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TUESDAY EVENING
January 21,. 1919
CHABLE8 H. TISHEB
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THE ARMY'S PEACE MORALE.
In one respect this is the most critical period of the
war, militarily speaking. The armies of the various mil
itary powers are finding it harder to keep up their morale,
now that the fighting is done. "With the war won, they
have lost interest. They want to go home. They are res
tive, and their restiveness and discontent find expression
in a general relaxation of standards and lapse of disci
pline. ' : -'
- This is said to be particularly true of the British and
American armies. Both are essentially civilian, lhose
in the army of occupation found the new experience in
teresting at first, but the routine has begun to tire them
They do not want to police Germany. They went over to
fight, not to do guard duty or to stand around waiting
aimlessly for nothing in particular. They want to come
back to their own country, their own people, their own
jobs.
All this is perfectly understandable. No one can help
svmoathizine with these exiled civilian-soldiers. But it
will not do to sympathize too much., For there is still a
military duty to perf rom, and disagreeable as it is, they
will have to perform it ? ' -'. - - -
Peace is not yet definitely established. - Technically
the war is not ended. There may yet be armed opposi
tion in Germany or Austria, especially when the peace
terms are announced. At best, it will be necessary for
some time to come to maintain large allied forces to use
in any part of Europe where fighting starts or disorder
is threatened. Considerable numbers of troops will have
to be kept in Germany until the main peace conditions are
complied with.
Americans at home, understanding this, can help
maintain the morale of the expeditionary force by taking
it for granted that the soldiers over theVe will stay and
play their part in a soldierly spirit until the disagreeable
work is all cleaned up.
It is a good sign that the boys are anxious to get
out of the army. It shows that militarism has secured
no hold upon them and that they would be citizens rather
than soldiers. They entered the army only because that
was the best way in which they could serve their country
at the time.
Now that Portland has its big emergency hospital
ready for patients the baffling influenza threatens to
go out of business of its own accord. And the incident il
lustrates the tendency of officials to prepare for an em
ergency after it has passed.
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Msscn
GETTING NORMAL.
: The war is done, and we get back to peace time's old
accustomed track. We're sitting up and taking note of
things that lately seemed remote. Once more I hear the
auto fan explain as loudly as he can how he went up huge
hills on high, and didn't have his motor die. His spiel
seems relevant and sane, which would have been in war
time vain. Once more the dames, when cooped indoors,
are talking of the dry goods stores and of the lovely lids
they've seen, all decked with doodads red and green. And
they allude to Mrs. Brown, who s bought the smoothest
coat in town, while her poor husband strives to make his
stand off something less a fake. And once again the ill
health bores describe their ailments an dtheir sores. A
little time, while battles raged, their chronic sorrows were
not staged, but now they're all come back again, to rasp
the ears of patient men. I see the old ways coming back,
and as of old the gossips clack; the private quarrels we
forgot, we're resurrecting, smoking hot; the statesmen
spring their oily smiles, and hand out bunk in forty styles.
I wonder if we'll ever. sigh, for good old wartime days
gone by, when there were themes of which to speak, and
keep on speaking for a week?
A great deal of attention is being given just now to
land reclamation, with the idea of making available for
returmng soldiers soil previously uncultivated. Ihis
work calls for big drainage, irrigation and timber-cutting
projects, which in turn will, of course, . furnish employ
ment to soldier or other labor.
In the meanwhile the farm-help shortage continues
serious, and it is rumored in some quarters that many of
the soldiers are not particularly interested in the reclaim
ed lands. An important phase of the land problem then
is to make farm wages high enough to interest laborers,
and to keep the land reclaimed.
In Oregon and Washington the proposition is to put
the soldiers on the logged-off landsand most of the
people who advocate it do not realize What clearing up
logged-off land means. Many of the soldierl who never
faltered before the German trenches wiH hesitate long
before deciding to devote their lives to this task.
According to authorities in Mew .England, Connecti
cut has 800.000 acres of agricultural land which has re
verted to a wild state in the oast 50 or 60 years. New
Hampshire and Vermont have 2000 idle farms apiece.
Similar conditions could probably be found in any of the
older far-minor sections of the country.
So it will be seen that if the soldiers are to be located
on farms, and these farms are to come from reclaimed or
loened-off lands, the problem is a big one. It they are ex
pected to become interested in farming, if the present
labor is supposed to stay on the farms, then foresight and
judgment must be exercised by individuals, by local com
mittees, by state and federal authonties to make success
ful farming possible and farm life worth living.
Marshal Foch is a great general, but it does not fol
low that he is a preat statesman. His advice, if he is
correctly reported, to France to grab German territory
is bad advice. - '
Rpnrlinrr t.hf rnmnaipTi news from Germany, we find
that they have no republican party there yet. Well, there
will never be any real interest in politics until they get
one. '',.,"..''
84 BILLS HAVE BEEN
OFFERED IN WE
Only Fifty Had Been Offered
For Consideration All Of
Last Week.
With ft rest over Sunday to think
over the legislative needs of the state,
there was a flood of new bills offered
yesterday afternoon when Speaker Syy
raour Junes announced that the order of
the day wes in the offering8 of bills.
Open Forum
Th Gprmarm seem to be an unobservirie people. They
npvpr nntiped t.hf American military ' uneff icienCY that
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Senator unambenain taiKs aDOut.
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Rnnd lppialation is rrovidine most, of the interest this
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session, and no wonder there's millions in it.
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The navinp trust we have with us always but it is
most in evidence when the legislature meets.
THEWIFE
By Jane Phelps.
MOLLIS KINO, BACK FROM
FRANCE TELEPHONES BRIAN
CUAI'TKB CXUI.
It wns tho tone of Brian's voice.
moro than his words, which maHo Buth
ask again:
Wliyf"
'Boiauso I do not intend my com
rades from over there shall know any-
tiling or my anmrs," ho returned bo
suivrply that Buth stared.
"What affairs! What is there we
do you object to having them kuowt"
'.Nothing that I do! All that you
aro doing." Tho old bitterness was
there , and more. Thoso follows think
me a man," his hal sough and closed
over the cross which decorated his
breast. I should like them to hold that
opinion fur a while longer, if possible.
That in the reason I did not ack -Mu.iol
miliums to dinner; the reason I never
shrll ask any of them hero."
Without a word Ruth turned awav.
She was very gilent all tnru dinner,
althou hor aunt, sensing some sort of a
strained situation, tlked more volubly
than she usually did.
"1 ahull buvo to argue him out of
that frame of mind," Ruth thought as
she watched his face almost sullen, so
different from the brightness of the
nt few days. "Poor boy, he's half
sick yet, even if ho has been so won
derful. I shall have to humor kim, not
foil hurt t things ho enys and dps.
So, with an effort, she joined her aunt
in hor attempt to make things assume
a happier complexion.
Hor aunt left at eight o clock. And
it was with a little sinking of her
heart that Ruth bsle her giik-bye. Bri
an would- be all alono during tho day
until ho was ablo to go out. It would
make her absence a tho more noticcabeo
l'oor, sensitive Brinn. Ha woud have
to get used to it. Her work neoded her,
had been neglected for him as long as
ho required attention. He must amuse
himself with the baby and his books.
It was noticeable, however, that Ruth
took great pains to have all tho latest
magazines ajid many of the new books,
upon the table close up to the couth,
convenient to his hand without causing
hi in to rise. 8he also gave particular
orders as regarded luncheon she came
home earn day instead of going to the
nearby restaurant providing every
thing Brian liked. But he did not re
rover his old manner. He talked little
when she was. at home, and ones or
twice had gone down towa and eomo
home very tired.
"Please don't try to go out alone, yet
he said one dny.
"I' shall go often as I ejipose.
Pleaso let me alone" .
The reply wag Bo tinlike the Brian
who, even when iu.paiu as ho was at
firsthad a sinie and gey answer for
them all, that the tears filled her eyes
and she pnt her hand pleadingly upon
his arm.
"Don't, Brian. You hurt."
"I am not tho only one who hurts
pooplo; dou't flatter yourself that 1
have a mortgage upon that emotion."
"Oh Brian, I don't know what to do!
You are so difficult lately."
"Been better if I hadn't come back"
"Please, dear!" the tears fell un
heeded, "I can't bear to have you talk
like that . Not como back to baby aflil
me! It would have been too awful."
Then one day Mrs. Curtiss came into
tho shop. '
"Mollio King is back. She looks
prettier thnn ever. She had had some
wonderful experionecs, and you should
hoar hor talk about Brian. I guess he
has kept most of his brave acts to him
self. She sava he was simply wonder
ful I that officers and men loved him,
and that he could do anything in the
world with hish men; that thoy would
follow him anywhere. You must get
hor to tell you some o fthe things she
told mo." i .
That night when Buth reached home
sho noticed at once that Brian seemed
brinhtor.
"You feel better tonight f" she said
as she kissed him.
"cYs, Mollie King is bakl She
called me up and we had a regular
pow wow on the telephone."
"Did you ask hor to come upl?
brenthloKsely Ruth waited.
"Yes. . You bet your life ' didl I
told her how iufornally loney I was ly
ing or sitting here all day ong. She is
coming tomorrow morning to sit with
me."
Ruth turned toward the kitshen. She
feared she might say something she
wond regret.
" I told her not to dare to make any
plans until Igotbaektotheoffieeshrdlue
plans until I got back to the office,"
Brinn 's voice trailed after her raised
a little, and in it a vibrant quality she
had not noticed for days "that I should
expect her to spend the days with me.
I needed a nurse."
"What shall I dot" Bath said when
the door between them had elosed, "I
can't let her get him itnerested in her
again and it 's so soon." She wrung
her hands in agony at the thought, "I
can't! I can't." sho reiterated.
Tomorrow Ruth Reviews Her Life -with
Brian,
Private OH M Crook of Athena
has been awarded the Belgium Croix
de Guerre by King Albert.
C L. Barnhart, a fanner living near
Pallas, dropped dead in one of his
fields a few days ago whilo plowing. , j
BEMEDY FOR INFLUENZA.
Editor Journal: Much, has been saii
and written concerning the influenza
but vntil now there has been nothing
definite as to its cause nor a remedy
for its cure. The doctors ave all disa
greed. Some said it was the old fash
ioned lagrippe and others say, no. Some
suy it . is a nerve disease. Some say it
is an epidemic of poisoning. Some say
it is a germ disease. With all the great
skill of our doctors no one has been able
to define it or cure it but now the pub
lic becomos enlightened by a statement
laying the responsibility upon the legis
lature for all the ives that have been
aacrificed. It dose not say but we pre
sume from all causes and they h&vo a
suro remedy as follows:
The legislature to atone for its sins
and stop this terrible carnage by appro
priating 95,225- for the noxt biennium
as follows:
Exsdiautive office, $7,100 annually.
Bureau of vital statistics, $3600 annu
ally.
Bureau of preventable disease, $19-
,000 annually. '
Bureau of hygiene and sanitation, $8,-
300 annually.
Bureau of laboratory work, $4,450 an
nually. .
General expenses, $4,700 annually.
For the biennium woth $725 evtra
mlilod for apparatus, $95,025.
We are glad to note that Mo will be
everlasting henceforth in,,Orcgon pro
viding qur legislature i sufficiently
wise to grasp the opportunity but we
cannot figure out what will become of
our doctors aird undertakers and how
sufficient room could be found in the
hallway of the capital for that, many
more signs -of bureaus and boards, com
missions, etc.
Should this remedy be insufficient I
presume the dose would be increased
two years hence, AJAX.
Last Saturday afternoon the total num
ber offered iB the house was 50 but
by the 'time the offerings were made
Monday the number had reached 84.
The new ones presented yesterday are
as follows:
No. 51. By Gallagher of Oontario.
An act providing for the payment of
interest ou iffigatioa bonds.
No. 52. By Westcrlund of Medford.
Providing for a tax exemption of $2000
for those who had served at any time
in the United States army end for their
widowg as long as they remained unmar
ried. No. 53. By Burdick of Redmond.
j Providing that the salary of the su
Iprcme judges of Oregon bo $6000 a year
j The salary now is $5400.
No. 54. By George W. Weeks of Ma--rion
county. County assessors to secure
i from all growers of fruits, grain and
berries tabulated statement of crops
and to keep such a record on file be
sides hsving the records of crops pub
lished in the annual blue book.
, No. 55. By B. F. Jones of Newport.
Providing for an appropriation of $2,
500,000 by the state of Oregon, if the
United States will expend a like sum,
for the construction of a military high
way along the Pacific cocst in the coun
ties of Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln,
Lane, Doiurlas, Coos and Curry counties
The highway to be known as Eooscvolt
Coast Military highway.
No. 56. By Sheldon of Medford. To
require the state highway commission
to erect signs on the highways.
No. 57. By Sheldon of Medford. To
allow tho state highway commission to
accept money offered by counties or
private individuals to assist in roads
construction.
No. 58. By Sheldon of Medford. Reg
ulatinc the approval of claims by the
state highway commission.
No. 59. By Sheldon of Medford. Au
thorizing state highway commission to
establish an emergency fund of $30,
000.00. No. 60. By Sheldon of Medford. Em
powering the state highway commission
to sell obsolete equipment.
No. 61. By Sheldon of Medford. Es
tablshing a speed limit of 30 miles on
-state highways.
No. 62. By Richards of Portand-Rc-ferring
to salaries of school clerks.
No. 63. By Richards of Portland. Be
f erring to levy of school taxes in cities
of more than 100,000.
No. 64, By Sholdon of Medford. Au
thorizing regents of the U. of O. and 0.
A. C. and the Monmouth Normal school
to sell obsolete equipmont. X
No. 64. By Dodd of Hcrmlston. Re
lating to mechanics' liens to include dig
ging, drilling and boring wells. '
No. 66. By Dodd of Hcrmiston. Re
ferring to irrigation districts, their gov
ernment and certification of district
funds.
No. 67. By Thrift of Coquile. Es
tablishing time and mothod of paymont'
for personal services and attorneys foes
for collection of such compensation.
No. 68. By Sheldon of Medford. Re-.
latiug to damage of highways by tlx
hauling of hes vy loads by trucks.
No. 69. By Dodd of Hermiston. St
inting to the organization Vf drainage
distrietg and expenses.
No. 70. ..By Boman of Astoria. T
prevent tho giving or accepting of tips
for servieo in Oregon.
No. 71. By Roman of Astoria. Pro
viding that county treasurer shall bo
tax collector.
No. 72. By Burnaugh of St. Helena.
Providing that any any term of court
that if the pudge does not show np by
4 o'clock court is automatically ad
journed for the day.
No. 73. By Gallagher of Ontario. B
luting to express companies.
No. 74. By tho Wasco county dele
gation. Providing for salaries of coua
ty superintendent and his traveling ex
penses.
No. 75. By Gallagher of Ontario
Reasonable attorney's fees for suits
brought on insurance policies.
No. .76. By the Jackson and Joso
phine county delegation. Appropriat
ing $25,000 this year and a like sum
next year for the advertising of tour
ists. No. 77. By Smith of Baker county.
Relative to the Industrial accident com
mission and appropriating $50,000.
No. 78. By Smith of Baker. Empow
ering district schools boards of the first
class to levy taxes.
No. 79. By Gordon of Portland. Put
ting the appropriation of $100,000 for
returning soldiers and sailors in legnl
form.
No. 80. By Gallagher of Ontario. Be
ative to premiums on life insurance
policies.
No. 81. " By Richardson of Portland.
Referring to state land board suits.
No. 82. By Thrift of Coquille. Pro
viding relief for Mrs. John R. Stan
snvrd, widow of Representative Stan
nard who died Jan. 15.
, No. 83. By Thrift of Coquille. T
enlarge jurisdiction and right of courts -in
the state.
No. 84. By Jones of Newport. Re
garding term of circuit court in Lincoln,
county. '
Prices Stabilized
Last Hour In Market Today
New York, Jan. 20. Ths Evening
Sun financial review today roads:
A. ground swell of 'bearish sentiment
rolled over Wall Street today. Wheth
er this was attributable to the tradi
tional dampness of spirits on Monday
or to some really (fundamental cause
not immediately manifest, wa diffi
cult to determine-. . - - ... . .
There was a fussy ruffling of price
about mid-day whea everything became
quiet and prices stabilized until itt th
last hour, when the reaction sot in,
John Wigmore of Los Angel&s, A. D.
Honeywell of Geneva, N. Y., and James
J. Gnoy of Pittsburg, aviation stu
dents, were drowned when their air
plane fell into the bay a Pensaeola, Fla.
HREAT WAR DEMONSTRATES FOOD IS MOST POWERFUL MUNITION'
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"Food will win the war," declared
iie military experts. "Here goes!"
laid the farmers ar.d by their in
creased efforts demonstrated the
awn of the militarists' calculations.
Neva Scotia farmers hold a place
lecond to none in respect to percent
ile of gains achieved in increasing
iheir farm products. The result has
wiped out any pre-war conceptions
tf Nova Scotia as wind-swept, rocky
ind barren. Visitors to EvangI-
ue's Land know it as land of
tundred-mile long orchards: rich,
lyked meadows covered with lush
trasses or Wotted with haycocks on
itilts; fertile fields that yield im
tiense crops of potatoes the fa
nous Biuenoses all aorta of grains
tnd the finest of flax.
: The recent reign of Mars is re
iponsible for a hi increase in the
wheat acreage of Nova Scotia, the
trea having been practically doubled
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wheat mills of the best construction
have been- erected under a policy
adopted by the provincial Depart
ment of Agriculture for the encour
agement oi wneat raising. Thi is
but one branch of that deDartment'.
activities for it maintains several
experimental farms and stands ready
to aid the farmers in every phase of
farming from supplying Mrs. Farm
er with seeds for her flower and
kitchen eardena. to nrovidimr f,.n.
blooded stock for Mr. Farmer and
teaching him how to get the biggest
results from them.
Lrection and crjuratinn nf
eries goes on apace and marks the
progress oi lie rrovince as a dairy
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unce the beginning of hostilities in m- country. The 1918 output of
..u""7 , F uiess co-operative creameries nears
the two million pound mark which
resolves itself into about 5.1100
pounds per patron. The importation)
and distribution oi high-grade, pure
bred stock under the supervision
Melville Cumming, Secretary oi
Agriculture, is largely respcnsiWa
for the impetus enjoyed by this in
dustry. Despite the fact that 1918 weather
was largely unfavorable for farnvnir,
Nova Scotia has made a very credit
able showing, harvesting 10.000.OOi
bushels of nntatnna 1A Ulrfl full!
ela of ttrrnips, 6,250,000 bushels ot
oats, 700,000 bushels of wheat, near
ly i,uuu,uuu tens of hay, and 500,009
barrels of annle TV, a t t -
under eron in taia l,,i,
apple orchards, was 2,119,862 acr,,