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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. MONDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1919.
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RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
S ENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON for
mally announces that he is run
ding for president.
- ' .Everybody knew months ago
i thai -he was running for president.
' He hasn't been doing anything else
since he went to the senate but run
" for president. Every act of his in
that body n" been, is, and will be,
; 'attuned to the thought of whether
- "it .will help him run for president.
;When he: Joined Lodge and con-
verted a seven months' session of the
senate, called for reconstruction, into
a seven months' session, of destruo-
- tlon,. Johnson was running for presi
dent.; ;,
' When the senate's course on the
' treaty caused cancellation of Euro
pean orders for vast quantities of
goods . at American factories, to the
great, hurt of American business,
Johnson was running for president.
When Hiram Is running for presi
dent he is running for president. A
, treaty that saved and secured all that
American young men fought for and
died for, that substitutes arbitration
for war and that brings about dls-
armament of the nations, matters
nothing , at all to him when he is
' running for president.
It Is nothing to hold up business,
Id humbly seek a separate peace with
frmany, to desert and alienate the
biggest and best nations in the world,
when HI ram hits the trail to the
White. lloustf.
He Was running for president when
he followed Mr. Wilson through the
Middle if West, misrepresenting the
treaty. He was running for presi
dent, as we all know now, when he
f Ireworksed out to California. He was
doubtless running at lung range for
president when he stuck a stiletto
into Judge Hughes' back in California
in the presidential campaign of 1916.
As the Swede said In reporting his
failure to collect a bill, "It will be a
cold day" when Hiram isn't running
for' president.
, ; ; Doubtless former Mayor Simon
will hasten to modify the price of
the five acre playground tract in
Sunnyslde upon the showing that by
some inadvertence the purchase
price agreed upon is nearly twice the
assessed valuation. He will without
.question recall. sympathetically,
from the experience of his own ad
ministration, the city's difficulty in
obtaining property for public use at
anywhere near the valuation deemed
reasonable for the purposes of pub
lic .taxation. It may be expected
that'' former Mayor Simon will en
tertain, such sentiments of affection
i and loyalty for the community which
has honored him that he will desire,
to make special concessions in the
price of land that Is to be used for
tha. happiness of little children.
' . . ' J AS IN PORTLAND
nPOIANB has commission govern
; pent and likes the plan.
J Xike Portland, It abandoned the I
: - -aldermanlo system because gov-i
1 eminent under that plan was honey
combed with Inefficiency and corrup
' tlon,-. Charges of graft were bandied
about, ,and there was little confidence
in publio affairs.
;-vuTbe;;'edmmi8Sion system went into
effect nlne yjears ago. Five commis
sioners ire elected, and they in turn
choose a mayor from one of their
number. The mayor and commission
ers receive the same compensation..
Originally, they were paid $5000 a
year; . Two years after the system
went into effect their salaries were
reduced by popular vote to $3600. Two
; years ago. effort was made to restore
the original salaries, but the measure
was, decisively beaten in a popular
election. : . . '
In Spokane, as in Portland, there is
far: greater confidence now, city gov
ernment is cleaner and more efficient
; under the j commission - system. All
public transactions are In the open
and everybody knows what Is go-
In contrast with the aldermanlo sys
tem under which nobody knew any
thing about anybody in municipal; of
; flcialdorn. everybody now knows ex
actly where earb official stands and
Just what he is" dying:' It Js ciulized
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government instead of menagerie gov
ernment. ' ' . , - Jf
At Spokane there is no hint or sug
gestion of going back to the old plan.
There is some complaint to the effect
that officials might be stronger men.
That,' however, is usual under every
form of government .There never
win be an official upon whose quali
fications everybody will agree. ,cK ,
On one point, however, - there is
agreement: Wherever; it has , been
fairly tried, commission government
is universally regarded as superior to
the old aldlrmanio form.
As usual. President Wilson goes
to th heart of the matter in a sen
tence. The remedy for our ills, he
says, Is a greater popular knowl
edge of American institutions. It la
the kind of government America has
that keeps us free of the terrlbl
Turk and the horrors of Armenia,
that makes the tyranny of czar or
kaiser but a matter of distant report,
and that withholds a chance for suc
cess only from the enemies of public
welfare.
NEVER SUCH SENTIMENT
IF
ERE je resolutions unanimously
adopted by a Portland club:
Whereas: The Klwanis club of
Portland finds that automobile ac
cidents have increased In the city of
Portland at an alarming rate: that they
have mounted 100 per wit In the last
two years, there having been more than
8000 traffic accidents In which 117Z per
sons were Injured and SS killed since
January 1, 1919 ; and that these acci
dents are gravely menacing life and
limb in this city, and
Whereas: All accidents are the result
of carelessness 'on the part of either
drivers or pedestrians, and are prevent
able, and measures to reduce the num
ber of collisions and resultant Injuries
and deaths are imperative; therefore be
It
Resolved: That the Klwanis club of
Portland, heartily indorses an educa
tional campaign . to Impress upon the
public the exigencies of care In driving
cars and crossing streets; that drivers
of automobiles be required to secure a
copy of, and become familiar with the
traffic ruleS; that It unqualifiedly sup
port the police department in enforce
ment of traffic laws, and be It
Resolved : That the Klwanis club of
Portland support a movement to secure
the passage of a state law requiring the
driver of a car to carry a license Issued
by the secretary of state, permitting him
to drive a car; aid in tne passage oi
other laws Intended to afford safety
on the streets, and that each member
appoint himself a' committee of one to
assist In reducing the mounting ton oi
accidents.
There never has been in Portland
such a sudden and unanimous awak
ening of sentiment as has appeared in
the campaign for accident prevention.
No fewer than 18 clubs and business
organizations have joined the move
ment. The resolution of the Klwanis
club is a 'sample of the action taken.
The fire prevention campaign cut
the fire losses from $6.78 per capita
to 92 cents. In that movement there
wf a us )i fvi artifact at Iat Af TtiiKl !rt
nt n (to In tha nroa-
-.iHn ,..: ,riv anmA
bitterly opposed fire prevention. Some
Portland newspapers fought it. One
of them referred to the firemen de
tailed for the work as "match Inspec
tors." Yet that drive was highly suc
cessful.
There Is noN such opposition to ac
cident prevention. Publio sentiment
is unanimously and emphatically in
favor of it. The people are tired of
killings and mutilations chargeable
to Ignorant, incompetent and irrespon
sible drivers and thoughtless pedes
trians. There can be but one result. The
number of accidents will be halved
if not quartered.
Over the telegraph wire we learn
that Ban Johnson is still cxar of the
American league. After all the talk
about dethroning him. Ban showed
that he had the votes.
CHAUNCEY OLCOTT
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HERE is always a sweet phil
osophy in a Chauncey OlcoU
play. Speaking of the gratitude
of his tenants for the new cot
tages and for the land to be worked
on shares instead of cash rent, he
explained as Sir Dryan that a tear
drop conveys more of meaning than
all the words of thankfulness. In
kindred maxims, and In the inevit
able moral of sincerity and honesty
and honor and generous purpose that
his plays always express, Mr. Olcott
has impressed many an audience and
many a human being with thoughts
that were good for them.
Then there is the sweetness and
the soul in the songs he sings. The
old ones and the new are always
fresh when he gives them under
the magic touch of the human feeling
that he throws into them. "Mother
Machree," as he renders It, touches his
audience into deep silence with its
opening notes, and holds all lulled
and waiting until the last sound dies
away. All who hear it must have a
freshened love and renewed devotion
for the gentle, being that the world
knows as "mother."
There is always a laugh with the
tear in an Olcott production. Laughs
and an: occasional tear are a good
mixture to spread before people. They
are light tears that the laugh wipes
away, to let the auditor go home
with a sweeter outlook and a fresh
ened heart
It would be a happy incident If
Chauncey Olcott could go on playing
his plays and singing his songs for
ever. Men and women would be the
better for it.
As one wing needs the other, two
recent suggestions of the dock eom-
misslon .are . interdependent. The
first propotal Is that the city limits
be extended' to include the several
thousand acres -still outside the mu
nicipal boundary lines on the penin
suia beyond st. Johns. The other
l!? ult fhe JPorjland Hallway, Llsht
afe Power company extend it lino to
the St. Johns terminal, so that men
employed; there 'will not bo ' com
pelled to walk the long distance to
and from their work. It the ex
tremity "of lthe" peninsula Is made
part of the city, municipal authority
would probably' be more effective In
Inducing ' he street car, roraptny
giro the service required.
..THE PATIENT ASS 5
f-lHIS telegram was sent by a Port-
T
lander to Carl Gray, newly named
head of the Union Pacific : .
Congratulations to country as well
u tn toil under tout direction i pre
dict utmost support and co-operation of
Oregon country to your grea company.
Ra Aavtnnnwint and eTOWth will fol
low in aU sections served by your road
If public interest Is promoted at fair
cost and If labor and capitalistic profi
teers are not allowed to reap the harvest
of other people s work.
It was profiteering that brought
the railroad lines into their present
sorry situation. Over night, the capi
talization of lines was sometimes
doubled by injection of watered stock
Literal millions so-called capital was
added to the capitalisation by the
mere stroke of a pen. The shares
were divided up among the magnates
or sold to Innocent purchasers, and
on these paper shares- the public was
required to pay dividends.
Only one result could ultimately
come b ankrupteyor near bank-.
ruptcy. The plants could aot carry
the tremendous overhead. The busi
ness could not stand up under the
dizzy, reckless and dishonest system
of finance. The public could not al
ways go en paying increased rates
with which to yield profits on these
colossal frauds.
A trouble now in proposed legisla
tion at Washington Is that the Cum
mins bill proposes a 6 per cent re
turn on a railroad valuation of $20,-
000,000,000. There are those who in
sist that a . great deal of this proposed
$20,000,000,000 is watered stock, and
that the. lines are entitled to no sucn
return oa mere paper capital. An in
vestigation by the interstate com
merce commission has found a real
valuation reported at only $12,000,
000,000. A guarantee of 6 per cent would
mean a 25 per cent increase in freight
rates. This would mean a per capita
cLarge of $45 on every man, woman
and child in the nation. Whether
shippers or not, in the ultimate the
rate must be paid by the consumer.
Thus, when the big railroad profiteers
were getting millions of dollars for
nothing, when they were piling up
huge fortunes within a few years,
they were creating colossal charges
and debts for that patient ass, the
public, to pay. If, in addition to the
25 per cent Increase In rates recently
piled on, another 25 per cent increase
Is to come, it will be consequent from
UJ u umj nuauvc uu
tlonate profiteering practiced by cap-
tains of railroad Industry before gov
ernment regulation and supervision
began.
These sins of the past have had an
other effect: Groups of workers have
seen the big exploiters enrich them
selves by profiteering with railroad
securities. They saw the fruits of
their own work swallowed up by
reckless financiers. They saw those
exploiters heralded and proclaimed as
great men. From such an example a
psychology has been created in which
it is the Impulse for workers to in
sist that they be also permitted to
have larger profits. And thus grow
ing burdens are imposed upon the
public, that public' upon which every
burden is cast and which must suffer
helplessly from every added exaction.
Happily, Carl Gray Is a railroad
president of the new and four-square
school.
Because, as she expressed it, his
Vibrations did not harmonize" with
hers, Mrs. Lillian Streeter, Los An
geles, said she couldn't live longer
with her husband. He gave her the
ranch and got out. "Vibrations" is
a good name for it.
A YEAR'S WORK
A'
YEAR ago the Oregon State
Chamber of Commerce was or
ganized. The report of its
secretary in preparation for the
first annual meeting shows that the
body has devoted itself with direct
ness to activities that Influence the
development of the state. Inquirers
have been directed to the land .and
protected against exploitation. In
dustries needing locations and com
munities needing industries have
been brought together. A committee
is at work on the ever hopeful but
much deferred project of rendering
logged-off lands available for agricul
ture. The organization was represent
ed in the telephone and rate cases af
fecting the commercial Interests that
had affiliated with the state Chamber
of Commerce. Highway construction.
agricultural development, railroad
transportation, and even a road along
the ridge of the Cascade mountains
between Hood Klver and Crater Lake
have been the subjects of the state
chamber's activities.
And all these projects, valuable
though they may be, probably are
inferior to the importance of the
Oregon , State Chamber of Commerce
itself as an .agency for making . the
communities and agencies more co
operatively friendly. .
. FOOLING THE HEN
fMURNINO night Into day Is not pre-
scribed as a general rule for hu-
man , oonduet, . but in a modified
, form 4t seems to be conducive to
Increased egg . production- This is
demonstrated' in. the experience of F.
F. Irvine,; a Yamhill county poultry-
man,: who has been experimenting
with an artificially Jiguted hen house.
He has concluded that experts who :
have for years advocated fooling the
hens Into the belief that the sun was
still shining, had the right hunoh.
. In ; a . local' newspaper Irvine Is
credited with' the statement that dur
ing the short days of fall and early
winter he caused the light to shine In
his hen bouse and. as,, a result the
bens worked that much harder. They
spent more time on the nest than on
the roost.. .'..
Another deduction . was that they
scratched much harder for a living.
This gave them a better appetite and
induced a better disposition tc lay, :
Whether Such a mode of living will
lower the average life expectation of
the hen is yet to be determined.
Whether his finding is dependable
is open to conjecture.
PROVINCIALISM
WILL FAIL
Lecture Read to Sluggish or Cocksure
Tanks by a Manila Journal.
From "The Philippine."
The admonition to refrain from send'
inar a boy to. market Is susceptible of
wide and varied application. It is a good
maxim to be observed by those Amer
icans who propose to engage in over'
seas trade. In this connection it mat
ters not whether the boy be old or young
in point of years. Some of. the 'most
childish boys are those who long since
to such length of years have
come.
As the many-wintered crow that leads
tne clanging rookery nome,
Witness some of the solons in the
United States senate who are charged
with matters relating to America's for
eign commerce. In such affairs maturity
is not measured by the almanac nor the
frost on the whiskers. Children, bom to
culture, absorbing It with their moth
er's milk, have less "boy" about them
at 7 than the savage has At 70. Experi
ence makes the man, the want of it the
"boy," no matter what the horologue of
time may say. And this experience is
of two sorts, that of the individual and
that of his race. The United States is
up against this natural law in prepar
ing for overseas trade. For In the mat
ter of foreign commerce the great bulk
of American merchants and Americans
engaged In mercantile pursuits either on
their own account or as employes of
others are "boys" when It comes to trad
lnc abroad, particularly In the Orient.
Hence it Is that there is danger that
American exporters who are seeking
business in the Far East, and American
bankers who are undertaking the duty
of supplying American banking machin
ery for handling that business, will send
"boys" to market. In many instances
they are themselves "boys" ; and those
who are not must choose their repre
sentatives from among a corps of em
ployes who are mostly "boys, ' insofar as
the Orion: Is concerned. In fact, there is
considerable concrete .evidence in the Far
East that, in the post-war efforts of
American exporters and bankers to ac
quire business in the Orient, a good
many "boys" are being sent to market.
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In the matter of world experience, of
both the individual and the racial sort,
America's European competitors have a
decided advantage. The Englishman has
used the seven seas for a front yard for
nearly five centuries: the tongue of the
Frenchman has been the language of
diplomacy almost since the rise of mod
ern nations ; the Hollander has been buy
ing and selling overseas ever since he
drove the Duke of Alva and King Phil
ip's oppressive hordes out of the Low
Countries ; the Spaniard had governed
half the world for nearly two centuries
before the United States was dreamed
of; while, in the land of the Italian,
moet the science and achievements of
modern peoples and the imperishable
treasures of culture handed down from
glorious antiquity.
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This racial experience survives In the
Individual to a very large decree. Na
tional and racial traditions bulk large
In the equipment of any given man or
woman. The average American of fron
tier ancestry could probably give I. any
modern European the proverbial cards
and spades and beat him at subduing
a new continent or at mapping and tam-
inrr an uncharted wilderness. But In
negotiating the psychological mazes of
an Oriental people whose history runs
back beyond Babylon to the shores of
the flood.the European trader has some
what on the average American mer
chant.
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As a matter of fact these Europeans
and their neighbors represent in the Far
least tne oriental s conception oi xno
white race. There has grown up an on
written code of standards and prac
tices in business and other relations.
Doubtless many of these practices and
standards should, and. In the course of
time, will be changed to the white man's
credit, but, on the whole, they are the
outgrowth of conditions which actually
exist and until those conditions pass
away, that code Is likely to remain for
the most part In forse. and It Is the part
of wisdom for Americans to know of
Its existence and to recognise Its cur
rency. The one who does otherwise will
be found In the end to have been a
boy" to market. His rampant midland
Americanism showing itself chiefly in
his Ignorance ot or disregard for the
white man's code in tne Far East may
amuse the people of the Orient as some
thing new, but it will hardly get him
or the principals he may chance to rep
resent, any great amount of business.
Shakespeare Considered in
Light of Best Seller
From the San Francisco Call.
William Marion Reedy calls attention
to the fact that the' only known copy of
th first? Mition of Shakespeare's col
lected "works, printed in London In 1619,
has JusV been bought by a New York
coUectotr for S100.000. It is, he says, the
most expensive book in the world. This
may well be. At any rate. It is difficult
to think offhand of any other book
which has brought that price. Yet it
is doubtful if there are very many peo
ple in the world who would give as
much for Shakespeare's original manu
scripts, much less the first printed edi
tions of his works, - provided they could
not Immediately sell them and with the
proceeds buy something else. The pro
letariat, if it were to b wrecked on a
desert Island, would certainly prefer to
have with it th complete works of
Irvra Cobb in perferenc to the rarest
collection of Shakespeariana that was
ever got together , on earth.
And th proletariat, in its crude way,
would be right. Shakespeare flourished
In his own day, not because h was
musty with age, but because he was up
to the minute. H survives now, where
he does survive, because something es
sentially modern In him has escaped th
moth and the rust. But the ordinary
citizen does not see the advantage of
scraping th dust off a classic when he
wants to enjoy a quiet evening by the
fireside Instead, h Is likely to tarn
to his 'newspaper ' or to that accurate
reflection of superficial America which
merges weekly from th depths of Phil
adelphia. -
In this, h loses.. An enjoyment of the
classics, i; it b real and not merely
conscientious, is one of the most precious ,
seam one a man can have. It ts
possession of which he cannot be cheat
ed by Wall 8treet and of which he can
not be robbed by the Bolshevik), which
be cannot mortgage or pawn or ia.a
moment of rash generosity give away.
Once his, it Is his as long as his mortal
frame holds together and the breath of
Ufa Is in him. But It 1 hopeless to ex
pect the great majority to acquire tius
aristocratic taste. Most of us must have
our literature rewritten for - cur, own
generation or for. us it does not exist.
This is the excuse for the multitude ot
mediocrities who ' flU our magasines
with their oceans of twaddle, in which
a few pearls and rare deep sea fishes
and wonderful corals may from time to
time be discerned. -They are the only
Shakespeares we will read, and If
Shakespeare la worth $100,000 they are
wortb mUllona, ;
Letters From the People
(Commtuucatioci wnt to The Journal for
on oolr one side of the nun,
300 word, in length, and maU ba sisaed by tha
writer, whose mail add ran in full rnunt acoou
pan? the contribution. )
On Unrest and Remedy
Vancouver, Wash., Dec 8. To the
Editor of The Journal What Is a sane
solution for the present unrest and dis
satisfaction among the laboring classes?
We all know the cause, but what wiU
be the remedy? Jit Is plain that the
cause is the unequal distribution of
products. The ' class that produces
nearly everything is the class that gets
the shprt end. of the proceeds. The class
that never produce so much as a dollar's
worth of anything but simply speculate
on the products of others are the one's
that control the wealth. It is through
these people that we are made to pay
the present prices for our existence (not
living). We have laws that would handle
the I. W. W. of the business and finan
cial;, world, if the common classes had
representation In our governing bodies.
But they have not.
Now it would seem to me that If the
common class would search their own
ranks for men to represent them they
would be more sure of getting a square
deal. Instead, they will always go to
the class that Is piling up Its millions
from speculation, made wholly on what
you and I have produced. What else
should we expect than what we are
getting? What more should we expect
from the class that we are supporting
in idleness 7 Tne only solution I can
see is for laboring men to support men
for office in their own class. Let's take
the word "speculate" out of the English
language, and deport aU speculators.
Let's all be Americans. I am ready to
fight by all lawful methods for a better
America, politically and socially. Let's
all work for a better governed coun
try, one that will say to its subjects,
"Have all you earn, but In return earn
aU you have." A L. ADEE.
Across the Race Line
Vancouver, Wash., Dec. 7. To the
Editor of The Journal In answer to
Reader, In Saturday's Journal, I want
to say that that writer did not have
much thought regarding other than his
own kind. If he had been workincr there
at the Alblna railroad station, what
would he think or do if he should be
laid off for no other reason than that
he was a Chinese, if he should be
one? They have to find a living lust
as much as anyone else. I have great
respect for the returned soldiers but do
you think it was just and right to oust
apotner from his job just because ha
did not take part overseas?
He says the Chinese aie not for
Americans. Do you think he Is doing
anything to kindle their love for Ameri
cans if what he baa, written Is put into
action? I'll say this much: China has
helped all that she could, but she was
not given any credit for her part what
soever. Why did "A Reader" specially
want the Chinese laid off? Isn't It be
cause he has some prejudice against
them? But why should he? The Bible
teaches us that "we are all one In Christ
Jesus," that there ts neither Greek nor
Jew, bond nor1 free."
A CHINESE GIRL.
Alien Stackers
Portland. Dec 9. To the Editor of
The Journal There is a very bitter feel
ing against the alien slackers, especially
the Swedes and Norwegians, as they are
tne most numerous. Those two small
nationalities make up about three fifths
of the whole lot, because their love for
their native lands would not permit them
to light the battles of Russia, the arch
enemy of their fatherland, when they
were not American cltizena Members
of the American Legion in their passion
and zeal went so far as to hunt an alien
Norwegian slacker out of job after Job.
No sooner did the poor fellow get a job
tnan tney got him out again
if they
had done that to make room for ex
service men it would be a great credit
to them ; but they did it simply because
he was an alien slacker.. Leaving the
pariah out ot consideration, it seems to
me this Is nothing less than a crime
against the commonwealth. Surely
there are criminals enough on a rampage
now, witnout systematic effort to make
them. As the alien slackers are so very
offensive to the native Americans they
should be deported, regardless of treatlea
P. T. JOHNSON.
Defends Queen of Belgium
Portland. Dec 8. To the Editor of
The Journal A soldier who was reading
the query as to why the Queen of Bel
glum had such nice clothes, says she
has a right to wear nice clothes If she
wants to. She spent a great deal of
her time at the front line trenches, feed
ing, encouraging and consoling the sol
diers, waiting 6n them and helping them
in every way. The Belgians all love her
and would not think of criticising her
wardrobe.
Now, can you answer this? It Is re
ported that many of the "poor miners'
of the East are leaving for the old coun
try, taking with them, on an average.
18000 each. Where is the "poor" miner?
How many working men outside ot the
miners could scrap. together 18000?
MRS. J. A. H.
A Korean Student's Statement
Pacific College, Newberg. Dec 12.
j.o me Xiaiior or Th Journal Permit
me to explain the article about the
charges by the governor general of
Korea. Salto, against the American
missionaries encouraging the Korean in
dependence, which appeared In your pa
per of December 11. The writer is a
Korean, native born, who knows the
real situation, and shall discuss the
statement of Governor General Salto
with true facta and conditions. I will
not attempt to discuss Japan's lack of
fairness or her contempt of our civilisa
tion . and the principles , on which her
state rests, but will convince the read
rs that the independent movement was
not the work agitated by th American
missionaries, but by th entire popula
tion of Korea, who rose up to regain
their national liberty , The Korean peo
ple nave neon ana are super-tag under
th unspeakable tyranny of . the mi
kado's rule. At this significant period
of world reconstruction, when the ag
gressive spirit ot militaristic autocracy
has been wiped out by, the Invincible
fore of justice and democracy, the Ko
reans have realised that the time has
come for them to assert themselves as
an Independent people, to form a gov.
eminent under which they wish to live
that they - may bo developed - and ad.
vanced in the age in which' we live. So
the Korean people declared their inde
pendence on March. L" 191. - The - for
ian did not know , anvthiaa- of this
COMMENT: AND .NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANQE ;
How's yonr temperature? ?( if I
How about the Boss Festival? .:' : -
When we all ' are "oMtimers" well
hark back, to the -winter ot MIS." iit ,
.. , -, . . . : ..A-'
i Now Is the time to begin to assemble
your data In readiness for the coming
of the eansus takcTj . - rs
' "Holding for' ransom' continues to be
the principal Indoor sporf in Mexico.
The i milkmen must expect a -lot of
"kidding" now because the frees la
the Willamette Interfered with their
milk supply..
Remember the old-fashioned scrapper
who was "ready to fight at the drop of
the hat?"' Well, he hasn't anything on
friend husband, who is ready to fight
at the rise of the hat. .
9 9 a -
There was a time when men who
could neither read nor write and Such
despised men who could. Does our . own
day artord us any analogies?
f .
We are told that Berkman faced his
deportation in silence and with evident
trepidation. That's as If he realised
what an awful thing It is to be banished
to the place he wanted to make the
United States be like.
a
A green Christmas makes a fat church
yard, is an ancient sarins. It ts not
so ancient, a saying, but It will be Just
as true, to say that a Red Christmas,
If pulled off as threatened, will make
a lot of corpulent penitentiaries, together
with a highly productive gallows tree
nere ana were,
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
ObaerraUons moat just, and la those troubled
time mort apt, an the tapla ot If t. Lockley'i
offering tor the day. Nothing. i in them but
woold neeiTe the O. S, theoreticallj. ot Boat
men; yet the whole world is diitretaed became
moat men are loth to make such preespta efteet
fre.) I wonder if at times we do not pay too
high a price for our wealth, for after all,
the amount of money you can secure
from others is not the real measure ot
success. If an employer succeeds In
j lrA , V las wJA1rrM unKa wtr wVis .
th wUJ dlllcharg;e., xt hft thlnk. the
, nf th- . , h ! . h. fcAn
them hard at work, I wonder If he does
not overlook the intangible element of
loyalty that helps buUd up an enterprise.
A man may take advantage of his work
men and pay them less than they earn.
He may consider them mere machinery,
to be scrapped when they have lost their
highest energy ; yet the day of reckoning
is bound to come for such a man In some
form. He may pile up a million, yet "a
man's life conslsteth not In the abund
ance of things which he possesseth."
What is success? What is your goal?
What yard stick do you use with which
to measure success?
aaa
Somewhere I once read this definition
of success. Have you achieved success
of this kind? Here It Is:
"He has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often and loved much ;
who has gained th respect of Intelligent
men and the love of little chUdren ;
who has filled his niche and accom
plished his task; who has left the world
better than he found It whether by an
Improved poppy, a perfect poem or a
rescued soul ; who has never lacked ap
preciation of earth's beauty, or failed
to express it; who has always looked
movement- Even the ones who are
losely connected with the Korean lead
ers were ignorant of the planned revo
lution. The wosld was startled at the
ability of the Korean people to carry on
such a nationwide demonstration.
Now the new governor general Is talk
ing of reforms. What reforms? New
methods ot killing the Korean people?
We want no reforms, be it civil or oth
erwise, but Korea for Koreans, not for
any foreign people. Armored In the
garb of justice, with freedom, democ
racy and Christianity as their slogan,
the Koreans will strive to fulfill their
aim which they have set out, to accom
plish, and to clear the futuf In accord
ance with the earnest dictates of the
conscience of mankind. C L. PIL
The Umpqua's Floods and Freezes
From the Boaeburc Review (Dee. 10.)
The many unexplalnable phases of the
weather situation, chief of which was
the continued comfortable conditions
here while in practically all the other
larsrer cities in Oregon there was snow
and storm, brought to the minds of
many of the older residents today tne
memorable winters of years ago when
for nrobably the only time in the history
of the country the umpqua river rrose
over so that . there was actual skating
and driving on the Ice, and .other times
of great Sooda which wrought woeful
damage to the property along the banks.
Twc local residents today were laminar
with this locality In 18(1. and remarked
that the record of that winter had never
since been equalled, and that In fact In
late years there have been no floods at
all compared with the annual overflows
that occurred in the early days. George
Kimball and Judge J. C Fullerton both
referred to th "great flood of 1861" to
day and stated that this was the time
when the Island on which the peach or
chard Is located in the river between
Mercy hospital and the city was actu
ally formed. Prior to that year ' the
land now known as the Island was a
nart of the property on which the hospl
tal Is located but was then cut oft be
cause of th tremendous force of the
swollen stream, forming an entirely new
channel on the west side of this piece
of land and remaining a shallow channel
to this day, Mr. Kimball was then at
Applerate. near Yoncalla, while Mr.
Fullerton was living in this city. The
water rose to the celling of the old Rast
and Criteser flour mill and one piast
ered dwelling near the Cardweli property
showed the highwater mark on the in
side wall for years afterward. -
Mr, Fullerton had Just moved to his
present property on the west side of the
river In 1886, however, when in that
winter occurred the memorable frees.
The river was frosen solid for days and
residents ot the city improvised sleighs
and skates which wers used on the sur
face of th stream tor probably the first
time.
While similar conditions seemed to be
prevailing within less than 100 miles
from here today, It was th prediction
that Roseburg would experience its
usual weather for this time of year,
with the thermometer registering con
siderably above the freezing point
Olden Oregon
Early Day School houses and Books
Described by Oldtlmer. .
Th first schoolhouses In Oregon
contrasted strongly with the of today.
A typical on Is thus described by the
Rev. G. W. Kennedy: "School was
taught In an old log cabin standing on
a beautiful oak MIL It had no floor
but th earth, n seats .but. th Cat
sid of a split log, no desks, no place
for - a fire except In th rod stone
chimney built at one end of tb cabin,
no windows save th opening la th
absence of a log at one aid. Our text
books were the used In Illinois and
Missouri and crossed th i plains with
us the Webster spellers, the McGuffy
readers - and Pike's arithmetic Some
time on book served for tro or thrts
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
i CatUs buyers and horse buyers for
the past two weeks have been as numer
ous around this locality as mosquitoes
In spring time," says the Drewsey
Pioneer-Sun. , .
I T, Mnlitmi nf Mr.Kwen Is not tO
be daunted by any house famine. He U
tearing down a nous in Bumpier ana
will move it to Baker, where be will
rnaks his home. -,
At a recent school meeting at Her-
miston a unanimous vote was east to
purchase four acres of land lying be
tween the school grounds and the dairy
show building, to be used as a publio
camping ground for tourists.
aa a.
riHuTta a? rta.vtnn. tbe Carlton Sen
tinel says, are looking forward to the
erection next spring of a fine memorial
community hall in their city. A finan
cial drive will be held December IS to
20 to raise a minimum figure of $7000
for the proposed building. It is planned
to eoulp the hall with a rest room.
library and reading room, gymnasium
and shower baths and equipment for a
banquet halL '
In its last pre-snowstorm Issue th
McMlnnvllle News-Reporter related this
extraordinary incident: "Th brisk
wind of Wednesday blew the sign which
guides wayfarers to th office of Yam
hill county's leading home paper. It is
fortunate that the double guideboard
on its descent to terra, ttrma did not
damage the plate glass window. It was
well anchored and the wires broke suc
cessively, letting the sign down as gently
as If It had been done by skilled work
men. The printery is stUl doing busi
ness at the old stand."
for the best In others and given the best
he had ; whose Ufe was an Inspiration,
whose memory Is a benediction."
aaa
If success costs you the loss of those
who are dear to you, the respect of those
you associate with, your peace of mind,
your serenity of soul, or your health. It
Isn't worth the price, if any a man has
sacrificed his wife and children on the
altar of success. The price Is too great.
ana wnen it Is too late many a man
would give all he has to win back the
love and trust he has lost
I don't know who wrote this, but It Is
true:
If I had known la the moraine
How wearily all tha day
Tha words unkind
Would trouble my mind,
I said when you went away,
I had been mora careful, darlint.
Nor giTen yon needless paia;
But we vex "our own"
With look and tons
Ws misht asTec take back acain.
For thooch in the quiet evening.
You may give me tha kua of peace,
Yet well it might be
That never for me
The pain of ths heart should ceaas.
How many to forth In the morning
Who never come home at night;
And hearts have broken
For harsh words spoken.
That, sorrow can ne'er set aright.
We have careful thought for the stranger
And smiles for the sometime guest.
But oft for "our own"
The bitter tone.
Though ws love our own the best.
Ah, Up with the curve Impatient;
Ah, brow with that took of scorn,
'Twera cruel fata
Were the night too late
To undo the work of
The Call to America
By Rev. Frederick W. Neve
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Leader of Nations called to be I
By peonies scattered far and wide.
Trusted by all to set them free.
Thou canst not put the call aiids.
Moses thou art to them, and they
Do look to thee with rod in hand
To lead them on their demit way
And bring them to the Promised Land.
Parched with the burning desert thfmt.
Wounded with many a serpent's bite.
By many an ancient wrong accurst.
They look to thee, to lead -them right
Thou hast already struck the blow
Which loosed the cruel Egyptian chains;
And will thou not tm further go.
And do tha work which still remains?
The Red Sea stained with ruddy glow
Blood of thy sons is safaly crossed;
And must they back to bondage go.
And all the agony be lost?
Leader of Nations! Strong and free I
We know full wsU where thou dost stand;
Thou wflt the peoples' Uoms be.
And lead them to tile Promised Land.
Ivy Depot, Virginia, December. 1919.
Our Snow Storm
From the Amity Standard
Wednesday morning we woke up to
face one of the worst snow storms that
we have ever experienced In this state.
It was some job to get up town through
t or 4 feet of snow and when we arrived
there It was hard to tell In which par
tlcular drift our office was located but
after some hunting It was found.
People were to be seen dressed In any
thing but the latest fashion and many
pieces of apparel that had been dis
carded years ago were brought to light
Snow shovels of all descriptions and
makes were put to use and It made no
difference who handled them. No train
found Its- way to town till long In the
evening, mall carriers had to stay In
town and even the milk routes were tie in some portions of Montana, 'in en
closed. When the mall did come Will sands of cattle are said to be dying of
Taylor had a most unique way of bring-
lng It up town on a little sleigh that
he must have borrowed from some
youngster.
As a Monument
From ths Eugene Guard
In a speech delivered by Colonel The
odore Roosevelt at Christian la. Norway,
May 6, 1910, he said:
"Finally, it would be a master stroke
If those great powers honestly bent on
peace would form a league of peace,
not only to keep peace among themselves
but to prevent, by fore If necessary, Its
being broken by others. The ruler or
statesman who should bring about such
a combination rould have earned his
place In history for all time and his
title to the gratitude of all mankind."
What a splendid memorial to ' this
American leader the ratification of tb
covenant of the League of Nations would
have been ! -. It would outlast any other
memorial we may be able to erect of
granite or marble.
The White Coal of the West
Front tha Eugene Register.
Every time there Is a coal shortage
In the East,' and shortages have been
frequent of late, ; steam driven plants
hav to dose down wholly or In part
In the course of time that ought to
make Western water power, which Isn't
affected by coal shortajres, look pretty
attract! ve
Reason for. Prompt Action
From the Philadelphia Evening Ladser
Ther Is bop that, Senator Lodge and
Ms fellows may realise before congress
meets again that peace postponed until
1921 is peace postponed Indefinitely. Re
ports from- dispassionate observers . In
Europe tell of a possible merging of
radical forces in Germany and Russia,
and such a combination may welt startle
tn worio. - . , , . .
The Oregon Country
North wat BappMunsf. ta Brtai Cone tor Uw
Btur Ketdef.
QREOON NOTES
A sugar shortage exists at The Dalles, -as
well as a fuel famine. Two pounds
of sugar is th limit to each person.
The coldest plao In the United State
Sunday morning was Madras, In Baker
county, with if degrees below sero.
The school district In Seaside last
week voted fCOOO In bonds to purchas
additional land for a new school build,
tag.
Because of a shortage of cars, th
weekly production of lumber In 119 mills
has fallen from 109.743.121 to 61.587.7DJ
feet
At a recent special tax election in
road district No. 1, south of Ashland.
700p was voted for work on the lateral
road a
Several carloads of apples on sidings
at Hood River are frosen as hard as
rocks, and apples stored In bins are
ruined.
Arrangements are being made by th .
wpi oi loggers and Lumber
men to install a cooperative store at
c,ugene.
Mra Elisa Jane Whetstone, the first
whit child born In Umatilla county,
died at her home In Heppner last week,
aged 69.
Judge Joseph Williams, a resident ot
Heppner for id years, and former post-'
master, died In that city last week,
age IS years.
Two illicit stills with about 410 gallons
of raisla mash were seised at Astoria
Saturday by a sheriffs posse, and six
men were arrested.
Recurrence of the rabies epldemlo
among coyotes, prevalent in Klamath
and adjoining counties two or three
years ago, is feared by stockmen.
The K. V. Kruse. one of the largest
sailing schooners evetr built on Coos Bay,
...rPelv,n" th" finishing touches and
will be launched next Thursday morn
ing . H. H.'Keck of the Spokane. Portland
4 Seattle railroad, with headquartera In
Portland, has arrived In Salem to act
as coal officer for Oregon until the fuel
conditions are relieved.
One of the large racing barns at th
state fair .grounds crashed to the ground
Saturday night under the weight of
Two of the livestock exhibit barns
fell two days previously.
Clinton B. Halght, editor of the Blue
Mountain Eagle at Canyon City, suf
fered severe burns and a considerable
SS-. mo,ney ,n clothes was lost
when fire destroyed his home Saturday
WASHINGTON
V? J- M- C- A- building, the largest
fh.d'w-te V C"""' collapsed from
mol UhM Bno'. being completely de-
J-, J-,,R?.nn: who wa" nt to Port
Ualla Walla in 1857 with the first con
slgnment of troops, died at Walla Walla
Saturday, aged 85.
Fire Saturday evening at Welkel sta
tion, near Yakima, destroyed a ware
house, together with 6000 boxes of ap
ples and a quantity of hay.
The gas suppry at Walla Walla be
came exhausted Saturday, ctesinK sev
eral restaurants and bakeries and inter
fering with newspaper publication.
Plans have been prepared for a five-
!Lt?lX.n0,'D,u, ,n Pasco, to cost 190,000.
Of this amount $70,000 la now available
from the sisters conducting the prewont
hospital.
A Great Northern engine jumped tb
track Saturday when It struck a. rock
near Cascade tunnel, killing Engineer
John Calder and seriously Injuring- Fireman-Cummins,
j
Mrs. Hlljle May Slverly, aged 42, Is
held in jail at Seattle on suspicion of
being responsible for the death of WaU
t(B Chapman, 35. who It was thSught
committed suicide near Knumclaw.
No trace has been found of the rob
ber who at noon last Friday held up
the Union Park bank at Spokane and
maae away witn aiuuo, alter ordering
the cashier and bookkeeoer Into thai
vault i
Eugenia McCool of Walla Walla and
Alta Brooks ot Hlllsboro, both 18 years
of age, were sentenced at Vancouver
to from two and a half to 10 years.
In the penitentiary for the theft of an
av moblle.
Joel Marcus Johansen, for 12 years
assistant professor of English on th'
faculty of the University of Washing
ton, died at Seattle Saturday night
from Injuries received In an automo
bile accident
John Calvin, receiver of the Union
Loan It Trust company at Centralis. Is
paying another 10 per cent dividend to
creditors of the InsUtuUoh, making 80
per cent received by the depositors since
th bank closed in 1914.
GENERAL
During the Bela Kun dictatorship it
is estimated that 600 murders were
committed in Hungary.
A new issue of Polish' postage stamps
contains the likeness of Ignao Pader
ewski, president of the Polish republic.
Efforts will be mad to push the plan
this winter to import 40,000 Chines la
borers for sugar plantation work la
Hawaii.
Greek troops advancing to the line of
demarcation In Asia Minor fixed by
the peace conference have clashed with
Turkish forces.
Canadian authorities threaten to quar
antine Toronto against ths world unless
the city council passes an ordinance
making vaccination compulsory.
Twenty -one Islands In iPrlnce William
sound, Alaska, have been leased for fox
farming purposes. All the fox farmers
report that they are prospering.
Enver Pasha, the former Turkish, min
uter of war, has been crowned kins;
of Kurdistan, the Turkish region lying;
between Mesopotamia and Persia.
Frank Hugo, an American citizen,
manager of a ranch In the state of
Coahulla. is being held for 10,000 ran.
som by the Villistas who raided Musquls
last week. - '
Swarms of hungry magpies are at
tacking? half frosen. famished rang cat
starvation.
in a letter statlnr that he was "dis
gusted with public life," Senator John
Sharp Williams of Mississippi declares
that he will not be a candidate for re
election to the senate.
It Is said unofficially that an agree
ment between LVAnnunslo and the Ital
ian government has bees reached, by
which th mad poet will withdraw his
troops Immediately, who will be re
placed by regulars.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Place
' In th Mediterranean no bird Is better
known than the quail from the Spanish,'
littoral to the Arabian hillsides. Twice a
year It passes over th great Inland sea,
northward In spring and southward in
September and October. Its coming is
quit a festival, and many a peasant's -
overdue rent is paid at its expense. When
it goes northward In May to its nesting
place In Middle Europe tb sandy Italian
sea beaches ar lined in th line of Its
flight with fin netting loosely held up by
stakes , and th unhappy lltUe quails,
flying low ever th sea, plunge Into the :
and are securely held by the falling
meshes. No fewer than 17.000 have been '
received in Rome is one day and in the, '
small Island of Capri, near Naples, 180,
000 are sometimes taken in a season. ;
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :-. U
Them there nmbretler sharps In Pdrt-s .,
land Is a thrifty and forehanded gentry; .
I left mine down to a office in Portland
durln' the dry, cold spell, thlnkln It was
ssf enough whtl it wasnt ralnln. but
som kind soul adopted it, knowln' "very ' ;
well it'd rain some tlm again, vr And ' J :
from. the ''way they- most all keep their "
umbreller locked up at the clubs X '
reckon I'll, hav to buy anolhera.v i
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