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' What we need most Is not so" much to
I I realise the ideal as to idealise the real
i I F. H. Hedge: -
FIGHTING FREE, TOLLS i
vr
HE Mid-West states are reported
American ships through the Panama
canal. ,' j
They claim that free tolls give ad
ditional advantage to natural ad
vantagea Nwhich coast states have
through water transportation. Cbn
sequently many Mid-West : repre
resentatives In congress will oppose
J free tolls just as they helped repeal
the free tolls provision in the early
days of the Wilson administration.
It is one important force the Hard
ing: administration will encounter in
earning out its campaign promise
vto restore the right of ; American
ships to - pass through the canal
without paying fees for the transit,
v ' -Because of their claim that .East
v era coast manufacturers are getting
Pacific coast business. as a result of
water hauls, Mid-West steel com
panies are asking for a rate of $1
on steel from Chicago to Portland.
The present rate is $1.50, and the
. Mid-West steel makers claim that
the steamer, rate, between the Coasts
- gives Eastern competitors a dif
ferential against which they are. jun
able to'compete. These facts in
. their situation will give emphasized
force' to the opposition of the Mid--West
to free tolls. .
But against It there' Is thegreater
consideration of the sltuatioriT of
? western farmers. . All the matkets
ifor thfir products are shot to pieces.
Sb There is no more free agricultural
Y land. The drift of farmers tothe
cities isshown by each succeeding
v census to be more and more marked.
The cojintry is accordingly becom
ing Increasingly industrial rather
than agricultural. , . il. " . '
Auaw i S4U.U u. iuuTcmvui io ..tue
i worst thing that can happen to, the
; nation. Everything that can be done
". to check or arrest it is tremendously
'4 important to the social, economic and
5 political life of the republic.
Nothing can do more tof check the
? dreaded drift tharisthe' lowest JJos-
sible transportation cost on the out
put of the farm, because it is the
fartnervhQ,paya the. freight MU in
the marketing of his products, j
i - Whenever it comes to a choice be-
tween the survival of tho Mid-West
4 steel companies and the American
fanners, there can be no controversy
I over which is the most vital to Amer-
icaa life. ' !
Free tolls would take a tax off
western agriculture and help give
waalarn farmp rfl a. crianrA to inr.
vive on their farms andkeep those
farms producing. -., I
Mail clerks have been armed with
shotguns and revolvers. Their duties
as distributors have been subordi
nated to duties as defenders of mail.
LODGE IN RETREAT
i A GR12AT military leader was lost
aV to this country and to the world
when vicissitudes of fortunes directed
n, the nergies of Henry Cabot Lodge
to the senate of the United States.
What a general he would hayebeen?
And what a strategist? v
It has been said that the retreat
j, is the most difficult of all military
maneuvers.. But it is in retreat that
the- eminent' Massachusetts solon ex
cels. : It is doubtful If any other than
the distinguished league wrecker
4 '
could have conducted so successful
a march to the rear in the matter of
ratification or tie Colombia treaty.
Four years I ago. Senator Lodge's
forces were In' position, for the battle
to the death. .The treaty should. not
be . ratified. ? jGuns were- -mounted,
troops were entrenched, and Lodge's
flag of defiance was shimmying In
the wind." He cared little for Co
lombia's friendship. 1
"Any friendship, which is bought
is worthless.", ; h exploded. "We
cannot afford to answer a. blackmail
demand." - He would have no com
munication with the enemy.
But the wind changed. The Lodge
position was endangered. The board
of strategy, after -all, decided that
retreat was the only course. And
was there another- who could so
gracefully lead the maneuver? Cer
tainly not.
The senator "called" upon his col
leagues ; to pleasure . the "larger
aspects" of the case. They had been
dimmed a little four years previous
ly; they were difficult to discern, but
now they are in plain view. Doesn't
America want the friendship of
Colombia and doesn't she want the
abiding faith of other South Amer
ican republics? Isn't there an op
portunity forj a considerable ,-trade
with our southern neighbors? Isn't
there oil in Colombia on which cer
tain Americans hold concessions,
and, moreover, hasn't Colombia ex
cellent harbors on both coasts?
With the "large" view exposed and
the duty of America so clearly de
fined. Senator Lodge ordered the
flag of defiance hauled down, pre
pared for the evacuation, and personally-led
the victorious march to
the rear.1 Wasn't it a feat, delicately
and gracefully executed under the
able command of the dexterous s5ha
tor from Massachusetts?
Although the small nations of this
hemisphere have again received as
surance that the United States will
hold to a policy of Justice, and al
though a long standing debt of this
government has-been liquidated, the
results of the. belated ratification
of the treaty ) were almost over
shadowed by the genius of Lodge in
retreat. i
In parts of Europe it is considered
almost a disgrace to remain un
married at 35. The fact that she
had passed that r "birthday so de
pressed a Switzerland spinster that
she ' employed two men to drown
her in Lake Geneva, paying them in
advance three hundred pounds.
They accepted the money but failed
to drown, her. She sued them and
both have been sent to prison.
JUBILANT VANCOUVER
THB people of Vancouver are
jubilant ovtf the Columbia rate
decision. j
They have ; reason. They helped
win the fight. Their commercial
and port bodies hid the vision to see
the justice of the claim that cost of
haul should jbs a factor in rate
making and had the nerve to pre
sent that claim before the interstate
commerce commission.
The decision enables Vancouver
and Portland to advance together.
Both are at the tidewater . level.
Both are at the foot oft a vast geo
graphical incline which natural laws
inexorably fix as the place if or rail
and water transportation to meet.
- The new j rate3 link - Southern
Washington and Oregon in a' com
munity of interest with a common
ideal in improng the . Columbia,
with a united fronr In government
aids to canalizing the great' river
and with an' ali around alliance in
helping build up the great inland
Oregon country. It is a relation
that will ever ba of great advantage
to both cities. ,
They say Itrade follows the flag.
What trade does -lo Is. to follow low
freight rates. Products go to
market by the route on which traf
fic ls taxed the teast.
There is no sentiment in com
merce. Thep foundation stone on
which the framework-of great busi
ness is built is the favorable freight
rate by which". the, markets are
reached in the lowest cost. Industry,
commerce . and activity ' will more
and more thrive In the " Southern
Washington j city because capital,
trade and industry follow the freight
rate. - ' . j . ;
An Iowa farmer sold 22 calf skin3
and from the proceeds had $1.20
left after buying a pair of shoes at
$12. Calf skins maxe the finest and
most expensive snoe leather, and
when it takes about 20 such skins
to pay for a pair of shoes somebody
is getting afancy rakeoff.
A BROKEN LIFE
EVELYN NESBIT THAW, former
Floradorai beauty, is described
in a news story in poor health,
and asonly a ghost of Tier, former
self." ' ( - .; . . '
She has come again into public
notice by retiring from . the stage
and opening a tearoom on Fiftieth
street. New York. She is suing her
husband, Jack Clifford, the dancer,
for divorce, janu he in retaliation,
recently led a raid upon her apart
ment in which the former stage
favorite declares the doors':to the
place werebattered down. Probably
the final annals in . the life -of' this
former stagd faorite will be so
poor that they will be almost too
uninteresting to prtnt. "
It all , recalls the sumptuous
apartment in the tower of Madison
Square Garden, the career' of. the
prominent architect who ' occupied
It. the awful sacrifice that Evelyn
Ne&bit, the mere girl, made there;
her marriage later. to a paranoiac
son in a rich family, and, finally, the
shot that Visited vengeance upon the
occupant of the spider's den in the
great tower. . : ' " j'
As you giance back through this
span of 20 years and follow i this
girl from : Innocent girlhood down
past the evil genii that have crossed
her path and theace on to her pres
ent tragic situation, you cannot but
have pity' for the faded woman and
a regret that some . things in ' our
civilization are as they are. .
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men at Parsons, Kan., protests to
the Kansas delegation in congress
against. -the proposed sales tax.' The
men claim the bill would transfer
the, payment of the burden of the
war debt off on the masses, just as
similar war taxes . are- now shifted
to the ultimate consumer. If the
tax began with the sale of the raw
material and wen. On through each
s.tep from the manufacturer to the
final buyer, how many times would
it be paid, and cn whom would the
ultimate burden fall? s
DEFEATING DISEASE ; '
ALYNN ; Massachusetts, lad 're
turned to hi home one evening
complaining of a pain in his toe. A
weeklator he was in- the hospital
suffering with convulsions. He was
unable to- eat, hla body was rigid,
paralysis crept over him. The case
was diagnosed aa lockjaw. 4
A process of anti-tetanus serum
treatments was Inaugurated. - At
first he was given a few . units.
They were increased until the final
treatment, when' 20,000 units were
injected. The boy has been taken
home, completely cured. '- ' .
A New York man has been a suf
ferer from Insanity. He was given
to violent attacks, in which he
showed homicidal tendencies. Re
cently a delicate operation ; was per
formed on his brain at which ; time
a bullet, long lodged in the tissues,
was removed. He has been restored
to perfect health knd released from
the asylum.
There was a time when lockjaw
was almost univf rsilly fatal. Seldom
was a sufferer cured. There was a
time when a suggestion of removal
of a bullet from the tissues of the
brain would have been scoffed at as
impossible. But the certainty with
which medical sciance has overcome
the things that were once believed
to be unconquerable is added proof
that cancer and the other deadly
diseases will some day cease to take
their swift and sure toll -of human
life.
TJhe principal farm products are
now down to approximately the pre
war levels. But transportation
rates, telephone rai.es, gas rates, in
terest rates and most other rates, if
not at the peak level, are near it.
That is to say, the prmary pro
ducers are in the situation of pay
ing more for what they J buy and
receiving less for what they sell
than ' at any time in years, f
LA LIBRE BELGIQUE
THE sale in New York recently if
one of the four perfect seta of
La Libre Belgique recalls to mind
the spirit that for days enabled -a
handful of Belgians- to withstand,
the onslaughts of the German hordes
and thereby permitted muster of the
allied armies for the defense of civ
ilization. While Belgium was under the
"Iron Heel" the daring publishers
of the diminutive four, page sheet
Issued 171 copies of the paper that
blazed with Belgian patriotism. Im
mense rewards were offered by the
Germans for knowledge relative to
the identity of La Libre , Belgique's
editors, relative to the location of its
plant, and for its suppression. But
the rewards were of no avail. Each
issue, printed in attics, cellars and
barns, increased In unmeasured de
nouncement of the kaiser and his
armies.
It was the same spirit that led the
editors of La Libre Belgique to in
itiate and continue publication that
led, to the last battles of the Mame,
of the Somme, of St. Mihiel. of the
Argonne, and 4o the events of No
vember 11, 1918.
A New York lodging house man
ager attempted to evict a tenant, be
cause the latter set off the burglar
alarm by coming 5n after- 9 o'clock
every evening. The tenant refused
to move. The judge decided that
regulating the time of his arrival
home was one of the few things that
a landlord could not do to a tenant.
ON THE GRASSY SUMMIT
ON THE grassy summit of a high
. hill jhear an Rafael,; Califor
nia, searchers "found T the-t bodies.
Arthur, 7, and Andrew, , were lying
side by side dead. They had been
sialn by their father, a recent inmate
of an insane asylum, because he said
he had been In "communication"
with the dsad j mother, who S "had
asked him to send all their five chil
dren to her."
Relating the stor7 of the shooting
to the priest - in a San Francisco
prison, the father said: ; 5 x
Tbey begged for their lives, bat they
looked so pretty and handsome that I
had to shoot them. I shot Andrew Orst
Arthur started to cry. He didn't know
what to do. - I shot him and then placed'
their bodies side by side. f ' -
; The revolver Is made to destroy.
The San Rafael crime Is an instance
of the result of its manufacture.
HUGHES ON
MANDATES
Expressions of Satisfaction' Prevail in
Editorial Comment on the Secre
tary's Note Many Leajrue Sup
porters Gleeful Over His Fol
lowing of Wilson, Though'
- Others Doubtful of Pol
ices Not Avowedly
Based Upon the
Versailles Pact.
-Daily Editorial Digest -
(Consolidated Press Associstiow)
Praise for the Hughes note on man
dates, which most writers agree, with
the Chicago Journal (lern .), Is -irrefutable,"
Is widely supplemented in the com
ment by newspapers friendly to the for
mer administration with an expression
of satisfaction that Mr. Harding's secre
tary of state "finds it impossible to
deviate from the position" taken by
President Wilson. A few ardent sup
porters f the league and the covenant,
however, feel that any foreign policy
which repudiates he work at Versailles
must be weak. iX not utterly Inconsist
ent. But for the most part, American
editors believe that, league or no league,
America has the right to demand privl-r'
leges for which Secretary Hughes "log
ically and forcefully" contends. .
'
From the South the Houston Chronicle
Ind.) declares "that "the position taken
by Secretary Hughes with regard to
mandates is unassailable" ; the Richmond
Times-Dispatch (Bern.) finds that "it
challenges American admiration, for U
firmness,' and the Florida Times-Union
Dem.) considers it. an "'unshakable
stand." Reflecting the sentiment of its
followers on the. Pacific coast, the Seat
tle Times (Ind.) looks upon the note as
"stated with -traditional American fair
ness and bluntness," and the Oklahoma
City Oklahoman (Uem.) describes it as
"unassailable" and predicts that the
United States has behind it "the finan
cial, economic and moral power to win
her point.
Presented in "a logical and concise
manner," the Hughes note, iu the opin
ion of the Sioux City Journal (Rep.),
will be found "Impregnable1 "by the
powers. ' Even the Courier-News, Fargo,
North Dakota's Non-partisan league or
gan, not usually enthusiastic over the
Kovernment's policies, admits that: "If
the United States can successfully main
tain that in the disposition of the little
island of Yap the interest of the world
isr paramount to the selfish interest of
one nation,' a vast gain towards peace
will have been won."
To the Chicago Triline (Ind. Rep.) the
consummation of a policy set forth in
this 'communication is eyidence that
"President Harding and Secretary
Hughes have in one month of official life
led us out of a fog which has impeded
our progress for nearly two years." The
Pittsburg Chronicle - Telegraph (Rep.)
credits Mr. Hughes with "force and
clearness" in dispelling the idea that our
absence from the league council means a
waiving of rights. This point the Pitts
burg Leader (Prog. Rep.)J takes up in
more detail: "-League of Nations or no
League of Nations, the United States has
certain privileges which cannot' be ab
sorbed except through voluntary action
on our part. The mere fact that Amer
ica declines " to ratify the Versailles
treaty and refuses membership in the
SUper-state under the name of League of
Nations cannot be grounds for depriving
us of our rights and freedom of action.
If European statesmen were under a
different impression they have been set
right by Secretary Hughes."
More than merely "to reaffirm the pol
icy of Mr. Wilson in regard to the policy
of Yap,", the Baltimore News (Ind.) be
lieves that Secretary Hughes "has as
serted a truth as to the origin of all
rights and interests in matters growing
out of the war's termination", and the
"inalienability of America's rights" in
these matters, regardless of what agree
ments the other powers have made with
out her.
.
To many writers wholooked upon the
league and covenant through the eyes
of Woodrow Wilson, though approvaijls
not stinted It comes with the explana
tion set forth emphatically by the Nor
folk Ledger-Dispatch (Ind. Dem.) : "In
dealing with the question of Germany's
overseas possessions, surrendered under
the treaty of Versailles, Mr. Harding's
administration is as precisely right as
Mr. Wilson's administration was, for the
very simple Veason that the course fol
lowed by the Harding administration is
precisely that followed by the Wilson
administration.' '
This, the Mobile Register (Dem.) ven-
tures, "must be very gratifying to the
former president and his associates,"
and adds its praise to Mr. Hughes ."cold"
logfc- and "clearness." With less sym
pathy for an administration "founded
upon a paganly savage anti-Wilson bat
tle hymn," but with no criticism of its
course, the Schenectady Gazette (Dem.)
remarks upon "the fact that the Harding
cabinet so far has followed step by steC
so far as it dares, Uie foreign path
marked out by Woodrow Wilson ;" a
path, asserts the "Nashville Tennessean
(Ind. ' Dem.), from which Secretary
Hughes "finds it impossible to "deviate,"
and one, as the Indianapolis Star (Ind.)
puts it, that had been laid out -by
his nredecessor. Balnbridee Colbv. It
pmight have been expected," says the
Syracuse Herald (Ind.), that Hughes -would
lose no time In ''confirming and
emphasizing" the Wilson policy and "it
would be difficult," the Buffalo Times
(Dem) observes, "to imagine a higher
compliment" to the late president.
Because of this adherence to policies
which dominated the defeated candidate
at , the .last election, the Louisville
Courferjournal (Dem.), while it makes
no criticism itself, suggests that some,
"including' Senator Hiram Johnson," will
not be "altogether pleased," for "here is
Secretary Hughes quoting Mr. Wilson
and catling the attention of theallies to
the way Mr. Wilson defended our rights."
There is a minority opinion, of course, j
which turns its thumbs down on the
note. Perhaps the New York World j
(Dem) is the most emphatic. - To this I
paper, the Harding administration has
merely offered "an unanswerable argu
ment in favor of the ratification" of the
league and the covenant and "nothing
could better illustrate the folly" of the
senate's rejection of that document "and
the folly of the Harding administration's
policy, than the Hughes note." In the
eyes of the Chattanooga News (Dem.), it
"gets us nowhere and "is intended for
public consumption. Instead of proffer
ing a plan of settlement it puts the
initiative on others." The Newark News
(Ind.) complains that the secretary "ar
gues as if he were attacking the decisions
of a"- court of law" and declares that
"the decisions, embodied in the treaty of
Versailles were not reached in that
way." In somewhat similar strain the
Johnstown Democrat (Dem.) remarks:
There is ground for the suspicion that
Mr. Hughes, while declining to make the
United States a participating factor in
the treaty of Versailles, is attempting to
constitute himself a world supreme
court, competent to pass upon the provi
sions of that treaty."
i Repudiation of the treaty, some writers
feel, is sufficient to1 weaken; our -contentions
f jr a voice in a disposition Of the
spoils of the war. Says the New Havon
Register (Ind.): "While one can, as an
American, hardly do less than rejoice
that our government has su-sh convic
tions and . the courage of them, u is
possible to see .here, a, trifle, if no more, .
of inconsistency. It is hardly necessary
to repeat that we had the treaty cf Ver
sailles offered to us for our signature.
We profess. that we refused to sign it
on principle. We ' know that really we
stuck ott a point of politics. That's why
we were not at the meeting f the su
preme council when the Yap matter
came up." .
Letters From the People
f Commnnieatioas sent to The Jon rn aJ foe
publication in this department anon hi be written
on only one side of the paper; should sot exceed
300 words in length, and must be sujned by the
writer, whose mail address is full must accom
pany the contribution.
. AS ARMING PROCEEDS
Advocate of League of Nations Has No
Faith in an "Association."
Portland. April 23. To the Editor of
The Journal There is a great deal of
talk over disarmament. Amidst it all
nations go steadily on carrying out their
armament plans. And why? Simply
because nine tenuis Of the nations be
lieve there cannot be and will not.be
any real attempt at disarmament until
the nations get together on some such
plan as that already agreed to by some
forty-odd nations. And when the Uni
ted States government proposes an "as
sociation of nations to prevent war,'
ignoring altogether the present League
of Nations, And in such proposal con
demns the "use of force," such talk of
disarmament becomes palaver. No sane
man who knows anything about Ger
many, or who has any historical know
ledge of the Balkan states, can reach
any other conclusion than that there
must be a force somewhere to make
them keep the peace. The Monroe doc
trine would be a hollow echo except for
the element of force put behind it. That
has been proved on several occasions.
Any "association of nations" to be
potential must recognize the principle
of force displayed in the Monroe doc
trine. The Hague' tribunal is an ex
emplification of the weakness of any
such organization "without teeth." No
nation will agree to any disarmament
plan until it feels that it is safe from
"aggression" from other nations. And
no agreement of the nations can bring
about this feeling of safety until there
is an agreement that each and all will
come to the rescue of any other, in case
of . such "aggression." The hope of the
world for peace and disarmament lies
in the League of Nations as organized
under and by the treaty of Versailles,
and if that league is torn down and de
stroyed that hope, and the . realization
of that hope, goes up in smoke.
, - - B. F. Wilson.
- THE ALIEN ON CITY WORK
Complaint .that .the American Service
Man is Turned Away.
Portland, April 24, To the Editor of
The Journal The Journal ' seems if be
the only paper in Portland Irt sympathy
with the working man. Will you Xlndiy
give space to this, letter? , ...
.1 saw some time ago in The. Journal
that the American Legion "was looking
into the question of trfe alien, where thei
contractors doing work for the . city
should employ ex-service men or -American
citizens. . Now we would like o
know why they .don't look into the -Port
of Portland dry dock at St. Johns. They
will' find aliens, Hollanders and - ether
foreigners -without citizenship papers.
drawing $7.50 a day, while the ex-serv
ice man -and American citizens are told
there is no work for them. And it-is a
known -fact that within the iast few
days some of these aliens have brought
more-of their relatives from the . East,
and these same fellows are given ' work
as soon as they get here, on the dry
dock; paid by the city of Portland
What is our, mayor doing all this time?
Who is it that he has to do the hiring
for the Port of Portland and dry dock?
Was it to protect these aliens that our
boys went to war ; that they live on the
fat of the land while our American citl
zens are told there are no jobs? These
same aliens kept out of the war by
being aliens, and drew their big wages
from the shipyards. And now they are
hired by the city. Some of these fel
lows have been asking for their first
papers now because they, are afraid
they will lose their lobs. I hope the
American Legion will look into this
thoroughly. Or can this question be
answered? J. S. Downing.
A READER'S PROTEST
Seaside, April 12. To the Editor of
The Journal I was surprised, not
necessarily shocked, but jarred, to see,
on the editorial page of The Journal,
the following :
"In Hominy, Oklahoma, a man has
mysteriously disappeared. He was
driving a nitro-glycerin truck. It
(the truck? Sic?) "exploded. No
trace has Bince been -found of him
except a piece of leather for which
apparently he had no . further use.
I know' it is a standing rule of The
Journal never to "get funny" rn treat
ing of divorces and divorce .filings,
Then why this ribald flippancy with
a matter so serious as a nornoie
death? I'm no "sob sister,"
but
confess to a species of abhorrence at
the "treating of such a piece of news
in this way.
That a brilliant "head (hunter)
writer" . on the Oregonian captioned
the story. "Truck Driver Expunged,
and its eaually bright paragrapher
says : "The dispatch says the driver
is missing. What he is missing is
not stated, but is guessable," occa
sioned ho wonder, as no reader, how
ever sapient or prophetic, can ten,
an hour ahead, what that chameleon
sheet will do or say next. -
I do not believe 1 per cent of the
readers- of The Journal and, of the
Oregonian saw anything laughable or
commendable in the above efforts . at
wit. "Ne sutor ultra crepidam."
A Chiel Arnang Ye.
WITH DAD AS A PAL
Portland, April 25. To The Editor of
The Journal Replying to your article
entitled "At Sixteen" in last Thursday's
Journal, permit me to ask. Is it right
for a father to remark, "My boy is 1,
and out 7 nights in the week; I don't
knowfthat he is d-iing out there in the
streets"?
t If fathers took more of an Interest
In their sons perhaps this condition
would not exist. Let him make a pal of
the bo: -how an interest in all his
doings ; have him join dad at a show or
any . pleasure. Have the parents invite
the friends of their son to the home so
they can judge if they are fit companions
for their boy. If the environment is right
the boy is bound to come out O. IC but
when Son sees Father - take no interest
in him and allows htm to roam the
streets every evening and come in at any
old hour, without being reperimanded, is
the boy to blame? No; it's the parents,,
particularly the father, for at the age
of 16, the critical age in a boy's life, the
father and son should be comrades. Not
too .late now, you dads, who have not
made pals of your sons. Don't wait un
til they have done a wrong deed and then
act. Start in this day and take an active
interest in your boy's doings.
! . An Ardent Reader.
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
Before the time of Galileo, who was
born in 1564, time was measured by the
shadow of the sun on a dial or the burn
ing of a candle, or the fall of sand or
water through a hole. Galileo, happen
ing to observe, in the cathedral of Pisa,
the oscilation of a lamp, was struck
with the apparent measured- regularity
of vibrations. Having tested the cor
rectness of .this observation by compar
ing the beat of "his own pulse with the
action of the pendulum, he " concluded
COMMENT ArtD
, -SMALL -CHANGE
The Rev. Mr. Boozer at Co rv all is
is
said to be an ardent prohibitionist.
'.:' J : - -if
money talks, why doesn't It protest
at some of the uses to which tt is put?
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What's an eye more or less to "Pussy
foot" Johnson when his wages are at
stake?
Looks like the , Democrats have re
treated to the democracy they were try
ing to make safe.;
, -
" Easterners are searching for Iron ere
in Oregon. Usually all they care about
hunting is our minted gold.
J a-
Famous old Fort Vancouver, which
finally dropped the "fort," is about to
come, into its own as Port Vancouver.
While Seattle is . seeking "other low
rates," she might please her citizens by
scouring slower passenger rates to Port
land. '
"President Harming Sundayed at Less
burg." ; Dern ft! Pretty soon hrU get
his name in the paper every time he
buys a new necktie.
' The missionaries have long lamented
about 13-year-old brides in India. Now
that we've gone into the game in
America, what aj-e the doing?
Must have been , on the L4land of Yap,
where there's no drinking water, that
someone wrote, "Water, water every
where, and not a drop to drink."
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Fred W. Andrews, one of the best
known and most successful stockmen
on Butter creek, near Echo, is at the
Imperial. He took a farm covered with
alkali' and salt grass and by intelligent
farming methods has turned it into
one of the best alfalfa farms in that
district.
"see..
Oscar Kelsay, who proved that he
was one of Wheeler county's most popu
lar citizens by being elected sheriff, is
down from Fossil on official business.
i U. R. Wilson and C. L. Shattuck of the
Deschutes Power company of Prine
ville are transacting business in Port
land. . a e
Mrs..'E. J. Wilson and her daughter
Marjorie of Prineville are doing some
shopping in Portland.
e
Mrs. Grant King, frpm Siletz in Lin
coln county, is registered at the Per
kins. e ; e a .
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Gipson of the
Capital eCity are taking a look around
in the metropolis.
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J. W. Brown of Elgin is transacting
business In Portland.
. . e
r G. W. Conner of Medford is trans
acting business in Portland. .
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A. W. Walker, Medford automobile
dealer, is at the Oregon.'
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W. II. Corwin and R. E. Miller, both
of Medford-are guests of the Oregon. .
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J. M. Spencer and R. B. Stanfield of
Echo are in Portland oh business.
..see
r H. D. Crane of Prineville ts here on a
flying visit.
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' H."H.: Trowbridge of Baker is a Port
land visitor. .
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t .S, M. Calkins, walnut grower of New
berg, is at the Oregon.:-
' '. . . V.
. J. R. Thompson, sawmill'man of Kelso,
is transacting business tn Portland.
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A. S. Dunlap of Joseph is a guest of
the Imperial.
J. T.
visitor.
Jenkins of Bandon is a Portland
Fred Grimes, Prineville rancher, is
taking in the sights of Portland.
.
Frank C. Wood of Lebanon Is regis
tered at the Imperial.
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Paul Maris of Corvallis is in Portland
on college business.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
. OF THE JOURNAL M Aft
.
ByFred Lockley '
I In this Installment are related the further ad
ventures of Albert S. Pollard, who served in the
Philippines in the dan serous days in those islands.
He nava his reanects to the Moros and then
brinaj his story down to tha date of the war
with (iermaur, lor service in wocn ne exuista. j
After completing my enlistment in the
navy at the time of the Spanish-American
war .under which I was with the
forces sent to Pekin to raise the siege of
the legations there, I enlisted in the en
gineers," said Albert S. Pollard, "and
was sent to the Philippines, where I put
In two years and six months. We served
there under 'Black Jack Pershing. He
was a good soldier, but was not popular
with the enlisted men. We thought he
was too easy with our little brown
brothers. Every time we strayed away
from camp, or whenever we were with
a small party going through the jungle.
the little brown men lay In wait for us
with their wicked boloo and trimmed
our arms or legs off. The soldiers
wanted to be turned' loose -sto they could
put the brown brethren out of commis
sion, -We put in most Of our time in
Moro province, for there was where most
of the trouble occurred. The Moros
might be poor, benighted heathen, but
they were 'first-class- fighting men.
Spam never was able to lick them. They
are Mohammedans and they figure that
if they die in battle they go straight to
heaven anyway, where, instead of get
ting a crown and a harp, they will -be
given a bunch of fair damsels ; so tbey
were perfectly willing to die.
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"There are five districts in that prov
ince. Four of these - are Lanao, Jan
boago, Colobato and Davao, all of which
are on the island or Mindanao. The
other district Js the Island of Sulo.
May be you have seen the comic opera.
The Sultan of'Sulu.' If you have, you
have a mighty good idea of what the
island isn't, for it is very far from ligbt
opera. It ,1s a regular wasps' nest. Its
soil ought to be red so much blood has
been spilled there. - All of the people.
men and women, are natural scrappers.
They dress pretty much alike, and in a
fight, when they are about to cut you
open with a kris or slash- a chunk out of
you with a barong you haven't time to,
that by means of this equality of oscil
lation, a simple pendulum might become
an agent m tne exact measurement oi
time. Galileo subsequently, utilized this
discovery by tha successful application
of tho pendulum in constructing a clock
for astronomical purposes, when he was
18 years old. He made other important
contributions to physical science, among
which were the relation between space
and time in the case of falling bodies;
the partial discovery that suction is ow
ing to the pressure of the atmosphere ;
the Invention of the telescope, and the
discovery of the satellites of Jupiter,
phase of Venus and spots on the sun.
But tho most Important was the inven
tion of the pendulum, which gave man-
kind a system for-time measi2fement-
NEWS IN BRIEF
- - SIDELIGHTS :
The Portland ball team' won a game
day . before yesterday, -which indicates:
that - nothing is impossible. Eugene
Register. -
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By the end of next year Oregon will
have expended 840,000.000 on road build
ing without costing anybody a cent. The
money has all been borrowed. Eugene
Guard.:"', .....
I ..:.:.': . ..' :'-. .. a '. ,.:
The 6 per cent limitation spending
habit of every, political unit in Oregon
will eventually confiscate property and
wreck the ship of state. La Umnde
Observer.
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They say, that in Pendleton the only
driver- more dangerous than . a pretty
woman is a man who is watching a
pretty woman pedestrian. Pendleton
East Oregonian,
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. The Beavers got the soaking that was
coming to them on the opening day, a
wet one. But they had been soaked so
much down in California.' they were used
to U.T Albany Democrat.
Nobody likes , a . "pussyfooter" but
somehow the breed seems to come more
nearly getting what they want than one
who Bets his feet down like a regular
man. Roseburg News-Review.
. . ..-
It has been a ton time since .the
people have received such agonising
news as that contained In a circular is
sued by the Portland Chamber of Com
mArne wherein. - the, . alleatation Is made
that "the virgin Oregon forests are being
def Jed and denuded hy corporate mm
ber interests." Medford - Mail-Tribune,
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Buddie from "Hunt
ington are registered at the Hotel Per
kins. Mr. Buddie is a well known stock
man on the Oregon-Idaho border.
' '-' ':
W. -H. Wilson, member of the pioneer
Wilson family of Eastern Oregon, is
down frorii The Dalles and is a guest of
the Pet kins. '
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A. H- Chambers, well known - stock
man of Western Washington, is in town
from Olympia and is registered at the
Perkins.
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"W. S. Cone, timber cruiser, timber
operator and founder of Bay City; is at
the Perkins from Tillamook county.
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" A. Wheqlhorse Of Arlington is regis
tered at the Imperial.
. . '
J. C. Porter of Hood River is a Port
land visitor.
":.''-':-. ' :f : -
Mr. and .Mrs, Arthur Hollgorth of
Elgin are registered at the Cornelius.
Frank Ward of Salem is a guest of
Pthe Imperial.
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Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Mansfield of Med
ford are visiting in Portland.
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L P. Stubblefield of Pilot Rock is in
Portland getting his foot mended.
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Fred . W. Falconer, ' stockman from
near Pendleton, is a Portland visitor.
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Mrs. C Clark of Arlington is at the
Cornelius.
Mr, and Mrs. C. H. Benton of Bend
are guests of the Cornelius.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mahoney of Hepp-
ner were recent Portland visitors.
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James Clark of Roseburg is a Port
land visitor. , " . - . --.
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E. J- Craig, well known 'cattleman, is
up from Astoria. - .
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. C. W, Cook of Sheridan is a Portland
visitor. , - - . - - -
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W. R. Klrkley of Newberg is a guest
of the Perkins. -
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Crosses
Grande are Portland visitors. . -
of La
S. Cowley of , Roseburg is a guest of
the Perkins. ' , ,
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Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Clarke of Salem
are Portland visitors.
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. Will Ellis of Dram is at the Imperial.
Minnie CUne of Friend la in Portland.
say, 'Madam, are you a lady or a gentle
man? . - , .
Jolo is the chief city on the Island, of
bum. Every time the Moros go on a
rampage the soldiers try to round them
up, -iney take to- the rough country
nearby, which is full of craters. There
is one place near Jolo called Dajo It
started to be a, mountain and ended
by being a hole in the ground, like
Crater lake, in Southern Oregon, only
on a smaller scale. . General Wood,
when he -was in command, rounded up
the Moros here and fought them to a
standstill, till the Moros finally took
refuge in this pit Our soldiers had to
charge up the steep bill to the edge of
this- crater. ' where the Moros welcomed
them in the typical Moro way. WhenJ
tne party was - over there were about
1400 dead Moros. r
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, "After putting -in two years and a half
in the islands, with the pleasant un
certainty of never knowing whether I
was going to wake up in the morning
dead or alive, I decided to come back to
the United States and take up my old
Job ,of railroading. After receiving my
honorable discharge I got a job as
locomotive engineer on the Santa , Va
between Needles and Sellgman. "I was
on 'this run four years, and if you have
been down there you know something
about the Mojave desert and the Death
Valley country. ,. It is a blistering
stretch of sun-drenched sand varied in
places with big washouts from cloud
bursts. During the frequent sandstorms
the job of an engineer is anything but
pleasant From this run I was trans
ferred to the Albuquerque division,
where I ran between Albuquerque and
Winslow, il finally got so much sand In
my craw that I . decided to find a job
somewhere else, so I went to Cuba and
got a Job on the railroad running from
Camuety. to Santiago de Cuba. I was
paid $10 In gold a month. After being
there a year I struck a Job on the
Florida East Coast railroad, owned by
H. M. Flagler.v the millionaire oil man.
I was paid $240 a month. I stayed with
this Job till bur country- declared war
against uormany. a enuated, reported
for duty in New York city, and became
a member-Tjf the Eleventh engineers."
Uncle Jeff Snow Say
This idee of makin' a feller glnerous
by firln him off the job if he don't do
nate thc.way the boss tells him is a old
Unvention. They uster make a feller fit
for Heaven by lashin him to" his knees
with a whip they calles the cat-o'-ninetails.
Our Christian forefathers, how
ever, found out after while that what
the lashed feller thought more'n offset
the prayers he repeated and they quit
tryi n to fill Heaven up th'ataway.
"NEVER!
Front tha Baltimore Sun.'
A man may be down, but he's never
out of alibis.':'''
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happenings In Brkf Form for the
Busy Header
OREGON NOTES
A drive In Lane county to raise $llnfl.
for the Salvation Army will be started
May 1. .
Flood waters are now available for
use in all the canals of the Ochoco irri
gation district.
Official opening of the new" swimming
tank at OreonvAgricultural college has
been et for May 15.
Building operations have been resumed
t ttukrr. permits for six new bungalows
A new cauceliuir machine that will han
dle 100J100 letters - a day has been re
ceived at the Eugene postoffioe.
The Cedar Flat school on the McKen
zle river has been -closed on account of
a smallpox epidemic In that locality.
' Spotted fever caused the .death of John
R. Poster at his home in I'tfultna valley
last Friday., He was, 72 years of age.
The Brownsville high school will grad
uate a class of 14 this year and the first
week of June will be commencement
week.
The Umatilla county farm bureau,
under the 1921 law, psid 1362.97 during .
March as its share of the 2-cent gaso-sj-.
line tax.
The lane' county court hns appropri
ated $3000 for Improvement of the old
stage road between Swlsshonie and
Maple ton; . . - .
A Boy Scout company with '18 mem-,.,
bers has been organized at Philomsth,
with William Parsons, college student, as
scout master.
At a special election In Gold Hill only
one vote was cast against a new charter
and the lssu of reimbursing bonds in "
the Burrr- of $2000.
Mrs. Margaret Oidtorne, who has spent
practically her entire life in Polk county,
celebrated her 84th birthday at lnde- .
pendence last week.
Yunker Brothers of Portland are lo
cating a mill on a l&O-acre timber tract
near Carlton and willwrun a spur from
Adobe station to the mill.
Clifford Watson, '4 years old, whiln
playing in the back yard of tho family
home at The Dalles, fell into a shallow
pool of rain water and was drowned.
WASHINGTON
Despondent from ill health, Henrv lil-
ley, 67. killed himself last Sunday at lus
home, near Orient. . .
-Attorney General Thompson has ruled .
that women receiving mothers' pensions
are exempt from the poll tax.'
It ' is said" thst C'olonei Charles R.
Forbes of Spokane and Heattlo will be
appointed governor of Alaska. .
Farm laborers in Franklin county am
available this year at SI a day and
board, as against $3. and $ lust year.
William A. Barker, for 50 years a rest
dent of Walla Walla, is dead at a hos
pital in that city. He was 72 years old.
Eleanor Hunt, S-year-old daughter of
H. J. Hunt, died at Walla Walla of burns
received while her ntother was tempor
arily absent from the house.
H. E. Simons, vice president of the
General Machinery comjiany, at Spokane,
is dead in that city, following injuries .'
received In an -automobile accident.
Beginning last week St. Ignatius hospital.-
at Colfax, has refused to accept
patients under treatment, by druglesa
healers. . ! '
Spokane has received Its Fourth of
July allotment of fireworks from Japan,
amounting to more than lit tons, valued
at $2000. ,
Blossom day In Speknne valley has
been set for May 4, and will be celebrat
ed with a barbecue and caravan tour of
the valley.
The Exchange National hank has pur
chased 200 head of fat cows in Montana
for delivery in Spokane. The cows will
cost 6 cents! a pound in Spokane.
Walla WklTa city commissioners will
receive bid for the $500,000 bond Issue
for waterworks May 17, and bids for con-
structlon of the plant will be received
May 24,
A limit of 200,000 cases of high grade
salmon has been set on Its pack this -year
by the Booth Fisheries company of
Seattle, owning 17 Balmoirpacklng plants
on the coast-
The Citizens State bank, with a cap-""
ital of $26,000, and the Citizens Securities
company, capitalized at $.10,000, have re
cently been organized at illllyard.
IDAHO
The Caldwell
post, American
Legion,
has started a drive for
1000 new mcm-
bers in Canyon county.
The Bonners Ferry Lumber company
tar ted a night shift Monday and is
now employing nearly 300 men.
Stanley H. Rich hHH resigned a audi
tor and recorder of Bear Lake county.
A successor has not yet been named.
Three complete tickets, with an inde
pendent candidate for r-ity clerk, are in '
the field for the next Twin Falls flec
tion. A permit has been asked to build a
dam around Mud lake in -Jeff,rot
county thuf will irrigate 187,000-acres
and cost, $i;400,0ogf.
The biglog drive on the north fork of
the BoisCTVer startwl hist wwk. Eighty
men are bringing down lS.OOO.OUO feet
of white pine ions. . .
Oovernor Davis has appointed Samuel
D. Hays of Bobte as platu and training
Officer on the regimental stuff of the
f irst cavalry,' Idaho National Guard.
fcN ow yotjp.
PORTLAND
--Civic enterprise well .directed be
comes a multiplication table. The
total of benefit proceeds at a rate
far faster than mere addition An
instance is the interstate commerce
commission's decision ijsf the" Colum
bia basin rate case, -t
Portland adopted some 10 yearn
ago an active ocean terminal policy.
In that period the expenditure of the
huge sum of $10,500,000 has been
authorized and much of it spent- for
docks, elevators, vegetable oil stor
age facilities and bunkerage equip
ment. Vancouver, in the more Im
mediate past, has authorized the
building of public docks, and private
concerns have in mind wheat ele
vator construction.
The long continued campaign for
channel improvement has resulted
in a depth of 42 feet at the Columbia
harbor entrance and a uniform 30
foot channel from Portland lo the
sea. Federal engineers have recom
mended a 25-foot channel from a
point - connecting with the Portland
ship -channel at the mouth of the
Willamette, to Vancouver.
Increase in flour milling facilities
through private investment is a sort
of progressive enterprise In both
places.
, In the very recent past the rail
roads have responded to public de
mand with plans for considerable'
enlargement of their terminal facili
ties. ...
What Is the use of all these appar
ently disconnected improvements?
All. together .with enlargement in
Jobbing facilities, will become units
of the enlarged plant with which
Portland and Vancouver will handle
the increased business resultant
from the enforcement of the rate
preferential provided for in the
happy ending of the Columbia baaUi
case.
A. part of the-purpose The Journal
has had in leading the fight for the
recognition of 1he water grade In
volved in the Columbia basin case
and in advocating local measures of
Improvement has been to provide '
for Portland, Vancouver, and the in
terior the great business and trans-'
portatlon plant which would best
serve every interest and the whole
people of the Oregon country.
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