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8 THE: OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY,, DECEMBER. 5,. 1919. AX BTOEPZ5DEXT KrWSPAPtB a S. JACKSON. .Publishes PublUhad erery day. afuraoow and "M (Except Bands? afternoon), t Tbs '"V Building. Broadway IH xammu .. PorUaaoV Oresasv V- " a - Sound at tha Postotftee at Portland, OiMon, lot UaoaBiario tUroucb the Basils aa second ' class Mattel; .,--.--:.V j - -..-.- 1EIEPH0NSS Mala tlT! Home, AOBt. Tall tba eparataw what departoent yoo want. . - BMjamta 4 UntoT Co., Brnnawick BolkUn. 2-KIUi Tatawifc Raw Tort; 1)00 Mik ' Uuildtna. CHieaso. ubaeriptlaa termi by mail, at to any address in tha (Jutted States or Mexfee: tMILT IMORSDrO OR ATTERNOOJO One year ,18.00 One asoatb . . . . . 6 .60 SUNDAY On IW......I1U I Ona moot DAILX CMOBKINO OR AFTERNOON) AMD V . SUNDAY. Ona year...... $7.60 I Ona month t .no - The rtfht of indiriduaU to itfika ia inviolate and ooght not to ba interfered wttli y nay process of torernment, but there W a pradominant rtht, and that is ths rilbt of tba government to protect all of-rta people and to assert 1U power and aajeety against tha eballenca of any class. Woodrow Wilson. HYENA-LIKE m I ANY" senators have arrived at the positive conclusion that Mr. Wilson had nothing what ever to do with the prepara tion of the president s message to con gress,;" Is the statement of a news dis patch! v wiiat a juvejy enterprise iur sena tors to be engaged inl The I. V. W. , America and free institutions before our people; What else than that are -."many senators" trying to do? -What of men who capitalize the ill ness of another man in the effort to injure him? What near depravity is it when "many senators" caDltalfze the illness of the president of the united stales in mere venom to unaer : mine his efforts to help a turbulent and writhing country? What is the lesson they set to Red radicals when they imouan the message from the : White House, a message that pleads in the noblest terms ior pure Ameri canizing in an effort to hold the coun- try in safe anchorage ? "Many senators" arc stooping to " methods and tactics that the vilest r police court lawyers in the vilest police court in America would shrink from. Even the most abandoned crim- inal respects a sick room. A great American institution like the senate deserves a better representation than it gels from "many senators" whose acta , do more to undermine public confi dence in America than a thousand tr nuj.. - i . i i. i. ,mns cduld do. ' Baron El-lchl Shlbusawa, the sage of commerce of Japan, gives a Big- ntricant tribute to the United States when. In his memoirs of a long busi- , nee life, from which he has now re tired, he says, "Whatever ,ideas I ' possess on foreign relations came in association with America' His long memory reaches back to those days -when he was. a 14-year-ofld boy and Perry's expedition disclosed itself to Japan, not as a mission of terror and 'invasion, but as a traps-Pacific - reaching forth of America's still out stretched hand of friendship and peace. t WE OUGHT TO KNOW IT 1$ just as well that the supreme court determine once for all, and 'soon, what the state constitution V ' provides in Us seemingly ambigu ' . ous mandates concerning the status of Governor Olcott. If he is governor , in truth and holds for the unexpired term of the late Governor Wlthy combe, as Attorney General . Brown ' 'contends, it will be well for the supreme court to so announce, that various of our ambitious, citizens may cease to worry. If, on the other hand, he Is merely acting as governor by treason of his tenure as secretary of 'SUte and we must suffer the throes of a gubernatorial campaign through 'all of next year, let's have the news broken to us as gently and as early as possible. ;-lIt Is the fair thing and the wise .course to solve the puzzle m plenty of time to prevent the complications "and unpleasantness that would arise if .00 -effort were made until election days" drew near. If the constitution, upon its interpretation by-the supreme AA.J lea art Atim n mvm.i l. Wa Al , .uvuii ia siivnu ku i cuu c uie eicCUUU 4ui a governor iwj n is omyiair - " to those who may aspire to that office that they be given full opportunity to present their claims before the people of the 6tate. And it is. only I fair to the electorate that it be given ' its right to choose a governor if such choice is .now' required under the con- . BtitUtiOB-V , But aside from the puzzles and the controversies of the Instant case it will be better when the court has fully construed the organic law and settled the question for good and all. Governors hive died or have resigned . in the past and they will -probably v do so in the future. When they have, it has left the governmental machinery - . lopsided and in ft fctate of uncertainty, ' condition not in the best interest, of efficiency and' business a5&lnlstra-t tlon. When the supreme court nasi spoken Governor oicott, and any suc cessor who may eome into, thr office by the same path, will know both his tenure : and - his Jurisdiction and be able to govern himself., accordingly. Any government runs more smoothly in its course when its officials irave a. known and definite law to guide them,. . ;. 1 It is either three months in jail for a Portlander who violated (raffle regulations or refrain for the next six months from driving his . auto mobile. Here is an alternative that reckless drivers face in Municipal Judge Rossnan's court. It is a per fectly justifiable plan, . and with many drivers '.it will be a deterrent where all other measures would fail. If a man doesn't drive a deadly high power automobile with care,' why bould it not be taken away from him? - - "OUR WOMEN'S WAY P 0 R T L A Nt housewives have adopted resolutions appealing to all members of their organization, as follows: To strictly observe all traffic laws for the safety of the pedestrians and- other drivers. - and as pedestrians to watch for ourselves and as mothers to Instruct carefully our children to use every precaution in crossing all streets A and .thoroughfares. Here Is intelligent action. , Women are the best of reformers. They are the most active. The housewives would have their members instruct the children in the rules of safety. They request their members to .Inform themselves on traffio regulations, and as pedestrians and drivers act within the rules. This is the kernel by which the traffic problem can be solved. It is application of "the educative process. It Is the means by which the greatest inroads can, be made in lowering the ghastly accident Record of Portland. The ;plan of the housewives might well he adopted in every club, every association, every society, every school, every organization of every kind in the city. All could well afford to appeal to the membership as house wives have done, and each could do no better thing than for the time to make accident prevention the topic of discussion and Instruction at occa sional meetings. There should be a book of traffic regulations in every household, and it would be worth the while in every home to make safety rules the topic of discussion at in tervals around the family hearth stone. Who knows how many lives or mu tilations such a couEse would save? With the month Just closed the biggest accident month in the biggest accident year in Portland history, who can say, if something of the kind is not done, what the gory toll of kill ings will be next year? Now the profiteer has another uncomfortable classification. The American Legion is talking about the red flag of radicalism and the black fjag of profiteering. A reso lution to extirpate both has been adopted by the service men. Hither to pirates only have been entitled to the black flag, but perhaps profiteer is only a new name for this kind of outlawry. NO "PAPER PEACE" T HERE seems to be a hitch between the house and the senate leaders Over the establishment of a "paper peace" with Germany through the adoption of Senator Lodge V concur rent resolution declaring the war with uermany to be at an end. ChalrmanJ Porter .Of the foreign relations com mittee of the house refuses to report the resolution out of committee as desired by Senator Lodge and the Lodge program is thus hung up on a 1 parliamentary snag. I In spite of the senate's action in re fusing to ratify the treaty on the last day of the special session, and in spite of Senator Lodge's contention that the treaty question is dead without a re submission by the president to the present congress, there seems to be a well grounded suspicion that the treaty, as Senator McNary phrases it, "is not dead but sleeping." Undoubtedly Senator Lodge would like to see it dead. Undoubtedly, if he can control the senate, it will re main dead unless it comes back new born from the White House. But Sen ator Lodge may not be able to control the situation as he seemingly did dur ing the last daysvof the special session. It is true, without much, question. that the great majority of the senators want the treaty ratified. There Is no argument but that they want to see the League of Nations covenant a part or the treaty. This goes without say ing insofar as the "administration senators" are concerned. It is equally so'of the "mild reservationists." They hold not-) only the balance of power in the senate between them but Ihey constitute the constitutional majority necessary to ratify. ;The country wants the treaty and it wants the League of Nations. The mild reservationists know this fact and it is probable that - some who were not so mild before the senate adjourned may have discovered it since. There. will probably be a treaty and a covenant. And there will be peace with Germany, but It will not be Senator Lodge's "paper peace." " Premier Clemenceau does not seem to hold the press In the same awe as his Anglo-Saxon ' colleagues In the political world. When ce fixed the tlme fori signing thetreaty ; at o'clock in -the afternoon, in order that . the delegates, might lunch , before-signing, Uoyd . George ; asked. "What about the press?"' and the French (statesman replied, "What is the press to 600, suffering stom achs?" - z ms GENIUS H ARRY LAUDER is a great humorist because he has wept He has learned how to smile when his heart was heavy. Fifteen miles beyond the place where he knelt, on the shell scarred earth of France above the grave of a goa beloted, and almost before the tears in his eyes were dry, he brought rollicking mirth to the mud-stained comrades of his boy. During his valedictory"to the mem bers of the Rotary club and, their friends In Portland Wednesday, "he brought his listeners into a moment of thrilling silence while he related "a simple Incident. ' In the gloaming ol the evening an old lamp lighter appeared just out side the, window through which he was looking. The street lamp which had been dark flamed into light under the aged worker's ministrations. The lamp lighter went on up the street. Lauder could not long see him, but he knew where he was as the .lamps blazed up one after another. The watcher could not tell whether the old man finally turned to the left or right, but he had left behind-him an avenue of light. The man who persistently bright ens the lives of others, who lives by the Rotary motto, 'Service, not self," Is remembered for the light he leaves. His son may walk or may ride along the same thoroughfare, but he will find the way has been made clear and the places where he might stumble illuminated by the life that has gone ahead. t It was a homely incident, but it interprets the reason. why an endeared personality withdrawnirora the affairs of earth is not forgotten. It suggests an old verse : He kept his lamp still lighted Though round about him came Men who by commerce blighted Laughed at his tiny flame. But when in life's short twilight It came their turn to die. They nought for his small candle For a light to guide them by. Large numbers of Germans, so a Coblenz dispatch informs us. are planning to migrate to America aft er , peace has been declared, which information raises the question of whether the federal law providing for a. closed season on migratory birds, can be construed to apply to the threatened emergency. LIGHT OF THE STAR A' LL the funds that result from the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals are used to meet the necessary expense of organized attack upon that ancient enemy of humanity, tu berculosis. The money sends a nurse to give in struction and care to 641 Oregon young men who contracted tuberculosis in the world war or who were rejected for military service because of pul monary weakness. It sends devoted nurses to the open air school, to aid the work of the Visiting Nurses asso ciation, and to conduct demonstra tions, of public health nursing in the counties of the state. It pays the salary of the open air school matron and for the strengthening food pro vided the handicapped little tots that are gathered there. It bears the ex pense of a state wide educational cam paign, distribution of literature, pos ters, bulletins and slides: It carries on the health crusade which has en listed 60,000 school children. It main-, tains a modestly compensated organi zation ready to answercalls for helg, no matter what the hour or occasion. It represents the citizen's sup&ort of the sacrifices in duty that cannot be pleasant to the workers who give full time in carrying on the fight. It Is, therefore, an act of unselfish ness to purchase Red Cross Christmas seals. It is a good deed to paste one of the cheery stickers on letter or package, for each is a lesson in disease prevention.! Nothing at the Christmas season bet ter exemplifies the love and solicitude for humankind which has been the theme of the great holiday ever since the star stood above the manger in Bethlehem. - The Red Cross Christmas seal is the modern offering of the wise men who followed the star The Methodist church has lost 60.000 members, according to an an nouncement to the board of mis sians at its Philadelphia meeting by Reverend ; Edgar. Blake, who con tends thatthe $113,900,000 centen ary fund Is not sufficient to meet the expenses necessary to recoup the loss. , REGULATE STREET CARS w H1LE issues of public safety ehi gross public attention a tragedy of the streets bares the neces sity of accident prevention broad enough to include street cars as well as automobiles. Wednesday an automobile struck by a street car afe Second and Taylor streets, was dragged 33 feet before a stop could be made. Recently a Sellwood car struck a two-ton furniture truck and so great was its speed that the heavy motor vehicle was tossed onto a lawn 75 feet from the scene of the collision. Four men were injured,' two perhaps fatally. The list Included the motor- man, u ne testimony indicates that the motor was moving at a moderate rate:but;lhat the street car may have been proceeding at excessive Speed. Probably' no witness will be able to testify as to whether the street car was exceeding the i ;peed of $0 miles an hour allowed vehicles of (he kind. It Is well known that the street cars do not carry speedometers. Often . It is charged that the cars serving sub urban districts pay no heed to traffic, but make a headlong dash toward their destination, placing all the bur den for caution upon the automobiles and pedestrians that approach inter sections ef street car tracks. If the 'street cars moved on their own exclusive rights of , way. and if there were no grade crossings, speed would tiot be a thing to condemn. But "where te lines occupy? public streets, the men. who operate street cars should be held to as rigid ac countability for observance of traffic regulations, as those who sit at the steering wheels of motor cars. Traffio reform should not play fa vorites. The ordinances . that , limit speed, end require slowing for cross ings and that demand the ringing of warning gongs, should be enforced. May it not be probable, as Presi dent Wilson might phrase It, that the reason the members" of Looking Olass grange are so opposed to danc ing la because they remember Bob bie Burns' well known lines, which run, "Oh wad some power the glftle gle us to see oursel's as ithers see us!" FREAR QUIZZES FLYING PARSON - From Carl Smith, Washington Staff Correspondent of The JournaT. Washington,? Dec. 6. -- Lieutenant Maynard, the "flying parson," who won the transcontinental air dercy. a wit ness before the Frear subcommittee on investigation of aviation matters, did not agree with some other witnesses who have ascribed accidents to Ameri can aviators to faults of the De Havl land four, with which they were prin cipally equipped. "With the exception of a few weak points which we . were able to over come and have changed," ha said, "with these corrections, the plane was as good as any foreign built plane." The plane he used crossing the con tinent, he said, was a lie Haviland which had never been tested and nev er flown except for a few minutes be fore he started. He has done all the ''stunts" known to the air, he said, and In more than 700 hours in the air he never had one "go bad" until the breaking of the crank shaft during his cross-country trip. Lieutenant Maynard also paid trib ute to the Liberty motor, which he has used in all his flying, and has used, he said, "as much as anyone." The majority of De Haviland . acci dents were due to inexperience of the flyers, he said, and would have hap pened with any other plane. He replied directly to statements made by Major La Ouardia, the congressman-aviator, who had said that aviators dread the De Haviland and that a forced landing means death to the pilot. 'Major La Guard la was quite enthus iastic in his work," said Maynard, "and probably no one could have done any better, but he had little experience as real flyer. Take the last flight he took, down In Italy; when he came to consciousness he thought he ; was in Germany." 1 thlak he made a good record as an aviator," remarked .Representative Frear, chairman of the subcommittee. "As an aviator?" echoed Maynard. 'Not according to the reports that came back to this country." ., ' . 'Do you mean his decoration by Italy was not warranted?" asked Frear. "He knew how to handle the Iallan people very well," returned Maynard ; "probably no one could have excelled him ; but his decoration was not War ranted as an abator." , 'You may be prejudiced, suggested Representative Magee. VI am not," replied Maynard. I am, a very good friend of La Guardia. As an aviator nobody gave him any credit, and I tnow that." " The Frear -committee has practically- finished its work. If any further hear ings are held they will be very brief. It was agreed that the committee should not meet during the adjourn ment 'of congress, and the preparation of the report will be- begun at once. It is clear from what has transpired at the committee hearings that there will be majority and minority reports. as Representative Lea, the Democratic member, does not at all agree in his conclusions with Frear and Magee, who are expected to make findings which will give the war department thunder' for its handling of thevwar aviation, from the spruce woods of the Northwest to the battlefields of France. Openings for the sale of American lumber in Italy, particularly Douglas fir and southern pine, are dealt with in a report from the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, written by Trade Commissioner Nelson C. Brown. The heavy exchange : penalty Is the disturbing element in the immediate fu ture in making: sales to Italy. The srreat demand will be for rough lum ber- for reconstruction of devastated areas, it is stated, for car construction shipbuilding, flooring, furniture and general building. From one, to three billion board feet of lumber wiu te required for several years and the most of it must be imported. "There is a definite and assured opportunity to in crease the use of lumber in general, as well as American lumber in partlc ular." says Mr. Brown. Lumbermen interested In this report can obtain it at district and cooperative offices of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Protection of the Columbia river wa tershed Is one tf the advantages claimed by the department of agriculture in the setting aside of 1,116,000 acres in the Thunder Mountain region, Idaho, as national forest land. Part is added by recent act of congress to the Pay ette national forest and part to the Idaho national forest. This region is declared to be a typical illustration of the loss resulting from leaving large tracts adjoining national forest, un controlled. In 12 years, it is estimated, 700,000,000 feet of lumber have" been de stroyed in fires which have swept one third of the area, with constant men ace to national forests adjoining; gras inar lands have been almost ruined; bird and animal life decimated and roads I and trails left undeveloped. The Thun der Mountainiegion, according to the department, supplies at least" 1000 sec ond feet of water to the Columbia at low water periods, and the protection to .the forests hereafter to be given? by the forest service is counted upon as a fact worth reckoning in the perma nent protection of the watershed 5 Ex-eervice men, t under,rullngs of the war . risk bureau, , have until the last day of the present year xo reinstate their insurance if they have allowed It tn lanaa. if the aCDltCant IS fa SS gOOd health -a he was at date of discharge, J or at expiration of his period of grace. whichever date is later- ,;roe statement as to health is. not required if the re instatement is : made . within : tares months of the date of discharge. 7 In all -eases . the 1 payment I only two months', premium is required, and those who ! reinstated by - payment 01 nacic premiums prior to July -16, 'When -the two-month ruling was issued, s will be credited on future premiums whatever sums they have naid in excess 01 two months, if written application is "taade for It. : These liberalized rulings axe ex pected to result in bringing many ap plication for reinstated Insurance if former service men- can be generally informed 'of what is offered them.; Letters From the People tComaaunieaUoaa aant to Tba Journal for publication la this departawnt ahoaM ba WTtttaa n only ona aida of tha papar, thou Id Dot exceed SOO wo nil is lancth. and most ba ateaad by tba writer, wbeaa lull address ia foil nutat aosota panr tba contribution. J The Speed Maniac Portland, Dec. . To the Editor of The Journal Five killed, 37 Injured and 931 smashlngs such Is the record of No vember, 1919, for Portland's reckless and incompetent auto drivers. These appal ling figures are for one month only. .There might have been twice this num ber of deaths. Injuries and smashups had it not been for the warning that has gone forth time and again. The Journal has been running , almost a continual stream of fire In the way of news art icles and editorials calling the attention of the ignorant and Incompetent auto speeders to the accidents. After hearing 6f such auto smashups as these it is enough to make ones blood boil to see some speed king go tearing down the street at a-30-mile clip, leav ing death and destruction in his wake. These Speeders seem to have little or no regard for human life, nor are they particularly Interested in "law and or der." Heretofore these outlaws were given a small fine, which helped but little. Now, however, they are setting: real jail sen tences. This undoubtedly will be of great assistance in curbing the reckless, incompetent and vicious drivers. M. P. Jobs for Service Men Portland, Dec 3. TO the Editor of The Journal The O-W. R. A N. officials at the Albina yards have many Chinese and Japanese employed. Why not let them go and take ex-service men? They once advdtated patriotism. I learned from one Jbfficial, when I asked htm to consider American help, that he pre ferred for car repair shops Russians, and for the machine shop, Austrian. Why can't our department stores put some of the boys on the elevators? The boys fought for them and helped them to make more money than before the war. 4Those Japanese and Chinese don't care for Americans. Take, for Instance, in the ship yards the ones that worked there for $8 and $12 ja. day all, through the war and still hang on. Why not lay off some and give the boys a chance? . I say, lay off some of those bosses that stand around and look wise at 12 day and give a poor boy a job at $4.64. Why can't the chamber of commerce assist some? A READER. The President. Was Right Portland,'Dec 2. To the Editor" of The Journal If the president had been more diplomatic it perhaps would have been good policy, considering the turn that things political have taken since the work done at Versailles was finished. But the president is not a peanut polltl cian. He is an ideal statesman, and did not stop to cooslder minor things. His mind was occupied with major mat ters, the things worth while. He was not loaded to shoot the bills off snipes. In thli great undertaking he was like ex-President Roosevelt; he was after big game, and he got what he went after. I think the president was right. The big thing wgS world peace, and world peace is not a partisan affair at all and it is a shame and a disgrace to make po litical capital out of his great object peace on earth and good will toward men. . It is plain that the little fellows in the senate are -too small for their job and are making a Btrong bid for the pro-German vote in the coming election. Perhaps there is plausible excuse for one reservation. It Is this.' We reserve the right to sever relations with the In ternational compact in two years or at any other time after a fair and impartial trial. A test of Wilson efforts over the seas would be a square deal to our allies And the president alike. In other words. it would be just to both friends and foes. All reservations, many or few, save the one above mentioned, are superfluous, uncalled for and have but one object the many reservations are camouflage and conceal from view their real pur pose, political revenue only. It Is a humiliation to the people of this great nation and an insult to their good common sense, to make political capital out of those times that tried men's nerves and mothers' hearts. It Is dirty work.' It Is more w It is contemptible. WILLIAM FRANKLIN PRTJDEN. Universal Military Training Fargo, N. D., Nov. 25. To the (Editor of The Journal Some time ago in your columns appeared a letter from a Mr. Barnes which purported to be a reply to an article, also appearing In your paper, written by a Mr. Scott. The letter and article dealt with the subject of uni versal military training, a subject in which we are all vitally interested and in which I am personally Interested from the standpoint of an elght-montha-old baby boy, born into my family while I was still in France. It Is not military training that created "the most democratic army the world has ever known," as Mr. Barnes thinks. It is because we are the greatest de mocracy in the world that our army was what it was. and for that reason could not have been aught but democratic. The fact is that "democracy" In our army was maintained and kept alive not by virtue 'Of our system of military train ing,, but rather in sjflte of it. The mili tary authorities Injected Into our army as much of the training and discipline of the German, French and British ar mies as our army could stand, and only stopped when it became apparent that more could not be crammed down our American throats. The mistake lay In judging us by European standards, when as a matter or lact we nave notmng in common with the continental in our basla characteristics. Hj is a patient and plodding .draft horse, while we are lnpetuous mustangs. The German will patiently carry his 40-pound machine gun, ; while the average American, if he could not see a good reason for so do ing, yvould-wrap it around the first con venient tree. Mr. Barnes says that military train Ing has ceased to be a bugaboo to those who underwent it.' That statement leads jne to think mat Mr. joarnes couiu hardly have been In the army during the last. two years, or, if he were, that ha was not a buck private tn the in fantry. Personally, I speak advisedly when I talk about the army. 4 was commissioned at the first officers'-train ing camp and served witn xour ainerent divisions in the infantry,' being with the Yankee division through the St. Mlhlet drivu and . through to the end of the rausi. When I say that army life Is harmful to the ordinary man, I know exactly what I am talking about, and wt Mr. Barnes would send the Ameri- an hov at 18 years for a six-months' stay at the most susceptible period of his life, into association with ether 1S-year-olds, undesirables from every walk of life. Remember that your, American boy isn't going ura military acaaemy, COMMENT AND v SMALL CHANGE On Christmas noma more turkeys' heads will take a day .off, "Telenhone hill win twt lata In arrlv. ing." i the headline that catches our eye by chance In an upstate paper. Bet ter aie, wen never, we u say. iVf Britons "stand" fop narllament. Amer icana "run for congress, and after they are elected an the other Americans have to stand for congress. -Will it ever come to this, that the United States must throw ud Its hands and say "Neither have I" In answer to a European . appeal? There's coaL rrinstance. A hifrhly esUmable eonUmnorarv num. inates Clemenceau for the presidency of France. Maybe the old Tiger doesn't want it Maybe, after being premier and aU, it would be- like electing him vice president oi me united states. If the coal famlna beOmaa amit shall get out all the old Congressional Records we can find, and keep the tome firee burning. Meanwhile the verse edi tor assures us that he has material on hand for any number of good, hot pome urvs. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS v I OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred 'This is tba third installment of Mr. Lockley 'a ketch of tha eanei of Simon Benson. In this Mr. Benson ia quoted aa to tha -Oinposltion ba it making of his fortune, and also in relation to the education which American youth should hare to fit them for encountering tha world of today. "You have told me how you made your money, now tell me how you are going to spend It," I said to Simon Benson recently as we ate dinner at the Hotel Virginia at Long Beach, Cal. "I'U tell you how I have already spent some of It," said Mr. Benson. "There, were seven children In our fam ily. All of them were wage earners, but none of them except myself made any more than just enough to get along on. As soon as I was able to do so l4 made all of my brothers and sisters in-' dependent, so they would have no financial worries, I have five children. Amos was my first cnlld : besides, there are Alice, now Mrs. Alice Benson Beach : Caroline, now Mrs. TJnander ; Gilbert, who is 21, and Chester, my youngest, 17. I have given each of my five children half a million apiece, making Amos the trustee, and arranging to have them re ceive the interest on the amount of their inheritance. ''I have spent about $200,000 on build ing roads or buying parks for the good of ail the people. I gave $100,000 toward the buUdlng of the Benson Polytechnic BchooL The Betison fountains in Port land cost me $10,000. Recently I cre ated a loan fund of $10,000 to help sto "L-.. , i. ' v", "v- U temporary help. "As to what I am going to do with a good portion of the remainder of my money, I do not wish to announce yet. I will tell you of one good sised amount which I am going to devote to the pub lic good." When he had told me Mr. Benson said, "I would prefer that you do not say anything about it Just say that I plan, . as opportunity offers to invest my money in education, good roads. public parks and other enterprises which will. In my judgment, be of bene fit to the public e "Whenever I spend my money I have a definite object In view. Takei for example,- the money I spent for the 20 fountains In Portland eight or nine years ago. I used to watch workmen going into saloons with their buckets to buy beer. It seemed strange that In a city whoee water was famous for its purity and excellence, workmen had no oppor tunity to quench their thirst except in a saloon. I had been .noticing for years how much liquor cost me In decreased efficiency of the men In my logging camps and" sawmills. It also was the cause .of v numerous accidents, all of which were expensive. It also meant poverty and distress to the families of my workmen, which I felt I should alle viate. For a long time I had been get ting more and more disgusted with help ing support the saloons, which, pro where he would mix with 18-year-olds of his own stamp only. The dragnet of universal military training will get them all alike, criminal and law abiding, im moral as well as moral, and who of you are so foolish as to think that your boy at 18 can live continually with and. knowingly or unknowingly, absorb everything that is passed on to him by thesj undesirables, and not come away at the end of six months tainted for ever? Are the mothers and fathers of America blind, or dont they care? Universal military training is not necessary. A small standing army ior police purposes within the United States, and a draft law Immediately in opera tion upon declaration of war. Is all that Is nocesssry. Those 4,000,000 rifles will keep indefinitely with proper care, and an American with four weeks training Is as good a soldier as the world pos sesses. I nave seen tnem in action wiui less training than that and I know. Mr. Barnes would have us believe that the people who are opposing universal military training are for the most part pro-German in their sympathies. When he says that Mr. Barnes Is handling the truth very carelessly. Ninety-five per "cent of the ex-service men are op posed to universal military training. What did the American Legion advocate at Minneapolis? Some form of service, with no compulsory service in time of peace. Figure It out for yourself. Remember that wars after all accom plish nothing but misery, and that brains, properly applied, will keep na tions from Jumping at each other's throats, and lastly, .remember that if we are to have universal military train ing we are placing in the hands of our own military war lords a sword which their hands are going to itch, ' sooner or later, to use. LEIGH J. KONSON. Thinks Big Army Needed Portland, Nov. '26. To the Editor of The Journal The United States should have 1,000,000 soldiers. Why do not pub lic men say so? Tell the people the truth and not bid for popularity by ey ing 250,000 men will be enough. Why fold our arms and dream that a League of Nations will do our share of the mil itary work and bring the millennium of peace 100 years before lbs time?., The world must first be converted to the human kindness of President Wilson and the nation behind him. . Today, day dreams of peace are-dangerous. There are too many D" Annan slos abroad tn foreign lands. Also, mad Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Nick Packers takes oath that these here Wall . street stock gamblers is so low down that, a tinhorn gambler In a Chink opium joint's a gentleman, a pa triot and Canthroflst alongside of 'em. Nick Invested 200 ia some Wall street game that didn't flip bis: war,' and be has lost all faith in human nature, X ast him oncet-wasn't he a-playln' he was a Wall streeter j hisself, : and X had to dodge, round th' corner mightyjuick. 4 .- NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS ? ReedaDort lit to have a steam laundry if present building flans materialise. : Eugene's fire department in November j made 10 runs. Fire loss aggregated $1000, just half that of frjpvember, 1918. Pendleton has a new motor driven street f lusher, which has all the very latest improvements and delivers the goods. ... '.' ' .Good roads boost In the F.nterprlse Reporter: "Say. that hard road to Flora will add many thousands of dollars to the assessed valuation of thU county by Increasing' the value of all farm lands in the northern part of the coun ty double. Good roads are the best paying Investment In the United States today.' ... Hint to nature lovers, thrown out by Colonel Wood, the artistic editor of-the Weston Leader: "A walk along the banks of Pine creek impresses one with the wealth of material which is available for winter bouquets. Bright scarlet rose hips combined with dainty wax-ball ber ries, pine cones and sprays of evergreens make it possible to have very colorful and artistic effects, in home decoration by Blmply taking advantage of what nature has provided." , Lockley r- ducing nothing of value, were parasites on legitimate Industry. I decided that if the workman on the street could get a drink of cold. Dure water on the street corner without cost he wouldn't go Into a saloon to buy beer. "When the fountains had been in stalled I sent a trusted agent around to find out if they cut Into the saloon trade. In many saloons sales had de' creased from 25 to 40 per cent. Better yet. scores of other cities followed Port land's example and installed public drinking fountains. "The reason I gave $100,000 toward establishing the Benson Polytechnic school was to give our boys and girls a chance to learn trades and thus be come self supporting, self respecting citizens. If a man has a trade he can earn money. This means he can get married and own a home. The L W. W, can make no converts among workmen who own homes and have family ties. Jt is the restless. Ignorant drifter who, having no home ties or real Interests, takes up the doctrines of the Reds or the discontented 'intellectual.' "V feel very strongly on this subject. Take a young man and keep him In the atmosphere of a strictly cultural college till he is 22. and what Is the result? He wants to start at the top. He wants a white collar Job. He doesn't want to sweat. I have had lots of them come to me for jobs. I want them to put on overalls and learn the business, but they, with their half baked theories, w ant to snow me uow w i uu my - ness. They want easy Jobs, "where they won't get callouses on their hands. Lots of theoe chaps succeed In spite of, not through, the help of being educated as they were. What we need Is producers men who are willing to work. This will bring down the high cost of living. Teach more of our boys a trade: teach more of our girls to .cook, to raise ba bies and to be home makers, and there will be less Industrial unrest "The test of an educational Institu tlon should be : Is It turning out good cltisens; will Its graduates become pro ducers. or parasites : will they be as sets or liabilities to a community; has it a real part in the upbuilding of the, community and the state? "The cure for industrial unrest is for all of us, employers and employes, to deal justly with our fellow men. You can't give the public a raw deal nor be crooked In your relations with the public and expect your employes to be straight. If you are a grafter they will foUow what you do, not what you say. "We have got to take action against the millionaire I. W. W. and the parlor Bolshevist aa well as round up the red card workers In the woods. Right Is right and wrong is wrong, irrespective of the sire of your bank balance or the kind of clothes you wear. We must get back to the doctrine of the square deal, and practice it as well as preach (t." political dreamers have come to America to preach. But "Buddy" has his eyes open he who went over the top: and he Is the hope of our land until. we build a new army and navy. The fine army of France saved democ racy until the Britons and then the "Meriques," as the French call us, drilled and crossed over. But France lost the flower of her youn' men in doing this. A bright and beautiful young French woman told me this, and that Is wby she can never marry unless an Amerlcancomes.to the rescue. A French justice of the peace, who had been shot a few times. Invited me to dine and wine with him. He made a little speech after dinner. ' He said : "No France, no America; no America, no France." .Britain also lost a large part of her best young men. Volunteers they were, 2,000,000 strong. America .lost some fine fellows, the bravest men on earth. But we have a fine bunch of boys left over. Part of them belong to the American Legion. Let I. W. W. and Bofehevlkl and Social ists drop right in behind the Legion and make one grand Loyal Legion for Amer ica. And then we will need an alliance with the brave French and Britons to keep democracy. A little extreme pa triotism won't hurt just now. t D. F. NEWLAND. And Well They Might Frera the Detroit Tfewa A Jury of women at Durand, all of whom were mothers, acquitted a woman accused of spanking her child for five minutes at a time, whereat 12 fathers, who before had been IndlvtduaMy con demned f&r spanking a child half a min ute at a time, greatly marveled. Curious its of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places Few white men have been fortunate enough to wander Inland in Korea as far as the ancient city of Musan. This city, with its grim old walla bearing five centuries of history, lies on the very edge of Korea. To enter It Is like step ping backward to another world. Into a story of the Arabian Nights. . During the Russo-Japanese war several Rus sians took refuge there, and since then half a doaen foreigners have discovered it but except for these stragglers, Musan lies unknown to the Western world. The great central pal ace, or recepUon hall, of the city, re mains Intact, and close by. In partial ruins, is the temple guest house. The smaller publio buildings, the gates, the watch towers and even the walls them selves, have their own particular story to tell of Musan 's Interesting 'past," but few people know it People who have hunted tigers in the vicinity of Husan way the animals are more beautiful thao their- retaUves of India or the Malar peninsula These. beauties range among tne Mueny ooia . mountains or China. Korea and , Manchuria and far Into 8iberia ',., The Oregon "Country. Nortbwaat Happcntnti la Brief Farm for tb Bwy Rsedar. -.4.-. OREGON NOTES - ;. Condon nnd naiMtntlivwt ( i. grip of the coldest snap of the year, .the . oanKs ox Tillamook county aliow $2.V1 iok3 ,,oupo amounting to "4 Losrcvra In tha Tlvnti-rj.iir -- above VVendllng) are wbrklng In seven The SllVftrtflB f Atv niinll . U 1920 budiret. calllna- ture of $20,918.60. T SDeclel Matt f A ... Ai,itilfraHn Ili-IUUI. have beeen voted in nine of the Vi road -districts of Jackson county. . . ,i mercury yolng below sero Tuesday night f J. K Whitehead has received tha an. -:i pointment of postmaster at Turner. ' f The Frontier fannl Astoria renorta a .nnlr nf 7ufn a r , salmon this season, mostly sllvanldes, ..0nLy 6.6, sees were planted ,to trees in ' the Santlam national forest this year, t ' owing to the extremely heavy 'fire 4 I season. f i Five hundrMt rhinua nk.....i. . . 1 "r nuea oy me Mate game commie- -March lWeeri Albany and Hhedd abput " Students taklnar tha at Oregon Agricultural college now nfLi ber $10, exceeding those taking any Other course. . Nearly everv atnra in r,ir.n ..... . robbed last Monday night and the stolen X i-iujjeriy was rouna in the possess on of , two 16-year old boys. Senator B. L. Eddy of Douelas counlv i announces that he will he a candidate to succeed himself, at the Republican ' I primary election next May. The commissioners of the nor of r Coos Bay have unanimously declared for -i' ; tne issuance or an additional $250,000 worth of bonds, making a total of $560,000. . The Pendleton Roller MIHa have re. celved notice that a government order- ' for 6000 barrels of straight flour has Den awaraea mem rorjithe month of r December. The price Is $9.66 a barrel. . ' Taxpayers of Oregon are,, being saved $86,000 by the state highway commis sion In adopting the Canyonvllle cut off road on the Pacific highway instead of leaving the route through Riddle. t i"o uumraiy oi uregon v,iee ciuo, , under, the direction of Albert Lukken, -professor of music. Is planning an eight- ' day tour of Eastern Oregon cities im mediately following the Christmas va w cation. WASHINGTON' Vancouver is on coal rations and as' a result ttu wood business lias. taken a boom. Seven supposed canes of sleeping sick ness are reported In Tacoma. So far there has been but one fatality. The lleGoldrlck Jumber company at Spokane has reorganised and Increased lttt capital stock from $69O.Oti0 to $2,000, 000. . - Thirty-one building permitfi, with an approximate construction value of $11, 895, were issued in Vancouver during November. Two hundred men employed by the f Wfa till Inirtsiri T'r v . r rnmnanv a, lliw. ' - kane have been granted wage increases averaging 13 per cent g At the annual election In Stevenson! Wednesday. Watte O Hufford was elect, ed by a majority of 16 voles to sue-1 ceed himself as mayor. After nearly a- week without food,- . the 22 alleged I. W. W. In the- Tacoma " I city Jail called the hunger strike off ' ' Wednesday and ate ravenously. , . J Mrs. Leslie Kipper was. burned to J death at Batonville Wednesday eVe- ' ning after her dress caught fire m she ' was uhdrosslng her twin babies. :' By pluralities of almost 10,000, the candidates of the triple alliance were r , at Seattle Wednesdav. This result is ' : considered a victory for Americanism. j Sugar beet ? growers In the ' Walla i Walla district will gain 125,000 as the recult of the recent advance In 'sugar. The district will produce 6000 tons this ' season. Two large ammunition ships and two.J target rsfta will be launched and, the$ new shipbuilding dock will be dedicated ' at t'ne naval station on Puget Sound December 16. The American Legion fund being , raised In Centralla for the prosecution ; ? t .vr nr - B i ; Di A. TV. W . SVUUWJ AJl IllUIUOIiUS l war veterans on Armistice day now exceeds $5000. A silver thaw struck Walla Walla this t week, seriously Interfering with elec-' i trie light and power lines and. leaving the streets and sidewalks blocked with. branches from broken trees. ' .. With the announced purpose pf rals Ing the standard of their profession ' ; and securing more attractive remuners tlon, teachers of Spokane county have organised a Teachers' league. Teachers of Grays Harbor county, by "J a set of resolutions, announce that they , ' will not Join the- movement for the or-; ganizatlon of teachers' unions either Un der tho American Federation of Labor : or otherwise. ;v" A vhiskey sUH. 60 barrels of whiskey, i the same amount of wine and 12 bar rels of peach and grape mash were In a grocery store and "residence end ' J. R. Brown and J. F. Cannell taken Into custody. f GENERAL f- ' Scores of old shacks in Butte, Til on t,' are to be torn down by the city auth- 1.1 Mt - - ..J S 1 1 1 pruies xor urewouu iur iictru ,riiiu - Representative mcneiis nas imrouuuw v a resolution In congress proposing lnj vestigauon or tne nign cost or print pa.-,s per to publishers. . ; The supreme council has decided to ei- lend until December 9 the time allowed f Rumania in which to -remit a reply to 5 tne latest auiea note. One of the three men who held up and 1 robbed the Union Square bank at Ixs , Angeles last Monday of more than $27,- ' 000. is in custody and has, confessed. Privately owned radio stations seised by the government during the war would be restored to private ownership under a bill introduced in congress Wednes day. ' . . , At Uie annual convention of the board of home missions. It was announced that , the Methodist Episcopal church In the United States lost 60,000 members last year. , Bolshevik successes against Admiral ., KolChak's forces in Siberia have created -alarm In Japan, and a move to strength- . en the Japanese forces In Siberia is tak- 1 Ing shape. v s jme McHu'go. former local secre tary of the I. W. W has been founds guilty of criminal syndicalism at pak- land, Cal.. and given a maximum sen- K tence of 14 years in the penitentiary, - .. An Injunction asking that the district'' Attorney and Internal revenue collector , be restrained from Interfering with the -sale of liquor has been filed in the Unit- . ed States district court at St Louis. A hill has been Introduced In - con- gress making It unlawful to display radical flags or emblems and barring i- from the malls all mattersjadvocAttng -overthrow of the government or Jeruc- j Uon of property. , r W. K. Milton, a discharged American soldier, reached the . United States ' Wednesday from Mexico suffering from broken bones, euts and bruises, the re- ' suit of Inhuman treatment at the hands,'' of Mexican authorities. , 13: Olden Oregon- Initiative anfr-Tteferendum Idea No Hew Thing Here. As provided for In the organic law, the first general vel action was held May 2. 1644. Tbe men elected to the legisla tive committee had, with the exception of two members, arrived In Oragon since the adoption of the '.organic law. Recognising defects In the latter, they proceeded to make amendments, assum ing that it : would be unnecessary, to submit the amendments to' the. . people. Here they made- mistake. They were bitterly . denounced for - changing the organic law without warrant sirst ob tained from the people and without sub mitting their work, when done, to their sanction or rejection. . ' - ,