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THE OP.EGOII SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY. MORHIHO, OCTOBER 12, 1919. - as wpepgiipgyr irEwWarra ' - CJ. ft. JACKSON. . ...Publish lublishsd awry day, aflameo-a and ntat f (r-p Sunday sftsroooo) ,at Ths Joonl Bulletins. " Broadway nd - Tamfcul street, Portland, Owtoa,c,';.--,--.''v-'-.V!--.fc.-"'-1-' " Intend at ths 'PostoMes at Portland, Ow for trsiwratsskm tbraush the sjail ascend - els aw tut. . - TELriHOXE Msia tlUs Ho.-0"-) All dsparuaaajt tseh4 bT ths Baarterj. Tsll th otxrmtor whst Atyrlmwnt you wrt X)BION aDVEBTISINO REPRE8E.NTATIVB ! Bnantn Kwitnor Co., nwtek Bulklint. S2 Fifth inrnu, Mew Torts 00 UUa ! BaildiM, Chigxa. -o - . 'i ' "- - ubserlptioe Unrnt ay il. or to sny Sddr is 7 the United States of Msaics; ,!'lLr .- .r DAILY. MORSWO OK AFTtBSOOlO . pom mr $8.00 Pm sats.,..f -N. ' ' " .- BCNDAY .. . One ysar . . . . . S2.B0 On jBonth. .. . .25 (HOES ISO OR AF7EB-N00N) ANP j .. ; . .. . ft UN DAT . Cm m.....T.S0 I Ob ssosth M ; aod ae'ar ahaA ths son of Colombia sis, Wbil the Mrth tan ft plast sr the set j'vTi;: roll us wetsa Robert Tre Pals ... LAUSANNE IIALL 0 LD Lausanne Hall, one of the buildings of the Willamette uni versity, has been torn down to give way to a' new structure. x f The name Lausanne, Is significant in that it recalls an important period in the eariv history of Oregon. ; f In " 1838 Key erend Jason Lee, one, of the " founders of the Methodist mls- s cm in - miiM nnrui di auem . on . S 1CUVU US uva, &vwu Bwow to obtain reinforcements. v He raised b lam nmnui, ni xnmii inmuoiDK I machinery, for grist ind sawmius. ! M Witb. 51 passengers the! Lausann f sailed from New York . JJetober 9- ' :1839.' and arrived in the ; Columbia irlver Mar tU AW. A tew days later f:; -the mission ; at Salem was reached !by ; those ' who ' were to become a :part of it ' .-..' I The party - was ifterward known as the "great reenforc3ment-" It was ;so : called because it brought great support to the mission forces and tne inriuenoes wnicn were tnen snap- ' ing affairs towards American owner- ship , of the Oregon country. I , Among the Lausanne party wero ; '.George Abernethy, who, became the i first governor of provisional .Oregon Reverend -Gustavus Hines and wife, 5 Reverend J. L. Parrish and wife, ' Reverend A. F. Waller and wife, Or, :!. L.- Babcock. L. .H. Hudson and ; others - conspicuous in the growth ' f. the new. territory ani th6 Metho- ;dist church. ; - At the mission on French prairie ; la , school had already been -estab- ilished.. In 1S42 the mission was Vj moved to what is now S'jiem. Y Schools were the commanding j thought : in the minds of the mls- i alnnnripa and nhnarrl th I.anaannn on the voyage from New York 'a t fund of 1650 was subscribed to start ; a school In , the Willamette valley. I Out of this meeting on the Lausanne 'tame the Incorporation bf Willamette t university In t8T3. i Z J Thys are linked .together memories ; j of the Lauianne' party and the first i university 'of the Paeifio coast i blazers exercised ah enormous influ- ence on the character .and future j t relations of the Oregon country. It - j required . courage o , undertake In those j -early times the precarious ' voyage ; around Cape Horn, and into f the little known land where rotled Zi Wie Oregon. In our motor cars on I ; our jpaved roads, w j of this tfme have little conception of the crude I f processes ' by which the- -cargo and I ! passengers on the Lausanne found the way to their final destination. f ): These and the other . bold -spirits f ! of those days were the parent stock ; for the' foundation of the future ! commonwealth. . foremost in their "J enterprise" was an institution or higher learning. , Its advent was con temporaneoiis with the arrival of thj ! first sawmill and flouring mill. : ; It was a fair beginning for the j great ends .. that have finally come j to pass In the Oregon country. Rain . and high wind swept the race course and the lag-cards in the contest were stopped. The racers were '. the horseless chariots of the skies. It was an Incident of the first transcontinental air derby. To es cape the mud and the ruts does not mean the avoidance of all trouble. : THE REAL WAY g ONCERNING , Portland owned and , controlled ship lines, a business jj man said: rwe cant 'always hope to finance our port plans with outside money,"! even I that of the government. .We've got to put our own money into ships, ship oper ation and cargo-creating-industry We've got to match-talk -with, faith and faith with-action. We have the money and we ' have the. men, 'but our men have got to learn what ' it moans to, go down to the '.sea in Another business man had written id a ship' operator, for advice about organizing water transportation lines He received the answer r rMother your own lamb." . ' . - Portland hag , probably bad advice enough from' elsewhere' and talk enough at home to support any ar gument for embarkation Into ship operation. ; It : Is Portland's big op portunity ' for : actual .; commerce ; Ifi crease. i It Is doubtful if It Is the kind of opportunity that has fetlocks as; well as a forelock. If local busi ness leaders put money Into a ship operating organization and ask Port landers : generally for adequate sup port it ought to b given as readily as votes, In 'the 'past have been cast for bonds with which to build docks and grain elevators, - " - . ' . . - The man with af regular Job that prodivces an unfailing; weekly check has this these disturbed days: Pay day comes around mors than four times as often as the monthly bills. THE HOMELESS ' ' U. - If 0MELES3 thousands in New York city, due to the apartment short age, are preparing to spend the winter In summer houses at the beaches or in mountain resorts. Coney Island It being transformed from an amusement : resort i into a city of homes with population --estimated at 100 per cent above normaL A real estate man at Coney Island states that he has applications - for bungalows and apartments from 500 families with nothing to be had. More than one third of the colonies along the North Jersey coast willremain in their summer homes because un able to get quarters In New York city. Every , summer cottage and bunga low in Asbury Park, at all habitable during winter months, -: has been leased and scores of houses which were flimslly constructed are . being remodeled for winter occupancy, so. great Is the demand for homes. Real estate men are spending much time In endeavors to "persuade families 'to double up in one house and thus re lieve a cottage for persons; unable to secure housing in 'the city.'- - October 1 was annual moving day In New York. Thousands who wanted to move and other thousands who had ' to move, had almost no place to move 'to. One man whose lease on a house had run out, stored his furniture in a hallway, . hired a watchman to keep his eye on it day and night, and the owner and wife went to live In a hall bedroom. The statis tics are that only one half of one per cent of the apartments In New York city are vacant, and these are places where no one wants to live. To add to the distress of the situ ation, the transfer companies have advanced the fee for their vans to fiO an hour, increasing enormously the cost of moving. . The four years of time lost in building homes during the war has left its' housing problem in every American "city. ' ' There Is a movement In British Columbia looking to a change of the rules of the road. Instead of turning- to the right, as we do lrf the United States, the Canadians turn to the left, following the. English plan. It Is now proposed to adopt the American system. - The adoption of such a rule would bring much com fort tothe American autoist, who is confused when he crossesthe boun dary jine. and often meets with acci dent and a good deal of British cuss ing. The proposed change in the rule js a result of the growing auto mobile traffic between Canada and America. OUR TOTAL ROAD WORK A' PROGRESS map of state highway . work would show its gradual extension into a connected, sys tem! of main trunk lines. Ex cepting a few small gaps the Pacific highway has either bejn already im proved or is under contract for paving, or macadam orjgrading its full length. On. the east side between Portland and Eugene the only gaps to close Ure from Salem south., a few miles and from Albany to Junction. On the west side everything Is cov-i ered by contract except between Mc-1 Mlnnvilie and Amity, between Holmes Gap and Rlckreal,, between Monmouth and the Benton county boundary and j from Corvallls a few miles south. From Eugene south there is not yet provision for. a stretch between Goshen and Creswell and a few miles j north of Grants Pass. From Grants ; Pass to the California boundary there will be a continuous pavement when existing contracts are 'completed. With the exception of a few miles in Clackamas County there will be a paved road from Portland to Salenv on the Columbia river highway, pending .contracts provide for a1 con tinuous pavement from - Astoria ta Hood River. Except the gap between Seufert and the mouth of the Des chutes river In Wasco county Pis highway is being improved i all the way between Astoria and the Uma- Ullff river. . . The old Oregon Trail, which joins the Columbia river highway at Uma tilla, Is. under contract ''from the junction point to the summit of the Blue mountains. . . On the John Day highway contracts have been let for grading i all the distance between Condon and Day vllle. ,- . , The Oregon and Washington high way will be .paved this year between Pendleton and the Washington state boundary and a contract has been let for grading pn-the-western efed from a Juhctlbn'wlth the Columbia river highway at Willow'junctlon to Hepp-ner.-"7 - t Not much progress has yet been ' ' . ... . made on the The Dalles-California highway, ; but in a few weeks it is expected to have .under contract Vie Jefferson -and Deschutes county sec tions, also someealleage In Klamath county ; ' - In . addition to the work on the main; trunks t considerable : work la scattered ; throughout the- state. It may be of interest " that the total amount of state and federal money ex pended and contracted for since 1914 Is approximately twenty million dol lars. Up to the close of 191 nearly three million had ' been expended. The total called for by contracts let thfs .year is over! sixteen million. . ; Of the twenty' million. Eastern Or egon will receive .about five million. Douglas county, with its long stretch of the Pacific ; highway, s appro tioned v the largest sum, .123738. Jackson county ' comes nextV with (L83045.'v Columbia. Is credited with 11362)58. . Opposite Clatsop Is set down 11,381,81$. ' Hood River - is also In the million class with $1,226,021. In .- Eastern ; . Oregon- the . larger amounts have been awarded to Uma tilla,. Gilliam and .Wheeler. ;: The former has been apportioned 88S90, GUliam 9680,864 and Wheeler $563,104. A few less than a Quarter of a mil lion baseball fans paid nearly three quarters of a million dollars to wit ness the vanqnlfthment of the Chi- kcajro White Sox by the Cincinnati Reds. 'AiM so- far there haan't been a suggestion that it wasn't worth the money. HONORING A MAN A: N IMPORTANT building on the Oregon Agricultural college dam- pus always known as "Mechani cal Hah7Jwas formally . christ ened "Appersoo. Hair cy the board of regents Friday. The name Is" a recognition of the public and t prlvat-3 services - to the institution by the late Captain J. T. Apperson, of Oregon City, who, was one of the V original appointees to the board of control in 188 and who served continuously until his death a year or two ago. ' He was chau- man of the committee that superin tended the erection of Apperson Hall and there Is a seemly fitness in the parallel between his long, and con spicuous service and the fact that the building was among the. first of the pretentious structures built at the college. Through a period of nearly 30 years, in the latter part ol his life, a para mount . purpose with Captain Apper son was his devotion to the. kind of education given at O." A. C all of which was constantly revealed during the time of his presidency, and as a member of the board of regents. As a final and crowning service to the institution, he bequeathed to the College above i55O,00O of his private fortune to be used as. a perpetual and irreducible students' loan fund to help through college young people of Insufficient means, of whom, as Captain Apperson well knew, there is a very great number. The name of. this friend of educa tion on a sightly building at the college- is a fitting recognition of a distinguished public service. It is a m t a a more: u wm reiieci lor au ume to the passing student and to others, the fact that, In the past, there was a man whose - worth -and service won for him this lasting -memorial, and it will be a stimulant to them to think and act in terms of worthy living in the faith that the deeds of a good man live after him. It is unfortunate that .so far Oregon has not produced more men whose gifts of service or fortune, or both, have won for them a memorial ac knowledgment Why shouldn't King Albert wear suspenders? To be sure, they are not so dressy as the belt; but wasn't the vest invented to cover suspend ers and the coat to cover the vest? For purely utilitarian purposes, sus penders have belts backed off the boards, ' not only in superior efficiency,- but for comforti around the Waist? and . relief from the uneasy sensation that the lower hem of the shirt is seeking conference with one.'s collar button. TWO DUTIES A' s A purveyor or optimistic sta tistics U. S. Wheat Director Julius H. Barnes - to without a . peer. His showing , to a Port land business audience of how Amer ica met war's demand "for increased food production was Impressive. Farm production was ; valued at $6,000,000,- 000 in 1910; at f 10.000,000,000 in 1914, and at $21 j000,000,000.; in IMS. This is an Increase of 350 per cent -In eight years, an achievement unequaled by any other . nation in history.! The acreage of 10 principal crops of the United States increased from 297,000,000 acres in 1914 to 526,000,000 acres hi 1918. The expansion denoted that the - manpower - of America de voted itself - as much and as patri otically to iood production as it did to military enlistment J ? . But with all the Increase, produc tion does not yet equal demand. The world's great problem Is to" supply the necessaries of life. Men released from war duty are 'as badly needed on the farms of the qation as in In dustry."" The argument , of the wheat direc tor was strongly in .the direction of continued production of grain but not continued price fixing. European na tions are paying prices 350 per cent greater than pre-war amounts for other foods in spite of the 'artificial regulation of bread prices. -, . This is reinforcement of President Wilson's plea to the American people to "enable the processes of produo- tion to overtake - the proeesses of consumption." It involves two duties to keep" consumption down to , then necessities and to stimulate produc tion In every line. j ' V - i'" " ." r Ralph Budd, who1 has succeeded Lv' W. Hill a president of the Great Northern, became known t Portland a a construction engineer of the Oreg-on Trunk railroad and chief en gineer, for s short .period, of the 8 P. & S. He Is one -of several men picked from the Hill lines. In Oregon for - conspicuous appointment with the transcontinental system. H He Is a young man and quiet man, who does hot attempt to be self-assertive, but who ? has , av record ) for sound judgment and executive capacHy. - THE TAILORS SON Y HAT is in the ring, and It Isn't my father's hat, either. In these words Private Elias Raff, as he mounted the platform for the first time after his nomination, announced that ha was a contestant against? Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for elec tion as assemblyman ' of, the Second New-York district, comprising Hemp stead and Oyster Bayt - The incident followed Colonel Roos evelt's entrance Into the contest with the announcement that he had chosen politics as his career with the in-' ten tion of following .in the footsteps of his father. - v The contrast in the circumstances of the two candidates is striking. Roosevelt has high position socially. financially and otherwise, Is the son of an ex-presldent and, through fam ily prestige, was nationally, known throughout the war.; He "entered the army as a major, served In France, was wounded in the knee, was three months in a hospital and was pro moted to lieutenant colonel. At the time of his nomination his election was regarded as a foregone conclu sion, and is still so regarded by many. Private Raff IS the son of a tailor. He helped support the family while attending . school by selling papers, delivering special -letters and cleaning and pressing clothes. He worked his way through Syracuse university by washing 1 dishes, waiting on table. tending'furnaces and pressing clothes. He went to the first of fleers' train ing camp but was rejected because less than the height required by army 'regulations. Under me draft, he ' waived his right of exemption, being the sole support of a widowed mother, .and entered - the service as a private in the infantry at $30 a month. He served with his regiment in France more than a year, taking part in the fighting on the Baccarat sector, then the Oise-AIsne offensive, then in the Argonne and finally the Argpnhe-Meuse. He was" mustered out of the service as a private. lie is now engaged in thevpractlce of law. in New York city. The contest is attracting attention beyond the limits of New York be cause of the prominence . of Roose velt and , his announced intention of following in the footsteps of his father. Added interest is lent because a Unan of the lowest rank in the -mili tary, service is pitted against a can didate who has commanded a regi ment. With bond fixed at $1000 and fines of $600 being- paid, local moonshin ers have cause to say that their stuff comes high. WHEN WE TAKE THE CENSUS" F PORTLAND'S population doubled "between 1890 and 1900. It more ; than doubled between 1900 and 1910. If, during the past 10 years, ithe same rate of growth has been maintained, the approaching census 4 will credit this city with a populaBon of 415,000.' Estimates of the number of people residing In Portland range all the way from 325,000 to 450,000. Exaggeration might be charged against the person claim ing the larger number and some sort of numerical disloyalty against those who fling to the more conservative guess. . It is certain, however, that Port land has made tremendous growth. The eity 'is crowded. Habitations, new and old, are at a premium. Con struction has been active despite the high cost of materials. Industrial advance has been immense. Ship building alone has attracted some 50,000 workers. Smaller industries have thrived amazingly. Business has expanded and every phase of trade has been an employer of maxi mum- effort. ' , Portland will not be disappointed if a doubling of population is not shown to have occurred during the census period now ending. To add more than 290,000 people In a tdecade might indicate boom growth 1 rather than substantial and permanent prog ress, ' What we art really concerned in is that the count shall be made cor sectly. The recollection of the eon fusion and apparent Incompetency In 1910 which led to enlistment of, busi ness men as volunteer census, takers is not pleasant The census Jshould be conducted along well ordered lines, quietly and accurately. . Portland wants to know ' how ' many people live here and further designs that employment opportunity and the best of influences shall be provided for alt . Meanwhile, , It is history that , ex pectations -as o population are.al most Invariably subjected to a shrink ing process by the census, due mostly to overestimates but not Infrequently to meuicienteuumeration , "M HIRAM JOHNSON HOT, WITH HATE ; Deliberately Garbles and ' Distorts . league of Nations Covenant' - By Earl C Brotrnleo - ; -TVhile Gus Moser, slated to Introduce the speaker and cast- to. the sidelines at the eleventh hour, sat with folded arms and benign countenance Senator Hiram Johnson on Tuesday evening expounded at The Auditorium his very personal and very- distorted Interpretation of the League of Nations covenant he Is seek ing to have swept from its eurround inga ot jwortd-wide approval. ? -Four thousand friends of his stand (a third of his audience could not have agreed with him). Including not more, it Is safe to say, than SO who had actually read the league, covenant,, cheered the senatorial oratory as they divided their attentions between the Calif ornlan and Ralph E. Williams, who had really not known until the hour of the meeting whether or not It was his Republican duty to sit with the senator. .. . In that setting and with that attend ance and attention. Senator. Johnson's speech revealed one thing of Interest even though It had no connection with his unusual attack upon President Wil son and his works; as the nation's chief, swinging between life and death, con fined . at bis physician's order, rested at the White House. . ;;, That revelation was the peculiarity of the psychology of crowds the psychol ogy, first, that mixed the din of scat tered handclaps with the smiles of some who took Johnson's attack, at , its faos value In convincing argument. Psychology " that permitted several thousand Portland people to applaud long and loudly Johnson's reference to that one, of the famous "14 points", re garding freedom of the seas. -i-V -One roar: from the British lion ana freedom of the seas was utterly forgot ten," Johnson acclaimed. ';, Instantly there resounded such an out burst of applause that the address rest ed a half minute. , - But when the erudite senator exclaimed in his most polished diction : U "America is the only great, virile, solvent nation on the face of the earth,': there were not more than 60 pairs of hands to pay tribute to the patriotism of the declara tion. What Hiram Johnson told Portland about the League of Nations could be published In this very column. What tie did not tell would fill a library with tomes of learned essays. His address was, with due respect to his masterful command of English and his splendid delivery, a pitiful play upon the Intelligence of his audience. John son knew, as well as did his auditors, that few had read the covenant of -the League of Nations; that they were open to the swaying Influence of splendid ora tory ; that the convictions of many might be bounded by the beauty or a spoken word. f Johnson did not have to stoop to false hood to achieve his aim. With English he wrapped about the thoughts he deliv ered a veil that did more than absolute falsehood could have dons. He empha sised here,, modulated there and in the end had pictured in awful colors an al leeed triumph of British and Japanese combinations In restraint of humanity and civilization. , . He grasped the gore of the battlefields in bis stubby hands, so to speak, and flune It at the mothers who are often precluded from a personal perusal Of the covenant and who would give their very lives, If need b. to accomplish the things the League of Nations would do for them. ... 1 . Johnson' declared;' In hlsf most "ap proved style, that American troops were sent to Siberia by order of s secret coun cil of the League of -Nations sitting in Paris. He knew that only , a scattered few would pause in the -face of his out burst to recall the facta He knew that he would not be challenged from the floor by the' truthful statement that American troops had been In Siberia for two years and that the League of Ra tions had less to do with their presence than Johnson did himself. Waving the flag In dramatic fashion, Johnson howled out a tirade of abuse against the "secret council" at Geneva that ordered the recent landing of Amer ican marines on the shores of Italy. He well knew that an American admiral had, of his own accord and without or ders of any kind, debarked his men In Italy. Dragging "khaki clad lads" back and forth over the rostrum from which he spoke, hurling the horrors of war into every sentence, Johnson denounced the president and his every colleague for the fact that "Great Britain has six votes in the league assembly to one lone and sorrowful vote for America," Not even Thomas McCuaker. who knows the truth of the "league ballot. would arise in his. Beat and denounce the senator for a statement that, msny tiroes successfuUy refuted as to meaning, yet Stands truthful as to fact. Johnson's statement was so colored that Great Britain's six. votes appeared as a moun tain -to the American mole hill of one struggling, ineffective - and unwanted ballot. Johnson did not tell his audience who sent troops to Siberia nor when. He did not tell his audience who ordered the landing of marines in Italy. He did not tell 6000 over-patient persons that five of Great Britain's six votes belong Tx Canada. Australia, SoKh Africa, New Zealand and India. . He did not tell his audience that, by the sams token, should such an unher alded demand, necessitate, America might acquire votes for Cuba, the Pan ama sone, the Philippines, . Porto Rico and even. Guam. He did' not say that the six notes in Great Britain's chorus of voices mean not one particle of power more than that of the one and the mighty American vote. ' "- Johnson has trifled with the Intelli gence 1 of those who have heard him since -the day he left Washington la a vain effort to belittle and to discredit the works bf President Wilson and his contemporaries. Johnson has achieved tiie exact opposite, in that, on every side, thinking people have heaped discredit upon him. Letters From; the People ICoBiniiuiicatiflM MBt to Tha Journal for publication is Una department should b written on mill ana atda at thm naaar. should not send SOS words ta kmcth. and araat b ianed by tb writer, wbom mail addraai in foO aaaat aeaoat- paay the eontribattos. 1 ;, t Says Pig Poisoned Nash vine, Sept. 37. To the Editor of The Journal Tou hats heard that a hog cannot be poisoned. Not so. My ex perience last night was that X lost six out of tight ' S-months-old pigs that would weigh about : 46 pounds apiece. The poisoned barley that the O. A. C. sends out will not klU anything that will take the husk off of the kernel. I had a package of the poison. ,X put it where the mice could help themselves. I discovered it would not kill them, so I set mouse traps around the package. took out all the husks, which amounted to about two good handfuls. and put them into my pig feed of about seven gallons of milk. I fed - about five gal lons of this same milk to the pign iH in w very- short tims they were all LOVE OF By William OFOR a lodge In some vts wilderness, . -Some boundless contiguity of shade, , ' Where rumor of oppression aid deceit, ' " Of unsuccessful and succesful var, . Might never reach me more; My erls pained. My soul is sick, with everyar,s report 1 Of wrong and outrage with. which earth Is filled. There is.no flesh in man's obdurate heart: It does not feel for nun; the natural bond , Of brotherhood is severed as -the flax ' That falls asunder at the touch et fire. . i He finds his fellows guilty of a skin '.' ' J Not colored like his own; and having power - t . To enforce the wrong; for such a worthy' cause -Dooms snd devotes htm as his lawful preV. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor .etch other. Mountains' Iirterpo'sed Make enemies of nations, who had else , . Ltks kindred drops been mingled into one. .Thus- man devotes his brother,- and destroys ; And. worse than all. the most to fce deplored, -As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, : Chains him. and tasks htm. and exacts his sweat With stripes., that JAercy, with a Weeding heart ,.--Weeps when she sees mflicted on a beast. Then what Is manr And what man, seeing this,, And having human feeJings, does not blush ' And ban his head to think hfmsell a man! I would not have a slave to tilt my ground, ' To carry me, to fan me while I sleep. And tremble when I wake, for all tie wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. - Not dear as freedom Is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, ' And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. H 'v ;-Hv?; Y'H? From "The Task." , IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS . OF THE JOURNAL: MAN By Fred (Herein ate span, end sood sharp eoa. too, to prod tha Indolent who complain ex, obstacle and famish alibis for fsilari. ; Mr. lxckly quotes ths owacr of tha eelebratad Tillts Air eartra on tha -point ot. what' bast for bora, later quoting s writer who ha listed s long Una of tha world' renowned who started in Ufa thoroughly equipped with alihl If nan Tat ware.) , , "I haven't much use for a man who claims he has no show to get ahead because he lacks education," said A. W. Morris to me recently. A. W. Morris is the head of the A. W. Morris & Sons corporation of Woodland. Cal. They own a 2000 acre ranch and have over 400 purebred Holstelns on their ranch. Tilly Alcartra. world champion fiol- stein, who was a recent guest of the Ad club at the Hotel Benson, is but one of -their, prize winning cows. "When I was a boy," said Mr. Morris, "l had no show to get any schooling. My three brothers and I were brought up in the brush and It took hard scratch ing to make a living. . I went to school only part of two or three winters, and my brothers bad about the , same luck. Three of my brothers have made good in a big way. I do not mean the making money alone, for they are all well to do, but Z mean they have forged to the top along the lines they took up. "My oldest boy, Frank, is 29 ; Charlie is 35. Harry Is 32 and Asa 29. When Frank graduated from grammar school his mother and I had a long talk about the future of our boys. So many boys go from the farm to the high school, then to the college, and graduate when they are 21 or 23 years of age, upfltted for life, and absolutely unfit to come back to the hard grind of life on a farm. X , fleured, that .what the world needed was more men who are willing to milk" cows and do the work of the world and to become' producers, than soft handed college men to Uve on the work of others. ' ' ' ; "I said to thy wife: We have four1 boys. If we send them away for four or five years to college, they wlU be away from home influence and they will probably get in with a fast bunch. Either they wtll be humiliated because they-haven't the money to spend that their comrades have;- or we will be drained dry and have to keep on work ing IS hours a day apiece to provide funds for them to keep Op with the procession. If we have good luck two of them may turn out to be men and two of them win go to smash. If X can keep the boys with me on the farm I believe I can guarantee to turn out four useful citizens.' "If you want to come around to our big ranch In California and - see the beautiful and comfortable homes of our four boys and their families on the ranch. I believe you will agree with me that they have made good on the farm, without the frills of college.. . -I am rather plain , spoken and am often criticised for my views on educa tion, but it seems to me that the col leges educate the boys away from use fulness. Instead of helping them to meet life's battles.' . Joseph H. Odell, like Mr. Morris, be lieves that a boy can make good with out a." college education, and like Mr. Morris, he believes "schools and col leges should eliminate many of the fads and frills and substitute courses that wUl come nearer turning out useful citi sens. Mr. OdeU recently, in discussing the causes , for failure, said : "There is absolutely no excuse for failure in this world. For many years I have made a close study of men who acknowledged they had failed, and, in every case it was the man's own fauK. Nearly all of those men were past mid dle Ufa - . "I should tike to hammer the lessons I have learned Into the young men of America teday. And, first and fore most, X -would repeat in big,' black let ters: There Is no excuse for failure in this world! 1 was never born to succeed ; X never had the brains when X was a boy In school,' I' the first excuse which ought to be smashed. Do you know that some of the most Illustrious brain workers of history were dull In school? The list is too long to give In full, but It Includes such names as Newton, the discoverer of gravitation ; Shakespeare, the supreme dramatist; Bdmund Burke, the orator and statesman ; Patrick Henry, the patriot; the Duke of Well- stricken with the poison. I used the O. A. C. Instructions regarding the poi son to counteract it,- using tea bolted down, which put an end to the two pigs I tried it on quicker than the poison Itself did. y 3. M. WESTFALL. The Case of Debs -: ": Portland, Oct. 4-To tho Editor of The Journal 1 have to side, in with the prohibitionists, but I most give F. B. Wood due credit for his timely article In urging the release of Eugene V. Debs. Debs is no more a traitor to this gov ernment than ths United States senate ha They are rebuking- what the head of this government-deems advisable jto do by not'ratlfylng the peace treaty. Debs merely disagreed with the government in regard : to the war with Germany, while the senators disagree " with the head of the " government - in regard to mnkiner neace. Debs v wants the very thing President Wilson does, and that is to put an end to war forever. It is a shame, that a' man of such high intellect and radical; progressive power should be behind prison bars, Ths fundamental LIBERTY Cowper Lockley ington, tha conqueror of Napoleon ; Stonewall Jackson, the brilliant Con fed erate leader; John Wesley, the founder of Methodism ; Henry Ward Beecher, the prince of preachers; Ulysses S. Grant, president of the United States; Sir Walter Scott, the novelist; Byron, the poet; and last of all, Joffre, the savior of civilization at the first battle of the Mam e. Those men, and hundreds of others that X could name, equally well known; had to whip themselves Into suc cess after a poor beginning In school. . ... , a a , - " Tf only I could have gone to col lege!' is another excuse which no decent man can plead after he has maae flnle of his life. Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln did not go to college; James Watt. George Stephenson, Hum phrey Davy and Richard . Arkwrlght tha four Englishmen who revolutionised the Industrial world did not attend col lege; Robert Fulton, Ellas Howe. John Ericsson. Eara Cornell, Feter cooper, Cyrus W. Field and Thomas Edison are among the famous inventors who never . . m - ir..J..kl A. T. Stewart, Johns Hopkins, Marshal Field, Philip D. Armour, John Wana- maker and F. W. Wool worth are exam lea of successful merchants who missed the chance of college ; Jay Gould, Rus sell sage, Henry Clews, John D. Rocke feller. Andrew Carnegie, Iceland Stan ford, J. J. Hill and Charles M. Schwab are a few of the giants of finance who started life-without college training. A young- man is foolish not to take a col lege course if the way Is open, but he Is a still greater fool if he thinks that It Is the only way to success. ' s.i;.-. . ' . .fu 'Nature handicapped tM I the cards were stacked against me !' - That 'is a paltry excuse. In thousands of Instances even deficiencies and deformities have not only failed to check men -but have actually driven them forward to a shin ing, goal. Sir Walter, Scott and. Lord Byron were both cripples, and Sir Wal ter wrote much of his last work while writhing In pain ; Alexander H. Stephens, the brilliant Southern leader and one of the most powerful men who ever sat in congress, was twisted and gnarled by suffering and unable to walk a step while the country was ringing -with the echoes of his eloquence ; Nelson, with only one eye and one arm, broke Na poleon's power upon the sea! Parkman, the historian, -was almost blind and a chronic Invalid ; Fawcett, England's most famous postmaster general, was totally blind; so was Herreshotf, the skillful yacht designer. Galileo-continued his work long- after bis sight failed, and Milton wrote 'Paradise Lost' with Sightless eyeballs Bunyan was In Jail when he composed 'Pilgrim's Progress' ; so was Sir Walter Raleigh when he penned the History of the World' ; Rich ard Baxter, who spent moat of his life alternating between a sick bed and a prison, nevertheless managed to publish 18S books ; Darwin, the most famous scientist of last century, could not work more than two hours a day ; James Watt the Inventor of the steam engine, was so frail and fragile from disease that he could work only by snatches between attacks; Dr. Kane, the most daring of explorers, made his terrible Journeys, even his famous dash for the pole, when crippled with rheumatism and In momentary danger of death from heart disease; Robert Louis Stevenson did all of bis marvelous writing after he was doomed to die of consumption when he could not ' write he dictated, when he dare not speak for fear of bringing on a hemorrhage he a till dic tated on his fingers In the deaf and dumb alphabet ; Thomas Spencer Baynes, editor of the Encyclopedia Brltannica, accomplished his monumental task with only the half of one lung ; Beethoven composed his noblest music when .deaf and unable to hear a note ; Francis Hu ber, the. Swiss scientist, did not become celebrated as an entomologist until after be became totally blind ; Cecil Rhodes was sent out to Africa to die of an In curable disease, - but before he obeyed the summons he bad carved an empire out of the dark continent and made him self one of the richest men on earth but why go on, the list Is almost endless. Are we not shamed Into silence and whipped Into action by such a roll call? The maimed, the broken, the disabled, have, done some of the biggest things in history, and have never -whined about the odds against them." . principle of Debs' doctrine is sure to triumph. Socialism Is one of ths most profound doctrines in the world. It is the "only remedy ever offered for indus trial slavery. The people must own the means of production before we can have Industrial peace, and Debs has cham pioned 'this cause. The only trouble with Debs is that he showed bis hand before the proper time came. It seems some have to suffer before we can have better things, and Debs is one of them. X hope Debs' ease will be laid before ths president at an early date. . . . ' E. A. LIN SCOTT. : Uncle Jeff Snow Says : . ; j X see some of them there German aris tocrats has been a-settln of ths fashion of a-goinVwItbout close. A good many common folks In Europe has been set bin' that fashion fer most five year, up to about 90 per cent of possibilities. -I reckon It'll be mighty fashionable here 'fore Ions; for ladies to go with nuthin' but a fox skin on the neck and a cunny- sack fer the rest of thelrselveft. The Oregon Country Northwest Happening, fa Brief Farm for the . Busy Steads. . "- OREGON NOTES - -H. & NoeL killed in an S".?00 City, was burled at Con-, don Friday. -: . . Pendleton ATTwHni h-tm Saturday mornlnr. whm th - - dropped to 2& degrees. , 7 ' , Superintendent Green announces that the big cement plant st Gold Hill will -be producing In about three weeks. One thousand nnnnila nf In. Vsa ' . . been shipped as Pendleton's contribution " to the drive for clothes for Armenian Lewis Lindner. 10.vmt.oM mem of Wr... and Mrs. 1 H. Arneson. Is dead at Hood River as ths result of a faU from hie bicycle. . - Charles Mathews la preparing to ship four carloads of wethers and lamb from Pilot Rook to the Kansas City stockyards. War tax said to Milton a. urm mU - lector of internal revenue, by the Pen- " uiccon xiounuup jor uu year amounted -, to $259133. .' . v . . V Four million board feet of Inmhr Is V being cut from the Umatilla national rorest ror the Teel irrigation project near Pendleton. Corporal Earl - Nutter, mentioned In the account of the transcontinental alr- race, is a Pendleton bov, the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Nutter of that city. . Plans of the Silver Lake Irris-atlnn ' -. district -t 8000 acres have been submit ted to the state engineer for approval. Bonds of '1800,000 have been voted and ' offered for sal. "Aunt". Fanny Harris, for many years well known character and in her younger days sn artist, a musician and student of literature. Is dead at Cottaga ' - urove, agea is years, s t Thirty-four punlla of Middle Grove - school in Marion county earned a total - or j 1200 during the summer vacation. Swegele school had 25 pupils who earned sau in tne Derry patents. Bids for the construction of a IB-mile section of the McKenala highway on the west side of the summit have been ad vertised for bv the district engineer for the department of agriculture. . B. J. Bridies, a stock buyer who has been operating in the Willamette valley tor some time, is wan tec si uugene tor passing an alleged worthless check In payment for 30 head of sheep. XT. S. Grant, well known Angora roat v. breeder of Dallas, has received within the past few months so many orders for. registered stock from his herds that he : , is unable to supply the demand. . Mrs M. Sinclair and Miss E. M. Sib ' bald have arrived at the University of Oregon to take up their duties as nurses in tne inrirmary. totn are graauaies or New Tork hospitals and were in France -during the war. WASHINGTON A three day Chautauqua win be held In Winlock on October 20, 21 and 22. The wool crop of Taklma valley this season is estimated to be worth $343,700. On a 33000 allotment, Chehalls has con tributed $3800 to the Salvation Army drive. Aberdeen's budget for the coming year calls for $221.!1, which will require a 30 mill tax levy. , X total of 2491 carloads of fruit have been shipped out of the We na tehee dis trict so far this fall. , Construction charges on tha Tleton canal amounting to $87,884 were paid by Tleton fanners during the year. Colonel Roland H. Hartley is an avowed candidate tor the Washington , Republican gubernatorial nomination. Unless more refrigerator cars can be secured, Yakima warehouses must stop receiving fruit. There is a shortage now Of 160 cars a day. Captain R. E. Bahenkus, manager of the shipyards plants division of the emergency fleet corporation, has begun his work in Seattle. Thirty-five disabled ex-service men of 'j Spokane and vicinity ware interviewed the past week and assigned o colleges and Industrial schools. Frances R. Wall, an attorney, who was killed lit a street car accident In Oak land, Cat.,- was ene of the early news papermen of Aberdeen. ; E. Platter, aged $1 years, fell from a ladder while' picking apples til his or. chard at Sumner and received injuries which resulted In his death. Walla Walla county commissioners have let contracts for eight bridges totaling $87,600. The bridges are to span Dry creek, Yellowhawk creek and Touchet river. A resolution was paused st the annual state convention of the American Legion at Seattle favoring congressional Investi gation of the alleged Increase in north west immigration. , 1 The bid of Warren Brothers for con structing 85 miles of paving in Pierre county was $1,000,000 above the county's estimate, and as that was the lowest bid, the work Is consequently held up. A special election will be held In Walla Walla county on November 18 to vote on the proposal of matching $80,004 federal funds for Improving the road be tween Walla Walla and Waltsburg. ' Tacoma union men refused the Invi tation of the Tacoma Commercial club to hear former Congressman C, C. D1U discuss the Plumb plan, on the grounds that commercial clubs and labor organi sations have nothing In- common. IDAHO Ontario has sn Oregon club with a membership of 31 young men. There were 96 arrests and 83 con- , victions for violation of gams laws in Idaho during the past four months. Nearly three dozen bears have been -raptured or killed this fall tn the vicin ity of Ash ton and neighboring villages. John Renner of Burley has purchased the 80-acre ranch belonging to John B. " Vickars. north of Meridian, for $ 18,000. Contract has been let for the con struction of a steel bridge to span Rock creek canyon at Twin Falls. The cost i $4.850. . r . . William Parsons, a former soldier. Is under arrest at Halley charged with em bezzlement of $9260 from his brother, Walter Parsons. -.- Camlet L. DroesBeck, son of Alphonss Droesbeck of Boise, - who received the croix de guerre for bravery, has re- enlisted for one year's overseas service. Construction of the new road across Bear gulch at Warm river, on the way to the Yellowstone park entrance, has commenced with 35 men and 40 teams a the Job, Boney Fernandes has been sentenced to five months in the county Jail and . a fine of $500 for having 4$ quarts of liquor in his possession at his home at -Nampa -- ' v Boise valley sheep growers havs Shipped their second cooperative con signment of sheep amd lambs, amount ing to 19 cars, from Parma. Caldwell, Nampa and Meridian. . . , GENERAL . Japan Is sending 80 delegates to the international labor conference to be held at Washington: October 39. Fire In' the Union Pad f la yards at Cheyenne Friday night destroyed lum ber valued by railroad official at $350,000. . Eight officials of the Milk Producers' association at Chicago have been In dicted on chart es ofconspl racy to fU milk prices. - -r' ., - , t Launching of six vessels with; an segregate tonnage of 60,000 has been postponed at Oakland, Cal., because f -the strike of workmen. - The Swedish r legation In Petrograd -has been sacked by th Bolshevik au thorities. Valuable worth 12,000,000. roubles -were confiscated. . ' . Letter Only Delivered to the , ?''Best Newspaper" A man In Monroe. N. C wrote a letter and addressed It Ths Edt tor of the Best Newspaper in Portland.-. - . . s The ; Journal received , ths ? letter vlthout delay. " . That tells the' story. . . '