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.THE- OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTL AND, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 24, 1919.
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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.
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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
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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."
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