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1 ' 1 -s 1 ' ". . '' . a - ' I . t 4 . 4 -THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, CORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1920. J r r St AK INDEFBSDEin JJEW8PAPER . ! & S. JACKSON. ..PbMh I (B ealia. b eoaftiVnt. b ebccrfvl sad oo onto othM yea would & p no ' . PnMtabed wer week fljr and Sunday ""TP'"' ' at Th. Joaroal Boikdtn. Braadway aaa xam- bill ctraat, Fortina, Mreson. I or - .MM""" - IMI M4VIUT. . y , . - V TELEPHONES Main 7178. Automatic -" rOBEION ADVEBTISINOBEPBEENTATrVE ' ' !2B OTfth A'iboc, Nw Tort; 00 auuen . Buildlas. -Cbieaao. . BobnoHption lm. y msil within Uw i' .DAILY ( MORN IMS OB AFTERNOON) Om year. SUNUAI 9 tn i nnt nontn 28 IJVaILT (MORNINO OH AFTBRNOOT) AND i 'a 7 mi I Ona montil . .SB Om yr. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he iliill direct thy paUu. rroT. a-o. NOBODY COULD ERCIFUL God, it's all true. Nobody has 'told. 'the -whole truth-rnobody could." lib-ward Heinz, of Pittsburg, Is the personal representative Of Her 'bert Hoover in the Near East with toeadquarters at Constantinople. He had not believed the reports of destitution, starvation and death com ing out of Armenia. He thought them exaggerated. But he made a trip Into Armenia, and the above words are a description of what he saw. "In the Near East Is the most des perate situation In the world." This "ffl 1: Is the statement of Herbert noover. - It tallies up with Mr. Heinz' avowal, ' ' "nobody has told the whole story . : r nobody could." ' ! In Armenia there are 250.000. or ' phaned children. Only 41,000 of bem have been gathered Into the tcmpor ary orphanages established by the Nekr East relief. The others are wretched Btarvellngs. Describing them, Miss Chamberlain, of Philadelphia, c says they wander about In tattered remnants of clothing thai but partly 5 shield their little bodies from the 'pZ bitter cold. Like hungry dumb ani . P mals. they gather about the relief houses sniffing the air Jn searcl- of ' the rood whose odors from the i w . i. soup houses are in the air. ' ' Miss Chamberlain In the gloom of ' an-evening saw little forms sleeping . on whut aeempd to be dirty rugs. On 'i examination, the supposed rug3 proved to be the dead bodies of other chil ' dren. The living children explained in answer to her questions, that they . slept on the bodies of the dead in ' order lo avoid lying on the frozen ground. The Turks in their invasion, stripped the country of everything movable. They destroyed or carried aay all farm implements and tools. Even, human bones are used by the refp-. gees in burying such of their dead as they have the strength to inter. Al ' ways a prosperous and industrious people, the shelterless and foodless refugees can produce no food until farm implements are obtained and wheat .grown in the fields during the -coming summer. ' There has been no appeal. compara . ble in merit to that for food and "'clothing for the dying nation in the Near East. The earth has known no such suffering, destitution and death. Only America can be relied upon to afford relief the European natiojis are bankrupt and ar confronted with starving millions of their own. A ten dollar bill will provide a month's food, clothing and shelter to one destitute and starving Armenian child that is now wandering parent less and shelterless in the open places In a land of stalking death. An unkind exchange remarks that "Senator Lodge will perhaps remain Republican leader of the senate 80 long as he can discover invht di rection the 'mild , reservatlonists wish to travel and take that course Defore they compel him." Maybe, but of lat the "mild" reservation lsts seem to get their sailing orders from the senator. LABOR PROBLEM EASILY SOLVED 0 REGON is acknowledged to be the leading Western state In the manufacture of furniture and candy. - ' If the local demand for candy was c 'diverted to the Oregon product to the -1 extent of even 75 per cent, it is esti , mated that the increased demand . i 'for help in the, .candy factories of - OregoB would give employment to .f evry'yoman and girl who wished to work. ' A similar resuix wouia ionow me ' . r ypbrchase of Oregon furniture, and such I iiactorlesVwould require enough more K . ' f men and boys to give every idle one a: piace to work.. : 1 Two lines of industries aionewwen, 1 'could, take, up the ntlre labor slack ,i -' 4f.pply our citizens who do the"buyT ' . log would l .purchase these Oregon made s t products. -. y "'-!.' 4n llpur tandy factories" n. some cases ': ' nuke? the entire United plates their " territory for marketing their product? - "i bttvers seirm many Western stated A ; :. A pur furniture factories turn out ' r:' products acknowledged : to -have no , , , ' ;.. ;'.-'. - h ;v. : superior in their? lines and the goods between the' contending Influences fln,d their way Mnto many state? vin exlstsfomewhere.. ; 7 exchange for money Jbreught to Port-, All controversies except those of land and distributed through pyrolla labor,; and -Industry - are taken 'into Into all business and professional life eoiut4o, b wcighe and adjudicated of the city and state. . ...... st bythecrderly processes of; the law. ! 'r CiylIIzaWo' ,na-grown In proportion A specUl eotnmittec of th Wuh- as the rule pf might an4 open conflict lngton Board of Trade,; appointed to haa given way toS the calm and ju inveatigate street safety, V reported dlclal yerdiots' Of judge and juryi . that four propositions were necesaary Why, Vienjf1 if man, the individual, for reduction of accidents. They are ean truBt his life, Ws liberty -and his establishment of a traffic court, fur- propiBrty upon -the scales of ordered ther adoption of one-way traffic. Justice may "not man, the; mass with elimination of jaywalking:, and ex- equal reliance, lay its wage schedules amlnation of applicants for motor and its -wprltlilg conditions, upon the licenses. 'Jud&e 'Rossman handles sam?bajane tipd abide the result! traffic cases in Portland:, one-way pbservess-iiold that . such will be traffhs -wan recently defeated 4n the the ultimate solution. Gradually, council by the votes of Oom'mission- they say, conditions are evoluting in ers Mann,- Bigelcw and flrah4 op- that direction;, though the process Is orators .are examined under -the 11- slow. The plan iata be effectively ap censlng'tlrivers'aet.recently passed Ped onjy when public sentiment be by the Orea-on leftfslature. They eoines sufficiently aroused and suf- still Jaywalk in Portland. " DELIVERY v 0 L'R luplicatlve roLIk 4fel.fvery sys-1 tenfc or. lack of system, is always the -ready butt of -criticism. When Mr VCatr nf tha nnlpvmn'a league assures the mllftdealers "4nd inspectors of the 'Northwest that the "dozen milk wagonaJta ihe block" is i a spectacle worthy onFy of the, dark has been running. A great many ages, he aptly rephrases a fault found people take their cue' from what with milk distribution In very city, others do, while another group The chief merit of the Immediate works all the harder for their can reference is that it incidentally, disr "4ate when they see votes for tneir closes dans which 'the dairvmen be- 1 lieve will eject unintelllgence from 1 milk transportation so far as it con- cerns themselves. On rural routes they intend to operate cooperative milk trucks which will carry the cans to railroad stations or condenseries,, and. perhaps, on the return journey bring feed and other supplier .''to the dairymen. Thus the dairymen's own teams or trucks as well as his time may be used for more productive pur poses on the farm while the "vehicles of common use carry loads commen-1 surate with their capacity. With fha fttniA nm.n..on.n I m n "T "I'., lt t ut at UJ3M1,4S U 19 no reason why a farmers' system of i,i una Dn(jiciiicuiiug ran or water transportation may not result In sub stantial economies. t w. 1 . r-, . . n 1 .1 . And If possible In tile country why not in the cUy? A truck transporta- 1 7 . I , a , k auu,uo"a' lu t(rtn Bv0fm la h on..u.MJwhat nas already been expended or tion system is merely the application of the cooperative principle which the dairymen already are applying to their marketing of milk and purchase of supplies. - Is It less possible for the milk deal ers to cooperate along lines free of the stigma of trust' method but as suring better service to the public? Why, for instance, should it not be possible for the dealers to become members of a central milk delivering company, operated at cost? Each vehicle could be assigned to as large a route as it could cover com' fortably. Each milk dealer could put aboard the vehicle the milk destined for his customers along that route. Thus the competitive relations be tween the dealers could be ma'ntalned while the duplication of delivery equipment and the loss of man power could be .eliminated. Banks are not regarded as fundamentally less com petitive because they maintain, at the cost of operation, a clearing house. Wouldn't it be' a good thing for the milk distributors to see what n?,M 1 be done with a milk delivery clear-1 ing house? . There is a discussion on this page f Champion Jack Dempsey, the pu- gmst. There Is a comparison of his ?,TT . that ther , , r.vaie. mere s aiso some analysis of the recep- Z ii " nome, a r-f A w th a an wa A -"3 wm, i iio avrugie lays many things bare. THE GHOST T HERE is to be no anti-strike sec tion in the Cummins railrnnrl n 1 1 1 on ura aim 1 1 .' m... I r, - v 1,118 8ec" tion, which has caused so much debate nH hinm k ; . ... 7 . J1' i rauroaa nrotner- fcken out by .the conference commi tees of the senate thp J T aw U rr ,n !: .ir,' ,t.WOU,d. have been a con" tinual fountain of strife and unrest. As a substitute for the anti-strike urJZ ' comm'ee seems to have o . v.. , .- compui- ZLtZ , k P k 'IT ,abor disputes are to be submitted to boards composed equally of representatives of the employers -.and the employes, 17 ,rTS,KCan 8gree We" aDd k 1 4 LD,0t ,they are U,rl Dllhmit IKaI. t.Jl a - I , . k , ."T 10 areueraM I "'"V SIl.as a court r ap- nn,:Z4 I k 4u ""'.-eniaent ana approved by the senate. The lower if i iv snnninron r r t- . . j j a. . tn Th-.- r, a, .. " P0W -r to en force their findings, though the power lrTJ 8l0VCTT? t0 have been given the appellate board Th nuhli. ,m ....... ' . 7 . ; ,W1 a or selected pick miners working 27 deal of interest, for the final word of , days during last October were 213.?7. congress as regards the adjudication Machine operators. It was ' claimed, fhf n J0f.vd,sPute8 between averaged. 112 to f 15 a day In selected the railroads and their employes. It mines and selected months. s a problem the solution of which To refute this testimony the mine directly affects not only the railroad workers produced statistics to show owners and their employes, but the that the average annual wages of soft entire population of. the nation as coal raihers for the six-year period u .,.k . ... ' from 1913 to. 1918. amounted only to H.ougiH to be possible for congress $873,85. whjch does not check exactly to work out some sane and sensible with $213 a mdnth or with gi2 a day. Plan, some orderly and Just process, it would seem from much that has by which disputes between the rail- been said and written about the work roads and their workmen over wages ing conditions about the soft coal ?X.!!Er ??nd'"OD8 ooaM e ra- field that there are too many miners tionaliy Investigated .and justly de- in that district, for all of them to termined. Going on beyond the rail- work all of the time at wages which roads it ought also to be possible to will support them adequately. The sorve thesame problem as. applied to part time system has resulted. If the aU industrial disputes. z testimony reflects the true situation, Mt goes without .saying 4hat all dis- In' a high rate for the ton. the day or putes have adjust solution: No eoiv the hour, but In a low average earn froversy can be so tangled or so bit- Ing .for the year. It has been con ter, but, the dividing linear of eouity tended, and la nrohablv true, that ths jflciently educated ;on ; Industrial ques- ions and reiatiansfoi make it posst- P,a M enforce laws recjmripg indus- trial courts, just as matters at issue are now disposed, or in civil courts, There is TOlnsr to be a heavv vote The Journal's presMential poll, Favorites are developing even with- the few days that the straw vote opponent rolling in. It is. not pos Slblevthat the results to this straw vot may have larK effect, in the state presidential primaries. THIS YEAR'S ROAD PROGRAM I P THE state highway commission holds to its announced policy there will not be much paved road built this year. Some of the counties are going to be disappointed. The policy of the commission seems to be a reasonable one. In the first place there are not enough funds available to satisfy everybody. Even the constitutional amendment in- creasing the limit of state indebted ness Is adopted by the voters in the May election, the funds will not be sufficient. To pave the roads already embraced In- the state system will contracted for. . Aside from funds there Is another reason for Inability to do much pav ing. It is the lack of men and ma terial. The work contracted, for last year Is only about 35 per cent com pleted, leaving 65 per cent to be fin ished. Shortage of labor, equipment and cars will not admit of the completion of additional jcontracts this year. The question of Increasing costs is also becoming a serious one. Careful observers estimate that we are now at the peak of high prices and that by deferring work this year better prices will be obtained next year. Prom a practical standpoint it is more advisable for the commission to concentrate its efforts on grading the main roads and making them usable instead of embarking on a large paving program. After this is done an estimate of available funds can be made apd roads of lesser Importance taken up In their reJativ pQsition to the main system v It is a condition,, not a theory, that gives force to the appeal for minion nt or vn. of then are little children. A nation potentially great Is threatened with extinction. A Christian people whose Jdeals are akin to those of i.h a , ,, devitalizing, soul crushing hunger. I D TWO SIDES, MAYBE OAL mine operators and represen tatives of coal miners continue their controversy about wages c and working conditions day after aay at Washington. When it is all . "" commission has digested its mass of evidence, maybe the public will be able to learn something about the ins and the outs of that-contention. ,s Pbable that both sides are hot free of blame. The coal miners were led Into grave error when they call th 0tn, aa ter regardless of how, many people froze to death as Its result. On the other hand, it Is probable that the min wonld have met with popular support had 'they been presented more strate- ,ca and more regard to hu manity. Now the mine operators contend that they can not pay the 14 oer cent wage increase and return more than one per cent in dividends upon their vestments. And, In support of their contention that the increase results in excessive wages their statisticians figure out that the average earnings t ? . " " "'"ec coal miners would . a'ocepf mr lower rate were they to be' assured of 'con stant employment-' " ; But it is a tangled controversy. If the strike setUemelltcommis8ion can unsnarl the skein it will stand as a next friend to the, pubuo and to in dustry generally. 'If it can expose and make plain the bald spots of in justice, on both sides, it will enable the public-to judge fairly and, thrpugn public sentiment, will force ultimate reform and equal justice, that condi tion for vvhlch'all the people yearn. - .- , A New Tork-.- physician and spe cialist 6n mental diseases, announces that slx,'0ut of ever, thousand peo ple in the Dntted18tatea are more or less 'ifeeblejninded?' If the doc tor had started a political argu ment among his subjects he could have made a much higher batting average'. . l- ( J ' WITHIN THE LODGE - T LANS for the. work of the com mittee of i7t 'which is to form- ulate recommeadations fof this year's Republican national platform, got under iway a Wash ington dispatch inforrhs the world, "with the return to Washington of. Will H. Hays." It appears, also, that the source of the impetus was the private Office of Senator Lodge, whose political open heartedness and inherent progressive tendencies are so much- a household phrase that no further remarks on that score are needed. Chairman Hays and "the party chiefs" met in that secluded spot to see that the committee "got under way" in the right direction. When Mr. Hays made his announce ment of the purpose of the committee of 171 and the proposed scope of Its employment it was understood, from his statement, that -the committee! "representative of all shades of opinion within the party" was fo exercise its own initiative, work out its own sal vation and make its own recommen dations ts to those principles upon which the Chicago convention should stand its nominees. But apparently Chairman Hays "went off half cocked" and started something which, it seems, he will not be permitted to finish. In the first place, Senitors Moses of New Hampshire and McCormiCii of Il linois, whose progressive tendencies are almost as protuberent as those of Senator Lodge, have refused to ac cept appointment on the committee because they are "out of sympathy" with the Hays plan of gathering plat form timber from the outside to be worked over on the inside. They do not want any outside interference when they start their carpentry. But Senator Moses and Senator Mc Cormick seem to have gone off half cocked too, for they announced they were "out of sympathy" before they discovered that the party chiefs were to meet with Chairman I!ays in Sena tor Lodge's private office to "map out the committee's immediate task." Had Chairman Hays been foresighted enough to have tipped the program off beforehand It would have saved the two senators the "humiliation of hav ing unsympathetically wandered off the reservation before they knew just what Chairman Hays and Senator Lodge had cooked up for their politi cal delectation. As outlined," to quote the Wash ington dispatch, or, as George Brown- ell used to say when he called the convention together in the good old days, "according to . program" the party chiefs "do not contemplate" that "the full membership" of the com mittee of 171 "shall be assembled at any stage of the pre-convention work." "Most of its deliberations," the state ment tells us, "will be carried on by correspondence through its executive secretary." And then, having outlined the un bridled license according to the com mittee in its delegated task of dis covering platform materials, the field 6f its activities is broadened to the stars by the, news that "It is empha sized that , the most the committee will do Is to recommend and that the recommendations will not be binding on the convention.' Maybe the progressive fighting men of 1912 had an Indian hunch when they started out to assemble tlrem selves together at Chicago during "the early days of March" to "reaffirm those principles for which we fought and suffered In 1912." Ji famous party chief of ancient Rome once remarked to his fellow party chiefs, "beware the ides of March." ' Not very .long afterwards Brutus got his goat. ' 4jT With a family ofcseven suffering in San Francisco from eating mush rooms, and four dead at Memphis after indulging in ripe olives, it seems reasonable to' expect that twjn items of living costs will be reduced, in at least two American neighbor hoods. THE LAST GAP A' FTER having found out that it is impossible to locate the Colum bia River highway, in Wasco county so that It will run by every representative citizen's hold ings, the highway commission has at last taken the public Interest In view and selected the most direct and, economical toute between Seu fert and the mouth of the Deschutes river. It is now expected that work will proceed this summer on this last link in the highway. The new grade will probably, be not completed this year, and as a result tribute in the way of toll to get in and out of Sherman county will continue to be exacted at the Deschutes river for another season.. There is some satisfaction though in the thought that the medieval system of , paying toll In Oregon is about tO pass- JACK DEMPSEY AND THE MEN ,WHd WENT How Ex-Service Mn Regard a ' ; Number of Things That Never Happened From the Home Sector." ' While many sport followers and snort ing writers who have1 recently com mented upon the cue of Jack Dempsey siren strongly the injustice of making mm aione uvs victim of all the pent up resentment which several , million Americans nave felt against a whole group i of ' pugilists and professional athletes, the Home Sector believes that pubUc opinion should weisrh carefully au tne circumstances before Dempsey l allowed to proceed with hln career that it consider seriously the allegation mat tne present toleration of Dempsey bespeaks a flagrant lack of considera tion for- all demobilized Americans. It is not'' simply that these athletes ma not go to wax when 4,000,000 of their counU-ymen Aid. They are not merely pnysrcauy perfect young men who did not Shoulder a gun when their country sounded . the . call of need. They are far, far more than this. They are a product of an unhealthy-condition which existed . in the United States .during the war. They are but 'examples of an Indifference which has been exhibited toward the returned' service men of this country. The fact that this in difference is due to thoughtlessness and a lack of understanding may mitigate the offense, but it does not help the situation.- . . X. The ex-soldier got back home and was discharged from the service. He had offered and possibly risked his life ; he. had undergone hardships and suffering which only he and his companions can appreciate. And what Is of paramount importance he had given to his country the most Important and valuable months and years of his t$fe. probably. If he returned early 'he was a hero, and he was feted and cheered and paraded as such. If he arrived with the later hun dred thousands he - came quietly and without raising much ado. Whether he came early or late, the government handed him $60 and gave him his dis charge. His country gave him J60 at a time when abnormally high prices had cut the purchasing power of that sum in half, when a moderately' priced suit of clothes cost $50, , a pair of' shoes $10 and a hat $5. To the professional man and the business men this $60 meant litUe, of course. But to many ex-soldlers to a majority perhaps the sum meant much, for with it, supplemented possibly by a small accumulation of back prfy or modest savings, they faced the task of picking up the threads of civilian life. Somehow by utilizing his army underwear and dyeing his O. D. over coat black, or by not bothering to dye it he contrived to accumulate a pass able wardrobe, the government exhibit ing solicitude hi his welfare to the last by collecting a 10 per cent luxury tax on about everything he bought. Then he got a Job. Most likely it was not the job he wanted. Since then he has been struggling to get ahead. In the meantime, he has been seeing and hearing about and reading of people who did not go to war. He sees men of all sorts who, instead of being worse j off personally than they were when- the war started, are in materially better circumstances because of It. He hears of the high wages of shipyard and muni tion workers during the war, of the high salaries paid in .all lines of in dustry, of the huge iprofits made In i all sorts of ways, of the thousands of new millionaires in the United States. He looks over his acquaintances of his own age who, for one reason or another, did not go to war. They are in better circumstances than he. They are in better circumstances than they would have been in if there never had been a war. And the worst or it is that. about some few of v them, there is a suspicion tthat they are Just more ex amples of the type of the indifferent athlete. Then the ex-service man reasons some thing like this: "I offered my life for my country. But that means nothing now ; It was my duty, and the act was its own reward. Month after month I underwent all sorts of discomfort and hardship. But that does not matter. It was ' merely what I ought to have dene. I took twd year out of my life and gave it to my country. I look around me now and see dozens of people who did not give Xhe government any of their time and who have profited because there has. been a war and be cause I went to It. And that does mat ter. Can the country assist me in re establishing myself, in making up these years that I have lost? Tes, it can. Should it? Well, that is for the country to decide, not me. I can work my way back In time, and I certainly shall not embarrass myself by asking for any thing. But one thing is certain: For my peace of mind and for my self respect the country owes it to me to take Into consideration the fact that I am at a disadvantage, and it owes it to me to restrain others from constantly flaunting in my face the advantage that they have gained over mej" Long before the armistice congress talked much of what should and would be done for the returned soldiers. It is 15 months and more, since then, and that is all that- con arrets has done talked much. Aside from passing soma belated legislation on war risk Insurance and on some secondary matters, congress has accomplished nothing."- There was talk of land for soldiers. There Is still some talk of it but no land. There was talk of a further cash bonus, everyone agreeing that the original $60 was in adequate. A big fraction of the mem bers of congress were running around with bonus bills In their pockets and speeches on ' their lips. Announcement of their good Wilt and intentions did not seem to bring any general ringing cheers from the ex -soldier, and their ardor has cooled. Some unkind: -persons have men tioned something 'about vote seeking. . And so, without assistance, most of the ex-service .men In. this country sre working to make-up the months and years they gave to their country. Most of them expect and desire no govern ment or other aid. True, some few hun dred thousand probably do need govern ment Assistance of tme sort and an other the wounded, the physically In capacitated, the men poorly fitted nat urally for the struggle b( life today. If the 5,000,000 ex-service men In the country could articulate their 'collective, sentiment, It is likely that they would suggest that the government centralise Its attention upon this fraction and leave the rest to shift for themselves. ' On the whole, there has been very little bitterness among ex-serviee men over the Country. The ex-soldier may have winced,- bait he has. not whimpereU. But his frame of mindVla. not exactly pleasant when the Jack Dempsey of his town ridea by In a eix-cylindar auto mobile and a fur overcoat. j . Jack Dempsey ' is njiore than a phy sically perfect jroung pugilist ' who did not shoulder a gun when his country sounded its call of need. He is the moat conspicuous example ot A type in this country, the symbol and ,the Illustration of ,a condition. - i " - . LINCOLN, THEGREAT COMMONER By Edwin WHEN the Norn-Mother saw the whirlwind hor, s Greatenint and darkeninu is it aurriea' on, She bent the strenuous heavens and came down; :V. To make a man to meet the"- mortar, need.'- v-' She took the tried clay f the common road Clay warm yet with tbaf genial .heat of earth. Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. - It was a stuff "to wear for centuries, , A man that'matched the mountains and compelled"; .The stars to iok our way and honor us. The color of the rrojand was In him. the red Earthf The tint and odor of the primal things. The rectitude and pitienc of the rocks; i The gladness of the find that shakes the corn, ' The courage' of thbird that dares the sea; The Justice of the yain that Wves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars,j-f ; ; " The lovinr Ttindness of the wayside well? t: . ' . " The tolerance and equity of lieht - That sjives as freely to the shrinking weed -Vs lo the Kreat oak flaring to the wind- To the grave's low hill as. to the Matternorn Tba,fhou!ders out the sky. Artd so he came, . . From prairie cabin to the" capitol, , " One fair ideal led or chieftain on Forever more he burned to dp his deed With the fine stroke-and gesturof a king. He bnUt 'the, rail-pile as he built the state, POurJhgTiig splendid Strength through every blow; ' ' TKxonsclf nee of him testing every stroke, , vTotjoake' his deed the measure of man. . - SoJame the captain with the mighty heart; AndWhen the step of earthquake shook the house, Wrenching (he rafters from their ancient hold.' He held the ridgepole up and spiked again - - The rafters of the Home. He held his r-lacej Held the lone Purpose like a growing tree " . Held on through blame and faltered not at praise, And when he, fell inwalrlwind. he went down As when a kingly cedar, green with boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. . r, MORE ORLESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town There is only one reason why Oregon lans should come to Portland on "sight seeing" trips and that reason brought Dr. and Mrs. Q. L. Blakely of Baker to the city, according to the atatement of Ray Clark at the Multnomah hotel... As a matter of fact, lortlaha is very much the Rose city with the Blakelys Just now and to prove k Clarke adds; "Everyone wishes them a long and happy married life." Dr. and Mrs. Blakely are guests at the Multnomah. ' Miv, and Mrs. S. R. ThompsoAof Pendleton, who claim relationship with W. Lair Thompson, now one of Port land's cttiaens, but recently of the Umatilla county seat, re at the Benson hotel. ... Falls City, whose importance rises and falls with the lumber market, thus In dicating that it has been decidedly on the up, grade within the past few years, is a . quaint little Polk county town known to hundreds of Oregon sportsmen to whom it is a junction point en rouie to favorite fishing streams and hunting grounds. From I; aUs City comeS Charles. A. Poling to enjoy the dellgnts oi tne city. Poling ia stopping at; the Oregon. ' i V George . W. Peavy, who carries $he title of dean and who Is head of the school of forestry at the Oregon Agri cultural college, is a guest. at the Mult nomah hotel. Dean Peavy is chairman and .chief faculty member of that organ ization of terror known as the student affairs committee which dictates the social tastes of college students at Cor- ' ..otii wwh crime students, it Is re ported, the -committee- is perpetually un popular. ' J. E. Richter, office deputy on the staff of the singing sheriff. John Orr, at Dallas, is a guest at the Perkina hotel. The sheriffs office windows com mand an interesting and expansive view of the business portion of Dallas and when RicMer Isn't too busy otherwise he Is keeping ht sweather eye open on the movements of citizens and others. Wright Chandler operates a big store at Richland. Oregon, and It keeps him going so fast to handle the trade that Mrs. Chandler occasionally disguises her self as a buyer and comes to Portland to Inspect the wares of the wholesale t,n., That she is a very successful buyer is a statement attested to by those who know her. Mrs. cnanaier is siopjm.a at the Multnomah while in Portland on a business trip. Miss Edna Agnes Cox and 11 girls IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred rAn imprssi mewsfp drawn up by ths official he., of the "swwnent nnit. of the British Empire is Incorporated by Mr. in hi. article for the day. " 14 . httmanltj . .7 . ; -Mr.l. hark t ,t!).t anb- solution of Uu trouble of tno timet 1 It a man die shall he live again T If from shell-wrecked dugout and blood-stained trench the dead who fell In the world 4rar fighting to make the world a better place for men to live In could rise and march In review, could any who saw this solemn procession ever again lift their voices to uphold the" old order of things? Would they not Insist that for all time to come' the nation should Join in a solemn compact to insure peacfi so that never again the youth of the world should meet in the bloody shambles of death- and ba led in countless multitudes to the slaughter? if ths Great Commander should sum mon the dead ".to rise from tne iar-uung battle line that ran like a blaeding wound across the face of Europe and march In review, for more than to days, day and Bight night and day. 20 areast and In close formation would this army of dead, march oa through the valley of death. toward the land of shadows before the last Of this vast post would pass the reviwtnsitvnd an unnumbered army of herbio dead, most Of whom were In the first flush of man hood when they spilled the red wins of their youth, Before that mute but glorious company of the heroic, dead had. wraith-like and dim, passed from view I believe you would feel that your voice and ' influence, .would be raised against the formation of any such rmy of ths dead lndays to come. ? , : ,. c Just before the death of General Botha, which occurred August 27. 1M, Lloyd George and ths colonial prime ministers of the British empire drw up a .thought-compelling message to all over whom float the flag of Oreat Britain- Theroessage" was , officially Issued. lut a few weeks ago. It reads as foUows: ' " 'To our fellow cltixens of the British empire ; - - ' r - - "Ths war. In shaking the very founda tions of ordered civilisation, has driven aU thoughtful men to examine the 1ases of national and international life.'- Marjcham comprising the O. A. C. girls basketball squad, were guests at the Seward hotel on Saturday and from there, departed for Corvallls on Saturday night following the afternoon game with Reed college girls. ' . . - Bend, Oregon prosperity and upbuild ing compare vpry favorably with the general condition in the state. If, In fact, the Ban situation is n6t a notch or so ahead. Industry Is thriving there and that fact alone keeps business going at a rapid pace and brings about consider able building activity. And realty In Bend is moving, J. B. Minor, realty dealer there will admit. Minor Is a guest kt the Imperial. ,F. W. Luddington, who combines his interests at Dryad, Wash, in a saw mill and general store, is at the Multnomah while in Portland on a business mission. Not unlike any one of a score of Mult nomah hotel guests is Tommy Gibbons, light heavyweight pugilist, who is in Portland for fistic encounter. Only when nresent anv other anoearance fighter present any other appearance than that of the average young man. Gibbons Is In Portland with his manager, Eddie Kane, registering from St. Paul, Minn. O. D. Chilton and Mrs. Chilton from McCook, Neb., who are touring along the coast on a pleasure trip, happened in at the Seward hotel seeking accommoda tions. Oddly enough they; were assigned to quarters by F. E. Chilton, ths Seward's genial clerk. No kinship' exists between the travelers and the Portland hotelman, so far as has been revealed yet. ' . W. J. Conrad, timber lan4 operator and A. E. Adelsperger, both from Marsb field, are stopping at the Benson while transacting business In Portland.. County Judge R. H. Bunnell of Klamath county, who has been in Port land for several days attending the session- of the state highway commission and urging the claims of his county for share in state highway improvement funds, has enjoyed a pleasant reunion with W. S. Worden, , now a Portland business man, but formerly county-Judge at Klamath Falls. For the edification of the former Judge, Bunnell makes it very plain that Instead of three court houses Klamath county only has one, that Is, ope recognized. The Judge re peats, too, that Klamath countt"ls more energetically favorable to the good roads propaganda than ever before. Lockley "It baS become' , clear today, both through the arbitrament of war and through the tests of rebuilding a life of peace, that neither education, science, diplomacy, nor commercial prosperity. when allied with a belief In material force as the ultimate power, are real foundations for the ordered develop ment of. the world's life. These things are in themselves simply the tools of the spirit that handles them. ' "JSven the hope' that lies before the world of a life of peace protected and develdfcad by a League Of , Nations is Itself dependent on something deeper and - tnort fundamental still. The co operation which the League of Nations explicitly, exists to foster will (become operative in so far as the consenting peoples . have .the spirit of good will. And the spirit of good will among men rests on spiritual forces ; tha" hope 'of a brotherhoad or humanity reposes on the deeper "spiritual fact of4 the 'Father hood of God.' "In the recognition of the, fact of that fatherhood and of the divine purpose for the world which are central tohe mes sage of Christianity, we shall discover the ultimate foundation for the recon struction of an ordered and harmonious life for altnen. Tlla recognition can not be imposed by government. It can onljt come 4 an act of free consent on the 'part of the Individual man every where. "Responsible aa we are in our sepa rata spheres for a share tn ths guidance of the British empire as It. faces ths problems of the future, we believe that In ths acceptance of those spiritual principles lies the sure basis of world peace. We would, therefore,1 commend to our fellow citizens ths necessity that men of good will who are, everywhere reviewing their personal responsibilities In relation to the reconstruction of civi lisation should consider also the eternal validity and truth . of those spiritual forces which arev in lacj, the one hope for a permanent foundation for world peace. ' 1 "T. LLOYD GEORGE (United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland).' . 1 "R. L. BORDEN (Canada). -LOUIS BOTHA (South Africa). "R. A. SQUIRES (Newfoundland). "W. M. HUGHES (Australia). "W,. A, M ASSET (New. Zealand). - ." " - 1 The Oregtw Country SarUiVwtiiapp.MlnaV do Brief form far the f," " Buar Header. ORECXMi NOTES r InflttariXai has ftaimoH lun victims' In Harney county. Both were women. The Salem HteH anhnnl tiajtktt1l team defeated McMlhnvUle by a score of 35 to 17. - The Woman', Walfnr nlntt nf KY.mII which is Interested in olvte hnorova- ment, has a membership of 60. Portland's fire buraau will Oflmnctl . With other oltlea of th Pacific, coast la a prize fire prevention contest,. '"- Owing to the influenaa in Doualas county, hearing; of the Riddle road case nas oeen postponed two weeks by Judge oniywurin. f Members of Mr. TTnnri lodira. Portland! have planted 40 walnut trees on the f rounds of tbe new Masonic home near, 'orest, Grove'. The franchise of the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph company at Rose . burg has expired and a new ona Is be ing asked for. Requisition papers have been signed by Governor . Olcott for the return of Jerry Richardson to Lane county on a statutory' charge. ' . i Notwithstanding over halt the Bays of January were clear at Astoria, the month was a very wet one, the rainfall being 8.19 inches. Teamsters on the Talent Irrigation district construction have gone on strike for $8 a day for maiyfand team. They are receiving $7. Prominent business men of Baker, while on a visit to Grant county, pledged themselves to give support to the John Day highway. Peace officers of the Oak Grove die- . trlct in Clackamas county have wltmn the past few days arrested nine viola tors of motor speed laws. M. Z. Donnell of The Dalles has filed with the secretary of state hie candi dacy for delegate at large to the Re publican national' convention. Pendleton .will send a large delegation to Astoria to attend the Oregon RetaU Merchant' association. I'cnuieton is candidate for the lStl meeting. Acting upon a petition signed by prac tically an of the students, Kimball Col lege of Theology, Willamette univer sity, la to get an endowment of $200,000. By agreement with the state, the Pa cific Livestock company will put on ths market lu.uuo acres of Harney county land. First choice will be given service men. A record price for timber Standing has been offered at the aovernment sale of 10, HOO, 000 feet on the Klamath Indian reservation. 'Btie bid was $6.3J per 1000 feet. The sawmill of H. II. Edmonds In Klamath county has, been moved from Olene to Sprague river. The mill Is to be enlarged to a dally capacity of 100.000 feet. A committee from Lakevlew villa on the shore of Oswego lake in Clackamas county has requested the county court to improve the road connecting with ths Boone ferry road. William Beneke, a prisoner In ths Yamhill county Jail, attempted to com mit suicide by choking himself with his necktie after receiving a six month sen tence for larceny. Paclllc university at Forest Grove has the largest enrollment in Its history. Thirty-five students, Including ons woman, are receiving state aid under the educational act. Mother and son dead from influenzi sa. father and grandmother seriously 111 and the aged grandfather taking care of the patients and seven children, was the situation dlHcoverod at home of J. McCoy, near Ashland. Postmasters are to be appointed In Oregon as follows: V'eneta, Lane county, W. E. Elliot ; Camas Valley. Douglas county, C W. Hharpe ; i;isle, t'latwip county. Percy K. Allen ; Hoff, Clackamas county, Mrs. Harle W. lia vlll. WASHINGTON , Jl M. Bowers of Aberdeen, who re cently, announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection as councilman, nas again cnanxea nis nil 11a ana nas filed -ts nomination. H.aSpencsr a negro, is under arrest at Seattla'pending Investigation of the charge' that he robbed pasxengers on a sleeper coming from Portland of more than $2000 tn cash and valuables. The secretary of the Clarke County Triple Alliance reports 1200 members and 600 In the Hon-Partisan league. An ef fort will .be made to get control of ths state government at the next election. The twenty-first anniversary of the first engagement of the Washington In fantry In the Philippines will bt- com nicmorated at Aberdeen by, Spanish , War Veterans with a banquet. Fire in the engine room of the battle ship Wyoming at Bremerton was ex tinguished only after crews from other sliipi were called In. The fire started from oil drippings and burned half an hour. An automobile used In connection with the prosecution of the murder trials at Mnntfsano collided with a street car In Centralis. The occupants who escaped injury were arrested for violating a city ordinance. The receiver of the defunct First Inter national bank at South Bend hao de clared a dividend of 25 per cent and an nounces that another one Is coming up. This is the first dividend since the In stitution was closed. v Claiming that the state high school association controlling athletics Is de funct, principals of the high schools of the Inland Empire have Issued a call for a meeting to be held In Spokane In March to form a new organization. A 10-cent street car fare Is not the solution of the Taeoma street car prob lem, in the opinion of City Engineer O'Hhaughnessy of San Francisco, who has Investigated the situation. It would produce less revenue than the present 7-cent fare. IDAHO Cecilia Edwards, a 13-year-old girl of g Pocatello, committed suicide by drinking ;S creosote solution. , After March 16 every person found i operating a motor vehicle without a license will be arrested. The regula .quarterly conference of f Boise stake, Latter Day Saints, has been 1 indefinitely postponed because of the J? prevalence of Influenza. ; Louie Hays. wkSJTsUlmed to bs 1M year old and tha oldest man In Bolss. has -died st the Ada county hospital, where he hat lived the past 15 years. , v High levies In different taxing units High levies in airrerem taxing of the .state were blamed In par high'- taxes In the1 "taU by Gov Davis in an address to county coi art ror & overnor ( com ml s- : storjers. , The state board of education has ' 1 granted a 5 per ct salary bonus to In-., strutters at normal. schools and approved Q a salary increase program for tbe State 3j university. V jj At the request of the State Federation of Music Teachers the state board of ,g education will certificate private mnslc m teachers and give cremis to nign scnooi students taking music lessons out of school hours. , - - A total of ft foreclosure suits have been Instituted against settler en ths Twin Falls Salmon River Land Water company's Carey act project In Southern . Idaho. Baca payments to tn extent ox $5,000,000 are c'aimea. UncjeJeff Snow Says: J I b'leve In one of the doctrines of the I. W. W.. and that Is to "bora fm with in." This Ides of ortartln' up a new party ever' time a new Id alts to a total of leven converts don't git nowhere. Ths biggest cowards' on earth la the politic; clans, and the place to reach 'em ,ts at k' f the primaries and with the, f tshatlve. The fellers that raises th moet political ,, f fits with th fewest numbers Is the fet- .5 ers that stays In the grand old party . f. and pounds the daylights out of Its k j t and pasters and -bourbons at trre srt--narles. and hogtles 'em with the nlsh- itlve. Even the they squirm loose' and 1 squeal tbsir heads off often enough ' -, -fl 11 i 9 : . - . , s -