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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
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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
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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.) ,
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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."
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1 5TEALIN( HIS ' CLOTHES.
i - -Copyright, I02O, by Tha
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
No sham about the Shamrock.
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Threatening weather is usually cool
weather, anyway.
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Isn't It lucky that little George Wash
ington - didn't cut down all the cherry
trees?
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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? -
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. 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.
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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. -
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'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;
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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
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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.
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