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WHAT WE SACRIFICE
mNGLAND
is at peace with
Ger-
tmany.
I France is at peacewith Ger
- , many.
- v America is not at peace with Ger
" many. America will not be at peace
With Germany until tfie treaty Is
ratified by the American senate or a
new and separate treaty is negotiated
with Germany and ratified by the
- senate.
) Diplomatic representatives 'of the
nations that have ratified are tak
. - ing their places at the various cap
itals. These representatives are the
advance guard' that opens the way for
the resumption of trade and economio
' Intercourse. . Exchange of commodi
ties between nation and nation will at
fence begin and every ; accommoda-
tlon .and convenience be afforded
through diplomatic channels for trade
to be extended and enlarged.
: Already, 1500 British business men
; are In Germany making trade connec
tions. Germany needs .many things
that England produces, and England
. needs many lines of goods that Ger
many produces. The same is true of
Prance, Italy and Germany and ! all
the other nations that have ratified
i the treaty and are now in position
to resume trade relations and cu
cuUt
ssof vate the processes and buslnes
peace. x. .
Exchange of goods stimulates in
dustry In all these countries, gives
employment to workers, forwards na
tlonal prosperity, substitute.' peace
lor war conditions, hastens progress
toward the normal and fills peoples
and governments with hope and
cheer.
America, is at peace with no coun
try with which she was recently at
-" War. She has not exchanged and will
not exchange diplomatic representa-
tlyes with them until peace is form
ally ratified. America is not even a
member of the League of Nations,
which American brains planned and
American leadership and influence
brought into being.
America is sacrificing vast trade op
portunities, is Sacrificing her leader-
ship of the world, is sacrificing the
good will that she recently won fcorn
mankind, is probably, sacrificing jthe
' very life of the League of Nations it
" self, which is not likely lo survive
. without America's leadership and
v raoraL' Influence; is sacrificing the
world's hope of permanent peace pe
cause of the obstinacy and little
:' Americanism of the obstructionists: in
. the American senate.
The unearned increment is at the
bottom of city planning and sonlng
schemes. This is the conclusion of
Edijor Whltaker of th Journal of
"the American Institute of AiPftlteets,
as he expressed It before a Portland
i audience. Now landed proprietorship-will
have areal club against
plans ' to prepare the city, for its
future. -What; if history does dis
close that .eitiesv perish which be-
' come so great as to be unworkable!
What If congestion and, use of prop
erly against puouc Interest does
operate first for the-destruction of
;the life "of the city and then for the
destruction of the city itself!
TIME OR WORK
SPEAKER before the National As-
, II soelation of Mechanleal Engineers
jrlia New York said:,,-. , v h
There are measures' or
by which to sell eras or real aetata. But i
wneu w comes to tabor we have no esti
mate ajtcept after the i labor is done,
which Is long after the so-called bargain.
wing took 'place, long after the-price Was
et. It is true that labor is sold by the
. . hour, but the bouf is an estimate of time,
not of labor. We might Just as well sen
eegs by? the yard without : specifying
whether r lay them lengthwise or
, serosa This inabtnty to strike a bar
rain because the value of an article or
the product . to be sold- is entirely Lun-
known Is, in my opinion, one of the great
. eat difflculttea to be overcome before
. there can be in: equitable adjustment of
the differences between the employer and
. the employe, v ': ,: ,,. :. . -j 1,
The .presumption In arfangemenls
between employer and employe is that
the time paid foe" la a measure of tb
wofkv and IU product Ideally the
employe utilizes toe time aaiaithfully
and productively as though working
by "the ,piec or for himself. Practi
cally, the general experience of .em
ployers a, that when the wage and
the hoursj of 'employment are fixed
pj contract production . drops.. Tbls
places a' premium on Inefficiency, and
gives respectability to loitering. The
employe should -work on honor as
well as by contract Many dp. But
one of, the reasons for the popularity
of piece work is because others grow
to believe that they are iald for time
and not for work.3 !, y
The members are at Salem. The
legislature: IS in session. ! The mils
as;e costAis already incurred. There
are other measures than those men
tioned by the governor that deserve
action. .While the body la at Salem,
why should it not pass such meas
ures as should be passed,' whether
on the executive program or not?
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FORTY-TIIREE BEAD
THERE are 43 graves in Portland
cemeteries that are graves of per
sons kited the past year; in traf
fic accidents.
In those graves are the bodies of
children and old men and widows who
were' supporting children and men and
women in almost every walk and con-
UillUU VI tuc. -
There Is" a howl about the murders
and about, capital punishment as an
alleged, means of checking) murders.
How about checking automobile acci
dents! More than three times as
many persons were killed in traffic
accidents as in murders.
If we want to lessen violent death,
why not also deal with the traffic
tragedies? Is not a life snuffed out
in a traffic acefdent just as precious
as anyother life? Is not death Just
as fatal whether caused by a high
powr - automobile or by a bandit's
club?
The widow Smith's grave is out In
one of the cemeteries. Three little
children, .helpless to support them
selves, were left destitute when she
was run down and killed by a Winton
Six that hurtled along its speeding way
without stopping to carry the poor
clay to the dead house. Her children
are now on the mercy and bounty of
relatives and friends,' parentis and
almost shelterless.
If every driver were licensed, and
if for reckless driving his license were
taken away and he could drive no
more, irresponsible drivers and reck
less driving would soon be at the. van
ishing point
Such a bill is knocking at the door
of thg legislature. It is indorsed by
automobile dealers, garage men, traf
fic officers and all classes of citizens.
If passedj.it would be the most pow
erful of all agencies in saving people
from being sent to the cemeteries by
traffic accidents.
' Why disturb the seat of the state
government of Oregon?. There is
tradition and history in the location
of . the capital at Salem. What
sound reason is there for the pro
posed removal to Portland?
HIGHER EDUCATION
T
HE high cost of living is not af
fecting the public schools alone.
It is extending up into the higher
institutions of .learning and from
all over the nation are coming pleas
for additional endowment funds and
in the case of state-owned colleges
bigger appropriations with which to
meet greatly increased costs.
A typical case is that of Columbia
university, New York, which asks for
an additional income producing cap
ital of thirty million dollars to pay
Its teachers and other expenses. In
his annual report the president of the
university touches upon a fundamen
tal principle when he says, that be
fore a college or university makes
public appeal for aid it is imperative
that it can satisfactorily answer these
two questions: x
Are its existing expenditures justi
fied or can savings be madj by prun
ing out what is unessential, wasteful
or overlapping? Second, can its work
be made more remunerative by re
adjustment and increase , of tuition
charges, by expansion of its activities
in ways that are more than self sup
porting or by any other method?
In other words, it is incumbent upon
it to show that -its administration. Is
btjsinessllke,
Another vital "principle enunciated
19 that T no 6elf respecting institution
can acceet i'an endowment or rift
which has fcohditions attached which
will fix orttamper its complete free
dom fn the control of Its educational
policies and activities. To accept a
gift on condition that a certain ad
mlnlstrativel' policy be pursued is to
surrender al. university's freedom.
As stated j in . another way no uni
versity is so poor that it can afford
to accept aj gift which restricts its
independence and no university is so
rich that It would not be Impoverished
by an addition to its resources which
tied the hands of its governing-board.
In these !da-ys of social upheaval
much is heard of the charge that
teachers, not only in thef higher, in-t
stitutions btit in the public schools
as well, afe becoming radical and
socialistic The president of Cotum-
biatakes issue with this and asserts
that the radicals and revolutionaries
are so few; that they are conspicuous:
On the contrary, he saysMbat the
university' teacher is usually very
conservatr4 and difficult to bring to
the support of a new idea or new
project. ! ;.-. -
The- nolion that some. ' university
professors are . radical ; because their
salaries ati not large enough "is, he
aaas, more, .than usually ,';uncompll
mcntary. The man who will change
his views on economic,' historical or
political subjects because his salary
is doubled is, he thinks, made of
pretty; poor stuff and his views need
not trouble anyone very seriousjyc
A California moving picture man
wants to produce the Bible in grand
pageant. He has been flooded with
applications by women who want.tor
play Eve, but not a man has come
forward to an Dear as Adam. Is it
because'' man hesitates to have it put
faW over him as Eve did It, and will
do it again? T
WATCH THE WOMEN
ACTIVITIES reported at a Portland
meeting of representatives of
women's clubs, as. recounted in
ouiiuu; s wuuruai, ujuu awtcu-
tlon.
The women, as the article indicates,
are concerning themselves with edu
cational, social and civic endeavors.
They are interested m adequate nour
ishment for children In poorer dis
tricts. They encourage effort to keep
high the standard of the milk supply;
One item On their working program
concerns defective children under five.
Kindred endeavors looking to. social
betterment are receiving Ujelr atten
tion. ' It is highly creditable to the women.
Men overlook such things. That has
been .one of the weaknesses in our
social and economio life.
Men's minds are engrossed with
other affairs. Men, In fact, are wont
to look upon other men who work
for social betterment as "sissies" and
"Lizzies' and "softies." Some men
think a man almost unsexed if he con
cerns himself with the welfare of
children or with the lowly lot of the
near submerged.
Men unconsciously dote on the doc
trine of the survival of the fit. They
deny that they do, but they uncon
sciously do It Just the same. They
think it unmasculine to be rkmcerned
with milk supplies and submerged
children and tenement districts. .
Their psychology is a fatal defect
inM)ur scheme of things. Their Vts
and their thoughts are responsible for
the fact that we have profiteers and
swollen rich and a rotten system of
distribution and multitudes of sub-
Lmerged. Their doctrine of every-man
for-himself, and their resentment
against the thought of one man be
ing his brother's keeper, has done the
country infinite harm. Their aloof
ness and their doctrines and what
comes from them, furnish the radical's
and anarchists with a great deal of
ammunition for their wicked propa
ganda against America.
The women's activities are properly
pointed. They are directing public
thought in the direction that it ought
Jf go. Every large city has its fester
spot of poverty and so has many a
small city. Ten to fifteen million
people in America are llvipg in pov
erty. Somebody ought to be thinking
f them. If not in a spirit of Chris
tian brotherhood, somebody ought to
be thinking of them for economic
reasons.
These millions of submerged are a
weakness in the republic. They are
a recruiting ground ror anarcnist
agitators. The man who is despon
dent over the problem of survival,
who doesn't know where the next
meal for his family Is to come from.
Is often an easy mark for the siren
preachments of the radical.
The women could not find a better
field for their endeavors. It is a field
that has been neglected all these
years. It is confirmation of the wis
dom of giving them the ballot that
their first endeavors are for civic ,and
social betterment. It Is God's own
work and if they keep at their task
aggressively enough, they will force
the men to follow.
Nothing better could happen to
America.
No autoist who knows how to
drive a car, who understands the
elementary mechanics of automo
bile construction, or who wants to
protect he safety of himself and the
public, will object to a fair measure
requiring the licensing: of drivers.
EDUCATIONAL CHAOS
T
EACHERS at Lebanon, IU., are on
strike for higher pay.
A 'strike of teachers seems
scarcely fit Closed school rooms
wltb. pupiia in idleness and teachers
Sparring for salary are not the ideal
with which we have been wont to
contemplate so sacred a thing as edu
cation.- It is due perhaps to the ab
normality . of these unsettled times,
and, is hardly to be a permanent
status in the republic.
The average annual salary paid
grade school teachers in the United
States is $630.64. Does any one won
der that vacancies in the ranks of
trained educators constitute a na
tional educational emergency?
There are but two cities in the
United States, neither one Portland,
that pay a maximum salary of 91800
a year to the elementary teacher. Can
the endeavors of 23,000 teachers to se
cure a living wage be criticized T
The. field secretary of the National
.Education association tells the people
of Oregon that the minimum salary
of a teacher, especially trained .for
his of her. duties, should be $1200 a
year. This is at "the rate of 1100 a
month. A self respecting carpenter or
bricklayer wouldn't consider" it. A
shipbuilder would lay down his tools.
Men and women in the professions
would decide that they had missed
their calling. '
Yet teachers are expected to live on
a "plane commensurate with the tradi
tional dignity of their vocation. While
costs ' of ' living have , doubled, lhey
have been left to divert their energies
from their educational duties to the
ugly problerils ' of ; a" bare,' and "mean
existence. I
Back of the poverty .of teachers'
pay are the grizzly form of Illiteracy
and radicalism. .The true education
of the nation's children is at stake.
The educaUonaremergency-may bring
economic chaos, i National welfare is
involved in the teachers' appeal. Who
willjdeny its Justice?
Oregon Oty a Cradle
, of Literature
Ia ' Thia Historic Town Were Nur-
lured Many Famed Writers. .
1 :
The first published book written in
Oregon was written at Oregon City by
an Oregon City man. It was called -The
Prairie, Flower." Its author was Sidney
w. moss, it was puotisnea at Cincin
nati by Kmmerson Bennett. The .hero
of the story was ia well known moun
tain man, George W. Ebberts, frequently
called "the Black Squire." Medorum
Crawford's wife and her mother were
also portrayed in! the pagea of "The
Prairie Flower." !
Sidney W. Moss came to Oregon City
in 1842. He was born In Illinois." March
17. 1810. During the winter of 1842. In
his log cabin at Oregon city, Mr. moss
wrote this book of Western life. He
gave it to Overton Johnson, who went
back to the states in 1S43, with the
request that he find a publisher for it
Mr. Moss was! a stonemason and
worked on construction of the original
Oregon institute, i which later became
Willamette university. He surveyed
Oregon City for Dr. McLoughlin and in
1843 Moss' hotel was famed for its ex
cellence. He employed at his own ex.
pense the first public school teacher at
Oregon City. He is also the author of
"Pictures of Pioneer Times."
When Edwin Markham wrote his fa
mous poem, "The Man With the Hoe,'
the whole world thrilled to Its beauty
and truth, but what few of the readers
of this famous poem knew was that its
author was hprn at Oregon City. He
was born ' by the Palls Of the Willam
ette April 23, 18S2. In 1857 his widowed
mother took her two sons to California,
He worked his way through the state
normal school at San Jose. Though
admitted to the bar, he never practiced
law, preferring to be a teacher. His
two volumes of verse, "The Man With
the Hoe and Other Poems" and "In
Karth's Shadow," have -been widely read.
There is force and sublimity in such lines
as these:
"O mssten. lord and rulers of the lands
How will the f utnre i reckon with this man ?
How answer his brute Question in that hour
When wHirlwlndu of rebellion shake the world?
How will it be with kingdom and with kings
With those who shaped ban to the tning he
When this dumb terror shall reply to God
Alter the silence o( the centuries t"
Ella Rhodes, who was born at Council
Grove, Kan., was taken by her parents
while stilt a baby to the Grande Ronde
valley. While in her early teens she
moved with her parents to Oregon City,
where she spent her girlhood. In Port
land Russell C. Hlgginson met, wooed
and won her. Ella Hlgginson, once of
Oregon City, has written some beautiful
verse and has published several volumes
of stories. "The Forest Orchid" anxl
"The Land of the Snow Pearls" are col
lections of short stories that have ap
peared in the Century, Harper's. Mc
Ciure s and other magazines. Possibl
her best known poem is "Four-leal
Clover." "Sunrise I on the Willamette'
is one of her most beautiful poems on
Oregon. These two: stanzas give pne an
idea of its beauty : i
i
The eon kinks downward through tha aflrer mist
That looms across the Talley fold on fold.
And shdint through the fields that dawn has
kissed, v
Willamette sweeps, a chain of liquid (old.
Tha sun sink's downward through the trembting
haze.
The mist flings glistening needles high and
higher, ,
And through the clouds O fair beyond al)
praise I
Mount Hood leaps, chastened, from a sea of
fire.
In 1846 there Bettled at Oregon City a
merchant named Ben Simpson, who
was born in Tennessee in 1813. When
the Simpson prairie, schooner started for
Oregon in the spring of 1846 there was
a 6-months-old baby in the wagon. Sam,
the baby, was born on October 10, 1845,
in Missouri. His father took up a claim
in Clackamas county not far from Ore
gon City and here Sam Simpson was
reared. His tender and beautiful poem,
"The Beautiful Willamette," will live
BALLOT ON
Vote one choice. Indicate prefers ace bxX mark in square.
1 1 I I favor compromise on reservations and immediate ratif lcatioa el
J peace, treaty and League of Nations covenant ; .-,
Or, a
I favor ratification with
Or , r I favor ratification of ths
I J covenant substantially ss
Wilson.
Or. 4
I am opposed to ratification
Nam .
Address
gin ta aad mail ta; Tha Journal. Umitatloa
BALLOT ON
Vote one ebotoa. Indicate preference by X aaaik 1a easara.
X n I favor compromise ens reservations and immediate ratification OX
I J peace treaty and League
Or. a
r -i I favor ratification with
u
Or S, f"l I favor ratification of the peace -treaty and League of Nations
L I covenant substantially as presented to tho senate by President
" Wilson. . -
Or, 4 r 1 1 am opposed to ratification
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rm ta aad mail t The JetnaL LissMatloa
BALLOT ON
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Tele sea ebofea Indicate prefereoee br X mark h square,
I favor compromise on reservations) and tmmediate ratification -et
peace treaty and League of Nations covenant;
1 favor ratification with Lodge reservationa "
Or, a
Or. a,
.I favor ratification of tho peace treaty and League of Nations
covenant substantially as. presented to tho senate by President
Wilson. , -
Or.
tl
X am opposed to ratification
Name J..
a MM m
rut as aaa sst to; TUe Joarnai. Umitatloa
for aU time. There u a haunting music
in ine refrain : .,- .
Oaward r. v.
- - k" rrrer.
Softlj calling to the sea.' v ,
Time that scar urn,
, f . 4 . Maims and soars s.
Leaves "bo- track or trench on the.
Few Western writers have been so
widely read as Eva Emery Dye. who has
maae her Dome by the Falls of the
Willamette for the past 30 years. "Mc-
jLougaun ana Old Oregon."- her first
book, ran Into edition after edition.
The Conquest." "McDonald of Old Ore
gon" and "Shores of Oregon" have all
been eagerly welcomed by the reading
public. Mrs. Dye, will soon issue a
book on the early life of the mission
aries In the Sandwich islands, a subject
about which little or nothing has been
wrjoen. ,
i
Oregon City Is truly the birtholace and
cradle of Oregon literature.
" Letters From the People
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f UOSmmilcitlnni mil , n., M
PbUeatioa in this department should be written
onij one side of the paper, should -sot exceed
vw woras m length, and must be signed by the
Winer, wnoee mait aoaresa in lull mu&t accom
pany the aontributfon. 1 1
"Tbe"Handicappedw
Athena, Jan. 1. To the tfditnr of Th
Journal Your sho;t editorial. "The
Handicapped." ouerht to be nri n r eri i n
letters of gold and scattered broadcast
tnroughout the land. What a strange
thing it is in this beautiful land of ours,
flowing with milk and honer. An evurr
hand the signs of bounty and abundance.
uiai wnerever you go you see derelicts
ana outcasts. And words of svniDathv
S-e empty worda' They are unheard by
the deaf ear of privilege and the heart
or the woud is adamant to the appeals
of sympathy. Too long entrenched has
been wealth and the social morals that
make w earth.
The derelicts of society have been in
numerable in every age. and the suffer
ing and privations of the lowly unfortun
ate submerged always nave been com
mensurate with the unholy, selfish ag
grandizement of the fortunate class. And
if the golden rule, is dead It is because
Christ himself was unable to raise it
from the dead.
The cold, unalterable principle of vest
ed rights, founded upon thousands of
years of selfish and unscrupulous ethics,
that knows no natural rights, that re
ligion itself cannot soften or allay, is
the principle upon which our social sys
tem Is founded. And the God-given
abilities some men have to use as a
gift that they might greatly benefit their
kind are stultified to selfish use.
And until the world will learn the les
son that man's duty is not to himself
but to society and the . world, and that
special endotrments are conferred that
they may be used for the good of all.
our "Christian duty" and "brother's
keeper" are but empty phrases.
Alms indeed may be salve to the con
science, but are never anything in strict
reality but a guilty admission of un
righted wrong. It should not be re
garded as magnanimity or benevolence,
but rather as a debt we owe humanity.
F. B. WOOD.
Commends Article on Car Fares
Portland, Jaru. 12. To the Editor of
The Journal-rMay I aslt.you to repub-;
llsh the artlclev found bn page '-fof sec
tion 5 of Sunday's Oregonlan, January
1 1, . entitled "Public's Interest Vital in
fixing Street Car Fares," from the pen
if E. Q. Hopson. civil engineer? Or, if
'ou feel that the article is too long fo
tpubUcatlign, may I ask you to com
nend the article and. its reading arid
ttidy to every reader of your valuable
cper? ' '
' Nothing anything like equal to Mr.
Hopson's article has. appeared in these
arts on the Important subject of street
car fares. It -should be read, studied
and Inwardly digested, for It is the last
word on the subject
Franklin T. Griffith, in asking for an
additional Increase to 8 cents for street
car fares, considers how easily he got
away with his. contract for a 5 cent
fare, and, like Lord Cllve of old, when
he considers his opportunities he- Is
amazed at his moderation. If it is Mr.
Griffith's purpose to put the circum
stances under which he broke his cont
tract with the people of Portland to
carry passengers for a 5 cent fare and
no more, into the politics of Oregon, he
can do so without much more effort.
HENRY E. M'GINN,
America Both Big and kittle '
From tha Bookjr Mountain News.
America is both big and little. Her
23,00O",O0Q dairy cows produce 45,000,000,
000 quarts of milk a year. Yet 6,000,000
Infants are puny from lack of milk.
PEACE TREATY
Lodge ressrvationa
peace treaty and League of Nations
presented to the senate by President
in any form.
ef ballot to acalUled voters is requests.
PEACE TREATY ,
of nations covenant ;
Lodgs reeervatlona
la any form.
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af baUet ta-aaanflea votars Is
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PEACE TREATY
tn any form.
tt bails as ejsalMea enters Is
COMMENT, AND
' SMA'tl CHANGE
Pardon us. but donl you be aay
walker. '
Have you seen anything of a stray
heiress T , .
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Now, we'll sea what the legislators
will do about everything.
. -r
Hoover says Europe can teed Itself.
Weil, It's certainly old enough.
"LctU Drive Back, Red Army in
fcerth" Headline. All, right, let's. -
Wond'er if the iMysterioHSXlr. X" is
reiaiea to ine wen known "Madame x.
Now a scientist plans to . shoot
rocket to the moon. With a lot of
racaei, no doubt.
- A
That Eastern weather man who fore-'
casiea rsun nis week baa let one per
fectly good day go by without making
e . .
In Illinois, where the school teachers
are on strike; it is probable that ths
Pupils, for once, are in sympathy with
uieir leacners.
.
"Purity Drive Relenllejss in Its Soope
Headline. Seems that the ''driver" id hi
so popular during the war has taken
a peacetime strangle hold.
1 he market pape Says that "hoes
touch $17 in the alleys." Evidently thev
were not regular nogs, or they would
not have been satisfied with merely
We read that a missionary is being
held prisoner hv th rrhtneiut. w trttmt
he will find some solace in the fact that
the Chinese do not make a practice of
wkuiiB uietr vicums.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL -
Random Observations About Town
.State House,. Salem, Jan. IS. Tom'
McCusker. who Is as ubiquitous as tha
legislature, irnot more so, has moved
up to Salem Ao try to stage a battle
royalwlth Oscar Horns, Eugene Smith
and any others Who might want to sit
In their cornerof the ring in defense of
the Horfn?un1on labor bill. enactedNift
er a spectacular fight in the regular
sesslpn. Tom Is putting up"at the
Hotel Marion, that quoted phrase hav
ing JO do with the fact of his domicile
only.' jarthe estimation of A. A. Smith
of Baker, who contends that Tom is not
putting up 1n any other meaning of the
term. He'ltas that idea because Ton
Invited hitn to eat breakfast with, him,
and then left him to pay for his owrf
meal, a diplomatic lapse not often ob
served among lobbyists who Journey up
to the legislature to get things. putter,
or under, as the case may be..- At' fiy
rate, McCusker is after Horne and hls
bill, with Gene Smith showing his teeth,
in his usual genial smile, of coarse,
every time he meets the secretary xf the
Employers' association about, the lobby.
Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh. chief pilot of
the good ship Bone Dry, is sniffing the
breeze about the capitol . lobby, sus
picious and unconvinced. She Has a
deep rooted conviction that some of the
boys have "got something on the hip,"
but she has not. been able as yet to de
tect any undue protruberances flaunting!
i. . i .... i . . - .. ...... -1
Lirciuwires in aiiront to ine proBlDltlOn
eye. and so is inclined to the conviction'
.that they have 'abondoned the quarts
for the flat flasks that may gurgle un
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
'(More about Jb nsmber" 4 trttd by Mr.
Lockley In a second instaBmept on that remark
able numeral, lie goes into history and into
chnrchly obeerraneea for .instances oT tha num
ber's application.
On May 31, 1862, General McClellan,
with 42.000 Union troops, attacked an
equal force of Confederate troops under
General Joseph, K. Johnston. 7 miles
east of Rfchmand, Va. On the battle
ground was a hotel, whose name ' was
the 'Seven. Pines," and so this 'stub
bornly fought and hotly contested bat
tle has gone down into hiatofy as the
battle of Seven Pines. The Seven Weeks'
war Is the title given by historians to
the war waged in 1868 between Prus
sia and Italy against Austria, Bavaria,
Wurttemberg, Baden, Saxony, Hesse
Ilesse-Cassel, Hanover and Nassau,
which resulted in a victory .for Bis-,
marck and the formation of a new
Germany, with Prussia the dominant
factor. The Seven Years' war was
fought between Frederick the Great
of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Aus
tria. The petty quarrel ot these mon
archs finally involved aU the great na
tions of Europe. England joined Prus
sia. France and Russia Joined Austria,
From 1764 to 1783 this stupid and sense
less war was waged. From Europe it
spread to America, where French and
English forces fought each other. When
over a million Uvea had been maorifictd,
the contending forces agreed to call it
a draw.
a" a
I)id you evej. notice how the number 7
constantly crops up in history, both sa
cred and profane? All literature is filled
with reference to the sacred and sym
bolic numeral, from the. seven wlBe men
of Greece to the seven wonders of the
ancient world, which were the pyramids
of fcgypVthe hanging gardens of Baby
lop, the maWoleum at Halicarnassus,
the temple ofTilana at Ephesus, the
Colossus of Rhodes, the Pharos at Alex
andria and the statue of the Olympian
Jove in Ells.
The middle ages also had their seven
wanders the co"liaeum at Rome, the
catacombs of Alexandria, the great wall
' of China, the leaning tower of Pisa, the
, porcelain tower of China at Nanking,
' the mosque of St. Sophia at Canatanti
' r.ople and the ruins of. Stonehenge in
England. - M .
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j Turn which way you will, and you
! will see referenco to the seven crosses.
I the seven brothers, the seven sisters,
the seven sleepers, the seven senses
; Curious Bits of Information
Tor the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
i The origin of the loving cup is fiasy.,
tSome InvesUgators have asserted "that
its beginning wft the wassail bowl, be
longing to festivities antedating the
Christian era and that upon the advent
of Christianity tho custom of wassail
ing assumed a religious aspect. Tho
monks called the wassail bowl the "po
1 ..u.Hk" r i ovine cup). The cer
emony of drinking from ono cup and
ntaainsr It around was observed at the
I Jewish pascal supper and on other not
Jable occasions.
Undc Jeff Snow Says:
With the legislature gitUn' a extry dig
is us this year, it's most ilkeJy well
blieve the prophet or scientific feller a
: while back that said disasters and af
i flictions alius toilers up a big sun spot
made by all the pianets tuggui on one
side.
- Loss fay tha Rusting ot Sleel
From the Sail rraDriane .Cbronlele.
It is now quite universally- admitted
lhatH tho rusting of iron and steel: Is
REWS IN BRIEF.
SIDELIGHTS,, . J,
m.. Tiw 4i.fv nAtA Ksffl twttt -WlA Of
tut lightest In the numbfeir of fire ana
n.uo . I saakji thssFUfrAin IR MNlOrl I
historyT7MaiTvWbn
total losses win prooaoiy ,.moi.
tomore ..than, WOW.,. fi.J k
nrK -i.i Wo.t Rl-rth 'irtrM; bridtte
and road work Is completed. Ths Dalles,
the Chronicle declares, will have on;
of the finest city entrances poaseea
bv anv community on the route ?of the
Columbia-river highway.'1 - ,
"Dry New Tear's was not so bad. after
it - th. T ji nranda Observer testifies.
"The bead was clearer and the eye was
hrlhtr tho dsur followins:. ; Even the
hin-nnricAr siartiM were stooped in many
places, which indicates that prohibition
is actually proniDiiing.
, "One 6f our county offlcialsv. who was
named in our last issue as oeing in una
tnr a ralu In ulsrv. aJLVfl he is ODDOSed
to the proposed Increase," says the Gold
Beach Reporter. "In fact, he is con
sidering the refund of a portion of his
!( TMur month salarv. at he feels there
is not enough business transacted in the
ofrice to Justify even the present wag.
Rlnrm nlarwta t-tnnrtjd bv the Fossil
Journal's Birch Creek correspondent.
"Our recent snowstorm took a ratner
heavy toll of dumb brutes, but no loss
of human life has been reported in this
section. There were a few narrow es
capes, however, such as our stage driver
had. He was out all. night battllnit for
his life near the Birch Creek school
house. He reached DayVUIe the next
iiav KKnnt 17 hnnn tat. He is a re
turned soldier and makes very little of
it, although he was half frosen. We
think his battle for life as heroic as ths
warfare overseas. . .
heard and usseen. However, she has
been forced to conclude, so far as tha
session has gona that ths legislature
uitwa roi nave us-same oa smell.
'
Ben Sheldon, true to prediction and
accustomed form, "rose to remark1
ahead of any of the other fellows of the
house or of Mrs. Thompson, when the
session got under way Monday morn
ing. As chairman of y the resolutions
committee he got the first Chance to say
"Mr. Speaker" ,and eome 'other words,
while he handed In a bunch of resolu
tions framed by the cdipmlttee and en
trusted to his charge. Now that the
formality is over and the lea has been
broken, all the other members of the
house feel that the bridle has been taken
off and the road of oratory Is open to
all.
J' Sarrr Brown of Qervals, who is not ths
man., who made the belt. Is not a very
KPoa lriena or Jack Frost. In fact he LP I
is a bitter enemy, contending that Jac8I?
' an unwelcome visitor at any season
of the year, particularly In his loganberry
patch. Mr. Brown used to make laws
up at Salem every two years or so. hut
now makes it possible to make logan
berry lulca.by cultivating a large num
ber of acres- close to his home town and
postof f ice Until the , recent cold spell
he was an optimist, but now, since he
has thawed out and his berry patch has
not,, he Is a pessimist. Jack Frost nipped
.him,' and his .neighbors, and he contends
that there is about to be a great dearth
of -berries when the harvest time comes
next June, and July.
for in the old days they taught us we
had seven senses instead offlvav sight,
bearing, smell, taste, touch, speech and
understarilng. The seven . liberal arts
of the Romans Were arithmetic, geom
etry, astronomy, music, logic rhetoric
and grammar. The seven lamps of
architecture were the lamps of sacri
fice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory,
and obedience. Tha-seven churches of
Asia; addressed by St. John In the book
of lievelation, were Ephesus, Smyrna,.
Pergamus. Thyatlra, Sard is, Phila
delphia and'Laodlcea. The sevVn cham
pions of the Crbss were St. George of
England, St. Denis of. France, St. James
of Spain, St Anthony of Wsrv, Bt. . An
drew of Scotland. St. Patrick of Ire
land and St. David Of Wales. .X y
The Roman Catholic church defines
the seven chief virtilea as faith," hope,
chacity, prudence, temperance, justice
and fortitude. The seven Corporal
works of mercy are, (to bury the dead,
to oiothe the naked, to feed the hungry,
to give drink to tho thirsty,- to shelter
the homeless, to visit those" In prison
and to administer unto the sick. The
Catholic' church designates the seven
deadly sins as pride, anger, envy, sloth,
lust, covetousneftB and- gluttony. It
teaches that the seven gl(ta of the Holy
Ghost ace counsel,' fear of 'the Lord,
fortitude, piety, understanding, wisdom
and knowledge ; that the seven joys of
Mary were the annunciation, the visita
tion, the nativity, the adoration of the
Magi, the presentation in the temple,
the f tndipg of Christ among the doc
tors and the assumption. The seven
sacraments of the Jloman Catholic
church as set forth,, by the council of
Trent, are. baptism.: confirmation, tho
eucharist. penance, holy orders, matri
mony and extreme unction. On . Friday
preceding Palm Sunday Is celebrated
the festival- -of the seven sorrows of
Mary, which observance" was Instituted
by Pope Benedict XII L They are the
prediction tt Simeon, tho. flight into
Egypt, .the loss of Jesus in Jerusalem,
the sight of Jesus bearing his. cross, the
descent from the cross and trie entomb
ment. The Seven spiritual works of
mercy taught by the . Roman Catholic
church are, to admonish tho sinful, to
bear; wrong patiently, to comfort the
afflicted; to counsel the doubting, to
forgive offenses, to instruct the igno
rant and to pray for the living and
those who are dead.
one of the serious industrial problema
If we assume an : average life of steel
to be S3 years tho depreciation charge fl
8 per cent represents, according, to tho
United States bureau of mines, a yearly
loss of 1.000,000 tons of product In this
country for tho crude or soml-flnisiied
material alone, exclusive of correlated
manufacturing . ooatav The inevitable
rusting of steel may be justly claimed
to be tho mainstay of ths sine Industry,
as 40 per cent of the metallic zinc used
in-tho-states Is for galvanizing Iron and
steel articles, representing an annual
outlay of $20,000,000 in an endeavor to
protect metals from decay. Enormous
amounts of paint are used in a like en
deavor. About E.000,000 tons of coal
are needed In tho ' production of steel
to replace ths annual wast and 1,000,000
more for replacing tho - sine that is an
nually lost No estimate can bo made
of tho value of tho brass, bronze, copper,
aluminum, nickel, tin and other metals
and alloys used in machine parts as
sheathing for plating, etc, to protect
steel or as a substitute for it in places
where it would be used but for its lack
of resistance to atmospheric attack. ,
And Hitting on All Twehe '
: From the CMesfO Vein.
4 Nineteen-twenty looks like fine new
12 cylinder year.
The Oregon Country,'
Northwest Happenings rn Brief form for tha
if t4. Busy Header. ,
t . ' OREGON NQTES 4
A new Methodist churrh'ia beitic hum
at Falrview to replace the one recently"
Hirn uown. ,
Miss Elisabeth Tavlnr nf inl
a graduate of Occidental college. Ih now
insarucior i epanisn at the university
of Oregon.
Clatsop county la arranarlnr in .nr.r
Upon Its program of highway Improve- '
mont for liSO. whtch jill entail an ex
penditure of JS15.OO0.
VerV few Phlnauu r.li.fi,i.
killed in Linn county by the two foot.
snow and attendant cola snap, accord- i
wig mo game wsraen.
In the anirreo-af J? f,u.r ..n. -??B
loaded by the railways of the North- -i
western region in December cnmiuimi -
ith tho corresponding month of 118.
An Eastern manufsri
goods is looking for a location for a
packing plant In the Lake Lablsh. re
Brook may establish a factory at
Night Foreman Morgan of the O-W. '
R. A N. yards at Bieth nearly lost his
Hl y asphyxiation Sunday morning j.
while lighting a heater in a refriaer
ator car.
Oregon's 1919 farm' kndwrchard pro
duction crowd the $50O,t00,oiio mark,
with grain ihe largest Item, over T5,ooo.
000. In 1914 the total grain alue was
$4,500,000.
Business men of Salem who wish to
become more clffsely affiliated with WU- ;
Ic.metto university activities will be
given associated memberships in th "
student body.
, Mrs; Addle M. Thompson, a daughter
JJ,,,11- Il;bn C and Margaret Lair v
11111. one of OreKon's most prominent
Sloneer families, died at Albany. Bun- l
ay, aged 70 years. '
The total returns from all IIom1 River '
valley products the past year, including
lumber, will exceed $7,000,000. The ap
ple crop leads with a gross income to '
growers, of $4,500,000.
la handing his annual report to ths -directors
in sesHlon Saturday, J. O. Holt,
manager of the Kucene Fruit Growers
association, stated that the annual busi
ness amounted to $94,476.-
Of the 1559 students registered at ths
University of Oregon. 391 are from Mult
nomah county. Thirty-four counties of
the stats are represented. and 166 stu
dents are from other starts,
A special election will be held at As
toria on January 15 to vote on the Issu
ance of bonds to conwtruct playgrounds,
an athletic field and auditorium. About
$260,000 is needed for the purpose.
Three hundred Guemnev heifera will
be brought to this state direct from ths
Island of Guernsey, off the coast of
Kngland, this spring, according- to Ira
T. Whitney, Lane county agricultural
agent.
After three years of Investigation and
an expenditure of nearly $30,000, the
Medford irrigation district reports that
the only feasible source of water Is from
the Rogue River Canal company at $13S
per acre.
By the explosion of a five gallon can
f oil while she was atartliiR the kitchen
Ire. Mra Rosa Carlson nf Aalnrlji u-aa :
fatally burned, her S-mnntha-oid chiM
severely burned and the furniture and
personal eirects of the family destroyed.
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' . ". 4 washinoto.v
.-Mrs. S. J. B. Campfield, bom In 1159
at t,resweu, vr., of pioneer parents, died
last week at Husum.
"A ladies' auxiliary of the American
Legion has been organized at Raymond
with an enrollment of 25 members
I.eon Hathaway, 21 years old, died at
Yakima, Saturday, as the reault of In
juries received when he touched a high
power wire.
Henry Christ, aged 84, one pf Van
couver's earliest and best known pio
neers, ia seriously 111 and there la little
hope of his recovery.
Stores and residences at Prosser aro
depending on kerosene lumps and can
dles becnuse of breaks in the power
lines owing to cold and frost.
Fortyt thousand shots were fired ami
11.000 rabbits killed In the- big rabbit
drive near Burbank, Sunday. Many
bunnies escaped because the shooters
ran out of ammunition, v 4 J
Grays Harbor lumber shipments dur
ing tne Pst year totaled upward of
800.000.000 feet. In addition to thia, har
bor mills shipped about 3000 cars of
shingles and other lumber products.,..
Emery Dillingham, whose wife was
fnund dead in her chicken yard, near
Belllnctiam. has given himself up to
the officers and says he accidentally
shot his wife while attempting to kill
a rat. . L
Game birds of Yakima county, driven
out of. their usual haunts by tha se
verity of the winter, are giving farmers
mtirfi trnuhl and atens are belnK made
lo trap them and send them, to counties
that "have a shortage.
. John Bolman of Outlook and Walker
Schlosser of Sunnyaide are under ar
rest at Pmeser, charged with attempt
ing to hold up an automobile party en
route to a dance. Six shots were fired
at the machine, but the party escaped
unharmed., t '
GENERAL
Th Trrf ne-iieae cabinet realrned Sat
urday, owlnsr to tho opposition of ths
chamber of deputies.
Information, is received at Ran An
tonio that Oarrania government orr
cials are countenancing a plan to es
tablish a Bolshevik regime In Mexico.
a nvemrh frulner has arrived at Co
penhagen with 600 troops who will oc
cupy Flensburg-Schlesburg during ths
plebiscite, ureal umain win stiio iv
men.
The Shrine auditorium In Los Angeles,
nrAnrtir nf an organization of NoDIef
of the Mystic Shrine, was destroyed by
f're Saturday. The loss Is estimated at
8200.000.
While In San Francisco Will H. Hays,
Republican national chairman, will nam
the 40 members of the committee on
platform andV policies authorised by tha
national committee recently.
Secretary Glass, in a statement do
elaras another! liberty loan will bo nec
essary If congress embarks on "now
fields of large expenditures or reduces
the aggregate volume of taxes.' '
By reason of the failure of prohibi
tion IMS to obtain a majority of votes
In the recent "no license" referendum,
New Zealand will remain wet and th
present license system will remain.
General Ludendorff makes an earnest
appeal to the Germans to forget tbeli
domestic quarrels and close their ranki
to the grave perils which he thlnkt
menace the republic ff6m Bolshevism
Lieutenant Bruce Struthers was in
stantly killed and Lieutenant J. Evans
severely Injured at Douglas, Arts., when
an airplane in which they were attempt
ing to make a forced landing crashed
to the ground..
An effort to retire Samuel Gompori
as president of the American Federation
of Labor on full pay, and crea'e fot
him a new position as honorary presi
dent, is expected to be mads at Ui
convention of the federation next Ju
Olden Oregon
Beaver State Mads Itself a Stats,
Congress or No Congress.
Oregon became tho thirty-third state
in the union. February 14, 1859. It had,
howovor, by action of tho people, be
come a "state nearly a year before. -'
Believing that congress would pass the
enabling act in 1859, tho voters bad
formed a state government by tho elec--
tion of officers in June.,1868. A special '
session of tho legislature convened to
July. Tho state officers took tho oath
of , office ' and two United States sen
ator were elected. Soon afterward! -word
cams that congress had adjourned,, ,
without paaalng the enabling "act and
thatlpregon was still a territory. There
werewQ seta of officers and two gov.
ernmenta ' By common consent ths
stats government was set aside - tempo -rarlly
and the territorial government ; -functioned
until '"the ; following Febru "
aryv when congressional acUon was tak-