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THE OREGON I SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING; NOVEMBER- 23, "1919.
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They hare (aid, come, and let ua cut
them off from being a nation; that the name
ol Israel may be no more in remembrance.
I'aalm 83.
RECOVER THE LOOT
T
HAT public lands unlawfully ac
quired could be, and should be,
restored to the people, has always
been the contention of The Jour
nal.
The restoration to the state school
fund of nearly 10,000 acres in the Pa
cific Livestock case is the latest proof
of the merit of the policy. Before it
we had the recovery of thousands of
acres stolen from the state in the F
A. Hyde operations. Restitution was
secured through suits brought in the
courts. Other examples are the Ore
gon & California grant lands and the
Coos Bay wagon road lands.
Strangely enough, there has always
been in Oregon an element that op
posed recovery by the state of stolen
lands. It has been an element with
very great power. It was strong
enough to put the notorious "mid
night resolution" through the legisla
ture. Of that resolution, when pre
sented to it, the United States supreme
court said: "The petition seems a
prayer against the contention of the
government." And that resolution,
passed by an Oregon legislature, was
a prayer against the government's
contention and a brazen support by
the legislature of the railroad's con
tention. Back of that action there must have
been powerful men. Exactly the same
opposition appeared mysteriously and
strangely in the Pacific Livestock case.
Stealthy figures were in the hack
ground, pulling strings and manipu
lating the cards.
The legislature was induced to with
hold money with which to press the
suit for recovery of the ill-gotten
lands. That the lands were unlaw
fully, held is now admitted by the
company. in ,the compromise by which
it voluntarily deeds back to the state
a large part of its holdings. Though
here is confession of unlawful posses
sion, there were constant demands,
both official and otherwise, that the
suit he not pressed.
If there had been no Journal news
paper in Oregon, it is doubtful if Pa
cific Livestock lands would have been
restored. The Journal kept the evi
dence of fraud in the case before the
public. It printed and reprinted again
and again the facts that even public
officials were resisting the case. It
was the one and only metropolitan
newspaper In Oregon that backed up
Governor West in his time, and later,
Attorney General Brown, in their ef
forts to recover the Pacific Livestock
lands.
The restitution of stolen lands in
this case should stimulate people and
officials to press on. Make the crooks
give back their loot. Do not let the
robbery go unchallenged just because
the robbers happen to be rich.
If the information coming from
The Hague that the municipalities
of Holland are Importing "American
ehoes in an effort to break the high
prices of the Dutch manufacturers"
la true, the price of board feet over
there must be enormous.
BOOKS AND WAR
BOOKS helped win the war. Good
reading brightened the minds of
men about to' go into action.
Wounded soldiers found comfort
in selected novels, poetry and travel
stories. Technical works and text
books on fundamental subjects play
a large part in guiding the purpose
for the future of men about to be re
leased from service.
These conclusions are inescapable
after looking over an attractive pamph
let issued by the American Library as
sociation. The pictures of the little
publication tell the story vividly. One
sees the boys at the front clustered
. in reading rooms. A crippled soldier
is reading to one who has been
blinded. Others whose sight has been
lost are busily engaged In learning
how to keep in touch with the treas
ures of literature through the finger
i touch on raised print. Sailors appear
' devouring publications of all kinds in
' reading rooms of naval stations or
Clustered In every conceivable position
on vessels of war. The liberal pat
ronage of branch libraries maintained
f..
In recreational buildings of welfare
organizations is disclosed. Hospitals
have their book racks for those able
to read or to listen.
It is evident that books from the
Mexican border to the fields of France
kept our men in uniform in touch
with normal life, happy living and
wholesome plans for the future.
The most interesting statement in
the review of the excellent service of
the American Library association Is
that Its work will go on and that
library facilities will continue to be
provided for every man in federal
service.
We beg, in legal parlance, to ex
cept to the verdict of the Bend Jury
that every dog: is entitled to one bite
if it means that you or we are to
be the victim.
A CITIZEN'S SUGGESTIONS
A'
CITIZEN who reads with approval
The Journal's statement that au
tomobile drivers should be li
censed as well as the motor cars,
submits an outline of the qualifica
tions he thinks should be required.
According to his proposal, there
should be a registration fee to cover
the cost of administration, any bal
ance to be used for streetrepair. No
person under 18 years of age would
be granted a certificate. The appli
cant would answer the usual ques
tions as to age, sex and occupation,
experience as a driver and habits as
regards intoxicants. Details would be
given as to involvement in accidental
or criminally careless accidents, and
arrests.
The make of car used and the pros
pective driver's knowledge as to gear
arrangement, gear shifts and the na
ture and use of brakes would be in
cluded. The inquiry would extend to the
mental condition of the applicant,
whether now or previously a sufferer
from nervous or brain disorders. Abil
ity to state the chief provisions of
state and city traffic laws and ordi
nances would be required, covering
speed limits, rules of the road, sig
nalling, the passing of street cars
and other vehicles, the number and
kind of lights permitted and the dis
tance In front of the car where the
direct rays of the headlight must
strike the ground.
If the applicant has been convicted
of wantonly reckless driving, a bond
would be required, its amount pro
portioned to the seriousness of the
police record. t Supporting affidavits
of, say six property owners, would be
required as to the truth of statements
made and the responsibility of the
applicant.
Reduced to question and answer
form the filling of such an applica
tion looms as a formidable task. Yet
it Is difficult to find a question sug
gested which the person desiring to
drive should not be able to answer if
public safety is to be a factor in
automobile operation.
Occasionally the well known rule
against the split infinitive can be
excepted for the purposes of descrip
tive emphasis. Note this definition
of the I. W. W.: "A group of per
sons formed to unlawfully, felon
iously, and anarchlstically advocate,
advise and teach crime, sedition,
violence, intimidation and injury.
." It is a part of the com
plaint against radicals held for the
massacre of ex-service men at Cen
tralia on Armistice day.
INOPPORTUNE
W
ESTERN agriculture has come to
a pretty pass if Chinese coolies
must be imported to provide
farm labor. Yet Frank C. Jor
dan, California's secretary of state,
has come to Oregon for the announced
purpose of organizing a campaign to
break down the exclusion laws. He
is quoted as saying that American
young men will, not work on the
farms, that they like city life too well,
and mat food production is suffering.
It is an announcement that parallels
the appeals for work for soldiers dis
charged from military service. It Is
a proposal offered at a moment when
we are assured from other sources
that workingmen drawn from the
country and smaller communities by
the handsome wages of war Industry
are gradually returning whence they
came.
Likewise It Is a project contempora
neous with statements setting forth
the wealth of 1919 crops and the money
reward allotted to tillers of the soil.
It may be attractive to large em
ployers of farm labor to consider the
prospect of engaging yellow 6kinned
toilers who will work for small wages.
But wouldn't it be better to seek first
to attract to the farms American men
who with American initiative and en
ergy can surely do more for agricul
ture in this country than imported
coolies?
Bert Bland, captured Centralla I.
W. W., states that he was accom
panied in his abortive flight by one
Ole Hansen. Et tu Brute.
MUST BE RIGHT
1
T GOES without saying, or at least
it ought to, that whenever Majority
Leader Mondell, of the house, ad
mits that he is "in accord with
the president's action," then, and in
that event, the chief executive must
have had the right hunch, that start
ling condition of affairs sprang into
being with the president's veto of the
Cummins railroad bill.
The president in vetoing the Cum
mins bill took the logical ground that
so long as the railroads of the country
were unaer me control of the govern
ment, with the responsibility of their
operation and maintenance resting
solely upon it, the part of wisdom
would require that federal authority
should control railroad rates and reve
nues, particularly those springing from
intrastate traffic.
Under the original federal control
act the federal government was given
the same power to fix, modify or
amend intrastate fares, rates, classifi
cations of practices that was given It
in the regulation and control of inter
state matters. The Cummins bill took
away this authority by the provision
that no intrastate regulation could be
inaugurated or enforced by the gov
ernment unless and until the local
commission had first considered and
approved it.
"Since the authorities of each state
would, under this bill, have full power
to exercise an independent judgment,"
the president pointed out in his mes
sage, "the probable result would have
been to prevent any uniform practice
at all, notwithstanding the fact that
the federal government was in sole
operation of the railroads and, as
such, conducting the intrastate as well
as the interstate operations. The im
mediate effect of such a change in the
law would be to deprive the federal
government of the ability to cope
promptly and decisively with operat
ing emergencies which are now arising
and must continue to arise during the
existing period of heavy traffic."
It sounds like good railroad operat
ing logic, fr. Mondell says he "never
had approved the bill" and that he is
"in accord" with the president. It
must be that the president is right
and that his logic is sound.
"With silver worth 5 cents more
an ounce as bullion than as coin
Isn't It about time for ua thrifty
folk to melt up the ancestral teapot
and trade it off for dollars?
EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT
T
HE present policy of the govern
ment in harbor and channel im
provement causes it to pass by
proposed betterments not dis-
tinctly justified by necessity. Cooper
ative effort by communities affected
is also required. The prospect of
steady and substantial commerce
growth must be good.
Portland has now before the en-1
gineer corps of the war department
a petition for a 35-foot channel project
to the sea. The divisional engineer
officer has been gathering arguments
in favor of the plan. These have been
submitted voluminously.
But in the multitude of pleadings
none will speak louder, go farther or
be more decisive than the declaration
of the Port of Portland commission
that it is ready to deepen the channel
from Portland to the mouth of the
Willamette to a depth of 35 feet and
to give it adequate width.
In the division of tasks between the
government and the port It has al
ways been regarded primarily as the
duty of the Port of Portland to main
tain the channel and harbor south of
the confluence of the Willamette and
Columbia. We are not in a fortified
position to ask the government for
approval and appropriation to carry
through the greater projects unless
we do our full share.
Harbor improvement, port facilities,
organization and support of steamship
service, business getting connections
with world ports these are the best
arguments with which to convince
the government that the 35-foot chan
nel project should be adopted.
The town marshal of a hamlet in
Missouri has solved the problem of
enjoying a quiet game of pool and
keep the law on his side even when
his wife comes to fetch him home.
In this instance the wife entered the
pool hall, pulled a gun and ordered
him home, whereupon he arrested
her for carrying concealed weapons.
Now it only remains for all the hub
bies who dislike to come early to
have themselves deputized and when
wifey appears, arrest her for disor
derly conduct.
THE CLAREMONT MURDER
T
I'lE Claremont murder fills the
mind with regret and horror. Re
gret that lives of worth and ac
complishment to and for the com
munity and the state should be so
suddenly snuffed out by assassins'
bullets; horror that such a grisly oc
currence is possible in the day and
place In which we live.
J. N. Burgess was a strong man in
his county and in the state. He had
long taken a prominent part in civic
affairs. He was always in the fore
front of progress and advancement in
Pendleton and in Umatilla county in
matters -having the best interests of
his home section at heart. No call was
ever made upon him by his fellow
citizens for personal or financial as
sistance In the advancement of the
public welfare that was not met with
instant response. As a member of
the state senate during several ses
sions of the legislature he occupied a
leading position and was recognized
as oneof the strong men and balanc
ing forces of that body. He had just
entered upon his duties as a member
of the state highway commission,
bringing to that important adminis
trative body a wise, well balanced and
conservative business judgment and
earnestness of purpose which would
have been of great value to the good
road construction program of the
slate.
George Perringer was also one of
the strong men of Umatilla county.
He, too, was one of the citizens who
always met the. call of his city or his
county in public matters, was always
ready to serve by personal effort or
by financial assistance to promote the
public advancement. He was one of
the largest wheat growers of Umatilla
county and one of ts most substantial
and progressive citizens. Not a holder
of public office, Mr. Perringer was less
before the eye of the state than Com
missioner Burgess, but the service he
gave the public in the ranks was just
as loyal and just as efficient within
its scope and jurisdiction.
Both were men such as the .state
can not well afford to lose, which
makes their passing all the more to
be regretted, and the manner of it
all the more terrible.
The reports of boys from 15 to 18
committing burglaries, stealing auto
mobiles and footpadding raise the
question if the indictment of cul
prits should not also include their
parents.
BROAD AND FUNDAMENTAL
r
HE president has outlined a broad
and fundamental platform upon
which the new industrial confer
ence just called by him must
stand in its effort to reach a sane and
lasting solution for the discordance
and unrest afflicting the nation.
In his designation of the new group
appointed to wrestle with the subject
he tells them "that all of the new rep
resentatives should have concern that
our industries may be conducted with
such regard for justice and fair deal
ing that the workman will feel himself
induced to put forth his best efforts,
that the employer will have an en
couraging profit, and that the public
will not suffer at the hands of either
class." He also points the goal which
the nation will hope may be reached
by the conference when he says: "It
is my hope that this conference may
lay the foundation for the develop
ment of standards and machinery
within our industries by which these
results may be attained."
There is this difference between
the proposed conference and the prior
one which so signally failed to pro
gress. In that there "is no recognition
of distinctive groups" in the present
appointments, which recognition was j
the rock upon which the first confer-
ence wrecked itself. Thus the con-
ferees when they convene in Washing
ton the first of the coming month,
will not enter the council chamber by
separate doors and face each other
with hostile instincts and opposing
interests from the first.
The nation will watch the coming
conference with as much interest as
it did the old. There undoubtedly ex
ists somewhere between the opposing
lines of capital and of labor a common
ground where both might meet in co
operative harmony. It ought not to
be impossible to find this neutral zone
and bring the warring forces together
upon it. Nor should it be impossible
to discover some just and fair means,
some equitable and unbiased machin
ery of negotiation and determination,
by which industrial difficulties and
disputes could be smoothed and ad
justed. The conference will front a grave
problem. The world is settling slowly
back into peace after international
war. it is not making so mucn prog
ress in the establishment of indus
trial peace. The world is looking
from its four corners towards Amer
ica, the world leader in industry, for
it to find the path to industrial peace.
The solution of the puzzle is a duty
America owes to its own people and
the people of the world.
A world authority on vital statis
tics informs the national convention
of the American Institute of Actu
aries that fat people die sooner than
the lean. Maybe, but think of the
food and fun the skinny fellows miss
during their extended span.
BREWING THE KICK
IS5 CORA STODDARD, director of
the bureau of scientific temper
ance investigation of the V. C.
T. U., tells the convention of
that order, gathered at St. Louis, that
"a large number of women," from Ver
mont on the one hand, to California
on the other, are busily engaged in
the presumably exhilarating pastime
Qf "making wine and other intoxicants
of elderberries, dandelions, cherries
and many other fruits and vegetables."
She reports that during the past sum
mer she found a "surprising number
of'women" so engaged, and urges thit
the organization "must go after these
women as well as the men."
. It is an Interesting story, and with
out much doubt Is true. The surpris
ing thing about It is that the gentler
sex should be plunging so generally
and so recklessly into the avocation
of brewing homemade moonshine.
Probably in the exercise of the com
monly imputed feminine instinct they
are doing it just because they have
been officially notified that they can't,
rather than because they want to
drink, or to imbibe the stimulating
potations they may brew.
But, aside from the naughtiness of
It, may it not be possible that Miss
Stoddard has stumbled upon one of
the causes of the present sugar short
age which is making so many of the
rank and file lose its wonted sweet
ness of disposition? We have been
told at different times during the past
year or so that the demand for sugar,
candy and other sweets has increased
in almost direct ratio with our in
creasing drouth. Candy makers tell
us of an enormous increase in the
demand for their wares, even in the
face of continually upward climbing
prices, and we have been taking It
for granted that this increase Was eat
ing up the sugar surplus to make
those who do not eat candy grow
sour. V
However, if it be true, as Miss Stod
dard reports, that the kitchens and
the cellars of the nation are bubbling
with the clandestine activities of ama
teur brewmistresses is it not only
possible but probable that the de
mands of the industry are making
heretofore unknown inroads upon the
sugar supply of the country? That
"you can't get a kick without sugar"
seem to be a maxim of the brewing
business, long established by commer
cial practice and experience, and the
more sugar the more kick. Maybe the
ladies, sweet though they may be,
in their efforts to brew the unlawful
kick, sweet though it may be, are
assisting materially in making the
nation more sour though not so dry.
SABOAGE REARS
HEAD IN SENATE
Lodge Succeeds in Placing Emery in
the Cogs.
Satan himself never rebuked sin more
Bternly than did Henry Cabot Lodge
when he told thi senate Tuesday that
"the sooner a country as unfaclle in
dealing with the affairs of other coun
tries as the "United States has shown it
self to be in the last year takes itself
out of any relationship to the affairs
of other nations, the better it will be for
this country and the world."
After devoting a year to snarling up
the already complicated affairs of a
world prostrated by war. Senator Lodge
points triumphantly to the achievements
of himself and his associates as proof
that the United States is Incapable of
playing any part in international rela
tions. During the first eight months that
followed the armistice. Lodge and his
partisan colleagues exerte all their ef
forts to discredit the president of the
United States In Europe and add to the
enormous difficulties in the way of
negotiating peace. WThen the treaty was
finally framed and signed, they dedicated
Vthe following four months to schemes
to mutilate it and destroy it so far as
the United States is concerned. There
is hardly a nation associated with the
United States in war which they have
not publicly insulted. There is not a
scheme of imperialistic politics advanced
in Europe during that time to which they
have not given aid and comfort.
There would have been peace long ago
in the world if it had not been for the
United States senate, and the leader of
the United States senate is Henry Cabot
Lodge.
The senate is fond of calling itself the
president's "partner" in the negotiation
Df treaties.
It is his "partner" in the
same sense in which it is his partner in
the appointment of a United States mar
shal for the eastern district of Arkansas.
In both cases its "advice and consent"
is necessary. In the matter of a United
States marshal the "advice and con-,
sent" of a majority of the senators is
sufficient. In the matter of a treaty the
"advice and consent" of two-thirds of
the senators is required.
Because a small minority of the sen
ate can defeat a treaty, senators have
usurped a power which they would not
dare try to exercise in respect to ap
pointments. When the president names
John Doe for United States marshal in
Arkansas, no senator seeks to substitute
the name of Richard Roe. Nor does he
introduce amendments and reservations
providing that the marshal must be at
least 6 feet tall and weigh not less than
187 pounds. That is the way, however,
the senate proceeds in respect to treaties,
and in this instance it is not only the
foreign affairs of the country which it
has muddled but the domestic affairs
as well. It is quite as much an obstacle
to reconstruction as to peace, and, car
rying the Lodge argument to its logical
conclusion, it proves that Intelligent and
progressive government cannot be car
ried on under such a senate and such
a leadership.
If that is what Senator Lodge started
out to demonstrate he has successfully
maintained his thesis. The senate fili
buster on the peace treaty is the break
down of government, the failure of one
of its branches to function even in the
midst of a world emergency and a world
crisis.
Senator Lodge may find reasons for
pride in the collapse that he has helped
to bring about, but if he does. It is the
kind of pride that a member of the I. V.
W. takes in his successful sabotage er
forts to put emery dust in the bearing of
an engine and thereby wreck the ma
chinery.
Letters From the People
r Cnmmnnirations sent to The Journal for
publication in this department should be written
on only one side ol uie paper, snouiu not nctcu
300 words in length, and must be signed bj the
writer, whose mail address in full must accom
pany the contribution. J
For the Pure Type
Geer. Wash.. Nov. 19. To the Editor
of The Journal The United States de
partment of agriculture and othes pub
lic and private agencies have inaugu
rated a country-wide campaign in favor
of pure breeds of all kinds of livestock.
No arguments are needed, as the bene
fits are self-evident. Yet it is only too
true, that the campaign is needed. The
main cry is for the pure-bred male, and
rightly, because "he is half the herd.'
I believe that he is even more, in some
lines, because egg laying and milk-giv
ing proclivities seem to be transmitted
from mother to son and from son to
daughter, rather than in a straight line;
according to recent Investigations. But
like every other good thing, the predilec
tion for pure-breds can be carried too
far, run Into a craze, by some people.
Prof. Dryden of the O. A. C. has
shown that it is the "type" rather than
the "breed" In chickens, that guaran
tees performance at the egg basket. Bet
ter for a male to have super-excellent
layers in his ancestry, if of the "type,'
even if white and brown Leghorns or
even others of the Mediterranean egg
types, are mixed, than that they be less
good layers, though "bred to the
feather." of one variety of a breed, say
pure White Leghorns. In other words
better have pure egg type of excellent,
though mixed variety, than pure variety
of a less good performing ancestry.
Another striking example is the milch
goat. The several varieties of the Swiss
milch goats, as well as the German
varieties, the Spanish, the Maltese, etc
have for ages been bred with one object
in view, that is, milk production. The
Swiss breeds, Toggenburg and Saanen,
seem to head the list. Now I would, ten
to one, rather have a sire that Is a
crossbred between the two varieties, if
of super-excellent ancestry, than a pure
bred of either, if of less good ancestry.
People who have the money, can and do
pay $15,000 for a pure-bred Toggenburg
buck, as did J. T. Gordan, when he
bought Alessandro, and make it pay, too.
But we can not all own such animals.
we can not all live In Jerusalem, as
the saying is, "some must needs live in
Bethlehem." I am not speaking against
the pure-bred variety, but in its favor
very strongly. But where a choice
must be made. I prefer the pure type if
of better ancestry, to the pure variety
I am speaking for the little boy or the
little girl with the milk pail or the egg
basket. R. STUEHCK.
Drift Casks in the Arctic
From the Philadelphia, Public Ledger
Sergeant P. R. Conway of the Royal
isormwest Mounted Police has reported I
to the Philadelphia Geographical society
THANKSGIVING
By Hannah
COME forth, come forth, to the festjl board,
As our sires were wont in the das of old;
The reapers are home with their harvest hoard.
The herds have hied to their wintry fold.
And the cullers of fruit our vaults have stored
With the wealth of the orchard's freight of sold.
Come forth, come forth with your heart-felt praise.
To swell the songs at the altar's side
For a lofty paean to God we raise.
Who hath scattered His love gifts ire and wide.
And still, from the wan earth's earliest days.
His seed-time and harvest hath not denied.
We halow the day as our fathers did.
With a mingling of gladness and praise and prayer,
With a willing boon for the lowliest shed.
That the hungry and podr in our thanks may share,
And the scantiest table be freely spread.
And the lip of the mourner a blessing bear.
For the sos of the feeble pilgrim band
Who irst on a distant rock-bound bay
Gave thanks for the gifts of the teeming land.
Have spread over mountain and stream away;
And a song of praise shall to God ascend
From a myriad of burning lips today.
Come forth, come forth, with the chiming bell.
A joyous throng to the altar's side;
Come mingle your tones with the organ's swell;
And, where the door of the feast stands wide.
Let the gray-haired sire to his grandchild tell,
A tale of our nation's grateful pride.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
The appropriateness of a memorial on Mount
Rubidoux to those who fell oYerseas is pointed
out by Mr. Lockley.
The first Riverside boy to be killed in
the war was Louis Rubidoux. His grand
father, Louis Rubidoux, owned the land
on which the city of Riverside is located.
Recently, I stood at the foot of the
cross, on the summit of Mount Rubidoux,
just as dusk. Below me lay the city of
Riverside. In the west, the rose and old
gold of the sunset was fading to neutral
tints of pearl and gray. As 1 stood there
in the twilight of the Indian summer
day, the dusk faded to darkness. The
crescent moon and the starlight seemed
to make the cross faintly luminous.
The twinkling lights in the city below
seemed the reflection of the twinkling
lights above. Here and there, the light
of an automobile or street car, flitting
back and forth on the tree-shaded
streets, seemed like the, flitting of fire
flies, as I have seen them at Libourne or
St. Emilion in France in the warm dusk
of a summer day. The fragrant breeze
that came from the nearby orange
groves reminded me of the poppy
scented fields of France. The wooden
cross on Rubidoux brought to my mind
"Flanders fields, where the poppies blow,
between the crosses, row on row."
Cities, like individuals, have individu
ality. The whole atmosphere of River
side is redolent of the long-gone days
of the brown-robed Mission Fathers. The
palms and pepper trees, planted by these
Franciscan priests, have turned Cali
fornia into a land of verdure and beauty.
The first public ceremony by white
men to take place on Rubidoux moun
tain was on Washington's birthday, 1905,
when Jacob Rlis unfurled an American
flag on the summit of the mountain. A
hundred years or more ago, the Indian
tribes used to gather for peace councils
on Rubidoux mountain. A large hol
lowed stone, blackened by the fires of
many years, tells of their council fires.
Mount Rubidoux was not only the coun
cil crest of the Indians, but was also
their lookout and signal station.
The long-dead priests of the old Mis
sion days seem to have left their bene
diction on the land, and it Is peculiarly
appropriate that the citizens of Riverside
have erected, on the summit of Rubidoux
mountain, a cross in memory of Fra
Junipero Serra, for to the labors of this
priest, more than any other one person,
is due the success of the work of the
Missions in California. He died in 1784,
at the age of 71 years. A cross, on the
crest of Rubidoux mountain, was erected
to him and was dedicated on April 26,
1907, by the Right Reverend Thomas J.
Conaty, bishop of Monterey and Los An
the recovery of another of the "drift
casks" which Henry G. Bryant and the
late Admiral Melville of this cityset
afloat in the Arctla 20 years ago to
determine the direction of tidal cur
rents. The cask was put out by Cap
tain B. T. Tilton, of the steam whaler
Alexander, off Cape Bathurst, 20 years
ago. It was picked up by David Picto
gane, an Eskimo, on an Island off the
south shore of Franklin Bay, June 18.
1918.- It has traveled 75 miles In 19
years which is slow voyaging, even for
the Arctic.
Originally Mr. Bryant, our most en-
thusastic and persistent geographer, and
the admiral had launched 35 drift casks,
north of Alaska and British North
America, and six of these have now
been reported. One traveled to the north
ernmost tip of Iceland ; one floated to
Soro island, south of Hammerfest, Nor
way ; three landed at points compara
tively near, on the Siberian coast and
elsewhere. The fact that the latest cask
recovered Is intact, its spindle shape and
its stout construction of solid oak en
abling It to resist waves and the grind
ing ice, shows that In years to come
there is a good chance of recovering
others.
More Regard for Votes
From the East Oregonian.
Complaint is being made and seeming
ly with justice that our national law
makers are more Interesjjgd in the sol
dier vote than they are in the men who
wore the uniform in the war.
The most astounding Indifference yet
shown In either body is the refusal of
the appropriations committee of the sen
ate to act on the bill passed two months
ago by the house under which com
pensation for soldiers totally disabled in
the war is raised from J30 a month to
J80 a month with additional allowances
for dependents. This bill, known aB the
Sweet bill, and containing all the im
proved features of the War Risk Insur
ance legislation has laid on the table
of the committee seven weeks without
action. Meanwhile the proposed im
provements to soldiers' insurance af
fecting 4.000,000 ex-service men cannot
be put into effect. Meanwhile, also,
200,000 disabled men are drawing $30 a
month and fractions of $30 a month,
when they ought to be getting a living
compensation.
To the lay mind this neglect of con
gress is inexcusable. Even if congress
does not see fit to pay a higher bonus to
service men in general there can be no
room for debate over the propriety of
cariner for the wounded men. Those men
did their duty, their physical needs
should be cared for without haggling.
No Longer a Hoodoo
From the Des Moines Register
The man who used to sneer at the $2
bill has reformed to the extent he Is
always glad to see that it isn't a $1
I bill.
E. G. Arey
geles. A bronze tablet on a rock near
the cross bears this inscription "The
beginning of civilization in California.
Fra Junipero Serra, Apostle, Legislator
and Builder. To commemorate his good
works this tablet is here placed. Un
veiled by William Howard Taft, twenty
seventh president of the United States,
October 12th, A. D. 1909."
At the open air service on the summit
of Mount Rubidoux on Kaster morning,
1913, Henry Vim Dyke read his poem,
"God of the Open Air," and at each Kas
ter service since that day this poem has
been read. Sitting on the bare granite
rocks, as one sees the cross on Rubidoux
silhouetted against the evening sky,
Henry Van Dyke's beautiful lines come
to one's mind
Anil so, on Kaster morn. His Tirtory won.
Breaking the mortal bars that sealed "ie tomb,
In a fair garden filled with flowers ofblooin.
The risen Sariour met the rising sun.
Him will I trust, and fur my Master take.
Him will I follow, and for His dear sake
God of the open air, to Thee I make my prayer.
The citizens of Riverside are planning,
as a memorial to their hero dead, to
have some great sculptor carve, from one
of the huge boulders, on the top of
Mount Rubidoux, a figure of the risen
Lord. They are planning to secure,
from some war-torn field of France or
Belgium, a cross, which they can bring
here and re-erect where the gaze of the
statue of the risen Lord will ever rest
upon it. Their thought Is to help restore
some shattered church and to furnish it
with a new cross, in exchange for the
one which they will secure there and
erect on the summit of Mount Rubidoux.
They believe that this will be a bond
of friendship to the two communities,
and, to all who visit this spot, it will be
a sacred shrine and a perpetual reminder
of those who spilled the red wine of their
youth in France or Flanders. They be
lieve that a statue of the risen Christ,
the Prince of Peace, would be a more
appropriate- monument to those who
gave their lives that the world might be
a better place for men to live In, than if
they brought captured cannon or other
grim reminders of shell-torn field and
bloody trench.
They think of their sons who will
never return their herb dead as did
Lieutenant J. H. Yates, who "rites:
These are the young, the strong, the lie. the brave.
Who, waiving their just claim to life's full worth.
To future generations gladly gaTe
The treasures which belonged to them nn earth.
We dare not let them count for naught.
They gave their all to death, and we must gWe
Our bent to life! Their pain and loss hare taught
A lesson to our profit; arid the cost
They paid that earth might be a better place
Tor men to life in, will he basely lost
By us: How then should we hate heart to face
That world that lies beynml death's open door.
Where we shall see our great lored dead once moref
The True Spirit of
nomocracy
From Detroit News
Class making in the United States is
hard business. Maybe that is because
the very idea of class is opposed to the
fundamental theory of Americanism, but,
at any rate, wherever an attempt has
been made to Isolate and designate and
keep distinct an American class failure
has resulted.
This was never better Illustrated than
In the late industrial conference. This,
it will be remembered, nad a tripartite
organization the employers' group, the
labor group and the group rep
resenting the public. The failure of
such a scheme was fore-ordained, be
cause there was but one group In whose
favor any decision could have stood
without contention. The public group,
which means only the group representing
the United States of America all the
people of this nation was the only
group whose right ought to have been
considered If democracy is to have its
sway. There will always be diversity of
Interests among Individuals and associa
tions of individuals, but in the last re
sort the will of the majority must tri
umph or the experiment of popular rule
must be declared a failure.
And this attitude must be attained In
spirit and In truth by all who hope
either individually or by corporate or as
sociative action to bring about direction
of public policy. The will of big busi
ness as big business must not be thrust
upon the American people; the demands
of labor as labor must not be enforced
against the desires and the sense of jus
tice of the general public; no group or
organization of people can by extra
governmental influence or power work
their will to the detriment of the people
without doing violence to the very prin
ciple of democracy.
It is useless for any group so en
gaged to plead, "We are good Amer
icans." The test of Americanism is ac
cordance with the principles of govern
ment by all the people.
Canal Under Jerusalem
From Popular Meclianics
If the proposals of a Norwegian engi
neer are carried out, there will soon
be a subterranean canal directly under
the citv of Jerusalem to the Dead sea.
irrigating the wilderness of Judea, and
Drovding copious electric power at the
mouth of the Jordan. For the Dead
sea, that strange body of heavy saline
water, is 1292 feet below the level of
the Mediterranean, and not more than
50 miles away. An ample electrical
supply, available for the modernizing
of the Holy City and other communities
that have made no progress since their
names were recorded In the manuscripts
of the Bible, la an interesting prospect
The Oregon Country
Northwest Hipenintfs in Brief Form fo tot
Busy Header.
Ortl'XJON NOTES
Coyotes are coming in from the hills
and killing sheep in the Ueaverlon
neighborhood.
Three cars of fat hogs and one car
of steers were shipped from Gold Hill
to Portland this week.
Edgar Forest raised 7000 sacks of po
tatoes this year on 130 acres of dry
land in Umatilla county.
The city tax levy of Cottage Cirove
for isio will be $2000 larger than that
of this year, the total being $16,000.
James Drown, city marshal at Myrtla
Point for ninny years, lias resigned as
the result of criticism by the American
Legion post. - "
Eighteen I. W. W. who were arrested
a week ago at Tillamook have been
bound over to the grand jury on charges
of criminal syndicalism.
The shooting of Klmer llolilman bv
an armed thug last Monday has started
a general round-up of unemployed bv
the sheriff of that county. ,
An overheated stove destroyed the
home of n Van Ordstrand at The
Dalles and left nothing for the family,
except the clothes they wore.
With the eceitpon of the Nehalem
and Columbia fixers the fall fishing
reason has ended. The season lias Iwcn
a disappointment to the canncrs.
Out of r.'l children in the Athena
schools who were recently tested by the
county health nurse, only two were
found to be below standard weight.
Coal of splendid analy?,s and appar
ently of considerable nuantltv Ins heen
found at slight depth m the Sams valley
and Meadows district of Douglas ceun
ty. Martin Hanson of Ticnd has lost sev
eral head of valuable tattle as the re
sult of eat Inn hemlock, w hich Is found
along the water courses of Deschutes
county.
Walter Hunt, aired 2S, son of John
Hunt of Westport, met instant death nt
the Big Creek Logging company's plant
In Clatsop county Friday In an effort to
stop a runaway flatcar.
Oheesemakcrs at Tillamook are highly
gratified at the fact that ehe.se made
in that city won the sixth first prize
and tied for the seventh at the I'juiiie
International Livestock exhibit inn.
A post of the American Legion was
organized at Canyon I'Hy Friday night
and tunned Irving 1011 is Tiacy post, in
honor of a Canyon City boy who lost
his life during tlie war.
WASHINGTON
Enrollments in the Edward IV Rhodes
post of the American Legion at Tacoma
now total nearly loOO.
H. M. Chambers, mayor of Albion, has
resigned owing to a dispute In the coun-
ell over the paving of streets.
William floodenoiigh was struck by a
train at a railroad crossing at Ilntton
and Instantly killed Thursday afternoon.
Offlc' rs visited the homo of Augustine
Tarretia, near Walla Walla, Thursday,
and seized 300 gullons of home-made
wine.
The Lewis county turkey crop is the
largest in the history of the comity, and
contract prices have reached 35 cents
liveweight.
A contrnct for concrete work on the
east entrance to the viaduct at Aber-
j neen nas oeen lei io ine uniya jiuiuui
Building company ror .lii,J'.il.4.
; Five thousand gallons of tomato cat
sup, seized under the pure food act, were
destroyed at Spokane this week by the
United States marshal. The lot was
worth J40H0.
l.'nited States Commissioner McClel
land lias quashed the search warrant
under which the Seattle Union Record
was seized and the paper has been re
turned to Its owners.
The federal immigration department
has refused to deport 13 aliens arresled
at Centralla unless the state can prove
that each of the aliens actually prcuchvd
I. W. W. propaganda.
Russell Lynn, an Aberdeen high school
boy student and an ex-service man. Is
under arrest charged with the theft of
postofflce money orders and other prop- '
erty from postofflce sub-stations.
Whtl indulging in an Imitation of an
I. W. W. hunt near their home in Yak
ima, Hollo Goldsmith aged 1,',. was shot
and fatally Injured by a .22 ilfle in the
hands of his playmate. Orvllle Dennis.
Six-cent street car fares In Seattle are
imminent as the resull of the city coun
cil voting that repairs and riTalnteriance
of streets between the trai ks shall he
paid fur out of the revenue from the
lines.
Although the strike of pressmen In the
Job offices of Seattle has heen ordered
off by the International union, the strik
ers refuse to Hhlde by the order and
have voted to remain out another 10
days before returning to uik.
IDAHO
W. W. Deal of Nampa wax reelected
chaplain of the National Grange at the
annual convention in Grand Kaplds,
Mich.
Idaho ranks Keventh In the United
States in 11M3 potato production with
6S30 cars, according to the latest bulle
tin of the crop reporting service.
The. Uecla Mining company ha de
clared Its regular quarterly dividend of
$100,000. The declaration Is at the rate
of 10 cents a share on 1,000,000 shares.
The West Peark Oil Ac Gas company
of Pennsylvania has completed an oil
rig on Goose creek, near Oakley, and
will Immediately begin drilling for oil.
James V. Hllss, an I. W. W. organizer,
pleaded guilty to criminal syndicalism In
the district court at Lcw-lston and was
sentenced to 10 years In the penitentiary.
A total of 3.") suspected I. W. W. have
been rounded up In Sandpolnt and vi
cinity during the last few days, and will
be tried under the criminal syndicalism
law.
Because of 111 health. Gns Johnson,-23-year-old
son of Krlc Johnson, com
mitted suicide at Pocatello by ("hooting
himself In the loft breast with a shot
gun. Investment of $260,000 of state funds
In United States Liberty bonds has Just
been announced by, C. A. Klmer, head of
the state department of public Invest
ments. Setting aside 1,118.000 acres of land
in the Thunder mountain region ad
ditional forest reserves th federal gov
ernment has made available for the state
of Idaho 83,600 acres of now school
lands.
CKNKRAL
The United Slates Grain corporation
announces that embargoes on wheat
ami wheat fiour will be lifted Decem
ber 15.
The attorney general of Great Britain
is going forward with active prepara
tions for the trial of the former kaiser
In London.
Specialists say that William K. John
son, the American Anti-Saloon league
campaigner who was mobbed In London,
will lose the Right of one eye.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Down in San Antone, Texas, along
.".bout the time Garfield hadn't ytt been
heard of outside of Ohio, .Nick Stewart
come up from the lower fork of Big
Handy with a span of rearln' and rarin"
black stallions hitched to a sprier
wagon an' tore round that town some
thin' fierce. Nick was bad enough sober
but when he hitched Old John P.arley
corn to the combine an' run over a
couple of little black pickaninnies .the"
fined him $10. The next day he run
down a school marin an' .ledge Camp
bell fined him $100. Right away after
that Nick smashed up a baby buggy
and before he got hack to the stables
run over a crippled fiddler some-thin
scand'lus. Then .Tedge Campbell pent
him to the chain gang fer !0 days and
though Nick offered to pay JlO.Ooo fine
he hadt'r serve. It was a sure cure and
Nick sold them hosses and went back
to his ranch, dead certain that there
was a law to reach the rich an' reck
less in the Lone Star state o' Texas.
Also he and a lot of other folks was
more patriotic an' law abidln'. It sura
did a lot of good to see that almost
millionaire pickln' dirt In the street.