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AMERICA'S GIFT
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iIIE Council of the League of Na
tions functioned yesterday at
Versailles.
It was the first session of an
organized parliament of man. It is a
body to enforce trie terms of the peace
'by means other than war. It is an
agency by which disarmament of the
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nations IS proposeu uuu uie sciub-
ment of disputes by arbitration
planned. It is an organized and defi
nite purpose to stabilize self govern
ments, protect weak nations from: op
'presslon and guarantee the territorial
limits of nations.
. It is proposal for the first time to
unite the nations of the world in a
pact fot permanent peace. It exem
plifies civilization forging forward to
higher and higher ideals. It examples
mankind rising from a state of en
slavement under autocratic processes
and doctrines that have held sway in
the world since those processes and
doctrines originated, in the tribal life
at the beginning of man.
Millions of men have known only
those conditions which divine right
of kings imposed upon subjects who
were powerless to revolt against and
overthrow royal authority.
i.
The human being has been the
creature of the state rather than the
state the creature of the man.
h Tha crimes and excesses and tyran
nies heaped by rulers upon their op
pressed subjects crimson the pages
" The step from the subject state of
the man In Germany, Austria and
.Russia before the war to the state
cxampled by the Council of the League
' of Nations In session yesterday, is the
most gigantic stride "upward in the
Whole history of the world.
Jesus Christ came into the world
preaching peace on earth. For the
.first time in history there is effort
' by man and nations to realize that
dream that has lived In the Imagina
tion of men since the Nazarene was
on the earth. The soul of the League
of Nations is the preachment of the
Savior practically applied, in man's
toeak way. to the life and government
of the world. It Is the noblest en
deavor in which statesmen and gov
ernments have ever engaged.
Unhappily, no representative of
.America sits at the council table at
Versailles. American brain conceived
'the plan. American statesmanship
practically forced European govern
mentsto accept it. American leader
ship went into the tangled mass of
'conflicting Interest and divided
opinion, ana, witn the greatest dif
ficulty, framed the league pact. The
.council as it sits at Versailles Is thus
jthe gfft of America to Europe, and
It Is indeed, highly regrettable that
America is not represented there to
guide and lead the league to success
as America led the defeated armies
.. ,ui ucuiwrtitj anu nueny oacK 10
'triumph in the war.
Whether this great agency of peace
and good will' on earth can survive
without America to stabilize and
fctrengtben it is doubtful. The moral
1nflllfnp nlnna nf tha im.i
supporting the league is as invaluable
for the future as it was in forcing
formation of the leacrne Th maa
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presence 'of the moral influence of
- America at Versailles, would, after
. America's part in the war, give
European peoples far greater confi
dence in the justice and prestige and
oower of the league. The iiirfirmsmte
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anil that manrlutpa. nf tho r o
Council would be accepted with
t greater faith and a broader wiiijng
' nesa to" submit.
It s to be hoped that America will
yet ratify, and Germany be thereby
i deterred from conniving a league com-
" posed of Russia, Austria and herself
wun: me consequent return to war
and misery, bankruptcy and whole
sale death. ,
V The legislature has passed a bill
reorganizing fish and game admin
istratlon and the governor has
signed it. The measure may have
desirable features but Its provision
for appointment of the new commis
sion by . the legislature rather ' than
the - governor 1 apt to prove - a
trouble-making error. The com
mission should be appointed by and
be responsible to the governor as
the chief executive of Oregon.
UNANIMOUS
RECKLESS, Irresponsible, drunken
. and crazy drivers have fair warn
ing in the action of the legisla
ture on the drivers' license bill.
The bill passed both bouses with
out a dissenting vote. It is doubtful
if in the entire history of the state,
that a bill carrying a punishment has
been adopted by unanimous action.
There is always some Interest or
some group that rises up to oppose.
But the resentment at the state
house against the murders and mutil
ations by drivers drunk and drivers
irresponsible was so great and so
unanimous that not one voice was
raised against the license bill and not
one vote recorded against it.
Drivers may as well begin now to
accommodate themselves to the new
situation. The records they are mak
ing now will count against them
when they apply for licenses after
the law goes into effect. If their
records are bad enough on the card
index at the police station it will be
impossible for them to secure licenses,
and they will have to join the pedes
trian class.
The license bill will do a great deal
to bring the maniacs to theirsenses.
We are fast coming to a time when
there will be no more Sorensens and
no more Joe Mielkes at large on the
streets at the wheel of a high power
automobile.
The action by the legislature is a
triumph in the drive for making the
streets of Portland safe.
"That the Japanese foreign office
is preparing ,a formal note asking
China "to appoint a commission to
consider the restoration to China of
Shantung" is the purport of a cable
from ToJtio. One by one the spe
cious arguments of the Lodges and
Reeds will fall to the ground. The
case against the treaty is a house
of cards. The crocodile tears shed
by Lodge in Washington and James
Reed before the Portland Chamber
of Commerce were as salty as brine
but In their sincerity as empty as
a bass drum.
THURTELL'S MEANING
OFFICIAL copies of the report on
the Columbia basin rate case
which Chief Examiner Thurtell
proposes for the interstate com
merce commission which have been
received in Portland confirm the con
clusion of the news dispatches that
lower rates are recommended between
Portland-Vancouver and that part of
the Inland Empire comprehend by the
zone immediately south of the Snake
river. These are the findings of the
examiner:
That the rates on classes between Port
land and Vancouver and points in the
Inland Empire south of the Snake river
are unduly prejudicial to Portland inso
far as they are higher than the rates
contemporaneously applied on like traf
fic between such points and Astoria,
Seattle and Tacoma .
That the rates on commodities between
Portland and Vancouver and points in
the Inland Empire south of the Snake
river are unduly prejudicial to Portland
and, Vancouver insofar as they exceed
90 per cent of the rates on like commo
dities between such points and Astoria.
Seattle and Tacoma.
The Jangaugc used by Examiner
Thurtell shows quite clearly that he
recommends reduction in both the
class and commodity, i.e., merchandise
and grain, rates between the zone
south of the Snake and Portland-Vancouver.
Some confusion on the sub
ject has been indicated, especially on
the part of the competitive ports. It
is unnecessary.
The adoption of the examiner's re
port by the interstate commerce com
mission would mean a reduction in
the whole body of rates between the
zone south of Shake river and Portland-Vancouver.
After all, may not the governor
be. wiser in his day and generation
than was the legislature? The game
commission, with Its controversies.
Its feuds, its scandals, its political
manipulation and its perennial no
toriety, is safely off his hands. The
legislature took all responsibility off
his shoulders and saddled It UDon
itself.
WE'LL TELL THE WORLD
THt Pacific Northwest has un
bounded resources and unsur
passed scenic attraction. It wants
people to rarm the lands and man
the industries. It wants hotels for
the housing of tourists and caoital
for investment in productive enter
prise. It wants transportation and
irrigation.
The progress of the effort to inter
est the rest of the country in the
Northwest reveals that nearly all the
people in the rest of the countrv
are from Missouri. They must be
snown.
They have a healthy distrust of
empty promises. They are averse
to exploitation of their enthusiasms
and only a few are willing to Incur
the COst Of trlDS for exnertmnnt nnrl
direct Observation.
It is this outside attitude of "show
me' that principally gives merit tn
the proposal which emanates from
Herbert Cuthbcrt of the Pacific North
west Tourist association that Oregon
Washington and British Columbia hold
a show of their productions and po
tentialities in the world's largest ex
position building, the Grand Central
Palace of New York.
Washington, indeed, thinks so well
of the project that its state Chamber
of Commerce has already adopted it.
A very reassuring part of the nro-
posal is that It would place no bur
den upon either public or semi-publlo
funds. The exhibitors themselves
would pay the bill, each In propor
tion .to his participation. :
Oregon, for instance, is developing
manufacturers of lumber and leather
products, fruit juices, and so forth,
who have launched national advertis
ing campaigns. They would naturally
count such an exhibit a highly de
sirable Opportunity for resultful use
of their advertising appropriations.
The New York exhibit would be a
desirable place to disclose to buyers
for Eastern concerns and to all who
are interested generally, as Mr. Cuth
bert puts it
Our scenery, railway and steam
ship transportation, natural resources,
agricultural products, fruits, dairy prod
nets, canned goods, manufacturing and
Industrial lines, lumber, cement, ship
building, power development, irrigation
projects and state land settlement plana
It must be remembered that ap
plied publicity persistently distribu
ted has operated ,as a highly profit
table development factoi for regions,
like Southern California, which have
less to offer than tlu Pacific Northwest.
Down on the Oregon City road
in Clackamas county Thursday night
there was a comedy of poor marks
manship In which bad booze fired
jealousy and aimed the gun but
caused it to waver from its mark.
It might have been a tragedy and
then again would have come the rea
lization that guns and booze are
dangerous companions and that both
should be banned.
WITH THE PEOPLE
THE Journal's poll, which closes to
day, has shown how familiar the
people are with the treaty and
til. it i t .
wiui me issues in me controversy
over it.
The mass of letters accompanying
the ballots have dealt with the argu
ments for and against the treaty with
very great intelligence. Only sentences
have here and there from a few of
them been presented in the daily
reports of the vote. They are onlv a
glimpse at the mass of intelligent ex
pression that citizens in the routine
of their daily life have stopped to
put into form. To peruse these letters
is to bring the reader into close touch
with the thought and aspirations of
the mass.
It gives one a new faith in his
country. Out there beyond the limits
of the big city, there are men and
women, thousands of them, who are
thinking of the world in all its com
plexities and conflicting interests-
They are watching the progress of
civilization and dreaming and working
for a better state for mankind.
Minds in this world are active now
as they never were before, and.
whether it wins or loses, whether it
survives or falls, the league idea has
become a force on earth, and it will
never die.
Men waited some thousands of years
for self government. They dreamed of
liberty long and weary years before
they won it. It will be so with the
idea of a great pact of peace, and,
though it may take another calamit
ous war to make all men accept it, its
final triumph is as certain as the
seasons.
The companionship of the letters
sent in during the treaty Doll has
been a new baptism of faith for The
Journal. It is a touch with the pulse
beats of humanity that leaves a last
ing impression. It is a storv iof nmnio
growing in thought and knowledge
and purpose and aspiration that bodes
well for the republic, for the repub-
ic is the mass in their collective
action, and it is what they see fit to
make it.
During the war people learned
how to sing. With martial air and
sentimental melody thev snstainoH
courage, made ready for sacrifice
ana prepared for reunions after
victory. Community service as
organized in Portland intends to
keep people singing and brave dur
ing tnese difficult days of readjust
ment. A BETTER WAY
Ciiy planning is an effort to in--telligently.
prepare a city for its
future.
tuning is a orancn or city plan
ping designed to prevent use of DroD-
erty in a fashion adverse to public
interest.
These, in each instance, are defini
tions of the ideal. The ideal often
miscarries. The safeguards provided
by the state laws, repeal of which is
a contested issue at the special legis
lative session, are that no steps shall
be taken without public support.
The city planning commission is a
body which bears largely an advisory
relation to the official city administra
tion and excersises powers only
within clearly defined limits.
The zoning law necessitates neigh
borhood review of all proposed zonint-
districts and public hearing of every
interest oerore a zoning regulation
can be adopted by ordinance.
Seemingly the enemies of city plan
ning and of zoning who are now
waiting upon the legislature have
overlooked both the definition and the
provisions of the measures for which
they seek repeal.
Likewise they have apparently for
gotten that Portland's autonomy under
its charter is such that repeal- of
both state laws will modify the local
situation only to the extent of with
drawing compulsory neighborhood
review of zoning projects.
If they succeed in their appeal they
may find they have defeated their
own pu-pose.
The science of city planning arises
from ' the realization r that municipal
ities whose growth,! unguided. may
becorife so congested and unwieldy
as to render the city; unworkable &ni
finally destroy it.
Would It not be ' better for the
opponents of city planning to apply
their energy to the projects of the
plan, and, if these projects are un
reasonable, secure their defeat by
studied and intelligent exposure of
the facts?
Portland's future welfare condemns
an attempt to deny city planning and
zoning a chance, and to continue it
as a city that, like Topsy, "just
growed. '
THE GENERALSHIP
OF PERSHING
By ' Carl Smith, Washington Staff
Correspondent of The Journal.
Washington, Jan. 17. Since congress
created John J. Pershing a general he
has had a somewhat misty place in the
army organization. This rank was not
in view when present laws were made,
and when Pershing came along there
was nothing specific for him to do.
Presumably he would follow the direc
tion of the general staff, but the chief
of staff, General Peyton C. March, is
only a major general, and it seemed
incongruous that a major general should
be giving orders to a general. Like
wise, it would be confusing if the chief
of staff were to receive orders from
the general, when thfe general staff is
the general source of orders in matters
of moment.
The Wadsworth bill, reported by trie
senate military affairs committee, pro
poses to end this condition. It provides
that "during the incumbency of the
general 6f the army on the active list,
that officer shall exercise the powers
and perform the functions assigned by
law to the chief of staff." If in time of
war the general is assigned to the com
mand of troops, an acting chief of staff
is to be named by the president.
The rank of general conferred on
Pershing is not intended to be passed
on to any successor. After Pershing
there will be no general, unless some
future congress provides for one. The
Wadsworth bill makes this plain in its
creation of personnel by limiting the
rank to the "tenure of office of the
present incumbent." After Pershing,
the chief of staff will be some officer
selected by the president.
The general staff, which is entrusted
with the plans of national defense and
the general preparedness of the army,
will consist of 100 officers, not below
the grade of captain, chosen from a list
of eliglbles which Is to be prepared by
General Pershing and the commandants
of the general staff college and general
staff school, which will be revised an
nually. The present tour of Inspection of
General Pershing of practically iall the
major army camps and stations in the
country is preliminary to his expected
accession to the head of the general
staff, giving him up-to-date and first
hand knowledge of the present condition
of the army and land defenses.
Letters From the People
Communications aent to The Journal for
publication in thin department should be written
on only one tide Of the paper, should not exceed
800 words in length, and must be signed by tha
writer, whose mail address in full mint accom
pany the contribution. J
Pleads the Workingman's Cause
Carus, Dec. 19. To tne Editor of The
Journal I have become interested in
the contents of the article by Senator
Polndexter in which he announces Ms
candidacy for the Republican nomina
tion for president. Seratnr PnlnitiTi
has. by declaring for the open shop
tuenerai wood and the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce concurring), squarely
forced as the next national issue the
question of capital and labor. The
struggle is now on between the two
most powerful forces th wnrM hQ
ever known. And beyond a douht it
will be an immense struggle. To my
mum me next. lew years will be one of
the most critical periods in the history
of our nation, if not the most critical.
It behooves us all then to be conserva
tive, fair, honest and iusf in Alir nnin-
lons. and above all to be great, big, red.-
Diooaeo Americans.
I admire the man, Mr. Fish, who
Raid to that honorable body, "While I
have no use for this revolutionary ele
ment, I have as little use for the em
ployer who hides behind the folds of
our flag and takes advantage of every
opportunity to exploit the laborer."
This, then, seems to be the bone of con
tention the power of capital to exploit
labor. The closed shop, the strike and
the picketing system are the weapons
by which labor seeks to obtain its just
compensation from capital. And what
is wrong about a well ordered strike, or
a well organized system of picketing?
These are constitutional rights.
Having removed from labor the In
struments by which it attempts to ob
tain its just reward from capital, let's
be fair and just and remove from capi
tal that power by which it exploits the
laborer. S- L. CASTO.
General Wood's Language
Portland. Dec. 31. To the Editor of
The Journal In a speech at Fort Col
lins, General Leonard Wood is quoted as
saying: "My motto for the Reds is S.
O. S. ship or shoot. I believe that we
should place them all on a shiD of stone
with sails of lead, and their first stopping
nljLCA shnnM holt '
Now. regardless of the saying of Gen
eral Wood, or men of like character, real
Americans will continue to recognize the
fact that this reasoning faculty of ours
is an individual instrument, and since
each individual is different It follows that
their ideas are more or less different
Therefore, it is the essence of American
ism to concede to others the right; to
their opinions, and the expression there
of, without suggesting that they be shot
or deported.
General Wood is being groomed for .the1
presidency, and. naturally, would be ex
pected to display some originality. But
should anybody care to go through the
files of Hearst's Chicago Examiner they
would find in the issue of February H.
1919, that a certain Rev. D. John Wesley
Hill, New York clergyman, used almost
precisely the same language as the gen-,
era, at least as regards the description
of the ship and its destination, and the
question arises. Is it merely a coinci
dence, or is it just plain plagiarism?
Draw your own conclusion.
P. J. M'CARTHT.
To Make Portland Streets Safe
Portland, Jan. 9. To thf Editor of
The Journal "Interested Reader" has an
article in a Portland newspaper of De
cember 10 in regard to people walking
on the streets, especially in regard to
the city laws, and the semaphore. Un
fortunately I am one of thlaee who are
compelled' to earn a living, largely by
traveling the business streets, and time
enters into my ability to do so, and at
the present time a' part of it is absorbed
In "watchful waiting." The semaphore
in full operation, would produce a kind
of monkey and parrot time for thou
sands of us. At the rate of speed al
lowed by the authorities, and with the
Lncraaaintr . number of machines, the
time is near when something mora than
the '"unavoidable or accidental," includ
ing the ever present parole, will have to
be. inaugurated. Every other now con
gested street will have to be used during
business hours by vehicles exclusively,
and the -alternate streets by pedestrians
during those hour Overhead crossings
are safe but expensive. Much has been
said about stepping from' behind autos
and other; places unexpectedly. Thou
sands of people starting for their homes
at the close of their labors have to
dodge between parked autos to get their
cars at the risk of life and limb.
With the regulations of traffic as pro
posed;' as weU as sprinting to get to their
places of employment in time, a afe
and sane law will soon have to be
passed and enforced, or there . is likely
to be "a hot time in the old town." Life
and limb are entirely too cheap. Many
outside people whom we Invite for busi
ness and pleasure know not of the
danger, nor of our traffic laws. If a
farmer drove his team along a business
street as fast as many autos go he
would be summarily dealt with. This
should be, and no doubt will be, made
a safer place to do business. Exclusion
of pleasure vehicles from the business
streets during congested hours would
help some. A PORTLANDER.
Sunspots and the Senate
Oregon City. Jan. 15. To the Editor of
The Journal In regard to a prophecy
made by a noted scientist whose name"
I have forgotten hosv to spell that this
world of ours wduld be visited by divers
calamities beginning December 17, 1919,
based on the fact that several planets
formed a conjunction with the stin at
that time, I wish to present my obser
vations. One of the predictions was the advent
of a sunspot large enough to be seen
with the naked eye. I have kept tab on
the sun, and I saw a small spot on the
sun Decmber 25. hardly worthy of men
tion. ' The first week in January, 1920,
the sun was clear. Last Sunday, Janu
ary 11, I saw five sunspots four large
ones and one small one the largest of
which was just appearing on the eastern
edge of the sun and all grouped in about
one-fourth of the visible portion of the
sun. These spots present an Imposing
spectacle in their , stately march across
the face of Old Sol, and while not large
enough to be seen with the unaided eye,
yet, collectively, indicate an extraordi
nary solar disturbance. They will be
visible all of this week or longer, and
can probably be seen with a good field
glass having a power of eight or 10
diameters, care being taken, however,
to protect the eye with a well smoked
piece of glass to prevent injury to the
eyes. ' '
I would call attention to the fact that
the appearance of these spots and the
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in
Mexico happened about the same time.
My vote on the League of Nations
proposition is to submit it to the people
and to abolish the United States senate
altogether and find something else to
take its place. J. F. WACHTMAN.
High Praise of Mr. Bryan
Portland, Dec 31. To the Editor of
The Journal In The Journal recently
Mr. Drain made the statement that Mr.
Bryan would make a jweak candidate.
Now the facts of recent political history
are against that statement. Up to the
time of Mr. Wilson's second election Mr.
Bryan had received more votes than any
Democrat who had ever run for the
presidency. Mr. Wilson, in his second
election, with the slogan "He has kept us
out of war," received a larger vote than
Mr. Bryan did In any one of his contests.
But in that election Mr. Wilson ran
against a weak candidate. Mr. Hughes
could not command the support of the
progressive Republicans In the West, who
turned from him and elected Wilson.
Bryan In every race he ran was stronger
than his party, but each time he faced a
united Republican party, which greatly
outnumbered the Democrats. Both of
Wilson's, victories were the direct result
of a divided Republican party. With a
united Republican party such as opposed
Bryan each time Mr. Wilson would like
wise have been defeated.
The statement that Bryan was a "peace
at any price" man is not worthy of
notice. Ira common with President Wil
son and 99 per cent of the American peo
ple. Mr. Bryan opposed war until it be
came Inevitable, and then he was as
heartily for it as any other American.
History will probably say that be is
the most constructive, farseeing states
man this country has ever produced.
He has championed and had enacted
into law more great reforms than any
other citizen of the republic, living or
dead. Mr. Bryan is always found on the
higher grounds of progress and enlight
enment, urging his fellow countrymen
onward and upward. Twenty years ago
he was called a dreamer. Today those
dreams are substantial laws. His
dreams of today will be laws of the fu
ture. What other man is so well
equipped to lead his fellow countrymen?
DOUGLAS HEWITT.
Stock Gamblers and High Cost
Portland, Jan. 8. To the Editor of The
Journal I have been patiently waiting
for some editor or correspondent to hit
upon the real cause of the high cost of
'living, for no one seems to know, or if
they do they are afraid to tell it. I am
thoroughly satisfied that it is the editors
who are afraid and dare not take up
the cudgel for fear of offending those
vitally concerned. Now this Is the real
cause the stock markets and legalized
gamblers In them. I have stood upon
the marking board of the stock market
and seen more wheat, oats, barley, rye.
flour, potatoes, sugar (a sacred Word)
and other necessaries sold than there
ever "was at one time In all of the United
States and Canada, You know this can
not be done without having a very great
effect upon the price, of every article
so handled. During last November the
banks of New Tork loaned to the gam
blers of Manhattan island alone ?50,
000,000 for no other purpose than to gam
ble in articles of necessity. All of us
-A harrut frnm niavin? even a punch
board for a chew of gum, but those
leeches of he stoca marsets can xaae
our deposits from the banks and use
them to raise the price of what we most
vitally need and must have.
If our howlers against social unrest
would for once and all close up every
gambling stock market all prices would
at once drop, and that within 24 hours.
If any reader doubts it let him trace one
lowly sack of spuds from the farmer to
the consumer and see who sets the price.
A STOCK MARKET OPERATOR-
" RatHy the Treaty
From the Outlook
Correspondence, conversations and
consultation of the newspaper press
convince us that If the voters of this
country could be assembled in one huge
auditorium for the purpose of a refer
endum on the treaty of peace and the
League of Nations, a decided if not a
very large majority would vote for im
mediate ratification, with simple, ex
planatory, but not destructive, reserva
tions. The people have come to this conclu
sion because they see that the delay,
which has now, to some extent at least,
degenerated into a personal and fac
tional quarrel between the president and
certain of his antagonists in the senate,
is threatening the whole world. Includ
ing the United States, with industrial,
economic, and social disaster. Neither
the congress of the United States, nor
the legislatures of South America, nor
the parliaments of Europe can properly
deal with pressing and burning domestic
problems, because nobody knows what
COMMENT AND -
SMALL CHANGE
To market; to market
v
Great weather for Oregon Una
Put up the flag fpr Pershing.
as1 usuaLM 016 marlne wer on the Job.
?ImanyJi8 thered with internal dis
orders, and there seems to be no effi
cient regulator at hand.
.
.k5L?1.kaccordln to official "dope
sheet, the nation la now officially "dry."
but even official p. K. doesn't make it so.
"Sir 'Oliver lyirln KnaV. c-i.
and Prohibition" Headline. Yes? It
ftfan.Lpires that th two are men
tioned in the same breath.
When burglars and policemen exchange
S2f.a,nd ,ne,ither ide scores, the affair
seems to take on more or less of the
aspect of a mere formality.
Clothiers have been advised by the at
fyKeneral'" offic 0141 Prces must
S?Jf k 1' ,8 twee feeling somewhat
foraster 6etnS a new suit
htIi!nmani,rho ha,d ,nlne bTels of wine
Kin th? iwo?dp,le hasn,t tnetn
fJ!Lthe PIice have taken them; and
la?gtfVeuher!8 WoodpIle doesn't
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
I Thrift ud independence the TJtUe Silver
Dime route are extolled by Mr. Lockley today,
".well aa courace and tact aa exemplified by
William J en nines Bryan on a recent lecture
tour. J
Arthur C. Callan is secretary and
treasurer cf the Pacific International
company of Portland. His middle ini
tial stands for "Centennial," so it is
easy to figure how old he la A day
or so ago I was having my hair cut
in The Journal barbershop. Jut Arthur
stepped up to the cash register to pay
for a shave he pulled out a handful of
silver. I noticed there were several
quarters and four or five dimes. He
laid down a half dollar and pocketed
his change. "Why did you do that?" I
asked. "Why did I do what?" he an
swered. "Why did you give the cashier
half a dollar when you -had the exact
change in our hand?" "I would have
had to pay a fine of 50 cents If I had
spent a dime," he responded. I thought
he was trying to get gay with me, but
when I looked at his eyes I saw he was
in earnest. "I haven't spent a dime for
over 11 years." he continued. "A little
over 11 years ago my wife wanted a
dining room table. We didn't feel we
could afford it. One day she said, 'I
know how we can pay for it and never
miss the money. Whenever you reeeive
a dime in change put It aside and don't
spend it. I'll do the same. If either of
us spends a dime we will pay a fine of
60 cents into our table fund.' I agreed,
and faithfully turned all dimes I re
ceived in change over to my wife. One
day I came home and found a new din
ing room table 'It's all paid for,' my
wife said. "I paid for it in dimes." We
decided to keep up the saving of dimes.
Sevehal years later a sudden emergency
arose. I needed $1000 at once. I didn't
like to go to he bank to borrow, it. I
told my wife about It. She said, 'I'll
lend you J 1000 from our dime fund."
Right then I decided that saving dimes
was a worth while plan. During the
past year or more we have bought a $5
War Savings Stamp each week out of
the dimes we save. Sometimes I. will
start out gayly in the morning with a
i $5 bill, and the first man 1 buy some-
thing from will apologise for having to
j give me my change in 'chicken feed,'
and will hand me five or 10 dimes. It's
surprising how many dimes you receive
in change in the course of a week. Try
it for a month or so and you will be
our international relations are going to
he during the next five or 10 years.
Foreign exchange is In a chaotic condi
tion, which means that the vast busi
ness of exchanging commodities
throughout the world is abnormal and
Interrupted. Good judges of finance say
that if this condition of economic and
mercantile instability is not remedied
we shall have, in spite of the present
appearance of prosperity In this coun
try, an industrial collapse that will
make the previous panics of this genera
tion "look like 30 cents." This Is the
purport of the non-partisan and non
poitical resolution recently passed by
the New York Chamber of Commerce
urging immediate ratification. There
can be no society of any kind without
normal arid stable industry. Those who
are reading Senator Beveridge's mas
terly "Life of John Marshall" will be
reminded forcibly that the constitution
of the United States was written and
ratified a century ago primarily be
cause of the intolerable economic situa
tion In the original 13 states which
threatened to bring political chaos In
its train.
Not Exactly as Represented
From the Peekskill N. T.) News
We sincerely hope that those who
have beeq repeating and publishing re
ports to the effect that M. Venlzelos of
Greece had changed his mind as to the
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
Maraldl, a famous mathematician. In
the early part of the eighteenth century,
found that the bottoms of the cells in a
glass hive of his own Invention were
hexagonal and were formed of three
lozenge-shaped plates. Measuring the
angles of these lozenges he found that
the greater angles were 109 degrees 2S
minutes and the lesser ones 70 degrees
32 minutes.
Reaumur, the naturalist, suspecting
that such precision on the part of the
bee had relation to the desire for econ
omy in the use of the precious wax, pro
pounded the following problem to Konig,
a noted geometrician: "What should
be the angles of a hexagonal cell with a
pyramidal bottom formed of three simi
lar and equal rhomboid plates, so that
the least matter possible might enter into
Its construction T'- Konig, who knew
nothing of Maraldl's measurements, em
ployed the Infinitesimal calculus and
found that the great angles of the
rhombs should be 109 degrees 26 min
utes and the smaller angles 70 degrees
34 minutes.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
These here four by seven nations tn
Europe'U keep on a-fightln' 'slong's they
can git feed aad ammunition. They're
like Plum McCracken in Texas on the
Big Sandy. He got to huntln' the
neighbors he didn't like so fierce they
put him In Jail and then acquitted him
on the ground of insanity. The next
time he killed one of the neighbors,
which wasn't long after gittin' back
home, Jedge Lynch set on the case and
decided that, whether crazy or not, he
was altogether too quarrelsome to be at
large. They cured him somewhat sud
den under a big post oak tree which had
growed convenient :
NEWS IN BRIEF
: ' SIDELIGHTS V
"Let us make it our motto In 1920 to
draw our road maps , on the ground,"
urges the Vale Enterprise.,
The Golden Glow Mining Milling
company near Halley is shipping two
carloads of ore a week. The ore is av
eraging about $100 to the ton.
Sealed bids have been called for the
erection of a new city hali at vollmer.
The plana call for a brick building two
stones nigh and Co by au xeet.
In Its 25-yeara-ago column the Condon
Globe Times reproduces this from old
rues ; xnursoay oi iaai wee jonn
Maddock shot and killed two large lynx
on his place on ThlrtymUe."
"The first camping party of 1920,"
says the Lakeview Examiner of January
8. "was out Sunday and enjoyed a camp
fire dinner on Drews creek. The
weather was warm and balmy, there be
ing no wind or othr unpleasant features
to mar the occasion.".
"An argument In favor of a policy that
Bend has never adopted, that of getting
the people here and letting their intelli
gence and money provide the develop
ment, may be sound." says the Press.
"Bend, however, seems to like the meth
od she has always pursued : Get the in
dustry started and the people will fol
low, work will be available for all and
the citizenry satisfied."
Lockley
surprised to find how much money you
save."
I ate dinner with J. A. Ellison, man
ager of the Ellison-White Chautauqua
association, a few evenings ago. We
spoke of Bryan's speech at the Jackson
day banquet. "Bryan and Roosevelt
had one trait in common," said Mr. El
lison, "and that 1b the courage of their
convictions. For 30 years standpat
politicians have been saying every time
Bryan does a courageous thing, 'That
settles Bryan. He is as dead as a door
nail, politically.' But the standpat
politician goes into the discard and Bry
an bobs up serenely, stronger than ever
in the hold he has on the affections
of the public. .He was the best drawing
card we had on our circuit last year.
In one California town the cltixens
came to our local manager and said,
"We hear that Bryan is going to make
a prohibition speech. The people here
won't stand for It. Wire your general
manager at Portland to tell Bryan to
cut out all reference to booze in his talk
here.' Our local manager told them he
didn't want to lose his job, and for them
to wire me. A committee of citizens did
so. I wired In reply, 'Mr. Bryan has a
free platform and will discuss any Is
sue or subject he cares to. Why not see
him yourselves? They sent a commit
tee to the next town to meet Mr. Bryan
and ask him to substitute some other
lecture for "The Price of a Soul," which
he was scheduled to deliver. He was
most gracious to the committee and in
stantly agreed to deliver the lecture
which they had selected. Nothing was
said about prohibition, nor did they ex
plain why they preferred the other lec
ture The booze forces felt they had
sored a victory and turned out In full
force to hear Mr. Bryan. After he had
been Introduced he stepped to the edge
of the platform and said : 'By special
request I have been asked to deliver an
other lecture than the one scheduled. I
am told the prohibition question is a
very live Issue here, so before starting
on my lectnre I will make a few prelim
inary remarks on prohibition.' His few
preliminary remarks lasted half an hour,
and if he didn't skin John Barleycorn
and hang his hide on the fence to dry no
one ever did. The antl-prohlbltlon
forces were good sports and took the
matter philosophically, and If Bryan
gave another talk In that particular
city he would have a capacity audi
ence." merits of the League of Nations, that
Dr. Masaryk was saddened "by the
treachery of the president at Paris," and
that General Smuts wished to repudiate
everything done at the peace conference,
will be honest enough to admit they
were mistaken.
The opponents of the league, and of
President Wilson have been harping dili
gently and vociferously on these alleged
dlsaffectlons for some while. They have
played thm with all the trimmings,
amplifications and variations that fertile
Imaginations, heated to most active
functioning , could conceive of. And
now, sad to relate. It transpires that
each and all of these illustrious foreign
leaders are ardently and Insistently urg
ing' the Immediate adoption of the
treaty.
The incident should be Illuminating
and helpful, both to the every-day citi
zen, who has to rely upon the public
press for his Information and who may
have his doubts, and, also to several
gentlemen in Washington.
Olden Oregon
Pertinent to the Seventy-fifth Anni
versary of Pacific University.
Pacific university observed its seventy
fifth anniversary last Wednesday. On
the recommendation of the Rev. George
H. Atkinson, 'the " Congregational 1st
and Presbyterians, at a conference held
at Oregon City In 1848, decided to estab
lish an academy at Forest Grove, taking
over for that purpose a school already
founded by Mrs. Tab! tha Brown. In
1849 the Tualatin academy was Incor
porated by special act of the legislature.
Sidney H. Marsh was chosen president
of the new academy. . In 1854 Tualatin
academy was chartered as the Pacific
university and became one of the lead
ing educational Institutions of the
Northwest-
By the time these are finished the
youngsters are coming home from school for lunch and after lunch the
dishes are to be washed again.
Then Mother must get a short nap. Maybe neighbor drops In for a.
call, it's club day, or there Is shopping to do. Sometimes the mending
basket is crying for attention.
But be sure Mother finds plenty to keep her busy until dinner time.
A rush to get dinner over, the dishes washed and the kiddles to bed
Here is where Mother gets a chance to read. She divides The Journal
with Dad and they read until bedtime.
Mother gets the woman's pages, the local news and the advertising
first By the time she has finished making up her shopping list for the
next day. Dad has finished with the rest of the paper and they
exchange. ,
Ho Mother gets the live up-to-date news, the shopping news the
editorials and the features when she ba time to read -them. '
That's why Mother prefers The Journal and that's why Journal
"want" ads produce so well Mother Influences SO per cent of the family
buying.
Cost of Legislation in the
Earlier Days
Wasn't -Much, Yet Some Taxpayers
Murmured at High Cost
Oregon's first legislature met 75 years
ago In Oregon City. There were nine
members, and when they voted them
selves a salary of $2 a day some of the
settlers shook their heads at such
reckless extravagance.
The following committees were ap
pointed : Ways and means, Newell, Hill
and Gllmore; military affairs. Hill,
Kaiser and Gilmore ; land claims, Waldo.
Lovejoy and Newell ; roads, Burnett.
Waldo and Kaiser; judiciary, Burnett.
Lovejoy and Gilmore. To draft ruls
for procedure of the legislature, Love
Joy, Burnett and Waldo.
The first legislature passed an act
creating the office of governor, who
should hold office for two years, at an
annual salary of 8300. The house of
representatives was Increased to 13
members. The Judicial power was
vested in a supreme court consisting
of one Judge and two justices of the
peace.
The legislature also provided for tax
ation and further provided that those
who failed or refused to pay their tax
should have no benefit of protection
from the constituted authorities and
should be disqualified from voting. A
tax of of 1 per cent was levied, based
on a fair valuation of all merchandise
brought to Oregon to be sold, and all
improvements, on town lots, on saw
mills, flour mills, on other mills, on
clocks, watches, horses, mules, cattle,
hogs and pleasure carriages. A poll
tax of 60 cents was levied on every
white male voter and the sheriff was
authorized to collect this tax and keep
10 per cent of all taxes so collected.
Oregon City was officially designated
as the seat of government. The meeting
of the legislature was fixed on the first
Tuesday of June each year. The pay
of members of the legislature was fixed
at $2 a day.
Two sessions of the legislature were
held in 1844, the first In June, the sec
ond In December. The two sessions
lasted three weeks. Fortg-three bills
were passed. The appropriaUons for
these two sessions to cover all expenses
of the legislature as well as appropri
ations to carry on the provisional gov
ernment amounted to $917 96.
The annual cost of government then
amounted to less than 50 cents per cap
ita. The total population of Oregon,
most of which was in the Willamette
valley, was 2109. There were 726 males
over 18 years of age and 638 under 18.
There were 363 females over 18 and 488
under 18 years of age.
A Ten-Cent Farp
From the Tiroroi News-Tribune
The Tacoma Railway & Power com
pany and the Pacific Traction company
have asked the state public service com
mission for permission to Impose a 10
cent fare on all lines. This new sched
ule of rates would go Into effect January
18, 1920, If the request Is granted. In
its plea to the commission, the company
says: "Revenue received from the car
riders is less than the cost of giving
service. If things are allowed to drift,
the community will certainly Boon find
itself without street railway transpor
tation. To avoid such a catastrophe
the management of the street railway
system can do one of two things: First,
reduce costs by curtailing service and
abandoning lines, or, second, increase
the car fare."
It is undeniably true that the street
railway situation presents a problem
In this country which Is one of the
most baffling of present day questions.
But It is not confined to Tacoma alone.
In every city, save possibly that of
Cleveland and one or two others, the
street car companies are dangerously
near the financial rocks. The remedy
Is not so simple as the one proposed of
merely advancing fares. The 7 cent
fare did not solve the company's trou
ble in Tacoma. Boston has a 10 cent
car fare and finds that Its rates are
so high that people will not ride, and Its
problem still remains.
After the 7 cent fare had been put
Into effect In Tacoma, the committee
of 25 reported on June 10. 1919; "It Is
noteworthy that, notwithstanding the
Increased service brought about by the
experiment with the 7 cent fare, the
number of passengers has fallen off on
an average of 31,000 passengers par
wek. excluding the time when an ab
normal condition prevailed on account
of the flu' epidemic. It is clearly ap
parent that to further Increase the fare
would have no other effect than to re
duce the number of passengers to be
carried, without appreciable increase In
the amount of revenue to be received."
Tacoma has Induced hundreds of Its
citizens to go to the suburbs of the city
and build homes. To these home owners
a 10 cent fare would be an Injustice, To
permit It would serve as an Irremovable
bar to further development of our out
lying districts. Without doubt the T. R.
4 P. is enjjtled to some relief. But ths
city's welfare Is paramount, and It de
mands that there be no further Increase
In fare. Seven cents is "the limit"
which the company can hope to collect
from Its passengers In Tacoma. Other
wise we are putting a handicap on the
community which it will be Impossible
to remove.
The city authorities will promptly and
properly enter an objection to the com
pany's proposed Increase and fight Ijt to
the limit. If It should be shown that the
company Is entitled to relief, it must
take some other form than another
boost In fares.
Molorcye list's Goat Captured
From the 8arcoxt (Mo.) Record. '
'A California steer charged a motor
cycle, broke up the machine and chased
the rider a mile. California steers taken
on subscription at this office.
Why Mother Reads
The Journal
LIKE Dad. Mother is busy. Very busy.
Absolutely no time to read In the
morning at all.
Breakfast over, the kiddies must be
sent to school. Then cornea dusting, bed
making, straightening up of the house,
sweeping, dishwashing and the thousand
and one things only a woman can find
to do about a house.