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than a stalled oi and hatred therewith.
Bible.
WILL CALL NO MORE
OVER at Hotjuiam a twentieth
century pastor" Is haying the
tower taken off his church,
while the old bell, which has
called the worshippers together for
the past decade or more, is to be
sold to the junkman.
A bell, the pastor centends, is all
right on a country church but is
"an unnecessary antique on a twen
tieth century house of worship"
which has the, advantage of news
paper advertising.
Maybe it is so but still there may
be those for whom the sweet toned
call" of the steeple has a pleasant and
a compelling memory. After all, the
hurry and the struggle of the pres
ent day drives us at the pace we
so.; It does not lead us. We tumble
on before it like the chips that hurry
toward the sea, ever just ahead of
the wave.
May it not be possible that so
many of us pass the church door by
because the rythmic invitation that
we used to heed is drowned and sub
; merged in the rush and rattle of
, the town? If. we could hear it, .as
we Md to do, rising and falling in
its cadence across the distance, might
not its' music and its memory com
pel v oftener to turn our steps to
worship beneath its swaying, silent
toiigue?
Childhood's remembrances are those
we hold most dear. They come to
us : most often by suggestion and
circumstance to turn our minds away
from the turmoil of present day
cares. Who can hear the vibrant
.message of the Sabbath without the
memory picture that it conjures?
The friends k childhood scattered,
starched . and stiff, about the pews.
The gentle rmother searching through
the hymnal or with her silvered
head Inclined in reverent prayer. The
choir, sweet faced and self con
strained, struggling with the sacred
masterpieces of melody their prac
ticed leader forced them to attempt.
The drowsing summer through the
windows, and the ripening harvest
stretching to the hill tops and the
sky. Father, nodding through the
sermon. The doxology, then the
greetings, neighbor to neighbor, down
the. aisles, and the journey home.
No, the press agent can never
make the heart of memory swell and
throb like the Sabbath morning mes
sage of the old church bell.
'That horrible melody of cow
bells, drums and washboilers," is the
description of Jazz music by the pres
ident of the National Masters of
Dancing association at the annual
convention in New York. Describ
ing the shimmy dance, Mose Chrls
tenserr of Portland said: "When
women stop twisting their spines Into
sailor knots from the waist down, In
stead of the waist up. the ballroom
will become a safe place for refined
young girls." The association will
fight for clean dancing and genuine
ballroom music. Why make dancing
an exhibition of vulgarity?
A BOLD MAX
GOVERNOR ROBERTSON of Okla
homa is a brave man. Either
that or he does not believe in
, having petticoats obtrude them
selves upon the sanctity of the
gubernatorial vacation.
It has grown to be the custom
that every year the chief executives
of; the several states hie themselves
away to some sequestered nook when
-thl thermometer begins to grow too
ambitious, there to discuss affairs
of-statecraft and things in general.
As befits such a grave and dignified
, .assemblage outside spellbinders are
taboo except by the unanimous con
sent of all. "What's the use of hav
ing a gubernatorial debating society
if alien conversation can butt in on
. the buzzing at any old, time?
So. when Abby Scott Baker, fired
with the zeal of the National Wom
ans party, " appeared upon the thres
hold of the governors conference at
Salt Lake with the demand that she
be ; permitted to plead within for
special legislative sessions to ratify
the ' suffrage - amendment. Governor
Robertson was fully within the. rules
of order, when, he arose to remark
that no such 'plea should be pre
sented with his consent. .
But Governor Townsend of Dele
ware may not have been entirely
right whe'n he remarked "That ends
it. Next order of business," ; as he
thumped his gavel down. It de
pends upon the women of Oklahoma
whether "that ends it," and, in
cidentally, they may have some more
to say about the "next order of
business" when Governor Robertson
gets back to his of ice at Oklahoma
city.
General Bernhardt of Germany
sagely foretells that the next great
war will be between Great Britain
and America. The Chicago Post
wonder whether the general is
soothsaying or has merely been read
ing the speeches of Borah, Knox,
Poindexter and the other anti-league
senators In the Congressional Record.
IN MODERN TIMES
TODAY the postoffice department
is operating an aerial mail serv
ice daily between Washington
and New York, New York and
Cleveland and Cleveland and Chicago.
Since Maty 15, when it was estab
lished, the mail run between Chicago
and Cleveland, 323 miles, has been
made each way every day without a
single failure and without a single
forced landing.
The run was made each way in
a recent storm that tied up shipping
at both Cleveland and Chicago, and
in the recent terrific storm In Ohio
and Indiana in which $2,000,000 worth
of property was destroyed and 11
persons killed, the air mail service
scored 100 per cent in each direction.
In the 15 months of air mail serv
ice only two aviators have lost their
lives.
The service delivers New England
and New York mail in Washington
on the noon carrier deliveries instead
of the deliveries of the following
morning.
A mail plane with 14,000 letters
flies out of New York city at 5 every
morning, reaches Cleveland before
9:30 a. m. and Chicago before 1:30
p. m., advancing the mail for the
Middle West 16 hours and for the
Pacific Coast 24 hours.
Up to August 10 the air mail had
covered 272,628 miles and carried
11,845,980 letters.
If congress provides the money,
the postal department will carry
mail next year from the Atlantic
to the Pacific in 40 hours instead of
four days, and from Boston to Ha
vana in 24 hours instead of 60.
In these performances there is
vision of what sky routes of the
future are to be. In a recent address.
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Praeger said:
The day will come when the air man
.will operate between all important cities
jln the United States. That day will
come when the airplane can light
gently like a bird instead of gliding
out of the air at a speed of 50 miles
an hour, or when It will be so well
powered by multiple motors that it
will not become necessary to make
forced landings, and finally, when the
postoffice department succeeds in get
ting our manufacturers to build truly
commercial planes that cannot crash
to earth in a tail spin.
All the planes in the air mail serv
ice are made safe against fire by
completely isolating the engine and
gasoline compartments with asbestos
fire walls. Each compartment is
protected by pressure fire extin
guishers, and the mail itself is safe
guarded by non-inflajnmable canva
bags.
The popularity of the service Is
shown by the fact that the Cleveland
Chicago route carries 14,000 letters,
or about 400 pounds to each mail
plane'. This demand of the public
for shortened time in mail deliveries
is the impulse that will perfect the
airplane. Speed is the- grand desid
eratum of the race. In what the air
plane will do in that field, human
flying is perhaps the biggest ma
terial accomplishment that has come
to the world in modern times.
Th.ey used to poke fun at Kansas.
But the Kansas wheat crop this year
will put $400,000,000 into the pock
ets of the farmers. Corn will add
another $100,000,000, and then there
are the alfalfa, the fruit, the fat cat
tle and hogs. Merriment at the ex
pense of Kansas is a thing that was.
AFTERMATH
WHAT sort of an impression was
carried away from the .recent
Columbia basin rate hearing
by the interstate commerce
commissioners who presided over the
sessions in Portland and Seattle?
This is a question which cannot
have definite answer until the de
cision is announced. But meanwhile
one may assume that certain facts and
basic propositions were firmly estab
lished in their minds.
There could be, for instance, no
doubt that mountain transportation
costs more than that by. water grade.
No one seriously contested this as
sertion. The railroad men tried to
get around it in two ways. First,
they said cost of service does not
and never has figured in rate mak
ing. Next, they deciared that rates
between Puget Sound and ports of
the Columbia have been equalized to
balance competition between the com
munities affected. Yet it was shown
that rate equalization ended where
the competitive relation of the rail
roads ceased.
. One witness for the railroads
averred that Seattle had grown into
a '1500,000,000 port" because Seattle
had looked to the sea and Portland's
port, business had waned because
Portland had looked to the trade
of the interior. But when he was
asked what the railroads had done
for port development on Puget Sound,
he stated: - . - ; ; ,
Thit the Great Northern reached
Puget Sound, provided docks and ar
ranged for Oriental service.
That the Northern Pacific reached
Pugejt Sound and likewise arranged
for docks and shin connections.
That the C, M.) & St. P. crept
across its mountain pass to Puget
Sounjd, secured terminals and estab
Iishejd ship connections.
Thjat the O-W. It. & N. made a
trackage arrangement which let it
into Puget Sound aind spent millions
of djollars for terminals in order to
participate in ocean-borne husiness.
It was clear that, while the rail-
I road$ had spent money by the tens
of millions to make Seattle a port,
the port of Seattle! had spent some
$10,0)0,000 In port facilities very ad
mirably, it is true, but not in a way
to c eny that Seattle is a railroad
buili port.
The interstate commerce commis
sion! ts could not escape the sig
nificance of Seattle's port growth as
aided by natural harbor advantages
and rail rates artificially discriminat
ing n favor of the Puget Sound me
tropjlis. Nor could they fall to see
that
ports of, the Columbia, denied
benefit of geographic location,
the
were being worsted in the fight for
trade.
It
may be hoped that a sense of
just
ce and rairness win convince
them that ruthless, arbitrary and de
strurtive discrimination against the
Columbia basin and ports should end.
Tpads have swarmed down on Mc-Phea-son,
Kan., like a plague. A nat
uralist warns the people there that
the jinvaders are friends of the farm
er, in that they eat the army worms
and other crop destroying pests. It
is ne of the provisions of nature
thai every ravaging tribe has. its nat
ural enemies.
! 1b
THE VA'GUE FUTtJRE
THE League of Nations is the only
hope of world reconstruction.
"And the hope of the League of
Nations rests ultimately upon
the good will, cooperation and de
termination of Great Brtain and the
United States," says the London Daily
News. It adds that if the two coun
tries become twin pillars in the new
world structure "all will be well and
peace will be assured; if they are
not; there is nothing before us but
trouble."
The future is still vague. If there
is to be no League of Nations, Amer
ica must arm to the teeth. As we
have learned from the war, without
a ijeague, America must have great
sea! power. In that event which
heaven forbid trouble could arise be
tween England and America over
control of the sea. America might
be driven to compete for control, of
the! sea by fear of Japan.
The distressing alternative of pos
sible antagonism is thu presented,.
If 'governments by rejection of the
League of Nations, must continue to
act for themselves instead, of through
mutual understandings and concert
of action, competition in sea power
and competition in men armed are
as inevitable as death. Not to realize
this is to live in a fool's paradise.
If there is to be no enduring com
radeship of common aims and com
mon interests, if nations are to re
main subject at any time to the
arbitrament, not of friendly counsel,
but of arms, if the growing economic
struggle which caused the late con
flict is to go on unaccompanied by
a tribunal to which countries may
turn for compromise, then the fu
ture is dark conjecture, and we must
all reflect with anxiety on how it
is to fare with our children and our
children's children.
It Is pleasing to read in the local
marine reports the stories of steam
shiDS loading in Portland harbor.
Most of them are American ships, 1
many of them Portland-built. A few
yesterdays ago foreign ships did prac
tically all this carrying business. The
only thing that could or would have
brought the change Is the ship pur- ,
chase bill. The measure was not the I
mistake that many said it would be. 1
was it? We built the ships, we paid
the money for American material
and to American workers, and we are
carrying our own products to market
in our own ships. .
THEY SHOULD ACT
DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY TOM
LINSON has asked the public
service commission of Oregon to
suspend payment of the increase
in telephone rates over pre-war
charges, pending decision as to the
legality of the advance. Or, the com
mission is invited to join the city in
an injunction suit against payment"
of the increase.
Hearing before the commission on
the rates opens Wednesday. Final
decision may not be reached for
months. Even if the public service
body makes a schedule within a few
weeks, there is possibility of appeal
from the decision. The case may go
asl high as the . United States su
preme court. 'Passage of the legal
labyrinth might consume years.
The purpose of the Tomlinson pro
posal is to protect patrons of the
company against the high payments
during the interim. Use of thou
sands of dollars would, be retained
by. telephone patrons ; in Oregon
rather ' than by the Eastern stock
holders of the company. And there
is question as to whether. In event
the advanced rates are paid, the
mdney could be returned, to the pub
lic in case rates are lowered. ,
; The i public ; service I commission
should heed the suggestion of Tom
linson. It is a public body, and if
there is a way In which - the dollars
of the patrons may be saved to them,
it is the duty of the commission to
act.
In (an analysis of the Oregon regis
tration, the Tacoma Ledger finds
very slight difference in the party
alignment of men and women voters.
The analysis is superficial in that it
does not take into account the known
fact that woman's vote is more mor
al. In Portland it Is directed to" the
cleansing of the Juvenile court and to
the general purification of public af
fairs.! It is a vote that has long been
needed in the national life.
THE FALLEN CITADEL
A PRESIDENT of Germany!
I A constitution framed by a
national assembly of the people I
The declaration of the new
president on taking the oath of of
fice that the vital principle of the
new Germany will be freedom and
right!
A 4elf-government sef up on the
ruins of the most powerful autocracy
in history I
These are things that have come
out of the war. Germany was the
keystone in the arch of autocracy.
She was the fortress of divine right,
the citadel of the monarchical sys
tem fan the earth.
On ! her power, her economic pro
gress j and her conspicuous place in
the sun other autocracies leaned and
survived. As long as she moved
triumphant, the principle of the "con
sent lof the governed" could - never
spread over 'the earth. Vainly and
futilejy it beat against the adaman
tine walls of thrones. Not until Ger
many! herself unloosed the lightning
and thunderbolts of conflict in a
challenge to democracy for a final
combat to the death, was the way
opened for the disintegration and de
struction of the rulership of might
that came down through the cen
turies!. A German president, a German con
stitution, a German republic and a
German government by ballot! They
are a! boon to mankind. They are
the last and longest step toward uni
versal freedom. They are occasion
for mankind to be cheered and com
forted as the beginning of the final
triumph In the struggle between
mightj and right that began with the
history of man. It is reason for
jubileje all over the earth.
Hoy vital and now tremendous a
thing: now to have the League of Na
tions ! to help hold Germany in the
place; in which she has been set by
human events I
Of course part of the people will
be glad to know that the Public
Service commission is going to re
duce jthe Burleson rate granted the
company for changing phones from
one 'place on the wall to another,
but what most of the people would
like io hear is that the commission
has reduced the rates charged for
the phones that stay in one' place
on the wall.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
JUST at this time of high cost in
vestigations, profiteering charges
and other unpleasant things it
is opportune for the retail
clothiers of the state to effect an
organization for mutual profit and
protection, as they contemplate.
Such j an organization ought to give
themj an opportunity to join in the
campaign against the high cost of
living and see to it by their in
fluence and the power of their
unity that no unjust margins of
profit be made on wearing apparel
at any stage in its journey from the
soil to the wearer.
There have been, and are, murmur
ings against the high cost of clothes,
just as there have been, and are,
mutlerings against the high cost of
shoes. There is a current assump
tion, and pretty well grounded, that
no reasonable relation exists between
the price paid for cloth at the mill
and the price of the suits into which
this "cloth is made. Where the gap
comes is what the public would like
to know. When the retail clothiers'
association is formally launched it
can perform a public service, or at
least ease the public mind and re
stores public confidence," by seeking
out and announcing this information.
When Sam Harris, weighing 95
pounds, was. arraigned before a New
throwing Harry Lambert, a 210
pound actor, out of a theatre by the
nape1 of his neck the judge, after
one look at the two, dismissed the
case. And still, Sam might have
done the slinging after all.
AS LONDON SEES IT
IN THE London press is voiced a
demand for national and individual
retrenchment in order to reduce
, the cost of living. It is a sugges
tion based on common sense and
ope which seems to draw near to a
rational treatment of worldwide dis
turbed economic conditions. ' The
germj of the present abnormal situa
tion .iseems to be insufficient produc
tion. Surplus stocks have been ex
hausted and factories are not able to
supply the demand.
By! the practice of self denial of
many things -not necessary to exist
ence,; the demand will be reduced
and the opportunity for profiteering
eliminated. By a curtailment of the
demand for products to the lowest
point consistent wlth a rational life,
the whole fabric of prices will be
readjusted and settle down on the
basis of fair profit. Production must
go on and stocks must accumulate
again. -JV- -v-:W' ? :--.. :
As! it is now, the manufacturer
does not base' his price on the cost
of production, but on the market
price at the time of selling.: It is the
same way with the retailer vw ho
must elevate his price to meet the
demands of manufacturers and job
bers. Wages are raised, to meet the
high cost-of living. The increased
cost of labor makes it necessary for
the producer to raise the cost of
the raw product.
It is an endless chain which In the
end, brings the high cost to the con
sumer and benefits no one. It only
permits the manipulator, the profiteer
who produces nothing, to levy un
earned toll on the products of earth.
A , stimulation of production and a
decjsion to limit consumption to
actual necessity, the London papers
say, would go far to curb prices.
"CHURCHES AND
THE LEAGUE
Now Is the Time, If Ever, for Them
to Speak. Loudly.
From the Deseret News.
Matters have come to a pretty pass In
this free United States of ours if the
churches of the country may not be al
lowed, without incurring the criticism of
partisan newspapers or politicians, to use
their utmost influence and endeavor to
procure the ratification of the League
of Nations. The purpose sought to be
attained by the league is what the
church for ages has been working and
praying for. Regardless of sect, its be
lief is that the proposed covenant is on
the whole the greatest step ever taken
by mankind toward a Christian interna
tional order. This much even the ene
mies of the league wUl not attempt to
dispute. It is also universally admit
ted that the people of the world are
soul sick ' of war, and on the whole
wish for the adoption of the league as
the' only possible chance in sight for
relief from its recurrence. Throughout
this and other lands church committees
have been appointed for the specific
purpose of laying before the people the
proposition of the League of Nations,
explaining its provisions and soliciting
their support for it.
.
1 Thousands of such meetings have been
held in churches, chapels and other
places of religious worship ; and at hun
dreds of conferences ministers and
preachers have been specially instructed
by local or visiting authorities who
have given thorough study to the sub
ject so that to the various congregations
might be Imparted the sure word of
counsel as to the duty of the Christian
and the patriot in this golden hour of
opportunity to usher in a better day.
In addition, the printed word to the
same effect has been distributed by hun
dreds of thousands by and among the
churches, one notable. Instance being
the transmission of a set of six lessons
onthe league, emphasizing especially its
moral implications, to no less than
150,000 pastors of the country, with the
earnest request that they prepareser
mons from this lesson course, but above
all that they have them studied in the
churches. These pamphlets have been
widely used and what is more to the
point each one of them contained at
the end a resolution to be sent the sena
tors at Washington, signed by those in
terested. '
-.So far as remembered, every impor
tant religious conclave, assembly, alli
ance, councU or convention held in the
United States in many -months past has
passed forceful resolutions on the sub
ject, not only with unanimity, but with
acclaim and enthusiasm, and in numer
ous ceases attaching a strong resolution
calling upon the senate to ratify the
covenant.'
So far from being debarred from men
tioning the league in their services, or
from indorsing it, or even from demand
ing that the senators ratify it, it ts the
clear and solemn duty of all the churches
of this country and of the world to get
solidly, earnestly and mllitantly behind
it- To withhold their influence and
moral suasion nay, even their power
in this supreme crisis in world affairs
would brand them with hypocrisy and
cowardice, and prove them not merely
unworthy shepherds of the human flock,
but' false followers of the Prince of
Peace, for whose miltenial reign this
prdposed covenant, imperfect though it
is, may be viewed as preparatory and
preliminary.
Letters From the People
Communications sent to The Journal for
publication in this department should be written
on only one aide of the paper, should not exceed
300 words In leitgUi, and must be signed by the
writer, whose mail address iu full aust accom
pany the contribution.
Let lTs Sfioot Square
Portland, Aug:. 22 To the Kditor of
The Journal What is the use of argu
ing over prohibition? If the common
sense of the people has decreed that
the saloon be abolished is that not
enough?
What is the use of a few ultra wets
and a few prohibition- fanatics dancing
all these useless- antiquated pros and
cons' around each other? Let them
both know that the common sense of
the public and that alone, abolished
the saloon, and that it will also abolish
any reform that partakes of. fanaticism,
especially where the "butinitiveness"
of its sponsors is likely to 'annul our
constitutional rights. We have no more
time for orthodox prudery than we have
for drunken debauchery, so let's I take
l II e nigfl L Ufiu uetween liic iwu luw j
roads, using the level headed unit or
human equilibrium called common sense
ft.nd start cleaning up on the high cost
of living.
Let us, as good citizens, find some
way to either vindicate our local retail
merchants of the charges of profiteering,
or make them shoot square if they have
profiteered.
I Really, I don't believe it would -be a
bit fanatical for a few committees of j
Citizens to visit some of our local
butchers, grocers, shoe dealers, and bak
ers, and find out whether they are guilty
of profiteering.
The progress of man Is founded upon
the sense of right, not wrong. While
it may take the wrong side of any
question to show just how right the
other side is, there are some of us too
limited in view to believe either side. We
would rather strike a happy medium if
that can be done.
Let us all shoot square with one an
other and hammer the profiteer. .
: R. L. WALTER.
More About High Cost ,
Portland. Aug. 22. To the Editor of
The Journal The chief causes of high
priced food are the cold storage plants.
But for them there would not be so
many trusts. If food was cheaper all
else would soon fall in line, provided
that the government (which should be
the voice of the people, the great ma
jority, the consumers and producers),
had-control of the speculators, the graft
ers who make their money by holding
up the country. . A : highwayman is a
"prince" beside such blood-suckers of
the nation. Our laws allow . them to
accumulate fortunes Illegitimately. Hon
est business never can make such for
tunes. The actions of the government's
secret service men In unearthing 'such
gigantic frauds , prove it. ; Legitimate
SIR LAUNFAU AND THE LEPER
By James Russell Lowell .
pHEN the soul of the leper stood up in his eyes
- And looked at Sir LaunfaV and straightway he
Remembered in what haughtier guise.
He had flung an alms tor leprosie, : -When
he girt his young life up in gilded mail
And set forth in search of the Holy Grail.
The heart within him was rehev and dust; -He
parted In twain his single crust;
He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink,
And gave the leper to eat and drink,
'Twas a moldy crust of coarse brown bread,
'Twas water out of a wooden bowl-
Yet with fine wheaten bread was the leper fed.
And 'twas red, wine he drank with his thirsty soul.
As Sir Launfal mused, with a downcast face,
A light shone round about the place; -
The leper ho longer crouched at his side,-.
But stood before him glorified,
Shining and tall and fair and straight
As' the pillar that stood by the Beautiful Gate
Himself the Gate whereby men can
Enter the temple of God in Man.' -
His words were shed softer than leaves from the pine..
And they fell on Sir Launfal as shows on the brine.
That mingle their softness and quiet in one ,
With the shaggy unrest they float down upon;
And the voice that was softer than silence said,
"to. it is I, be not afraidl
In many climes, without, avail.
Thou hast spent thy lfjs for the Holy Grail;
Behold, it is here this cup which thou
Didst fill at the streamlet for me but- now;
This crust is my body broken for thee,
. Thfs water His blood that died on the tree;
The Holy Supper is kept, indeed.
In whatso we share with another's need;
Not what we give but. what we share,
For th? gift without the' giver is bare;
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three.
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me."
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
- The frightful oondlUona In Europe are Indi
cated by Mr. Lockley in quotations from reliable
obserrers.
In my mail recently was a letter from
Mrs. Louise .Arthur of the state engin
eer's office at Salem. Mrs. Arthur says;
When I was in Portland I heard Ben
Selling speak in behalf of the Armen
ians. When I came home I sent him a
check toward their aid. In acknowledg
ing its receipt he said": "Today Chris
tians in Poland and Galicla are killing
Jews men, women and children, because
they are Jews and no Christian, 'Cath
olic or Protestant raises his voice in
their behalf. What a mockery to call
this Christian civilization."
Recently 1 read in the Sunday School
Times an article entitled "Wiping Out
the Jews." The position f the Jews in
Europe becomes daily more desperate.
Conditions In Poland, Galicla, Ukralnia.
Russia, Hungary and Roumania are ter
rible beyond description. Massacres have
occurred in over 60 cities and towns in
Poland, while in Ukrainia thousands of
Jews have been, barbarously killed,
where the massacres are more horrible
even than those perpetrated in Poland.
"The agony of the situation," says the
writer, "is that the Jews have no protec
tion from the governments under which
they dwell and for whose liberty they
fought. In many cases the pogroms
have been carried on by organized au
thority, and apparently for the purpose
of exterminating the Jews. While few
Jews are of Bolshevist tendencies, the
idea that all Jews belong to the Bol
shevik! has taken root in the minds
of the multitudes, and this gives ground
for fear that a terrible race war for the
extinction of the Jews may occur at any
time The cry of 'Kill the Jews, it is
expected, will usher, in the bloodiest
pogrom the world has ever seen." .
I thought If you would give this pub
licity, and call upon the churches to
make a concerted movement, or to have
them call a meeting for the purpose of
getting a protest directed against such
atrocities through our government "it
would give the movement some form,
and other cities and churches would
take it up, and a big momentum would
be acquired.
I think Trotzky and Lenin are both
Jews, but am not sure. I know many
Jews are Socialists, and agitators, and
I presume the good ones bear the odium
and ill reputation of . those who deserve
condemnation.
You see it Is really up to Christians
to do something for thefr rescue. ; Mr.
Selling calls those killing the Jews
Christians, which we would never agree
to, yet they are called Christians be
cause they afe not Jews, nor Turks.
We here In America can have no Idea
of the horrors being perpetrated across
the waters. I talked with John Ken
drlck Bangs a few days ago and he told
me of the helpless and almost hope
less orphans of France, dwarfed and
stunted in "body and blasted in soul. .
Howard Heinz of Pittsburg returned
a few days ago from Asia Minor. In
speaking of conditions as he found
them in Turkey, Armenia and Bulgaria,
he says : .
business would reduce the .high costs to
a nominal basis. To pay increased
v.-eges makes matters worse, as prices
go up to correspond, and the milliofts
who cannot receive such prices for labor
are the sufferers. Those that receive
the money can afford to be extravar
gant. - and extravagance . Increases the
value of products to the consumers. The
producers as well as the middlemen or
ieculators move in the same groove.
They foist Inferior production on the
markets In the packing and the common
people are the sufferers. When a man
pays $12 to $20 for a pair of shoes, he's
a fool. "It's a fool and his money soon
parted," and every article . purchased
at the same ratio but adds to the. in
crease of prices.
No man has a right to demand such a
high percentage for the use of his money
in trade. Smaller profits and quick re
turns will soon bring things to a proper
level. And one thing .especially will do'
so control of the cold storage plants.
That is all that Is necessary. WJien
there were no such plants evervthin
had to be sold in a certain time to save
it. Cut out the storage ana ihe level
will soon come. WORKINQMAN. -
' He Wants Enlightenment J
Baker, Or., Aug. 16. To the Editor
of The Journal What have . we todav
In the United States senate a repre
sentative government by .those now in
charge of the peace treaty with Ger
many, or have we a self constituted
senatorial autocracy who defy the will
of the majority? What is at work
today that actuates those senators now
handling that peace treaty? By an
overwhelming sentiment the great mass
of our people demand the ratification
of that treaty, not its destruction. Who
delegated to those eminent statesmen
the right to defy the will of the . ma
jority? '
Is there at work today among those
obstructionists, that subtle Influence
called the "invisible government," ' that
power that ; . dares - not - come ' - out
In the open and demand what it
wants, but operates by silent and ques-
Lockley
"When . I visited Armenia In April
I found the children dying like flies.
Five hundred thousand refugees- had
been driven out of Turkey Into the
Caucasus by the ruthless Moslems. They
had neither place to lay their heads
nor food to kepp on living.- Their bodies
were clothed In vermin-Infested rags,
and their pale, strained faces were lifted
in constant appeal to the visitor.
"There was 'only one man to every
10 women in the country. The re
mainder had all been killed. Women
went into the, fields and gathered grass
roots to make broth, from which the
little children turned away in distaste.
"It Is Just such suffering children as
this that Mr. Hoover has been caring for
with shipments of cocoa and condensed
milk and sugar from America. lie in
tends to give them at least one sup
plementary meal a day to build up their
weakened bodies: But best of all, in
all of these countries, the local govern-'
ments are paying for as much of this
relief work as they possibly can afford,
"The same conditions exist In Rou
mania, Poland, Serbia, Czecho-Slovakia
and all of the countries In which Mr.
Hoover, has been operating. These chll
dren are a charge on the world's char
ity. .., of -
"I made a motor trip of Inspection
through Roumania In May after the
American relief administration had been
working there since February, on a
prior .visit starvation was general be
cause the German general, Mackensen,
had destroyed or stolen all tlje food ' he
couia smp io uermany.
"In February in every village one
would f ind . peasants fine types of men
and women who had exhausted their
food supplies, begging the mayors of
the village to get them food. , After
the news was spread that American
flour had reached Bucharest, every
American who appeared was' greeted
With cheers and the bakers In many
shops stuck little American flags Into
their loaves of. bread.
"Starvation prevailed In February be
fore Mr. Hoover's forces arrived. In
May in the same territory everybody
smiled and had put on flesh. Little
children played and laughed in the
street where before they were dropping
with weakness. If the American people
could have visited these regions and
seen the ue to which their money had
been put they would never regret hav
ing given America's aid to the rehabil
itation of Europe.
"The bulk of food supplies furnished
by the American relief administration
as a government organization will be
sufficient to meet all the requirements
of a simple ration until this year's
harvests are available but special food
for the children must be Imported from
and paid for In America.
. "You cannot have peace In Europe
until the people are rid of famine, and
have employment There will be no real
peace in America until' there Is .peace"
in Europe. America must help Europe
get back on Its feet toy furnishing food,
raw materials and extension of credits.
Europe still needs America and we must
answer her call."
ttonable methods through such men as
Lodge, Knox, Johnson, Borah, Poin
dexter, Sherman, Reed, and a few lesser
lights, the henchmen of this Invisible
power which all decent men detest?
These obstructionists In the senate are
not acting In good faith. In a court
of law they would be denounced as petti
foggers or shysters... They follow neither
precedent nor prudence. They dissemi-
preceoem nor pruuence. 1 ney aissemi- - f th,ne ,ky.buses may
nate and distort They '.create falefe n , t down ia our front
Lssues for the. purpose of deception. ;They
pretend to serve the people while -acting
in th service of those who betray
the people. -
Why this grief they pretend because
Japan took a concession away from
Germany by force of arms? Why this
howl about the : Irish question? That is
between Great 'Britain and her' colon.y.
It is none of our- business, and tblx is
more true because the Irish themselves
are not agreed as to what they want.
Why hang up this - treaty because
they don't happen to have a certain let
ter written by 'some individual about
the treaty to the president, which is
of no ' consequence whatever at this
time? If ii your columns you can en
lighten us, ..do so. . f
GEORGE E. ALLEN.
i Five Towns for Sale
From Capper's Weekly . :
The greatest sale in history Is about
to take place. Five complete, modern
towns situated in New Jersey, Virginia
and Wisconslni all former munition
centers, are to be sold at public auction
by the Du Pont Powder company. The
property, which cost $68,000,000,- includes
great 'factories, power plants, railroads,
theatres, hotels, astomobrTes arid tug
boats. ' The property is so tremendous
in bulk, and variety; tiat It will take
three years ' to sell all. These towns
are not boom affairs. Hopewell, Va.,
will be found in the1 postal directory
classed as a city of 20,000. The railroad
facilities at Hopewell : can handle 425
carloads of material each day. . The
plant, during the war, turned out more
than a billion pounds .of guncotton.
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed tor Benefit
of Journal Headers -
OREGON NOTES. ' .- ,
Several bad forest fires, set hy light
ning, are burning in the Bohemia dis
trict. Ten thousand men. women and child
ren will oe required to pick Oregon's hop
crop this year.
Bartlett pears from Josephine county
are bringing $3.75 to $4 per box in the
eastern markets. -
John R. Nevius of Tort land has been
appointed itmt motor in turiu crops at
Oregon Agricultural colkge.
Bids Bt-e being advertised for a con
crete bridge over Canyon creek at John
Day, on the John Day highway.
On account of the prnno and hop hsr
vest, opening of the school at Dallas
has beeijwwostponed until Sept. 29.
T116. V C- MllIet farrn- f'W mlk's
north of Salem, comprising "107 acres,
has been sold to George M. Campbell
for $1S,000.
A large bear strayed from its usual
haunts Friday and entered the outskirts
of Hanks, where it was killed by Albert
Edmondson.
Governor Olcott hai received an In
vitation from Secretary Daniels to re
view the l'aclflo fleet at San FranclBco
on Labor day.
4 An order for 3,000,000 feet of logs 1ms
been placed with Klrby Pros., T,an
county logging firm, by the Booth-Kelly
Lumber company.
James Ross, a sheepherder, plend.vl
guilty at Pendleton to starting a 3(0i
acre fire in the Wenaha national forest
in Umatilla county. .
II. C. Roloff, Justice of the peace for
many years In the Sweet Home district
of Linn county, has filed his resignation
with the county court.
As a celebration of his 90th hlrthday,
E. Nicolle, a pioneer resident of Maple
ton, swam the SluHaw river and buck
at Mapleton a few days ago.
Dr. Harmon Jesse Van Fossen, district
superintendent of Klamath district of
the Methodist church, dropped dead Fri
day night at his home In Ashland.
Forest fires are growing in intensity
near Grants Pass. Placer mines and
ditches are imperiled and their crews
are dropping their work to fight the
fires. .
According to reports from th fir
tone in the forests east of Lacomhe 1110"
blase Is still raging unchecked dnspitA
efforts of the hundreds of fire) fighters
no won the scene.
An ordinance has passed the Pendle
ton city-council providing fine and Im
prisonment for any person making any
unnecessary disturbing noise within the
corporate limits.
Just as the last load of hay had been
haled In the fields of William Roberts
and George Bowers, near Brownsville,
the stacks took firs from the engine arid
were totally destroyed.
WASHINGTON.
George Armstrong, pioneer -miner,
hunter and Indian war veteran, died at
Raymond, Thursday, aged 87.
City firemen at Aberdeen havs been
granted an increase of $10 a month,
making the minimum wage $110.
Government foodstuffs costing more
than $1000 were purchased Friday
through the postoffice at Aberdeen.
At a hearing on the price of shoes In
Spokane, retail dealers refused to show
their net profits for the last five years.
A class of 168 students was graduated
at the Belllngham state normal school
at the close of tha summer session Fri
day. Believing it contained alcohol, 85 bur- 1
rels of - grape Jifice belonging to A. 1
Joseph, a wholesaler, were seized at '
Aberdeen Friday.
Delmar Balcunas, who went to Franee
in 1417 nnrl wna ranftrtul In lb... !
battle of Argonne forest, has returned J
to his home at 1'e Ell. '
For the past five days the country i
between Yale on the Lewis river- and ,
Cougar postoffice has been in the throes I
of a timber and- brush f ire.
Pickpockets were active Inst week on j
street cars between Cmitralia nn! th ;
fair grounds. Several porsons reported
losses of from $12 to $200.
A pontoon bridge, to be built from
army equipment to be obtained from the
war department, will be constructed Ht
the Vantage ferry crossing of the Col
umbia river.
To provide homes for those, of their '
employes desiring them, the Wawhougal :
woolen mills will at once commence tha
construction Of 14 cottages adjoining the
factory site. . i
The youngest airplane passenger in
oenevea 10 no jiuin neeier, agua i.
months, of Yakima, who recently inii'ln
a flight-with her father in a macliirui 1
piloted by R. P. Parshall.
GENICKAL.
Prevalence of Influenza among hornet I
Is reported in the Lewiston" section of i
Idaho.
Married Just six days, RIchart Ebert, i
85 years old, Is asking a divorce from
his 70-year-old bride.
At present prices California's raisin
crop this year will bring $40,000,000 as
against $20,000,000 last year.
Foreign trade of the United States 1
came nearer reaching a balance during ;
July- than it has In any month in several I
Bolivia Is using Arica and Antofogasta
as free trade ports under agreements
with Chile. .
Congress is asked for additional navnl ;
appropriations totaling $lt,6UO,000 for i
repair ana maintenance 01 an or me ;
fighting ships of the fleet
One hundred Australian soldiers are- 1
on their way to the University of Cali-
lornia wnere wiey wui ulko m. course in
agriculture.
It is stated that an American fleet will
visit Japan this autumn to witness a re
view of the Japanese navy before the
emperor at Yokohama.
Anthracite miners of Pennsylvania :
have declared for a six-hour work day.
fiva days a week and an increase of ijQ
per cent. In wages.
Advances of $220,285,528 mad to rail-
roads, public utilities, industries and
cattle growers have been repaid to the
war finance corporation, leaving out
standing a balance of K5,7U7.8s.
Uncle Jeff Snow Sa'ys: J
Ma Is '. kinder skeered that mebby
company room and spile all ths pictures.
of our ancestors and relatives, ana me
new stove. However, shs uster bs
afeared some auto would bs bustin ngni
in the front hall way from the turn in
the road some day, but now shs drives
our tin Llxzte herself onct in a while
and skits around the corners on one or
two wheels when she's a-acln train
the sewln circle to Wilkin'; I tell her
we'll be irtttin one of them sky-buses
of our own ons of these days and then
she won't feel so nervpws.
Get Your War Savings
Stamps Before Sept. 1.
(Btoriwi of ehiemit' In the srenmnle
tlon of Wr Surlnun Htannw, wit to Tli?
Journal end feiit"l tor publication,
be awarded a Thrift Stamp. J
Less than a week now ' remains
In which War Savings Stamps may
be purchased at the rate of 4.1,
the August quotation. Sixteen
Thrift Stamps, with the additional
payment of ' 19 cents, may be con-'
verted into War ; Savings Stamps
until September' 1. After that date
the additional payment in the trans
action will be 20 cnts. Thrift
Stamps 'do not earn interest. War
Savings Stamps do etfrn interest at
the rate of, 4 per cent compounded
juarterly,Jo that the smaller Btickero
should be converted as quickly as
possible. Be thrifty. Save a cent
on each War Stamp while you. may.
Do it now.
Thrift Btampa and 1919 War fiaringi
Stamp now on tale at uxual acencie.
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