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j - J i 8 THIS OREGUN DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY. APRIL 20. 1920. WI AN INDEPENDENT KITWBPAPEB C 8. JACKROS Publish! I Be calm, be eonfldrat, be cheerful and do onto otiiani aa you would h Uwm do nolo you. J Published tt week dy and Bandar morning, at The Journal Bnildinjr. Broadway and Jam bin street, Portland. Upton. Entered at the Postoffics at Portland. Oregon, for transmiuios through the mails M aeeona claaa matter. - TELEPHONE Main 7173. Automatic AU departments reached by these number. rORElOM ADVERTI8IHO BEPKE8ENTAT1VE Benjamin Sentnor Co.. Hninswirk Bu.Wmj. 225 Fifth arena. Sew York; 00 Mailers Building, Chicago. srnscniPTins bates By carrier, city and country. DAILY AND SUNDAY . One week ( .15 I On month. .OS DAILY I n BUN PAY One week t .10 One week I One month 45 BY MAIL. ALL BATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE DAILY AND 8CNDAY rw.. ... r IH.00 Three minium. .. Six months. . . . 4 25 One month Hl'NDAY (Only) One r Six months. Three month. . .75 DAILY (Without Sunday) One year .00 Bit month. .... 3.25 Three months. . . 1 75 One month WEEKLY (Erery Wednesday One year 1 00 ill m.mtha .ftO 13.00 1.75 1.0U WEEKLY AND U LN DAY One year 13.50 These rate, apply only in ina wenu Hates to Eintern point furnished on applies Hon Make remittance by Money Order Express Order, or Draft. If your ponUiffice ia not a Money Order Office, 1 or 2-crnt Uroi will be accepted. Make all remittances payable to The Journal, Portland, Oregon. Work, and thou wilt blew the day Ere the toil he done: They that work not, cannot pray. Cannot feel Uie tun John SulliTan Ihoight. BEARING FRUIT IP YOU want a glimpse of the mind of Europe, read this: Establishment of an Armenian , re public is not generally favored, and "French financiers and Italian interests are Insisting that the bent means of re establishment of the Near East .s through securing the prewar status of . Turkey except Mesopotamia. Cilicia and Thrace. ""This is a report of the situation in the conference of the allied premiers at San Remo. An Armenian republic iis not satisfactory to "French finan ciers." Nor to Italian financiers. The pre-war status of Turkey V.x cept as to Thrace, Mesopotamia and Clllcia, is preferred. Mesopotamia is excepted because England has set aside that province for herself. Cilicia Is excepted because France has taken possession of that garden of the Near East. There you have the key to the whole situation in Europe. With America put out of leadership by the Johnsons and Lodges in the senate, it is, so far as European diplomacy and European purposes are concerned, almost as if no war had been fought and won. This proposal, at the behest of fi nanciers, to abandon Armenia to Tur key is the most heartless proposition yet advanced. .. The Armenians were promised their Independence If they would fight on the side of the allies. I'nder that pledge they fought with a heroism and sacrifice almost unparalleled in a war conspicuous for sacrifice. They alone : thwarted the Cerman-Turkish pro gram of reaching the Baku oil fields with which to replenish the failing oil supply of the central posvers. They ., prevented the Turkish army from ef fecting a junction with the hordes ; of barbarians in Persia and the Far - East. Proportionately, they suffered more than any other people in the war. The massacres and butcheries they went through were the near extinction of a race and the utter destruction of a country. And for it all they are now under betrayal. A new order was won at the Ar- gonne and Sedan. But the old order , U back. The presidential aspirations ,. of Hiram Johnson, Henry Cahot Lodge's personal hate and the partisan ' thimblerigging of the other treaty rippers are bearing fruit. And the chickens will come home to roost. Prom five acres of ground, a Ken tucky , grower recently sold $5678 worth if tobacco and $8000 wortlj of tobacco seed, a total return t f $13,676. For the tobacco for which h recieived less than $1 per pound, the smoker pays $6 to $8. ELOQUENT SILENCE MR. SPENCER, counsel for the O-W. R. & N., was silent before the Interstate Commerce commission last Saturday at Washington, D. C. Hl3v silence was better than much epeaung. it wa9 golden, silence. It was loyal silence. ' For the commerce commission was hearing the oral argument for and against' the Columbia basin rate case.4 JWhen the 2-ssue was submitted before three of the commissioners in Port land and Seattle, all the carriers, the O-W. R. A N. among them, were under the? railroad administration. The O-W. R. A N. had not then an inde pendent voice. Since that time th status has , changed. ; t . , s- 'The silence of Mr, Spencer could"! . mean these things: That the O-W, ft A N. understands that its interest, like the Interests of the Inland Em pire and the ports of the Columbia, lies In the recognition of the Columbia water level route. That it recognizes its natural position as Portland's transcontinental railroad. That as nearly as possible at this late hour, It is aligning itself with its terminal. There is strong probability that these assumptions are correct. If so, the silence of the 0-W. R.4N. was louder than words, and it is entitled to the praise, the approval and the support of Portland and the interior. On the desk of the writer are several letters designed for public -tlon. They are unsigned. The writ ers do not disclose their Identity to the paper. For that reason, the let ters cannot be used. The paper must, for Its own protection, know who the contributors are. All news papers require a signature, not nec essarily for publication. Do not waste your stamps, your envelopes, your writing paper and your time and effort as well as the time of busy editors by sending in articles without accompanying name. They all go into the waste basket. UNAVOIDABLE? r ORONER'S juries, after investigat- V- ing killings in automobile smash ups, frequently describe the accident as "unavoidable." There Is seldom an unavoidable ac cident. In almost every case there is violation of traffic law, disregard of safety rules, error In judgment or 'n operation, or defective machinery. In j either case, the smashup is not una- voidable. If ever driver has his ma chine under complete control, and the j pedestrian zealously observes safety , anxioms. there will be few very few j collisions. j Failure, of the driver to see the pe-j destrian, when to all intents and pur- I poses he should have seen him, has ' been the cause of recent fatal acci- dents. In one case the driver, after t his machine killed a man, declared on j the witness stand that his lights were I faulty, he told the jury he had warned his- employer, of the condition two months before, and that he had not I couraging report or a new and more seen the victim of the accident until ! favorable attitude by the shipping he struck him. The police testified board and other maritime and indus that the man was driving the car in j trial powers towards Portland, violation of law because of the inade- j But quate lights. The jury found that ! He also warns Portland that united, the killing was "unavoidable." I aggressive and ceaseless action here is Had the machine been equipped I with proper lights, had the driver not been operating the car in violation of law, had he been able to see. it is quite probable there would have been no hilling. The pilot would have seen the pedestrian. He would have swerved his car or brought it to a stop. But he didn't see the man until ! he hit him. He didn't see him because his lights were defective. Was that accident "unavoidable"? In another case, the driver told the jury that there was rain on his wind- shield, but he declared his lights were in good condition. He testified that he didn't know there was a man near him until he "saw some arms anr. things go up in the air." Other witnesses declared the pedestrian was standing in the proper place waiting for a street car that closely followed the automobile. Was the ra' on the windshield "unavoidable"? Should not the driver have been diligent to see that his view was not impaired? If the lights were in good condition, why did the driver not see a man that "was stand ing in the proper place waiting for a car" before he "saw some arms and things go up in the air"? The law declares that "the head Jighls of every motor vehicle shall be capable of throwing sufficient light ahead to reveai any person, vehicle or substantial object upon the road- way straight ahead at a distance of at least 100 feet." Were the lights on this car capable of revealing a person 100 feet away? If so, why did the driver not see the man, except for the rain on his windshield which was there because of his own careless ness? A driver had as well be blindfolded if he cannot see in front of his ma chine. And an accident in which the driver was blindfolded could hardly be characterized as "unavoidable." With privately owned utilities claiming deficits on higher rates, the municipal light and power plant at Kansas City, Kansas, reports a sur plus of $130. 404 and $40,000 put away In the sinking fund. PLANS AND RIDERS GREAT plans have power to stir men's minds, to quicken imagi nation and to awaken that determ ination which is prerequisite to any worth while accomplishment. But great plans must be presented in man ner and terms commensurate with their greatness. When the first pub lic hearing on the port, program as submitted by the committee of 15 was held in the city council chambers persons were present to represent the Interest which a city arW port dis trict of 350,000 people had in the project. Another hearing has now been called for next Monday. It will be devoted to consideration of points in the plan concerning which dispute has arisen. One of these is the pro posal to. merge the port and dock commissions into one state commis sion appointed by the legislature and to transfer the title to publicly owned water terminals from the city to the state. Another point of dispute is the pol icy, which should control compensa tion for the lands that will be ac quired by the public In the event that the reclamation of Swan Island, Guilds lake and Mocks bottom should be ap proved. A member of the committee of 15 has stated publicly that the maximum payment should not exceed three times the assessed valuation. Presumably he speaks with concur rence of the committee. An official of Multnomah county, the assessor, is charged with making valuation of property for taxation purposes on the basis of its full cash value. He is held amenable under the law for just and true exercise of his responsibility. Why, then, 9hould any individual or group, not thus of ficially obligated, assume that the public could properly be required to pay three times the assessed valua tion, particularly for property like the tracts involved, which would not to day sell for the assessed valuation? Similarly, public concern is en livened by a proposal to give a log rolling, back scratching, trading and manipulating set of legislators the au thority to name the administrators of Portland's $20,000,000 port trust. Two pennies held closely enough before the eyes can shut out the sight of the sun. It would be too bad for riders on the splendid port plan form ulated by the committee of 15 to de cide the fate of the real issue. Can not the committee, the mayor and the council devise means to rid the program of petty contingencies and then put, before the people of Portland the ' .eal plan in its true greatness? ,"I have twice been a . soldier's widow, and my sons' lives went as a sacrifice to my, country," writes a bedridden soldier's widow, pro- J testing against war and militarism. gave up my home and my last doiiar to save them. The cry of my son who was in the spanish- American war rings In my ears con- stantly- 'Only save my life for mother's sake'." But they killed the peace treaty the way is easy to other wars. GO GET 'EM p XECUTIVE SECRETARY DODSON brings back from the East an en- the means by which ships, shipping lines and industries are to be secured. There is no closer or more assidu ous student of transportation, com merce and industry and their relation to a greater Portland. No one is bet ter Informed on what Portland must do to help herself In these great things than is Mr. Dodson. After a two months' study of it all in the East, his advice is worth while. The shipping board is in better mood for allocating ships than it ever was before. But allocation in the fullest measure is contingent upon proper organization, ample traffic and initiative here. We must help our selves, or we cannot be helped. And it is a perfectly fair proposi tion. Portland codld not ask more. The time is exceedingly propitious. Mr. Dodson bears out the statement j that The Journal has many times made the East is looking to this coast. Late increases in rail rates and further possible increases of 25 to 40 per cent make it necessary to manufacture here goods for distribu tion in this field. Manufactured things cannot stand the increased cost of transportation by rail. And W.OOO.OOO people in the Orient must have goods. And the closest and most, economical spot for supplying the enormous requirements of that colossal population in its gradual rise j in civilization, is the Pacific coast. Portland can have a huge slice in that tremendous business if she bids hard enough for it. Within the next three or four years. Portland will make or break, win or lose. AnJ it looks as if Portland is adopting a new go-get-'em spirit that never fails. Sir Oliver Lodge found the scen ery of the Columbia river highway "entrancing." Which merely goes to show that the spirit of beauty in the gorge of the great river is likewise an appeal to a great scientist. THE NEW ORDER A BOLITION of child labor ; an eight JTjL hour day for women in industry ; a living wage as a minimum In every in dustry ; old age pensions, relief from employment one day in seven and a gradual reduction of the hours of labor t" the lowest practicable point. The paragraph above is taken from a news dispatch from Cleveland, which also records the resignation of Mrs. 7inley Shepard, formerly Helen Gould, from the national board of the Y. W, C. A. The statement purports to be a recitation of the ideals for which the board will directly seek legislation. Mrs. Shepard's with drawal from the board is said to have been prompted by its decision to be practical as well as theoretical. It may be that she has inadvertently placed herself in position to learn that the modern trend toward social bet terment is a fact and not a theory, a demand and not a discussion. The tea party social servant is out. of date. An award 4f $40,000. has been. made by a New fork jury to a wo man whose . leg was fractured by a reckless motorist. .Similar damage suits In New York have resulted In these awards: Eyes $20,000, hair $20,000. nose $15,000, broken heart 1250,000, arms $85,000. legs $80,000. At that, the value of a whole woman ts $470,000. - THE TREATY AND ! THE SENATE NO. 12 Brief Summary of the Long and Fierce; Conflict That Raged Around Article X. By Cart Smith, Washington Stxff Cotreaponderit of The Journal. Washington, April 20. In a- brief statement of the controversy over Arti cle X of the league covenant, such as this must be, only the chief principles can be considered in. the mass of dis cussion surrounding it. The main pur pose will be to keep the record straight as to the meaning of Article X- and what was done concerning it. First, let Article X be stated: "The members of the league under take to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial in tegrity and existing political independ ence of all members of the league. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggres sion, the council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled." The article divides in two parts. The first sentence contains the obligation. the second refers to the fulfillment. The obligation Is twofold, first to "respect,? and second to "preserve." There is -o controversy over the obligation to "re spect.!' "The objection is directed to the obligation to "preserve." The obliga tion is to respect and preserve "against external aggression," not against in ternal disturbance or revolution. No interference is proposed in the internal affairs of any country. The obligation is a moral one. It belongs to the con science of each nation undertaking it. There Is no set rule of enforcement. It is, in short, simply an agreement by nations that want peace and believe in doing something to preserve it, that they will not permit an outlaw nation to do again what Germany did in 191-1. (Ger many's act drew all the other . great nations into war, and the purpose of Article X is to try by a moral obliga tion to Drevent another such thing. As It is a moral obligation, each nation must judge for itself in the circum stances of the case wnether the time is at hand for it to apply force to the ! fulfillment. In this country, that de cision can only be made by congress. e There is no Ferious divergence of opinion concerning the propositions tlyts stated. In the enthusiasm or argument some of the bitter opponents of the league have said that under Article X. the United States would be involved In "every Kuropean quarrel" and that "American boys might he ordered over seas at the behest of foreigners," but theFe are mere extravagant statements which never have been taken seriously, except by a few extremists. The real controversy is whether the United States should assume any obligation to pre serve a- against external aggression the territorial integrity and political inde pendence of the members of the league. The purpose of the Lodge reservation was to remove all trace of such obliga tion, which takes from the league the great stabilizing force of the United States. The opponents of the Lodge reservation contendtd that while the league contained many other excellent things, and many believed It worth try ing, even when 'he Lodge reservattoris were attached, that In no other respect did the league offer the world greater promise of permanent peace. It is well to record again the state ment President Wilson made on Article X at the White House conference with Mr. Lodge and other members of the foreign relations committee, which is perhaps as clear and concise a statement as has been .made : "Article X Is in no respect of doubtful meaning when read in the light of the covenant as a whole. The council off he league can only "advise' upon the means by "which the obligations of that great article ire to be given effect. Unless the United States is a party to the pol icy or action in question, her own affirm ative vote in the council Is necessary before any advice can be given, for a unanimous vote of the council is re quired. If she Is a party, the trouble is hers, anyhow. And the unanimous vote of the council is only advice in any case. "Each government is free to reject it if it pleases Nothing could have been made more clear tc the conference than the right of our congress under the con stitution to exercise its independent judgment in all matters of peace and war. No attempt was made to question or limit that right. The United States will, indeed, under Article X undertake to respect and preserve as against ex ternal aggression the territorial integ rity and existing political independence of all members of the league, and that engagement constitutes a very gray? and solemn moral obligation. But it is a moral, not a legal, obligation arid leaves our congress absolutely free to put its own interpretation upon it in all cases that call for action. It is bind Ing in conscience only, not in law." The following colloquy later took place : Senator Harding : -What becomes of our standing among nations if the coun cil fixes a moral obligation upon us and we reject the judgment of the council as to the moral obligation T' The President : Pardon me if I re mind you that we have always to con cur in that. ' Senator Harding: "Precisely; but the council states what constitutes the moral obligation, if we agree ; but if we do not agree, then in the eyes of the world we have rejected its judgment as to a moral obligation." The President : "Certainly ; and I hold that we are at liberty to do that, if our moral judgment honestly differs from the moral judgment of the world," .Senator Harding: "Then let us go back to the original inquiry. What per manent, value is there, then, to this compact?" , 1 he President : "The greatest per manent value, senator, is the point . I have raised. We are assuming the United States will not concur in the gen eral moral judgment of the world. In my opinion, she generally will. If.it had been known that this war was com ing on, her moral judgment would have concurred with that of the other gov ernments of the world ; and if Germany had known that there was a possibility of that 6ort of concurrence, she never would have dared to do 'what she did. Without such notice served on the pow ers that may wish to repeat . the folly that Germany commenced, there is no assurance to the world that there will be peace even for a geneation, whereas if they know beforehand that there will be that concert of judgment, there is the most tremendous guaranty." This sort of colloquy illustrates in a characteristic way the attitude of op ponents o the league, although Hard Ing was ostensibly, nominally and in Lodge fasjhlop. for some, Jkind of a league. Mis first question conveys an Intimatlcn that the council could "fix" a moral obligation upon the United States. The president quickly corrected that, since the United States will always be a member of the council and will it self have a vote, and the vote must be unanimous. . His next question implied that the league is not of value if the obligation is not legally binding, whereas the 'cove nant itself anticipates the - possibility of divided judgment and provides for no verdict UT the opinion is not unani mous. This may be. and no doubt Is, in the Judgment of somS. a defect m. tbe league, but it certainly Is not a defect in the view of those who are opposed to compulsion as .against the Independent judgment of the United States, in value of this moral tnfluence waa thus slated by Senator McNary in a speech in the senate: ' "It ia the Dinar section of the asso ciation of nations contemplated under the league, and is the assurance of mutual support against any external aggres sion. It speaks the voice of freedom among the nations and guarantees to each its full share of sovereignty. It makes possible and encourages the re duction of armaments, as no nation will disarm unless assured that it will not be attacked by another nation. Nations which disarm or progressively deprive themselves of the weapons to repel an assault must protect themselves either by erecting a superstate, with an inter national armed force to guard them, or by entering Into a compact to come to each other's aid when an outlaw nation threatens the use of force." The next article in the series will continue and conclude the summary of the controversy over Article X. Letters From the People Communication! sent to Tie Journal for publication in thia department should be written on only one side of the paiK-r, hi.uid not exceed 300 words in length and mut be sifntd by tbe writer, whose mail addreaa in full miut accom pany the contribution. J . .WHEN LEAGUERS COME Aloha, April 15. To the Editor of The Journal I see by your article No. 14 in the "When Leaguers Come" series that you wish to inform the people of the plans and aims of the league so that private business will know what plan of defense to adopt. Why are you so anxious to inform private business in regard to a plan that the farmer Is try ing to foster so as to give him some say in regard to the laws'.' Why don't we see any farmers or wage-earners in the lawmaking bodies? Why is it always some lawyer or business guy who gets there because they don't want the farmer to have a look-in? Now 1 want to tell you one thing : The big business hench men's days are numbered. The time has come when the farmer and the wage earner will have their share of the say. The profiteers, big and little, are sow ing the wind and will reap the whirl wind. The farmer Is going on a strike for better conditions and Judge Ander son's injunctions won't scare him, either. hi. J. Kawson. WHEN LEAGUERS COME Portland, April 16. To The Editor of The Journal It will no doubt be of in terest to those who are reading your editorials entitled "When Leaguers Come" to know something about the corectness of the statements made by the league organizer. Y4u quote from his speech a statement that the price of wheat at Drake. N. D.. was $1.93 before the league purchased a flour tniU. and that they advanced the price to the farmer to $2.88 ; that the flour was shipped to municipal bakeries in New ark, N. J and there baked Into 20- ounce loavee of bread, which were sold for 5 cents each. It is probably not true that the price of wheat was advanced as stated. It certainly was not true that flour made from this wheat was sold as hread at the price stated. It . takes at least four and one third bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour, and at $2.88 per bushel the wheat would cost the mill flZAS. By what hocus pocus they could ship this flour back to New Jersey where It was baked into bread and sold at 5 cents a loaf has not been explained. Ap proximately 157 Joaves of bread would be made from 196 pounds, or a barrel, of flour, and if sold at five cents it would bring $7.85. If all. or many, of the statements made by the league organizers are as in accurate as the above, their propaganda is the most deceitful of anything that has been put before the public. F. L. S. TO HKT,P THE CAR RIDER Portland. April 16. To the Editor Of The lournal I beg to suggest in behalf lhe Journal l Deg to suggest m nenaii Ul L11C 1 .! U-WUlftJIIfc its VI i u kiaiiu that the Portland Railway. Light & Power company take off Its inspectors and many others that can serve us bet ter If running streetcars instead. Petty positions is the big cancer that is tak ing the money, and still: We hear their cry for a higher fare ! , Earn your money, Portland Railway, Light & Power company, and earn it with an honest effort, and then with a sane management in curtailing useless positions you will not need to hold .out your "tin cup," begging jfor one or two additional pennies carfare. The peo ple are not going to be fooled any longer. Honest management will be your only hope, Portland iRailway. Light & Power company. Mrsi Lydia Nash. ASIATICS IN BUSINESS Placer, April 13. To Uhe Kditor of The Journal There was an article in The Sunday Journal of April 11 by Samuel Hill entitled, ''Japanese Are Good Neighbors." Mr. Hill refers to some good things, as "bajck to the soil," but he does not settle ; the Japanese question. Any foreigner ' that comes here and works for less pr runs a busi ness for less than an American possibly can is a detriment to the country, and it does not make any difference if he is a good neighbor. No American can compete with Japanese lit labor or busi ness In this country. Jt Is said the Japanese own most of the restaurant business In this state, and the condition is worse in California. A Japanese will go into a restaurant business, and If he can clear above all expenses a few dol lars a day, he is satisfied and stays. What American will run a business that won't bring in more profit? Must we have a class of labor in this country this Is below our standard? It is the same old policy, with some. that we must have a high protective tariff "to protect labor and industry," and at the same time leave our doors open to all coolie labor and cheap com petition in business. For a long time labor was the only elsnwnt Ininred hv this mpthod. but now we see Asiatics creeping into all kinds of business In this country. Must Amer icans, who try to live in the American way and rear families, be In competi tion with these Orientals? Every American should 'fight now against this immigration. N, H. Blalock. Olden Oregon Early Growers in Oregon Threshed Grain in Primitive Fashion. In 1848 the population, of the Oregon country was between 10,000 and 12,000 whites and half-breeds. Most of the white settlers were, stockratsers and grain growers. Threshing was done by driving -horses and cattle over the sheaves of grain within an enclosure. During this year Wallace and Wilson of Oregon City constructed two thresh ing machines, which were run by an end less chain. Nine grist mills' were in operation. Curious Bits of Information For the Curiou Gleaned Prom Curious Pisces Few countries outdo Korea, which can boast of having two living ex-emperors, both supported if held, in restraint by Ui Japanese government : the COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Trust that Mars isn't getting nervous waiting for the earth to signal. There's lota of time. ' No one has to tell us that the cost of Clothing has pone up. We are reminded or it every morning when we dress. e ;.n,df, If .lhe. and r'' fa" Ket any thrill put of the fact that the fish ing boats have left for Alaska on their annual cruise. . Seattle's library reports that 10.000 books were ''borrowed" last year and not returned. On a smaller scale, we've had me same trouoie. A legless woman, who has been an at traction with a circus in the East is arriea now, and a contemporary re nai:k that this is a case wherein her husband won't have to worry about her running around. .Pwn ,n Texas they're buying potatoes still in the ground, which goes to show tliat some people have more faith in their gardens than we have in ours, be cause it ha been our experience that what goes down doesn't necessarily al ways come up. i MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town After all. there may be a grain of cheer in the deluge. Snow" to a depth of 3V4 feet covers Lost lake, says A. C. Lord, draftsman for the forest service, who haa just returned from a trip into that region. Work on the new Lost lake road has had to be postponed be cause of the snow. Lord found no snow whatever about a mile beyond the en trance into the Oregon national forest from Dee, but there he suddenly reached snow of considerable depth. The snow at this time of year is usually from 10 to 15 feet deep, Lord says. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Nightingale of San Francisco and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mower of ,ew. York city are stopping at the Multnomah hotel while taking in the sights about Portland. Nightin gale is manager of the coast department of the American Tobacco company, and Mower is advertising manager of the same concern. A. B. Cordley, director of the United States department of agriculture experi ment station at the Oregon Agricul tural college and dean of tlte school of agriculture, ib a guest at the Imperial hotel. P. W. Taylor, general purchasing agent for the Southern Pacific railways at San Francisco, is spending a few cays in Portland and Oregon, familiar- V izing himself with conditions of South ern Pacific properties In this state. Mrs. Richard ToWnsend of Buffalo, N. Y... together with Mrs. C. McDougall and Miss Helen McDougall of Platts burg, N. Y., compose a party of tour ists registered at the Multnomah hotel. The Rev. E. T. Simpson, Episcopal clergyman at Corvallis. is stopping at the Cornelius hotel while in the city on business. Simplified spelling is in vogue at Brighton, Tillamook county, which is the home of Charles Painter. Painter registers at the Hotel Oregon from "Brighton-by-the-C." Franklin Daniel Barrett, once the Beau Brummell of Albany and now spreading his charms about Seattle, is at the Seward hotel. Some time today. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred I A iu rkhl norm of the i. written by , -h h. hn a seafarinc man in deed and ! in trnth. is Mr. I.ookly's text today. He recite ! thf P0 nd tl,en ntroduoIel c"tJi" niK, prnared by an appreciate and competent critic. 1 After being demobilised my son Lawrence "signed on" for a cruise in the merchant marine that took him to the Hawaiian Islands, where they loaded sugar, and on to the Canal zone and to various other ports. He is now at college. We exchange numerous letters. I have been able to keep In fairly close touch with his work through his letters. Recently we have been discussing felici ty of phrase as well as facility as a factor of success in the writing game. Illustrating his point in a recent letter he quoted Masefield's well known poem, "Cargoes." as an example of feliclty of words and imagery. Hf.re is the poem, and here is his letter, which is so worth while that I am going to pass It on to Journal readers. And first, the. poem: Quinquireme of Ninereh from distant Ophir. Kowinc home to ha Ten in sunny Palestine, With a canto of iTory. And ape and pearock. Sandalwood, Cedarwood, and weet white wine. Stately 8panUh galleon cominf from the Iithmna, Dippini through the Tropica by the palm creen nhores. With a cargo of diamonds. Emeralds, ameUta, Topazes, and cinnamon, and cold moidorea. Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack , , Bnttini through the Channel In the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal. Road-rails, pig-lead. Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. The letter from my son reads: "In all of Masefield's sea poems there is evinced an Intimate knowledge and a love of the sea. But no other Is more pregnant with significance than Is 'Cargoes.' In three stanzas, one knows the sea with Masefield. "Even the most careless reader can not help but be Impressed with the form of 'Cargoes.' And the realization is borne in that no one but an artist, and an artist who knows the sea, could so completely give the motion, the rhythm, and the sound of a boat slip Ding through the wave. So well has Masefield trapped the sea's motion in the meter that one can not appreciate it to the fullest extent unless he. too. has felt the rise and fall of a deck be neath his feet, and has leaned on . the taffrail to watch the wash in the wake. To dissect the meter, pick out this anapest, and that dactyl, to find out just how it represents the sea. is as useless as the attempt to analyse the motion of a ship, seeing this motion rotary, that translatory. and this other a combination of the two. The im peror who abdicated several years be fore the annexation in favor of his son, and the ex-emperor wno lost nis tnj-one at the time of the annexation. The old emperor was a very powerful man, a past master in the art of intrigue, so he is kept apart even from his own son and no one is allowed to visit his palace. But the young emperor lives In the mid dle of a large park In a building with all the modern conveniences. Miss Edfth Wilds, in the current number of Travel, says, "There Is linoleum on the floor of the corridors and a telephone on the wall and Korean attendants In their' native costumes. The audience chambers are decorated in an equally Incongruous fashion with wonderful Japanese, hangings, Chinese , vases, a Brussels carpet with a large design of roses, and electric liahtr .T NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS A holy war asalnst speeders, expee torators and paper strewers in Klamath Hna been Yiroclainied by Mayor Struble, in the enforcement of ordinances already made ana proviaea. Two acres of i land now seeded to alfalfa and formerly used as the site for Pendleton's pumping plant, will te Improved for us as an auto tourists camp ground at rtnee, permission for t use having been granted by the Pendle ton city council. MomKaro rt thfc Rend fire deuartment vh ro fumillaV with the Klk Lake section believe, the Bulletin says, that it is the best "fishing and hunting ground in the state, consequently tsey will build a cabin there and; put a noat on me ium. for use In their (rummer outings. Tigard Is working up a fine interest In fruit culture tith intent to become a center of that industry. At Its meet ing tonight, the iMgard Community de velopment ieagu will be addressed by P. H. Standish c Newberg. field man ager f a large fannery enterprise, on fruit raising. Professor C. N. Reynolds will talk on the higher education tax measure and J. El. Langner. farm editor of The Journal, ill address the league. if the sun shinesu Barrett will navigate down the east side highway to Salem and over to Pallas, where he once lived. All the delights of Seattle are not corrj parable with those of Dallas, especially when "she" is at home, Barrett says. V J. A. Knapp, representing the United States Fidelity company of Baltimore, today is in Portland surveying local business conditions pertinent to bin firm. He has visited or will visit most of the leading Oregon towns. George E. Gibson, purchasing agent for the Libhy, McNeil & Libby fruit cannery at The Dalles, is a Portland visitor today, registered at the Multno mah. Gibson is in no way responsible for the fact that those wonderful Ore gon cherries, strawberries and other fruits grown at The Dalles are sold to the epicures of the world under Chicago labels. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Hockensmitli of Albany are stopping at the Seward hotel. Hockensmith is In the automobile busi ness in the Linn county seat. Gateway, down In Jefferson county. is represented at the Multnomah hotel by a quartet of her citizens. The visit ors are: II. L. and John H. Priday, J. Bolter and Louis Larsen. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Job of San Francisco are guests at the Multnomah hotel while visiting Portland friends Job is manager of the Independent Pneumatic Tool company at San Fran Cisco. N. R. Sibley of the Seattle Paint company that bears his name, is another Multnomah hotel guest. From Seattle also come Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hamlin to the Multnomah. Hamlin is an official of the" E. H. Hamlin company, dealing In canned goods. T. C. Poorman, banker at Woodburn and prominent in Oregon's military af fnirR. is at the Imperial during a visit In Portland. - A. L. Hanian. a wholesale jeweler of st Paul. Minn., is registered at the Multnomah. At the same hotel is T. A Mitchell, president of the Mitchell Man I ufacturing company of San Francisco. Lockley portant thing is that Masefield knew so well that motion that be was able to give It to us in verse. "No less striking than the rhythm, is the imagery. Through a use of words so rich in connotation, Masefield gives I us three pictures: A quinquireme. tall and stately, with water dripping from five banks of glistening oars, breathing an odor of spice, sandalwood and wine, looms before one as approaching the quay of imagination. No less vivid Is the picture of the stately, full sailed, ornate galleon, bringing home an un told wealth from the Spanish colonies. The very words : topazes, gold moldores, and the rest of the miscellany, bring a flood of associations. But the best of all is the "dirty British coaster' 'butting through the channel.' Again, by sheer association, Masefield brings before his reader the vast complex of modern com merce; the great whole made up of an infinity of 'cheap tin trays,' and pig lead, and the many things that ships carry today. "Realistic as Is his depicting of the sea. vivid as Is his imagery, still that Is not the purpose of the poem. It is a condensed, epigrammatic epic of the Bea. One Is taken by the great panorama of maritime development. One sees ship ping In Its infancy, shipping In the days when Lebanon flourished. The crude, many oared galley, laden with trinkets to please the tyrant contemporaries of David, comes into view, scooting for harbor at the least sign of an approach ing storm, and timorously following the coast line. "Abruptly the scene changes, and the Spanish treasure ship, laden with booty wrested from the Americas, and manned by a crew of careless, godless adventur ers, gently rocks past the low-lying, golden sands of the Bahamas. Another era has come; the mariner bravely, even carelessly, puts out into half-known seas, bringing with him the seeds of a new world civilization. "But the full-rigged galleon, with Its bellying sails,' and Jts treasure filled hold, gives way to the 'dirty British coaster' : a salt-crusted funnel has re placed" the sweeping masts. And the hold is full of not precious stones, or pieces of eight, or monarch's luxuries, but the necessities of modern life. The ship no longer hugs the coast line, or adventurously puts out Into the unknown, but resolutely heads into the gale. The sea no Jonger holds unknown terrors: the sea no lonrfer fills the heart with a realization of romance. It has been conquered, and Its pristine romance has given way to modern service. The sea Is vanquished : msn has progressed. The epic Is complete. "Masefield tells that In three stantas." Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Ab p0inxter was a-mournin' at the I purners t'other day about havin' t . j Jot of Usy mikers and barnswabbers S85 a month, and none of "em done as much work 'in two days ns they uster In one. IkjT Petersen, who mlied cows fer him several year ago and then went rff and got married and set up a little farm of his own, like all them Nor wegians does, lowed he'd go to work fer Poindexter agin at 35 per, If and pcrvidin' Polndexter'd pay him In first Ciass spuds at liO cents a sack, which v.-a the price in them gimd old days. Abj riz right up in wrath and told Ike that while he had brains enough to keep outer the 'sylum, he'd be durned If he'd j make any slch a bargain. And Ike went ctt a-laughin' '. The Oregon Country North at Bapprnlnn In Brlaf fora tot UM Buaf Kaadar OREGON NOTES Cherry trees are- In full bloom in Hood River valley and pears are bursting their blossoms. Some Linn county potatoes were sold last week for J 62 K bushel. They were sold for seed Employes of the Salem postofflee, with tne exception of the curriers, have or ganized an overalls club rfW.il"iftm D1e",uny. age.. 8S. a veteran ti,l!.; or h"Pst 1,1,1 lan w,,rs- ' dead, at the Roseburg soldiers' home. ' ,XhJTi ,,'ncher8 " the Astoria city arv ?i ,are '" rve suhsiantlitl sal ary increases the -coming school vear i r,',I7i ?fl' 1,1 Krilit ''tnand at rJilSrt iha""- '"T1 f,arh"r "'"'" 'v latsed the uric tf ,,..,.. '. .,t 35 cents. , "fc -" lu A number of Dallas business and pro fnt ,:,,nR,1inV;'' h!lT PUt denim clSihl pror'Ung. !" B dr'"-J ,n lh Despite unfavorable weather conditions plowing is proceeding near Cove In .rr?r. f0"1?1' """x fruit trees are reported winter Will,.,! Joe Yee nf Antv.r.. . . . i ,in I Mill I HI'HMl IO deliter his entire, Imp crop for to a New ork buyer at a stipulated price OT e.i cents per lamml A, (I. Germjin '-t...u i,.. Howell-prairie, has purchased the K S Crolsaii nlac f 8(1 acres and will wt ",r fume iraci to huiu hops It is reported frrm Salem ii.Ji a h, representing an Eastern concern is of fering loganberry growers 14 tents a pound for this year's rron During the week Prulirin- A i. fit 1 ' . were five fHtaliii,. ir, . accidents, according to a rr.,.w .v... industrial accident rammlmi. David Reii and a native of UimkI.i filial ln.atn i..ii.....l citizenship, lie Hid h'e would not t.iu up arms to defend th,. I'nii.l xi,.t.,. A proposition liks been county cities hv n i nllf,,i-..i build a milk coiHieiiserv which would produce li0(i ra r.r .oi. daily ' r,,"r:" ho! r, ?" I"V'"K l'I'i'a at Dallas n.iK r nislu-d puckaig the mis crop. Dur Itig tlu-i last two weeks over nine cur lf.a.ls of procewtd pniiu-s have been shipped. The Oregon ouhlu- , ... received a Petition axklm- tl,i . i... Snitlirrn Pa. ifi, nnlroad . compelled to improve it.s Mittion at I 'iislunaii. f.ii the Kugene-Coos Bay branch There was shipped from Coos Uuv during 1'1 a ioti ,... " ..." V. of heese valued' nl tl ii'.ii'.i,!,. ami niwi iViMn-" "f "'"e-l' at ' I .-.4.000 and 240 0O0aB -ule"s! "''Ik valued t The budget of' Hillsboro school dis trict rr the coming year has been adopted at a social election. H . laser! on a salary schedule of $1;, ,,er month fur grade teacher. $ i a:, per month lor l.inh school teacher and i;,00 a year for principals. WASHINGTON Women of fentralia are making a !ari,'e service flag for presentation to im city. Pullman anil the Slat, colleg,, are . have a cooperative grange store I" lhe near future. The next meeting of the Walla Walla nresl.ylery will pe held at Kendriek. Idaho. May 2.Y e In Yakima valley 12.H00 people are pav ing income tux. ! This Is a gain of i!0 Ir i-ent over lust year. The Yeomans - Lumber company of Cenlralia has completed numerous Im provements at its mill lyJ'e Ell. Mayor Rogers itt Oyitrtilla has Issued a proclamation rallliigv, on citizens to observe this eek as cleanup week. Ed Frasee, a well to do rarmer-Ht IXilsy. near Colville, has been fined t hiid f.ost. for failure to send ills minor son to school. Reverend ileorrte E. Kline of Spokane has been reelected elder of Spokane dis trict of the ep Methodist Columbia river conference. For the firm time In the history of Yakima county two women have been chosen delegates to the state Republi can convention. E. L. Brewer of Sat sop has announced tha. he will put i operation an alder mill on his 240 acre ranch In Satsop and Chehalts valleys. Thirty of the younger business men of (')aikslon have formed an organization of "live wires" as an auxiliary to the chamber of comraerce. ' Restaurant me of Walla Walls have ! signed an agreement to remove potatoes from the bill of fare until they drop to per hundred pounds. Sallyjo Walker; representing the Cen lralia high scljool,' won the annual Lewis county Interscholastlc declama tory contest over nine contestants. Members of the Yakima Commercial club are protesting against the state law' which makes a htinhcl basket a standard, container for apples instead of the Northwest standard box. Professor E. E. Ruby of Whitman college has declined an offer to act s field director for Washington to carry nut the Americanization plans of the American Library association at a large salary and expenses. IDAHO Eleven women were empaneled on a Jury in the probate court of Twin Falls to hear evidence! in s case Involving a statutory offense. C. Ulrlch. a returned soldier, snd White Flynn. a farmer, were killed near Buhl when an acetylene tank, which they were repairing, blew up. An order excluding students of high school grade from the Albion mate nor mal school will reduce the required fac ulty at that Institution by three mem bers May 1 has bern set as the last day upon which boys and glrln may enter the 1920 pig club contest, the prize for .which is s free 4rip next winter to the Intermountaln livestock show at Chi cago. Old settlers add canal companies on Bl Lost river representing a large acreage of bind located below the Mackav dam, have applied to the stale commissioner of reclamation for the formation of am Irrigation district, The Journal Supported the Bill to Abolish Capital Punishment in Oregon The Oregon law abolixhlng capital punishment wis enacted In 1!14 by vote of the people. In the five yesrs preceding I914j 5! commitment for murder were made to the Oregon penitentiary. 1 under death penalty, 41 for life imprisonment. During the five years subsequent to 1914, 36 prisoners were committed to the Oregon ;pnltentlary for mur der. In other Iwords. under the law forbidding capital punishment there were 2i fewer Commitments for mur der than durlnft an equal period be fore capital punishment was abol ished. The bill abolishing capital punish ment was one ot the measures sup ported vigorously ' by The Journal. The question pf policy which gov erns the elimination of the death penalty as a punishment for crime is whether capital punishment Is a deterrent to rsurder. To Judge by (he record, capital punishment is not a deterrent to murder. Viewed from the standpoint .that criminals are im prisoned to reform them rather than to take upon them a legal vengeance in the name of society, capital pun ishment Is abhorrent and unnatural In a civilized community. The repeal of Oregon's antl-cspltal punishment law Is soon to be voted on. Judging by the statistical rec ord aqd the reformatory purpose of punishment, the antl-capltal puntah ' ment law shoe Id stand. ' ' -, , ' 1 i " i i t I j 1 i t