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. Maay nation shall ooeoe. and my.
Come, and let as go up to tb mountain
of tha Lord, and to tha house of tha God
of Jacob: and He will teach in of Hi
way, and w will walk in Hia paths.
And lie shall fudge among many people,
aad rebuke strong naxioua afar off; and
they thail beat their swords into plough
shares, and their spear Into pruning
hooks: nation shall ant lift up a sword
araiitrt naUon, neither shall they lean
war any mora. Bat they shall ait eeery
man under hia Tine - and under bis fie
trea and Bona shall make them afraid;
for tha mouth of the Ixrd of boats hath
spoken it. Micah 4:3-4. 4.
A RAPE OP.CHA? !
ECOUNTING numero&B conces
sions made by the jtohference to
Japan. David Lawrenc4 says:
The net of the whole situation is that
if the American delegation concedes an
other point to Japanese pride ,and re
fuses to interfere in the settlement of
the Chinese-Japanese disputes, the Far
, Eastern situation, so far as the Chinese
' are concerned, will have been very little
: Improved by the Washington conference.
The Chinese officials here are appre
hensive that America's readiness to yield
to Japan on the Yap mandate as well as
the American decision to alter the origi
tnal Hughes' naval proposals In order to
, satisfy Japanese pride and sentiment is
an omen of Japanese-American coopera
, tion which spells trouble for China.
The integrity of China is a neces
sary step "to peace in the Pacific. If
her territory and her great economic
resources are to remain as potential
' ' booty for nations that want to grab
them, a war in the Pacific will be
' inevitable. The way to avert that
Y ; war. is to provide for the integrity
. of China, and to do it now in the
Washington conference.
Japan needs territory on the Asiatic-mainland.
She Leeds it in order
'to give room for her swiftly grow
ing and already, overcrowded popu
lation. She also needs it ss a means
f getting . raw materials . on which
her people may work to gain a live-
. llhood.
The way for her to get that ter-
. - rltory is to buy it and pay for it.
That is what private individuals have
" a do. It is what nations ought to
" be j compelled to do. A warranty
-deed to territory, obtained by full
payment of a purchase price, should
be a ration's only' title to added
- territory. With that principle once
laid down, there would be less need
' ; for armies and battleships.
The conference has declared for
the integrity of the islands of the
Pacific. It has done practically
.. nothing to provide for the integrity
of China, and Chinese territory and
material resources are a rich prize
for marauding nations. .,---
Japan is' notoriously practicing
peaceful penetration of China. News-
- papers printed in the Chinese
v languages are edited in" Chinese
' ". cities by Japanese writers as a means
of leading the Chinese population
' into support of Japanese policies on
,- the mainland. The facts are known
and resented by many Chinese in
P boycotts against Japanese goods and
. c btherwise.
; If there were no . other proof of
2 Japanese Intentions the. St demands
made j by Japan upon China in 1915
: are enough. In groups they are as
:' follows: ' ''; i'1
'- 1 Japan to have economic conces
i Viofis in Manchuria. Economic ad
i van t a gas are an Innocent proposal.
i but the. hard lines of history have
J taught that economic control nlti-
i matelv means political control.
r 2 Japan to have, very important
; concessions in Shantung.,
i.. - S Japan to have certain advisory
l Influence with the head of the police
in China, a proposal' "approximating
abdication of sovereignty , by China.
t 4 Japan to have 80 per cent, of
3 the Iron and steel output of China
'and to have a voice in" fixing -the
5 Japan to have guarantees that
Chin will never alienate any of tha
harbors or islands along her coast
line. This was a proposal for Japan
to dominate . the Pacific coast line
of -Asia. " ; f j,, t , ' ,
. ' It Is an ambitious program. States
nien cannot shut; their eyes to its
significance. It means the sradoal,
and, for the present, peaceful domin
ation of CSiina by: Japan.
It is the former German plan of
colonizing, to be . followed by easy
stages to final ascendency. ; The
world knows what happened to
Korea.
WHITHER. ARB WE DRIFTING ?
'PUE students of Northwestern TJhi-
versity, like students at many
other similar : Institutions, - edit and
issue, a college paper. In a recent
issue the paper undertook to offer
feminine students" a bit of advice.
This Is It: ''- - ' ' .r '
When a man kisses you, struggle
fiercely at first and then appear craduv
ally to be overcome by his superior
strength,
. Close your eyes . and . bold yourself
rigid, relaxing a bit if the kiss endures.
Take yonr breath in litUe gasps.
Let a variety of expressions flood
your face anger, sorrow, despair, joy
it is important that alt these be regis
tered. Struggle occasionally as if to free
yourself. . . .
Scratch and bite if opportunity pre
sents itself, but don't dig too deeply.
As he is about to release you. faint if
possible.
If you will observe these instructions
carefully he will, most probably, kiss
you again.
This, indeed, is a noble specimen
of advice. It is lofty thought for
students in the higher institutions
of learning. 'It is an admirable sub
ject for treatment In a college paper.
Are American students, too, to be
carried away on the wave of Jazz
that has swept over this country
since the war? Or Is the thought
depicted in the Northwestern paper
an isolated case, and not indicative
of .the spirit that abounds in student
bodies at large? " Have the students
at Eastern universities - lost their
moorings in the stream of false
pleasures, or can the advice dis
seminated at Northwestern be
charged solely to the editors of the
paper? Is the .next generation to
sweep aside all conventions and
abandon all safeguards that have
been established through the experi
ence of all generations past, or is
the Northwestern case the only one
of its kind?
A school cannot be blamed for the
acts of a few students. ' It will be
generally agreed that American col
leges would not countenance such
flaunts ; of conventions as that at
Northwestern. Doubtless. North
western authorities took sufficient
action in the premises.. Certainly, if
the colleges as well as the country
are to fight off decay, such instances
as that at the Eastern school, will
have to be suppressed, and the in
stitutional heads are the soldiers who
would naturally be expected to lead
In the campaign.
ABOUT THE ROSE
A PLAN is taking form to teacb
Portland children about roses.
So daring a thought has been con
ceived as- that they might with bene
fit learn the difference between an
Ulrich Brunner and a Caroline Tes
tout. Someone has audaciously pro
posed that study of the rose be added
to the nature study courses of our
public schools. This person had the
temerity to say that culture of the
rose adds to personal culture. He
Insists that contact with the rose in
tensifies appreciation of beauty and,
to that extent, ennobles character. '
He goes ever farther. He suggests
that to differentiate roses is to dif
ferentiate the botanical achievements
of nations. All cultivated roses be
gan with the wild rose, which is still
a lovely object of the wayside lane.
But under the Influence of the Ori
ent or the Romance nations the rose
assumed new dress, new form and
charm distinctive of its environment.
Every variety of rose becomes thus
a record of humanity's striving for
finer things and greater happiness-
Portland, of course, is ' known as
the "Rose City." A devoted group
of 200 ' or 300 people, numbering
within themselves only a handful of
active spirits, has given it the name.
Back of the Idea that children may
learn more about the rose than
merely that it is a flower is an idea
that Portland should become in
truth the "Rose City." There is a
vision of parkings along all streets
lined with roses that bloom most
beautifully at that time of year
when visitors are most numerous. If
the children studied rose culture, the
thought persists, their parents would
also learn. A city that applied recrer
ational moments to rose study and
culture would be " distinctive. Per
haps, after allthe idea is more vision
than visionary. ' - - .
PRE-CHRISTMAS DATS
TINKLING bells that might have
dropped from reindeer harness
announce the' Salvation Army's
Christmas dinner pots on Portland
streets.
Red Cross seals, bullets of crusade
against humanity's great white
plague, hurtle to and fro affixed to
letters and Christmas parcels.
"Family, take a family, pleads the
public welfare bureau, and here and
there in lowlier quarters social work
visitors trudge, ascertaining the
merit of each appeal.; while whizzing
motors of volunteers answer the
Santa Clans letters that once went to
the dead letter office, where there is
no Santa.
In lodges, societies and leagues.
among individuals, groups and
churches, doings are under way that
Christmas may dawn, brightly in
homes of misfortune as . well as in
those where bounty is the dally rou
tine and mother's : every shopping
trip is. Christmas, so far as return
of toys is concerned." .' '
But with all this cheery smiling
comes a letter from a correspondent,
who asks:,'"''.''':"'fi::v " -o-
"Where is the Community Chest?
We were assured It would end all the
appeals. : Tet hero are- the Christ
mas kettles, the Christmas seals and
the Christmas appeals. I
Where, indeed, is the Community
Chest? A number of the business
men and the large-hearted "individ
uals who compose it. if not engrossed
with preparation for the chest's own
next appeal, are busy in Christmas
benefactions, v i
. It is enough to 'remind all who
question that Christmas was . ob
served some 2000 times before the
Community Chest was dreamed of.
The Community Chest has dis
pensed with tag days and, multitudi
nous overlapping appeals. But it
has not chilled or chided the Christ
mas spirit, which -finds I its most
grateful expression in the service of
one to another. Nor does it wish to.
The Christmas kettle, seals and ap
peals reach those who might other
wise not hear and help those who
might otherwise be neglected. Char
ity, which in highest sense is love,
can 'never become - entirely;, auto
matic. .'
INCOMES IN OREGON
THE income tax has never been
popular with the Oregon legis
lature. There are very large interests in
Oregon that escape payment of a
just share of the tax burdens with
the result that these burdens are
laid upon real property. There are
usually legislators at Salem who
secretly do the errands of these un
taxed interests and they always find
a way to put - all income tax bills
into the sleep that knows no waking.
Here is the story of some of the
more recent" efforts in the legislature
to tax incomes:
Senate bill 60. by Senator Pierce,
providing for an income tax for the
purpose of building roads, was in
troduced in the 1919. session. It was
sent to the ' senate- committee on
assessment and taxation, and was
never reported back to the senate
by the committee.
House bill 440, introduced by the
house committee on assessment and
taxation, also came into the 1919
session, and provided for an income
tax for general purposes. The bill
was drafted by Charles V. Galloway,
then state tax commissioner, and al
though the Pierce bill never reached
the house, was introduced as a sub
stitute' for that measure. It was sent
to the committee on assessment and
taxation of the house and died in
committee. ,
At the special session of 2920 Sena
tors Pierce and Orton joined in the
introduction of another income tax
measure senate bill 16 -which was
favorably reported by tfo'e senate
committee on assessment 'and taxa
tion and passed the senate with. 16
affirmative and 12 negative votes:
Senators Banks, Eberhard, Farrell,
Howell, Hurley, Huston. La Follett,
Moser, Nicholson, Norblad, Patter
son and Wood voting no. When the
bill reached the house and passed
first reading. Representative Gal
lagher moved that it, together with
a long list of other senate bills, be
considered engrossed and 'passed to
third reading under suspension of
the rules. This motion was carried
and the bill took its place on the
calendar. The bill never reached
third reading, according to the house
journal record.
At the regular session of 1921
Gordon of Multnomah introduced
house bill 205, providing for an in
come tax. It was sent to the com
mittee on assessment and taxation,
and died 4here.
A SURGEON'S REBUFF
LONG lines of crippled! children
waiting to have an eminent or
thopedist pass upon their deformities
has recently been a daily sight in
New York city. Children and their
parents have waited all night out
side hospitals in the hope of being
chosen to pass through the clinic the
next day. Tears of disappointment
fell often from the faces of the little
ones when the clinic closed with no
opportunity for them to be treated.
The surgeon was Dr. Lorenz of
Vienna, who performed marvelous
cures on deformed children in
America on a visit - 18 years ago.
A curious feature is that open criti
cism and shabby treatment of him
by some of the New Tork profes
sionals nearly resulted last week in
a decision by Dr. Lorenz to abandon
his endeavor in America and return
to Austria.
Dr. Lorenz is probably the greatest
living authority on the cure of chil
dren with deformities. His marvel
ous cures on a former professional
visit to America are Well known his
tory. Children .who would other
wise have been condemned to the
life of a cripple have full, free and
happy use of their , limbs. Because
of these cures, Dr. Lorenz rXame, is
known in thousands of homes in the
United States.
Though welcomed by great popu
lar demonstrations in which long
lines of little cripples waited for
hoars for a chance to pass under his
treatment. Dr. Lorenz was from the
first given scant ' consideration by
many New Tork practitioners. and
in the end their hostility eventuated
Into open criticism. The hostility
reached a point where the Austrian
scientist made ready to quit America
but was dissuaded from doing so by
heads of the New York public wel
fare' service,'' under' whose auspices
Dt, Lorenz came to this country'.
' Professional . jealousy is ascribe
by many of the New York papers
as the- reason for the professional
alights. . . . -;' 4 '
' Meanwhile, if 'by his visit Dr.
Lorenz gives the power to freely
walk to one child that would other
wise go ? through Ufa a crutched
cripple, why should he not be widely
and warmly welcomed? ' i. ;.,
What la more pathetic than a
child born a cripple" and. sentenced
to go through life deformed?
OUT OF THE NIGHT
A HANDSOME car drove up to a
residence .at midnight.. The
motor;: hummed and the 'engine
chugged. The noise aroused. the
people in the house. The folks in
that home knew no one was absent
from .the fold. What meant this
machine there at that hour? Was
it the angel of death or a messenger
of good cheer?
From a window two forms could
be seen in the car, a man and a
woman. There was a hurried, sub
dued interchange of words, a caress
an the limousine door opened.
Look! Out steps a daughter of
Eve; still radiant with the loveliness
of youth. Is she his sweetheart?
Is she his wife? Is she the wife of
some other man, caught, temporarily
in the meshes- of a lawless romance ?
She lingers on the curb .long
enough to. whisper to the man in the
car, then passes down the street,
turns a corner and is lost to view.
What about the man? Does his
heart sing with joy? Does he smile
knowingly as he murmurs to, him
self, "Another little fool, whom I
have trapped"? Does he merely
ruminate, "This is the life for me,"
and forget the sum total ? . Is ' he a
married man laying siege to a young
girl ? Is he a married man whisper
ing ancient lies to a woman wedded
to another? Or was it the case of a
girl and her beau, their-love inter
dicted by parents, thus Circumvent
injf;the displeased eyes of her home?
Speculation as to the identity of
these two could run almost indefi
nitely. If one cared to think seri
ously about this midnight scene, he
could evolve from it tremendous in
fluences on destiny immense good
or vast evil. Tragedy, comedy, melo
drama these come from insignifi
cant incidents, and they. mobilize un
noticed until they are ready and
equipped to overwhelm. Their troops
are trivial circumstances, and - of
these is the substance of life woven.
Too often no whit is cared about the
proportions of the mixture. Respect
is attentive of fiction, scornful -of
fact. Little Nell, the real, shrivels
beside Dickens 'glowing picture of
Little Nell in "The Old Curiosity
Shop." The first was perhaps more
beautiful in soul than the second,
yet the London crowds possibly
passed by Tattle Nell, the living,
every day without seeing her. In their
rush for a bookshop where Little
Nell, the dream-creation, was sold.
t is no compliment to intelligence
that existence becomes a bore. It is
wearisome only when the eye turns
to the unreal. To be sure, the libra
ries have all there is of literature,
but life has all there is of life. O.
Henry said it was always" "just
around the corner."
Out of the night and day it comes,
masked, until it rushes up to us and
uncovers. Then we recognize it as
grim reality Comus, Momus or
Harlequin but in the ultimate it is
life, which is also literature.
THE LEVELING
SIC TRANSIT gloria mundi, re
marks a German in England, Ihe
Latin taking the place of his own
tongue.
Thus passes the glory of earth, he
repeats, as he insists that in victo
rious England, as in conquered Ger
many, the upper class is giving way
to the middle class and even the
lower.
The Duke of Portland leaves his
family place, Welbeck, because his
descendants will be unable to main
tain the. family fame of that historic
spot
. The Duke of Buckingham is dis
posing of his celebrated Stowe house,
and the Earl of Buxton, governor
general of South Africa, has a "For
Sale" sign on his palace. The Duke
of Leeds has sold 5000 acres of his
estate near Sheffield, and the Earl
of Drogheda is giving tip his castle,
JMoore Abbey.
Many of the titled persons of Brit
ain, according to this observer, are
selling famous pictures, family jew
els and treasured heirlooms jealously
preserved for centuries.
The German observer may get a
cat-tain gratification from the spec
tacle. To him it may be pheasant to
reflect that such misery as exists in
Germany has this particular sort of
company 'in Britain. The leveling
of ranks under the urge of necessity.
ia a prominent part of the. spectacle.
But what is actually demonstrated
is that the leveling of ranks began
before the war ended. The estates
that have sustained English titles,
and the heirlooms that v are souve
nirs of past glory, were all pledged
in the height of conflict when, with
out regard to rank, Britain's sons
fought and died together In a com
mon democracy.
j Is the pxoposal for an income tax
at the special session sincere? Is it
a dodge to undermine the Income tax
bill on which the taxation investi
gating committee is Working and the
other one on which the State Grange
committee is working? More im
portant still, is it a bald-faced piece
of politics to promote a gubernatorial
candidacy? Let legislators "ask the
chief promoter of the proposed bill
what his past attitude has been on
the Income tax. Is it good citizen
ship to make a big tax principle , a
football of politics?
: Wilson, master
peacemaker
Never Before Had Conqueror Imposed
Terms Upon Conquerors as! Well as -'
Conquered His 14 . Points an -
Undertaking to Translate the '
. Ancient Prophet's Dream ,
into Practical Fact as .
a Declaration of In- " ; --
, ? dependence for . -i
the Whole '
. i World. , .
' By a 'Bepoh&eaa Admirer ' .....
The highest virtue of a free people Is
to be able to know and honor its great
men while they are yet alive. This Is
simple justice, the greatest attribute or.
the human mind. There, is, no sound
reason why a living generation shall
leave to a succeeding one, the fair ap
praisement of its own great servants.
The favorable verdict of posterity even
is but belated Justice, 'rand does not
pay the debt until long after it is due.
We compliment ourselves, we, the peo
ple, upon our admirable achievement as
a belligerent of the great war. We point
with pride to our self-control In those
first troublous years when we were not
yet prepared to be drawn- into the mael
strom of the - European struggle. . We
take to - ourselves - a justifiable credit,
when unexampled provocation made
merely shameful a continued peace, that
we accepted with one accord the chal
lenge to defend ourselves. - We are' not
sorry now that we made our sacrifices.
that -we gave unstintedly of ; our sub
stance and sent our sons to the bloody
battlefields of France. .We have nothing
to be ashamed of in all that tremendous
effort which brought victory to the un
certain issue of freedom against oppres-
Blnn - - .
In all that time there was with us and
of us. a leader, chosen by the free suf
frages of all the people our captain,
whose anxieties we shared . and whose
efforts we sustained. . With our approval,
as th head. of the civil government, he
kept the peace as long as peace was
possible; and, with our approval, as
commander in chief of the army and
navy of the United States, he led us into
war. As with us he shared the 'sacri
fices and bore the unexampled burdens,
so with' us he Shall share the honors. .
The mere physical task which he had
to organize alRK accomplish, with our
help, was gneaterthan ever fell to the!
hand of other ' mortal man. Not the
least part of his task was to organize,
not merely a great army, but all of the
people, with their moral and material
resources. That he did this wisely and
well is proved by the fact that when
he made the call to arms, we came. No
personal or partisan bitterness can. ob
scure the fact, nor darken the glory of
it, mat with unprecedented celerity he
put across the submarine infestied sea
the -greatest American army in our his
tory ; that he put our soldiers, with
sound bodies and invincible spirits, on
the firing line and mingled our stand
ards with the drooping banners of
uie exhausted allies; and that, at the
supreme moment, we';, rolled back the
advancing columns that were piercing a
breaking line and thundering almost at
the portals of Paris The glory of this
was. Indeed, not . the president's alone.
Not a soldier, from Pershing to his de
voted privates, but was a participant in
it alL But' the president was, by the
free choice of his people, in the nlace
of supremest responsibility, and he meas
ured up to its requirements. As the
private citizen and the private soldier
is to be honored according to his part
in this great episode, likewise let the
great president and the great commander
be honored according to his part
' e
But as great'as were the achievements
of war, they were not so great as the
achievement of peace.
Get the great idea, and you must say
that Mr. Wilson is at; least one of those
choice and master spirits of the world
who makft epochs in its history- When
the German government begged his me
diation for peace he laid down the terms,
not only of the peace that should end
thi war but the terms of peace that
should end all war on earth.
That is a world-old dream, but until
now only a dream. It has been in
prophecy that the people shall beat their
swords into plowshares and their spears
into pruning hooks; that nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, nor shall
they learn war any more. But never
until now have the leaders of the world
succeeded in rising to the height of that
great argument It, was in the minds
of the allies to. end the war by imposing
terms, doubtless justifiable, only upon
the recalcitrant and aggressive nations
It was Mr. Wilson who proposed a peace
that imposed terms on the conquered
and on the conquerors, on the allies and
on us ourselves, and on all other nations,
great and' small. It was not only a
Ueaty that should for a time disable
the central powers from further aggres
sive war, but it was proposed by a uni
versal accord the concordance of the
human race the public opinion of the
world to remove the fruitful sources of
war and to substitute therefor the plan
of universal peace.
All that ia in the text of the Fourteen
Points, delivered as a condition of peace
to the conquered nations, and to our as
sociates as well. The principle of these
points is not new, for they all together
are included in those simple sentences
of our Declaration of Independence, that
all governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed, and
that all men are endowed by the Creator
with the inalienable rights of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness. We
had applied that principle for ourselves
rwhen wo conquered our own independ
ence, we estabiisnea u in our organic
law and have , maintained, it ever since
on every foot" of the Western Hemi
sphere. It was the president of the
United States who, over the heads of
princes, potentates and powers, offered
that principle to the peoples of all the
world for their governance, and the peo
ples or au tne world have accepted it. -
.' .
The principle has not been repudiated.
It remains today. It is working its way
to practical embodiment in the constitu
tions of all states, in the conventions
between all nations. It has expanded
upon the continents, and but yesterday
has seceived its new hantisn, n nn.
little green island of the sea. It mat
ters not mat me particular phrasing of
its application to world affairs has not
taken its final form. It has had to meet,
and will have to meet, . the meticulous
criticisms of politicians and the test of
the sharp, nice quillets of the law.
Whether It shall be named that XMwnm
of Nations, or a dixarmunent mnr..
nee, or a four-cornered treaty of pow
ers, or uus or tnat alliance or associa
tion, tne great, idea or the? Fourteen
Points the world's Declaration of Inde
pendence is now and will mi way a be a
gurtof the constitution - of the planet
To consecrate and commemorat that
nrofonnd . edncentlnfl. - f . trtmuwimM
enterprise, that practical acceptance of
jjie aiTine counsel ei peace on carta to
men of good win, as well as to honor
Its most distinguished living champion,
is the object of the Woodrow WUarn
Foundation endowment- . : r;.r X
The history of the great war aad of
the great peace can no more be written
without the looming figure of Woodrow
Wilson than lyoa can see the ; stormy
sky when thes clouds have broken with
out the shining sun.r-''-:-T;'v-r.ir.-j
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
It don't take no grit to hurrah with
the crowd, and sometimes It don't take
muck sense.. . I have kjaowed fellers at
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE i
Met a movie actress the other day who
loves the husband she's been married to
for five years..: ...
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None of this matters a bit to us. you
know, but we have to tell it to you to
get it off our mindfc
The Russian soviet is "viewing with
alarm" the new four-power pacL Mean
while, the hound continues to bay at
the moon. ,
'- One of the reasons the unions call 'em
"open shops" is because, before the era
of unionism, the shops used to be open
from dawn to bedtime.
'A ship commanded by Captain Lykiar
bopolus ran aground on a reef off the
Irish coast. . - Small wonder, with , such
a cargo of nomenclature. : .
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL!
Random Observations About Town
W. c. Meyers of Corvailia is trans
acting business In Portland aad is a
guest at the Perkins.
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. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Foster of Condon
are doing: some Christmas shopping in
Portland. -
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T. W.' Robinson of Forest Grove is
in Portland' on business.
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C, A. Ireland of Lebanon was a recent
Portland wisitor.
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, Mrs. Anna Hunk of Albany is at the
Seward. " , '
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
j OF THg JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
A world famous musiciaia here tells Mr.
Loefcaey bow ha eama to be a musician in the
first place and gives the simple, homely recipe
for tausicuu-Jy eminene. Ha also P'ea soma
aeoouBt of his family and of his own early life.
All readers of Ther Journal will be delighted to
mart, in these lines, his profession aside, a rare
personality Jobs rinttp Soosa.)
John Philip Sousa, famous musical
conductor, composer and author, is
going d write a march for Oregon's ex
position in 1935.
"It will not only give me great Meas
ure to write the march for your great
state, but I will promise that I Shall try
to write the best march I have ever
written," said Sousa.
.
We were sitting in the board of gov
ernors' room In the Oregon building, and
as Sousa talked I studied him. He is of
medium height, compactly built, has a
gray mustache and around his eyes are
criss-cross tines of humor and kindli
ness. You feel at home with ' him in
stantly. There is nothing up-stage about
him. He does not try to impress you
with his dignity. He is cordial, friendly
and ' considerate.
"You want to know the recipe for
success in my line of work?" said iir.
Sousa, "It consists in love for your
work, willingness to work hard, and
exercising judgment in grasping oppor
tunities when they are presented. You
must be willing to follow your own
instincts and not let your friends or
well wishers sway your judgment nor.
Influence your decisions. I don't like
to blow my own horn. 1 don't do that,
even, in my own band, but let me illus
trate what I mean. When I was a
young man I was traveling with Mackey.
I was making big money, for those days.
I was seeing the country. - The lines
had ' faljen to me in pleasant places.
The secretary of the navy ' heard me
conduct a concert in Philadelphia, and
as -a result I was offered the position
nf leader of the United States Marine
band. My friends said, 'Better leave
well enough alone. You are making'
three times what the government can
pay you as leader of the Marine band:
I disregarded the advice of all my
friends' and accepted the position. I
was willing to sacrifice mere money
for the joy of being leader of so farVnoua
a band. I realized that a career Is
greater than money. I also thought that,
looking 20 years into the future, 1
should be ahead of the game. I fell
sure that hard work would make a
reputation for me. I was less than
25 years old, but I knew 1 could make
a success ' of it. You have to have
self-confidence as well as ability, to
succeed. I played at the White House.
I met most of the great men of the
country. I maintained the high stand
ard of the Marine band. I lived in
Washington, D. C, 12 years.
"Then a group of men from Chicago
asked me to go in with them and form
a band of my own. Again my friends
held up their hands in horror at my
sacrificing a certainty for a venture.
They said, You have made a reputation
You have a life job. You will be retired
on a pension. Why give up a good
thingr I resigned and formed a band
of my own. We have made five tours
of Europe and It transcontinental
tours. .We have been around the world.
We have traveled over 800,000 miles.
In 1S01, at Glasgow, a turnstile count
of people who came to hear our band for
One concert showed 152,000. The peo
ple of the world have ten good to me;
I have seen most of the countries of
the world, met many of the famous men
and enjoyed my work, and I believe I
have brought joy and pleasure to a large
number of people.
"If your father is a hod carrier his
son doesn't have to be. A musician does
not inherit his musical ability. He
works for it I earned my first, money
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a convention to yell and holler and
stomp their feet and toss their hats in
the air and then ask some feller what
the sboutin' and the tumult was all
about, and who was that feller, any
how. Letters From the People
ICatBmunicabosa sent to The Journal for
pwbticaUon ia troa department should be written
on only one aide of, the paper, should not ex
ceed 500 words ia Irnarth, and must be racaed
by tha writer, whose mail address ia foJ must
accompany the contribution. J
DEPLORES YOUTH'S WILFULNESS
School Worker Recommends Restoring
Moral Men tors hip in Schools.
Portland. Dec 16. To. the Editor of
The Journal In an editorial in last Sun
day's Journal you quote a grammar
school principal as deploring the post
war increase in wrong-doing, particular
ly as this moral laxity possesses the chil
dren. You ask. "Is ha right?" He is
absolutely both in his observations and
in his conclusions, as must be evident to '
anyone in a supervisory position In
school work. The situation is probably
no worse here than elsewhere, but tha.
does not excuse us from facing the facts.
The, principal quoted referred to con
ditions in the grammar schools ; but the
spirit he mentions is quite as prevalent,
perhaps more so, in the high schools.
These conditions, of course, are but a
part of the general spirit of unrest, of
impatience of restraint, and of moral
laxity, following the war. ' The writer
for a long time has been closely associ
ated with adolescent boys and girls, for
several years part in city high schools,
and be is quite sure that students today
are far more impatient of restraint, more
restive under discipline, than before the"
war. There is more truancy, discour
tesy, forgery of excuse, petty, thieving.
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
AU normal persons have, five 'senses,
and a few have a sixth, known as "com
mon." polk. County Itemiser.
Secretary Davis says "these are times
when we all need to trust each other."
We wish the secretary would go to our
banker and tell him this. Harney Coun
ty News. - .-..: :-.-:,: '..: ;.;.',"..
This is open season oa pumpkin plea,
cranberry sauce, apples and auta, and
Oregon la sure the place that can fur
nish same to a queen's taste. Amity
Standard. ' - ;..--
Too' much fine and too' little JaO sen
tence relative to convicted moonshiners
indicates a disposition on the part of
the authorities to commercialize the
calling. Woodbura Independent.
'Irene Bhelton of the O. A. CL City is
a Portland visitor and is domiciled at
the Seward.1
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Langley of As
toria are registered at the Seward.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Ramsey of 'Cor
vallis are guests at the Seward.
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- J. W. Crltes of Critts Point at Hood
River is a guest at the Portland.
.
Fred Page of Hood River and C C.
Page of Salem are at the Portland.
with my fiddle, when-1, was 11 years
old. My taking up ' music was the
merest accident My father and mother
were not musical. My father could do
too many things to do any one thing
weu. He did not have the money mak
ing faculty in the slightest degree. He
could speak 3 eight languages, play sev
eral instruments and work with indiffer
ent success at- many and various trades.
I was born at Washington, D. C, No
vember 6, 1854. When I was 7. years
old there was a Spaniard in our neigh
borhood named John S. Esputa, who had
been a bandmaster "lit the Civil war,
He came to my father and said, T am
going to start . a conservatory in ' this
neighborhood. Let your boy come. It
will keep him off the 'streets and out
of mischief. , To learn music will be
a pleasant accomplishment, He may
never make any money at it, but he will
enjoy it and be able to give pleasure to
his friends. Father let me go. The
Spaniard paid no particular attention
to me until, when I was 11, a compe
tition was held and the judges awarded
me most of the prises. Then he sat
up and took notice and gave me a job
at teaching beginners. By the time I
was 13 I was playing in the theatres.
At IS I was leading an orchestra and
teaching music'
"Tell you something about my borne
life as a boy and about my people? All
right; here goes. I think my name,
Sousa, is one of the oldest on the
American continent. If you read South
American literature you will remember
that Captain Sousa appears in the offi
cial records of Brazil as early as 153L
The name Sousa is an old Elamlc name.
It means lily. ' Susanah is the Greek
form of the name. Shush&n is the
Hebraic form, The father and mother
of my father left Portugal on account
of my grandfather's participation in a
political revolution there in the early
'20s of the last century. They were con
nected with the Braganza family. - They
fled to Spain, where my father was
born. In the '30s father came to Brook
lyn. He took part in the Mexican war
and later was in a band in the Civil
war. During the battles he carried a
musket, but as I remember my father's
playing, I think his trombone would
have been more deadly than his musket.
About the close of the Mexican war
father married Elizabeth Trlnkhouse,
who was born in Bavaria. There were
10 children in our family, of which I
was the : third. . Four of us are. still
living. I am the only one of the family
that took up music. Music is not, as
many people seem to think, a hereditary
gift. It is, like sawing wood,, or any
thing else, a matter of hard work and
staying , with it. I love music, but I
work at it, and work hard. I have com
posed over 100 marches, 10 operas,. 15
orchestral suites and about 150 miscel
laneous compositions. On the side, I
have written four books. My last one.
The Transit of Venus,' has just been
published. The first book I wrote was
The Fight Strain.' Then came 'Pipe
town Sandy which was followed by
Thro' the Year. My wife's maiden name'
was Jane Van Middlesworth Bel lis.
iWe have three children a son and two
daughters and we have, five grand
children. . ..
"How Is that? Have I answered aU
your questions?: For if I have, Mayor
Baker is .waiting to take me to my aft
ernoon performance, so we had better
continue the story in our next"
. Mr. Sousa did' not have time, and was
too modest, to tell me - of the decora
tions and honors : that have been
awarded him.. But long after he is gone
we shall a till be enjoying his "Stars and
Stripes Forever," "Washington Post,"
"El Capitan and his other world-famous
marches and other compositions.
and disposition generally to disregard
law and order. .
The cause of this condition is to be
looked for in the wrong Ideals children
have gained In the last few years from
the general unrest, criticism of the gov
ernment; laxity of law enforcement, dis
respect for law and its representatives,
glossing over of questionable conduct on
the part of those high in authority, sto
ries told by ex-soldiers of escapades and
ends gained through trickery, moving
pictures of the degrading type, and other
similar influences.
The remedy is to change the ideals of
these children, In these their years of
character building they need skilled and
sympathetic moral guidance. The inter
est of the home, the school and the com
munity must be enlisted. A jsekr ago the
board of education took a great forward
step when provision was made for vice
principals in high schools, whose duties
should include leadership in the moral
education of the boys. Unfortunately, as
part of ' the Thumbs - down program,
these positions were discontinued. Tbey
should be restored. One of the most im
portant steps in formulating a con
structive program" of moral education in
the high schools is to reestablish these
vice-pn nci palahi p, selecting for the po
sitions men of character and leadership,
who understand boys and command their
confidence, who can by personal work
and influer.ee help the . principal and
teachers, and by cooperation with" par
ents at least make an effort to change
for the better the ideals of our young
people, who are just passing through a
critical period of character formation.
We are providing our children with
splendid equipment for Intellectual edu
cation; we are spending large sums In
machinery and apparatus for manual
training: we ought not to begrudge the
few handred dollars required to anrovide
for their education in good morals and
high ideals. ; .. . A Schoolmaster. '
The Oregon , Country
Northwwst Bappetutics ia Brief form tor tha
- i Saay Baader. ' -
OREGON ; j
There are 2791 persons of school age
In Tillamook county, IS of whom' are
la Tillamook city. ..
The 6-raill tax levy at Tualatin has
Passed1 and land lias been : purchased -upon
which a city ball and jail will be
built, t : -v. ;.-.,-,. j
The Dalles now has a Kiwanls club,
recently organized by Walter C. Hump
ton of Chicago. Dr. K. C OUnger is
president. . i
Paisley is to have a $15,000 gymna
sium for the public school, providing
bonds for that amount are voted at as
election soon to be held. r-
Many five-pound cartons of Oregon
prunes packed by the Eugene Fruit
Growers' association are being mailed to
the East as Christmas gifts. .
A petition Is being circulated in Canby
for closing the Big and Little Nestuoea
rivers and the bay at Pacific City t
all commercial and net fishermen.
An organisation of all the clubs of
the school of architecture and the allied
arts, to be called the Students' Art
league, has been formed at the Univer
sity of Oregon.
For the fourth time -since he ' was
received at the penitentiary a few
months ago, Abe Kvans attempted to
commit suicide Wednesday by hanging
himself la bis cell.
At a meeting of the congregation of
Imtnanuel Lutheran church at Hood
River recently, the body voted to dis
continue the use of the German language
after the first of nezt year.
The big sawmill of the Oregon Lumber
company at Bates, in Baker county, re
sumed operations last week with a full
crew after a shutdown of 14 months.
Several hundred men are employed.
The Jackson county budget committee
has approved the appropriation of
$20,000 as the county's share In the fund
for the building of an armory at Med
ford. The structure will cost f 60,000.
Cottage Grove is to have an Infantry
company of the Oregon National guard,
according to Major W. O. White. com-
manding the first battalion. Other com
panies will be stationed at Hood River
and Greshafn.
The state irrigation securities commis
sion has certified another ITS. 000 block
of bonds for the Ochoco Irrigation dis
trict' in Crook county. This brings the
total of bonds certified for this district
up to $1,425,000.
. The Washington Country Teachers as
sociation held' an institute at Beaverton
Saturday. About 30 teachers were pres
ent. "The Schoolmasters' club" perfected
a permanent organisation with E. K.
Nedry as president.
Samples of Oregon walnuts have been
sent by the Oregon Growers' Cooperative
association to all the principal markets
of the United States and Europe, with '
the result that many orders are being;
received. One broker in New York has
ordered six carloads.
. WASHINGTON
Casper WUkelm suffered a broken
collar bone and a sprained shoulder
while playing football December 9.
Seven Democrats, including two Spo
kane men, have been ousted from state
jobs by Governor Hart within the last
two weeks. t
Mrs. John B. Allen, 73 years old. widow
of former United States Senator John
B. Allen, died at her home in Steilaooom
last Tuesday.
John J. Kashevnikov has been reap
pointed postmaster at Cle Ellum. the ap
pointment having been recently con
firmed by the senate.
The nomination of Elmer Dover of Tsv
coma to be an assistant secretary of the
treasury has been recommended to Pres
ident Harding by Secretary Mellon.
Patrick Burns, 56 years of age. died
in a Seattle hospital from Injuries sus
tained when he was stzuck by an auto
mobile driven by A W. Dolphin of Oiyru
pia. " "
Rev. D. W. Michael, pastor of a Lu
theran church at Tacoma. died Wednes
day night on the way V the hospital
after being taken suddenly 111 in the
street ,..
Judge Keterer at Seattle Wednesday
sentenced nine persons . charged with
traffic in narcotics to terms at McNeil
Island penitentiary ranging from II to
20 months. . -
Seattle engineers ' have declared fea
sible the construction of a 2000-foot pon
toon bridge to connect Mercer island
with the mainland, and estimated' the.
cost at $310,00.
The Bloedel-Donoven lumber mills at
Belltngham, which have been shut down
for some time on account of business
conditions, will resume on practically
full time January 2.
Ezra Meeker, 91-year-old pioneer of
the West, is In Olympia making ar
rangements for completing a collection
of flower specimens which he will ex
hibit throughout tne East.
Ail Seattle cabarets were out out of
business this week by action of the city
course 11, which revoked all their licenses
and" repealed the ordinance, under which
the licenses were granted.
Clarence O. Bundle, salesman for the
Grays Harbor Hardware company.
dropped dead Wednesday on the floor
of a hardware store in Aberdeen, lie
had displayed no symptoms of illness.
Herman Beagle. 94 years old. a vet
eran of the Mexican War, died Wednes
day at Republic When California was
ceded to the. United States he accom
panied the troops which took possession
of. the state.
' , HAHO 1
The Godding school for the deaf and
blind is - asking $61,305 to operate, the
Institution through 122.
The Lumbermens hotel at St Maries,
destroyed by. fire four months ago, has
been rebuilt and will be opened in a
few days..
The directors of the St Maries public
library are greatly encouraged by tha
donation, of r 19a volumes to, this young
msuiution. . -
Jewelry valued' at $1200 and a small
amount of gold money were procured
by bandits in a Twin Falls apartment
house -Monday night.
The United States- arovernment has
approved and accepted seven bridges on
teaerai ato project "No. is in Jefferson
county. Two of, the steel structures are
over the Snake river.
Thirty-one head of registered Here
ford cattle at the Midland Breeding
farm near - Nampa were sold recently
at an 'average price of $102 a head.
Six hundred cows from Wisconsin will
be brought to the Wendell country to a
few days. Money to swing the deal was
procured from the War Finance corpora
tion, i .
Owing to the large amount of taxes
that . have gone delinquent tfhe school
funds at Wendell are depleted and teach
ers are being paid their salaries in7
per cent warrants.
IF YOU could find a Santa Claus
WHO would
STEP through your friend's door
DAILY,
WOULDN'T you be glad
TO, LET him be the messenger
OF YOUR good wishes?
THE JOURNAL is that kind
OF Santa Claus.
AS a Christmas- present
A SUBSCRIPTION to The Journal
WILL CSARRY the thought of you
EACH TIME.it arrives.
IT WILL bring
SPECIAL happiness
TO homesick people
AWAY from home.
BUT It Is also good for folks
ANYWHERE :'-V -?-'
THOSE you most like to please.
THE JOURNAL,
CARRIES the Christmas spirit
ALL THROUGH the year.
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