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Newspaper Page Text8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, , PORTLAND, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, KZd. AM INDEPENDENT XEWSPATEB C ' S. JACIUMJa - JT II . lublttlwT JSSw "hS i onto Fubliohed ery dr B1 nu ln. ' at Tba Jggrnl Building. Broadway and iam hill street, Portland. Oregon, i. ' Knur st the iW'tre Ja for trantmlwion through tha mm Mcuuu - elia matter. . .-- . i t - TELEPHONES Main 71 TS. . .l AH departments fticnw rUKEKJN ADVERTISING W22-SI2 ?2A Fifth aeenue, mlkling. uotcaco. THE OUECO JOURNAL UlLe"" reject sdvertising copy blck rtionable It al.o will Dot print any KM th" cannot readily b. recognized adrer tiunc , i SUBSCRIPTION HATES By carrier, elty and country. On year.s...-00 Six month. . . DAILY (Without Sunday) On year 2"2i Six motMtw, . . , S.ZJ Threw months.. 1.7 Oos month .00 WEKKfcT ' (Errry Wednesday) On. year $1.00 Si- month. ... .00 Thrva month, .2.2 On month SI'S DAY (Only) Om year.... Stx month. . , Three months, S3 00 1.75 l.UU - WElvKTY AND - Hl'MAY Ona year. $3.60 . Thea rate apply only in the West -Kite to Eastern point furnMied on applica tion. Make remittances by Money Order. fcpres Order or Draft. If ycur pontoffkre i not a Money Order Office. 1 or 2-cent stamps J aroeirted Make all remittances paable to Tin Journal. Portland, Oregon. : t am not awara that payment, or eren favors, howerer gracious, bind any mini aoul and eonsrience in questions o( 'highest morality and "highest importance, , Charles Kingley. SINGING THE SONG OF HATE A r LAST, we have a public Hnter pretation of the Chicago platform on the league. Hiram Johnson elucidates it. He says it Is a no-league platform. In . a letter to Bancroft Abbott, leader of the Johnson forces in Massachusetts In the primary campaign, he says. ; The big issue which has engrossedTme : for so long and has become a part of my life seems to have been met in both platforms, the Republicans ASSUMING TUB POSITION I. HAVE TAKEN FROM THE .FJ.BST, andvtbe,Jernocrats the contrary position in' favor of the league. Under these circumstances it . ieem 'to me that men who viewed this, overshadowing issue as-i-d4d,"Cbuld con sistently follow but one course, and that was the acceptance, of the PARTY OP POSING THE LEAGUE AND OPPOSI TION TO THE PARTY APPROVING T. .- :, ;r - - - That is to say, Hiram Johnpon, bit ter ender, who saw and agreed to the - league plank before it was adopted, describes it as a plank "opposing the league." It is a no-league plank with fringe around it and flummery ' and mummery over It to hide its terrible meaning from public gaze. j On a threat to bolt, Johnson I and Borah rammed this no-league plank down the throats of the old guard senators who ran the convention. - Borah said he wouldn't accept the league if it were proposed by Jesus Christ. Johnson was of the same mind. More than a dozen other sena tors w anted the pact f or ; peace wrecked. . They had hundreds of thousands of voteV behind them. The .pro-Germans hated the treaty because it humiliated the fatherland. The British haters loathed It. - The Bolshevists despised it. The I, V. W.s wanted it killed. The managing senators! at Chicago made a bid. for that vote, j They wrote the no-league plank to catfch that vote. They put molasses and sugar on it to hoodwink the vote of league Re publicans. It was .largely an alien vote that thus i dictated a no-league platform. It was the absolute Introduction of European politics Into America, It is, the molding of great American institu tions and American issues to gratify European sympathizers, j It is, and " was, ; a surrender of American hopes of permanent peace and an organized world to the European ideals of arma ments, armies, conquest, blood, death .and the subjugation of weak nations. 'It was and is a proposal to continue In Europe the old order which has kept the world in turmoil and blood shed "'and conquest ever since the be ginning of time. : And Mr.. Harding is fiddling away on the - Johnson-Borah . string. He is singing the song of hale for-Wilson. With one eye on the White House and the other on the pro-German and pro ; European vote he is asking no-league questions of the no-war candidate. He dare not do otherwise: If he doesn't oppose the Jeague, Borah and Johnson . will bolt and take their pro-Europeans with them. ' 1 The Harding campaign has to be a campaign of humbug and Insincerity. Nc American will be taken into com plete confidence. Mr. Harding doesn't dare ? take the American people into his confidence. He is leading the bat talion of death to kill the treaty and proposing to 6ue for a separate peace ..with Germany and at the same time making an appeal to Americans who 'are tired of war, tired of armaments ' and .-tired of Avar taxes that must be paid for a generation to come, He cannot successfully wage 'such a contest. He j is fundamentally and fatally weak in his plan to ride two horses going in opposite directions nto : B"ts iu opposite - unctuuus j through four long months of discus sion- . The Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway station .at St. Helens was fired by sparks . from an engine. There was a place for the sparks to light. A fire trap was awaiting the torch. Cleanliness 'In' all buildings, removal . of refuse and- debris, and protection of walls and ; openings against heat would eliminate five of every seven fires that now levy a costly toll. V : , . TO PAY THE FIDDLER A SECTION of the local traffic ordi nance declares that a motor ve hicle must not pass another - at a street intersection. For violation of the ordinance, a fine of f500 and six months in jail could be imposed. The section was written Into the ordinance because passing at intersections by automobiles was found to be a dan gerous practice.; : , i But in spite of the provisions of the ordinance, and insplte of the danger in volved, machines speed past Others at intersections in Portland every day. Monday, a driver bound east on East Broadway, signaled for a turn to the left at an intersection, j He slowed ,down for the turn. From behind, an other driver, regardless of the law and heedless of Ihejtlgnal to turd, -drove his machine past the first car at the intersection and to the left. He 'was oblivious of all other traffic, and of the rights of the man who was to turn. ' i : i ; -.'. Had the driver who signaled for the turn changed his course a little faster the second machine " would , have crashed into his side and detoured into nearby trees. He could not have possibly avoided them. And three pas sengers In his car were dependent on the driver for their safety. It was a brazen disregard of law and common sense. iFor the sake of a few seconds of limej the erring driver vio lated the law In two ; respects,-' and jeopardized the lives of his passengers as well as of those in the other ma china. . It was foolhardy driving. It may not be the first time or the second, but ultimately he who dances will pay the fiddler. The old guard campaign man agers are said to be wearing a fixed smile. ' No doubt. First they smiled and apologized for the Chicago plat form. Then they smiled, and offered explanations for their presidential capdldate.' Now they are smiling and offering excuses for the party's attitude toward 'labor. There are smiles and smiles. .Some of them re flect inward happiness; -some reflect the admonition, t'Grin and bear it. THE CHAMBERLAIN STATEMENT SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN told mem ; bers of the Portland Chamber of Commerce of the discriminations prac ticed against, Portland, of maps of the Columbia river 50 years old in use in the navy, and pf the constant fight necessary for this city and port to gain the place to which they are en titled. ,- - i -. . r It is all true.: We have had the long time discrimination in rate mak ing by the railroads. We are fighting out that issue, j . . We have the present discrimination as to the shipping board headquarters in spite of the i-fact that Portland is building ships and Puget Sound is not. We have discrimination in the alloca tion of ships in spite- of the fact that Portland is shipping more than twice as much grain as goes out of Puget sound. In war, time, the higher ofr ficials for representing the govern ment in shipbuilding' were selected from the North,) and in some instances a sorry nistory came or it. Even the unmatched showing Port land and Oregon made during the war failed to remove the hidden influence that always militates against us. -We built ships and supplied airplane stock for the allied I armies ' and sent the highest percentage of volunteers and were first overthe top In every war activity, (but the colored person is still in the woodpile. - Senator Chamberlain's 1 insistence that if we cannot get a fair allocation of government; ships we can build ships of our own is emphatically true. And, by the way, the statement of a famous port ! engineer that one 10,000-ton vessel, built, owned and operated by home people and plying between the Pacific and the Atlantic, would be of more value to Portland than another trunk railroad, seemed then and seems still to be extremely sound in theory and 'entirely within fact and reason. At first the j Republican campaign heads announced the campaign issue would be Cox. Tammany & Co. Then they hit upon the League of "Nations! Now they say It is to be booze. Will the election be cr before they find an issue that will 'last as long as a week? j NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING SEVEN hundred, members of the Se attle retail trade bureau were quizzed about advertising. : Nearly all of them reported their first preference for newspapers as an advertising medium. But they were equally emphatic that use of an advertising medium is not warranted merely because it is a legit Imate publication. The advertising must have appeal. It must be placed before the eyes of those whose necessities create demand for the articles advertised. It must be truthful, and It must appear In ; a medium that holds high the ideal of truth. . p Effective advertising, in other words, employes equally practical knowledge of "merchandising, ability In the prep aration of copy, and idealism. , . r Considerations or this sort prompted The Journal not long ago to establish its bureau of free merchandising serv ice which for the information of ad vertisers analyzes keenly the Portland market and the Oregon country. ; When on the first of July the milk dealers of ' Portland advanced 1 the price 1 cent a quart to consumers they increased the daily retail milk bill of Portland about $1000. Then they refused a corresponding j in crease to the producers. Finally a deputy city attorney appeared with a report, in which the dairymen were held to be guilty of profiteering. Is the logical conclusion of thla weird analysis a declaration that the milk dealers should be commiserated upon the cost of handling so much more money? A WARNING TO GROWERS WE HAVE In Western Oregon and Clarke ! county, r Washington. 33,000 acres of prunes at the; present time, against about 10,000 acres I in 1911. ; Only half of our prunes are in bearing. California has 80.000 acres in bearing and another 100,000 that will soon come Into bearing. ; The prune output is now about 250, 000,000 pounds. In three or four years it may be 700,000,000 pounds. The packers tell us we can eat those prunes, but we won't eat them until new markets are developed and; the prune is extensively advertised. At the' present time most of our Oregon prunes are sent to relatively few mar kets. The same fatal mistake we made with the apple up to 1912. ' In 1912 the'apple business ;went to pieces with only 10,000 or 12.000 car loads produced in the Northwest. A depression resulted which threw a dark shadow over the entire fruit in dustry of the Northwest for four years." The growers got together, and organized. They opened up I new di rect markets.- Formerly they sent all their apples to Chicago and New York.' Now they send their products to thou sands of markets, little way stations down in Oklahoma, ! Florida, up - to Vermont and Maine, in fact; every state' in the Union sees our apples. What is the result? J '-. i .i We now sell 27,000 carloads at a fine profit.; And this with the Eurqpean market closed for four years. In ad dition, we have eaten more Canadian apples than we ever did, because they had no market tosend to but this. It" shows what development of new mar kets, what advertising and cooperation will do. Unless the growers of the Pacific Northwest organize the prune- busi ness, they will undergo the same troubles which the apple growers en countered, namely, a period of de pression, of speculation, of tearing out of orchards and of discouragement. Front 1912 to 1915 buyers would come out and buy apples at about their own price, putting one district up against another, getting them to bid against each other until the apples were often sold below cost. This produced; one of the tragedies of our Northwest de velopment. We see now how needless it -was, and yet many of our other fruit industries in the Northwest are drifting in the same direction. After coming to America every year for the last 12 years, James Rishwan, ; with . his wife, has 'been prohibited from entering this coun try, and is returning to .-. Yucatan, where he is a wealthy merchant. The Ellis Island immigration author ities rejected him on account of the literacy test.; He tried to land in America to visit his daughter,; 15, who is a pupil in a Massachusetts school. His right to come has never before been challenged. t ' : FRESH FROM THE PEOPLE ALONG- with the suggestion that membership in the national bouse of representatives- be reduced from 435 to '300, Congressman C. N. McAr- thur, in an interview In The Journal Sunday, proposed that representatives be seated within two months after election. : ? ' It. too, is a proposal of merit. There is no assurance that a representative assuming office 13 months after elec tion, 4 will represent the will of -the people on the issues before r the con gress at the time of his assumption of duties. He may be faced with new problems. New issues - may have arisen on" which he has had no in struction from his constituency.. He is elected on a platform dealing with issues before the country at the time of his election. They are often settled within 13 months, and the' Is sues on which the representative has been Instructed may have been shelved and forgotten before he takes his seat. His predecessor may have acted ; on the problems which Jie was to meet, and the new congressman may take office to face an entirely different sit uation. The people's will expressed in the election, may or may not have been carried out: ) f v MA Furthermore, eleven months after he finally takes his seat he is again be fore the people for election.' His votes are weighed as to their political ex pediency, ' perhaps, more than as to their bearing on a sound national pol icy. To send a congressman to Washing ton -13 months after election is like sending a fire department to the fire after it is out. The conditions he is delegated to cope with are changed. He should go to congress fresh from the people. : WHEN TOWNS ARE RE-CHECKED By Carl Smith. Washington' start . Correspondent of The Journal Washington. July 21. Officials of the census bureau, when their attention was called ; to press dispatches stating that citizens, of Medford are indignant over the - .population figures - announced for that city, said that the Med ford people can have a check made if they can show that anv subotantial error exlstx In the preliminary figures. If any steps are taken In this direction It is urged that the action be prompt,, as the bureau is hastening- tfwarA it ,nnntiiiivni,nt if state totals, and it is necessary that tn- vmiigauDni ot, maae wun . mue aeiay. Re-enumeration not nrrlerMi in ; anv case, but entire cities will be ordered re checked where a material percentage of error is established. . - It Is exnlajnt that (Tnrl,tiM hi shown that the census bureau would not oe justified in ordering the returns checked over merely on the complaint of city officials or chambers of com merce, as complaints . are .frequent, but wnen invesugatea rarely "pan out " fur ther than to add the names of a few strairerlers. ' rhirer7ir th hnroin re quires as a basis for further action that an aggrieved community shall at Its own expense make a preliminary canvass of a selected Part of a cltv nr th cntlrn city, if it prefers. ' If this develops enough names alleged to have - been missed to make a substantial difference, men will be ordered in to check up and add the additional figures. . , As to what would constitute a "sub stantial difference" in the case of Med ford, - officials say there is no estab lished percentage, .but that if a local effort indicated that as many as i per cent had .been missed In this case, 250 to 300 persons this would, no ? doubt, be regarded as sufficient to warrant a check or the original figures. The department of agriculture has ready for distribution regulations for wool warehouses, which . are designed, under the warehouse act.; - to secure greater uniformity in warehouse i re ceipts and make them of greater assist ance in financing. Warehouses are not required to come under the act, but it is believed that most of them will desire to take federal licenses in order to-acquire an accredited standing that Will Welch With bankers siwi llennaltnn wool, which will bring confidence and uraci suDstantiai and desirable busi ness, i nose interested in licensing and the . adrantazeR w rutft. ,A wn.M the system are Invited to address the chief of the bureau of markets, depart ment oi agriculture, for information . Results of civil service examinations for postmasters in Oregon indicate that While Mrs. EIsJa Rnrk.r tl.ta husband. Alfred L. Barker, who was her only competitor for appointment at Jen nlngs Lodge, she will lose out because he is an ex-service man nnt train. erence by reason of that fact. At Flora, wrB- is-uiei mu. A icoon has a shade the best of Mrs. Margaret D. Penman, and her appointment is forecasted. t Cox and Tammany From the Salem Capital-Journal. It is beyond reason, perhaps, to expect fairness or decency In a political cam paign, and so we have the partisan press, which follows the label blindly without regard to principle, giving birth to ut terances like the iollowing bit of preju diced persiflage : "Mr. Cox, the candidate of the boot leggers and boose fighters, will get by with the Tammany vote and the wet vote of the brothel keepers in the big cities. But will he get by with the vote of the decent people- of the iTnitAri States, and all those who want the laws enforced and the wet elements kept out of control of the politics of this coun try? He will, with some of the latter, by all sorts of tricks of camouflage on the part i of the Democraf ic campaign managers. But not with the men and the women of the United States who are decent and at the same .time know a hawk . from a handsaw." ; The president does not make the coun try wet or dry. Congress does that The president merely enforces the laws congress , makes. President Wilson vetoed the Volsted enforcement act. be cause it was so drastic as - to make its literal enforcement impractical and be cause it deprived states of their rights, but he is doing his best to enforce the law which is all any- president can do. Governor Cox has an admirable record for law enforcements one that stands f he acid test. He brought about the passage of the saloon regulation laws and Sun day laws In Ohip and enforced them so vigorously that the saloons defeated him for re-election in 1914. He has never accepted dictation from either wets or drys, but he has enforced the law, and will continue to do so. If a law is bad, the best way to secure its repeal is by strictest enforcement. As for Tammany, It never votes for a Democratic president. It is a corrupt political organisation and always trades Its machine strength in New Tork City with the Republican state machine in exchange for being left alone Ly the Republican - legislature in exploiting its graft- It double-crossed. Tilden, Cleve land, Bryan, .and "Wilson, and will do the same thing with Cox. ; It fights for noY principle merely - local spoils. ' It voted for kmx. in the convention be cause It had quarreled with McAdoo. if Governor Cox is elected president, it will not be by Tammany but because he openly espouses the peace treaty and League of Nations, because he is - pro gressive and forward looking, and, be cause of his excellent record, and proven capacity as an executive, and because Tie will have made a more favorable im pression upon the people than Senator Harding. '.. ,; ' . Wilson has liberalized the Democratic party where Bryan radicalized It - The Republican party is. now. thoroughly; re actionary. . The two platforms represent the positions of the two parties. The extreme radicals will flock under - the banner of the new third party and the people can take their choice. Parties once more begin to mean something. 'I Letters From the People T f Communications ent to The. Journal for publication in this department ahouM be written on ontr ona lids of ttw paper, should not exced 300 worda in leneth and must ba aimed bjr toe writer, whose mail address in fuli aaust accfeEa pany tha contribution.) , ,..---..-- . -' ' . - ; SELIG MAN'S ADDRESS 1 1 Portland, July 20. To the Editor of The Journal Professor Seugman's : ad dress before the City club was in many respects remarkable. Just why every man who heard that address did not come away - convinced that the single tax is the only possible solution to the present extraordinary situation. I can not see. He declared the federal taxes amounted to five billions annually, five times as much as formerly, and our chief sources of revenue were dead, namely, tariff taxes and liquor taxes. He further declared that the present laws devised to meet the emergency were not workable that they were to- " t iaw srn . m -m m a . possible to enforce and would ruin busi ness if they were. But, most remarkable of all his statements, he advised busi ness men to pay no attention to the law, and to evade it where possible ; far they could not do business under it. Suppose an L W. W. had given like advice? But the remedy , proposed by the pro fessor was still worse. He advised going back to the old English law of 50 years ago. which i consists ' of a .method - of plucking the goose without making it squawk, and that has preserved English landed aristocracy intact for lo, these many centuries, and is the basis, of the German 'junker caste, and that finally brought on the world war, which is not ended. ; ' - j - ; , . i - Surely the: business men can see that we are now shipping out revenue from land values created by the people of Oregon - to . the . landed aristocracy of Europe to relieve . them of the burdens of taxation and business stagnation, j ' 1 . , J. R. Herman, i . THE OLD GUARD j ' Portland, July 19. To the Editor of The Journal The Oregonian, true io Its reactionism, finds : f aUlt with or ganized labor because it does i not In dorse the evasiveness of the Republican platform. Why should progressive labor support! a platform that is merely an ambiguous instrument to further the In terests of an organisation that derives Its strength i from labor's; opponents T Old-guard Republican! point back ; , to Republican ; prosperity, but aire . very careful not to mention the' little trick of keeping : a ready-made panic to un load on the country when its people grew , tired of thelr reactionary tactics. The old guard chants a hymnf of hate over the elastic currency bill as passed by a Democratic administration. One of their chief coercive .methods- of in spiring 'fear is annulled.1 Why don't they tell us about 'the entrance tof thou sands of cheap laborers into the -nat ion to' compete with what ' they -? were pleased to call "highly protected 'Amer ican labor" ? Some more of their pite- f ulness ; vented because the Dentocratic party took the tariff out of Jpolitics. Why did ' not the ! present Republican congress enact a law against j prof iteering? Because it would rather let the public suffer than to" adhere to or even, listen to a Democratic president and his. sound advice. The League of Nations is used as a political subterfuge to be - used by i political spite-mongers In order to enhance the : chance of a down-and-out crowd Of statesmen that cannot advance beyond harping on out worn precedents. The eight-hour law and "the recognition of labor hurtvthe old - guard. Capital is but a tool - for production. Without labor, capital can not be invested. It would lose its value. . . . . . R. L. Walter. A TOTALLY DIFFERENT COX : Portland, July 19. To the. Editor of The Journal Would you like to correct in The Journal a mistaken idea! as to Governor Cox? People who formerly lived In Ohio may Identify him withthe notorious "Boss" Cox of Cincinnati, who in ; former - years ruled ., that city In a manner similar to the old .time' Tam many. X am almost certain1 Boss Cox was a Republican. A prominent doctor of. Portland Just the other evening called Governor Cox "Boss" Cox, recalling the bad reputation of the latter . when the doctor lived in Ohio years ago. I A Democrat. Olden Oregon Grand Ronde Valley Always Tempt ing, but Settlement Delayed. The first emigrants to Oregoa were Impressed with the beauty of . the Grand Ronde valley, but its settlement was delayed by Its remoteness from a base of j supplies. The French voyageurs sometimes called the valley "La Grande vallee.! JThis was shortened by the Americans to "La Grande" and applied to the settlement out of which the pres- ciil cuy ut - us uittuuq p, . . Curious Bits of Informaition for the Curious ! ' Gleaned From Curious Places "Weather and , climate have not changed from the time of the Pilgrims down to he present day," are the clos ing words of an article by Professor Robert de C. Ward of Harvard univer sity on "The Snowfall of the "United States, In the Scientific Monthly. This is proved ' toy a "comparison of present day conditions with those so accurately recorded by the early settlers of New England. "There are accounts of great cold ; of deep snows ; of violent winter storms. There are also many, descrip tions of very mild and open winters. Thus,:: we read of December and Jan uary -resembling May "and June; of flowers growing in the woods in mid winter ; of bo little snowfall as scarcely to give opportunity for enjoying the "music of the sleigh bells' ; of t 'green Christmases' ; of 'winter turned Into summer' ; . of the "ground bare for the most part' ; of little ice ; of crocuses up. of wild violets in bloom, and of lilacs 'throwing out t"r 1 in J -v." Z. vi-. 1 5TEALIN( HIS ' CLOTHES. i - -Copyright, I02O, by Tha COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE No sham about the Shamrock. -.- Threatening weather is usually cool weather, anyway. ... . a a Isn't It lucky that little George Wash ington - didn't cut down all the cherry trees? a a -- Only a few are "of sufficient import ance to make it noticeable when we take our vacations. a a a "Worsen Dad and Man Blind In Love Triangfct' Headline. And all because love, too, is blind. -. a a Peace officers It would seem have -reason to be suspicious of extra joyful parties- going- oH In the down's early light. As the man on the end says, "Tou can't shimmy on tea." - - a" a Georges Carpentier, the French pugil ist, has arrived back In Paris, having successfully eluded Jack Dempsey dur ing his tour of the states. Or was it the other way about? - ' a i :.-;'-'",.' . Henry Ford will have to enlarge his factory. He is turning out only about a million cars a year, whereas the nopn lation of the United States has increased nearly 14.000.OU0 during the past decade. MORE ORLESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town E, E. Calvin, tlice; president of the Union Pacific railway system in charge of operation, accompanied ,by Ills wife and daughter arrived Tuesday morning on a tour of inspection and will remain in Portland two or three days. Calvin is registered at the Benson hotel, and is making his headquarters at the offices of J.' P. O'Brien, general manager of the O-W. A: N. Calvin had, no announce ment'to make concerning any changes in rail operation. 'Harry M. Adams, vice president, of the same system in charge of traffic. Is scheduled to arrive from Omaha the latter ' part of next: week. Adams is also making an inspection tour and is now at Yellowstone National park. , Fred - W. Falconer, recent purchaser of the Cunningham Sheep and Land com pany holdings of about 30.000 acres in Umatilla county. Is at the Imperial. - , - . ' -- - Mrs. F. B. Ingels of Dufur is regis tered at the Benson. . Her husband is owner of one of the largest fruit ranches around Dufur. ... a a a : ' ' . . Several tourist parties made up of prominent Eastern people are registered at the Benson during their brief stay in Portland. : Among the members are Mr. and Mrs. Sig Haas or Cincinnattl. Mr. and Mrs, M. N. Snelienburg of Phila delphia and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Blum enthai of New York. -a a - -John L. Rand of Baker and A. W. Stone of Hood River, prominent lawyers IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS : OF THE JOURNAL MAN : By Fred Lockley .. s (Firures on the great ara cost In moaer and in life are assembled by Mr. Lockley in form and style to appeal to ry human aenss that is outraged iy tha horror of war. You and "I used to lower our breath and speak with awe of : $1,000,000. It seemed an -Inconceivable amount : of money, particularly when you translated It into terms of what It would buy. vav n .000.000 is considered small change, and a man who thinks in mere millions is a piker. If you want to have your financial jideas enlarged, read the recent jreports of the Carnegie Endow ment for. International Peace. Newton D. Baker, secretary-of- war. places the direct cosu of the war at $197,000,000,-000- BriUsh staUsticians place them at about -$210,175,000,000. These figures cover ; only the actual . expenditures of the belligerents in trying to kill one another.- Now. .if you include the loss of property and all the indirect costs of the war, you. must add $151,646,942, 560 more, making the total about 4 33$ billions. - .....:--','.':.-' r- ,a -a- ',, - 'Take our own country alone. Our net expenditures were . $22.625.252.$43. or 20 times our national debt prior to the war and about the amount it cost us to run our government from 1791 to the day we declared war on Germany. We spent enough, while we were In to have carried on our Revolutionary war for over 1000 years. - a a . a -v.; ., .. Stupendous as was the money cost, the cost in dead, maimed, widows and orphans was of vastly greater import. Russia, with her 2,600.000 killed, was the heaviest sufferer, losing 39 per cent of the total dead of the great war. France, with 1,355,000, waa next, wUh 26 per cent of the total lost in killed in action. The British empire, with Its more than 850,000 dead, was third with a percentage of 16.5 of the total loss. Italy, with her urn Miwfn; " rnna FublisMnc Co. (The New Tork -World) NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS - - Some of the- crirls are wearing dresses. originally built for wear on cloudy days only. Medf ord Mail-Tribune. : . - ' a -; a .- a . . .''... The plan to hold an agricultural ex- niblt here in the fall is a goodone. It will serve to keep alive the fair spirit until such a time arrives that we ran put on a regular" fair. Heppner Qa sette-Times. v . . a a a . - . The -Pentecostal people are praying. singing and preaching on an average of six hours daily at their camp meeting. To a sinner on the outside looking In this appears to be hard work these hot days. Independence Post. a a The order against the parking of trucks on Kalem streets is rather drastic, baiem is getting to be a real city, however, and there wilt be more and more crowd ing and necessary regulation of traffic. even on our wide streets. Salem States man. a a j Visitors from other localities who so journ here for a brief period have re marked upon the magnificent sunsets we are privileged to enjoy. Durlngnhe past six weeks the pageants attending a down-dipping sun have Deen unusuauy brilliant, and are among the Joys of the flood tide of summer.-rWeston Leader. about their respective homes, are regis tered at the Portland. . . I '-' -- ;-.- '- ' : a ; a j Bert Neuberber, merchant from Baker, is making the Hotel Benson his head quarters while in the city on a business trip. - '...''.-. a a a E. C. Batten of New York, executive secretary -of the Old Colony club, reg istered at the Hotel Multnomah Mono day. , ' -. . . :'., , '.., . .. .: . a . a - a Dr.; J. M. Miller of Kiigene and Wil liam O. Tait of Medford are spending a few days in the city. They are regis tered at the Multnomah. - -- - a a a Nelson S. Spencer of New York and his daughter, Mlss! Mary J., : and Miss Gertrude B. Whittermore and Miss Lucy K. Hampson of Naugatuck, Gonn., com pose a party of tourists spending a few days in - Portland. . They are registered at the Hotel Portland. a . a a ' ; Mrs. Isaac Guggenheim of New York and Mrs. M. Geis of Philadelphia are registered at : the ' Hotel Benson. Mrs. Guggenheim is the wife of the president of the American Smelting company. : . . a . a . ' , Walter ' J. Crane of Boston, a promi nent figure In the Warren Construction company, is regisTered at the Benson. ...... a . a . a.., . i-. .. ... Leslie. Butler, well known Hood River banker,-is spending a few days in Port land at the Benson. . - ' '' 496,000 slain, followed with a percentage of 9.6 of the total loss. Then came HtUe Serbia, with 150,000, or 3 per cent j of "the total ; Uien Belgium, with over ! 100,000, making 2 per cent. Rumania , lost about 100,000. The United States ! lost 73,000, or 1.5 per cent of the total j losses in manpower during the war. j . . . ; : - . , . ... .: I Next to Russia, France had more men ; under arms than any other of the allies. : Great Britain was next. Then came the United States. The following official figures, furnished by the British war office, show where Great Britain's troops ; were recruited: England, Ireland, Scot-1 land and Wales 5,704,416. India 1.401,350. I Canada 640,886. Australia 416,809, New Zealand 220,099, South Africa 138.070, other colonies 134,837 total 8,654.467. Great- Britain's total casualties , of 2,067,442 were : suffered as follows: Killed 851,117, - missing and' prisoners 142,057, wounded '2.067,442. The British Isles lost in killed 662,083 and in wound ed 1,644,786. Canada's killed were 56. 119, with 149,733 wounded. Australia lost in killed 68,460 and- had 152,100 wounded. -The following table shows the ration strength, the combatant strength and the rifle strength : of the British army and our own army at varleus periods: , BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, it,'- . Ration ' - Combatant - : Rifla - fStreneth.' . Strength. Strength. March 11 .. 1.S28.098 1. 293.000 ftlA.OOO April 1 .. I.A67.701 1.1S1.124 628.817 Sept. 23 , , 1.752.829 1,200.181 493.30S Nor. 11 . . 1.73LC78 1.104,790 461,748 The following are the comparable fig ures for -the United States, drawn up from official sources: , .- . UNITED STATES A BUT IN FRANCE, 1918 - RaUon Combatant Rifla .'Strength.... . Strength. Strength. Marrh 11 2M5.0O0 49.000 April 1 .. S19.0OO Z14.0OO ' fll.OOO Kept. 25 .. 1.S41.O00 1.185.SOO S4I.0OO Nor. 11 i' 1,924.000 1.160.000 822.000 The Oregon Country Northwest Happening tn Brief form for tha Bus Header. i OREGON NOTES Kane, has been installed as paator of the uuureiau inurtti at oaKer. tJrh, P1 trac 10 acres adjoining the l?ntvrftv .. -. gene has been Bold to the university. . Henry Dohse. a resident of-Yaqulna bay and Corvaills for over 50 years, was found dead In his bed at Newport. Governor Olcott has returned from a Visit of inspection to Camp Lewis where the Oregon National Ouard is encamped. two gmnettera nave been arrested at Aatnria Kv lnntw ..a.-... i . . . . . j - .-"uu nniunia iin inn charge of - violating the state fishing jflmM twiner Bu-lmmtrt.- . . ... .. . .. , r , " ' ' " II IHM V) I w I i - - - - - -. . . . . . . . . ' , na I r-.-- cued from drowning in the surf at Nye I Tntll nn I ... SpriniTleid mill of the Booth-Kelly com- ..... van ivg, will AUUr UitVB 111 the ' f -ek. ;;- -. . 'Wl.ile most of the wheat in Morrow county is said to be more or less shriv eled It is believed -that practically all the crop will grade No. 1. Miss Cella' Gavin, city attorney of -The Dalies, has been appointed a member of the Oemoeratlc state central committee for Oregon. The small increase in the Hood River county population shown bv the censua is explained by the fact thut many fruit growers have movtd their families to town. Hood River dealers have been notified by the Standard Oil company that a car-load of gasoline is en route to re lieve the. famine which has prevailed for a week. - . In the .north end of Wasco county alone there will be from 2000 to 2".n0 acres of pure certified wheat, according to Professor Hyslop of the Oregon Agri cultural college. During a thunder storm last week at Lebanon an auto truck owned by K1 ward, Dickenson was struck by ltKht ning. The driver -was knocked off and the truck and three cords of wood were burned. , Frank Davey, who will represent Ma rlon county in the next legislature, is preparing a bill providing that special sessions of the legislature can consider only measures specified In the call of the governor. . WASHINGTON The assessment roll of 1920 for Walla Walla county shows a' total valuation of $32,748,725. 'A modern Catholic school and church are to be built soon at, Toppeni!h. ac cording to a decision of the congrega tion, Cowiche and Terrace ITelchts schools, both In the rural section of Yakima city, will each have $15,000 additions this summer. The old pumping. house In 'the Walla Walla auto park la betnir movpd anil converted- into a shower bath for tourists. ,The directors of the Trl-state Auto club have decided to furnish bonds for members arrested for- violation of tlie traffic laws. The price of gasoline at Yakima hn been boosted four cents a gallon, making the ruling price 31 cents by the Standard Oil company. . Sixteen members of the Tilllcum and Shuntanka Campflre circles have re turned to-Centralia from a week's camp ing trip on Trimble Island. Officers of the Wlnlock branch of the Washington Egg and Cooperative asso ciation expect to produce 15,000 caaea a month within a short time. The top selling price for sugar at Se attle this week is 25 cents per pound. This is a drop of 3 to 5 cents over the highest mark reached last spring. In an effort to save the life of a girl chum who had waded into deep water Margaret Costigan, a 15-yenr-oll jrirl of Spokane, lost her life in Spirit Jake. Tha chum was rescued by others. IDAHO The state treasurer has received $2:s. 000 from counties In . payment of the July tax levies. Rose J. Humacher has been appointed postmaster at Spirit Lake to succeed Anna McMahon deceasea. , . -Doir C Johnson of Pocatello has sue- -cessfully passed the mental examination of Annapolis naval academy. President Wilson has appointed Huy E. Van Bushklrk postmaster at I'otlatc-h .in succession to W. A. Fiscus resigned. During June over one million acres of land In Idaho were classified and ojMMied to entry under the Stock raising home stead law. . ; The bids received by the state high way department for the conntruciion of sections of federal aid projects in Bonne ville and Butte counties have been re jected. ; During the month of June 10 hunters were employed by the United Htates bu reau of biological survey in Idaho. Pred atory animals including 107 coyotes and six bobcats have been killed. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: President Bob Halfers ruled It outer order to Invite Jedge Wallace McCam- ant to the Corners forum to explain why he went back on his word in Chi cago and voted the way he promised hot to. Bob 'lowed the Jedge was a law sufficient unto hisself and didn't . need to explain to nobody why he fluked on the people.. Rube Hatfield told Bob we could remember Wallace next time he run fer anything. Bob come back with the statement duly pounded In on the table that Wallace was too smart to ever run. fer anything In 0rgon- hut he might take an , appintment to the United States supreme court. If the rest of the members'd agree in advance to Jlne in and always look on pints of law the way he told 'em to. Oreg-on-Iade N'ewsprint Is Used in a Dpzen . Western States Print paper manufactured In the district immediately adjacent to Portland is distributed throughout 11 .or 12 Western states. It Is sent as far south as Los Angeles and as far east as Salt Lake and Denver. There are four mills In the dis trictone at Camas, Wash., with a dally capacity of 200 tons s one at Oregon City with a capacity of 100 tons; one at West Lynn. Immediately opposite Oregon City, with a daily capacity of 235 tons, and one at Lebanon with a capacity of 20 tons. There has recently been established in North Portland a plant for the manufacture of waxed paper Used In wrapping candles and bread. There are but two other Important points of paper production on the Pacific coast, b4h in British' Colum bia. One is at Ocean Falls.-where there is a mill with a dally capacity rjf 225 tons, and one at Powell, wiih a daily capacity of 225 tons. Not all of the paper produced in this district goes Into newsprint. There is a large production of wrap ping .paper and .tissue. Oregon-made wrapping ' paper is sold to points as far distant as towns in Florida, v On the other hand, aids to paper manufacture are brought from wide ly scattered points lime, magneslte and Hum from California, sulphur from Texas, resin from New Orleans, woolen felts from New York and New Jersey, and cotton dryer felts from the Soutb- To give an idea of how a metropoli tan newspaper consumes newsprint, the paper used by The Journal tn an average dally Issue would make a path five miles long, and that In The Sunday Journal, 25 miles. .--i :