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THE LANSING RESIGNATION
IT IS always a tragedy when great
men who have walked side by side
and In harmony through big' events,
fair into disagreement.
The history of public life in Amer
ica is replete with such estrangements.
The case, for example, of Lincoln and
Stanton is not so well remembered
as the later and more conspicuous
one of Roosevelt and Taft. After
Roosevelt had made Taft president
the feud became so strong that the
colonel led a revolt against Taft, con
tested the presidential nomination
with him, organized a rival party, de
stroyed Taft politically and split the
Republican party Into two great war
ring and bitter factions.
For the moment, the disagreement
of President Wilson and Mr. Lansing
, is given very great importance in the
public mind. As a matter of fact, it
Is nothing more than has happened
scores of times in the publio life of
America.
It is seized upon by those who
think that, because their political
label is not Tike Mr. Wilson's they
must always attack him, and facts
connected with It be exaggerated and
condemned. Rancorous partisans
win misrepresent and mistate the de
tails. It is one of the melancholy
phases of' government through parties
that sowing the seeds of hatred is re
garded as legitimate method.
President Wilson chose Mr. Lan-
sing as secretary of state. He named
him a commissioner to the peace
conference. He gave to him a confi-
, dence bestowed on few men by mak
ing him the most conspicuous mem
ber of his cabinet. Together they
went through the great events inci
dent to the war. Together they
carried heavy burdens of responsibil
ity. Together they struggled and sac
rificed of their strength and: powers
to hold the foreign relations of Amer
ica in a course that would redound
to the glory of the republic and the
satisfaction of the American people.
That a time came when they dif
fered over public questions is plainly
stated in the correspondence that led
to the resignation . of Mr. Lmsing.
Mr. Lansing says that as early as Jan
uary. 1919, differences had arisen and
that when he came home in July he
would have carried out his long cher
ished desire to resign but for the fact
that he felt it. on account of the fight
over the treaty, to be his duty to re
main in the abinet. This and other
statements in the Lansing letters, the
: announcement that his resignation
had long been in contemplation, the
Intimations long ago carried in the
news that the two had disagreed at
Paris, is proof that the disagreement
is not a matter of yesterday, or of
the day before, but of months' stand
ing. The president's letters carry the
same information. They mention the
differences at Paris, Just as the Lan
sing letters refer to them. There can
be but one conclusion and that Is
that the final break in official rela
tions was a natural outcome of the
. very natural human fact that times
come when the conclusions of men
cannot always be the same, that men
of conscience and conviction, when
they do differ, will and do stand by
their individual conclusions and ulti
mately reach a point where, refusing
to smother and subordinate their be
liefs, honorably and promptly break
relations.
It Is a tragedy when such a thing
comes to men who have together been
. through such things as Mr. Wilson
and Mr. Lansing have experienced.
But it Is a part of human life. Self
respect and the responsibility to their
own best Judgment impels honest men
to differ when their conclusions are
5 inharmonious, and that is exactly
f what has happened at Washington.
Statements are that they differed
over not only 'peace negotiations, but
pver the Mexican policy and over the
. Injunction proceedings In "the coal
? strike. If those statements are true,
, other differences of opinion would
j have presently arisen, and in the end
an official separation " would have
I,been inevitable.
j By the phrasing of 'the president's
i second letter, the public, at least that
j part of the public which Is strongly
i partisan, gathers' the idea that because
Lansing convened the cabinet while
the president was ill was the only and
the whole cause of the break. It is
a case in which the president opened
himself to attack by those always
eager to attack. But it is not on that,
or on a part but on the whole story
of the dispute that either the presi
dent or Mr. Lansing can be Judged,
and until all is known, no judgment
as to the case can be sound.
Meanwhile, there are a great many
people in America who realize that
there are bigger and more important
things to be concerned with than the
mere question of why Mr. Lansing
and President Wilson broke official
relations, and which -one, if either, is
to be bjamed,
From a Cooa Bay fir tree was cut
43,280 feet of merchantable timber,
enough to build a small village. The
smallest of the six logs into which
It was cut was 65 inches in diameter,
the largest 90 inches. The six logs
together had a length of 174 feet.
Yet the Coos Bay loggers say they
have much larger trees they haven't
tried to tackle.
WHEN YOU TAKE CHANCES
THE long period of deathless days
in traffic accidents in Portland
was broken by the failure of the
driver to see the track worker,
who was in a stooped position.
Evidence is conflicting as to whether
an auto was parked at the corner
near which tne accident happened.
The owner of the auto says it was
not parked. Other witnesses gave the
same testimony. Who would know
better than the owner whether it was
parked? He was manifestly without
motive in giving testimony.
It is easy to understand why there
should be conflicting testimony on the
point., A man had been killed. The
wheels of the truck went over his
body. The accident naturally threw
the driver of the truck into a state of
nervous excitement. The responsibil
ity of having crushed out a human
life is enough to throw anybody into
a state of nervous intensity.
But even granting that a car was
parked at the corner. To every driver
approaching a corner where a car is
parked, the question should be, "is
there anybody on the other side of
that carT Is there somebody there
whom I do not yet see?"
Pedestrians are constantly stepping
out unexpectedly from behind parked
cars, from behind standing street
cars, from behind woodpiles. It is
folly on the part of pedestrians, but
it Is the inexorable fact. It is a fact
with which drivers must reckon if
their hands are to remain bloodless.
It Is a contingency in driving with
which they must reckon, and in order
to save themselves from disagreeable
memories, if nothing worse, they must
be always expectant of such things
and have their machines under such
control that a killing may not result.
That Is the rule with thousands
upon thousands of drivers wno have
driven for years without an accident,
above all without having taken a
human life.
It is more and more going to be
come an odium for a driyer to be in
volved in a fatal accident. Fatal
accidents themselves are going to be
come more rare because there is
an increasing ratio of drivers who
take no chances, as evidenced -by the
fact that Portland has just passed
through a period of 82 days without
a killing. People are more aroused,
and they are going to take more and
more account and more and more look
Into the causes and fix the blame when
a killing ofciirs.
It Is accordingly more and more im
portant for every driver to have a
clear vision of where he is going and
observe all the' precautions against
taking somebody's life.
Coos Bay is moving in the direc
tion of public ownership and con
trol of port terminal facilities. The
Coos Bay port commission is to Im
port three distinguished engineers
to tell it how to lay out an oce,an
terminal and the city of North Bend
has offered the port commission 60
acres of land upon which to build
public docks. This is distinctly in
contrast to the experience of Port
land where neither assessed valua
tion nor conscience stood in the way
of sticking the public for the highest
prices before even parcels of water
front could be redeemed from the
non-use of private ownership.
STORM WARNINGS
W
HEN nations or individuals spend
more than they save and con
sume more than they produce,
there is bound to be either a
day of crash or readjustment.
Thus European nations, having con
sumed their substance in war, having
sent away their gold for goods, and
having depleted their credit -by buy
ing more than they could give assur
ance of paying for, encounter an ex
change situation in their dealings with
the United States which is seriously
checking the movement of commodi
ties from this country to Europe.
Europe's day of reckoning is at
hand. Only a restoration of credit
based upon faith and perhaps an ar
bitary normalizing of foreign exchange
will prevent a crash abroad.
But in the meantime, what of the
United States? As Mr. Colt of the
First National bank, in his recent Ro
tary club address, pointed out, the
checking of the export movement of
our commodities is very similar to
the damming of a stream. The goods
will accumulate and the competitive
quest to dispose of the surplus in do
mestic markets will have an inevita
ble effect in deflating prices.
In
other words, the high cost of
living at home is due for a swat. This
will be welcomed by the consumer,
who eagerly awaits the day when his
money will be worth more in the
6tore and shop, but it presages a
period of difficulty for the business
man and merchant. In this connec
tion the cdunsel of Mr. Colt is sane:
The laws of supply and demand are
not artificial, nor are they capable of
being legislated out of business, and
when we have more product than we
can sell, we must cut the price in order
to induce purchasers to buy, and this
process will continue until a level is
reached or a. balance Is maintained be
tween the real supply and the actual
demand in this and foreign countries.
We can hope that this readjustment of
conditions may be brought about gradu
ally, and that newlevels of prices may
be reached without causing the general
upsetting of business conditions, but I
think we all realize that this condition
of affairs cannot be long postponed, and
that it la wise to look ahead and be
conservative in the assumption of obli
gations and in the expansion of credit.
Let us learn how to pay Instead of how
to borrow more.
America need experience no panic
because of a condition which has ac
cumulated here in both gold and
goods. The Pacific coast need fear
no serious stringency industrially be
cause its staple productions of lum
ber, wheat, meat, fish and fruit are
the world's greatest needs. But a
leveling approaches and preparation
should be made for It.
On this page is an article by a
woman in the state of Washington,
who requests that her name be
withheld. It recounts conditions in
an earlier time when partisanship
ran riot to an extent that it divided
communitfes and rested on hatred.
It raised feuds even between fami
lies and presented phases of bitter
ness that shows to what absurd
lengths the party spirit is sometimes
carried.
TRIAL BY BATTLE
I
NDL'STRIAL controversy, the inevi
table and the natural contention
between the man who hires and
him who works for hire, is in pro
cess of evolution. It has advanced a
long journey from the period of
slavery and serfdom to the present
It has a long journey yet to go be
fore the minds of the contenders meet
upon a sane, a just and an equitable
solution of how best to determine
differences which may from time to
time exist and grow to the point
where adjustment is necessary and
imperative.
It is too early yet to hope, perhaps,
that the time Jias come when both
parties to the age-old conflict can
agree, but that time is coming. The
world is tired of continual strife and
turmoil. The contending factions
themselves are weary of it, but human
selfishness, greed for gain, the power
of might, the bitterness of long con
flict, the wounds of economic injus
tice all combine to make the parties
stand aloof, hostile and Implacable.
Vet it seems strange indeed that
neither side will consent now to move
forward in the open way towards in
dustrial peace.
Trial by battle was a medieval
weapon of justice. Its fundament was
that might proved the right, that the
power of enforcement wrought jus
tice. It was a fallacy and in the mind
of the world it is long since dead.
But it still exists. Capital employs
it to enforce its demands. Workers
employ it to win their contentions.
Under existing conditions it is their
only sure weapon. But it is wrong;
wrong in meory ana disastrous in
practice.
It is natural, perhaps, that medieval
practices should still prevail in the
settlement of industrial disputes. They
were the outgrowth of human selfish
ness, the fungus of unbridled power.
But an advancing world has cast
them behind it and it is time for this
last reminder of the dead past also
to die.
Labor is the educated child of
slavery. Early mankind, where in
herited place or superior power per
mitted, compelled its weaker breth
ren to do its bidding unpaid and un
rewarded. The slow growth of com
munity life gradually forced a change
upward. Economic necessity was the
father of industrial freedom. The
necessary selfsufficiency of commer
cial and industrial units gradually
loosened the shackles upon the arms
of the toilers to let them walk from
slavery to serfdom, to bondsmen and
at last to open freedom. Out of the
advance came the English guild, the
forefather of the crafts union, and
then in turn .the immediate ancestor
of the federation.
We have progressed that far, but
in the progression we have not aban
doned the old theory of the trial by
battle. It is time we did if this coun
try and the world, for America leads,
is to have stable and lasting indus
trial peace.
The courts and the law that governs
them in their functioning are the bul
warks and the foundation of human
liberty. WRhout them would be re
version and schaos. The fairer they
are. the more all embracing their
jurisdiction, the safer. and the saner
the world will be. When man mur
ders, or robs or wrongs his fellow
man in any way or in any degree,
the orderly process of the law does
justice and equity. It punishes where
punishment is due; protects where
protection should be given.
There is no controversy between
man .and man. either individually or
in the mass, where the line of abso
lute justice and impartial equity is
not clearly drawn between the con
tenders. There is no dispute In hu
man life and association where right
and wrong, justice and injustice, do
not meet at a comman point.
It was so in the coal strike. It is
so in the impending conflict between
j the railroad operators and the rail-
road employes. It is always so, and
it always will be so.
The employer in the conduct of his
business possesses rights in which he
should be protected. That is unde
niable. The employe who rents his skill or
his endeavor has rights in which he
should be protected. That is unde
niable. The rights of one thrown in the
scales of justice and equity against j
me rignis oi me oiner snouia Dai
ance the dial. That is undeniable.
The trial by battle where the pre
dominant power of wealth, individual
or combined on the one hand, or the
power of organized numbers on the
other, swing the verdict to the right
or the left is not justice and it is
not equity. That is undeniable.
Granted, as it must be, that a oom
mon ground of justice and equity al
ways exists upon which warring
units in Industry may meet, why is
It that orderly process may not in
tervene to hold the scales?
If the experience of man through
thousands of years has shown that he
may safely trust his property, his lib
erty and his life to the impartial ver
dict of court and judge and jury, why
is it that man may not now trust his
Industrial differences t. the same
calm and unbiased tribunal?
We have advanced from open com
bat to the armistice of conciliation.
We are reaching for conclusive arbi
tration. It is a step towards the goaL
Someday and God grant It may be
soon the lust for battle will have
cooled enough that public sentiment
everywhere will say employers and
employes both must wash tieir hands
of selfishness and greed, of sordid am
bition or the dream of unbridled
poweri to submit themselves before
the calm and dispassionate bar of un
hampered equity where orderly and
absolute justice will be measured out
to all concerned.
Then, and not until then, will trial
by battle sleep in the pages of history
"and mankind walk arm in arm in the
broad and prosperous path of indus
trial peace.
The typographical error or the un
thinking Juxtaposition of incongru
ous lines seems able still to produce
M startling results as when the
Southern editor, by the inadvertent
substitution of an "o" for an "a,"
referred to a local orator as "a bot
tle scarred veteran." Immediately
underneath its obituary column con
taining the names of recently de
ceased members, the last issue of
the Chamber of Commerce Bulletin
uses the bewildering line, "Make it
3500." It refers, of course, to new
members, not to "dead ones," but
looks a bit peculiar.
IF ONLY A CARD
T
HE federal railroad administration
might do Portland at least one
good turn before it relinquishes
the transportation properties of
the nation again into private hands.
During the war it announced that a
fixed but active policy would be the
equitable distribution of terminal
business; then it permitted freight
cars to congest by thousands in the
terminal yards of Puget Sound while
ports of the Columbia were clamoring
for business.
Later it stated that since the rail
roads under government control were
but one big system, adjustments in
rates consistent with distance and op
erating conditions might be expected;
yet the railroad administration de
ferred the appeal for recognition of
the Columbia water grade and ap
peared as chief defendant in the Co
lumbia basin -rate case which is now
pending before the interstate com
merce commission.
Now it appears from a complaint
by Public Agent Vincent of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce, that
when the railroad administration
bought space to advertise the tourist
attractions of the West it extolled
California but ignored the Northwest.
Seems as if the railroad administra
tion before it expires might at least
send us a card averring that its sen
timents r.re friendly even if its atten
tions are nil.
THAT KANSAS COURT
T
HE Kansas court of industrial re
lations looks a good deal like a
commonwealth's rephrasing of the
jingle, "They said it couldn't be
done but he did it." It will be re
membered that Dr. Suzzalo of the Uni
versity of Washington said in Port
land that the time is not yet for
courts which will enforce compulsory
adjustment of industrial differences.
There must be, said Dr. Suzzalo, a suf
ficiently large third body capable of
dealing fairly and disinterestedly with
employers and employes. He did not
believe that there are now enough
people with an unbiased attitude to
ward contentious labor or capital to
furnish such courts, their judges,
their judicial atmosphere and their
support
But here comes the Kansas court
stamped with the name of Governor
Henry J. Allen and enthusiastically
applauded by both Senator Capper and
William Allen White, two of, the most
influential figures of the Sunflower
Stated The court has already nipped
an incipient coal strike in the bud,
but for so doing has won the threat
that the international union of mine
workers will boycott Kansas, luring
from the state its miners and telling
the miners of other regions to stay
away. The labor comment runs in
the general direction of assertion that
the Kansas court is well prepared to
apply the screws to the men that
work but that it has smaller facili
ties to hale offending capital before it.
PARTISAN RANCOR
OF AN EARLIER
DAY AND NOW
Reminiscences That Lead Directly U
the Obstructors of the Peace
Treaty and League
(From a subscriber, woman who lires in the
Stat of Washington. The Journal bai raceised
the subjoined article. In it are described, to th
iiie, scenes of popular partisan fury familiar
enough in an earlier time, but happily not eo
auca snown now, utbough the essential ran
cor of that pTrtod is in effect yet manifest in
such episodes as hare been enacted in the
United Bute senate in opposition to th
League of NaUons corenant;- which the writer
most loftily eulogises, with its eminent American
sponsor.
I was born, and lived for many years.
In a small New England village. My
parents were sturdy New . Englanders
honest, industrious, loved by alL Look
inr back to my childhood days I can
recall but one thing of which my
esteemed parents failed to give us the
right impression. ," I know it was not an
intentional wrong, but bitterly , I have
regretted their lack of understanding;.
They were "dyed in the wool" Republi
cans, and they instilled In our young
hearts a hatred for all Democrats a
hatred which took me years to over
come, and which brought me much un
happiness.
The voters in our little village were
compelled to go about two miles to cast
their votes. Each party would have
Its place of meeting-, and from there
would march to the polls in a body. On
election morning we were all up early
that we might not miss the Republicans
as they marched by. We would wave
our little flags and shout until pur
throats were sore and our young vofces
husky, and our hearts '-would be filled
with pride and admiration, both for
them and for ourselves.
But how different was everything
when the Democrats would march past.
It would never do for us to encourage
them In their wrong doing by being
caught looking at them, and so we
would sneak across lots and count Jthe
number of those misguided men' who
were going to commit the crime of vot
ing the Democratic ticket ; and stand
ing there, in our orchard, hidden from
their view, we wodld make faces, throw
stones and mud toward them, and apply
some very bitter names to those men
whose only Bin. as we knew them, was
in being Democrats. We would go back
home our young hearts filled with in
dignation and hatred.
At night we could not sleep until we
knew our beloved party had won. We
could tell by the location from which
came the sounds of the booming can
nons, which party was leading. If the
Republican. we would talk, shout and
sing. If the Democratic, we would J
tremble with anger and fright, so
strongly were we impressed with the
righteousness of one and the wrongful
ness of the other.
These remembrances of my childhood
days have all come back to me while
reading and studying .the political situ
ation of the present day. I can not fail
to see that the same kind of hatred,
which was so early instilled in my heart,
still dominates the hearts and actions
of such men as Borah, Lodge, Johnson
and many others men who were elected
to their high positions by those who
trusted them, had faith in their honor,
their integrity, their love for country,
right and justice to all humanity. It
is a deplorable, a sad thing to know
that men are not llvtng up to the best
there Is in them. Can anyone read the
speeches, note the methods taken, think
of the doing or rather not doing of
our senators, and not be fully con
vinced that they are dominated by hat
red? If this were a Republican admin
istration, if a Republican president had
borne even a small part of the mighty
burdens which were carried, and in
every case successfully, by Mr. Wilson,
and then had spent those weeks of care
and anxiety to help in giving to the
world that peace treaty, think you it
would not have been ratified without
debate and this unbearable delay? Only
for their hatred of the party and its
able and beloved leader, must we all
suffer by the present world unrest
and hopelessness.'
But, though they may even cut across
lots to "make faces," throw mud and
so far forget the respect due their su
periors as to call vile names, thank God
for our president, whose face is al
ways to the foe. ready to give all. even
life If needs be, for the good of hu
manity and right One greater than we
has said, "Greater love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends." Has not our president,
practically, done this? For the feeling
of malice, of hatred, of Jealousy now
dwelling in the hearts of some, we are
ashamed and full of regrets. Such
feelings might dominate a kaiser ; but,
our own It is inconceivable. Call it
true Americanism? So far from !t, it
should not be mentioned.
It is sometimes amusing, even ludi
crous, to what extremes hatred will lead.
A fraternal organization of which I
am a member was invited to an even
ing entertainment at the home of one
of our members. Upon leaving the
dressing room, after spending a most
delightful evening, one of the guests
happened to discover, hanging above
the mantle, a very fine photograph of
Mr. Wilson. Sweeping indignantly
from the room, she said, "If I had
known that was hanging there I would
not have come." Rather insult her hos
tess, willing to sacrifice an evening of
pleasure, than to confront even a like
ness of our president. Think you there
is not, even now. hatred enough in
men's hearts to lead them to do even as
they are doing?
- Another incident of another nature :
Following the election which gave us
a Republican senate, I received a letter
from a friend which contained, for me,
this rather vague message : "The Repub
licans are coming Into their own, and
I am greatly pleased, for it's time they
were getting some of the 'plums.' "
I do not know where they intend to
pick the "plums," but I do know they
have plucked something far more vital
from and stopped the growth of that
tree which was planted with so much
labor and care, at Versailles, and which
now should be firmly rooted and bearing
fruit for the healing and saving of the
nations.
The call to Paul, "Come over into
Macedonia and help us,' was not clearer
or more urgent than this call to us to
do our part In helping all peoples of the
world. Oh that our help had been given
at once, even as Paul gave his. and we
could be looking for equally great results-
The great constructive force is
love love to God. love to our fellow
men, love to all humanity. Let us re
member this and speedily move for
ward. Let us be united in our earnest
prayers, to Him who rules the universe,
that our next president, be he Demo
crat oi Republican, be as truly great
and. good a is Woodrow Wilson.
BLIGHT
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
GIVE me truths:
For I am weary of the surfaces, ,
And die of inanition. If 1 knew
Only the herbs and simples of the wood,
O. that were much, and 1 could be a part
Of the round day. related to the sun
And planted, world, and full executor
Of their imperfect functions..
Our eyes are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,
And strangers to the mystic beast and bird.
And strangers to the plant and to the mine.
The injured elements say, "Not in us";
And haughtily return us stare for stare.
For we invade them impiously for gain;
We devastate them unrellgiously,
And coldly ask their pottage, not their love.
Therefore they shove us from them, yield to us
Only what to our griping toil is due;
But the sweet affluence of love and song,
The rich results of the divine consents
Of man and earth, of world beloved and lover,
The nectar add ambrosia, are withheld;
And in the midst of spoils and slaves, we thieves
And pirates of the universe, shut out
Daily, to a more thin and outward rind.
Turn pale and starve. Therefore, to our sick eyes,
The stunted trees look sick, the summer short.
Clouds shade the sun, which will not tan our hay,
And nothing thrives to reach its natural term;
And life, shorn of its venerable lengjh,
Even at its greatest space is a defeat,
And dies in anger that it was a dupe; ;
And, in its highest noon and wantonness,
Is early frugal, like a beggar's child; ,
Even the hot pursuit of the best aims
' And prizes of ambition, checks its hand, , ,
Like Alpine cataracts frozen as they leaped.
Chilled with a miserly comparison ;
Of the toy's purchase with the length of life. ' j
MORE OR' LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
W. D. Skinner, traffic manager of the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad
company, left Portland on Friday eve
ning for St. Paul and otherrMiddle West
and Eastern cities. Skinner will con
fer with officials of the Hill roads re
garding the status of the S., P. 4. S.,
after March 1, the date upon which the
railroads of the nation are due to be
turned back to their owners by the gov
ernment. Establishment of a new pas
senger service over the western road
and a revision of the train schedules
will probably be subjects for discus
sion at the conference. Skinner lnti
maied. Charles F. McGeorge, steamship oper
ator at Marshfield, is at the Multnomah
hotel. McGeorge is accompanied by
Lewis and C. F. McGeorge of Glodwin,
Mich., who are visiting with' relatives In
the west and at the same time are escap
ing some of the rigorous climatic condi
tions that hold forth in the east. Michi
gan's chilly atmosphere and her oc
casional driving snow are declared to
be in much contrast with the springlike
weather of the Oregon country.
Taeoma is a flourishing city regardless
of the fact that her population and her
volume of business have been somewhat
severely decreased by the demobilisation
of the troops stationed at Camp Lewis
during the war. For such troops, some
times reaching a total of nearly 60,000
men. Taeoma was the trade and social
center and many a merchant waxed fat
upon the offerings of the men In uni
form, it is said. From Tacoma come
Dr. and Mrs. M. G. Deal. They are mak
ing their headquarters at the Oregon
while visiting in the city.
Brownmead may be quite a place, but
a survey of available authorities does
not list It as among Oregon's centers of
population. Nevertheless, G. Denfy Van
registers at the Perkins hotel from that
place. Oregon includes in her maps
such sterling communities as Browns
ville. Broadmead. Brownsboro even
Berlin but not a Brownmead, to all
appearances.
Bishop and Mrs. W. C. Harris, regis
tering from Tokyo. Japan, are guests
at the Portland hotel. The bishop is
touring the United States giving a series
of lectures pertinent to the questions
religious and otherwise, of the Oriental
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
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By Fred Lockley
fNo twitter menace eouM be delirered trj
Mr. Ixiokley or anybody else than that he here
brings the admonition to twrrtce. that nerrice
being in the first perron, aingiilar nnmber. which
i the only method that er-r lie. fct-lied : "
snarly old world out of the kinks or eer will. J
When Herhart Hoover selected W. B.
Ayer to be food administrator for Ore
gon, and when, in turn. Mr. Ayer ap
pointed me publicity manager for ipre
gon, I came into frecjuent contact'. Wllh
R. W. Childs, manager of the Ifetel
Portland, who was chairman of the ho
tel and restaurant committee for Ore
eon. Occasionally some obdurate res
taurant keeper would be reported asj
serving white bread on the wheatiess
days, or exceeding his limit of sugar, or
being wasteful with food. Mr. Childs
would go to him and say, "I am told
some of the restaurants around here are
not complying with the regulations of
the food administrator. I know you are
loyal, patriotic and responsible, so II
want you to serve as my assistant in
seeing that the regulations are- en
forced." The transgressing restaurant
keeper would feel pleased and flattered
and would accept the appointment, and
realizing that he could not criticise
others If he did not comply with the law
himself, would at once become vigilant
to see that his own establishment kept
the spirit as well as the letter of the
law. I call that a high order of tact
and diplomacy.
Mr. Childs was one of the directors
of the 1919 Rose Festival and was
chairman of the floral parade. I said
to him one day. "Haven't you work
enough to keep you busy, running your
hotel?" "I believe every cltlien should
take an active part in the upbuilding
and development Cf his city and state,"
said Mr. Childs. 'For two years I
served as president of the Oregon Hotel
Mens association. I also served as
the vice president of the Caterers' asso
ciation. How are you going to bring
your business to a higher plane unless
you yourself are willing to work at the
job? The public often blames the hotels
with the moral delinquencies of their
guests. If the home, the church, the
school and the courts have failed to
correct this condition, don't you think it
is putting a heavy load on the hotels to
ask them to solve the problem? We
don't need new laws. We have too
many already. We need to change our
hearts. We need to consider the rights
of others. We need to give the same
consideration to others that we demand
for ourselves. We need to protect the
other fellow's sister, wife or daughter
as jealously as we would protect our
own.
"We are having all sorts of trouble
with industrial unrest You and I and
all the rest of us must revise our stand
ards. Things win right ' themselves
when we all think more of doing our
work well than of trying to get M much
empire. H. B. Johnson of Berkeley,
Cal., Is personally conducting the tour
that brings the bishop end his wife to
Portland.
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One housewife declares that he who
beats the pancake batter will suffer him
self to consume a leatherlzed product
quite foreign to the taste of ah epicure.
The other housewife, perhaps moulding
the breakfast viand from different in
gredients, is said to recommend stiff
beating of batter. And no leather re
sults. But such discussions are matters
of theories and when the state's leading
instructors in the art of kitchen mechan
ics comes to Portland to see Havid W-ar-field.
or for other purposes they leave
class room and back yard fence debates
at home. Which is the round about way
their friends have of announcing that
Ava B. Milan, of the' department of
household economics at the Oregon Agri
cultural college, and LUian E. Tingle,
representing the same branch of train
ing at the University of Oregon, are in
Portland for the week end. The visitors
are at the Seward.
Maligned In picture and story, Scrap
poose nevertheless thrives, and likes the
notoriety. Only last week Fay King, a
former Portland girl, pictured and talked
about Scappoose folk through her fa
mous comic contribution in the leading
papers of the United States, from New
York to Portland. Yet Scappoone Is get
ting fat on the advertising and doesn't
kick. The Columbia county community
Is represented at the Cornelius hotel to
day by A. D. Hulburd.
. W. A. Woodward, whose drug and
semi-department store at Albany Is one
of the Linn county city's important
places of business. Is in Portland. Wood
ward Is stopping at the Seward, where
it will be a simple matter to get a home
bound train when he makes up his mind
to depart.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ackerman of
Monmouth are at the Seward, where it
is ruspected they left the seat of learn
ing that is their home, to seek entertain
ment in Portland. Ackerman is presi
dent of the Oregon State Normal school,
which just now is having such a merry
time trying to keep up with the over
whelming ahd statewide demand for
school teachers.
as we can for doing as little as we can.
We need to take more pride and Joy
in our work. The accumulation of
wealth is but one of a thousand stand
ard of success. If I run my hotel we'll
I have made a success. If you make
the world happier or better by your
writing you have achieved success. We
need to free the effective and capable
worker from the Incubus of the shirker.
We need to make It worth while for the
good worker to do an honest day's work
in place of killing time so he will not
ekceed the record of the poorest worker
On the job. In other words, we need to
reward the workers and to quit coddling
the shirkers, to practice team work and
to insure an honest and adequate day's
pay for an honest day's work."
Congressman Welty. In a recent
speech, said : "Selflsnness is gripping
the throats of capital and labor in their
mad efforts, one to get the better of the
other; we are a breeding ground here
In America, where thousands of human
beings are born Into anarchy. Bolshev
ism was born in America; It took Amer
ica to produce Trotzky. We cannot
maintain the constitution unless both
the red flag and the profiteers- black
flag are destroyed."
The president's second industrial con
ference report says : "Our modern in
dustrial organization. If it is not to be
come a failure, must yield to the Indi
vidual a larger satisfaction with life.
Not only must the theory that
labor is a commodity be abandoned, but
the concept of leadership must be sub
tltuted for that of mastery.
Human fellowship tn Industry must
either be1 an empty phrase or, a living
fact."
More and more we are coming to the
realization that we cannot measure suc
cess by the yardstick, of dollars, but
rather by the service we have rendered
our fellows. Edgar Guest sums up the
whole question in the following lines :
He ha not red who gathers gold.
Nor ti he .erred, whone life In told
In elflh battle he has won.
Or deeds of ftkill that he has done.
But he has serred who now and then
Has helped alone his fellow men.
This old world needs more men today;
Bed -blooded men along life's way.
With cheerful smiles and tieMnf hands
And with the faith that understands
The beauty of the simple deed
Which acrrea another's boor of need.
Strong men to stand beside the weak.
Kind men to hear what others speak.
True men tn keen our country's laws
And cuard Ha honor and Its rau;
Men who will brarely play fife' came
Nor a-k rewards of fold or fame
Tear-h me to do the best t ran
To help and cheer our 'ellowman;
Teach me t loee my pelfWh need
And glory in the larger deed
Which smooths the road and lights the day
For ai who chance to coma my way.
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happenings in Rrlef Form for th
rlimy Kesiicr.
OREGON NOT KS
Louis Lachmund of Salem has resigned
aj head of the greMi fruits department
of the Phez company.
OiUrymen near Harrlnhurg hsve de
cided to Introduce .12 head of pure blood
llolxteins !n;o their herds.
About J5 community meetings will be
hf-ld in I,inii county, at which farm work
for this yenr will bo planned.
Twenty-one Salem retail merchants
will attend the annual convention of the
utate retail association at Astoria.
have voi-,i to ct.nstruct an auxiliary
Miiliinr and additional drier space.
County JudRp Blowers of Hood Hivcr
county has s.nt his resignation to Gov
ernor Olcntt. to take effect December 31.
The Meilford Irrigation district pro
1 loses to ohtaln water from Little Butt
creek for development of lO.ono acres.
The Oregon I'lly eimmerHal club will
partlelpate m a housing camimtKn. to
result In the building of :.0 new houses.
Mrs. Henry lv Kimball lias contrib
uted J2...0(io lo endow the Dunlop chair
of exegetical theology at Kimball col
lege. According tn void from Congressman
llawley. there will be no appropriation
by tills com; r.-ss for public buildings in
OrcKnn or f-lsew here.
More than J.'IOIIO of the Jin. 000 needed
to conduct what is known as the working
department of the Salem commercial
club has been raised. '
Slate Superintendent of Schools Cham
berlain will attend the annual conven
tion of the national society for vocation
al education at Chicago.
The annual report of the Mt. Angel
creamery shows that 1134.000 was paid
out last year for butter fat. the average
price being 6f cents a pound.
A 1.111 .. ill ... . J . i .
r .mi niu i 'r: pi v-nr ii 1 in inc nrxi
legislature asking for an appropriation
for a new building at the state industrial
school for girls, costing approximately
J50.000.
According to a report at Salem the
next legislature will tie asked for an
appropriation -' to purchase an nirplan
to hunt violators of the prohibition law
by the air route.
Clarence D. Smith has been chosen
field secretary to handle the campaign
for the proposed $200,000 endowment
for the Kimball theological college on
the campus of Willamette university.
Sevrrnl horsey have been relieved of
service and In a number of instances
owners of animals in Marion county
have been warned to take better cure of
their charges by the state humane of
ficer. Citizens of Klamath Falls to the num-,
ber of HO have protested to the Oregon'
congressional delegation against any fur
ther bargaining for the reclamation of
government lands on upper Klamath
lake.
! Seven men and two women have been
j arrested at Prlnevtlle In a raid made on
1 violators of the prohibition law. Two
I stills were found. One of them having
j a capacity of SO gallons a day whs
j found on the ranch of Mrs. Sarah Rnod-
derly, six miles north of Prlnevllle.
WASHINGTON
Eight Centralla boys arrested on
charges of larceny have implicated eight
others.
Weekly room rates In clubs and lodg
ing houses of Spokane have been raised
from 10 to 50 per cent.
To solve the housing problem at Walla
Walla 100 'bungalows are to tie built In
the tlreen Park school district.
Hrrry Smith, a paroled convict of
Oregon, -attempted suicide at Seattle,
where he Is held on a charge of burg
lary. A petition for the construction of IS
miles of road north of Almlra under
the Donohue act has been filed with the
county commissioners.
The proposition to bond Sprague school
district for the construction of a $34,000
high school building lias been carried
by a vote of 267 to 19.
Two and four year courses In secre
tarial work, business administration, m-'
counting and commercial teaching are
announced by the state college.
The annual report of the pity cleric
of Aberdeen shows that the city last
year issued bonds for public Improve
ments to the amount of 1174. (too.
Four gallons of real corn whiskey, a
barrel of mash and the still was found
In a raid by Yakima olficlals in a ranch
house In the Kast Moxee district.
(iovernor Hart has appointed the fol
lowing members ol the state dental
board: N. A. Winningham. Seattle; H.
I). Keenan, Spokane , .1 K. Iloska. Ta -coma.
W. j. Cordiner of Walla Walla has
gone to Iowa and Missouri to purchase)
registered Shorthorn calves, which will
be sold to members of a calf club to be
organized. N
Nothing has been heard of Bruce Bell
and bis son I'eter, who left Spokane to,
find work at Yakima in the fruit orch
ards. The family at Jeffery, Idaho. Is
left destitute.
The death of William Iiwe of Oak
Point is reported from Arizona. His
death followed a long illness caused by
an Injury received several years ago In
a logging accident.
The influenza situation at Itucoda,
where 70 residents were III. Ih much Im
proved. Practically all the schools In
Southern Thurston county have closed
as a result of the epldemc.
A relief from car shortage in promised
the Klma community association bv fh
railway administration.. Of the 17G,9!
cars being sent Into the Middle West
with seed wheat it is expected some will
continue to tne coaai to loaa lor lumtirr.
Parish priests of Spokane have been
granted an increase of 1100 a year In
salary. The salary Is now $B00 per year
In addition to living and housing ex
penses, which are provided by the parish.
For assistant priests the salary has been
rained from $300 to $400.
IDAHO
The city council of Twin Kails has
decided adversely to a petition to open
moving picture theatres on Sunday. m
J. M. Dodds of Meridian has been ap
pointed to succeed Oils Remington as
secretary of the Nam pa-Meridian Irri
gation district.
Mabel R. Wade of Minneapolis baa
brought a breach of promise suit against
Guilford Morse of Boise, asking for
$50,000 damages.
Governor Harding of Iowa has ac
cepted an Invitation from the Buhl
chamber of commerce to deliver an ad
dress on the league of 'Nations.
Hosea B. Eastman, closely Identified
with many of the largest business un
dertakings of Boise and an old pioneer,
is dead after an Illness of three years.
Moral support has been voted by the
state farm bureau to settlers of Bene
wah county in their efforts to effect the
reclamation of 30,000 acres of bottom
land over which they tire in controversy
with the Waahington Water Power com
pany. Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
It takes a lot of lickin' fer some folks
to find out they air thataway. Jim
Cone down to llancho, ilonzales county,
Texas, was a peaceable sorter feller
that preached fer nolbln' of a .Sunday
and hoed corn and collonv six days In
the week fer a llvin. Jim sot store by
mindln' his own business, and Black
snake Joe Hedder, who was kinder in
clined to lick people he didn't like with
big blacksnake, started In on the Rev.
Jlra one day .fer performin' of the wed
dln' ceremony 'twixt Joe's darter and a
Yankee book peddler a few days be
fore. The first time Hev. Jim pulled
him off n his hoss and told him to go
home and ferglt his troubles In prayer.
Blacksnake Joe, however, started i n
agin, and when he got outer the hos
pital three months later he owned up
to havln' been licked and paid !(K fine..
He 'lowed it was the fine that made
him know he'd been licked. Our Hunf
friends knows now they was licked, and
licked a-plenty. The fine of fifty bil
lions or so drive it home to 'am.