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THURSDAY, MARCH 27. 1919
THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND?
Th« katfue constitution may not
be perfect. It may not suit the
a settlement that, if possible, there partirular Ideas of any nation. But
will be no more wars.
it is a »tarter and can be amended
President Wilson with his altruis as future rxjx-riencw develops the
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tic views is the only man in the need.
World to whom these people will
MODERN CONVENIENCES
listen. They believe that in propos
ing the league of nations plan he is
The many conveniences of today
absolutely honest and that he is not
'inspired from selfish motives. They which everyone may enjoy have
believe that he la not asking other come so gradually that we do no’
nations to do what the United States realize how necessary they are t<
our enjoyment of everyday life.
it not willing to do.
A few days ago our electric light
And President Wilson can tx»int
plant
was out of commission for
to the (>ast history of the United
States as an evidence that we are two days and we had to go back to
Then we saw
absolutely honest in our pn »ent pur the kerosene lamp
pose to make the world a tietier what a great convenience the turn
He ing <>f a button, which caused our
place in which for men to live
can point to the fact that we have homes to become flooded with light,
always |>aid for any territory wr had become. If it was necnsary
have acquired from other nations, for one to g<> on the streets for any
that our frontier on the north is purpose th«* old lantern had to be
maintained Inviolate without armrd r«|uiai tinned.
If it. now becomes necessary to
power of any kind along th-border,
call
a doctor at night or during the
that we entered a war with Stann
-lay
we simply go to the telephone
to fr**e oppressed Cuba, and a'ter
on
the
wall and the trick is done
establishing a stable government on
The
doctor,
instead of harnessing
that island withdrew therefrom
Hr can point to the tremendous his team, bundles himself and pill
strides our government has made in bug into an auto and is at the bed
the progress of civilization and th«- side of his patient hours a* Miner
accumulation of wealth under a rule than he could possibly have been in
th«- old days and. mayhap, the life
of moral, not physical power,
Therefore, firing spokesman for of the patient aav«»| or the pain re
the leading and most progressive lieve.:.
nation of the world, he is in a post-1
Hut we get th«* full fruitage of
these
conv«*menres only when we
tion to point ami direct a plan by
add
one
other, that of good roads,
which the nations of the world can i
Il
i»
estimated that fl,000,000
live in peace and harmony by simply {
will
pave
and macadamize our prin
recognizing the fact that the weak
cipal
roads
so that all neighbor-
have the same right to live in the
h—»da will lx* connected with the
world that the strong have
If President Wilson can gccom market towns- This is a large sum
plish thia grand purpose. and h< of money for Linn county to raiw
will, may we not truthfully *u*y h« in addition to our other taxes. Hut
it can lx* done without hardship
is the savior of mar kind?
There are probably 5IMMI farm
Strange to say we have m< n, s*n owners and business men in ijnn
ators and representatives, who w«>ulu county. Now every one of the-*»
defeat the formation of a league of could well afford to donate $2<M)
nations just lM-cau*r they do not each t<> develop a system of gixtd
like the exact wording of the pro highways all over the county. But
posed constitution. They infer that they ruted not lx* a»k«*d to make the
the U. S. will have to become a *»-«r t donation, but to simply loan the
of arbiter ami l»e ever ready to send county that rum each and at five
an army to Europe to settle any per cent interest as well. Now
quarrel which mav ami protiably there Is not a farm owner in Idnn
will occur between nations. Thi» is county who would not make th«
not true. President Wilson is fir»t l«*an if he knew his farm would lx-
an American citizen and then a citi conn«-ctcd with his market town bv
zen of the world
He will not con a first-chiKA load.
So let's add this greatest conven
cede a single right which America
of them all to thgse we now
ience
deems as hers, even that of going to
enjoy.
Nobody will build roads for
war if m-ceasary. But he and his
us;
we
must
do it ourselves with
associate delegates will agree to
our
own
money.
settle any international dispute we
president Wilson
wields more
power t -lay than any man has been
able to command during the entire
history of the world
Rulers have
been atiaolute monarchs over their
own nation» an<l over other adjoin
ing nations, in a measure, but such
power ha* always lx-en supported
by physical power. Fear has l»-en
the basis. 1'eotde have submitted
to power simply l>ecauas they were
helple«» to do otherwise, as has t«-en
the case with «mail and weak nations
in submitting to the dictum of their
more powerful neighlwrs.
Hut here we havr one man. the
president of a great people to be
sure, who is saying practically to
these Euro|iean nation*: ”Y<»ur rule
of physical force la a failure, you
are simply destroying yourselves by
your methixl; tiwre is a better
method, and this methixl is to agree
to live in h irm >ny with each other
to recognixe and reiqx-ct the rights
of each and to accomplish by moral
power what cannot tie done with
physical force "
President Wilson will accomplish
with his ureat moral power and ran. may have by peaceable mean» if
All other signal >ry na
vincing arguments what has hereto, possible.
fore been impossible
lie knows (ions will make the same agreement.
Senators Ixxlge, Borah and others
that right now is the one propitious
time in the world's history to ac are actuated by political or partnan
eornplish this purpose
He ha* motives, if so they are making a
pointed the way and these nation* serious til under, Ixith for themselves
which have worn themselves to ex and their (>arty. If they want to
haustion seem willing to listen, to make Wixxirow Wilson president for
be led. Four years ago these war-' the third time they have but to con
weary peoples would not have list tinue their present tactics and de-
ened; they were not then convinced feat the ratification by the senate of
as they are now that physical force the treaty of peace
A very large majority of the peo
is s failure. They are now in the
proper frame of mind to try the ple want the league of nations to
win out. They want no more wars
new and better plan.
President Wilson could not possi if they can fie avoided and they
bly have placet! himself in the ex think the proposed league furnishes
alted position of moral power he a methixl which will mark the end
occupies had he not prepared the of war. The Tribune believes that
way. He at the tx-ginning yf the should either the democratic or the
great struggle tried with moral republican party tiecome the cause
suasion to get these warring nations. of the defeat of the league that
to settle their troubles by peaceable party will lie annihilated and the
means
He asked each nation to men. senators or representatives,
define in plain terms what its reasons who engineer the defeat will sink
for war were to toil just what into political oblivion. Is*t the league
la-come an established fact and
it was fighting for.
When for well known reasons the President Wilson will retire to pri-
United States participated in the vate life feeling that he has accom
war the president assembled such a plished more for the peace and hap
great army to Europe that the great piness of the world than has ever
war was brought to a dose within a fallen to the lot of one min to ac
complish
few months.
So far as our "Monroe doctrine"
When entering the war President
SPRING IS HERE.
WARNING
ne busy in his fields and would re COUNCIL ISSUES
fuse to quit the plow to look at Land Grabbing by Armsd Forts Or-
new autos
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dsrtd to End
Paris - Ths »uprrroe war council
Govrrn-ir OteoU n*»w has practic laaued a solemn warning to the world
ally absolute ramtrol of the state of that th*- |x**sr»aloa of territory rain*-d
Oregon by having two votes on the by torr«- will seriously prejtxllce ths
«tale lx»ar<l of control. If he sue- claims of th->«*» who us«- such m<-»ns
and set up sovereignty by coerrton.
cre«ls in legally appointing a m-cre-
This declaration was framed by Prsal
lary of state to succee<l himself and
dent Wilson
appoints a man who will lx* srcre-
While the solemn warning with re
tarv, he will have done something gard to the gaining of territory by
few men would do; he will surren force specified no countries. It covered
der power wh«-n he has full warrant broadly the warrln« elements In ;he
I’ll mine and thoee a. ound Vllna and
of law to hold it. Th«* pr«*sent di
Mtn burg, where b<>mbardm«-nla hats
lemma the state is in will probably occurred, and also In the Caucasus,
cause the pcoph* to vote to establish where the new <l«*orgian republic is
the office of lieutenant governor As flsbting the new Amu-nlan republic,
^r'
a mattrr of fact the state should, also Herblan inroad» on M
a« well aa territorial occupation at -ig
«mtabliah that office. We should not
the eastern Adriatic. In Thrace and
remain in a p*Miti<>n where a man.'
In Poland
greetly for power, could control the
stat«. We may never have another
The state hlitbway coninilmilon has
Ben Ol«»tt who is willing to surren-¡ Instructed the caglneer to prepars
plans and specifications for a numlter
der pow er when h«* has it. legally.
of new paving and «railing projects for
which blds will be opened at the next
m«x-ting of the commission. March IS.
The Race Across the Atlantic
Th«-s«' tnelud«1
Paring US mll«*a In
<"o*» county bet»**-n Marshfield and
If not this month, then anon at I'oqullle. paving In Umatilla county
any rate, worn«- aviator is going to between Milton and the Wa.-hington
cro»» the Atlantic in a heavier-than- state boundary; paving '• mil-« In
Marlon county 1» v.**n Jef r»«n and
air-flying machine. The desire of
Hal*-m. pacing anti grading In Linn
the United Stat* a navy department , county is-tsH-ti Albany and Tangent;
to lx* first to accomplish the feat is paving 4 miles In J«» phine county
highly commendable, and it is to lx* j between Wolf creek and tlrav* creek;
ho(s-d that its ambition will be paving In Douglas county ««-»x-n
Oakland and Yom alia and I* ->. n
achieved
It would lx- in keeping ;
Dlllarti and Myrtle creek; paving In
with our tradition« for us U> l»e first ■ Yamhill county between Bellevu* and
to crows the ocean by air, after hav McMinnville: paving 3 miles In U iomo
ing went the first steamship across I county betwre-n The Dall-s ami S* u-
the water, am] after having 1«! the f*-rt. gradlnj; In Columbia c- inty be
tween 8e*pp«>os>- and MeHi-ole. grad
world in the development of trans
ing and graveling in Umatilla county
portation by rail
between Echo and Morrow county line;
It is th«- belief of an aviator whose - grading I mile In Ixiuglas county lx*
■pinion is entitled to high r«.*tq»-ct , tween Canyonville and Galesville;
that only three otatacieti now im- grading in Josephine county on Smith
hill ridge.
tx-*le the making of ¡too miles an
That Erank Acusta. found d- .«-I at
hour by air. Tw*> of th«*se are me
chanical; th«- thirl i« the feeling
took bls own life, la the statement of
akin to intense hunger which at tack a Coroner Hitter, of Douglas county,
the aviator flying at the high ra'e after visiting the seen«* A'usta, who
of »taw«!. The feeling hnjt not b«n has hunt«-d In the mountains In the
analyze«!, if it were simple hunger south t'mpuua coua’.ry for more dtiui
2«> years, it appears, lost hl» footing
it «mid lx* overcome by taking a
and tell over a low ridge of r«x-k. his
supply of fixel along; the explana rifle* being discharged tn the fall, ths
tion pmbably is sound that it is an bullet striking under the left arm and
affection of th«- n«-rv«-s of the atom coming out at tbv shoulder Despair
¡«ch caui«-d by excessively rapid mo ing of a»*btaute and fa-arful of a
lingering d*-»th. Acusta wrote a brief
tion
But it Is safe to prt-dict that
note stating ths fact, then dragged
whatever it may lx* it will not pre himself several fret away, where he
vent the voyage which Would lx* leau«*d against a log, drew his revolv
made from land to land in some er and shot himself through the head.
tlr«-at Interest is Ix-lng n..> tested
thing leas than |u hours. In the
In the C«x>» bay section in the bill
summer time it «raid lx* made in
lntroduc>-d by Reprv»«utatb e Jones,
laylight without »tx*ci|i effort
of Lincoln and I’olk eountl«» provid
If the <>«’an can lx- crossed, then ing for an appropriation fo<
con
the last «»rn*-r of the world can o« struction of a Roosevelt coax, blab
explored
II <« Wells once pre- way paralleling the coast lim- t>* - ween
dicte«l that air craft wouhi permit Astoria and the I'alltorula Un* a die
lane« of approximately 3« hi ni tes t he
the building of cities on plateaus
estimated cost of th«- |>roj«-ct is IS,-
now inac«-*»il>l«-
< Ine may wonder j Ooo.oou. half of which is to be <*->pro
why anvotw* would want to buil<! a p ria ted by the state and the r« n. al ti
city on a remote p'ateau, but that de r to be obtaiu«-d from a twlcral
Arrangements are feeing
is lieside the point, which is that source
made by the rommer* ial ixxltes of
n en ar«- never aatisfie-i until they
Coos county and the C<x s County
have obtained the unattainable, lie- Good It.ads association to send a d«*!e
velopment of the ajrplane will ix* gatlon of representative men to Sal* ¡n
the means to th«* realization of a to urge the passage of the bill by ths
great spiritual ambition
The Ma bouse and senate.
Counties may have Io* «1 I .. -a
zama, the arctic explorer, the'delver
placed on ths ballot at the ape* tai et.-c-
into mysterious caves, and now the
tiou on June 3, although no other
aviator, are cast in the same mold.
state wide measures may b-- voted on
It is to lx- hop«l that our navy ( except th >se enumerated -n the i«,- a
-department will do lh<- thing right latlve enactment »uthorlring tha elec
while it is making its til-ins
W<- tion. 1 his is the decision reached In
an «pinion g! .* a to Listr-* t A-t -■
want a
»-»’op, cont.nuous flight i
<;--to!i «r . : Mari
from »»ore to shor«-
This w.il General Brown.
chall'-o. «* five imagination of th •
Hords ha-.e been sold and the con
world a« nothin.' else «»uld «Io. To ; tract l«-t to the Warren Construct .on
trust t«> a im«i hine which wou’ I eompany for th*- < >n»truc*.; n work
n the Teel
nee-i to pau.*»* in mi<i-<»«-an to take ( mtraaiias to |1. - >0*
■rojeef at »'«.ho. i. r
g -<> the an
fuel would be to win by a fluke, it
nounc- went of the uoevtora.
Th*-
we w-*n ¡«1 all. What we want to work will c.wr..;s au extension of
sra* demoMtra'ed is not that some j the project, by means of which about
fl-er taking a desperate chance can 18,000 acres under the project and
get acriMH. but that th»* ve tore is 4«W» acres on Butter Cr«-*’k will be pul
under water
practical and can l*e
I ¡prate*J
The Bond Athletic club is organii
Doubll«-»* it s nn«l can lx*
One is
Ing as a subsidiary unit the Bend Rod
tempted to v«*nture the guess that and Gun dub. with the purpose of
it will lx- d >ne »ome time in 1919
bettering fish and game conditions In
central Oregon Heretofore there have
Oregon an
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been dynamiting of streams. Fishing
»00.034 Trocps Are Bsck fom Francs. and hunting out of season and other
Washington Troops returned rrv»» Infractions of the game protective
Curopr and debark«*d in the United laws The new organisation intends
Htat«-n total (00.034. according to a to cooperate with the game warden's
There is no doubt alx>ut it. The
hens an* cackling. r«xwters crowing,
girls are para-1 mg th«* streets wear
ing low-neck dresses with diminu
tive kirta. farmers are plowing,
young lamlxi and goat kids are
plentiful, and John Kelly keeps the
door of his store wide <>|ien.
Ye», -pring is here, full of pron -
I m of a Imuntiful crop for our far
mers. If the aphids will lie gixxl
and the sewn propitious. Ort gon
farmers will harvest abundant crops
As go ,,i prices are assure«] our far-
met» w ill be on easy stn-et next fall.
And the afort-sai«! farmer is making
full ti •• of the g<wxl weather; early
an«; ate he is on the job. He is not
an H tv-ur man; on the other hand
ab >ut lti hours daily are necessary
for him to get away wsth the crowd
ing work. A little later, however,
he will have leisure to talk politics
or am other old thing which seem«
beneficial t«r publ'e interests.
Ye. spring is here; the young
lady arrived all in a bunch Friday
of i.««t week, «»incident with the
■nival of the Altmnv automobile
»hi
In fact it looks as though the
Albany people had sutmidized the
Wilson said we want neither indem being interfered with the league afoi •• ■ J Miss Spring to date hei
nity nor territory; or in effect say will practically create a .Monroe arrival with good weather and not
ing we are here to bring thia great. doctrine for evrry nation in Europe. to.» .»non. for the farmer would then alatranaet by lbs war d«parta»«mt
office 18 doing away with tbeae evils.