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V THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON !-V 3 AS IVDEPEKDE-VT KEWSrAPER !. H. JACKSON. I. ( lie calm, b confident, be ehaerhjt ess 4 aslo other at jrou would hare tfceta ee ntoyo. llbltobcd every week day nd Sunday wseiMa. t The Journal! Buildm. Broadway sad Yeaa. biO etreet. Portland, Oman. 4MB ' ' - v Katered at tha poetoffice M Portland, Oregoa. ior trannalMioq throuah tha mail u aaeoM ' ' i elaaa gutter, j' ; " - TtLKfHOXES Wain'mS, Automatic S60-S1. ' All aepartawnte reached hr lite number. rOrTtlGN ADVKKTlStJKr SKTBESKSITATIVE . Hetgamia A Kentoor e . Hraaewic baikling. 325 Fifth innii, Kew or; SO Mallets - i building. Chicago. ' JHK OHEiiO JOUKNAt. iwnm the right la . reject dnrtWif er which it I -jeeUonabl. It) eio 1U sot print any copy that in any way annulate reading nutter or - that, cannot readily ho recognised a edfer- ti.mg. . 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The cause was care lessness. ; j At 4 o'cloci Saturday morning a man was reading a paper in the hall. He was smoking, as he lounged on the couch. T The c uch was at the base of a circular stairway. Fire officials . betjeye a cigirette or match "wag dropped. It shouldered, and within an hour the J. lflarnmable couch was on fire, then 1hc stairway, and then the building. Every floor was burn ing within a f ;w; minutes, the eleva tor was out if order, and the ef ficiency of the fire alarm system de: .. stroyed. 1 j . ; ... , It all happen so quickly that the fire, escapes were; cut ,off to some, others lost the r way In panic. They crowded to the windows to await the - firemen. A majority of the residents waited, some j imped and were killed or; seriously jrjured. Practically no clothing or valuables were saved. The estftnated loss Is S40.000. , It was all from a match or cigarette. 'Dropped on orj near an inflammable couch, it cost ; the.i( lives of three women and one man. and nine other people are painfully injured. Others have lost practically everything they owp. ; ; There is atwityj a trap where the match or cigarette is deposited, ln . flammables are everywhere. They are lying in wait i or the torch to light. ' Then, as in the Elton Court fire, it Is a matter of mini tcs. could have been the feeling .... ofjthe man w tio carelessly dropped the light, couli ; be have seen the flames gutting the building, seen women art girlsl with their- hair - streaming dowi , helplessly waiting to be rescued from the seething furnace, seen Miss Bogus leap from the fourth story onto an iron railing and drop limp to the c ?ment, and seen Mrs. Chaney drdp from on high to the - pavement and tieath below? The little pile of rubbish in the basement, the ,vaste paper in the at tic the other little heaps of Inflam : mables, all soer. innocent enough, Put , Id them, hlddeii beyond sight, are po ' tential tongues of flame, waiting, only waiting the mysterious influence to touch them into a j conflagration with billows of black smoke rolling away, with the roar of a fiery furnace be neath and belo'v them the debris, the blackened rams, j tjhe charred bodies of human flesh and the other horrors of the dismal picture. ; L Yes. the tittN heaps of rubbish and neglected inflammables seem innocent enough now. bjut what of tomorrow, or the day aftjr? ' ' In one of the parks in Newark. New Jersey. 310 families are living In tents. 'They were evicted by land lords. They kre' provided with a sewage system running water, elec- trie lights and a isn't so bad with laundry tent. -It them now. But what f the snewsi of next winter? PULLING THEM UP HE Portland Northman, a weekly Journal of "progress and good citizenship" tejls of Americanization work done by Minneapolis, the public library at A representative i attends H court proceedings . whjere -toreign-born pep sons are admitted to citizenship. Im mediately library cards are offered them and their names registered. r 1 . ' 1 " " 1 " ' i - i i 1 1 v Their addresses and occupations are noted and books pertaining to their work are sent them. At the library books are kept separately that will be of benefit to the new eitizens ' and special attention t paid them when they visit, t " ? Here is example of service. It fs servtee both to the republic ' and to the foreign-born on their way to wholesome American citizenship.; More than 8,500,000 people over 10 years old In the ; United States- can neither read f nor " write English.! What a fearful -; number must thfere be who may be able to read our language' but( have no con ception j' of 1 1 American , institutions'", America Issues, or how to properly exercise ;the responsibilities of sov ereign American citizenship. Yet tht weal of 110,000,000 people and the guidance of the greatest govern ment on;! the , face of the earth may turn upon the votes of this Illiterate mass. Think of - what such conse quences jmight be, and then think of the educative Work that is being done at the Minneapolis public library 1 To what harh tines the American court martial 'system had descended through ; mora than 100 years of un molaatad milttarr bureaucracy, ts Shown by this war-time sentence in a, court martUtL case: A boy soldier was sentenced to 30 years' impris on ment for 4isobeyine a minor order of a aecand lieutenant from civil life Thirty years In the penitentiary for a minor offense committed 2000 miles frem the frent is an example of why Senator Chamberlain, chairman , of the senate military af fairs committee, secured passage of law revising the entire court mar tial system. ! ! ; EMMA'S CONVERSION EMMA GOLDMAN'S room at Petro gradj Is draped with American flags, says a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. "I love America as I love pa other land," she gays. . The deportation argument Is both an excellent; and a convincing argu ment. Its effect on Miss Goldman was magical, jf . i : ' ! From iafar, i Bolshevism In Russia looked gbodjto her. Distance gener ally lends enchantment ito the view. In America she preached Bolshevism and thundered against American insti tutions and the American system-: She was at war with the American idea and American ' traditions. But when she got into: Russia and saw Russia and sensed Russia, she turned longing thoughts back to the America she had so long and so often denounced. Some others In America are like her. They f qlminate against everything American:. They point ; admiring fin gers at the wild Ideas and slant-eyed Isms of European Reds. They think the red if lag; a better flag than the Stars and Stripes. Miss Goldman her self toelped them to extend their minds Into these unailurlng fields of specu lative philosophy. Believing thee things, why should the Goldman followers waste their time in trying to Russianize the United StatesT (If the;- so love the Russian Idea, why not, like Miss Goldman, go to Russia ? NVhy not go among -people of their own way of thinking, and leave .to j the Americans the privilege of living; out, their own lives In their own way? And why not also leave to the Americans the right to run America jalon& the lines of free govern ment and popular rule that It was in tended to be .run by those forefathers whose devotion to theAmerican idea was sealed and sanctified in the blood of patriots? i .1 ' : There may be ethical objections to wholesale deportations. But after all. why! should good Bolshevist lambs be required I to spend their haloed lives here among wicked American goats?; j j. ' In' the old days of mining ro mance everybody flocked to the dig gings when j they heard of a gold strike, j But ihere is a chemist who tells ua that; It costs the sugar trust but S2l3I to make 100 pounds of granulated sugar out of sugar beets at $i per ton. When you figure the difference; between the cost to the trust; and the cost to the con sumer, , you catch a glimpse of a gold strike j worth iwblle,! At $2.38 a hundred pounds as the cost to the the 'price to the consumer affords an example of profiteering to thrill Ponzi. ; TO OUR. SHAME IN THOSE days of conflict when the wart clouds hung low, when every American heart beat heavily at thought of a possible iGerman victory, what did w think of Russia when that government "made at Brest Litovsk a separate peace with Ger many"? . i ; ; : -: ; Yet . a "separate peaipe with Ger many"!; tand a repudiation of our al lies' peace with Germany is what is advocated by Candidate Harding. ! Of that proposal, Governor Cox said in his acceptance speech that it "would be the most disheartening event in civilization since the Russians made their "separate peace' with Germany" and that it would be; "infinitely more unworthy on" our part than it was on that of the Russians." , We all remember the contempt with which we he4rd of the cowardly sub mission of the Russians at Brest Litovsk. We all remember the pity and disgust that ran; through the al lied troops In camp and at the front as the news ; spread of the Russian treachery to the allied Cause., In warfare: for a; worthy cause when allies cast their lots together. It was jthe path of honor to be bound together. 2o fight together and die- to- S i gether and make peace together. That is why the nane of Benedict Arnold, for bis treachery, to his brothers-inarms in the Revolutionary struggle. Is a phrase of contumely and odium. Yet at the moment when! our late ajlies are ttrufglingr through the peace treaty to! hold fast to the fruits of victory, " Candidate Harding publicly proposes that we follow the Russian example, and desert them antnurnto make a cringinfe peace wIU Germany, In such a course, what else Could our allies think of us than exactly as we thought of the Russians in their mis erable treachery at Brest-Litovsk? After our matchlesa record in the war. is American prestige to be al lowed to: sink to the Russian stan dard? i Yet that is exactly what Candidate Harding is" asking the American peo ple to vote for, and, if he should be elected, that is exactly the interpreta tion that would be put uponithe elec tion returns. The Irish coercion bill went through' the British parliament by an overwhelming majority. It means that British sentiment is strongly against the Irish revolutionists. It means that the grulf between tha British nation and the Irish repub licans Is ever widening. It sets the world to wonder if this i new enterprise of reducing a large body of Irishmen to obedience through suppression of trial by jury; and use of military force can be made suc cessful in this advanced period of world history. t ENEMY OF THE WORLD t TJARVEY HIBBARD and Rockl Car- 1 1 ulli were friends. They lived near each other. They played together. One was the other 9 years old Friday, when they went out to play, Harvey brought a J3S caliber! revolver along. It was his father's. The boys were to play with It. Harvey pulled the trigger twice. There wasi no shot "Here. Rocki. you shoot It; it ain't leaded," Harvey ealled out to Rock! Rocki took the gun. He pulled the trigger. Jlarvey fell. ! j Harvey is gone now. Hei died at the hospital from the bullet that passed through his body just below the right lung. ,1 . Harvey was a victim of the pistol. There are lots of them.-'Every day the papers tell of someone! shot to death with a revolver. I The gun had been left within reach. The boys took it to play. Now one is dead. ! Wherever the pistol is there is death. At some time they are em ployed for the purpose for which they are manufactured killing., Often it is accidental. And often ) the gun is used in a fit of r"ge. Someone Suffers for every victim. Someone mourns. Often someone is left without means of support. And someone suffers for the man behind the gun. When he is ushered off to the penitentiary or to The' gal lows, . someone suffers. Someone mourns. ,And someone is left depen dent, l j What a lot of suffering there is on earth as a result of the manufacture of pistols. The revolver is the enemy of the world. A wait of 10 minutes by a citizen who was trying to get central to reach the fire department j for the Elton Court fire is one of the state ments in the story of that Calamity. To wait 10 , minutes in giving an alarm of fire is almost a icycle of time, '. under the circumstances. Whether his alarm would hive been the fir8t'or not U conjecture. But what would a half a minute not have been in the arrival of the! firemen to women balancing on a window ledge, pressed by fire from within and facing a four-story drop with out? THE NEXT GREAT CENTER THE commerce of the Pacific is to excede all the commerci on the Atlantic. j ; That Is the statement of Robert Dol lar, speaking of,, the possib I flies' in China. Mr. Dollar is probably the best informed man in America cn China and the commercial and i ndustrial conditions in that country. When the purchasing power of the Chinese peo ple is Increased sufficiently, jhe says, the Oriental country . will beiome the greatest industrial center land the greatest new market In the world. He says: :. " j : Pp American business men (ever stop to think that the Pacific Coast looks across at a billion of people?) In China alone there are between 400,000,000 and 500,000,000 people who are ripe for ad vancing beyond their present staa-e a stage which is exactly the same as it was before the Christian era. The Chi, nese are ready to Join the march of In dustrial progress. These 600,001,000 peo ple "are all industrious ; children begin to work from the age of 5 or i The mind cannot picture the full! meaning of the coming development o China a development that is already setting In most encouragingly. In the province of Szshuen I here are 70,000,000 Chinese whose only com munication with the outside jvorld is by two small steamers of the Dollar line. But the territory is rich) in min eral deposits. The people ni4ke mos quito netting of wire drawn by hand as thin as can be done with machin ery. By Introduction of machinery what would that 70,000,000 people do? Jn another province lumber wagons are drawn by a dozen men. Their, pay is 8 cents a day. By use of horses and : release of these men for more productive endeavor, expense would be reduced ' and the aggregate of production greatly increased. The lumber, oil and mineral resources are only a,vaiting machinery for infinitely multiplied activity; : j i An example of what is required and what Is being done In China lis given by Mr. Dollar; A Chinese came to America last year to buy $20,000,000 worth of totton mill machinery. He is here again this year to Increase the order. V; W j :-- ' :- The Dollar company j established warehouses, . wharves ; nJ power houses in Shanghai on a scale which was thought would be ample for "10 years. The work was finished early m 1919. Before the end of the year It -was necessary to add ;00 feet to the wharves and build two new ware houses, 100 by 900 feet, and two stories high. iOt her businesses are expand ing as rapidly. ' The oil, the lumber, the cotton, the mineral products, the machinery and other commodities that are to figure in the development of China will all be transported on the pacific. It means a, commerce never before equaled in any part of the world. SAKHALIN ISLAND IN HISTORY Why Japan Now Wants All Instead of Only Half of That Inhospit . ' -. able Terrain. I Henvhalt Rn-krll in Kre Tort Ereaine roat. - After an absence of 15 years. Sagha- lien, or Sakhalin, has made Its way back Into . newspaper headlines, this Urn as the subject of a note of protest from the United States to- Japan. In 190$ this long, slender island in the Sea of Okh otsk first came into prominence while representatives of Russia I and Japan were at work upon the treaty of Ports mouth, which was to end the Russo-Jap anese war. ! By the terms of this treaty Japan was given that part of the island lying south of. the fiftieth parallel, which represents. roughly speaking, one-half of its area. Since 1875 the enure Island had been Russia's, but originally Japan had oc cupied the southerly end of : it, which is not far removed from the Japanese is land of Yeso. er Haikkade. 1 And now. in connection with its plana for the: erection of so-called buffer states in Siberia, Japan is occupying the north erly end of the island, which is, of great importance, strategically, because u dom inates the mouth of the Amur river. It is this occupation against which the United States is protesting. j ! Saghalien was discovered about the middle of the seventeenth century by the Dutch explorer Da Vries. It was- origin ally China's, and when first discovered was sparsely populated by Ainus, the aborigines of the Japanese : archipelago, and scattering tribes of Siberian peoples. The Kurile islands, which lie east of Tezo, were discovered .by De Vries at about the same time as Saghalien. Jap anese settlers pushed up from Tese into Saghalien and also Into the Kuriles, which at that time were rioh In fish of many varieties and ' in f urbearlng ani mals. Russians pushed down from Kam chatka into the Kuriles and southward from Siberia Into Saghalien. It was not long before Russians and Japanese fell Into conflict over the two territories, and in. 1875 these disputes had grown so numerous that Japan ceded all ef Sag halien to Russia in ' return for full pos session of the Kuriles. It was more or less of a forced cession, and Japan did not forget. ' Frorr. that on until the Russo-Japanese war the island was entirely Russian and was used as a penal colony,; convicts by the thousands being sent across the Si berian steppes and down the Amur river to Saghalien to live out their lives In the coal mines and lumber camps of this bleak, inhospitable land. . . . ) Early in the war Japan seised Sagha lien. At Portsmouth it was rumored for a time that she would exaet from Russia the payment of 120,000.000 sterling. In the eTid, however, the Japanese envoys contented themselves with the return of the southerly half of Saghalien to Japan. To the Japanese1 half of the Island was given the name Karafuto. the original name of the whole territory.; Under the terms of the treaty Japan holds 15.155 square miles, while Russia has 14.668 of the total ! ef 27.823. The population is about 60,000, and is composed of some 15,000 Russians, who are ex-convicts, exiles or the descendants of exiles and convicts there are still a few on the island, although the penal colonies there were abolished ' several years ago and 45,000 Japanese. The . southerly part of the island was settled rapidly after the Portsmouth treaty, Jap- i anese settlers receiving 19 acres of land each, and the fisheries and forests offer ing other opportunities. ur tne native population on tne lsiana. few are left. It is estimated that there are a few thousand all told of Ainus, Clilyaks (a Siberian people) and .others. . . . Saghalien Is 600 miles long and from 16 to 100 miles wide. - Between It and Yezo, the nearest Japanese Island, is Le Parouse strait, which is 27 miles wide al its narrowest point. I Ccremunfaalipni sent to Tha 1 Journal (or publication in thU department should be written on only one tide of the paper, ihould not exceed 300 words in length and must be daned t Uia writer, whose mail addreaa in full mast acouia pany ttis contribution. J I, I A STATEMENT ON SINGLE TAX ' Portland, Aug. . To the Editor of The Journal Third observation on the negative argument on the single tax proposition on the ballot: i" 'The State Chamber of Commerce states : "The people would become ten ants of the state. They would be haunt ed by the spectre that their sites and all thereon would be .lost to them during hard times. Such improvements as they old make would be of that temporary or makeshift character that are made by tenants." -i How well the landlord has learned his little piece ! I - Hard times. Indeed ! Fear not. brother. That spectre will vanish under single tax; that Is why we want it. Hard times are produced by landlordism, and good and bad times by land booms and collapses. Single tax will .forever ban ish that. . Every land owner is a .tenant to the state i now. He already pays rent to the state. Taxes, or rent what is the difference? What we want is that some property shall be ' his own. We want him to pay rent only on land ; now he pays rent on everything, even movie tickets. The only question is whether or not he shall pay all . the value the community creates into the public till, or only half of it, as now, and- whether or not jie ean call something his owir regardless 6f what the state wants. But think of frightening three-fourths of the landless, jobless, homeless citizens of the state by telling them that if we get this -"awful" single t tax they will actually have a place to live and pay rent to the state ; whereas. now, they live by sufferance of Miller VA Lux and a -. few other Junkers, I and when they do pay rent they pay all the traffic will bear, and not to themselves the state but to the landlord, who may live In Europe and who employs this state, which we make, to charge ! ua all the traffic will bear to livs in our own state ; an irresponsible entity, without vote, or soul, or conscience, j responsible to no one, not even to the flag that pro tects ma rent. may even declare j Letters From the People WILL war on us and build submarines to destroy our government, with the rent we pay to him. j That is the kind of tenantry we now have, and it is getting worse every hourj Three firms, Miller A Lux, Spreckels and Weyerhaeuser, own more land in the western parti of the United States than is contained in the old German empire. Miller & Lux own 15,000,000 acres alone, and (they had more men on horseback keeping American citizens from settling on I American soil than there were in the American cavalry six years ago ; and yet the State Chamber of Commerce thinks it can voice the sentiment of patriotism by telling American cltisens f that this land will revert to them amd they will become tenants of the state if the single tax is carried. They may have guessed right The peopfe have tolerated this wrong longer than I supposed they would. f , But, once mors: "No improvement under single tax.'j j The best buildings In Portland are ' built on leased land, and the rent is not paid to the state but to a fore staller of the earth, one who was born first Besides, the builder pays a rent te the state on his enterprise, la taxes, and a rent to the landlord for the nujl.M .f W( liUinM ...... V. ... should erect substantial buildings Is a mystery. would! be build less sub stantially if the burden were removed from the building, and the non producing landlord eliminated, and the owner secured by the same title that is given every warranty deed? Will It destroy property! te remove the taxes? Do vacant lots produce? If so, how many vacant lots does it take to make a prosperous pity ? J. R. Hermann. RACE f SUICIDE Portland. July 25. To the Editor of ine journal sincei the efforts made dur ing the war te kill off the human race by wholesale has stopped, another erase fol lows, namely, an attempt to stop race suicide. It seems that In some countries many women are averse to going down Into the valley of death to-bring forth children that they may become food' for cannon. This fact) is arousing the hos tile comments ef the patriotic profiteers, and they are looking forward to the day when killers will not be numerous enough to make it: worth while to Start another world war. England. France, Germany and other countries seem to be losing their patriotic fervor and will lapk great numbers for future armies. Oh, my I Ain"t It (unny? And yet there are others who want the birth rate, to increase and a stalwart lot of citizens to be reared, and i are yelling for pure milk for babies, arid are also associated with crowds who demand military train ing so the coming; generations shall be fit to kill well and thoroughly. Some say God smiles on their efforts. Methinks the devil grins, while Jesus weeps over Such ideas. What think you, Mr. Editor? f j John Williams. Olderjj Oregon Tribulations ef Benjamin Stark Senator Baker's Successor. as When telegraphic communication was established across j the American conti nent, among the first dispatches trans mitted was one conveying the Informa tion that Colonel E. D. Baker, United States senator from Oregon, had been killed at the battle of Balls Bluff, Octo ber 21, 1861. To fill the vacancy. Gov ernor Whlteaker appointed Benjamin Stark of Portland.! Charges were made that Stark had shown sympathy with the Confederate cause and was dlaloycl. For two months his admission to the senate was held up, but finally. In Feb ruary, 1862, he was permitted to take the oath of office; by a vote of ?6 to 19.i A committee Was appointed to In vestigate the cas and, following- It re port. Stark was impeached. He was not expelled, however, j as his term expired with the assembling of the state legis lature In September, Stark was one of the original land owners of Portland. I Curious Bits "jof Information j for'thej Curious i j Gleaned Froni Curious Places - ; "Tbb war bundle or medicine bag of the American Indian is a collection of .prayers," said Chlex Oliver La Mere, of tne Nebraska pranen or tne Winnebago Indians, at a meeting of the Wisconsin Archaeological society. ' When the In dian has a relative, or friend killed in battle and desires revenge., he goes to a lonely place, far away from the rest of his tribe, blackens ! hie face and fasts,". Chief La Mere said. "He does not touch food for seme days. - A little water is permitted. He remains in this state un til he goes into ai trance: During- the trance be sees a vision." HE MAKE THEM BALANCE ? COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE How about a' little rain now. .' e e- This Is certainly hay-making weather, isn't It? .. Now General Wrangell claims a vic tory on the Crimean front. Somewhat of a general row, too.'no 'doubt. e e e A Portland boy 'named Inches Is 're ported to be one of a party of lads who beat their way acrosa the conti nent' Inches, It may be surmised, made his way little by little. . We knew how we felt about it. but still there is some' satisfaction In hav ing Vice President Marshall reiterate his convictions as to the unsurpassed beauties of the Columbia river high way. ' e The high price of gasoline now comes In for an "official Investigation.' In view of the results of past perform ances, who cap be blamed for being skeptical as to the relief that may be expected. f. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Stanley S. Jewett, head of the preda tory animal division - of the United States biological survey. Aas returned from Malheur county, where he has been making arrangements for an . ex tensive cooperative coyote poisoning campaign to be carried on with tha Malheur county farm bureau and the woolgrowers" association. The plans are to put as many government trap pers i Into the county as funds will permit, with the farmers and stock men; employing an equal number of men,! to work under the supervision pf the biological survey in an effort to eradicate the coyotes. A like program will be carried out in Owyhee county. Idaho, and in Northern Nevada near the Oregon boundary. ' ' i -e e E. J. Hanxlik. forest examiner on the Snoqualmie national forest, is spend ing; a few. days from - Seattle at the forest service headquarters, prepara tory ; to laying out a cutting plan on the north fork of the Santlam river In the Santlam national forest. Hanslik will 'determine the trees that need to be cut and the rate at which they should be cut. it . F, ! 8. Me Arthur, for four months in charge of the real estate department of OBSERVATIONS AND J IMPRESSIONS 1 OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred (Aboti Ben AdU?m haa nothing on Mr. T.oekley when it in a matter of considering hi -fellow-man. aa eemethina to at leaat take a keea in'erart in- Finding hirarelt ta the niidt of a i pleasant company, ha drawi fnin aaclr kente ' vital exprearioo, and aoma . of tlief t be hera preenU. How It is with others I do not know, but to me a large part of the pleasure In seeing new places comes from the meet Rig of new people. I can best illustrate what I mean by Introducing to you. some of the people I met on a recent evening. On August 4 I spent the evening at Crown Point chalet. As I eats on the balcony awaiting the sum mons; to dinner I was joined by Charlie McNarv. a boyhood friend at saiem. now United States senator from Ore gon. iWe spoke of the magnificent view and what the highway meant to Oregon. Then the talk drifted to oia time friends from . Salem. After ) dinner I sat with Colonel LtavidM. Donne, Mr. . Lowengart and his sen, Mr. Wortman and Senator Mc Nary : for an hour or more. This is August '4. I' said- to Colonel Dunne. "Six years ago Emperor Wil liam of Germany started something he couldn't finish."- "Ha cams pretty near seeing the finish of the world." said Colonel Dunne, "and, - though peace is declaredf the war is by no means ever. Look iat Poland. Look' at Russia. Look St the world-wide unrest." t- . e e When' Colonel Dunns - had departed Walter. Goss Introduced me to an over seas I'Y" secretary from St. Louis Who had gone over with Dr. Carl G. Poney, president of Willamette university, and who had, served with the Third division. We compared notes on our overseas ex periences. " .. "':'". . . . : ' :'. ' - The next man I met was- D. Q. Tom asini of 399 Hancock street. Portland. "Tommy." as all his friends calf him. is one ef the best known, Shriners ef the West. As we sat in the darkness looking at the twinkling lights of the autos : that streamed in an 'almost un- NEWS IN BRIEF 1 . SIDELIGHTS ; y It -Is estimated that there will be 30.s00.000 bushels of potatoes more pro duced - in the United States than ' there were last year. Consumers, accordingly, mav -not have to mr mora than : twice as much a bushel for them. La Grande Observer. M l - : a e a .- j . j From present Indications ' the upper valley- Is- due to enjoy a smokeless" summer. Seasonable rains j combined with an efficient aerial fire patrol, have produced a most gratifying condition of affairs Eugene Register. j ; I a . a e . i i Newberry crater la, in Its iway. Just as interesting as Crater lake. If we could persuade the proper 'authorities that it should be made a park it would bring tourists without number to Bend. Bend Bulletin. f i . e a a j . . j The cost of wheat, flour anil bread Is going to be lower, it is said, i As usual, the soil-tillee producer will be the first to feel, the pinch. He'll be getting less for a long time before -the f oonaumer pays Jeesa. crana .American. the Lawyers' Title Trusti company. has resigned that position to take oq similar work i at San Francisco,; tai., and left for the . south- Thursday night. He will be succeeded here by R. C Oeder. formerly -counected Carey-Savldge company. with the Dr. J. "Chris O'Day, accompanied by Mrs. O'Day and their daughters Ce celia and Nina.- left Wednesday ; night for San Francisco after two months stay in Portland. Br. and Mrs. O'Day will sail f romf San Francisco for Hono lulu next week and their daughters will attend school in California. O'Day formerly praetjeed medicine in Port land and went to Honolulu j in 1917. I !.' The smallest sawmill In Oregon has been located by E, C. Erlckaon ot the forest service, who has Just returned from a trip Into the Whitman national forest. At JMxie Meadows jthe Prairie City Box company Is operating- 10 miles up Dixie creek,' cutting todgepole pine Into box shooks. Logs! cut are no longer than 10 feet and It takes 50 logs to make 1000 feet of lumber. There if a good market for the shooijis In Idaho. The mill cuts 4000 feet a day, has a 85 horsepower boiler, an old (engine sal vaged from ai mine, one circular saw, eight men and .a horse. J Lockley ' 1 - 1 " broken procession on the highway be low, he said : "Sometimes W hen I bear young fellows talk about j having no chance I -wish 1 could tell; them what a wonderful land of opportunity our America Is. I am ItaliantSwiss. My mother died when I was 1 years old, and father when I. was 18.S I came to America. This was In 1876. the cen tennial year. I went to- California. I got a Job in a dairy. At first I milked but 12 cows, but soon I was milking SO each morning and evening; I worked from 4 a. m. .until -9 at night. Often at night I would get up arid go out to th horse trough and: put my arms into the water to my shoulders, to try to deaden the ache in my wrist and arm muscles. Jt skimmed the pans of milk from 800 cows, for we had be milk sep arators in those days. My employer would often ask me to play . at dances, for I played the concertina well. I would play till I a. m. and hurry back to the ranch to go to work. Many a night I have not even gone to bed., I quit the dairy ranch wheri J was 18. Soon I owned a store. - Theni I took over a run-down hotel and -built iit up. Then I sold out and . went to San Francisco anri einroriid tha commission business. In tune I got ahead, so now . I try to make un for tha mavtime I lost when I WS a boy.. . : . , i ; . e 1 Next I met Dr. Emma MaRJ , wiea strom, who came from Finland r as a girt She worked as a domestic, then as a dishwasher, then in ja hospital, where she became a trained nfse. She went to Vienna, studied medicine, be came a physician and came to Portland from Chicago five years ag. Before the evening was over 1 had heard the life stories of several other interesting people, so you see that with all the charm of new scenes there la no less charm in learning of ithe hopes and ambitions, loves and bates, joys and fears, ideals, aspirations and ex periences of those with whom! you come In contact during your travels. The Oregon Country Northwest Happening la Brief Forai for ta ay Header. OREGON NOTES The council of Eugene haa been asked the citv auto cam nine- e.,w i7lr" fj 10 days at a time. " " v " The Salem hospital, which was closed August 1. has been reorganized ami wilt be reopened August 16 with Miss Gladys ' feteele aa superintendent. J An Intensive campaign ' is under -at Klamath FaHe to ralne a lioo.oocr building fund for the Sacred Heart -academy and gymnasium. t tfn.A a t,u .. i . - - " - " . vuwt uuaru nSS authorised the construction of SiO lock ers to prevent the theft of wearing n. parel of high school studenta . JThe annual meeting of the Oregon Federation of Labor, which was ached -uled to be held at La Grande this year, wfll be held in Pendleton. lAn application has been filed with the state engineer for water rights on Wil son river for the development of a pulp and paper mill at Bay City. lOfflctala of the Socialist party have filed with the secretary of state certifi cates of nomination of candidates for presidential electors and other offices. iThe Klamath-Shasta valley irrigation district of California has made anplica- -tlon to appropriate 1500 acre feet of water from the Klamath river near Keno. , I An Inspection of the alfalfa fields of Baker county will be made to determine whether r not there is any weevil. So sr aa known the county is free from the peat. " . . I Although the acreage of potatoes in. Central Oregon is not so heavy as In former years, the quality of Netted Uems this year will be far above last year's crop. I About 800 feet of a dike at Browns mead in Clataop county haa cotlapfced and aa a result 200 acres of farm land Lave been Inundated, causing a loss of $7000 or $8000. - I Austin M. Donovan of Klamath Falls and Benjamin F. Lindas of Med ford have applied to the supreme court for permission to practice law under the probation rule. "t The state library Is in receipt of ;5 volumes or manuscript copies of- books and booklets written by soldiers and others concerning Western participants In the world war. Boat,' and automobile races, a carwivai and lb- best agricultural, horticultural and Industrial exhibit- of many years will feature the Wasco eounty fair which opens at The Dalles October 4. I The Baker eounty court will let a con tract in a few days for the Improvement of tha Muddy creek road aa a market road. It will be about four and one-half miles long. Bids will be opened August 24 for grading the Halnes-North Powder ttAAtir.n nf fit Hr.vnn (,.11 WASHINGTON Precipitation In Lincoln countv'ln Jirlv totaled nine-tenths of an inch, aa com pared with no rainfall In July. 1919. Contracts have been let by the Chelan county commissioners for a new concrete bridge at the mouth of Peshastin creek. A. S. Kresky of Centralis has an nounced his candidacy for the Republi can nomination for representative from Lewis county. i A new timber cruise on UO.000 acres In Cowlitz county shows 7,427.000,000' feet, compared with 4,6;i,000,000 under, the former cruise. " As an experiment. W. II. RoHenoff. a iRltsville farmer. Is using an auto truck to nam nis wheat to town. Eight trips a day are made. I The Bucoda Improvement club has been organised. Ita first activity will he the erection of a large public hall for community meetings. I Teachers for the Cathfamet school have been employed. Salaries of grade teachers will be $105; high school $125 and principal $165.k School will own September 13. Fruit shippers of the Wenatchea dis trict are protesting agalnat tha recent ruling ef the interstate commerce com mission Increasing the freight rate on applea from 28 to $3 per cent. The Wahkiakum county board of equalisation has raised tha valuation of practically every kind of property In the county. Farm land has Veen advanced from $20 an acre to $.10 and timber land has been doubled. Kiali traps have also been doubled. IDAHO Traffic has been resumed on the Ca ms a prairie railroad between Lewiston and Riparia. The fruit crop In the Moscow section will be below that of last year In yield' but better in quality; : Completed Investments for July of the permanent endowment funds by the de partment ef public .Investments ggre gated $318,116. During the' month of July. 2533 pieces of bafsage were received at the Boise depot of the Oregon Short Line, an in crease of 139 pieces over July. 1919. A, corporation has been formed at Burley to build a cooperative warehouse to provide storsge for grain and pota toes In the Burley district for those un prepared to store them. W. A. Meyers and V. A. "Fitzgerald, convicted of bribery while members of the state dental examiners board, hsva been sentenced to eight months in tha county Jail and fined $700 each. Undc Jeff Snow Says : If only the Grand Old Party could git. us to fussln over the tariff and adflorum duties and makln' the furrlner pay the tax, like they done In the good old Mc- Klnley times, there d be some , snow to su rt another trust' Incubator In the Whlta House. . : The Oregon Wild Rose Can Furnish Parent Stock for Entire World Supply (Continued from Sunday) California norists are more ready to take advantage of tha. opportunity to grow rose stock Jhan Oregon. Hv eral concerns there have gone into the business, but cTlmatlc conditions aSJ adverse. The weather Is too dry for much of the year. The soil Is not sufficiently fertile. The heat at times Is too intense. The rose cut tings do not develop the necessary size snd vitality. It Is peculiarly logical that the business of growing both rose plsnts and tha choice varieties of roses should be developed along parallel lines near Portland. Soil, sunshine,, j-aln and temperature are ideal. For uncounted centuries the wild roses of the lanes and open" spaces have been testifying to this fact. They have flooded the air with the spice of their perfume. They have warmed every ruril scene with their 'blos soms. They have grown strong of stem and their topmost leaves and flewers . have nodded to the breeze high above the ground. But while millions of dollars were being, spent every year for wild rose cuttings from abroad the message of Oregon's wild roses was unheard. Heed has juxt. in fact, been given to the opportunity. One local firm sold last- year 300.000 fose plants at an average of 20 cents apiece, and 160,000 this year at an average of 30 cents apiece, the reduction in number being due to shortage of stock. One Oregon nursery is now preparing to grow 1,000,004 rose cuttings for budding or grafting purposes annually. With other florists simillarly expanding the enterprise It wilt not be long until Portland's finest roses grafted on Oregon's wild rose stock will be dis tributed In more millions than can easily be counted, wherever roses can be induced to bloom. (To Be Continued) r