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to be correct. Disraeli.
PLAYING THE GERMAN GAME
"W
fE GERMANS can only wish
that the action of the sen
ate may express the wish
of America for a separate
peace with the central powers," said
ex-Minister of State Von Scheller
Steinwarlz at Berlin Thursday.
"All humanity, Germany In par
ticular. Is. tensely awaiting the decision-
of the American senate on the
peace treaty," he explained to Cyril
Brown, an American correspondent,
who reports him in a Berlin cable
to the New York World and the
Oregonlan. He added:
Apparently Senator Lodge Is the soul
of the opposition. The senator is no
German hater. When ha and
other Important senators fight the peace
treaty their course means that the treaty
displeases them because in the excessive
enslavement of Germany for which
America would be forever co-responsible,
they see grave danger of future compli
cations. There la promise of
a still better realisation of conditions
In the prospect that America In all
seriousness may express the wish- for
a separate peace " with . the central
powers. We Germans can only wish
that the American people may
come to favor the conclusion of a separ
ate peace.
That is to say, the Lodge idea is
the German idea. Lodge wants the
peace treaty scuttled ana Germany
wants the peace treaty scuttled.
Senator Knox, partner with Lodge,
declared in a speech on the floor of
the senate that the terms on Ger
many are "hard and cruel." Ger
many declares they are "hard and
cruel." Knox declared for a separate
peace with Germany, and "we Ger
mans," according to Von Scheller
Steinwartz of Berlin, "can only wish
that the American people may come
to favor the conclusion of a separate
peace."
Nobody can blame the Germans for
wanting a separate peace. The Ger
man junkers who brought on the
war would view with infinite delight
the spectacle of America deserting
the allies, and, hat in hand, humbly
tagging the German government for
the privilege of negotiating a private
German-American peace.
It is the same old German policy,
used before the war and during the
war, of seeking to divide her oppo
nents and by that division to weaken
them. German propaganda was
widely used in America to divide this
ountry and prevent her from enter
ing the war.
"Whether with or without an under
standing with German politicians, the
Lodge senators are playing the Ger
man game of dividing America at
home, seeking t separate America
from the allies and make a separate
peace with Germany. The effect
would be the abandonment by Amer
ica of the present peace terms, the
abandonment of the League of Na
tions, the abandonment of the plan
Of disarmament to which Germany
has already assented, and, finally, the
abandonment of the plan, by organ
ised effort of the nations, to make
democracy and liberty safe all over
the world.
; Whai would there then be to
prevent Germany from going back
to the old order, preparing for a new
conflict, and WTeaking vengeance
in a new war in the not distant
future?
. The majority report of Lodge's
committee gives sundry so-called
reasons for its opposition to the
league. The real reason is that
President Wilson Is for it.
A NEEDED REFORM
THE State Association of County
.Judges and Commissioners, now
in annual convention in Portland,
has appointed a committee to
draft a bill for a uniform system of
audits and accounts in county affairs
throughout the state. The bill, when
so prepared, is to be -submittrvi to
: the;. legislature at its next M sion
for consideration and enactment.
,T It Is to be hoped that the com
mittee will be able to draft a meas
ure that will accomplish what it is
intended for and at the same time
run the gauntlet of the various
county officials. The system of keep
ing the books of the various offices
in the different counties of the Ktat
is, at the present time noted par
ticularly for its lack, of system. It is
a hodge f podge and the effort of
officials to unify and standardize
the written record of county affairs
is a commendable one.
Jt will be remembered that the
legislature enacted such a law a
few years ago, placing the task of
putting the county records on a
uniform basis of accounting in the
hands of the state Insurance com
missioner. The attempted adminlstra
tlonbf the law, largely because of
the great disparity of systems, was
expensive to the counties In Its in
ception and went down to repeal
before the united onslaught of the
county officials at a subsequent
session.
County officials should have no
difficulty in solving the problem
through the presentation of a bill
that would be; satisfactory to them
selves and which would at the same
timo accomplish its purpose.
A HOUSE UNITED
GOVERNOR OLCOTT very probably
stepped outside the strict and
technical boundaries of his of
ficial jurisdiction when he noti
fied Pilot Commissiorfer , Nelson of
Astoria that he must satisfactorily
prove himself guiltless of employing
a disloyal alien in his private busi
ness or else submit his resignation
as a state official. But even though
that be true, there are few who will
not support the governor in his po
sition. Government, whether national, state
or . municipal, must of necessity be
loyal to itself and Its precepts else
Lit must ultimately fall. It can not
be wholly loyal when those in charge
of its administrative functions wink
at disloyalty, either in official or in
private life. Of all men, those in
public position 6hould be free from
suspicion either of personal disloyalty
or of its condonation. They stand
as exemplars of the government, its
purposes and its intent They must
be true or distrust is bred in the
popular mind of that which they
represent.
But beyond and reside this trus
teeship which public men hold, the
war has taught that private citizen
ship has its trust to keep. There is
both potency and logic in the slogan
that America is for Americans. We
discovered when war and its horrors
came upon us that all of America
was not American that there were
those amonc us who plotted against
the security of the nation while
they enjoyed the protection it ac
corded them. Such peoplj have no
place here, either in war or in peace.
They belong where their hearts and
their sympathies turn and it is just
as well that they go there sooner
than later.
The expectation i-Tiat business Will
continue active is indicated in the
many new corporations organizing
in Oregon. Scarcely a day passes in
which papers for the organizing of
five or more corporations and in
creases in the capital stock of old
ones are not filed with the commis
sioner of corporations at Salem.
Under Oregon's Blue Sky law a cor
poration means something more now
than an office, a desk, a swivel chair,
a waste basket and a paper concern
organized to go out and plunder
the credulous.
, MANAGEMENT AT FAULT
SHOCKING conditions of oversight
and neglect have been found to
exist at the Washington state
school for the deaf at Vancou
ver, according to a report Just filed
by the state bureau of inspection.
The dining room was rat infested.
The commissary and its stores were
overrun with the same pests and
their cousins, the mice. Cobwebs
were everywhere that the food was
stored and the stocks of sugar, maca
roni and codfish were polluted with
the offal of the rats and mice which
made their homes among it.
Lack of appropriation to care for
inspection is given as one cause for
the conditions found to exist, so the
report says, but it is not a compelling
reason. If the report is true the
fault lies with the management and
the inspection, or its lack, is merely
incidental. Inspection may be neces
sary hut it ought not to be if the
individuals in charge of a public in
stitution are such as they should be.
Men who assume charge of such
an institution take a public trust
with their position and are in duty
bound to guard the interest, the
comfort and the welfare of the un
fortunates under their charge, with
out the feat of inspection or the
urge of compulsion. If they do not
prove true to their trust without a
board of Inspection continually
standing over them, then they, are
not the sort of individuals to be in
charge of such an institution.
Have you noticed lately, what an
excellent newspaper The Journal
has come to be? World news, na
tional news, st te news, local news,
agricultural news, market news, so
cial and club news it is all In The
Journal. And the big events are all
printed on the day that they happen.
IS IT PERMANENT?
SOME solace, whether temporary
or not time will tell, may be
found, by those opposed to the
use of tobacco in the last report
of the internal revenue department
concerning the consumption of the
weed in Its various forms throughout
the United States during the fiscal
year Just closed. The only fly in
the ointment of contemplation is the
fact that there has been a great
increase in the use or cigarettes
during the year, though -the report
6hows that victims of the weed have
used fewer cigars, and less smoking
and chewing tobacco, during the last
fiscal period than for any similar
space of time during the past, seven
years.
Those curiously, inclined have haz
arded many' guesses as to just why
the cigarette habit has seemingly
taken so much stronger a hold on
the population than formerly, one
being that the increasing use of
cigarettes by women la partly re
sponsible for it. Statistics, however,
are silent on this point. Probably
the more logical solution of the
puzzle might be found in the prac
tioe, so widespread during the past
year, of loading up the boys en
route to the front, or on their way
home, wilh generous quantities of
the paper bound smokes, as well as
to the continuous stream of pack
ages sent to France "by friends and
relatives from back home. This,
coupled with the undoubted fact that
army life has bred an increase in
the smoking habit among the young
men in active service, would seem to
answer, in part at least, for the use
of more cigarettes than formerly.
On the other hand, the decrease in
consumption of cigars and chewing
land smoking tobacco jnay be traced
in perceptible degree to the high
cost of living which has grasped not
only the necessaries but the luxuries
of life in its relentless grip.
Sixty-five cents a pound, with 70
cents offered for a 24-hour option
on hops, are figures quoted to a
Marion county grower. Ninety per
cent of the American crop is saidr to
have been acquired by Europe,
where a short crop in England and
a near hop failure in the war zone of
Central Europe have contributed to
the sensational price. For once,
holders of the remaining 10 per
cent of the American crop, with
American makers of near beer clam
oring for stocks, are almost in posi
tion to fix their own prices.
A GROWING SYSTEM
JUDGE LOBDELL, one of the strong
men on the JJederal Farm Loan
Jboard, was in Portland Thursday
on a tour of Inspection of the
farm loan banks.
Though himself a banker, Judge
Lobdell is an enthusiastic and de
voted believer In the farm loan sys
tem. His experience in banking in
Kansas, where he came in close touch
witharm credits and farmers' needs,
made him an advoeate of the system
long before it was made a part of
the law of the country.
The system has already proven to
be highly successful. In spite of the
war, and in spite of the high prices
of farm products, the farm banks
have shown remarkable growth. The
Spokane bank, after an existence of
but little more than two years, has
loaned $30,000,000, and has already
declared a dividend. Most, if not all
the other banks, will declare a divi
dend by the first of the year.
There have been charges by ene
mies of the system that loans have
not been sufficiently safeguarded. Of
the $300,000,000 loaned, the arrearages
in payments on $7,000,000 of accrued
Interest and anaortizatidn are only .28
of one per cent, and none of these
is mqre than three months past due.
Fully half of the arrearages are in
Montana, where two seasons of drouth
have shortened the supply of ready
money among farmers.
By the first of the year $1,000,000
of the $9,000,000 advanced by the
government in helping underwrite the
banks will be paid off. At the pres
ent rate, the entire $9,000,000 will,
within a few years, be absorbed by
the banks and the debt to the gov
ernment be wiped out. In this sign
of prosperity there is fine proof of
the stability of the system.
The present interest rate is 5 per
cent. It Is a reduction of ZV per
cent on the average of eight per cent
paid by Northwest farmers before
the farm loan system went into ef
fect. A lowering of the interest rate
is to be expected as soon as the
highly speculative and war condi
tions disappear and farm loan bonds
can be sold at figures approximating
the normal.
Ordered by a brakeman from a
freight. train on which he was beat
ing his way, Leo Burke, aged 20,
missed his footing, rell beneath the
car wheels and his Heft arm had.-to
be amputated below the shoulder.
The accident happened near Rose
burg on a train on which Burke was
making his waj to work with a
road gang, in which his brother was
employed. He took a chance and
lost. It is a melancholy case.
MAKE THEM KNOW
1 ITS determination to conduct a
campaign advertising Oregon prod
ucts, the Associated Industries of
Oregon has picked up the key
that unlocks "the door to success in
the modern commercial world.
There are products east and west
that have become household words
through advertising that could never
have been known otherwise. Adver
tising has had more to do with ele
vating and maintaining standards of
quality than any other one agency,
because advertising will make an
article noted if it is good and no
torious if it is not. An advertising
campaign launched in time would
have gained for Oregon the credit for
the lusciousness of her fruits which
has gone to those same fruits packed
under the well advertised brands of
California. Oregon cherries, prunes
and pears might have been' as well
known as Oregon fir and Columbia
river salmon.
The products of Oregon manufac
tories may be made as well known
through advertising as the products
of the so'iL The capipaign of j the,
association of Oregon industries would
ife worth while if it only brought
as a result a knowledge of the value,
of skillful, truthful and persistent
advertising to the individual manufacturers.
The annual car shortage has re
turned. It is the ripe fruit of former
railroad buccaneering. There were
so many exposures of rottenness in
railroad financing that the public
became afraid to invest in railroad
securities. With the confidence of
the public lost the roads could not
obtain funds for improvements, ex
tensions and other purposes. The
public now pays the price of former
railroad folly and futility.
MUCH OBLIGED TO
TREATY-BUSTERS
By Carl Smith, Washington Staff
Correspondent of The Journal
Washington, Sept. 13. Friends of the
League of Nations feel that they are
unusually Indebted to Chairman Lodge,
Senator Knox and the other would-be
treaty busters on the senate foreign re
lations committee for making clear the
character of their opposition and letting
the country know that their desire is to
defeat the peace treaty, the making of
a spearate peace with GemVany, deser
tion of the allies and the new free states
of Kurope, and return to -the old balance
pf power regime that broke down in 1914.
This has been the announced purpose
of Borah, .of Hiram Johnson, of Brande
gee and a few others from the beginning.
It did not appear so clearly as to Lodge
and Knox and their immediate follow
ing, which is more important than the
Borah-Johnson-Brandegee coterie. It
was still possible to argue, until re
cently, that Lodge and Knox were mere
ly desirous of "protecting the interests
of the United States" before giving as
sent to the League of Nations.
"
Lodge's carefully prepared speech
marked the turn. It was cold and dis
dainful. It contained a series of "res
ervations," but it breathed all the way
through a spirit of hostility to anything
except to "permit America to follow
the path she has followed in the past."
It was aa attack upon any kind of a
league.
This cleared the way for Knox, who
spoke more boldly, and called for rejec
tion of the treaty and a separate -peace
with Germany. It gave interpretation to
the amendments which Lodge and Knox
were voting each day to "perfect" the
treaty, supported by a solid block of
nine votes with which Lodge and his
co-workerj stacked the committee at the
opening of the session.
These events furnish an interpreta
tion of the senate committee's action and
motives which are likely to be most
useful to the president as he tells the
country "what is at stake and what is
going on at Washington. The issue is
"becoming more clearly defined and the
president left Washington confident that
the country would give him an answer
that would confirm his position as. a
champion of peace and solidarity of ac
tion in making this peace permanent.
Increasing bitterness has come with
the later stages of debate. The hard
boiled opponents of the treaty are be
ginning to turn upon their fellow Re
publicans who believe in the league and
believe the treaty should be ratified.
This spirit was evident in the fling of
Senator Fall of New Mexico, who would
not discuss the treaty with Senator Nel
son of Minnesota because of the latter's
age.
Senator Nelson .s 76, but he is one of
the most vigorous-minded men in the
senate and fully a match for the New
Mexican, who is 67, and looks nearly as
old. Fall's comment on ex-President
Taft is equally illuminating.
"I think Taft is getting paid for writ
ing a lot of slush," he said.
Alongside of these learned opinions of
Fall may be placed the "statesmanlike"
utterance of Brandegee, who said of
Taft :
"Every time you throw a cake of soap
into him he emits whatever froth Presi
dent Wilson wants him to."
...
Conservative opinion supports the pre
diction that the trip of the president
will hasten the ratification of the treaty,
and that the treaty in the end will be
ratified with the vote of all but one
or two Democrats and between 20 and
30 "reservation" Republicans, who will
vote down all the flotsam of textual
amendments, and will ultimately agree
upon a set of reservations which will
not Imperil the conclusion of peace.
Hatred of Wilson Bound to
- Recoil on Haters
From the Chicago Post (Republican).
How strange it is to see the historic
"war party" of the United States taking
today positions that run athwart the
country's' deep-trained patriotic im
pulses. Senator Knox, Republican, arises in
the senate to denounce the peace tfeaty
made with a bloody and Relentless foe
as "too severe" and to advise the
United States to desert its brothers in
arms and make a separate peace treaty
with Berlin.
Senator Borah, Republican, also
speaks in the senate in favor of letting
Lenin and Trotzky alone and denounces
the blockade maintained against them
by the United States as one more cruel
than amy maintained against Germany.
Senator Lodge, Republican, denounces
the stand taken by the president In a
controversy with a foreign country con
cerning the disposal of Fiume.
Senator MCCormick-, Republican, now
practiclly aligns himself with the posi
tion of Senator Knox by introducing a
resolution demanding that we withdraw
our soldiers from the occupied area in
Germany.
The extremity of the personal vindic
tiveness shown in these reversals of the
attitudes demanded of our people during
the war must shock and repel thousands
of Americans who do not like Wilson,
but who feel that the obligations of
honor and loyalty undertaken during the
war still hold us.
When the senate Republicans decided
to allow their hatred of Wilson to dictate
their whole course they took "a wrong
turn in the road that will cost their
party American votes, as it is costing
it American respect with each day's
development of partisanship and prej
udice. Treasure Seking Expedition
Missing in the Arctic
From the New York Evening Post
No word of . the 27 adventurers who
in July sailed aboard Robert' Louis
Stevenson's old vessel, the Casco, for
some mysterious land in Northern
Siberia, had been received in the far
Northwest up to August 27. Unless car
ried southward by- Arctic storms, they
may be locked up forever by- the ice
floes, for in July the Arctic ocean was
visited by extraordinary tempests.
Shortly after the Casco picked her way
through Bering straits and anchored the
party lost their leader, , a Texas engi
neer who went ashore with a companion
to hunt. While the two were inland a
gale forced the ship to put to sea.
Nothing has been heard of it since. The
castaways, however, wtsre picked up by
a coast guard cutter, and in Seattle
expressed the belief that the Casco would
be safely frozen in this winter. The
party went in search of a lost mine to
which the Texan was to guide them.
The abundance of precious metals in
Siberia is well known, and a Tacoma
man who recently returned from Nome
says that many Alaskans are awaiting
the establishment of a stable govern
ment in that country to stampede across
the straits.
Letters From the People
TCommnntcatlona aent ' te Tba Journal for
publication in this department should b written
on only one side of tit paper, should not exoeed
800 word in length, and must be signed by the
writer, when mail address in full must acccm
panj the contribution. 1
Government Control of Liquor
Gladstone, Sept. 9. To the - Editor of
The Journal I think the majority even
of the anti-prohibitlonists were quite
willing to see the last of the saloons,
but I think the liquor business should be
organized upon a different basis, and
put under government control, and
liquor issued when necessary, or under
a physician's orders". I recentlv assisted
while an elderly person who had men
with a bad accident was having a broken
limb set. An anesthetic was decided in
advisable on account of the age of the
patient A little brandy was petitioned
for, to help bear the pain, but of course,
under the present "humane" law, it had
to be refused, and J had to stand by and
witness the agony and the consequent
collapse. A drop of brandy in such a
case would have been Invaluable, as it is
in -other, cases of sickness pneumonia,
for instance.
If the prohibitionists are so. keen to
start reforms (on other people, not them
selves) why not start a crusade against
overeating, of which there is a great
deal, which everyone knows is product
ive of many ills? Also, why not start on
these divorces, which are on the in
crease. Scripture, speaks strongly on
the subject of divorce, but society al
lows it, Christ himself gave us wine
which he had personally manufactured,
and I think he knew, the needs of man
kind. Kven good things are abused
some times, and it is quite easy to deal
with those who show they have had
more than enough.
It is my opinion that no matter how
drastic the liquor laws may be made,
they can never be quite efficiently en
forced, as so many temperance people
sympathize with the victims. Stills are
springing up everywhere. As fast as
the sheriff locates one or two, others
spring up elsewhere, because of secret
encouragement And the undercurrent
of resentment is so Btrong that it will
bring about a repeal of the measure as
it now stands, whereas, if given by gov
ernment agents when certified necessary,
prohibitionists and antis would in a
great measure be satisfied. E. A.
Street and House Numbering
Portland, Sept 6. To the Editor of
The Journal I wish to suggest to the
general public that the city of Portland
change the numbers on residences and
business places to correspond with the
streets and avenues. To illustrate :
Take the city of Minneapolis. If I wish
to find 2000 I know I have to go to
Twentieth street or Twentieth avenue.
Of if I want to fin 1226 I know I have
to go to Twelfth street or Twelfth ave
nue. Now, I am not suggesting this
change in a fault-findTng way, but when
business places and residences are num
bered 100 in a block, corresponding with
the street, it is more convenient for
everybody, especially strangers. To Il
lustrate : When I am riding on a street
car and hunting for a certain number or
a certain street, all I have to do is watch
for the numbers on the houses or busi
ness blocks. Say I want to find Twen
tieth avenue or Twentieth street, I know
I have got to" ray "destination when I
come to 2000-and-something, and if
I want to find a certain house number
I know when to get off, and that is
when the conductor calls the street.
I would also suggest that the city
council pass an ordinance to have every
body use illuminated numbers, so they
may.be read from the streetcar or auto
mobile. Such a number could be ar
ranged very cheaply, as it could be
printed on celluloid or Isinglass and
placed in front of a porch light. Such
an arrangement is Just as essential as
street numbers or signs on the street
corner ; people like to live in a place
that is convenient and up to date.
The above change could be made as
cheaply and conveniently in Portland
as in any eastern city, where they have
made similar changes, and there is no
question that it would be much more
convenient and save much confusion,
worry and time.
Furthermore, there are a lot of num
bers that are wrong and ought to be
changed anyhow ; and while correcting
them the aforesaid changes could be
easily made. A. J. CLARK.
Nature's Evidences Discussed
Portland, Sept. 8. To the Editof of
The Journal I see an article in your
paper entitled "Nature's Evidences," by
Mrs. Viola Burr, in which she tried to
explain to Mr. Johnson the meaning of
God. She asks Mr. Johnson to sit down
In a nice sopt somewhere here In Port
land's surroundings, I suppose. Certain
ly a nice place on this old earth. But
did Mrs. Burr ever sit down and study
an hour or so and remember what all of
those nice books in the city library tell
us about? In the first place, this nice
spo has not existed so very many hou
sands of years at least not in the con
dition it looks today, and was probably
covered with water, like all the earth
was once. This brings us nearer to the
fact that everything whatever that hap
pens in this world is coming through
evolution and spirtualism. Another time
this earth was entirely changed through
earthquakes caused through nature's
own process and so may our future
generations find this same moss covered
tree as coal, hundreds or thousands of
feet down in the ground.
Peoples have looked entirely different.
Animals once lived that never can be
found in this age, only their bones.
Probably where there are rich coal
mines now, there were once Just as nice
spots as the surroundirgs of Portland.
Coming forward to the last few hundred
years see almost unbelievable things
produced through nothing else than
evolution, or man's brain. Take this
tree and see what all can be made from
it wonderful . houses, airplanes and
1000 other articles. So with iron and all
other metals. So with plants. Look at
the loganberries and other plants all
new discoveries through man's brain
and evolution. The work of the modern
engines almost . beats nature's" products.
It is said that people from the Orient
and other parts of the earth who see for
the first time the work of our modern
engines and electricity fall down to the
earth from the sudden effect on them
and start to pray.
Then, take the last few years the
war, epidemics, prohibition, Bolshevism,
all will have their effects in the time
coming through evolution and spirit--
ualism. . JOE MATER.
The Control of Profiteering.
Ashland, Sept. 8. To the Editor of
The Journal A- communication in The
Journal of September 6 headed "Money
Loans," signed "Workingman," sounded
sincere and reads good, but government
control of the cold storage system will
COMMENT AND:
I SMALL CHANGE - ' j
The boys pig clubs are putting the
win in swine.
The profiteer's prayer: Lord, be merci
ful to me a skinner.
In Detroit there is a police commis
sioner whose name is Inches how many
Is not stated.
Any little boy whose father Is a land
hog can atone in part for dad's sin by
Joining a Pig club.
T
We'll have to hand it to Kolchak for
staying so long at Omsk, a place that
everybody can pronounce.
The weather man is respectfully in
vited to attend the reception for Presi
dent Wilson with his very best brand
of September weather in Oregon.
If there are any comets hanging
around our solar system, maybe they're
what's to -blame for all this high cost
and Bolshevism and leaguophobia . and
those sorts of things. Let our astrologers
keep us advised.
...
To the inquirer who writes to ask us
what's the millennium we reply that it's
that perfectly grand time coming when
everybody will agree that his own style
of profiteering is , every bit as bad as
the other fellow's.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley-
The return of a Portland pastor tho did
T. M. C. A. work in France during tb. war i
noted by Mr. Lock ley, who detail briefly this
pastor's "T" career, passing tbence to a partial
reriew of Y. M. C. A. work In general in the
war one. noting needs to be met and mean em
ployed on a large scale, to meet them.
The Rev. David A. Thompson, pastor
of Mizpah Presbyterian church of Port
land, has recently returned from France.
le left Portland December 10, 1'.'17,
sailing for Liverpool aboard the "Orls
sa." At first he worked under Ivan
B. Rhodes of this city, and Jaler under
Am S. Allen, general secretary of the
Seattle Y. M. C. A., being In charge of
Y. M. C. A. activities at the hospital at
Talance. Later, Dr. Thompson was, put
in charge of the Tourney "T," directing
the work of a large number of secre
taries and other employes.
"We fed 4000 to 6000 men a day," said
Dr. Thompson. "The work at Bordeaux,
where I was stationed, was of much
Importance, as Bordeaux became one of
the largely used ports of arrlyal and
departure for our troops. I preached
sermons, hired French cooks and wait
ers, officiated at baptisms and wed
dings, was 'father confessor,' for innum
erable blue Jackets and dough boys, con
ducted funerals, and purchased sup
plies running into many thousands of
dollars a month. I worked so hard that
my health failed 'me, so that for a
month or so I was In the hospital. I
was given leave of absence to recup
erate, during which time I visited Nice,
Monte Carlo and other famous resorts
along the Mediterranean. I am glad to
be home again, and my people at Miz
pah church have given me a royal wel
come." It is hard to realize the tremendous
extent of the Y. M. C. A. work over
seas. Mr. Desnoyes, director of the
general supply division, gives some in
teresting facts about the activities of the
"Y" in overseas service.
"The 'Y' had to serve not where it
chose but where it was sent, and, unlike
the quartermaster's department, it had
to pay freight, insurance and drayage,"
said Mr. DeBnoyes. "The charge
to take a ton of freight across the
-cean ran as high as $200 and insur
ance rose to 25 per cent Here are fig
ures compiled from 6000 shipping orders,
showing the stuff distributed from base
warehouses by the Y" for the 10
months from June 1, 1918, to April 1,
1019. These are not all the shipping
orders, nor do they include purchases
made from the qfiartermaster during
January, February and March, 1919 ;
Letter heads. 304,717,000 : envelopes.
285,221,700; post cards, 10.000,000; candy,
477,455 pounds; candy, 10.158.805 pack
ages; cocoa, 1.122,467 pounds; milk,
2,365,963 cans; chewing gum. 13,220,060
packages; Jam. 6,401,944 cans; biscuits,
0,365.040 packages ; cigars, 41,560.003 ;
smoking tobacco. 18,184.926 tins ; cigar
ettes, 1,452,356,158 ; cWocoIate, 32,885,163
packages."
A3 an Instance of the trouble the "Y"
took to satisfy Its enormous clientele
not stop profiteering. Profiteering was
indulged in long before the cold storage
system was heard of. It will continue,
regardless of governmental control, as
long as private corporations own 60 per
cent of the Industrial property of the
nation. Said ownership will continue,
whether we like It or not, until munici
pal or public corporations supplants It
As this cannot be done, whether we
want It or not, until municipal chaVters
or state constitutions are so changed
as to create a government having an
industrial form, what is the use of talk
ing about controlling profiteering under
political forms of government? Present
governments are political because the
police powers are Used to enforce ex
ploitation of the workers and protect the
exploiter and the profiteer. Specifically,
exploitation is selfish utilization. Prof
iteering is ditto. If "Workingman" will
create an industrlo-wotklngman's gov
ernment he will not be troubled with
either the exploiter or the profiteer.
Until he does, his talk Is all chatter and
his efforts to help himself or his class
will come to naught If the American
Federation of Labor would spend half
the effort In creating an industrio-work-ingman's
government that it does In try
ing to raise wages at the expense of the
consumer, of which Its members are a
large and rapidly increasing body, It
would do something for which posterity
would call it blessed. Until it does It
only creates a vicious circle that gets
them nowhere. When an lndustrlo
worklngman's government is born or
created the worker will be "it" Until
said birth takes place the worker will be
nit. The above is so apparent that it
seems almost foolish .to have to men
tion it. D. M. BROWER.
n, Suggestions Sportively Sprung
Portland, Sept 8. To the Editor of
the Journal "A League of Rations, as
suggested by Mrs. Weber that's the
cure, with "B. C." for our "Battle Cry,"
"Boy Cot" for our "Big Club" to bring
the "Boys Caught" to terms. Organize
a Band of Consumers in all school dis
tricts. Vote on two or three articles to
cut out of our bills of fare or "Budgets of
Costs." say, for Instance, coffee, prunes
and butter, to be boycotted for 80 days
or until by a vote of a majority of
members the price is declared "fair."
And at each meeting some other article
will be put xn the black list. Put the
profiteering retailer on nettles, so he
doesn't know what la not going to go,
and thus break their combine
The Business Men's aasociaion is a
combine of interests, from manufac
turers to retailers, against consumers.
So let's have a consumers' combine to
control costs. Let's have B. C.
(Buyers Committee).
I am yours In the interest of the
B. C. (Busy Consumers). ,
BERT CALKINS.
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Halfway, one of Baker county's blff
geet little towns, has 2000 feet of new
concrete- sidewalk on its program, for
early construction.
Next Tuesday will be Pioneer day at
life Lane county fair. OW pioneers will
be guests of the fair board and are
asked to bring In relics of historical
interest ,
The Baker Commercial club ha made
a survey for vacant houses, and la mak
ing a special objective of inducing own
ers of large houses to form them Into
apartments by way of augmenting hous
ing capacity
Speaking of Banks, the Herald ways:
"Banks is practically a new town, ou
might call It 12 years old, but 12 years
ago there was very little here, and Mr.
Atlee built his store In the brush, had
a fence around it. and customers had
to open a gale and drive in his hitching
ywoV' ...
The Guard Bpeaks rather proudly of
Eugene in respect of its good fortune
in the matter of teacher supply. It
says: "Eugene has had no difficulty
in filling teaching positions this year.
Other places have reported shortage of
-applicants, but there has been plenty of
material to choose from here and Super
intendent Rutherford says when the
schools open next week this city will
have as able a force of teachers as ever
In its history."
lake the three items heading the above
list te Bttaionery. Mr. Desnoyes
says :
"We had enormous quantities bought
in the United States, but we could rot
get them. We could not buy them in
France. We could not get them In Eng
land. Apparently we could not get
them anywhere, but the men who were
running the 'Y during the combat -period
and the men who are running it today
have never felt that anything was im
possible. We went to Spain, the only
nearby country not Involved In war.
There we arranged for gangs of men
to go Into the forest to chop down trees,
from which wood pulp was made. Other
gangs of men converted this wood pulp
into paper. Other groups cut and
printed the paper and made envelopes.
Whole villages were employed In making
paperefor the "Y," so that the doughboy
could write home to his mother and his
rweetheart. The getting of this paper
from Spain to Paris over roads con
gested with war material is another
story.
a .
"The Y was taken to task because
iis jam cost more than the Jam the
quartermaster sold. Here Is the reason :
We could not buy Jams In the United
States. That is to say. we could not get
it delivered. Wo tried to buy it here,
tut that was Impossible. It was a good
deal like the paper. It seemed as
though we wo,uld have to give It up.
but we went once again to Spain. We
bought the fruit and had it manufac
tured into fruit "pulp, and by Infinite
labor and ingenuity we had that pulp
conveyed to Paris. We went to Eng
land and bought tin. had that brought
o Paris and manufactured into cans.
Then having the fruit pulp and the
cans, we went to the quartermaster and
said, 'For heaven's sake, give us some
sugar and we will make the Jam that
the boys are needing.' Sugar being a
concentrated form of food we were al
lowed to bring it across the water, and
therf with fruit brought from Spain, with
sugar brought from America and with
tin cans brought from England, we man
ufactured in France 6,000,000 cans of
1am. 5f course, it cost us a1 little more
than It would have cost had we been
Rble to ship directly from the United
States."
a a
"As for the BO.000,000 packages of bis
cuits before these could be turned out
the control of French factories was tak
en over by an expert from an American
biscuit company, who cleaned them from
top to bottom.
"In all, the 'Y' secretaries ran 42 fac
tories even house factories, with saw
mills and planing mills contributory.
"The French authorities felt they
couldn't spare the cocoa, so the Ameri
cans bought shiploads still at sea. Ice
cream machinery was brought from New
York, and 25 automatic Ice cream cone
machines were built in France, equal to
an output of half a million cones a day.
"That was the American spirit, which
never said die and knew not the mean
ing of fall, and showed Itself In little
things as well as In large."
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
4-
Gleaned From Curious Places
Mount Hecla, or Hekla, Is a volcano
in Iceland, near the southwest coast,
afcout 6110 feet high, which has been al
most constantly in a state of eruption
since the mjnth century of the Christian
era. Over 20 eruptions of the most vio
lent character have taken place since A.
D. 1000. In 1784-85 an appalling catas
trophe took place ; rivers were dried up
and many villages overwhelmed or de
stroyed. The volcano was in a state of
violent eruption from September 2, 1845,
to April. 1846. Pillars of fire rose to a
height of 14.000 feet and ice and snow,
which had wrapped the mountain for
centuries, melted into prodigious floods,
which swept everything before them.
A Question Above Party
From the Baker Democrat
Portland will be overcrowded on the
occasion of President Wilson's visit
there next week. His reception will be
nonpartisan, for after all, the great
-question upon which the president will
address the people, "The League of Na
tions," is above party politics, and all
the people are Interested from the
standpoint of America's honor to do the
right thing by all the peoples of the
world and make future wars Impos
sible. That New Bridge Is a Dandy
From the Coquiila Sentinel
The new bridge over the gulch at the
crossing of Hall and Front streets has
been completed by the city and opened
for travel.' It is a most substantial struc
ture, and presents an attractive appear
anceespecially when 'contrasted with
the ramshackle, tumbledown affair that
it replaced. As this will form a part of
the new highway the state is to build
between Coos Bay and Roseburg It has
been buUt to carry all the traffic that
will-come this way.
But Some Pips Is Hogs
From the Bend Bulletin.
One pound a day for 60 days la the
weight which has been added to a pig
owned by 10-year-old' Norman Elllng
son of near Bend, a member of the
First National bank plgf club. The
porker weighed Just 20 pounds when it
was turned over to the boy on June 18,
and yesterday's weight was 70 pounds.
The boy has been giving a quart of
corn dally as part of the pig's ration,
and it is to this that the rapid growth
is in part attributed.
The News in Paragraphs
World llappenlnrs Briefed for Benefit
of Journal Reader
OREOOM NOTES
ratrolling of the national forests by
airplane will be continued unUI No
vember 1. '
- in u. x-jumtm.k tnimi f 1 1 nm ni b.t-1 m
E?n ,glo, at Albany has passed the WO '
a, mi it 1 1 1 mm rt.inf
Aft.- IT . .
rTr,M Mnn county, Earl L. Fisher
has tendered his resignation.
Sugar is so scarpe In Albany that only
cents i worth will be allowed any one
person rJurIng the next two weeks.
fr? 10nt Angel Thursday Roy Marle.v
"old to T. A. Llvesley & Co. 03 bales of
fuggles hop at 70 cents a pound.
A first class hotel to cost 873.000 Is to"
be constructed at Union. It will be fi
nanced by prominent pioneer families, c
United States officials have been re-
quested to give dally mail and paaacnger "
service between Euseno and iluird..
oeiween lb and 20 nartlr. nt nth. la
bile tourists bound south are marooned
in Eugene because of the heavy rains.
The prune growers of the Umpqua '
valley will pay pickers 8 to 1(1 cents a
box and other workers from 14 to it
day.
No Indication that tlwre will he a re
currence of the influenza epidemic at
Salem havp yet Hppeared. according to
the city health office.
Shipments of cattle from Pilot Rock
of late have been so heavy a to require
all the stock csrs that can rossihlv be
sent to the branch line. ,
The home of the late Suprerhe Justice -Frank
A. Moore at Salem is to be sold te
a club of 24 Willamette univernlty men.
The property will sell for $6000.
B. S. Swengel has taken the place of
R. E. Walker in the Cottar drove cltv
council. Walker was elected as mayor
to succeed A. B. Wood, who resigned.
Work was started at Astoria Thurs
day on pumping 1 .300.000 cubic yards of
sand from the river to make the fill In
the third reclamation district of that
city.
Cash Wood of Port Townsend, Wash.,'
who spent 15 months overseas as a Y.
M. C A. secretary, has been elected sec
retary of the Umatilla county Y. M.
C. A. .
More than 400 quarts of beer and f
quart bottles of whiskey were seised
. t a . 1 1 . . .
Morris Anderson on a charge of boot
legging. Pendleton is to have a regularly or
ganized kindergarten In the near future
under the direction of Miss Beth Smith,
graduate of the National Kindergarten
school of Chicago.
A new truck, among those sent by the
war department for distribution among
the counties of the state, haa been drawn
by County Judge Stewart of Lane coun
ty, and will be used In road work in that
county.
WASHINGTON
Benton county's population Is Increas
ing so rapidly that a new courthouse
has become a necessity.
county property this year Is more than
1.500,000 higher than last year.
Twelve schools In Yakima county are
short two or more teachers because of
the general scarcity of Instructors.
The Washington State school for the
deaf opened at Vancouver this week
with 126 pupils, the largest number ever
registered.
Fruit shipments from the Yakima val
ley for the week ending September 5
aggregated 1003 cars, valued at more
than e02,000.
George Tharp, after two years' ser
vice overseas with the marine corp,
has been discharged and returned to his
home at Tenino.
For bravery displayed during the sec
ond battle of the Marne. James Mdnnes
of Centralis has been awarded the Brit
ish military medal.
Frank Thayer, formerly In charge of
Journalism at the University of Iowa,
has arrived to teach Journalism in the
State college of Washington.
Four eggs a day is the record of a 1-year-old
White Leghorn hen owned by ''
the House of the Good Shepherd at Se
attle anri vnuertAft fftr Vi v f Km mf tf w
At the Thomas Erwln sale at Prosser
Thursday six registered Jersey cows
brought 8240 to $270 each under the
hamrnr. A 6-weeks-old calf brought
1151 and a lO-weeks'-ofd calf sold
for $171.
At Seattle Thursday Rev. Ernest Vin
cent Shayler, rector of St. Marks EpU
copal church. wa formally consecrated
to the office of bishop of the diocese of
Nebraska.
At Mabton Thursday an airplane
piloted by Lieutenant Parshall and
carrying one passenger, mired In the
mud and crashed into a fence, breaking
wings, the propeller and wheel.
Carml. the 13-year-old son of Mrs.
A. M. Weldman of Camas, haa disap
peared and his mother thinks he waa
Kidnaped. Two men were seen to take
him into an automobile Wednesday and
drive away.
GENERAL
Cholera has appeared in five northern
provinces of China: In Shanghai and
Its environs 10,000 cases have developed.
The senate on Thursday confirmed the
nomination of William Gonzales of Co
lumbia, S. C, to be American minister
to Peru.
September 18 is the time set for the
Joint session of congress to receive Gen
eral Pershing, when a sword of honor
will be presented. -
In an interview in London Thursday
Judge Alton B. Parker told a reporter
that his visit was to foster the cause ol
Anglo-American friendship.
Four miners were shot and killed and
a fifth wounded In the Tom Boy mine
at Tellurlde, Col., Thursday by two
masked men, who escaped.
In a speech In New York Thursday
night George W. Perkins declared that
profit sharing was the only solution of
the present Industrial unrest.
Total collections of Internal revenue
from all sources for the past fiscal
year amounted to $3,839.!tR0,OO, an In
crease over lilt of $145,230,900.
The strike of carpenters and allied
trades at Chicago has been settled after
seven weeks of a tie-up. Carpenters are
to resume work at 92 cents an hour.
A strike has been called to take effect
September 22 by the executive council of
24 unions embraced in the steel industry.
In disregarding President Wilson's re
quest that the unions postpone action.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The American people alius did pay
high fer oratory by and with- the ad
vice; anu UUUVCIll Ul llic uiumu
senate, but this Idee of losln' a couple
of hundred millions dollars a month In
trade while them highbrows orates on .
the League of Nations ain't a-goln' to
be as pop'lar or as funny as a movie to
a whole lot of business folks. Ma says
If sign In' up that treaty'll bust the sugar
trust she's wlllln' to trust Wilson fer
knowln' enough not to be hornswoggled
none in drawln of it up accordln' to
Hoyle, and she'd a heap ruther trust
hlm'n that Lodge feller from Massa
chusetts, anyhow. Also she's mighty-
auaniiniia of these lodre fellers which
is a sling at me for b'longln' to a half a
dozen of 'em.
Olden Oregon
Oregon Country's Boundaries Before
the Treaty Settlement
PrVr to the boundary treaty of Jnne.
1846, fixing the present boundary line
between the United States and Canada '
from the Rocky mountains to the Paclflo
ocean, the Oregon country was definite
ly bounded on the south by north latl-
tude 42 degree and on the north by air
undetermined line, claimed by the Unit-' 1
ed States as being 54 degrees and -40
minutes north latitude. It Included alt :-
of the- present states or Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho and parts'- of the :
states of Montana and Wyoming and ft'
large part of British Columbia,-.
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