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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, POR TLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1820.
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BACK TO THE WOLVES
THE name of the United States
alone, as an Armenian mandatory,
would guarantee protection to the
Armenians.
The world highly respects that
. name. Most weak peoples cherish it.
All of them have faith in it.
-- America's action in freeing Cuba
and giving her sovereignty inspired
that faith. Her service to the Philip
- pines increased it. Her remission of
the Indemnity In the Boxer rebellion
. in China heightened it- Her unselfish
service to mankind in the late war
and her colossal power in saving the
allies in that war from defeat, added
admiration to that faith.
The Fourteen Points, that second
g r e a t Emancipation Proclamation,
raised confidence and admiration Into
reverence among . weak nations- and
won the universal respect of powerful
. nations.
The president's appeal to congress
- for authority to undertake the Ar
menian mandatory is a request for
America to accept a trust from civili
zation. It Is a proposal to use the
name of America to protect, guide
and lift to their feet a people whose
sufferings have been indescribable,
; and whose only offense is that they
cling even through butchery and tor
y ture, to the Christian faith and refuse
to accept paganism. That appeal is
on of the most exalted utterances
that ever came out of the American
White House.
But doubtless, the senate will re
Ject It. ; The haughty mandarins of re
action, the stuffed prophets of treaty
ripping, will reject President Wilson's
plea, and. so far as America is con
cerned, abandon Armenia to the
wolves of the Near East. They will
chatter about sending American
armies into those distant fields, when,
in truth, scarcely a soldier would be
required. The untarnished name of
America alone, with all that name
' means to thismodern world, would
be ample for the mandatory. They
will camouflage their refusal in pre
clous chatter about the money cost of
a mandatory when they have spent
all and ; more in "smelling junkets
on the pretense of investigating the
conduct of the war than would be
required to accept the Armenian man-
' date. ,
The very men who committed
America to the Imperial policy of
colonial possessions in the Philippines
and are now keeping armies and
spending fortunes in the islands will
almost certainly refuse the poor boon
of the mandatory over an intellectual
'. and Christian people who have, for
: Christ's sake, suffered the torments
' of the damned through 600 years.
A Chicago man haled into court
for failure to pay alimony to a di
vorced , wife, gave out the inf orma
tion that he had never "kissed her
in his life. In view of his state
ment, it is not altogether extraordi
nary that he refused to forward the
monthly checks. l
WELCOME CANADIANS
THE city of Victoria is to enter a
float in the floral parade of the
coming Portland Rose Festival. The
board ,of trade of Victoria is to send
a float. Another, is to represent the
board of trade . of Vancouver.
The decision of the British Colum
bia cities gives the Rose Festival an
International aspect.! It is not a Port
land festival, an Oregon festival, or
even a Pacific-coast festival, but a
Canadian and American festival.
The decision is also added evidence
,. v , .
of the friendly relations existing be
tween the United States and Canada.
Although divided by an imaginary
boundary line the two countries are
reaching across to accept the hand
of the otherv lThey are not to stand
as divided houses but as one.
The people of Canada and the United
States are people of one tongue, one
purpose. j -
For centuries they have been di
vided, but not a fort or fortress exists
along the 3000 mile boundary. Can
non are not mounted to threaten the
people across the line. Troops with
fixed bayonets are not' ready., to
charge. And when Canada called for
help , in the late war America re
sponded. And when the Canadians
were invited to participate In the Rose
Festival they, accepted. .. . - .
It is evidence of the growing spirit
of mutuality between two peoples of
the ! same color? same creed, and same
aspirations. Welcome, Canadians.
An Oklahoma janitor recently fell
into a $300 j a day income from an
oil well. But he still sticks to the
Janitorship, which, he says, suits
him best. And there you are. He
likes his work. He is doubtless an
excellent Janitor. And he will know
from experience how to husband his
$300 a day. i
NOT FOR HIRAM
t:
1 SHALL vote for Wood In the conven
tion; I am under no obligation1 to
support Johnson nor any other candi
dateWallace McCamant, Republican
delegate at large, in the Oregonian.
I have avoided committing- myself to
any candidate for president in order
that I might be In better position to sup
port the candidate who wins out in the
Oregon primary. Wallace McCamant,
page seven. Voters Pamphlet.
Hiram Johnson won tut "in the
Oregon primary." Since he "avoided
committing myself to any candidate
for president," Judge McCamant is
"in better position to support the can
didate who" won out "in the Oregon
primary."
But "I shall vote for Wood In the
convention,", is the statement at
tributed to i Judge McCamant since
election. "I am under no obligation
to support Johnson even, though hav
fng "avoided committing himself to any
candidate, for president," Judge Mc
Camant Is in better position to sup
port the candidate who won out in
the "Oregon primaries."
1 With his name put on the ballot by
petition Judge McCamant would, but
fbr his statement In the Voter's' Pam
phlet, be free to vote his own choice.
But just how can his refusal to
vote for Johnson be squared with "I
shall be in better position to support
the candidate who wins dtit?" If that
is not a near promise to support the
candidate who wins out," what is it?
I Of course, Judge McCamant feels
that he is helping save the country
ffom the so-called blight of Hiram
Johnson. i ; ! - c ' .
What if. Hiram did carry the state?
What if his supporters in -Oregon did
roll up a plurality in his favor?
Were they not flimflam med and be
trayed by siren voices Into support of
the wily Californian? Must not al
lowance be made for the fact that
they were carried away by their emo
tions and that they were not really
competent to express an intelligent
choice for the great office of presi-
dtent? - f;-.
j The Johnson Republicans in Oregon
hiave a great deal to learn r Tt is nnp.
thing for them to carry Oregon for
their candidate. It is quite another
thing for them to make their will
Judge MaCamant's Will.
And theyj have another thing to
learn: It is one thing to carry the
primaries - for their candidate; it is
quite another thing to deliver the
goods. .. - j
j It is true;that Hiram did break up
tfie railroad, domination of California.
It is true that he helped make Cali
fornia a free state. It is true that he
did inaugurate many reforms in Call
frnia and that, but for his miserable
recora as a treaty : ripper, he would
have an excellent list of achievements
But just the same, there are those in
his party who look upon Hiram as a
bad man from Bodie and upon his
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Cjranmore, ; a town In California,
claims to be the healthiest spot in
theicountry. ; By, way Of proof, it is
shown -that not a single person has
died there since 1863. That must
be the . place for which Ponce De
Leon was in search.
iFROM SPARKS TO BILLIONS
T WAS only a spark from an angler's
icampfire or the cigarette which he
carelessly tossed aside in Tillamook
county a year or so ago that started
a fire that in an hour and 22 minutes
destroyed 1,575,000,000 feet of timber
valued at the stump at 12,150,000.
The slightest bit of though If ulness
would have prevented the destruction
of more than half as much timber as
all ithe mills In Oregon saw in a
year. i
Time after time carelessness has
weakly apologized for the razing of
rorfcsjp by fire and the destruction
of the very beauty and charm that
lured the .thoughtless individual in
among the' trees and upon the streams.
The mills of Oregon are said to saw
4,000,000 feet of lumber a day. They
cut 2,500,000,000 feet in a year. The
daily payroll furnished by the forest
resource is estimated $286,000.
, More than 81,000 men in Oregon and
Washington are engaged in some
phase of the lumbering business. The
annual payroll provided by the for
ests of the. two states aggregates the
tremendous sum of $122,000,000.
- In Oregon, the accepted estimate of
thei unequaled stand of timber is that
it i aggregates 493,000,000,000 feel, of
which 281,000,000,000 feet is privately
owned and 212,000,000,000 feet Is the
estate of the public held in national
forests, the unreserved public domain
and in Indian reservations. :
Of this amount 381,000,000,000 feet is
found west of the Cascade mountains,
Including 234,000 ,000,000 feet Prl"
vately held, 95,000,000,000 feet In na
tional forests and the remaining 52,-
000,000,000 feet in other forms of pub
lic ownership. East of the Cascades
is found 112,000,000,000 feet, of which
47,700,000,000 feet belongs ; to private
owners, 52,000,000,000 feet to the pub-
lie In national forests and 12,000,000,-
000 feet to other forms of public own
ership such as the unreserved pub
lic domain and Indian reservations. -
Great sums are spent each ' year to
protect this tremendously valuable re
source. Private' timber owners used
$352,182 last ? year ; in preventing" and
fighting fires. The United States for
est ; service used $201,617.57 for the
same ; purpose. The state of Oregon
appropriated $54,000 for the biennial
period. From the appropriation of
$100,000 made in the Weeks bill for
the protection of the timber high on
the watersheds of navigable streams
$7000 : was made available to Oregon.
When so much of the timber re
source of the nation Is involved,
when such vast sums are realized
from the lumber industry, when such
amounts are spent to prevent and
fight fire, is it not a remarkable dis
play of generosity and tolerance that
during the season of fires the angler
and the camper are allowed to fol
low the trails of their whims with
merely the admonition:
"Put out your fires when you
leave I"
New York is spending more than
$100,000,000 a month on luxuries
alone, including a king's ransom for
candy and soda fountain drinks. In
two months that city spent $15,000,-
000' on theatre tickets alone. In
New York money is a nuisance.
TWO STAR GAZERS
TWO men were walking south on
Fifth street Saturday. As they
crossed Dak, they turned to gaze at
something on the corner they had
just passed. An automobile was pro
ceeding east on Oak. One of the
men was knocked to the pavement
when he walked into the left tear
side of the machine. He got up, re
covered his hat that had skyrocketed
away, and hurried on up the street.
His face was red. He was ashamed.
He was ashamed of his carelessness
in walking out into a street with his
eyes fixed on something in the rear.
He was ashamed that he had deliber
ately walked into ; the ' side! of an
automobile. He wanted to get away
from the scene of his humiliation.
But a recurrence of the incident
at Broadway and Yamhill Monday
night resulted more seriously. As a
machine sped south on Broadway an
elderly gentleman walked off the curb
and into the side of the auto. His
nose and collarbone were broken. He
is now in the hospital.
It is as necessary for . pedestrians
to keep their eyes on traf fio as for
automobile drivers to look ahead.
The burden of safety is as much on
the pedestrian as on the driver. Those
who dream their way across the street
will go to the hospital sooner or
later, if not to the morgue.
Intelligent Portlanders would not
think of walking into the middle of
a busy street blindfolded, But they
might as well do It as to step into
a traffic congested intersection i with
their gaze fixed on an object to one
side or in the, rear.
A decrease of 10,4 per cent in
wages since January 1 in the cotton
industry and 6.7 in the shoe industry
is reported by the United States
bureau of labor. These decreases in
the cost of labor ; to the contrary
notwithstanding, has anybody heard
of a decrease in the price of cotton
or shoes? i
THE FUTURE OF OIL.
THE race between America and
Great Britain for control of pe
troleum supply has no less a goal than
the domination of world i trade. The
problem of supplying pleasure cars
with gasoline is incidental. The fuel
ing of industrial boilers is a secondary
consideration. To keep lamps lighted
with kerosene is a comparatively
small factor. But the nation that sup
plies Its merchant marine with suf
ficient petroleum as propulsive fuel
has an advantage which cannot be
gainsaid.
President Wilson has sensed a seri
ous contingency in American merchant
marine plans in his report to congress
on the petroleum situation. The of
ficial utterance is echoed by j the re
markably frank statement which was
made by A. C. Bedford, chairman of
the board of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, before the national for
eign trade council in San Francisco.
Sir E. Mackay Edgar, a British finan
cier, avers that . all J the known or
probable oil fields outside the United
States are owned or controlled by
British capital. Bedford supplements
this statement by adding that 40 per
cent of the petroleum supply under
lying the United States has been consumed-
His authority is the United
States geological survey, The reserve
stocks carried in the country are suf
ficient for about three months needs
and this margin is growing .less be
cause of the fact that consumption is
greater than supply. The statistical
estimate'' of the Standard Oil head
reads: - - : " vi
We Imported from Mexico last year
55.uoo.ooo barrels or on ; we ought to get
about 80,000.000 barrels in 1920 in spite
of the salt water intrusion and political
difficulties, but we: need considerably
, more than that. There has not been a
day in recent months that has not seen
vessels tied up along the Atlantic sea
board losing valuable time through ina
bility to obtain bunkers of fuel oil We
need this year 38,000,000 barrels more
than the total of our own production
and imports in 1919. Five years from
now" we will require 050,000,000 barrels,
or an increase of 220,000,000 barrels over
last year.
It seems from the statement by Cap
tain . Paul Foley, director of opera
tions of the shipping board,! that al
though 65 per cent of the current pe
troleum supply of the world is being
drawn from the United States, Great
Britain has put a "No Trespass" sign
on all sources of future supply.
CANDIDATES ON
THE HIGH COST
By Carl Smith, Washington Staff
Correspondent of The Journal
Washington, May 26. The high cost of
living, its causes and its remedies, is a
subject touched on by. nearly all the
presidential candidates. As to the
causes, there seems no particular di
vergence of opinion in either . party,
though Herbert Hoover and 1 Attorney
General ; Palmer have compressed them
into the readiest form. - Therfe is also
considerable accord in the remedies sug
gested, which are economic, rather than
legislative, except as to governmental
extravagances, which all agree should be
checked. Hiram W. Johnson;, who is
perhaps the most vigorous in jdenuncia
tion of the profiteer, seems Jto be the
only one who holds that mucB could be
done under existing law. Extracts from
what some of the candidates of each
party have said on the subject of exist-
ing prices are Interesting as showing the
viewpoint from which the subject is ap
proached. Here they are:
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Governor Frank O. Lowden at the Na
tional Press club in Washington, April
20 : "You can't reduce the high cost
of living until you reduce the (high cost
of government. You can't reduce taxes
until you reduce the high coat of gov
ernment. - No matter how clever
congress may. be, it has not the genius
t frame laws so that excess profits
taxes and income taxes will not bepartly
borne Dy tne consumer."
Senator Hiram Johnson, ini
"plat-
form" announced at his New York head
quarters: "The way to solve the ques
tion of the high cost of living is to in
crease production, reduce taxation and
abolish the 250,000 useless jobs . created
at Washington during the war." .; This
statement added that Johnson comes
from a state that produces H crops of
alfalfa in a year. Parenthetically, it
may also be said that in war time there
were approximately 120,000 war workers
in Washington, counting both the useful
and useless, about 40,000 of whom were
regular employes before the war began.
At Paterson, N. J., April 8, Johnson said :
With the laws we have, the ! high cost
of living could be alleviated to a great
extent. The government could run the
whole gamut from producer to consumer
and punish the profiteer wherever " it
found him. . f !
Herbert Hoover evidently does not be
lieve this policy would be very eff ica-
cious. in a statement or April zs, ne
said : - "It is not enough to i denounce
profiteering ; a statement of tfce specific
economic steps ' by which the rise , in
prices must be checked and equilibrium
restored is Required. Profiteering justi
fies great denunciation, but constructive
Steps do not lend themselves to orator
ical presentation. They involve such
dull things as reduction of inflation,
readjustment of taxation, better dlstri
bution through reorganization of the
agricultural industry, oetier i transpor
tation, and the practical reduction of
losses and margins and risks between
producers and consumers. Above all.
the problem involves an understanding
that profiteering is the effect, not the
cause ; that the solution must be eco
nomic, and that the' attorney general's
policemen cannot overtake an economic
lorce allowed tot run riot in i the coun
try."
General Leonard Wood, in a speech at
Lincoln, February 23 : "We must do all
in our power to promote good business.
to increase production, which is the
real remedy for the high cost iof living.
And at Pierre, S. D., March 20, General
Wood said : "Spread the war burden
over a longer period of yeark in order
t" take the stranglehold of heavy war
taxation off the throat of American busi
ness and enterprise." ,
Nicholas Murray Butler, in an address
at Madison, Wis., April 23: fThe first
and chief of our new troubles is the
enormous expansion of credits, with the
resulting inflation of currency, which has
been going on for a generation, due
primarily to government extravagance
and private waste.: traceable to our
habit of pledging the future to meet the
necessary expenses of today."
Then, . among the Democrats promi
nently mentioned for president, this ex
pression by William G. McAdoo in an
interview on March 28, stands Cut : "The
world must be got back on a basis of
peace and security before wej can hope
to have production balance consumption
again and thereby restore normal condi
tions and prices. We must practice
economy also in our private and busi
ness affairs, thereby relieving the pres
sure on supply. In other utterances he
has; advocated spreading the burden ofj
war taxation, accompanied py caretui
economies in government. i
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Attorney General Palmer in a speech
at Topeka, Kan : 'While the f undamen
tal and underlying cause of the high
prices has admittedly been an economic
condition world-wide in its jscope, " re
sulting largely from a decreased pro
duction of goods which support life and
a greatly expanded creditr currency
growing out of the necessity of financing
the war, there have been apparent evils
partly responsible for high prices which
couia nave Deen eiiectuaiiy enecKea ey
rigid enforcement of such laws as the
president earnestly urged Upon con
gress." : In a speech at Detroit, Palmer
says: Prices can be brought down if
the people will work" 10 per Fcent more
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"THE ENGINEER AND THE WRECK"
Portland, May 22. To the: Editor of
The Journal I have read the letter by
P. H. Powers entitled "The Engineer and
the Wreck." He is not offering much
to railroad men for guidance. To give
a dead person the, benefit of the doubt
and to use a softer word fori' "disobedi
ence" for the sake of friends is mere
gallantry, and probably out of place with
railroad officials and investigating com
missions, who find themselves confront
ed by cold facts. It seems to be a pe
culiar fact in - railroad experience that
the most disastrous accidents do happen
to the most reliable and efficient em
ployes, to some men who often, accord
ing to their own statement iand belief,
have forgotten more about railroading
than some others will ever! know, i or
who could go to sleep in a cab and know
by the roll of the engine just where
they were at along the line.i Probably
; IX a brakeman or others would venture
. : " ' ' - - i " . .' 4 ' ' -
a tmiely suggestion to them he would get
snappy reply. - This is the human
factor referred to by A. T, Mercier, and
no mechanical ingenuity could ever get
around it. .
A rational person who will disregard a'
written order will also pay no attention
to a block signal a fact demonstrated
a few years ago on one of the O-W. P.
lines, 'when ; one of the. company's most
trusted engineers ran into, a "red block,
causing; awful injury and expense. In
tills case two men in the cab was not a
preventive. A few years ago a-most ser
ious and expensive accident on another
local ; interurban line was caused by
the motorman allowing a frend to ride
with him on the front end. This was
against one of the company's most sacred
rules, but It all happened while the mo
torman i was talking and had his mind
off his work.
The "two man" idea is not new, by
any means. Laws to that) effect were
agitated in Eastern states, resulting in
exhaustive experiments carried on by
the New York railroad commission with
a cost to the state of nearly J200.000.
The f two-man" , operation was given - a
thorough ; trial and subsequently; thor
oughly condemned , : by the commission
and the men themselves, as one man
watching for the other to drop dead
proved a monotonous job for both, and
their s entertaining ' each other was an
other extremely dangerous human fac
tor which the commlsson was forced to
acknowledge. But if two mptormen are
better than one, why not three or four?
The man at' the .control may go Insane
and fight one fellow off who is trying
to get the control away from him.
The general public cannot be expected
to be familiar with the mechanical con
struction of electric cars of the types
used in and about Portland (especially
uie : little Birneys). The dead man s
button, held down by the weight of the
hand, is only one of many safety de
vices. Besides the hand button there
is a foot button, set at a steep angle.
Should the operator's body fall forward
on the hand control his foot is certain to
slip off, . In addition are the "kick-out
coils" and the air pressure control. These
devices make a runaway practically,, im
possible. , When a certain safe limit of
speed is reached the motors generate
current which' operates magnetic controls.
The care controllers are also in a locked
position until the tanks are filled with
the brake shoe pressure, etc. But dead
men's buttons have been found tied
down, the same as good old stationary
engineers have tied down safety valves
on boilers. Again the human factor !
Otto G. Muhlig.
SUGAR EXTORTION
Corvallis, Mar 24. To the Editor of
The Journal We have been told that it
is necessary to put a high price on sugar
m order to : keep - down consumption.
Would it not be better for the people to
use less sugar and bring down the high
price. To start on, refined sugar is not
a necessary of life, as the foods we eat
contain enough sugar for? our bodies.
This country uses, 10 pounds of sugar
where many , other countries use one ;
and yet, when we needed men to send
to the": front not one man out of 10
was ' found to be in excellent physical
condition. So if everybody in thiscoun
try would do without sugar for a few
months or use only half as much as at
present ' the price of sugar would cer
tainly come down.
Stock in the sugar companies has
doubled in value in a short time, as it
is paying 50 per, cent dividends ; , and,
besides, speculators, brokers and often
other parties wholly outside the whole
sale and retail grocery trade are hold
ing thousands of tons of sugar for exces
sive prices.
It has been ! said by many 1 that the
sugar combination is stronger than our
government, and it would seem so. Our
senate has been , too busy looking for
t's to cross or i s to dot In the peace
treaty; to pay much attention to a little
thing like speculators charging .10 cents
a pound more for sugar than , they
should ; or maybe - some of them may
have a little invested in sugar, top. Com
mittees have been appointed to find out
who . is : holding the millions of pounds
of sugar shipped in from Cuba, and yet
a correspondence course detective could
find out where every ton of it has gone.
The women of Chicago brought down
the price of eggs by refusing to buy
them. The price of clothing is coming
down because people are-wearing their
old clothes rather than pay the excessive
Drices asked for new ones : so if the
people of this country should declare a
boycott on high priced sugar or, in
other words, strike for lower price sugar
I think the price would soon come
down. The refiners claim they can pro
duce sugar for 10 cents a pound ; so.
even by giving the retailer his profit,
why; not adopt a nation wide slogan:
15 cent sugar or none. . uon bmitn
Olden Oregon
Oregon Statehood Bills Passed by
House and Senate, 1857-58.
In 1857 the lower house of congress
passed an act authorizing the people of
Oregon to organize a state government,
but congress adjourned before the senate
acted on the measure. In May, 1858, the
senate passed a bill by a vote of 35 to
17 to admit Oregon to statehood with
the constitution which had already been
adonted. Eleven Republican senators
were among the 35 who voted for state
hood and six among the 17 wno votea
aeainst. Among the 17 were radical
Southern senators, ; including jeiierson
Davis, who were opposed to the admis
sion of any more Northern senators.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
The earliest known English almanac
is an illuminated manuscript dated lsoo
and for over four centuries at least one
almanac has never failed to appear an
nuallv in this country. In his "History
of English-Printed Almanacks Prior to
1600." Eustice Besanquet, says tne Man
Chester Guardian, describes the almanac
as "the most popular book In the Eng
lish language. Together with the Bible,
It has been the basis of practically every
household library in this country ; in
fact, in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries these two books were probably
the enUre library of. many families.
The almanac of 1386 devotee much space
to weather signs, and for centuries these
continued to be a prominent feature in
all almanacs. There were also pages
devoted to prognostications, one of which
from a sixteenth century almanac is
most appropriate just now : "Tfte- trew
est and most likely and manifest token
of an ensueing dearth and barreness ia
the evell and bloody warres caused
through ambition.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :
Law makin' is a science, like makin
fine llkker or gittln' up a patent medi
cine or hef tin' ? the weight of a bug.
When the people wants some law that
the big infrests don't want, the scien
tific lawmaker gits up somethin' that
looks all right, and mebby it smells all
right. But when It gits set tip in busi
ness it either don't work at all or else it
kicks back the other4 eend around and
ketches up the wrong feller. Where the
people don't have the nishative in the
constitution they- git a more scientific
law handed to ,em n where they've got
that per tikler cluh. But If the people
don't use the nishative none to speak
of byV by they fergit how to swing
it and get horaswoggled frequent, Jist
the same.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
The successful candidates have been
weighed in the balance and found vaunt
ing. , .;. . . .
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Keds Hammer at -Gates of Kief."
Headline. If they would get out and
'saw wood" instead of "knocking" so
much, the whole world would be betterl
Oil.: .:
Now if we can have lust a little bit
of summer before the days begin to
shorten it will help the "reconstruction"
gardens immensely, ana make everyone
feel better, too-
The motion nicture actnr who was
kicked into unconsciousness by a horse
probably wouldn't care to have it happen
again., even though it would get him on
the front page of the newspapers.
Esteemed contemn in the Middle West
prints this in its 20 years ago column:
TD9 rusn to OM Nnm hm tirtHl.
According to Seattle, reports five ships
are scheduled to leave that port today
ana ; tomorrow with hundreds of srold
seekers." And 20 veam h if win h
printing in the same column : "Russian
Bolshevik forces attacking Poles on the
northern end of the battlefront are beinr
repelled with heavy losses," and the world
win oe as iar away trom that stutr then
as it is today from the Nome rush let
us hope !
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About jTown
After spending the winter in Pasa
dena, H. H. Clancy, pioneer conductor of
the O-W. R. & N., registered at the
Multnomah Monday. Clancy said he
was about "all In" when he left Port
land, after havin undergone an opera
tion at one of the Portland hospitals,
but after a sojourn in California he re
turned a changed man. Clancy will soon
be back on his old run between Port
land and Seattle.
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Dave Reger, who presides .over the
bathhouse at Government Mineral
Springs, 17 miles north of Carson. Wash,,
is spending a few days In Portland be
fore the beginning of his business rush.
Everybody in the Wind River country
knows Dave, even though many of them
don't know his last name. Mail comes
to him addressed "Dave of the Bath
house." -'-Government Mineral Springs
now boasts a brand new bath house, of
which Dave did most of the carpenter
ing and of which he is as proud as a
father of his 'firstborn.
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Everybody is buying sporting goods
who .can get them, says H. H. Veach,
who travels over Oregon. Washington
and California for: the sporting depart
ment of Marshall ' Wells company. It
isn't a matter any more of inducing peo
ple to buy. but of supplying the demands
of those who wish sporting stock, says
Veach. Veach is something of a marks
man himself, and participated in the
shooting event while in the city. He
wos visiting with old friends in the
lobby of the Imperial Tuesday.
"They may be able to tell how fire
should be ' kept out of the forest," said
E. F. Tlndolph at the Benson after lis
tening to one of the; speakers of forest
protection week, "but I can tell how to
keep fire out of a: dry kiln." Tindolph,
who, has a factory ; for making vapor
kilns at Seattle, claims that his is the
only dry kiln ; that' will not burn. Tin
dolph Is running around over the state
trying to beat his competitors in placing
kilns,' and already has installed kilns
with many of the largest lumber com
panies of Oregon:
Mr.- and Mrs. Louis Fluherer and son
Donald of Maygar: are at the-Cornelius
on their way to Vancouver, B. C, by
automobile, where? - Fluherer is slated
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
f From a woman who has traveled far and,
with her husband, on mieaiona of creat Import,
Mr Iockley obtains a story of most Intense in
terest. Inside history- of international relations
during Uie war with 43ermany 1 dkielosed, with
intimations of other rereaJmenis inat wui mau
thriUng reading when ; their tune comes, j
Mrs. Ruth Blake Is a Portland girl.
Her father, A. L. Maxwell, came to
Portland In the early '80s, when Villard
helped to put Portland on the. map. "In
those days," said Mrs. Blake,' "a rail
road official was looked upfJ.o and had
almost as much power as an ambassa
dor. But the good old days are gone,
and the railroads are operated by boards
of directors located In WaJl street. As
a girl I went to Portland academy, later
going to Milwaukie to the Downer
school, founded by. Mra Sabin of Port
land. Shortly after my graduation I
married Maxwell Blake, and we went to
Madeira, which, as you know, is Portu
guese territory. It is about 400 miles
from the African coast, a little more
than 600 miles from Lisbon and about
250 from Teneriffe. We were there a
year and a half, when my husband was
transferred to Kdlnburgh, where we
spent two delightful years.
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"The situation in Colombia was more
than tense. The representative of the
United States was , barricaded in - his
house and afraid to stir out of doors.
The people, down there are children in
many ways. Our getting baca or tne
revolution at Panama, by which the
Btate of Panama was enabled to secede
from Colombia, had Incensed the Co
lombians to the point that the children
drank in hatred of the Americans with
their . mothers milk. Even the babies
are taught, from the time they can tod
dle, to spit at Americans. My husband's
job was to restore amicable relations
between the two countries and to try to
restore the prestige lost by his most
ladylike predecessor. We moved to Bo
gota Though the natives are of mixed
Spanish, negro and Indian blood, I
treated them as social equals, and in
vited them to my home to dinner, went
to the opera, with them, and played the
game. The land is always seething with
plots and counterplots, with revolution
and unrest. Nature has made there a
paradise, where only man is vile ; but
many of them can qualify to the limit
on that trait. From Bogota, we went to
Washington, D. C.
v -:-.:.,.-". i:: . r'V-' I. -:.r'
"From the consular service my hus
band was transferred to the diplomatic
service and sent to Morocco. To the
north lies the blue -Mediterranean, Al
geria to th eastward and the Sahara
just south. Carthage planted I its far
flung colonies along : the Moroccan coast.
Pompey and Augustus secured recruits
for their victorious armlea , among the
Berbers of Morocco. You must read
Washington Irving to learn of the bat
tles between the Arabs and Berbers and
how Idrls with hi son founded Fez and
helped to establish the Moorish rule.
Along about 1200 A. D. the Moorish
kingdom ? controlled Algeria. Tunisia.
Tripoli and much of Spain and Portu
gal. "I spent seven years in Morocco. It is
a land of beauty, of fertility, of ro
mance, of charm, and of infinite possibilities-
It is a land with a future as
well aa a land with a past- With their
crooked sticks for plows and their tree
tops for. harrows they make a pretense
of farming, but with modern methods
that country could feed all Kunope, The
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
The dehydration ;f crowd, the Salem
Statesman observes.; has the edge on all
the other fruit and vegetable factories
this -year. It takes no sugar to de
hydrate. t
Grates will be Installed at the Wes
ton brickyard In all the kilns, the Leader
says, and coal will be burned hereafter.
Slabs have become altogether too scarce
and expensive to make a satisfactory
fuel.
"Despite the Icy h!ll." says the Pen
dleton East Oregonian, "the Umatilla ia
being used as a swimming place. Most
of the swimmers who brave the cold
water are small boys. Last year the
river swimming season opened several
weeks earlier than this year."
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' Prineville will this year stage the big
Central Oreeron Fourth of July Celebra
tion. The most comprehensive plans
havA rMn laid fn,: a-real Central Ore
gon festival, partly Including- July 2.
3 and 4. The Journal Kays. Bend gets
the celebration next year,
"Th nM Ttoord'' Chieftain frame build-
Intr ' sava the KntefDrise Reporter, "has
been sold and will be torn down to make
room for a new warehouse. The old
building was moved in from Alder many
years ago. Another olo lanamarR
served its usefulness and disappeared.'
for a talk before a convention-of shingle
men. B'luherer has a shingle mill of his
own at Maygar. .
Ole Hanson, the one-time famous
mayor of Seattle, and a portion of, his
numerous family, consisting of Mrs. Ole
and Mr. and Mrs. die Hanson Jr., spent
a few hours at the JPortland Monday on
their return home after spending a va
cation In California. They .drove
through by automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Dorsey and son of
Waterville, Wash.,; are guests at the
Multnomah. Dorsey. is manager of the
Day & Hansen Security company, one
of the largest real estate companies in
the Big Bend country. The wheat, land
Is advancing and bjg crops are in view,
says Dorsey. r
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At the Imperial are F. N. Stanley of
Deschutes and O.- i B. Hardy of Red
mond. who are interested in the Central
Oregon irrigation project.
Helen Ardelle. one of the firm that
puts out the chocolates bearing her name
is a guest at the Portland. The Ardelle
sisters entered the chocolate making
business while they! were still in college.
selling a little candy as they went along
to help make expenses. When they were
graduated the demands for their home
made candy had grown to such an ex
tent that they could not give it up, and
a "regular" business sprang up, which
has secured recognition up ana .down
the coast. i i '
James H. Waters, general manager
of the Newhouse hatel in Salt Lake,: and
Mr. and Mrs. W" K. Sutton, who oper-4
ate the dining roam of the same in
ntltution, are in the,city. They are stay
ing at the Multnomah. !
Dr. J. W. Donnelly, mayor of Arling
ton,, is in Portland: on one of hi: per
iodical visits when! he manages to get
away from his woi-k for a brief time:
Donnelly la an enthusiast over good
roads and is looking toward the time
when the hichwayj will extend to his
home town,
son.
He is
staying at the Ben-
Mr. and Mrs. J.,
Or., where Flora ls
C. Flora of Kinny,
in the lumber busi-
ness. are guests ati the Multnomah.
Lockley
climate is similar 16 that of San Diego.
They still possess i. the glorious tradi
tions Of their dayi of art and archi
tecture. To atudy khe country and : get
into the heart their thought I
studied Arabic. untjl 4 spoke it fluently.
I like languages.!! I speak Spanish,
Italian, Arabic, German and French.
"If you want to read a fascinating
story read the account of the German
efforts to acquire Morocco and how
England stood in wjth France to save it
from Germany . in t return for France
giving England a free" hand in Egypt.
Great event sometimes turn on trifles.
See how casually a British statesman
gave Germany Helgoland. . See how
nearly one of our 'own statesmen came
to giving Japan to the Philippines for
a ' naval ' and eoali jjg base. See how.
when England and? France refused to
loan the money to Turkey for rail
road development to Bagdad, the Ger
mans stepped in, made the loan, won
Turkey, and swung her to the side of
the central powers .'during the world
war. .
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"The Moors are idealistic. They" nay
we are slaves. They are rlpht. We are
slaves to habit and convention. They
think it a dreadful s thing that we work
so hard when we have all .we need and
by thus working- deprive someone else
of the work who heeds it. They can
not understand how; we scheme and plan
for more money when we have all we
require. '
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"Spain was given: a'sone in Morocco.
It was a fatal fills take, for Germany
virtually took Spain by the throat and
said, We need it, we must : have' It ;
give it up." And Spain did so. - During
the war Germany used it for submarine
bases and for a hundred othver hostile
purposes.
"When the world war broke out I was
In London. I acted as interpreter for
the Belgian refugees and for the
wounded Belgian soldiers. Then I went
to Morocco and took hold of the work
with the wounded . French Moroccan
troops. They were without fear, and
were used as shock troops. Because 1
though of most serious purpose and of
studious mind, happen to be of the' but
terfly type, I was asked to serve with
the intelligence .department.' My (Job
was to go as a carefree joyrider aboard
the Spanish ships, be friendly with the
Spanish officers of the steamers and se
cure Information as to the German sub
marine bases." - I was very fortunate in
getting much valuable information along
this line. Then I was sent through
Spain as a casual tourist, to uncover
German intrigue. ' f Iater I Jwu called
to Washington. D. j C, and given more
Important work In.' connection with the
activities of Bernstorff.- Of that work
I can not tell you. Some day. my lips
will be unsealed, but at present I. can
not- discuss this phase of my world
"I ylook with profound regret at the
lost, prestige of Ainerica tBrough not
taking her rightful place of leadership
In the League of Nations. TBey looked
upon our country '$ as the -leader, : the
savior, and through petty political bickerings-we
have fallen from our high es
tate and lost the golden opinion of all
Europe.- It Is sad jjand it was so needt"
lesa - We have lost" face with this gen
eration, -but perhaps our- children or
their children may see -our tarnished
prestige restored. Diplomacy Is a fas
cinating game. I love it." .
The Oreg-on Country
Northwest Bapprnincs la Brief Form for the
Busy Beader.
OREGON NOTES
ThA fUll SI TV if t ha alnfo llkata .U kaa
been raised to $300 a month by the state
Knic-htn nf
- . ........ vi Aiunny n nu
of a class of 40. ;
Marlon countv rsst a mi.gii. ...t
S.ih.e his.he.1 educational measure. The
a .jos yes, 500 no.
... vuuiny io elect Thomas B.
speaker of the neoct lefirtsl.tur
Kay
Standard Oil gasoline has dropped
cent and a half a gallon at Eugene. T
he
price -is now 27 cents a gallon.
Odd Fellow u riri nhiii,h. ..
tended the annual state convention at
Baker were greeted with a snowstorm.
1 ropects for strawherrv hrii inin
seem good this year at Hood River, ac
cording to ihe Apple Growers a.socii-
iiufl ...
The city council of Sherldftn has ap
preprinted rrnnov fm n.o ..(..kii,,)..
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Ol an auto camn P-rnnnrl I vi Ihn ,.lr
park. . . " . .
John H, Humphrey, a Lane countv
rarmer, was killed when the sweep of a
hinTP he Waa 0,JprittinK struck
Public " Service Poramlm'innM fV,.v
announces that he will vote for an order
'u.miiig ior a -cent car fare In Port
land. The University of Oregon co-d base
ball team defeated the Oregon Agricul
tural girls by a score of S!.r. to 6 at Cor
valjiSi Thet graduating class of the Htlls
boro hiKli school number? 36. This Is
the largest class In the hlatory of the
school. ; ;
The Associated Industries of Oregon
has offered three prises for the best
window display during the strawberry
carnival at Roseburg.
. The first shipment of strawberries has
been made from Hood River. The sale
price is not announced. Carlot 'shipments
will begin about June 5.
The Columbia is rising at Hood River.
A, Japanese truck gardener has Intstalled
a large gasoline engine for pumping
seepage water from his tract.
The Baker concert band has been given
station No. 8 in the grand parade sched
uled for the session of the imperial coun
cil of Shriners at Portland June 22.
Representatives-elect Kay and Davev
of Marion - county are preparing a bill
prohibiting the overloading of trucks
operating on county and atate "highways.
Matt West, a homesteader in Hood
River county, has disappeared from his
home and neighbors fear he may liavo
wandered away in the woods and per
ished. ;
Registration of motor vehicle drivers
under the new law will begin noon after
June 15.- Under the law no person
under 16 will be allowed to drive motor
vehicles.
Work on the new scaffold room at the
state - penitenlary w)U be started as
soon as the official scanvass is made
of Friday's vote on Uie capital pun
ishment .measure.
A reward of $500 is offered at Eugene
for information leadincato the arrest
of H. W. Buckingham of Coburg. who
has disappeared after being accused of
mortgaging cattle he did hot own.
WASHINGTON
Frederick Ben of Yakima, reservation
farmer, has been appointed agricultural
agent of the Northern Paelfic.
Eleven - teachers at Yakima have re
fused to sign contracts for next year on
account of the salary offered.
- Mrs. Jeanette Sigerson of Wenatchee
has been elected president of the Wash
ington Graduate Nuraes aociatton.
Several of the largest dry goods uteres
in Walla Walla have cut prices on
women's ready-to-wear clothing from 29
to 60 per centv
.A double train service between Walla
Walla and Pasco to connect with trains
to the coast will be established by the
Northern Pacific -
A tour of the cities and towns of
Crurlan and Okanogan counties U planned
b'the Wenatchee, Commercial club about
tile middle of June. .
A new Ice and cold utorage plant with
a-capacity of 300" tons daily will be built
at Wenatchee by the Columbia Ice A
Cold Storage "company. -
A. W. Kaiten, airriculturint at the
Walla Walla high nchool. haa obtained
a verdict for $721 against Thomas Aniery
for Injuries received hi an automobile.
accident. ;
Whitman college has re;elved from h
Carnegie foundation $J5.no in PeimHyl
vania 5 per cent gold bonds, the im-orne
of which is to be applied on pension!
for members of the faculty. ,
The. assets of the l(ake Chelan I,aiid
company, which hnn teeii 1 hank t upt the
past three years, have been sold to the
Mansion Farm company of hea file. The
purchase price is given at 1 32&.i00.
IDAHO -Tlie
Nampa Free Vref's has taken
rharce of the Twin Falls TimeN and will
conduct it as an independent news
paper. Over 14000 worth of 'Minor and two
large cars bound for Spokane have been
seized at Sandpoiht.
Twin Falls streets are badly torn up
owing to paving wrirk. The work ia e
pected to be completed within one year.
Bergquist & "Sons, proprietors of the
Hayderi lake dairy, are to suspend busi
ness, after 11 years' service to th city
of Coeur d'Alene. . ; i . , v
Governor Davis and the Idaho cabi
net have. started a movement to have a
reclamation plank placed in the platform
o each political party.
The international -eornmisision of the
TTnited States and Canada which In hold
ing hearings on the project of deep
porta for. cities on the great lakes, will
open a hearing at Boise. May Z$.
Cooperation the Touchstone,
of Maximum Progress jn
Community Buildings
When one has. -read through the
directory of Oregon manufacturers
published by the Astociat'd Indus
tries of Oregon there is KtiH one un
mentloned, which Is, perhaps, most
Important of all. -
In general term it Is called co
operation. The chamber of commerce
would designate it an "pulling to
gether, The llotary club would re
fer the interested irKllvldual to its
motto, "Service Not Self."
By whatever name It may be
known, it is super-industry that keeps
other industries going. it prornptn
the : patronage, one firm of another.
It promotes the support of home in
dustry. It juickenn community foy
alty. It discloses the assured circuit
of the payroll dollar back to the place
where it utarted. It creates a con
structive tiolicy on the part, of bans
toward worthy new ete.rprfe. It
directs favorable consideration of re
tailers by wholesaler. 'It places (he
city in helpful attitude toward jhe
oulHtate. It keeps buninKi men too
busy building to aliow them time to
bicker. It makes a man part of a
community. .He becomes a motive
part of forward progress.' The Hum
impulse makes a newrlMkr like The
Journal a suprorter of home induwtry,
city buildins and state development.
When a business mn mrnak of
"they in referring to the directors
of enterprise in the town, he timkett
his first mistake. He ought to say
"we." If he lives iii a town where
he-can't be a part of it planning he
ought to go to a place where bw inewg
gangs and rings don't seek control.
Hut that isn't the case tn Portland.
There was never, o favorable and
friendly a time in Portland, as now
for every wideawake business man
to have his share in. upbuilding
enterprise going forward In a -bfg
way.' ...