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WILL MR. WILCOX EXPLAIN
A DISLOYAL STRIKE
Up to this time Portland has escaped any serious labor
troubles this year, but if the strike in the shipyard billed
for 10 o'clock Friday materializes she will have her share.
There are five shipbuilding firms that wi be affected,
all engaged in building steel ships. The strike is called to
enforce the granting of the employes demand for higher
wages, shorter hours and better working conditions The
employers take the ground that they cannot grant the de
mands of the men for the reason that the government has
taken over the plants and the Amanda of the men can
only be acted upon with the consent of the government
If this statement is true, then the strike is not only foolish
but disloyal. It is useless to try to make s anyone do the
impossible thing, and the employes should "Jo con
sideration the facts and act accordingly. If they are un
derpaid, or the hours are too long, the government will
correct both conditions if given time. The same can be
said of working conditions. .
One fact stlnds out far above all others, and' that is
that no man has a right to put his personal affairs above
he needs of the government. We are engaged in a .wag
greater than this country ever before faced, and if we tail
to win it the working conditions will be far worse than
they are now. The hours will be longer and work ng
Siena will never be improved. . Indeed should th
unwillingless of any to aid in winning the war cause
SSL it mawell be doubted J
regime labor will even be permitted to strike. The saiety
of the country is at stake and the liberty of each and
every ofTts citizens, those who are working in the ship
vlrds no less than others. We do not know anything as
to the merits of the demands of the men; but no matter
how meritorious, they should be relegated to the back
' er?und it least tmporarily. The great need of the coun
try ?s ships and anyone who delays the government in its
'effort, totttenst neither more nor less than an enemy
of the nation. The 4,000 who purpose striking ; mart , Fi -day
could do nothing .that, would so V?l
When they strike they are doing something to; a d and
, comf ort an7 enemy of the country, and if this is not traitor;
ouswhatisit? Labor in America is the best treated
and the highest paid of any country, and it should think
twice before doing anything to destroy these conditions
ffe man who does not do all he can, and wherever he
can toward holding up the hands of the government is
as much o 'a slackfr as the man who dodges aervice in
the Ss In some respects he is worse, for win e he is
not called on as is the drafted man to give his life if
ne-essarv, he dodges even the less dangerous duty. It
this country has come to that stage where every man is
looking at the war with the sole view of what personal
gain hi can make from it then the war is useless ; and the
cm cker we go out of existence as a nation the better. The
Se as purposed at Portland is over a matter that is not
iust the Sine's of the employer and the men, but one
between the men and the rest of the nation. It goes
even further than that for it is a strike of the men as
workmen against themselves as integral parts of the
whole peopll. It is a strike of the man against he citizen.
It is up to these men to think seriously before they meas
ure the situation from their own individual viewpoint
rather than from their position as citizens, who, as every
other citizen owes a solemn duty to the nation.
1 Sara Bernhardt Sunday began positively her last tour
of the United States, it being the fifty-fifth anniversary
of her first appearance at the Comedie Francaise, in
Paris. She took the part of Portia in a portion of the
Merchant of Venice and that of the youthful sweetheart
of a soldier in another play, giving a double bill. The
divine Sara, although 72 years old and badly crippled, is
divine still and so presented the part of a young girl as to
set the audience wild. It is one of the distressing things
of life that such grand characters must grow old and like
all others must pass away.
"The millers are eager to reduce the price of flour,
bran and other wheat products as far as the new scale of
prices will permit," said' Theodore B. Wilcox, federal
grain commissioner for the Northwest in a story in the
Oregonian Sunday. Sometime ago' the Capital Journal
suggested that Mr. Wilcox, who is the grain and flour
boss of Oregon, might throw some light on the rather
mysterious fact that wheat prices in Oregon were higher
than in Chicago. His statement Sunday says the price
of flour will be reduced "as far as the new scale of prices
permit." For months the price of wheat in Portland has
been higher than in Chicago. The quotation showed a
difference of from fifteen to twenty cents in favor of
Portland. Now we are told the price at Portland will be
that at Chicago less than freight which is 30 cents a
bushel, but plus the freight from the" wheat section east
of the mountains to Portland which is placed at ten cents
a bushel. This would make the price at Portland $2.00 a
bushel. What the people of Oregon would like to know is
why was wheat, which we are told has for the past year
had to find its way to market overland instead of having
.'is old world market and its prices fixed in Liverpool,
been held up in the Northwest above the price it was
worth in Chicago? Was it because most of the 1916 crop
was in the hands of the certain millers of the state and is
whs kept high in order to keep the price of flour high?
We do not say that it was, for we do not know, but we do
insist that it looks very much as though that waswhat
was done and that certain interests forced the price of
bread considerably higher that the real value of the wheat
would justify. Mr. Wilcox could throw some light on this,
for he is no doubt the best informed man on the subject
in the Northwest, and besides he is just now holding a
position of public trust that warrants him in making this
matter plain.
The dispatches announce the discovery , of the germ
responsible for infantile paralysis. It is pleasing to note
that a young Oregon physician is given credit as being
one of three making the discovery. He is Dr. Mayer Solis
Cohen nephew of Mrs. Alexander Berstein and D. Solis
Cohen, both of Portland. Oregon as usual is right up in
front.
While many workmen are ready to strike we note that
Thomas Edison has sequestrated himself for some months
and is giving his whole time and his magnificent genius to
solving the problem of the submarine, and he is doing it
without hope or desire for recompense. The men engaged
in ship building at Portland are doing in their way exact
ly what Edison is. Will they be any less patriotic then he ?
Managers of the fraternity houses at Berkeley have
placed whale steak on their menus. They say that it can
be smothered in onions until it can't be told from a porter
house. Very likely. Anything if sufficiently "smothered
in onions" can't be told from anything else, but will pass
as onions. - .
Miss Helen Simon, a Portland heriess, has been work
in? in a department store at San Mateo, California, as a
sales girl, and giving the money she earned to the Red
Cross. At the same time she was occupying a $25.00 a
week hotel suite. She probably earned $15 a week. This
shows that her. sympathies were much keener than her
financial ability.
There is a tang of Autumn already in the air in the
early mornings, and if the weather man does not keep
a sharp lookout some fine morning he will wake up and
find the gentle rain falling without his orders. To be per
fectly safe he had better get in and order rain soon.
Rippling Rhymes
, by Walt Mason
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IN THE MOUNTAINS
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Everybody takes off his hat to Pendleton, simply be
cause he is compelled to do so. Once that wild and all
woolly section was known on this side of the range as be
ing somewhere in eastern Oregon probably near Walla
Walla, Washington. No one was quite certain as to just
where it was. It is different now. Other places in the
Inland Empire are now located as in such a direction from
Pendleton. In a few years it has ceased to be on the rim
of nowhere and has become the center of everywhere east
of the mountains. It has a habit of getting what it wants
when it wants it, and it knows no such word as fail. As
someone said about someone else it "stoops to touch what
others soar to reach." Just now it is engaged in arrang
ing the preliminaries of its annual round-up, which a few
years ago was a local affair but which Pendleton pluck
and push has converted into a national event. "Let 'er
Buck," is a term understood even on Wall Street. When
the seat sale opened this year boys were hired to stand in
line all day to hold positions for would-be purchasers, and
the mails were filled with orders. And Pendleton just
takes it all as a matter of course and apparently does not
realize how altogether lovely she is. She is the center of
a vast wheat field and consequently is always supplied
with the dough. She spends it too with a lavish hand and
the guests who put their feet under Pendleton's mahogany
get the best the market affords and as many helping as
their systems can absorb.
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The Daily Novelette t
While reading daily of shortages of some kind it is a
real pleasure to learn that the salmon pack of Alaska is
an unusually large one. At the same time it is noted that
this far north land which has heretofore always drawn
on the northwest for its potatoes, is, now shipping the
lordly spud. When the railroads open the country,
"Seward's folly" will surprise the world, by furnishing a
tremendous amount of its wheat and rye. Besides it has if treasure, or The Ham Bone under
, , , ... . , , . , . i -i the Kennel": "Fast and Grow Fat";
an lnexnaustaDie quantity oi coai wnicn win come nanay. ..The Adventures of sbakem ooode";
THE NEST EGO.
(By the author of "The Good Ship
'Ahoy' ", "The Parrot that Swore in
Chinese, or The Laundryman 's Bo-
venge," "Aloysius Twinriddle"; 'Bur-
FOFE'S PEACE PROPOSAL
(Medford Mail Tribune)
The proposal of peace made by Pope
Benedict call for a restoration of the
status quo, as existing before the war,
tho restoration of sovcrignty to Bel
gium, Serbia and Rumania, tho peace
ful solution of the problems of Alsace
Lorraine, Thent, Trieste and Poland,
and the return to Germany of all her
colonies. . i
Such a proposal will meet with in
stant favor in the central empires, for
it will leave Germany victorious, her
dream of "Mittel-Europa" an accom
plished fact, and breathing time in
which to prepare anew for the longed
for conquest of Europe. It will leave
Prussian autocracy triumphant.
Germany has devastated Europe- She
has not been damaged, save in loss of
man power. Belgium, France, Serbia,
Rumania and a large portion of Russia
is in ruins. These lands must be re
built and repopulated, while the Teu
tons suffer no suih hardships.
While Germany has not been trium
phant over her enemies, she has been
over her own allies. Thero is no more
Germany it is now all Prussia. The ar
mies of Saxony, of Bavaria, of Wur
temburg and the other German states
have been sacrificed as shock absorbers
for Prussian ambition, and are no
more. They have borne the brunt of all
the battles, while the Prussian forces
were reserved to "guard the Rhine."
The Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian
armies are officered by Prussians and
their governments administered by
Prussians. They have become vassals
of Prussia and Prussia now extends
from the Baltic and North sea to the
Persian eulf.
The pope's peace would sound the
death knell of democracy. It would on
ly delay the final day of reckoning.
Only a short time would intervene bc-
"Enuff Jones, or The Twelfth and Last
fore a ruined Belgium and Serbia end Daughter of PerSlflage . JoneB ;
an exhausted France would again be "She Never Knew, or Tho Writing Un-
seized and America attacked by the tier the stamp," etc. eie.
strengthened Prussian, to whom might j I.
is right and who knows no law save I "Newlie," announced Mrs. Newlie
necessity, whose only god is self ag- Wedd, "I have the wondcrfulest scheme
grandizement, to whom all treaties and for getting round the high cost of liv
peace agreements are ' ' scraps of pa- ingl It occurred to me while I wa
per, " to be torn up at will. ! putting a penny in a salted peanut aia-
Wittingly or unwittingly, the pope chine you know, then you turn a knob
Is playing tho Prussian game. He is and five salted peanuts come out. Well,
helping create division in the ranks of 0CCurred to me that if we start to
the allies. Ho is striving to save Prus- gave aii the pennies that we throw away
sian autocracy from threatened anni- hei.e anj there for nothing at all, it
hilation. . . , would mount up in no time and make
One wonders why the pontiff has had uuite a little nest egg 1 " . v
no tears for the sufferings of Catholw , H 1A geventeen karat idea! " exclaim
Belgium and France, why he has not ed Wedd and th started in that gama
been moved to protest the German p,ltting all their .pennies into a
reign of terror why he has neve, de- J- V f fnAi them.
nouueed the awfulness of f rightfulness S l A
cept Hto&J lnAlZS&tF faily Wjrj. chewing gum, and every,
its war against civilization-but it thing that didn't cost exactly even
must be remembered that the church i money, such as vegetables, meat, bread
hierarchy is by its nature reactionary i etc., there was $111.11 in pennies in the
and thruont its long history has always cigar box.
aided autocracy and fought democracy. And Mrs. Newlie took it down town
The pope's peace pleas will fall upon and bought an ebony and ivory dog
deaf ears. The world has suffered too kennel with it, in case someone should
much to risk a repetition of its woes, ever give them a dog.
Tho pope cannot save Germany froml 1 "
the ever widening circle of the .foes Coal men tiho are going to be forced
she has made. There will be no peace to give the consumer a fair shake need
until the curse of Prussianism is for-' n 't feel so sore about it. Let them think
ever removed, for there is no palliation ! f the grain and flour men and the
for the malady from which humanity takers. People are hungry all the time,
is surrering save ine removal or iiie,hut thev are cold onlv in winter.
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cause ine cancerous gruwiu ui auiuc
racy. So much steel is lying about on the
field of Verdun that already offers
of large sums have been made for the
laud, for its junk values. Advocates of
war for war's sake may well note this
point for future use. It is as good an
argument as any.
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CFAPTEB CXL. place was a Tom I did not know. A
At noon we took a bold bite. I want-! stern relentless man of whom I was ter
ed to leave the apartment in perfect ribly afraid.
order, and with so much to do' Norahj I wanted to ask him what he was go
would have no time to wash a lot of ing to do, I was crazy to know if he
dishes. Tho baby was put to bed, and 'was going to remain in the apartment,
by promising Junior all sorts of thingsf he did would he have people there,
we goi mm to lie uowu axso.
It was just a little after one when
eame in.
Are you nearly ready t " he asked.
Majestic mountains round me stand, with
awful gorges by them; I find them noble,
solemn, grand the blue prints don't belie1 Tom
them. Here I have lived while happy weeks
S11U SO 1 CUUIUU I Ullie Uiein; 1 Ve gazeu Up- the trunks ana putting on our thiugs,"lwas beeause
on the snowcapped peaks, and never wished;1 my,voico trembling.
. i-i.ii i-ii ii i-i " ery well. I 11 attend to the trunks.
to climb them. I look upon the mighty you have plenty of time, it is stm at-
Vnllo hv u.-ViifiVi men coom liVo mirlcrpc nnrl teen minutes before the taxi will be
i i . .. ... i? i Titere. But the express man is outside
nave as many pleasant tnrUlS as UlOUgn I waiting for the luggage." and he eaU
climbed their ridges. And I aione am sane
and safe, yes, I, who do this rhyming; for
all the Other tOUristS Chafe tO Climb and ll0me anJ. ToIU Sucl1 is the 01!ity o thejbnt his Toiee held no promise, though
. , . , . , ' human niinu rnat i reu a tnnu or com- nis woras qui
Keep on cum Ding, wneneer tney looKupon fort because i had roasted a chicken
would Miss Coleman visit him? My
mind dwelt upon her for a moment.
Could it be possible that he was send
ing me away so that he could be with
"All ready but locking and strapping :herf I knew that it was not so; that it
of my own unprincipled
actions I was being banished, yet the
jealous thought remained, stinging like
the sting of some small inseet after one
has been greatly wounded.
Junior had not forgotten that I had
told him perhaps daddy would come.
cd down to the hall-boy to send him up. j and kept 'urging him to 'come and play
When the tiunks had been carried out wiv granny's doggies.'
it came over me that I was leaving my "Perhaps little man," Tom told him,
he
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a peak, they say, "It's quite a boulder; we'll !?nd ff,de hii Lavo.? Yheu
climb it if we take a week, and bust a shin or shoulder." i had not icaiiy given up hope that
And so with alpenstocks and ropes, and other doodads j r'tZ
silly, they re wearing out the mountain slopes, and spoil-1 his face, when the last trunk had been
ng vistas hilly. And here in this great pleasure ground Jyl that
they labor nine times harder than when at home they go on The "way to The station,
their round, to fill the family larder. At home, if they th wtV" T1!0
. i.i ,i . .,1 i him to talk to me, to tell me some-
worked half as hard, they d prance in righteous rages, and; thing of his plans, xorah sat with the
bfnd out protests by the yard, and strike for higher h c0"ld ,have d,,m
T- i . i . , , . so if he would. He did not mention
wages. If one can call his labor play, you 11 never see hinijcaroi Biaekwk's nam?, and i hadn't
veirv: he'll cut in nineteen hours a dav. and still be fresh the Bve.t do so-.He looMl nar,l
, , ' " ' I so unforgiving, ana so old. My gay
quieted the child.
Just before we reached the station 1
said to Tom:
"Won't you forgive me before I
go!"
"We won't talk about it, Sue," he
answered curtly.
"Won't you tell me something of
what yon intend to do! It is horrible to
seud me away like this!"
"What I intend to do is nothing to
you, none of your affair. I will order
my life as seems best to me. You have
the children. I have nothing. You have
no cause for complaint."
At The Station.
I said nothing more. I couldn't. We
were a little early and Tom found seats
for us while he bought the tickets. n-
debonnair Tom was gone and in his then bought some picture books for
Junior, and thg afternoon papers which
he laid on top of my hand-bag with no
comment.
"Your mother wired me that she
would be very glad to have you all for
an indefinite length of time. When that
arrangement proves uncomfortable for
her I will think of something else,"
Tom said, then he picked up our bags
and took us to te train. I tried to talk
to him; tried to think of something to
say to show my sorrow, but the words
would not come. I had reached the limit
of my endurance. I felt sick and faint,
and Tom's voice as he bade good bye
to the children and exacted a promise
from Norah to take good eare of them
sounded faint and far-away.
The train started.
"Tom! " I called rushing to the door.
The porter caught my arm. "Too late
ma'am", he said, and I stumbled back
to my seat. ,
Then for a while everything was
Hack. Whether I fainted or whether the
terrible strain of the last few hours,
the parting with Tom had numbed me
1 never knew. But I was saved the an
guish which had been mine for a time
by the oblivion which came over me.
Norah proved herself a treasure. She
of course sensed there was something
terribly wrong, but made no reference
to it, and in so far as she could she kept
the children from annoying me. They
were both very good and the baby slept
most of the time.
Oh, how I dreaded facing mother. I
could not teli her the truth. If Tom
couldnt' understand my actions, if h
beiieved them to be unexplainable.
what would she think f