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-THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, CORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8,
1920.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.- .
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. ?
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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.
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- 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.
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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).
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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 ' -,
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