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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19. 1920.
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TOMORROW.
A LAW as inevitable as the law of
gravity was proclaimed by the
angels when they sang, "Peace on
earth, good will to men." It is the
law that good will is the fixed rela
tion between man and man as the
attraction of gravitation is the law
of the relation of planets. "Bear
ye one another's burdens and so ful
fil the law" is not only a religious
tenet, it is the statement of the re
lations that must exist between man
and man if something else is to be
than the rule of fang and claw,
For" generations it has been
thought that international relations
founded on force, secret diplomacy,
self interest would stand. The at
tempt to evade the unescapable law
of good will brought down the house
of the world's civilization as the law
of gravity punishes those who would
evade it.
Just as a child after he has
knocked over his blocks begins pa
tiently to build them up again, so
the world is groping . for ways to
build the new civilization according
to fundamental law. Doubtless many
mistakes, .costly ones, will be made
by the League of Nations before na
tions learn that the gain of all is the
advantage of each, and until self
interest is swallowed up in the
knowledge that the truest self interr
est looks not to one's own good but
to the good of others.
With some of the European na
tions we have recently been at war.
With 'these nations we must live.
Their future leadership is in the
J. 500. 000 children for whom Herbert
Hoover has issued his nation-wide
appeal. These children will be the
- rulers of Europe when our children
rule America. The best means for
paving the way to friendly relations
between nations in the future is to
blot out as far as possible from the
minds' of these children the doubt,
suspicion and - hate inevitably en-
. gendered by war by life saving car-
goes of food and .clothing.
When the lion in the fable spared
the life of the mouse be obeyed the
universal law of good will only to
find his Own life saved by that act
a few days later. .When the
. hundreds of thousands of children
rescued by America through the
Near East relief become the ruling
elements in the turbulent countries
of the Near East it is not unreason
able to expect that the' memory of
their early sufferings will make
- them champions of peace- in the
lands from which wars so frequently
originate. The future peace of the
world -may be in the hands of the
children of Europe and the Near
East.
If the heterogeneous mass of peo
ple known as China ever awakens to
its power as a .nation; the nations
of the world will bid for its friend-
ship. Because America, obedient to
the law of good will, has refused to
Join In the partition of China and
in other striking ways has shown
her friendship, China's attitude"" to
ward America ia all that can be de
sired. . , Her starving millions must
not be allowed to appeal to us In
. : vain." i,
Since rank and power impose ob
ligation, America with one third of
the gold or the world and creditor
to the nations to such an extent that
X
It wWd take air the gold of the
world to pay the debt, become
debtor to the world. In discharging
the debt, she not merely feeds the
hungry but by obedience to the In
evitable law of good will helps to
realize the vision seen two thousand
years ago of "Peace on earth, good
will to men."
"When so much noise of celebra
tion and prosecution emanate from
it, why do people persist in calling
it a still?
THE GHASTLY RECORD CUT
THERE i no reason for the streets
of a city to be death alleys. This
is proven by the one third cut In
the number of deaths from automo
bile accidents in Portland as shown
by the annual report of the Port
land traffic department for the fis
cal year ending December 1.
Every preceding year showed a
heavy increase in killings. As the
number of automobiles increased,
the killings increased . at a heavier
ratio. W'ith a 35 per cent increase
in the automobiles, it is morally
certain that under ordinary circum
stances there would have been a
very heavy increase in fatalities and
a, ghastly roll of dead the current
year.
But the list instead of being
longer, is shorter than in 1919. It
is but 28 for the fiscal year, a reduc
tion of one third over the preceding
year. It shows wnat can De aone
by publicity, education and persis
tent effort, shows that the growing
list of the . dead, which the public
was disposed to accept as Inevitable,
can be controlled and reduced.
The public has been lethargic on
the subject. If a neighbor's child
was killed it was accepted as a mat
ter of course, and everybody looked
upon it as a part of the natural
order. When on the sixth of Novem
ber, 1919, The Journal Joined with
the traffic bureau headed by Cap-"
tain Lewis and began a campaign
of publicity e as to causes of acci
dents, there were those wjio op
posed the plan. Some said it would
hurt business. A plan was proposed
to boycott the paper. Some adver
tising was withdrawn, but the cam
paign for a safer city went on.
' Passage of the driver's license law
as prepared by the safety council
was secured. It is the most effective
weapon which the authorities have
in dealing with reckless drivers.
Under it, guilty offenders can be
prohibited from driving automobiles,
as they ought to be. It will become
more and more effective as time
goes on, if. as it should be, it is
rigidly applied.
Men of so-called influence and
"pull" were in the habit of bullying
policemen by threats and otherwise
from doing their duty in traffic ac
cidents. They threatened patrolmen
with loss of their jobs. Men of the
kind swarmed like fliea around the
police station. It was one of the
most demoralizing influences with
which Captain Lewis and Municipal
Judge Rossman had to contend in
applying the traffic regulations and
laws. This disrupting practice was
exposed and stopped.-'
Above all, ignorance of traffic reg
ulations, ignorance .of how to oper
ate a car, drivers without experience
attempting to pilot cars on - busy
thoroughfares, the carelessness , of
pedestrians in stepping out from be
hind woodpiles, parked cars and
other causes of accidents were dis
cussed from day to day in The Jour
nal in the campaign of education
for 1 3 months prior to the report
which Captain Lewis made to Chief
Jenkins Friday in which Portland's
lowered fatality record for the year
was made public.
That the killings can be still fur
ther reduced is shown by what has
been accomplished. Portland has
been a leader in this work, for it is
certain that the statistics from other
cities will show that everywhere else
there has been a heavy increase in
killings. That the number of auto
mobiles in use will Increase 'the
coming year from 9,000,000 to
12.000.000 is the estimate. With the
accidents already a national, prob
lem widely discussed in the news
papers throughout the country, the
results in Portland are both a grati
fying fact and a splendid advertis
ing asset.
Thousands in Portland are still ig
norant of the laws, rules and re
quirements of safety. Education
should be carried on until every
man, woman and child in the city is
brought to a full realization of the
importance of knowing the rules of
traffic and observing them. The
local branch of the National Safety
council is presenting a course of in
structive lectures and is sending
speakers to the various schools to
discuss safety. Captain Lewis and
his effective traffic burea. are a
most efficient agency in the cause
But, in the last analysis, all peo
ple, to soonest obtain the desired re
sult, can tremendously aid by be
coming students of and agitators for
safety. This means YOU.
"A good many repairs to magnetic
compasses have been made neces
sary because of -their being broken
open for the alcohol." Such is the
official report of the admiral in
charge of the naval observatory to
the secretary of the navy.
ALL LABORERS.
"W1
E ARB all laborers." said
Samuel, Vauclain,' head of
the great Baldwin locomotive works,
the other day. Nobody in these
days has a right to go on strike.
Everybody1 millionaires, financiers.
"capitalists," merchants, clerks,
workingmen, farmers must get on
a shirtsleeves basis. Less attention
must be paid to the number of
working hours and more to what ia
produced during the hours of work.
Industry and production to fill the
vacuum in supply of the "world's
essentials caused by the years spent
in destroying property and life in
dustry and production are the
solvents of humanity's world wide
problem. Mr.Vauclain said another
timely thing:
Do not go out looking for big orders.
Go out looking for customers. Treat
them fairly. You find in business that
most men are trying to get a little more
than their competitors. That is not true
of labor. It ia more honorable than we
are. All it wants is the same as the
rest of us are getting.
A fair share of the rewards of
industry, is all that anyone may
properly ask, especially during the
period of readjustment which now
engages America. But let industry
be the condition precedent to the
sharing.
On a street crowded with traffic,
two pedestrians suddenly stepped out
from behind a parked- car in the di
rect path of an automobile less than
a dozen feet away. A good brake
and quick action by the driver saved
them from' injury. Pedestrians so
thoughtless help swell the roll of
accidents.
SOLVING THE SHIPPING SLUMP
SIX years ago America had but
"one fiftieth of the world's mer
chant ships. She stands today near
the top of the list with a merchant
marine of more than 15,000,000 tons.
It is. of course, a tremendous stake
to fill these ships with imports and
exports and to send the flag of
America into farthest seas.
If America's supremacy in facili
ties were supplemented by equal
control of cargo and adequate ex
perience, preferential measures in
favor of American merchant ships
would have the desired result. Sec
tion 28 of the shipping act, for in
stance, would deliver the trans-
Pacific trade of America over to
American ships, for it renders pos
sible a preferential rate on trans
continental transfer commodities
when handled in American bottoms.
But the fact of the matter is that
four fifths of the trans-Pacific ton
nage ha3 .been handled in foreign
bottoms, largely because the same
interests that were concerned in the
profits of the ships controlled the
freight. Before the war, Japan had
only about 500,000 tons of offshore
ships. Now she has some 2,000,000
tons of ships for foreign trade. With
her comparatively insignificant ton
nage she established herself as
merchant marine mistress of the Pa
cific. With four times as much
cargo space to fill and business much
harder to get it is tO.be expected
that Japanese influence will strive;
more than ever to control the trans-
Pacific trade.
Already reductions have been
made in Japanese freight rates and
the merger of the big lines, Nippon
Yusen Kaisha, Osaka Shoscn Kaisha,
Toyo Kisen Kaisha and the Kokusai
Kisen Kaisha, was proposed for the
sole purpose of meeting foreign
competition more effectively and
thereby overcoming the most serious
depression in shipping business that
Japan has known.
The news that section 28 of the
shipping bill, which renders pos
sible preferential rates on trans
continental transfer commodities
handled in American bottoms, had
been again suspended came with
especial gratification to the Pacific
coast ports, these being the only ones
affected by the section. It was well
known that without indefinite sus
pension of the section, Pacific ports
would suffer because the Japanese
would simply route the keenly com
petitive business in their control to
ports not affected by the indirect
subsidy.
At the same time, even the Japan
ese recognize that in giving prefer
ential they are as great offenders
as any. Teruzo Masaki, a director
in Nippon Yusen Kaisha, is quoted
in the Japan Advertiser as saying:
The ultra-protectionist policy of this
country (Japan) has given a good' excuse
for the discriminatory law of America.
In response to our complaints regarding
the provision of the new American law.
the Americans refer to the fact that the
Japanese government is sedulously en
forcing the embargo on foreign shipping
in regard to the coasting trade of this
country. They further poiht out that
Japan grants a yearly subsidy of 7,000.
000 yen to her mercantile fleet and de
clare that the ultra-protectionist policy
of the Japanese government thus brings
constant pressure to bear on foreign
ships.
It should be apparent that en
forcement of section 28 in no way
solves the problem of cat going the
vessels of the American merchant
marine, and that back of preferen
tials and subsidies, statesmanship is
needed to place our. merchant
marine on even terms wita those
of other countries.
COUNTY COURTS AND CHARITY
OREGON'S association of county
judges and commissioners
placed itself on record Tuesday in
favor of state coordination of public
and private charity.
Its members called upon the gov
ernor and the legislature to support
by proper enactment the recom
mendations of the commission on co
ordination of charity, r
The governors commission, it
was said, will ask that under. Uni
versity of Oregon direction a two
year investigation J into the . whole
subject of charity, as it affects Ore
gon, shall be conducted with the
direct objective : of securing meas-
urea that will bring about coordination.
The county officials are to be com
mended for their cordial support of
the plan, which contemplates the
introduction of business method
into charitable administration.
There are none who know better
than county judges and commis
sioners what a hodge podge chaos
of pauperization the general admin
istration of charity is. They know
how counties unload their destitute
one on the other or pass them along
to other states. They know how
scant is the exchange of informa
tion between the state and the
counties, between the counties them
selves, or between governmental and
private charitable agencies.
With the cooperation of officials
throughout the state and with -the
entrusting of the task of investiga
tion and the prescribing of the rem-
edy to good hands, Oregon can be
started on the high road to efficient
charity administration.
There are always plenty of shov
els, scrapers, trucks and other fa
cilities for clearing away snow in
Portland. But the equipment be
longs to the various public service
corporations and the city. In the
past, organization of these forces
has always been a day or two later
than the snow. Had prompt action
been possible last December, Port
land business would have been
saved hundreds of thousands of
dollars. The happy thought of or
ganizing men and equipment in ad
vance of a possible emergency this
year is also a saving thought.
PORTLAND'S BABES
IF PORTLAND'S Infant mortality
rate isincreasing, the milk supply
is not at fault, say City Health Of
ficr Parrish and Chief Milk In
spector Mack in response to an edi
torial in The Journal last Thursday
under the caption, "Our Baby Dead."
Dr. Parrish says:
In several of my annual reports I
have called attention to the fact that
the bureau of health was in need of
funds or nurses in order that it might
conduct a baby clinic. At the same time
I pointed out that Portland had no pre
natal or expectant mother clinics. Kvery
other bureau of health in cities of like
size or even much smaller has supervi
sion over clinics of this kind.
Those who have been interested, enough
to inquire into the milk situation in this
city know that it still ranks with the
best in the country. The death rate dur
ing 1919 among babies under one year
was unusually high for Portland, placing
this city In sixth position in the United
States. This high infant mortality Was
partly due to the fact that one local
baby home had 14 deaths within a faw
days' time. Instead of a few cli
nics the city Should take them
over and when this is done the
infant mortality in Portland will not be
greater than it should. The clinics as
conducted at the present time are doing
a vast good .
Dr. Mack calls attention to the
fact that in 1909 deaths or infants
less than 2 years of age froir. causes
traceable to bad milk were 32.6 to
the thousand ; births; in 1919, 21.5;'
in 1911, 15.2; in 1912, 9.3; in 1913.
7.7; in 1914, 3.6; in 1915, 3.4; in
1916, 3; in J9I7, 8.2; in 1918, 5.1,
and in 1919, 9.5.
In 1909, the milk compaign was
launched by The Journal, and in
it Dr. Mack was a prominent figure.
The campaigning for clean milk
from healthy cows had its direct co
efficient in decreased infant mortal
ity and the .ncreased number of
little ones who were permitted to
live. During the war, explains Dr.
Mack, Portland's milk supply slipped
somewhat from the high standards
reached as the climax of the milk
crusade, but improvement has re
commenced. Other causes, he says,
contributed to accelerated infant
mortality.
Whatever the causes . are they
should be removed. Loyal and
hardworking health officials, such
as Portland possesses, cannot bear
the burden alone. A strong public
sentiment must support their work.
Portland ought to have the lowest
infant mortality among the cities of
the United States.
A SAD SPECTACLE
TIIE hardest hearted man has a
soft spot in his heart for .a help
less child. One of the beautiful facts
of all life is a mother's love.. The
saddest people in the world are those
who see their children suffer with
out power to relieve their pain and
hunger. Such is the spectacle this
Christmas time in Eastern and
Central Europe. It is incredible and
monstrous but bitterly true that 3,
500,000 children there are passing
through the black catastrophe of
famine, and their fathers and
mothers, in like condition, are pow
erless to help them. Twenty-five
thousand of these little Mves have
been entrusted to Oregon to save
next week. Ten dollars buys a life
until next harvest, says Herbert
Hoover. There was never a time
when human life could be bought
so cheaply. There was never a time
before when human life could be
saved as so small an expense.
Here is the net result of profiteer
ing in sugar: Announcement by
the trust that the demand has so
fallen off that factories are closed
in New York and Brooklyn with
12,000 men thrown out of employ
ment. Hoarding and profiteering in
sugar, as disclosed in numerous grand
jury Indictments, boosted prices.
Consumers could not afford to buy.
The fruit canning season passed
with a very small percentage of the
usual ( volume of sugar used. The
mills have become overstocked, the
plants are closed and men are. out
of work. Such is the fruit of
profiteering in foodstuffs, one of the
worst crimes on the calendar.
MILLIONS OF
DAYS LOST
Resume of Recent Strikes the World
Over, With Causes and Net General
ResM Ferrero on . the Fiume
1 Situation Frarce s un
j j known Dead
Foreign Editorial Digest
(Consolidated Press Association)
Millions fof workdays have been lost
during 19)19, the Manchester Guardian
tells us, ton futile strikes. Germany
heads the; list ; Italy follows. France
and Greatf Britain are next and the
United Stakes follows, with a record of
nearly a million persons affected. The
Guardian Ssts the following as the most
note worth)) 'strikes that have lately'
taken plac : . , ,
"The strikes of miners in Australia,
Wales anin) the northern provinces of
France, thfe strike jf the Sicily sulphur
mine workers, the strike in the Italian
chemical industry, which spread all over
the country, just as did - the strike of
bakers arid cooks in that land, the gen
eral building strike in Switzerland, the
cotton workers' strike in Bergamo
(Italy), the strike in the textile Industry
of Bombay, the steel worker,' fight in
Pittsburg, U. S. A., the strike in the
Swedish machine industry, the dockers'
strike at Rotterdam, the glassworkers'
strike in Montlucon (France), and the
tailors' strikes in London and Viennal
Among the more important strikes in
Germany may be mentioned the general
strike in the Ruhr district, which was
the result of the Kapp revolt, the miners'
strike in Gugaugelsnitzen, the strike in
the iron industry of Solingen, the strike
in the dockyard of Binnen, the strike of
agricultural workers in Mecklenburg
and in Pomerania. the machinists' strike
in Berlin, the brewers' strike in Berlin,
Hamburg and Stettin, and so forth.
"Few of these strikes were due to
economic conditions. Thus, the arrest of
an anarchist leader was the cause of a
lengthy strike in the metal industry in
Livorno (Italy). In France a number of j
extremists-' on .'the labor side advocated
strikes to bring about world-revolution.
Such strikes have taken place in Brest.
Marseilles, Nantes, and so forth. The
violent strike in the mercury industry
in Almaden, Spain, was due to. political
reasons. Political reasons also were the
cause of strikes in Ireland, Poland,
l'-gypt and other places. The workers'
strike which took place in the Ruhr dis
trict at the beginning of the year origin
ated in the refusal of the government to
liberate some political prisoners. Strikes
took place as a protest against the pres
ence of troops at Eisenach and Plauen,
while at Adenau the master bakers
'downed tools" owing to the fixing oS
bread prices by the corporation. In some
of the strikes the public were the great
est sufferers, as supplies of gas, water or
electricity were cut off. '
"But it is the number of workdays
wasted (11,814.980 in the first half f
1920) that indicates more clearly hqw
ea'ch country's economic position suf
fered by these often very unnecessary
strikes. In two-thirds of the strikes .re
corded the strikers failed to achieve
their objects, so that in only one-third of
these industrial wars did the attackers
gain advantage.
FOR PEACE DESPITE D'ANXUNZIO
With Italy on her way to capture her
pirate-poet, d'Annuniio the pacifistic re
marks .of Gugliemo Ferrero, the great
historian, well known in this country for
his lectures and his contributions in our
magazines, are significant. He writes
for the Cecolo of Milan : .
"The city of Fiume has fallen to such
depths of misery that it is almost forced
to take to piracy. Its acts discredit the
mother country, which the world will
hold responsible. Nor can it be disputed
that the Fiume expedition has been a
germ of discord to the mition. a danger
ous ferment of revolt. There are people,
too, who tear wrongly, let us hope
that those who have assumed the re
sponsibility at Fiume and in Italy,, for
the expedition, will be emboldened to.
attempt some other and more dangerous
enterprise. But one lesson should be
enough. Each land has its destiny. The
heroes will, not rise from their tombs.
There will be no new Garibaldi to de
liver the Adriatic.
"The Adriatic question, like all the.
questions that the peace conference had
to tackle, does not require for its solu
tion the Impetuosity of an 'ardito'- nor
the courage of an aviator. It calls for
mental maturity on the part of the two
countries interested and oii the part of
Europe as a whole, a maturity that can
not be replaced by any act of force.
Peace in the Adriatic, or on the Khine
or on the Vistula or on the seas is a
much more difficult task than the war
was. People do not yet realize this.
They look upon the fall of the Russian
empire and of the Austro-Hungarlan
empire as quite simple and even ordinary
events. These ruins, on the other hand,
were gigantic catastrophes to which his
tory offers no parallel, because they have
upset the equilibrium of the whole planet.
The world's engine is destroyed. To re-
pair ; it. a hammer-blow struck in the
dark does no good. Work, patience and
confidence are needed. All the treaties
that have been written are- mere outline
sketches.
"It must not be forgotten that for
those who were not in the trenches the
real sacrifices are just beginning. Ma
terial sacrifices because the alse- pros
perity that deceived so many during the
war is coming to an end. Moral sacri
ficesbecause if Europe does not want
to perish in an apocalyptic catastrophe
she must purify herself of the violent
and perverse passions that have brought
her to the present expiation. If the
government can plant a single vital and
fertile seed of peace in the existing
horror it will be to its great glory and
honor." .
FRANCE'S UNKNOWN DEAD
France had a hard time finding a
really J'unknown" soldier to bury under
the Arch of Triumph on Armistice day.
According to the -Oeuvre, Paris, the first
seven bodies dug up in the cemetery of
the unidentified dead had identification
tags on them. The Oeuvre expresses
the opinion that at least 300,000 of the
400,000 "unknown dead" of the French
army were simply unidentified through
carelessness and haste, and that ex
humation will result in their identifica
tion. Letters From the People
(Communications sent to The Journal for
publication in this department ahould be written
on only one aide of the paper; ahould not exceed
300 words in length, and mut be aimed by the
writer, whose mail addresa in full muat accom
pany the contribution.
TWO PRISON SENTENCES
Cases of Embezzling Official and Indian
. Girl Compared.
Portland, Dec 15. To the Editor of
The Journal In ' Wednesday's Journal
there are two small news items that,
should claim the attention of all fair
minded citizens. One is captioned "Ex
Postmaster to Serve Sentence" and tells
of a postmaster at Jennings Lodge who
has been sentenced to serve one year in
the county Jail for the embezzlement of
12260.22.
The other item reads, "Petite Indian
Maid Gets Six TMonths for Raising
Money Order," and goes on to explain
how a little 16-year-old Indian maid
raised a government money order from
$2.50. to $9.50, thereby attempting to
steal .seven whole dollars from the gov
ernment, for which terrible crime she
was sentenced to serve six months in
the-county jail.
It the Indian maid only 16 years old
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Jobless British Seise City Hall? Head
line. Same the world over. Arkansas
Gazette.
'
With cheaper shoes there should not be
so much worry over the price of - gaso
line. Nashville Banner.
Taft is studying crime in Chicago. It
cannot be that he contemplates a front
porch campaign. Seattle Times.
A -French scientist states that kissing
is an acquired art. Also an applied art.
-Jacksonville (Fla.) Metropolis.
This is a poor time to break jail, con
sidering the labor situation and the hous
ing problem. Jackson Citizen Patriots
Why should Greece want a king, any
way? Nice people can . say so much
worse things about a president. Mil
waukee Journal.
The Pilgrim Fathers, we are told, never
made any Christmas presents. There
are some ways in which we have to
hand it to those old fellows. Boston
Transcript,
Before they are married she doesn't
object to his being sentimental. After
they are married she doesn't have any
reason to. Knox-ville Journal and Tribune.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Mr. and Mrs. Lot Pearce of Salem
are at the Imperial. Mr. Pearce is the
owner of a hardware store'- at Salem.
He and Ray Farmer started together
as clerks in the R. M. Wade hardware
store in Salem a quarter of a century
ago and now both own their own es
tablishments. Now that: their children
have aU flown from the home nest, Mr,
and Mrs. Pearce are spending some of
their spare change for gasoline and are
seeing" a good deal of Oregon.
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Dr. E. G. Wisecarver. a very comfort
ing name to the patient, for a surgeon,
is here from Klamath Falls to attend
the meeting of the state board of health.
Mr. and Mrs, H. M. Teel, long time
residents of Echo, are inspecting the
shop windows and doing some Christ
mas buying in Portland.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. A. May, hailing from
Wasco, in Sherman county, are guests
at the Imperial.
R. ? .
'Dutch'
visitor.
Atwood, who has a store with
McCoy at Wasco, is a Portland
Mrs. 'C. M. Johnson of La Grande has
come to Portland to make her home
here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Price, well known
citizens of Weston, in Umatilla county,
are registered at. the Imperial.
H. G. Casteel. pioneer merchant of
Pilot Rock, in Umatilla county, is at
the; 'Imperial. ' .
George Brewster of Enterprise is tell
ing his Portland friends what an ente
'prisjng town his home town is.
, br? r. M. Noel of Klamath Falls is
registered at the Benson.
Dr. J. C. Smith of Grants Pass is a
Portland visitor.
3. II. Hessig of Fort Klamath is a
Portland visitor.
If. F. McGrath of Kings Valley Is
at the Imperial.
E. L. Wallace, president of the Crane
State bank, is a Portland visitor.
II. E. Allen of Bend is at the Benson.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
"By Fred
Admonition to all eoncfrnwl with the opbrinit
in( of children is hre uttered bf Mr. Lorkief,
who offers a friehtful examnle of the wrong
may. with much for incitement toward the rielit
way of anapinz the world of tomorrow by means
of the child of today. 1
By yesterday's mail I received a re
quest to write a 100-word message for
the New Year's edition of a Western
publication, relative to some forward
step I woiajd like to see taken during
the coming year. Answering the request
I wrote :
"During the coming year I would like
to see a start made toward wiping out
class distinctions, industrial injustice,
racial prejudice and religious animosi
ties. A greater realization of personal
responsibility toward making this a
cleaner, " squarer, happier and better
u'ftrlrl trt 7 i fit nnH a erA5tt, unhrp.
LclaUon of the duty we owe the child."
Did you ever stop to think that in
your hands, for weal or woe, rests the
destiny of your children? You are shap
ing the future of the world when vyou
shape the future of your children, for
they are the ones to whom you must
hand the torch when you stumble. They
are the future citizens, and their actions
as such will be guided toy the training
Ihey receive at home, in school, in church
and from the books they read and the
associates they meet.
' There are over 13.000,000 children in
the United States less than 6 years old.
There are more than 27.000,000 between
Jhe ages of 6 and 21 ; so that there are
more than 40,000,000 future citizens of
our country who are In the formative
age. This being so, is there any prob
lem of greater importance than the prob
lem of the child?
' I picked up a leather covered law book
a day or so ago. I supposed it would be
as 'dry as dust, but before I had read
five minutes the tears were streaming
down my face. The case I happened to
start reading was relative to a school
master who had been on trial for mur
der In the state of New York. The first
witness, Sally Adams, testified that the
schoolm'aster became angry because
Betty, who was 6 years Old, pronounced
the Word "gig" as though it were "jig."
She testified that Betty was a very
merry child, always laughing and skip
ping about; that she was very bright,
and devoted to her rag roll; that when
the schoolmaster scolded her for pro
nouncing the Word wrong Betty said, "1
thought that was the way it was pro
nounced," and the master had said, "I'll
teach you better, then"; that He had
whipped her seven times within the next
hour and a half, "wearing out several
rods the size of one's finger." t Dr. G.
Smith, who had been called to attend
the child, had called for a consultation
and summoned Drs. Ezra S. Day and Dr.
Ross. Betty was delirious when they
started to examine her back and legs.
She moaned pi teously and begged them
not to whip her to death. Testifying as
to the cause of Betty's death. Dr. Smith
said : "The prisoner admitted he had cut
eight beech switches as large as hi
finger;' that he had suppled them and
hardened them in the fire, and had
beaten her seven times for being obsti
nate about pronouncing a word. When
I examined the little girl I found her
stealing $1 from the government has
committed a crime that is punishable
by six months in Jail, why is the post
master, who has stolen $2260.22 from
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
One of the most vicious and demoral
izing by-products of the war is the boost
ing of the taxeater's profession. Amity
Standard.
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There are some people so gol-damed
partisan that they would rather starve
than to have prosperity under the other
administration.-Cottage Grove Sentinel.
Kansas, farmers have planned the big
gest acreage of winter wheat since be
fore the war. . Somebody in Kansas must
think farming pays. La Grande Ob
server. The astuteness of a Portland youth
in going crazy immediately after he
was caught red-handed in an attempted
holdup deserves honorable mention.
Medford Mail Tribune.
Quite a number of husky men. who lne m"iai b'ock is aoO.OW.
"guessed thev didn't want to work be- f Gertrude Wheelrr of Mapleton has b
cause they didn't have to" six month i tained the uaual bounty at the office of
ago, are now quite reaay to quality at :
least part of that statement Hood
River News.
Portland is afraid that yeggs will steal
the city and take it with them. Pendle
ton police are finding nothing more
costiy than milk being stolen and their
chief concern is rounding up the f ew
who get something with more kick than
milk to drink. Pendleton East Ore
gonian. Mr. and Mrs. Loring K. Adams of
Portland will It ive shortly for a trip
through Southern California. Adams,
who is an attorney, .formerly lived at
Salem. His father, Sebastian C. Adams.
was a pioneer minister, author and edu
cator. '
Mike Halley of Boise is spending a few
days in Portland. Halley went to Boise
In 1863 and has been there ever since.
He went as a miner, locating first at
Placerville. in the Boise basin, but for
the past 40 years has been engaged in
the livestock business.
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Dean A. B. Cordley of Corvallis,
whose curly locks are the envy and
despair of every straight-haired col
legian of the so-called frailer sex at
Oregon Agricultural college, is at the
Imperial.
Gerard E. Smith, registering from
Constantinople, a city where much his
tory during the past few thousand years
has been made, is t the Multnomah. '
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rtlen Purvine of Salem is in Portland.
From here he will go through the canal
zone and on to China for a cruise of 10
months. .
Charles Devereattx., from Glacier
county, Montana, Is at the Benson,.
Browning, on the Blackfoot reservation
10 miles from Glacier park, is his home.
Mr. and Mrs. James Fox of Spring
field have felt the lure of the city and
will make their home in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wishart of Gar
den Home will leave soon for "Wishart's
boyhood home in England.
.
O. B. Wyrick, well known wheat
rancher of Umatilla county, is at the
Benson.
Mrs. L. II. Howell of Lebanon la
spending the Christmas holidays with
Portland friends.
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C. T. Cockburn, farmer and politician
of Milton, is a Portland visitor.
R. V. Alexander of London is at the
Multnomah.
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F. W. Peet of Prairie City is trans
acting business in Portland.
Lockley
cut and mangled horribly, from the
calves of her legs to the small of her
back ; the parts bruised seemed withered
and dead. The little one did not recover
consciousness, but; died m great pain,
and her last words were pleading not to
be whipped." 1
Witness after witness testified to the
unspeakable brutality of the school
master and his wife toward Betty be
cause she would sing and laugh and
dance about and not be still and com
port herself soberly and discreetly.
It was only a few months ago here in
Portland that Mrs. Swanton discovered
a case where a woman had nearly
beaten, a little girl to death ; yet the
woman was freed, and escaped. How
at the mercy of their elders are little
children !
Do you remember when his disciples
asked Jesus who was to be the greatest
among them?- Here is how he answered
their question: "He took a little child
and set him in the midst of them and
said. Whoso shall humble himself as this
little child, the same is greatest, and
whoso shall cause one of these little ones
to stumble, -it is better for him to be
sunk in the depths of the sea." Do you
remember when i the little children
pressed forward to see the Savior and
the disciples rebuked them and the
Master said : "Suffer the little children
to come unto me and forbid them not.
for of such Is the kingdom of heaven"?
We teach our children to remain in
bondage obndage to fear, to hatred, to
social injustice, to evil, when we owe it
to them to remove the handicaps of the
past and look with clear minds toward
the coming of a better day, here as well
as hereafter. Right thinking, right liv
ing, truth, justice, casting out fear,
service to others these are more Im
portant than many of the things we are
so careful to have them taught In our
schools. If we teach love and charity
and tolerance in our daily life as well as
in our talk : if we practice as well as
preach the Golden Rule, the problem of
the delinquent child, which, more often
than not, is really the problem of the de
linquent parent, will soon be less of a
problem.
, Someone in writing of the child has
written :
"I am the youngest institution in the
world, and the oldest.
"The earth is my heritage when I
come into being, and when I go I leave
it to the next generation of children.
"My mission is to leave the earth a
better place than I found It.
"With my innumerable brothers and
disters. I can do this, if the world does
not impose too many handicaps, upon me.
"I need pure milk, fresh air and play.
"A little later I shall need a good
school in which to learn the lessons of
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"I want! to live,; to laugh, to love, to
work and to play, j
"I want to hear good music, read good
.books, and see beautiful pictures,
v "Later I want to build roads, houses
nd cities. j
"I want to walk In the woods, swim In
the streams and play in the snow.
" 'I am yesterday, today and tomorrow.
"If you will make my way smooth
now, I will help you when 1 grow up, for
I am your hope I am the Child."
the government over - 300 times more
than what the Indian maid stole given
only six months more than the Indian
maid? Margaret Wright Moersch.
'Hie Oregon Country
Northwest llaiirwninin in Brief Form for the
Bosjr Header - ..!.. g
OREGON NOTES ''fit'':
Company C, Oregon National Guard,
of Ki.aene. now liatt a strength of 70 men
and officers. i .
We have the Rosarians, C'herrians ahd,
Prunarians. and now are to have the
Strawherrlans, a newly organizt-d tlub
of Lebanon. . -
Know Fisher, well ' known Oregon
pioneer and one Of the first settlers of
the trand Honde Valley, is dead at Sufn
merville. aged 81. 1 ; ' j .
The Medford Chamber of Commerce
has adopted a resolution indorsing the
union at i"oruand in 192a.
Consolidated Prbdut-ers' limited, is the
r.ame of an Idaho corporation which ha
made application te operate in Oreiion.
me county clerk on a wildcat which sh
killed near her home not long ago.
John Hurlay. a middle aged man In
charge of the orchard place -of Mrs.
Sbnon Benson, near Hood River, dropped
dead Thursday while cutting wood, j ,
Oregon', national congressmen are
urged by the Oregon Wool Growers' as
sociation to support all bills providing
for an embargo on wool and wool prod
ucts. ; 1 . j
jjtates for service on the lines of the
Sheridan and Willamina Telephone com
pany have been increased as the result
of an order Issued by the public service
commission. . j ' '
Ankeny grange No. 60 of Jefferson
has joined with Salem grange No,
17 in opposing an increase by the
coming legislature in the salaries of
state and county officers. ,
The Oregon public service commission
has issued an order granting the Crown-
Willamette Paper company permission to
construct a spur railroad track acrosa.
the county road leading from Seaside to
Nehalem. "
WASHINGTON
A company of infantry in the Wash
ington National Guard has been organ
ized at Prosser. ;
Three miles of new cement sidewalks
will be built In Yakima as soon as the
weather permits in the spring. j-
Bids are being, received at -Wapafo
for the construction of a eewer sys
tem for the town that will cost $65,000.
As an evidence that the Thornton
section has experienced an unusually
mild fall, the apples are still hanging
uninjured on the trees. i .
Heavy rainstorms have forced the
Eufaula company, which operates a
large camp west of Kelso to suspend
operations for the winter. j
A man whose name is supposed i to
have been Emil Anderson, threw him
self beneath the wheels or a rreighr.
train east of Spokane . and was ground
to. death. , j
The affiliated railroad crafts of Spo
kane, representing 4200 people, , have
passed a resolution opposing Japanese
immigration and urging consistent leg
islation, j
Frank De Mareo is dead at a Seattle
hospital as the 'result . of Injures re
ceived when he was run down by (an
automobile. He leaves a widow and
nine children j ' ; .
Empty box cars. 400 feet of trestle
and other equipment of t,he Great
Northern railway at Ballard have been-
damaged by fire to an estimated ex
tent or jz&.uou. - " i
Ray McNulty of Centralia, victim -of
three accidents in the last six months.
is dead from injuries sustained In the
third accident when he was struck! by
a cable and five ribs broken. j
At Tacoma Wednesday Patrolman
W. H. Craft shot and killed K. (.,
Hamblett. aged 65, a carpenter, liamb- .
lett was ordered to halt when he broke
and ran although gilty of no crime,
A. W. SwigerL county manager!. of
the Non-partdsan luague. has been
elected chairman of the J aklma
Countv Farm bureau. Dues of ijtia '
members are raised from $1 to -$10
yearly. ; j .'
Isom White. 19-vear-old self-con
fessed murderer of Lee Linton, Everett
taxicab driver, will have to pay
tha
extreme penalty: for his crime, :
the
de-
supreme court naving atiirmeu me
tision of the lower court.
IDAHO
Reports have reached Boise of five
cases of influenza at Glenns Ferry.
irun it . - - "
building, at Boise is scheduled to be
held January 3. ,
The First Trust Sr Savings bank of
Moscow gave a reception this week in
its new $60,000 home. - , r '
A real estate dealers'- license law.
similar to the" ixje ia Oregon. is to
be presented to tli coining Idaho leg
islature. !
TWO weilH UOreil in n;iim.v .
Hwnrnetl have strui-k an -abundant
flow of soft water at a depth of j llt
feet -
Word comes from Washington that
William Grant : Li-U!ill-n of Moscow
has been appointed superintendent of
the senate document room.
The abolishment of the state hlsh-
way department as " i
and unnecessary1 arm of the state gov
ernment, is reoommenuea m riu"B
nuvjjiru li . . - .
sioners' association.
A man and a woman going under-
the names of Mr. and Mrs. J. Adams
and Mr. and Mr. GeorR- Hansen. : ara
allegd to have victimized storekeeper-
era in many souin laanu ": "r
means of bogus : checks. j
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Ide Melhaven got him a new flivver
fer $15 last- month, and after experi
mentin' with It he's come to the con
clusion that if it went up grade aa grace
ful and swift aa it goes down grade
lt'd run 42 mile to the gallon on the
level. There's lots of . profiteers that
hollers about profiteerin while they're
a-grabbin with 1 both hands their own
selves to fill their own sacks.
KLNOW yOURJ
PORTLANDS
At a season when the rain seems
to be as copious as It Is persistent,
a statement from Edward L. Wells,
meteorologist of the Portland weath
er bureau, furnishes opportunity to
say to New Orleans or New York.
"Oh, were not so wet!" Mr. Wells
puts it thus: J
The -normal rainfall Is 43.13 inches,
which ir about the same as that
for New York or Springfield, Mo.: It
Is about 12 inches more than for
nhicaeo. 8 inches - more than for
Kansas City. 4 inches less than At-H
Janta, and 12 lncnes less man new
Orleans. I
In the last 20 years there has been
enough snow to be measured at the
hour of evening observation about
five days In every winter.
The average! duration of sunshine
is 2053 hours for the year, or 5
hours and 37 minutes per day.
This is below the average for the
country generally, but is greater
than in the vicinity of Puget Sound
or parts of the Lake region or the
Ohio valley. -
The average of sunshine for the
three summer I months is 874 hours,
or 9 hours and 30 minutes per day.
For the same j period New York has
789 hours, Washington 846. New Or
leans 655. Seattle 800, and San Diego
860. .
The average wind movement is. six
miles an , hour, as compared with
seven miles at Seattle, .11 miles at
Minneapolis and 16 miles at Chicago.
It's the raid that makes the roses,
the wonderful soil production, the
beautiful green of the country and
the full flowing Btreams.