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ATI KX'WSPAFXB r Pnblbher tew tbi w roe would hTi them do bu y) Jabtlhed rrtrr week Uy and Son day morning, f at Ta Xooraal BuUdlns. Bnadnr sad Tan : Mil tract. Portland. ". r n i w MmfMMil fea etaMffBl and QO fcstetsd it the PontoMIe at Portland, 0t. iTttTtntumimioa throusa tha DtUl a second elaae niatter. gKLEIHOSES Mala 7l?. aotonutie a.i iotnann reacnea r - f' Benjamin Ktntnor Co., Bnmswirk Building. Jt2a Fifth e.enue. New Tore; 800 Mailer J ; Boildtnc. Chicago. ICBSCRIPTIOX BAITS By carrier, city and coon try. : - a i r j DAILY AND BCWDAT DM ! J' : DAILY ' One week f .10 j ... . . . 0m month. ., . .1 8CNDAY On week -05 fcl VAJL. ALL RATES PAYABLE IS ADTASCE , , AAV BUJltl yym year a co fils aomtbt. . . . 4 25 Three month. One month. . . .sa.ss . .75 Ti TT T " (WHhont Sunda? Jrjfcs year .09 Wr monthi.. . .". 29 three month. . t 1.7 5 On moatn 80 J- WFEKLY f fXvtry Wdnjd) On year. fl.00 month. ... 00 iTTTTAY Only One year .00 gn mortlM 1.11 Tbra month. . . 1.00 WEEKLY A NO , SUNDAY One year $8.60 Bate ta EuUrs point furnished on irtpllet llnet Make remittance by Money Order Expfet : Order, or Draft; If mi Font office to cot a laauej Ordrr Offlre. 1 er 2-cent stamp will be oeptod. Make all remittance pja'oi to Tbe fearaal, Portland. OTecon. Peace, peace; when there I no peaea, Jeremiah 6-14. THE RIPPERS WIN ITPHE country 'must see now why, a X few days before the election in 1918, President Wilson asked for a democratic congress, and why Herbert Hoover seconded him In that appeal. Yesterday's action In the senate Is the climax of what both men then foresaw. The war was then ncarlng the end. The German armies were In Cetreat. The president knew that a treaty would nave to be written, and for months it had been tn the publlo Aphid that a League of Nations would Ije formed. J The president was under no illu- tlons. He knew the temper of Lodge and men of his type. He knew what he might expect from a senate con trolled by them. He foresaw the Im portance and need of a senate that $rould accept a League of Nations, and he asked for it. J That appeal was no Insult to the ; republican paf-ty. Nor was it non appreciation of the part the Republic ean masses played In the war. They did their work gloriously. It was that ower to destroy, that purpose to pull down, that the president knew was Ih the hearts of the Lodges and Borahs . Ih the coming hour of treaty making from which he asked the country to Spare him. , J How prophetically he foresaw the future is evidenced in the action on the senate floor yesterday when Lodge forced through his reservation to Artiole X and completed, his plan if ripping up the treaty. Whether in lis changed form the treaty shall or ihall not be ratified makes little dif ference the League of Nations as a force In world affairs Is dead. It Is Cerfectly easy now to see why. rn full coders landing and justifiable appre- Iiensloo. of what might come to pass after the treaty should be written and signed, President Wilson appealed to lils countrymen for a congress that would be in harmony with his policies. i Long before the war ended. Lodge expressed his opposition to the League of Nations. With the aid of Kewberry, who bought his way into the body, Lodge and his crowd organ feed the senate. They packed the foreign relations committee with enemies of the treaty. Forgetting all ' ether legislation, they have spent tight months in crucifying the League ef Nations. They have constituted themselves the .; treaty making power. Their changes In the covenant are designed to, give congress, not the president, the conduct of foreign relations so far as the league is concerned. Yet what has' the senate of the United " States ever done to lead the country to bate confidence In it for direction cT' foreign relations or any other function f ' JEven should the treaty be ratified in the final vote, now scheduled for r. Thursday, America will be so bound i and hedged about that she will be of little . influence in the league. Nor can the league long endure without strong guidance from America. Dis integration, bad already set In before .Lodge yesterday drove the assassin's knife to the hilt tn the structure. The greatest of. all things that win , niog the war made possible Is prob- , 'ably lost, not to be recovered until other rivers run red with - the life blood of more of America's best.. T Seattle's Chamber of Commerce, neeklng new Industries, has decided to concentrate effort on coke, silk, "rubber..; vegetable oil. dehydration, copper, brass. fertUizer. tanning. s textiles, fun and ehoeolattv1 Th poller will prove very satisfactory to Portland. AU tbe industries re ferred t- are valuable, but we win not on their account remit bur "In terest in wood manufacture, meat, fish and fruit packing. In the latter lines we know precisely what we are doing-, and where to find the sup pliee and market. DR. MACKENZIE DR. KENNETH A. J. MACKENZIE 'was a part of the history of Portland For nearly 40 years he was a worker among the stricken in the homes and the hospitals of Portland A whole multitude, passing into the thousands, found succor under his ministrations and his skill. Few names in the professional life of Ore gon have been so widely and so favor ably known. His greatest thought tn his later years was the establishment in Port land of a medical school to be the laboratory of instruction and research for the Northwest, and to take rank as a nationally known institution. To that endeavor, he devoted his talents tirelessly and sacrlficingly. To others, the community must now look for that enthusiasm which .passed on and out with hinv yesterday, when he was suddenly called from earthly endeavory- He Is mourned by a wide circle of friends and by many a grateful pa tient. Philadelphia's idea of an associa tion of apartment house tenants has spread to San .Francisco. But the San Francisco association carried its first three complaints to the state railroad commission, evidently con fusing rates with rents and assum ing that landlords, too, will never charge less than the traffic will bear. CENSORED? DECLARING that the newspapers of Portland permit their newst, and editorial columns to be censoredby the trades unions, the Los Angeles Times says: But the worst feature ef trie fight for fra industry In Portla.nd was the craven plrlt displayed by the Portland press. The mechanical plants of an the Port land papers are unionised and the pub lishers apparently cow before their own employes. If the unionists are permitted to censor the news and edl torlal columns of the Portland press, i a Bolshevlki, the struggle for complete freedom will be long and bitter. These statements are absurd. Le gitimate news of disputes and strikes between employes and employers in Portland Is always printed by the Portland papers. In such cases The Journal, In a spirit of fairness, al ways prints statements from both sides. It garbles nothing, colors noth- ng, suppresses nothing. What else would the Times have The Journal doT What other course would be a more proper exercise of the true newspaper function t That Portland unionists attempt to "censor news and editorial columns1' of The Journal is a ridiculous state ment Neither directly nor indirectly has hint or suggestion come from unionism to The Journal for coloring,. or changing, or suppressing facts or influencing expression of editorial In terpretation or opinion.' This statement is made, not in de fense, or to curry favor with the Times, but to correct frror. There are unionists in Portland who are wrong In their ideas. But their lead ership is sane and in generalx the sounder element , is in control. Port- and has fewer disturbances and less industrial unrest than any other large city on the coast, even Including Los Angeles, where one of the most wicked outrages In the history of industrial disturbances In America took place in the blowing up of the Times build ing through the leadership of the McXamaras. There Is more of reason and less of the club, more of the spirit of com promise .and less resort to violence in Portland than In oUier cities, which may be one reason why the Times concludes that Portland Is censored In the long run, as both employers and unionists wiU learn, it will be reason, compromise and a mutual spirit of Justice, not clubs and' broken heads, that will be the approved and universally adopted means of settling industrial disputes. A New York bill proposes news paper headline reform. .New Tork, in particular, will probably be the better for its enactment, but before the movement becomes general why hot reform the persons who create headline news, together with some of the headline writers 7 THE HUMAN TIDE nrnA the tide of Immlmtlnn la at 1 an ebb is Indicated by the an nouncement of the U. S. immigration bureau that since January 1 the excess of emigration over Immigration Is 8000. In other words, while 53.000 persons have entered the country from Europe. 1.000 have returned. This condition Is probably only tem porary. That many should desire to return to their native land after the war to visit relatives, look after property, or bring over their families is quite natural. They are now able to do this by the restoration of ocean travel. While the world war has created new conditions in Europe which will in some cases retard Immigration and in others advance It the general resul will probably remain the same, It Is not impossible that many who were lneunea to emigrate win see some hope for themselves and chll dren in-the changed political and economic status and deckle to remain in their native land. On the other hand there will be larulbwtterf,V - utaH capitalists - and others who will be put under a heavy tax burden.; xor reconstruction i who will be disposed to seek relief through emigration. Weariness of war and a desire to escape Its shadow will also he a contributing factor towards emi gration. A general conclusion Is that future emigration will be dependent upon the ability of Europe to provide profitable employment and fa?6rable political conditions. r s . j What is of vital concern to the United States is the character of the immigration. It is essential that it Is sucn that it can be Americanized. Chief Garrity of the Chicago po lice bureau says, "Give us enough boys clubs and we will reduce Juve nile delinquency one-half." "What he says Is a tip to the T. M. C. A. and'to the Community Service asso ciation. A DAFFODIL. ESIDE a factory out on Sandy boulevard Is a vacant lot. One occupies precisely the same area as the other. But the factory busily urns out a multitude of brooms that sweep clean, of course, because they are new. And the vacant lot produces each year an abundant crop of those irritating weeds known as burdocks. There Is a vast difference between the industrial productivity of one space, the pervert wastefulness of he other. Because somebody put an idea and some money together, raw products are being turned out as fin ished articles that benefit people and a considerable number of skilled arti sans park their cars outside the plant while they do the work of the day within. One tract is Just as near the street, the street car line and the railroad as the other. One could be as fruitfully utilized as the other. If one might attribute imaginative qualities to the lots. It might be prop er to add that one is the personifica tion of conscious rectitude and thrift; the other a dissolute wastrel. But let Judgment pause. On' Mon day morning, amid the dull and skele- tonNorms of last year is buroocks on the vacant lot, a daffodil was bloom- ng. How did it get there? What hand planted it? No one will say, But it waslike an unexpected gold piece gleaming in the litter of a squalid floor. Sometimes small things show that there Is a bit of gold in even a wasted life, and the power to bring forth a golden flower in even a vacant lot f the rain, the 6un and the wind touch it gently. INSULTING CONGRESS? rONGUESSMAN FOPiDNEY. ehalr- man of the house ways and means committee, Is grievously Insulted. Frank P. Keech, a New York broker. testifying as a witness before the committee, made "the frank state ment" that "members of congress would support soldier relief legisla tion in order to get votes." Such an Imputation was outrageous, to Chairman Fordney, and to Con gressman Frear, whose open minded Investigation of the spruce work will, of course, eternally damn any one who might suggest that he would do anything for the purpose of get ting votes. I consider It an insult for any per son to say that I would spend two billion dollars out of the public money to be elected to congress, Chairman Fordney thundered at Mr. Keech, while Congressman Frear de manded to know "if the boys on the farm, who left everything, feel as the people who lived in New York?" It was all about the question of bonus" legislation now under con sideration before congress. Mr. Keech was opposed to it. There are many who are opposed to It, it seems that some returned soldiers are opposed to It. It Is a large question. But there can be no question that congress has failed miserably to do what it 6hould have done for the returning soldiers. They are not asking charity, only Justice. They are all young men Many of them went to war from high schools and colleges ; many from positions in lvil life which they had Just undertaken. While they were gone, two ye"js of business, industrial or professional experience passed them by. They return with that time lost to them to face the strenuous activities of a competitive life. They are entitled to have the scales bal anced In some equitable manner. The soldiers themselves, in the great majority of cases, are not demanding money but opportunity Thousands of them want homes upon the land They are willing to work with their hands and with their hands pay back to the government, principal and In terest, such sums as they may need to finance them In their Initial efforts to gain a foothold In the ranks of productive citizenship. " Congress promised them this assist ance. It has done nothing but promise. It will be well remembered how when Mr. Fordney, In the house Senator Lodge In the senate, and al their associated colleagues assumed control of things legislative with the advent of the present congress, they lambasted those whose hands had re luctantly loosed their grips upon the legislative reins, how they pointed to the sins of omission committed by these retiring leaders, how they shud dered with horror because lagging months had seen nothing done for the constructive assistance of the soldiers. and how they promised speedy relief. Words, words, words. Words without end, and without amen. The Wall Street Journal says that "The soldier vote Is a fact and not t theory," and the Wall Street Jour nal Is a wise old owl about national politics- a well as national credits. t Is very probable that the soldiers vote can clearly distinguish between promises .unfulfilled and promises consummated by the delivery of the goods. The goods have not been de livered to the soldiers by congress. It Is a blot on congress that this Is so. But then one or two more blots will not make the page much blacker. Mr. Keech and his "frank statement" ought not to "insult" Mr. Fordney and Mr. Frear overmuch. What they have ailed to do is insulting enough in all good conscience. A "frank statement" about that could well cause them mental anguish and ought to cause them political chagrin. MAN WHO GETS THINGS GOING UcAdoo's Record Is One of Success In the Greatest Undertakings From the Baltimore Sun "Here's something for you to do, Mr. McAdoo. Why don't you take it up and try to get it going again. Perhaps you may be able to get some of our money out of the d d thing." This bit of conversation was directed to William Gibbs McAdoo way back in the early '90s. It had to do with the construction of the tunnels under the Hudson river. a Mr. McAdoo had watched the lumber ing ferryboats carry their 120,000.000 passengers yearly from ,the Jersey shores , to Manhattan. MUUona of precious minutes were being- wasted by an eager New York crowd going and coming to work. Surely a tunael under the river was not impossible In the light of this era of achievement The idea was not original with Mc Adoo. Others had dreamed it and two companies had made serious attempts to put the operation through, but their enterprise ended in tragedy and bank ruptcy. But they had got far enough to prove that the idea was practicable and McAdoo knew all about it. Tbe secret of failure was In the lack of capital and the supreme lack of cast iron nerve. McAdoo had the nerve and he felt reasonably sure of commanding the capital. e a a To shorten the story, McAdoo went through with his proposition. He laid his plans well, meeting obstacles far in advance, and the criticism that followed mistakes which follow every big enter prise rained upon a copper-riveted. metal-bound hide with which tie had equipped himself in order to "stand the gaff." The story of the construction of the Hudson tunnels and the Hudson terminals, which are almost as great a monument to American ingenuity as me Panama canal, is a long and Interesting one. Of course, the engineers did the planning, but the mind of McAdoo fur nished the perseverance and the domi nant determlnatipn to push the thing through. He had to fight every foot of the way against the most .solidly Intrenched gang of transit monopolists In the country. They tried to bribe him; they tried to buy him off, but he or his railroad was not for sale. The serious engineering difficulties In the way of the project were like those of child tunneling through a sand pile compared to the political and trust an tagonism. But In the end McAdoo beat them out. No group of Independents had ever beaten the New York traction gang. It was like dipping the ocean dry, but McAdoo dipped it. When McAdoo took up the Hudson river project he had the failures two of them on the earns project, staring him In the face, and so when the matter was brought to his mind by a fellow lawyer with the bit of conversation which precedes this story, McAdoo started to revive the abandoned enter prise. His first problem was getting money out of xnUItonalres. Ills idea was to organize the company, see that the work was placed in competent hands and then retire to the practice of law. But his associates would have none of thla If they ere going to invest in McAdoo's craxy scheme McAdoo himself must take charge of the management. Thus he found himself president of the company and the directing head of aU its operations. a When the tubes were completed the public began to get a clearer lnBierht Into McAdoo's character. The "publio- be-damned" policy was changed .to the publlc-be-pleased." In a quiet talk to the operating force he drove home these truths. The railroad was not built for its stockholders or its officers, but for the public, and its first con sideration must always be for the safety, convenience and comfort of its patrons. Any man who believed in the "public-be-damned" policy would get fired. The deep voiced, guttural "Sten lively!" which New Tork transit patrons bad had flung in their teeth for years, must not be used on McAdoo's line. Pretty soon the operatives and the president began to understand each other very nicely. In-Qther words. Mr. McAdoo intro duced the human element Into the man agement of a great railway system. Corporations," he said, "are simply the reflection of the chief personality in control. Emphatically, they do have souls. Go over the lines of any public utility and carefully observe the general details of its service and equipment the manners of the employes and their at titude to the public, and you will get a fairly good reflection of the soul of its management." e This policy made Mr. McAdoo a per sonage whom no one believed could exist. He was a popular street railway man a corporation magnate whom the newspapers praised Instead of abused. It was because of his simple policy of cordiality to the public instead of kick ing and cuffing It that made the young Tennessee lawyer the most popular citl sen of New York. Letters From the People i UommantratloBe cent to The Journal fcr pnbUeatioa in thla department ahonld am written on only one aide ot the nanr. ehnalrf mnt S 00 wenta la lMfta and mart wed 07 the writer, law mau aaarea ia ruu man aecas paay Ute aantiibaUon. ) 1HE JUDGE IN THE MITCHELL CASE Burns. March 10. To the Editor of The Journal Please answer the follow ing questions in your Letters From the People columns: What was the name of the federal judge who tried and sentenced John H. Mitchell, former United States senator from Oregon? When dia Judge C. B. BeNlnger die? Subscriber. IS. A X. Pntar and hia aaeodatea in what waa known aa tbe "1 1-7 caaee" bad been In dicted by the trend Jury ndet tha adminUtr tlon of John H. Hall u CnlUd ate attorney. Judge BelliaaeT inverted at the trial of thla eaaa. The grand Jury which. Indicted Senator Mitxlien wu selected whOe Judga BelHnstr u on tha bench and after Francia J. Heney had succeeded Hall ae United Scatee attorney. , A dunarrer waa filed to the Indictment, waa beard fcr Judge Bellimer and eterrolfd by him. On tha day when ha. handed bis derision on tha drmurrer down be wu eafferlns (rom tha in sea Inm which h 4mi. That wu hi last VZ5n5; '?:kmJ'mr- H y a. lOS. and Jodxe rtm Ht.rn of (u. Vranctoeo was aaeiraia to (ha Portia aattriet ta tn the mtebcD, cam. Es returned t Baa Ftm eiaea at the eeectaatea of that trial and Judce Hunt of tbe dutriet of .Montana wea aaaiaaed Portland in 4a stead, to baa Ute other land frtod Case.) THE CASE OP HAROLD HOWELL Portland, March 8. To tbe Editor of The Journal I -want to emphasise what a writer in The Journal. C M. RarnsdeU. has said, that "the protection of the innocent should come before the punish ment of the. guilty," and that a "prose cuting attorney should by all considera tions of right and Justice be as earnest In seeking evidence of innocence as of guilt. This is a great and righteous principle, which I fear has been lost s!ght of in the case of Harold Howell. I have carefully followed both trials as re ported in the papers, and there is not scintilla Juris to sustain an action show ing that he ever killed Lillian Leutbold. What Jlttle there Is is purely circumstan tial. To begin with, there must have been a motive for such .a crime; in bis case it .surely never' was done out of pure wantonness ; and ho motive has ever, as yet. been made to appear. I will have to be shown before I will be- I'eve that a little boy under 15 years of age, with no conceivable motive, and who has since conducted himself in a manner befitting innocence, ever com mitted that damnable deed. It doe not stand to reason. I had much rather think, if the mystery is ever solved, it wiU be found that the gfrl was killed by some vagabond tramp or hobo, with some cheap pistol. As I am informed. there are people living here, good friends cf hers, who do not believe she was ever killed with Harold's gun ; who even believe the two shells found in the road were "planted" there ; who also believe that the only human blood stains found oii his person namely, in his left overall pocket came from his own cut thumb 10 days before, as was' shown, it la claimed, at the trial ; and furthermore. that he was one-half mile away from the spot at the time of the murder and has a perfect alibi. I try, to realize what It would mean to me in the case of my own boy, under the same circumstances ; and as the thought comes home to me I feel like culling upon the good people of Port land and Oregon, to make themselves heard and their influence felt in this matter, both morally and materially. Remember that this boy's father Is a one-armed man Mt la said of him and hi wife that "they are honest, humble people") ; that he has spent all he had in two trials, and is now confronted with a third : and come to the rescue. If ever a man was in trouble and needed a good Samaritan, I believe it is O. Ot Howell of Bandon, Or. Were I able I would most assuredly finance him, in his time of need, to the-last dollar. As It is, I feel like helping him to the ex tent of my .ability. Vou may be like me never saw the man and do not know hlmbut if there is no help for It, and this business must go on, then let us be the Good Samaritan. Andrew Sherwood. SATS NOT ALL SPIRITS AJtB EVIL Portland. Msrrh 9. To the Editor of The JournaiT wjh to reply to an artl cle by Ernon V. Oliver, where he claims all spirits that return are demonic. I would like to ask him is he ever investi gated spiritualism for himself. I have been an Investigator for 23 years, and have had convincing evidences too nu merous to mention. Mr. Oliver uses the Bible for proof, so I will. In I Samuel S:6 we read that Samuel was called a man of God and all that he said came to pass, and In the" ninth verse we read that a prophet was before time called a seer, and in verse 19 Samuel said, "I am the seer." Also, in I Samuel ZS :3-14, Paul recognised Samuel by the descrip tion the medium gave of him. Was he a demonic influence? The Bible says Samuel was a man of God, and It also says, "Try tne spirits, wneiner tney are of God" (I John? 4-1), from which passage we can clearly see there are both good and bad spirits, and if we shut the door against the evil spirits they will not be able to enter, (kid's law is a fixed law, and what has been 1n Bible times has been before the Bible was written and will always be as long as the world exists. People have the erroneous Idea that aa soon as dissolution takes place the spirit becomes perfect and knows every thing, whereas the spirit is in the same state of development as it was when It left he body, until It develops out of that condition, and as the spirit world is a counterpart of this world, the con ditions are much the same ; and we know there are Just as many bad and good passing on every day.. and If the bad can come back, by that same law the good also can come bark. Mrs. Robert Schmus. Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places No one has yet told us why hand kerchiefs are square, but a reader re minds us that they were unknown be fore the early part of the sixteenth cen tury, Venice being the place where they made their first appearance. Otto FlscheL German authority, says that the Germans were slow to adopt the new idea. They first used them in 15S0, and soon afterwards sumptuary laavs were enacted In most German states forbid dlnlrut any person of plebeian birth from blowing his nose with a handkerchief. This restriction remained in force for over 200 years, and was enforced even on the stage. So recently as 1790 an actress was officially reprimanded for disregarding It in a Berlin theatre. She excused herself by pleading that she had used not a handkerchief, only "a little linen rag." Olden Oregon Elijah White Was the Northwest's Original Townslte Boomer. The original townslte boomer of the Northwest was Elijah White, who In 1848 platted Pacific City, on Bakers bay, at the mouth of the Columbia, and began to sell lotst He represented that his city had a park filled with deer. In a sense this was true, as the park em braced all outdoors. His city had school houses, handsome residences and other attractions on paper. Previous to this. White had figured in Oregon history in connection with missionary effort and as Indian agent. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Jed Mllturn, down on the Santy Anny river near San Berdoon in Callforny 'fore the railroads got there, had him a awful gentle saddle mule he set a heap of store by and had tuck lots of trouble to train up in the way it should go. He keerlessly flopped the saddle on that beast one mornln' with some euckleburs on the under side of the blanket right where Jed pressed his S40 pounds the most when he got aboard. The result was ac purty a circus as ever you. seen, snd that there' mule critter finally, not fcein' able to git rid of Jed and them euckleburs no other way. laid down and rolled over a few dozen times. This put Jed in the hospital and sped the mule fer ridln ever after. Ever country has a lot of fellers livin offen its people that ain't of no more use'n them euckle burs profiteers, land lord a land specu lators, grafter trusts, and - sich like. Where they git too frequent in the wrong place the people is sure some day to lay down a-kickin' like that there mule and go to rollin' over and over tryla' to git shut of the pests, even if tbey don't know jlst why nor jist how they got there. COMMENT AND SMALT CHANGE -i?ow. rPOrt re fairly well AU In. Indications are that burglars spent very profitable week-end in Portland. Seems like the well known times of war to read again that "the French army is on the move, with General Foch active." e A wind in Kansas is reported to have Vn growing wheat out of the ground. Anything like that could happen but in one place Kansas. e e The new senator from Alabama is named Comer,- and we trust that he will live up to his name. If he does, be may oe president some day. An item from Chicago says that per sons on board a lake liner, caught in an lee-Jam are in danger of starvation ; and were it not such a serious subject we'd be likely to grind out some wheeze to the effect that the victims might relieve the situation somewhat by eating the jaiiu MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town When Charles tvans Hughes was In Portland as a presidential candidate, he humorously declared that Oregon had "conscripted" him. The reference was, of course, to the fact that over his protest a popular resort of presi dential candidates this year his name was put on the ballot In the presiden tial primaries. The man who did It. and did it against the advice of all the party seers and prophets and great lights, was former State Senator Al bert Abraham of Roseburg. Hughes went on the primary ballot and Ore gon went for Hughes, both In the pri maries and in the election. Senator Abraham was a recent visitor in Port land, i e e e Before Mrs. E. J. Quiggle of Groton, S. D., was born. II. K. Fletcher, man ager of the Cornelius hotel, lived in Groton, and also at Millbank. In spite of the difference In the dates of their residence, Mrs. Quiggle and Fletcher have much to make them friends, for the Portland hotel man knew Clark Jewell, father of Mrs. Quiggle. when Jewell and his best girl, later Mrs. Jewell, were courting in Millbank. Mrs. Quiggle. together with her husband. Is a guest at the Cornelius, but not because she and Fletcher were pre viously acquainted. Quiggle is a drug gist in the South Dakota city, hut has a hunch that a favorable location among Oregon's climatic charms wfluld draw him and his business this way. e e e Several Albany church congregations Sunday missed familiar faces, if hotel registers tn Portland are Indicative. L. A. Humphrey and Owen Beam were registered at the Oregon. At the Mult nomah was M. McAlptn. At the Cor nelius E. H. Horskey was a guest, and the Seward housed the following folk from the Linn county metropolis : Mr. and Mrs. W. A Barrett G. Smith and M. J. Monteith. Humphrey Is forced to sign himself "Mr." that he may be distinguished from Mrs. Hum phrey, who receives as muen atten tion from the world as does her hus band. Mrs. Humphrey, representing manufacturers of Oregon foodstuffs, plans and stages banquets for all sorts of organizations which chooae to fea ture "Made In Oregon" viands on their menu a And Mrs. Humphrey is said to be an expert at outlining a delecta ble meal from Oregon products. a Fish are the stock In trade of B. Pedereon, who, with Mrs. Pederson. is registered at the Multnomah while visit ing in Portland. Pederson Is manager of the Willspa Harbor Fish company at South Bend, Wash, F. B. Hubbard, Wash., and Just resident of Centralis, now a guest at the IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred I One of tha M-eeat ouentiona of the hour ta the soldiers' bonua question. Mr. Txm klry to hit article lor the day moat spuy Illustrate its ullent feature! from the standpoint ef n or- era man who went to hia task in the spirit of hihet altruism and who came home to find that the eltruinihsd been orerlookad by pundry American who had profited most through the war. What do the soldiers themselves think of the proposed bonus plan7 We have heard a lot from the politicians as to what the soldier thinks, but would It not be well to let the soldier himself tell us how he feels about It? a In the past few months I have talked with scores of overseas men, as well as "silver stripers." Thej; have talked to me freely, for I assured thera I would not quote them. A day or so ago a sergeant who had seen 22 months' serv ice In France said to me: 4 "I shall have to confess I am more restless and uncertain here at home than' I was over there. I threw up a good Job to enlist aa a private. I wal lowed in the mud, fought cooties as well as Germans, swallowed all sorts of In sults and contumely from men over me who tried to make up in bluster and rigid discipline what they lacked In knowledge and ability, saw my buddies bumped off by shrapnel. H-E and ma chine gun fire, and did It all with a feeling of inward peace and satisfac tion, for I felt I was proving true to the best traditions of the land over which Old Glory waves. I was as will ing as my messmates to go west for I felt we were crusaders in a great cause. a a a "When we had done the Job, no one will ever know with what feelings of Joy we turned homeward. We expect ed I don't know why to find a better America. We thought our going through the fiery furnace would have burned away the dross. As soon as I got back I went to visit my sister. She was glad to see me, and said she would ask Bob. her husband. If he could get me a Job. I had a better Job than Bob when I enlisted. Bob said he would see what he could do, and then he said, 'Say, on the square, don't you get tired of this returned hero stuff? Were you ever In any real danger? Isn't moat of this slush and gush we hear about the . dan gers and hardships that our boys er perienced. Just heroics and hysterics? As a matter of fact, ware any large proportion Of our troops In the battle sons? J Wasn't it a sort of a Joyrlde and sightseeing excursion for most of tbe bojrsr ' , a How are you going to answer a guy like that? It's like fighting a smoke screen or a dense fog. You don't get anywhere. At supper Bob told me that on account of the scarcity of men dur ing the war he bad been promoted and was now getting 22S a month. He was DISQUILIFIED From Ufa -What has become of the man who used to beat the big bass drum?" asked the returning eltlten. "He left us more than a year ago," was the answer. "Good man, wasn't he?" "Sure! But ho got 'so fat that when be marched he couldn't hit the drum in t he-m kid Is." NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS There will be opened tn Bend shortly a stonecuttinr shop specialising In monument work." "The Pendleton Odd Fellows have i a fine location at the corner of Main and Alta and cart afford to Invest In a real skyscraper on such a cfer'; the encouraging observation of the East Oregonlan. , Complaints about the loss of autos and auto accessories have been increas ing at Pendleton of late, the police say. and warning has been issued not to leave robes, coats or other valuables in autos at night when parked. Boosting for the proposed new band at Astoria tha Kudirat aavs : "AStOna Is soon to entertain the Shrlners, the Kiwanls of the country, the G. A. R. veterans of the Btate, the convention ot the American Legion of Oregon and tee newspapermen of the state. W e need band music tn tire entertainment of such conventions. The public un doubtedly approves of the band idea and the public ought to give It strong support." Portland hotel, is an uncle of Dale Hubbard, former soldier, who was a victim of the Armistice day massacre" at Centralis, for the perpetration of which seven L W. W have Just been convicted of second degree murder. The Portland visitor is recuperaUng from an attack of influenza. "It's raining." was the laoonio-com-rnent of W. a Snider of Clatskanle as he placed his legal Inscription on the Perkins hotel register Monday afternoon. And to Justify his declaration of the very much apparent fact. Snider told of tne miniature snow storm that swept over Clatskanle on Sunday. "It actually did snow," he declared. - "Down on Mobile bay" are words from the favorite song of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Grace, residents of Mobile, Ala. They are stopping at the Portland hotel while inspecting the great Northwest. e e Robert Walstrom and R. W. Arns. who plow, harrow, prune and harvest In neighborhood of Hood River valley orchards, left the Cornelius hotel Mon day after a week end sojourn. Ames is the son of Ftans X. Ames, director of the New York symphony orchestra and noted musician, who owns the Hood River property and spends some time thereon each year. ... W. H. Burghardt pioneer Oregon citi zen and mining man, wfto is living at Salem, Is a guest at the Perkins hotel during a brief stay in Portland. e e e Deer Island Is a misnomer. That Co lumbia river town is 2H miles from the Columbia river, and even Us most ardent citizens decline to give It right to the "island' part of the ,name. Only when too much rain falls does Deer Island look like what It is supposed to be. From that community come Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Weld en, who are guests at the Oregon. e e e Among Seattle folks whose names were noticeable on Portland hotel registers Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Carew at the Multnomah and W. E. piner at the Cornelius. Carew is a man ufacturer of blank .books and Piper is western manager for an Bastern soup manufacturer whose product is known practically over the entire world, It is said. "Lota of folks delight In soup, but prefer not to engage 1n the old pastime of boiling the soupbone." Piper testifies, e e E. T. Holtom, Tillamook merchant, and C. E. Mowery of the same city are stop ping st the Portland hotel during a visit in Portland. Af the Multnomah. Thom.ia Coates. manager of the Tillamook Ab stract company, is a guest, and 8. S. Johnson, lawyer, member of the firm of Johnson A Handley. is registered from Tillamook. Lockley getting $30 a week when I put on my O-D. and began drilling. He said taxes were already high and he 'hoped the grafters and crooked politicians wouldn't add to the high cost of living by putting through the bonus bill. He told me that over 23,000 new millionaires bad been made here In the country we fought for while we 'Joyriders' were overseas 'seeing Europe.' a "The slackers like my brother-in-law seem to have landed the good Jobs while we were away 'neglecting our business, as Bob put It. I feel like one of these bulls that they throw banderillos Into in a bullfight. They stick and hurt, but tha bull can't shake them out, and when he charges at a man in the ring all be gets Is a red cloak over his horns. , "When I came home I said, it is an Insult to offer us a bonus. We didn't offer our lives to our country for a bonus. We did it because we loved the country that has given us all we j have and are." Now yes ; I am for a bonus. Suppose they pay us o0 a month j for every month we served. At that, : I won't be where Bob, my slacker brother-in-law, is.; He got a bonus of 1100 a month, tn Increased salary by staying at home. He used to dig up a nickel to ride on the streetcar. Now he has a flivver of his own, and I dig up 6 cents for my fare and see him pass by. Honest, I would rather be back in a muddy, bloody, trench in France, for I knew where I was at there, while here I ion't know whether I am a hero or a Joyrider, and When I want to get back Into the harness the good Jobs are all gone and there are only temporary Jobs to be had." a R stands for Red and also for Revo lution, but If yon will knock the R out of Revolution you have evolution, and that means what America stands for industrial efficiency Instead of industrial unrest and deficiency. Revolution means disorganized industry ; evolution means L teamwork and constructive and har monious work, and social and industrial progress. Here is what Abraham Line coin said about it : "Many independent men everywhere In these' states a few years ago were hired laborers. The prudent penniless beginner In the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for .himself, then la bors on his own account another while and at length hires another new begin ner to help him This Is the Just and generous and prosperous system, which opens the way to ail gives hope to all and consequent energy and progress and Improvement of condition to all. No men living are more worthy to be trust ed than those who toil up from poverty, none are less Inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly X earned. SPRING Trent the Chkue Port. Tha Snowdrop asyly lifts bar head " Half afraid to stay; Tb Bobls plump hit tandy ebstt ' And trW tnodelsy; The Brooklet borat bar icy bends And sweeps the channel clear; Tha Farmer. eUiaaanf to tbe bara, Criaa, Dttss eB, aba's bwrel The Oregon Cooritry Northwart ilappenlnn in Brief form for tbe Buay Header - OREGON NOTESi Nine communities tn Sherman county tlon C0rapleted farm bureau organisa- v.T?0-1??1!."" S?" of tn American lgton l!!;dde! new members to the women s auxiliary. Vly, "tor which was opened at Midtord sold out Its supplies in three days' time. . Miss Helen Dotirhertv nf n,w t... WVIi .UIHJI 111 ffl 11 At t nt. In C X ' I uvupnet i uruana. For the first Ume in 12 years tha H wuniy jau nas been empty for"""". The newly organized Hood River Teacher a association is sponsoring a movement for better schools. Charles White, suspected of shooting a night watchman at White Salmon, has . been arrested at The Dalles. Harry Learned has been reelected chief of The Dalles volunteer fire department. James Palmer is assistant chief. The Marlon County Druggists' assoc. atlon has indorsed J. C. Perry of Salem as a candidate for the legislature in the primaries. William Spencer, manager of peace time activities of the Red Cross in Clat sop county ha, resigned on account of poor health. The books nf Rt. (. T......... ,r.,j - ...... -.imvuic uwii eie being experted by three sets of aecount- ,"t ,as PrePratlon for a grahd Jury investigation. Corvallis school children will engage' in a paper drive -this month and next for the purpose of raising money for the ' school library. Delia Crou der Miller, head of the pub lic speaking department of Willamette Xl J,'lly: I?,8 tendered her resignation because of 111 health. Hood river ofriclul. rv. . , taken in providing a Joint speed traffic . -miVT ifor th rty nd county has re sulted In careful driving. The Polk COIintv farm Kii... k -. jl . Clded to furnish County Agriculturist Car- f " , quar,ers ,n connection with the Dallas Commercial club. Repairs to the nniu. which the legislature appropriated ' money, have been comnleted and th. ,- building is now ready for use. WASHINGTON The annual Washington will be held at Vancouver ' June 24. Two years of comnulanrv nkv.i..i .fn- cation are to he Introduced Into the cur- m uiuin oi l w nitmaii college. George A. Phillips 0f Spokane has been elected president of the new state as- ' soeiatlon of retail merchants. Enrollment at the Walla Walla hlRh school is 1016. This Is practically double the enrollment of sic years ago. Lumber prices are being cut at Spo ane by a larsje percentage of Inland Empire lumbermen from 10 to 30 per cent. The eommlsftloners of Walla Walla have passed to third reading an ordi nance which has a p'rovtnlon against Jay walking. Miss Bessie C. Bardstey of the Wash. Ington State college has been conduct ma a line of denionstrailon work among Lewis county women. After sinking a shaft 260 feet We- natcliee On-hard Land company has given up hope of locating a paying voln of coal in Moses coulee. W. B. Taylor, an aged man who dis appeared near Attalia Monday night, has been found near Burbank after a two days' search. He had lost his way. Extensions and improvements to cost about $30,000 are to be made this year on electric lines In the Yakima district by the Paciflo Power. A Light company. Charles Greeley of Pioneer has beeir elected preHident of the Clarke Count Republican club, succeeding J. Suther land, who will be a candidate for county attorney. IDAHO The Boise city council has been asked to condemn as a nuisance the corral and Stables at Sixteenth and Bannock streets. W U 1 lam Dlngman. found guilty at Band Point on the charge of criminal syndical ism, has been sentenced to pay a fine of iiooo. Dr. A. K. Cutler,; a Text, veterinarian, has been appointed Inspector of tubercu lar cattle and assigned to the Twin Falls terrl tory. The annual report of the Idaho Fire Brick company shows sales amount ed to 163.000 with a aplendid operating profit. The payroll totaled over 33,0OU. The interchurch conference at Coeor d'Alene has adopted a resolution that no church pay a salary or less tisan 11800 a year and provide a house to any minister In Kootenai county. According to Miles Cannon, state com missioner of agriculture, Boise and Km mett, Vth lumber centers, constitute the two points of highest lumber prices be tween Kanuaa city and the Paciflo coast. Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Canyon Side Mutual Tele phone company of Jerome. Capital $10,000. It Is planned to construct a telephone system In Mlnnldoka. Lincoln. Jerome. Gooding and Elmore counties. Recovery of O. & C. Grant Lands Effected Through The Journal's Efforts. The register and the receiver of the Roseburg land office have given notice that tracts classified as agri cultural In the Oregon A California grant lands will bo thrown open to settlement with preference In filing given returned soldiers, beginning May 10 and ending July 8. About 860,000 acres are involved In the opening. The notice is a reriflnder that the vast wealth of the Oregon It Cali fornia grant lands In Western Ore gon would have been capitalized Ille gally for selfish purposes or held out of use indefinitely had it not been for The Journal's exposure of the fact that the public's rights were be ing violated. Under the terms of the grant, the Oregon - California railroad later succeeded by the Southern Pacific was required to sell the lands, given It by the government to aid In fi nancing construction, at not to ex ceed S2.&0 an acre, and to actual settlers. But It sold 120,000 acres at an av-prace of $8.06 an acre. In cluding 372.389 acres at an a vera ire of $4.17, 91.434 acres at an average of 14.30, 60,36 acres at an average of (.80 and 372.899 acres at aa aver age of 7.S4 an acre. Trie road was required to sell In tracts not exceed ing 160 acres. But It sold Sl,43 acres In tracts that averaged 693 acres, 60,866 acres in tracts averag ing 107? acres and 272,899 acres In tracts averaging "80S acres each. The Journal was the first news paper to take up the fight for the recovery of the grant lands. It was the only metropolitan newspaper to persist in this fight until litigation had resulted In a verdict for the people and the Chamberlain bill bad passed, restoring the lands to entry. The grant lands contain o.oo0,ooo,- 000 to 60.000.000.000 feet of timber worth at least IIQ.OOO.noo. The lands classified aa agricultural are tn many instances more suitable -for gracing than farming, but the government has surveyed ' them and Is able to tell applicants Just what Is the na ture of any designated tract, TUe recovery of the Oregon Jk California grant lands Is one of the great a-J qulsltlons for public benefit mndt) possible to -large extent through ef forts of The . Journal. .- '