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WEDNESDAY EVENING
January 29, 1919
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DELINQUENT TAX SHARKS PROSPER.
The publication of the delinquent tax list was discon
tinued becuase a majority of the voters of Oregon, mostly
in Pnrtlnnd. followed the advice of the'Orecon Journal
and played into the hands of
,
petty gratters wnose operations were namperea vy iun
riirlifMtv
Already belated taxpayers, some whose property
was not properly listea, ana otners wno purcnasea wiuuh
the past two years are paying the penalty. They are
finding out that there are extremely heavy penalties at
tached to their delinquent taxes and that their titles are
being mixed and endangered.
In this state it is fully two years after the assessment
is made that taxes become delinquent. In this interval
numerous changes in interest take place. This makes the
attempted notification by mail a farce, since in so many
instances the person whose name and address appears on
the assessment roll has no interest whatever in the pro
perty or the taxes upon it.
More than likely after the taxpayers have suffered
from the operations of the grafters and sharks for two
years, they will be ready to pass a bill re-instating
the publication of the delinquent tax list, thus returning
to the safe, sane and honest methods of publicity which is
the. due of all property owners before their realty is sold
for taxes. But in the meantime serious inconvenience
and many burdensome penalties will have been suffered
by the taxpayers and land titles will in many cases, be
hopelessly muddled.
SEVEN THOUSAND BLIND MEN.
About 7,000 soldiers of the Allied armies were ren
dered permanently blind by the war. One-fourth as many
more may be unable to respond to treatment now being
given to prevent the same catastrophe for them.
In former years instead of permanently blind, we
should have said "hopelessly blind," and these seven thous
and men would have become mostly dependents, pitied,
enslaved by a mistaken kindness. But in these days "help
the blind" does not mean a tin cup for pennies and a black
and tan pup for a guide. It means "teach the blind!"
Teach them the amazing range of subjects for which their
infirmity fits them gather than disqualifies them.
It would be hard to find a more interesting or en
couraging talk on the subject than an address to the
blinded soldiers by King George of England, which has
RIPPLING
By Walt
AMBITION.
. Ambition's needed in your game if you would win
success or fame. The gent without it seems a clod, content
his treadmill way to plod, while men who have the splen
did spur fill all the air with smoke and fur. Ambition,
when it's safe and sane, controlled by wisdom's curb and
rein, is necessary to the guy who hopes to reach the places
high. But if you say, "I'll never stop until I reach the
gleaming top, regardless always of the rights of other
hopeful striving wights," perhaps you'll reach the top and
then discover you're abhorred of men. I'd build mud
fences all my days before I'd tread the higher ways, and
hear some delegates exclaim, "He never played an honest
game. To push himself to higher rank he'd rob his gran
ny's savings bank. To gai na foot on other men, he'd
swipe his mother's setting hen. His thoughts are always
of himself; to gain renown or gather pelf he'd push a crip
ple from the road, or touch a poet for his ode." In Hol
land there's a lonely skate who hoped to be supremely
great; the rights of men he laughed to scorn, and trod
upon the nearest corn. What mattered it if legions died,
so he increase dhis pomp and pride? And now he sits in
shadows gray, and swats cockroaches all the day. His
fate's a lesson to us all, the fat, the lean, the short, the tall.
OREGON
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TELEUBAI'U BEPOBT
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the tax lien speculators and
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RHYMES
Mason
been printed in raised letters
the men who cannot see. tie
"If there is one thing
is not to despair. The time
was a being without resources, incapable of providing for
himself or enjoying life. Hundreds of our soldiers who
lost their sight in this war have already, thanks to their
strength of soul, their patience, and assisted by profes
sional education, learned to resume their former occupa
tions." The marvelous part of it is that the "professional"
education has been given since the men were blinded, and
means intensive education to fit the man to do, without his
eyes, what he did before he lost his sight.
Not only to the blinded soldier, but to all who are
sightless, this message is one of hope and inspiration. The
blind are to be led by a way that they knew not. Begging,
basketry and piano-tuning are no longer the limits which
circumscribe the blind man. But just like everybody who
ever accomplishes anything, he must have "strength of
soul and patience." For his helpers can give him only the
opportunity; his use of it depends on himself.
The new consolidation bill is before the legislature.
It provides for the election of the governor by the people
and for the appointment of all other officials by the gov
ernor. We are very much disappointed that the bill is
really a compromise, in that the people are allowed to have
some rights. How much safer it would be to have the
commission drawing the bill name the governor them
selves, thus avoiding any fool action on the part of the
voters!. Or the measure might have provided that the
professor of the science of government who was import
ed from the East last year to frame a new consolidated
government for Oregon should be named as governor and
provision made for the hereditary transmission of the of
fice with all its dictatorial powers. The bill as it was intro
duced is only a make-shift; it gives the common people
too much in allowing them to elect the czar, who still re
tains the modest title of governor.
Henry L. Pittock, publisher of the Oregonian, is dead
at an advanced age, and with his passing Oregon loses one
of its finest pioneer characters. No doubt the brilliant
Harvey Scott won more fame for his work upon the Ore
gonian, but it was Mr. Pittock who employed him to write
editorials, and it was his business ability and grim, deter
mination in trying times that carried the Oregonian
through its pioneer stages to the success it later achiev
ed as a newspaper. Mr. Pittock never sought public at
tention m any form and as a plain, unassuming man, of
pleasing, amiable disposition, he endeared himself to those
who were privileged to be his friends. His death is a
distinct loss to the entire Northwest in the development
of which he was an important factor in a very quiet way.
The annual meeting of the Commercial club tonight
should be generally attended by members of the organiza
tion. There is great work to be done this year and the
plans should be laid which will render effective the ef
forts of the club to work for
The superintendent of
little hazing is good for the cadets. A freshman in the
school of experience out in the cold woorld generally gets
hazed, and profits by it.
THEWIFE
By Jans Phelps.
BUTH PLANS A SURPRISE
rOB BRIAN.
CHAPTER CXUX. j
The next morning 'Brian wns obliged j
to uo down towu to attend to some mat-1
torn having to do with his discharge
from the army. (So Kuth went a far
as the new office with hint.
''The rug and shades nil! be there
early, and I want to stv to tha hang
ing of the shades," she had made her
excuse when he told her she was fool
ish to Co out so carlv, ' now that you
don't have to," he had added.
Hut she had insisted Then they
agreed to meet at a little restaurant
near the new office for lunrheon. '
''You'll want to see how the rug
looks, ''Ruth explained when ah plan
ned to meet htm.
'All right, boss! I'll be there," had
been liriau's happy answer, as he kissed
her, and then they both kissed the
baby who was so like his father.
What a busy morning Ruth had. Bhe
sow the woman had cleaned very thor
oughly. The window had been wash
ed and the bright morning sun shone
through them, making long, golden fin
ger on the new rug. lighting up its
somber shade (which Ruth considered
appropriate for the office).
After seeing that the shades were all
right as to eolor and that the man
knew his business, she left hint hanging
tliein and made a visit to the bank
where aha kept her savings. She drew
out quite a large sum, then made her
way to a store dealing in office fur
niture. Hhe bought a solid, substantial
desk, a half dosen leather chairs, a long
table, fur which she ordered a glass
top, and several sections of the book
cases she had in mind. The clerk tried
to sell her couch to match the chairs.
fche was strongly tempted to buy it
until she remembered llriaa't inclina
tion to take thing easy.
He 11 work better if he has no place
to lop down," she said to herself a
tho declined to buy it.
so it can be easily read by
says in part:
which I can urge upon you, it
has gone by when a bund man
a Greater Salem.
West Point seems to think a
Tho little waiting room must also
be made attractive. So Bhe purchased
comfortable chair and a rug for that
us well as a small table. She would see
that some magazines were always kept
upon it for waiting clients to read.
Kuth had wonderful faith that those
clients would soon be - forthcoming.
Brian llarkett was not the unknown
struggling barrister he had been before
the war He was known as that "brave
Lieutenant Haekctt" whom his coun
try had thought worthy of their high
est praise. And, business woman that
she was, sho would turn all this to ac
count in hi after-the-war struggle for
business success.
. Mia intrigued the clerk to send the
things at once on a special wagon. Hhe
hcrselcf hurried back to the office so
that she would be there when they
came. The clerk did not disappoint her.
lie had iu some psychological way
caught a little of Huth's enthusiasm
and almost at the minute he had prom
ised, the furniture appeared. .
Buth never had spent a happier morn
ing, the dusted and arranged the booksj
I hey looked very well indeed in their
bravely new cases. In fact the books
themselves looked almost new. Brian's
practice had not required that he use
them often, and he had been too indo
lent to atutly as Ruth had urged
not feeling the need.
Bhe arranged and re-arranged the
furniture until she had it placed to the
best advantage. Then she cleaned up
in the little wash room opening out of
the waiting room, and went to meet
Brian.
"You look as if you had been up to
mischief," he remarked after they had
ordered their luncheon. ' Your eyes
shine like stars."
' What mischief would an old mar
ried woman like me be apt to get into"
'I '11 wager there's something. I never
aw you look prettier, or more a if .vu
had some wonderful secret- No one has
died and left us a million or two. have
theyf"
. "No, dear. You are going to make
all the millions we have, yourself. I ex
pert you WILL make them, too."
''Don't expect too much or you will
be horribly disappointed. If I can keep
you and the kid in that apartment and
give us all enough to eat and wear, it
is all I ask. Sometimes I am afraid I
shall not be able even to do that
much."
Oh, ye of little faith," Buth quo
ed. "Don't dare question mr husband's
ability, Brian Hackett! lie 'a going to
be one of the rising young lawyers of
the eity. That' how they express it,
isn't it!"
So, laughing and chatting, as hapjiv
young people do, they finished their
luncheon.
"Whither away nowt" Brian asked
a they reached the street.
''Let's go to the office and see if
the shades are hung."
Nothing loath to again, view the
place where he was soon to spend hit
days, Brian acquiesced, and they walk
ed to the office.
(Tomorrow Ruth Tells Brian Her
Wonderful Secret).
I OpenFonmi
Salem, Jan. 29, 1919.
To the Members of the Legislature:
A few years ago, a railroad surve)
wa made on the south side of the
Tualatin river, from Tualatin to Hills
boro, a distance of approximately 18
miles. But, for some reason, the rail
road was never built, and I believe it
never will be, a hard surfaced rotds
and automobile and truck will be the
means of transportation. '
The soil in township 1, 2 and 3, s.,
range 2 W, of the Willamette Merid
ifcn is as good a any fonnd in Oregon,
and the principal industry is dairying;
but, for four months of the year, four
horses would have to be hitched to a
wagon in order to haul one ton of milk
over it roads, and to ban! lumber
wood is out of the question., some
farms are unmercifully neglected, and
farmer are getting discouraged on ac
count of the lack of transportation.
And now, Honorable Members of the
Legislature, as you are about to dreft
a bonding bill for several millions for
road purposes, I would suggest that the
part of townships 1, 2 and 3 8., range
2 W. of the Willamette Meridian, that
lies south of the Tualatin river and
joins Yamhill eounty on the top of the
Chchalem mountains, be granted an sp
propriation of the money received from
auto taxes, bond issues or other mouey
received from said Townships 1, 2 and
3 8., rnnsro 2 W. of the Willamette
Mcridicn for road purposes.
For myself, will say I own 95 acres
in township 2, and, if my share should
be 110 peracre, I would eonsider it a
good investment.
At present, I am working in a rock
quarry for Washington eounty in town
ship 2, running a tnnnel, and we intend
to tear loose several thousand yards
in one blast, but the special taxes and
appropriation from the county is only
a drop in the bucket-,-as we havo to
work on too small a scale. .
Bespcctfully yours,
E. WENSTROM,
President, Washington County National
Farm Loan Association.
: SENATE BILLS, t
S. B. 93. By Thomas and Lachniund.
Providing that all bids for tnu construc
tion of public highways shall.be based
on specifications prepared and filed
previous to tho issuance of a call for
bids. t
8. B. 96. By Judiciary committee.
Conferring upon the chief justice of
the supreme court power to assign cir
cuit judges to duty in various coun
ties to promote the speedy transaction
of business. .
8. B. 97. By Judiciary committee.
Making it unlawful for any person to
solicit personal injury business.
8. B. 98. By Shanks. Eliminating
tho old procedure of remonstrances
against the construction of county high
way.
a. B. 99. Br Smith of Coos. Pro
viding method for counties to surren
der cities or towns jurisdiction over cer
tain county roads.
BOMB THINGS TO SEE.
It certainly was royal fun
To see the kaiser on the sun;
And then again it pleased n much
To see ex-kciscr with the Dutch,
I should not worry, nor should you
To see ex kaiser have the flu;
'Tis far more fun than any "lark"
To set) ex -kaiser "toe tho mark,"
To cover face with crime all smeared
To see ex-kaiser growing beard.
When nations gather to make good
To sec ex kaiser "sawing wood."
We wait 'with longing, fervent hope
To see ex-kaiser stretch the rope.
'Twould be rare sport eould wc be there
To see him dangle in the air
A warning to nations unfair
T0 leave him always dangling there,
That those who hold for fighting rone
Might ever hear his clanking bones;
Tho clanking should resound so far
'Twould warn them never more to war.
Twill be by ail men understood
What's left' of bad is doing good.
Jan. M, 1919. H. E. B.
Kc
When yon us Journal classifi
ed ads get what you want them
to they work fast.
JOHNSON SPLITS WITH
(Continued from page one)
trine. I will not for one instant con
cede that it is the dutv of this repub
lic to maintain order in Jugo-Slav,
Czecho-Slovak or any other new state.
I am opposed to American boys polic
ing Europe and quelling riots in every
new nation's backyard.
"Keep in mind that the establish
ment and maintenance in part of these
peoples must be paid for by our al
ready overburdened taxpayers. . But
aside from the material considers
tions, I would not shed the blood of
American boys in the internal disturb
ances of an Esthonia, Livonia or Cour
land. "Our help to 16 nations which
would be created 'in establishing them
selves with ordered governments' must
be the aid which our arms would give
to one faction or another in these new
states end I am not ready to shed Am
erican blood for any factions of any
foreign state, or in maintaining the
government in any Baltic province.
"America Wants Peace"
"America wants peace. Let us have
peace and get out of. Europe."
Taking up President Wilson's four
teen peace terms, Johnson declared the
first, calling for "open covenants of
peace, openly arrived at," has ueen
"distorted and misunderstood."
'Anyone really ought tounderstand
that when we say open covenant of
peace openly arrived at, we mean se
cret covenants secretly arrived at,"
said Johnson.
He assailed the method of handing
out "homeopathic doses" of peace
eonference news to the American peo
ple and charged' that in spite of as
surances to the contrary the news from
Paris is being censored.
Of point two, freedom of the seas,
he said.
"It has been lost for a considerable
period in historical mystery and rests
in oblivion, with the unrealized dreams
of the Akound of Swat and the Maha
rajah of Burtania.
"Peace point three, for the removal
of economic barriers, four for the re
duction of national armaments, and
five, for the impartial adjustment of
all colonial claims,' apparently have
been submerged in weightier questions
and no longer agitate the over bur
dened minds of statesmen. The sixth
peaco point regarding Russia, I will'
mention hereafter.
"All of the other peace points, with
the exception of the league of nations,
deal with territorial adjustments.
Now, the difficulty of the president
in' interpreting his peace poii.ts as to
tentorial acquisitions is that long
ago, England, France and Italy reach
ed their conclusions and the president
is up against the contracts, signed,
sealed, and delivered and in the pock
et of tho tallies.
Treaties Quits Definite
"The secret treaties which -were ex
ecuted before our entrance into the
war were quite definite in form and
apportioned territories to the three
great belligerents and also to Bussia,
These secret treaties with the elimi
nation of Russia, I feel sure, are deem
ed effective and binding; nor do I
doubt that substantially tie territory
they embrace will be divided in ac
cordance with their provisions."
Taking up the Russian situation,
Johnson demanded Immediate return
of American soldiers. He declared this
government' policy of "criminal in
tervention has lengthened the life of
the bolsheviki and is resulting in starv
ing, not the bolsheviki leaders, but the
women and children of Russia, for
whom this and the allied governments
profess love.
".Russia's treatment by the United
States and the allies shows that 'our
idealistic statements on the rights of
self determination have gone into ob
livion with the rest," he said.
Declaring he does net defend "ih
any degree the soviet power of Len
ine and Trotsky, Johnson said:
".Why, our dealings with Bussia
have not only been an exhibition of
the crassest stupidity, but have con
tributed to the woeful tragedy there.
Bead Document
Johnson then put into the record a
document hitherto unpublished in the
United States which was sent to the
allies by the Soviet government in
March, 1918. A favorable answer to
this, said Johnson, would have pre
vented the signing of the Brest -Li-tovsk
treaty Bind would halve kept
Russia in line with the allies.
"In this document, the soviet gov
ernment asked what the allies, partic
ularly the United States would give
in the struggle against Germany if
the Erest-Litovsk treaty was denounc
ed. "This communication was received
apparently with indignant and con
temptuous silence," said Johnson.
"Thi may have been proper," he
said, but pointed out that the United
States government had begged Nen1
York socialists and anarchists to cable
Lcnino and Trotsky to refuse the i
Brest-Litovsk treaty and continue the)
war.
"If the emergency and the crisis
justified the government in using the1
anarchists of New York to eommuni-l
eate with, the anarchists of Petrognad.j
it would have justified the United
States government answering the com-1
muniearion of the soviet government,!
without recognition of government at
all and in encouraging it by its ans-j
wer to renew the war with Germany
said Johnson.
Cited Examples
Johnson cited examples of allied eo-
oKxation with bolsheviki. He said:
The Brttish and -Trench troops co
operated with boUheviki troops in
keeping order in retrorad.
That the bolsheviki let CI-otc Creel
representative use th"ir TrHtin rr!s i
to run -off copies cf rreMerit Wit-
son's speeches and appropriated funds i
of the soviet government for the pnr-1
pose. I
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Students Of Food Problems
Tell Housewives To See
Retail Prices Go Down.
Washington, Jan. 29. A resolution.
directing the department of agricul
ture to inform the senate whether there
f-ro large surplus supplies of foodstuff
in warehouses, is to be introduced by
Senator Kenyon, Iowa. Kenyon an
nounced today he will ask this informa
tion to get the real facts.
Packers representatives .testifying;
before, congressional committees, have
declared there is a large surplus of pork
They have hinted also large overstocks
of grains and other foods.
Kenyon wantg to know where the sur
pluses are, if they exist, and by whom
they are held. If they do exist, he will
try to find out, he said today whether
they are beiag held in an effort to keep
up the present high prices of food.
Neutral Markets Thrown Open.
While Kenyon was plnnning to ua
cover the surplus the neutral markets
for pork products were thrown open t
the packers by an order of the war
trade board issued at the instance of
the food administration.
Meanwhile students of the food prob
lem hero warned housewives to sco that
thoir retailers brought prices down t
meet drops in the wholesale markets
already reported by the bureau of mar
kets. "Betail prices are the hardest things
in the world "to force down, once they
get up," Walter L. Fisher, former sec
retary of the interior and activo in the
investigation against the packers, de
clared today. "A drop" of ten cents
in the wholesale price of meat for in
stance, might not be reflected in retail
prices for a month."
IS GROWi
President Seitz Declared That
Peoples Victory Has
Emerged.
By Prank J. Taylor
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Berne, Jan. 28. (Delayed.) New
Austria is as different from the old
Hapsburg Austria, as is Poland, Czccho
biovaka or any of the other nation
which have broken away from the for
mer monarchy, President Seitz of the
Austrian republic declared in an inter
view today.
Bcitz, who came here to attend the
International Labor aud Socialist Con
gress, was raised, in a Vienna orphan
age. His parentage is uuknwn. Ho
educated himself while a tailor's ap
prentice. Later he became a teacher
and finally a figure in politics as fc
socialist leader.
"Wo have had a people's victory in
Austria, the same as in other ps-rt of
tho former empire," he said. "The
idea seems prevalent in entente circles
that Austria is merely the old empire -shrunken
as the result of separatism!
Thi is not truo. We revolted just a
the others did.
"Under the principle of self-determination,
we wish to join with Germnny.
A confederation of the elements of thr
old dual monarchy is impossible."
help train the bolsheviki red army.
Had Protection of Bolsheviki
That the Red Cross mission from
America had the full protection of the
bolsheviki in PetrOgrad and Moscow
for seven months after Creel's em
had fled.
"Why did we enter Bussinf" John
son asked.
"I answer for no very good reason;
and we have remained for no reason at
all.
"What is our policy toward Russia!
I answer we have no policy. We have
engaged in a miserable misadventure,
stultifying our professions and set
ting at naught our promises. We have
punished no guilty; we have but
brought misery and starvation ani
death to the innocent. We have gar
nered none of tho fruits of the victory
of war but suffer the odium and in
famy of undeclared warfare. We have
sacrificed our own blood to no pur
pose, and into American homes kav)
brouaht sorrow and anguish and suf
fering. "Bring the American boys home
from Kussia."
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