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BONTS MODERATION,
It Is difficult to give an accurate
estimate of the cost to Oregron of a
soldiers' cash bonus. One would
need to know the exact terms of the
proposed law, the number of men
who saw active duty, the average
length of service, and the amount to
be paid for each month at war.
Some of the details of the Wash
ington law may be of interest as of
fering light on the cost. The Wash
ington law provides for the payment
of $15 a month for each month of
service. This bonus Is also extended
fo bona fide residents of Washington
who had active service with the
forces of any of the powers associ
ated with the United States during
the period that the United States was
at war, but is subject to deduction of
similar compensation paid by such
foreign powers. The act does not ex
tend to those members of the spruce
division who received civilian wages
or to any other service men who re
ceived extra compensation unless
such extra compensation was less
than the amount they would be en
titled to under the bonus law. In
such cases the difference will be
paid. The benefits of the act extend
to the widow of the man who died in
service provided she has not since
remarried: or to his motherless chil
dren, or if he left no widow or chil
dren, then to his surviving parents.
if actually dependent upon liim.
Conscientious objectors and men dis.
honorably discharged are barred.
For the payment Of the Washing.
ton bonus a bond issue of $11,000,000
is authorized and this bond issue is
subject to enlargement without
further legislation if not sufficient to
pay all claims.
The number of active service men
supplied by Oregon was about two
thirds the number supplied by
Washington. A similarly constructed
bill would. If the Washington estl
mate of total requirements is accu
rate, cost this state seven and one
third million dollars. If the cash
bonus were $25, instead of $15, the
cost would exceed $13,000,000, as
suming that the other details of the
Washington act were copied.
If bonus legislation takes any
other form than that of loans from
certain state funds for the purchase
of lands or homes, it must be sub
mitted to the people. If a cash bonus
law is to go before the people It Is
well, before it Is formulated, that
some of the conditions now confront
lng Oregon be enumerated.
Taxes, state and local, are higher
than ever before. It will require a
squeeze by the existing legislature to
get Its appropriations for necessary
purposes within constitutional limi
tati oris. But while the legislature Is
paring down 'needs, the federal gov
ernment, in order to pay incurred
war costs, is taking out of Oregon
yearly in miscellaneous taxes, a sum
nearly equal to the amount that the
legislature can legally appropriate
for one year. The national govern
ment has appropriated nearly every
conceivable tax resource except those
already appropriated by the state. Its
taxes extend even to many articles
of clothing. They are paid by every
body either directly or Indirectly.
In the fiscal year 1928 the federal
government took out of Oregon in
, miscellaneous taxes more than $5,-
500,000 and in addition took in In
come and profits taxes, nearly twenty-two
millions more. In the old days
when the liquor traffic paid great
sums to the government and war
taxes were unknown, Oregon in no
year contributed aa much as $1,000,
000 in internal revenue. While state
and local taxes have been going up
and up, federal taxes, because of the
war, have Increased more than 2700
per cent.
It may be argued that we are al
ready so deeply involved that a few
millions more will not make any
difference. But it may also be
pointed out that it Is going to re
quire conservation to the utmost now
to pull out without sacrifice of that
progress and development to which
the commonwealth aspires.
There Is undoubtedly keen sym
pathy with the cause of the service
men. The argument that the war
deprived them of the financial bet
terment that those who stayed at
home acquired is not to be contra
dicted. If there were a possible
means of state economy by which
they could be compensated for their
losses there would be scant few who
would deny it to them. But there
Is none. We must borrow must go
still deeper into debt to give them
cash compensation, and it is a com
pensation that the federal govern
ment, rather than the state, owes
them.
Perhaps, even bo, the people will
be willing to assume a heavy burden
to do that which the government
may fail to do. But clearly that
which Is asked out of the scant re
maining resources of the public must
be asked in terms of moderation and
common sense if it 13 expected to
gain approval.
THE MILLIONAIRE TARN.
A legend on one of the banners in
the soldiers' bonus parade Saturday
night caught the eye of the news
paper reporter and found Its way
into print. It was this: "ftie war
made 18,000 millionaires."
Here we have one of those elusive.
unprovable statements, oft repeated
by well-meaning persons as well as
by persons not well-meaning. It is
akin to the fiction that 2 per cent of
the people own 85 per cent of the
wealth.
An eastern publication has long
been on the trail of the "millionaire"
statement. Every time it is ottered
by a person of seeming sincerity that
publication asks him how he found
it out, or where he got it. Invariably
the, Inquirer is referred to some one
else, and by him referred to a third
person and so on until the pursuit
ends either with denial or with some
unreliable publication or at some
such source as a parade banner.
There is one way of estimating the
number of millionaires in the coun
try. but it is arbitrary in its assump
tions and gives only a rough result
It is figured on the Income tax re
turns, it being assumed that he
whose income is $50,000 or more a
year may be called a "millionaire.1
But the figures are disappointing
to those who love the sensational.
The income tax returns for 1920 dis
close fewer than 18,000 of these
millionaires." In 1916, before we en
tered the war, we had about 20,000
of them. In short, if this method of
estimate be accepted, there are not
18,000 millionaires all told in the
country, let alone 18,000 war mil
lionaires, and, moreover, during and
since our engagement In war the
number has actually fallen off.
lated that It should feed the population tion. For that matter, mapping of ' BY- PnODUCTS OF THIS PRESS
aw'not'do iT'aV'h?.?,.? fhn.ilU.d the canal zone and the coast line I
aid not do It, and, having tho relieved I Enz-ene Worn... Tell. T.-.v!-.. Tle
nersen or the burden of taking care of vi nam were epucnai uucui reuuea
her own civil population, she could take ; in their way, though the work was
amount OI looa ana use n j.n. r. f A ntin
Whether ws went through . V.
xxie mgiit lroiu iew iur& to
HARDING'S PLEDGE TO THE' WEST.
President-elect Harding's assur
ance that he is in harmony with the
aspirations of the west for reclama
tion of arid land Is evidence that the
whole country comes within the
scope of his statesmanship, and that
the embargo on development of the
public domain, which has continued
for twelve years, will come to an end
with his inauguration.
His support for the policy of de
velopment will be needed, for it still
has many enemies, whose power Is
measured by their activity, not by
their numbers. Although legal ob
stacles have been removed by the
waterpower and leasing laws, it will
depend on administration of those
laws whether the country shall have
the full benefit of them. The secre
taries of the interior, war and agri
culture compose the water-power
commission, and Mr. Harding's words
are an assurance that the men se
lected for these offices will be in
sympathy with the west, and that a
cold shoulder will be turned to the
Pinchotites, the scenery enthusiasts,
and the parochially selfish eastern
congressmen who regard anything
that is done for the west as a gift of
which their own districts are de
prived. Their conception of the west
Is a place to- grow sagebrush and
scenery instead of men, women, food
and clothing.
The broader view, which Mr.
Harding seems to take, is that the
resources of the west should be de
veloped for the benefit' not only of
the west but of the whole country.
It needs the crops that Irrigated land
could grow, the minerals of our
mountains, and the manufactures
that could be produced by our
waterpower. It needs the hosts of
additional farmers that could live on
reclaimed land to restore the balance
between urban and rural population
and to increase the food supply.
From a strictly governmental stand
point, the nation needs the revenue
that would be produced by all these
forms of western development.
Whatever is expended would be a
good Investment if it were never re
paid, but it will be repaid Dy tne
men who occupy the land.
on her army.
that form and that pretext or not, there Is
no man who can read that testimony and
read It candidly who does not know when
he gets through that the purpose was (p
bolster op Poland and enable her to carry
on her war.
Then lest incidentally we should
aid the Polish army by releasing for
it food which would otherwise have
been eaten by civilians, we should,
according to Mr. Reed, have let the
civilians starve.V and this should
have been done in order to preserve
neutrality toward a government
which we do not recognize and which
burns with eagerness to start a red
revolution in this country. We en
counter again the. old-pro-bolshevist
assumption that Poland was the ag
gressor, for no better reason than
that, after being attacked, it carried
the war into the enemy's country.
He went on to speak of the bolshe-
vist government as "a friendly
power,"' and said of the Russians:
'They have established a govern
ment that has stood for three years,"
when the truth is that the bolshevists
set up themselves as a government,
violently dissolved the assembly
which the people had elected to set
up a government for them, and
killed more than half its members.
Pursuing, the same fiction, he said:
It Is said that this people, when they
rebelled and overthrew their government.
got some money out of banks, confiscated
Its and that they got some money from
Roumanla.
Disregarding the facts that the
gold was stolen by men who stole
control of the government by vlo.
lence, Mr. Reed censured the United
States for refusing to mint part of
this gold which was shipped to this
country. He also condemned the
government for not opening trade
with Russia, though It has left the
way open for those, who wish to do
so at their own risk, and when title
to anything that may be bought from
Kussia is open to attack on the
ground that it is stolen.
These inconsistencies between Mr.
Reed and the governing facts of the
subjects that he attempts to discuss
demonstrate how prejudice has af
fected his reasoning power. Like
the Athenian who voted against
Arlstides because he was tired of
hearing that statesman called "the
Just," Mr. Reed erupts whenever he
hears praise of Mr. Hoover.
The reported discovery by a Ger
man chemist of a method of making
synthetic diamonds is neither new
nor. admitting all that may be
claimed for it, is it especially prom
ising. It has long been possible to
produce the chemical diamond in the
laboratory, as the Frenchman Mois-
san showed when he duplicated on a
minute scale the process of nature.
,ac-.s ru:!0ie is toe volcano, out
SENATOR REED'S IIOOTERrllOBIA.
One effect of the irreconcilability
of Senator Reed is that he has be
come affected with Hooverphobia,
the counterpart of the Hooveritis
with which he accuses the admirers
of the former food administrator of
being afflicted. He had an acute
attack of this disease when Senator
Hitchcock read to the senate a state
ment of Mr. Hoover's disposition of
the $100,000,000 European relief
fund In order to refute the Missouri-
an's' charge that $40,000,000 of the
fund was used in maintaining the
Polish army in the field against
Russia.
Mr. Hitchcock read statements by
accountants showing the amount ex
pended in each country, what kind
of food was given and in particular
the number of children fed. He
showed that the governments inter
ested had given obligations to repay
over $84,000,000 of the almost $95,-
000,000 expended. Poland received
over $51,000,000 of this amount, be
cause its need was greatest and it
was cut off from other outside sup
plies, but all was distributed to the
civil population by American army
officers, the American Red Cross
and the Quaker society. Quite dis
tinct from these relief supplies, many
thousand tons of surplus army sup
plies in France were sold by the
army liquidation board to the Polish
government. Mr. Reed seems to
have confused this transaction with
the relief work, and he jumped to
the conclusion that Mr. Hoover was
diverting funds voted by congress
forelief of civilians to aid the Poles
In war on the bolshevists.
But Mr. Reed found a hole to
crawl through. He quoted from Mr.
Hoover's testimony before the house
ways and means committee a year
ago ' statements that Poland was
maintaining a front of 1600 miles
against the bolshevists with 700,000
men under arms, that its troops
were "suffering fearfully ' from In
adequate clothing and supplies," that
If Poland should collapse from bol
shevist invasion, it would be "the
most direct menace to the whole
civilization of Europe" and that he
was "convinced there is a necessity
which requires that we Join in sup
port." On this testimony Mr. Reed
commented:
I do not care, when they turned this 1
MORROW COUNTY'S COMPLAINT.
The Oregonian recently published
an article descriptive of Morrow
county in which both the author.
Addison Bennett, and The Oregonian
attempted to render a service to that
county. In this article Mr. Benfiett
recalled certain misfortunes that had
been suffered by the county but did
so plainly to contrast the past with
the present and emphasize the enter
prise, courage and prosperity of that
community.
But it is learned from newspapers
of Heppner and from a communica
tion which is published today that
the people of Morrow county are dis
pleased . They feel that Mr. Bennett
should have left out past history and
that he should have emphasized the
brighter recent era In another way.
uoubtless It could have been done.
A Jornallst may go Into any county
Ic Oregon and gather only favorable
statistics about its farms and its
banks and Its towns and its maufac
torie3 and In the end he will have an
article that is bound to please every
body in the county but be read by
nobody else. Every Oregon county
and almost every western community
has been described in what is com
monly called boom literature. It
speaks only of the bright side, of the
beautiful and the pleasing. The
people have become suspicious of
such articles. They no longer read
them. They might as well not be
printed. .
But a descriptive article that con
tains something of history or narra
tive, avoids -superlative expressions
and tells about the difficulties that
are overcome by a community as
well as something about its peculiar
advantages bears the Impress of sin
cerity and it has the added quality
of readability. An article such as
seems' to have been desired by Mor
row county would not have been
worth shucks to it. . ,
The Oregonian is unable to dls.
cover in Mr. Bennett's article any-
thing in the nature of a "roast," but
it does find therein a plainly ex
pressed admiration for Morrow
county's people, resources and pros
perity. The Oregonian regrets that
the service attempted and which has
been done to the county is not appre
ciated.
Nome, Alaska, and return, 9000
miles, was noteworthy because it
was made by four planes without a
motor missing fire and. without a
serious accident. Transmission of
about 100,000,00 letters by air mail
at . ordinary postage rates evoked
practically no comment,- so accus
tomed have people become to taking
truly remarkable feats for granted.
Radio communication between sub
marine and airplane was established
during the year and it was demon
strated that telephonic conversation
between airplane and ground station
Is practicable up to a distance of 300
miles. Also of technical significance
was the employment of a new pat
tern of-propeller with which a plane
can be stopped within seventy-five
feet of the spot where 1U wheels
first touch the ground. This con
cerns the future of aviation because
of its bearing on the siza of neces
sary local landing fields. The in
ventor who can devise a way to
make extemporaneous landing safe
will do more for aviation than any
altitude record breaker.
The Manufacturers Aircraft asso
ciation thinks that actual perform
ances during the year have more
than offset decreased production of
machines. The real reason in all
probability is that greater emphasis
nas Deen placed on reliability and
less on mere stunting." The in
dustry has emerged from the era of
sensationalism and there is warrant
for the belief of Insiders that the
passenger-carrying period has been
brought perceptibly nearer because
or this. Like the automobile, the
flying machine ceases to be regarded
as an expensive' toy as it broadens
the field of its utility.
Those Who Come and Go.
, . -I District Attorney Erlckson of Clat-
Mra. V. B, McDougle of Eugene, Or., ' . . ... ,. f.
sop county arrived In the city too
sends a newspaper clipping from her laU for the annual meeting of the
old home, Laclede, IU, of a little girl district attorneya of the state, but in
who ' was a schoolmate when both
A YEAR'S PROGRESS IN AVIATION.
The annals of the past year In
aviation constitute further amazing
proof that the world is not standing
still. When Americans have not
been busy establishing new records
they have been discovering novel
ways of adapting the new science
to the material wants of men. The
day may come when mere speed and
altitude will cease to count, but
never, perhaps, when there will not
be new fields of operation. For
illustration, one day last July a com
mercial airplane company carried a
ton of grapefruit from Miami, Fla
In sixteen hours, a feat that sug
gests unlimited possibilities in the
way of finding new markets for exo
tic produce. Two months later a
California fisheries concern em
ployed airplanes to locate schools
of fish, and reported larger catches
In less time and at less cost than
had been obtained by previous meth
ods. The gain here Is obvious. By
eliminating the factor of chance
from fishing" it may be that cost of
an important food product will be
reduced to consumers. The latter,
mindful of past experience, will not
be excessively hopeful, but the pros
pect nevertheless is pleasing.
It Is estimated that operation of a
few aircraft lent to the forestry
service by the army saved approxi
mately $35,000,000 worth of standing
timber from destruction by fire.
About a thousand incipient fires
were reported and it is not hard to
believe that the air patrol experi
ment fully Justified Itself.
It will hardly be denied that these
accomplishments were worth while,
though theyr thrill us less than the
feat, for instance, of Major Schroe
der, who last February reached an
altitude of 33,000 feet and barely
escaped death after having lost
consciousness in the highly rarified
atmosphere of the upper levels, but
recovered in time to land safely. But
Donald Hudson, who flew an American-built
plane across the Andes at
an elevation of 30,000 feet, received
less attention than was deserved by
a feat that again showed the prac
food over to Folaod, whither they ilpu- j tlcal value of the airplane in esplora-
SHirriNO MEN SEEK PORTLAND.
Coming of Axel Johnson, the great
Swedish ship-owner, to Portland
with an offer to run his vessels to
this port if a minimum amount of
car;o is supplied for each voyage Is
significant of the change that has
come in Portland's standing as a
port within a few years. Only a
short period has passed since theVall
or Portland for shjps brought the
reply that we had not enough cargo
to Induce them to come here. The
presence of cargo has now been
proved, and ship-owners come from
distant countries, asking for their
share. By such incidents Portland's
standing as a port is established.
The Johnson line will cive Port
land merchants direct connection
with ports of northern Europe, es
pecially Scandinavia, enabling them
to deal at first hand with merchants
of that region instead ef through At
lantic coast agents and importers.
who have no particular Interest in
pushing Pacific coast products. This
is an opportuniity to introduce Ore
gon goods in markets where they are
little known, and to prevent them
from being disguised as products of
other states. This and the other
northern Europe lines will carry the
name or Oregon grain, wool, fruit
and other products to people who
have not known them or have known
them' under other names, and will
make them advertise themselves.
A reminder was given that we can
not have permanent shipping lines
unless we provide cargoes both ways.
when Mr. Johnson inquired about
markets for products of the coun
tries at the other end of the line.
Sweden produces steel, machinery,
fish, hard bread, matches and other
commodities, while Norway, Den
mark and Holland have like goods
and others for export. Upon our
readiness to buy such things will
ultimately depend our opportunity to
sell our products directly to the
countries that export them.
This fundamental condition of for
eign trade requires that our tariff
policy be adjusted to it. As our in
dustries need foreign markets in
order to keep In full operation, Port
land should join ofher industrial and
commercial centers in urging on con
gress a compromise between the
policy of protection to American in
dustry and the policy of opening
American markets to foreign prod
ucts which will permit .other na
tions to sell to us. Unless they do.
they cannot buy from us anything
that they can buy elsewhere, and the
shipping business cannot prosper on
the scale that we desire. -
were In the grammar grades. The
tale of the making of a happy Christ
mas follows:
When Santa Claus chartered Illi
nois Central crack passenger train
No. 1, southward bound, which came
to an abrupt stop apparently In the
middle of a cornrield with only a
lonely bouse in view, a precedent was
eet by Illinois Central officials and
employes, ana there came to lignt
a Christmas story of truth, but as
strange as fiction, and for that rea
son the period of time must start
back to 18 years ago.
One cold night 18 years ago, a man
and woman traveling in a covered
wagon stopped at the home of John
Sp.-ouse and his wife near Laclede,
111. That night a child was born to
the visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Sprouse,
childless, convinced the couple that
the child should be given a better
home than they were able to provide
with their covered wagon. During
the ensuing 12 years the Sprouses,
proud of their ward and she equally
fond of her home, gave the girl all
within theii power, and she devel
oped into a sweet little country miss.
But a few days after her 12th
birthday anniversary she was strick
en with infantile paralysis. Coinci
dent with this illness reverses same
upon the Sprouses, and their lot was
difficult.
For six years the girl has never
moved from a cot. Trainmen whisk
ing by the Sprouse farm house on
their freight and passenger trains
frequently noted a small hand waving
at them from a window of the farm
house. And they waved back. With
in a few months there was not one
Illinois Central train that did not
produce a waving hand as it dashed
by the window.
This waving became a fixed habit,
and trainmen, through friends, in
vestigated and found out it was the
stricken girl. Even at night, with
the aid of a match, th girl has sig
naled all the regular trains.
Then Christmas drew near. From
her cot the girl composed pretty
poems and made gayly decorated
Christmas cards, which are of such
a nature that it is almost Impossible
to distinguish the difference between
them and the manufactured ones.
And Christmas came, and as No. 1
whistled for yie t .1 of Laclede, the
invalid prepared to wave her hand
as usual, but old No. 1, which daily
for six years had passed the Sprouse
home, leaving a. roar, a cloud of dust
and smoke and steam In Its wake,
came to a halt directly opposite the
invalid's window.
A delegation of Illinois Central em
ployes jumped from the baggage car.
Then Santa Claus unloaded his con
signment to the farm house.
A big, bright, comfortable wheeled
chair; a warm, woolly and beautiful
bathrobe; a big Indian blanket with
all its gay colors; a wonderful pair
of house slippers and a purse with
cash rolled out of the car, and No. 1
departed as the delegation of train
men conveyed to the little invalid the
greatest Christmas of her life, of the
lives of her foster parents and of the
lives of .the trainmen. And then came
No. 2 northbound passenger train
And it stopped and there was another
delegation.
HARD KNOCKS ARE BEST FORGOT
Morrow County Displeased By Addl
Son Bennett's Reminiscences.
HEPPNER, Jan. 11. (ToVthe Edit
or.) If your correspondent, Mr. Addi
son Bennett, had had it in for Hepp
ner and Morrow county, had he de-
ample time to keep an Important en- j sig-ned to show them up in their worst
gagement at the Portland hotel, in possible light, he could not have suc
fact, the district attorney's presence . ceeded more admirably than he did in
In the city was so necessary to me , his write-up In The Sunday Orego
welfare of one or Astoria's residents
that he made the trip by automobile,
arriving late Saturday night. For
without the legal papers District At
toroey Erickson had in his posses
sion a wedding ceremony scheduled
nian, January 9. In that article he
went back over 40 years of the coun
ty's history and elaborated with a
vengeance on all its misfortunes, en
gaging in a regular orgy of calamities
Five hens from the Oregon agri
cultural college have the remarkable
record of 144 eggs in December, one
laying an egg a day. This Is partly
result of breeding and much of it due
to care, which term includes feeding. I Including -engineering, medicine and
Hens on the farm, from which the agriculture. As for the college stu-
Take it from the librarians assem
bled in Chicago from all parts of the
country, the modern girl is e low
brow. She is strong for knee frocks;
she's admittedly. p:etty and wears
tortoise shell campus windshields,
but when It comes to literature, any
thing deeper than . the lightest of
fluffy stuff, she is not there.
"Oh, look!" she says to the patient
librarian. I've got to read some
books.- It's for my English. I've
emi-finals. Look! Have you got
The Four Horsemen of the Erysipe
las,' by that Spanish .caveman? And
want a book of poetry, too some
thing kind of jazzy, see?'
War books, immensely popular a
year ago, are now gathering cobwebs
on the library shelves, while the
reading public Is devouring works
on spiritualism, occultism and new
thought.
The demand for fiction shows a
marked decline. The hundreds of
thousands of returned war veterans
demand books on vocational training,
bulk of the nation's product comes.
are not'expected to "come within a
mile of this record, for there hens
are "just chickens." Tet the farm
hen can be made to lay as many as
twenty dozen In the year and be the
best money producer on the place.
College bulletins tell how to do it
and they are free for the asking.
Voliva must be recruiting for Zion
with his "Guide to Hell." The idea
of punishing every sinner with an
overdose of his own sin is novel, to
say the least. Immuring smokers in
a cloud of smoke might effect a
weak lunger and "purifying" a
drinker with surroundings of unlim
ited "booze" will nauseate the hard
est proposition; but there Mr. Voliva
must stop. Anything further along
the line of sin will start a stampede
on "the worst way to go to Zion
City."
Perhaps the cost of living declined
5.6 per cent in the late months of the
year; figures seem to show that re
sult; but the housewife needs more
than tabulated statistics to be con
vinced. It's the money hat she has
left over that counts.
Marriage fees at Vancouver are
the bone of contention and the min
isters, who think they should per
form all the ceremonies, .re not
happy to see a county pfficial get the
most. Why not have a gentlemen's
agreement to pool the fees and
divide? "
That foolish man, out of work and
feeling himself a burden on his fam
ily, who essayed to depart by the gas
route, simply added another bill that
must be paid.
The Oregon flagpole at San Fran
cisco bothers aviators, but they know
what they can do. The pole is there
to stay.
One of the. women's clubs at the
university is planning a. campaign
against the use of slang. Hop to it,
ladies, - ,. - .
dents, the librarians say they read
little outside their prescribed course
and the newspapers, with- an. occa
sional magazine article someone else
has recommended.
To have a husband left you by a
woman friend as a deathbed legacy is
a proceeding with as ddubtful an out
come as vaccination. In the case of
Mrs. Llllle Fowler Ferris of San
Francisco It took.
The man In the case, Orren Fowler
Sheafer, was "wlllln"," like Barkis,
so the wedding bells will ring out
soon. "
The late Mrs. Sheafer and Mrs. Fer
ris shared a lifelong friendship. Dur
ing Mrs. Shearer's Illness a year ago
she enjoyed the continual presence
and devoted care of her best friend.
With the realization that her life
was ebbing away came remembrance
of the old proverb: "Dost thou love
thy friend, then give him that which
thou dost value most." And of her
possessions Mrs. Sheafer prized her
husband most, so the bequest was
made.
Mindful of the dying wish, .the hus
band and friend sought each other
during the last months and the ro
mance which ensued will culminate
at the home of James Geary, the
bride's uncle.
"I feel very proud of that gift of
love," said Mrs. Ferris, referring to
her coming marriage, "for both- Mr.
Sheafer and I feel we are fulfilling
the dying wish of one we both loved."
San Francisco Examiner.
.
The Texas goat-roping title changed
hands at San Angelo when Louis
Jones, Tom Green county stockman,
defeated Allen Helder of G.-.rden City,
Glasscock county, by roping and ty
ing 20 goats in 256 seconds. He won
a purse of $1000. Helder's time was
259 seconds. s
Helder captured one eoat In 9 1-5
seconds, but did not equal the record
of 6 seconds flat claimed for Jones,
and declared to be the southwestern
record. uouaton i-osi. , j
at high noon yesterday at the Port- and disasters, overlooking compara-
land would have been postponed. The i ' " 6 yua-iinca. n ...
ia.iiea to aaveruse any ox our uiaw
backs, it was certainly done through
accident and not through design.
The business men of Heppner, th
farmers and stockmen of Morrow
county, are sore at this roast, when
they had expected a boost frour our
old neighbor Bennett, were this ar
tide of his to go unrefuted the natu
ral effect would be to drive every in
tending settler the opposite direction
from Morrow county, for Instead o
heralding to the world through the
columns of The Oregonian that Mor
row county Is made of the best fed,
the best dressed and the most wealthy
people of any semirural county in the
northwest, Mr. Bennett wonders how
In hades we can hang on so long
without starving to death. He inti
mates that we ehould give up the
struggle arid all move out. This ot
course we cannot consider at present.
Mr. Bennett went out at the same
time the Title Guarantee & Tru6t
company went out in 1905-6, and here
are his own words: "I made fine
progress until along in the winter of
1905-6 when the Trust company (to
which he was attached at Irrigon, on
the Columbia river) went to smash
and the entire project went to
smash." Now he might have gotten
the impression that the Irrigon pro
ject was Morrow county; but ha is
wrong. It was just one little corner
or It,
Tes, Morrow county has suffered a
few years of short crop; not a bit
worse, however, than has every other
section of the state of Oregon. Likd
the ent're United States, money mat
ters are temporarily tied up here, but
no one is suffering, no one is "panic
ky," and so far as we have made In
quiry, everybody Is intending to keep
his shirt on. regardless of calamity
howlers.
Heppner had a couple of fires whlnh
destroyed a regular nest of old fire
traps, all frame buildings except one,
the Palace hotel, and as usual these
places are bein? filled with concrete
and brick buildings and substantial
frame residences. It is a bigger and
better town than ever before, and
more money changes hands here than
in any town of its size in the United
States.
Seventeen years ago two mammoth
clouds, which were seen from all over
eastern Oregon, happened to meet
near Heppner and burst, drowning 200
of our peope and destroying a lot of
property. It never happened before
nor since, and the same thln is liable
to happen to Pendleton, Baker, La
Grande or any of the other towns sit
uated in eastern Oregon's fertile val
leys. Heppner people do not appre
ciate this occurrence bein? constantly
draped before the . orld's attention.
Here are the facts?- and I defy con
tradiction: Morrow county has enough actual
wealth to give every man, woman and
child within her borders $3017. Some
per capita! Her assesed valuation,
much below the actual, is $13,864,571.
Morrow county produces annually
2.000.000 pounds of wool, 1. old). 000
bushels of grain (being the third
grain county oi Oregon ) hundreds of
thousands of tons of hay: she owns
250,000 head of heep, 10.000 head of
beef cattle, numerous herds of dairy
cows and hogs, 9000 head of work
horses and mules; a vast empire of
merchantable timber, great, stock
ranches and fruit orchards.
We have four banks in the county,
one bank alone last year having on
deposit $1,464,510.34. Mr. Bennett be
moans that these deposits have
shrunk more than half since that
time, but didn't say why. Here it is:
100 per cent of the wool, 50 per cent
of the wheat and 75 per cent of the
mutton sheep, cattle and hay are st!!l
being "held by the producer. To sell
these products "even at a great sacri
fice would again flood our banks
with money. We have had no poor
house for many years and don't need
one. No one is being financially
smashed and will not be.
E. M. SHUTT.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
paper Mr. Erickson brought was a
marriage license for himself and Miss
Helma Hukari, Astorias leading mil
liner. Other Astoria people present
for the. ceremony included Miss E.
Billey, N. A. Jeldness and relatives of
the bridegroom.
England's present shipbuilding pro
gramme which leads the world In
construction of new vessels is not
planned as a means of outdistancing
the United States but to put England
back where she was before the war,
according to J. W. Lorry of Liverpool,
England, member of the British ship
ping board who is stopping at the
Multnomah. Mr. Lorry is on a tour
of the shipbuilding centers of the
United States. From here he will
proceed to San Francisco and later to
New Orleans and home. The war not
only destroyed British shipping but
curtailed production to an extent that
places her years behind in her con
struction programme, Mr. Lorry says.
Hop raisers have seen more ups and
downs than horse racers in the his
tory of the industry in the Willamette
valley, with the one difference alwas
considered that the hop man works
for his money whether he gets It or
not. But the element of uncertainty
that places1 the hop man's fortunes
year in year out at the threshold of
Dame Chance has a strange fascina
tion for the veteran In the game and
even the 18th amendment has not yet
brought the plow to many yards. R.
H. Wood of Dayton, Or., now regis
tered at the Oregon, is one of the
veteran growers whose faith in the
industry has been rewarded during
the past two seasons.
The "talkative burglar" recently
much In the minds of Portland people
has nothing in common with a "talka
tive barber" 'unless It be the common
trait of conversing while he works.
Many McMinnville people have lis
tened to interesting discussions and
dissertations above the hum of elec
tric clippers. Whether it be sport or
politics, current news or reminiscence
of the past there is always room for
argument, but Cecil B. Parker is
noted first as an artist in his trade
and even those who do not agree with
his opinions ara never loath to spend
a half hour in his chair. Mr. and Mrs.
Parker registered yesterday at the
Seward.
Few men In Oregon qualified for
diplomatic positions are subordinat
ing their qualifications to thefr regu
lar business in the days remaining
before March 4. I'et the man with
highest claim as the best qualified
diplomat in Oregon, judging at least
from the position he now occupies,
seems undisturbed by political aspira
tions. Perhaps if the millage bill had
failed last spring conditions would
have been otherwise. The man in
mind is J. H. Akerman, president
of Monmouth Normal school, who
rules over an inst'tution where
women predominate on a. ratio of
about 40 to 1. He registered over
the week end at the Imperial.
Interest of hotel people centers In
the opening of the Hotel Ambassador,
Los Angeles, Cal., scheduled for Jan
uary IS. The Ambassador Is the coast
link of a chain of luxurious hostel
ries scattered throughout the United
States. Portland people now on their
way south for the ceremony Include
Eric V. Hauser, manager of the Mult
nomah hotel; -Mr. and Mrs. Leroy
Fields, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Will
iams and Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Cobb.
Country newspaper editors are al
ways genial, at least when separated
from their office duties, and S. B.
Sanderson bears that reputation in
his own prosperous community of
Milton and Freewater. Mr. Sanderson
is oi tne old type of newspaper man
with printer's ink running in the
family blood, for he is carrying on
the work of his father in publishing
me rreewater rimes. Mr. Sanderson
spent tne week-end at the Oregon
THE LOAFI'lU
I always hall a holiday
With paens of thanksgiving.
And seek sincerely to dibplay
My eager joy of living.
I l"ave my tasks with leaping heart;
I loaf with pleased placidity,
Evading duty is on art
I practice with avidity.
In fact the only thing I shirk
Is work.
When any one suggests I need
Some rest and recreation,
I rise and instantly proceed
To take 'em with elation.
When, any sort ot sport's awintr,
I hasten blithely through it;
I love to do most anything
Unless I've got to do it.
There's nothing that my soul can Irk
Save work.
For years excepting when asleep
Consistenly I've sought to
Discover ways and means to keep
From doing what I ought to.
And yet I'm spent with weariness,
There isn't any doubt of it.
It's harder work than work, I guess.
In trying to get out of it.
In fact the effort work to shirk.
Is work.
Btnke a Shift
It looks as if an outgo tax would
raise more revenue the confing year.
Always Something;.
No sooner does Mexico get quiet
than Cuba begins to kick up.
And a Bumper One,
With one born every minute there'll
be a new crop by the time Mr. Ponzl
gets out of Jail.
(Copyright by the P.ell Syndicate, Inc.)
In Othter Days.
Twenty-five Yrnrs Ako.
From The Oregonian of January 17, lSWl.
ashingto.i.Tlie national demo
cratic committee today decided that
v.ia utiuuLiftuc national convention
will be hold at Chicago July 7. Four
cities had bid for the convention and
29 ballots were necessary before a
decision was reached.
Indian war veterans of Oregon will
receive the moneys due them If an
appropriation bill, presented the Fen
ate by Senator Mitchell of Oregon, is
passed.
City councllmen are still endeavor
ing to cut down their former esti
mate of city expenses for the coming
year. Suggestions have been made
that the council lower the mayor's
salary.
No holdups or robberies were re
ported yesterday.
Members of the O. A. C. athletic
teams can realize why Jlmmv Rich
ardson is one of the most popular as
well as most successful athletic
managers. For Jimmy bids for the
good will of his teams just as strongly
as ne aoes ior tnat or the public.
When registered at the Multnomah
hotel this week end for the basket
ball game, with Multnomah club his
team was treated to seats for "The
Bird of Paradise."
Friends of A. W. Stone, official of
the Hood River Apple Growers' asso
ciation, are sometimes unkind enough
to impeacn nts motives for week-end
visits to Portland by referring to his
fondness for golf. But Mr. Stone
cannot see where ostensible trips to
visit relatives aren't carried out to
the letter even if he does .devote his
Sunday afternoons to golf. He is
registered at the Portland.
Regular army captains are even
scarcer in Portland now than during
the daye of the spruce division, but
the Portland hotel register was well
supplied with army men yesterday.
Captains B. B. Btitler, A. C. Young
and A. Gluckman, all regular army
Fifty Tears Ago,
From The Orcfonian of January 17, 1S71.
Paris The cily is terror-stricken
as the result of a heavy bombard
ment which lias continued for several
lays. Women and children while in
the streets are being killed by pro
jectiles.
French guns are paid to be formid
able. The new weapons have been
r. unted on gunboats and carry a
shell slightly more than five miles.
''Colonel C. It. Larrabee arrived from
California on the last steamer and
brought with, him some excellent
amples of beet sugar, lie bxlieves
that Oregon beets thouKl produce a
laite amount of saccharine.
A party of Northern Pacific rail
road engineers are at St. Helens, on
the Oregon side, looking apparently
for a route up tho river.
ANNUAL ATTRACTS PRESS NOTES
OREGON MIST LIKE BENEDICTION
After Sojourn In Dry Climnte Writer
Enjoys Home Winter.
PORTLAND. Jan. 16. (To the Ed!
tor.) May I say a word in defense o
my loved Portland rains? The las
two winters before this I passed In
a city on the south Atlantic coast
where It seldom rained and the sun
usually shone, where the little pick
aninnies ranaabout the streets in one
dirt incrusted garment and sucked a
perpetual orange. The orange skin
ultimately joined the" banana peeling,
the peanut shell, the bits of cotton
the droppings f mules and ail the
Here the mass became saturated with
tobacco juice and the sputum of dis
ease, and, finally, under the action of
sun and wind and the tramp of feet,
pulverized into dust. Then tame the
strong Atlantic wind and swept the
cobbles like a broom, throwing the
dust high in the air, coating tree and
shrub, whirling it about the faces of
pedestrians and forcing it into their
breath and pores.
When it did rain. It was a torren
tial downpour that drenched you if
you crossed the street, if not in its
downward course, when it rebounded
from every' object It struck. When
I have returned to Portland, the uni
versale moisture has been in danger
men detailed for Instruction .t nor-I of being augmented by tears of
vallis, were registered over the thankfulness to see the . asphalt
week end.
Mrs. Minnie P. Burnett of Baker,
pioneer resident of the state and of
the eastern Oregon city, spent the
week end at the Imperial. Mrs.
Burnett is on her way to spend the
remainder of the winter with rela
tives in California.
George L Burtt, head of a well
known San Francisco produce house,
deals extensively in Oregon products.
He is registered at the Imperial
while on a business trip to Portland.
Chief Justice Charles A. Johns of
the Oregon supreme court was regis
tered at the Oregon during a week
end visit in Portland.
gleaming wet and clean, and every
stone and leaf shining from its daily
bath. Every breath or rain-washed
air was a delight, and the mist fell
like a benediction on the city whose
mortality rate is among the lowest in
the country. E. C. S.
Not One of Bonns States.
PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) I have been Informed that the
state of California has awarded her
ex-soldiers a bonus. Has this passed
Into effect and are there any restric
tions? To whom would one apply for
the bonus.
INTERESTED READER.
California is not included in the list
of bonus states recently prepared by
Adjutant-General White
Origin of Electrical Ohm.
London Globe.
The ohm, the nit of measurement
In electricity, gets its name from
George Simon Ohm of Germany (born
1787, died 1854), who gave much of
his life to a study of galvanic cur
rents, and by means of mathematical
tests and experiments was able to es
tablish the law that forms the basis
for the mattiematica theory of elec-tr:::'.y.
No Weed To Get Drenched.
PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) May I be allowed' to reason
with our homesick friend who finds
the weather of Oregon rather trying?
I think he must be either very
young and suffering from a recent re
jection from the lady of his choice, or
else very old and suffering from the
rheumatism. I wonder which! I was
born in New York and still- have a
shivering memory of long, cold rains
In the fall, followed by driving snow
storms, deep snow-banks and below
zero weather. I think eur friend must
be very careless to be "drenched
through and through." Perhaps he
was so to strengthen his case against
the Oregon climate.
My husband has walked to and
from his business for eleven years
and has never yet been drenched.
AUNT MAY.
Newspapers of Norllivtmt Prnle Spe
cial Number of The Oresonlan.
Dufur Dispatch.
For many years past the residents
of the Pacific northwest have looked
for the annual arrival of the New
Year's edition of The oregonian and
have depended on It to give an index
of the progress of the state during
the preceding year. And it has come
to be a matter of course that each
succeeding number is larger and bet
ter than any of Its predecessors.
The number issued lat Saturday
was up to all expectations and bet
ter. To us here in Oregon the matter
contained in the Issue does not create
so much surprise or interest as it
does to one not acquainted with prog
ress and conditions that actually
exist. But to the stranger the paper
is a revelation.
The succeeding editions of The Ore
gonian Annual are doing more to at
tract attention to the Pacific north
west and its possibilities than any
other one agency.
Story Told In Pictures.
liillsboro Independent.
As usual, tho New Year's edition of
The Oregonian left nothing to bo de
sired and completely represented Port
land and Oregon at the end of 1920.
Wisely the policy of telling the story
pictorially was continued, the text
being only a condensation of matter
which a decade or two ago would
have run Into dreary columns of sta
tistics which, while valuable, were
seldom read. Typographically the
edition Is beyond criticism, and the,
pages of artistically arranged illus
trations tell the stcr- far more ef
fectively than possible by the printed
word.
City's Backing: Disclosed.
Woodburn Independent.
The Oregonian's New Year's edi
tion is devoted principally to the city
of Portland, but gives the prospective
homeseeker a fair idea of what is
backing the metropolis of the state.
Pictorially and artistically It is very
attractive and in a sense more en
lightening to certain readers than
long, descriptive articles. However,
the most important industries of Ore
gon are covered and the eastern aa
well as the home reader finds this
issue of a great paper one of a most
interesting una Instructive character.
Great Iloonter for Htnte.
Lease Provisions Control.
PORTLAND, Jan. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) Can a renter make his resi
dence some other place and leave the
house on the farm vacant before his
lease is up, or leave some of his rela
tives on the place?
Can't I force him by law to stay on
the place until his lease Is up or leave
altogether? ,
A. SUBSCRIBER.
You can oust him if he falls to
comply with the terms of the lease,
nc. ::hcrwite.
Roseburg News-Review.
The New Year's edition of the
Portland Oregonian arrived here to
day. The publication is very com
plete and contains many photo illus
trations of Oregon life. The annuat
edition of the Oregonian is regarded
s one of the foremost boosters of
he state each year and the wide cir
culation of the paper covers nearly
every section of the country. Several
nteresting articles pertaining to
Douglas county appear In the latest
annual.
Great Advertisement for Slate.
Portland Advocate.
The New Year's Oregonian was one
of the best advertisements the state
has ever received. Portland In particu
lar. The illustrations are very fine
and the stories of Oregon's wonderful
resources, opportunities and prosper
ity are told li. most attractive and
convincing language.
Two Had the N'erve.
Pendleton Tribune.
The Morning Oregonian and Eugene
Guard were about the only two Ore
gon dailies with nerve enough to put
out a New Year's edition In face of
prohibtlve news print prices. Anyway,
the deed's done, and the editions were
good. Both papers deserve congratu-