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THR OREGON, SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY-'. MORNING, DECEMBER ,3,. 1919.
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INCOMPETENT?
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UE Oregonian says:
"Aside from Bryan, McAdoo and
Clark," Inquires the Aberdeen
World, "what else has the Demo
cratic tarty to offer?"
fi What else? A record which has
plainly alienated if not wnoiiy rorreitea
the confidence of the country In Its
competency for administration.
A record of partisanship which has
driven all but . the ever-faithful and
never-dying and seldom-resigning Into
the ranks of the opposition.
- A record for waste and extravagance
.which has made the average citizen
'weary and sick and has caused him to
determine somehow to relieve himself
of the burden.
A record of preference for little men
In big Jobs which has given just offense
to a public which wants to see great
tasks done in a great way.
A record .of surrender to class Interests
which has .-tainted all administrative ef
fort with the' color of cheap political
Opportunism.
The- Republican party had its time
of great achievement. When the Dem-
a iocratie party went wrong and split
over slavery, the Republican party
rendered Incomparable service. It has
other great achievements to Its credit.
But no party administration' of any
period has a record of more construc
tive achievement than the seven years
of President Wilson. To speak of
those years as years of incompetence
Is unfair, unjust and untrue.
;' j, That period gave America a ship
ping board. What would the country
have done during the late war with
out the shipping board? But for the
fortunate fact that the machinery was
In existence for building ships, how
would more than 2,000,000 Americans
have reached Europe' in time to save
the day ?
The Wilson administration created
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repienuid work in exposing and re-
y moving the menace of the packers'
3 domination has just borne fruit.
- The Wilson regime created a non
partisan tariff commission to take
1 the tariff out of politics and make of
It a scientific business activity, as
should have been done 100 years ago.
It created the farm loan board, by
which, for the first time, farmers are
emancipated from mortgage compa
nies, given low Interest on long time
and given equal advantages by gov
ernment with railroads and great
commercial and industrial concerns in
borrowing money for the conduct of
their business.
The farm loan board should have
.been created 50 years before. The
farmers pleaded for it for 30 years
Though their farms were fast passing
tinder tenantry, the party In nower at
2 4. Washington persistently refused to
' - I ald them until Woodrow Wilson be
- i' came president.
1 The long list of constructive meas-
tires nnsspyl hv n pnnirau mhtnh fr
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tjv, Wilson called -into special session and
& Kept at wot, for nearly two years,
J, cannot be recounted here. They are
: a record or, achievement greater than
' all the ' constructive enactments In
the entire preceding generation.
t. Among them Is the federal reserve
- system. The country waited 50 years
for It - Panic after panic brought the
country to ruin, threw millions Into
Idleness, plunged industry into stag
nation and rendered multitudes pen-
-mless. It was due to a defective ft
nanclal system. But the party then
- In power was either unable or un
, willing to correct it. The moment
business got well Into prosperity, the
tmauuiai sjBhcui was bo unaepenaaDie
that bier interests bee Am a tritrhtana
rin...txi .... i . . . .
t contraction of credit began and panics'
i Tesuiiea.
;A Democratic ' congress came along
i. in Cleveland'. time and wna na in
i competent to apply a remedy as Re
't publican 'congresses and presidents
y were before and after. -
It was" not until Woodrow Wilson
arrived with a congress that followed
his "leadership that the great federal
reserve system was brought into be
ing. It arrived at a timely moment,
for, without a tremor or a pause, it
was the means by which America
financed the most stupendous war
transactions Jn all history. It, with
n
K. the-competency of its administration
i was thej influence that : saved, the
t; k country , from' a panic when the fi
- nances of the World were in upheaval
S .at; the - outbreak of the war, when
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stock exchanges were closed down and
financial Institutions around the earth
were on the verge of collapse. ; ?
It is the narrowest of partisanship
and the unfalrest of public discussion
that ignores inch' achievements and
goes on to say. that the Wilson ad
ministration has been ."incompetent."
The one thing about thai administra
tion is that, in constructive achieve
ment, . it has stood .out preeminent
as the most competent administration
in the history of America, bar. none.
No other administration, 'Democratic,
Whig, Federalist or Republican, can
point to one half as many big con
structive enactments.
And what shall be said ot Mr. Wil
son and his assistants during the wart
Were they "incompetent?" Was a
war that military critics said would
last for four or five years, won In
19 months, or was it not? Must there
not have, been some competent man
agement somewhere? Did the Ameri
can navy carry more than 2,000,000
Americans to France and back again
without the loss of a single 'man?
Was the head of the navy not declared
before this was done to be an "incom
petent" many times, by the same
newspaper that now declares the
whole Wilson administration to be
"incompetent" ?
Woodrow Wilson was the leader
and the commander in chief. If we
had failed over there the condemna- I
tlon would have been his. Had he;
failed to unite his widely differing
countrymen into one compact whole
for the conflict, we would have failed,
and he would have been Justly held
to have been an "incompetent."
But we won. We became one great
unified country, and 'we beat the Ger
mans in 19 months instead of in four
or five years. We amazed the world
with our financial and physical prep
arations and with the tremendous ef
fectiveness of our organization. Some
where there were leaders to give our
matchless fighters a chance to reach
the foe and to draw 100,000,000 people
into a compact solidarity to back
them up.
And It was the American White
House that framed and proclaimed
the issues on which the war was
fought. It was America's interpreta
tion of those issues that was accepted
and adopted by the allied nations. It
was an American mind that told
Europe why it was fighting and what
for. It was an American mind that
through the supreme counoil so or
ganized our European allies that the
armies were coordinated and united
into a compact and victorious whole.
It was the American White House
that held out promise of freedom and
democracy to oppressed peoples In
Egrope and by those promises helped
to break down the morale of the Ger
man and Austrian armies, a course
that saved America the sacrifice of
thousands of her sons.
The American White House, with
fine diplomacy Refused congress
Clamor for a declaration of war against
Bulgaria, and by that course and sup
plemental diplomacy and propaganda
among educated Bulgarian people.
spread the Insurrection at home which
broke down the morale of the Bul
garian armies which precipitated the
beginning of the end with final de
struction of the German empire..
Out of all these things America be
came the admired, acknowledged and
accepted leader of the world. On
American leadership the war was
won, the peace signed and a great
instrument to end all wars prepared.
Only such leadership as that of the
American administration could have
led Europe with Its thousands of
years of balance of power, reprisals,
conquest and intrigue, to accept a
plan to make the treaty provided for
Its own enforcement, to provide for
disarmament of the nations a step
always before deemed Impossible, to
provide for arbitration of all interna
tional disputes, and to provide for a
new and more intelligent order on
the earth. Could all this come from
what the Oregonian calls an incompe
tent administration?
Is a comparison of party compe
tency desired? If so, consider nearly
seven months of the special session
of congress at labor, as summed un
by Mr. Mondell, himself 4t Republican,
ana tne leader of the Republican ma
jority in the house. Here is what he
enumerated as the achievements by
congress up to November 22, a period
pr nearly six months:
Building a brides over thm Hrinn..rv.
river, granting citizenship to Indians who
nu xougni m tne great war, requiring
that undelivered mall matter be returned
to the senders, granting the cancellation
stamp privilege to the Roosevelt Memor
ial association and authorizing the Pro
testant Episcopal church' of the diocese
of Washington to give the same right to
women to vote and hold office as is now
eujoyea oy men.
The king or was It the Queen?
of England has been exceedingly
thoughtless and unkind. The royal
edict has issued against abbreviated
or trousered skirts at court func
tions, and against barebacked and
low bodiced gowns. But not a hint
is there in the regal pronunciamenteJ
as 10 wnat the ladles may wear. And
here comes the season waxing epon
to us crest and all the clothes so
far constructed extremely extreme,
and if they don't-get a hint soon,
they won't even be able to wear what
they have in order to attend the first
runctlon and take copies from the
royal appareL It's a hard life at
court.
CAPTAIN SAWYER
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HOSE who groped In the late fogs
ana cautiously felt their way
from place to place in Portland,
can the better understand what
problems ;. often confront a mariner.
They could scarcely see the curb as
they passed In automobiles along the
Street. Even automobile lights were
at Intervals rturned out la order that
the drivers might better vision objects
about them. : Is here not some ex
planation of the shocking accident to
the Chanslor? ' ". '- -
There was a fog but there where
the doomed ship was , ploughing her
way southward. There were treachr
erous currents in the waters below,
currents that pulled strongly toward
the shore. If such a fog as' curtained
Portland these late nights were over
the sea then, what grim crises fronted
the officers and men on the Chanslor 1
Human : endeavors are weak in the
face of mighty Nature and her ele
ments. Powerful as man is In the
things he can do, ne and his devices
are puny things in the, hands of the
elements when in unusual mood. ''
Captain Sawyer and his crew had
the misfortune of being afloat under
extraordinary circumstances and, in
unpropltious times. We can never
know the full measure of the diffi
culty that surrounded them, or with
what " intelligence they , sought to
avert fate.
We-. do know that 37 brave men
went down to the sea and never came
back, and in that knowledge a full
measure of our deepest sympathy
goes but to those who .loved and
lost, .
The gray fogs on the sea, the
treacherous currents of the ocean and
the deadly reefs off Cape Blanco did
their fatal work and added one more
appalling marine disaster 'to the his
tory of Pacifio coast waters.
Czar Nicholas had his Rasputin
and now It appears that Kaiser Wll-
helm had his Karamandjhan. Both
necromancing parasites gained their
sway because their patrons had been
brought up to believe in the divine
right of kings and thought the char
latans had been sent to them as in
termediaries with Deity. Foolish
thought In foolish brains. Both
dupes and parasites, were made
lower than the peasants who were
thought to have no rights, either
divine or human.
THE PUBLIC ON FOOT
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HE public has been assuming that
drivers alone were responsible
for automobile accidents.
They are not. JBy pictures and
narrative, The Journal today shows
the foolish and futile capers that
pedestrians cut on the streets.
Thoughtlessness seems to be a pre'
vailing habit. Utter unconsciousness
that streams of busy traffic are run
ning in cross currents, through the
streets, possesses many pedestrians.
A woman with an. umbrella took a
look in one direction as she started
across a busy street, but took no ac
count of the cars passing forward in
the other direction. The inevitable
happened.
Automobile traffic has come on in
great volume so suddenly that many
people are not Vet aware that it has
made a great change In human af
fairs, it is part Qf evolution on the
earth. It is a great change that must
be faced. It is a reality that cannot
be resisted, and human beings must
change their habits to accommodate
themselves to it.
Since they cannot roll it back or
stop It in its course, they must study
its meaning and accommodate them
selves to its requirements.
Nothing could be more Irrational or
ridiculous or unintelligent than the
antics of some pedestrians, as exam-
pled in The Journal's pictures and
story today.
At Sixth and Alder, a man walked
to the center of the street, changed
his . mind and turned back without
looking for automobiles. One struck
him. A woman stepped from the curb
to cross the street at Morrison and
Second. The approach of an automo
bile prompted her to return, as the
machine stopped. She dashed ahead
a second time Just after the machine
again moved forward. An accident
followed.
Two women started across the
street at Thirty-third and' Belmont.
A machine approached. One woman
darted ahead and the other stepped
backward. One Jockeyed. The driver
broke a wheel on the curb in attempt
ing to avert an accident
These are factors in the traffic
problem so far as pedestrians are con
cerned. The public on foot has its
part to learn. Most of it Is densely
uninformed now, and that lack of re
alization accounts for many accidents.
The traffic police, after a long study
of the . situation have found that 80
r,,. Mnt nf Mripnt. in fertttaH fhM.
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on foot are involved are the fault of
pedestrians themselves. How could
there be more striking proof that In
every home and at every fireside there
should be careful study of traffic
rules and traffic emergencies?
Even Colonel Slattery's adverse
report on the 35-foot channel proj
ect between Portland -and the eea
will have little deterrent effect if
speedy growth of commerce demon
strates the need of improvement.
In fact the engineer officer makes
it clear that no one would be more
gratified than he if the cost of harbor-betterment
per ton of shipping
should be reduced by a half through
the accumulation of business. Ports
of the Columbia have filed their
documentary claims in behalf of the
project Now let them establish the
shipping that will compel the ap
propriation. THE DAY OF THE RECKLESS
!TH .no desire whatever to in
fluence a judicial decision, but
merely to point out a faet, it
may be said that the prejudice
which exists in the local public mind
agalnst N. P. Sorensen is not par
ticularly personal. . He Is merely the
representative of a type. He has be-
come the personification of the reck
less driver whom' the people have
come to abhor T and fear and -whom
they wish, to . eliminate. i -,'-.'-
Mr. : Sorensen had four 'accidents
within ; an hour. -" He was charged
with driving an automobile while in
toxicated. He was given a jail sen
tence as well as a fine. It Isn't N. P.
Sorensen, the wealthy tlmberman.
whom the public wishes penalized;
It is the reckless driver whom, they
would see jailed. , Once and for all,
let it be said that the day of tolera
tion for the reckless driver In Port
land Is past The streets must be
made safe. Accidents must diminish.
Life and property must be. better
protected. .
Hurried by competition with San
Diego's 4M and St. Louis' 6 ft, Port
land might impulsively claim that
local feminity has either the largest
or the smallest feet in the country.
dependent on who was fitted last.
But the honest head of the women's
shoe department who responds to
The Journal's query, and who has
been fitting dainty footgear for the
past score of years, says that the
average size of women's shoes in
Portland Is No. 5. This, he also in
sists. Is the very best size for neat
ness, grace and a good understand
ing. Now where are Che allegations
that our moist winters spread the
feet and web the toes?
THE FOG
ERE is something wraithlike and
uncanny about the fog. It dims
famiflar environment and gives
accustomed objects strange and
ghostly shapes. Its swirls are like
the drapery of specters, its touch like
Lthe clammy fingers ofdeafh.
The fog such as Portland has ex
perienced the last two days throws
Its blanket over the earth, and where
traffic had orderly way, vehicles
grope and pedestrians wander blindly.
When it rests upon the sea mariners
strain eyes vainly beyond the bow of
a craft that has seemed suddenly to
yield its normal staunchness to egg
shell fragility, and the sailors fear
the reefs which the gray monster may
turn upon them yonder in the dark
ness. Confusion of mind is symbolized by
fog. Apprehension of the unknown
is similarly expressed. When Brown
ing sought for a phrase to convey
his own creeping sensation as he
Jturned from the gaiety of life to the
snadowy avenues of eternity, he could
think of nothing better than.
Fear death? to feel the fog in my
throat, the mist In my face !
Fog is not like night, which may
be lighted. It is like the failing of
sight in the eyes, the recession of
blood from the heart the dulling of
sensation in the finger tips, and the
smothering of breath in the lungs.
But as kindlier things follow the
dark and the gruesome, Portland's
fogs are usually the promise of a
clear and sunlit day.
Let the action testing the validity
of the court of domestic relations
be pressed quickly to a final de
cision. If the court is found to
have been constitutionally estab
lished then let those who seek to
nullify its usefulness withdraw their
attacks. If the court is unconstitu
tional, as the district attorney be
lieves it to be, then let the people
at the earliest possible opportunity
vote upon the amendment that will
give, the court of domestic relations
legal standing. The experience of
the court during the short period
of its contested administration shows
that it is needed. It presides over
the destinies of drabbed lives. -
WHO WANTS THEM?
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T IS a little surprising to see Frank
Jordan, California's veteran secre
tary of state, linking hands with
F. C. Harley, Astoria's erstwhile
and spectacular mayor, in an effort
to secure the "limited importation'
of Chinese labor into the United States.
For some little time now Mr.- Harley
has been ranging over California, at
Los Angeles, San Francisco - and at
other places, spreading his propaganda
In behalf of the yellow men. He
seems to be making it his business,
and he appears to be well financed as
he goes from place to place.
Lately Mr. Jordan has taken the
cudgels up. He was an Oregon visitor
not long ago during which time he
preached the doctrine of Mayor Har-
1 i7 earnestly and Insistently.
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; since uis return to aacr&meuio ne
has not forgotten his northern neigh
bors, but takes time to remind them
once In a while what a boon it would
be were the logged off lands, and the
cleared fields, too, for that matter, to
be given over to the care and cultiva
tion of Chinese coolies, "brought In
after careful selection, under govern
mental supervision and occupational
restrictions, to do the roug work
of the farms, work which it Is practi
cally Impossible to get white men to
perform." He suggests also, "a mini
mum wage and restrictions, making
it impossible for the Chinese to com
pete with skilled American labor."
It Is very doubtful tf the scheme of
Secretary Jordan and -Mayor Harley
will meet with universal approval
In California, In Oregon, or in1 any- of
the states which might be affected
by it. There is no doubt at all about
the fact that one of the big and vital
economic problems of the present
time is that of increased production,
not on the farm alone but In every
Industry. Maximum production, con
sistently sustained would ' undoubt
edly, in time, bring mihimtun costs in
living expenses and commodities gen
erally, but it is more than doubtful
if the importation : of Asiatic labor,
no : matter how closely guarded or
restricted, would solve the problem
either of productfon or of farm Ufa
unless it were to be used hv such
volume as to unbalance the structure
of American living and employment
standards. It would be indeed dif
ficult to people the farms with cheap
coolie labor without that condition
having a direct and immediate reflex
upon, the wages of laboring men
everywhere. If this be a Jact the-to-sistence
of Jordan ' that he
would never aid In any movement whlcn
would lower the American standard of
living, nor favor the importation of Chi
nese labor even for - a ; period to meet
existing economic emergencies if I be
lieved it would , result disastrously , for
American labor, skilled or unskilled
sounds 'slightly Mllogical, to say the
least ' ;: K
' The. cold fact is that the farms of
the couhtrjr'arei being depopulated of
their young men not so much because
white men will not do the work upon
the farm as because the price of their
labor and the standard of their living
upon the farm does not match wages
and standards otherwise. Farm own
ers'v., cannot -2 1 meet the. competition,
either -.In compensation or In hours.
of urban employments; . They, and
their employes, or those who would
be such under different conditions,
can make more money, make it easier
and under more comfortable living
conditions,-In the city than in the
country-
History of Wool Industry in
the Oregon Country
There Is Much of Romance About
Even So Prosaic a Subject.
The annals of Oregon City are full
of romance. Its -history is a rich ledge
from which' future historians and fiction
writers can secure unlimited material.
Take, for example, the Oregon City
woolen mill. That certainly seems a
prosaic subject; yet the warp and woof
of the story of the founding of the
woolen mill is shot full of romance.
The Incorporation papers for the
Oregon City woolen mill, with a capital
stock of $60,000, were filed with the
secretary of state on December 31,
1S62, by A. L. Lovejoy, L. D. C Latour-
ette, W. W. Buck, Arthur Warner,
George II. Atkinson, F. Barclay, Will
Whltlock, Daniel Harvey, J. I Barlow,
William Barlow, John D. Dement, W.
C. Dement, W. C Johnson, A. H. Steele
and D. P. Thompson. Joel Palmer was
president of the company. A brick and
stone building, 52 by 1S8 feet, was put
up in the winter of 1864-65.
Where is the romance about - that
you ask? Let us look up the facts
about the men who started the industry,
then ascertain where they obtained
their wool and how the first sheep came
to Oregon.
Tour quest will take you back to
the first county fair in Oregon, which
was held in Yamhill county on October
1854. Four days later a county fair
was held at Salem, at which Mrs. R.
Geer entered two skeins of yarn,
the first ever exhibited In Oregon. That
same year E. L. Perham ft Co. installed
a carding machine at Albany. The next
spring Barber & Thorpe put up a mill
on the La Creole, in Polk county, to
spin, weave, dye and manufacture
woolen goods. The next yea Salem
followed suit, erecting the - first full
fledged woolen mill on the Pacific
coast. Then came Oregon City. In
1866 Ellendale, on the farm of Judge
R. P. , Boise In Polk county, had . a
woolen mill. The fourth mill In Oregon
was built at Brownsville.
But how about the wool? Wnere did
that come from, and who brought the
first sheep Into Oregon? Romance?
Hardship? Adventure? Tes, you wiU
find lots of it, if you will look up the
coming of the first sheep to Oregon.
Ewlng Young, while buying Spanish
cattle in California in 1837 to drive over
land to the Willamette valley, met Jacob
P. Leese of Ohio, in Sacramento valley.
Leese has a band of 900 sheep. Ewing
Young suggested that he drive part of
his band to Oregon to sell to the former
Hudson's Bay company employes and to
the missionaries. Leese did so, and thus
brought the first sheep to Oregon.
In 1841 Jacob Leeee sold his house in
Yerba Buena to the Hudson's Bay com
pany, to move to Oregon. He came to
Oregon the following summer, driving a
small band of ( sheep overland to the WU-
lamette vaney.
Romance? Take the life of this one
pioneer Oregon stockman and sheep
breeder: In 1835 Captain W. A. Rich
ardson erected four redwood posts, over
which he spread a ship's sail, on the site
of what is now the city of San Fran
cisco. This was his freight office for
the handling of bides and tallow. The
next spring Jacob Primer Leese came to
the "cove of Yerba Buena," to go into
business with Nathan Spear and Captain
W. S. Hinkley, in command of the bark
Don Quixote. The two latter were to
manage the Monterey end of the enter
prise, while Leese operated the Yerba
Buena end. General Flgueroa had
charge of the Mexican presidio, or mili
tary reserve, and refused to allow Leese
to build within 200 veras of the beach.
Leese secured from the Mexican gov
ernor permission to take up a 100-vera
lot, which he did at what Is now the
corner of Clay and Dupont streets, where
in the early fifties the St. Francis hotel
was built. He started his building on
July 1, 1837, and was ready for business
on July 4. This was the first building
to be erected on the site of the metrop
olis of the West San Francisco.
On April 1, 1837, he had met and pro
posed to' a sister of General Vallejo.
Seven days later they were married.
April 16, 1838, there was born to them a
daughter, Rosalie, the first child born on
the site of San Francisco.
Romance and adventure? The begin
ning of every industry in Oregon is full
of romance. The founding of the first
woolen mill in Oregon was made possible
by Jacob Leese, Mr. Shaw, who had
driven a few sheep across the plains in
1844, and Joseph Watt, a resident of
Oregon City from 1844 to 1846. Return
ing to his native state, Ohio, Joseph
Watt came back to Oregon in 1847 with
a band of sheep and a carding machine.
Five years later there were enough
sheep in Oregon that it was considered
expedient to Ipuild a woolen mill, so that
Oregon need not be dependent upon tne
Atlantic seaboard for flannels, blankets
and suitings. Today Oregon-made blan
kets and woolen goods made of Oregon
wool are known for their excellence all
over the world.
Letters From the People
Communication sent to The Joans! for
Dttblicstkm is this dfloutmcnt ahoald be written
on only one (id of tbe paper, ibonld net execed
SOe words in Umstb, and araat bo aicned hj tlao
wrnar. wnoao man aanraaa in roll moat accom
pany tne eoatnsntlon. -Opposes
Capital Punishment
Salem, Dec. 20. To the Editor of The
Journal No national greatness can
come to us unless we have our ideals
high as heaven- and bend every effort
to attain them. If capital punishment
acts as a deterrent of crime, then the
more deeply it impresses us the less apt
we are to commit crime. Imagine
Christian nation excusing itself for mur
derfor to take life Is to murder and
that prerogative is Satan's, and Satan's
oniv. God cannot kill. He caa only give
THE NEW
By. George
A SONG for the Old
, While Its knell Is tolled.
And. its parting moments flyl
But a tone and a cheer
For the'GUd New Year,
While we watch the Old Year die!
Ohl its grief and pain
Ne'er can come again.
And its care lies buried deep;
. But what Joy untold
Doth the New Year hold.
And what hopes within it sleep l
A song for the Old,
While Ws knell is tolled,
And the friends it gave so true!
But with hearts of glee,
Let us merrily
Welcome in the bright, bright New!
For the heights we gained.
For the good attained, .
. We will not the Old despise;
But a Joy more sweet,
Making Ijfe complete,
In the golden New Year lies.
A song for the Old,
While its knell is tolled!
With a grander, broader zeal.
And a forward view.
Let us greet the New,
Heart and purpose ever leall
Let the ills we met.
And the sad regret
With the Old be buried deep;
For what Joy untold.
Doth the New Year hold.
And what hopes within it sleep l
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
"Bob" Stanfleld Is going to know
whether he ought tb be a candlate for
the United States senate the next time
he comes to Portland, which is going to
be In the near future, according to cur-J
rom rumor. J. rial micnings is going
to tell him all about IL Not that the
Eastern Oregon sheep king has asked J.
Hat for the information, but J. Hat
wants to impart it He wants. J. Hat
doe3, "to have a little chat with Bob,"
and he has been floating Into the hotel
lobby daily for the past few days look
ing for his man.
J. Hat Hitchings is a prophet, or a
seer, a soothsayer, a man of second
vision, or something like that He knows
"what's goin to happen," admits it and
is proud of It During the great war,
when the mind of the world was gripped
with the desire to know what was going
to be the day after today; and the day
after tomorrow, J. Hat dreamed his
dreams. He knew that the kaiser was
packing his grip for Holland, Just when
Foch was going to strike out and where.
He used to tell the boys, insistently,
whether his visions checked with the
stories of the war correspondents or
otherwise. Now he Is looking for
Bob Stanfleld, to have a little chat
and tell hlra who is going to be the
next United States senator from Ore
gon. In the meantime the rank and
file of the political prophets are holding
their breath and guarding their hunches.
They are taking no chances with their
own prognostications not untU after J.
Hat has -whispered into Bob's reluctant
as receptive ear, as the case may be.
Ben C. Dey, the local legal adviser of
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
f Admonition eoneemlnt tha welfare of ehU-
Cren to tne and that they be kept rat of the
rp.nks of the delinquent are contained m Mr.
LoeUey'a article for the day. in which he qnota
an ex-superintendent of the state Industrial
school ,
"What becomes of the boys who are
committed to the state industrial school?"
I inquired of Will Hale a day or so ago.
Will Hale Is probation officer under
Judge Jacob Kanzler in the court of do
mestic relations. For six years he was
superintendent of .the. state Industrial
school, formerly called the reform school,
near Salem. For many years he was a
Y. M. C. A. secretary. He has worked
with and studied boys for the past 20
years.
"You meet them every day." respond
ed Mr. Hale. "Some are business men,
others policemen, deputy sheriffs, edit
ors, lawyers or other professional men."
"Are you talking figuratively or do
you mean that here in Portland we have
policemen, editors and deputy snenris
who have been in the reform scnooiT" 1
asked.
"I mean just that he replied. "If a
boy is a graduate of Yale, Harvard,
Stanford, the Oregon Agricultural coi
leee or any other college, he attends
class reunions and Is proud of his alma
mater. If a boy gradutea at the state
industrial school, he tries to let the dead
past bury Its dead, and you never hear
of it. The more successful he becomes,
the less you are apt to hear of his hav
ing been an attendant at the reform
school. When a man goes to the peni
tentiary, the papers play up the fact
that he was committed when a boy to the
reform school, and they conclude he
must have had inborn criminal tenden
Mm -rid is incorrigible. In other words.
you hear only of the failures of the grad
uates Of the reiorm scnooi, never ui u
successes. At least 75 per cent of the
Inmates of our state Industrial school
make good In spite of their boyhood
handicap. "
-Do I smoke? No. I did, for 15 years.
But practice is stronger than precept I
couldn't very well advise boys not to
smoke when I myself smoked. So I quit
"What do I think of the cigarette?
You may not agree with me, but if you
had been, as I have, in a position to
know what I am talking about you
would agree that the cigarette, more
than any other one thing. Is the cause
of Juvenile delinquency.
"That statement requires explanation.
It goes back to the home and to the
parents. In A God fearing law respect
ing home the parents watch over their
children. They see that they are at
school. The children receive home
life. Salvation and destruction do not
come from the same source. Church and
state 2000 years murdered the Truth, and
the soldiers were abetted in giving vlji
v tn. Him to drink. This crucifixion was
judicial and ecclesiastical. The question
arises. Was it rigntl Answer, aui iu
can. The truth is, we have more de
fendants of that released murderer
among us today than we have of Chris
tiana The mob spirit Is both blind and
demoniacal, and actuates more people
today than In any time since the cruci
fixion of the one perfect man.
The time is now at hand when we
shall all drink of his cup and be bap
tised with his .baptism, for the blood of
mankind and the fire of the spirit are
at hand, and Satan is wroth, knowing
his time is short. Brute force, compul
sion and every error are going to sweep
over this old earth until all shall have
paid the debt of degeneracy pt the past
YEAR
Q?oper
Standard Oil, is about ready to blow
up. Not that he Intends to explode, for
he Is too calm and collected for any
such thing as that But he Is packing
his grip to blow up to Salem on Janu
ary 12 and tell the legislature a Jot it
does not know about the volatile and
tricky fluid sold aa gasoline.
During the last session of the legisla
ture Dey tried to tell the lawmakers
all about that subject, but they did
not seem to pay as much attention to
his story as he thought they- should. He
told them that "66 gravity" gasoline was
too rich for Oregon consumption, that
California and Washington did not use
it and that If Oregon Insisted on de-
mending It they would have a hard
time getting It The heedless legislature
went It-' divergent way, and now the
heedful automoblllsts are having a dlf
ficult time keeping their tanks full at
the same old price.
Some of the legislators have had the
temerity to contend, .with more or less
publicity, that the Standard OH com
pany is boosting the price of gasoline
more because of politics than because of
a shortage in the supply, in order to
convince the legislators that Mr. Dey
had the right hunch back in January,
1919. Mr. Dey denies this and there
fore is getting ready to blow up to
Salem when the special session convenes
and "meet 'em face to face." When he
does Joe Singer promises to enforce
house rule 66, mindful of the wise maxim
that matches and cigars are dangerous
things to fuss with when the fumes of
gasoline fill the air.
Lookley
training and are taught to respect the
rights of others. In a broken homea
home broken by divorce little or no
care is given to the training of the chll
dren. The children, prior to the divorce,
have become accustomed to bickering,
acrimonious discussion and smoldering
hatred. A divorce is obtained. Disci
pline of the children is lax. There Is
little or no parental supervision. The
eirls. who reaulre and are entitled to
a mother's care and training, do not get
it, and at the movies and at public
dances meet the type of men who are
always lying in wait for prey. The boys
play hookey. They meet some 'tough
guy, who can 'show them a good time
Soon they have acquired the cigarette
habit They become listless and dull, so
they cannot keep up with their classes.
and they fall. They have estabUshed
habit that must be gratified. Their
'tough guy chum advises them to 'hustle'
a headlight from an automobile or take
the faucets, electric fixtures or other
brass work from some building, to sell to
a Junk man, so they can buy the mak
In's.' They are not caught. It was so
easy that they steal a spare tire from an
automobile and sell it for a few dollars
to have a 'good time' witu Next they
"borrow a machine to take some 'Jane'
for a joyrtde. They are caught and sent
to the reform school.
e e e
"What Is the remedy? Less hasty mar'
riages. Less laxity In our divorce laws.
A curfew law, with the bell rung at 9
o clock and a strict and Impartial en
forcement of the law. A state law for
bidding junk dealers or others to pur
chase Junk or automobile accessories
from minors. Let junk dealers call at
the boy's borne and do their buying.
Lastly, the strict enforcement of the
present anti-cigarette law. The law
states that the entire set shall be deemed
an exercise of the police power of the
state for the protection of the economic
welfare, health, peace and morals of the
citizens of our state, and that all of its
provisions shall be liberally construed
for the accomplishment of that purpose.
Have you seen any sellers of cigarettes
to minors serving 80 days In Jail lately,
as the law provides? Have you seen any
restaurant man. pool hall proprietor.
theatre owner, factory owner, hotel man
or business man arrested for permitting
minors to smoke on his premises? It Is
the duty of every mayor, sheriff, police
officer, constable, village marshal and
district attorney to help enforce this law
Are they doing it? If they obeyed their
oaths and enforced the law, we would
stamp out 1 most of the juvenile delin
quency, for most of the commitments to
the state industrial ecnoor can re ai
rectly traced to boys' breaking the law
to secure money to buy the makin a'
2000 years. We shall all yet have to
subscribe to things we know are evil.
or be classed among transgressors. Our
master led the way, but it Is not easy.
There will be no decorations for us
here, no trumpet to sound our coming,
no festal board among the great, but
we shall see liberty triumphant over
force, love over hate, life over death.
and a world cleansed from sin forever
and ever. Then there will be no bang
man's' rope, no electric chair. Instead,
human hearts and minds will writs
new ordinance one of brotherly love
arid charity, the greatest virtue of all,
against which there Is no law. for it Is
divine. Hay God tide us over the pangs
of tne new uirtn. uiuka j. bune.
Oh, Dear Mel Just Faneyi
Tnm the Emmett tldahol Index '
The Oregon Journal reports" the cap
ture of a salmon with two mouths. Well,
don't let It go to tne senate.
The Oregon Country
TfeiUiwest Happening hi Brief Form for the
Boay Header.
. wREOON NOTES
There le a. ratal n aj sia
land under irrigation In Umatilla coun-
Word from TTmstlfl.
effect that the fall crop of wheat Is in -excellent
condition.
Pendleton grade and hlah
teachers are to receive an tnrrfi.a nt
J100 In salary for the year 1919-1920.
Joseph Hume of Brownevllla la
didate for presidential elector from Ore
gon at next year's Republican prims,
rlea
J. M. Card, a nromlnent Dallas hn.
grower, has purchased the A. & Camp. )
bell 145 acre ranch near Dallas for $40,.
000.
One Of the Pendleton banka wae Dir.
ftrlsed this week when a customer came
n and paid a debt of $1000 in $20 gold
pieces.
After a lengthy shutdown because, nf
weather conditions, the Willamette Val
ley Lumber company's mill at Dallas
has resumed operations.
Roderick Waters, son of F. 1 Wuir,
who has been in the United States navy
since early in 1817. returned to hi home
In Salem on Christmas day.
Robert B. Ewalt who haa hMn in M
air and marine service during the war.
has returned to his . home in Oregon
City with several medals for excellent
work.
Of the 15.000.000 pounds of wool pro
duced each year In Oregon, more than
28 per cent of the entire crop in manu
factured Into woolens by Oregon fac
tories. Car shortage In the Northwest to
gether with the recent storm, has so re
stricted business and closed down the
lumber lndustr that thousands of men '
have been thrown out of employment.
Bessie L. Lewis: aged 25. a school
teacher at the Klamath Indian agency, .
committed suicide by plunging Into the ,
spring that supplies the agency witn
water. Homesickness led to despond
ency. The- desert land board has dlsao-
proved the proposed contract prepared
by the Central Oregon Irrigation com
pany to xurnian water ror tne irriga
tion of approximately 1600 acres of land
in what is known as the Lone Pine Irri
gation district
WASHINGTON
Sixteen men. nearly all former soldiers.
enlisted at Aberdeen this week for duty
in Panama.
More than S100.000 has been distrib
uted to sugar beet growers of Walla
Walla county.
R. E. Williams has contracted 60,000,
pounds of the 1920 crop ot hops at 40 to
45 cents a pound.
Counon bonds for $978,000. Issued by -
Seattle school district have been pur- .
chased by the state board of finance.
During the last day or two three car
loads of sugar have arrived in Spokane
from the two refineries at Toppenlsh and
Bunnysiae.
Gibson Bros, announoe plans for eon-
structlon of a five story $100,000 building
at Yakima to house tneir meat pacaing
business.
Tha Pierce county sort commission
has authorised a call for bids on the dis
trict's 81,500,000 bond Issue, to be opened
January 20.
A new tariff asking Increases In gas
rates for the city of Seattle from 20 to
zs per cent has been rued witn tne state
public service commission.
Millwrights are at work increasing
the capacity of the La Cross roller mills
from lou to suu Darreis aauy ana install
ing electricity as motive power.
Dr. James R. Harvey and Dr. David
M. Angus have been indicted at Tacoma
on 148 counts for dispensing drugs In
violation of the Harrison anti-drug act
For Importing contract labor from v
Canada, C. H. Fimple, Charles M. Burt '.
and George L. Blake were fined $1000,
$500 and $300, respectively, at Seattle.
Lumbermen of Spokane and the In
land Empire have a standing order on
file to engage every returned soldier who
is husky enough to work In the logging
camps or In the mills.
Farmers of Washington have been
asked through farmers' unions, granges
and similar organizations to contribute
15 cents each for financing the State
Federation of Farm Organisations.
A company recently formed in Van
couver, B. C, to aistrtDute liquor
throughout British Columbia under he .
dominion law which permits lmportauon
of spirituous liquors, will maintain its -head
offices In Seattle.
GENERAL
General David L. ftanton, aged 80, a
famous commander of union forces in
the Civil war, died at Baltimore Friday.
The allies have purchased $1,000,000
worth of flour from the United States
Grain corporation for the relief of Vi
enna.
Brlaradter General Ruffin Cox. one of
the ranking officers of the Confederate
army, is dead at Richmond, Va.,' aged
78 years.
"Bootlearrera" of San Francisco have
Jumped the price of whiskey to $20 a
Suart, and it is said cannot supply the
emand.
A total of $700,000,000 has been re
alised by the sale of America's war
material in England, France. Belgium,
Italy and Germany.
At the request of the fir commie- '
sloner, the firemen of Lowell, Mass.,
have voted to withdraw from the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
Lieutenant B. W. Maynard. "the fly
ing parson," announces that he has re
signed from the army, and will resume
his work as a clergyman.
Aecordlnr to Heir Hussar, premier
communism has cost Hungary $3,600,-
000,000, while the Roumanian invasion
took $6,000,000,000 more.
William Forel. an American farmer
living south of Juares, has been miss
ing for some time ana it is tnougni noi
Is a victim of Mexican bandits.
The American chamber of commerce of.
London has addressed messages to Sen-'
store Lodge and Hitchcock pleading for
the ratification or tne peace treaty,
a Christmas rift of a coDDer and silver,
aanrloA valued at 810.000 was presented
by the people of Arizona to the battle-
snip Arizona at new igra dmwiu
Minions of yards of oiled paper are be
ing used In France as a substitute for"
window glass while the glass works, :
wiped out during the war. are being re
built According to a wireless from Moscow,
the Bolshevlkl have captured the towns
of Tomsk, Fasloff, Vasslgkov, Krement-
chug, Islum, Belovdsk, Makeval and
Kohpekhta.
Premier Nltti of Italy expresses the
opinion that from 12,000,000,000 to 18,
000,000,000 lire will be subscribed to the
victory loan, the sale of which ' begins
January 5.
Albert Norwood, a stock broker, was
shot and killed at Los Angeles Friday
night by two automobile robbers whom
he had detected in an attempt to steal
his automobile.
Two officers and one soldier of the
Omsk all-Russian garrison at a small
station south of Vladivostok were ,
burned to- death by anti-government ;
forces December 16.
A dispatch from Washington states'
that the Rockefeller interests have de
termined on a coast-to-coast railroad"
with Baltimore as the Eastern terminus
and San Francisco, Portland and Seattle
as the Pacific coast termini. t
Uncle Jeff Snow Says;
Ma has alius been patriotic. She sewed
ter the soldier boys, hustled fer the Red
Cross, put . all her buttern alg money
Into Liberty bonds, and so forth ; but Ma
gits riled ever time she goes to town
and has to tromp around to seven dlf
fer'nt store, to git ' 10 cents worth, of
sugar and pay two bits fer It She ain't
no sympathy with the JL W. W. "cepttn;1
about that time.. Then if she oould put"
a Domo unaer tne sugar crust or chudo
a spike into Its Internal Innards, 'bleve .
me, sne a ao it, . ' -