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10 THE' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1C20. AJf IKDKPENDKNT NKW8PAPKE C 8. JACKSON. ............ 'raMZ Be eelm. be confident, be cheerful -"j""? us to others a yoa would ha--e tbom do anto yon, 1 PoUi-hed erery week day w Hu ttJ y I'm -t Tb Journal Building, Broadway and -:.luU tmt, fortUnd. Onioa. Entered at the Iotoffice at Portland. Oregon. , r tr." rofioa U.rouga the mane cJs matter. TE!-Kl'HO'K8 Mt Tl 78. Automatic 660-8 , all' tetrtment reached 7 .-- Benjamin at Ke.-tnor Co.. 9,fi0u3U 22b Fifth aeenue. New Vork KOU aeaunrs Build inc. ciucaso. THB. OKK.JON JOCBNAL . tl hto seises adeertising copy which ,JSr Jectionable. It also will not print an . . ,that In any way simulates Trading Ih! woM readily be recognized aa adser- '.-. Using. kt-RSU-RIPTION RATES V . By wrrier. city and eotintry. v . 1 - DAILY AS D BIN DAY . . ,w ...Jl1;.. .10 U. week -05 m ADVAJ5CE . -.. . 2k One ...."? Mix' montha. ... . DAILY -Without Sunday! One yar.,....J0 iSll months.... 3.25 Three month.. 1.75 One month.. . . . .ou WEEKLY ' On,' month ....... ' ' SUNDAY i. (Only) One yea ... Six month,. . Three months Hon 1.75 1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY One year.:. . ..-.$8.50 One year...... $100 I bi. niri .... .60. 1 These fatea apply only in the Went IUiea to Eastern pointa furnished on applica tion. Make remittance, by MoneyOrder fcipre-e Order or Draft. If your postoff tee " Money Order Office. 1 or 2-cent ataeaus will be accepted. ' Make all remittance, payable to lUe Journal, Foruana. "jregon. Gentleness i far more successful in all "it enterprises than yiolence; indeed, rio )enre generally . frustratea ita own purpose, while gentleness acarcely erer fails. Locke. THE WORLD'S HATE AFTER hcrdirlg all the Christian population; of Fouladjik Into a church, Turks - set fire to 'the build- Ing and 1300 of the refugees perished.; The Turks are at war with' the Greeks in Anatolia and at war with the Greeks In Thrace. The Arabs are fighting the French In Syria. An army of the ( Soviets Is invading Armenia. Russia Is at. war with Poland. . ':, . China has a war. The Balkans are seething with war and unrest. Jaffan ia Krvine nn an armH nnnollnn nf mi vui 'n va u iin.vi .fi.vu)juivu v Siberia, with occasional clashes with the Russians. Germany, angered and menacing, continues to bicker bitterly over the peace terms, and there are recurring threats of a new war a era in st-her. ' . r Economic experts with jthe " diplo matic corps at Washington insist that the most alarming fact of all is j pass-, Ing unnoticed.. It is the menace of i famine in Europe with possibility of all the bitter consequences to come out of the desperation of millions made frantic; by hunger. Here are all the seeds and situations "for, bringing on another great war. . The fires are smoldering. There are predictions that within five years they will flame forth into another con flagration. Vhen it comes the very ' men who are now opposing , the League of Nations will be first to demand that we get into the conflict. They are the men who were de ' manding that America enter the last war when President Wilson was usiiitf -alI the powers of his great office to keep us out. They 'are the' men who are demanding armed intervention In ', fexico. which means ' a three years war with Mexico. A camoufjaged and honey-worded demand of that kind is In the Chicago' platform. , , gome, of those men represent other men who "want army contracts,, and, therje . are $b Ruii makers, and arms makers, and munitions makers and others of the 22,000 "men who became millionaires - out of the last war.- . There is a League of Nations. But the .nation whose power in moral in fluence could make it effective Is not a member. That rialioh Is Anierrca ;and she is in company of "revolu tionary Mexico, Bolshevist Russia and unspeakable Turkey." ' European na tions are jealous and suspicious of one -another.; America as a member of the league would be more of a restraining r influence against war than all Euro- . But pro-Germans in the. United v States want America to remain out of the league. America hi the league would mean a quiet, moral Influence - that would make the organization Clijionecflll 1'lfrt tha veilTf thnt ' many's cherished . hopes of revenge in the new war her militarists hae already predicted, would never be realized. ' - - Hiram Johnson and Borah gathered -that vote together and organized it- .They used it as a club when the treaty was under consideration by threaten Ing to bolt the Republican party if the treaty were ratified. They used it as club at the Chicago convention, and . there forced the old ' guard senators to adopt a plank which Hiram John son says , is a no-league platform. Candidate - Harding Is bidding for that vote. He Is already attacking the league. He is singing the song of hate ' against;' the president of the -United States. European" ideas directed the party policy. And meanwhile 1500 Christians were herded into a church and burned to death by the Turks; There are more small wars In the world now than at any time In a century. If the pro German policy . of no-League succeeds and the - great moral influence ; of America for peace is denied the world how long will it be until the parents of America will again be saying good byes to their sons who will be leav ing home to fight in another great war on foreign soil? When Candidate Harding, In a speech In the senate, declared that a dollar Is enough for a bushel of wheat he placed a very low estimate on the toil and endeavors of farmers and their families. That waa during war time , when : a dollar a bushel would fall far ajiort of payitig the coBt of production. ' . BEFORE THE CRASH THE parents' of a child who killed herself with ' a revolver on the Fourth of July; are now blaming themselves for, leaving the weapon where the. child could reach' It. But they blame themselves too late: The weapon was tiere, the child reached it, and killed herself. ' . It is the same with automobile acci- dents. It Is blame and sorrow, after ward; in some cases, rather than pre vention before. .Those parents who allow children to" play In the streets, who fall fo warn 'them -of the dangers of. congested thoroughfares.' and who permit : them to' .Invite Injuries , or death through carelessness, are leav ing the gun in reach of the child. Several children; have been killed by automobiles in or near Portland dur ing 1920. Some of the young lives cpuld have been saved bytparents. The blame and grief can . in many cases be avoided by teaching children the peril of the streets. . Men- In the calling agree that Rollin Kirby of the New York World is the best cartoonist in America. The Journal thinks Its readers will be pleased to view his work from day to day on this page. . v A STORY OF GAS A- CITIZEN of Portland who burns gas In his home decided .'that the meter would be more "convenient If located on the opposite side of the basement. r . , the obliging attendant at the. .gas office assured him . that . the meter could be moved ' and that he would be billed only for the actual cost of the service. He asked how much the cost would be and was ' told that it would depend upon conditions. Two days later a man from the gas company came. Inspected, thei meter, made, some, marks on the pipe and went away. ' ; , Three days later a Gas company wagon appeared, bringing several lengths of pipe and a bag of fittings: Five days after that an artisan ar rived and he actually made the trans fer of the gas meter. . r-; ; ' "f The head of the house, ; returning from the office, found the bag of gas fittings on the front porch "Did the gas man leave this here, and am I. pay for it? -he inquired. "No," answered the boy, wtyo -had been an interested witness of iheNperation on the meter, "he said another man would be along to take it away." t . ' "It was too bad the company didn't send along an assistant to carry his handkerchief and bring; him lemort V commented the citizen, svmoa- trrejlically: .-- ! ." I-But down In j his I- heart '"' he was vondering if 'the bill for cost would include the (inspector, the wagon, the workman and the expense of a special trip tu'haul the small bag of fittings downtown. ,!.;.- And the reader may wonder if, when the- gas company goes ,to the state publio service commission for an in crease in rates, it will. plead the high cost of personal service as its justifi cation. V A Ctticago dentist, speaking be fore the Oregon State Dental society, declared that there ts no excuse for causing pain while extracting Tteeth. Is it true that a j way has been found to - extract teeth painlessly., , pf . was the statement propaganda for con sumption of - those persons who would about as soon visit the under taker as a dentist.' ' ' THE NEW DISTRICT A REPRESENTATIVE of the Port land Qiambcr of Commerce went to Seattle and there endeavored to secure Information as to the number of shipping board vessels loaded In Seattle. : ' ' : - - -' : ' Both government and municipal of ficials in Seattle declined to furnish the inf ormationi : i So far as Seattle vas. concerned the business of the publio Was not j public business but the business-of tlje community. Yet it is Seattle which has been named by the shlpping.board as head quarters of a new Northwest district which Includes Portland. "When ; the resolution creating the district becomes operative will Seat tle continue to turn Portland inquirers away? Will all shipping board busi ness be monopolized by Seattle except mat ror which Seattle can claim the credit without actually handling the cargo In Puget sound. The prospect iqf seeing Seattle re ceive credit for the rapid expansion in Portland's use of the American mer chant marine la not pleasant. It Is unendurable. - The shipping board and Admiral Benson, - chairman - of the shipping board,' have . no moral right . to deliver the port interests of Portland into the hands of our most destructive and determined competitor. i' s As v President Van Duzer : o-f the Chamber pf Commerce says, we are handling enough shipping board ves sels on the Columbia to give us5 a right to deal direct with Washington. We are " employing more ; shipping board vessels than Seattle. Portland demands a square deal but 1ms yet to receive it from the shipping board. HIGHER PASS JSNGE It RATES PASSENGER rates on the railroads . are to be increased. So are freight rates. The wage awards are to cost the companies $600,000,000. The roads also, i d7uirefl,0i2,0ro,00a for other purposes. ; It is an enormous charge that is thus to be laid on 'traffic. ; J ' '. ". It would be wrong to place all this huge charge on freight. U Advance after advance in freight rates has al ready added heavily, to the " cost of living and to the tribute which pro ducers must pay to get their products to market. ' , : It would be unjust to lay all this 1,692,000,000 of added tax on the farm er's potatoes,: hay, grain, fr'JV live stock, wool and other staples whfch he feeds and clothes the world. Nor should all the ' advance be laid proportionately upon lumber; steel, coal and the other commodities inci dent to human activity, and at the same time exact no added toll from' the traveling( public. All people traveL" But the great mass of those who 'journey are well able to pay the expense of travel. It is not the ? street car crowd that mostly luxuriates in the ' pala tial Pullmans: - Nor is It the potato eaters and bread buyers and horpy handed toilers from the' industrial dis tricts or the workers In the telephone offices and grocery stores- that jour ney over ' the country viewing the scenery and peopling the-reports. - ,. ' Higher rates on what we eat and wear and no advance for thbs'e who tour- puld : be unthinkable, although the ra1hoad managers.- in their peti tion r before .'the Interstate commerce commission ' urged that there : be no Increase in . passenger rates and that all the great sum asked be raised by freight rate increases.- A man convicted of ; driving an automobile with defective brake was fined $25 by fudge Rossman in municipal court Tuesday. The ma chine had rolled down hill 200 feet before the operator could stop it, testimony indicated The. fine was not too heavy.: A machine with de fective brakes is almost as danger ous as a machine without a driver. EDUCATION AND IMMIGRATION BETWEEN 22.000 and .OOO immi grants entered this country at the Port of . New York In the months of January and February. There were 29,000 in March, 37,000 in April, 40,000 in .May "and more, in June. ; In spite of the efforts ; of foreign nations ; to keep their men at borne and in spite of the shortage of steamship accom modations, the statistics - indicate an increasing tide of Immigration to this country. 1 I . Before the war. fpreignfrs jcame to America at the rate of more than a million a year. Man could not speak the t English language and could nt read jt. They settled in groups, form ing a citizenship of pro-alien tenden cies in certain states. There were al most 10,000.000 foreigners In 'the' United States at the beginning of the war who could neither read nor write our language.-; " . - ; . '' ; ; ' When the war opened we found large groups of pro-Germans huddled together within the borders of a few states. They had sufficient votes to control some elections. They atr tempted to hinder America in prose cuting the war. it remained for the great conflict to teach us a lesson of immigration. We had allowed the aliens to enter, the country faster than we could absorb them. They ; had not been taught our language. They had no adequate conception of our institu tions or ou! ideals. They came here with European training, and because of our Inability to educate the huge streams of immigrants they clung to European training, European ideals and European thoughts. , Our laws should prevent immigra tion beyond the power of the country to assimilate the foreigners- More aliens than -we can teach means per petuation of European politics and ideals in the United States. It means districts of European domination and thought. ; It means a divided America.' Some of the best and most loyal citizens of America are people of foreign , birth or ancestry. ( But they are people who sought and readily gained full comprehension of Ameri can purpose, American , progress and the American democracy. If these' Eastern' 'thunder . storms persist in the West Mr. Kipling ought to be asked to revise his poetic utter ance about "East. Is East and West Is West, and never the twain shall meet." . . - COST OF A, QUART THE dairymen who supply Portland with milk ajer that the' quart of milk;- which they sell to the dealer for a fraction less than 7 cents actu ally costs them 9.53 cents to produce. That, in other words, they m ake a present of about . 2 cents to the dealer with every quart. , In the same realm of computation, the milk producers of Northern CalU fornia have":, reached . a cost . figure through the aid of a specialist which In a measure helps support the con tention of the local dairymen.' ,' It was found that during an aver age period of six months the cost of producing a hundred pounds of milk was 14.65. This would be at the rate of 9.8 cents a quart. The dairymen received from the California milk dis tributors during the same period t3.13 a hundred pounds or 6.8 cents a quart. The report Indicates not orfly that costs of production are On approxi mately the same plane throughout the Pacific, coast region but that dairy men are as little successful elsewhere as here In securing a price calculated to keep them In the Glairy business. Evidently a solution of the. milk supply problem, national In Its scope, is badly needed. THE LEAGUE AND TH E "2 i WARS' ' t By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal . ' Whingtonj July , 22. Senator Hard-' Ing-, in his recent unexpected explosion on the League of - Nations, said : one thing regarded as significant, when he said: ; "Should the Democrats win,- the league would, be ratified, and America would ft once become a . party to the 21 wars tu. tt going on in the world. The Republican candidate's statement that the leagrue will be. ratified, if Cox Is elected agrees perfectly with what the Democratic leaders ay. His additional comment that America ' would at once become a-party to 21 wars Is a little Hiram Johnsonism that nobody can be expected to take seriously. . Everybody knows that, America would r not be ob ligated to take part in any wars except by Us own vote. . .. - ' V " '' i 5 ; 7 ' e : e r.v:''., ''y ' .. j Another Important feature of the state ment Is the omission of Harding to say what , the success of the Harding ticket will mean concerning the league. . The Inference seems to be that If he wins the league will not be ratified, although he later refers to "conflicts into ' which America would 'be projected without rigidly safeguarding reservations." ,.: The question next arises.:, what are "rigidly safeguarding reservations ?" Are they the -Lodge reservations. , something less, or something more? - Senator Knox, a high authority in Republican counsels, says the Lodge reservations are worth less. Senator Lodge, another high au thority, regards them as ample. Senator MoCumber and - Senator iMcNary, two other excellent authorities, consider them much more than ample. Senator Borah and Senator Johnson, who can be quoted as authorities only- among the irrecon cilables, say it Is Impossible to frame reservations that are rigid enough. ; ' '" '' - ;- . " .' ;- ' ; It seems evident that Senator Harding will be asked to make : himself more clear, for ' his statement has the same pliability that his speeches in the senate have had. and it omits to say what po sition he thinks the United States should assume, or whether- he believes that the United States should hold aloof from all efforts to establish world peace. - " V .Franklin D. Roosevelt, the, Democratic nominee for vice president. Is Considered to have countered neatly when, replying to the Harding statement, he remarked s "One of the prominent issues Is thus becoming early and clearly drawn. A Democratic victory means ratification of the treaty and the League of Nations, which, as thj world knows, is already constituted. A Republican victory means that the i United States, with Russia, Mexico and Turkey., shall remain out side." ..; ., '-. -v- - , , : Congratulations ,! From the Dayton (Ohio) News f The (unjoined article appeared in GorernoT Coi'a newspaper, the Dayton Daily New, the day after hsa nomination, written by Howard Egbert, editor of the New. J - i It is hardly necessary to say that the news of the . nomination , of . Governor James M. Cox for president of the Unit ed States, by. the Democratic -party: in national convention at San Francisco, furnishes the theme for unalloyed happi ness at the News pffice. . Those of us who have been his associates' In the conduct of this paper have been talking about this thing for a long time. We rather expected It, tn fact.. It Is most gratifying to think that the great vic tory has come. Life Is ever so much sweeter for everyone, from press room .to the roof. .The employes of the News are conscious 'of a great distinction coming not only to the newspaper Itself and its publisher,. but to. the. city pf Dayton, the state of Ohio,' and the nation : as well; It becomes rather difficult to collect one's 'thonghts -under- the- circumstances of the moment. We want to congratulate the v '"chief because we believe he de served 'to' win. It was- written in the stars that trls greatest honor should Come .to, him. . His record as t governor of Ohio, as representative from the his toric Third Ohio district, and as private citizen. ot Dayton is brilliant. 'No man who endeavors first to be of service to his fellows can be denied' a place in the world.' The- universe .admires a man who sticks everlastingly at it until the principles he. favors are triumphant. ' Gdverndr" Cox Is a man of principle. He always has been. Whether it is in the newspaper office or in the governor's chair' tlie "chief" always has been the same. When he decides that ' a thing rhust, "e.qne. for. V.e. good of everyone, he makes up his mind that be will fight it out on that line if it takes all sum mer and winter. - ; -" 1 1. is not necessary to review his offi cial life. . -This record is illuminated by achievements quite beyond the limits of the ' space at our command at this In stant: - He is progressive in every mean ing of this word. He is Intensely human. He loves his fellow men and he takes pride in helping them. We like to think of him at this moment as the man who started In life as a farmer's boy. The opportunities pf primitive farm life were too limited to hold a man of .his striking abilities and ambitions. He began asa newsboy, worked aa, a - reporter, then went to Washington - as - Congressman Sorg's "secretary, then bought the Day ton vNews and later the Springfield News. Then he went - to congress and was reelected. A jump to the governor's office followed and then two more terms, a record of no mean consequence ;. In Ohio. Whafhe did in the way of initiat ing and pressing high-minded legisla tion for the citizenship of his home state now is history, eternally written in the hearts and minds of his fellow citizens. We'd like to say to him today, "Con gratulations, Jimmy," but he's the chief around here and we don't call him "Jim my" to his face, - But we cannot help, one and all. from the newsboys on the streets to the men who are associated with him in the conduct of the paper, saying, "Congratulations, governor. God bless you.: You'll make a 'great president and we're for' you from now on just as we pave been in the; other years when - the game sometimes went hard against us." : And we extend to Mrs.' Cox and thei members of the governor's family the same hearty , felicitations. Dayton, we know, is proud ' of this- new distinction; ONE fT-i st--vj 'i.-N-- 1 We know Ohio is. When "everybody in the United States knows as' much about Governor James M; Cox as those f who know him best, and . appreciate, his thorough i honesty "and high purpose . in public life, we seem te catch a vision of the While House, witlv the ''chief' there. There has come to all of us a vision' of universal affection for the man.vof the same variety as . that which his' news paper associates in' Dayton always have held. : i. vv- f'-v ' .',; ; ; ; i Letters From the People Communication- aent to The Jonrnal -for pablieation in thia department ihoqld be written on only one aide of the paper, abouid not exceed 800 word -in length and mutt be aiened by the writer, whoce mail addreaa in full muU accom pany the oontributioaw - . CONGRESSMEN'S TERMS , Portland, Julj '2ls To the Editor of The Journal Congressman McArthur is right respecting a reduction of repre sentatives in congress. I Lis a great pity thia was not done some time ago. - Then the peace treaty, would have been upheld and .thousands of- Uvea-saved. . Respect ing also the extension xt congressmen's terms, he is on the right track. No man can. become a statesman In a short term. Short terms mean, in many instances,' in trigue and scheming, v ' - vWlth our system, political jealousies take the . place of the , nation's Interest and the welfare, of the people. Besides, in all business of the government a few take .Uie ; lead, jrlgbt' or wrong, and the rest 'follow like sheep and the welfare of the country can go to the devil so long as their petty .jealousies and private schemes come fut on top. It has been that way for-the last 50 years in state legislatures and congress and the people go hang after the votes are secured. - Osborne Yates. ,AN OPEN LETTER ON SLOGANS y -Portland, July. 21. .To "Stephen A. Lowell, Pendleton, Or. Your article on a slogan for Harding In the pregonian, of July .21 'prompts me to answer. "Hard ing and Home" Is very good and appro priate, and should - be adopted. As he will conduct his campaign at .toome, "1 was 'considering it a good place , to' keep hlm.( :' wilU however,, agree to vote for Harding if you will' Inform me where I can, secure Information that will ' verify your statement that "Cox and Cock tails' is the '.slogan of the Democratic party. Fair enough? : ' -' ' . e Answer in either The Journal or the Oregonian as 1 carefully read both. On the Fence. A WORKER . West Salem, July 21. To the Editor, of The Journal- We have a Salem woman who has the distinction of picking cher ries at C S. .Ruge's cherry orchard 'in West Salem 4nd thereby earning $13.80 working 10 .hours, and receiving 2 cents a pound. Can any other person in the state beat it? s " ' i NEIGHBOR. Curious Bits of Information " -. for-the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places ; Snow crystals, : which vary greatly In form, : belong to the hexagonal system. They are formed upon a nucleus. In the same way, as a raindrop, and sometimes reach the ground smgly, but more com monly In coherent masses or flakes. Meteriogical . observers , bave obtained photographs of the ' crystals as seen through the compound microscope. jThe longer rays' that constitute .the arms of the six-rayed stars, are generally hollow tubes, evidently built up by additions to the edge of an original crystal. Snow'is white because the crystals are so minute that .each cell of the retina receives a general impression produced by the com bination of different wave-- lengths re flected from Innumerable minute facets. Red snow, and more rarely other colors, such as green, blue or black snow, are produced! by 'the - action ' of innumerable fungi known .as the Micrococcus nivalis. Red snow has been photographJed in nat ural colors. Olden Oregon Settlers Opposed Bringing Indians to .Grand Ronde Reservation. The Grand Rende Indian reMn on the western border of Pont and Tarn hill counties, was established in 1854 by Judsort Palmer, Indian superintendent, for the Durm rr npnvMin.. . . - . - - - - ' nuuie lur the Rogue river and Umpqua Indians. . excicea me anger and opposi tion of the Willamette valley. setUers to such an extent that Palmer deemed it prudent to ask General Wool for a guard of escort when the migration was made. Before' Palmer had fniiv oom ... . plans to bring ail the tribes between - A-itmurnia ime to the reservation his removal from office was COAL BARON IN TROUBLE ilatai ill11 1 - -w" ..--- - Copyrleht, 1920. by The COMMENT AND ; SMALL CHANGE How're you fixed for winter fuel? An honest man neither buys nor sells himself...' ,. ' ' Two is company and three is a crowd at a genuine pienic ....-e.ee. More people would go to heaven if there were Sunday excursions.. e e e . It is usually the man who doesn't know the secret of success who is willing to impart it to others. - . e e " While 4t is' possible for a man to love his neighbor as himself, it - depends a good deal upon the age. and sex of the neighbor aforesaid. , ,, ,- General Guajardo, Mexican.' was fonnd guilty of treason at a court-martial and was shot at sunrise. Wonder what con stitutes "treason" down In Mexico J" ; i. ..... , .. -; rMaybe' the -reason Georges Carpentier couldn't get a fight in the United States was because none was willing to take on more than one George at a . time. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town - Senator John : R. Nickelsen-of Hood River, unpledged ani as yet unconvinced, has come up from ttfa seashore disguised in a coat of russet tan to take a looksee at the different candidates for president of "the 'state senate. -The senator holds the. theory that, with Governor Olcott flying around overhead all the time, it Is up to the senate to pick a man big enough to fill the governor's chair with snugness and eclat should a -dolorous fate or a defective-wingbes.rn .aome day make it necessary to garner the jOlcot tian remains from the saddened .land scape. If the senator can, discover one man like that -out of the 30 senatorial possibilities be is going home to abide in contentment .until the legislature meets, in January. If he can nbt, he says he is going to do the best he can. , . Mrs. George L. Rauch, 771 Eaet Seventy-second street, left last week for a trip through, Glacier and . Yellowstone national parks, accompanied by Mrs.. Crane Lumis of .Seattle. Mrs. Rauch will conUnue her trip to the East and spend the summer at Detroit. Ann Arbor and other-townr in Michigan and Wis consin, returning by way of Banff and the Canadian Rockies In October. ' ':... --;..'.. i' Senator B'. L. Eddy of. Roseburg- is spending a little while in Portland telling-various other members of the sen IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred More fipirea relalins to the great war are herw preaented i by ' Mr. Lockley, ahowins what-Amerit-a'a troopa did. "He alo notes an ap proaolilng event of treat interest,; the participa tion of the Knichta of Columbu in the. un veiling of a etatue of Lafayette at ileti-J In Jogging back and forth by auto, boat, stage and train,-1 frequently run across lads I met overseas. Usually we chat about places or people we knew in the, war days. A day or so ago I ran across some facta relative to the service of our boys over there that are worth saving "for -future reference. ; Cut them out and put them into your 'pocketbook or scrap book. Here they are: ' 5 Two out of every three American sol France took oart in battle. ' The number who 'reached France was 2,084,000 and of these 1.390,-000-saw active service at the front. Of the 42 divisions that reached France, 29 took part in active combat service. Seven were regular army divisions. 11 were organised from the national guard, and 11 were made upof national army troops. . American divisions were In' battle for 200. days and engaged In. 13 major opera tions.". From the middle of 'August, 1918, until the end of the war, the American divi sions held, during the greater part of the time, a front larger than that held by the British forces. . . -- In October, 1918, the American division held 101 miles of line,- or 23 per cent of the entire "western front! j On April 1. 1918, the- Germans had a superiority of 324,000 !n rifle strength. Due to American arrivals the allied strength exceeded that oT the Germans In June and was more Jian .800,000 above It In November. ' '"-'-'" ' t .v. K.etia nf Kl- Mlhlel. 550.000 Americana . were engaged, - a compared with about lOU.tHW OH UienoruiMU biuw in the batUe of Gettysburg, ; The artil lery fired more than 1,000,000 shells in four hours, which is the roosff intense M mm mm Prea PublUhlnf Co. (The New lurk World) NEWS IN BRIEF - " , SIDELIGHTS i The -folks "who have be"en paying as hieh as 125 a auart for whiskey are now kicking' on the advance in the price of milK. -fciaiem statesman. ;.'. . - ..'... .. ' 'Five or air years aro the Sentinel said that the war in Eu rope was going to make life different for. every one of Its readers and profoundly affect living con ditions. Still, we must confess, - we hadn't thought of 30-cent sugar then CoquiUe Sentinel. e ', ; -' John' D. Rockefeller' Jr..' son of the world's -richest man, and himself beyond actual want, visited Oregon last week. They all come, from the richest to the noorest. sooner or . later if they can. Oregon Is - a . good state to viHit It la better to live in. rowers jairiou s Would It not be a' good plan to start something-again on that muffler busi ness ?i For a time last year things were fairly quiet, out siowiy tne auto arivers nave oeguii 10 (ei . i.jiciumvf5 e;w mim now the nuisance Is almost as bad as it ever has been. It can be stopped Bend Bulletin. , . . , . i . , T ate that the Douglas county metropolis is just-. as capable of -producing hlga .class material to fill the office of preaU dent of . the senate as its surrounding farms and fields are of raising the fill ing- for r 100 , per cent shortcakes. He wrote a letter to quite a few-of the sena torial boys some little time ago, inform Ing . them he would be In town on July 21. . and inviting thorn to drop in and take a look at their next presiding of ficer or something like that. Indications are that quite a bunch of the senators have "planned to anawer the letter la person.' . ' , . ; . ;-:- ' - . ' .; Hyman Cohen, market editor of The Journal, makes a trip every year through the .wheat districts. He did this. year. It was only a few days ago that he arrived at Madras, just as the sun was sett In. Hot and dusty. Cohen was hot and dusty, too. He wanted to wash his hands and face, but no water gushed from : the ' faucets. He Inquired of the clerk, ; "WottelU Bill?" "Chautauqua coming tomorrow and we've got to save water," quoth the clerk. Mrs. Barnett Binswanger and daugh ter Julia of Philadelphia, Mho. are mak ing an extended totir of the 'West, are visiting Mrs. F. 8., Baker and Mra C. L. Dick of Portland,, nieces of Mrs. Bln-1 swanger. ' VV'; Lock ley concentration of artillery fire recorded In history. .. ,- The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted 47 days, during which 1,200,000 American: troopa were engaged. During September the Knights of Co lumbus will send a delegation of about BOO members from the United States to Met i to participate In the unveiling of a 'statue of Lafayette, a gift from-America to France. The statue was designed by Paul W. Bart let t, an American -sculptor, and cost, f 60,000. It, will be erected in Metz, on the ' Bite . of the statue of Friedrich of Germany, which was over turned by the people of Metz on Novem ber 11, 1918. The statue is 18 feet high and shows Lafayette oil horseback with upraised -sword. . A versified tribute to Lafayette in the New York Times waa the following : , . .. . .: , . Out from Metz on a bright June day - Came the Marquia de Lafayette. The elilmea rang- out and the town Waa say; Bold in hia youtlk be rode, away. Away to the writ, and there tie met - Soldier of Km nee. bra re Joaqueriaw I'elieuer and hia gallant crew, , Krery one it fighting, man, - Krery one a man- who knew That life ia brief and lore ia long. i ' And liberty'a ail of a fieeuaa'a ong. ' ---. .--.- Oat to the atrugcling West he came, . f Noble Marquia of Lafayette 1 Out to the wet he brought the flame. The flame of ir'rance. -Ilia magic aame Caught men's heart ia tta magic net. The flame of. i'Tance to a darkened land, ' On and on id the strugzle it went: The flame of France, to a stumbling band. -Ragged and worn and all but spent. I 1 gave new seal to the freemen a tifht. Till the whole world abooe ia it gloriou light Rack ta Metz from the wondrous West. Hail to the Merqnis ol l-aUyeBel Mack wtthbaya Irom a cturalruus quest, W rite hisname with the -nation's beat. The names Columbia can't forget.-. . , In the heart of Metz, there let him wtand : In America's heart ilia niche 4a made t'acing the West, hia sword in band, Cloriout, young end unafraid E- . ..- Knighta of rrance in r, hundred flgltta, . . lake this tribute from Mew World Knighta. i The Oregon Country Nortbweat Happenings In Brief Form for the 'Busy ileader.i OREGON NOTES The cltv treasurer of ."ilrm rennrta a total of e81.54i in, the city treasury. ; ai tne result or ne tenon hv the t v a club, the streets of Athena and vacant iota are being shorn of foxtail and weeda, ., Directors of s-hool dlstrlot No. 87. near Pilot Rock. In Umatilla county, are having:' plans prepared- for a new school house.' . . Water from the rltr at Thorn IfoU low Is shut off from the Peindleton ur ply In an effort to dltw-ont Inue the una of river water. , , - Work has been beprun on the three story fruit packing plant of the Oregon Orowers" association at Myrtle Creek, in uousia county. Trucks, express and fruit vehicles are prohibited from parking tn the Ijuhuk-km district by an ordinance paaaed by the city council of Salem. Salmon fishermen of Atsoa river are wondering how much they are going to fret for fish. The canneries are aeoept ng their chlnook catches, but not fixing a price for them. - . The fund helnir mihaz-rlbert at CnmilllM for a new Methodist church has already passed the ti0i)0 goal, but additional subscript ions will be received to provide tor a auuo pipeorgan. The Buehner' Lumber: company at North Bend has begun construction of a; monster smokestack. : It will be of concrete 110 feet high with a diameter of 10 feet at the top. I State Treasurer Hoff has ssked Attor ney Oeneral Brown for an opinion as to the legality of a Klamath county road bond issue of f6U.O0 and a water bond issue of 120,000 voted by Heppner. Umatilla county fruit trees are plain ly showing the extent of Injury suh tained last - winter. Sick and partly dead trees, especially cherry, pear and prune trees, are seen In many orchard, says County Agent Bennion. Former County Judge Springer of Crook county has sold his ranch nesr Madras to the Eugene Bible school. It is understood the school will operate the i anch, devoting the net proceeds to de fray the , expenses of the school. ' WASHINGTON1 Committees are arranging plans for the Grays. Harbor pioneers' plcnlo at lioquiam, August 12. . Six watches and a number of com passes have been stolen from a Cei tralia Jewelry store. County School Superintendent Bart lett of Kittitas has resigned to engage in the business of raising chickens. The gasoline famine at Prosper was broken by the arrival of an Smiu gallon tank from the oil fields of Wyoming. R. A. Belvall. postmaster of I'alOuse, has tendered his resignation In order that he may engage in the banking busi ness. A combination sale rf purebred live stock will be held at Harrington. Octo ber 4, bv the Lincoln County Livestock association. The Raymond volunteer fire depart ment is planning a big street produc tion and carnival during the week be ginning August 2. The city commission of Centralla has purchased a pulmotor, which will be kept at the city hall easy, of access. It cost the city $175. Mayor Myers of Wlnlock has riven notice that after 30 days from July 8 all dogs found by the dog catcher with out a license will be taken in charge by the city. . Thomas Taulin. after serving a term in the county Jail, at CJiehalts for the manufacture and sale of moonhltie whiskey, has' been rearrested by the federal officials, . For the first time In the history of c'larke county the delinquent . tax lUt has been reduced to aimoMt nothing. A few years ago it amounted to many thousands of dollars. -' Two large plates of glaas covering a photographic display at Centralis liav been broken by Miss Olga Iiergstrom of Seattle,- who drove her automobile too close to the curb. - To aid the farmers in the protection nf their, erons. the T'alnUfle) Chamber of Commerce will have shovels and grain sacks stored at some central nldce where they can be quickly secured in case of a grain fire. , , .Two Hoquiam county men have an nounced their candidacies for two coun ty offices. W. E. Campbell Is a can didate, for superior Judge and K. L. Thurber asks for the nomination of county commissioner In tlie third dis trict... ,- - IDAHO , , F. B.-Randall of Lewiston will be a candidate for the Ttepublican nomination for . judge of the supreme court. Between 40,000 and 60,000 young trout bave been planted in the streams tribu tary to Priest lake by forest officials. The Bales Lumber company of Cald well has been awarded the contract to build the high school at Cambridge, The finished school will cost about I42.0OH. The city of Boise has filed an amended application for rehearing In the cne of the city against the Idaho I'ower com pany involving lighting contracts. Lava Hot Springs plunge will be com pletethe last of July or the firnt of August, according to the report of Com missioner Neil of the department of pub lic welfare. The Sandpdnt Chamber of Commerce has. called uiion tlie county commission ers to submit to the voters at a Hjyeclal election the question-of a road biilldinir program involving an expenditure of $500,000. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The way them there third parties fit and lore makes me -think of "the time leven cousins had when It come to agreeln' on dlvidin' up Old Man Gilder's belongln's In La-Vacca county, Texas. In the '70s, he beln' their respected grandad, , deceased after years of land grabbin'. cattle stealln' and other semi respectable industries. They tore and scratched and busted out the winders and started over 30 lawsuits ImmeJItly after, and I reckon some of thenf law suits is a-runnin' In the courts yit. So fur's I've been able to learn, the lawyers got awaywith the heftiest part of the estate. : , J- Portland Considered as a Gasoline Distributing and Using Center. Yes, the gasoline shortage makes a fellow feel like using language almost strong enough to propel his car, whenever he gets that cold and frosty negative at the filling station, but Did you know that Portland is the largest gasoline distributing center on the Pacific coast except for the oil producing centers of California? Did you know that on the average Portland receives more . than 5,000. 000 gallons of gasoline a month for local consumption and. outside dis tribution 7. I A regular oil tanker steamer serv ice is maintained between California and Portland. The average monthly consumption of gasoline iu -Oregoif .a In gallons about as follows: Stand ard, 8.500,000 ; Union, f.50,000 ; As sociated. 673,954; Shell, 310,000. Total, 5,035,964. The average, of course, may vary. Nothing, In fact, seems more variable and uncertain than the gasoline sup ply. " - - The fact of the matter is that we receive a great deal of gasoline, but we have a great many automobiles nd trucks to burn tha fuel In: Hope that the gas Shortage will not be more than a temporary con dition is discoverable in the fact that all the oil companies are htmy adding to the number of their service stations. r :.
