Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1920)
10 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, , DECEMBER 22, I 1920. AV TXDFTt'ENlJb.S T NEWSPAPER C. S. JACKSON Y.. ........ Publisher IB calm, be confident. be cheerful and do onto others aa jron would have them do unto yoa-i Published erery week day end Sunday mornina, at The Journal HuiMina. Broadway and Ym- hill street, Portland, Oregon. Kiitered at the pwrtoffir at Portland. Oreon. . foe tranrmkaioii through the mail aa aecund . clM matter.- . TiCI.EI'HONES Mailt 7173, Automatic 500-51. All department reached by theae number. N ATIONAIj AIVEHTI8IS - KEPMESENTA TlVri Benjamin Kebtnor Co.. Brunswick nutldini, 225 Fifth aretrae. New Tork; BOO . Mailers Buildinf. Chicago. I'acific coast rei'Kksentatcye w. ti. granger Co., Examiner Buikiinav San Fran ri to: Title Insurance Buiidinc, Lo Angelea; . Pnet lntellieencer Baildint, Seattle. Jiifc JliJv4;uN JOUHNAI. rewryea the rifhi to - reject afivertipin copy which rt deem ob jectionable. It aio will not print any. copy , iliat in any way almuiatea reading matter or that cannot . readily bo recognised aa adrer- si:b kiption HATES . i By Carrier, City and Country - 7 DAII.r AND SUNDAY On week ( .13 1 Owe month S .63 DAILY SUNDAY On week. ..... . .$ .10 J On week,,.. . . .05 One month.... . .45 t BT MAIL. AIX RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE JDAil.v iiu avxv&x tn year.. . . . $8.00 - hut month...... 4.2S " DAILY (Without Butklsy) Ooe rear. .... .18.09 Mh month,.... 3:5 Three months.. . 1.7ft Oue, month .... .CO WEEKLY fEerr Wednecday) Ona. year 11.00 Mix month 50 Three months. , . J2.2 5 On month 73 .SINDAT (Only) One year..., Hix month) . . Ture montha. 1 3 00 1.75 1.00 WEEKLY AND HLNDAY Ona jear ,$3 BO The rate apply only In the Weet. . Kate to Eatern pointa furnished on aopiica tion. Make remittance by Money Order, Kxpresa Order or Draft. If your postolfice is not: t Money Order office. 1 or 2-cent stamps will be accepted. Make all remittances payable to Tbe Journal, Portland, Oregon. Only by unintennittent agitation can a People be kept sufficiently awake to princi ple not to l''t liberty be smothered in ni-' terial prosperity. Wendell Phillips. CREDIT FOR FARMERS ipXTEND ample credit to the J--s farmers at once, stimulate and extend our export trade with the leading nations of the world, espe cially Russia, determine the amount of the German indemnity, revive the war finance corporation, cut down appropriations and reduce tafres." S This Is ' the formula by which former Secretary' McAdoo would better conditions .In America. "The farm industry is basic," he says. : And he adds: ,'It possesses a superior claim because ita prosperity is not only the nation's beBt protection, but because the farmer by the very nature of his business, is more exposed to adverse influences and has less protection against losses than any other class. To have a chance to make a fair profit, he must have credit to carry his crop for a reasonable time. This, is'an. accurate exposition of . thet rfarmer's situation. -His is ' the basic irtdustry. . Prosperity on the farms means the nation's prosperity. Through all time the farmer has fur nished the. products that created most of the surplus that America sold to, other nations in the form of exports. Our half dozen leading ex porti in 1919 were, in their order of value, raw cotton, meat products, Iron and steel, wheat and bread stuffs, mineral oils, tobacco. Our exports are the basis for our national trade balance and the protection of our gold supply, Ex ports are Created by production, pro duction makes employment, employ ment creates buying power, buying power' makes 'consumption; ami, in turn, consumption makes production. It is the eternal circle in whicftl prosperity must rest and be diffuse ' , The farmer, more than any other group, is exposed, as Mr. McAdoo says, toadverse influences. He must deal individually with groups ! that to a large extent are in position to act collectively. The nature of his busess has very improperly ere ated a general psychology which has kept him out of the halls where public legislation is enacted. In conr sequence; as Mr. McAdoo says, he rhas "less protection against losses than any other class," through the adverse influences to which he is ex posed, - " . . .As secretary of the treasury, Mr. McAdoo placed government money ; by the million in banks throughout the country to aid the movement of crops and in extending credit to farmers. His Insistence now that the government find a way to afford credit to the agricultural districts is sound. The only reason that it has not been done is that the old Amer ican school of financiers is in the saddle In congress, and to a consider able extent in the treasury depart ment. It is the school that forgets that the farm is the basic industry and that It is the farmer who has always been the big factor in creat ing American exports and trade " balances. Quite a lot "of human nature crops . out when people go into the hills seeking Christmas trees. - The mile age recorded by the speedometer is Accounted for; by the fact that, the trees pe.eplng out from beyond the bend in the road are always just a ..". better. than those close at hand. J wsi . The tree finally cut is selected with numerous misgivings which are con firmed when you see the perfect evergreen brought from the opposite direction by the other fellow and al most as quickly shattered when you hear him say, sotto voce, "See how much better tree those folks got than we did." " TO THE PENITENTIARY ONTE to: 20 years for manslaugh ter is the. sentence Imposed by a Walla iWalla court upon Charles Johnson whose automobile ran over and killed J. C. Kinghorn, a citizen. The public is accustomed to light ly regard killings when, they are caused by automobiles. The Walla "Walla man knew that, and drove his car without lights. Public 'sentiment Is a fickle Jade. It may today look uoon automobile killings with unconcern. But, with the speed of lightning, it may change tomorrow. . That has happened a thousand: times before and it will happen si thousand times again. On that day, the driver wh runs down and kills some citizen under reckless circumstances will he sur rounded on all sides with anger and condemnation. The populace will call for punishment to fit the crime, and the courts will respond. -That is what happened at Walla Walla, and the guilty driver is to go to the penitentiary. He will not be the last of his kind. The experience of Patrolman Chamberlain, who took a broken nose and lacerations from two thugs in exchange for his gun, club and handcuffs, suggests to the unarmed pedestrian that if he is out late at night he will be safer if he walks in the middle of the street, which some of them do. THE COMMUNITY CHEST THE Y. M. C. A., after protracted A hesitation, has agreed to. enter the Portland community chest. But it was not until the association's general secretary had found 60 of the country's Y. M. C. Aslacing their reliance on the financial fed eration ; managed by contributors that he and his directing board over came their reluctance tq entrust to the local experiment the fortunes of an-institution of so great import ance in ihe- life of the community. The arguments which convinced "the cautious conservatism of the Y. M. CJ A., heads are, however, evi dence that should he equally impres sive to the people of Portland. It was found that the community chest: v . Protects the public from frequent solicitation by various community agents. , Provides a plan for inspecting budgets and policies of organizations soliciting 4 contributions from the public, providing no other satisfac tory organization exists for this'pur pose. Economizes time and effort of persons soliciting public support for charitable, and welfare agencies. Secures a larger number of small attributions. Develops chic and social, con sciousness . through a non-sectarian, ' non-racial and democratic ap peal. ' f " ' , Penalizes slackers where individu als fail to contribute their expected share to dependent organizations. Is believed to secure larger funds t nan the agencies individually have collected in the past. Decreases the cost of organization and promotion of financial appeals. Despite the assurance of the Ore gon mining and geology bureau that there isn't any oil in Oregon, hope ful drillers persist in seeking it-in Klamath and Clatsop counties, and are Said to have found at least a little in Klamath. ., HIS SACRIFICES , V v - . FORTUNE" gone, his power to en rapture the public lost through stiffened hands, the possibility of re turning to concert life as the great est pianist of the age forfeited such is the tragic price Paderewski has paid in his struggle for a free Po land. ; i ' ' The crucifixion of Poland was one of the premier tragedies of tragic Europe. Once the most powerful na tion of Eastern Europe, a country of 380,000 square miles and 35,000,000 people, Poland by the third parti tion? in 1795 was wiped nationally from the face of the earth. Wars of conquest had been waged upon her people for centuries. , For a hundred years, Russia, Prussia and Austria had subjugated and annexed piece after piece of 'tier territory. Russia was the chief robber, and in the third and final partition became master through force of arms of three fourths of the former Polish territory. Her process of denationalizing the country was ruthless. Leaders who sought the restoration of the nation were executed by the hundred, and Polish ; citizens, : on every pretext and no pretext, were transported to living death in Siberia. The Russian language was introduced into the courts, into administration and into the school system. It was all a per .fect exemplification of the process of subjugation and annexation which the League of Nations was organized to prevent. V . The literature and history of Po land for the last 100 years are a melancholy story of national aspira tions bowed down tinder the heavy hand of military force. It was the appeals that caused Paderewski i abandon his triumphal and profita ble career as - the world's greatest pianist and devote' his private for tune, his life and his all to a restored and free Poland. .Hls endeavors "will not have been , in ,vain if,. President Wilson's vision and ideal o an or ganized world finally comes to, pass. The reward for. the apprehension of the bomber who caused the ex plosion in Wall street last Septem ber now totals $70,750. The Burns agency heads the list with a reward of $50,000 for information that' will lead to conviction. A portion will be given for information as to who' drove the wagon which hauled the explosive, or who owned the horse and wagon, or who manufactured the bomb, or information about any body implicated in the crime. AN OUTRAGED HOME TWO Portland ' policemen, on a surmise that .there might be liquor in it entered a Portland home and searched it. They were without a search warrant. The law in such cases was cjearly set forth in a recent decision by the federal' court in Portland. There must be mpre than a surmise that intoxicants are secreted inside. Even then an officer has no right to enter except on the authority of a search war rant. The home of a family is its castle. When it ceases so to be and can be entered at all times by officers be cause they are uniformed, and 'on any unfounded suspicions, this coun try becomes Russianized.' The mu nicipality in effect becomes a tyran ny and the people mere subjects. In the case in point, no liquors were found. The sanctity of a home was outraged and the law itself vio lated by officers of the law. When the housewife very prop erly refused admission at the door, the officers tapped on the window and displayed their policemen's stars, whereupon she allowed them to enter, and make a search of the premises. Perhaps the reprimand to the men bythe acting mayor and the publicity that has been given the case will provide against repetition. Meanwhile, with the airing of the federal decision in the newspapers but-a few weeks old, how could po licemen have failed to know that a search warrant was necessary? Do they not read the newspapers? And how many Portlandere, as is probably the case with this house wife, are living on from day to day without knowing through the news papers what is going on in the big world about them? IT'S RAINING IN PORTLAND UNDER the heading above th Wall Street Journal identifies Portland as a potential cotton rrrttl center. Thereason raw cotton is shipped from the United States to Great Britain and .then back again in the form of fine fabrics, says this pub lication, is that in the "tight little isle," the warm air of the gulf stream and the cold currents of the Arctic meet and the vapors result ant furnish the atmospheric condi tions most necessary for spinning. It continues: Now comes the state of Oregon with a rival claim to climatic advantages. Portland's Chamber of Commerce is launching a campaign to attract textile manufacturers, pointing out that not only are atmospheric conditions similar to those of England, but other factors entitle the west coast to consideration as the coming cotton spinning center of the world. The moisturV laden air above the Japan current, on coming in contact with the snow clad peaks of the Rockies, is Dre- 'cipitated in such volume as to give aDunaant water power in addition to rendering more workable the cotton fiber. The development of the long staple industry in lower "California and Arizona would insure a plentiful supply of the best staple with delivery at low cost by water. Couple with these con siderations the strategic position in re gard to Oriental markets and it will be seen that the hope of wresting the spin ning supremacy from England is . not entirely a 'dream. One hesitates to believe that the Portland Chamber - of Commerce failed to give the Cascade range, rather than the Rockies, credit for the task' of precipitation by which this region is watered but in every other respect the New York publi cation states the facts with all the force of accuracy and prophecy, IF THEY WERE HERE DURING the war when drives were held Oregon's quota for Liberty loan or Red Cross was stated in the terms of dollars. : Oregon has now a quota of 25, 000 lives in the campaign for the saving of 3,500,000 baby war victims in Europe. ' ' v : Lives, tiny lives, purchasable at $10 apiece, are the goal of the unique campaign which Herbert Hoover heads. . The pleading hands of children are stretched toward America from Poland, Austria, Servia, Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary. Germany. They are little folks to whom the withering breath of war has, denied the child's birthright of joy "and has given them instead stark misery. If any Oregonian stumbled, over a starving, dying child he would gather it into his arms, carry it ten derly to his home and give it abund antly of food a.nd clothing,' of shelter and medicine, of nursing and love. In the war ' stricken countries there are pitiable, millions each of whom appeals as powerfully to every gen erous sentiment, .and all of whom are lifting up, that the ears of Christ endom may hear, the unspeakably sad dirge of famine. ' . WILSON'S LAST MESSAGE Editorial Referendum Establishes Nothing so Much as tbe Human Ten dency to Be of the Same Opinion Still Opposition Generally Less Than Generous; Loyal Sup porters Await the Vindica tion of Their Leader. Daily " Editorial Digest : ( Consolidated Preai Association) Editorial opinion on the president's rotsage - to congress reflects, on the whole, approval ""under the circum stances," which circumstances are, vari ously, ill-health, recent defeat or an unsympathetic- audience. Of- course, there are those who "damn with faint praise" or openly scorn, and, there is radical dif ference of opinion as to whether the doc ument proves by- its content that Wilson is a wornout. broken-spirited man, or demonstrates that he has all the old vig or of his earlier days. , The Christian Science Monitor (Ind.) sounds, perhaps, the note upon which the 'majority of comment is keyed: "President Wilson's message to congress is not a. great public document. But it is a good one.; In view of all circum stances, there was not a great deal to say. He has "recognized this and con tented himself with rather general state ments. The few recommendations ' that he thought best to make are such as might have been made by almost any executive, irrespective of party, and in this he seems to have; recognized the logic of the election results, particularly in making no reference at all to the peace treaty land the . League of Na tions." A Praising the recommendations, with the exception of those touching on the Armenian loan and the independence of the Philippines, which it thinks debat table, the Boston Transcript (lnd. Rep.) calls the message "a .valedictory that does him credit . . . free from fault finding and silent regarding the result of the recent referendum," which latter factor, the Transcript thinks, "calls for no interpretive comment." Another Re publican paper from Massachusetts, the Worcester Telegram, finds "the president at'his best" in this document, which the Springfield Republican (Ind.) -gives hearty praise: "In passages nobly con ceived," it says, "he restates the mission of democracy in the world and the op portunities arid obligations resting sol emnly upon this nation as the 'sample democracy," upon whose success the tri umph of democracy depends." The Springfield Union (Rep.) describes the message as "the discreet utterance of one who is bidding farewell to his au thority, rather than his convictions," and the Providence Tribune (Ind. Rep.) finds it "commendably brief," but grants it to be "in good tone and temper," though it does not hesitate to add, "Nothing in Mr. Wilson's administration became him like the ending of it." Even-the New York Herald (Ind.), not usually given to en thusiasm over the president's policies, declares his message to be "in excellent taste" and "filled with simple, practical, common sense." Naturally, the Democratic organs 'do not conceal their approval. The Balti more Sun (Ind. Dem.) believes that in his communication to congress "the pres ident has once more served his country by laying down principles which, whether accepted or rejected, will be greatly use ful as -a standard of measurement," Mr. Cox's .paper, the Springfield News (Dem.), finds in the message "an abund ance of common sense, straight-to-the-point suggestions and a renewal of his abiding faith that. right will eventually triumph in the United States and else where." t ' .,, Recommendations-'good, most convinc ingly 4iyt and in good temper," is the Judgment of the Indianapolis News (Ind.) ; and the. Norfolk Ledger Dis patch (Ind. Dem.) feels that the presi dent has written "nothing more dignified or temperate." The Manchester (N. H.) Mirror (Dem.) declares that -"a great-minded course" was shown by Mr. Wilson in leaving Jthe question of the league to the Republican's. This omission of the League question and others, however, has given rise: to widely differing views. The Pittsburg Press (Ind.) thinks that the outstanding feature of the whole message was "what one might describe as its reticence." This leaves it "colorless," in the opin ion of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram (Ind.) and does "not leave much mate rial for controversy." ' As to what "internal evidence," dis covered in the text, reveals concerning the condition of the author, there is also an' interesting variance of deduction. To the Birmingham News (Dem.) the pres ident's "last, official message to con gress is not the message of a defeated man," while the Reno Gazette -(Rep.) declares that the same document re flects "the profound disappointment" in the election. In the "lofty tone" of the words - he uttered the Chicago Journal (Dem.) sees a man "unshaken in de feat as he was unexcited in victory," while the Baltimore News (Ind.) finds Mr. Wilson's effort "incomplete" and evidence .of "either a very sick or a very discouraged man" ; a person, as the Topeka Journal" (Ind. Rep.) puts It, "beaten physically and in spirit." "Greater in defeat than sometimes in victory," is the comment of the Grand Rapids Press (Ind.), while the Wall Street Journal (Ind.) answers by a ref erence to "mental deterioration shown in the long, turgid sentences with their dwindling into bathos and platitude.' . Not every writer is satisfied with the manner in which Mr. Wilson has pre sented his ideas, nor yet with the ideas themselves. The - Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.), which treats the matter sympathetically and places the blame upon circumEances rather than upon Mr. Wilson himself concedes the mes sage is of "more of a perfunctory nature than his preceding messages." The word "perfunctory" is also used by the Pittsburgh- Gazette Times (Rep.),, which thinks the message "will not take high rank among his state papers." The New York Tribune (Rep.) attacks the philosophy of the president's writing, declaring that he "repeats the mistake he has so often made before. . He as sumes that because his text is valid his application of it is not to be ques tioned." Says the Hartford Courant (Rep.)t "All in all, this annual report on the state of the nation tells the nation little that it did not know before and gives the nation very little to go upon in ex tricating itself from the difficulties in which it now finds Itself." Looking at the question sympatheti cally but philosophically, the. Ei Paso Times (Dem.) perhaps expresses one phase of the comment which is most generally accepted, namely, that the message "was written in full realiza tion that it would Tecelve scant atten tion from the Republican majority in congress." - - - Curious Bits of Information; Gleaned From Curious Place Lower California, owned by Mexico, was twice in the possession of the Uni ted States. .During the Mexican war of 1847 the American forces, occupied Us principal points, and declared it American, but it was returned after the war. f- The American filibusters took it again in the raids of 1853-54, but it was again turned back to Mexico. : Lower California is a long, narrow peninsula that- projects about 800 , miles south- easterly from the southern border of California. Ita width varies from SO to over 100 miles. Its irregular coast line is over 2000 miles long. , It was discovered in 1533 by I Cortex, in his search for a fabulously rich island, said to be inhabited by Amazons. About 23,000 Indians resided i there at that time, and for over a century prevented white men from establishing a military J colony on the peninsula. During one period it served as the lurking place of Sir Francis Drake, and other freeboot ers, lying in wait for Spanish galleons on. their annual voyages from Man'la to Mexico. ; . ' -. Letters From the People fComnmnicatioM aeni to Th Journal for publication in thia department aboald be written on only one side of the paper: ehould not exceed .300 words in length, and must be aimed bjr the writer,- whose mail addresa in full uuut accom pany the contribution. , ' "WE EXCLAIM, "HOW TERRIBLE'" Solemn Rebuke to Those Who Korget the Starving Children Sundale, Wash., Dec. 20. To the Edi tor of The Journal-T-Christmaa is the children's day. Millions of children are starving in Europe and Asia. Will you not urge upon your readers the wisdofti of remembering these children on Christ mas and turning their gifts largely to them? If we could visualize conditions as they are said to be, and unquestion ably are. there would be little need of urging this matter upon us. But it is so difficult to really , see,, with our mind's eye, the sufferings of the little ones, not to speak of the millions of adults, that we fail to comprehend it all, and turn to the shop windows, filled with their trifles, selecting this and that gewgaw, until we have exhausted our Christmas money in gifts to those who need them not, while we give to starv ing millions a pitying shake of the head, and remark, "How terrible !" 3. R. Shepard. THE qiULDRKN ARB STARVING An Appeal to Abjure Selfish Indulgence and Save Lives ' Portland, Dec. 21. To the Kditor of The Journal I read the following news item : "So scarce is the food that a child before being fed must be physically ex amined. If the little one can live another day he, or she, is turned, sobbing, away." Can thia be true? Have I Been eating food unnecessary for my actual needs while babies starve? Have I been buy ing useless things for mere pleasure while a child suffered for food? What reason have I to believe in my own possession of love or sympathy or mercy? If I do not give, when by deny ing myself some of the trifles of exist ence each day I can save one life, I must face the fact that I am an enemy to humanity. I must renounce all claim to relationship with the fine and beauti ful things of' life, and content myself with the constant companionship of a self that is base and cruel. Their cries come to us so faintly surrounded as we are with plenty. It might be just a dream. But it isn't! r There are cold, reaching little hands. There are baby eyes that only stare, and lips, meant for terlder laughter, are drawn with hunger. Just babies, with soft little bodies! 'That small coin we are spending for confections, for a frivolous magazine, and finery that will mock us when we wear it there are begging hands out stretched for it. It means a day's food for them. , . Think ! Can we afford to give? - Can' we afford not to' give? ' V Mrs." F. H. Clark. ROGUE RIVER SALMON FISHING Member of Rogue River Union Pre sents Fishermen's Claims. . Gold Beach, Dec. 18. To the Editor of the Journal I have been reading in the Portland papers lately a lot about the Rogue river fishing,, commercial and sporting, and it seems to me there must be a great deal of misunderstanding about the actual conditions at this end of the. river. i I am a net fisherman on the lower Rogue river, living on the Gold Beach Side, and have fished on this "stream for many years, having fished for Hume years ago, and 1 have fished every year since. ." I want to say there is pothing in all this talk about a scarcity of sal mon in the Rogue river. There has been more salmon caught on the Rogue in the last 10 years thao in any 10 years in its history, and this year there was the biggest run of salmon in Rogue river that ever came into the stream. The three canneries down here could not handle all the fish. The net fishermen down here have been trying for years to induce the can neries to do away with seines and set nets and this practically is all the areii- j ment, outside of price, that the net fish ermen nave ever naa with the can neries, and in this -agreement as pub lished i- some of the papers, it seems that Macleay has agreed, to do away with" the seines and the set nets, which should make it all right with the fish ermen. We do not catch steelheads down here at all, and I cant see why the people on the upper river at Grants Pass or at Medford are not satisfied with the agreement, and it certainly doesn't look fair to us fishermen and the people of Curry county to have the only business that we have in the county taken away from us, as we have followed this busi ness for years, have our homes here, and could hardly make a living . if it" were not for the fishing. I am a mem ber of the Rogue River Fishermen's union and I believe that practically all of the fishermen from this end of the river are in favor of a settlement as outlined in the recent agreement pub lished in the papers. ! - Please publish this! letter, so we can try to get a fair deal before the legis lature when they meet, and I would like to say. again that it is all a mis take about the fish on Rogue river giv ing out. There are more fish here this year than I ever saw before. i Phil Jones. Olden Oregon Destitution Caused Immigrants Great Suffering In 1843-4 There was much suffering among the immigrants at the Cascades in 1843 and 1844. John Minto, of the latter immi gration, who went in advance to Van couver for aid. said that on returning to the Cascades with a boat load of pro visions he found men in the prime of life lying among the rocks "seeming ready to die. I found there mothers with their families whose husbands were snowbound in the Cascade mountains without provisions and obliged to kill and eat their game. dogs. Mrs. Morrison had traded her only; dress except the ones she wore, for ai bag of potatoes. There was scarcely aidry day, and the snow line was nearly down to the river." Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Ma listened most interested and ap plauded ever little while when Mrs. Julia Toboggan butted her i oratory agin the high cost of livin" at the Ladies' Aid sassiety meetin" at the Corners. If Mrs. Julia had kep' only close, shoes, cow feed, chewin' gum and automobiles on her list Ma would of kep" on applaadin. but when Julia run Into butter, aiggs, comb honey and cottage cheese, why. Ma first quit applaudin arid then she got up and left She don't consider it prof iteering to git a good price fer them home products, 'cause Ma markets 'em herself olfen the little farm and fills up a siociun ever week or so a-sellin' Vi Call. .! ' ' COMMENT AND V SMALL CHANGE ' Argentina has withdrawn from the league. Boy, page Judge Landis. De troit News. . . ' Building contractors, should be asked r '.t.05.e wallB do nt prison make. Wall Street Journal" . " ' The old-time girl's face was her for-" tune. Now It is a . liability, as the cosmetic bills amply ; prove. Nashville Banner. , , Let us hope ' that the next war will at least wait until there are aerial crossroads to name for the heroes. Boston Herald. ;! ' '3 claimed that the people of the United Mates are at last becoming thrifty. Probably they realize that is the only way to buyj a new car. Chi cago News. , . Maybe the reason why the price 'of rish remains on a war basis is because the food the fish consume costs as much now aa it did before the conflict Sioux City Journal. r rt Is comforting to know that Hard ing s inquiry as to the cost of -while paper is made as a newspaper man and not as a prospective note writer. Rich mond Times-Dispatch. Announcement that 5000 cases of champagne are on their wav to this country is enough to disturb 'the sleep of the pirates of the Spanish Main. Saginaw News Courier. . The knee length skirt is but a pass ing fad, according to the style authori ties, and will not be generally adopted. Somebody is always taking the Joy out of life ! Baltimore American. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL , Random Observations About Town Back in 1877 Frank Dayton used to be a hardware merchant in Portland. Today he is perpetual secretary treas urer of the' Lang Syne society,. which has a membership of 500 Portland business men -who were part of the business life of Portland a score of years or more ago. Norris R. Cox is , president of the so ciety. Mr. Dayton has solved the prob lem of what a retired business man can do. He is busier watching out for the success of the Lang j Syne society than he ever was in the old days when he was selling nails and saws. It is his hobby and his business and he puts all his time and heart into it. This society is having a banquet and Christmas tree today at the Tyrolean room of the Benson hotel. Walker Jenkins is In charge of the music and the Rev. Ward Macllenry. pastor of the Mount Tabor Presbyterian church, a speaker who always has something worth while to say and says it in an worth while way, will deliver the annual address. . ' The following citizens Trom the highways- and byways of Oregon 'are guests at the Multnomah : J. R. Shaw of Klamath Falls, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moore of Imbler, Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Frese of Bandon, A. T. McShane of Tillamook, W. S. Lukins of King, while from the Philippines comes J. J. Raf ferty. ---. - ' . Mrs. Fannie Purdy of Corvallis has come to spend the winter with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. Wesley Jones. A married sister, Mrs. Robert L. Glass, also of Corvallis, has come to spend Christmas holidays with them. C. H. Clemmons, formerly a merchant and banker of Montesano and a fre quent visitor to Portland but now in the oil business at Rawhide, Wyt, is at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs.,Charles G. Stanton of Roseburg, with their son, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Stanton's sister, Mrs. L. W. Myrlck. r Father Loeser of : Our Lady of the Valley church of La Grande is in Port land on business connected with his clerical duties. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Smith of La Grande have come to Portland to spend the winter. A. J. Rousseau of Albany, who is a guest at the Sewsrd, has eight letters in his name, five of which are vowels. - W. A. Pinkerton is here to greet a few well known Individuals whose faces ornament the rogues' gallery. m Dr. Gertrude French of The Dalles is a guest at the Cornelius. "f. Mr,s. H. P. Bellows and son of Rose burg are visiting friends in Portland. Mrs. W. J. Crane of Corvallis is in' P6rtland to undergo an operation. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred (Some eeriotm ref lections fn ioUday that are really oacred dara and ahoutd in a fitting spirit be obaerTed are offered by Mr. Lockley today, with a v iiertinen t ; quoted passage to sus tain his own yiew.) Someone has said that Easter is no longer the .'day ort which- the Savior rose but Is the day we celebrate with vain display and pride, and to those who can not afford a new hat it is a day of sorrow and bitterness. It was formerly celebrated in honor of the resurrection of Christ, but today it , Is the day . we pay homage to the milliner. In times past Thanksgiving day was a day we celebrated by going to church and joining in heartfelt thanksgiving- to the Giver of all good gifts, for health and life and temporat blessings. Today it is a day of "belly worship," when he who has the biggest turkey and eats the most of it has best celebrated the day. There was a day when Christmas was celebrated as the birthday of the Babe of Bethlehem. Do we still cele brate the day in that spirit? In this week's issue of the Dearborn Independent 1 read an answer to that question. Read it. It is worth ponder ing over : ' -Christmas is Christian, arid it has been 'made pagan. Christmas is spirit ual, and it has been made material. Christmas is the anniversary of an eter nal event ; it has been made the orgy of a passing phase.: "We have erred in making Christmas always "merry, when really it has its sadness. Not only Christmas, but every day, should be "merry for the children, for they are at the merry time of life. But Christmas is a time for adults also. Indeed, the first Christmas was ex clusively a day of adults. With the children it is always 'this Christmas' or 'next Christmas' t, with the adults it is .always last Christmas, or many Chflstmases ago. That which is anti cipation to the young becomes memory to their elders. And if we could weigh the sentiments of the day, tender sad ness born of the ; memory . of other Christmasea. would press down the scale. "The modern Christmas card is the price tag. Materially the day is a mock ery : spiritually it may become the first day of a New Age. - "If Christmas is but a fashion, it may well vanish in .its present form If it ( j is a festival. It can remain so only to. NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS ; ' Crime may not be more prevalent than in the past, but it is certainly more promiscuous. Pendleton East Ore gonian. .. .. ..- Mr. 'Wig Ash pole has been busy all week pitcnirg J20 hay into ?ll :o. Wig will sell the cows in the spring, If he goes into bankruptcy doing it Med ford Sun. The News acknowledges the receipt of the "Oregon Dairy and Food Bulle tin," but no food or milk came with it, of both of which we are rquch in need. Tualatin Valley News. . , . A model of thrift is that employe of the shirpinc board, who received a -salary of $130 per year, and by stinting himself slightly saved $140,000 in six months. Medford Mail-Tribune. . It is announced that Dr. J. H. Finley, one-time -preaiuent of the College of New York City, is "going into journal ism." He means, evidently, that he wishes to v.-rite for the papers. Albany' Democrat- ' With coal triple the price of 20 years ago and not much probability of its ever being much lower than double the old price, we are wondering if it wouldn't be a great idea to make for estry a community interest here and everywhere in the United States. Baker Democrat. The Kay woolen mills of Salem, one of the largest in the slate, has clpsed down to take soundings aa to future course. If the people of Oregon will but patronize home industry they will ma terially aid in the maintenance of good times for Oregon. Woodburn Independ ent. At the meeting " held by the I,oyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen at the Hotel Portland Monday, the matter of the 'minimum wage scale was dis cussed. The present minimum wage in this industry is $4.40 per day, though the going wage has been from 25 to 1)0 cents more than the $4.40 basis. .V. F. Coleman, formerly a processor at Reed college,, is president of the Four L's and P. L. Abbey is secretary manager. Those in attendance were : Employers A. "C. Dixon, Eugene ; George Gerliiiger. Portland: A. 'S. Kerry, Portland : R. II. Burnside, Ray mond ; G. E. Anderson, Aberdeen; J. C. Buchanan. Tacoma ; E. ,S. Grammar, Seattle; H. .1. Clough. Everett : J, P. JlcGoldrick, Spokane ; H. Tayjor, Coeur d'Alene ; C. T. Early, Baker ; T. A. McCann, Bend. Employes W. H.. Fer guson, Marshfield; W. D. Smith, Hultt; W. A. Pratt, Portland ; Robert E. White, Raymond ; A. A. Brown, Aber deen ; Frank Wilson, Tacoma; A. -D. Cbisholm, Snoqualmie Falls Charles Knlbbfj, Bellingham ; W. A,-.'ilyan, Spo kane ; Fenimore Cady, Coeur L'd'Alene ; Joel Brown, Emtnett, Idaho'; G. B. Smith, Bend. , , Walter A. Woodward of Cottage Grove is at the Perkins. Cottage drove is best known as the home of Elbert B?de, wideawake editor of the Sentinel. Elbert Is always on hand at every gathering of the newspapermen of the state, and no convention at which he is present is ever monotonous, for if things get the least bit slow he throws a monkey Wrench into the machinery toisee what will happen and something always happens. He is like a cork thrown into the water he always bobs; up rerenely ; or like a cake of yeast in a pan of dough. When he runs bis hand through his luxuriant locks to stim ulate his thought tank, look out for verbal earthquakes, typhoons and fire works. " ' . Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McArthur of Macleay, in the Waldo hiUf, the former home of ; ex-Governor . T. T. Geer, are guests at the. Perkins. Mrs. Joel T. Ward of Klamath Falls is visiting her mother in Portland. ' J. H. Owen of Brookings is a guest at the Portland. i J. II. Rom Is, sourdough, of jSeward, Alaska, is atthe Perkins. ... W. II. Johnson, of Ketchikan Alaska, Las come outside for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Rowe of Stayton are at the Perkins. ' J. M Ford of Liverpool is a guest at the Benson. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. lvans of Baker are Christmas week visitors in Portland. . C. C. Cameron of Albany Is transact ing business in Portland. V Lockley those who know what.it commemorates. There is enough , Joy' in the fact of Christmas Itself to infuse ail the warmth and light of the merriest Yule tide tale, in any family that dares to live the festival from the heart instead of from the nurse. Unless narpntn can .eap the bedsides of their children with mounds of fragile toys, whose tawdry life is brief at best, they feel that.,some thing is amiss. Unless friends can ex change presents extravagantly, they feel that somewher they have failed. "It would be hard to conceive a more disconcerting act than to halt the throngs of "worry Christmas' people and to demand of . them. 'What is it all about?" They would not be able to tell. They change the style of their bonnets because spring appears. They gorge themselves fin the last Thursday in No vember because harvest- is gathered. Why do they upset the tenor of their lives, and crimp themselves financially, and undergo keen distress of mind on the 2oth . of December? Why do fliey do it? What is the cause of this phe nomenon? It is not the New" Year. It is -not the anniversary of a National event. What Is It? How many, thus suddenly challenged, could account for themselves? "The whole gladness of Christmas consists in, knowing the true 'why of Christmas. There are some people to whom Christmas does not belong. These are, for the most part its spoliators. They may spoil it as much as they like for themselves ; it never was theirs any way: but we should not let them lure us to spoil it for ourselves. "Christmas tells us, for one thing, that goodness is always being born Into the .world, that in the cradles of jthe world the hope of the world is dawning. Christmas tells us that earth is not a lone planet swinging wide in a void of law and matter,; but Is near enough the throne of spirit to catch the music and reflect the light. . Christmas tell us that the beginning of joy was a gift If we know this, message of Christmas, we are then free of the slavery of things. "Joy if free to come from its .only source, whibh Is from above us. not be low; and peace comes upon us, which 4 Ms the mother-spirit of good will to men. And from good will come "the best gifts of all those which carry with them the heart of the giver." The Oregon Country Nortliwwt UapjjtiinW ! in Brief Fotm for tbe liuay : Keadwr OREGON NOTtS It is reported that there are 3T appli cations lor the Dalian postoffice at this time. i . Salem's tax levy for 1921 will aggre gate 4 mills, approximately 5 cnts on the dollar. , The Parks mill at Tine Flat. In Klam ath county, has cooed for the season, after cutting 2,600,0i'O f jet of lumber, The state Christian Kndenvor conven tion is to be held In Corvallis February Jt to 14, with an a .tendance of at least 500; i Astoria ranks third among cities of Oregon in bank (1eioi's, her five bank aKgreeatmc $7,S6S,!-;2.'. . Portland and Ssaiem lead. -.1 I Tlte Marlon county court has -decided to issue market road bonds amounting to $225,000 an t-mn tj possible. They boar Va per cent. ( The cannery at Lafayette, operated by C. W. McCrady, urned dewn Sun day. The loss is JiPa -v and will provai . a blow to the community r Work on the oil well on the Newman farm south of Amity is to be resumed again, ar.d this week several teams are busy hauling pipe for the casing of Ihe well. . i . i i . A crew of roll road surveyors is work ing in the eastern part of Linn county for what IS said to be a logging road into the timber belt on the upi.er Crab- " tree river. There is no car shortage in Kastern Oregon. On the contrary, there l a surplus, due to the fact that neither wheat nor lumber is, moving in tins state to any extent. - . . All houses In Reith ar occupied and five new ones are to be built at onca by a contractor there. The permanent population of the railroad -community is growing steadily. . i Albert Dean, world war veteran, tlll suffering from the; effects of 15 wound", has ptir-'hawd a 10 aire tract near Hood River that he expects to develop"" to tstra wherries and pears. WASHINGTON : A garage building and several adjoin ing frame structurea were destroyed by fire at Colfax, causing a loss of J35,Oyti. Allan McKain, 14 years old, Spokane school boy. accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting rabbits. Reduction of the working forces of the Great Northern railway at Hillyard by 200 men has been announed by rait way officials. I . : Walla Walla county is to raise 973t for the starving children of Kiirope. and nearly all of the contribution will be made in flour. . - " M. E. Lamb of Colfax has been given a maximum sentence of 25 years In the penitentiary for wronging his 14-year-old granddaughter. ! ; .. Appropriations of J2, 303. 000 for high way construction in Eastern Washing ton for 1921 end 1922 are to be asked of the coming legislature. The new flour mill at Toledo was started un Miindav. for : tli first 'tlm A feed mill is operated in "connection with it, capable ot turning out two tona daily. j . A heavy flow of soft water has been encountered at two place's south of Wen atchee and several orchard owners in the vicinity have started to put down wells, j i . Alleging that the Income Is insufficient to cover operating expenses, owners of 'he ferry between Pasco and Burbank have served notice that service will discontinued. - . j" ' Jack Wise of Grandview, bridge fore man for the O-W. R. & N. company was . killed by the caving in of a culvert he and his assistants, were digging through a railroad embankment. Potato growers of Washington gath ered at the Davenport hotel in Spokane a few days ago and formed an organi zation to.be known as the North est Potato Growers' association. Stockmen of Yakima valley will bring in 125 cars of Iowa and Nebraska corn this year to feed to cattle and sheep. The feed ia being laid down at an aver age price of about f3g a ton. IDAHO ' ' ' ' Snow on the ground Tuesday evening in Wallace measured nine and one-half inches. . j A bill will be presented to the coming legislature declaring Armistice . day a legal holiday in Idaho. With 81 cars of apples shipped, the apple packing season at Coeur d'Alene has closed for the season., Idaho's 1920 population ia 431,866, ac cording to revised figures received from the United States census bureau. . A tuition rate of $80 a year for pupils living out of town and attending high school has been established at Idaho Falls. !''. I- A resolution favoring a temporary em bargo on wool and agricultural products has been adopted by the Rotary club of Boise. i Income tax collections in Idaho for th quarter ending December 15 exceeded collections for the same period in J919 by $229,892.64. j ! ! With the closing of the two sawmills and the box factory there will be little employment for wage earners thia winter at Harrison. An ordinance granting the Utah Powfr Sc Light company an electric light, heat and power franchise for a period of 60 years was passed at a recent meeting of the board of trustees, of Amman, j know youiv, 'PORTLAND Ocular proof of the I growth in steamship service to ! this port ap pears graphically on the bulletin board maintained by Frank I. Ran dall, ass ia.tant -secretary of 'the dock commission, in the offices of the commission at the foot of Stark street. .: . ' ! -r 1 On almost any day Portland's steamship communication, with the rest of the world may be, found chalked up there. For Instance, on a recent day there: appeared for berthing at Terminal No. 1 : " The Steel Ranger of Norton Lilly company. New York and Portland. Hawaiian, United American line. New Yorkrand Portland.; Steel Voyager, Norton Lilly com pany. New' York and Portland. Kelbeck, Columbia j Pacific. Port land, Jew York, Europe, : i ; Bearport. Columbia Pacific, New York, Portland, China. 1 . ; Bakerafleld. Columbia Pacific, rortland. New York. Kurope. ' Kffingham. Columbia Pacific. Portland, New York, Europe. Fort Wayne, Columbia Pacific, Portland, New York, Kurope. v J Oregonian, United American lln. Portland, New York, Kurope. ' For Terminal No. 2: ! ' " City of Topeka, Pacific Steamship company, Portland and San Fran cisco. ' ! .. i Daisy Freeman, Freeman ! Steam ship company, Portland and San Francisco."" , . , . Curacoa. Pacific Steamship com pany, Portlsnd and San Francisco. West Togus and Osaqumick, North Atlantic & Western, Portland and Boston. '."'! : f i For Terminal No. A i i Meiyo Mara Toyo Klsen Kalsha, Portland and Orient. ; .- i Montague. Pacific Steamship com pany. Portland and Orient. : Hawaiian, additional cargo to that taken at No. 1. AbercoM. Pacific Steamship com pany. Portland and Orient. i f ... Silverado, Oeneral Steamship com pany, Portland and South America. Moerdyk. .Holland-American, Port land and Kurope.- i . . t