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1 . JA4..tt.AO.N . .lMbUir ! calm, be confident, be cheerful and do unto m ynj wmiid hee them do onto yotl. I .. ! ry week day Ami eHuxiey , iBortwna, ; lha Journal bnildinc, Broadway and .Ysav I .t-eet. fortlaiKI, Oreron. i-.l at um nuitoflica at Portland. Crecorf, i or trerwnuaton Ujrmian tha aaU a second r.tttOSKS Main 7 1 7 3, Automatic 6U0-51. i rieriartment reached by the nunibcra. "NA1, AlM'EHTl.SliiO KKrftMi iVfv Benjamin At.Kentoor to., Bronawirk 'itldtnc 22 Fifth avenue, New York; SQO '-. taiMiit. rhWn. 1 .IU COAST KKPUKbUXTATIYK W. K. ranger Co., Examiner baUdinc. Ban Fran ; Title lasaraaco building. Loa Angela ; t-Tntellicwer building. Seattle. . OUkMN JOLJi.NAL feaerve tbe-Tiabt to -eet. advertising ewpy which it deems, eb nonafate. It also-win not print any copy it In any way simulates tending natter or t cannot readily be recoBTiiied-aa adrer - . -- - -.-.- - SlBnOKttTION KATfcS - - By Carrier, City and Country .-, -rAJI.T A!SD SUNDAY .. .)$ .14 Ooa month.. ... -.65 . DAILT I SUNDAY week. .....$ .10 1 One week......! .06 month.. ... .45 ' MAlt. ALf. RATES PAYABLE W ADVANCX year,. . .18.00 Three months... 92.35 months. ... 4.25 DAILT ; Without Sunday) yf. . . ,$8.00 r.'ir'Si. . , , 5.29 rjintltha.., 1.T5 - ffiiHUh. . . . ; .80 WEEKLY Every Wednesday) year. .... .51.00 tniiotha, .... J One month.. . . . - . ,79 sl:noat -Oniy) . ' One year. , .$3.00 Sit month . . . . 1.75 T&ree . montba, . . 1.00 . :WERKT.Y AND HVKDAY One year. ...... 53.50 '.m rate apply .only In the West, v Vr. ales to Eastern pelnta furnished on arplea- Make remittances by Money Order. Express ft or Draft. U; your postofflee is , not . a er Order office. 1 or 2-eent aUrapa will be c.ied. Make all remittances peysirte to The -"!. Portland, Oregon, A wrong-doer la often a man that baa ft tometbinc nndooe. not always ba that a done eometbios. Marena Aurelnu. ONLY NIBBLINQ RESIDENT HARDING has moved to consolidate and coordinate the rk of iTOvernment bureaus. He pes thereby to dispense with the :aries of a considerable number of vernment employes. The purpose commeffdable. But only a short week before the :sident wrote a chairman of a com ttee that it was hia desire that 9 bureaus be consolidated and their rk coordinated. Senator King; of ah. was unchallenged on the floor the senate when he prophesied it the expenses of the trovernment 1922 would mount to $7,000, OOO.i J or $7,500,000,000. His prophecy .a made In light of proposed ap oprlations for the army and. navy ablishments. . The retrenchment of which the :sident has so glibly spoken Is not mlng through the consolidation of Jew government bureaus. - A coun- . crushed under the tax1 burden 11 not be saved through , the dls arge of " a few . government em ?yes. An economic life staggered ' government costs will not be re ved by a few empty chairs in gov iment offices- Nor will, the tax ring public be rescued by generous omises of economy. f'; There will be no, areciable re ction in costs while this govern snt is spending more than $1,300, -0,000 for preparedness as against 7ft.000.000 11 - years., ago. . There II be no economy if the naval pro am of 1916. which has already cost 00,000,000, is completed at a cost $1,000,900,000 more. There will i no relief from the burden while 90000,000 a year is spent on the vy. The wars "and war prepara ns cost the money, , and to date 9 president has shown no leader lp whatever In the matter of ra cing war costs. . The president will be widely' com snded for his attempt- to eoono ze in the government bureaus, it to stop there would be like at- king the San' Francisco tire with -arden hose. ' -: And"'ln the matter of - economy, 3 New York Herald (Republican) vers" some .pointed remarks to con- -meiu It says: there fs , not 'some real reduction the -cost ; of government, where it nt in 10. flgurs. bo that the results ,i show- impressively to the reliefTof v Btagsering- taxpaylng public, there I be " some' tragic stories to ' recount months from now In the congressional rlcts of -these United Stales. This- Rojr. Gardner .person, who, jugh ' handcuffed s nd ., Oregon oted, made : a "third .escape from avily armed' guards,' must be ' a -ular he- bear" of a man.. His ourcefulness seems to be fully ual to hla love o'f liberty.' Such" a in ought to be in the service, of 3 government not "agin itl ' ' THEIR PROGRESS jDEOPLE are getting better, says the forest ranger, who. has harge of the reception of ; Uncle im'S guests at the beautiful. Eagle Creek campground on the Columbia Iver highway. , , Though four thousand recreation ckers visited the delightful spot -ring Memorial day and the Sunday at preceded It, and though they free use of the tables, outdoor stoves and firewood which the forest service provides without charge, not a single camp fire' was forgetfully left burning. Papers and lunch wrappings were gathered up. Litter and broken food were, either burned or deposited in the ; numerous cans conveniently placed for, the purpose. Ferns and shrubs and flowers were admired but. not despoiled. 1 There was evidence on every hand of re spect for the regulations and con sideration one for the other. - vllad the experience been confined to one occasion it would have been surprising but not significant, said the forest ranger.- But for two years people who visit the camp, grounds at Eagle Creekr vhave. been' showing the same quality of self respect? Only once In that length : of time -has it been necessary to take - any of the campers before a Judge, and-in that particular Instance a camp fire was left burning by three men, twevbf whom tried to escape when asked to return and extinguish' the blaze. Such progress is highly significant and gratifying. , People are learning to use, not abuse,', the outdoors. If they continue some of the owners of private property along the Columbia River highway and other scenic 1 highways may take down .some of the ."No Trespass1 signs Which were! erected chiefly becauevTecreation Ista abused their privileges. " , ' , The4 T. J. Potter went "the bbn'eyard" 5 attended., "by the sighs of two generations,, at least, who hadt in . many t instances .-.met romance aboard her excursion decks. : f- in need - - - r "- .- -.J . - . PORTLAND . war veteran1 is the r father of three children. He in disabled but Js receiving a compen sation from' the- government while taking " vocational . training. The family, by rigid economy,' is able to live on the government allowance. .' The wife recently became seriously ill. It was imperative that she go to the hospital. There were no funds. .The. veteran made unsuccess ful attempts to secure aid from Vari ous sources. J Finally, other, veterans heard of the situation.- Together, they made up a fund that was sufficient to cover immediate costs. The wife went to the hospital and the three children were' farmed out until the - mother recovered and reclaimed them. Another veteran, totally disabled, was supporting his wife and child on his government Income Another child came. , There i were no funds to meet the costs.; For several days the wife was without proper atten tion because her . husband was un able to secure money. - Tq provide , the hecessary funds for emergency: aid of disabled veter ans, an organisation . has been estab lished in Portland., ,'lt "is sponsoring an' ctitertayjrhent at The Auditorium tonight intended, to raise an emer gency fund. "1 The citizens of Oregon and the city of Portland are grateful to the nation's defenders. It is hard to be lieve that they will allow our dis abled soldiers-to be in need. - . '. The reason many people are fail ures is that they use the : greater part; of. their: energy; trying1 to" devise schemes for living without -work. THE FARMER'S WAY OUT- THE farmer can buy an automo bile at 75 per cent of the price a year ago, but farm machinery is reduced only 10 per cent. - - The farmer receives 40 to 50 per cent of the war prices for his prod ucts, but' pays 75 to 90 per cent of war prices for his supplies,- Financial difficulties promnt the canneries to announce that this year their pack will be light. In; face of the fact .that sugar., la at Its' lowest price ebb and that fruit production in the Northwest will be large, while east f the Rocky mountains there will.be only about half a crop from trees and vines. . Amounts received, by the farmers for - meat and wheat have been slashed out of proportion, to the cost of production, i while the con sumer has, gone on paying nearly the wartime prices for bread and beefsteak. - '. -- High' freight rates hit the farmer going and coming, for . the tariffs are 'added to the" price, he pays and subtract ed-'from1' the amipunt he. re ceives for hla, products. j- ,i jif ... Is" it any wonder that the farmer is conscious '. of facing a -dilemma whiph ,he must vmeet-nccessfully, for ta own financial safety- -before the harvest? " ' When he approaches the detail of getting in the crops. the farmer finds that' labor; is much- nhore ' abundant and much less costly than it'-was- a year . ago... But , when.. he. ' puts his hand In his pocket to; pay tils helpers he finds the widow's v mite. . When he . goes to the bank 1 for. advances he-is .often told that agriculture-has had all the-r-credit j it can be per mitted. until the price slutop on the farm has been remedied. What, then, is the'- farmer's' way out Primarily, It is through his cooperative marketing association. " The cooperative associations have already eased a situation that with out them would have been doubly difficult. They have maintained the agricultural equilibrium .where oth erwise there might have-been -wobbles, and. a crashing fall. The farm ers organized in cooperative market ing associations have had better lines of .credit than they could have gotten Individually. They have been treat ed with more respect by, middlemen. - Th -rrnrralive associations were organized at a time when the farm er's revenues were on a down grade. They are surviving the most severe tests even before : their component parts could be strongly riveted by the confidence that grows out of ex perience. , , ; But the farmer must learn how to make even larger use of his cooper ative marketing association. The or ganization should enlist the Influ ence and bring to bear the argu ments that will break down the wall of Impossible freight rates. It must help strike a balance between the farmer's" purchases and Bales. It must discover and open up export markets, and, Incidentally,, learn the technique of terminal handling, re frigeration 'and : advantageous for eign Bales .methods. It must, protect the, farmer -against ftniddleman"! ex? ploltation and, it may be, save hiri from the now , ungoverned ops and downs - incident too the manufacture Of food, fruit-and dairy products. '. The cooperative marketing associ ation 'must keep, the 'road straight. clear- and; short between .producer and consumer, '' ' . The farmers,: In conference-at the Oregon ; " Agricultural " College' this week, wlll have many ; prob Jems: to dJsciiss in their effort . tb find; the way out of existing handicaps.- t .'-I' V. ., . FOLLY. , ..' . , .1;. Ul O EPRESENTATIVE M'ARTHUR JTV is rendering "excellent service to his constituents and to the country in moving to defeat plans to increase the membership of the federal house. ; The house is already so unwieldy that- it work is 1 delayed.-' It la so large that legislation has come to be canned in committee. and. placed be fore the membership for mere rati fication instead of consideration. Members are so numerous that It would take months to consider one measure If ' each ' representative should .desire to. enter the' debate. There ' are so many representatives that any addition to. the member sh ip wouj d. -require: a new office building to provide space. ' : If the number of representatives is increased it means more ; bills. More bills mean more, laws. More' laws mean:, more- men to enforce them, more salaries to pay, and more cost. More representatives mean more delay, more committees, more speeches, and more congestion ' of legislation. ; They I mean more con gressional salaries; more clerk cost, more transportation allowances and more office rent. ; The house is already too large. There are already too many men In congress who do little bnt vote and send seeds home.1 ..To ' add, to , the number and cost would be f olly.: . . -, The vote last Tuesday showed 'that the . people of Oregon ;are still eon-s. vinced of the certainty of profitable returns from good roads. . JUDGE LIITLE FIELD I N POINT ' of ' what it, means in human welfare, the public school syetem Is the biggest thing in Port land. - . For once, the board of manage ment, should be lifted to a place in public confidence In which It will be in position to unite all groups, be above petty bickerings, have in view only the highest advancement of the schools and " give to - the sys tern all that human intelligence can provide. . The school election takes place next Saturday. . There should be a careful study of the claims of those from among whom selections are to be made for school director, four of whom, or a ' majority ef the new board, are to be chosen. ' -The attention of the public is di rected to Judge Llttlefield, who, at the urgent solicitation of citizens, has consented to serve as director, if elected, r He Is a citizen of the highest character, of fine attainments and high purpose. A school board. composed of men of his type would win .and hold the respect and con fidence of the community. It would be assurance that school affairs would be administered with intelll gence and on conscience. - ' One of the most popular educa tional pursuits in Pueblo from now on.wlll doubtless be learning how tb swim. -. 'THB JDEATH CARRIER rn. Woods hutchinson who will be remembered as a former sta.te4health? of fleer of Oregon.' has a good deal to say about the cootie In a recent number of the. Saturday Evening Post. But with him the cootie is not a Joke. It is a' tragedv r He shows it cutting a wide swath of death' down through the centuries and across, the nations For. as the flea; carries bubonic plague'and the Southern' mosquito the germs of yel low fevetji ; the ' cootie carries "typhua Ano- typnus is'iaeaisease that main tained.a. tOf-pee. cent mortality rate when Napoleon's army - was on ; i way to "Russia' It is the plague that swept England in the Victorian era. It is the disease , that slaughtered millions In Ireland ahdv in - Europe, always ; making its appearance in armed camps, and among the people when their vitality ran low Tit ft the original destroyer from which the milder typhoid was named, v' The cootie, which i the : soldiers called "seam" hound," carries, the germ of typhus in Its abdominal walL Where cooties swarm typhus is trans mitted by their bites. But 'where clothmg Is deloused and disinfected and the people' indulge themselves frequently in the luxury of soap and water, typhus back tracks. It .is1 a disease that . can only thrive amid unclean Tin ess. : ', ' ' Dr. Hutchinson says the ' reason typhus has never made serious in roads in this country is because Americans are given to frequent bathing, to the wearing of night shirts, and, in - times of need, to the effective use of the fine tooth comb. He recalls the inroads made by a mysterious rever years . ago in Idaho,; Eastern Oregon and .Wash ington " Devoted scientists, one - of whom subsequently lost his life as a sacrifice to humanity, diseovered that ticks carried '.the fever and, that if cheep were driven over the tick producing areas at the proper; time the ticks would attach themselves to' the woolly bodies.- Then to "dip" the sheep andv destroy the midgets became a mere matter, . of exertion. The fever disappeared. . Cooties, mojsqultoes, fleas and ticks these by the : diseases they, have borne have killed their' millions, where war has taken: toll of thou sands. It is -net- to be wondered that science has armed against them. and that in to doing- man's chance of reaching a ripe old age has. multi plied. - ' TODAY Mighty- Gold,t Always Good Dead for the Mob. 5 Mind Over Matter ." ."By Arthur Brisbane. 1 Two hundred and twenty little boxes are eoming on the Aquitania, $7,000,000 in gold in the boxes. -" ".;'. ' Of all thourhts- aad . substAncAn. nn earth,' nothing .but . gold is "the same everywhere. ; Income places human life is cheap, tn others dear. Here human labor is cheap," there not so cheap. So with food. But everywhere gold Is the same. Men bow down before it, work for it, take its orders, never questioning. in Bolshevik Russia, in ruined Austria, in struggling France, in proud America, China, Africa under the equator, in the Arctics, gold is recognized, all powerful, unquestioned. It will buy anything from whale oil to cocoanuta and from- child labor to a Judgeship, r Very powerful substance in those 220 boxes. A . young woman was killed turning somersaults In her flying machine. Ten thousand went - to her funeral. The shattered propeller was carried- in tri umph and the glee club sang, (highly appropriate for one who had died turn ing somersaults) "He Who is Upright" The ' death' of -the courageous young woman : was as ' pitiful as it was -outrageous and disgraceful to the crowd that watched, interested in the possi bility of death. Such murderous exhibitions should be forbidden. - The . brave t young t, woman phould , have been "saved for ' useful motherhood, not slaughtered satisfying a mob's ugly craving for danger to others. . .-. " Most silly. Is tornlng air someraaulta It took this race of two-legged animals many thousands-of centuries to learn to stand upright, well . balanced. Nature gives us. near the ear, a little spirit-level filled with fluid? that tells, even, with yes shut, when .our balance Is correct. We have two sets of muscles, front and back, enabling two legs to do the work of four. Standing up -straight, -plus thinking straight, is quite enough, with out turning aerial somersaults. . - ; Charles Mack. 70 years old, was found dead. Dry crusts were on the floor, $40 in his pocket. $20,000 in his bank. . The doctors said he died of starvation.-. Mind does rule the body, as Christian Science teaches, for good and for ill. . i. Men die for money. Men die for am bition, for science, for patriotism, for show, fer glory, and for shame. - s . . ....... a Sitting at the wheel of his automobile, a man in Detroit Spoke impertinently to a , young woman. "Want a ride, little one?" Her husband, -whose - back' w&s turned, heard, slapped the man -In the face, and he dropped dead as be sat His mind had stopped his heart and killed him. Great Is the power of mind over mat ter. Nevertheless, don't neglect the body, if you happen to have cancer Infection from the roots of the teeth, indigestion, tuberculosis, or other material things. Germs also have power over matter. ... - . v. In Mexico crude oil sells for 4 cents a barrel. With oil at that price AND THE PCBUC WELFARE. NOT. THE OIL COMBINATION. RULING. - YOU COULD BUY. GASOLINE FOR LfcSS THAN EIGHT CENTS A . GALLON. ALLOWING GOOD PROFIT AND THE COST OF FREIGHT. Think that over, as 'you pay your gasoline bill, and ad mire the -; Intelligence "- which preaches "supply and demand" but knows .the combination controls both. . ' " , s Letters From the People rCommanieeticma eent to The Journal for publication in this department should bo written on omy- one uuf 01 luc psfjvri sumuu uu- 800 word in lencth, and moat be airned by the pany un onunouuon. "BLACK BEAUTY" . . . . , Picture Shown . With Accessories to Which Exceptions Are .Taken. : Portland. : June 15. To. the Editor of The Journal Having always i .been --a great lover of animals, I went to see the picture called "Black . Beauty" at The Auditorium last week. - The part called the main play was not bad. Many of the pictures of the horses were fine, and though the love story thrown in was rather- poor it seems impossible at present to put on a play, even for chil dren, without .something 'of that kind. That might be excused, but I do wish to enter an emphatic protest against the cruel pictures put in later - -showing the method of 'trapping coyotes. To anyone who loves children -and' all .animals and has seen the joy of little folks over the Finley. pictures showing, the -cunning an tics of the -- denizens of ; the woods, the baby .bears and - the birds and . squirrels. it seems .nothing ' short r of brutal to grtev the tender hearts of children by putting, on so -inhuman a picture. Trapping is a-cruel thing at best, and though it may be necessary to destroy harmful wild animals, - why. Show it in all Hs harshness much- of , it unneces sary as in this case? - After the wretched animal has -drawn the heavy trap until its strength is - exhausted, the boys capture him and compel him to limp back on his broken leg, to their camp, tying- the mouth up so be can scarcely breathe, thus . adding to the agony of the tortured animal. Why not kill him at once and end his misery. We know that animals often bite off their own feet in their frenzy when caught, se they eftainly ' must suffer. We would not for a .moment allow children tt see a picture - of the butchering of domestic 'animals, and yet, properly' done, this Is far less cruel, being in stantaneous and. avoiding the long tor ment of being hunted and. trapped beforehand.- , The old-fashioned idea was to teach children there are 'eood" and "bad" animals -the "good ones" made by God to be used, also eaten, by man, and the ones , that r objected preferring to to some of the killing themselves, perhaps were the "bad ones," designed by the Creator to be destroyed. - The slight in consistency of a coyote killing and eat ing sheep, which we raise to kill and eat ourselves, . or Utle animals which devour chickens, nCwlse imitating us, or the wolf that eats the fatted calf de signed for ourselves,: was supposed never to occur to children... Children, however, do think, and see inconsistencies. - - -- ' M. I M. A DESTROYER OF IDEALS Ambassador Harvey One Who Thwarts the Hopes of Mankind. "Umatilla, June 10., To the I Editor of The Journal- I am greatly pleased with your attitude toward the utterances ot Colonel .George Harvey. .How shaken and destroyed must be the ideals and dreams of those who hoped for a better world, a peaceful world and a league of nations to settle all disputes and avert future wars, as promised by the leaders of both political parties before and after the war. I learned the purport of the league covenant by hearing the explanations and discussions of William II. Taft. who told us it was sound and sensible, and adequate In every way to deal with world problems : that it in no way su perseded the ? powers of the governing bodies of the various nations belonging to it and represented In It, and that It had no power to declare war without the consent of the 'governments ot the nations participating in the league. And now comes our eminent ambassa dor to Great Britain, and shatters our hopes and destroys our national ideals. And what are we to offer to the disap pointed hopes of the peoples -of Europe, who looked to us to preserve the world's democracy and tide them over the pres ent crisis? We shall have - no league whatsoever, and we entered the war .to save ourselves, says Colonel Harvey. Wars will continue as long as Injus tice prevails, but a league of nations will go far toward solving the problems of the natlona The' war lords and land lords are not yet paying the ;prlce of the war, which they created .and for which they and not the common uerman people are responsible. When they do Dav. a exeat world problem will be set tled. Let us hope a. league of nations will settle it. and that Colonel Harvey does not . express the opinion of the majority. , ti . jmock. A LAND EXPERIMENT A Traveler From Portland Describes a i Certain Delaware Community. , Wilmington. Del. June 6. To the Ed itor of The Journal Twenty-five years ago this June - a band of crusaders buckled on their armor i and started to convert Delaware W ; the single tax. Their contention was that it was a small state and could be converted with the least resistance. I am told here that as a matter of fact it was practically converted, but, owing to bad political action on the part of the leaders and an ancient constitution backed by us con servative citizenship - in America, ths( campaign failed.-.,''',. But its leaders wanted to live to see a little single tax in this- locality, and so they purchased 160 acres of einde veloped land and formed a society that held the land in trust. It Is now 21 years since the experi ment was started, and last night I at tended a town meeting ' Where (hey car ried on legislation1 by popular discus sion, and voted just as any order would vote in meeting.' Since the society is not limited to single taxers, every theory of government was present and brought forth in the discussion. But' one thing Is established, and that is that single tax is a success on that quarter section of land. It contains 65 people who have homes and make a living there,, and it is the most beautiful spot 'I have seen. Their only trouble is that they cannot accommodate more people, and thus the growth Is stopped for the want of more land. , There is flo purchase price to the land. The settler does not need to divide his capital with a forestaller ot the earth. But, of course, the slate and county tax their improvements, and also the land as much as adjoining land is taxed. So they have but a limited experiment, but enough to prove that what they have got is a success. Fairhope. Ala., is an other experiment in the same way, and I will tell about that later. It is on a much larger scale They prove nothing excepts that we do not need the land lord to hold the earth together or give us a place to live. J. R. Hermann. REGULATING MATRIMONY Opinion Expressed That : Oregon Has Decided Wisely. ' . La Grande. June 1L To the Editor of The Journal Please indulge me in a few feeble remarks In answer to "Young America" In The Journal of June 9. I suppose he is just like the balance of us knows but little about the mysteries of life. The question Is. Would the state of Oregon In adopting a law to regulate and control the institution of matrimony and the . propagation . of i human life, be entering ths domain that God has re served unto himself. Has not He reserved unto Himself the right to Justify and re ward those who obey this law and pun ish those who disobey it? He punished the antediluvians arid justified Noah. He punished Sodom and Gomorrah and justified Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He punished Onan for refusing , to: ."raise up seed Unto his . brother." And ' many other cases I might mention. My own observation has v taught me that it is the men and 'women that reared large families who lived long and useful Uvea, while those who -married and bad' one or two or no children filled premature graves. So I think, as neither "Young America" nor 'myself, nor anybody else knows whether our state in taking this step would be 'starting on the down grade or the up 'grade, we had better let it alone,1 just as we have done.; I think this is the wise course. ; J. W. Oliver. FROM AN INDIAN WAR VETERAN Portland, ' June 11. To the Editor of The Journal In the name of the Na tional Indian .War Veterans X sincerely thank you for the patriotic Interest you have taken. In veterans, and last but not least, in the 'Indian war veterans. On Decoration day T had ths honor of car rying a flag that was carried to the re lief of. the survivors of the Whitman massacre. . Robert Hicks. Veteran of the Sioux campaign of 1$90 and 189L Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places One of the most curious marine phe nomena known to seamen t is that called by Norwegian sailors . "dead water," which without any . visible cause, says the Detroit News, makes a vessel lose her speed- and refuse to answer her helm. The sailors' only definite knowledge' of its origin is that it exists solely where there is a surface layer, of fresh water, resting : upon the salt waters of the sea.- Several explana-. tions have been -advanced by the cap tains' of -ships for ths effect of dead water,; the commonest of which is that the -two water layers -move in different directions. The true explanation, how evert recently offered by Swedish navi gators and verified .: ' by ' mathematical calculation . and direct experiment, is that in addition to the "resistance waves" at the surface the vessel creates a sec- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE New ' Tork calls for more ulmon. Half the. fish in the nation demanding the other bait. ' j.- . m , w . .. . - Ccuid It be that there was anything prophetic in the name of William Sor row, drowned in Lewiston Sunday ? Wo mir ex rec t a. racei nf aiitier-man when their rearing is given the same sci entific, attention accorded blooded brutes. "Pendleton dentist takes nost.V That ought to be painless, since a post has no root or nerve. a a - - , - - - While con erees is maklnar tratia It mlrht execute one in favor of the long suffering constituents who elected Its members, - . a The supposition that beautv - Im aven skin deep is often erroneous especially since we Know some oi the secrets or the cosmetic shops. . Sims, the papers say. would like to talk further, but holds his tongue. That ought to be easy. It's big enough to permit of a good grasp. Now Admiral Sims, whom we had brought ourselves to admire to a cer tain extent, has, sung that old song. "Young man, you have quoted me wrong?' and shattered the little respect we had, o , ; Makes us. as a properly pert Port lander, feel a bit . wordy and chesty when we read about our fellow-citizens delivering addresses to great gatherings of businesa mea in such world centers as Edinburgh. ., MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town A few- days ago The Journal' had a letter from Frank Owen McGraw, an Australian soldier, who was anxious to locate his relatives in America. . Today his aunt, Mrs. Rena Ayerf of 736 Tenlno avenue, Portland, came in to secure his address. "We have been trying ever since the armistice was signed." said Mrs. Ayers, "to locate my nephew. We heard from -him last .when he was in the trenches in Picardy. We have been unable to locate him, and you have no idea how delighted we were to read his letter in The Journal. X was reared at Arkansas City, Kan. My maiden name was - Rena Partlow. I came to Oregon in the early '90s. Frank's mother and stepfather, Charles Stoup, live at Her miston. - HJs sister .lives at Tacoma. Frank was in Germany when the war broke out and made bis wayback home, to Australia, whej-e he enlisted. - His father was Irish and his mother French and English, so his sympathies were all with the allies." -- W. N. Barratt. of. Heppner; whe Is serving the stated as: highway commis sioner and his own interests as a breeder of Delaine Merinos, has Just finished shearing his ewes. "My sheep turned off on the average about four pounds more wool per sheep this year than last." he Bald. - "The crop ran from ; 11 to. 19 pounds per head. I haven't sold my wool yet ; I understood they were offering- 20 cents at Condon Saturday." Mr. Barratt carries around with him two samples of his wool to show its fineness and length. . a The lone baseball club beat Arlington last Sunday by a score of I to 0. This report is brought, by J. W. Donnelly of OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred a The history of s pioneer, family of Oregon la Mr. Lockley by a member of It whoae recital diverse to the island of Jamaica, where he baa been a mbvnonary. Soma Interesting paaaacea on the hiatsry of that British dependency ai sivao. v : - .: ' - - J. J. Handsaker of Portland Is state director of the Near East Relief com mission. He la a native Oregonlan. "My father came to Oregon in 1853," said Mr. Handsaker. "My mother, whose maiden, name was. Sarah Cannon, came across the plains the following year. They were married in the Umpq.ua val ley in 1855 by Father Wilbur, the much loved pioneer Methodist missionary. My father-served In the Indian war of 1855-6. The settlers who enlisted to fight the Indians were promised $4 a day and rations and also payment for their mounts. After years of needless delay they were finally paid at the rate of $13 a month in greenbacks worth less than CO cents on the dollar, and no pay ment was allowed for their, mounts. It was 40 years after the close of hostilities before congress granted the Indian war veterans pensions for their services 'a. "In 1870 my people moved to Lowell, on the Willamette river, 20 miles south of Eugene, where my father ran a ferry, I was born there, December 89, 1875. My father was born, in England in 1831, on President Garfield's birthday. There were nine children in our family. 6f whom I was the youngest. .The year I was born he gave $10 toward securing the state university at Eugene. .: . .: , . a e -. .' ' " v "I spent my boyhood at Pleasant Hill and Dexter, in Lane county, and later moved to Eugene and entered the stats university. On June 18, 1903, I was graduated as bachelor of arts from ths state university, but I ' didn't , stay a bachelor long, for that very evening I married Alice V -Tilth, a classmate and fellow-graduate. We went, to, Coquilie, where for the next two years I served as. pastor- of. ths . Christian - church. Speaking of ; serving - as i pastor of a church reminds me' of the fact that for the -past five years my wife has served as pastor of the Laurelwood Congrega tional church Of Mount - Scott She is also superintendent of the Dally Vaca tion Bible school, which; holds its ses sions in ths Arleta school building. a ;-'After two years service as pastor of the church at Coquilie I was appointed to the foreign mission field and went to Jamaica. 1 was employed by the Chris tian Woman's Board of Missions. . I Was stationed at Kingston, ths capital and largest seaport of Jamaica. Kingston has a population of about 65,000 and Is located near the ancient town of ' Port Royal, celebrated in the old days for the rich mines worked by the Sapn lards, "Jamaica, as you know, is the largest Island of ths British West Indies and lies about 50 miles to ths southward of Cuba and about twice that distance to the westward of Haiti. It is about 60 miles wide and three times as long. It is low along the coast line, but the summits of the Blue mountains, toward ths center of the Island, rise 7000 feet. . - a . a . "The percentage of Illiteracy In Ja maica is about 50 per cent and ot ille gitimacy about 66 per cent. The cost of a marriage license is a shilling. The Iaw fixes the fee for ths marriage' cere mony at one and six. which means a1 shilling and sixpence, or 86 cents, so that the license and , marriage service cost $0 cents. --1, soon gained the title of the marrying parson, because I ond 'line, of subaqueous waves between the two strata, of water. Experiments that nave oeen maae veruy me uaoen loss of speed due to dead water; : Uncle- Jeff Snow Says Old Mrs. Amberglng of Panamint in the '70s out on ths Moharvy desert and then some, jlat longed fer a garden. NEWS IN. BRIEF SIDELIGHTS - 'The police are working on the theory1 that the bird who stole - that baby car riage from a home on Ninth street is a married man. Klamath Falls Herald. .i." . a . a . . . ..,'.'., . "Jaiz Music Puts Monkeys in Agony," says a -newspaper. Which shows that the monkey has it on some humans for good, musical taste. Hood River News. , , . . ..... . ..... . ...... There will be no more elections until a year from next fall, which la one item that helps to offset the argument of the pessimist who maintains that everything is wrong. Eugene Register. a ... The more members of the American Legion who take advantage of the loan feature of the compensation bill, the better for the state and the better for the Legion members thus benefited. Medford Mail-Tribune. .... a . ,-.; ' . -. - The ex-service boys are happy today. The vote of appreciation given the bonus bill was a most patriotic way to show our loyalty to these soldiers who made the Germans go "four ways for Sun day," Roseburg News-Review. Some lawyers say they will have to learn to practice law all over, again and make new studies of human nature in trying Jury cases when women serve on the juries, which is proof that women are needed on juries. fowera Patriot. . ...... a e At last It ts discovered by the mlninir world, what has oeen known to the local prospector Tor many years, that in the eastern part of Baker county, in the creat ran von of the Snake river, there exist the greatest copper deposits in the world. Baker Democrat Arlington, who said, "Arlington had every license in the world to win the game, but they didn't do It." The rea son given- by Donnelly for his visit to Portland . is to see the highway com mission about the survey of the road near the mouth of Willow-creek. "The way they are running the line," he says, "will spoil a lot of good fields. It doesn't seem to me that it is the proper thing to do." Ths prune crop of Yamhill county will run on the average about SO per cent, predicts County Commissioner Zimmer man of Yamhill county. He is In Port land to report to the highway commis sion that the bond issue for $50,000 to pave the road between Sheridan and Willamina lacked 67 votes of carrying. "Now , that it is all over.'f he said. "I believe if the question were resubmitted it would carry. Some who voted against the bonds are sorry they did.". 1 i L A. Johnson of Fossil is In Portland escorting his family, to -the seaside for the summer, to escape the heat of ths interior. Johnson is one of the Moun tain City. Tenn., immigration, and is an illustration of the possibilities for growth in Oregon. When he first came to the state he hired out to herd a band of sheep. Now he Is the leading merchant of the FosbIU country. . . Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gyssler of Omaha are in Portland on their way to Lebanon, to visit until next fall. a a a Mr. and Mra F. P., Carson, together with their son, are visiting friends in Portland. Lockley waived the marriage fee of 36 cents and made no charge for the service, particu larly in the case of members of my church who had one or mora children and who had. decided to get married. Social , custom requires a splurge at a wedding. The bridegroom Is supposed to have a. new black suit, to hire two or mors carriages and to furnish a wed ding feast with wine 'and other eatables and drinkables. Ths cost of a wedding is more than many -cf the young people can stand, so they postpone the wedding ror several years, till they can afford it At first it Seemed rather strange to me to have from one to hair a dozen of , the children in attendance at the wedding of- their parents. Frequently after living - together a few years the groom refuses to go to . the expense of a weoaing. , a native official explained to me, when I urged him to marry his wife, that - be had noticed that a wife was much ' more , obedient, subservient . n J V. 1 - l 1 V . vuu cc.uio iv sue- was not married, and as he preferred peace and tranquil lity he would not marry her. The cost of a divorce Is out cf the quesUon, and frequently a wife, who is a model com panion before marriage becomes bossy, lazy and quarrelsome when she has a bold on a man through ths marriage ceremony. ; "The two churches in the West Indies that are doing the most for the natives are the Catholic church and ths Friends church. In speaking of the effective ness of the American churches at King ston an English official said, 'No won der the American churches in the islands are making so little progress. - They are, when all is said and done, merely places of third grade entertainment.' The rea son for the success of the Catholic church is that it realizes that it is responsible for its members 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the other churches come , into touch with - their . adherents only on Sundays and on prayer meeting nights. The Catholic church maintains social halls where ths young people can meet under careful supervision. The Friends have an- agricultural college where the young people are taught to be farmers, mechanics or housewives. Ths graduates of this school are in great de mand at top wages." - T - Jamaica is a most interesting country. Columbus' discovered it on his second voyage, in 1494. and la 1509 the Span iards took possession of the island. The rule of Spain was so harsh and repres sive that by 1650 ths natives were ex tinct. Great Britain captured Jamaica in 1655, and 15 years later the treaty of Madrid gave her possession. Three years later the ' sugar - Industry was started and slaves were Imported from Africa. Between 1700 and the close of the American revolution Great Britain imported over 600,000 slaves for the sugar plantations. - In 1838, after num erous slave . insurrections and much bloodshed, the slave owners were given something over $6,000,000 to relinquish their slaves, and slavery was abolished. Jamaica has a population of about 750,000, of whom about . 600,000 are colored and about . 150,000 mulatto. There are 20,000 to 25,000 whits people there and a considerable number of East Indians and some Chinese. Sugar, cof fee, bananas and guinea grass are the principal crops. .They export large quan UUes of Jamaica rum, sugar, dye wood, coffee, ptmtento and bananas and other fruits. The climate Is mild and delight ful and the getting of a living is not much of a problem. j Not bein able to have any to speak of, I the WJtter bein' so all-fired full of eody it jui kinds of pot flowers, she mad soma, out of naner. tied 'em to green sticks in the yard and fixed 'era up so's they looked all right at a distance. A whole lot of charities is like her flower garden. They look all right if you don't take too close a peek at 'em. j The Oregon Country Northweet Happening (" Brief Form for Ui . fiuay Reader ' . OREGON NOTES The new Eugene woolen mill .will be ready for operation in all departments June 25. ... The mayor and council of Creswell are authorised to expend $10,000 to pro cure an adequate water supply for that .town. ' i. .-: - . Willamette chapter, American Red Cross, with headquarters at Salem, has donated $500 for the Colorado flood' suf ferers. ? Ninety-eight building permits, aggre gating expenditures of $199,633, were issued in Salem In the first, five months, of the present year. . . The total number of votes cast in Clatsop county at the recent election was 291S, and the cost was $3500, or about $1.20 for each ballot cast. Two carloads of packed- Chinook" sal mon were shipped from Astoria to East ern markets the past week at a price of $2.25, per dozen for half-pound flats. The 12VI Inch drill of the Lower Columbia Oil Jfe Gas company's well near Astoria has reached a depth of 2293 feet, with bright prospects of soon strik ing oil..' - . V- Loganberry growers of Marlon county not connected with any packing organi sation will not receive to exceed SVfc cents -a pound for their product this season.,:."'. . - i' ' : Full standard collere courses. Includ ing a standard normal department and a conservatory of music, will bo In stalled next year in Columbia eolk-ge at Milton. The executive board of the Salem Bov Scouts are urging the national court of honjor to award to Keith Draper a medal fori saving William Bom-no from drown ingMn the Willamette river. Eugene Peterson, 21, whose parents are said to live at Manistlquev- Mich., was, fatally Injured when nit by a Southern Pacific train near nervals, wnere ne naa lauen asleep on the rail road track. - - . Arrangements have been completed with the war department to detail Cap tain Francis Lewis as assistant in structor in military science and tactics at the University of Oregon. Captain Lewis was with the American army of occupation on the Rhine. WASHINGTON AdvenUsts at the camp meeting at Col lege Place, near Walla Walla, raised $5000 for foreign missions. - The assessor places Benton County's wealth at $15,000,000, of which $1,500. 000 is exempt from taxation. Yellowhawk and Mill creek In Wslla Walla county have been closed to fish ermen during the present season. Six De Havlland airplanes are sta tioned at Camp Lewis for line in foret patrol work in Washington this summer. The Elk State bank of Elk, Spokane county, has been chartered by the state banking department with a capital of $16,000. Sisters of St Joseph of Peace of We na tehee have purchased for $26,000 a site upon ' which they will erect a $300,000 hospital. t '!' The body of Mrs. Courtland Leach of Sunnyside, who died recently, will be ex humed to ascertain as to whether she was poisoned. , .i - - Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sharpnack. the first "aerial tourists" to visit Walla Walla, stopped there last Thursday on their way to Spokane. - From January 1 to May 31 tax re ceipts for Walla Walla county totaled $1,244,781.68, not Including poll tax re turns, which totaled $37,900. Police raided itwo houses recently in the residential idlstrlct of Seattle and confiscated liquor, mash and parapher nalia for making liquor, said to be valued at $25,300. One hundred and twenty-five national guard officers of Washington, virtually every one of whom saw service during the war. are attending a conference of officers being bold at the Armory in Se attle, , Corporal Avery O. Miller and Private Stephen G. Mosno ot Spokane, national guardsmen, -were probably fatally in jured in a collision between an army mo-, torcycle and an automobile near Port Angeles. - IDAHO Twenty students were graduated from the College of Idaho at Caldwell last week. ! ' J. R. Clifford, aged 70, Is under arreat at Lewlston charged with criminal as sault on an 11-year-old girL Due to excessive rainfall, nearly a mile of state highway between Mackay and Challis has been washed out. To stop auto violations, Sandpolnt is contemplating securing intersection guides equipped with tire puncturing spikes. - i A strange malady has struck the cherry crop of the Moscow section, and trees that promised a record yield will have but little fruit this year. . Suffering for 14 hours with six bullets In his body, Sam Collas. a railroad man, is dead at Wallace. His alleged mur derer, William Anton, is at large. C J. Brosnan of Moscow, author of the "History of Idaho," has been ap pointed to an assistant professorship in history at the University of Idaho, Ths state athletic commission has de cided to allow each of the three com missioners $2000 to be distributed to the public schools of bis district at his dis cretion. : Tn an "order issued recently the public utilities commission directed the Lewis ton Valley Water company to restore to "reasonably satisfactory condition" Its water system. .. . Trottsuaor H P. Davis, . head of the dairy department of the University of Idaho, has resigned to accept . the chair manship of the department of dairy hus bandry in ths University of Nebraska, I6NOW youR PORTLANDS How many of the trees in the out door country near Portland can-you name? ; a.;;v.,'l ; v- It is easy to glance at a conifer and remark wlseif. "Oh, that's an evergreen." But do you know what kind of evergreen. There are two kinds of pins trees, white and yellow pinus montlcola and'pinus poderoaa. There are five kinds of fir trees Douglas, Alpine, Grand. Amabtlls and Noble. Their scientific names, in- the order given, are pseudotsuga taxifolia, ables laHlo carpa. abies grandis, abies amabllis snd abies nobilts. v The Western! hemlock Is scienti fically known as the tsuga herero phylla and the; Western red cedar as thuja plicata. , . Occasionally specimens of the West ern yew taxus brevifolla will be en countered. About half a mile up Eagts creek from the Columbia river highway, on the west bank Of the stream, will be found the largest yew that has been discovered in this country. - : ' The Western willow Indulges in habits unknown to the stream-seeking trees of ths . East and the Middle West. It will be found at elevations of 3000 feet or more. There are wil lows growing in. vacant lots in Port land. They will be discovered far from water and streams, but a little Investigation - will 7 show that they stand near where water once flowed, and although time has 'changed the courses of ths streams, it has not discouraged ths willows. 1 Ths cottonwood, mountain alder and red alder, Oregon oak, cherry,, broadleaf maple, cascara. Western dogwood. Oregon, ash and blackhaw are other tree friends to w'.iich it Is a pleasure to, receive, an Introduction. Why not know the woods when you linger under the shade of the trees?