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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SATURDAY, .SEPTEMBER 6, 1919. 1JT INDEPENDENT O. B. JACKSON . , . . .PnbBahe fabtbhed ever Say, afteroooa and or xceot Sands afternoon). t Tba Journal " Building. Breedwej and Xamttiu ItorUend. Oregon. atreet, Enured at the Poatoftioe at Portland. Oregon, for tnnamtaatM through the saaile-aa Bfcoad da matter. TELEPHONES Wain 7178: Home, Alt departmeata reached HT Ta the Ptor wh&t department yea at. FOREIGN ADTEBTtSINO MPN??? Benjamin Kentaor Co.. Brontwick Baildinj. 888 Kfth avenue. Hew Tort: 00 MaUere suiiainc, tnicago. nbwintUm Urm b; mall, of ia sddre la 1 the United Statu or Mr loo: DAILT. (MOHNINO OB AFTERNOON) On year IS. 00 I On month $ B0 i SCNDAT One TW.....I2JS0 One month $.25 daily (mobnino on afternoon) and (SUNDAY Ona year. .... 17.80 I One month t .65 Ail that la human nut retrof rade if it doea not adTanee. Gibbon. COULD HAVE BLOCKED BIG WAR By Weodrow Wilson If QU will remember that a prince of the -house of Austria was slain in one of the cities of Serbia. Serbia was one. of the small kingdoms of Europe. She had no strength' which any of the great powers needed to fear. As we see the war now, Germany and those who conspired with her made a pre text of that assassination in order to make unconscionable demands from the weak and helpless kingdom of Serbia, not with a view to bringing about an acquiescence In those de mands, but with a view to bringing about a conflict in which their pur poses, quite separate from the pur posesconnected with these demands, could be achieved. . Just so soon as these demands were made, other nations of Europe sent telegraphic messages to their repre sentatives at Vienna and Berlin, urg ing them to ask the governments of Vienna and Berlin to enter into dis cussion of Uiese matters. And the significant circumstance at the be ginning of this war is that the Aus trian and German governments did not dare to discuss the demands on Serbia or the purpose" which they had in view. It Is universally admitted on the other side of the water that if they had gone into international confer ence on the Austrian demands, the war never would have been begun There was an insistent demand from London, for example, by the British foreign minister, that the cabinets of Europe should be given time to confer with the governments at Vi enna and Berlin. The governments at Vienna and Berlin did not dare to admit time for discussion. I am recalling these .rcu instances J my fellow citizens, because I want to point out to you what arrarently has escaped the attention of some of the critics of the League of Na tions, that the heart of the League of Nations does not lie in any of the portions which have been discussed in public debate. The great bulk of the provisions of that covenant contained these engage ments and promises on the part of " the states which undertook to be come members of it: That in no s . circumstances win tney go to war ithout first having either submitted the question to arbitration in which case they agree to abide by the re suit or, having submitted the ques tion to discussion by the council of the League of Nations, in which case they will allow six months for the discussion and engage not to go to war until three months after the council has announced its opinion upon the subject under dispute. So that the heart of the covenant of the league Is," that the nations 'solemnly covenant not to go to war '.for nine months after a controversy becomes- acqt. ' If there had been nine days of discussion Germany would not have gone to war. If there had been nine 'days within which to bring to bear -the-opinion of the world, the judg ment of mankind upon the purposes of these governments, they never would have dared to execute those purposes. .from President Wilson's .Indianapolis address. Newspapers cannot afford torprlnt communications that are unacoom panied by the name of the writer, Though not necessarily for publica tion, the name Is required for the protection" of the paper. The Jour nal regularly applies this rule to let ' ten that come Into the office with no accompanying: name. THE WARSHIPS : aO OREGON people understand ' 1 1 what the visitors from the Pacific II fleet signify T Do they realize -. that after years of waiting the shores of , the Pacific are as well , defended as the Atlantic? Do they know that the handful of - urnored 'craft sent to Portland merely repre sent and , give evidence of the great "assemblage of powerful ships placed in the ..Pacific by , & . new.; poller of national defense t " t The forts at the mouth of the Columbia are as antiquated and fu tile as ever, nut the dreadnoughts and destroyers are not far away, Fear of aggression is soothed by their nearness. Foreboding for the future, even in Jingo minds, becomes remote. Oregon welcomes the detachment not alone because of the honor due the kew but also because of the larger power represented. The mother who sold whiskey to buy good clotheB for her boy ap parently forgot that her example of lawbreaking might mar and scar him long after the little new suit had been worn out and discarded, a WHERE IS THE BAR ASSOCIATION? A CONTEMPTIBLE attempt to ex tort from Widow Dibbern of Portland $1600 of the $4000 awarded to her for the acci dental death of her husbaqd in a local shipyard, has failed so far as Judge Bingham's court in Salem is concerned. The mandamus brought by Lee Hoy Keeley to compel the state accident commission to sue Mrs. Dibbern for the return of the $4000 paid her by the state has been dismissed by Judge Bingham, f he widows and orphans and industrial workers of Oregon are indebted to Judge Bing ham for thus adding one more de cision in fortifying the workmen's compensation law. , Scarcely anything is more repre hensible than the repeated attempts of clientless lawyers to break down the compensation law. That law was passed by the legislature, and later,, by the people overwhelmingly a referendum vote for no other purpose than to eliminate lawyer's fees from settlements witli widows and orphans and other dependents in industrial accidents. It was fought by ambulance lawyers and casualty companies in the legislature, fought in the referendum election, and has since been fought by them In every conceivable form in the courts. The late attempt on the Widow Dibbern's death money Is a sample. It ought to be made a crime for lawyer or a casualty company to attempt to break down this law. It is the civilized way of awarding damages to men maimed or to the dependents of men killed in indus trial accidents. It is a step in the march of mankind toward a higher civilization. Few men would take the course Lee Roy d. Keeley has pursued in his effort to get a fee of $1600 out of the $4000 paid Mrs. Dibbern by the state for the death of her husband. Mrs. Dibbern states that he induced her to sign a contract, which she d'w' not know to be a con.--.ct, he had told her that his action In the matter was as a friend and not tobe paid for Can the Bar association close its eyes to this disgraceful case? Congressman Frear is not sufflcl ently acquainted with public sent! ment In the Northwest. The com mendations of the spruce production division and Its commander which he has entered in the record as "propa ganda" are the ordinary 'expressions of loyalty prompted by unjust at tack upon the just. The record of the spruce production investigation will be worth little to congress or to the people of America until the In slnuations, veiled charges and pre convictions which he has injected to the extent of thousands of words are eliminated, and until the small basis of fact, so far obtained, is used ex cluslvely as the foundation of the conclusions to be reached. WRING THEM FIRST s. DAVIES WARFIELD, of Balti more, has a new plan for the solution of the railroad prob lem which, indorsed by the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, he submitted to the house committee on interstate commerce at Washington. Luther M. Walter, of Chicago, counsel for the security owners, spent five hours before the committee urging the adoption of the plan. The Warfield plan would require the interstate commerce commission to fix such rates as would yield a minimum return of six per oent upon the "invested capital" of the railroads, while all surplus profits above that return would be divided between the employes, the public and the, earning road. Such a proposal made a few years ago would have been classed as rank socialism by railroad magnates and security holders. It has not been so many years ago that the transporta tion interests displayed grave affront at any suggestion " of regulation or control Iq operation, earnings, serv ice or anything else. For the security owners to put forward such a pro posal now shows either a repentant spirit or something else. On the face of it the Warfield proposal would seem fb be fair, but whether it is depends very largely upon-what is meant by "invtited capital," a term which might include any sum- within a. range of several billion dollars. Mr. Walter told the committee that the "property invest ment account" of the railroads would reach nineteen or twenty billion dollars and Insisted that the courts would sustain such' a valuation. Glenn Plumb, who has started na tion wide discussion by his advocacy ot tripartite ownership and eontro of the transportation lines, had In sisted that the property values would not exceed ten or . twelve i billion dollars. And it may be Interesting to nole that Mr. Plumb gives his guess a range of two billion while Mr. Walter contents. "'himself with half that much. The trouble is that there has cen a great . deal ; of dubious 'invested capital" wrjtten onto the stock books and ,the "ledgers of the railroads ! of the country. Bonuses and reorgani zations; manipulations and dark deals through a generation, have brought the public to the state of mind where, like the Ancient Mariner, it thinks v-'t, .water,' everywhere whenever it rces a' railroad security,' or thinks of a stock certificate or a bond. If "invested capital' were to u-an the money put into the railroads no fair " thinker would object ' to a rate which would give a minimum return of six per cent. Investors are en titled to returns that are fair and just upon their investments. Nor would the public object to a rate that would1 give" the worter a bonus. In all. probability tin e would Le no omplalnt at "surplus returx'1 to the government, or to the earning road. provided the rates were not unduly high. But if "Invested capital" means the waterlogged billions between the physical valuations and the outstand ing securities issues of the railroads the Warfield plan begins to lose its glamour. The public, without much doubt, will want to see the water wrung out of the "invested capital" of the railroad systems before it will applaud very enthusiastically any program that would guarantee a min imum dividend upon that capital of six "per cent, or any other amount EKING OUT EXISTENCE I ORE than 27J0OO employes of the federal and municipal gov ernments in the District of Co lumbia are receiving less than $90 monthly In wages. Five thousand are clerks and 1000 stenographers and typists. More than 10,000 employed In the treasury department receive only $90. One woman of 84 years has worked for the government 48 years. Her first salary was $432 yearly, and she now draws $529. A 73 year old clerk started at $900 and now receives $1000. He has been in government employ 41 years. Another entered the "service 26 years ago at $720 annually and now gets $900. The figures are unanswerable ar- gument for full and practical educa tion, and a Warning that private employ offers greater opportunities than public employ. Bread Isn't going to 11 cents after all. . It is going to be sold, tor a time at least, for two nickels where one once bought the loaf. With a sense of relief, the respite is chron icled. t Anything that reduces the occasion for making penny change is worth a weloome. There is too much falsity in the sense of wealth one has with pocket books padded or pockets jingling with coppers. To escape the delusion father and mother, if notthe children, would gladly return to the old days when movie, candy store and streetcar tolls took 5 cents or its multiples, and chicken feed finance was on a nickel. not a copper basis. SEPTEMBER RAINS E VERYBODY is glad that the September rains have come, with the Bole exception of the hus- baridman whose hay and grain is yet in the 6hock or swathe. Such there will always be. The thirsty earth drinks up the rain And drinks and gapes for drink again. in plants suck in the earth and are With constant drinking fresh and fait. Not only is the provident farmer glad that it . is raining. Those who live in harrow streets welcome the 'refresher of summer heats" and the extinguisher of forest fires. The dairyman is glad, for the pas tures " will grow green. Those who travel the main roads are also glad, for the dust is gone and the ruts filled. Those who are building new roads are glad, for their work is made easier. The owner of the hopfield and the hoppickers are glad,-because the rain comes now instead of at the height of the picking season. The 6tate fair officials are glad for a similar reason. The prune grower Is glad, but hopes it will not rain too long. So It is with the apple producer and all along the line. How singular and yet how Blmple the philosophy of the rain! Who but the Omniscient one could have devised such an admirable arrangement for watering the earth. THE JAIL CURE T iHERE is a cause above every other cause for automobile acci dents. It is lack of considera tion for the other fellow. It is one driver's tendency to put his haste above the safety of others. The rule of the road is that, the .driver approaching on your right has the right of way. A machine approaches an intersection, the man at the wheel serenely confident that his rights will be respected. . Another, recklessly driven, darts out of the . Intersecting street, and, to keep the lead, cuts the corner. A xolllsion often fol lows. Another driver proceeds at breakneck Speed over streets rendered wet and slippery by rain and is unable to check the mad rush in order to escape a crash with another vehicle. Thus, the unfortunate acci dent of Friday, when a truck skidded near Multnomah station, struck another machine and pmnci its driver hel plessly under toe wreckage. - Thus, the report that last month automobile accidents reached an un precedented totaL There seems to be but one way tov cure the curse of . reckless driving and render the thoughtless thoughtful of others, and that Is to give driver's of demon strated and1 repeated reefcie- icSs a term In jali with plenty of time for meditation and Introspection. THE INVISIBLE ADVANCE Consolatory Considerations for Such as Find Themselves Dismayed. From the New Tork Evening Post Disappointment that human nature appears to be, after these war years, much the same alloy .that went into the furnace instead ol a new and precious metal, was expressed by Mr. Raymond Blathwayt, lecturing in San Francisco. Character has not even been scratched. I am more than astonished that so gen era! an opinion should be expressed throughout the English-speaking world as to the universal upheaval of the very foundations of human character. Bluntly speaking, there has been no such upheaval." Contemporaneously, another Knglishman, Mr. Alfred-Noyea, wrote in a popular magaxlne : "Under the surface there has been a change of tremendous and terrible import, a wild intellectual and moral chaos unprecedented In the history of the world." Regret that the ordeal could not have achieved a similar transformation :of aU the hignry various creatures called human seems balanced by a nervous curiosity as to what they may do In -the future. You may rest upon the unhurried glacier or Join the avalanche. Or perhaps there is some foothold for those who feel neither desperate nor resigned to disillusion. ... It is hard to see what ground the English-speaking World could have had for anticipating "a universal transfor mation of human nature" as a result of a war which seemed to many less im mediate and menacing than the Influ enza epidemic. The latter was to com munities In Ceylon and Iceland an ex perience as blasting as a battle, yet no one predicted an increased output of saints on account of it. War, disaster and disease do not create. By destruc tion they reveal what was there before. They light up dim places, stir dormant qualities, accentuate existing brightness and by contrast bring the shadows out. They, pass, and leave here and there a damaged wall of caste, which may be further broken down or repaired ; a quickened ense of kinship with the state which may strengthen into devo tion If ' the government remains un shalasn; a new consciousness of the satisfaction of being useful which may soon, be lost in languor and can be main tained after the prick of the occasion ceases only by will. Will is not made suddenly, to match the great event ... Transformations of character come from within, and it was no more to be hoped that the war could impose a permanent mould upon human nature than It is to he insisted that the stress ef his calling and the need for self-command which accompanies It should make a social and civic jewel of the butcher. Those who knew France smiled at the customary saying that the war had re created her spiritually, for that- valor. tenacity and high spirit have always been hers, only they were brought sharply to attention when she was beset. The war transformed no one, and people who would transform themselves have perpetual occupation. It is not one of those tasks that can be thoroughly at' tended to once, like spring cleaning, and then banished from the mind. One beholds a distressing picture of a hero losing his temper and crying out after ward bitterly, Why, tney said I was transformed '." It would have been restful and pleas ant for the war's survivors to settle down to enjoy a well-earned virtue, but it is grievously plain that we have only the same old imperfect instrument to use In building up an improved future that we employed in fashioning a de fective past. Perhaps It is better for posterity that construction should not go .forward' with novel and unnatural smoothness. If Antletam left no shin ing mantle upon the men ' who fought there, it would be unfair if Mt Keramel should have bestowed upon .other soldiers the superhumanity which' is quaintly looked for by ethical prophets of the present. ... On the other hand, there Is more ahead than the abyss perceived by Mr, Noyes. It is vaguely exciting to tell our selves that we are aU hanging over the edge or a oliff, that at any moment the rebellious Titan's hand, may be thrust through the earth beneath our feet, but a general transformation of people Into demons has not taken place, either. Uninteresting as we find it, we are much the same. Hunger and destitution have always been bringing "intellectual chaos." No doubt Jack Cade believed England profoundly shaken by the brief efface which he arranged, and it did have Its effect a little push forward. The world has always possessed a supply of people who sent bombs or their medieval substitute to persons wfeose misdemeanor was prominence. Many times the world's plunge into destrucUon has been prepared, only to be followed by reforms Just sufficient to save It a period ' of, exhaustion, a period of new hope, atfd then again the decline and , threatened oom ! Always civilization has . hung on, even through years of coma. There Is no coma' now, nor the likelihood of a halt. The present Is no era of despondency, but a season of con flict so Intense that it presages any thing, but collapse and indicates that character, if not exalted, is In no sense enfeebled, for it Is in effort that char acter is manifest. Old. Work for New Women In the Call of the Kitchen ' From the New Tork tVorld. That milady of the household is likely to be permanently burdened hereafter with a large share in her own housework is the, expert opinion ol a New Tork woman of long experience in an employ ment agency. The shops and factories, offering high wages and freedom, have combined with a lowered Immigration to reduce to a minimum th$ visible sup ply of domestic help. How this state of things' is to be re ceived depends, like 'very many affairs, upon the lady herself. No doubt there are women In plenty who will be glad to take their real places as housewives. These will be such as have been fitted by earUer training or bringing up to serve as active mistresses of their homes. They will not be afraid of a half day with cooking utensils or of an hour of physical culture with the vacuum cleaner. Curiously, In another aspect than that of labor Involved, the new conditions bear upon an old Issue. It was a fa vorite plea of the suffragists and feml ninists generally that in her new estate, with her clothes made to order and her housework done for her, the American woman had become a parasite. For her own good she must have something to do. Therefore, put. her into politics and give her a vote: therefore, abolish eco nomic and Industrial distinctions of sex and let her become man's partner In every sense. -. The business' woman, the 'professional woman, the voting woman we have with us, full of vim and vision. But here, all at once, returns the call ef the kitchen. Here ends the special plea of parasitism. Time the magician becomes Time the reactionary.- There Is everything for woman to do in the home that was once declared to Tte her place, and if she does not do it, who will T Letters From the People I Comnonieatioaa Mat to The Journal fot publication ia thi department 'should b written on oal one cida ol th paper, ahoald not exceed 800 word-, ia lecfn. and miut b eisned by to writer. wboa mail addresa ia lull mtut accom pany tha contribution. . Money Loans Portland, "feept 3. To the Editor of The Journal When money is, loaned to a person it is rarely at- other than the legal or usual rate of interest. Where that same party sells goods to the same borrower he taxes him 25 to aO per cent or more on his stock. That stock Is equivalent to the cash loaned. Then why should he demand such a rate of Interest? The consumer pays the taxes oii their wealth and his own holdings double taxation. It has always been asserted that by combination of capital manufactures and purchasers of products could sell at a much lower rate because of the great quantity they can handle. making cheaper goods, cheaper every thing on the market. How about it now? Combination has resulted in prof iteering, and the consumer has to pay for it and all the workings of the capi tal at an exorbitant rate of interest This is supposed to be a government by the people and the people, but the power of wealth has proved it to the contrary. .The voice of the people must call a halt or the direst consequences will be the result The American nation is a nation slow to anger and will bear a heavy pressure. The late war proved it and "Hunism" felt the weight of its just resentment. The name American means loyalty, and the people will be true to Its traditions and name. Profiteering will have to be done away with and tHe simple law of supply nd demand must and will take its place. The cold storage system will have to be controlled by the government, which must stop hoarding by the prof iteers. WORKINGMAN. Wasted Water Linnton. Aug. 31. To the Editor 'of The Journal Judging from the repeated warnings issued through your columns In regard to the low water -supply of the city, it should cause a thorough in spection of all reservoirs. There are numerous leaks along the hillside at Linnton, one in particular, which comes direct from the reservoir above the Washington hotel. At different times employes of the water department and alBO the chief of the fire department. have looked it over and said they would report it, but the clear fluid flows mer rily on, finds its way into the river and is lost so far as its usefulness is con cerned to the city of Portland. There are hundreds of gollons wasted every 24 hours from this one leak, and a few- such leaks will diminish the supply ol water very much. T. E. PROCTOR. Nature's Evidences Portland, Sept. 3. To the Editor of The Journal A. Johnson seems to be in doubt as to what the meaning of God really is. As wo are mere mortals,, with a epark of divine love to illuminate our souls, and often groping after the un seen. It is rather hard at times thun der stand just the meaning of God. Now let Mr. Johnson sit down some where, Just where nature has created a beautiful tree or a green, grassy plot, or sit down on a mossy log and look at his fingers, consider the muscles, bones and blood vessels, and then see how these fingers obey the will of the brain and see the wisdom that nature and lovo have created ; then Jook around at all the beauty of nature that is, if he can get away from man made brick and mortar and he should see God In every littlo leaf, every vlittle blade of grass. Then let him look at all the animals. and then at man himself, with all of this concentrated in himself, with five senses to perceive and enjoy all the beautiful things of this earth as a gift from God. 'Let him see- see and believe. MRS. VIOLA BURR. By Way of Reminder Portland, August 29. To the Editor of The Journal-J-Your editorial in yes terday's Journal on water meters brings to mind the berating ex-Commissioner W. H. Daly received not so long ago, because he, at that time, had vision enough to foresee the condition that is now upon us. Call to mind, too, what was then said by our present commis sioner. Also, call to mind what Mr. Daly, about that time, wanted done about the appraisal of the property of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company, and what was really done. Call to mind, too, the real value of the Mount Hood railroad, for Instance and what the Portland Railway, Light & Power company bonded it for after it purchased it It is on such valuaUons, as well as others, that they now want us to pay T per cent dividends. E. J. HATES. ; Adding Sea's Floor to England From the ScienUno American. The British board of agriculture has inaugurated a scheme for the reclama tion of land on the Lincolnshire shores of the Wash. A bank is being con structed from Wainfleet to Frelston, near Boston (Lincolnshire), commenc ing at the 'Wainfleet end. and by this means' it is hoped to recover about 12,000 acres. The work is in charge of a resident engineer in Wainfleet and will employ a large number of men, who will be selected from demobilized soldiers and sailors, and thus obviate the taking away of labor from agriculture. It is saJd that in the middle of the last cen tury a reclamation scheme was started. and it was then estimated that suffi ciently large area would be redeemed from the Wash to form a new English county. The enterprise was aban doned. but experts have always main talned its practicability, which is now in the course of being tested. A Guest Who Pays From September Snnaet Quite apart from considerations of international relations, there are, of course, matters of immediate practical interest to us as hosts of the Pacific fleet since It Is a paying guest When Uncle Sam goes shopping round our Western markets to keep up his reputation as a good . provider for his sailormen, he has to carry a large bas ket on his arm. The sea breezes of the Pacific will not dull the ever keen appe tites of these 35,000 navy men. detailed to live among us and to live well. Once a month that market basket must bring back to the cooks galleys, in round num bers, nearly 2.000,000 pounds of fresh vegetables, 100,000 pounds of fresh meats, 1,000,000 pounds of flour, of sugslr 400,000 pounds and of coffee nearly 100. 000 pounds, according, to figures given by Rear Admiral McGowan, chief, of the bureau of supplies and accounts. A launch might float hi the catsup needed for one month 3830 gallons or In the vinegar-2160 gallons and in the 2000 pounds of yeast needed for the month's bread there might be lifting power enough to stir a ship In drydock, helped out by 6490 pounds of baking powder. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Josenh was tha original cold BtoraK man if storage could b cold. In Egypt The president, the dispatches Inform us. Is strong for Article X. Glad it isn't me w. a. Madam JV. It was a Tone dry season, but it didn't take long to wet things down once we spouts were uncorttea. Well, it looks now as if all the time copy in the office pertaining to forest fires might as weU be klUpd. The fleet was hailed by throngs In the local harbor. And, we might add, truthfully, if not gramatically, it was also "rained." And Joseph, by the way, put up the original alibi, too that if he wasn't putting the stuff into storage the people would, allsfce starving. A Detroit motor car company made profits of only $50,000,000 in the last six months. And doubtless to hear the stock holders talk one would think they were on the last lap to the noorhouse. "Deer and sage hens, plentiful In Lake," reads a sport page headline. We thought it was another fish story until we read on and found that this partic ular Lake is the name of a county. ' The old phrase about keeping the wolf from the door always contains the implication that asa matter of fact he is always kept away which, as a mat .ter of fact he usually is. - ' "If Philadelphia oes not become the greatest port in the world in the not S.1!4 future it will be only because Phlladelphians have neglected their op portunities.'' poslUvely affirms the just ly esteemed Philadelphia Evening Ledg-er- A to which we'll also positively af firm, "Same here." IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley I With thla artlcla Mr. Ixwkley lea the series re la tint to Samuel 0. lancaster and the Columbia rirer highway. Mr. Laneotar teUi how he became connected with tha hishwai undertaking, and brtefl tketchea tb. difficul ties of the early atagea of that great work. "While in Mobile," said Samuel Lan caster, "I received a wire asking me to report at once to Washington, D. C, prepared to go to Seattle. Secretary Wilson told me a man named Samuel Hill of Seattle had asked that I be sent out there to advise them as to their roai program. I met Samuel Hill -at Yakima, This meeting In Yakima was the beginning of real road work in Washington. After attending the meet ing and looking over the situation I returned to Washington. "Mr. Hill sent word for me to meet him in his beautiful home in Washing ton, D. C, to talk over the road situa tion In the state of Washington. He said, We want you to come out to Washington and spend six months help ing us get started in our road pro gram.' I said, "I do not care to leave my family for that long a time.'- He said, 'Bring your family with you.' Go ing to his desk he wrote a check for $500 and handed It to me, I told him Secretary Wilson would not allow me to spend so long a time in one state. He said, We will go over and arrange the matter at once.' We saw Secretary Wilson. He told Mr. Hill that six months was too long a time for a man to spend In, one state at government ex pense. Mr. Hill said, 'Make a proper start in some one state as an example for the rest of the country. It will take six months to do it. Let the government pay his salary. I will pay all other ex penses.' Mr. Wilson was won over, and so I was detailed to spend six months In the state of Washington. ... "At the end of six months we saw that the work was hardly started, so I sent in my resignation to Secretary Wilson. I was made engineer in charge of the park roads, upon which Seattle spent over $7,000,000. I was also giving daily lectures in the road department of tho University ofWashington. ... "On account of having come in con tact with roadwork all over the United States, I was appointed a delegate to go to France to attend a road confer ence. The French people were the first to realize that roads built by the Romans, which had stood 2000 years of travel, could not stand up under the modern means of conveyance such as lorries and automobiles. They invited repre sentatives of all nations to discuss ways and means to prevent deterioration of the roads. The governor of the state of Washington appointed R. H. Thomp son and myself to represent Washington at the conference. The appointment was a great honor, but it was-also a great expense, for each delegate bore his own expenses: Mr. Thompson and I both de clined with thanks. Samuel Hill said, 'What you learn in Europe will be of use to the west Tou are both going as my guests.' As he arranged it, so it was done. -L "We traveled all over Europe by auto mobile. This was Mr. Hill's thirty second round trip. To my surprise he knew the porters, the bellboys and the proprietors of most of the Hotels at which he stopped. Inasmuch as he spoke German, French and Italian flu Ye orchards and canneries of the West wer&nne Jack and his bunkles, for he uses, every 30 days, 33,100 pounds of prunes 35,690 pounds of dried apricots, S350 pounds of raisins, 38,970 pounds of canned pears, 45,880 pounds of canned peaches. UpSn his bread he spreads 30,370 pounds of Jam anh 124,070 pounds of butter. He must have 3170 gallons qf syrup and 13,700 pounds of pickles and 10,260 pounds of cheese. And tp . give him his bowl of mush and milk he needs 25,160 pounds of oatmeal and 124,910 pounds of evaporated milk. The tourist was ever dear to us for just' such reasons as these figures give. This first big batch of travelers through the Panama Canal would be welcome if their coming meant no more than thla But such talk Is sacrilege, considering that they are .not tourists but additional members of our "home defense," and that their coming is reason for deep patriotic rejoicing in every Western heart Come to Think of It " From tha Ioa Angelea Time At first blush this seeros like a pretty tough country, with Everybody quitting bis job and the price of ham nd eggs so high that one ought to be a diamond cutter to do the family carving. But after all. When you look over the map of the world and, read About some of the troubles in other lands good old America seems like a little bit of heaven, after all. Practically eveVything to be wished for is stiU obtainable in this country if one has the price except a Scotch highball. Likewise, any man who really wants, to work can have m job and raise a family in reasonable safety. Law and order prevail to a respectable degree and the government. at Washington still uvea We should worry. We've Made a Start Then From tha Dallaa (Texaa) Newa The French government -has decided to establish cheap restaurants in Paris to sell meals at fixed prices.' In this coun try we have fixed prices, but not the cheap restaurants. NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON srbELIOHTS "Good morning : have you found a house yet?" tauntingly inquire the Eu gene Register.- . Bend's new fire tation is r?a,nif completion. The city council will hold its sessions In the fire house. Bend Is replacing wooden with steel Water pipe in the business district. Two carloads have arrived and three will be ordered later. "Some of oflr towi folks," says the McMlnnvllle News Reporter, "are re turning from their outlne ' more tired than when they left. ' Do you know that there is a great deal ot busk about this vacationing rw - From a tablespoonful of wheat brought to Eugene by a miner from Alaska. Mrs. Henrietta 8t John, the Register says, has raised, in less than 90 days a gallon of matured wheat of finest quality. It is a new variety and Mrs. Kt John plans to raise more of the same kind. . George Sunday Is now supervising many improvements at the Billy Sunday ranch in Hood River valley. Carpenters are building hog houses for over 200 hogs which are being raised on the ranch, the Hood River News says. A large dairy barn is under construction and plana are being drawn for a big Bl10' ... Here is a hornet story that, contrary o the prevailing style In that line, is no joke. It is from the Madras Pio neer: "Frank Filey .had the misfor tune to be stung Just under the right eye by a hornet Monday evening. The hornet evidently hltn artery, for Frank very nearly oled Ccfore he could be brought to Madras. He Is out and around at last reports, but his face is very badly swollen and he complains of being very weak yet." r ently, we had no difficulty In. getting along. He knew the Rhine as well a I know the .Columbia. One (Jay as we were floating sown the Rhine, Just after passing Bmgen we came to an old cas tle at Rudershlmersberg. Below the cas tle the river bank had been terraced, for a vineyard. Retaining walls ot base rock masonry came down likf steps from the foot of the castle to tne river bank. I said, 'I wonder who built those old rock walls?' Mr. Hill said, 'Char lemagne had those walls built He lived Just across the river here and noticed that the snow melted first on this side of the rlVer. He realized that if rock walls were put up and rich river soil carried up to make the terraces. It would be an Ideaf spot for a vmeyard. I want you to notice these wails closely, for some day we are going to have sim ilar walls along the banks of the Colum bia river. We wUl "build a great high way so that the world can come out and see the beauties of the land of outofdoors, and so that all men, will realize the magnificence and grandeur of the Columbia river gorge.' "It was a dream then, but it was a dream that wjthln a few years was to be realised. "When I returned to my Job at Seat tle, I had to be 'operated on for ap pendicitis. I went to work too soon. The doctors told me I would have to have another operaUon for the ad hesions which had been caused by my first operation. I went back to Mayo brothers. They told me I had . better not have another operation : that what I wanted to do was to relax get off my feet and take it easy for a year. "Mr. Mofan, the shipbuilder of Seat tle, had an 8000-acre farm on one of the 54 islands thit form San Juan county. This was on Crcas Island. lie invited me to live in one of his farm houses. I spent nearly a. year there. Almost every evening I would go to his house and listen to a musicals on his pipe organ. Being an old shipbuilder he de cided to have a house built in ship shape style, so he had a cargo of teak and mahogany logs brought over, from which he built his house. He put In a $50,000 machine shop so he could spend his spare time, and a $25,000 pipe organ, so he could give pleasure to his friends. His dining room seats over 100 people and his music hall seats the same number. The relaxation, the out of door life and the music saved my life. "While I was there Mr. Hill had bought a borne at Mary hill. He asked me to come there and build a road up from the river to his home and to build roads about the place. Before I had completed the work there the railroad company had enjoined Multnomah county from completing their road up the Columbia gorge. This road was a narrow road with grades from 18 to 20 per cent and sharp curves. On the steep slopes this side of Wahkeena falls the county dug into the side of the hill and the whole mountain began falling down over the railroad tracks. The railroad secured an Injunction and for two years the matter was threshed out in the courts. "After difficulties of many kinds we finally were able to make our dream come true and today the whole world acclaims the Columbia river h'lghway as one of the most picturesque road ways In the world." Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Cleaned From Curious Places To an enormous extent the bed of the ocean is covered with lava and pumice stone, says the Family Herald. Still more remarkable '.m It to find the floor stone, says the Family Herald. Still more remarkable is it to find the floor of the ocean covered in many parts with the dust of meteorites. These bodies whirl about In the heavens like miniature comets, and are for the most part broken Into Innum erable fragments. We are all familiar with these heavenly visitants as shoot ing stars; but It has been only lately discovered that this cosmic dust forms layers at the bottom of the deepest seas. Between Honolulu and Tahiti, at a depth of 2350 fathoms over two miles and a half a vast layer of this material exists. Falling upon land this Impalpable dust is indistinguishable; but, accumulating for centuries In the sea depths, it forms a wondrous story of the continuous bom bardment of this planet by cometary bodies. Airplane as Fire Extinguisher From tha Philadelphia Erentag Ledrrr. Mastery of the air has in no instance proved more beneficial to man than In the prevention of fires ; and the fact has been demonstrated by the aerial forest fire patrol In California and Ore gon, which, since its inauguration seven weeks ago, has discovered tl fires and been able to extinguish most of them before they gained any headway. The Interstate Bridge From the TaiicooTer (Waah.j San Were building 40 miles of hard sur face roads in Clarke county. Next year we'll build 60 on more. When we built the big bridge we made a big asset. The bridge profits are helping to build our roads, Clarke is all right J Easy Honey ' From tha Bend Btillrtln. Tbe. ancestry of the Carnegie mil lions was sometning nice - this : by a high tariff, out of steel. The News in Paragraphs' World Happenings Briered for Benefit of Journal Readers - - OREGON NOTES .A post of the American Legion, with 0 charter members, has been organised at Prlnevllle. . f . During the month of August $239 was expended by the Kalem Red Cross home service bureau for general relief work. . The first hunting license Issued to a woman In Linn county was obtained Thursday by Miss Maude Rolfs of Al bany. Frank Campbell, a prominent InsurV ance man of Eugene, died in Sun FrenV cluoo Wednesday, following , jninor operaUon. j The Ken will Telephone company, op h rurai system in coos county, has dissolved by mutual agreement of its stockholders. The .Coos County Library association was organized, at North Uend Thursday by representative citizens from yarlous parts of tho county. Puerst brother of Sheridan completed hauling their crop of wheat and oats Thursday and received a check of $22,000 from a local miller. Since the season closed, Deputy War den Lartwn at Astoria has arrested five glllnetters for illegal fishing, and each was fined $50 and costs. Heppner lodge of Elks has awarded- a coiitrstt to L. N. Traver of Portland for the construction of a now lodge building to cost S3S.U0O.' c a5 Mrs. Mary Jane Heater, who came to Oregon with the overland immigration of 1850. died Thursday at her home near Hpringbrook, agvd DO years. i. v The Marlon county paving plant la, now making rapid progress on itM Salcm-Turner-Stayton road, which is one of the county market roads. Albany s post of tho American Legion will bear the name of Alfred K. Habcock, the only man from Albany to lot his Ufa In France during the world war. Miss Belle O rover, dean of women at McMlnnvllle college, died in Seattle last? Wednesday.. She had gone to Seattle to take a special course at the Washing ton university. Under a plan worked out by City Re corder Race of Salem, all students at Willamette university this winter will be given odd hour employment to help pay their living expenses. Terry a. Campbell's American band of Portland will furnish the music for the Morrow county fair to bo held at Hepp ner. September 11 to 13. Mrs. Edgar Allen Densmore of Portland will bo the soloist Among the improvements being made at the Klatskanle river hatchery Is the laying of 1500 feet of 16-Inch pipe to re place the present flume and Insure ati adequate mipply of pure water at the hatchery building. Public sentiment against a further ownership by Japanese of local fruit lands has developed at Hood River. Agi tation has begun for state and federal legislation to prohibit property owner ship by the Nipponese. Captain Albert O. Skelton. a boH of Profjsssor O. V. Skelton of tho Oregon Agricultural college, who was cited for bravery three ttmes In the world war and wounded as many times, has re turned to his home In Corvallls. WASHINGTON Yakima citizens have appointed a com mittee to investigate the high cost of living. Paving of the Montesano-Elma section of the Pacific highway has been post poned unUl next spring. A federal grand Jury will be called September le to investigate the high cost or living in Seattle. Clinton Dimmlck, a youth living' near Yakima, shot himself In the abdomen while using his gun as a club to kill a rabbit. The city commissioners of Tacoma deny that they have offered $1,500,000 for the Stone & Webster street railway property. Proprietors of six soft drink places In centralta have been arrested, charged with selling intoxicating: liquor. They were reieagea unaer fiuo bonus each. ' The Coats shingle mill at Hoquian? closed down indefinitely Thursday when tha sawyers demanded a minimum wage of $10 a day. - It is said the Aberdeen mill will alao close- down. Major Harry A. Comeau has returned to Aberdeen after two years' service In France. He says "the world warti was fought and won by the second lieu tenants and enlisted men." . Speedy action to determine the con stitutionality of the state land settlement law was decided on Thursday at a meet ing of the executive committee of the Washington state land settlement asso ciation at Yakima. GENERAL The peace treaty was unanimously ratified Thursday by the parliament of New Zealand. Robert J. Sommers of Fairbanks baa been nominated by Preoldent Wilson to be aurveyor general of Alaaka. The boycott Instituted by the Chinese against the Japanese has cut Japanese sales in China more than 50 per cent Postmaster General Burleson has been denied honorary membership In the Western Union Employes' association, a national organization. Senator Hiram Johnson of California announces that he will not leave Wash ington on a speaking lour In opposition to the league or Nations. The citv council of flnrm Town has placed an order to the value of $150,001) for a new electrical plant with the General Electric company 'of America. Protest has been made by Great Britain against the American steamship Ashburn's act In entering Queenstown'a harbor recently with the Sinn Fein flag The contract for the new Snake River mall route, from Lewiston to Pittsburg Landing, has been let to Mr. Brewing of Lewiston. Service will be Inaugurated September 16. Paul Mistral, minority Socialist In the French chamber of deputies, announces that he and his party of .about 85 mem bers will vote against the ratification of the peace treaty. Dr. W. A. Myers, former secretary of the state dental beard, Is under arrest at Boise, Idaho on a charere of bribery. It is alleged that he trafficked In li censes to practice dentistry. German manufacturers of games and toys have made definite advances to dis tributors of those articles here to induce. them to oraer irotn uermany at prices even below those demanded In 1914. By Marshal Koch's decision, the Americans are again to take over all the Coblena bridgehead, proper, or ex actly the same territory on the east bank of the Rhine as ,the Americana have occupied since December last. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Mebby Mr. Wllaon'd a heap rut her be president of the League pt Nations n president of the United States. How ever, If these -here highbrow, war- yearrrin' statesmen of the United States senate keeps on a-trlflln' with the American people they may ee him) both at. one and the same time fer quite a spell. Olden Oregon Recalling the fc'tory of a Long For gotten Coast Town Rivalry- ? In 1850 there was talk of removing the distributing potrtofflce and port of entry from Astoria to a. place called Pacific City, on Baker's bay, on the north side of the Columbia river, about i It miles below Astoria. The citizens of Astoria sent a memorial of . crotest to congress. It was pointed out that ves sels passing through the north channel were delayed for weeks, often, while those which went through the south channel suffered but little detention. It was also charged that It was scheme to bolster up a fictitious town by th transfer 'of government patron age front us natural seat. ?