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i THE OREGON SUNDAY, JOURNAL, . PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1920.
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Tta heaven alone that ia giren away;
"lis only God may be bad for .the Mains;.
':: James Russell Lowell.
OUR NEGLECTED SCHOOLS
DO YOU- know that Oregon Is ona
of a very few states In America
that levies no direct tax for support
of th elementary schools T
In the state of Washington every
pupil receives $20 from the state and
110- from the! county, a total of $30.
In Oregon each, pupil receives $ 10 from
the county arid $1.83 from the irreduc-.
ible school fund, a total of $11.85. It
Is not at pleasing thought for an Ore
gon' citizen. " .
Our plan of supporting the common
schools la crude, imperfect and hap
hazard. The elementary schools must
rely mainly upon voluntary special
taxes. Nearly 70 per cent of the fund
for this purpose, is raised by special
levy in the school district. That means
that property not organized Into a
school district pays "little for support
of the schools, and there are millions
of dollars worth of such property. It
also means' that school districts which
do not mike ..local school levies, do
practically nothing for support of the
schools. ".-', f i ': . : f :.;
"In Benton county there are Beven
such districts with a property valua
tion of $1 ,300,000. . In Linn county
there are four such districts with" a
property" valuation .of $1,470,000. In
.Marion 'county there are '15 such dis
tricts with a property valuation of
$3,560,000. In only one or, two coun
ties in the entire state dcV all the school
districts"' provide - local levies for
schools, and in many of these the levy
Is but one mill, -' -
The onlj way these various classes
of property which escape a special
school tax can be made to do their
share in support of the public school
system is by a general tax.;
. All these various classes of prop
erty owe a duty to the state. Byt com
mon" consent and ny every moral con
sideration all property owes its share
towards the suppoVt of schools. An
tnlightened citizen' body is the best
and ; strongest guarantee; of ' property
rights. Remembering that many mil
lions worth of this property is owned
by non-residents, much of it by
wealthy absentee Individuals, or cor
porations, the importance of the school
levy Is doubly manifest these absen-
, tee owners have the benefit of the
state's protection of their property,
have the benefit of j that larger pro
tection which comes through the pub
lio schools, and it is -their duty and
ought to be their privilege through a
general levy to pay-for that-benefit.
' AH this means that we have been
neglectful of our elementary schools,
and as a result of that neglect, we
have, reached a crisis. . There Is not
sufficient money to pay teachers." In
the face of the high cost of - living
w'j uui rctuivB uuugn compen
sation to keep soul and body together,
and are being driven by hundreds and
"thousands from the profession: In
over 500 Oregon schools the teacher
' is paid about $18 a week with em
ployment only eight months in the
year. In 560 schools they , are paid
$20 a week with employment , only
eighit months in the year.'- Their aver
age : yearly compensation -In such 'dis
tricts is around $600, against $5 and
.$ a day, for common labor and $3 and
$10 a day for the skilled trades.
. In consequence 100 Oregon districts
went without schools last year. And
Jn hundreds of schools Inexperienced
persona s who were, because; of the
shortage r of - teachers, permitted to
teach by issuing them temporary per
mits. Many or them, after-months in
Ihe .work.owere unable to pass the
, tegular teacher's examination. ,
.With a continued exodus of experi
enced teachers from the schools, ac
tually driven from the ranks by starv
ation salaries, no , less ah authority
thaq estate - Superintendent Churchill
asserts that unless something Is done
at once at least 800 Oregon schools
will! be teacherleBS the coming year.
It Is a deplorable prospect, and' should
be a resistless appeal to the people
of Oregon t pass the millage bill for
support of ' elementary schools.
Paul V. Maris, who has been made
director of extension at Oregon Ag
rlcultural college, is an Oregon boy.
trained lni Oregon, ' Intimately ac
quainted with Oregon' rural needs,
and the product of an ' exam pi set
by a -public spirited father.
WASTEFUL AMERICA ,
"Tl IE, overall uprising througiout
vl the United States is more' than a
passing fancy. It is not the product
of a fly-by-night mind, but is a sober
protest., from a beleaguered public
against a reported Increase of i77 per
cent" in the price of clothing. The
mo4e 4s significant In that It visual
jzesj.the temper of the mass of Amer
ican people toward prevailing . condi
tions. . It is a warning to those re
sponsible for the Increase that if they
press the people too , hard the worm
will turn. ' ' ; '.' ,
0 Tjie f. department of Justice may
projBecute a few ' profiteers. After
extensive and : costly investigations
andj court proceedings they may send
sonie to JaiL , But Jn the end the so
lution of our Hying costs lies with
the public' itself. If there is no de
mand for merchandise, merchandise
canhot be sold. And when there is no
market the .price . cannot well be
boosted. On the contrary all rules of
economics demand that It decline. 1
If instead of purchasing two new
suits, one is bought and an old one
patched, the prie of suits will fall.
If, ilnstead of usingv two lumps of
sugar,r only one Is consumed, the de
mand Is lessened and the cost droos.
Wifh decreasing expenditures to each
Individual,! h's wages - go farther to
ward providing the necessaries of life,
andf when j he can work for a lesser
wage the I cost of production Is re
duced. , If the Individual demands less
and makes what he gets go farther,
projduction will rapidly tend to meet
demand on common ground. . I
America j is noted as a nation of
waiters, Throughout Europe this
countryi is advertised as a land " of
prodigals. ) Americans tire of the old
and derpand the new. The garbage
can and! old clothes basket teem with-
proldigallity. Clothes are not worn out
and the plate is half filled at. the Con
clusion of, a meal. We do not em
ploy uuuiies to ine ruiiest acgree.
wastei
1 There is enough In America for us
all. There is fertile land, there is up-to-date
ihachineryi and there Is labor;
A full day's work by every Individual
in the processes of production and
ai elimination Of waste, will: provide
Americans; with -an abundance at a fair
price.
ews reports -". tell ' tis that New
York gasped with the exhibitionof
calico hosiery that has been or
dained as the season's style. There
are people who will doubt authen-i
ticity oi the article.. They will not
believe that anywilng ean make blase
Gotham ganp. '
A SERVANT OF MAN
GDMPRESSED air has taken a place
I in industry whiclv is startling. Its
achievements range from the pave
ment-cutting job on a Portland street
to .the riveting of the bolts on a steam
ship that will Carry the name of Port
land as bvIder around the earth.
. The Corinth waterway to Athens, a
constructions feat classed next to the
cutting of Ihe Panama canal, has walls
that; tower high above, the ships that
pass! through it. Without compressed
air it would sdarcely have been possi
ble to accomplish the titanic rock cut
ting jrecjuired, v; . ,r T -
Compressed air as the. motive power
for drillsj helps take tha; silver out
of iCexican mines. It Is used lii min
ing! nitrate of - lime in Norway The
sunken battle cruiser Leonardo de
Vinci pride of the Italian navy, was
raised from 'the bottom of the harbor
of . Taranto ' By the power of com-,
pressed air.' VI : . ' -j. ,
Hoists, mining machinery, even lo
comotives, are operated by use of com
pressed, air. A splendid feat rendered
possible by compressed air was re
ported a short time ago" from Coeur
d'Alene district in Idaho. : Two men
were entombed by a rock slide In a
mine, j A diamond drill forced by com
pressed air, , dut through GO feet of
solid rock, reaching the chamber In
whichj they were confined in 15 hours.
A pipe was pushed down the drill
hole jand through It were poured
"water and soup for the .prisoners.
jNext came many yards of soft silk
material to wrap around their bodies
for warmth. Metal receptacles less
than two inches in diameter - were
filled with chopped meatsvegetables
and fruit' and lowered to the men.
Then another cut.was made but of
size sufficient to permit the -miners
to escape. They were rescued after
they had been entombed 14 days.
Where- there Is one smile, there
is apt to be two, or. more.
JUNIOR BUSINESS MEN
JUNIOR chambers of commerce, have
been organized Iny a number of
states A" few are successfully -operating
-Sn s cities, like.l. Louis. . An
effort is being inadeto establish an
Oregon Junior State Chamber 'of Com
meroe.7 5 ' , . .
;.Very", logically. Its offices are main
tained .1n connection with? the State
Chamber of Commerce. ; Membership
is confined to student bodies of col
legiate or secondary rank,- i ? h ,-. ,t
Certain ideas govern the (Organiza
tion. 1 Youths who expect to enter
business life find that membership In
the! Junior chamber of commerce gives
them opportunity, to form acquaint
ance with those who are active in
merchandising and manufacturing and
who represent a considerable employ
ing power. Thus friendly acquaint
ance aids the step from training to
ork. The novitiate is familiarized
with elements of business 'practice
tjfat are not and cannot be written
into text books. He learns, for In
stance, that Jf employed practically,
certain old words like, energy, loyalty,
persistence, v honesty, optimism, cour
age and character, hold content of
power to reach the goal? of success
that corresponds to the live steam
wliich propels the. locomotive.
Through the same contact, the youth
gains the knowledge that effort for
personal gain must always be sup
plemented by a certain proportioning
of energy in community service. It
Is never enough to work for one's
self only. Broad opportunity for per-,
sonal achievement exists only in a
community where conditions are made
favorable for anyone wh'o applies
ability and proper plan, j . ,-. j
The Junior chamber of commerce,
if fostered,' will be. of real value to
junior business men and women, who
soon enough will be seniors in enter
prise'.! ,
HEALING THE SICK
TbHE annual review Of work accom-
plished by a beneficent agency,
the Visiting Nurse association, has
brought to light the little known fact
that during the past yCar 197 rejected
and discharged tuberculosis soldiers
have been under the care of the nurses
of the association. . f !
These men ; have been helped not
only on the pato to returning health
but In - their plans for the future.
Nursing and advisory: visits to others
Afflicted with the white - plague are
made throughout Portland. The city
has been divided into six districts and
a nurse assigned to each. Two nurses
are in attendance at the tuberculosis
tllnid of free dispensary; two after
noons each week and one at the
Neighborhood Jlouse dispensary an
afternoon each ivveek.
Sub-stations have been opened In
connection witf the branch- libraries
at St. Johns acjd Arleta. Those who
are sick and unable to pay for nurs
ing care have jreely received service
from the association. Even young
mothers who ned the instruction have
had training in keeping their babes
welL . j " - - - :'
Work of this kind commands - its
owiT approval. ) ' : ;
WHERE QUARRELS CEASE
THE Seattle Times says: '
Whatever -may be done in the way
of irrigation development in this, Bection
the Pacific Northwest must originate.
. To do anything aleng this line,
there must be organization. No single
state can expect to make much prog
ress. The united efforts of all states In
the Pacific Northwest will be required
to assure success. In a campaign of this
kind Seattle must and would
cooperate. - ';
The suggestion from the Times may
be Inspired by knowledge of plans to
promote Irrigation in the Pacific
Northwest. Or It may be based upon
the conviction that such organization
should exist, j : I ' .
This is sure : Portland will Join with
Seatfle, with Spokane, with Tacoma
and with the smaller communities of
Oregon, Idaho and Washington in be
sieging the gates of the national capi
tal for appropriations to advance Ir
rigation anywhere in thel three, states.
There is no competition, - between
Northwest communities when it comes
to the support of irrigation. :
'A Chicago negro recently served
one of the shortest prison sentences
ever Imposed. J For tampering with
his wife's mail he was sentenced to
serve 25 seconds. Many people will
say 25 seconds Is 1 long enough to
stay in - jail.; ! ! , : '
FOR CROOK AND CURRY
UPON the special election ballot in
May appears "a proposed consti
tutional amendment. It is known as
house joint'repolution No. 7. Its pur
pose is to give Crook and Curry coun
ties an opportunity to fund their .war
rant indebtedness. 1 If the amendment
should be enacted at the coming elee
tion the bonding measures would ap
pear on the local ballots of Crook
and Curry counties at the general elec
tion in "November.
In the judgment
of County Jjidge
N. G. Wallace of Crook county, who
says that he Is not informed as to
conditions In Curry county, the suc
cess of tle measure is ja "life , and
death proposition for Crook." i
When Jeff erso county was formed
out of Crook in 1914. the county judge
explains, the mother county was
forced to assume all the; warrant In
debtedness, about $150,000. This debt
was reduced to $100,000 in two years,
but in 1916 Deschutes county wai
formed - out . of I Crook, giving to the
new county 62 per cent of the taxable
values and the current revenues and
leaving; to , Crook county j 38 per cent
of -the taxable values and $100,000 of
debt.'; Judge (Wallace continues: : j
i We were forced, of . course, 'to abide
by the ft per cent limitation, and for this
reason we t cannot levy taxes sufficient
to pay running expenses and evr-n Inter
est on our indebtedness. Under the pres
ent law it Is simply impossible for any
set of men to .handle our affairs so "as
to maintain our government- and pay off
these warrants. - We are now paying C
I er cent on warrants 'and these warrants
, are discounted at least & per cent,, the
discount, I bf course, made up by laereaa
ing price on labor and material fur
niahwd the County. You might say, why
not vote an .excess levy and retire these
warrants? fBut- with a 15,000,000 tax
toll an extra levy of $100,00 would be
ruinous.- '" :. f I i .
It. Is clear that Crook county has
been placed in a most difficult posi
tion through no fault j in public ad
.ministration but purely incident to
that growth and development - of a
largely agricultural district which re
sults in Hie , dividing f of one large
county - Into several smaller counties.
Crook county faces an emergency.
The w-arrant funding bill Is an emerg
ency measure. For any ordinary sit-1
uation it j probably would ; deserve
criticism." tBut it. takes an emergency
measure to meet an emergency.
NEWSPAPER MAKING
BILL before the New York legis
lature provides a heavy penalty
those: who . knowingly furnish
for
newspapers with false Information for
publication! . . j . v
The ; bill! hit al the root of what
some people believe is wilful newspa
per '! -misrepresentation. Papers are
frequently criticised for errors and
there are 'people who declare "that
they don's believe anything they read
In the papers."
The public generally fails to realize
that editors are compelled to separate
the true "from the false in a very few
minutes. They are called .upon to
pass on scores of ; articles In a short
time because of the very great ele
ment of sp'eed in the news world. And
they are forced to! pass judgment on
news vvhich In practically every in
stance! conies front an outside source.
Papers do not manufacture news.
The source is with men who are do
ing thing?. They; are authority for
the article, and if. incorrect informa
tion is given reporters, unless on its
face it is questionable, there is little
opportunity for investigation. It is
the dispenser jof news that makes the
error, not the newspaper which at
tempts to give the public all the news
within a jfew minutes after its ap
pearance, j ,. '
On the other hand, it is marvelous
that so few! errors are made, so! few
facts questioned. Hundreds upon
hundreds Of stories are printed with
out an error. Seldom it is that in all
the quotations, and in all the presen
tations of parlous facts, that the news
paper is incorrect. A surprisingly low
percentage) of errors Is foiind, even
though a newspaper, like every other
establishment, must depend on the
human element. .'".-, I :r '
There are papers that make little
effort, to find the truth. There are
papers that wilfully .misrepresent or
misinterpret. There are papers that
distort facts and color the ; news to
suit their own j purposes. ' But the
great body' of respectable and con
servative - hewsjpaper4 ; in America
make every effort possible to supply
the news' "without addition or sub
traction, without interpretation or
taint. !' .;" ;.J, y
The New York bill f wlir aid those
papers in combatting those : who dis
seminate misinformation. --.
We are til 4 that in a caucus of
Republican ihouse leaders, no agree
ment 'could pe reached on the bonus
bill. ; And this la
the trouble:
bis group pf reactionaries In the
outfit want jthe tax Imposed, not on
the big fortunes made out of the
war, ; jbut jon the whole people
through a tax on sales of goods. The
progressive j wing of the j majority
party oppose that plan and the rer
suit is disagreement. The division
Is hopeless and It will probably re
sult In ' n6 j bonus at. this session.
There -1- is as, much disagreement
amcjng the .'two groups of Repabli
cans as there is between the reac
tionary group and the Democrats.
And there is as wide a gulf between
the reactionary Republican group
and the progressive Republican
group now as there was in the great
party split of 1912. And that is
very largely the reason why . the
present congress is a do-nothing con
gress. ' .' : r: . .
WASTE NOT. WANT . NOT
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EXCEPT .in Thibet, where they
never wash, it is the cus
tom of ' all; enterprising - housewives
in the spring of the year to clean
house. Dingy woodwork is renovated.
The dust of winter is sent hurrying
beyond windows and doors. Father
takes dirt fron the carpet and blisters
from the1 handle of the carpet beater.
Rubbish of jail; kinds is Cleared out.
Secretary of. Commerce Alexander
says:..; --:: -':'!-''; . ! .;-
. The Jiousewives will, in cleaning out
the house, throw away or burn great
quantities of; waste. The lessons learned
during the war should not be forgotten t
let it be borne5!!! mind that the reciamaf
tion of waste Is a problem wiich ia not
only fitted for war tunes but for the
times of peace as well. . The argument
thai may.be advanced from time to time
that the utilisation of waste- material- in
times other than war is not necessary
is fallacious, because It is very essential
that some means of offsetting the high
sost of living be found.
Do not wastej waste but turn It back
into -the : channels - of commerce, i You
will be surprised at the tidy little sum
of mbney that can be derived by turning
overv all character ot old paper,': rags,
rubber, metals and other odds and-ends
tr the junk dealers "Who will In turn
start this waste back Into useful trades.
It has been estimated that the value
of unreclaimed waste material through
out the United States in the form of pa
per, rubber, metals and soforth Is about
500,000,000. Fully 0 per cent of this
material can be reclaimed through the
proper efforts, i ,
The suggestion is good not because
It comes from . the secretary of com
merce, but because It Is good econ
omy when even scraps represent high
first costs worthy o a salvaging effort..-
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Letters' From the People
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publication ia UUa dnartment ahoukl be written
cn only one tide levf lb paper, rlicuid nut eiceed
80O worda in lrnrth anJ smut be aicned by tbe
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paay Um contribution,!
WHEN LEAGUERS COME.
Portland. April 24. To the Editor of
The Journal permit me first of all to
thank you for the extremely fair attitude
you have , taken in the series of edi
torials entitled ."When Leaguers Coma"
So far aa I know, and I have the testi
mony of the national organiser of the
league ; fci i corroboration, they are tbe
fairest, most sensibl arid . best state
ments yet made by ainy big daily as to
the work and aims of that most remark
able organization, . jthe" Non-partisan
league. - j .-
- In such a lot of good things It would
be a miracle if there were not at least
one that did not seen so good. r I refer
to the assumption tiat seems ' to run
through the editorials that "rule by the
efforts of the league would be class
rule. ! I say to you What you have al
ready said : "Oregon oday suffers from
an ;J aggravated case of class rule." But
the farmers Of North Pakota are as free
from class prejudice as any people that
live. For two months! I was their guest,
meeting them from governor down, and
In all that time I heard not one word of
class hatred. That is 1 not their, attitude
at all. These good leaguers are too busy
trying to save the country to have any
time to, waste in hatei of anybody. But
they; all do see clearly. Out of a sad
experience, ; that men! who live by the
toil of others are not and .cannot be
leaders In the regeneration of society.
They have a truism: "A -man who pros
duces noting but lives by manipulating
that which another produces is not
moral." ;They do .not say immoral,- but
rather dismoral having no moral qual
ity whatever. These men cannot lead to
Justice, , because they- would not know
Justice lf l they were' to meet her in the'
road. Hence, feeling this, the leaguers
have a high moral, sense of patriotic ob
ligatfon to sav the country all the
country, inot merely their own interests
in- it, as do those who decry j them.1
-The class war Is from the class now
In : power. In North Dakota well, I
did riot know, that mendacity and hate
could go so far as I read andj heard from
the, men? who . were being - pulled loose
from; their years-old hold on the public
crib. ! The same thing, is rtovsi being done
here, just as you have pleaded that they
do not do, as witness the attitude of the
State Taxpayers league. Did they dis
cuss the merits, of the program? Not a
bit of it. They yelled "anarchist." "social
ist," "Bolsheviki,' and tried to stir up a'
personal feud. Then, under . cover of
Good Brother Pierce,' with hie little two
session side ehow -which, by the way,
they all despise," both- the mart and the
side show they have sent out their little
hired prevaricator, one Foster, a real es
tate and bankers' agent of iNorth Da
kota, disguised as a farmer, with his
eilly stories' that have been exploded
,time after time. The class jwar cannot
be avoided, because the present control,
who will fight for; their pickings,! are
themselves at - war' with j Justice in
society, : -i ';:-; i ; -.,
I see one gf your correspondents is
"all het up" over the enorrrious profits
the league officers make. Permit me Just
a word as to that. The failure of for
mer labor action has always een due to
lack of funds, so the league wisely fixed
the dues high enough at $18 so there
is ammunition for the guns. This money,
however Is not absorbed by Mr. Town
ley. He gets $3000 a! year for services
which, if a railroad were to employ a
man for like service, would cost at
least $10,000. Let me recite" a bit of his
tory : In the how- famous trial of Town
ley vs. North Dakotaj for more than a
month in th federal court' more than a
score of his and the reague's ' enemies
tore Into league records to find misap
propriated or misused; funds, and found
not one cent. Every cent was accounted
for without profit to any official. Here Is
the way the money la appropriated : Of
the $18 dues, $4 goes to the national
league and Js paid for by the subscrip
tion to th national Leader and .the local
Leader, by the subscriber. ' Fourteen
dollars cornea back to the state enrolling
the member and is there divided between
f the state and county committees for
work at home. If your correspondent!
can get any graft out of this h is wel
come to it. j
Your plea for business .to get busy
with, justice before the league gets here
In July -is fine. I glory in It. But It;
is quite futile, because the men you ap-j
peal to. if they dealt Justly with thtj
producer and laborer,; would eliminate
themselves from the game, and thai)
thing they will never do until they ard
chopped off by the farmer and worker
taking the game in hand themselves. I
1 vl --- ' F. E. Coulter.'
MRS. HIDDENS PUBLIC SERVICES
Portland, April 30.---TO the Editor of
The Journal- The hosts of friends ; of
Mrs. Maria L. Trenholm-HIdden have
for some time been looking up the rec
ord of her many activities j in public
service. In view of the fact that she is
a candidate at large for the Democratic
national convention at San ) Francisco.
Mrs..; Hidden became interested in edu
cational and humanitarian, work while
,-et.very young, organising the Vermont
i.qual Suffrage association, and was
lectea its first president. . She was a
o-worker with Julia Ward Howe, Mary
itvermore, l.ucy stone.' and others. She'
poke frequently , at Tremont temple
Eioston, and in many other places with
he pioneers of the cause., She has been
instrumental in helping to secure suf
frage in three separate states, and . has
been honored by -election to offices t of
leadership throughout her life. She has
always possessed -I the courage of her
convictions, regardless of public opinion
or support.
She has been a
for over 80 years. ;
she organized the
resident of the West
In Vancouver, Wash.,
Jirst missionary so
- also the : first wom
Ciety In that city
an's club, now known as the Atheneum,
and later the .-. Vancouver ' Woman's
Club ; also the Cemetery association.
Mrs. Hidden was also a director of the
Vancouver school board.- After coming
to Portland she was appointed state
commissioner to the exposition at Buf
falo, N, Y., and waa selected by the
equal suffragists to -represent Oregon at
the national convention in Philadelphia
In 1912, where she spoke before an im
mense audience in the Academy of Mu
sic, the largest auditorium in the United
States, and was most enthusiastically
received. She represented the . women
of Oregon at the Progressive council in
Chicago in 1912, under the leadership ef
Theodore Roosevelt. She is the sole
woman In Oregon - who was personally
invited to attend the Wilson notification
meeting at Shadow Lawn, - : .vv.
Mrs Hidden - has been ' actively con
nected with the W. C. T. U. jBlnce' 1878,
and has during" that time held various
offices of state secretary, organiser, lec
turer and county and local president,
and is at -present state superintendent
of Christian cittrenshlp lor this organi
sation. She Is also president ; of the
Progressive : , Women's - league. " state
chairman of the committee on political
science of the Pederatton ' of Women's
clubs, . and president -of ' . the . Oregon
League of Women Voters,-one of our
most successful clubs.
In the midst of all these activities
Mrs. Hidden has. reared a family of
children to honorable places in the 'world
and always looked well to the ways of
her household.
Voters of either sex can -consclen-
THE RECOLLECTION
By Percy ifysshe Shelley '-
WE wandered to the pine! forest : .
That skirts the ocean's foam;
The lightest wind was in Its nest,
The tempest in its home.
The whisperjrio;, waves were half asleep,
The clouds were Rone to play.
And on the bosom of the deep -- '
Th smile of Heaven lay; '
It seemed as H the hour wtre one
Sent from beyond the kies, ;
Which scattered from above the sun
A light of Paradise.
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How calm it was! the silence there "..
. By such a chain was bound. . ?
That even the busy woodpecker '
Made stiller by her sound
The inviolable quietness;
r The breath of peace, we drew
With its soft motion made not less
' The calm that round us crew.
There seemed from the remotest seat
' Of the white mountain waste, i "
To the soft flower beneath our .feet,
A magic circle traced. i
'--:""-; i. -..-: ' ' -
There lay the glade
And threugh the dark green wood
The white sun twinWlmj like the dawn
Out of a- speckled cloud.
Sweet views which in our world above
Can never well be seen. ' ;
- Were imaged by the
'Of that fair forest
And all was interfused beneath
' i . With ah. elysian glow.
An atmosphere without a breath.,
t A softer day below."
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Extra? Tommy Finnegan has done It!
It really was expected, but it happened
rather suddenly at that, and accounts
for the fact that Finnepran is absent
from'his post as cashier at the Portland
hotel ) for . two days. He was married
Saturday morning-.! in: commemoration of
May day, to 'Miss Mae. Girk of, Portland.
He wore his best suit of clothes and only
omitted celebrating with a straw hat be
cause rain threatened. T. L. and Mrs.
Finnegan -will take up their residence at
Jennings Lodge, for the summer at least.
Thus does woe come to the bride, asso-.
elates of the Beau Brummel.of the Port
land staff say, for Finnegan. was never
on time anywhere in his life until- the
morning, he; was married, and the Job of
getting him to work on time from as far
away as Jennings Lodge will be next to
Impossible. Someone sent Tommy a rose,
and all the other Oreeters In Oregon
have extended their congratulations..
J. E. Richter, deputy In the office of
the singing sheriff, John Orr, of ; Polk
county, is stopping at Sthe New Perkins
while visiting in the city. Richter ad
mits he does not come to Portland to es
cape the songs of the sheriff, because
Orr is said never to sing while on duty.
President J. H. Ackerman. of the Mon
mouth State Normal school Is a guest at
the Seward hotel. Mr. Ackerman has
been speaking la different places In sup
port of the millage tax for higher educa
tion and -is of the opinion' that the pro
posal will meet with the decided 'ap
proval of the voters, "kv- ' .- ,
i Mrs. ; Christmas is at the Cornelius
hotel, jit ; appears that the Christmas
home is at Roseburg, where Mrs. Christ
mas is: associated with L. J. Christmas
in the conduct of the official household.
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Charles A. Johns, Fred A. WilTiams
and J.' O. RIcharison are members of
the official family of the state of Oregon
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
" OF 'THE JOURNAL M AN
By-Fred
' In tbia necond iand eoncluillng lnatallment
Mr. Ixwkley Quote ij. TV. KoberMon Scott aa
h dlarottrsea of hla efforta durin the srrat
war to affect political nndentandlnc on the part
of Japan in relation to the factum in that great
conflict, and of hie present parpone to enliitt
aupport for an undertaking of permanent nature,
with enduring undemanding between the Far
Eaiit and the Occidental peoples aa Ita ob
jective. J 1 .- ,1 -. -' . .1:
"It was through my interest in jural
questions that I went out ! to the Far
East." said J. W. Robertson Scott of
London and Toklo. "I- was visiting in
Rome that curious combination of busi
ness ; man and : minor . prophet, David
Lubin, at his wonderful international
Institute of Agriculture. linoticed that
there was not in existence in English
any work on thj agriculture of Japan,
except a book, remarkable In Its way,
which attempts to survey, after a very
short trip, the -agriculture, not only of
Japan but of China and Korea,' in a sin
gle small volume. So, believing that the
war was going to last longer than was
commonly supposed, I decided to go out
to Japan and prepare a careful volume
on its agriculture. I felt that such a
book, though It would cost very much
more than I should ssver jet for it.
would be a serviceable piece of war
work. It would furnish, in the first
place, an account of one "of the most
remarkable peasant farming systems In
the world ; In the ; second place.- it
would bring home- to Western readers
the fact that, in dealing . with Japan,
they are not dealing merely with a vic
torious Japanese army and navy, or with
a successful mercantile marine, but with
a nation mainly consisting of farmers,
for about four out of every five Japa
nese may be considered to i be more or
lss on the land. My notion waa to follow-
up this book on small farming by
coming to America to prepare a con
trasting volume on the farming of the
Middle West, r ' ; " V
"I went to Japan and for about a year
lived largely in the rural districts. Jour
neying from one end of the country to
the other and several times across it.
Because I was not a diplomat, a mission
ary or a merchant, with anything to urge,
recommend or sell, but -obviously a trav
eler who was spending his money in a dis
interested attempt to ; Improve interna
tional relations, I had the opportunity
ot .seeing rural Japan from the) inside.
I received the confidence of those who
were devoting themselves to rural prog
ress. Japanese agriculture Is, of course,
particularly interesting, In . that it is at
once so old and so .new ; for the! Japa
nese, being, like the ancient Greeks, al
ways looking for some new thing, have
taken marvelously , to modern agricul
tural science, and yon find this very
latest and the very oldest method hand
In hand. Unfortunately, this progres
sive agriculture and this life Of real
Japan are what the tourist seldom sees
anything of ; his days are given te sight
seeing, and a most agreeable holiday,
but he rarely comes in contact with the
Japan-: which is the backbone- of the
country,, The true picture of Japan is
of a Japanese farmer up to hie) knees
in his paddy field, with the army and
navy and all the. other things that the
tiously cast a" ballot for Mrs. Hidden, I has a logical right to - expect iecognl
but it -isv from her sister-women that she I tion. ' - Marian D, Merry.
and neiKhboring lawn
water's love
green.
stopping at the Hotel Oregon over the
week erid. Johns (is an anoi iate Justice
of the state supreme icourt. Williams is a
member of the , public service commis
sion arM Richardson is , assistant state
treasurer. j
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Marie Sommersj private stenographer
for Manager Caintibell at the Multnomah
hotel, left Friday for Indianapolis, In'd..
over the Northern pacific. Miss Ho ai
mers will remain: In the Fasti about a
month, enjoying a vacation with her par
ents, who live in Indianapolis, j .
s a e
Ray Clark, publicity director at the
Multnomah hotel,? Is conducting an edu
cational campaigtij among hotel employes
through the Mulinomah Review, house
orgkn of which he) is editor. In the
current issue he devotes much space to
a presentation; of facts Multnomah em
ployes should know -about Portland and
gives pertinent statements about the
city's civic and commercial condition.
i "
Mr. and Mrs. Dell Walker of KIroy.
Wis., are stopping; at: the Cornelius hotel,
where Manager j Fletcher is . pressing
them into service, to tell him all about
the modern affairs of the community in
.which he was reared and about which
he has heard j all too little since those
happy days. r i
T. P. MacKeniie.l; formerly assistant
district forester ijin charge pf grsslng
at Portland, who is now commissioner
of grazing for British Columbia, Is in
the city discussing methods of coopera
tion between j Canada and tne unltea
States regarding grazing problems.
Supervisor W. :F. Ramsdell of Rose
burg Is in Portland discussing with Dis
trict Forester George Cecil and District
Engineer P., H. pater matters of road
Work in the j tTmpqua national forest.
Discussion of ; the money available and
where it wiU be spent is in progress.
, . . ,r e ....-,.
E. E. Wade, assistant general passen
ger agent of the Southern Pacific at San
Francisco. arrive in Portland Saturday
for a brief visit $t the local general of
fices of the Southern Pacific.
Lockley
world associates .with modern Japan
borne on his back.
e a .
"After about' a year, as I sayr of this
most interesting rural investigation, its
further progress 'was arrested by a re
quest by my countrymen -that 1 should
drop my study of rice and daikon (the
giant radish of Japan) and do something
a - a writing man to get the Japanese
to : understand that- the Germans were
not going to win the war. The ordinary
kind of propaganda, made no appeal to
me, I need not say, ": and f I had some
share in destroying some j propagandist
stuff of the kind of which every nation
Is now rather ashamed, What I did see
was possible was to run. during the
war at least, some sort of a monthly
periodical which should try to Interpret
the best of the West to th East, and at
the same time one hand washing the
other, as the old Boer president, Kruger,
used to say expound to the sadly Ignor
ant West some basic facts about the Far
Fast. So I was enabled to; start a
magazine, about the ! size of World's
Work, which I ran to the close of lpit.
1 "The extent to which tbe Japanese arer
customers for reading matter about the
West is little understood. It was re
cently reported that last year, one Jap
anese book shop expected to sell 10,000
copies of the weekly edition of a London
Journal, and I met., the other day, an
American author who writes on histori
cal subjects, and his publisher had an
'order for 1200 copies of his last book
from the same store. Therefore the pic
ture of the West that we presented,
with the cooperation of many distlnr
gulshed Westerii writers including, . by
the way Bernard Fhaw was found to
be extremely acceptable, and when, we
stopped we discovered that our attempt
to approach Asiatic problems from a
sympathetic point of view had been ap
preciated In many -parts of . Asia. We
put on the magazine as our motto 4
quotation from my first leader: Th
real barrier between East and West is
distrust of .each other's morality an
the illusion that .the distrust is on on
Bide, only time, great liberality, o;
mind ana continuous effort can brea!
this barrier down,'
- -.- . -.-; . - .-.-
"On "Our announcing the termination o
i the periodical, I celt greatly ehcourag
wnen rrom umna., inaia, ,iava ana ai
sorts of out of the way places In Asi
offers. of financial help were tendere
if my wife and I would remain in Japa
ana mane tne eirort to publish a per
manent periodical ' which should en
deavor to provide Asia with what i
badly needs a political and literary r
view of interpretation. : Obviously thi
meant that th completion of my boo:
on which I had spent a year's labor an
a great deal of money, would be furthe
postponed, . but the response which ' ha
been obtained through our Journalistic
effort and the' need for a permanent
periodical as an agency In abating th
misunderstandings which are so likely
to-lead to trouble between East and West
was so patent that I conceived the idea
of the Asiatic Monthly, It is in connect
tion with the starting of this review thai
I am at present in the United States."
. Chicago Hears of
the Barrel
And. the Already Klih Offer to
Rent Their Palace , to the
! i -Opulent Conventlonrr.
From the New York World.
A novelty in pre-convention news . Is
the report that wealthy women known to
Chicago society are listing their hous
tor rental for the rive days covert ns tii
stay .of tlie Republican hosts. The prices
range from $100 to $60- day.
When the hotels are prophetically
full and there is talk of icrharelng $lo a
day far a single room, ii cannot be s.-tld
that these- rates are dUsproportloiti-te.
True. $3000 would have boupht a urn.tll
house in the days v. htn juioo wmild
have bought a small house, but a woman
does not care to have her Oriental rii.
tracked full of cTar ashen for notbliiR.
Besides, "what the traffic will bear-' is
a Chicago maxim.
It .is probably the accumulating ev
idence that the traffic will boar this yewr
a stiff tariff that lias brouRht Uiese of
fers to the atteiitinn of tlit? real (state
agents. ; Chicago women vote now for
prestrteptiat electors, and if they h.ive
got the notion thnt there HreMiarrels of
money on the way.' thnt th hearts art'
mashed in With an axe ami tho lad'es
gererously big. It's more than half likely
that they are right. .
It, has been some years siinc there M as
a giKxl old Mark Hnnna fall ttf manna
from the' sklr-s,: but the si(?i sire propi
tious. It looks aH If the shrewd OIiUsuro
women who are offerlnu their houses for
the overflow of convention : scouts mid
camp-followers might Vach Rpf out ot It
th price of"a fair set of summer furs. It
it' not every year that'll national con
vention, even of the Crand t)ld Party of
Prosperity and Property, conies to town
so- well provided with the sinews of Re
trenchment and Refbrni 1
A Song1 of Triumph
By Cyrus It. Walker.
We're proud nN thea, Portland, our fioea City
beautiful:
The mwtropnM! of ojir rommniiwealth rnd!
We bring to. thee our tet. a wiraer dmifni.
Aa by Willametta'a fUwd, "prerleM thou dwi
, atand. -
In fancy I heat acbool belle bera and there
, ringinc,
Svlioola where thoiMandn ot youth will murh
ktiowledgo gain.
Gol grant-they all iiwy liar proper )brinnlng
And dt-Tglop characUir tree I fin all Main.
Beside thy great docks, reiwcU ran be aeen wlt
' ii'g.
To hiail with our prodnrts for far dixant
-lander
Thy wari off all klndi are the hiclieH in rating:
- Thy fame a a ctty among the bevt now taiul.
Quite near to Columbia, to the muln vgrnndlj
flowing, ;
With a channel full deep that would bear
in its title
Tha mightlext teemHhh -of which wa are know
ing. Which traveroa tha wide seas In aafety and
pride.
And thou, Oregon, home of my earliest child
hood, -My
blrthUnd! Now gladly I greet, thee t "All
- . hail!"
For I've wen thee well changed on prairie, in
wiMwcod,
ETum uiui lo -Cbriatiah homes e. rannt
thrilhTg tale.
I'T climbed void Mount Hood to it summit
hoary:
I've.' watched Pacific's billows mil to Jhe
st raSd ;
Of the I'arific Northwest I know full well tbe
ftory.
Ita climate, ita products a higliiy farornd
. land. "
Mora than fourscore years hare' fled; life's well
toward ending.
Murh of it rpent helping to tipllft the farm
Battling for the good and true, with a w.il un
' bending,
; To pra1ice such virtuei will shield friu
. mucn harm.
- '- :
Long tinra have I pased tha tiimmit ef life's
mountains;
My fooute's leea sure; life has a -weaker
hnld; f
But strong i the hupa I'll rent by jiesrcn's
crystal-fmnitaln
When"fely at home in the Oreat rthrpherd'
fold, t
Albany. Or., April 21. 1020.
; !:Uncle Jeff Snow Savs:
....,...
This Idee of wearhV overalls and
Jumpers 'stid of flOtf new suits ain't
nuthln' new fer most of us fellers tliat's
earned some or all of our catin's the last
4(1: year or so bv workln' at noniei. '
mere or less useful. We're plum used to
wearin' old close, too. Nom of us never
has' wo re no other kind, I reckon. liuntirr
.th clothln' trust by'ttmt lueih; d v. i
never got us nowhere worth inentionin'
as ylt.
THE FLpUNDERING M I N 1ST till
frpni tlte Ixnlm Times
- Blr Mackeny.ls Chalmers. thi pariis-mentary-
'draftsman,- spewkin; to
Law society on the drafting and pnscliiK
of acts of parliament, said lie hurl hud
instructions for one Important bill "scrib
bled In pencil on the back of an en
velop,' Ha told a story alioijt a minis-"
ter who was in charge of a sttcond read
ing and who could only make an effec
tive; speech, when It was carefully pre
pared. He got on very nicely until near
the end. when he benati to flounder.
'Haven't you written out his pet ora
tion?" aBkl Sir" Mackenzie of the min
ister's private secretary, "Of course I
did,? was the .reply,- 'but the old Idiot
was: so pleased" with It that he went and
delivered it first, and "now he doesn't
know where he is." I
Introducing' the Copy Reader
- He Puts News Matter
in Shape to Print.
Close up to the editorial guns of
the modern metropolitan newspaper
is the bulwark of the copy desk the
clearing house for all manner of
news, from Hiortji to society, dog
fights to religious revival. This
mass of news matter, which Is gath
ered and written by the reportoriaJ
staff, sent ' In over the wires, con
tributed by laymen, and gleaned from
the ;xchsnsre. paewes over the copy
desk eight hour a day,
From the nature of his employment
the copy reader Is facetiously termed
the ;"copy butcher," because It Is his
duty to cut, shxsh. trim. Interline, and
otherwise "mutilate" copy, if such c
1 Ion Is necessary, to put the article
in proper form for the reader. If
the reporter has neglected to ."bolt
down" his story to conform to the
pace requirements of the day, it H
up to the "copy reader to do It for
rhlm. If the writer makes a tnlstaU':
in spelling, the copy reader Is sup
posed to correct It. If there are er
rors In grammar, wrong usage of
words, or rhetorical . slips, the copy
reader Is charged with the responsi
bility of corrction.
When proper corrections and sub
heads have been provided, the cony
reader Is about half through with hl
labors. , He must write a Jicad Tor
every story, with the encryption f
certain departmental contributions.
Head-writ in Is not an e-xstct s'-iern-e.
like mathematics, except that certs In
sired type will fit a certain hi-adl'mc.
Otherwise afh story bus ltn sepa
rate feature, krid it Is the Job of the
jrood copy reader to pick out thin
feature and express it in the head
line. - Aside from correcting copy as sub
mitted, the copy reader not infre
quently - Is ' required to re-write a
story, or any part of it. to make it
conform to style, features.
To be Continued Monday.)