THE OREGON i DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON.
MONDAY, MAY 16. 1C21.,
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Ha is tha eloquent man who can treat
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Impressively and moderate things temper
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FED ON HUSKS
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I compensation law never to be
given up 7 A casualty company na
circularized the industrial establish
rhents of the state with a propagan
da insisting that it can give employ-'
era better and cheaper Insurance
than they are afforded by the work
men's compensation system. Their
proposal is. of course, to induce em-
W1,WH1
ance. turn over the settlement to
personal Injury cases to the casualty
companies, with the result that If
compromises cannot oe maae. enp- l
V1akr4 eWntrlrAM T A T H am WlflnVI Attn I
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tftwi a, v a a?T A A r WArvAM will Tlsva I
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to .resort, ju inthe old -days, to the
courU and trials and lawsuits and
.
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vreaiieo system. -
r Almost every day before the work-
inen's-compensation law went into
effect; there used to be men on
Crutches or the dependent wives and
Children of dead workers In the cor-1
ridors and court rooms at the Mult-
nomah courthouse, striving through
trials, lawyers, witnesses and other
- machinery of the law to. get verdicts
xor compensation ror injuries oriror tne Portland team In a race for
death. It created a congestion in
w
estimates, the entire time of one
Judge, even In those days of fewer!
Industrial plants, to adjudicate, the
. personal injury cases, to say nothing
of the time occupied in the higher
court. j
r It', wag a brutal Bystem, an xm-
ejmiusea system, an atrocious and In -
Jbuman system. In the end. the eas-
Ualty companies and the ambulance
chasing lawyers got most of the in
jury and death money,' and the
worker and his dependents got the
husks, always after long-drawn-out
ana costly litigation.
g No matter' what they say. casualty
companies cannot offer a cheaper in -
surance. The limit allowed by law
fpr administration of the workmen's
compensation system is 10 per cent,
and to date it has been kept down to
per cent- .wot ror one minute
would so low a per cent pay the supplemented the shipping act of of. aUempted rescue and humani
proflts and overhead of the casualty 1916. -It embodied the declared tarianlsm, - I
.companies. If that very limited re. policy of the United States to do Girls arrested for the first time are
turn were all in sight for-"them. the whatever may be necessary to de- not to be thrown into detention
casualty companies would not be so velop and encourage the .mainte- quarters with hardened characters-
keen for the business. ' .
m m- .no , . .
u' VB040 Beni OHl m premi-
urns for casualty -Insurance in the
last two; years before the compensa-
w ww"v eueui, oniy
w stum . staie u pay-
Blent of losses, leaving a profit of
nearly 1500,000 for the casualty com-
panies. And of the great sum paid
' vvU.vuu,i,reHuum.1
the amount that came back to in-
Jurea -worker! - or their dependents
ia piaceo ai. wmy aoout Ju,uutf.
" . . . ,
. xav iisures leu ineir own mourn-
ful story, a story of how casualty
. -"v. "'""-""
got the profits and the injured work
ers and widows and orphans got the
chaff under the old system. -
f-.fA W Jl J A. A 1 :
uun i set 10 laae my usual
trip to California last winter, ad
mittea a w uiamette vaney prune
grower, -wny not r- asxea ms city
friend. Perfectly simple, the pru-
rarian explained, rve still on hand
tu.ouB pounos or cried prunes from
last year's crop which cost me a halt
more to raise than' the crop of the
year before and for which I am of
fered half as much. , They won't
even accept prunes any more in pay-
ment -f or railroad tickets.'
RIGHT. BUT DEAD
ANY an automobile owner
in
Portland knows his rights on
the street and insists upon them. He
knows when he has right , of way,
how he should turn a corner, when
he should signal, and what speed
conforms with the law.
He knows j
also the other drivers rights. . I
That particular kind -of - oper-1
ator takes right of ; way when right
that he IB rig-fat and gTO8 ahead. He
scrupulously insists on the protec-
tion of his own prerogatives and as
scrupulously bows to those of others,
'But eveats haTe Moveil that the
personal equation must be 'taken Into
account; The mere matter of being
. . . ... , : ' ..
right is not full protection, uver ine
, ,. i,a dl,d wi.
expectedly. the following is to be
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Here lies the body of Jonathan Ray., J
Who died, maintaining his Right of Way. To brand men slackers Is serious
H along Sht dead j"" M 116 sped business. It places on them an in
But he's Just as dead as if he'd been escapable odium. It makes of them
wrong. . I
If the weather bureau's practice
continues of serving out fine weather j
in the middle of the week when a
feller -can't get away, and then let-
IhgJt rain on Sunday so that he
has to stay home, there is going to
be a plentifully subscribed petition
to observe Sunday in tne miaaie or
the week.
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' HOW THE TEAM PLAYED
Y7HA'r'S wrong with the Portland
W ball team? lA man who at
tended the game last Thursday after-
nnnn ritintarl fnr th nnRwr
There was a sprinkling attendance
of palVd-voiced rOoters in the grand-
stands and bleachers. That was the
first thing wrong." Portland is
neither supporting Its ball team nor
cheering it on to victory. t
There was a baseball team which
brought to mind Kipling's lines:
It ain't th individual nor the army as
a whole, i
But the everlastin team work of every j
Dioomm soul :
There was, for Instance, a pop-up
foul to the left of the third base line
and both the catcher and the third
baseman raced for it. Not voire
warned them or what prOTed to be a
Uiolent collision though it was im
mediately in front ; of the home
bench, i
The playing in the outfield was at
times brilliant. There were at least
tnree aouoie piays around tne bases
uiai aeserveu ine- cneera mev am
not recclve. But, on the other hand,
there Was the constant likelihood of
a m at a criUcal polnt. It BUgr.
gesUA -nervousness or need of closer
0 j r !
Th pitching ranged from poor to
. . I
exceuent. Tne pitcher was round
1
ror home run and a three-bagger
and he let ta three scores during the
f,rst lnnmgr. Thereafter his work
was mucn better, but it was characT
itenzea by lac or i depenflabnity.
i The team as a whole was like the
crowd.: Both were "down in the
mouth,- Rooting and playing lacked
confidence, lacked snap and showed
(the need of inspiring leadership.
The observer came away feeling
that team work between Portland
I and its ball team, team work in the
I team, and strengthening of the pitch-
ing staff would accomplish wonders
I the Pennant. i
r
I The game wardens who announced
that the fishermen's strike at the!
I mouth of the river would let an on-
usually large number of fish into the
upper; stream are being eagerly
Questioned by anglers now as to the
exact bends in the river where they
1 expected the gamy chinooks to con-
gregate.
A SHIPPING BOARD NEEDED
j THE greatest single activity in the
I hands of the governument is the
workof the shipping board. ; It is
1 time !" a permanent shipping board
1 was appointed. It ought to be func-
tioning now.
Nearly a year ago June 6, 1920
the merchant marine act was ap -
proved. Congress has not in years
passed a more important bill. It
I nance of a merchant marine essential
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ooxn to Rational defense and to the
proper growth of the foreign and
domestic commerce of the United
oiawa. . , f4 , y i
i unui six months bad passed
was a board appointed under the act.
It was at best a temporary board, as
it was announced that congress
woum not coniirm me appointees.
The shipping board commissioners
who qualified on December 1. last,
i neia omce until March 4 and retired
I-
aiore man six months have elapsed
since President Harding was elected
I iwre) Uln IWO months Since the
- 1 only board ever appointed tinder the
I act retired. . j be their friends their big sistera I be-
There may. someT exnrZ rl! 5 Sll" HZZ
I . . T
aon wmcn prevents th Annf.fnrmrt
T r
or tne new boardJ But th. eontinu-
- lance of exlstinsr conditions ;rnriAr4
the situation more and more diffi -
cult. - , ;
The merchant' marine act was
passed almost unanimously. It had
J the support of I Republicans and
Democrats alike. If there is to be
a merchant marine,' if I the terms of
the law are to be carried out, there
should be prompt action to the ap
pointment of a board. J ; I r - i
If not, a receivership Instead of
a boavd will soon be in order, and
possibly that Is what may be in
mind.
A fortnightly " freight service ' be
tween the ports of. the Mediterran
ean sea has -been established by the
International Freighting corporation
of New York.. The first Job of the
American officers was to learn how
to pronounce such names as Piraeus,
Bourgas and Constanxa.
OFF HALF-COCKED
WITH Incomplete records, the
war deDartment has jtiven out
"slacker lists" for publication. Sec-
"ons of the list have been printed.
ni1 they have been found to include
thm; " of. "core, of individuals
wno were no1 siacaers. out wot owi
tun In eVu. -onV V. ,..- on
" " w. .
navy curing ine war, ana some ox
whom had fought and i died in the
uniform of the United i States
and
; ..
under the American flag.
subjects or contempt. ,
To so brand a man who went to
ald of his country and the world
when the threat of German imper-
lalism : blackened the horizon is a
crime. It is an injury that is not
eaaUy approximated. And of all
forces that should be free from such
mistakes it is the government for
which the injured man fought.
The burden of proof of his war
record is not on the man! . He had
no time to maintain a. card index sys
tem of his war activities.! He was
busy fighting or preparing to fight.
But the government maintained a
force of clerks whose business it was
to those "ds. arid if they
"e tocompleta it is not the fault of
he 'man at the fronV and it is not
his responsibility to prove jit. But It
is the man at the front who suffers
from the errors.
Justice demands that the war de
partment not go off half-cocked
when the reputations of thousands
of the country's finest mien are at
stake
The shine stands were sd busy Sat
urday manicuring last summer's
straw hats that they scarcely had
time to shine the shoes of their best
customers, and this in spite of the
fact that it was also a great day for
last summer's .low shoes
to make
their reappearance.
xhE last TWENTT PEr CENT
-iiffHiiiitM rrana dnaiA't nma
V merely by reciting the world's
need of our goods. " It isn't estab-
lishcd for that matter. by statistical
statements of the cost and size of
OQr merchant ; marine, v Where, a
year ago. our posiUon in the export
I
field was unquestioned, we are now
T
very near acknowledgment that we
wish the .premium pn the! American
dollar might be less. O. K. Davis,
secretary of the National Foreign
Trade council, says:
In every line of production there Ls an
elmnt estimated as the last o per cent,
!.SaSS!
foreign trade has reached the position
ot na last 20 per cent, and. In other
I? . i a T,7JM'lliy,r oC 0x6
of the United states. The maintenance
of successful American foreign trade
U,.,.distili:,Jr national service, for it
bUizaiion of domesuTindus
maintenance of the welfare! and pros-
perity or every man, woman and child in
the United States.
The last phrase of the statement
by Mr. Davis suggests bfaadly the
lesson America must learn. "Wher-
TeF f1 maf fCl Trk In
dianapolis or Portlandbur success
in foreign trade will be a factor in
their well being.
Emery Olmstead has been named
chairman of the finance committee
of the 192S exposition. A better se
lection could not have been made.
SALVAGING LIVES
MEW YORK is to makej an attempt
to salvage girls who have chosen
the wrong path. Mrs. George "W.
Loft, wife of a New Tork millionaire!.
who has been aonointed a snclal
1 police commissioner, and who i tn
take charge ot women j arrested in
Manhattan, has announced a Hov
I -ry. v 1
1 "W a .y. t-4v.c uuuer
influence of thoa who are, hrmiit,
host. Th.v not b. mwa-a
I to the buffeting and autocracy of
I evniesJ ' amd nnnth.Hr rn.
1 officers. j . . .
dn the other hand.! an attPm
will be made to reach si sympathetic
chord in the process of rescue. The
cauSe of their wrong doing Is to be
I ia -.i-ot -
to find themselves in the hands of
1 tm- -, v.. .Am. . .v.
isnuua euiu v9 aaxeavvft w aPCa eVUesVlt Uiv
. ,rv.i i
I Mra Loft says: j
I T will nnt wear s nnirnrm XUm. Anr.'t
want to frighten the girls. We want to
I vau Vu aufT iUJ Wiafa W VUiCU O
I TDrcinct- t
1 er- . r
The new rrrlme in i New Tork Is
launched on a tasi-t of intnienea.
1 More common sense, more sympathy.
and more aid in the treatment of
first offenders would greatly reduce
the cost and the sorrow incident to
crime and criminals in this country,
LANDLORD AND
TENANT
Majority of the-Press, on the Legal
. Principle, Supports the Minority of
the Supreme . Court, which Pis- ;
sented in Favor of the Landlord, - -but
the Majority Gets a Vast
, , Deal of Applause at That.
- Dally Editorial Digest
i : (CooaolidaUd Preas ; AasociarJon) l
I While editorial opinion on the five-to-
four decision of the supreme court up
holding the rent laws divides as sharply
as did the court itself, the minority it
the court is supported by the majority .
of the presa Both from the viewpoint
that the decision is a "Violation of prop
erty rights' and that it .weakens the
power of Hie Judiciary, it is opposed by
many writers in language as forceful as
that of the dissenting opinion. These
papers, however, confine their argument
to the principles on which the -decision
is baaed, avoiding the ticklish question
at issue, that of the relations between
landlords and tenants. On the other
hand, writers who are in accord with
the majority ' opinion emphasize the
point thar profiteering in rents and the
crisis in housing have justified the court
in making public welfare paramount,
even, at the expense I of restricting the
rights of private property. There are
others, though, who feel that. Whatever
the merits of the principles involved, the
decision is ill-advised because, Vs the
Oklahoma City Oklahoman (Dem.) con
tends, it "will make housing congestion
worse, than ever. i !
The court assaults t "the very founda
tions of established society, the San
Francisco Chronicle (Ind.) declares, be
cause it "strikes at the very root of pri
vate ownership of any property" and
virtually authorizes "the taking of pri
vate property for private use without
compensation." Even with the sanction
of the United Sates supreme) court "by
a majority of one," the Roanoke Times
(Dem.) still feels that "any curtailment
of property, rights is. to be ! looked on
with a certain amount of suspicion," and
this decision, as the Boston Transcript
(Ind. Rep.) sees it, opens the way for
further aggressions, since it "marks the
point of recession of the power of the
doctrine of 'due process of ilaw' as a
defensive agency." i
The cloak of "public exigency is not
accepted as sufficient justification for
upholding legislation such as the dis
puted act, and even exposes the supreme
court to the charge of inconsistency, the
Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.) points out.
Admitting the housing emergency "was
it any greater" it asks, "than the food
profiteering which the Lever Set was de
signed . to control" and which the su
preme court declared unconstitutional?
The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.),
conceding that "shelter is a necessity.
adds: "So is food, and so is clothing.
Nobody may, with the sanction of a
court, go into the grocery store and pro
cure food, or. go into a. clothing store
and procure clothing at prices to which
the vendor does not agree.1
Although the Pittsburg Gazette Times
(Rep.) asserts that the decision, "like
the laws, is Intended for the j emergency
period and will not become a brecedent,"
and. as the St. Louis Globe! Democrat
(Rep.) adds, "does not justify such leg
islation unless an emergency ezlsts." the
Baltimore News (Ind.) suggests that the
"one : question the supreme court does
not answer is: When is an emergency? "
The possibility, seen by the; Columbus
(Ohio) Dispatch (Ind.), "that the legis
lative bodies will 6eek to gain ulterior
ends by seeing 'emergencies there they
do not exist, or creating them to order,"
suggests to i the Newtt York-Tribune
(Rep.) that ."making . all laws court
proof" will not "strain the ingenuity of.
legislatures." If the lawmaking body
is to be "sole judge" of the existence of
an emergency, the New Bedford (Mass.)
Standard (Rep.) feels that "we- are
brought perilously close toi the point
that a statute cannot be set aside by
the judicial power.", . i , '
I Replying to this position, however, the
Springfield Union i (Rep.) I finds , no
grounds for fear thai a state 'can "here
after declare an emergencyj that will
have to be accepted as such i by the ju
dicial power." and it is confident that
"the supreme court is not likely; to de
stroy its own constitutional preroga
tives." .i
.tie
The broad principle which the majority
opinion establishes, the Chattanooga
News (Dem) finds, is simply that "pri
vate property must not be used in such
a manner as to injure or inconvenience
the public; and "must be made to con
serve the public interest." This theory
is not particularly different from "that
principle of law which regulates indi
vidual conduct." As the St. I Louis Poet
Dispatch (Ind.) interprets It. the de
cision recognizes "the difference between
sanctity and immunity" in property, and
while leaving the theory of "sanctity-
inviolate, it has discarded the theory ot
immunity" and has placed obstacles in
the way "only of such practices as may
be justly described as extortion.! Tbe
St. Louis Star (Ind.) agrees that, it is
only the extortionate landlord who comes
within the scope" of the laws which the
court upholds, and the Cleveland Plain
Dealer (Ind. Dem.) assures landlords
who play square" that they have noth
ing to fear." ! .. -j"-
The opinion. "of those -who find them-.
selves the victims of extortion and in
justice" will be that "the principle estab
lished, or rather reaffirmed, ! is pre
eminently just," the Kansas j City Jour
nal (Rep.) declarea . The supreme court,
in definitely deciding that property
rights are not paramount to those of the
public" has rejected the theory, of the
profiteers that "the ( victim can, be de
prived of his salary or wages without
due process of law and in direct viola
tion of the laws against extortion, but
the profiteer cannot be deprived of his
property without that process."; j
Conceding that the rent laws "would
have been denounced by an the members
of the supreme court 20 years ago. the
Detroit Free Press (Ind.) explains the
change in "the public and the judicial
mind" as resulting from the ; abuse of
power derived from property, which has
brought abouKthis-"new limit on the
right of a man to do as he will with his
own." Viewing it in much the same
light, the Nashville Banner (Ind.) thinks
the decision "affords an interesting ex
ample . of the heights to which rent
profiteering rose, and the ability; of the
people to defend tnemseivea. : :t
The problem at issue was "the; great
est good to the greatest number " and its
solution, as the Plttsborg Leader! (Prog.
Rep.) sees It, "Is reaffirmation iof the
good old Rooseveltian doctrine that the
man is above the dollar that the wel
fare of the public is of greater import
ance than the welfare of. an individual
or a etoud. It is a doctrine that will
live as long as the - republic functions
under American principles." j
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
Across the three-quarter-mile width of
the Strait of Dardanelles w .. mo. Lord
Byron swam, not to " be outdone by
Leander, who "did" the Hellespont every
night to tell "the same old story" to
Hero,"his lady love. In 480 B. C, Xerxes
lashed boats together while he trans
ferred his Asiatics to the soil of Europe
across the strait, and about 100 years
later Alexander the - Great. when he
cried because the world had failed to
give him excitement, did aa Xerxes had
done, and led his Macedonians into Asia. 1
The Dardanelles are guarded by castles
built on both sides by Mohammed II in I
x(u. on the European side is G alii poll.
taaea by the Turks in 1357.
Letters'; From theTPeople
T Communication ent d Tb. Innnul
on only ooe aide of the paper; should not exceed
800 words in lenath. aittiaiiik beamed bethel
writer, wboee snail addreas in full must accoaa-1
nanv th. wmtHnHA. 1 . . I
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A SERMON TO SERMONIZERS I
Preached by a Layman With , Judge!
Roaeman's Dictum as a Text-
Portland. , May 11. To the Editor ofli.n n tn
Tk. T., I D-. .1.- i. I
vunw iwiKttuj i.w uie rcutAi K i
that Judge Rossman of the municipal!
court made in a urmnn that Ytt nreaeheil i
in court to a bunch of church people
I
where he said, "UnUI churches in some I
way oner awracuve reiaxauon tney can-
v vt-o iu rauivctt wiut twi
iuovuik piciure uieairea ana auier places
Of amuwitwitt " I wltih fn ma V that Hint
Honor may be a moral man and lo a
r'hi-it.tian h.t m,t-m h..
wrong Ideaias to what the church f
Jesus Christ is, and there are scores of
others that have the same idea- I
There is too much materialism In the
church today and you cannot bribe peo-1
wl. e- . 4-1 m. K..eV 9 m. T I
tried that one time in Minneapolis ben
I paid newsboys 10 cents a day to get I
uictti tu ounuajr an;ui. . iuc wutoi uuit
ail they got was the 10 cents. The war-1
fare of the s church is not carnal but I 1 . nisnop wno saia roruana itr aes
spirituat, and just so far as His Honor L,nLton of the great cities 5f the
" ' . ,7 I
xavruier. . jropie woo bltb eviujr wcuneu
and are seeking for the things of this
world are not coming to a tame church
entertainment to be entertained but are
going where they can , see hell in full
blast. Furthermore, they are not seefr
ing the society of church people, for, as
Christ said. "What concord has light I Harry Heard of Los Angeles, (j stop
with darkness, or what fellowship have I ping at the Multnomah, says th(t the
believers with unbelievers?" When a l
person is seeking for spiritual things or t
for the truth, and be comes to cnurcniway it winds in and about the hills;
and hears sermons all about the current I and the scenery - along its batiks is
events, and is simply entertained and I BUper b. From now on I am a strong
does not Una tne spiritual iruin wmcn i
he came after, he is going off somewhere I
to be entertained where he can be with I
worldly associates. The trouble with the my friends in California telling tbem of
churches today is they have been Preach- the wonderful fishing the stream af
ing morality Instead of ChHstianlty and fords. i want U my friends toi know
aaowiiiK peupte uvw utcjr w I
ot spirit, me mysterious opiniuau uu lu.
They have been teaching Mothers day,
Fathers dav. Lincoln's day, wasmne-
ton's day. Children's day. Decoration j
aay, Aiuusuce aay ana every uuos uuuor i
the heavens but the spiritual truth, till j
the people have got to worsnip tne crea-
ture rather than the creator. Many ofl
the preachers through the country have
no more of spirituality than the black
cat, and many of them have never been
called to preach and some of them never
were converted, and tney cater io every i
mierraiitian that anybody makes for run-1
ning churches. When the preachers gejt
back to the word of God and rely on the
spirit of God to reveal the truth to them
- . . L . . 1 ,Tt f . V. -
ana nave ine gut oi uiu xauijr ou u,
there will be a definite work or grace
done and the people will be attracted to
Him who said. "And L If I be lifted up.
will draw all men unto Me." I refer to 1
Jesus Christ, who put the whole thing In
a nutshell when he said to Peter,
"Blessed art thou, Peter, for flesh and
blood hath not revealed it unto thee -
meanine that he had a special revelation
from God and that was why he was
blessed ; and who also said to Peter,
"On this rock I Will build my Church.
No, Christ didn't mean SO much the con-
fession of Peter tha t n was tne soivor
Oie Uvmg God, but it was on the fact
mat ne was me sou vi wv n,ut6fjuu,
and I imadne Christ Pointed to hlmSelf,
and that was the rock that he was going LUcy A. Kobinson may not know it, but
to build his exiurch on. And when the sjje 8 a character, and a most inter
church is built on that rock, the gates of eating one.
hen suca as tne poou-ooma uw ui
places of amusement referred to 7
Honor cannot prevail "against it; but
when pulpit and pew are going about to 1 mli-nty cheeky questions to me. . How
establish their own righteousness and 1 ever j don't mind ; telling you I was
laying some otner -lounoauou
gratuiaung wemseies i , iT
rifyine God. hell gets full sway with the
church members and others, for such
works cannot stand. There are those
who are always learning and never able c&lvin Neal. He was born In Arkansas,
to come to the knowledge of the truth, but he moved to Missouri, when he was
because they ask everybody else under going on 15, and stayed there till 1844.
the heavens but God for wisdom. A lot when he came across the plains to Ore
more could be said along this line, but The first winter he was here he
when the churches get back to the truth got a jOD worklngr for Dr. McLoughlin
and spiritual work, people will come Oregon City. He worked for him till
there to be fed and find salvation. And the faU of lg45! when he went to Salem.
if the true knowledge of God and love year he took up a donation
of God will not win them, nothing else Und ciaira near AumsvUle. -will.1
' ' " A. J. Clark. . . .
STATEMENT BY MR. MASSET
Concerning the Anglo-Japanese Treaty.
Jl?. 1 .7 r"" .Vr "'r:
roruwra,; aaay u.a
The Journal-Aa .statements ( have .ire-
quently appeared in fer new.
papers of late that both Australia and
New Zealand are strongly opposed 10
any renewal of the Anglo-Japanese
treaty, and that their respective prime
ministers, who are due at Vancouver, B.
(X. today on the Niagara on their way to
tne Briusn empire conierenco do nera
in London next month, intend taking
active steDS to protest against such re -
newal, will you kindly publish the en- three miles to the schoolhouse south of
closed formal statement, made by, Mr. AumsvUle. We had school three months
Massey to the New Zealand parliament each year. V When I was young lots of
just prior to leaving for England, as it the girls were married at 14 or, 15, but
will remove all misapprehension on the I wasn't married till I was 17. I mar
matter? If may add that Mr. Hughes, ried K. G. Ro'-inson. June 26. 1864.
prime minister of the AustralUn com-
monwealthJ has made a similar declara-
tion to thai federal house. Mr. Massey
M f- -
Amitlm. ,t,tm,r.t aM tn tve Anclo-
Japanese treaty was made by the prime
minister in the house this morning, when
. i ,i i, rrA wioriea nf
the membera There has been a good
deal of interest,. be said, in the proposed
renewal of . the Anglo-Japanese treaty,
and so long as we Insist upon and ob-
tain the right to choose our fellow dtl-
sens of this country, then I think we
sens VL uiis counuj, ujcu -'" " "
have a great deal to:gahv and lnf
have a great deal to .gain and notning
to lose by the renewal of the treaty. I
-rnr-.t r.a the Jarjaheae were
thoroughly loyal to during the war,
and one point not generally recopiueu
point not generaily recognizea
Is that, according to the treaty, the
Japanese were not compelled 10 come
Into the war. for the present treaty re-
ferredonly to troublejn India
Far East. On our side if any trouble
. i l ... v. Y2i-1t1n
earns to japan m m r"""'l.. .-,.." . .-A..M lrft.' one
assistance, but in spite of that Japan
i liij a r jae
came to our assistance and was aecia -
Idly useful X cannot forget tbe appear-
VV VV .r i r
the war-of a Japanese cruiser and the
securlty which it gave the transport or
our troops." .
-I may add that Mr. Massey win en-
deavor to visit Portland on his return
from the empire conference, as, he is
very interested in this city and the fur-
therance of trade relaUons with it and
te-W arw.M. . aa . .! . TAnn VIqII
Acting Consular Agent for New Zealand.
ww sua ckves ao em w uvw, waa --e
THINKS MR. WRIGHT IS' WRONG
Portland, May 1L To the Editor of
The Journal His name may be J. a
Wright, but I think it should be U. R,
Wrong, with emphasia
No man with a family can live now
adays and swell his bank account on $4
a 'day. even if he gave up all luxuries i
and frivolous amusements, which be
would surely have to do on such wagea :
My husband had steady " work all
winter. We didn't buy any $15 shoes or
silk shirts not even good clothes ; yet
this epring finds us without a cent saved.
We didn't have any luxuries all winter.
and for frivolous amusements- if movies I
COMMENT. AND
SMALL CHANGE
What was the cost of the pentecoet?
There's alwa'ys someone to criticise
man's most honest effort. -
a
Flower thieves are close kin to those
. Jonn wesieys spectacles may nave
rore8en some, Of tortays wonaers. ;
e , e, e . .
? ' "L" la the most precious word in the
alphabet, for it beads "life." "love" and
laughter." ; ; ; . . , -
piayeri wim ram. i
e e '
- Headline? fsfvs. "Portland Lads In
S - 11"3,1" s wiass.- veriamiy, since u s
a am m . i u mm U at a . .... I mf
? . I""?1 . . I
Tha light-fingered Latin linguist at
Eugene nas we enmusiasm or one just
eecasea irom oaiem
. """f'. una up auia rooow mo
Lothr night Reminds us of the (time we
naa our car :overhauiedi
The war on predatory animals should
be extended to include the neighbor who
borrows the garden rake and promptly
J.rsei u is not nis own. ,
V . y - (
ice" to bS tnrgreit ttlng u" Irte!
xhe cynic queries : - is there such a thing
as uiiaciii.su service r ' 3
. 1
sir, ana we n u agree witn you.
MORE OR LESS PERSON Ali
Random Observations About Town
Mackenzie river Is "without doubt the
prettiest stream I have ever seeU, the
booster for Oregon scenery. D you
know, I sat down on the banks the
wtiat a good thing it is.
.
Mrs. G. A. Dehtmater and her daugb
ter. Mrs. Krlmtwrfr hn him hn
ta Pendleton as guests of Mrs. i Dela-
mater's sister, are In Portlands on a
t0ur of the West. Their homes is at
RiCh Hill. Mo.
Another candidate for collector? of in-
ternal revenue for the district of Oregon
In Portland Saturday was Clyde Huntley
of. Oregon City, who was returning from
a trip to Seattle,
Frank P. Light of Lakeview, Who has
been spending a few day in Portland,
went to The Dalles Sunday on a visit
S'hll T.SMmaa V1inM t Ti
j...-o tir
C. F. Dunn is a visitor from Corvallis
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE3! JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
f One of te rtioneer inntriers of the Oregon
ooaatry tejls Mr. Loekl- or life In the Northwest
in the days when pioneering was pioneering
Indeed. She also, in pausing, pays her 'respects
k-now u or Bot .
t , . , -, t- -..
! T.nnw A T?nhinnn Uvea r T.nn T?iv-lr. '
"When and where and why was I
born? Toung man, I am old enough to
I v.. Vmir ntAtw nd thn,A annni nu
Dorn at Hoggum,' ; In Marion county,
I Or.. May 15, 1847. They had so many
infUU, mnnine- mimn thor thtt
they cane(i it Hoggum. but its real name
a umsvllla My father's name was
"My father was quite a pnan for chll
dren. He had 20. His first wife, my
mother, was named A Icy Bylieu. She
had five daughters and three sons. When
1 Aimjt mv f.,hDr Tnarrld srain and
children by that wife. She
ait ma, hAA tWo chmren by his
t.... .. rnilrtme!n of the 20 children
m ow amil are 8tui alive. They are
1 aU OTer tha West. I was one
I h. t ifr hnma and
I mnm nf mw brothers and
1 slsters x came down to my father's
i funeral. about 29 years ago.
I - e. . -
1 When I was a little tot I walked
Elder Whitney of the. Chruuan cnurcn
married ua My husband and I farmed
in the valley for a year and then went
I to Puget Bouna, .wnere we larraea wr
I Mv,rnl vears. Forty.nine years ago we
moved to Jtaastern Oregon ana. kiuw m
i ixme hock, an u '? "
was In Wasco count f. My husband took
up a homestead and bought out a lot of
the otherhomesteaders until he had 36 00
acres When I moved to Lone
had been niarried nearly ShV years,
I had tour ,5Ul ehbor
cabin, and W btind airf a neigh
I : , . . - ., flnnr
Wedme
. - mt m . i:iiA AkniVtan afeAratrinap
I mg rare w
OKini
1 th
r th(
(rash
over a n. tbl
- ninr the wash-
i "-: i ..vnn in- the wash
' . rX V ' . 7w the,
ine- mnUine- the bread, and a few other
t - k , k,nd o
i '" ,r ..,- rr lot of
J- .w; water ou
I '
i nra i rt wi iiiiub111 as . ays viiwj v
once in two weeks an ejerge. Our
i " wow
not the little pleasures that go to make
1 utm nieu.t for them. How to the world
anyone can say ,
weu on a ,ETan d I
count to more than I can figure and X
tell you we have haxl to tprett3r
dose even on fairly good wa. mb;
Here 'S hoping that tbe palnt ra.p lumb-
ers. oarpenters, etc. will stick to tneir
T and $8 a day and well get h ra
I anVWlT. .
i - - -
When the Dogwood Is in
Bloom
By Anna Beecber Boldrlck
Away, away with aichiacr
- Vor aadneaa there a no room ;
For tbe robia'C tn tb treetop -And
tbe dogwood ia in Moon.
Tba flowers on the hillside
Rave come forth from winter's tfmb.
The trees hae donaed the drees of spnaaV
And the dog-wood ia in bloom.
life aeema well worth the UiB; -,
for one is winter's sloom;
And all my beart ia sinews
When tne dog-wood is ia bloom. -Xocfcawmr.
Or.. Kay 10, v
NEWS INT BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
Austria has recognized Mexico. Both
have "stable - governments." Medford
Mail Tribune. i
The German mark has depreciated S3
per cent. It hasn't much farther to go
to be worth nothing. Powers Patriot.
e e
. With the - Indemnity problem finally
settled, the world passes a real mile
stone on the path to better bualneaa.
Pendleton Kast Oregonian. :
Bill Haywood says there is no justice
In this country. Kscape of Albers, New
berry, . Bergdoll and himself is some
proof of the correctness of his statement.
Polk County Iteraiser. :
Instead of taking a leading place lr
the council of allied nations, the United
n
ited
Btatea is content to have a reoresenta-
tive there who can neither speak nor
vote on any question. tiugene uuaro.
Flying at a height of f 12.500 feet has
twice restored a wasnincrton mans
lost power of - speech, i Here's hoping
nobody tries It on Hiram Johnson, who
has . been- practically speechless since
election. Eugene Register.
Thousands of dollars i are to be ex
pended by the O-W. R.I & N. in road
bed improvement contiguous to Baker.
THIS will lessen tbe number of . unem
ployed and swell the circulating me
dium nereaoouts. uaxer democrat
The great Society everit in Portland,
accorains: to front-nare news stories in
the papers, is a "ladies' choice" ball.
where women will choose Other women's
husbands and vice versa. Great '. Fort
land is getting there. She will be tome
rttv lr Korictv miKat Kxr on nroarrenn
I ing. La Grande Observer.
J. H. Peare of La Grande, who is a
candidate for collector of j internal rev
enue, was in Portland Saturday to find
out now the land lay.
Motoring to Portland to spend the
week-end were Mr- and Mra Norria
Staples and Mra Roy Salisbury of
Astoria. - t-
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Mr.' and Mrs. C. H.,'Walford of Albany
are spending a few days In Portland,
the guests of relatives i and friends.
e - e !
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Johnson of Albany
are visiting their daughter in Portland.
e e
A. H. Kempln of Corvallis is visiting
relatives m Portland. i
e ei
Mr, and Mra L. M. Bowles of Dallas
were in Portland several days last week.
e e e:
Phillips of Astoria has come to
Portland on a business trip.
e - e - e
J.-W. Medley of Corvallis spent Sat
urday in Portland. "
e e . v- ..
L. H. Freeman of Salem is taking in
the sights of the metropolis.
e e e
W. J. Kerr of Oregon Agricultural
college paid one ot his periodical visits
to Portland Saturday. : , ;
Lockley
our place, while many of the settlers had
to haul water three to five miles.
'.. a ,; . e, : e -'. ; .
"What do I think of the young women
of today? Say, mister, 1 wouldn't like
to tell you what I think of them. I have
to turn my head away when
They wear too little clothes
waists and their clothes
I see them.
above their
' stop too
short a distance below their waists.
L have been talking to some young
married women lately. It seems like
they, are always complaining. They
look as healthy as two-year-old range
heifers, but they always seem to
have something wrong with their In
wards' that they must see a specialist
about. Another thing they; are always
complaining about something. They want
an electric washing machine, or an elec
tric iron, or a gas range, or; an automo
bile. Seems as if they were ibtmgry, and
the more you feed 'em. the 'bigger their
appetite. T don't mean food, but for
things that don't bring happiness. I have
had 11 children, but I see women of to
day holding' up their hands in horror and
sympathising with some poor - woman
who. maybe, hasn't over half a dozen
children. About the only J things that
used to worry me was when I leached
the ashes and tbe lye wouldn't cut the
grease and my soap didn't come out
right, or something of that. kind.
... e : vi -
"No, we didn't have any doctors when
I went up to Lone Rock, so our children
always kept healthy. - They ran around
barefooted all over the place, and learned
to ride horseback not long after they
had learned to walk. Ton see, the near
est place we could get a doctor was t
Pendleton, 88 miles away, or Tbe Dalles,
100 miles. Having no doctors around,
no one in that country seemed to take a
notion to die. The fact is, we were there
seven years before the first funeral took
place ; then a woman died of typhoid.
"I can't remember the time I didn't
milk. I must have learned when X was
about five. My mother, my sister and I
palled 85 cows, night and morning, right
along. I am nearly 75 years old. Until
I made this trip to Portland I never had
any idle time on my hands, for I always
had my milking to do and my other
chorea Of course, when my babies "Were
born I took a few days off and had the
hired man or someone else milk the cows.
When I was a girl a man married a
woman for a helpmate and they ' sure
were helpmates, with the accent on the
help. x used to help my husband break
the horses, saw the wood and build the
fences, as well as help In the harvest,
in addition to ' doing my housework ' and
taking care of 'the children. With 11
children in the family, it was some job
to see that they all got their bath in the
.vashtub on Saturday night. The women
nowadays certainly have an easy time.
md the men don't seem to hurt them
selves working, either. Yea. I am going
back to Lone Rock. That country might
not appeal to you. but if s home to ma"
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
Testimony In a -divorce suit Is often
most like a skeercrow man in a cornfield
it has to be braced up some and ain't
worth much, nohow. Our hired man.
Jake Tufters, a while back got all his
expenses paid fer a week and bad -a
mighty good time testlfyin in a divorce
suit fer a woman. The lawyer had it all
wrote out and he learnt it by beart so It
went right off smooth 'thout any stut
terin. The husband didn't keer much,
and . I reckon Jake helped to make six
people happy with his braeed-up test!
mony ; so most likely it was all right.
There was them two that was divorced,
the two they married ; as soon as the
law'd let 'em, and the two Iswyera,
TWO GREAT REFORMERS
rmti the Keen-viBe Tenneeeean
Einstein is like Volstead. It's -hard to
tell, just yeV whether he's a law or just
a theory, v
THE UNFA ILING TEST
Froaa the Toledo Blade.
"Never argue with a fool," says Luke
McLuke. - Poor advice. How are we to
know -he is a fool until he disagrees
with us?
The Oregon Country
North vast Bappesine ia Brief Tens to Uas
atuay Beadef
OREGON NOTES
The Crook County Irrigators, a march
ing club of boosters, has been organized
atPrinevllle.
Deschutes county will vote June 7 on
a $60,000 bond Issue tor permanent road
improvement. '
Losses aggregating $123. S45 mere sus
tained in" 64 fires occurring in Oregon
outside Portland during ApriL
A naval officer is to arrive at Astoria
in the near future to take formal pos
session of the Tongue Point naval baae
site. . ; . -.
Frank Me Alister. one of Union coun
ty's most prominent fanners, died at Hot
Lake last week. He was born in La
Grande tn 1868.
The Currv rountv court ' has named
June 7 as the date for holding a bond
election to provide $165,000 for the
Roosevelt- highway. . i
Edith Wilson nf Astoria has been
elected president and lna McCoy vice
president or the tspantsn ciud at me
University of Oregon, i
Efforts to dissolve the union district
which maintains a high school at Crab
tree failed" in the special election re
cently held on that question.
Both the Turner lumbering milts are
idle at present, one having cloned more
than a month ago and the other sus
pending operations last week.
Springfield ia. to have a new high
school building, the proposal to bond the
district in the sum of $40,000 having
carried by a vote of 154 to 94.
Lane county has 1240 farms free from
debt, accordine to the federal census.
This Is 66.6 per cent of the farms which
reportea as to mortgage inaeDieaness.
Joseph Smith, a logger employed at
the Crown-Willamette logging camp
near Astoria, suffered a fractured skull
when the flying end or a caoie 8 true
him. '
r an-nil Morgan. 11-vear-old son Of
Editor and Mrs. M. D. Morgan of Har
rlsburg. was badly injured while playing
with a gopher gun he supposed was not
loaded.
Eirht hoes sained 61 pounds in 81
days as a result of a hog feeding experi
ment recently held at Medford by the
animal husbandry department of Oregon
Agricultural college.
WASHINGTON
The Washington Hay Growers' associa
tion now controls about 60,000 tons of
hay.
The reclamation service has now about
350 men at work at the Rimrock dam in
Yakima county.
Walla Walla county was askerl for
$7800 for relief of Armenian children
and actually gave $8343.
Nosebleed caused the death of Charles
Norton, who expired at a Prosser hotel
last week after a brief illness.
The Menefee mill In Wlnlock, one of
the largest in Lewis .county, will resume
operations this week with 225 men In its
mill and camp.
Proceedings have been started at
Seattle to compel the governor and other
officials to open the industrial home
at Medical Lake.
Sheet metal workers of Spokane, who
went out on strike 10 days ago. have
returned to work at a decrease of 12
per cent in wages.
- Twenty-five thousand boxes of Yakima
apples, shipped from Seattle the last
week In March, arrived in England May
4 in perfect condition.
Spokane postofflce receipts for the
first four months of 1921 showed an in
crease of $8377 over the corresponding
four months of last year.
Two masked men entered the' office of
a Spokane feed company in broad day
light, bound Deli Pugh. an employe,
and escaped with $8 from the safe.
Fire completely destroyed the C. E.
Putman shingle mill at Skamokawa last
Thursday. The dry kiln and warehouae,
containing about 2,000,000 shingles were
saved. .. ?. ..
A winter wheat erop of 29.647.000
bushels, an increase of 8,527,000 bushels
over last year, ls forecast ior waaning
ton by the fedjeral bureau of crop esti
mates.
Word la received at Woodland that
Frank Doltori. wanted for the murder of
M. Whalen, a wealthy farmer, is a mem
ber of the crew of a sailing vessel bound
for South America.
IDAHO.
Fortv men are employed . and $0O0
will be expended on tbe Boise city paving
repair project.
AnnroTlmatelv 2100 aeres or sugar
beets is being planted in the McCammon
district this year.
Two rjutea of arlanders found tn North
ern Idaho have necessitated the killing '
so far of 15 horses.
Within the next two months six mod
ern steel structures will span the Snake
river between Twin Falls and Momeoaie.
Rlllr. tn the value of 82500 were stolen
a few nights ago when thieves entered
. . ,asK Ua, iaw mt ,-mm.tt
Liie SIVre VI V-Mjo.mmm.
To allow fish to ro ud and down Big
creek, th big concrete dam near .sal
mon, wnicn cost .u,uuu, is M OS HO
stroyed. More than $37,000 has been turned into
the general fund of the state from the
sale of tobacco ana rea eauate urvawe
licenses.
a Tiwr fc Ind of errtn was unearthed
near Idaho Falls when deputy sheriffs
dug 24 gallons of "moonshine" out of a
plowed iieio. --
The Buhl Flouring Mill company, cap
italized at $100,000, will begin work at
once on a flour mill at Buhl, with a 100
barrel capacity. -
According to reports Tied with the
assessor of Shonhone county, profits of
the large mining companies of the Coeur
d'Alene for 1920 were nearly double what
they were In 191.
PORTLANDS
v The transcontinental railroad sys
tem which serves Portland consists of:
Oregon-Washington Railroad Nav
igation company (Union Pacific sys
tem), penetrates Columbia river
gorge, Eastern Oregon, Southern
Idaho, Utah, Wyoming. Colorado,
Nebraska and East.
. Great Northern railway, via Ta
eoma and Seattle through liastern
Washington to St. Paul and East.
Also by way of & P. A S. to Spokane,
Northern Pacific railway, via
Puget sound, thence through Eastern
Washington and East.
Southern Pacific lines, via Willam
ette valley to California, thence East
through southern portion of United
States.
- Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul
railway, connecting with the O.-W.
R. A N. company.
The S. P. A S. railroad, while nom
inally local having tracks from Spo
kane via Portland to Astoria, is in
reality a link in the transcontinental
system. It is Jointly owned by the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railroads.
The HU1 lines also have in Oregon
an electric line to Salem, Albany and
Eugene, with a branch from the sta
tion Gray to Corvallis, and a second
line through the Tualatin valley to
Hillaboro and Forest Grove.
The Southern Paclfle operates an
electric line around what is known aa
the Tualatin-Yamhill-Willamette loop.
The Portland Railway Light , &
Power company operates suburban
electric lines to Oregon City at the
Falls of the Willamette, to Estacada
and Cazadero on the Clackamas, to
Troutdale on the Columbia, to Bull
Run and to Vancouver, Wash. A
small line known as the Carver rail
road operates a motor . to Baker's
Bridge on the Clackamas.,