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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1921.
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There was a twilicht before the dawn and
a lai before the morning- and a morning
before itbe day. Gladstone.
RUINOUS?
YORK economist has
CQme forward with the state
ment tjhat rigid restriction of immi
gration to this country would be
ruinous. lie contends that we need
European labor to keep the wheels
jot industry turning and construction
programs
under way.
Why not
let American workers
fcare for the construction plans?
Why not employ them in industry?
. There is no labor shortage now by
any means, and no immediate pros
pect of a shortage. On the ther
hand, thera are thousands of men
in this country looking for Jobs.
They are looking for any kind of
Job.
And Just who is going to be ruined
if immigration is curtailed? Is the
American worker to be ruined?
Will he be ruined when jobs are
open to him instead of being taken
away from him by cheap foreign la
bor? Will he be ruined by main
tenance of higher ; standards of
wages and better living conditions?
And after all. will the captains"
Industry be ruined because they will
not be able to secure labor , for a
song? They A have not suffered for
lack of profits, and, wlthi the in-
creased buying power created by
higher wages, will there not be
greater markets for their products ?
With! the added efficiency resultant
from ismployment of American work
ers. (hey are more efficient- would
the einpioyers of the country not be
able to compete with - foreign man
. ufactiirers with equal success to that
now Obtaining?
And would America suffer from
the higher standards of living? When
workers can send their children to
school, when they can buy a home
and iiear a family, would America be
the Worse? Would our nation be the
wor8ej with an enlightened citizen
ship, ijwith jobs for her own people,
and with a population of home own
ers ? The Journal thinks" not.
At 'one time the highway bill con
tained a provision which cut ' 25 per
cent the tax on automobiles that had
been four times licensed. A man
who recently purchased an old
Pierce-Arrow for $550 must pay the
same f 97 license on it that is paid
by the man who buys a. new $5200
Pierce-Arrow. The instance illus
trates the case of thousands and
gives rise to the complaint that the
new law is discriminatory. There is
a great deal of agitation, and some
talk of referending the bill. Rather
than referendrit would be better, If
action is taken at all, to . propose an
amendment to be voted on at the
special June election.
DOWN TO DIE
DEATH in San Francisco has
sealed the Hps that could tell a
pitiable story of stolid suffering
John Earle was an 84-year-old,
Chinaman. He Is believed to have-
served with Farragut at Mobile, and
has" since been employed ' as a. cook
on' revenue cutters. His' name he
took from that of an. 'American-sea
captain.:' V'-'-r :
As the weight of the years bore
him down, the aged Chinaman could
not earn a living. His finances gone,
and either too proud to ask. -or
si j ' :
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friendless, the old man searched out
a cheap lodging house, entered his
squalid room, and; lay' down in a
corner to dia. He was found dead
from starvation. ( ' 4
; Things are not jiet right in this
country when the i aged, whether
Americans, Chinese lor Hindus, seek
a cheap room in which they may,
moneyless, friendless,- and alone, lie
down to die. ' i. "- -
' There have been several serious
automobile accidents in .Portland "re
cently. In most cases, the driver
has not been held by the police be
cause the pedestriari was believed to,
do responsible for toe accident. Au
tomobiles can operate only in the
street. That is where they are to be
found. when a pedestrian steps
into a thoroughfare, shohld he not
xpect to find automobiles there,
and take measures to protect him
self against Injury? By the way
some pedestrians cross streets, one
would believe motor cars were not
to be found there.
BEATEN
WE USED to have the "straight'.'
party baJlot. ;
But that was 40 years ago. And
it was abandoned, just as we aban
doned the ox team and the tallow
candle for, better things.
Nobody would want to go back to
the ox team or the tallow dip. That
would be resistance to progress, re
jection of ' development, repudiation
of civilization. But Senator Moser
stood up in the senate and declared
that we ought to go back to the
"straight" party ballot. In that dec
laration, he rejected the united
opinion voiced in the action of all
those states in the Union which have
adopted the Australian ballot. He
repudiated the very thing that has
been most vital in our advance in
better government.
If the Moser device of a single
mark fop a straight ticket vote had
been adopted, the legislature might
just as well have abolished the Aus
tralian ballot altogether and pro
vided for the oldtime separate bal
lots for each political party.
The "straight", party ballot was
the basis of political corruption. It
was abandoned because it was the
ward heeler's and the corruption-
ist's best vehicle for vote billing. It
supplied an easy process fori corrupt
use of money in elections. Is there
anyone who believes that j corrupt
use of money in . elections is good
for anybody except those who sup
ply the money and by supplying that
money buy special privileges for
themselves?
Only a few, a very few, want cor
ruption or Irregularities in public
affairs. ;The great nass wants
cleansed and purified government,
for they know that if the way is left
open for I irregularities and corrup
tion intHguers and cdrrtiptionists
and conscienceless greed will get the
best of t and the many pay the
price. j
If the legislature had passed the
"straight" party ballot bill over the
governor's veto, it would have been
a crime against the Republican
party of Oregon and a crime against
the state of Oregon. To have de
liberately gone back to a plan that
was discredited and rejected for
cause 40 years ago would have
shocked the decent citizenry of Or
egon and put one more ugly blot on
the legislative history of Oregon. .
The world is moving forward in
all things, not backward. The
ttmught of
most men is to make
thingSKbetter, not worse, because,, at
best, -there . wyi be enough of the
baS. A' great deal of credit is due
Ihose Oregon - senators who saved
the state from the odium that the
"straight"-v party ballot would have
brought. - Here are -their names:
Eddy, Ellis, Gill. Hume, Jones,
Joseph. "laehmutid, LaFollette, Nick
elsen. Porter, Strayer, Thomas, Vin
ton. The Kansas City policeman, six
feet and nine inches tall, who died
17 years after a woman prisoner bit
him In the leg, evidently required a
long time to learn that he was mor
tally wounded. Had he been seven
feet tall his life might have been
prolonged 25 years.
HOWARD AND HANGING
THERE is no charge that George
Howard did not have a fair trial.
Jt is admitted that his crime was
wanton, deliberate and premeditated.
He enticed his victim out on a lonely
road, beat him to death with an iron
tool, secreted the body and told the
public he had bought the automo
bile. No killing could be a more
complete case of that kind tjf mur
der which hangings were invented
to prevent.
Back of the efforts to save How
ard from execution is no failure of
the law or thei-eourts., ; What- the
public is witnessing in his case is tha
innate and profound objection to
capital punishment. A great body of
people shrink from having this 23-year-old.
boy strung up by the neck
and strangled to deatht They be
lieve that killings by the. state set
an! example of ! killing before the
public and increase rather than les
sen the number of murders. They
believe that the system is the hold
ing of human life cheap! by the stata
and that It'tends to lessen the value
that the individual places on human
life.-
! This conviction is expressing itself
in the agitation for commutation ' of
Howard's sentence to imprisonment
for life. Murders have been more
numerous since the people of Ore
gon, in a moment of heat and ex
citement, restored the death penalty.
They were more numerous in the
five-year period immediately preced
ing the abandonment of capital pun
ishment by about so per cent-than
they were during the five years in
which the death penalty was not ap
plied. They will continue to be more
numerous 'if human expyience
means anything, for ' In states and
countries where there Is no death
penalty there are, in general," fewer
murders ' than where hangings and
electrocutions are the order.
'In time, the heresy or capital pun
ishment will tbe abandoned in all
civilized countries, for it is a survi
val of the ideals and practices of
barbarism.
WHY HAVE LAWS?
SHOULD only part of the people
who break laws go to Jail? And
should others be carefully shielded
from the rigors of a penitentiary
cell?
Abe Weinstein was convicted in
May, 1920, of robbery of a govern
ment warehouse. He was paroled on
condition that he pay a fine of $500
in $50 monthly installments.
Six months later be held up and
robbed a man and his wife of more
than $2000 in Jewelry. A week ago
he was convicted in circuit court
and sentenced to 10 years in the
state penitentiary. But as before,
he was paroled on condition that he
reimburse his victims. Now the gov
ernment is seeking him for failure
to pay his monthly Installments.
Perhaps there are mitigating cir
cumstances of some kind. But re
gardless of circumstances, "here is a
man who has twice within a period
of a few months committed rob
bery, twice been paroled, and is
now wanted for failure to meet the
terms of one parole.
Is the public entitled to no protec
tion-from robbers? Are burglars to
be haled into court, requested to pay
for their damage, and permitted to
go back and try the job over? Is
there no punishment for crime in
Oregon? Weinstein was only made
to pay back what he had taken, and
twice he escaped punishment for
robbery.
About the time Weinstein perpe
trated his last offense, people were
staying in their homes at night be
cause they feared to walk out on
Portland streets. When they were
compelled to go out. In many cases
they walked in the middle of the
street to avoid shadows near the
sidewalks. The Portland police were
falling over themselves in an effort
to' capture some of the criminals,
and at last the mayor was forced
to go from the city hall to the police
station to put the police department
on an effective basis to end crime.
And after one of the criminals was
captured, a man who had previously
committed robbery .and who was
then on parole, he was turned scot
free with the admonition to return
what he had stolen.
It would seem that the public is
entitled to some little consideration
and protection. The people of this
state pay legislators to make laws,
they pay men to record them, they
pay policemen to enforce them, andN
they pay judges to apply them. The
laws are not established to be obeyed
by some people 'and ignored by
others. And they are not made
simply to ornament our statute
books.
With brilliant promise of becoming
a national figure, William F. Mc
Corabs, who was national party
pilot in the first Woodrow Wilson
candidacy for thepresidency, is dead.
His failure to remain in the public
eye and why he never figured in any
way in the administration which he
led to victory is one of the political
mysteries of the late past. At the
San Francisco convention, he was a
bitter, violent, but little heeded op
ponent of McAdoo.
BEYOND THE PALE
TREACHEROUS and murderous,
the Turkish government, new
that the allied armies are dispersed,
demands trie restoration of the com
plete economic and commercial in
dependence of Turkey, demands
guarantees that Turkey may main
tain an adequate army' and navy and
insists that the Eastern frontier of
Turkey be fixed on the basis of the
pre-war Turko-Persian boundaries.
This defiance is in striking contrast
with the suppliant tone in which
Turkey begged for mercy when she
collapsed and sued for peace during
the war. Her impudence now is
proof of the wisdom of the plan
under which a League of Natrons
was to be the world arbiter and have
power to deal with nations that re
fuse to be decent. Honorless and
treacherous, Turkey respects no en
gagement with civilization, wants no
situation in which she will be forced
to live in decency, and will obey
none of the ordinances of honor ex
cept at the. point of artillery.
Turkey" has cajoled, duped and
fooled Europe for centuries into perJ
mittipg her to pursue neV own 'bloody
course Unmolested. She was re
strained and submissive only when
America's mailed hand was tempor
arily waved over the world. Tbe
vacant chair of America at the coun
cil table of Europe is signal! for
Turkey to go back to her old game
of bluff, bluster and barbarity
The one nation that the : Turk
fears, the one nation that could end
Turkey's career as buccaneer, and
marauder by the mere power of
diplomacy, is Amreica, and America
seems out of mood for meetimr her
great responsibility to civilization.
DEMOCRACY'S
NEW START
Challenge ta Chairman White Makes
Many Democratic Editors Apprehen
sive of a False Start Sounder
Basis of Reorganization Than I
, That of Mere Leadership Is
Enjoined in Any Event.
Daily Editorial Digest
The "threat" to Chairman White of the
Democratic national committee to call
a meeting of that body for the implied
purpose of ousting him from office is
not the kind of "reorganiratipn" the
Democrats want, if most of the party
organs can be accepted as authority.
The majority of Democratic editors call
for "principles instead of personalities"
and denounce the attempt to create
"factionalism." Support for "Cox and
his friends' is about balanced by protests
against Mr. White among those who
comment upon the question of a new
chairman. For the most part, the f re
marks of the Republican press might
be described as "silent cheers."
s ..
The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.)
stresses the need of "performance" and
describes the "Democratic folly" in terms
echoed by many other papers of similar
political faith: 'The wrangle." it says,
"over the question of reorganization of
the Democratic national committee and
the Democratic party betrays the usual
shortsightedness of the usual hack poli
tician." i
Similarly the Indianapolis News Ind.)
expresses the belief that "the Democrats
will do themselves and the country a
disservice if they fall out among them
selves and begin a contest for the con
trol of party machinery" and 1 the New
Orleans Times Picayune (Ind. Dem.)
doubts that four years of factional
wrangling will "pave the way to con
structive patriotic action and righteous
victory," nor Is it "convinced" that the
"Democratic rank and file want to begin
the political battle of 1924 In the spring
of 1921." Witile the Newark News (Ind.)
remarks that "this jockeying for posi
tion between the McAdoo and Cox forces
Is indication enough that the party still
is a pretty live corpse" it adds that "it
WOUjd be a little? mnn tr th nnirt tnr
the Democrats in congress to show that
Democrats stand for principles worthy
of support on their merits."
It is upon the conduct of their con
gressmen, rather -than the "premature"
choice of leaders, many writers feel, that
success depends. "The minority season
that lies ahead" says the Norfolk Vir
ginian Pilot (Demi), can be "converted
into an exceedingly fruitful season." and
the Richmond , 'Times ' Dispatch (Dem)
quotes Representative Flood's remarks
to the effect that "the winning issues in
the next campaign will be made by the
Democrats in the senate and the house
in the next four years."
Urging that "successful reorganization
must come not from the leaders but from
the rank and file," the Baltimore Sun
(Ind. Dem.) declares that not until the
sentiment of the voters crystallizes" can
leaders be definitely chosen. That the
"present undertaking" to prepare for the
future is "based on the wrong vision"
Is the opinion of the New Haven Jour
nal Courier Ind.), for this contest is
merely "a fight between men of ambi
tion" and not "a fight between opposing
principles." Without sugsesting that
eitner taction be "squelched", the Chat
tanooga News (Dem) declares that "re
organization should not be attempted"
in the "interest" of any person or per
sons, but rather for the people as a
whole. Indeed, the real job of the com
mittee, declares the Birmingham News
(Dem.), is "rehabilitating the machinery
of the party" without consideration "of
any one man or group of men." "Party
chiefs should unite on time-honored Dem
ocratic principles." the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal (Dem.) concludes, allow
ing "future leadership to take care of
itself."
However, the question of the choice of
a new chairman is discussed with inter
est by a number of writers. The Greens
boro News (Ind.), professing a politically
"neutral" view, -considers it "a matter
of non-pressing importance if the
Cox-White-Murphy-Taggart combination
does retain control," because if the Dem
ocratic party wants to commit suicide
another will take its place, but it does
wonder that such "a furore" has arisen
over the proposal to oust "the worst dis
credited set of leaders our political his
tory has known." The St. Louis Star
(Ind.) and the Lexington Leader (Rep.)
apparently agree in part at least with
this attitude, though the Star makes its
appeal in more positive form : "The
Democratic party needs a chairman
chosen for a reason ; not a chairman
against whom nothng can be said. Trie
chairman should reflect a new purpose
in the party. He should personify the
intention to make the party command
the support of the progressives, of oppon
ents of the spoils system, of believers in
governmental efficiency, of fair dealing
and no shirking of our relations with the
rest of the world."
But Chairman White has hjs supporters,
too. Among them is the Cleveland Plain
Dealer (Ind. Dem.), which declares that
there was nothing in his conduct of the
campaign "that calls for his resignation
now," and those . who attempt to oust
him will merely Invite "antagonisms"
when harmony is needed. The Memphis
News Scimitar (Ind.) feels that these
persons can be called "agitators favor
ing continuous discord in the Democrat
ic party," for, as the Columbia (S. C.)
Record (Dem.) remarks: "Why should
not Governor Cox's friends stay in the
saddle? They are the only ones entitled
to remain there."' Their removal, j in
deed, the Knoxville Journal and Tribune
(Rep.) -agrees, would be like punishing
a man for failure to "change the laws of
gravitation, or direct' the flow and ebb
of the tides." ,
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A purely Republican view of the affair
comes from the columns of the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle (Rep.) which
comments : "By making the chairman
ship a center of strife, the several. fac
tions are emphasizing the demoralization
that has made itself apparent in other
directions."
Curious tiits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
The gargoyles of Notre Dame are com
monly associated with the medieval
spirit and the queer obsessions of old
Paris. As a matter of fact, while the
etained glass windows date from the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, most
of the gargoyles were executed under the
direction of 'Violet le Due 'when the
cathedral was restored, no earlier than
the middle of last century. Writing in
1913, Harry Hems, who is an authority
on architectural subjects, declared that
most of the gargoyles carved at the time
of the restoration of Notre Dame were
done by an Englishman named Framp
ton. "though I believe this fact Is now
remembered by very few." j
Uncle Jeff Snow Say?:
Some of our statesmen and almost
statesmen has found em a brand new
way of raisin revenue, and that's by
taxin' of flivvers. There don't seem to
be no limit to what they can raise that
away. In fact, there ain't no more rea
son why there" should be a license on
flivvers than on hay wagons or header
beds. I notice all our big idle land spec
tators is willin' to have free roads built
past their holdin's by the flivver tax.
First thing we know there'll be some
kind ef ball-etp -with ans) of the here
new fliwer-taxtn laws and the supreme
j edges' II chuck 'em all into the scrap
heap. Then well find out how nice it.
is to have a flivver to take aigs to town
'thout no license.
Letters From the People
' f Cotnmunlca Hons to The Journal for
publics tkat in this department should be written
on only one aide of the paper; should not exceed
S00 words i length, and must be signed by the
writer, whose mail add rare in full asuat accom
pany the contribution.
i A CHAMPION NEEDED
The Journal Again Commended for Its
Stand for Free Speech.
Portland, Feb. 21. To the Editor of
The Journal After reading the commu
nication of R. A. Sawyer, commander of
the Spanish War Veterans, in The Jour
nal today, I immediately hunted up your
recent able editorial on Mayor -Baker
and constitutional larw, also your more
recent article, in Saturday's Journal,
concerning the effect of Mayor Baker's
utterances before the Spanish War Vet
erans on February 15. It is certainly
gratifying to know we have a paper
which will editorially stand for consti
tutional rights, and which will publicly
denounce any official who seeks to set
himself above the constitution of our
state, as well as the constitution of the
United States. I also believe that pri
vate citizens and public citizens as well
should attend free speech meetings In
force, because In that way we shall be
able to reach more people and awaken
them to the fact that we are not criti
cizing or condemning any man or woman
who demands that our liberties shall not
be taken away from us, but on the con
trary, that we shall be glad to work
shoulder to shoulder with those who
wish to retain the freedom which our
forefathers fought and bled for. If
thought and speech could have been' so
throttled in 1776. the Liberty bell prob
ably never would have pealed forth the
glad tidings that a new and mighty na
tion of freemen had been born.
Is it not better Americanism to show
proper regard for our written law than
to try to override it by denying that
which is guaranteed us in that immortal
document, the Constitution of the United
States? H A. Howard.
A DEFENDER OF FREE SPEECH
Barlow, Feb. 20. To the Editor of The
Journal I should be remiss in what I
consider a duty if I did not heartily
commend you in your excellent and fear
less editorials-cm free speech and mayors.
It is evident that the G. L,. B.s are as det
rimental to society as the I. W. W. in
that they go to too great extremes.
R. E. Cherrick.
QUOTING THE CONSTITUTION
Spanish War Veteran in an Open Letter
to Commander Sawyer.
Portland, Feb. 23. Commander R. A.
Sawyer, City. Dear Sir : I wish to make
a few remarks in reply to your letter in
last Monday's Journal.
During the Spanish-American war I
served in company L, Second Arkansas
volunteers. At that time I enlisted under
the colors for three reasons. One was to
avenge the sinking of the battleship
Maine : another was to put to flight that
butcher Weyler, who was then conduct
ing a reign of terror throughout the
Spanish West Indies, particularly In
Cuba ; and the last reason was to ex
tend to those sorely tried inhabitants the
hand of brotherly love and charity, and
to induce not coerce them to adopt
American institutions.
I don't lay any claim to being 100 per
cent American, any more than I claim
to be 100 per cent Infallible or 100 per
cent Christian. Also, I don't flaunt my
Americanism to the high heavens amid a
blare of trumpets.' My actions speak for
themselves. When my country called I
did not wait to be drafted. That is a
matter of record.
But I find that the Americanism I
fought for and that which you appar
ently fought for are of different char
acter. I fought to spread the benefits of
American institutions, not forcibly nor
coercively, but rather through kindness
and illustration. An army can be suc
cessful combated with, an army, but
an idea never was, is not now and never
will be successfully resisted with force.
The experience of the late czar ought to
prove to you that. The only reason he
succeeded so long was. that education
was not so widely diffused as it is in
Anglo-Saxon countries.
The American constitution, in which
we all take so much pride, was the
product of mortals, and I would like you
to point out one thing that mortals ever
created that was infallible. In the na
tural evolution of the race, as we march
towards that millennium spoken of in
the Holy Book, all mortal made instru
ments must fall by the wayside. The
framers of that excellent instrument
themselves admit that it is not perfect,
for they provided machinery for its
amendment. Not only that, but in order
that it may be intelligently altered or
amended, they specifically guaranteed to
posterity that "congress shall make no
law abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press, or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble." Now you- at
tempt not only to violate that excellent
document but also appeal to the hoodlum
element to break up lawful assemblies.
There is nothing to be gained fiy re
pression. Just about 20 years ago I
joined the " United Mine Workers of
America. At that time to belong to a
union was to be an outlaw. But we
claimed that we had as much right to
organize as the. employers. However, we
were blacklisted. Our leaders were fired
and jailed and sometimes we were jailed
too. We were driven from pillar to
post ; but the United Mine Workers of
Aitoerica today is the answer to that
repression.
President Wilson says: "Revolutions
do not spring up overnight. Revolutions
gather throughout the ages. Revolutions
come through long suppression of the
human spirit. Revolutions come because
rnreit know they have rights, and that
those rights have been disregarded."
I dislike the term revolution, for revo
lution usually results in bloodshed. I
much prefer evolution. Evolution means
Instruction and intelligent decision, which
can only be gained by the exercise of
those Inalienable rights guaranteed by
the constitution free speech, free press
and lawful assemblage.
. George P. Falconer.
INCOME TAX
' f Com mn nica tions concerning income tax prob
lems will be answered by The Journal. All com
munication"! should be addressed to the "Income
Tax Editor" and should bear the writer's name
and address.
Question Is interest paid on mortgages
among the amounts deducted when com
puting income tax?
Answer Yes.
Question Is a girl considered a minor
after she is 18 years of age?
Answer No.
Question Do her parents have to pay
Income tax on her salary after she is IS
providing her salary is less than $1000?
Answer No.
Question When a car is used about
equally in business and pleasure, what
part of the expense, if any, is deductible?
Answer The proportion applicable to
the. use of the car in business may be
deducted as a business expense.
Question Can storage, oils, repairs of
tires,- etcx, be dedueted exs part of the
expense? -
Answer Yes, to the same extent as
set forth in the answer to the last ques
tion. '
Question Is license tax on autos de
ductible the same as any other tax? '
Answer Yes.
Question Do school teachers have to
pay income tax?
Answer Public school teachers are
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE '
What's happen id to "Shadow"?
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The reform element hasn't prevented
the old moon from getting full.
Disarmament: More " than $462,000,
000 in navy appropriations for 1931.
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The squirtless grapefruit Is to be ex
pected in an age of kickless grape juice.
Hoover has not been elevated,-but by
his appointment the cabinet' is apt to be.
Curtailment of the sale of firearms
would curtail our crop of murder mys
teries. - e
What do an the men who attend mid
week matinees do with the rest of the
week?
"Centenarian slashed brush on Broad
way." Crowded out of his Job by the
barbers.
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Really, It's wonderful: but what good
is to come from a 22-hour transconti
nental trip?
The rule that the "Lord helps him who
helps himself is the only thing that
saves the lout who steals a newspaper
man's shears and paste pot.
r And since an "estate" is a possession,
maybe the paste pot and the shears are
the "Fourth estate" we hear so ever
lasting much about these days.
The radical Mr. Tucker scorns reporters.-
Wonder If his own ears burn
from the things reporters think about
him but are too self-respecting to say.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
"The stockmen have lfteen harder hit
than anyone else In bringing the coun
try back to normalcy," said a prominent
stockman from Eastern Oregon who is
stopping at the Imperial for a few days.
"No, I would rather you wouldn't men
tion my name, but here is an item. which
I clipped last week from a farm paper
that helps to explain why the producer
is receiving so little for his product and
why the consumer Is paying so much.
Here is the item and it Isn't at all exag
gerated : "When M. E, Haskins, Kansas
farmer, shipped 155 pounds of wool to.
a commission broker in Kansas City two
weeks ago, he asked the broker to send
him n sweater and buy and pay for it
out of the wool money. After the
freight. War' tax, commission, storage
and insurance were paid Haskins had
$11.40 coming for his wool, but the
sweater and express charges cost $15.15.
It takes only one pound of yarn to make
a sweater ! As the account stands now,
Haskins owes the commission man $3.75
and has $4 to pay for shearing"."
Mrs. F. K. Booth, Mrs. Mary Handley
and G. G. Thornton of Astoria are regis
tered at the Imperial.
L. A. Stanley of Baker is a Portland
visitor.
H. R. Jones of Salem is in Portland.
V. J. Walker of Moto is at the Im
perial. L L. Baker of Grass Valley Is a Port
land visitor.
S. D. Peterson, well known attorney
of Milton, is at the Oregon.
George Larsen of Siletz, Lincoln coun
ty, is a Portland visitor.
N. B. Bounty and R. A. Lewellyn of
Bend are guests at the Imperial.
George F. Osburn of Ashland, the sum
mer capital of Orepon, is in Portland.
J. S. Dellinger, pioneer newspaper man
of Astoria, is at the Imperial.
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Mrs. Fred Currey of Juntura is a guest
at the Imperial hotel.
Theodore W. Case of Klamath Falls
Is domiciled at the Imperial.
J. W. Richmond of Condon is a guest
at the Seward.
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L L. Stewart of Salem is a Portland
visitor.
Charles S. Hanson of Ashland is a
guest at the Seward.
L, W, Neilson of Medford is at the
Seward.
E. E. Barr of Seaside and R R Dear
of Albany are guests at the Seward.5
H. F. McGrath of Kings Valley is a
Portland visitor.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN rj .
.By Fred Lockley '
Reminiscences of a pioneer of pioneers in
t'matilla courety are here recorded by Mr. Lock
ley, who stresses the .means by which his sub
ject msde his way to distinct success in the
world. J 1
, J. T. Lieuallen of Umatilla county is
spending a few days in Portland on his
way home from Southern California,
where he has spent the winter. "How
long have I lived in Umatilla county?"
said Mr. Lie,uallen, repeating my ques
tion. "I have lived there more than 67
years. I decided to com to Oregon
when I was five years old. We came
across the plains from Missouri, where
I was born. I started for Oregon in 1863.
Oh, sure ; I brought my folks along.
Father settled on Pine creek, above
Weston. After a year there he found a
homestead, which he took. It is one
mile east of the present city of Athena.
In early days our place was always
known as the Done Pine Tree ranch. To
my certain knowledge this place has
been farmed more than 50 years and we
are getting just as big crops of wheat
as in the year the eod was first turned.
We get around 40 bushels to. the acre,
and that is what it yielded when first
farmed ; all of which goes to prove that
the soil of Umatilla county is wonder
fully fertile.
"I went to school at. the old Rawhide
'school, midway between Weston and
Athena. When we took up our home
stead there was only one house on Pine
creek, which was at the Taylor Green
crossing of Pine creek. Taylor Green
later became the father-in-law of Bert
Huffman, editor of the East Oregonian.
There was no town of Athena but near
where Athena is now located was the
Mitchell Richards stage station. There
was a house, a stable and several cor
rals. This stage station later became
Centerville and was the headquarters
for Hank Vaughan in the days when he
was at his wildest and wooliest. Center
ville later became Athena.
"In those days ' Pendleton was also a
stage station. The first time I saw the
place there were not' over half a dozen
houses there, a' saloon or two. Aunty
Raley's eating place, a blacksmith shop
and a store. In those days Umatilla
county was a stockraising district. Dave
Taylor, father of Til and Jenks Taylor,
was in the stock, business, as were most
of the other settlers. We used to cut
the wild hay for winter feed. When we
considered employes of the state, and
compensation tor such service is exempt
and need not be reported for income tax
I have three sources of in
come poultry,, fruit and .my salary as a.
NEWS IN BRIEF
; -SIDELIGHTS
A man in Portland Is unirl tn liiv.
jbeen boss of bis family for 28 years, and
w now insane, success like that would
drive any man insane. Cor vail la Ua-sette-Times.
, If there is a place on earth where
bone-dry prohibition for the United
States Is unanimously approved and be
lieved in. it is Havana. Cuba. La
Qrande Observer.
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Cheer up! We're not so poor, after
all. Europe owes us $20,000,000,000.
That's nearly $200 apiece, or $1000 per
family. And all we've grot to do Is col
lect it. -Albany Democrat,
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We have traveled a long way since
Washington's time and entirely iost sight
of Jefferson's doctrine that the best
government was the one that governed
least. Salem Capital Journal.
There is a move on foot to lengthen
the presidential term to six years. Don't
do it voting for a change is about the
only Interest a majority of the people
take in government. Eugene Guard.:
It is high time Chief of Police Wilson
stopped such .disgraceful scenes on Main
street. Yesterday a woman, lost to all
sense of modesty, walked through the
business district with both ears ex
posed. Klamath Falls Herald.
It will be wise if under the Harding
administration Mr. Hughes runs the
state department and the senate holds to
its constitutional duty of backing up
the executive department instead of try
ing to run that department. Pendleton
East Oregonian. -
Walter M. Pierr. wha wnuM h,v.
been governor 6f Oregon once if he had
only: had a few more votes, Is In town
on business and is a guest at the Seward.
He is a good loser, for he always bobs
up serenely and doesn't cry over spilt
milk, but goes ahead with all his energy
at some new Interest.
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Robert C. Paulus of Salem is a guest
at the Seward. He has just returned
from a three weeks' trip to New York
city, Washington and other Eastern
Cities in the interest of the fruitgrowers.
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John F. Forbis and John Forbis Jr. of
Forest Grove are at the Multnomah.
Mr. Forbis formerly lived at Butte,
Mont., and is well known to many old
time residents of Montana.
Judge R. R. Butler, lawyer, orator
and: booster for his home town, is down
from The Dalles and is putting up at
the Imperial.
j
i F. L. Knight of Anchorage, on Ship
oreek, near the entrance of Knik arm of
Cook Inlet, in Alaska, is transacting
business In Portland.
.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bain of Castle
rock and. Robert Andrus of Cascade
Locks are at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Wilson, Mrs. Frank
Anderson and Miss Emma Bergstrom
of Heppner are jruestsat the Imperial
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. McMillan of Lex
ington, Or., are registered at the Corne
lius. .
A. J. Bollens, hailing- from Grass Val
ley, is transacting business in the me
tropolis. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Morton of Kodiak,
Alaska, are registered at the , Mult
nomah. A. R. Baker
Multnomah.
of Astoria is at the
Mrs. L. W. Robbins and daughter of
Molalla are at the Multnomah.
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. W. B. Hancock of Seaside : Is a! Port
land visitor.-:
,
P. E. Burke of Klamath Falls is at
the Multnomah.
M. F. Hanley of Medford is a guest
at the Multnomah..
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Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Miller of Salem
are guests at the Seward hoteL
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Carter of Albany
are at the Oregon.
Judge Lynch .of Eastern Oregon Is a
Portland visitor.
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W. L. Kimble of Hermiston is visiting
in Portland. ' -,
George Hennlng of Juneau is in Port
land on business.
had a hard winter and the snow was
crusted we rarely had enough hay to
winter our stock, so we would hitch up
a span of mules or "oxen and, with a
V-shaped scraper, drive over the -range
and scrape the crusted snow away so
the hungry cattle could get at the dried
bunch grass beneath. When I was a boy
the 'two towns of consequence In Uma
tilla county were Weston and Umatilla.
On October 29, 1879, I married Miss Lucy
Adcock. We have had nine children.
Lawrence, my oldest boy, is farming on
the home place. My next, Fred, is a
doctor. ; He went to France and won the
croix d guerre for gallantry under fire
in attending to the wounded. I have 10
grandchildren five boys and five girls,
"You have to stay on the job to
amount to anything in any line, so I
have bought out homesteaders who got
cold feet, till I have about a thousand
acres of wheat land and also some tim
ber and range land. My boys and I had
2500 acres in wheat last year. It yielded
35 to -45 bushels to the acre. The year
before we had 1920 acres. We sold at
$1.90 a bushel, though if we had held it
a month or so we could have got $2.50 a
bushel; but even at $1.90 it runs into
quite a bit of money. Not over 25 per
cent of last year's crop is still in the
farmers hands!"
Speaking of staying on the job and
making good reminds me of a bit of
verse I ran across a few days ago in
Forbes Magazine. It is written by Dale
N. Carty and is enUtled "One Way
Traffic."
There is only one load to the town of "Success."
The name of the road is "Work."
It has room for only honest guvta,.
Traffic's blocked to those that shirk.
The read is open all hours of today.
It heeds neither time nor date.
And now ia the tirrm to start on yenr wsy.
For tpmorrow will be too late.
Nearly sin of! the way is an uphill road;
It will seem like a toueb old fnht;
But one, on your way just bear up your load
And keep 90ms with ail your miarht.
Tpn will paa thmnirh many towns each day.
Such as Failitre. ;ico:n and In-mair; '
At each of these stations Just keep on your way.
For "Work" doe not tarry there. !
After you bare entered the town of "Swfta."
Though your load may have been bard to bear,
Onre innde yon will find both comfort and rest:
Just be thankful yon started for there.
teacher in he public school. Shall I in
clude teacher's wages in my income tax
return? ,
Answer No ; that amount should not
be Included in, computing your taxable
income.. ; .
The Oregon Country
Northwest Hajin4ncs in Brief Form lor the
Busy Header.
OREGON NOTES . .
The Lacomb oil well is down 840 feet
and stockholders are optimistic as ta
final results. j ,
Application for' an increase of rates
has been filed by the Lebanon Electrio
Light & Water company,,
Albert Peterson, KoVernment trapper
at Ukiah, in Umatilla county, reoorta a
month's catch of 19 coyotes and three
bobcats.
The new Methodist church at Suther
lin was dedicated Sunday. The wrmon
was delivered by Dr. W. W. Yeungaoo
of Portland. " j j
Steinhoff & Jackson, who have built
a sawmill at Myrtle Point, have started
cutting fir lumber and are employing a
full crew of men. j r
Wilbur Clayborn Doak; for many years
a resident of Lane couity. died sud
denly on his farm near Coburg while
feeding the hogs. i
W. B. Andrews, for &6 years a resi-'
dent of Eugene and a veteran of -the
Civil war, ; is dead at his home in that
city, aged 82 years. i
The Union mine and stamp 'mill at
Halfway has closed down and all the
crews have left the camp until it re
opens in thesprlng. J
S. B. Powers, a pioneer farmer, of
Fhedd. is dead at Ashland, aged 64 yearn.
He was born on his farm near Shedd,
where he resided all his life.
The summer of 1921i promises to be
an active i season in the building line
in Gladstone. At lyesent four modern
dwellings are under construction.
The Umpqua Savings & Loan company
at KosehurK has increased its capital
stock from $200,000 to $500,000. The com
pany was organised three years ago.
The -number of farms In Oregon, ac
cording to the recent rensus, 1b 60,206.
These farms contain 13,542, 318 acreH, of
which 4,913,851 acres are improved land.
'An increase of 41 per cent In the val
ue of farm property in Marion county
has been made within the last 10 years.
Farm land and buildings now are val
ued at $46,393,558. j
Work will be started as soon as pos
sible on' a new suspension bridge con
meeting Oreftun City ! and West Linn.
This undertaking will employ a large
force for asbout a year!
A fire department consisting of two
hose teams and a hook-and-ladder team
has been organized at Monmouth. Plans
are being imaiia for the construction of a
fire hall iujd the installation of modern
equipment. i
I WASHINGTON
Fully 51000 jackrabhits were slain In
a drive held near Kllensburg last Sat
urday. '
Shopmen In all the railways operating
through Spokane are ; now on the five
day weekj
The dance hall at Heisson In Clarke
county burned to the ground last week.
The building and contents were a total
loss.' j
, Eugene IE. J. Lair, a Reardan farmer,
convicted 1 of second degree assault on
a 12-year-old boy, hanged himself, in
Jail at Davenport. i
Fire starting from an overheated
stove- destroyed the cookhouse of the
Western Logging company near Win
lock. The loss is $6000.
Unless unforeseen disaster happens to
the apple; crop of the Wenatchee dis
trict, the syield this year will ba 16,000
carloads or 12,000,000; boxes.
The Cascade company mill at Yakima
opened Monday for the first of this Bea
son'B run and will employ 300 men for
the first part of its operations.
Elery H. Holesapple of Dryad has
Just received a citation from Uie war
department for "gallantry In action"
during the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
Mrs. John R. Neely of Spokane has
Deen unanimously elected president or
the women's auxiliary of the American
Legion of the department of Washington.
Plans for bulldlnjr 125 new residences,
together with extensive improvements
and enlargements of) the water system
are features of municipal activity at
Maiden. j
Creation of a state commission to pro
vide for state improvement projects to
relieve unemployment is asked in a reso
lution passed by the Spokane central
labor council. j
Chief Bill Mason ! and wife of the
Quinault 'Indian tribe at Taholah are
preparing for a trip to Washington and
hope to pay their respects to President
elect Harding. . j
A report from the forest service
States that ,8.000,000,000 board feet of
timber were destroyed by the hurricane
that swept the Olympic peninsula in
Washington recently.
In the absence of State Senator Guy
B. Oroff of Spokane., now attending the
session of the legislature, his home has
been stripped of alii its rurnlslilngs, in
cluding even the chandeliers.
To repair partially the damage done
by the disastrous windstorm that swept
the Olympic national forest on January
29. the senate committee on appropria
tions recommends the- appropriation of
$100,000. j
. IDAHO
P. T. Fortner, former assistant farm
agent in Lane county. Oregon, has been
appointed county Bjrent for Bonner
county, I
'Irrigation ditches 'as now constructed
in certain streets of : Caldwell have beffn
declared a public nuisance by the city
council. j -
The bridge across the Snake river at
Grandvlew, which was built jointly bv
the counties of Ada and Owyhee and
the state, has been Completed.
: Heavy snow on- the large packing
house of Jess Meckwith at Fruitland
caused the roof to cave in, seriously
damaging the contents and wrecking
two autos. - :
Mankin Roby Davis, locally known as
"Jeff" Davis, died I suddenly at F'oca
tello Sunday. He was born in Virginia
63 years ago and had been a resident
of Idaho for 40 years.
According to the 4-Ity welfare director,
nine-tenths of the families who are be
ing assisted by the lAssociatcd Charities
are from other parts of the country and
are not citizens of Boise.
Kiirh't thousand feet of movlnir niclurea
of the Hnake Itlver vallev have leen
completed by the Hnuku River Valley
Community club in cooperation with the
united states reclamation servlee.
icnow I youiv
PORTLAND
Community Service, an idea, an
ideal and an organization born of war
experience, designed to promote email
town neighborlineasj in big cities, has
become an accepted organization
among the many of civic character in
Portland, It is Identified by its use
fulness, i
Last year, which was really its first
year apart from the War Camp
Community Service, was apparently
a strenuous year of neighbor-making.
There were 76 sessions of commit
tees and the board of directors, and
an aggregate of j 1013 in attendance.
Fifty-nine military drill and phyal
cal training classes for girls attracted
an attendance of j 447 4.
Twenty-nine girls classes in folk
and esthetic dancing had an attend
ance of 1142. -
Girls were Initiated into the enthus
ing influence of booster club, and 12
clubs of such character had an en
rollment of 384. j
Thirteen swimming classes for girls
were popular, for they had an attend
ance of 1509. i
There were 42 mixed classes in dra
matics and pageantry, with an at
tendance of 1676 ; 26 mixed short
story classes, with arv attendance of
255, and 67 mixed classes for choruses
and rehearsals, j with an attendance
of 2617. j
(To be continued.)