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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, JUKJ 4, K li ti. JACK, do ,. .. FubUsfcer I R calm, tx confident, b cheerful and do aato murr, ynq wrmki nave ttiem o unu yen, Imbltflied every we-ce. da and Kuixtai morning - at Tha Journal building, Broadway and Xasa- mil irwt, Pfrrtlgnd. Orgnn kntered at. Uie ponuiffic at Purtisnd, Oregon, for trsiumimion Uiioush the mails aa second ri muttrr, TWJCi'HONJt:!- Main 7 1 78. Automatic Sttu-sL jiii fjtTTarr.ro pure mgftfq py trre nniniw' NATIONAL. AIjV J.JItTI.Hl.S(i KKi'KKBKNTA . TITB Benjamin St Kentnof Co., Brunswick .rmilding, 22! fifth arenas. New Xorgj fuu MallT buildine. Chicago. Barangrr Co., Examiner building, San rran-e-oo; Title Inrarance building. Los Angelas ; Pot-lnteIli(rrncer trailrHng. Seattle. iWK OttW,ON J Of UN At. rewrrea tba right to reject sdrerUMng Copy which it Mmi oo Jectkmable. It also will not print any copy that is any war simulates reading nutter or . that cannot readily be racogaised M adraa, twine, r . . . SLBSCRLPT JUN KATES By Carrier, City and Country : DAILY AND 8C5DAY On' week. .15 Om month. . '...$ .65 DAILT I SUNDAY " Om week. .....$ .10 On week......! .Ok Ona month. .... .48 BT UAIL, ALL RATES PATABLK IX ADVAAC'I DAILY AND Ht.KliAT On year. . ... .$8.00 I Three month. .$8.28 Six months. . . . 4.E5 Ona month. . , . i 75 SUN DAT , Only . Ona year 88,00 Six month..... 1.76 DAILT (Without Sunday! On year ,$4.00 Six month. . . . . 8.33 Thraa month.. l.TS Ona month. . . . , ,60 WEEKLY ' tErery Wednesday) Ona yaar. . . . . .$1.00 Su months. . . . .50 Three mouth. . 1.0( WEEKT.Y A!tD BUN DAT Om year. . . , . $8.50 ' . Theaa ratal apply only In tha West. Bate to ..Eastern points furnished on applica tion. tfak remittance by Money Order, Sxpreec Order or Draft. If yonr -postoffic is not a Money Order office, 1 or 2-eent stampa Will be accepted. Make all remittancca payable to Tba Jonmal, Portlund, jreeon. ' Happiness is a sunbeam which ma; pass through ' a thousand bosoms' without losing particle of its original ray. Sir P. BMney. bhadj.no an honored name THERE have been various charges against the American Red Cross, of which the latest are those of mis treatment of disabled veterans made by Lillian Bell, novelist, before the Central Trades and 'Labor council in New York. Slmillar charges have been made in Portland and other where. The Red Cross is an excellent in stitution. Its deeds before, 'during and since the 'war stand out as a work of tremendous appeal. Its nurses' werj on the field f battle in France carrying on a work of God under the fire of the German can non. Its hospitals - and stations dotted France. Its helping hand has reached out everywhere since its es tablishment to heal the wounds of suffering humanity. It has responded when and where aid was needed. The various charges leveled against the administration of the Red Cross tend to streak & brilliant record. They cast a shadow on the lustre of an honored organization. for its own sake the Red Cross should demand an open, full and complete Investigation. If any of its attaches have used the habiliments of the great enterprise for unworthy nda they should be exposed. Weak or dishonest representatives. If there ;.are such, should not be permitted to ' taint the sublime principle or the ( mighty work, of the Red Cross, - r . To settle on Idaho farms, 128 fam ilies are leaving New York In 1 2 8 automobiles and trailers. Each family has $3000 with which to begin farm operations in the West. The Irriga tion activities in Idaho are having , their reward. A DESIRABLE CHANGE " ill ym ON THE ballot for Tuesday's state wide special election is this: "Providing for appointment of port Of Portland commissioners by the governor." , ' The appointment of port commls-j-sioners has always been by the legis lature, in theory. In actuality, the Multnomah delegation has made the selections. j VV"-1': The old plan offers abundant op portunity for political thimblerigging with the port commission, a huge pmhlic corporation spending millions bf money and' having in charge the vast interests of maritime transport ation vitally affecting the entire state. That System of appointment is s hand-me-down from the old days rot political corruption Whett the idea ; fef Portland politicians was that the legislature existed mainly as a medi um through which they could carry . out their schemes, jobs, plots and intrigues for private gain or personal aggrandizement. Schemers still employ the system to that amdi At almost every legis lative session, some group in the Hultnomah' delegation, w ithout warning and generally without rea son, proposes some change in the membership of the commission. By , process of stand in and you-Uckle- me-and-Ill-tickle-you, the change usually goes through, although It has been reAueste'd by no body of citi sens and is in no way designed to serve public need or public interest. It is' a bad system which tends to lower public confidence in the port mmission.1 Whether true xt net, it creates suspicion id the public mind through the process that a , great public body entrusted with the man agement of the port is contaminated with politics and subject to the in trigues of politicians. To preserve the integrity, respect ability and repute of the commission is a vital matter. That body has grown In the powers it exercises and in the great matters committed to it until it has become commensurate in ! importance with Portland's rnu nicipal gdvernment of the govern ment of the state. ' It Is t6o great art enterprise to be the football df poll tics, too powerful in. Its operations for its commissioners to be appointed under cji old and corrupt system that has be.en discarded in every modern community and is retained her only because ' Portland . politicians have succeeded i'n keeping their hands on the appointing power. . , By voting 316 X yes oh Tuesday's ballot the power. ef appointment will be transferred to the governor, and thereby a surviving remnant of dis credited days Will be abandoned. The governor, by and with the consent of the senate, will then"b the responsi ble source of selection of commis sioners and a new and effective safe guard will he thrown around one 6f Oregon's greatest public institutions, tt is the plan employed by the fed eral government and In all enlight ened communities. Three of Dempsey's heavyweight sparring partners have abanddned their jobs. The third to- quit only stopped long enough to tell the manager that he ; wouldn't be back. There Is sone glory In being kicked by An army mule, but none whatever in being a mere punching has for 4 pugilist to practice on. . THE ALTERNATIVE A BIG percentage of automobile accidents occur at intersections. They are caused. largely by careless ness, failure to give right of way, cut corners, aind skidding. ' The number of accidents has not shownvan appreciable decrease. For a year past they have ranged from 900 to 1100 a month. And the in tersections are the point of contact. The city administration, through the traffic bureau of the police de partment, has attempted to reduce the number of accidents with as little inconvenience as possible to auto mobile owners. It has been the pur pose to allow as easy av flow of traffic as possible and require as little regu lation as permissible and still keep the streets safe. I . But 900 and 1100 accidents a month Is not a minimum of safety. . The number of collisions can be reduced. They can be redufed by forcing automobiles to come to a complete stop;: When entering main thoroughfares, - by , Increasing the regulations in the congested district, and by adding to the Investigating force at the traffic bureau. The added regulation would b inconvenient to the automobile pub lic. They would retard traffic' They would result in more rigid investiga tion of accidents and more prosecu tions. : BAt when safety and con venience cohfUet; convenience Will have to give way. ; The records of the traffic bureau Indicate that there is to be no alternative unless J.the cotlncilmanlc committee how at work alleviates present conditions through its action on Portland's traffic prob lems. , Judging from the condition of the paving between many of the street ear tracks, "the street car company doesn't object if other vehicles than its own find travel as rough and ex pensive as possible. CHARLES B. MOORES YIELDING reluctantly to the re quest of many citizens, Charles B. Moores has consented to allow the use of his name for. school, director in the Portland district. ' : . As a 'member of the board of trus tees of Willamette university, he has been closely Identified . with educa tion since early manhood. Through that and other experience, he knows the theory .and the practical pro cesses of school administration. He is a. successful htiaslrtenit rrtAn an d large : taxpayer. If elected, he will be concerned to know that every dollar of public? money spent Is to bring back a dollar's worth of re-, suits ' i ' - He has no hobbies, no prejudice. no schemes, no ; spites, no private ends to serve. He is a high-minded. conscientious citizen, tar above fa voritism or ; the! unseemly meddling with teachers j practiced by fioine former members of the Portland school board. I i It is time that men of Mr. Moore's ealibre- and character be pl4ced on the school board.!" That body should be above the petty affairs of which it has so many times been guilty In the past. ; Its conduct should-be ex emplary and its Integrity unchal lenged, its personnel should be big enough and clean enough to com mand universal! confidence. It Is due the teachers, the pupils, the parents and, the city of Portland that the board tie made such a body, and, if elected, Mr. Moores will be a factor in giving it such a charac ter and etandlngi !, A Pennsylvania judge has held that the womerj of that state are in eligible to jury duty. His position was that Pennsylvania's - constitu tional nrnvl6lniL ..uu . . vuiuciauyB lu jur iruu are still based upon the Old English rcKaruieas or mi nine teenth amendment, in a Week or two there will probably be a full fledged campaign on Id Pennsyl vania to change the state constitution and with, the bannered militants in charge, .!.'' NEXT TUESDAY 'T'HERE Is to be a state-wide elec 1 tion in Oregon next Tuesday..' Elec tions are held to give citizens oppor tunity to direct' what shall be done with certain great public matters. Elections are the reply to those who charge that our form of government is imperfect and ought to be changed. The ballot box is Wide open; the bal lot is In every citizen's hand; there is a fair count, and the. verdict at the polls absolutely determines the course to be taken. . Whatever is wrong and there are 'numerous im perfections there is an easy, open and effective way to correct it. In time of war j we Insisted thit all should do; their bit. That was the slogan.' '". Those who did not do war work were stigmatized as slackers. What about the citizen's duty in time of peace? Is it criminal to be a slacker f n war but - no wrong to be a slacker in peace? : ' V The politicians always go to the polls. So do the men: with axes to grind and those who want to per petuate corruption and those who want Special favors from govern ment and those who want present imperfections in public affairs per petuated. The political crooks work the ballot to a finish -can the good citizen afford to stay at home? There is a state-wide election next Tuesday. . A big social function was on at Chicago.. Crooks lying In wait for a society dame who had left home Wearing $200,000 worth of diamonds got hold of the wrong woman. She had on but $43,000 worth. They cer tainly do fly high in the Windy City. DENBY AND THE NAVY THE advice given by Secretary Denby to graduates of the naval academy yesterday should sink deep into their minds, z He, safe: ; .No one knows better than.I with what contempt the enlisted man Views an of ficer unduly burdened with the weight of his own importance. We need not worry about our rank. Our fitness for tt will be justly appraised by those asso ciated with US. . ; f ; There la a smile in the navy and the marine corps that men reserve for those they respect and like. It Is better than any decoration. Try to win It. Men in civilian or military life are measured by their ability. They are appraised by what they are ahd what they can do. not , by an insignia of rank. An incompetent will not last as a captain,- an admiral, a general or a general manager. But a man, a thorough going, capable. Intelligent man, will .rise to the heights in spite of all obstacles. , , Under the name of discipline, . a system of autocracy has been bullt Up -In military institutions. Many an insignia of rank has been the back ground for-, a breach of American principles. Many a uniform has witnessed crimes against democracy. The effects have been HI on the men and on the navy. " Secretary Daniels' was the pioneer Of democracy in the secretary's chair. Secretary Denby apparently has like views. The country will be thank ful for it The law forbidding signs on pub lic highways will make a lot of now concealed scenery visible if it is en- forced. But who is going to remove the ten million or so defacing signs now in place? ; i ' SCHOLASTIC SUSTENANCE j : ""- -. I - i.. aaaa- , . ; 7 ; f A COLLEGE; girls' breakfast shouldn't consist of a. run nf coffee and-a piece of toast eaten on the run but should be a "sit down to the table" meai of fruit, cereal, toast, milk, butter.' and eggs, say the health physicians of the Univer sity, of Oregon. . ? A thin soup, hot biscuits and jelly, avers the same authority, is not enough for lunch, but there should be a thick vegetable or cream soup, a main dish of rice and cheese or macaroni, or egg; souffle, with ;a vegetable, or a salad, a dessert of custard br fruit and a glass of milk. A dinner composed of meat, potato and pie is attacked by the health ex pert, unless there is also added -two other, vegetables or a vegetable and salad, and many desserts are recom mended more highly than pie. As a result of the advice it is re ported that women students at the university have gained in . weight, health and class standing. But test adults hasten to make per sonal application of the advice? it must be explained that the menus are based upon the theory- that a grow ing girl needs more food than : her parents. The diet ; proposed ; would be entirely too heavy for persons en gaged In sedentary work unless they take an unusual amount of exercise. If the membership of the federal house of representatives is increased by congress to 483 members, the na tion 'may have to supply a canton ment for quarters. ; The new mem bers can't all 'get into the present house office building;. THE KOBE WATCH CORPS . THE quaintest, most 'picturesque Official figures of commerce are to- be found these days on the docks of the port of Kobe. They consti tute the Kobe Customs Watch Corps, but their dress and formidable staffs make them look like the merry men of Robin Hood's time. ; The purpose which the Kobe Cus toms Watch corps fills, however, is essentially practical. For years pil fering on the docks in the Japanese teaport had given Kobe a bad name among mar in era The firm of Nickel & Lyons, Ltd., the leading stevedores of Kobe, took up a cam paign on their account which has re sulted : in the formation of the picturesque but reportedly effective watch corps, through the cooperation of Japanese officials. Hereafter west coast shippers will have less to fear from petty thieves at Kobe. TODAY Good Work; Good Pay We Die Too S6dn Going Down U. S. Bonds No Brag, No Power 'By Arthur Brisbane - - -' The locomotive engineers have raised the' salary of Mr. Stone, grand chief of .1 . i j , eaa . . ee nnA -4 a wise action. Railroads think nothing of paying a corporation lawyer $100,000 for a year's work ' Workers should pay their leaders full value for good serv ice. If the leader isn't worth a good salary, change him and get a man that lsmworth it. Workers are going to need good leaders in the next few yeara "William Rockefeller celebrates eight ieth birthday spending 10 hours at his desk, tt Broadway." That tells how some Americans work Will not, cannot, stop working. It also reminds men In old age that work really doesn't hurt them If they like it. What we like Is digested easily. What Is un usual in William Rockefeller, a long day's work at 80, should be nothing un usual In any healthy man. Eighty should be an age of full vitality. Death would not come before 144 If men knew how to live. , . Liberty bonds suddenly 'drop because the federal reserve bank, controlling credits, puts government bonds in second place as collateral for loans. - First place is 'given to income tax-free, securities is sued by states and cities. Do you know why those securities are preferred? 'It is because big men that "control money Invest in tax-exempt securities to dodge income tax. Then they arrange to bor row heavily on those securities, putting their tax dodging bonds ahead of the people's bonds. Interest on their loans they deduct from income tax, and inter est they get from those tax-exempt se curities pays no Income tax at all. That shows how foolish it Is to be a little man, in a republic that is managed so intel ligently for big men, ; a . Mile. .Lenglen, wonderful French woman, who can. jump up into the air as high as a gamecock,' says she . Will beat the Scandinavian lady and Amer ican champion, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, when they meet. That's the right spirit. The rooster that won't crow won't fight, and the human being that has no brag in him has little else in him. The French have always announced quite calmly that they were the greatest peo ple in the . world, and very often they have gone out and proved it. V: - J "-'-."'' John Wanamaker. who has left three score and ten far-out of eight-and Is working harder , than ever, made a speech about the right use of money. The best use of money is to keep It use fully working, producing What other peo ple need, employing men and women use fully at good wages. Charity Is admir able, but the beet thing for money and men is hard, productive work, and Mr. Wanamaker knows it. "Henry- Ford has finished building his first S, 000.000 motor cars." Who would have predicted such an achievement a few years ago? Almost any Industrial miracle Is possible. A than trying to give highest value for lowest price, in? stead of frying to get highest price for lowest value, has turned out more than 10O0 million dollars' worth of merchan dise. It means, what Is Infinitely more important, that millions of Americans, especially farmers and small business men, have saved thousands of millions of hours of valuable time. It means, most Important that millions of fam ilies have known, united, the pleasure of travel, fresh air and stimulating, bene ficial excitement. It is. not possible to overestimate the value of such service as "Henry Ford has rendered, Industrially and spiritually, to the United States. Mr. Bok will give $10,000 . every year to the Phiiadelphlan who does most to advance the interests of his elty-a good way to spend $10,000. Mr. Bok, retired from one kind of work, is promoting good music and civic pride. What IS the most useful thing that Mr. Bok or any one could do for a city? It would be to start a' daily newspaper, praise gener ously the good man and tear the skin Off the others.' '-. - . Communication; sent to Tha Journal tot publication in this department should be written on only one aide of tha paper; should hot exceed SOO words in lenrth, and must be signed by the writer whos mail address in fall must accom pany tha contribution.) "THE SINS OF THE FATHERS" Scripture Quoted to Show This Phrase Is Erroneously Invoked. La Grande. June L-To the Editor of The Journal In regard to Dr. Owens Adair's bill No. i?4 I would Ilk to say that with the information I now have on the subject I cannot vote for it It seems to be based on the doctrine of heredityk which I do not think is true according to its modern interpretation. The oft quoted passage. "Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto -the third and rsurtit generation of them that hate me". (Deut. 6:9) has reference to the sin of idolatry and does not apply in this case. In case of Cain and Abel, the rirst two born, one was good, the other bad, and they had. no generation" to go back to. - God say a "The soul that sinneth it shall die." The son shall not 'bear the ihiqulty Of " the father t6t the father the Iniquity ef the son. (fezek. 18:20.) It Is contrary to reason and observation. When Christ healed the blind, man, in answer to the question, "Who sinned, this man or his father, that he was born blind r Christ said, "Neither this man nor his father sinned, but that the power of God might be made manifest." Sterilisation would be an Infringement upon the purpose of Ood In the institu tion of matrimony and the 'propaga tion of human life. It would be blocking the stream ef life coming -down ; to us from Kden's fair garden and the federal headship of the human race by which the earth was to be peopled, it Is put ting too great a responsibility into the hands of a medical board. . As a class they are as good as any other class, but they are sinful, and not perfect. The in nocent would suffer with the guilty. They are made both judge and execu tioner. It may be welt -said. "Let him that is without em first east the stone." It would be putting a burden upon those seeking the marriage relation, too griev ous to be borne, from which many would Shrink and refuse to enter It, and so we would 'have less : marrying and f ewer children and more Illegitimate children. I am now Jl years old ahd I cannot Letters Prom the People vote for this measure. 1 hope It will be voted down. - J. W. Oliver. THE BIGGEST THING The Schools, And How the Ambitious ' : And Interested Misuse Them. Portland. June 1. To the Editor of The Journal -I read with" pleasure your editorial of this date entitled The Big gest Thing." You struck the keynote In almost every sentence. The school sys tem is the biggest thing in Ouf fair city i aye. the education of the child mind is the biggest thing In the whole world. Big business " affairs and everything con nected therewith sink into insignificance in comparison with the training of the Immature - and - developing mind. - The present and future of the world depend absolutely on proper thinking ahd rea soning, and that must necessarily mean every activity of man. And still some would make of the 'schools a Stepping stone to personal ambitions, social, po litical and financial. In business affairs the best Is hone too good and in the social and political world the ; successful only have the popular sanction. Why not the best in - school t, Ahd i so. the changing - of the school ' laws to suit the whims and fancies of j some popular leader In society, politics or finance Is undertaken in order that a 'certain ambition may be gratified or spiteful revenge appeased. f , Before and during the recent legisla tive session I opposed the proposed and finally enacted school legislation affect ing school district No. 1 of Multnomah county, on the ground that it was un called for and entirely unnecessary and would prove a decided detriment to the school system of Portland. And now we are reaping the Whirlwind of seed sown to the Wind. Certain gentlemen of our city, who have been approached by men and Women who have absolutely ho other thought than the true good of our schools, have told those- approaching them that it would ' ruin : their f inan clai.. political or social standing, as the case may be, should they be elected, or even consent to make the race for school director, and therefore they would not consent to the use of their name. Such a condition Is deplorable. But what else can be expected when this or that polit ical, social or financial leader "demands' that this or that be done or not be done? What man with a speck df true manhood would want to be buffeted about, abused, and probably cursed by a body of such school parasites and that is really what they are- because he does right by the tender minds over which he has control? V - ' tOn the floor of the house of represen tatives. When the measure enacted was before that body,. I predicted i that it would degrade the school election to a political scramble and that it would ul timately react on the heads of its spon sors, and thajt prediction is now fulfilled. When 3 will men learn to leave well enough alone? When will they learn that the public schools should not and must not be made a football? i Walter G. Lynn. NOT FOR STERnLl25ATION ' Recommends That Desired Status Be . Sought Through Education. Portland. June - L To the Editor of The Journal May I give a few rea sons Why we should vote "No on the so-called sanitary marriage measure? Dr. Owens-Adair claims to know much of breeding and would reduce human breeding to the level of that of domestic animals. - That correspondent i of The Journal who fears It would increase Il legitimacy has good grounds for fear. It would. "Romantic love" would become common, particularly among the young. Independent and fearless ones, while the cringing and cowardly would become the legal progenitors of the future citizens of our state. Is that desirable? No ! Should this bill become a law1; there Is nothing to hinder the doctors from com ing to a gentlemen's agreement and com pelling every young couple with money to undergo two or more expensive ex aminations before a license is recom mended, f : .1: : : Dr. Owens-Adalr ought td know from her experience with cattle that condi tions must be favorable or imperfections will appear, regardless of the perfections of the parents. With conditions favor able, imperfections can be eliminated and higher standards attained even when the parents are defective. - 'y Let's work for better conditions and higher standards of living for the pro ducers of wealth. Breeding Will then take care of Itself. j W. H. Addia A PROTEST Portland, May 27.--T the Editor of The JournaU-The writer is a Catholic and Is American-born and has given a son to the cause of humSh liberty. He objects to the spirit manifested in the resolutions passed recently by the Ger mah-Speakihg Catholic Societies of Ore gon. When a man hurls epithets of hate and derision against the president of the United States.- the c6mmandef-ln-chief ef our army and navy during time of active war, and up to the time of a peace treaty ending such War such treaty being negotiated by the execu tive, presented to and - accepted by the legislative body, . as prescribed by law, and then proclaimed or completed by proclamation of the president, such ut terances are traitorous to country, and plac th6 person, by his own act, in the garb of a traitor by thus defaming the executive head of the government, and thereby give Comfort ahd Support to the enemy during such time of war. (The fact that some of our senators did the same thing might be given as excuse.) But such person Stands in a question able position, and 2 : earnestly protest against and claim that he is doing wrong, as a prominent head and leader of any organisation, who by his own resolution, or any resolutions presented to and accepted and , passed by such organisation presided over by him, does besmirch and lower the good name of any religion, o head, heads or leaders in any religion, and of religion itself, by passing any resolution, or expres sion of fealty or loyalty to same, at any meeting Or gathering where the slight est Suspicion of open, or even covert, disloyalty to - country could be looked for, even by opponents of the most ex treme views. There IS no objection to fun. open and definite expressions of fealty and loyalty la all things pertaining to spir itual matters; but to bring religious leaders hemes before the public. In a public gathering convened for politi cal or other ends other than spiritual, Is hot right or fair to them, or to re ligion, for the same suspicion of disloy alty to country is thereby fastened upon them (by association) trt the j minds of Wrongly Informed citizens, as such pen son has brought upon t himself by his misplaced, outspoken, biased, disloyal utterances and acta, - Citizen. - THE FIRE LESSON From the Bend Bulletfe The arrest and punishment ef two youths for falling to extinguish their camp fire in the Deschutes national for est bring into prominence early in the season the effort being exerted to save the forests from the menace of man made fires. , To have Such ah Incident occur In this Section and the actors in It employes s of a lumber company who once, as we understand, were members of a Boy ScOut organisation, almost makes one lose his faith in the power of advertising. One of the first rules of the scoot law has to do with the duty bf extinguishing one's camp fire : there la not a road or trail that one can take in the Deschutes forest that is not posted with fire warnings; the knowledge , that the same care is needed in the woods as around a plant-Khese should be suffi- COMMENT ' AND " " SMALL CHANGE The "patience of Job Was exercised before the day of the modern telephone. ... . 7 The reward of genius Is far more often a place in "Who's Who" than in the bank book. Just; as wilful' waste makes woeful want, so does perverted taste make head aches and darx brown flavors. a ,. - " ...a .mot .i.mi, iij.u of thii htnnlnd' hft.nl .v..... ed itor Chamberlain is in the offing? There is always and everlastingly ah an tl" to throw icy water on the over whelming enthusiasm of the "pro." iTltnnv I, 'iit.t I - extra money will turn a fellow's mind In the direction of the clothier's counter? . Railroad workers whose Wages have been cut probably Will make no com plaint if their grocery bill, rent and duoed. . , , ..- . . .'.... .The fitness of a Chicagoan for the Shipping board might have a counter part in one who resides along the River of Doubt, as far as maritime location la concerned. ,4.1l, Trge- man doesn't appreciate the blessmgs of the parental state until the young Idea is old enough and cour ageous enough to find fault with father's technique and physique In the swimming tank. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town G. P. Putnam, formerly Governor James Wlthycombe's private secretary and later a newspaper publisher at Bend, Is nOw one of the directors of the Knick erbocker Press ' on . West Forty-fifth street. New York city. In a recent letter he says: "Being the only Oregon booster in our concern, you can readily under stand how anxious I am to have books about Oregon and the West succeed, so that we can publish'' the works of our Western authors. In August we are going to publish a book by Charles Wellington Furlong, who is now in Pendleton. The book is entitled Let er Buck, There will be 81 pages of illustrations and I really believe they are about the best pictures of the Rdund-Up I have ever seen. Furlong's text is extraordinarily worth while. I doubt If Pendleton, the Round-Up or Oregon has ever had a more effective publicity boost than this book Will prove. ' Our plans are td have the book placed in ail the principal li braries of the country as well as in Eng land. We are also going to see that the book Shall be extensively reviewed and I really believe the book will do a good deal to put Pendleton on the map as one of the biggest llttlecltles of the West" OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Completing his report of his itfcerrkw with Count B Tolstoi. Mr. Lockley owteT tim on I'uaria's present condition and future prorpeets. Ilia iew is a hopeful on. notwt:htanduig the turbuienee of tba present Umse.1 , "It Is hard to talk of present condi tions in Russia." said Count IlyaTolstol, son of Leo Tolsfoi, to me recently. "For generations the Russian people groaned under the rule of the , most absolute monarchy? in the world. We have the strange spectacle In Russia of less than 800,000 So-called Bolshevik! dominating h.Whoie of Russia. It is like this. The cities are the starvation centera We have ho gold. ; Ouf , paper money Is of no . value. -. The peasants refuse to sell their Wheat to the people of the cltlea They will barter It for cloth or shoes or other needed things. The railroads of JRussla, never at a high State of ef ficiencv. are now- completely demoral ized. . Eighty per cent of our locomotives will no longer traveU Hence it is almost Impossible to . transport supplies from the country, to the cities. The death rate in the eitiea is about 11 per cent per annum ; the birth rate has fallen low I Infant mortality Is high. .. .. . "In Moscew and Petrograd I have seen what you call soapbox orators say ing, to the crowd of idlers around them. We must rob the robbera- Why do you allow your enemies to. enjoy your wealth, to operate your factories, to occupy- your palaces, all built by the sweat of your brows. Let us overthrow capitalism.' Let us eelse what has so long been withheld from us. And so the peasants. Ignorant and illiterate and long-oppressed, acted on t-e advice of these evil agitators and took the palaces and the wealth and killed thOse who had education. They seised the factories, nationalized the Stores, and so brought chaos. They succeeded perfectly In their program of destruction, but they have failed in their program of reconstruc tion, so we have In Russia anarchy and chaoa Every ounce ef geld every bit of energy, is being employed In propa ganda. Schools are being maintained to teach missionaries, who will go to India and Egypt, to Ireland and Amer ica, to Germany and elsewhere, to preach the doctrines of Bolshevism and anarchy. . - a a Communism has failed In Russia. Only by making Bolshevtsm world wide will Russia be on Sn equality with the rest of the world. The wolves are hungry to destroy the sheep 6f the other nations. The Russian propagandists are making little headway in America. You do not get excited easily You are not sufficiently ignorant You are not enough oppressed. But In India end Egypt great progress Is being made In stirring up sedition, .distrust and an archy. The Russian peasant who for merly received , one rouble a dsy now receives 6000. In - the old days he did from 12 to 80 times as much work as he does today, no wages. have gone up to the sky and efficiency lias gone down below the horizon. The laboring classes In the cities are going back to the coun try. Life ha become primitive there. They weave their Own cloth from linen or wooL They make shoes from the elent to insure against ' fires, but In this case they were net ;f ; ' The fines Imposed, ai in the many sim ilar cases reported by the forest service last year were hot intended to be puni tive, as their slz indicated, but simply to bring home more forcibly to the of fenders that what they had done Was not to be answered by a talking to from the court. Probably they supposed they had extinguished their fire. They had net done So however, much as they may have tried, ahd therein Was the of fense. There, too. was the lesson that very user of the woods must learn. Know that your lire is out. ; Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places The origin of "Yankee Doodle" IS in volved irt obscurity, but It is said that the SOng was introduced by the BriUsh troops about the beginning bf the American revolution, says the Detroit News. While the British were In the city of Boston in the summer of 1775 some rhymer among them wrote a poem In de rision of the dress, equipment, etc.. Of the New England troops. 6r "Yankees." That was the original "tankee Doodle" Song. The authorship is generally as scribed to Dr. Richard Shuckbnrg, NEWS iN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS - England sold 111 obsolete ; warships the other day. She should have taken a tip from the automobile industry and traded them On new models Eu gene Register.' ; There is one good thing about the rob bing of American tourists In Europe it may drive some of them home earlier and popularise the slogan, "See America First." Eugene Guard. . -a . e j. : Women 1 of the Phillnnlnea hava de manded Independence, which virtually settles the question.. Women all over the world are getting everything they go Out after. Eugene Guard. . m The absence of serious highway ac cidents during the traffic flood occa sioned by the Memorial day week-end speaks well for the growing observance of the rules of safety first Astoria Budget. a "'a Brave men die by millions to right great moral wrongs, and then their survivors haggle over material losses and Ignore the more important spiritual facts. Then they rub their hand and say smugly, rV have kept our faith with the dead." La Grande Observer. a Th6se loganberry growers WhO de clare that they will let the berries re main unpicked rather than sell for less than S cents are only injuring them selves. There is money in loganber ries at s cents, and. even if only ex penses are made, growers will be, doing better than most other people today. Salem Capital Journal. ' After an absence of many years the Rev. Virgil Victor Johhaon is in Port land noting the many ' changes In the appearance of the town as he knew It He is secretary of the National Asso ciation of Travelers' Aid Societies, with headquarters at New I York city, and is traveling in the interest of that organi sation. , He will deliver the baccalau reate sermon at the commencement exer cises of the University . of Oregon this month. . He is an alumnus of the uni versity. He was graduated in 1898 and is a son of the first president of the uni versity, J. W, Johnson. , ' 5 ; Dr. William H. Crawford, president emeritus of Allegheny college, was' a recent guest of his friend, Rev. David Thompson, pastor of Mispah Presbyter Ian church. Dr. Crawford and Rev. David Thompson were fellow Workers In the Y. M. C. A. in France. Dr. Craw ford has ' served as president of Alle gheny college more than 25 yeara He has been spending the winter in Cali fornia. No matter where he goes, he finds former students of Allegheny col lege, who are glad to see Prexy Craw ford. Lockley bark of trees. For lights they burn .pitch pine splinters. Ninety per cent of the people are in the country, 10 per cent in the cities but the vUlages and the : country, having no transportation, cannot combine to overthrow the 10 per cent in the cities. We have no malls, no telegraph, no, railroad' facilities. - . ' -' - ' "The - allies, thinking to help -Russia, fought against the Red army, but they poured oil on the flame, for whenever another nation Interferes In the domestic troubles of a nation is strengthens the resistance., Radicalism feeds on opposi tion. If the allies had not come to Rus sia, the Red soldiers would have refused to fight their own brethren the peasants, arid 1 Bolshevism would have failed to make headway. o . "Bolshevism Is a. disease. Russia will once more be- healthy "In days to come. We shdtHd remove the blockade. The Bolshevlkl have no money or goods to trade, but we are strengthening their hands In trying to oppress and suppress them.. The way to conquer the Russian peasant is through love, not through resistance. They are very susceptible to kind treatment and justice. War and revenge, because they are destructive , of life, fall to accomplish teeir purpose. You may subdue, but you cannot con quer the principles of a people. " Bolshe vism Is based Upon violence. It is an outgrowth of the war, - The man who Is properly fed and clothed Is an enemy of Bolshevism. It 1 the hungry and thdse who smart from a ne of ' In justice who -become Bolshevlkl. .The cure for Bolshylsm U justice, education, love. When ona man quarrels, his quar re! simmers out if the other man will hot fight back; so it will be with us to '.'Russia, '. a "I shall not tell you 6f the dreadful atrocities X. have witnessed In Russia nor that have occurred there. A little nucleus of dreamers and idealists have formed a rallying point for cutthroats, ruffians and robbers, and the deeds they have done have been so brutal, so ter rible that t do not car to tell you of them. During the days ef terror the motto" of the Bolshevlkl was to kill and ueaxroy aii inn wnu ita wvhwme, tlon or scientific attainment Sortie es caped. Now the Russians realize they ,haa M,rn,u ttulr tA etfravt Iliuei uatTQ- t.rcw . th -construction ', Th wnaltlf of Ruv tla Is i its lands and in tns intU.gence X is- - 1aa.JAa.ai T A I Jea A eaF Tllfltli Ui 1L irwci O. a m va, iaa.M al tsVaVl ill AVf tfeek -ttnrlii 1IKTO VI. vS DVBLWt -v " - - - When the people quit killing on another. When tney go Daca to ineir wot, i refugees will return. They will go back with Maw IHaa Mumbfra of the Rtl- eian nobility who have worked as farm hands here - in t America win ; not oe content to go back to the Russian plow. They will order tractors her In Amer ica. In a few years you will, see a new Russia. - Vn xne suines 01 my wu-iovru land there will arise a new clvillaation. r t m rinhM' It mat .' be ona of areater justice and that my father's dream of universal brotnernooa may oe carriea OUt" ' . - -,-;(:- : British surgeon and wit tor. Edward Everett Hale has attributed the pres ent version of "Yankee Doodle" to Ed Ward Bangs, who was graduated from Harvard la 1777. The tune has been at tributed to various countries arid even carried back to the church of the middle ages, but most likely it had Its origin in England. It is found in an opera by Samuel Arnold, "Two to One." produced la London .in 1781. Uncle Jeff Snow Says Down In Callfomys where most all the land that's good fer farmln' Is held by half a dozen big land profiteers, the real estate fellers in convention assem bled a while back resolved that land hadn't tier . be taxed nary cent, and they mean to have It fixed thata way. We , uster laugh at the . Mexican Una dons that had things a-goln', jist like that so mebby it'll be Californy that'll be laughed at next in Western Canady they laugh at our tax in' farmers fer im provln of their land and usln of it, as plum foolishness, but we- take it solemn enough. Them Canucks, too, laughs at our way of packtn officials enough Into a county to run eight or 10 atates, but we're so big and powerful and wise that we don't mind their laughln' at us nary mite. - . ' The Oregon Country Karthwaat Happening- in Brief Form for tba , Busy header - PUSGON NOTES Brownsville has begun the expenditure of S28.250 for paving a mil and a half of city streets. The Weston brickyard is shlf-plng an order of 200,000 brick to Pendleton for the new Matlock A Oreullch theatre. - - Strawberry picking has commenced In Marlon county with the prospect of the largest erop and the lowest prices In " many years. s , .Harry Foster was killed and "Harry T. Burtls badly-Injured when a lottiner train left the track near Marshfield and was wrecked, E. P. Brosterhouse of Bend was given the contract for construction of the new ' . high school building at Silver Lake. His bid was 830,300. , Robert Bates Carey, who came to Ore gon in 1847 and settled in the Waldo hills near Salem, died recently at the home of his son in Vale. The Stemmler mill at Myrtle Tolnt which went into bankruptcy a short time ago, has been sold to the Cedar Lumber company of Reedsport Charles English, the alleged horse thief, was evamlned at Oregon City and adjudged lnAne. Moonshine la the di rect cause apt his condition. George Cros, only surviving member of the trustees of -Aurora colony, the charter of which dates back to lStt, is dead at Aurora, aged 80 years. According to present Indications, the University of Oregon Cooperative store, owned and controlled by students, will pay dividends to all stockholder. For mismanagement of road affairs, petition are being circulated in Malheur county for the recall of County Judre li H. Test and Commissioner F. M. Vines. By a vote of "40 for and none aalnt, land owners have organized tha Westfall f Irrigation district for the development ot the interior, section of Malheur county. v The body of Alfred K Babuoek. sol dier, after whom the Albany American Legion post was named, has been hipped from France to Albany tor burial. , While riding on the running hoard ot 1 a truck at Tacoma, Ralph, three-year-old son of Ralph E. Crawford, fell be-. neath the wheels and was crushed to death. Members of the Salem school board and five business men, composing a budget committee, have approved the budget of 8125,000 for the operation of Salem's schools for the next year. . Although granted a franchise to oper ate a water works system In Bend, using water from Spring river. Mayor Gllson has no water rights to the rrinrs on which his franchise Is based, accord ing to Percy A. Cupper, state engineer. WASHINGTON - The Olympla Standard was probably the only dally In the Northwest that Issued no paper on Decoration day. The Standard? OH wells at Paclfio Beach are now down 8700 and 3600 feet respectively and are showing strong of shale grease. , Hugh C. Wallace has notified friends that he will return to Tacoma as soon as he Is relieved as ambassador to France by Myron T. Herrick. The annual session of the grand loops of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the state of Washington will be held at Spokane 'June to 9. Peter Coskl, employed by the Great Northern Lumber company near Wen- . atchee, was drowned while rolling logs, into the Wenatchee river. The Washington state attorney-general has ruled in an - opinion that county-, sheriffs are anthorized to seize personal firoperty for payment of delinquent poll axes. . R. E. Murphy, deputy sheriff, was Wounded In one leg in a running pistol fight with alleged bootleggers In an' automobile on the Bethel road . near Seattle. , The body of Steve Hsll. son of A, H, 1 Hell, was found In a tlny house on the old Hail homestead, seven mi lea east of Port Angeles, with a bullet through the head. He had been missing two weeks. Incorporators of a company to operate a silver fox farm at Spokane have recently purchased 20 a,cres of land near that city where they plan to erect a com plete plant for the rearing of tb vain-- abla animals. The' extreme high water In the Wen atchee river has dislodged jams of loirs that have been along the, banks for years. More than 15,000,000 feet have been caught by - the Great Northern Lumber company at Leavenworth, IDAHO - The body ef Lieutenant John M, Re-' tan. killed In France, has been sent to Boise for burial. Thirteen producing mines ef the Coeur d'Alenes show net profits during the year 1920 Of 88,818,835.40. - Taking effect June 8, the Oregon Short Line railroad ha granted a reduction of 17 per cent -In the freight rat on hay to Missouri river points. - " Petitions containing more than 1000 names have been presented to the Cali well city council asking to have open Sunday -moving pictures. The oen ter pier of the Dahskln bridge oh the south fork ofMh Boise river is submerged and the whole structure is In danger of being washed Out by the his a. water. . S. E. McNeil, who lost his eyesl-rht while working for the Panhandle Lumber company of Spirit Lake, has been award ed compensation for 400 weeks at $12 a week and a life pension thereafter of S a week. .. . Department of justice official in Idaho have announced organization of a force of state and federal officers to cooperate with forest rervice employes to protect standing timber during the forest fire season. According to opinion of the attorney general, the State of Idaho is responnihie for Injuries sustained by an employe where a contractor ha failed to provide for compensation under the worker's compensation law. NOW youR PORTLAND Now that the season for travel by motor, horseback and afoot ha come, this pomer may well be occupied for a time with-information about the Incomparable points of scenic and recreational interest with which Portland Is environed. :Do you know that Portland Is the center of the triost marvelous play ground for all, of whatever ag they may be, so that their hearts are youngT Do yeu know that within call of the city are spot so rugged and wild it is difficult to believe the habita tion of men could be within a hun dred miles? Do you know that paved highways radiate from Portland In almost as many directions as ten fingers could point, and that each lead into a scenic fairyland? v Do you know that the greatest col ony of. enow covered peaks visible from any 'city in the United State may be seen from Portland, and that around each of them are lofty parka and hanging gardens ahd lakes and 'stream and wild life and complete forgetfulnes of every routine duty? Do you know that the Columbia river highway penetrates the gorge of the West's greatest stream and re veals scenery which is counted un excelled anywhere In the world? .Do you know that mountains and seashore are nearly equidistant from Portland and equally accessible? Do you know that the thing which makes the life of a Portlander dis tinctive is the wonderful outdoors upon which the doors of this city open? . I