost of liv- ilng higher and yet higher. In a vicious cycle 'to which there la nd logical or i natural end. With the increase In the Jprices of the necessaries of life come tdemands for increases in wages de mands which are justified If there be 'ho. other means of enabling men to 'live. Upon, the Increase of wages there follows close an increase in the price of the products whose producers have been accorded the Increase not a propor tionate Increase, for the manufacturer does not content himself with that but an Increase considerably greater than the added wage cost and. for avhlch the added wage cost is often ' times hardly more than an excuse. , There lie3 the root of the cancer. 'Wages are high now, higher than ever before, and yet the money we ;earn leaves, us poorer than before. We carry more in our pockets to buy leW 'for our stomachs and our backs. The cycle of increase brings Imposing balances and faf wallets but lean larders and no relief. ""Strikes for higher wages are not the remedy. They slow production .down, stocks decrease, hunger and -nakedness begin to show their heads on every hand to leave the situation !worse than at the beginning, t "The place to strike is at the mid idle and . the top, not at the bottom. That. could be done without slowing hip industry or stagnating. production. iMr. Stone of the. railroad brother hood pointed the road when he said Ithat the elimination of undue profits "and unjust practices between tite pro ducer and the consumer -would solve the puzzle, . If labor tha country . over were to . turn its thoughts away from its pay check for a time to give its attention to' its grocery tags, its meat bills, the cost of its clothes and its shoes; jf it would insist that excess mar gins -of profit be clipped away, that goods rnd merchandise flow on in normal ..volume and production and unhampered by manipulation from the farm and factory to the ultimate market, then ,' the high cost of living would collapse and die. Organlzediabor has an opportunity here and. a power more potent than the lawyer 5 or the court. , Upon its shoulders profiteers - are laying an unjust burden, levying against it an . unjust-charge. If broad vision guides, it can, and should, shake that burden off and strip . the charge away from it first. Then the question of wages vfould -not be so hard to determine, fairly and equitably to all.. "We Germane are not actually con quered;, and. In respect to population, we are at any and every moment in a position to resume resistance,' says German General von Bernhardt. There Is dangerr he adds, "that we will withdraw from our obligations: then a new -war will be necessary." Jt fs the same old spirit..; The 'mad ness of yesterday will always move the Prussian Junker" mind." ""It r is merely a question of how many fol lowers such leadership- may muster. The antidote is the League of Na tions. The Lodges and Borahs are doing: the exact thing to help bring: on another war. WANT TO LIVE JX, OREGON SAYING they are tired of destruc tive floods and tornadoes, nu merous persons in various parts of America are writing the Ore gon State Chamber of Commerce, ask ing for oefinite offers -ot properties on which they may locate in Oregon. Of 16 Inquiries described in the chamber's latest letter, but one is from a business man. He is a Kansan, with a capital of $15,000 to $20,000, and he wants to engage in the mercantile business. All the others want dairy, live stock or fruit farms. They give their capital as ranging from 2000 to that of one inquirer who names the figure 'as "unlimited.- Ten of the 16 inquiries are from Oklahoma, j A great many queries come from. Montana and Missouri. A recent inquiry from a Montanan took numerous letters from Oregon back to him, ,and . within a short time he purchased a stock ranch near Oakland, . Oregon, for which he paid $47,400 cash. In most cases the inquirers express a desire to leave for the West as soou as re plies to their letters are received. There could be no more desirable homeseekers. They fit - into- the scheme of this state. -They 4 have means with which to own arms and develQp them-; Many big farms in the state should be subdivided. Capital is required for the purpose. With capital the newcomers can pro ceed with the development of one field in the state that has long lagged. To people of the, kind now Inquir ing, the Willamette Valley alone could give room and prosperity to four times its present population. SeaUe policemen are "certainly having a run of bad luck. Not long agoAhe ban was put on their carry ing clubs or riding free on street cars. Now the chief has forbidden them to lean comfortably up against the lamp posts or to serve as props for weary skyscrapers, under pain of suspen sion f or violating the order. What's the use. of being a policeman in Seat tle, anyhow? ENGLAND GROWING TEETH Turn Bruisn parliament is now en gaged in framing an antl-profit-eering bill which is reported to 1 - . . iw t V. - ( i t ue iuii ui leeiu. n gives ine Board of Trade the power to investi gate prices, eosts and profits, to go into complaints of unreasonable gain whether wholesale or retail and to fix and enforce what it considers may be a reasonable price for any com modity. Such a law ought to help the situ ation should it be well enforced, for the condition in England reflects itself upon the condition of America. If congress, adding to the statutes already upon the books, gives the government power to get and pun ish those who prey upon us for their own unjust gain, we will begin to catch the food pirates, the shoe pirates, the clothing pirates and all of the buccaneers of commerce and industry sboth coming and going. It will be a pleasant day when public sentiment and the law get them go ing. They have been coming for long and it is time for their visit to end. It is not clear why the robbers who held up the North End storekeeper and robbed him of $65.01 stopped to take' the extra penny, unless they needed it to pay theis excess profits tax. WHERE DO WE STAND? w ITH road contracts outstanding whose final cost will exceed the. preliminary estimate of ten or twelve million dollars, it is a prudent move on the part of the state highway commission to pause and consider its resources. It Is plainly apparent that the money In sight is scarcely more than enough to complete the Improvement of the main or trunk roads. Expen ditures planned on secondary roads will need to be withheld, for nftt far ahead is the barricade of the state's bonding limit prescribed in the con stitution. ' It would be a serious situation if after all financial t sources are ex hausted the state would be in pos session of a series of., disconnected sections of improved highway instead of a connected system of trunk roads. , Appalling as it appears, such a con dition Is ; almost inevitable if the funds t-e not concentrated on the primary roads. 4 At the best; preliminary estimates are not always definite and can net be made so owing to conditions which develop during construction and because they are not based on actual computation but coritafa a great deal of guess. In addition to this Is to be added the fact that the price of labor and materials Is con tinually advancing. In view of these factors a large margin should be al lowed In 'planning expenditures. ' Another? uncertain factor is the scope of the Bean-Barrett bonding law passed - by the 1917 legislature to meet federal aid. Much depends on , the accepted Interpretation of this act. j I . At ; the "time of its enactment the amount of federal aid In sight was only triroximately $100,000 and this sum; Is "specifically mentioned In' the law. ! ' : Since, c ongress has : increased -. the allotment J several millions and ; the question now t arises whether the Bean-Barrett law. Is elastio ; enough to meet this Increase. By some It is held that; it is. They find ..warrant In .the text of the law, reading: I u f That such bonds ajhall not be 'issued unless necessary to enable the state of Oregon to avail itself of the federal aid, as provided hereinabove (11.800.000 approximately) or any other aid here after furnished by thelUnlted States. To meet the additional federal al lotment will require iabout three and a half million dollars. If It is found that money "to do so can not be raised by the issuance of bonds under the Bean-Barrett act, it will be neces sary, if the allotment is accepted, to take the funds out of the ten mil lion dollar issue, thereby curtailing the fund which was to be expended by the state alone . and reducing the amount designed for roads of first importance. A last expedient to raise more money Is to further capitalize the automobile license fund. It is esti mated that the Increase in receipts from this source, which while ex pected, was not taken into calcula tion, would admit of a further bond issue of four or five million. But in doing this there is a danger that there would be no money left for a maintenance fund to care for roads already constructed. The surface of a road Is imperma nent and maintenance follows Imme diately after construction. These phases of the situation demani care ful consideration. The bean growers of the state are appealing for pickers to harvest their crops. Massachusetts society please take notice. " MORE RESTITUTION vr 0BJ3 comes from Salem that the state land board has sold 2433 acres of swamp land for a total sum of $53,968, an average price of $23 per acre. It was a por tion of the former holdings of the Warner Valley Stock company, fraud ulently acquired in the days gone by, and recovered in 1911 upon the suit of the fctate. As a result of this litigation 6890 acres of land were recovered by the slate. Settlers who had claim upon 2588 acres were given deeds by the state. Now part of the remainder has been sold, the money .goes into the school fund which had been robbed of it, and Lake county se cures some nine families to live J where there were none before. It has been a long, hard fight- Fraud when once it fastens its ten tacles -ipon a tthing, hangs on and dies 8lovvly. There are those who contend that the state, authorities should not endeavor to unwind the tangled skein of, forgery, fraud and collusion in the strands of which so much of the state's public domain is bound; that the wrong has been done and should be forgotten and forgiven; that the coffers of the school fund should remain cheated of that of which it has been robbed, and that the robbers should not be disturbed in the enjoyment of their loot. It would be pleasant to do so. perhaps, and less trouble. But jt would not be duty done or justice satisfied. The school children are entitled to the heritage which the government gave them and of which they have been despoiled. Every acre that can be recovered ought to be recovered. It is in prospect. It will be restitution and be in keeping with a real civilization. Poor little old New York! Here they come alone; and dry it up, and now the show folks hava all gone on strike and closed , up the theatres. The first thing they Vnow Wall street will be the only place left'where the stranger in town can lose his money. HARD TO CRANK S' PEAKER GILLETTE says he finds little of helpful suggestion In the president's address upon the high cost of living. May that doleful circumstance not be due to the speaker's lack of perspicacity? Sen ator Lodge, who Is not overly fond of the president, found something' in his suggestions, and so, undoubtedly, have many others in congress and out.- . There was food for thought in the facts given regarding the storage of life's necessaries by food pirates pend ing the time when ,hunge-impelled,, strikers,4 by disturbance and may ' be by violence could gain more money with which to pay yet higher prices. And there was potent suggestion in reference to the regulation of the storage business. Cold storage has grown to be a valuable weapon in the hands of those who wish to manipulate the products of the coun try. It is a well into which needed commodities may be thrown to create abnormal conditions, and out of which these commodities can be drawn when conditions have become sufficiently, abnormal. J There are leeth in the suggestions that the stored articles be marked with the time of storage and of re lease; that they be " stamped with the selling price as of the - date . of storage, and, also, that all packages destined for interstate I commerce l. be marked with the price at which they left the hands of the producer. . What could do more to stamp but undue profits than for the consumer to know the production price for comparison with, the selling price T Or that they be shown the price of stored commodities as of the date of storage " in comparison"1 with the price asked at the date of "final re lease and sale t Undue profits could not stand the glare and would shrivel and lie., . It may he that there was nothing of helpful suggestion to Speaker. Gil? lette in what the president said, and it may be that the mental engine of the speaker is a little hard ; to crank. . f :i ' The bakers are going to boost the price of bread 1 cent per loaf. Max Houser says the government Is going to sell export flour at a cheaper price than Isnow prevailing. i; It grand mother were only here, we should not worry about that 1 cent. RESPONSIBILITY FOR RACE WAR Federal Charter Invoked as Guarantor of Colored Men's Rights From the Christian Selene MonUor : -White responsibility for a Just settle ment of the negro question la the United States is brought into broad relief j by the race riots of the last fortnight in the naUonal capital : and In Chicago. That Washington, a city of diplomatists and world activities, the seat of the federal government, yet knowing- the negro as few great cities have the op portunity of knowing him, should, never theless, prove unable to prevent race dif ferences from going to such extremities as have of late been a matter of record there. Is an evidence of conditions that call for something other than superficial treatment with the police and the mil itary. Armed patrols may keep order In the streets, but what is needed is that the heart of this situation shall be set right. Back of all the ill-feeling now exist ing between negroes and whites in this country, it is probably fair to 6ay.l is the feeling of the negroes that they have perfectly well defined and Incon trovertible rights under the federal con stitution that are not being recognised for negroes as they are for white per sona The franchise right is involved, but not by a long way is it the principal right. The principal right, undoubtedly, is the right secured under such assur ances as these : No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. (Art. XIV, section 1 of amendments.) No person shall be held t9 answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on indictment, of a grand- jury. (Article V of amendments.) In all criminal prosecutions the ac cused, shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial Jury of the state and district where the crime was committed, with witnesses for and against him, and with counsel to defend him. (Article VI of amendment.) ; " The right assured by the sections of the constitution ehere summarized is nothing less than the right of an Indi vidual to justice under a popular govern ment framed, as . the preamble to the constitution expressly declares, to "es tablish Justice," as well as te "insure domestic tranquility" .and to "promote the general welfare." And justice for a negro, under the American form of etov ernment, can' mean nothing less than that, if he maintains himself al a decent, law-abiding citizen, he shall have such protection from the government as will assure him in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that if he does wrong he shall be punished and. restrained & his , wrongdoing by the processes of, law, a provided .by the government, under the constitution. It is not merely necesssfry 'that the whites agree to this, , as already . whites have stated it; it is necessary that the whites stand back of these declarations and see tm through. , , ... Thus a high ' order of citizenship is demanded. For it is going ,to be made clear that crime is a matter of, the j in dividual, not of the mass. If an Indi vidual negro insults a white worn art it is that individual who must be punished, not any man of black skin whom a mob takes a notion to go after. And if wfilte men, singly or in groups, attack or in jure negroes, or undertake to punish even a criminal negro without due pro cess of law, then even the federal poeer itself should be called into play, if need be, to discover those individual wjiite offenders and make them legally amen able. Mass Judgments of individual guilt mob action to discover 'and pun ish culprits, are let us say' it plainly too often tolerated with respect top ne groes when they would stir the country if, similarly, and with similar j peririst ence, applied to White men. It -is Ume that such -injustice should be corrected. All negroes are not bad, all whitest are not good. It is time for this great Com munity, the United States, to-recognize this factr and to bring out and make; use of all that la good and. true in .each race by. setting Itself fairly and fear lessly to discover and to correct What ever Is evil in each, The thing to be re membered, as a basis for thought and action In this matter, is that the Jrue solution of the difficulty lies in thef -discovery and correction of evil, no matter where or by whom expressed. That "Cost Pius" Feeling Has Got Everybody Bunked From the Chicago News. The "cost plus" plan has gone' into contracts for government work after a conclusive demonstration of its tendency to increase expense, carelessness! and waste. There is still a good deal o this same "cost plus" psychology current in the country, and it accounts to aj con siderable extent for the maintenance of high, prices. j The dangerous psychological feature of the "cost plus" plan in Iettingj con tracts was the assurance it furnished that, no matter what the expense, a price could be collected from thai gov ernment that would furnish a profit. Indeed, the bigger the expense the big ger the profit. Today prevailing high prices and admitted shortness of produc tion in many lines provide to a j great extent the same assurance. No matter what the articles may cost the, various handlers all along the line of production and distribution, there are abundant reasons for them to believe that' they can extract a- substantial profit! from, the meek consumer. This is partCclarly true of the staples that .the people! must have.- . j The result Is that there are few. evi dences of determined efforts anywhere to lower costs and thus to .keep down the price to the next In turn.' On the contrary, every statement issued by as sociations of various. 'trades is a cheer ful prediction that prices are going to be - much higher In .the none too rosy future. - When it comes to the individual, he immediately shifts the responsibility to some one ahead of him in the compli cated process of production and distri bution and lets it go at that. Se long as he can establish to the 'satisfaction of the next purchaser that he paid such4 and such . a - price for the article j even though It happens to be an exorbitant price, he assumes that his right te pass the expense with a r profit for himself to the next man is not open ti ques tion. This, however, does not alter the fact .that euch amental attitude iis in consistent with a determined resistance to unjustified prices. In brief, it is the "cost plus", feeling. -The public can help to remedy this un wholesome state of things by purchasing carefully and wisely and by not being stampeded by the persistent cries that prices- are going still higher. It can do something by organising and supporting all the centers of resistance to profiteer ing. It can help by insisting in all pos sible ways that responsibility Is not wholly evaded by the dealer who points an accusing finger at the "man higher UP-" ' v. ... V'"'--:. . Letters From the' People rCommanicationa aant to The Journal tar publication in tbia dpanment .hoald be written on only oae aide of tbe paper, ahouid noC exgei 8 OO word in length, and must be atcned by, til writer, whose mail addme in fall rniut accom pany the contribution. ) J Millions, and Their Source -Athena, Aug. 8. To the Editor of The Journal. No doubt we would all think it right and proper If we could all be millionaires. Circumstances alter cases somewhat, but we all cannot possess a million, for the reason there is. not enough wealth in the land, after genera tions of production, and we could not possibly in a lifetime produce more than the accumulated production of our an cestors. . To produce value to tbe amount of a million in our short span of say 20 or 30 years of productive labor is an utter Impossibility; and one man. Is not such an awful lot more "produc tive than another in real values. It so happens, then, thaS if we ac cumulate a million, a hundred million, or a thousand million, we must by some process take what some one else has produced.- We may not have stolen it. but it belonged to someone else. It might have been a child at a spindle, a boy coal breaker, a widow who bought shoes for a child. No one needs to be deep in casuistry to See that what a man produces he ought to have. It is not a "question of honesty at ail. It is a question of ethics. We would have the same kind of honesty ourselves and adopt the same ethics. In the acquisition of great riches the human element is just like any other element it is a means, a cog in the machinery. The process is cold, calculating, mathematical and mathe matics has no conscience. Therefore, we condemn no man in his race for riches. . He may be a land parasite or a money king ; the constant. cumulating trend comes from the source of all wealth labor and he is honest because long honored ethics says he is. Of course the' millionaire is honest,' He conforms to recognized standards, and what is recognized standards no one can gainsay. But standards change every once in a while. Maybe by and by we shall adopt a rule that will not permit one man to own the whole coun try if he can get it The world is big enough and rich enough for all of us If we will only restrain the acquisitive ones a little. If their brains must be active and en terprising, let them use their Cod-given powers, in part, for the common good. Men greatly endowed mentally were not so endowed by their Creator for selfish ness alone., F. B. WOOD. Mr. Durkee to Mr. Clark Newport, July 28. To the Editor of The Journal. Your correspondent, J. H. -Clark, says he was born in this country and is a full blooded Yankee, but ad mits he is not sure of it. He always thought, up to a few years ago. that this was the best government in the world, and the best country to live in under the sun. I believe these sre cor rect guesses. Then he says: "If this country cannot be said to have already gone to hell, it is going there as fast as it is possible for any country to." He seems to be sure of this, . and gives his reason for it in these words: "Because the people are money mad and as a whole have gone stark crazy." Is it not possible that Mr. Clark has become a little well, eccentric, and, viewing the government, the world and the people through astigmatic eyes, imagines the people as a whole have gone crazy? . I believe Mr. Clark is away below the standard as a guesser. Again he says : "There are two things that. , if persisted in, are bound to ruin the United States of American profiteering and prohibition." Now we know he is bad off. Everybody who has sound judgment knows that prohi bition, though not yet as well enforced as it should be. is a blessing and that it reduces-. profiteering and many other evils. .Every well balanced brain knows that instead of 75 per cent of the votes being against prohibition, as Mr. Clark says, that percentage, if not fully, are in favor of prohibition and the abso lute enforcement of the law. In following his remarks on through to the end we find Increasing evidence of eccentricity, even bordering on an archy. . He says the people "have stood about all the foolishness they can or will stand.'' That is. about all they can or will stand against the lawless, profiteering, criminal, liquor traffic!, Your editorial, "A Leaky Bill," hits the nail square on the head. . E. W. DURKEE. . . The Dock Commission Portland, Aug. 5. To the Editor of The Journal What is the name and address of the president of the dock commission, or of some member if there is no such official? F. It. WATERS, , Toe commissioner are: C. B. Mooree,. chairman; Ben SaWnc. vice chairman; G. B. llecardt, secretary and engineer. The otficea of the cemaaiasion are located at the foot ot Stark atreet. J . It's Cool in Coos Prom the Coquilla Sentinel The Oregonian on Wednesday devoted considerable editorial space to a labored apology for the recent warm weather under which Fortlanders have been sweltering, and a comparison of cli matic conditions there with those which often prevail in Kansas, giving Kansas the worst end of the deal as used- to be always the case. : Now we have no defense to make of Kansas when it comes to summer weather: that was the one fly in the ointment that caused us to turn our backs on the Sunflower state. But Oregon certainly needs no apologies simply because the thermometer made a lapse on a single day and touched the century mark. . " : " And most assuredly; Coos county and the Coquille valley have "no occasion to take any back talk from anybody about uncomfortably warm weather.; Twice during this midsummer ' week we have lain down for our - postprandial nap covered with a thick comforter, . and it took a tittle time for our hands to get' warm enough to. go to sleep. And this at high noon in midsummer, .with abun dant . sunshine. If . any part of. the country can boast summer resorts that are cooler, we have no use for them. We have no thermometer records to furnish no one has any use for a ther mometer here to keep tab on the heat, for we never have it hot. C And even as to the Willamette valley. While the mer cury did occasionally get into the nine ties it was never hot enough to feaze a man -who had been seasoned, yes, desic cated, in Kansas. E Why lie Does Front the Buffalo Express. "Do you believe in heredity?" "Yes," said the-r- school teacher. "There's a little boy in my class who has to return home every day for his books. I pencils . and pens. , Ilia ..father's a plumber.- ' - , COMMENT AND . SMALL CHANGE Is there no way- of evoking testimony relative to the 1919 war garden? .. The next cruise from Washington will be taken by a few senators. It will be up Salt River. . . e Mississippi may nave to take to con victing and executing negroes according to law la order to shame Chicago, . At an Eastern agricultural college Is a professor named Fodder, who lectures on the feeding of livestock. Pry stuff i .The .packers are kind enough to .ad vise: "Buy the cheaper cuts of meat" You can get them from 85 to 40 cents a pound. .- t-. a. e e ' An Englishman wants to fight" Demp sey. And if Dempsey doesn want te fight an Englishman, there's net much in a name. 1 . We spend OUP ytmrn aa a ta tnat is told," says the Good Book. To say nothing of the way me profiteer makes us spend our money. eft a an . . People who have always had a finger h4 will I1A9 9UCI1 OUl 111X1 onger. if the pieces continue to dwindle in size at the present rate. e "Lake Michigan," claims the highly es teemed Chicago Daily News, "continues to be the -world's greatest swimming hole." ; Seaside to Port Orf ord papers please copy! . e . ' "Prices continue to mount upward. the esteemed headllner is continually in forming and reinforming us. Which sig nifies that he needs, upward" to fill out his line, v .,-, e '". You have noticed, of course, that It is the enemy, not the friend, of the League of Nations who ; is worrying about the grouch that the other nations are going to get en regarding America. IMPRESSIONS . AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred (There ia praaeated by Mr. tockley today tha record of one of Portland'! Talued educational lnitituUons. with a aketch ot the career ot ita founder and guiding apirit. Ita roll of gradu ate wul be (canned with interest, aince It is a roll of weU known Portland names, and .is its latter dlTisions.is a military honor roll. , Here in the West occasionally you will see a 50 saddle on a $15a cayuse. Very frequently you see some man In public office who is a square peg try ing to fill a round hole and making no effort to trim his square corners off so he will fill the round hole. A day or two ago 1 met Margaret V, Allen, founder of Allen's College Pre paratory school. She said : "There is no question that frequently the mistake is made of trying to give a 60-cent boy a 11000 education, but the tragedy of the thing is that too often a $1000 boy is given . a 60-cent education. So often a bright student, who would make his mark, in engineering, is sent to a law school, or a man who would shine in some profession is sent to a technical school. There is too little attempt made toward vocational guidance." 0 For many years Mrs. Allen was a teacher in Portland when we had but one high schooL "I took my first school." said Mrs. Allen, "in San Diego In 1878. At that time there were about 2000 people living there. Occasionally 1 used to go to Los Angeles to visit, which at that time had a population of 18,000. Today San Diego has at least 100,000, while Los Angeles has not far from a half million population. The four states that mean most to me are Illinois, where I was born; Ohio, where I spent my girlhood; California, where I started my life work, and Oregon, where I have lived for the past 35 years. I am counted one of the pioneers of Southern California. For four years I was president of the San Diego Pio neer society and I am still a member of the advisory committee of the CalU fornia historical commission. You may have seen my book entitled Ramoha's Home Land.' I have also written quite a few articles of an historical nature about early days in Southern California. "Just before coming to Portland. In. 1885. I married G. W. Allen. In 1887 I was appointed a teacher in the Port land high school- I taught there for the next 12 years. When I started to teach in Portland, ia 1887, R. K. Warren was principal of the high school. Mrs. Christine MacConnell, who is still teach ing In Portland, being a teacher in Lin coln high, was one of my fellow teachers. Helen F Spaulding waX another. .. Louis Henderson and Mrs. Alice Gove, who now lives at Evanston, III., were also teachers in the high ' school. Professor C. U. Gantenbeln was the instructor in German. He is now judge of the circuit court in Portland. , " . - ' " "On September 17, 1901, I started the Allen College Preparatory school, with 13 pupils- My thought in starting the school .waa to prepare students for en tering Volleges and technical' schools. The requirements of the college entrance examination board became the basis of our course &f study, and each year from five to 12 of our students took this ex amination to enter some one ' ef the larger colleges. I started the school in the parsonage of the Presbyterian church sst the corner of Tenth and Morrison streets. After our third year Mrs. Rachel Hawthorne, who was very anx ious to have our school come on the East Side, made it possible for me to Ofden Oregon George Le ' Breton, - First Clerk , of Oregon Supreme Court George Le Breton, an Americai, who was appointed. May 2, 1848, clerk of the supreme court of the provisional govern ment came ' to Oregon In 1840 on the brir Maryland, as supercargo. The vess sel was commanded by Captain John H. Couch. Just a I Jice, Netohborly Boost ', From the Madras Pioneer . Gateway is a thriving little burg which always seem to be up and doing, always in for its share of things for the common good and always open for a chance to improve and grow. It is the first town from the northern boundary of . Jeffer son county and is the outlet for two of Jefferson county's richest sections. Trout creek and Ashwood, as well as the north ern edge of the Big Agency plains. Gate way has two good general stores, a neat and well managed hotel, a confectionery store, a Tum-A-Lum yard, blacksmith shop and garage. It is on the O-W. rail road and has good warehouses. Gateway is growing and, will continue to. do- so. Ye Old-Time Telephone Girl Joba Armbruster ia Eeerybody'a. . ' Time was, before the experts' came along and, in vulgar business parlance, "sold efficiency" to the telephone com panies, when the telephone was a real convenience. The historic Instance ef the lady who rang up. Central and said i "I am just supping over to Mrs. Brew ster'a for; a few minutes to get her doughnut recipe she's Main 227 and IH leave the receiver off so you can hear if the baby cries and let me know. In my home town we -used to ask Cen tral where the fire was and who was dead and did she think there, was any mail for us. ( NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS It is the prediction of the Eugene Reg ister that if the price of bootleg whiskey keeps on going up, people will be wear ing It for jewelry yet 'Those who are interested in popples and who have read so much about the poppies in Flanders may now," says the Salem Capital Journal, "see the real flower, as a number are blooming in the flower beds on -the west side of the courthouse lawn. - -Thus the Canyon City Eagle pays Its respects to Crotalus horridus : "The rattlesnake Is very fine this summer. The dry weather just suits this venom ous reptile with a Jazs band on the end of his tall. Several have been killed right in town j with good prospects for more."' .... a a , Alt will' understand the annoyance of the Eugene Register when it says : "The trouble with these occasional hot spells U that all our friends from the East decide to visit us just at that particular moment and appear slightly unconvinced when we tell them this is "unusual" in Oregon.' . . -. : e e - . - The -nice' hot weather we are having at the present time." says the Heppner Gazette Times of recent date, "seems to be just the proper kind to bring eut the rattlesnakes, and a greater number pf these poisonous reptiles have been in evidence around here than for several years past" ' .. . , The United States treasury depart ment having been -urged to coin a half cent piece, the Forest Grove News-Times comments thus : "If the petitioners can point to anything that can be bought for a half cent nowadays, the treasury will probably . give their . request some consideration. The editor of the News Times has an American half-cent piece that is 109 . years old. But. mind you, it is only a half -cent we hava" Lockjey acquire a quarter block at the corner of . East Twelfth and Salmon streets. She made the price of this property so low that I was soon able to pay for it out of the earnings of the school. Six years ago X closed the school. I did not sell it, because I did not want to take the chance of the high standard we had set being lowered. My health : having been restored, I am reopening the school. We never plan to have a large number of students, as we have gone in more for quality than quantity. The distinctly cultural quality of the work carried on there has been my pride and I have tried to make the keynote of our work simplicity and high character. We have had 69 graduates and we have been fortunate in having at. our school stu dents of unusual ability. e e .'. ,'-". ; "The first students to graduate was Jean C. Slauson. who graduated In 1904, and from the University of Ore gon three years later. She became a teacher in Washington high school. In looking over the roll of our students X cannot help thinking of Henry Norman He was one of the most lovable and teachable boys I ever met He had a keen mind, and was a natural student He would have made his mark, but un fortunately he was killed just as he came of age. -. a '"Many of our students saw service In France, a large number having been commissioned officers. Among them were' James II. Huddleson, who gradu ated from our school In 1905 and from Princeton in 1909. II was also a stu dent at Johns - Hopkins Medical college.. James A. Miller was one of our gradu ates, and a graduate of Stanford. Lloyd Bates graduated in 1907 from our school and from Amherst in 1911. Three other graduates In 1907 who saw service were William H. Burton of Newport, Or. ; Lavelle McAllen, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy in 1911 and who made a brilliant record in France as demolition officer, and Clarence N, Eubanks, - who gradu ated from the University ot -Oregon in 1911 and from the law department of Columbia university.- Five of our 1908 graduates were in the service Simeon R. Winch, who graduated from Prince ton. In 1911; I. C. Brill, who' graduated from . Columbia university In 1910 ; Walter M. . Huntington, who graduated from the University of Oregon In 1912; Herbert Elckemeyer, and Dean G. Ray. Three graduates from the class of 1909 who saw service were Roland E. Chap man, a graduate of the University of Minnesota ; John Hughes, who gradu ated from the University of Oregon in 1913, and David E. Johnstone Wilson, who graduated from Princeton in 1914. There were four of our 1910 graduates in service Crawford Compton and Earl R. Crabbe, both of whom graduated from the University of California in 191 Harry Fogarty. who graduated from Ann Arbor in 1914, and Bernard Mercer, a graduate of the Unlverstly of Washington in 1914. "Among other students of our institu tion, who were in the service were: Bruce Bates, Soph us Blohm, Walpole Burkhart, Arthur Piatt. Walter White, Maxwell Bail, Gerald Barrett, Donald Beck. Albert Bernl, Norman Flake, An drew HIne, Herbert Kadderly, Sidney Ring. Francis, Smyth,, John Barrett, Xavier Cerln, John Dolph,. Gordon Gammons, Harold Hansen, . Hariand Tucker, Sidney Walpole, Clifton Watson and Raphael Goldstein." .Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places , Pigmies, apparenUy of a single racial stock, are scattered over many parts of the world, and nobody can give a plausible- guess . as to how their distribution was accomplished. Wherever rouna they seem to be the earliest people veritable aborigines and all ef them are much alike physically,, though dif ferent . somewhat ' In complexion.' They are suspected to be more ancient than any other - race now surviving on . the glObe. . . :, .-, ''.: ':.:.'.- To this : race belong the so-called "monkey men" of the mountainous in-, terlor- of India. Likewise the pot bellied natives of the Andaman islands, in the Bengal gulf, who are said to "look like babies all their Uvea" These latter wear their hair in frUzly tufts and; adorn themselves with necklaces made from- the bones tin teeth ef de funct relatives. In Madagascar are the Behosy, black dwarfs, who when pursued jump from tree to tree like monkeys. They are so timid that sometimes they die of fright when captured.'; ' In Ceylon are found the Veddahs, a whom not more than 2009 are now - left alive. Few of them are able to count up to three. They are of the same pigmy face, and unquestionabTy they were very anciently a numerous people, inhabiting that Island when visited by the earliest prehistoric explorers. : .' . llore Money Circulating ' From the Sarannah News The per capita circulation In the United States is now alleged to be $54.56. against $35 and a few pennies before the war. But it is just as difficult to keep the change. . The N ews in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Headers OREGON NOTES .. Ma.r,.',n county has 312.174 seres de voted to agriculture, of which 2629 acres are- set to apple trees. Pendleton lodge of Elks has startod a campaign to finance the construction of a new J100.00O lodge building. Mrs. C. T. rir ... -...- v. v ui i.Mn uiuva rc SPfv, net .?.r?.f'.t.of 0 and $43 each ""-" vui o vtnite Leghorn hens. n William' A. Spencer, ex-mayor of Juries received while at . work in a hay A post of the American Legion, with a prospective memrvrrship of -100, wn organized at McMmnvilJe Saturday night . . ' The big Portland cement plant at Os wef.la tunrK out 1100 barrels dally, and is employing (5 men and two women. , - A yield, of 60 bushels of wheat to the crJ", 'Ported by Vonderhae brothers on i".. r foot-hiU farm seven miles south of Milton. XL y. Morris, for the past two years a member of the radio branch of the navy, has returned to his home In Pendleton from overseas. ... . 8ton State bank was broken Into Friday night the thieves rifling two safety deposit boxes of Liberty bonds and other papers. James Cook, who left Pendleton as Tlrst lieutenant of Troop D, is now,, captain in one of the depot brigades at Coblens. Germany. Ninety thousand pounds of Umatilla county wool of the 1919 clip were old In Boston last week at prices ranging from 62 to 69 cents. ' Miss Irene Applegate, aged 80 years, who crossed the plains In 184$ wtlh the Applegate party, is dead at Yoncalla, where she had . lived continuously for 69 yeara At Pendleton Saturday O. F Smith was fined $100 by County Judge Marsh, six dozen quarts of homemade beer and , a brew on the stove having been found In his home. Captain Julius C. Peterson, now with the recruiting service at Kpokane, i ordered to report at Fort Stevens for duty with the coast defense of the Co lumbia. S. Campbell of Condon fias started on a trip to the Hawaiian Islands, the first leg of a Journey which will take him to England and Scotland by going three fourths of the way around the earth. WASHINGTON Steps are being taken to establish a national cemetery at Camp Lewis. At this year's annual fair at Kim a $10,000 will be given away in premiums and prizes. Bakers of Seattle have announced a . raise of 1 cent a pound for bread, ef fective Tuesday. Business of the Tacoma - municipal power plant has doubled In two year and the rate of. increase Is about S'i per cent annually. . Average wsrcb paid In the Yaklm fruit warehouses this season will be $30 a week. It Is estimated that 1000 per sons will be employed. The carpenters' union at Yakima ha announced a new schedule calling fur an increase In pay from $6 to $7.20 a day, effective September 1.. Twcf hundred, applicants for licenses to practice drtigless healing were re ceived at the first meeting of the ex amining board at Hpokane. Charles Davis was killed In an eleva tor accident at Pasco a few days ago shortly after he arrived In the city to work in the Northern Pacific ice house. Bakery sweet iroods, including dough nuts, cookies, pies and cakes, were ad vanced 20 per cent in Spokane when the 1-cent increase in bread prices took effect A warrant has been issued for the arrest of George Miner, clerk of the Lever hotel at Bpokane, who Is charged with the theft of, $800 from the hotel company. . ., - Jack Raines, formerly of the 148th field artillery, " committed suicide at Walla Walla Saturday by hanging him self, the result ot a nervous breakdown caused by shellshock.- Discharged soldiers and sailors who have been In the active service of the United States during the war will b granted half tuition at Whitman college during the coming year. -" The annual convention of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen will be held in Spokane September . Th body has a membership of 40,000 in Oregon. Washington and Idaho. Forest fires In Yakima are said to have done more good than harm. The land burned over is principally valuable for grazing and has been Improved because the brush has been burned away. Two fatal accidents in one day are reported from Aberdeen. James Grant, a brakeman, was drowned, and a Sryear old daughter of Harry 11. Btout was Instantly killed when she was struck by an automobile. , 1 .GENERAL ' Ten new forest fires broke out In national forests of southwextern Idaho following a thunderstorm Saturday. The war department announces that since the armistice 3,165.642 officers arid men have been discharged from the army. The Chilean government has set free the crews of the German- cruiser Dres den and the German- raider steadier, who had been interned since 1915. , John Wessner was killed and two women fatally injured at Pasadena, Cal.. Saturday when a Santa Fe passenger train collided with an automobile at a crossing, News come from Berlin that th- crown prli.ee hue cretty r turned U Germany and everything has been pre pared for a military monarchist coup d'etat in a shtrt time. Food prices In Petrocrad became fan taat'o when the rations were reduce! recently, a small lump of sugar coming from 10 to 12 rubles and a pound of white bread selling at 120 rubles. Belgium will take over the devastated farm lands In the battle zone, the own ers to receive & per cent Interest on the. pre-war valuation of the property dur ing the operation or wi govci mucin. Uncle Jeff Snow Says; na rutnnld rlfa a hlsr reDUtatiOh tl" bein' wise guys by sarin' nothln par ticular about anything and fay in' It graceful and honeyfled. Down on th Membres river they 'lected a feller thr named Socrates Brown fer justice of the peace that couldn't read or writ more'n his own name, mainly 'cause he alius said nothln on all occasions and tuck half a hour or more to say lt. The only reason he never got to the United States senate from New Mexico was that the Injuns shot him accidentally one night while they was borryln some of his neighbors' horses. r War Savings Stamps Bring Government jsezr -Home I Storiee of aeblTem,nt In the arenmn laUoa ot War Bemiga Stamp. tnt to Una Journal and eo-fpti for publication, will b awarded Thrift Stamp. J War Savings Stamps bring the far-off government at Washington to the homely nearness of the grocery store and the school. They bring the mystery of interest rate to the intimacy of one's inside pocket They bring a awesomeness of sound Investment down to a dollar a week. War Savings Stamps are investment for the multitude. War Savings Stamps are the treasury's reliance for financing the war budget without swollen credits. Tbe Thrift campaign in the country's hope of keeping in the hands of the people control of all their affairs and of endowing all sorts and conditions of men with the wisdom and the power to succeed. ..." Thrift Stamps and 1919 War faTinet Stamia now on ealo at dmuI arencies. V