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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON S ' THURSDAY, DECEMBER j 16, 1920. AM INrE7ENIJt;.VT KEWSFAPEB C a. JACKSON Pubtlaher f Ba ealn. b confident, b cheerful and do unto other a you would oars tkta da eata joa-i fnbliehed Try week day and Sunday ajorning, at The Journal BnQdinc, Broadway and Xam hill atnet, Portland, Onfoa - - Entered at th ooffice at Portland, Oregon, for taiiaiaak throtsjb the a aa eecoae elaae natter. TELEPHONES Haia 7178, Aotomatie 660-51. ail department reached by thaee number, KATIOMAI, ADVERTISING BEPBE8ENTA- TTVK Benjamin Kentnor Co., Brnntwtes BuUdinf. 228 Fifth anas. Sew Tcrrk; 900 Mailer Bo tiding, Chicago. " -- PACIFIC COAST HErEEBETATmS W. B. II ranger Co., Examiner BnOding, Baa Fran- ' efera; Title Inraranr Building, Ix Aagelea; Poat-Intelliseneer Building, Seattle. THIS OBEOO.V JOURNAL reeerees tba right to reject adrar&ing copy which H deems ob : Jertlonabte. It lo win aot print any eopy ! that in any 'way aiaralates reeding )nttT or that cannot readily ba recognized aa adTer- : tiaing. i srBscRipnoff rates By Carrier, City and Country. Din.I AMD iUSMT -" On week f .IS I Ooa month M VAXLX I ' BCSDAT On waek ,$ ,18 I On week, . . . . . 8 .OS On month. ... , .46 J BT MAIL. AXXi RATES FATABfJE Tl ATJVASCE Ona yar. ...... 18. 00 But month. .... 4.23 DAILY ' (WRhont Bandar) Ona year. . . 6.0S Bfz month. . . . 8.25 Threw BKOtha... 1.75 On avuilh ..... .60 WEEKL.T " 'Every Wadneaday) One year. .... .(1.00 bu month .... .60 'fbre mrmtba. . . $2.25 Una month VIP SUNDAY (Only) Ona year ...... 83. OO Biz months. . . . 1.75 Tbrea month.. . 1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY Ona year. .... .13.60 : Theaa rata apply only la tha West, ' Ttalea to Eaatarn points fumiahed on applica tion. Make remittance by Honey Order, Hi pre Order or Draft- If your pcatoffica fat not a Money Order office, 1 or 2-eent tamp will ba accepted. Make all remittance payable to The Journal, Portland. Oreaon. Onr mistake trouble oa mora than our aha); wa repent mora ha Tin bean ridiculous than if wa had bees wrong. A lie Ward. r RACE OP THE JINGOES FOR- months representatives of the 1 League of Nations have studied disarmament. They at tempted to work out a plan whereby armies and navies would be limited by common consent of the nations of the earth. At Geneva,, the question of dis armament came fup for . discussion. Representatives jbf other countries Immediately announced that lfwould be futile to propose disarmament If the United States was not a mem-, ber of the league and not bound by the general agreement to disarm. , Now, certain political leaders in Japan are demanding a greater navy to compete with the United States. Political leaders in England are itmnding an Increased naval build ing program. In other countries it Is publicly announced that. greater fighting forces are necessary. In its report the general board of the navy follows suit by declaring that America ..mast launch out in a navy building-project heretofore, un equaled. The necessity for a more powerful fighting force Is apparent. Secretary Daniels says. Inasmuch as we must prepare to cope with other countries on the sea, , Because America has held aloof from the League of Nations, the only medium so far established through which disarmament could "be suc cesfully effected we are now on the verge of a competitive armament building program that staggers even rich America. " Every man, woman and child In this country-paid $51 last year for armaments and y war bills. Every man with a family ofTive paid $250. Oregon paid $39,000,000. Portland paid approximately $13,000,000. For every $51 paid for armaments $3 was paid for all other expense of national government. For - every dollar spent for education, reclama tion ports and other constructive endeavors of government, 1? were spent for armaments and war. For every dollar that Portland citizens spent for municipal government they spent three for armaments and war, Everybody pays the war bills. Capitalist, merchant, clerk, sten ographer, and laborer they all pay. No one escapes' that taxation be cause it Is levied in varied forms. ;. As we recover from one ghastly struggle, still . groaning under the -war uuu, m puuucai leaaers ox me various .countries propose new and jrcawr uauicauiiia, new ana greater armies, new and greater war costs, .. - . 1 VI . . , , and propose to load the national guns for another, a new and greater frar. The proposal for the race of the jingoes is the direct result ' of the failure of America to become a member of tha league. The pro posals will undoubtedly be adopted . if this nation continues to hold aloof from the federation based on prlncl plea enunciated In this country and for which thousands of -American 'soldiers fought and died. : The history of wars is the history of great military preparation. The big nations, as quickly as the; . re covered from one conflict, armed to the teeth for another. A large army and many-shipped navy was the signal for the chip on the shoulder. 138. - The country was ready to fight, and the hint of dispute was a bugle call to the legions. Before the na tions are .. half recovered from the destructive war . 6f recent date, the race of the Jingoes la again proposed. There was a valiant attempt to lead the nations out of the darkness of war and into the sunshine of peace." There ,was an effort to do away with the frightful costs and the deadly tolls. ' . . ' - To date It has failed. It wll fail until the most powerfud, most trusted, and most magnanimous na tion on earth enters the vacant chair at Geneva, prepared to lend its weight In behalf of Christian peace. ; In a public letter J. N. Barde charges Commissioner J. N. Teal of the shipping board with a "fatal error" in recommending that the Barde Steel Products corporation withdraw its bid on shipping board material. Barde states that his firm would have gone through with the deal "regardless of the enormous loss -which would have Ieen occa sioned, ventures the prophecy that new bids will be at least $750,000 less than the withdrawn Barde bid. and adds that the house of Barde again will enter the competition. In view ,of these facts, is not Barde's obligation to the shipping board one of congratulation rather than criti cism? CAMOUFLAGED EXCUSES THERE is a regrettable feature in the city's plan to carry Its union terminal petition to the Inter state Commerce commissior the necessity of using compulsion to se cure service from the railroad af fected. - The Union Pacific ought not, for its own sake, to commit the strate gic blunder oi interposing ltseli be tween the city and its needs. Neither should the Southern Pacific Everybody knows that while the representatives of these lines plead the overtaxing of their terminal fa cilities by their own trains the real reason for their recalcitrance is the cold dictate of competition originat ing in the East. The ' way the railroads handled Shrine convention attendance rend ers the excuse of overcrowding flimsy. The experience during gov ernment administration stands in the way. wnen tne maximum or term inal efficiency was the objective all the carriers were admitted to the Union depot and all were served. It may be said now that additional trains are being added. Are these so much as one-tenth the number of the special convention trains of last summer? It is of no use for two railroads to oppose the straws of petty excuse to the whirlwind of public senti ment. The people of Portland are not concerned with quarrels between railroads. , They want a Union terminal. They want the shack-like structures of the Great Northern and S-. P. & S. removed. "They want the Union depot replaced,'' as soon as the Investment can be made, with a station fit to serve the needs of the de-Lclty and to Inspire the pride of the city. They want the alternate own ership of terminal property pooled so that a comprehensive develop ment -equal to the city's business may be accomplished. They are tired of camouflaged ex cuses which poorly mask a lack of disposition to serve. - On the approach to Burnside bridge Tuesday morning a horse that had slipped and fallen on the glaze of ice lay helpless for an hour. It was but one of many instances where humble beasts of burden which had been attempting to do their duty for their masters raised eyes of re proach against the failure to correct conditions that rendered their foot ing so insecure. It was an occasion which gave the Humane society op portunity to cover itself with glory if its agents had risen early enough to operate sand wagons on the bridge approaches. THE FARMERS WAT OUT GOVERNOR M'KELVIE ' of Ne braska says there is danger of the farmers becoming radical. He is quoted as saying: . "With great production on hand the farmer is at the present time facing a heavy - loss on his products. He is also involved in heavy losses on-his cattle, which he fed on high priced grain and which are now caught In the general slump. 4 ' One menace that we 'have to watch, particularly, fs the speculator. He or his representatives are on the ground in great numbers and an effort is being made to corner the market and hold the grain so that they may manipulate the market at their pleasure. The "farmer, discontented at the turn which affairs have taken and getting no relief, is just now lending a ready ear to the radical. , Probably the greatest need at the present time is for congress to create a body, similar to the war finance corpor ation, of business and financial men to regulate the distribution of this great output of foodstuffs. . . ' , : Sometimes a law or a commission is a .remedy for, an economic evil"; sometimes it is merely an. ineffective substitute for the public sentiment which should be engendered In fa vor of justice. . ; The speculator in essential food stuffs when millions of men, 'women and children " throughout the world are starving and when the very wel fare of American agriculture is at stake, ought to be made to feel like a man without a country against whom every other man's hand is lifted.. True cooperative marketing or- gran izat ion by the farmers brings the producer and the consumer so close together that" there is not room left between them for the profiteer speculator. ; Cooperation is the opposite of that antagonism between classes rblch exploiters of humanity, be they spec ulator or radical agitator, seek to foster. THE WORM TURNS A PORTLAND man was arrested a few days ago after he had mauled his wife over the major por tion of a hotel. He had, witnesses declared, violently threatened her with death. ; Next day, the case came to trial. The star witness for the husband was the wife. She pleaded that he be not sent to jail, and finally paid his fine! ; ' And did anyone ever Interfere in a family quarrel without coming out of the mess suffering from the sting of attacks from both sides to the controversy?, . v It is indeed peculiar how the worm will turn the minute there is outside influence. Human nature is most perplexing. It may be- that a loud breath will denounce the thieves who stole the moonshine liquor held as evidence at Pendleton and that, an unsteady gait will open the way to punishment.-, ' A LEAGUE OF INTELLECT TO THE .multitude . of duties al X ready imposed upon the League! of Nations, France would add a fea ture which- has as Its purpose the organizing of the intellectual work of the world. Scientists, educators and men of letters have tacitl;. in dorsed the proposal pending formal action by the league. The tentative department would function similarly to that main tained by the League for Labor, and is intended to give the league both permanency and power by promot ing intimate and active interchange of ideas, impressions, , scientific studies, moral improvements, and literary and scientific publications, a wide diffusion of language, and an Increased frequency of missions and congresses and international inter course of every kind." ; . One of the worthy objects of the new department would be the "con trol and elimination, of errors or of fensive expressions concerning other countries from the text books and educational works of s every nation, the international publication of popular editions, especially; of numerous Veil known translations, and the supervision, in collaboration with the labor section of the league,, of the practical operation of the 48 hour week and reduction of work,' in order to promote Instruction for those who have left school and pro vide for more general Intellectual recreation." -. Thus would the proposed new de partment run hand in hand with the league and 'promote mental peace between differing peoples while the league itself was promot ing between the same peoples a peace founded on clarification of disputes regarding boundaries and territories and racial-distinctions. Santa Claus seems to have slipped up on the people this year without the usual jingle of bells. It is hardly believable that Christmas is only a week away. Perhaps the burning of Cork, the chaos in Russia or the adjustment of prices at home was responsible Perhaps It was tot the purpose of sounding louder In the ears of America the pleas of Europe's starving, baby war victims. OUR BABY DEAD HTHAT Portland is the only city in tne united States of more than 250,000 population in which infant mortality is increasing, Is the state ment or Dr. Moore, director of the child welfare clinic In Portland. New York and Philadelphia report a les sened death rate during the three year period. In Portland the death rate among infants less than a year old was 5? of each 1000 in 1916. Last year the number had increased to 69. Thlsrj is a greater Infant mortality than at San Francisco, Minneapolis or St. Paul' - ,- ' Portland, should have the ' lowest Infant mortality rate among the cities of the nation. It should have a rate less than tnat in New Zealand, which is credited with a loss of only 40 babies of each 1000 less than a year old. y'', When, . in 1910, The Journal 1 launched the pure milk crusade in Portland, it was observed that the death rate among . the babies grew less as the milk supply became bet ter.) The little white hearse did not follow the wagon that was delivering pure milk. Is Portland's milk supr ply becoming less pure? If so, every civic and official influence must be brought to bear to bring It. back to the proud purity standard secured as a result of the long, arduous cam paign for clean milk. , : - Do mothers lack instruction in the care of their babies? - Many who come to the clinic established in South Portland are said " neither to understand proper diet for them selves nor for the babies If they are artificially fed. Such a clinic pays its way if it saves one helpless little life, ut why not broaden the work so that, Portland can "announce that the death rate here is, as 'every natural condition dictates that it should be, lower than in any other large center of population in the United States? STATE RIGHTS IN RAILROAD RATES Recent Interstate Commerce Commis sion Decision Affecting Intrastate r Rates Challenged by Some Writ ers as Invasive, Though Not . . Alarming to Others ' American Contempt for Culture Considered ' i -Daily Editorial Digest " (Oooaolidated Preaa Association) . In discussing the recent decision of the interstate commerce commission that intrastate passenger rates must conform to the interstate rate, and the Injunction proceedings resulting from the ruling, the press generally takes the position that , the question is simply a legal one for judicial decision. Several editorial writers, however, treat the subject from the standpoint of its relation to states rights and the necessity for unified control of transportation. The decision raises In an interesting though perhaps an indirect way, says the Deseret News (Ind.), Salt Lake City., "the old question of states versus federal rights and powers." and makes it necessary, as the Baltimore Sun Ind. Dem.) sees it, for the state to appeal "to the courts to restore the power of which the interstate commerce commis sion has robbed them." Rather than government interference with state control, '"it is the intrastate authority." the New York Herald. (Ind.) finds, which, in the New York Injunction case, "is seeking to interfere with the regulation and control of the national government," "The long and the short of the matter," the Herald continues, "is that the supreme authority and supreme power of the nation over Inter state rates and interstate service cannot tolerate an Intrastate regulation and control nullifying and voiding the na tional interstate regulation and control." This, the New York Tribune (Rep.) ex plains, is because "in the United States today commerce and transportation are nationalized interests." Dual control over them would mean "a return to colonial provlncjalism. It would also sacrifice the. vast benefits of nation wide standardization in order to make a barren gesture ' of reverence to the faded image of state rights." - State authorities, the Mew York World (Dem.) believes, "are not likely to get anywhere In their attempts to prevent" compliance with the commission's ruling. Under the .new railroad act the roads are not so helpless "against the old chaos-producing regulative powers of 48 states." , Unless the decision is sustained by the courts, says the Springfield Re publican (Ind.), "a situationof grave confusion and with potentialities of gross injustice both to the railroads and to the public will result," because : "The upshot would be, in effect, an assess ment upon the general traveling public to permit railroads in New York and otBer favored states to carry certain passengers at less than cost" The oply justification for the ruling, however, in the opinion of the Dallas News (Ind. Dem.), must lie in the fact "that the federal government has as sumed the obligation to enable the rail roads to earn a fair return on the capital invested in them," therefore : "Its plea must be not that an intra state passenger fare of less than 3.6 cents a mile is discriminative in the; sense of Impeding interstate commerce, but that it interferes with the discharge of an obligation which the federal -government, has assumed. -. . If the supreme court sustains this theory, then there will be nothing left of state regulatory powers over the railroads, and state commissions will exist merely as coadjutors of the interstate commerce commission." v . ; , AMERICAN CONTEMPT FOR CULTURE .. The "new paganism," which is robbing American culture of spirituality, and the work of the "faddists" and "material ists," who have created a contempt for true learning, which President Nicholas Murray Butler so severely scored in his annual report on Columbia university, have met with similar denunciation from most of the press. One of Dr. Butler's charges that the schools and colleges have given up "preparing youth to liVe" in favor-of "preparing him to make a living" is strongly seconded by the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind.). The reason for this, the New York Globe (Ind. points out.- is because American education is democratic, and "by in viting everybodjr into the' American schools we have made them schools for workmen," thus schooling is looked upon as "a short cut" to success: "It is con venient for the boys sometimes, con venient sometimes for the employers, but it takes the heart out of education. Man cannot live by bread alone, and there is little save bread to be got out of the schools, from the bottom up. The worst of it is there Is no obvious' way out; culture Is beyond the purses of the boys of this pioneer world." We are not on the wrong track, how ever, in education,-the New York Even ing Post (Ind.) thinks, but "we have gone forward too hastily," and Dr. But ler's protest,, while It is valid In part, does not apply to the principle. The statement that at present the young "are not guided or disciplined by their elders," to - which most commentators agree and, the Hartford Courant (Rep.) adds, with which "many a parent will sympathize," the Post considers a con tradiction. Students who are nowadays allowed . to choose "snap courses" are not learning to make a living. The Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.), on the other hand, feels these ; are deep and unpleasant truths that are spoken by Dr. Butler and applied to America's materialistic "Kultur"j "The suggestion of IL, G. Wells." it says, "that material ism dominating education made Ger many what she was, and will make any other country something like Germany, is one that demands more or less of intelligent reflection. r : The Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.) be lieves that the charges brought against the schools and colleges are Just, but continues: "The school has been at fault, so much is certain; but 'its error has been of the heart and not of the mind. To meet the demand for voca tional training was its only duty. To anticipate that demand and encourage the makers thereof to further extremes was plainly not its duty, particularly when It was plain that every extension of the practical courses took just so much vitality out of the older studies, which represent the very foundations of the whole educational structure." ' Reflecting this sentiment, the Spring field Republican" (Ind.) declares that "it would be unjust" for Dr. Butler to place all the ills he enumerates on the schools and colleges, "which have yielded to Irresistible . pressure from outside." It concludes: "But society always gets in the long run such education as it de serves, and to complain of the result is to find fault with its own reflection in the mirror. Let it honor and desire disinterested knowledge, and the uni versity will do Its best to meet the demand." ' Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious; Places There were profiteers In Queen abeth's day In England, on the same order as those complained of in the United States' today. Rev., William Harrison, a quaint gossip of that time, accused the magistrates of winking at "dodRem," aa he called them, who were charging more than the law 'allowed for certain goods. He also accused them of deliberately destroying foods, of export ing it to the nation's enemies, and other like tricks to keep up prices. 7 He made special reference to -pestiferous purvey ors who bought up eggs, chickens, ba con, eta," from the farmers and boosted the prices more than double what they had been before. Letters From the People - Communication Nit to The Joarnal for publication tbi department thou Id be written on only on lide of the paper: lhoold sot exceed SOO ward in lensib, and aut be sicned by tne writer, whoa mail addreet in full uuit accom pany tha contribution.) MR. ANDERSON TO MR. ROMINGER Returns to the Charge, as Against Town ' ley and the Non-partisan League -Cherry Grove, Dec. 12. To the Editor of The Journal In his letter of Novem ber 29 H. V. ; Roptiinger makes state ments the interpretation of which would have the general public believe that the heads of the Non-partisan league had been slandered and lied about, and that I am repeating these old "slanders." Every American citizen has a right to his own convictions. Mr. Romlnger, as an American citizen, has that light. As an American citizen I have that same right. I Jived in North Dakota- during the organization and upbuilding of this political machine. I have watched the working of the ; league, both the law making bodies and - Its administrative office. I am not repeating any lies or slandera At the general election in No vember the league met its biggest defeat since It began its . career. In Traill county, where Mr. Romlnger as admin ister of the gospel worked to tupbulld the home and teach truth and morality I say again, there in that same state, the Non-partisan league trjed to revise the state constitution as follows : In the section governing certain teachings in the public schools they tried to have stricken out these words: "Truth and morality." These are the kind of doc trines preached by A C. Townley and some of his most -radical followers. At a mass meeting composed of men, women and children, Mr. Townley once said, "To hell with our state constitu tion, and damn our laws." These are not 'Vepeated slanders." I assume all responsibility for these statements, as I was present in person. - Now, then, to show what has happened in Traill county:- At the general eiec tion'Tbvery anti-league candidate for state, legislative or county office xfa.a elected with an overwhelming majority. Every question voted on resulted in de feat for the league. Traill county, a county of farmers, has decisively re fused everything offered by tha league and voted to undo the strings with which the future prosperity and happiness of their people have been tied. Mr. Romlnger claims these things be has heard said about the league are lies and scandals. He therefore ques tions the truthfulness and honesty of all these people. Reading between the lines, Jhe would ' seem to be trying to compare A C; Townley with Theodore Roosevelt,, one of the greatest men America has had. Roosevelt said in a speech at Medora, N. ID. : "My most happy thoughts are of the days I spent on the plains in Western North Da kota." According, to Mr. Romlngers theory, how could happiness prevail be fore Townley's time? , I am not writing this article at this time to prove or disprove anir of the laws passed by the leaguers, as the "thinking people" of that state have vot ed to curb their activities. Such an ar gument would take too much space. All I want Is a retraction on Mr. Rominger's part in reference to slanders repeated by me, as I am in possession of facts to prove everything I have said about this scheme of A. C. Townley and other rad icals to wreck the prospering institutions of that state, to lower the standards of the educational institutions, to do away with the state's debt limit. , abolish the state constitution and to create state owned industries to be operated, and con trolled by a bunch of politicians. 1 !,-,-- H. L. Anderson. , DISEASED ORGANIZATION Barbaric Principles Hamper -Use of Civilisation's Appliances Portland, Dec. 13. To the Editor . of The Journal The average American rail road employe working in a highly organ ized industry carries approximately 1500 times as much freight in a day as he could as a packer on foot. Twenty cents a day is a sample output of wealth for a strong man in countries where primitive hand methods prevail, the terrible fam ine in China typifying the closeness of the struggle for existence under such conditions. - Technical organisation, the substitu tion of the great natural forces and metal for frail human and animal mus cles, is what makes America what it Is. But our organization : has grown up haphazard ; it - has ; not been planned. Almost miraculous effectiveness rubs elbows with barbaric crudity of design. The greatest wheat breeder in the world is pinched for the necessaries 1 of life while perfecting strains of seed destined to add hundreds of millions of dollars to each harvest, while an oil land -speculator is rewarded with $30,000,000 for blocking progress. - Numerous loafers receive more in a month than the govern ment appropriates in a year to combat disease, although more than a million consumptives ; alone are ; fighting for their lives. In fact, what assurance of security is the most advanced technical progress If with blind stupidity it be permitted to be in the control of irresponsible privileged groups who can wreck the nation as the jupkers wrecked 'Germany? E. M. Rowe. SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN .' From the , National Tribune . If anything r could console : Senator Chamberlain for his defeat it would be the highly complimentary terms in which the Republican newspapers speak of him and ahis. services to the state and coun try. Nothing- but a landslide would have defeated him. : He owed his election originally to Republicans who joined the Democrats in the primaries to give him a majority and thus compelled the Re publican legislature to elect him In 1909. He was renominated in 1914 and his term expires March 3, 1921. Senator Cham berlain has been an independent thinker and actor and his course and speech gen erally approved by the people of Oregon arid 'the United States. A good member is lost to the senate and to the country. Olden Oregon ' Persons of Color Had Scant Welcome in the Early Days. Among the first settlers north of the Columbia river were George W. Bush and family. Bush was a mulatto, and he settled north of the river because of the law against the Immigration of negroes passed by the legislative com mittee of 1844. He took a claim near Olympia. Uncle Jeff Snow, Says i Jedge Parry from Milwaukie was to the Corners last week and told us he's got a six-hitter that he's trained fer the last five year so it won't go over 17 V4 mile an hour, and goiu' up a hill it won't pass four mile nohow you can fix it. The flivver hain't never give him no trouble breakin' the traffic laws what soever, and he sometimes drives it over 'leven mile a day. , COMMENT AND ! SMALL CHANGE , w.ub iiiu .oi, , cwiu uomst 1ft almrtat mu li,nirnii, n - American automobillst Norfolk News. . Secretary Houston is without a plan for helping the farmers, thus placing hlmiHllf In a AofiAA nln..ll ..(.Ji.. ww.mwu lilvUaH" spoils News. I , Kllfra r 4m iAwn In h.l.. jt but it has been revealed now that baked Kywo a. maot oi ovepneaa expenses. Toledo Blade. '--..,..; e . That ftllKiM nnlln. I. -... 1 ,.-LIJ " 4iav, w-ru lurum- den to swear at motorists. The pedes- uwi win conunue to exercise his nat ural rights. Detroit Free Press.- We are told that only one member of tne ArkanM, H,Woti.n i t . -. ...i.'v.i .v. iuv niauftu ration or Ohrenn uriAu rm cnBih k.. . ' WlHhIIUltl, UUl any man,, can point at a bottle. Arkansas Senator T-Tonri T.n rnntiin. r.it.. prize pacifist, has the answer. He says mmr njuai uiop, out armament must go on which makes it perfectly clear. -Pittsburg Dispatch. i . Y? 11 ant m.M. . 1. 1 11 ! A -11 , . . . m T . a uuuun uuiiars worm of American machinery and other ma- i , , icvuinirucuon. 1 1 sne pays for it in. rubles the paper shortage will Immediately end. Tacoma Ledger, f ' Some professional ballplayers are de- rnnnrllne- hlwnaa .mi.. a t 1 "6" w5C8. - lie unuer-uio- Ipiuow method having become impracti icaL l4nrnffthi nr mi Tat K aviuM - ' C w UVIIU IWilVTC the stringency. Pittsburg Gazette Times. ;.. : - MORE OR LESS' PERSONAL I Random Observations About Town - I. Burpee, contractor, who is doing jetty work at the mouth of the Ya quina, is at the Imperial. His signature looks like a chart of the .rise and flow of the tde. They say he left instruc tions once ' for a gang of workmen to put a fence around his place. When he returned , he saw ' the craziest looking fence ever put up. He called his fore man and -asked for an explanation. The foreman Said, "Here is your own plan for the fence. We followed it faithfully." "Plan nothing," said Burpee, "that's a note I wrote you telling you to be sure to feed the chickens while I was away." Percy L. Brown, former student at Willamette university but for the past 25 years a resident of Silverton, is in Portland with his two sons, Lowell and Delman, to show the boys the Bights of the city. The boys are particularly interested In how the big dailies are printed, and though they ' are but 12 years old! they intend to own a big daily when they are older. Percy Brown is manager : of the telephone company at Silverton i and was formerly mayor of Silverton? e . R. A.' Booth, chairman of theVhighway commission, Is im Portland. During the past two years the state has paved 346 miles of road, macadamized 364 miles, and graded 735 miles. During the same period the roads constructed through state and federal aid amount to 419 miles of paved road and 638 miles of macad amized road, and slightly more than 1000 miles of grading has. been done at a total cost of $32,000,000. ' " '. ; C. P. Sargent of Seattle, manager of the International Mercantile Marine lines, is doing business in Portland and telling of the merits of the White Star line, the Red Star line, the Panama Pa cific line? and other steamship lines , of which he is the representative. ' ' - i Miss Julia Cameron, who has been a student at St. Helens hall, will leave Friday night for her home at Van couver, B. C, where she will spend the holiday a f She will be accompanied by Miss Helen Lamar, who will be her guest during the holiday season. . . W. P. peed, banker, lumberman, ean neryman ;and; founder of the town of Reedsporti . is a, guest at- the Imperial. - R. H. Mills of Salem and R. H. Mc- Curdy of Medford are guests at the Portland..- : . a F. W. Lampkin of the East Oregonlan, George Strand and W. It Wyrick, all of Pendleton, are registered at the Benson. . '.-... Philip Holden, S. Z. Culver and G. W. Allen of Salem are at the Oregon. . - Mr. and. Mrs. F. S. Newton of Eugene are Portland visitors. . . J. M. Royer of Pilot Rock is a Port-J land visitor. . OBSERVATIONS AIND IMPRESSIONS ' I OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Sergeant Smith her reappears, relating to Mr. Uockley hi, experience as a British o Idler in tha daya of the terrible mutiny of 1867 in India. .a i- i in ai Sergeant James Smith of Portland saw service in the world war. putting in two years in the British uniform. His first service, however, was under Sir Colin Campbell in the Indian mutiny, in 1857. ri did ray first fighting 68 years ago," said Sergeant Smith. "I was born in Lancashire, July 16; 1137. In 1855 I en listed with the Staffordshire volunteers. The Eightieth Foot was our .official des ignation. The East India company gov erned India then. The time of many of the British regiments in India was ex piring and the men were coming home and being replaced by native troops." V- In 1856 there were 233,000 native sol diers in India and 45,000 British. .The following year many regiments of white troops had been replaced by sepoys, so that thre were 257,000 native soldiers and but 33,000 British. In 1857v the rifle snooting the Minle ball was Introduced. The natives were required to break the greased paper of the cartridge with their teeth, for this Was when powder and ball were contained In a greased paper, which was torn open and Hhe powder poured in, and then the bullet was rammed down on the : powder. To the Hindu tne, cow was a sacred animal. To the Mohammedan troops the pig was an abomination, and as the grease of both pigs and -cattle was used, the soldiers refused to bite the cartridges. They offered to use them la? the fat of sheep was used., but the officials refused this concession. The natives thought the "hog eaters," as they termed the Chris tians, were trying to break down, their religion, so they mutinied. The revolt started when 85 troopers of a cavalry regiment near Delhi refused to". bit the accursed greased cartridges. They were put into jail, from which they were rescued by their comrades, and the mutiny from this tiny spark blazed over great portions of India. ? - , ' "Our regiment sailed aboard 'the Golden Fleece," said Sergeant Smith, "for Barrackpur, near Calcutta. The trip took 90 daya We were assigned to Sir Colin ! Campbell's force. We marched i to Cawnpore. Sir Hugh Wheeler held 'out against the sepoys there for three weeks, but finally sur rendered, f Nana Sahib, in command" of the rebels, killed the men and all butj about 200 of the women and young girls. When, with Havelock, we marched to: the relief bf Cawnpore, these 200 women and girls, the wives and daughters of British officers, just before we arrived,! were backed to pieces and thrown down NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS It seems to take the bakers a long time to consume the wheat that' was grown at war prices. Salem Capitol Journal.' - - , ;- Revising the tariff upward is such a congenial occupation for the Republicans that we hear they are going to be a year on the job. Athena Press. That boy chess ' wizard ought to go back home and help plan the next Polish military campaign against the .Bolshe vik!. Albany Democrat. v-.- - - - '' -. - ' '--s r-',- "Prohibition cost the United States over two million dollars last year," wails a "wet" newspaper. Most sane people will admit it was cheap at the price Hood IUver News. -.-v Another auto accident on the Pacific highway has been caused by the car occupants holding hands in- the middle of the road. It is about time sparking zones were established. Medford Mail Tribune. e - If prices are all to return to the pre war level,- taxes should have the same trend, or the already overburdened realty owner will be unable to pay. That is, all expensive fads and fancies that came in during the war should be lopped off . Eugene Guard. An Eastern reformer asserts that if wives ' would prepare wholesome and appetizing meals for their husbands there would be fewer divorces. Still. w,e can't overlook the fact that the hutsband who lives only for his meals probably ought to be divorced. Eugene Register. W. B. Hinkle. civil engineer, of Echo, brother of Joe Hinkle, the irrigatlonist. fs a Portland visitor. ,'We have about 50,000 acres under water uo our way.' said Mr. Hinkle. "This Includes the land under the Umatilla project and the Teal project and the lands under the Furnish ditch. Land under any of these projects with water right included sells at $150 ,to $500' an acre. If the recommendation of the secretary of the interior to ap propriate $460,000 for the construction of the McKay Creek reservoir Is adopted it will mean the securing of 60,000 acre feet of 'additional water for the settlers on the west extension of the Umatilla project and those on the Hinkle and Furnish projects." - i " ' - Dark-eyed, dark-haired, olive com plexloned and with a smile that makes him many friends, Frank Cunha of Echo is at the Imperial. His father, , Joe Cunha, came to Echo, 'with a roll of blankets, to look for work. Today he has a. beautiful, home just across the bridge 'from the town. a. wife and six children five boys and a girl over B0, 000 acres of land, and thousands of sheep, cattle and horses, as well as a flour mill and a chop mill. a - e ; a A very diminutive, dark-haired, dark eyed and businesslike young woman stepped up to the register at the Hotel Portland and signed "Franceses Cappel lano," New York city." She is the leading lady in David Belasco's big outdoor play. "xne Tiger Atose." . f e a Dr. J. F. Reddy, railroad promoter. politician and live wire, formerly of Med ford and Grants Pass, but now signing himself "At Large," is seeing what he can see In Portland. B.- Westcott of Edmonton, Alberta, agent for the' Canadian National Rail ways, and agent for the colonization, in dustrial and resources department, is a Portland visitor. I Mrs. Harry Buxton, Mrs. Fred Fisher and Mrs. Harper Mecklin are down from Corvallis to size up the shop windows and do some Chistmas shopping. . ; Eric Hauser Jr., with his bride, has just arrived from St. Paul. They wilt make their home In Portland. - e , xe J. J. Richardson and R. B. Ruther ford of Corvallis are at the Multnomah. e e Dr. C E. Barton, Frank Soli and J. P. Lottridge of Baker are at the Benson. e - J. G. Bigorge of Altoona, Wash., is at the Oregon. e ' - H. F. White of North Powder Is a guest at the Oregon. e H. V. Chrisman of Rufus Is in Port land. e . . e J. B. Sparks, cattleman of Condon, is In Portland. Lockley a well, so they could not testify as to the cruelties they had suffered. We reached Cawnpore shortly after this happened. The well was not far from a yellow bungalow. Beside the well was the stump of a tree which was covered with dried blood where the women had been butchered. The well was full of the bodies of the women, who were dreadfully mutilated. It made me . cry when I saw them,: and I wasn't the only one, by a long Bhot. "This' war was fought In the summer of 1857. The weather was unbelievably hot. We pursued a band of the rebels, but didn't catch them. They poisoned or defiled all the wells and 13 men from our company died of thirst on the march. I cut a bone button from my coat and sucked it, which stimulated the flow of 'saliva. We came to one well that seemed safe. Sir Colin Campbell said to one of the men crowding about the well. Will you hand me a drinkr Get it yourself, the man said. Another man sprang forward and got the drink for General Campbell. The soldier who re fused to get him the drink was ostra cized after that - by all his comrades, ind lived in hell. -',- - , " .'- ' . "We made one forced march of 23 days after a band of rebels. The other Brit ish force working with us caught them in a pocket and killed over 400 of them. They abandoned their loot. We went through it and found seven bags of gold coina. We divided them up and before long the est card players In our de tachment had most of it, and hired the other men to carry it for. them. One of the men, who was about, all in. got Sick of lugging It and threw his share away. He wanted water more than gold, "I came on a store of silver In 1858, hurled ' under the floor et a temple at Iucknow. There was enough to cover a tablecloth. Some of it was coin and some hammered- silver ornaments.' It slipped through my fingers. I never was lucky at carda : . ' . , -.- .:: "In 1864 "some-of the hill tribes had taken some English missionaries prison ers, so we went, out to clean them up. We got in- hand to hand fighting, was a sergeant then. I was urging my men to bash In their heads when, all of a sudden,. I didn't know anything. I never came to till the next day, with a dent In my skull that has been there ever since. ;',.-.'.' "I put in 13 years In India and then bought my discharge. - and after living in England a while I came to America and have lived here for the past 40 years, except the two years I put In during the last war. In 1917 and 1918." The Oregon Country Nortnweat Happening In Brief rorra for the Buay Reader . OREGON NOTES , ADDroxlmatelv 250 of the 2000 real es tate operators in Oregon have made ap plication tor taeir ivn licenses. . . The MaHftn nilntv mtrt Kae AIAA to offer for sale 22o,000 in county high way bond. The bonds bear 5V per cent Interest.. . Br a vote of 45 to 21. ranchers In tha Havnes and Larson territory of fma county have adopted a herd law. The teeung over in a election was high. Coos county is now on a a not rh basis. The county treasurer announces that all Indorsed county warrants will be paid at his office after December 15. On four aerm of land near rnniille Ed Forrest raised 1000 sacks of potatoes this year, most of which he sold at from 2 to S cents a pound, realising about $600 an acre. . ,-:.-. .. ?. ---j , Tha Snatilrtlna- TVcirtTiB i onmnanv la Just now finishing the last log drive mat win De made on the Lucklamute river. The timber In that vlrinitv has All been cut. . The United Statea hloloalral mirvev station is sending a I representative to iviinui rans. no win take an active part in the rabbit war now being waged In that district. I : - Residents of Cottacr Grove hive adopted 10 of the starving and under do thed orphans of Armenia. The ex pense of supporting one child a year is The searching party which has been i nuntinir fnr Axel I.lmthur, ti..- ber 8 while on a hunting trip, has re turned to Vernonla with all hones of rescue given up. i C. McC. Johnson of Reeilsport has ra- i ceived an order of 1.600,000 feet of lum ber from concerns in ban Francisco to! be delivered during the next month. Thr delivery will be by water route. j Powers people are Indignant heeaua the Southern Pacific has cut off their pasaenger service and they are only get ting one mixed train a day. shortening ; their bread ration and putting all mail a day behind; - .j ... . ..: ,- A note ixsue of $45,000. bearing inter i est at the rai,e of 6 per cent and matur ing in one year, is the. means by which the Bend school district will finance a part of its remaining expenses for the present school year. . Pendleton, sixth In population of the cities of Oregon outside of Portland, stands third In the number of yards of paved streets. Salem leads with 278,000 ! square yards, Eugene is second, and Pendleton has 202,000. i The Washington , County r Holstein : Breeders' association, at Its annual meet in? In, IlillHlinrA ,lt,1 r. n r w f nell president, J. K. Peerenboom, vice president, and O. T. McWhorter, secre tary treasurer. WASHINGTON I Girls of the Tenlno high school hsve organized a Young Women's Christian association. j . , A sudden speeding Up of criminal ac tivity has filled the county jail at We natchee nearly to capacity. , - . The Mineral Lake Lumber company near Centralla has suspended operations until market conditions improve. . Receipts from the police court of Spo kane for the 11 months of this year ap proximate $40,000 as compared with lees than 825,000 last year. Two masked highwaymen held up and robbed John P. Karasplch, proprietor of a pool hall at Aberdeen, of $3C0 in. cash and checks aggregating 828.60. The city of Spokane has. filed with the public service commission protest against increase of streetcar fares to $ cents, as proposed In new tariffs filed. - Benton county has shipped this sea son a total of 541 cars of apples. Apples in storage bring the season's crop to 725 cars. This is 725 cars short of last year. t Orders have been received at Tacoma calling for a reduction of from 10 to 20 per cent in all mechanical departments of the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railway west of the Missouri fiver. It la announced that additions to the plant and equipment of the Inland Em pire Paper company at Millwood, to cost between- $85,000 and $100,000, will ' be made during the winter. The capacity of the plant will be increased . 85 per cent.. '.-.If-.. ' . j . . The Pacific highway now is open the entire distance from Cher-alls to Castle rock, the new grade having been sur faced so that cars need no longer detour. The Pacific highway also is open from Tenlno to Olympia. . . , The Mount Adams Farm company, with an orchard tract north of White Salmon, announces that the 'fruit crop of this. year was only 20 per cent of last year, when 35,000 boxes of apples and pears-were harvested.! IDAHO Sixty-three head of registered Jersey cows were sold at Payette at. an. aver age price of $218. One cow brought $605. Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs will stage a pageant at 3V am pa on December .Zlt, entitled "The Winning of the Great West." . ,.' Approximately ! $315,358 has been ap proved by the state board of education for the industrial training school at St Anthony. - W. A. Kuhn and F. LTBoner, tw Burley men, are supposed to have been drowned In the Snake river while hunt ing ducks a. week ago. 8. P. Smyth, head of the poultry de partment of the University of Idaho, has resigned to : engage In commercial poultry raising on a large scale. There are at the present time 35 for mer service men a In Boise and vicinity who 4ea taking advanjage of the gov ernmenvplan for vocational training. 1 ne oise tnamucr vi vummrivw urges Governor Davis to include in his message to the ilegislature suggestions for the passage of an alien land law. John Wray of fit. Joseph, Mo., suf fered amputation bf both feet at a Sand point hospital, the result of having his feet frozen while sleeping out In the open while on a- Journey from Havre, Mont. I - i " - - know you iv. PORTLAND Portland people scarcely realize that the Portland postof f Ice Is one of the largest and most aofive of all In the cities of Portlands class In America. ' r J .- -" Did you know that Portland sends an average of Z02.000 letters outside the city dally :on 45 trains? That 200,000 letters are received from out side the city on 35 trains? ' -That, running with speed only exceeded by the modern newspaper press, 72,000 postearda and letters an hour are postmarked : Acting on authority specially grant ed by the postof flee department for the purposes- of thts publication. Postmaster J- M. Jones has furnished The Journal with ; the following briefed Information about the work of the postofftca. You have not seen this 'information elsewhere s , ' . Outcoinc letter daily. 202.000 Ineomkiy; tetter daily , 200.000 letters and poatcard tan - be postmarked per boar. ....... ., 72,000 Oa'c-iin( parcel post packages daily .......... 16.200 Ineomittf parcel' pout package daily .i,,.. T.aOO Ootaoins papers daily : TO, 000 Incoaiinc yeper daily ......... 78,000 Omsoinc circular (printed mat- teri daily . . . ...... i ... . . 28,000 Money order leaned daily ...... 1,000 Money order paid dy ...... . ... 2,600 Clerk working mail matter 22 Carrier deilTerina and collecting 2U0 Cbanre of addreaa enter received daily ................... 600 Incoming train carrying mail... S tmtgoing. train carrying mail.,. 4 8 FonUi taring depositor .....j 4.1(19 Amocnt portal earing depoaita. . 81,897,098 - When you wonder' why your letter was delayed, going or coming, think what you. would dd If handling 402, 000 letters a day were only part of your duty. j i -r .