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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1917. portance to the husbandman are on moment. We simply mention the fact and let it rest there. PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF wbea away on the starboard bow tha distant horizon was suddenly Illuminated by bright yellow light, at first gradually tuning at tha senlt'e Rag Tag and Bott-ul the program. It should.be a conference of ex whiskey; Governor Hunt; barricades himself In his office an says he Is governor, while Torn Campbell holds an Inaugural reception on the front lawn of the capitol and proclaims himself as the chief ex-.

All IXDEPCKDCITT HCW8PAPBR of the half circle to a reddian coior OREGON SIDELIGHTS Stories From Everywhere traordinary ralue to the agricul SMALL CHANGE with a tinting of green a fine aigst of the aurora austral la. The night Joblhr Congress stands toward the supreme court exactly as the colonial legislatures stood toward the crown in pre-revolutlonary days. The legislatures proposed, or suggested tural life of Oregon. a Oood procTeas la beinr made with was fine and tha ocean tranquil, malt "Excessive meat eating produces hardening of the say a health Bote. Well? ing a most prodigious scene that ecutlve.

Life In that state seems tha Siueiaw Jetty all of which mean that Lane county's seaport is- becoming steadily more efficient, the JCu-gene Kegiaier says. to be Just one dizzy circumstance leaves a plctura always remembered. A week later a friendly snow bllxxard --TocUalied ery day, afternoon and morning srt Bandar nfternooo), at The Journal Building. Broadway as4 TamhiU Mmta. "SMMl (t the poatoffieo at Portland, Or, for transmission turoucb Uia -malls as second claaa matter.

f.iJ. Tee Jearaai ara larlted to eoatribat ortciaal asattar 4a t-blloaopblcai aftaarratla fWHElii mMtiot- Iron any aaarea, OcBtribonoBa of excejitooal merit wUl bo amid tor. at tbo oditor'a appralaal.1 CHRISTMAS was a prosperous and excitina day foe ih, after another. 'Total green timber losses from fire drove us Into fine weather ana snon-ly afterward to our destination, after a passage of 135 days, being given up have been less than $1000 in Oregon this year." saya tha Eugene RegUter. The i December business of the Portland postof Ice totalled an Increase of 6845 over the record of December 1915, the.

previous high month in the history of the office. And yet some people would tell us that times are dull and-that everybody is broke. "boy a. for lost. WILLIAM PARR UNDKRY.

Letters From the Peopte The dova of peace is good for a chapter in any volume entitled "Soot Bird That I Have Known." The dispatches from Berlin, quoting tha German editors, will make tha stock speculators feel that all im not lost yet. Thera'a on place the fighting nations have got neutrals envious of them. There's always their chance for a moratorium. If tha belltvarvnta r.n't flnra ant SELEPHOKES Mala 71TS: Bona. A-SOBl.

All departaenta reached by tbaae number. TeU tha-opera tor what department too want. Indorsing Judge McGinn's Theory. ADVERTISING RgPRKSitXTATIVB benjamin A Kentnor Bnanawlck Bid fit rtftn Near York, isle Paoyla'a -wi'VUas Chicago. Albany.

Or, Dec SI. To ths Editor of The Journal I have been reading winr not? laws. Just as congress now does, and the "crown" then accepted or rejected them as it chose. The predicament of the Adamson 'Haw? beautifully illustrates the real impotence of congress. With the western voters overturning all the political dope at the last election, and the University of Oregon football team putting such a colossal crimp In the pride of Pennsylvania, and the Oregon hens vanquishing their Atlantic sisters in the national egg laying contest.

It looks like the east would have to admit us to the club pretty soon. Circuit Judge Henry McGinn's state what it is they ara fighting for. let VEN with a strike on, a com An endless multitude of small pack hd to ba delivered. There were caiu for hundreda of messengers. Ionations lu tha form of money, turkeys, candy and fruit were given in return for rush calls.

Ont litu fellow, says the Chicago Herald, cam a back to tha office ef the Western Union Telegraph company with a broad smile. walked with difficulty. "No. II." an old-timer, greeted him In a superior tone. "What Ja gef?" -Nuthln', but I et four dinners." aald little "No.l- "A rainy summer season may ie out ox the ordinary here, but it la a boon to the timber owner1 A valuable draft horse belonging to Fred Putnam of Ashland lost its lite Christmas day In a strange way.

The horse, while romping in the stable yard, caught a light wire in Its mouth, the wire wedging between ita teeth. In its struggle the horse wore through the insulation and waa killed by tha 120-volt current. Improvement notes In Hermlston Herald: Many sales of land have been mada during the paat three months and in most cases tha new owners, if not already here, will come within the next 30 days and start improvements. 8freet rumors have it that at least three new business houses will open soon after the first of the year. Now mem iurn their attention to what tney ought to stop for.

rComaranlcatlona Mat to Tha Journal publication In tbla aepartmrst aboold be writ ta on only ooa aide of the paper, boa 1(1 no firtfd SOU words In lengtb. and mnat ba ae-roBipanied br the nam and addreao of to roder. If the writer doea not dralro to aaa tbo moe pnblLJbed aboald ao state. "Dlamaalon Is tbe createat of all raformera I it toacha. It rob prinefpfa of all false aanctltj and tbrowa toeia back on reaaonablcneea.

If tbej haa no rraaonableneaa, it ruthleaal ernahca them oat ot exlatosoe and aata up It own ooneluUooa la tLelr atead." Woodrow Wllaoa. "The Woman's Vote." ments in The Journal and I think tney are all right. Here we tallc about a free country, where people make such laws that they have to tell ua what we can eat and drink. I don't think '1' Subscription terms by mall or to any addrao la tfia Baited States or Mexico i DAILY, tMOKNlNJ OB AJTTEKNOOJfl ftnm- Ona MS SDN DAT Om On month 29 PAILX (MOBN1XO OR AFTTENOON) AND SUNDAY mittee of conciliation could do no harm. It might do good.

On tha percentage basis, at least, the Job of governor of tha Danish West Indies ought to be able to rive a correct summon oi a good tning. at at much of such law, myself. Suppose we should want to make wme bitters or some liniment or nain killer that called Since, as Lord Bacon asserts. red- On I Ona month in maicetn a full man." the city ii brary should have a vast access ot pop ularity in these coming bone dry cays, for liquor. How are they to be made? Druggists can't or won't Ihlx It in for you.

so you have to go to the drug New York, Dec 27. To the Editor of The Journal Some time ago we laid asida an editorial from The a big pull all together and we will have So far, jjo newspaper wit has tried to be funny at the expense of Austria's new emDftrnr That's heauM averv- THE NELLIE MILLERS store and pay two prices for It. I suppose a glass of. liquor or beer won't Aw, Muskratst Uuskrats are undermining tbe high cost of living in this region, says a dispatch from Alloway. N.

J- la the Philadelphia North American, and. with tha price of meats and other Journal entitled "The "Woman's Vote," tne street to tbe school bouse graveled. a A novel business operated at Eu body feels sorry for him and his as- Organized workers are not always wisely led. Employers are not always intelligently generaled. Each acts from its own viewpoint.

A third party can more easily discern the weak points in the case of both. Impartial advice and friendly counsel applied with reference to these weak spots can never go wrong and may prove effectual in bringing the contending parties together. A prevailing mood in Portland is hurt anvbodv. It' lust tnose wno but have you been too busy to answer it. It was a severe criticism on the iimauie empress.

HE story of a young woman make dIks of themselves. Mr. Hurhti In law rra.ctiei It Is gene is thus described by the Register: ''A miniature bowllnar alley is in full Woman's oartv. which you think coa And to prohibit a man from making a few eallons of wine for one's own tributed to the Republican defeat, and in the county Jail is that the shortening' of hours of woman's work in Oregon got her claimed will earn mora in a year than he would all the rest of hla life on the supreme bench. And won't have nearly -so much trouble earning it as the pres you say: "So long 'as suffrage re family use and to endorse a law to let mained a non-partisan cause, it won a deputy go In and take it and destroy they had Just as well go in your home and take your money or anything frequent victories.

When it was dragged into partisan politics under the Drotest of well known suffrage swing, when the weather permits, on a. vacant lot off the alley running between Sixth and Seventh avenues east, in the Register block, and is operated by "three small boys, who have displayed no small amount of Ingenuity in its construction. The alley ie complete, almost, from a return Incline constructed of two lead plpes to scoreboard. A canopy covering has been supplied for the pin setter. Three cents into her present plight.

Seemingly her tale is to be used as basis of an assault on the minimum wage law. rood commodities hitting the high spots, there Is an unprecedented demand for their carcasses, commonly known among tha native In this end of th atate as "water rabbits." Trappers, who this season are securing on an average of nearly II apiece for muskrat pelts, are adding considerable extra revenue to their usual season's profits by selling the meat of the rats to villa gers and to outside buyers. It is estimated that from 2000 to 4000 muskrata ara Ala- leaders, the cause was set back idential salary that he will never draw. Europe's governments. In war, have learned to change things from day.

to day. as they need changing. Bo that In peace, when it comes, possibly they may keep that sort of thing up, and not watt a few hundred years and then change everything at once. years. We think this might well be the that you have worked to -produce, i hope such a law will never be enforced.

I am not a booze fighter myself, but if I want to take a glass of wine or any other liquor, that's my business, not my neighbor's or any one's else. It won't be long until we will have to a purpose to drive everything by force. It is hot a good mood. The use of force cannot be confined to one side alone. Both Bides can use it, and force against force case were it not for the fact that the a game is cnarged by tha promoters.

National Women Suffrage association. founded in 1869, is and always has been absolutely non-partisan. As it America aaka Both log for beraei but what POSSIBLE PEACE TERMS posed of every week In Salem alone by fish venders and hucksters. jrj ana baa a right to ana nnmaniry useii, ff' WOODHOW WIU50N. i get a permit to go to town when we want to.

And then talk about a free country. The old countries have more privileges than we do. SUBSCRIBER. CLAIMS AND COflNTER CLAIMS. Of 300 similar stories in which girl3 attributed their lack of employment to the minimum wage law, a federal investigation made in Portland showed that not one could be ascribed to the minimum wage law.

Nellie Miller's story would. If Investigated, probably reveal a like fiction. The federal Investigation which covered a survey of three months Millions for defense, bnt not a cent tor never gets anywhere. Conference is better. Statements by one side and the other through the newspapers is not conference.

The way to confer is to meet face to face and listen to The Curse of Adam. A little four-year-old bov waa aant CHARLES C. riNCKNET i Hies' Daraanda: Evacuation of "ranc Kracuatlon ot Belgium. Compensation for de-trnction of property In 1 represents fully 98 per cent of the organized suflragists of the country, we believe their influence will be sufficient to counteract any damage that may have been lone by that very small section known as the Woman's party. We find the newspapers generally making a 1 clear distinction between the two, and now that the first bitterness in regard to the election results Is passing away, they are In after a load of wood.

As ha struggled From tbe Independent. After two years and a half of fighting the outcome of the war is as much In doubt as ever. We know that the allies outnumber the central powers nearly six to phe. that they are vastly superior in wealth and resources, and that they have the whole outside world Tha laborer Sect or Class. Mix Eastman In The Ua la worthy of hla btre.

St. Luke 0: 7. German Concessional Win be conceded. Will ba con ceded. Mar be conceded.

Win ba refused. Will ba refoaad. i a under hla burden his mother heard, between breath such exclamations as: "My -By golly!" a a the suggestions of a third party. Even if force be resorted to, in the end the settlement is by' con- CHANGE wny, Law-ence!" said hla mother. The American Socialist party- tends to become a religious aect rather than the political instrument of the work-In- class.

This was shown In the Trance and Belgium. Constantinople to be I given to Biaula. i Serbia to (ret Boanla ind Herzegovina. Italy to ret Trentl-i "Why do you say such words?" Tesulted in these findings: 1 That the law had not caused 12 to draw on. It would seem, therefore.

well, mother." ho explained, "rtm WORD to Our Employes" in ference. Why not confer in the Trentlno and Gorlils ought to know that all men swear no, Uorizla, Trleate andipoaaiblj, Trieste the official bulletin of the beginning? Why not have a com and clined to a saner judgment. Nevertheless it may be feared that hereafter, when state amendments for suffrage are voted on, Republican men that the allies must win In the long run. On the other hand the military A wnen tney have to work." selection of Allan L. Benson, a Journalist of middle-class connectlohs, to be the candidate for president, whetf a militant labor union leader of the AinaDlnn coast.

Albania refused. Standard Oil company of Runlt to gat aorta crn Persia. California gives reasons will talF.e the opportunity to get even England to get south tne ability and power of James Maurer mittee of conciliation and minimize disputes between employer and employe by approaching the issue in the rational and' intelligent way? with what they consider as trn Persia. men to take the places of women. 2 -That more women were receiving above a $12 wage, showing that the law had not operated to lower -the wage of the higher priced employes.

3 That a ten per cent Increase In the wages of women had resulted from, the law, and in a why the corporation has established the eight-hour day. The article states that this ac- France to get Syria. England to aet Uno Will ba cooradod. Wlfl ba eeneedad. Will ba refnaed.

WUl bo oppoaed. Will bo rafosad. Hay ba eoncad. potamla. Koumsnla a gat 'Stop, Thief! Wes Clark swiped tha clock off The Journal building in Portland and ie now wearing it as a wrist watch, says the Donald Record In its own inimitable manner.

Harry Evans recently heard the thing strike and. mistaking it for a flra alarm, nearly had the Donald fire department out before someone told him it waa, only Wes timepiece pausing at tha noon hoar. "women's Wilson vote" of this year. The drawbacks of these state campaigns are too apparent to need particularizing and they convince the leaders of the suffrage movement that if the present generation of women is to be enfrancluted It will have to be through a federal was avaiiaDie. iiao ii-nauu, a special respect and admiration for his grouch; I voted for him; but I do not think he should have been the candidate of a working-class party, and I do not think he was.

Sometimes I feel as though he were the candidate of a sectarian Sunday school. That at least is what the Socialist Russia to rat Ar tlon -was not taken suddenly or J. without a full appreciation of Its significance. It says: Since we read' that large shipments of prunes have recently been sent from Clarke county to London menia Alaaco and Lorraine, stored to Franca. I It Is a recognition by tha directors we- can expect to Lear most any strength and economic organization of the central powers have given them so far the advantage in the field and seem to be sufficient to enable them to hold out Indefinitely.

This is about all we know now, and we all knew this much after the first month of war. Nor has the aim of the war become any clearer In two years and a half. On the contrary each new belligerent entering the struggle has brought with It new issues, sometimes conflicting with those of its allies, and new purposes have been disclosed tending to dl-stract the sympathies of tha people of neutral natlona. For Instance, some of the Americans whe ardently championed the causa of the alllea be England to ret Egypt! the company of what they, tn tha ind jrpms. party tends to become, and will most Bnt; land to gat Eal- WIH ba conceded.

Will ba refused. Universal dlasrsaa- In. -to be a sound economic principle. It 4s a better recognition of the right boarding houses of that metropolis. roland.

WUOfc LlIttL A MO IUUIUl Will UVI- u. certainly become, unless some of Its its influence on the present session of ,) om-t members allow themselves the luxury The Chief Can John Hutchlns and Joe Wilson. twe Disarmament or uer- period when business was not active. For centuries, Nellie Millers have been thrown upon the beach along with the wrecks and derelicts of life, and it is not possible to ascribe the failure of all of them to the minimum wage" law, or as knent. nany.

'i for those who labor. And there la without further delay and enable the THE COLONEL ER15rTS hoboes, are occupying aickbeds In the Gertnsny to bo pea sltzed by beavy Indem BO employe, from the roustabout In women to take their case to the legis city Jail, and they are being cared for by Chief of Police John Catlln, whe altr for breaklnr tbe WW ba refused. I peace ana yioiattona of the field to the president of the company 'who does not laborf The article goes on to say that HE Colonel 4b on the warpath again. His militancy is all aiso nas la grippe, says tha Albany of independent thought and liberal human feeling. I am writing, as may be suspected, under the stimulus of personal Irritation.

I have received I don't know how many letters of excommunication from keepers of the sacred dogmas in all parts of the country, because I gave to the Wood-row Wilson Independent league a International law. I an eight-hour day by "no means Carman Demands! Allies' Ooncoasionat Restoration of Ger-I Iiependa moatly noon man East and South-line Union of houth Af the more violent tmd voluble Nellie Miller says, to the 6horten-for his interval, of" quiescence ing of hours which gave her time Democrat. The two 'boes staggared Into town yesterday or day before and were not long In applying to the police for shelter. They are said to ba latures of the various states for settlement. There are many states where the men are not bo Just and progressive as -Jhose of Oregon, and in such states trie women have little hope of getting the vote.

IDA IIUSTED HARPER. Chairman of the National Suffrage Press Committee. cause of France and Belgium are not Signifies 16 hours of idleness and at all enthusiastic about the Russian ac rica. leen. hut It mpans that more time lnc the election.

TbeTe are those i to get Into mischief. Depeoda noon Trance sick men. qulsition of Constantinople or the Jap who say that the valiant Colonel and England. for self-education is to be accorded Beatoratloi of Kam-ernn and Tocolsnd. Restoration of Oct man islands in Pacific anese acquisition of Chinese territory, If laws for the protection of the working hours of women are detrimental to women, then hours for Depends upon Japan, Australia and New was not entirely displeased with the outcome of that, terrific con- statement that I would rather see Wilson elected than Hughes.

Hera is the statement: "I would rather see Woodrow Wilson elected than Charles Hughes because Wilson aggressively believes not to every worker in the company. It continues: On the other hand soma of those who were disposed to sympathise with Germany at the beginning of the war Restoration of Elao- Promised eondirlonany With a shorter working day, the Fixing the Responsibility, Most Scio housewTves ara out of horror these days, says tha Tribune. Be as careful as you can and you will carry more or less mud into tha house. If divorce trials result, the city council will be to blame. Cbaa to Cblna.

Iby Japan at bertnnlng Jof war. A Gloomy 'View of Labor. Estacada, Jan. 1. To the Editor of The Journal rThe people are taught nowadays that labor is a blessing.

This Is a false belief that covers a test. "Looking to 1920 and the dim elimination of child labor must be future he found muchto console 'jiettimental to children. It bo, the him In the returns, since they left movements in all the states, te ambition for" advancement by study would dislike to sea Turkey retain Ronmanla divided be-1 Mlant be willing to only In keeping out of war, but in organising the nations of the world to rween Anatna and uui-ireiroceae tne Doorndja carta. lto Bulgaria. Armenia, or Bulgaria annex Roumanla.

In the absence of such authoritative prevent war. His official Indorsement Serbia to bo divided! Ulgut ba wining to statements of the claims of the bellig Oct ween anatna a afire Serbian ftfacedoaia Bulgaria. lto Bulgaria can be gratified at less sacrifice and With less hardship than longer hours entail. The eight-hour day, It Is safely -believed, will benefit all em- gloyee pf company, and what enef Its them benefits the company. For it Is on individual development amongst its employee that the future of the company depends.

erents we must do the best with wha material we 'nave, namely, tha hints multitude oy crimes. The teachers of propaganaa for international fed- thls cult are mostly folks whose ef- rafion the interest of peace Is the forts in the way of labor are mainly most lmportant step that any presi- confined to werWng their Jaws. The dent of united States haa taken Bible teaches thacpabor Is a curse; towards civilizing the world since Lin- him the one big man in his party, i acts of legislatures, the decrees But he thought it looked better to of courts and the thought of the cloak himself in the hablliaments best economists. and sociologists of iwoei and keep his valorous are all wrongs fand governments tongue at rest for a while. should do nothing to safeguard uompenaatlon roe destruction of property In emanating from the embassies, the rumors of the neutral press, the vague East frusaaa and Gall I ana even i no never saw i Poln.

da. I Era coat km of Gallciai Win bo utterances of ministers, the guesses of Bible, instinctively knows this Is true. -Hi- announcement that tha beat the well informed, tha historic policy by unsalana. I Now the period of mourning la women and children, over and" the Colonel erupts with If the Oregon legislature Is go- Not one-tenth of the labor dona in hiiflirmpnt nf mankind arcenti th trln- Declaring that the eight-hour Autonomy of all Po- lndependeneo of Rus-l and known aspirations of tha leading the world Is done in keeping the com- ciDle of the eleht-hour day is another Isn Poland. land.

mandments of Ood. The rest Is done proof that he has vision and sympathy powers, and the discussions of peace terms In the papers of the nations involved In the war. From such clues Independence of LI tnnania. fcqual coramerdal rights. in Yioiauon or mem.

i nree-rourtns or I with human progress. the wealth created by farmers anl "Hughes has given no such proof. RerDaoo by an aHlea day marks a social advance for stupendous of fire, Ing to hamstring the -minimum I those who labor, the bulletin says smoke and lava. The object of wage law and -turn the state on jilt should make for contentment, his wrath is the League to En- the back track, It will undo four jl'It affords more time for society force Peace, Mr. Taft's League, as years of patient work and uproot 1 1 and the home, it is declared, and the reader will recall, and the ap- four years of intelligent progress.

according to Pact of Any Direction Would Do. She had attained soma success as an authoress and aftar her marriage had decided to write a novel. Some months later she complained, to her husband: "My new novel goes but slowly, dear; but my publisher assure mo it would go Into the thousands if we'd just get up some sort of a sensation for instance get you to eater divorce proceedings!" The husband meditated thoughtfully a few moments. "Well," he said. "I can't afford that; but I'm willing to run away!" Proficient.

Visitor I suppose, WiHie, that ye can spell all tha short words? Willie (who hears much talk aboet automobiles) Yes, I can spell words as these we have complied below what seem to us likely to be chief claims of wage-earners Is wasted by non-pro- He has given prooT to the contrary by ducers. Most of the work done is en- his petty and indiscriminate scolding." tirely unnecessary. Not much work My reply to those who have excom- iraria. Freedom of the I Lea cue to Enforce Peace. Agreoa, Jilt betters the conditions of labor pie of that gentleman's twinkling In our last Issue we expressed the wish that all parties should restore Now that the archaeologists have wit it.

icuucia iiiuae cuuuiuuus ee. iu v-uiuiici uuea uui love tneir conquests to their original own more attractive to the better class the league any more warmly be- discovered the Willamette valley Of American citizens. "It is that cause Mr. Taft invented it but in to have been the pre-Columbian class that the company wants in any case he would scorn it. center of commerce of North Amer- ers in order to establish the principle that territorial aggrandisement may the two parties and put in tne parallel column what we surmise to be the sort of reception these claims would receive if the opposing party were now to consider them.

WTe have not put down the extravagant ambitions voiced chauvinistic journalists on either 'side, but only such demands as appear to ba regarded as essential In the respective countries. Under the head of "Concessions" we have given what we think they might be willing to grant rather than to continue the fight. would be necessary to Bupply all the municated me for issuing this state-reasonable needs of all the people, if ment Is, that if the Socialist party Is the work were directed to that end. so weak that It can only live by sup-and then It would not be labor at all, pressing the free use of opinions, or but only exercise and recreation. throttling the natural Interest of a The Sabbath day is to be kept holy living being in the Important events by refraining from labor.

In It thou of the day, it will die, and die soon shalt do no manner of work. This and deservedly. I do not believe It Is shows that labor is unholy. There is quite so weak. I think there is hope no Sabbath now, and there cannot be that this party may become the gen-till the world shall be freed from the un expression of a working-class never again be mada a motive for war.

But we have little hop that this will tts ranks, concludes the article, The Colonel scorns anything ica, it might not be surprising if "for it is that class which consti of four cylinders. tutes the backbone of the busi that smacks of buttery peace. The the Indian Inscriptions on Mema-League is a little bit more spinfe- loose island should turn out to be less and mollycoddlish because Mr. the record of the first decision in be adopted, for most of the belligerents are frankly determined upon gaining more land, and- some of them entered the war for this express purpose. ness." And Xp Matter Mlilch Ear.

"I want to buy a piece for my daugh movement. And when that movement This la one of the new notes in Taft heads it, but it would be the Spokane rate case Is strong the party will have some ter," announced a woman, bustling into bondage of its merciless under whose rule the whole earth is accursed. The commandment, "Six days shalt a local music store. thing affirmative to do. American industrial life.

It took i shamelessly abject and craven in the big employers of labor a long any case. So let it be What is has to do now, is to get rid "What grade? For how old a per IIER SOUI IMAGININGS of all this sectarian dogmatism, this son? How advanced is your daughter?" thou labor," in it spiritual sense, does Thus eaith the Colonel, as he time to reach such a conclusion. ThfiV used tn 'call man norchloto asked the clerk. not apply to material work at all. It doctrinaire, index expurgatorius mod SOULFUL California maiden "Oh, Myrtle's only 14, but she can up lliiiifiiuK, aim hub in wiui Implies six stages of spiritual growth waves his good broadsword and swears a mighty oath.

of. some thirty Bummers re an organization as an tnd In Itself. play anything, no matter how hard It A from New Orleans with cotton, which sank with 40 sailors in a dreadful storm on December 5. Though two steamers, ona a Franca battle cruiser, picked up tha Pie's wireless for help and got to the scene hours before she went down, tbe high seas made it impossible for them, to take off a single man. Boats were crushed like a papier mache against tha side of the ship before they could be Let Us try to use our brains freely.

la, when once aha gats it by the cently abandoned her studies The Colonel shows us with the land demagogues who advocated inch reforms as shortened, hours I of labor for workers. I But now In the same language The six days of creation mean the same thing. The blind theologians limit everything spiritual to mere material concepts, as In the assumption that a love progress more than party, allow ourselves the natural emotions of our at the University of Califor point of his gleaming blade that The Horseshoe Bar. Tha longest bar In the world, at 'every pacific effort of the last species, and see if we can get ready nia because, as she said, its pedantic, old fogy methods and stac day means 24 hours. A day may mean The Southern Pacific railway Is paying Its unorganized employes a bonus.

How do you account for that, Ore-gonian? All tha great public service corporations ara either increasing the wages of their employes, or preparing to do so. How do you account for this, Oregon lan. You cannot get away from tha fact that better times are right before us, and damit, Mr. Business Man, it's up to you; wake up shake off that lethargy and get busy. hoo Fly Don't Cry, Good Bye Mrs.

Hanley. Thirteen American Languages. From tbe baa Francisco Bulletin. thirty years' has been proved perfectly, worthless." Certainly, cer JUiY- iV IV I. I complex flow of events AU ClClUit.

A. Miwsasis, eaJ von.J tJ tka 4(m an aoo than em a7rkt)1 nn iv lowered. And yet. In the howling, horrible night, long after the Pio a wire Manning, in Carroll county, Iowa, Is. being dismantled and will noon beoorne a thing of tha past.

It la, er was, says Capper's Weekly, more than 10 feet long, and for years was the sole solace of the citizens of Manning In the hsvs to work six days and we would Attitude of Soldiers on Peace. that the pioneer advocates of shortened hours employed, a great corporation is arguing for the ight-nour day. We are entering an age of vast and beautiful social and economic progress in America. -i less had spoken tha goodbye of those tainly. Those pacific efforts did not prevent the big war.

And why did they not prevent ltt For the done forever. From tha New York Evenlnr post. who go down to the sea In ships and I could Drov conclusively by physio- -A corporal in unirorm arising in tne tha little freighter had sunk In pltcby night, the Spanish liner Buenos Aires days when Iowa was In the wet col cato rules were "cramping her soul crushing all the sweetness and idealistic imaginings of her higher self." She was becoming a machine, she lamented, and God did not want a woman to be a machine. Now she has married a movie actor. Apparently she does not umn.

The bar waa built In the shape sane and simple reason, as Penrod would say, that the militarists logical and psychological evidence that house of commons to urge that the labor Is a curse or penalty, and that a belligerents be got together for a dis- man who has to work all his life Ilka a cussion of possible peace terms was mule does not and cannot serve God. tn remarkable spectacle Hastings B. nn rt starved in that wnv. it L. Smith, a Liberal member for North- of a horseshoe, being contained la a building about 100 feet long, bnt It brought good luck to nobody.

were determined to have a war and went on piling np big arma In a church at Kagle Pass, Texas, Is only the devil that demands that arnpiou. una Praisinjrron chrlgtmas eve regular soldiers and ments till they got one. When the kind of service, and It is because th Prime minister speecn oe- Bnrbank Among the Birds. Knicker Has Outlets found a long- consider that matrimony is unblest armaments reached the tumbling guardsmen, belonging to the American army, sang "Silent Night," originally a German folk song, in 13 languages. l- One of the advances Portland it Should make In 1917 is the cre-Ijatlon of a permanent board of conciliation and mediation to help 1 adjust differences between employer and employe.

ytT A NOTABLE WEEK fait want? point they tumbled and the world whole world is under the dominion of r-u7 the devil that the people are all the door was not closed upon the Oer-. hiier man proposal. This seemed to him the with pedantic or old fogy methods, or staccato rules, and believes that Bocker Tee, he Is trying to ereas went mad. When th best possible answer." for. in his she will saunter hand in hand tha small hot bird with the homing pigeon.

What the Colonel wants Is a There could not have been any important country in either group of belligerent nations not represented among the singers, yet they were probably typical of the great body of ordinary Ameri with her loved one through the repetition of the same delightful picked up a tiny beam under her own bows as she circled In the blackness waiting for morning to give her light to look for survivors of the Pio. And from a piece of wreckage, floated clear of the wreck, were lifted 11 sailors, one of them clutching a pocket flashlight above his head. From tha daap in which no other signal could speak the storage battery cried for help. Gold Bricks. From tba San Franclar-o Bulletin.

Twenty-five million dollars in gold coin were sent to France, in 1904 as part payment for tha rights of the French company which tried to dig the Panama canal. These $25,000,000 have just been brought back untouched in tha same packages In which they were sent abroad. Nobody had melted them down. They had not been distributed kingdom of Ood, that we are continually praying for, comes, these laws will canceled and destroyed. Not till a.

Clear the Track! Grandma had a very bad eold one HIS is a notable week at the opinion, if the Oermtin proposals should disclose an aggressive purpose, then the German people would realize that they are not bleeding merely for defense. But the striking passage in the corporal's speech was his deliberate assertion that If it were put to a vote of the men in the trenches pert timed bowers -of romance until the sweetness and idealistic imaginings of her higher self blossom day when her little granddaughter play. He wants to begin piling up more armaments, this country taking the lead, and he should know perfectly well that when Oregon Agricultural college then can we have freedom. Not till then will there be any Sabbath, In the universal and spiritual sense. J.

L. JONES. i made her a visit. Suddenly, says the It is "Farmers' and Home Christian Herald, 'she sneesed very and bloom in perfect peace. Makers Week," and it is not Probably so, if her new found they get so high as to topple they hard.

Much pleased with the unexpected excitement the child looked ap Relieves in Use of Wine. whether there should be a "serious ef- often that suctaa galaxy of experts lord does not persist, as mere men and said, "Honk again, grandma." will result In another war. That is why he despises the sordid ef you. various suDjects connected with 7 a JM.t 1 11, do, in thrusting his unruly toes through the end of his lavender Portland. Dec.

28. To the Editor of tort to get tne parties logetner such The Journal I am a French woman a proposition would be carried with and it is hard for me to write EnglUh. substantial unanimity." Equally bold Dut I would like to express my views was his statement that he was "not In regard to the prohibition law. I prepared to face the prospects of a forts of the spineless pacifists. JL Useless Invitation.

A Highlander from Tobermory asked I aswvuiiurat mo uave assemuiea to take part in the discussions. On And that is the sufficient reason the French bondholders nor had I the list are the following: at the Aban railway station the price ef a ticket to Kill in. socks, or if some other woman whose soul has not been attuned to idealistic imaginings Is always why every sensible person should side with the pacifists against the I M. Houser, grain exporter. cans.

If the typical American could speak all the languages known to the thra or four generations of his Immediate ancestors, he could take charge of tha work on the tower of Babel and bring that historic edifice to a successful completion. Only by an "Americanization" so thorough as to wash out every memory of race and family could such a man and he Is typical whether we like it or not be made to hate other nations indiscriminately and assist his country in presenting a unitedly hostile front to the rest of the world. Whatever happens to us in the near future there is no possibility that we can engage in such a war as the pres-en in such a spirit as that war Is being waged. We cannot hate other nations sufficiently. We cannot ba quite intolerant enough.

Onr 1 ancestral languages end more will always be heard above the strains of martial music. think it an unjust law, ana tnat it is Tnunary aecision umess mere is no cruel to dictate to a human being. It way out," with his protest against the is a trespass on liberty to prohibit a economic strangulation of Germany person from using his own money to after the war. So far as the attitude Portland; L. M.

Jeffries, U. warlike Colonel. Peace efforts may fait. But armaments, as grain standardizer; R. D.

Jarbo at hand to redden her nose above the kitchen range and lave the family dishes when the hymeneal buy what ne lines to eat or artnioior the soiaiera is concernea -orporat This country is called the 14hd of llo- Smith's position was anticipated by brlngera of war, never fail. erty. For what? I would like to know. feasts are done. chief of grain inspection, Wash-intbn; F.

Russell, leading prune authority in the world's I prune center, Washougal, Wash- Tou could not even follow your own they jingled in French pockets. Instead the bondholders in Franca were really paid through the use of the credit created by the presence of tba gold In a French bank. The Incident is a good Illustration of the way in which metal money la, being displaced. Most of the world's business, in war as well as In peace, is, now dona by means of bills, notes, checks and other Instruments which are not so much money as promises to pay. The presence of a large gold surplus does not Indicate wealth: It may indicate the diversion of a) part of tha Droductlve power of the country the Manchester Guardian in these words: "There Is In this, as in all the countries at war, a great volume of opin- But, if the darning ball sheuld relioion.

I am a Catholic and my le- New Year's celebrations appear llglon doesn't forbid me to drink wine. to have been quite as enthusiastic. ever come between the lady's eyes and her soul's horizon or the acrid Why shojrtd I follow the principles cflion, too little vocal, unfortunately, in tbe others? favor of a serious effort on the part even if lubricated only with bone J. B. Neff, California's nut I expert, Anfielm, R.

E. Elling- dry cocktails. In reply to Mr. Amos Dahuff of I nf Enronean statesmen to end the smoke of scorching bacon pollute the atmosphere of her it Ashland. I have to say that wine is carnage which Is destroying a whole tott, assistant chief western dairy dlTlslon, Salt Lake; E.

Meyer, ii testing association specialist, Salt WHO MAKES THE LAWS? not a poison i iae moacr- i Keneration of young men who ara not ately). On the contrary, it Is a fort'- a mood to fight on blindly, killing Into enterprises which will not do the iier ana in suwr. u. k.1.. Kmed for the sake of fiaht- country any good.

Tha only wealth THE United States the so- that counts In this or any other coun jng. lr tne armies themselves could speak this volume of Lake Captain Paul Weyrauch, Jfepresident of the Fruit Growers If Agency, Inc. Walla Walla; E. "So much." replied the el ark. "Hoot awe'," replied Donald; ire far ower dear.

I'd rather walk!" end off be started. He had not proceeded far whoa the train cams tearing along, -whistling as it neared a station "To needna whistle for mef, said Donald. "I made ye an offer ainca, and' ye wadna tak it; sae ye can (ana; on. I'm no comlnV Where the Danger Lay. Crewe Good heavens, how It rains.

I feel awfully anxious about "ray wife. She's gone out without an umbrella. Draw Oh, she'll be all right. Shell take shelter In some shop. Crewe Exactly.

That's whatT makes me so anxious. v- Uncle 'Jeff Snow Say st I A barber falter waa telUn' me 'down to Portland that we couldn't git shaved by mall, but he lowed that some oft, us hayseeds got most everything else that way, He said he was -a booster, and. b'leved In patroalsln heme industry, and then set np two Philiplno cigars. I told him' be was as bad as us hayseeds, fr cigar makers has to live in Portland, same as bar berg. Barber chaps If like most all the rest of us mostly, ther want th try Is that which ultimately takes the called "legislative department" I opinion would be revealed as even form of things that can be used in or does not make the laws.

The noted Holsteln breeder, dinary life food, clothing and the like. WHen a whole continent is bain a legislative department only pro greater ana more sei man is in toe homes for which those armies, one and all, are longing." The Aurora Australia. Portland. Jan. 2.

To the Editor of Tbe Journal In November. 1907. I signed in a full-rigged ship bound for Caleta Coloso, on the west coast of Chile. Wa encountered favorable prevailing; winds from England to Cape Horn, which: we made in 42 days. There we Van Into reverse winds and current and were windbound there for poses or suggests laws.

Before jtMoorehead, Helmer Rabild in charge of dairy farm investiga considered there is not much intrinsic difference between a real gold brick would be a sad and painful awakening. vThen she would find' that all lives have their patches and their pedantry, their staccato rules and their old fogy methods; that each of us, smaller than she thinks, is but a cog in the vast machinery of existence, that the common and' unwanted things of everyday by their contrast make sweeter the idealistic imaginings of- dreams come true. Mayba she would be haptfler tomorrow if the shock were to come today. The Imprisoned Slave. From tbe Ptttburg Gazette.

With his pocket flashlight man is a modern Aladdin. The storage battery has become tha genii, of 1916, tha Imprisoned of a human hand. One of our American ambulance drivers, returning from Franca recently, was surprised on being requested, with other passengers, to give up his flashlight for the voyage. The answer was. of course, submarines.

One tiny beam at' a porthole could apprise a cruising U-boat of the liner's presence, and tbe French government is taking no chances. If steamers travel in the they become valid generally they have to stand the test of the su Called to Account. From tbo Albany Democrat. An Albany man furnishes the follow- tlons; Washington, D. and Miss "Alice Ravenhill, noted English and an imitation ona In tbe Grip of Habit.

From Pack. preme court. Indeed, any minor cnua specialist. I ia weeks: In fact, many shlna that 1 Ing we give without comment: Judge may suspend the force of any law at his pleasure; or until The man who names Pullman ears Practical problems In shipping, i marketing and production will be sprang at the man who names collars. "Wshdgevf tthgdf." he hissed.

some higher judge has passed upon year squared away and went east The Oregon Electric railway has about, owing to the- violent storms and raised the salaries of per cent of its reverse winds. Thanks to a good, employes: worthy ship, we weathered the gales How do you account for that, Ore- ono after another." Ona niKht lust aronlan? discussed by these! and other ex- his decree. "Gbevdfrseujk. was the withering perts; shipment of wheat5 In dark no passenger must bo permitted i This may be a matter for Joy or It may be a matter for regret. after tacklnr shin I heard a soft sleb- I The telephone companies ara paying to carry a signal.

Tnat this rule is bulk. instead of In sacks is one of "Come, come, expostulated the gentle-voiced keeper, "you were not to at Phoenix, they lay the dust: of their business streets with Ing, noise. I happened to be at the I their employes liberal bonuses. How wise was proved by the story of the wheel and It was in the middle watch. 1 do yon account for that.

OregonlanT (wreck of the Pio IX, outward bound the, "topics, and others" of equal Im- We are not saying which at this talk anop, yon 1 (euer. to, practice waat tney pra.