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Newspaper Page Text10 .THE- OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTL AND, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 24, 1919. Alt INDEPENDENT WEW9PAPEB C . JACKSON ..jUbUahet fobusbed rrtry day. afternoon nd moraine v (Mcep Sunday afternoon), at Ths Jrnl Btuldinf. Brodwj nd KamliiU Kreet, ' Portland, Orena. titncd at the Postofflee at Portland. Oregon, , It tnwmiMioa through tba mail M eoond daaa matter. , TELEPHONES -Main 7178: Heme, A-6051. All departaieola reached tty tnaaa numo... TH the operator what department yon want. JTORbKiN ADVKaTWING BEFKE8ENTATIVK Benjamin Kantnor Co., Bromwtek Buildins, 225 FiUi arm. Sew York; 800 Mailers BuUdma,. Chicago. Bubaerintinn terms by mall, or to any addrcas 1b Ota tinned Htatee or Mexico: DAILT (MOK.MNU OR AFTEBNOOM) Odb Jar $5.00 I One month S .60 SUNDAY One yar. .... .12.60 I One month f .25 DAILY (MORNING OR AFTERNOON) AND RHNDAY (me year $7.50 One month t .63 IP IWf il Ke.'poruibiJity walks liand in hand with apucity and ptjwer. J. U. Holland. ALWAYS ANTI-PRESIDENT THE senate gallery showed its teeth yesterday. At the close of Reed's four hours' antl-lcague speech, it . demonstrated against the League of Nations. It is notorious that Washington Is always against the president. It hounded Lincoln. It poked fun at his hoiuely figure. It resented the fact that he brought nothing to its exclu sive fjocial set. ' It, criticized him for the fact thai he told stories as illustrations, a prac tice which the lahdadahs held vulgar. H attacked him for not prosecuting the war with more vigor. It anathe riiatized his choice of generals. It con demned the liberality of his policy to ward the South. It could not com prehend the great soul and the great heart in Lincoln, and did all it could to obstruct his work and make his life miserable. ' The population of the capital was likewise hostile to Roosevelt in his time as president. It resented his policies. It sided with congress in the great contest between Roosevelt and that body. It resented the pro gressive ideas that he endeavored to introduce into government. It styled him a dictator and a demagogue. Sentiment at Washington is a bad guide for the nation. A multitude of hangers-on there want nothing changed, hecause of apprehension that by change they may lose their jobs or their grafts. The capital is their own little world, and their thought is circumscribed within that cramped locality. They know nothing of the rolling prairies and busy cities and teeming population and great moun tain chains of the great West. All they know or care for Is within the city limits of the national capital. The League of Nations and what it may mean to races and peoples and nations And the whole earth is not a millionth part as important, to them as the salary list or the current charges for laundering. And, it being the habit of people at Washington to he hostile to the president, they are against whatever the president is for. A demonstration by the senate gal leries against the League of Nations is a splendid argument in its favor. Washington sentiment, Washington demonstrations against and Washing ton criticisms of Abraham Lincoln helped nerve the hand and fire the passion of the man who shot him to death. Through systematic campaigning, educational effort and preventive measures the white plague of tuber culosis Is gradually becoming less dreadful. The conference to be held in Boise the last of the month brings together those who are doing a splendid work for humanity. Why not at that time formulate anac ceptable plan for textbook teaching of prevention in the schools? FARMER SMITH AS EVERYBODY knows, there was violent opposition in the colon ies to the adoption of the federal constitution. Patrick Henry de clared that it would destroy the lib erty newly won oh revolutionary bat tlefields. A copy of the constitution was publicly burned at Albany, N. Y., by a mob, and a riot resulted. How nearly the arguments for and against the constitution resembled the present arguments for and against the league covenant .is exampled in a speech by Farmer Smith in the Mas sachusetts assembly, in 1788. Urging adoption of the constitution, he said: All are embarked in the same cause with us and we must all sink or swim together. Shall we throw the constitu tion overboard because it does not please us afl alike? Suppose that two or three of you had been at pains to break up a piece of rough land and -sow it with wheat, would you let it be waste because you could not agree what Sort of fence to make? Would it not be better to put up a fence that did not please every one's fancy rather than not fence it at all or keep disputing 1 about it until, the wild beasts came In and devoured It? " Some- gentlemen, say, Don t be in a hurry : take time to consider, and don't take a leap in the dark. I say, take .things in time; gather fruit when It is ripe. There Is a time to sow and a time to reap; we sowed when we sent "r men to the federal convention; now U the harvest, now Is the time to reap the fruits of oar labor; and if we won't do It now,: I am afraid we shall never have another opportunity. The Portland business man who bought a painting of Mt. Hood under the Impression that It came from a French chateau probably doesn't count his money lost. The majestic contours of Hood make it a worthy picture In any home. Besides that, think of the encouragement the transaction gave him to study local geography! OUR HUNDRED THOUSAND P OJVTLAND has yet to offer an ad ditional $100,000 to assure the completion of the buildings for the Pacific International Live stock exposition. The West's great livestock show Is to be held Novem ber J7-22. The work must be fin ished before that time. The leading business men of the city are per fecting organization which is intended to result in the necessary subscrlp; tions. There Is a difference between the livestock exposition .campaign and some of the "drives" which Portland has learned so well how to conduct The money required to establish Port land as the permanent home of the ex position is not contribution but in vestment. If the exposition shares paid not a dollar in cash returns they would be profitable. The livestock business now represents exchanges of more than ?i,000,000 a month. It is enterprise which quickens nearly every other form of trade and mer chandising. It brings to the city men whose pockets are stuffed with valu able patronage. It makes the com munity a center of influence in im proving breeds. It establishes a transportation movement which helps make Portland more of a receiving and distributing mart for other com modities. It results Jn a product of world demand and has its influence in port building. No doubt, with these things in mind and with the added knowledge that the Northwest outside Portland is enthusiastically doing its share, the campaign will be concluded with energy, optimism and n a week. The Pan-German league at a re cent meeting in Berlin declared in favor of a return to monarchy. President Wilson says that to re turn the peace covenant to the coun cil board means returning it to Ger many. Does America want to stand against the world and play for peace with another Prussian autocracy? A COMING ADVANCE T HE dairymen announce that, be ginning October 1, they must re ceive $3.85 a hundred pounds for milk. The present price is 13.50. At the same time they declare there is no need for the dealers to raise their price. Tire consumer now pays 14V& cents a quart in advance and 15 cents if the milk bill is not paid until after the middle of the month. At f3.85 a hundred the producer would receive about i.b cents a quart. The ratio now proposed Is the same as that established last October upon recommendation of the city milk commission. Consumers will agree that the deal ers should, at least, try to get along with a profit of 7 to 8 cents for delivering the milk. Vessels of the United States mer chant marine have been arriving in the port of London at the rate of one a day. During 1913 and 1914 only two merchantmen from this country arrived at London. The great increase is startling the Brit ish. It is a sign of the1 times. SOCIALISM THE BANKRUPT H ERBERT HOOVER has returned from Europe, after five years of service there, with twp "dom inant convictions" implanted in his mind; first, that socialism is "bankrupting itself," and second, that "America must not abandon its moral leadership in restoring order to the world or permit itself to be used for experiment in social disease." Mr. Hoover has been in position, and is mentally equipped to speak with more than usual authority upon the subject. He contends that, "although social ism has proved itself with rivers of blood and suffering to be an economic and spiritual fallacy and td have wrecked itself upon the rock of production" it was still necessary "for the world to have had this demonstration." From this he argues that it is not necessary that we of the" United States, now that we have witnessed these results, should plunge our own population into these miseries and into the laboratory ior experiment in foreien social dis- Seases. He contends that the philosophy of the Lenins and Trotzkys "is de stroying itself in the extraordinary lowering of the productivity of in dustrial commodities to a point be low the necessity for .continued ex istence of their millions of people," and argues that in the face of all these conditions America must find a solution to the issues presented "in a practical American way, based upon American ideas and upon the American philosophy of life." He says: A definite American substitute is needed for these disintegrating theories of Europe, founded on our national In stincts and upon the normal develop ment or our national institutions. Mr. Hoover s statements give foundation for serious thought. Bol shevism is socialism run mad. Food, we have been told, will cure it. but it eats the food of industry and order in idleness and discord, while with Its own disorder it kills'its own Industry to leave 'Its own fields fal low, its - granaries empty and the channels of its production swept dry by narchy, turmoil and unrest. , Production in the zone of Bolshev ism has been stagnated or stopped. That in itself has thrown an added burden upon the industrial life of America. Unrest here, the precursor of the condition over there, unfor tunately has slowed down the wheels of our own industrial life at the time when they should have been running at supernormal speed. It is time, as Mr. Hoover says, for America to find a remedy, a sane American solution that will hold the world steady while war mad peoples can calm themselves to take up again the burdens of peace. It maye hoped that King Albert of Belgium will include Oregon in his American visit. He would find here a rare welcome expressive of the love and sympathy every Ameri can has for the heroic leader of a brave people. Perhaps his friend, Samuel Hill, will be able to induce him to come this way. IN TROUBLOUS TIMES D R. ESTHER LOVEJOY, chairman of .the executive board of the American women's hospitals. now in New York, writes this to a Portland friend: Things are seething here, and I am wondering every day what is going to happen next If I had little children, I would not stay in the city of New York, or any other big city with them, but I would take them away to the country and get a cow and some chick ens and prepare about as well as I could against the possibilities which seem to me to be imminent. The head of the American Red Cross, returning from overseas, de clared that "if the American people knew true conditions in Europe, they could not sleep nights." The world was never in such ferment. Butter at $12 a pound in Germany is one straw which shows how the wind blows. Human life was never valued so lightly. The flow of blood did not cease with the armistice. Men forced to dig their own graves and then shot down as they stood in them has been a common happening in Russia. If the marksmanship of the firing squad was bad, the victims were covered . with earth just the same. j America is the best hope of steady ing the world, and America herself was never in such a ferment. The dead and wounded in the Boston po lice strike are accounted as of little consequence, because human life is held cheap in these days of rocking nations. The slaughter is on in the great steel strike, but the man in the street is little shocked because he is accustomed to dead people and crip pled people and blood and agony. There never was a time on earth when it was more important for cit izenship to be steady, for thought to be sane and for human conduct to be on the level in America. Upon this nation rants the hope of the future and much of the fate of the world. A sober and sane citizenship here, a cool "and calm mood among the peo ple and an orderly and honest atti tude by public men, with truth up permost in all discussions and re straint in the utterance of untruth arc the need of the hour and the fairest chance for deliverance from the tempestuous days feared in Dr. Love joy's letter. The calm of the great outdoors, the repose of gentle nature, the babbling brooks the hum of bees, the greenery of the valley, the silent repose of the mountains, the drowsing herds these are the svveatening sources from which men should draw their inspira tion in these troublous times of trife, violence and mad illusion. Nor is it amiss in such times to think and act in the terms of that golden rule laid down by the great Teacher who walked in Galillee. One might guess that the "woman whose tight skirt and high heels hindered her escape from colli sion with an automobile will either adopt a more sensible attire when she recovers frbm her injuries or will buy an automobile which will re lieve her of the necessity of walking. RAPID TRANSIT FOR LINNTON L INNTON is making a campaign for a streetcar service. At one time the United Rail ways, a subsidiary of the Hill lines, served Linnton. The company was officially instructed to establish a 5-cent fare between Linnton and Portland. Its response was to sur render its franchise. Part of the track was tore: up. Part of L is still in place. All this occurred before Linnton became an integral part of Portland. The withdrawal of transportation didn't matter greatly then. But Linnton has become a part of the greater city in industry as well as by annexation. Not only has it a greatly increased population but its mills and shipyards draw many workers from other parts of the city, whose chief complaint is . of the time re quired between home and work. While Linnton Is asking for rail service the streetcar company is ask ing for an 8-cent fare. The company Insists that it cannot do business on a 6-cent fare even in the more thickly populated districts. Nor is there any guarantee that an 8-cent fare will not be followed by a request for a 10-cent fare; for more people will walk as fares advance, more will seek homes closer in, and more will buy automobiles. Judged by the present trend of things, the sober-thought presents Itself, may the present system of rapid transit not be doomed? If use of automobiles Is to extend to almost very family. where will the streetcar get its pas sengers, especially . at increased rates of fare? Linn ton should have quick com munication with the greater city. Its growth and its interests require it. Rapid transit' to suburban disr tricts is imperative In order that there may not be ioo much con gestion in the centers. But for the moment the question is. Where are we in this rapid transit business, anyway? Dark days are in prospect for apartment dwellers. The landlords have served notice that they will no longer pay for washing the win dows. AFTER 21 YEARS OF SILENCE Senator Lodge Reveals That Aware of Shantung. He Is From the Peekskill (N. Y.) News It has taken Senator Lodge 21 years to discover the crime of Shantung, and it Is only natural to wonder if .it will take him that long to discover the mer its of the League of Nations. Germany's acquisition of Shantung was a part of the events of 1897 and 1898, Mr. Lodge was a senator of the United States then, as he is now. Mr. McKlnley was president and the political party with which these, men were identified was in complete control. Theirs were no precarious circumstances. There was no occasion for rare caution, nor for overdone expediency, yet there was not a word uttered by Mr. Lodge nor by any member of the federal administration of that time in disapproval of the. violation of China's territorial integrity. As has recently been pointed out, Dem ocratic members of the senate and of the house of representatives and even Senator Teller of Colorado "denounced the dismemberment of China" and they demanded that the United States "join with Great Britain in a notice to Rus sia and Germany that dismemberment will not be permitted." Senator Lodge then maintained a masterly silence or a colossal indifference. There were no conditions requiring unusual tact or diplomatic reserve in 1898. We were not entering upon any new and extraordinary international relations. There was no promise, either tacit or specific, of a subsequent proper adjustment of the Shantung matter by a council of representatives of nations al lied for the common good. There was no occasion for exceptional or temporary restraint There was. Indeed, a rare oc casion and propitious for an effective, insistent moral stand. Did Senator Lodge have anything to say then about the crime of Shantung? Not a word. Since that time, nearly a quarter of a century ago, the gentleman from Mas sachusetts has been without neither speech nor opportunity. Assuming at all times a "political mantle of refined and delicate "texture, and ever professing an adherence to the high moral ideals, the ethical aspect of the Shantung matter has never been visible to him before. What is the difference between the Shauntung matter, as brought into ex istence during the administration of Mf. Lodge's own party and the same or its logical sequence still obtaining under a Democratic administration? Why was the Shantung crime in 1898, with no prospect of voluntary reparation, not worth a remonstrance from Mr. Lodge, while in 1919 the Shantung matter, with a prospect of proper adjustment, is some thing to threaten further world upheav als about? What the League Is and What It Is Not Prom the Chicago News The league is not an alliance to breed war, though it is not as good and sound a league now as it will be after Aus tria, Germany chastened and democra tized and Russia, pacified and re claimed from red and white terror, are admitted as members, as they will be in time. The object of the league is to prevent, not to provoke or breed, war. It is idle and mischievous to misrepre sent the spirit of the covenant or of the men who drafted and signed it. It is proper to "Americanize" the covenant, for America Is disinterested and seeks only peace and justice. It Is necessary to insist on essential reserva tions designed to safeguard our freedom of action and to remove possible grounds of misunSeTstanding and controversy. Opponents of the treaty and the cove nant like Senator Johnson, who in his speech in this city denounced the league of nations as "this infamous thing" which ought to be "killed," are not aid ing the senate majority in its efforts to arrive at a reasonable compromise. The treaty will be ratified, not "killed." The league will "be established and It wui not do an miamous ining, Dut a very hopeful, beneficent and inspiring beginning of a momentous attempt to prevent the recurrence of war in this sorely tried world. Reservations in trinsically unobjectionable, as the presl dent has admitted, will be pressed by clear thinking sroators, and these should be acquiesced In. The proposed reservations should be analytically and dispassionately dis cussed on their merits. That Is the only way to agreement, to an early peace and to solid progress at home and abroad. Old Oregon Map With a Big .White Spot in the Middle r From the Bend Bulletin The Bulletin has received a copy of an extremely interesting map recently dis covere'd In San Francisco. According to its title, it is a "Map of the State of Oregon, and Washington Territory com piled In the Bureau of Topogl Engrs chiefly for military purposes by order of Hon. John B. Floyd, Sec of War. 1859." West of the Cascade mountains, roads and streams, towns and mountain ranges are shown in considerable detail, but to the east there Is a large white spot with the word "Unexplored" printed across it In all of what is now Central and Eastern Oregon only the streams on the border are shown. Harney and Malheur lakes appear, but unnamed. In the south, however, are the various lakes of Klamath and Lake counties named as they are today, the reason being, of course, the Fremont expedl tion which traversed Central Oregon and gave names to these bodies of water Captain Fremont's route of 1843 is shown for the most part west of the Deschutes, which is called on the map "Fall river." The mountain peaks. Hood, Jefferson, Three ;fcister, Diamond and Pitt, appear, but no passes through the Cascades. Washington territory in eludes all of Idaho, while east of that Is Nebraska territory. South of Oregon and next to California is Utah terrt tory. Nevada being unnamed. Wherever your eye wanders over-the map,, however. It always comes back to the white spot that is Central Oregon with curiosity as to when this was first explored and mapped. It has. been suggested before in this column, and the map causes a renewal of the suggestion that it would be of great interest to form a local historical society to search out the facts of our early history and exploration and see that they are perpetuated in some way. Who would like to form such an association? Letters From the People I Communications nit to The Journal for publication in this department should be written on only one side of the paper, should not exceed 800 words in length, and must be tinned by the writer, whose mail address in full must accom pany the contribution. The Reign of the a rof iterr Portland, Sept. 23. To the Editor of The Journal The report that a canning factory up state a short time ago had destroyed several tons of peaches be cause they were too plentiful for high prices, leads any contempla-,v3 person to wonder why human food can be de stroyed and call forth no protest and re ceive no further notice than tc small news item in the daily press. Food is the Bole means of prolonging life from day to day, and no more is produced than is necessary. If equitably distributed, to sustain the human family. This being true, he who destroys food is an enemy of the public welfare and should be se verely punished by law. If there is no such law, one should be enacted without delay. Another great wrong that will be righted some day is the crime of gambling in human food. Why should that which sustains life be in the con trol of gamblers? Why should a few selfish men be able to put the price of food above the reach of the poor, or, on the other hand, force prices below the cost of production? There is no sense nor justice nor necessity in the extreme high prices. The time is coming when the government will fix the price of all ' ... - - . - . . the leading articles of food for each year a price- that will be fair to the con sumer as well as the producer. Then the gambler and profiteer, who reap where they do not sow, will be forced out of a disreputable occupation. ' It is well understood that the fixing of the prices of wheat, pork and sugar by the government during the war was done partly to stimulate production but large ly to protect the public from the profi teer and gambler. Look around you, now, in time of peace, and see how much we need the protection of a fixed price on many, in fact most articles of food. The gamblers and profiteers have also in their wild riot of Inflation placed us in a fool's paradise. We think high prices have made us prosperous. Ac cording to an expert our dollar now has only the normal purchasing power of 37 cents. In other words, we have to plank down on an average of $2.70 for every dollar's worth we buy. That may be prosperity, but it will take more evi dence than there is in sight to prove it DOUGLAS HEWITT. Tax on Insurance Policies Portland, Sept 23. To the Editor of The Journal Please advise me through the columns of The Journal whether the government authorizes the collection of a 10 per cent war tax on household in surance policies. What means does the government take to insure itself that it will receive this 10 per cent, since there is nothing on the receipt in the form of war tax stamps? Or does it simply trust to the honesty of the insurance brokers? POLICY HOLDER. The eorerament collects one cent on every dollar of premium orfracUonsl part thereof, which wouki make the tax a frar.ion ahnte 1 wr cent, on household insurance policies against fire. ire insurance companies are required to make a return of all business to the eorernment earn and eery month, and the books of the companies are open to inspection by the Korernment at any time. Insurance companies are also required to niaks returns to the nute. Mr. Letiff Submits a Correction Portland, Sept 23. To the Editor of The Journal In a recent issue of The Journal you published a report of a meeting of the committee appointed by Mayor Baker to investigate high prices. Among other things, there was reported the statement of an unknown person who had purchased 10 cents worth of sugar at the West Park grocery, 375 Yam hill street, and had received just 8 ounces, and who had complained and re ceived no redress. I wish to state that I have conducted the West Park grocery for several years past but that just prior to the occurrence noted I had negotiated a conditional sale of the place and had turned possession over to the buyer. Owing to my Inability to furnish a lease required by the contract of sale the deal fell through, and the business reverted to me on Saturday, September 20. I de sire, if possible, to have my name and reputation cleared of the stigma at tached to it by reason of the article mentioned, and request that you give this communication or its substance such publicity as is convenient. JOE LETIFF. Speed Mania Portlajid. Sept 23. To the Editor of The Journal Two fine men have none to death owing to the speed mania, which has become a species of insanity. The only cure for It is to indict for man slaughter and incarcerate them In the in sane asylums for a certain time, accord ing to the seriousness of the deed. In California they get about three months in prison, with a. fine besides, so I un derstand it A fine amounts to nothine. It is paid and another chance is given to run down more people. The writer has lost one good old friend from such daredevil work. No one on foot is safe. Cut out the revolver law and let every body carry one. Maybe Justice would find its own then. One person's life is as good as another's, no matter w hat po sition he occupies 4n life, except that of a highwayman or a murderer. For every death there should be retribution. There Is no other way to cure such insanity. It was the same with the bicycles on the roads. No team had a right for quite a long time. I had the pleasure of teaching one of them that right still ex isted fr all. OSBORNE YATES. Do They Know What They Are Doing? From the New York Times Do these rabid men at Washington ever pause even for one instant to in quire what is the controversy in which they are engaged? In the lead are the Republican members, eight or nine of them, of the senate forjli relations committee, which ex-Pre'dent Taft de clared was packed against th.? league of Nations. It is charged that they are prompted chiefly by motives of partisanship the desire to destroy Wood row Wilson politically. The fact that some of them, or most of them, are aspirants for the Republican nom ination next year lends appreciable confirmation to this charge. Plenty of Farm Labor? From the Madras Pioneer The statisticians have informed us that there is, a great relieving of the farm labor shortage, and that in many places there are more men seeking rural jobs than there are places open. Maybe so ; our reading has shown otherwise. We noted in a recent issue of a western paper, published in a sheep and wheat territory, that the ruling wage for the lowly sheepherder now is $90 a month and board. We opine that farm labor is not plenti ful and we venture the unofficial prog nostication that the average farmer will hustle as hard this year as he did last. COMMENT AND , SMALL CHANGE It will soon be papaw time back east Jewer eat a papaw? Neither will we. - Every part of the bUnd pig Is utilized, because, legally speaking, he hasn't any squeal. 9 m m There seems to be more or less stall ing among the stall-renters along the public market. Labor and capital seem steeled for a regular battle to determine the merits of the steel strike. ' We trust that th iroKln will nnt i draw any rash conclusions because of the president s visit in Reno. . . . King Albert of Belgium has had a taste of American speed, and likes it. Well, there's enough of it here to satisfy anyone. After shooting the League of Nations covenant full of holes, the shooting sena tors will quickly shoot through them into oblivion. After it is all over. Senator Johnson and Senator Borah might succeed in get ting an audience by reviving the Haba haba man stunt There Is a town in New Jersey called Cranbury. . It doesn't seem to us that there is the slightest excuse for any such poor spelling as that The president, down In Sacramento, turned teacher for the benefit of the youngsters, who crowded around his avtomobile. And the president is just the fellow who knows how to teach, too. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN ; By Fred Lockley Philanthropist and plu'losopher to the full ex- ,en' timt he Has been endowed wan weatin ana wi-dnm. A. Turtledove, kuuwn to very many of Portland, It quoted by Mr. Lockley today in Uie story of liis life. He exemplifies the spirit of those who, harinc Buffered, are not thereby made hard but become all the more tender toward all others who suffer. A few days ago I met A Turtledove. Mr. Turtledove is unlike his name. When you shake hands with him your hand is swallowed up In his huge fist He is 5 feet 11 and weighs about 250 pounds. How much of this weight is heart I do not know, but It must be con siderable, for his heart is as big as his body. Mr. Turtledove Is raising money to purchase the property at 975 Corbett street, to be used as a home for Jewish orphans. "Yes, I am a Jew," he said. 'I was born in Rourruinia about February 28, 1867. My people are orthodox Jews. "You think Turtledove Is a peculiar name for a Jew? Yes, it is an unusual name. As a matter of fact my real name is Abraharrr Tirkiltaub, but It was too much of a handicap in business. Every time I say my name, they ask how you spell it, and then they never spell it right. When my letters come to me they come addressel all kinds of ways, from a teakettle to a washtub. When I say my name is Turtledove no one asks me how to spell Turtledove. They know how already. It is easy to spell. They can remember that name and phone to me, so I get the business, but the other name they never could remember. "I came to this country In 1888. Back in Roumania my brother and I decided to come to America. We did not know anything about the cities in this coun try.' San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chi cago. Quebec they were all the same to us. We thought If we got to New York and wanted to go to San Francisco we could take the street car. We asked a man to see if he could find any cheap tickets to America. He got from a scalper two tickets to Winnipeg; so we bought them. We landed at Quebec and went on to Winnipeg. I was 21 years old then. "You who are born in this country have no idea of the handicap that an emigrant has. I had the handicap not alone of the lack of knowledge ot the language, but also of a certain antipathy against employing foreigners, particu larly Jews. My brother Isaac and I decided we could do better in the United States than Canada. I secured a job with a firm in Minnesota. They paid me $4 a week to do rough work. One time there was an accident I got a bad cut on my face, I had to go to the doctor and have It sewed up. I was gone from my work for two hours. They docked me 13 cents for the two hours I was gone. ... "The people who always have money do not know of the hard times sometimes endured by others. I remember when I was in San Francisco I was down and out. I sent my little girl to the butcher shop to get 15 cents worth of meat We were hungry. The butcher sent back word that we owed 65 cents already, so he could not extend our credit beyond that amount That 15 cents worth of meat that I didn't get has cost me thou sands of dollars. Every time a person who is down and out comes to me and wants help I think of how I needed that meat that day ; so I have to come through and help them. When you have been hungry yourself, when you have no place to sleep, it makes you more sympathetic with others who are in needt "As soon as I had earned enough money to pay for a ticket I sent back to Roumania to have Clara Rizman come out and marry me. We were not en- And we surmise that there will be a lot more follow the example of a western wheat grower who put In, with, the aid of his wife, 700 acres of wheat all alone, man and wife spelling each other on the big tractor, that was kept going 24 hours a day. Fifteen dollars a month, board and a straw tick in the corn crib la not the going wage of a farm hand today. We remember when it was, and when the average day was 16 to 18 hours long. And that was another reason for our cheap food, and 10 cent butter, and 15 cent bacon, and 20 cent sirloin. Strange Bedfellows From the Cfcleato Port One of the strangest experiences of the day is to read Senator Lodge, William Hale Thompson and the New Republic and find that they agree on the League of Nations. Some of them ought to be ashamed, or at least embarrassed: Olden Oregon Notable Prediction as to a Northwest "Emporium." Made a Century Ago. The Junction of the Willamette and the Columbia was early pointed out as the site of a commercial center. In an ar ticle reproduced from the St Louis En quirer in 1819 is the following paragraph: "Whatever may be the result of the Vir ginia company, the progress of the fur trade itself will form a town at the point indicated (the confluence of the two riv ers). Its trade may at first be limited to furs, but in 'process of time it will be come the emporium of that rich East India commerce which is destined to find its way into the valley of the Mississippi by the Columbia and Missouri rivers. And when this time arrives a new Tyre will be seen in the West of which the old, although queen of cities, will have fur nished but a faint image of power and splendor.' , NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS "Remember the good old days." queries the La Grande Observer, "when mother had one good black silk dress? Yes, and wasn't mother lucky?" e "With many new buildings going up In Parkdale," says the liood River News, "it is not surprising that every man you meet in Mclsaac's store is an optimist." Morrow county has another artesian well. The latest, the Heppner Gazette Times reports, is on the Martin Behm ranch. 10 miles north of lone and a half mile west of Wells Springs. From a depth of 116 feet water is flowing at the rate of 12 gallons per minute, and from an uncased hole, at that F. A. Collins, it Is stated in the "Myr tle Pointers" column of the Powers Patriot, "has constructed a fine new myrtle wood desk for the new bank that is truly a worn or art. mr. t omn.s. it is further stated, "is a cabinetmaker of exceptional ability and takes pride in making special pieces out of our beauti ful timber." Thousands of wild fowl are to be found in the country surrounding the headwaters of Crooked river, aceorcttng to Clyde M. McKay, one of a party of Bend hunters, the Bulletin says. Be cause the birds are widely scattered over the fields, hunting is not yet es pecially good, but the number of ducks is Incalculable. Hundreds of wlldgeese were also seen. With the coming of colder weather, the birds will keep to the water courses, and hunters will have a much easier time of It. gaged when I left but we saw in each other's eyes that we loved each other. ! and we both understood. We have hail ; three boys and girls in our family. lne i of my boys, who helped start the Frank -1 lin high school paper, was killed by an ! automobile. He was 16 years old. He was riding his bicycle and was run over by an automobile. My .oldest boy is 25. He is at Camp Lewis. He was with the army of occupation in Germany. "A good many people laugh at Jews, because they do not understand us. Re cently the wife of a rabbi received word that her son had been killed in Franco. This was Saturday morning. It is against our religion to cry or mourn on the Sabbath day. It is a holy day with us. She never wept a tear and she did not tell her husband until the Sabbath was over. , Then she told him and they mourned and wept for him. Some of the Gentiles thought their mourning was not very sincere when they put it off as they did, lut they did not under stand. "Some day I want you to come down and see my mouse colored horse. Buck. For 14 years he worked for me on the express wagon. He never bit, he never kicked, he never refused to pull, no matter how heavy th load. So for three years now he has been on a pension. I will not sell him to anyone else for fear he will have a hard time. He has earned easy tj-eatment the rest of his life. He got away after I had retired him and a man took him up. He would not return him. I had to bring suit to get him back. It cost me $300 to get ,-..,, i t ,., ... i...- r,. - Buck back so I could let him live the rest of his life in ease. A friend said to me. 'Turtledove, you are a fool. Why should you spend so much money to get this horse back when you do not need him?' He did not know I promised Buck that if Jie would work for nie faithfully 1 would pension him and he could spend his last days in comfort." Mr. Turtledove Is a philosopher and Is deeply versed in Rabbinical lore. "Not long ago." said he, "one of my Jewish friends said, 'See ; I have Just received a telegram from Eastern Ore gon. This widow's son was killed. She has no money to pay for the funeral. She needs $200. To whom shall we go to get this money? I said, 'See; there are six of us. standing here. Each one of us can give one dollar. I will take a list and get a dollar from every Jew I meet today.' 1 spent the day meeting Jews. That evening 1 turned in $308. That paid the funeral expenses, and we sent the rest of the money to the widow. "One Jew I met did not want to give me any money. I said to him : 'You remember the man in tho old country who while at the rabbi's was asked for money to help a needy widow. He re fused, saying he could not respond to every call of distress that came along. The rabbi took him to the window and said : 'Look out of the window and tell me what you see.' He said : 'I see men and women and children. I see the streets. I see all nature.' Then the rabbi took Him to a mirror and said, "Look in the mirror and see what you sec." He said, 'I see myself.' The rabbi said : The window glass and tho mirror were twins. They were the same kind of glass. You look through the window and see your fellow men. You look In the glass and you see no one but your self. Do you know what makes the dif ference? Just a little bit of metal on the mirror, a little bit of gold or silver put on tho back of the mirror, and you cannot see through it. Do not let your gold or silver blind you to the distress of others. You cannot take your money with you. The only money you save is what you spend for others.' " Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places "Dirty Dick's famous old tavern at Bishopsgate and Catherine Wheel alley. Is of itself a curious history of old Lon don. It was built 150 years ago, and one of Its earliest tenants was the famous "Dirty D,ck." A legend Is to the effect that he, having been crossed In love, gave way to melancholy, and allowed his house to go to ruin. He would permit no woman to enter the dwelling to clean it and declined to do so himself, the result being that the counters were thick with dust while cobwebs were the pre dominant note on the ceilings. Old furniture, which gave way from age and glasses which were chinned and old fashioned, were retained and as the hermit owner became older his premises became dirtier, until they became one of the sights of London. Uncle Jeff Snow Says : Ed Nedhlser wants, to start a soviet, or a party, or somethin', quick, to pull down the high cost of booze. He ex plained to the Corners' public welfare bureau on Bill Hlggins' store porch that he don't mjfd pay in' six bits fer a two bit meal down tS Portland, and even six cents fer a five cent car ride In one of them bobbity streetcars where the feller locks yeu in 'fore be starts to- col lect Ed sighs fer reform that'll take us back to the days when there wasn't no idee of the Hun stornxja New York and good booze was only two dollars a bottle. He owned up that his family is well fed and that he stays sober nowa days mighty close to all the time, three and four months never goln' nigh even a bootlegger or a drugstore, but he's all riled up over bavin' to pay ,$17.50 fer one quart the last time he tuck In the city. His wife testified that she wished It was $175 a quart.. 4 The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form For the Busy Reader. OREGON NOTES A comjuiny has been organized to es tablish and operate a $25,000 shlngleTnm at North Bend. Engineers expect to have the road be tween Harrisburg and Jefferson paved by July 4 of next year. Grading is completed on the Paciflo highway to within half a mile of ths city pavement fft Albany. The Troutdale-Fairvlow-Terry club booth at the fair at Grcsham won the championship prize for the county. Mrs. Elisabeth Patterson has sold her 320 acre farm southeast of lUrrisbvug to J. F. Kelly of Eugene for 25,000. Rev. George U Clark has Just returned to La Grande from 15 months of service with Y. M. V. A. in France and Ger many. A well equipped hospital for use of students of Oregon Agricultural college has just been arranged for t.y the board'' of control. Total registration at the opening 'of schools in Albany Monday rMuched 995, the lari;c8t ever recorded on tho first day of school. Bishop Hulsc of the Episcopal diocese of Cuba i attending thn annual con vocation of the Eastern Oregon diocese at Hood River. The North Bend canning team of girls whs awarded firnt place In the cunning demonstration held last week at the Myrtle Point fair. The Rainbow garage at Klamath Falls was totally destroyed hy fire Monday, caused by an explosion In which three men were seriously injured. A campaign has started at. Eugene to raise $10,dO0-to erect a monument in. memory of Lane county boys who lost their lives in the great war. A $400 saddle, a silver belt and $450 In money prizes were won at the Pen dleton Round-Up last week by Yakima Canutt, the champion cowboy. Benton county road bonds to the amount of $11 H.OOO have boen sold to tho Seattle National bank at accrued interest and a premium of $711. To reclaim arid develop lands In Klamath county is the purpose of the Plevna District Improvement company, union rued articles or Incorporation at Salem Monday. WASHINGTON The EO00 ton wooden hull Boston wss launched at Seattle Monday. . Ten persons In Aberdeen between the ages of 40 and 75 years have organised u longevity club. O. L. Ishell of the WInlock News has sold his newspaper to Millard Meloy, a recent arrival from Jerome, Ariz. Thieves at Port Angeles locked the Inmates of the Mutual Packing com pany's scow in a cabin and escaped with $3400 cash. The Tacoma Commercial club has de cided to Intervene in the reopening of the lntermountain transcontinental freight tariffs. The Centralla High school cadet corps numbers 75 students. Lieutenant A. F. Cormier has donated his services as In structor for the corps. Lynn Lounsberrv, aged 38, was acci dentally shot and killed at Port An geles by a revolver in the hands of his brother Lcland, aged 11. The war department announces that General Pershing has awarded tho dis tinguished service cross to Private Wallace Sml 'i of Cornwallls. Divorce rases in Seattle and King county increased 32 per cent in the first six months of 1919, as compared with the same period In 1918. Work was started Monday on all the , fiaVn1 lro.JT8 m Yn., Ke uniy. ana fit is hoped to complete most of them before work is stopped by bad weather. The Yakima city commissioners flatly refused to approve affiliation of tho recently formed union of city firemen with the American Federation of Labor. By an overwhelming majority, the electors of the school district of Carnan have voted In favor of a special school tax levy of 6 mills. This Is in addition to the regular levy of 10 mills. Camp Lewis, that once was alive with GO.fMio men, now appears bleak and hare, with only a few hundred regular troops stationed there to look after tho camp. No more troops will be sent there for demobilization. IDAHO The University oflldaho at Moscow has the largest numner of students in the history of the Institution. Charles K. MuCrum, n pioneer drug gist of Hoise and well known over the Northwest, died suddenly a few days ago of heart trouble. The University of Idaho is to have a dean of law, and O. P. Cockeritl. a well known practitioner of Seattle, has been appointed to the position. The United States Rrand Jury at Boise is devoting Its lime to Investigat ing the high cost of living and the soar ing prices of foodstuffs in Idaho. The order of Elks in Idaho has taken charge of the Salvation Army campatgn for funds, and committees arii appointed for each county to rals Idaho's quota. The Woodmen's buildlnc. a twq story brick structure at Jwiston, owned by the Woodmen's lodge, was destroyed by a fire Monday seemingly of Incendiary origin. GENERAL The loss from fire by the burning of foodstuffs at the American camp at Mtratnas, France, Monday, was estimat ed at $1,000,000. The steamer North Fork, wrecked 99 miles south of San Francslco Monday, will be a total loss, together with her cargo of 500 tons. Three more dead bodies were found at Corpus Chrlstl, Texas. Monday, bringing the list of dead from tho tidal wave arid hurricane to 495. The Argentine government has been asked to grant a credit of $100,000,000 gold to Germany to facilitate purchase of raw material In Argentina. Sergeant liobert L. Butler, attached to the Ninth aero squadron, was In stantly killed at San Dlg" Monday when his airplane fell 150 feet Six summer' homes have been de stroyed and 6 more are In danger from a forest fire that Is sweeping the can yons in the national forest northeast or Los Angeles. Because tho dreadnought New Mexico had a case of spinal meningitis on board. Admiral Hugh Rodman was unable t entertain the Prince of Wales on that vessel at Victoria. Admiral Kolcbak, head of the all P.ussian government at Ornsk, has in formed the allies that he resigns th title of chief ruler in favor of General Denlkine, leader of the anU-Bolshevlk' forces. During his last days in France. Gen eral Pershing and the officers of his staff presented the Red Cross with $19,000, to be devoted to the relief of mothers and children of Trance whi suffered in the war. Iowa Editor Impressed With Portland Harvey Ingram, editor of the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and the Eve ning Tribiroe, who was iif Portland In attendance at the National Editorial assoclaUon, writes to The Journal as. follows : "I found the beautiful volume of views of the, Columbia highway on my desk when I returned, and I as sure you that it will be one of the choicest souvenirs of our whole trip, which was delightful from beginning to end. "I cannot tell you how much I was Impressed with the spirit of enterprise of Portland. The Columbia highway is a marvelous work and Is really a glory to the whole continent. Would that other cities and town had done half what Portland and Oregon have done there and what Oregon and other cities are? doinr for other scenic highways. Omr whole party was greatly Impressed with Oregon, and especially wth, Portland." I.