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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PO RTLAND, TUESDAY, AFKU, ijcu. WHEN LEAGUERS COME -No. 8 The Oregon Country COMMENT AND NEWS IN i BRIEF secretary, Robert J. Linden, at room 636, Chamber of Commerce building.

'Robert J. Linden, Secretary. Signed statement of Taxpayers' Vigilance committee. buttons begin to come off and it comes time to do the family ironing. If all that is going to happen we will surely need a League" of Nations to keep the whole world out of war.

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SMALL CHANGE They're off at Salt Lake. Have you registered? If not', why not? to try to a epineter of 3, to believe that there's a proper distribution of things In this world. The British pound has taken a bound, which after all doesn't make very much difference In our young life. Not at least, so far as we can notice. The prince of Wales thought he was appearing in Scotch costume recently, rtdmfr breeches instead of Wits.

Well, he's a braw laddie, anyhow, and here hoping, there's nothing the matter with his legs. "I see they've sentenced a TiMMonalre to a year in the penitentiary because he rented houses disorderly people." "I'm surprised." "That a millionaire can be sent to prison? It is remarkable, isn't I to hear that there still Is a landlord who will rent to MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town WHEN the Non-partisan league was organizing in North Dakota the business men laughed at those who considered It a menace. They scoffed, at the country merchants and bankers who were alarnwd over the enthusiasm with which the farmers were supporting the program for a farmer political party. But the league succeeded and for four years it has controlled the politics of North Dakota. "When the league began' organizing in Minnesota the business interests were unconcerned.

They were familiar with the pheomenal growth of the league in North Dakota, but they felt certain It could not succeed in Minnesota because 'the interests of that state were so diversified. But the league joined forces with organized labor and through the united efforts of producers and consumers, a few months' campaigning resulted in the league e'ecting 40 per cent of the legislature. So strong has the league become since the last election that even its enemies admit its probable victory in Minnesota at the coming election. When the league extended its operation to Montana the business men were apathetic. They reasoned that while it might succeed in wheat growing states like North Dakota and Minnesota, it could gain no headway in a cattle raising and mining state like Montana.

They reasoned that the cattle men had nothing in common with the wheat growers and that the interests or labor were diametrically opposed to the interests of the farmer. They contended that the farmer wanted lon hours of employment with low wages and a high price for farm produce, while the laboring men wanted short hturs of employment, high wages and a low price for farm produce. But somehow the farmer, cattlemen and mining workers got together on a common legislative program. Memberships came pouring In by the hundreds and thousands. Knowing of the league's success in North Dakota and Minnesota, business interests became aroused.

A special session of the legislature was convened. The direct primary law was repealed and the old convention system of nominating candidates was reinaugurated. Additional supreme Judgeships were created and filled by appointment so that the league could not secure coLtrol of that body by the election of new judges friendly to its program for some years (o come. But with all these safeguards Uie league bids fair to sweep the state at the coming election. The high-handed methods adopted by the opposition have caused tnousands of farmers and ci'y folks to Join forces with the league.

The clever plans with which the opposition sought to protect itself will likely prove its undoing. In Texas, Nebraska. Iowa, Wisconsin, Idaho and other states similar conditions prevail. Different conditions have been met in different ways, but the league has been successful and its strength is steadily increasing. In Idaho, with only 12,000 members, the league was a formidable factor at the last election, and it will enter the coming election with 35,000 members.

In Washington the league has been quietly organizing the farmers for several months and only recently has it begun its open canvass, yet 37 par cent of the farmers have become members and organized labor and the railroad brotherhoods are supporting it almost to a unit. In every state which the league has entered it has steadily gained. After securing a footho'd it has invariably increased its strength. It has prospered in spite of all that the opposition forces could do. The more bitter the attacks the more rapidly members were secured.

In eve-y state the business men have met the league invasion with highhanded methods. By villification, abuse and threats. In every case campaigns of negation have signally failed. In North Dakota it required four years of fruitless effort teach the business men that a constructive program was the o.ily method which should be pursued. The purpose of these articles is to acquaint the business group in Oregon with things and plans as they are elsewhere, in the hope that all groups of life in Oregon may be formed into a harmonious and cooperative whole, rather than have one great group assume control and put into effect a program distinctly inimica1 to another great group.

Spring is manifested in Portland hotels in several ways'. Most important, from the business standpoint, is the continued arrival of tourists, many of them en route to their homes from California. The most beautiful phase of spring's advent, however. Is the trimmings displayed in the lobbies. Florists, appreciative of the patronage that comes from hotels, vied with one another in sending fragrant Easter bouquets for the decoration of the lobbies.

At the Multnomah hotel peach' blossoms have been placed advantageously and tn profusion. Among the long distance tourists at the Multnomah are Mr. and Mrs. L. W.

Bug-bee of Indianapolis; Mrs. A. L. Timhie of Wausau. Wis.

Miss Stella M. Lough-rey of Atlantic City, N. .1. Mr. and Mrs.

H. A. Dunnells, Howell, Mass. Milton Sturgis, Mrs. Guy E.

Sturgis and Mrs. L. C. Troy, Boston. Appreciative of Oregon's need for outer coatings, Harold W.

Barker has come from London to Portland and other coast cities to look things over before he returns to New York to estab- llsh the American branch of a London coat manufactory. Barker's house makes a specialty of raincoats, and the new American representative arrived in Oregon in ample time to make sure that at least on the coast there will be a demand for such raiment, even If it does come from London. George J. Dickson, prominent stock-raiser, whose headquarters are at Prine-ville. is at the Cornelius hotel.

Because it is the nearest city to the geographical center of the state. Prlneville likes to boast of being the "heart of Oregon." James Dryden. accompanied by Mrs. Dryden. spent Easter Sunday In Portland.

They were guests at the Seward hotel. They came up from Corvallis to see how the best eggs in Oregon taste away from their original source. Dryden Is head of the poultry department at the Oregon Agricultural college and Is directly responsible for the production of the famous "Oregon" strain of laying hens, which have made "300 egg" records time and again. Major and Mrs. R.

B. Lister and children, together with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Farve, all of Spokane, are tourists registered at the Multnomah hotel while stopping In the city. Harve Is a banker In the Washington city.

Another banker at the Multnomah is George McCrosky of Pullman, home of the Washington state college. Gordon J. Taylor. Molalla newspaer North-art Bappenlnii Irp Briaf Form for tb Biuy Bnadcr OREOO.V NOTES Sterm Ki -i burned nnt lo "Dul the year for the support of a county fair. arle A brums of Salem hu wi? dwrtmen Crp" by tn ha'pla aZrl? KS3 i0 -t OOre: Edward Stocker of Newport has an- flBd'jff '-r The nomin: tion of assessor.

Lincoln county on the Democratic ticket. an as Ann ballot ot Rural telephone lines In Hood River resuT tad HtiSn i a nr P.tL K8le Krld-y which prostrated many trees. vxtUU' f'Tvlce -commiHsios v.ll csnduct a hearing at Florence April fr tne M'PHcatlon of the electric light company-to Increase rates. tf 'nire-Hed 'i per cent this year inn Jl, he automobiles and mortgage notes from (he tax rolls approves plans. drainage project of the Klamath drainage district containing 20,000 acrea Rooms In private houses are helnir listed at Hood River In anticipation of an over crowded condition during the Mir ners Imperial session at Portland In June.

Lester J- Hey man. accused of having obtained $15,000 from the First National Vf been placed under $u00() bonds to await the action of the grand Jury. Final decision has been reserved by the public service commission in the matter of the application of the Central Oregon Irrigation company to raise rates iiendlng an opinion of the attorney general on the Jurisdiction of the commission. WASHINGTON As a result of the carpenters' strike, three large construction Jobs are tied up at Spokane. The state veteran welfare office found employment at Aberdeen for 73 ex-service men during March.

The state industrial commission Is In session at Yakima hearing complaint of employers and workmen. A very substantia Increase in utraw- b.eIry made In the White Salmon valley section. Trial of E. B. Ault.

editor of the Seattle Union Record, has begun at Seattle. He is accused of criminal libel. A large buoy used to mark the entrance to Grays harbor has been torn loose by the storm and picked up near Hoqulam. At Walla Walla four and six feet of snow are reported from Toll -Oat and Big Meadows, with snow showing clear to the foothills. The Hoover presidential club of Seattle has decided to remain nonpartisan, notwithstanding Hoover's alignment with the Republican party.

An alleged 1. W. supposed to be (01e Hanson, wanted In connection the Armistice day murders at Centralis, has been arrested at Klleiisburg. George F. Chrlstermen, Democratic state chairman, has appointed an advisory committee to suggest a platform to be adopted by the state convention at Spokane May IT.

Owing to the defeat of tli proposed bond hiaue for the purchase and of parks, the Yakima park board will not attend the meeting of park commissioners at Belllngham. The Everett Central Trades council has offered a $3000 reward for the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for the lynching of Wesley Everest, an alleged I at Centralla. Skookumchuck grange of Tenlno has unanimously adopted resolutions opposing the triple alliance. The grange also went on record as -opposed to boycotting any store which does not employ union labor. According to President Harmaford only 725 of the Northern Pacific Railroad company's refrigerator cars out of a total of 4600 are now on the company's lines.

The others are scattered all over the country. IDAHO Drills are boring through lava rock near the Nampa nataforlum site where It is thought natural hot water will be struck. Farmers of Dingle. Bern and Lanark have asked the Utah Power Light company to build transmission lines to connect up their communities. The Equitable Trust company of New York has filed 76 foreclosure suits In the federal court against settlers on the Twin Falls Oakley Land and Wattr tract.

According to advices received by the weather bureau. Irrigation prospects for the coming summer look more favorable, ouing to the great rainfall of the present month. The College of Idaho, at Caldwell, is one of the three Institutions In the Inland Empire selected for the training of home and mission fleldworkers In the. Interchurch world movement. The lournal Unremitting in Jnsistem-c That Public Safety Te Assured There have" been campaigns In behalf of the public safety Ind the general welfare which The Journal has waged for weeks, moaths and even years.

The pure milk crusade, for Instance, began In 1909 and was carried on unremittingly practically until 1912, and it ha never been viewed as a completed work. Tha public docks campaign began In Tho Journal In 1906 and as the years go by it merely seems to -grow more Intense and with this characteristic, that where people of Portland In the beginning were doubtful, there is now In this city a majority of about to 1 for any proper measure of port improvement. Other extended efforts include good roads, waterway transportation, ship lines, reclamation against public land frauds, for enactment and enforcement of tha law against carrying revolvers, for the prevention of traffic accident the list la long, but it la not the sub- Ject today. On Sunday last, an editorial appeared In The Journal suggesting that parking be prohibited on tha paved portion of the Columbia river highway. An accident had occurred.i involving destrictlvely several ma- chines, because two machine had parked opposite each other on the strip of pavement 1 feet wlda.

There had been similar accidents. On Monday morning the Multnomah county commission unanimously adopted a regulation requiring that any vehicle which parks along the: Columbia river highway must have atl four wheel off the The direct incentive for thr beneficial action was The Journal ug gestkm. Commissioners HojrtYHoH man and Muck also took the position that similar parking regulation should apply- to all the other paved highways of th county. The Columbia river highway will be safer in future. The -prompl action by the Multnomah county corn-: mission la an, evidence of th aggressive public spirit a well aa- of the sense of, 'officUtf etponibUity of it member.

TA SIDELIGHTS Its an 111 wlntf that blows nobody good." says the Hopd Hiyer News. -The unusual amount of sickness here thto winter reminds to get together on; a hospital proposi tion." J. coerce- bowls and bubb ng cups. Fine quart. specimens are um," Weather critics the Cooa Bay region get this comfort from the clu'" Unttnel -Those teople who complain about a three days'.

a few last of March ouglit to live for teiv months in the Ea.t. There in six or pierht states there were cyclones last Sunday' 'wffh 160 dhs. a bl. tol of wounded and Property losses of lens of millions. WeUh that ealns the discomfort of a jlmiary spring and you H1 understand how licht our weather worries are.

man, was in town again Monday. In fact, Taylor arrives at the Imperial almost every Monday to follow up his realty business, which he has established to augment that of being publisher of the Molalla Pieneer, into whose mannerisms he is inducting a son. Taylor likes the real estate and "business chance" game almost as well as he does the business of being a small town editor. Portland hotel men, a whole flock of them, were guests at dinner Monday of Phil Metschan at the Imperial hotel in connection with their regular meeting. There is always subject for conversation among hotel men these days and It usually starts when someone asks are we going to do with the visitors who come to Portland in June?" Frank K.

Gorrell. official of the Amerr ican (banners association, io i Multnomah hotel while here on a business mission. Gorrell's headquarters are at Washington, D. C. A few years ago Mllton-Freewater was almost as prominent a combination of words as could be found, all because of the thriving fruit industry in that nocix of the woods.

Todav the fruit In dustry is even more flourishing than it was then, but somehow Milton-Free-water has fallen into disuse, apparently because the two towns choose to fly their own flags and to retain separate identities. From Free water. comes Stanley Armstrong, who is stopping at the Imperial hotel. Wallace Buttrick and Abraham Flex-ner. registering from New York, are guests at the Portland hotel while they inspect local educational facilities for the purpose of reporting to the general education board of New York.

But-trick, whose home is at Seasdale, N. is president ofthe board and Flexner 1h secretary. Both are prominent in the educational world and the former is a member of the Rockefeller foundation. Flexner was formerly secretary of the Carnegie foundation. A.

W. Stone, president of the ifood River Fruit Growers' association, ls stopping at the Portland hotel. Mr. and Mrs. L.

M. Cobbs of Seattle, where Mr. cobbs Is an attorney, are guests at the MUHnomah hotel. Registered at the Seward hotel are Mr. and Mrs.

P. S. Pelsker of Regina, Sask. Lockley i clean shaven upper Up. Mother was of sandy complexion and had auburn hair.

and a famous cook. Our house was be side the old Territorial trail from Salem to California, so we put up travelers. 'JMy people came to Oregon In the fall of 1852. They had planned to come in the late '40s, but father signed a note for a man and it took several years to get out of debt and gather enough money to buy an outfit to cross the plains. When they first came they wintered near the Looney place, near Jefferson.

My earliest recollections are of a large and comfortable log house with a large fireplace over which my mother was bending much of the time, cooking. I never think of my babyhood without smelling the delicious aroma of the Bellflower apples mother used to keep under the bed. Shortly after father took up the place he brought a backload of small fruit trees from some neighbors and set out an orchard. We had apples and many kinds of cherries. I was the first person that ever sold cherries from a wagon In Kugene.

We sold Kentish. Royal Anne and May Duke cherries, as well vegetables from door to door. "Father was very successful in raising sheep. He and mother went to the first state fair at Salem and paid John Minto $50 for a lamb, which they brought home with them in their buggy. It was a pure-blooded Merino and from this buck father raised some grade Merinos.

He usually had a band of about 600 sheep on our place. He raised flax and, mother made all our own cloth from I flax or wool. "I went to the country school till I was well advanced and then to the Christian college at Monmouth, now the stal-? normal school. The president was T. Campbell, whose son, P.

L. Campbell, is now president of the. University of Oregon. About 1872 I to nchool io J. W.

Johnson, president of the state university here in Eugene. I taught school for a while near my birthplace at Coburg. and then read law with Judge J. J. Walton.

I was admitted to In 1880 and moved to Independence, where affler a year I starved out and 1 camp back to Eugene and got work on a farm. In 1882 I opened a real estate office here, which I have run ever selling over $4,000,000 worth of -rop-erty during the past 38 years. I havi- bought and resold 520 pieces of property of my own. On May 20 I married Lizzie Maud Kanoff. Her maiden name was Cogswell.

Her father, John was one of the eld settlers in this county, i She wrote under the name of LIschen i M. Miller. She was one of the founders of Drift and later she helped start the Pacific Monthly. During the past few i years" 'I have- devoted much of my at-' tent ion to putting the town of Florence on the map a Lane county's logical gateway. "Father lived until February, 188J For the last 20 year of her life my mother lived with Joaquin at his home on the height near San Francisco.

She was 91 when she died. Joaquin was the only one of us to write poetry. He was always different from the rest, of the family. He couldn't stand restraint. He loved to be out of door.

Ha was a fine horseman and a crack shot with both pistol and rifle. He saw a lot of the world In his PENSION FOR EX-SERVICE MEN Portland. April 6. To the Editor of The Journal Replying to the letter written by "Ex-Service Man." and published In, The Journal of March S9. suggesting correction of my pension plan letter, published March 23, I will advise that all odds, ends, ifs and ands were thoroughly considered before writing the article.

Should we consume time to discuss whether this, that or the other ex-service man was earning 110 or 100 a month whether he was a soldier in the trench or a sprucer behind a log; whether he returned home In a better or worse condition. I fear the majority of the men will have passed over the great dividje into the land of everlasting peace before the much deserved pension is granted; Believing the plan outlined in my former letter was fair to all concerned and none too liberal. I modify same by suggesting a minimum pension of $20 and a maximum of $50 a month. A fair differential can be determined by adding to the minimum the sum of $1 for each month of service rendered. For instance: One month $21.

10 months $30, 30 months or more $50. Considering probable conditions 20. 30. 40 or 50 years hence, this subject should interest all ex-service men and other good Americans desirous of sufficient permanent power to insure safety first. Thomas Word.

THE IDLE LANDS Portland. March 29. To the Editor of The Journal In Oregon we treat manu facturing industries as enemies and fine them like criminals for making use ol our products. One woolen mill in Portland is fined over $3600 a year for having raw material on hand, machinery to weave it and buildings to house the same. In contrast with our shabby treatment, Baltimore exempts machinery from taxation Sydney, Australia, exempts machinery, buildings, stock and finished products.

Another contrast is the way we encourage idle landholders to block development. The Corbett block, south of the old postoffice building, is assessed for $421,000 as the value of the bare land. The improvements are assessed at $9900. Imagine a lot worth $421 with a chicken coop on it worth $9.90 and you have the proportion of "improvements." It is said $600,000 has been refused for it. In Canada they would tax that lot 25 per cent more than a lot that was improved and of the same value the Portland hotel, for instance.

Rieht south of the Corbett block is another block (to development, assessed at $262,000, and another residence on it assessed at $9000, in -proportion as a chicken coop worth $9 to a lot worth $262. The only way to get these idle land speculators off our backs is to tax them off with the single tax. There is no other method. To deny this is to equivocate, as did the mass of the politicians and paltering statesmen before the Civil war, with the slavery question. We employ men to travel about the state urging the purchase of home products, and we fine the manufacturer, producer and worker in city and country as enemies, and then wonder why manufacturing folks prefer Baltimore and other sections where they are not fined.

And we reward land speculators with light taxes and encourage them in every way we can. Our ancestors indorsed or excused piracy and the slave trade. What will posteritj' think of us? George Bylander. AN ARRAIGNMENT White Salmon, April 5. To the Editor of The Journal It is too bad that a few men in the United States senate had the power to injure the peace of the world the way they have done, by refusing to 'sign that treaty.

For the people in Europe were looking to our country to help them to peaceful conditions. The damage these senators have done the people of the earth is only equaled by that of the kaiser. And they injured the influence of our country in Europe and all over the earth. J. Law.

A STATEMENT BY MR. SUGIMURA Portland. April 5. To the Editor of The Journal With regard to certain cable reports published in some newspapers, concerning alleged statements of the British sovereign about the peace conference at Versailles, the Japanese government instructs me to say that the statements made in this connection are entirely erroneous and to deny in toto the truth of the same. Thanking you in advance for your kind attention to this matter, yours respectfully, T.

Sugimura, Consul of Japan. Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places The most costly map In the world is one of France, and It is in the Louvre. The groundwork is of polished jasper. The principal cities and towns are represented by precious stones and the names are inscribed in gold. The rivers are shown by strips of polished platinum.

and the 87 departments are set forth This extraordinary man was made in RUaSia and presented to Fiance by the then czar when the Franco-Prussian alliance was consummated. It is valued at $1,250,000. Olden Oregon Later Comers of the Immigration of 1847 Suffered Great Hardships. Owing to the settlement of the boundary question and the prospect of the enactment of a donaUon land law by congress, the Immigration of 1847 was a large one, between 4000 and 5000 persons. They began to arrive at The Dalles in the middle of Aueust and continued to i come untii November, when 200 wagons iim sin of the Can.

Ac, a trrent deal of suffer. ing and loss was attendant upon the immigration, owing to its size. The grass along the route was exhausted by the cattle of the first companies. This compelled the rear wagons to delay in order to recruit their oxen, and they were over taken by storm. Sickness attacked the trains and many died from ai epidemic of "black measles." Several small companies were attacked and robbed, by Indians.

Uncle Jeff Snow Says: There's all sorts of lawyers in this world, and some of 'em is honest. A lawyer from San Diego one time offered me $50 if I'd git on the jury fer him, which I did and when we brought his chap in guilty jist to show him we was honest American citizens and couldn't be bought by no tricky San Diego lawyer, he paid the money 'thout quib-blin'. I found out afterwards that his feller wanted to be convicted and sent up to escape bein' took back East to a worse fate. WITHIN HIS GRASP From th Home Sector. The civilianized lieutenant who was the odd male in the mixed veranda party of.

seven was not getting anywhere near so much attention as the three discharged bucks. "But, you know." he confided at last to the blondest of the hero worshippers, could have bee- wanted to." 1 C- JACKSON PnblWwx II ttJxa. confident, be eheerful and do ante other yea -oald bar them (to ttntu yon I PubHph4 ry mk day and Sunday. mornln. at Th Jsarnal Boildin.

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Portland, Oregon. The wheel of fortune turn ineeesantly around, and who can say within bin elf. i ahall today be uppermost? Confucius. THE OUTLOOK A MERICA never was in sounder business and financial condition." That was the statement of R. H.

Bean, New York business man, at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday. Mr. Bean has been In practically state recently. His business brings him in close contact with financial, commercial and industrial life. In the strongest terms, he repudiated the oft expressed prophecy that this country faces any kind of financial upheaval.

There never was such for raw material, he said. There never was 80 much optimism in the financial centers. There never was so much of the forward and upward movement in quarters where conditions and relations of human affairs are best understood. -Why slrould not conditions and prospects be as Mr. Bean paints them? The worlh-wliile world was out of commission for ol months of war.

In the 17 months slrce the armistice it has done little more than get ready to function again. Production of normal things in that long period was almost at a standstill. Several hundred billion dollars worth of the world's actual supplies were either consumed or burned up in war. Even the fo.ests of Europe were laid low, while industrial plants were worn out by production of war machinery. The coal mines and iron mines were worked to the DOint where time ha-j to be taken to put Ihem again in normal condition for production.

The one powerful nation left unharmed Is America. Its late entrance Into the war gave America time to profit enormously. From a debtor we were converted ink a creditor nation. We are the one great nation left in position to produce heavily for ex- port. Europe, bankrupt of her best men and bankrupted financially, so bankrupted that Frank Vanderlip says she can never pay her debts, has ai- mt all she can do to provide for her own requirements.

And while Europe is thus impotent, vast areas with hundreds of millions of population over the Pacific are viii5 'vi inabilities ttnu proaucts of civilization. It will take -genera- tions for those primitive countries. -w trying to rise in the scale and '-the methods of civilization, to supplied with the tools and uts and machines with which Western methods. material prizes hang with'n the reach of America and there is sound reason to believe that her fu- lure is tr be upward, onward and full of achievement. Three offenders against public safety occupy the same discreditable status and are frequently the same persons the speeder, the pistol "toter" and the bootlegger's "angel.4 GOOD ADVICE EORGES CLEMENCEAU.

who ho auit a reputation in Fran theory that everything is safer mouth shut than with it openj He demonstrated its correct ness nn an unluckv crocodile whih met in th land of the Pharaohs. -Walking along the Nile, so the story goes, the Tiger of France, met a croco dile- of Egypt sunning himself on a convenient bank. When he saw te invading Frenchman the reptile opened AN. IMPOSSIBLE POSITION That Into Which the Treaty Rippers Have Forced America From the Chicago Ppst. The New York Tribune, a newspaper which throughout the treaty controversy has damned the League of Nations with faint praise and given to its critics and amenders every possible encouragement, looking now upon the consequences of the course it has abetted, declares: "Aloofness is impossible.

This is more true now than when McKinley and Roosevelt first said It. Possibly no one can foresee the future the Influence of this country for good will not be less because informally applied. But the wiser course seems to be to seize the first opportunity, likely to be offered in a little more than a year, to adhere to the league." "Aloofness is impossible." The Post has said that over and over again. The policy of continental isolation of national isolation on a continent which has identified itself with the League of Nations is one that cannot be maintained. There is no process of insulation or immunization by which the United States can disassociate herself from the influences of world affairs.

For good or ill, the destiny of America is inseparably united with the destiny of mankind. We may decline to recognize any obligation for the peace and order of Europe and Asia we may turn a deaf ear to their troubles we may re fuse to share any of tlreir burdens. All of this will do us no good. We cannot escape. Take the question of disarmament, for example.

If we do nothing to restore and maintain peace in Europe if we abide by our decision not to join in a pact for the reduction of armaments if, for the lack of our cooperation, Europe gradually becomes again an armed camp and the British navy reassumes its task of policing the world's seas as it must we face at once the problem of establishing our own land and naval defenses on a basis of individual security against any possible coalition of foes. This means mounting taxation, with no limit in view the cruel, costly, barbaric taxation induced by competitive armament. The burden of Europe will be upon us In its most deadly form. There is no aloofness can escape that. If because we have denied the stabilizing influence of our nonimperialistic and impartial view point to the council of the nations the spirit of anarchy spreads in Europe if Germany collapses economically and politically if Poland and the smaller nations fall victim to the rule of disorder, we will feel the pressure of these catastrophes upon our own life.

American trade and commerce will suffer. The epidemic of radicalism will spread by printed and spoken word to our own people. The burden of Europe will be upon us in spite of all our resolves and protests. If in the-future, because a League of Nations flouted by America fails in its great purpose, the scourge of war should revisit the world, we will have to fight. It is unlikely that 2,000,000 men will suffice in such event.

The burden of Europe will be upon us. If none of these things happen if, instead, the free nations of Europe, bearing the world's burdens succeed in establishing peace and order and security, it will be established without particular concern for our Interests perhaps in conflict with our Interests. In the reconstruction we will have no share, and If we seek to participate in its benefits we will be regarded, as interlopers, looked upon with distrust and enmity. Letters From the People Communication sent to The Journal for publication in this department should tx written on only one ride of the paper, should not exceed 300 words in length and mut be signed by the writer vthofie mn.il address in full must accompany the contribution. A TAXPAYERS' CAMPAIGN Portland.

April 5. To the Editor of The Journal With an earnest desire on the part of the executive committe of the Taxpayers' Vigilance committee to bring about a condition whereby waste and extravagance in the expenditure of public money will be subverted and at least a semblance of system and coordination established in the various departments of our city and county government, and that the public may be fully advised of the aims of this committee. I. the undersigned, secretary of the committee, have been authorized by it to release to the press the following: The Taxpayers' Vigilance committee was organized on March 24 by the original Committee of 100," is to be financed wholly by them, and is to be Prmanent- Its Purpose is to, as far as noss conserve our tax monev nH prevent extravagance and waste of the 8ame- xt ls our f'3-" and hope to awaken the taxpayers to the absolute necessity of defending themselves against the ever increasing Inroads of the tax eaters. This can be accomplished only by the taxpayers taking an interest in matters political and through concert of action, placing in public office 1 men of business experience who have the best interests of the Community first at heart men broad enough to disdain the usual "log rolling" of politics and sufficiently experienced in business affairs to handle public affairs along the same lines of efficiency as they would apply to their own business matters.

We surely have such men among us and they should be sought out and. even at a personal sacrifice, be urged, and if necessary forced, to permit their names to go on the ballot and ith a unanimity of action we will be able to place them in charge of our various branches of government We at this writing have 687 active members exclusive of the original 100 and will not rest content until every taxpayer in Multnomah county has been acquainted with our Intent and joins hands with us in this movement as a matter of self protection. The non-taxpayer as well should give this matter thought and heed, as the higher the taxes, necessarily the higher the rentals and commodities of all kinds which the non-taxpayer IndirecUy pays a tax on. The Taxpayers' Vigilance committee has established quarters at No. 636 Chamber of Commerce building, from where literature pertaining to tax conservation is being disseminated to -its members by mall and will be gladly furnished to anyone who is not a member, by a call at our headquarters.

The original "Committee of 100" Is sponsor for the creation of the tax supervising and conservation commission non-salaried) recently appointed by Governor Olcott. The first report of their findings discloses such a condition of extravagance, waste and general Inefficiency in the handling of our tax money as will startle the taxpayer reading of same. This report and the comprehensive leading editorials of The Journal, and Oregonian commenting on same have at the instance of the Vigilance committee been printed in pamphlet form fjpr general free dis tribution: Conies- may be "had of the which should always obtain between charities. It renders unnecessary any confusion as to whether any needy individual is receiving enough or too much from the various agencies to which he or she has applied. It should result in the printing of a list of approved charities which any business man can consult and to which he can refer petitioners rather than give direct aiu in the perfunctory and indiscriminate personal way that pauperizes.

It shoulu protect the public and the charitable organizations against exploitation. When the city refers the applicants for drives to the heads of the clubs it places the question of giving in the hands of those who really represent the larger body of givers who maintain the various institutions and charitable efforts. The action has already had one commendable result. We do not as formally, several campaigns for money going on simultaneously. After an experience in passing upon applications, it is perfectly natural that business men should seek to apply those principles of organization and coordination that would tend to put charity on a business basis.

Thus, the project for a "Community Chest" and but one big drive for charitable and civic funds annually. No impulse of the human heart is more worthy than charity. The desire to benefit unfortunate humanity IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred The history of fimily old and influential in Lne county is here recorded by Mr Lockley. The brhe was very active, a good housekeeper his mouth very wide, disclosing his gleaming teeth and a good deal of his Interior anatomy. It is not reported whether the resident of Egypt meant to smile or to say something that would be offensive to the dignity of the distinguished visitor.

He never had an opportunity to explain, for M. Clemenceau poked his trusty rifle down the open throat and pulled the trigger. Now the former premier of France, having returned to Paris, relates the Incident and adds: "I have always held that reptiles as well as human beings should keep their mouths shut." In view of the recent overturn of his ministry the Tiger leaves us In doubt as to the application of his epigram. Who does he mean by rep tiles, anyway? St. Johns is a part of Portland with the city's 1,000,000 bushel bulk elevator and $3,000,000 freight and grain terminal almost In its door-yard, it ha9 a financial institution known as the Peninsula National bank which is so enterprising that it publishes at frequent intervals interesting and intelligent comments upon the local, domestic and foreign financial situation.

It has a. large industrial population, big woolen and lumber mills and the remains of a shipyard. But despite these marks of progress, St. Johns bumps along over street- that would discourage any possible investor In industrial properties from even going to see what the district offers. St.

Johns needs a paving campaign. BUSINESS AND CHARITY THE business men of Portland and Oregon are engaged in a rather unusual contribution to the solution of problems that have to do with the administration of charity. A commission appointed by the governor is charged with the duty of devising a method for the coordination of state-wide charity, including the eleemosynary institutions maintained in whole or in part by the state. The charities, the county commission and the Chamber of Commerce have joined in an effort to reestablish the confidential exchange, as clearing house of information about per sons applying for aid. At the invitation of the city, the presidents of local civic and business clubs pass upon applications for all drives of general character and rec ommend whether the permission made necessary under the city ordinance should be granted or withheld.

And the latest step In the direction of system is the plan for coordinating the financing of charities which has! been submitted by the presidents of I ine ciuds with the suggestion that all drives for all organizations can and should be placed under one directing board of business men and that but one general appeal should be made during any year. The state commission has opportunity to perform a meritorious service by properly indicating the division of responsibility between the state, the several counties and municipalities and the privately maintained charities. It ought to be able to show how a vast amount of duplication and overlapping may be eliminated. Thj confidential exchange automatically establishes that cooperation it to Mr Ixckley has lired 66 yeara in Euaene. where he has dnly proFrwred.

He makes note of the career of hi dintinuished brother, tho celebrated "Poet of the 8iena." George Melvin Miller has lived in or about Eugene for the past 66 years. I spent an hour with Mr. Miller recently and he told me of his own life and of those of many other old timers whom he has known since boyhood. "My father's name was Hulings Miller." he said. "He was born in Ohio.

His father was a Kentuckian whose people came from Scotland in early days. WThen Governor Shelby of Kentucky called the Kentuckians to volunteer to fight the English in the war of 1812 my grandfather was one of the first to respond. He was killed at Fort Meigs on the Maumee river in Ohio. Father was a little tot at the time and lived with his mother In Cincinnati. My mother's maiden name was Margaret Witt, though her people signed it I)e Witt.

She was born in-! diana. Her people hailed from YadRin county. North Carolina, having moved there in early days from Berks Pennsylvania. They were originally irom i Holland and as rar back as tney nave records they were Quakers. "I was the only child of the family born in Oregon.

I was born on. our farm near Coburg, May 17. 1853. Co-burg was named by Ananiah Lewis, an early settler there, for his native village in Wales. There were five children in our family.

John D. was the eldest He was born in Indiana. Clnclnnatus Hiner was next. We never knew whether he was born in Ohio or Indiana, for he was born in a covered wagon as my people were traveling from Indiana to Oregon and they camped just about on the state line between Ohio and Indiana. Mother gave him his middle name.

Hiner, as a mark or regard for a Dr. Hiner, a country doctor, whom they called Io attend her when he was born. Mother always called him Nat. but the rest of us and his school mates called him Hiner. Later, whe.f he began to write poetry, he took the name of Joaquin Miller.

In California they call him the Poet of the Sierras. James Henry Blair Miller was the next child and then came Ella-Ella married John L. Luckey here tn Eugene. Jim and I are the only ones of the family left. Jim lives at Albany.

John, my eldest brother, went back to Philadelphia to attend college and learn dentistry. He graduated, got married and. 3uat as he had started practice the Civil war broke out. He enlisted as a 100 days man. for they thought the war wouldn't last over 100 days.

He was in 11 battle during the first 100 days. His health broke, and he died of consumption. "When my grandfather was killed father was takeni by a family of Quakers He imbibed their doctrines thoroughly. He never fired a gun In his life. He was trustful and unworldly.

He never struck one of his children, as he did not believe in physical force as a method of settling disputes. He was a very lovable man, greatly esteemed by his neighbors, whose disputes he was always called upon to adjust He was a school teacher but was always called Squire Miller or Judge Miller. He was a justice of the peace and 'was called upon very often to marry couple. He was a natural student and a great reader. In tfc manner of the time he wora a full beard with is nohly born of unselfishness and sympathy.

But these facts do not lessen the desirability of business methods in charity. The best thouarht and Hoct deavor in America sustains a i t- Sustains a lOSS in vno passing or Bishop Matthew I Hughes. He had a rich sense of humor and contemplated life in the true fullness of its opportunity. It is highly regrettable that his work in Portland lias been cut short by his sudden passing in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday. But he fell, as all-good soldiers fall, at his post of duty and with, his banner waving.

NO MILLENNIUM WOMEN, so Chicago bankers prophesy, are liable to relegate mere men to the kitchen and the scullery in the not very remote future if the male sex does not watch out. The war has given them a taste of power and economic independence never before had and they are loth to let go and retura to the pots and pans. Feminine depositors are piling up huge deposits in the aggregate and axe hanging onto their outside jobs like grim death. It may be so and it may come true, for some of the boys. But if It does it will be a sweet revenue.

For a long time now crusty husbands have been coming home- late and raising Lain because the dinner was cold, the chops were overdone or the biscuit were burned. Not long ago a bride not far from here went out and drowned herself because the temperature of her coffee had seemed to cool the ardor of the groom. But when the new day dawns It will be different. Hubby will have to juggle the ham and eggs, brown the morning toast, wash the morning dishes and start the children tt to school while his better half hops into the family limousine and. fceatg it for the office, the counting house and the club.f will'be a great system.

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