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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921.
SOME FEATURFS OF
E
LEGISLATION ASKED
Multnomah Anglers' club would
restore the governor's appointive
power over state game and fish com
mission. Discretionary regulation of closed
and open seasons, in individual dis
tricts, requested for commission.
Complete re-enactment of state
game code, as. drafted by the com
mission, embracing these new pro
visions: Establishment of closed and open
seasons for migratory waterfowl to
conform to federal law.
Protection of bear during months
from March 1 to October 1.
Opening of trout season one month
later, on May 1, with restriction of
catch to 30 fish, or 20 pounds.
All-year open season for croppies
and catfish, with closed season foi
bass from April 15 to June 15. Catch
limited to 30 fish, or 20 pounds.
Increase of anglers' or hunters'
licenses from $1.50 to $3. Feminine
devotes of rod and gun to be requir
ed to take out licenses.
Licensing of guides, with $3 an
nual feed required.
OF WOOL UNSOLD IN
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 8. Sheep
raisers of Washington have nearly
5,000,000 pounds of wool from the
1920 crop which cannot be disposed of
at any price, declared Thomas J.
Drumheller of Walla Walla, president
of the Washington Wool Growers
association, in an address to the an
nual convention of that organization
vhich opened here Thursday.
"There is absolutely no market for
wool," said Mr. Drumheller. -Washington
sheepmen raised at least
5,000,000 pounds during the last year
and still have 90 per cent of it on
their hands because there is no
market."
Action by the wool growers to de
crease the cost of railroad transporta
tion of sheep from the winter graz
ing areas to the mountains was, de
clared by Mr. Drumheller to be an ab
solute necessity. He predicted an.
early agreement with railway offi
cials on the subject.
CENSUS OF
1390 LOST
IN FLAMES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Fire
broke out tonight in the department
of commerce building. The fire seem
ed to be, confined to the basement,
having, originated in the office of the
engineer, and as the building is fire
proof, firemen expected soon to have
the blaze under control.
Among the records lost were those
tor the 1890 census.
OIL COMPANY
FINED $99,000
BY U.S. JUDGE
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Jan. 10. The
Gulf Refining company was fined
599,000 by Judge Robert L. Williams
in the United States district court
here today.
It was alleged the company mis
labeled 99 cars of casing head gaso
line shipped from cities in Oklahoma
to Beaumont, Tex.
HUBBY STILL
REFUSES TO
JOIN CHURCH
DANVILLE, 111., Jan. 10. While
no nearer joining church than wnen
his wife started her hunger strike 43
days ago to force him to her will,
Ernest Harrington prayed for her by
proxy Sunday and Monday at a dollar
a smash, the Rev. Henry Green, itin
erant, a negro preacher, doing the
oral work.
Rev. Mr. Green called at the Har
rington home, invited Harrington in
to the yard, requested him to kneel
and attend prayer and then made a
touch, while members of the Pente
costal Church of God, of which Mrs
Harrington is a memlber, prayed out
side and inside the house.
SUES FOR
MONEY DUE
ONLAND
L. M. Lundgren has entered suit m
the circuit court here against H. II.
Warrington to secure alleged back
payments on a tract of land consist
ing of 20 acres situated in Clacka
mas county. The plaintiff alleges
that he sold the defendant the lan-1
cn the installment plan, and that
the regular payments have not been
made. The tract is situated in Sec.
31, T. 3 S., R. I. E.
LOGGER NEAR
BORING HAS
ARM BROKEN
ESTACADA, Or. Jan. 7. George
Lubeck, hook tender at Dwyer's log
ging camp near Boring, was severly
injured Tuesday afternoon, being
Struck with a cable. The shoulder of
his right arm was broken and the up
per part badly cut. Dr. Morse render-
n ! ii if ;ii j,i tlwoic Iwb rn-ni.1 ti wl.. if iffarm,f'iniMifriii.
SAWMILL TO
BE ERECTED
BY EVANSON
F. A. Evanson, whose home is in
Portland, but engaged in the lumber
business near Estacada, will rebuild his
sawmill at that place, which was de
stroyed by fire on the night of Nov
ember 30.
It is the intention of Mr. Evanson,
who has a large contract for lumber,
to build his mill at this time in a
more convenient locality for shipping
by way of the Portland Railway
Light & Power company. He will
commence building within a few
days.
Mr. Evanson believes that troubles
never come single, for during the
Holidays he and his family left their
Portland home Thursday evening
for a visit with relatives out of the
city, returning the following evening.
Upon their arrival they found that
one of the members of the family
had allowed water to run in the bath
room on the second floor of their at
tractive home. The water had soak
ed through the carpets on the second
floor, through the ceilings of the first
floors, and was still pouring down ia
"buckets full" when they returned
Their home was a sorrowful sight to
behold. Much of the furnishings
were badiy damaged as well as the
walls and ceilings.
It is the intention to erect another
sawmill by Portland parties in the
Estacada district, the site of the new
mill to be about nine miles from
Estacada. The road leading to this
section is but for summer travel, and
the sawing of lumber will occupy the
summer months, but to the Evanson
mill site, a road that can be used
either winter or summer time is one
of the advantages of the location.
Mr. Eevanson contemplates erecting
his sawmill to get out an order for
four million feet of lumber, recently
contracted for.
Maple Lane Grange
Installs New Officers
The officers of Maple Lane Grange,
No. 296, were installed at the meet
ing held at the grange hall at Maple
Lane Saturday, January 8, were as
follows:
Carl Barney, master; Mrs. C. W.
Swallow, overseer; Ray Barney, lec
turer; Mrs. A. J. Lewis, Ceres; Mrs.
Augusta Brown, Pomona; Mrs. E. T.
Avison, steward; Chauncey- Barney,
assistant steward; Mrs. Edith
Mighells, secretary; Mrs. A. Splint
er, lady assistant steward; A. J.
Lewis, gate-keeper.
One of the features of the day was
the hot dinner prepared and served
by the women of the grange.
The afternoon was taken up with
the lecturer's hour, when Mrs. George
Brown gave an interesting reading
"The John Brown Bell." Several
vocal selections were given by grange
numbers with Mrs. E. T. Avison at
the piano.
Among the retiring officers is
George Brown, one of the very active
and oldest members of the grange in
the county. He is 77 years of age
and has taken an active interest in
the meetings he has presided over
during the past years. He is a
resident of Oregon City and promin
ent contractor.
INUAGURAL
CEREMONIES TO
BE BRILLIANT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. It having
been practically settled that the Hard
ing inauguration ceremonies are to be
carried out on the large scale orig
inally planned, but with small ex
pense to the government, the inaugu
ration committee is planning to make
the event of more interest to all of
the country than ever before.
Gladstone I. O. O. F.
Installs New Officers
District Deputy Grand Master
Chambers Howell, of Gladstone, in
stalled the following officers of Chau
tauqua Lodge, No. 220, I. O. O. F. of
Gladstone, Friday evening, January
7: Fred Hayward, noble grand; L
C. Baxter, vice-grand; L. E. Sickler,
secretary; A. D. Paddock, 'treasurer;
C. A. Williams, chaplain; T. C.
Howell, R. S. N. G.; Hugh Piatt, I.
G.; Guy Dwiggins, warden.
Guy Dwiggins acved as district de
puty grand marshal.
Mrs. Arthur Paddock served re
freshments after the installation.
Legion in Row
Over Non-Partisans
SALINA, Kan. Jan. 8. The local
post of the American Legion which
has been actively opposing the non
partisan league movement being or
ganized in this district, has been or
dered by F. W. Galbrath, national
commander, to cease its activities iD
that direction, according to announce
ment Thursday by Oscar A. Kitter
man, commander of the post.
MARKET INSPECTED
The Streibig Market was visited by
one of the inspectors a few days ago
and found to be in excellent condition
and marked O. K. by the inspector it
is said.
Mr. Strebigs market report is as
follows: Equipment, clean; blocker,
good; tools, fair shape; cooler, good;
sausage room, clean.
His slaughter house was also found
to be O. K. by the inspector.
SOLOIST RETURNS
The Congregational church is re
joicing in the return of Miss Marie
Holmes, who resumes her position
Li.4i.niwi mini . i '.!,;,,,; I, in ,-,M,.,iVt,
LACEY TEI LS HOW
TO OPERATE A FORD
IN COLD WEATHER
"Ford operators can save them
selves! considerable trouble during
this cold weather if they give proper
atention to the Ford clutch," said Mr.
J. L. Lacey, Special Agent for the
Standard Oil Company, in discussing
cold weather lubrication yesterday.
"Many Ford operators complain
that when the engine is cold It is hard
to crank and the car has a tendency
to creep forward while cranking.
"To eliminate as much as possible
this cause for complaint they should
first make sure the clutch throwout is
adjusted so that, with the hand brake
lever set, the clutch is fully disengag
ed. As this relieves the steel discs
in the clutch of all pressure from the
clutch spring it should permit suf
ficient separation of the driving from
the driven discs to allow them to turn
freely cn each other. This is neces
sary because the driving discs are
connectd to the engine crankshaft and
the driven discs cannot revolve with
out turning the rear wheels. But of the
lubricating oil used is of too heavy
body the discs still have a tendency to
stick together and make cranking dif
ficult.
"In the Ford power plant the clutch
is combined with the engine and lubri
cated from the supply of oil in the
crankcase. If the oil has a Zero Cold
Test It will not congeal or become too
heavy at any temperature above Zero,
and the clutch discs will then seper
ate frely when relieved of the pres
sure of the clutch spring. This will
permit the engine to be cranked with
minimum effort, and will check the
tendency of the car to creep forward
SURVIVAL OF THE
FITTEST IN AUTO
The automobile manufacturers who
saw far enough into the future to
realize that' a declining market was
inevitable and that there were likely
to be contractions in the values of
inventories and built up strong finan
cial reserves to meet possible con
tingencies are the ones who are going
to weather the present slump in busi
ness and to be the leaders in their re
spective classes of cars when condi
tions, get back to normal.
This is the belief of Fred W. Vog-
ler, president of the Northwest Auto
company, who has just returned after
spending three weeks with factory
connections in the east and discussing
the future of the industry with the
biggest men in it.
Four Wheel Brakes
Introduced at N. Y.
Some of the most interesting engi
neering features developed in racing
cars are incorporated in a new American-built
automobile which was re
cently displayed at the New York
salon. This car, the Duesenberg
straight eight, has a singleblock
vertical eight-cylinder engine and hy
draulically " operated four-wheel
brakes. The principal it embodies
were worked out during the war by
the well-known racing car designers,
Duesenberg Brothers, of Elizabeth,
N. J., and have been demonstrated in
a practical way by the Duesenberg
racing cars.
LINN COUNTY
TO SELL BLOCK
ROAD BONDS
ALBAN-y, Or., Jan. 8. The Linn
county court is making plans to sell
another block of the Linn county 1
road bond issue in order to grade the
Pacific highway, southward from
Tangent to Harrisburg. These plans
are being developed on the promise
of the state highway commission re-,
cently obtained, that if the county
would grade the remainder of the
highway through this county this
year that the commission would pave
from Albany to Tangent during the
coming summer.
YOUNG MEN
TURNED OVER
TO OFFICIALS
The two youngsters arrested in Al
bany for the robbery of the Buckles
store in this city a few nights ago,
were turned over to the juvenile
authorities in Portland. The older
boys, who accompanied the pair to
this city were not implicated in any
way with the robbery, and came to
this city as witnesses in the case.
They overheard the young lads talk
ing about the theft while on the
streets of Albany.
Moose Entertainment
Attraction for Many
The home talent minstrels given at
the Moose hall last Saturday evening
under the direction of Chas. F. Lyon,
was a decided success. The hall was
fillod with an appreciative audience
and many taking part were forced to
respond to hearty encores.
The excellent music by the Moose
band and the selections by the '"Hun
gry Seven" were thoroughly appreci
ated. A similar entertainment is be
ing planned for in the near future.
MARRIED
Peter C. Rotter, 26 years of age.of
Oregon City, and Miss Marguerite M.
Reynolds, 17 years of - age, secured j
Oh, Be "Constabule
' ( ;
And Enjoy Beauties
-
of Nature and Mud
In spite of the fact that the genial
Ed. Fortune, constable for this dis
trict has received a reward of $7,000
for the capture of Doughty, "Ed."
is still serving papers over the coun
ty as "constabuleif However, he came
pretty near quitting yesterday when
he was called upon to serve some
papers out in the Estacada neighbor
hood. The fee in the case was about
"six-bits," and Fortune, after hiking
about three mile3 through mud up to
his ankles, arrived back in Oregon
City about 7:00 o'clock in the even
ing. He looked more like a mud
turtle than a constable when he ar
rived here, and in passing an old
friend who remarked "Good Evening,
Edward" he replied "Aw, Shut Up."
BUYER BETTER OFF
THAN DEALER, SAYS
HEAD OF M,P. CO.
"The new buyer is about the only
one who is sure of present market
conditions.," says R. C. Parker of Miller-Parker
Company.
'"The man who owns a car knows
that whereever the car may be, his
investment does not depreciate a3
long as the car is giving him satisfac
tory service. He is not interested in
any fluctuation in price.
"Ha knows that if he wants a new
car, or a different- car, the value of
his car as a 'trade-in' is not in any
degree affected by the price of the
new car. So the season's automobile
owner is happily indifferent to the
matter of price which seems some
times to the new buyer to be an item
of solemn importance.
"I believe that an understanding of
this is becoming more general among
the army of prospects who are post
poning from day to day the acquisi
tion of the automobile which they
have desired to own, and I am confi
dent that as soon as a clear under
standing of this principle of automo
bile merchandising reaches the public
generally, no one will hesitate to buy
an automobile.
"As a matter of fact, it seems im
possible to conceive of any further
reductions, but the outstanding idea
so well known to those familiar wth
automobles is that the price really
doesn't make any difference, for the
man who buys an automobile never
exepects to be without one. And his
first investment, after a fashion, pays
his dues in the big lodge and puts him
in a position at any time thereafter
to have any car that he may want
under conditoina that make him prac
tically independent of the market.
FORD PRODUGTIO
MILLION CARS FOR
THE YEAR OF 1920
On December 16, Ford production
bounded over the million mark for
the year. Midnight saw the figure at
1,002,515, the day's run having been
4134, according to a statement re
ceived at the Ford branch.
Ford officials say that more car
were produced during the last three
nionths than any quarter of the year,
notwithstanding the fact that there
were fewer production days. While
the figures for November and Decem
ber was lower than those of Oc
tober, which was a record-breaking
month, the average daily output was
greater.
The estimated production for this
year is based on the output capacity
of 1,250,000 cars and trucks. The
Ford plant closed for its annual in
ventory bettween December 24 and
January 3.
THOUGHT DEAD;
REVIVES AFTER
HARD BLOW
VALDOSTA, Ga., Jan. 8. After be
ing stricken with acute indigestion,
Rev. R, P. Fain, was given up for
dead, while attending a ministers'
meeting at Hahira, Ga., yesterday and
laid out in the church while his son
went to inform the family .
Meantime, Rev. John Stanford ar
rived and, pouncing on the "body"
with hisj knees, resuscitated the min
ister. Here It Is Watson
Be Caref ul H i s t !
I've Found A Clue
While many people think that the
life of a county official is a bed of
roses, and that all they have to do is
to answer questions, here is a sample
of a letter that comes quite often to
County Clerk Miller, and the hungry
slueth, thinking that he has discover
ed a clue, "by gosh" has made haste
to so inform the genial clerk, and de
mands an answer. The letter fol
lows: DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, Jan. 2,
1921 Dear Sir: Will you please let
me know wheather there has been a
page as I understand the page No. 87
to be missing in the Book of Records
and Wills if this is so I am on a clue
to whom the parties are that would
be responsible for this damhge.
Please give me a roport as soon as
possible.
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LEGAL MURDER IS
WHOLE OF RUSSIA
(From Edmonton, Alberta Journal)
Taken prisoner by the Bolsheviki
during ten reign of terrior in Russia,
thrown into velrminous Oungeous
there to subsist on hot water and
black bread inanufacturede out of
straw and partly, ground oats, was
the fate of Lieut. O. Dempster, of
Toronto, and Lieut. E. E. Eyford, of
Prince Albert, Sask., who arrived
back in Canada yesterday on the C.
P. O. S. liner Empress of France.
Lieut. Dempster left Toronto as a
private at the beginning of the great
war and served ni France for four
and a balf years. He won the M. C,
M. S. M. 1915 Star, Victory Medal,
Croix de Guerre, General Service
Medal and the Belgian and French
decorations.
In August, 1919, he joined the Royal
hardships, including vile conditions in
mprisonment camps for four months
Army Service Corps, and went to
Siberia. He recounts suffering terrible
in Moscow.
Speaking of conditions in Russia,
Lieut. Dempster said they were ter
rible. Just before leaving they saw
an official report stating that 4,000
men, women and children had been
shot. While prisoners in Petrograd
they saw 3000 ex-officers arrested and
six hundred of them shot to death. In
November 8000 women were mobiliz
ed, irrespective of age, and forced
to chop wood.
Legal murder, said Lieut. Dempster,
was rampart throughout the whole of
Russia, and it was felt that conditions
will never be bettered while the Red
are in power.
LaGRANDE MAN
IS SUICIDE OVER
INDEBTEDNESS
LA GRANDE, Or., Jan. 11. Charl
es Cox, 26, killed himself today as
the result of worry over a small
debt. He returned to La Grande last
night after spending a few days in
Baker. He went immediately to the
apartments of his sister, Mrs. Mary
Collins, over the Putnam drug store
He expressed the fear that some one
was after hinx, and refused to sleep
alone, placing his bed in a corner of
her room.
At 4 o'clock he went into another
room and shot himself. Mrs. Collins
arrived to see him fall to the floor.
Although he was out of employ
ment, he had money. For some time
he had been worrying about $200 ne
owed the Wallowa Milling & Grain
company for a car he purchased last
summer. The coroner this afternoon
stated that no inquest would be hell,
as he believed Cox killed himself be
cause of worry. He was an ex-serv
ice man, having been in the draft
from Grant county. His father, J. M.
Cox, of Kamela, arrived in this city
this noon.
LEGISLATOR IN
IDAHO WANTS
NO JAPANESE
BOISE; Idaho, Jan. 11. Introduc
tion by Representative Vande Steeg
of Canyon county of a concurrent res
olution against Japanese immigration
was a sensation of today's session of
the legislature. It purports to make
a definite and clearcut declaration to
the world, and particularly to con
gress of how Idaho stands on the
Japanese question. Designated by
title as a resolutoin "protesting
against the extension of the rights
of citizenship to subjects of Japan,"
the document calls upon congress to
enact no laws and enter into no treat
ies that would grant further rights in
America to the Japanese.
JUDGEBENNETT
SUFFERS WITH
SLIGHT STROKE
THE DALLES, Jan. 10. Judge A.
S. Bennett, who recently resigned
from the state supreme bench, and
who is prominent throughout the
state in the ranks of the Democratic
party, suffered a slight stroke of
apoplexy at his ranch near Antelope,
in southern Wasco county, last week.
A small blood clot formed on his
brain. He was brought to The Dalles
and is unr!er the care of physician?.
His condition- is not necessarily ser
ious. LENINE LOSING
HOLD AS HEAD
OF RUSSIANS
NEW YORK, Jan. 11. The Jewish
news bureau today made public wire
less advices from Berlin stating that
Nikolai Lenina, premier of soviet
Russia, was ill in Moscow from a gen
eral breakdown; accentuated by re
cent violent attacks upon him by ex
tremists in the communist party,
who accused him of "selling out the
cause" in his dealings with foreign
financiers, including Washington B.
Vanderlip of Los Angeles.
WILL RECALL JUDGE
DALLAS, Or., Jan. 8. A. G. Remple.
chairman of the committee seeking
the recall of County Judge Robinson,
said that he believed that enough
names have been signed to the peti
tions to result in th recall election,
but sent out word to all who are circu
lating petitions to continue to get
names. Remple hoped to get such a
groat number of names, he said, that
Judge Robinson would be induced to
MAN ARRESTED
WITH LOOT FROM
LOCAL FOUNDRY
Norington Reed, a machinist, was
arrested in Portland yesterday after
noon by O'ficers Hadley and Long of
this city, for the looting of the Ore
gon City Foundry late Saturday night,
when over $250 worth of tools and
instruments were taken from the
shop. When arrested. Reed had the
case of tools in his possession and he
is now in the county jail in default
of $500 bail to await action of the
next grand jury.
Bert Roake, one of the proprietors
of the foundry, discovered the theft
Sunday, and suspicioning a former
employee, left Oregon City for Seat
tle, where he learned that Reed was
living. LTpon arriving there, he was
told that Reed had left Seattle for
Portland several days ago. Roake im
mediately telegraphed here and in
formed his brother, who in company
with Officers Hadley and Long, went
to Portland to discover Reed, They
found that he had a sister living at
St. Johns, and when the officers ar
rived near the sister's home, they
spied Reed waiting for a street car"
for Portland with the case of tools
in his hand.
Reed worked at the foundry about
a month ago, and work becoming
slack, he was laid off by the manage
ment. It is claimed that he went to
Seattle, and after spending a couple
of weeks in that city, started for Ore
gon City with the intention of loot
ing the foundry here.
Reed is about 22 years of age and
unmarried. When brought to Oregon
City he waived preliminary trial in
Judge Noble's court, and was placed
in jail in default of $500 bonds. He
had nothing to say concerning the
robbery when locked up. Entrance
was gained to the foundry building
by the sawing of a hole in the roof,
large enough to accommodate a man's
body.
Year of 1920 Sets
Record for Industry
With the year 1920, closed, a resume
of the automobile industry for the
past 12 months will disclose the fact
that the past year has been a banner
one for the industry, despite setbacks
of the last several months. At the be
ginning of 1920, automobile manufac
turers set goals of production which
would have easily eclipsed all previ
ous yearly records. The slowing down
necessitated by the slump in the bus
iness world, which occurred in the fall,
resulted in practically all the factor
ies curtailing production over what
had been intended. In spite of this
fact, however, all previous yearJy
records were smashed,, when the clock
ticked in the year 1921.
SUES FOR
MONEY DUE
ONLAND
L. M. Ludgren entered suit Satur
day against H. A. Warrington to re
cover money due on 20 acres in the
Champing Pendleton D. L. C. Lud
gren alleges that he sold the defend
ant the property on paymtents, and
that the payments, have not been
made to date, and that Warrington
demolished buildings on the property
valued at $100. Ludgren asks the
court to allow him the payments, $100
attorney's fees and $100 for the build
ing destroyed.
HUNDREDS OF
MOTORISTS IN
CITY SUNDAY
Hundreds of people motored from
Portland to Oregon City to witness
the high water of the Willamette
Sunday. Camera fiends were here by
the dozens and many good "snaps"
of the scenic falls were secured.
All water from the roads leading
from Parkplace to Oregon City dis
appeared - Saturday night, making
motoring enjoyable, for the roads had
dried from the sun and wind by Sun
day morning.
HARDING WILL
TAKE OATH
IN PRIVATE
WASHINGTON, an. 11. Presidenc
Elect Harding will take the oath of
office March 4 with ceremonies ap
proximating in simplicity those which
attended the inauguration of Jeffer
son and Jackson.
WIRES CROSSED
AND BURGLAR
TELLS PLANS
OMAHA, Jan. 11. A crossed tele
phone connection yesterday, by which
detectives got a pool hall on the line
instead of the number requested, sup
plied the police with information on
a contemplated robbery yesterday.
The inofrmation led to the shoot
ing to death by a detective last night
of an intruder who entered the home
of Mrs. William Crutchfield, poilce
said today.
OPENING DAY
ATTRACTS MANY
AT GRESHAM
GRESHAM, Jan.ll. The opening.
day of Farmers Week in Gresham
was well attended Monday, and lec
tures in Gra-1? hail on soils, rodents
and fertilizers were well attended.
More
n 73 growers and farmers
ref?;"f '. The expectatoin is that
tive L:c: er:") will be greater ,as the
TWENTY-TWO BILLION "
DOLLAR BUSINESS IS
DONE BY FARMERS
The Secretary of Agriculture figur
es the crops of the year 1920 at $13,
300,000,000, and the animal products
at $S,757,000,000. This is a grand total
of more than twenty-two billion dol
lars!. He estimates that the price
slump has caused a loss in value of
about $3,000,000,000 in the crops, and
$200,000,000 in the animal products
as compared with last year or a
shrinkage of about fifteen per cent.
It must seem to the man with live
stock or grain to sell that the shrink
age is much greater than that, though
it should be taken into consideration
(hat the production of 1920 was much
larger than that of 1919, in volume,
and that, therefore the real shrink
age in value is greater than fifteen
per cent. Taken at its worst, how
ever, the twenty-two billion dollars
worth of farm stuff for the year re
presents almost boundless wealth in
the aggregate. No matter how much
resentment we feel at failing prices
and loss of prifitsi, our business of
farming still remains the country's
matin business. And how much bet
ter it is to have our national granar
ies full of cheap products than it
would to have them nearly empty, no
matter how high the price might be!
Farm Life.
TOURIST ASSOCIATION
SECURE CONVENTIONS
FOR PACIFIC COAST
Co-operation of all commercial or
ganizations of the Pacific Northwest
in securing national conventions for
cities of this section and an effort to
stimulate tourist travel will be
sought by the Pacific Northwest
Tourist Association as one of Its
first activities for 1921. Many or
ganizations of national scope hold an
nual conventions and the opportun
ity of securing them has been opened
by the success of the National Edi
torial convention and other gather
ings held here during recent years.
Plans for going after conventions
and the tourist bunejss gten'eraJly.
will be formulated in conferences be
tween representatives of the (Pacific
Northwest Tourist Association and
publicity secretaries, and other re
presentatives of commercial or
ganizations of Washington, Oregon
and British Columbia with the aim of
getting the combined influence of all
the organizations back of the move
ment.
"The result of co-operative effort
to secure conventions and tourist
travel should be to direct an immense
traffic to the Pacific Northwest dur
ing 1921, far surpassing in volume
and the amount of money expended
in this section by tourists the grat
ifying results of the 1920 season,"
says Herbert Cuthbert, executive
secretary of the association.
"The work of the Pacific North
west Tourist Association has attract
ed the attention of the principal news
papers of the United States, which
have commended the association for
its great work in bringing new money
into the Pacific Northwest, in pay
ment for the privilege of seeing our
scenery and enjoying our climate."
TRAFFIC NOW
RESUMED OVER
FLOODED AREA
Traffic has been resumed on the
highway between this city and Glad
stone and the' high water has reced
ed from over the pavement near
Parkplace. The highway is in bad con
dition at present, and several large
cracks in the base of the pavement
have shown up from the results of the
flood. The Willamette river is fall
ing fast, and in a few days will be
back to normal, if the fine weather
at present holds out. Many amusing
tragic experiences resulted from
the high waters recently, but fortun
ately, no accidents occurred.
It is said that a workman employ
ed at the Hawley mills was in the
habit of riding to and fro from Glad
stone on a bicycle. The night that
the water rose over the pavement
near Parkplace, the cyclist was not
aware of the depth until he pedalled
into it. He was so" surprised, that he
thought he had run into the Willamet
te, and shouted for help.
McBain Addresses
Lebanon Meeting
LEBANON, Or., Jan. 8. A big mass
meeting was held last night in the
First Methodist church in this city
of the employes of the Crown-Willamette
Paper company, to which their
families and a large number of citi
zens were invited guests, in what was
called a "safety rally."
The principal speaker was B. T.
McBain of Portland, general manager
of all the plants of the company tn
the northwest, who is said to be the
premier in safety-first appliances in
industrial establishmtents in the
northwest.
Real Estate Man
Has Successful Week
S. O. Dillman, a real estate dealer
of this city, closed three important
land deals during the past week.
They were the home of Dr. and Mrs
A. L. Beatie near Sixth and Washing
ton streets sold to Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Myers; the Harrington
place on Molalla Avenue sold to a
family recently arriving from Can
ada; the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
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