THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1810.
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WITHOUT PARALLEL
N 1908 the Ford Motor company
was offered to Wall street at a
price of $6,000,000.
It began business in 1903 with
a capital of $50,000.
.. Its value is now placed at $213,
000,000. It borrowed money the other
day, the first time since Its organi
zation. The loan is for 90 days with
.three renewals up to one year' at
5H per cent interest, and the figure
'In the promissory note is $75,000,000.
The money was borrowed for the
purpose, of taking over the minority
stock of John and Horace E. Dodge
and other stockholders, of whom
, there are fewer than a dozen. When
the transaction is completed there
will be but three stockholders in
. the Ford' company Henry Ford, his
son Edsell Ford, who is the 25 year
old president of the company, and
'James Couzens, mayor of -Detroit.
Mayor Couzens owns 2180 shares of
the. par value of $100 per share. The
present actual value per share is
112,500, and' Mayor Couzens' holdings
In the company have a market value
Of $29,250,000 out of the $213,000,000 at
which the entire stock is valued.
Henry Ford says that the purpose
In. buying out the minority stock
holders isto prepare the way for the
employes to share in ihe dividends
and To have a part In the melon that
has been annually cut with the other
shareholders. When the Ford com
pany was offered to Wall street mag
nates in. 1908, Henry Ford was ill,
.wanted relief from the cares of busi
ness, and said he had money enough.
Wall street declined the 'offer, say
ing that the Ford company was "too
ambitious" and that it asked too
large a price. Within ii years Henry
Ford increased the value of the com
pany's shares 'to a figure $207,000,000
above the $6,000,000 for which the
business was then offered.
' From a $50,000 beginning in 1903
to the $213,000,000 of the present is
the story of the Ford automobile in
dustry. The car found its place
among the people and Henry Ford
reached fiis place In the financial
4.6Un. ' ,
American industry affords no par
allel or precedent.
In Oregon there Is no need for an
extra session other than for ratifica
tion of the suffrage amendment and
possibly correction of a clause in the
" Roosevelt highway bill, making the
measure conform to the requirements
of congress. No new legislation is
..necessary. We have too much law
making already. One short day . of
perfunctory routine on the suffrage
and Roosevelt highway amendments
Is as much as public sentiment would
jutify-,'and, if that is done without
charge from the legislators, it would
probably be styled a good day's work.
r . RAGE HATRED-
farVCE hatred, blossoming sporadl
I J cally In nearly every section of
; j the world into riots and murder,
Js a peculiar condition. It.de-
flea education, culture and civiliza-
' tion to ' flare up in the hearts of
men, sometimes upon slight provoca
tion.' The Jewish people have, long been
Us victims. It has kept the conti
nent of Europe disturbed and has set
"4it aflame time after time. It, or the
distrust that springs from it, has
barred the western doors of America
against the Chinese and the Japanese.
It has swept periodically over the
"black belt" of this nation Just as it
: has lately flared up anew In Wash
ington and Chicago.
The Washington disorders had their
inception in grave charges against
colored, men of 'that city, the old,
. old ; story of J,he South. ' Out of
' these .amd the dormant racial hos
tility that turned the capital of the
nation, into an armed camp. It is de
plorable. The attacks , of colored men upon
white, women - were, undoubtedly,
,mor an excuse for than, a cause of,
,the f murders that have been staged
on both sides, " The law, the courts,
the processes and punishments of
jboth. were swept aside by passion
J
and. hot blopck It is- not a good
sign. It show that' obf ' civilization
Is still part veneer, ai superficial
polish that hides the elemental cave
man instinct but has ' not subju
gated It. : ; - " i"
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The report is that the .soviet gov
ernment has fallen in Hungary.
There can be ho sound, government
without a responsible head, the bal
lot and a majority. These are ail in
the American system, and It is th
true system. .The Illusions will have
their day because humankinds were
disjointed by: the war. The reason
will ultimately assert itself. ' .
HE KNOWS
HE Columbia highway is the
finest road In America."
There Is nothing to com
pare with It. either as a won
derful engineering feat or from the
standpoint of .the wondrous beauties
it unfolds to the touring autoist."
"Your highway is worth a trip
across the continent to see."
"But you must reach out for more
tourists and you must 'prepare to
take care of them after they get
here."
"You must have hotels on Mount
Hood and along the highway."
"There is an assured eight months'
business for such hotels, and prop
erly advertised, there should be a
good winter business through those
who want to enjoy winter sports."
These are expressions from a "man
highly trained in the" tourist busi
ness. His specialty is to create tour
ist travel for Western railroad lines.
Through years of training he has
learned in an intensified degree the
factors that cause people to visit
scenes of interest. His advice is un
doubtedly sound. Perhaps it will
have weight in directing thought
in Portland to a field in which little
has been done.
Here is one of his predictions:
While travel to the Pacific North
west this year will be many times grefit-
er than ever before, next year and
the year after that, and for many years
to come the Pacific Northwest will be
the objective of the tourists of this coun
try. Even those who go to California
will come to Oregon if the Columbia
highway. Crater Lake and other scenic
wonders are well advertised.
There is room on the ..Pacific coast
right now for 50 new hotels ; and do you
know that tourists become country de
velopers? They invest In ranches, in
mines, in Industries. Give them com
forts and they will stay.
The advice is from a man who
knows. It is his business to know.
The receipts of the Porftand post
office were $238,000 larger for the
past year than in the year preceding.
The increase alone is greater than
the entire receipts of the office in
1900. The last year's business ran
around $1,750,000. If there are
doubts, here is the proof that Port
land is a growing city.
AS EXPERTS SEE IT
A5KED recently as to what they
considered the immediate ocean
problems of the coming struggle
. for commercial supremacy, ship
ping experts at New York expressed
belief that, among other phases, the
greatest opportunities are to be
found in the Pacific trade.
They said trade routes have un
doubtedly been opened to great
change by the war. They said that
the Suez and Panama canal routes
will be found more attractive to
commerce than before 1914, and that
more vessels will ply the routes to
Australia, South Africa and the Ori
ent. They held China to be America's
greatest trade opportunity. One said :
Just as in the early days of odr
history, the West offered the best op
portunities to our pioneers, so now
the great ocean in the West holds
great mercantile prises to those who
will try for them. Our sales In the
Far East now average about $500,000,
000 per annum as compared with
about $100,000,000 in pre-war years.
Half the world dwells In the Far East
and our greatest primary markets are
there.
New York, more distant by oyer
3000 miles from that vast trade op
portunity than is the Pacific coast,
is preparing to seize the business.
ThiB shipping expert added:
.If we have the initiative not only
to press the sale of American manu
factures there but also turn the cur
rent of our exports here so that we
can manufacture and distribute Orien
tal products, we will be able within a
few years to control not only the bulk
of the world's trade but Its wealth also.
The Pacific today holds out marvel
ous prospects to us.
If there is opportunity for New
teork in China, therd is better oppor
tunity for the Oregon country. China
wants our flour, lumber - and fruits
and many other products. We can
also manufacture machines, imple
ments, tools and a thousand other
things required there. We are nearer
by more than 3000 miles.
Many a fortune will be built up
somewhere on what China offers to
enterprise.
A dozen very small Bartlett pears
at a Portland fruit stand for 40 cents
is a reminder of days not so very
long ago when for 40 cents the farm
ers would deliver you a bushel. It
would be Joth interestingand illu
minating to know Just how much the
farmers now get for the undersized
BartletU doled Out to you by the fruit
stands at three for a dime,
TITLES FOR HAIG AND BEATTY
AN EARLDOM and half a million
dollars each are to be granted
by the British government to
Field Marshal Haig and Admiral
Beatty in recognition of their war
service, i.
This is a well established ' British
custom and with it no special criti
cism is found as in the abstract a
title, however high sounding, : does
not mean much. i -, To the American
mind tfce only tltlawortn while is
that of' Mr. - applied to an honest
man who has done a real public
service and sustained a good reputa
tion, who has remained a friend of
truth.' " " ,".' '
It does not matter where or- how
he may have served. lie may have
been ,. ". . " . ,
"Statesman, yet friend te truth, of
soul sincere. , i .
In action faithful and in honor clear.
Who broke no promise, serv'd no pri
vate end,
Who gained no title and who lost .no
friend." . ,
What is to be strongly criticised
is the dispensation of titles for purely
party purposes such as contributions
to political party funds. Just now
this is a live question in British
politics and the new National party
which has fa 'few members in the
house of commons has taken it up
as an issue. It is proposed to prove
before any . judicial committee that
since 1910 one member of parliament
has rsjected an -offer of a title in
return for a cash payment to party
fuads and that the father of another
member was ' offered a baronetcy for
$123,000. It is also charged that
another, member -who jwas created a
peer after the beginning of the war,
subscribed a large sum of money
to a newspaper which supports the
premier.'
Another charge is that a title was
given a politician who was so notori
ous as to be regarded as unfit to be
a candidate for parliament and that
a man previously involved in a
notorious social scandal was like
wise honored.
The natural result of this practice
will bring titles to such a low de
gree that even an Englishman will
no longer dearly love them and come
to the conclusion of Burns that
A prince can make a belted knight,
A marqulr, duke and a' that,
Put an honest man is aboon hU might.
Cangress is Indignant because
President Wilson urged it to forego
an August recess and remain at work
until the railroad situation could be
remedied and means be taken to stop
the advancing cost of living. Why
should it not remain In session? It
recently had an extended vacation.
Other folks have to work, and many
of them go the year through without
vacations. Members of the senate
and house are paid to render service,
and when there is anything to do,
they should vdo it.
FIFTY YEARS HENCE
THE town of Madras, over in Cen
tral Oregon, was thrown 'into a
state of excitement a few days
ago by the arrival of a covered
wagon drawn by a team of oxen.
The unusual Sight soon ' drew a
crowd which filled up the main
street, gazed at this reminder of the
past and 'listened to old men's tales
of their trips,across the plains, while
the oxen unconcernedly chewed their
cuds . and switched their tails.
While the picture drew .back the
curtain of the past it was not wholly
a faithful one. There was a con
cession to a later age in the fact
that the oxen wore a .harness instead
of a yoke. Instead of the tradi
tional command of "gee" and "haw"
there was merely a pulling on ihe
lines.
It would not be strange if 50 years
hence the present automobile will
look as out of place as does the ox
team today.
Senator Penrose has blocked the
house bill reducing the war tax on
the loganberry and fruit Juice indus
tries. He has shown no disposition
to assist in the passage of the meas
ure, and for the time it sleeps in his
committee. It is the Penrose type of
senator that holds back the country
and gives the interests power to prey
upon the people. Those who want
the perfecting of America to go on
have him and his kind to sweep out
of the way.
A BURNING QUESTION
THE Reverend J. M." S. Isenberg.
there may or may not be some
thing in the name, believes in
making his congregation, par
ticularly the male portion thereof,
kg comfortable as possible .during the
heated days of summer, while he
preaches to them of the punishments
and possible rewards to come. A
few Sabbaths ago, so the Philadel
phia Ledger informs us, when the
worshipers gathered at the ' Trinity
Reformed church, the pastor Invited
the mere men of his congregation to
take off their coats and be comfor
table. He called attention to the
fact that he had six electrio' fans
working to capacity, that ha was
trying to keep cool himself and that
he saw no reason why his auditors
should not do the samel
Orasping at the invitation the men
doffed their coats to sit with their
multi-colored gallusses peeping above,
the pews while the reverend pastor
compared the present to the uture
torridlty for the information of those
whose feet itched to stray from the
straight and narrow path. 4 The next
day there was a hubbub In the staid
and conservative city of brotherly
love.'
The president of J the New Century
club, whatever that Is. was mildly
shocked. Why. shouldn't men wear
nice thin coats, he asked .modestly,
"wnica wouia compiy witnt, good
taste and yet not cause'' any ; discom
fort?" The query has not been an
swered, had - not, at- least, when the
Ledger went to press.
whiie I can not say what 1 would
dd , myself one of the , leading phy
sicians says : cautiously, ' should
heartily approve a movement for the
shedding of coats If it were started
In. Philadelphia. -.
Thert is a precedent, I believe?.
Judge Shoemaker ventures cautiously,
"for the removal of coats in a court
room.' .-In the .Orphans court, I am
informed, the " practice now obtains.
I can not say how I should rule if
the question came before me.",
A leading - attorney . had his doubts
about it, "fearing- that the spectacle
of a perspiring orator hitching bis
suspenders in front of .the Jury, might
react against his client. And so it
went. :: " t -
Yet is it not possible that the Rev
erend Isenberg has sound sense on
his side?
"SQUARING AWAY"
IN THE G. O. P.
By Carl" Smith, Washington Staff
Correspondent of The Journal.
Washington. August 4. The so-called
Republican insurgents in the house of
representatives have again received a
spanking. Ever since the old crowd of
seniority rulers, reactionaries, Jim
Manns and Joe Fordneys took command
of the organization theinsursrents have
been talking of, what they would do as
soon as things were "squared away.
The squaring away process was com
pleted at a night caucus of the Repub
licans .when Nicholas Lonaworth and
his comrades of tae insurgent ilk were
run over and flattened out. Their cher
ished plan was to increase the steer
ing committee by four members, so as
to provide some representation for
laDor, rarmlng and the Pacific coast.
Their motion was beaten by 84 to 74.
The caucus vote was secret. It Is
understood that Representative Mc
Arthur was- the only Oregon "insurg
ent." He has always contended that
the friends, of Speaker Glllett, after
electing the speaker, should have laid
hold of at least some of the responsible
places of leadership Instead of allowing
all the high commissions to go to men
who follow the lead of Jim Mann.
There is no clear line drawn between
the organization and the insurgents, so
far as issues are concerned. It has
mostly been a struggle over chairman
ships and official toggery. Long-worth
insists he is leading a Progressive
movement, but that is a subject of
dispute. The Progressives are unde
cided whether Gillett or Mann is the
more reactionary.
The Republicans of the ways and
means committee have started in to
smash the reciprocity law which applies
to Canadian products. This is ex
pected to please the farmers of the
border states, particularly of Minne
sota and the Dakotas and on down Into
Iowa and Nebraska, but there may be
heartaches ahead. It is recalled that
this law was passed, after an historic
fight, during the Taft administration.
Mr. Taft caused several ripples in the
party before the Job was done. It be
came a subject of recrimination later
on, when Roosevelt criticised the presi
dent for putting it through, and the
Taft men replied that Roosevelt had not
raised his voice against it when the
fight was on.
It is now represented that farmers
in the wheat belt are apprehensive over
possible future importations of wheat
from Canada. There can be no such
situation this year, as there is a guar
anteed price in Canada on practically
the same basis as in this country. But
it Is said that Canada free listed wheat
in 1917 and potatoes in 1918,, and under
reciprocity the United States must ex
tend the same free entry to these com
modities from Canada. The proposed
repeal is the first rumble of the ap
proaching fight over the tariff. In due
season the Republicans will offer a high
tariff revision, captained by Fordney
in the house and Penrose in the senate.
.
Chairman Fordney of the shipping
board has written Senator McNary that
ship sales in England, as shown by
data Just collected, have reached un
expected levels. A 6000-ton vessel which
Is 18 years old and sold in 1914 on the
basis of $16.66 a deadweight ton has
recently been resold for $54.16 a ton.
A 10,800-ton vessel sold on the basis of
$195.61, and aehip of 2980 tons, four
years old, sold for $147 a ton. The ex
planation for these unexpectedly high
prices, says Mr. Hurley, probably lies
in the withdrawal of government regu
lations, which in all countries seem to
have been designed to hold down the
capital value of tonnage. New ships
cannot be built for less than three and
one half times what they formerly
would have cost.
J. T. S. Lyle of Tacoma has received
from Secretary Baker formal aonroval
of title of the 62,000 acres of land do
nated by Pierce county. Wash.," for the
site of Camp Lewis. The completion of
this step will serve to ease the minds
of Tacoma people who have feared, de
spite all assurances ' and appearances,
that Camp Lewis would not be per
manently taken. It is on the list for
one of the permanent divisional head
quarters, the future home of the 91st
division, recruited from the states
of the Northwest which furnished the
men who made such a brilliant record
for that division in France.
a
From W. Q. MeAdoo,' former secretary
of the treasury, Senator McNary has
received a letter congratulating him for
his "admirable presentation" of the
League of Nations in the senate. The
two "Macs," despite their differences in
political point of view, became very
good personal friends while MeAdoo
was "running, the railroads," and by
way of reciprocity MeAdoo enclosed a
copy of a speech he recently delivered
on the subject of the league
a a a
Representative N. J. Slnnott has been
informed by Director Smith of . the
United States geological survey of
favorable acUon in several cases in
Oregon under the etockraising home
stead act. He has been urging desig
nation in many of these cases for some
time. A-nesignatlon effective August
14 includes among others the following
applicants: Horace V. Mitchell, Her
bert It. Booth, William ll. Booth, John
M. Booth, Charles H. Zurcher, Hum
phrey Best, Carl Roe, Adna W. Hag
gerty, Robert L. tay, Ben Weathers,
Harry II. Nottingham, Frank A. Boyd
and George Irvin of Wallowa county i
Lowell Williamson, Joseph R. William
son, Edna L. Williamson and Hallie I.
Adler of Union county; and Henry
Gamble of Grant county.
Consider Washington City, Its
. Riots andjts Rulers
From the New Yfcrk World.
- Sueh government as the -city of Wash
inton enjoys or suffers from is admin
istered by congress through its commit
ters on the District of Columbia. In view
of the desperate race conflicts now under
way at the capital, in the presence of
which the agents of the senate and
house apear to be almost powerless, the
personnel of the senate committee at
least is of interest.
At the head of this body as a sort of
ehairman-mayor we find the redoubt
able Lawrence T. Sherman of Illinois.
Associated with him in the Republican
majority ; are Senators Dillingham of
Vermont, Jones of Washington, Calder
of New York, New of Indiana, Ball of
Delaware, Capper Of Kansas and Klkina
of West Virginia. All . but ; Senators
Jones and Capper were signers of the
round robin in opposition' to the League
of Nations, and these gentlemen after
ward enrolled themselves in - favor of
amendments- ,
In th mery work of treaty-smashing
the senate ; committee entertains no
doubt of its -own infallibility. It knows
all about Shantung, and Kiaucbau ;
It has the problem of the Saar valley.
Flume, Silesia, Dansig and Checho
slovakia at its fingers' ends : it is well
versed in reparations and self-determination,
and it is more famUiar with, th
Monroe doctrine than the men who
originated It ever, claimed to be. It
has in effect set. itself up as a manda
tory of the whole earth.
Bnt it cannot keep order In the Dis
trict of Columbia, where only two racial
elements are at loggerheads, and it
must depend upon the army and nary,
whose work elsewhere it is trying to
undo, to help it out . of its troubles.
This la why some of us are beginning
to lose confidence in Senator Sherman
as a ruler. '
Letters From the People
Communication sent to The Journal for
publication in thu department should bo written
m Dnly one side of the paper, should not exceed
300 Voni in lungth, and must be signed by taa
writer, whose mail addresa in full most accom
pany the contribotioo. ) f
Challenges Wetj
Athena, July 25. To the Kditor of The
Journal Robert Burns was a great ad
mirer of John Barleycorn, and more
than once, in his gifted way, he eang
his praise. But while thie praise, as
literature. Is- fine, as fact it is spurious.
Like many another man in these days,
Burns liked the kick he got out of it.
We know what it did to Bobby, and we
khow what it has done and will do to
every dupe who has thought or thinks he
can play with fire and not' get burned.
Why men with all the facts before them
will still insist upon a resumption of the
liquor traffic is a mystery to me, and
it is really funny how well posted they
represent themselves to be upon opinions
of the public with reference to the
liquor question. They will tell you ex
actly the public mind, and it is always
in faver of the saloon, of course. Call
it 'what you .will sixth sense, intuition
or sub-conscious knowledge they know,
and it's exactly 65 per cent, no more,
no less., of the people who are now.
right now, in favor of saloons.
But I don't know why they are talk
lng majority, for one of them says ma
Jorlties are always wrong anyway. It's
odd they are so down-hearted, with a
majority like that. One would think
they would be throwing their hats up
in boisterous celebration, with a major
ity of 65 per cent. But they are not.
They are whining around telling us
how wrong it Is to have their personal
rights curtailed, and being compelled
against their will to submit to monstrous
sumptuary laws.
Why don't some of those people who
want this monster back again tell us
of some real good there is in it. This
autocratic minority, who have their
monster shackled, might listen to rea
son. It seems if there was a single
virtue to be found, one redeeming qua!
ity, that now, In their desperation, they
might get their heads together and find
it. They might look down the scroll of
2000 years of pretty authentic history
and if there was a place anywhere where
the liquor traffic ever benefited
mankind they . might put their finger
on it and say, "Here it is. We fed the
hungry. We clothed the poor. We
nursed the sick. We brought peace and
happiness, prosperity and contentment.
How could we then refuse them? If
there Is an element of good, of truth, of
virtue in it, let them, produce it. There'
the rub. They have a hard proposition.
F. B. WOOD.
A Woman's Defiance
Portland, July 29. To the Editor of
The Journal I want to say to the men
who are striving so hard to bring the
saloons back, that they will never succeed.-
Women are determined to keep
that evil stamped out for good. After
fighting the gallant male so long for
the privilege to vote, do you suppose
we will now sit -idle and allow the use
of liquor to blight our homes and send
our children to ruin? No, never 1 Get
that, Mr. Boozer? I said. Never!
I believe a large majority of women,
and, happily, a large percentage of
men, are for prohibition. Unfortunately,
however, there are a few women for
booze, just as there are a few scatter
brains against equal suffrage; but as a
rule women stand for right andmay I
say? for progression and not retrogres
sion. The bid soaks lament their thirst In
terms of "personal privileges." If guz
zling a poison which renders them not
only revolting to decent folks, but dan
gerous to the public be called Indi
vidual rights, thfn it might as well be
said it is one's personal privilege to go
out every morning before breakfast and
kill somebody. Every drunkard doesn't
consider himself one. A man very near
to delirium tremens will declare he Im
bibes only occasionally "in a friendly
glass."
But that's the way they all talk. Even
the ones who go home and beat up their
families and starve their babies.
Only an occasional glass of beer! If
that Is true, then prohibition ought to
be a trivial incident In their lives. Why
so much yappijig about it?
The liquor interests are epreading their
propaganda. One reads. 'IKnglleh- people
make a joke of prohibition In America."
What class of Englishmen make the
jokes? Why, the boezeflghters and
brewery- Interests, of course. Their
opinions are of no value to honest folks ;
so let them rave and spread their prop
aganda. We expected them to do Just
what they are doing. . But they are only
wasting their time and their ill-gotten
money ; for liquor has been banished for
good. v
How much better it would be If they
united -their energies to advance Civi
lization rather than hinder it turned
their thoughts into constructive chan
nels rather than destructive?
A WOMAN.
What Hotel Is Your Home?
From the Spokane Bpokesaaa-Rairiew
The apparently unlimited willingness
of capitalists to Invest millions upon mil
lions or dollars in the erection of mag
nificent hotels makes natural the specu
lation as to whether we are on the way
to becoming a country of hotel dwel
lers. Asrast as each new hotel, with its
thousands of rooms and ingenious re
finements of comfort and service, Is com
pleted it is Instantly filled, starts a wait
ing list, and only regret that it has
not a few hundred, more rooms to be
let at a minimum of $5 a day.
Americans who can afford such luxur
ies and there are more in" this class than
ever before are flocking . into hotels
because living conditions, particularly
in the greater cities, are abnormal. If
the abnormal conditions become perma
nent and therefore normal the hotel
dwellers will Increase and the American
home will become a new sort of thing
entirely. The-multiplicity of .new for
tunes has intensified the search for
luxurious living conditions and made
consideration of expense negligible. Then
there is the great shortage or suitable
houses, created by the suspension of
building during the war years. Finally,
we have the servant problem. It Is this
last more than any other factor that ir
hastening the trend toward hotels.
All for the League V
'"From tha Tout County Itemiier f
Here's dmethlnr to think about. At
least slxHof the lecturers on the Chau
tauqua course Just closed here are sup
porters -unreservedly of the League j of
Nations. - These nersons Dr. W.-J.
Hindley, Mrs. Robert C. McCredie, Miss
Ida M. Tarbelt, w. J. Bryan. Dr. w.
L. MeUtnger and Private Peat are not
COMMENT AND
- SMALL CHANGE
Ctvfflzatlon cries out for blimp-proof
ekyligbta,
A contemporary aptly remarks that a
man stop dictating as soon as he mar
ries hie stenographer. ....
After this the man who has a little
brown Jug in his home will never have
to worry because his neighbors fail to
call. -a. :-
.;: a a. a .. : ,
The best plan to adopt In selecting a
bathing suit is to apply the same good
taste that you use when you buy a
street dress.
We're not too old to remember back
to the days when the butcher would
actually give us a piece of bologna for
running an errand for him.
. .
The "most ' Important invention made
during the srar for war purposes was
the tank ; and that was British, though
America, may. take some pride in the
fact that she offered the inspiration in
a tractor.
. : a a
Senator Swanson was discuss frig what
wHl happen to those senators who op
pose the league. "They'll fare like the
plow boy," said Swanson. "He was
plowing his field when an inquisitive
passerby asked him how much wages he
received. 'Wage? said the boy. ' 'I
don't git no wages. I git nothln If I
do, and hell if I don't. ,r
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN ' v
By Fred Lockley -
(In this article Mr. Lacklay diseaaaaa tha
putting of the "port" into Portland, with
ftiweiat reference to Alaska. Ha -present aa
timndinc fienres as to what that almost un
touched land already ueaoa to trade and
shipping man. thereby indies tin what ft- may
be. and will -. when Its potentialities shall ra
the future be reduced to actoantiaa. The
obrkrui appeal Is hammered - home. )
My nephew. Lieutenant Robert J.
Shepard of Alaska, has Just returned
from France, and with hie wife Is visit
ing at our home. After the signing of
the armistice an extensive educational
program was put on among the troops..
He waa one of the officers selected to
serve as an Instructor. In speaking
of thiajart of his work he said i "To
my surprise, I found the soldiers more
Interested in Alaska than in any other
subject I discussed. They were par
ticularly interested in the resources and
possibilities of Alaska."
a
A week or so ago I crossed the "Mor
rison street bridge on a Mount Tabor
car with an old time Alaskan. Pointing
to the Idle ships' along the waterfront.
he said: "Today Is Portland's -opportunity.
Do you remember what Shake-
speare says about there being 'a tldej.
in the affairs of men which, taken at
its flood, leads on to fortune? Well,
so far as Alaska Is concerned, it la
flood time for Portland. Portland has
the idle ships. Portland has the prod
ucts Alaska need a Freight rates are j
excessive from Seattle. . If Portland
would only seize her opportunity she
would win an empire for her future
trade relations. I wonder if Portland
wholesalers and Portland's civic lead
ers areblg enough to see and seize the
opportunity?"
.
Alaska recently celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary. It waa in 1867 that Wil
liam H. Seward brought upon himself
a storm of ridicule and abuse by paying
Russia $7,200,000 of the taxpayers' money
for "that worse than useless district, of
perpetual ice, inhabited only by polar
bears and Eskimos." It was declared
that it waa a white elephant. We were
told that it would be a perpetual ex
pense, that we would never derive any
revenue from it, that it waa a liability,
not an asset, and that If we were lucky
we might wish it onto some country
we had a grudge against. The press
and public united in terming It "Sew
ard's folly." Now, let's see what we
have got back for our investment of
$7,200,000 when we bought "Seward's
folly."
In 1870 we leased the Prlbelof islands,
in the Bering sea, to the Alaska Com
mercial company. Long ago the roy
alties paid by this company for the
privilege of killing fur seals there, paid
into the United States treasury more
than the purchase price of the whole of
Alaska. In 1917, the imports to Alaska
amounted to $44,481,600. During the
past 60 years, Alaska has Imported more
than $415,000,000 worth 6f goods. She
has exported gold, salmon, timber, furs
and other products to the amount of
$708,000,000. What did if mean In
shipping to handle this more than a
billion dollars worth of business? Take
the last five years as an example of
the. business at our very doors. From
1913 to 1917, Inclusive, Alaska imported
goods valued at $141,000,000, and export
ed products valued at $267,500,000, a
total business of $408,500,000. Isn't this j
alii Democrat either, and they come
ha1v aana.ra.teul narta of the COUn-
try and in private life are of different
professions, yet every ona oi me n
unhesitatingly indorsed the draft of the
n.,A tr,t ,o it wn brouaht back
fmm Paris and submitted to the senate
by the president.
Miracles of the'' Movies
From Ban Francisco Bullstin
Scarcely a week passe but w view
in suooosedly . serious film drama the
happy miracle of uccesful anthorship
over night or wmuar jmengm. uv
- ii,!.. A,nh,n fnr ezamnle. 1 sent
UUUl 1 1 1 1.1 v? v. -- -
to college. Her grateful heart yearns to
repay the benefactor. She wrinkles her
brow very prettily over the problem.
"An," she say ina imiiM, w,
an author." ' ' . . ,
Thu far It 1 logical enough for many
...um think and aav such naive
w J ui y ba w wa - v r
absurdities. But in film they do not
stop there. " They taxe an evening on in
the dark of the moon so as not to Inter-
m - t.v. lAvms lcfn.r and dash off a
best-seller, an epic poem or a light .opera
that sells on eight. It t charming to
contemplate, but the editor do not like
It For every picture ef thi ort brings
to the magazines ana jiuwhiuwb
. . mVMMi MlUM ttd with
oi nppew - .. - -
. : ..titm rfamrw ArrUSion
riDDOu, iuuiub - '
without an idea, technlqueless, un gram
matical, pioues pjauiuuaB u "
professional reader frantic. ;
A a matter of fact, one doe not "Come
down" with authorship, a on doe with
- i Mi f Via rn1r1lit One
niesMitrB w w ' - --
achieves it. most laboriously by year of
patient, unremitting iun- -a
Ana kindnens fcr their urbane
iU tla eav v11 v "w - - - r
delusions of the public mind. Editor are
sufficiently overworaeu suv
novelists too numerous and too Incompe
tent as It la-
Portland' Rale Flflbt
rroa the Eafaa Gaant ?
For the first time In history Portland
Is making a fight to secure ner snare oi
the trade of the great inland - empire.
- .,u,ii i thmt it. la eheaner to
haul freight oft a water grade than it is
over th mountain. In the past. Seattle
has had a better rate than Portland and
the freight had to be shipped ; through
cLfu) m a Reaf.flA. If the metroes
oils of Oregon succeed In a readjustment
or- rates, it wui yrvusui mu u
. m,Hm iiiMis avllt tsna.
flted a well a the -now favored port!
OI can r rawisvv awiu oisiuv" r
NEWS ' IN BRIEE.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
a a- u..Hs ffaa VtAMVel sSsLbsV saV
lctd Ui date October 2-J for th county
lair ana uio iviiffore iaw o av--
,..
"Wltn the world going dry and hops
selling at 40 cents a pound says the
Eugene Register. 'he reputation of the
hop as a freak crop is still further en
haneed." , -
Heppner'e council la busywtUi plans
for a better water supply. Propositions
looking to the city's taking over thejj
isting privately owned plant are -under
consideration. "
Marion county In July paid out $428.10
for scalps' of moles, gophers and gray
niggers, and $1255760 since January 1.
TbV tax provides $4200 a year for thie
bounty fund In Marlon.
' P"erv effort Is being made by the
Comm7rcW club nd the city officials
of Bakw. the Democrat says, to provide
every comfort for auto touriaU at the
city's camp grounds, and a large num
ber .visit the grounds each night.
Bryant-park: at Albany, according to
th. bernocrat. Is J?m'?f v"
feVMrynuTht1 unTber
o7touri.timp in the park, and Pic
nics of some kind are on- the program
eveVevenlng. In one evening six pic
nic were in session at one and the
aime time. . . -
business worth going after? Wont se
curing a share of this business help
put the "port" in Portland? We have
the "port" and the "lend" here at Port
land. Let's hitch them up so they can
do good team work. We have the land,
the port, the ships, the water and the
market. Let's get action on them. Let's
utilise Alaska's gateways her water
ways. The highways as well as the
gateways of Alaska are her waterways.
Jt we want her trade we must utilize
our and her liquid highways.
. e
Alaska has more than 26,000 miles of
Coast line. President Wilson said re
cently, "Alaska Is a storehouse. It
should be unlocked." Portland has the
key to hls storehouse. Shall we use
It?
a a
'Pick up Alaska and lay It on the
United States. Ketchikan touches Jack
sonville, Fla while Attu touches Santa
Barbara, Cal. That's how big It Is.
From Dixon entrance westward to the
fartherest of the Aleutian islands you,
must travel in an air line over 8000
miles.
If you took the Job of counting the
Islands' of Alaska you would have to
visit over a thousand separate islands.
She has 46S islands containing one or
more square miles. One of the Islands
of Alaska Kodiak, the island of large
bears has an area greater than the
combined areas of Connecticut and
Rhode Island. It is 101 miles long and
68 miles wide. Prince of Wales Island
is 131 mile long and 39 mile wide.
Alaska is twice as large as the 13 origi
nal state of our Union. It ha an area
of 686,400 square miles. It has a coast
line 6000 mile longer than the combined
coast line of ' the Atlantic, Gulf and
Pacific Coast line of the United State.
e a
"Seward folly," that barren and in
hospitable land of perpetual snow, ha
64,000,000 acre of good agricultural
land available for farms. Finland ha
less than one-ninth of the available farm
land we have in Alaska. Finland and
Alaska are very similar in climate and
are both largely located, between the
fifty-eighth and seventieth parallels of
north latitude. Look up the record
and you will find that a year or so
ago Finland, during one 'season, pro
duced 86.731,660 bushels of grain, Z9,
887,39$ bushels of potatoes and 26,585,
600 pounds of butter, and -during that
same year she exported meat, game and
butter to the amount of g,70,4UO, ana
wood pulp and paper to the value of
$46,012,000. If Finland, witn less than
7,000,000 acres of agricultural land, can
do that, what can Alaska, with 64,000,000
acre of farming land, do? Alaska is
destined to be a great farming and stock
raising country
a a a
W paid $7,200,000 for Alaska. During
the past 83 years Alaaka has shipped
$394,739,691 worth of gold, copper, sil
ver, tin, marble,', gypsum and other
metals. Alaska has shipped out $51.
278,561 worth of sealskins .and $26,032,
036 of Other fur and pelt. Up to De
cember 31, 1917, Alaska shipped from
her ports $298,988,852 worth of salmon,
cod, halibut and other fish.
a
I Alaska worth cultivating? Do
Portland merchant want her, trade? If
we really want to act. and not Just
talk, now Is the time to put the port
In Portland. .
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
. Gleaned From Curious Place
Robert Burns died at Dumfries, Thurs
day, July 21, 1796, at the age of 27. Sun
day evening, July 24, th body was car
ried to the Trades' hall. In the High
street, and from there, on Monday, July
25, It was borne to the churchyard of
St. Michaels. The poet was buried with
military . honor. Soldiers lined the
treetfr and a firing party, with arm
reversed, marched first. The coffin waa
carried on the shoulders of the poet'
brother volunteer. To the musio of the
"Dead March in Saul,", the long pro
cession walked down the High street of
Dumfries and along . St. Michael street
to the churchyard. The soldier who took
part In the funeral were the Gentleman
Volunteers of Dumfries, to which the
poet belonged; th Fenclble Infantry of
Anguaahlr and the regiment of cavalry
of the Cinque Port. Th two- latter
bodies were at that time quartered in
Dumfries, and offered their assistance.
Among the Junior officer of th Cinque
Ports regiment was the Hon. Robert
Bank Jenklnson, afterwards the second
Earl of Liverpool and prime minister of
Great Britain from 1112 to 1827. The
principal inhabitant of Dumfries "and
the surrounding countryside walked in
the procession and a vast concourse of
people witnessed the funeral. -
Olden Oregon
Flax Raising Date From 1145, Intro
duced by ; James Johnson . -
. The first flaxseed In ' Oregon was
brought from Indiana la. 1844 by James
Johnson and planted near Lafayette the
following year. It grew well. . From the
fiber were made towel and other do
mestic article, by Mrs. Johnson, on a
home-made loom. John Klllin, a pioneer
of 1945, raised flax on hi farm in
Clackamas county near the present town
of .Hubbard. Towels and bed ticks were
made out of the fiber by hi wife.
- Turn of the Wheel . .
Nit used to be said that every American
laborer could hav meat three time a
day If he liked. JNowaday th salaried
and professional classes in America look
upon meat' three time a day as th ex
travagance of the rich.
The . News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benent
of Journal Readers
ORKQON NOTES
wo?kPtht1,Il,K00.J,ri," wer furnished
mer'-ia?"'- ?' ?1-
aWat the ag". of VVramV'r Va"ey
Band concert will be held each Satur
a'LrV. P..t"?:''tCdrawlrlg
------ cwiuruay night.
Threst ntn m ... . ...
Miiw,- . I iv' rrom t oqu .
wfc "?W',,ton Coatee and Jame
- - tuuua m XNewoerg.
totaff VI'k Q.Jy amounted
Ho-vT, " ' win exceptionally
tt,rdln I" leather Observer
Mrs. J. vt Ch.iM. i .
i-. d Thrsxir at the home or her
ShU!' iMr'- J' M- Harris. ia Eusn.
A 'Isrea u,t M,ki.u i . . . .
beach near Newport, caused conslder-fh-,?,v
cltement, as people on the beach
...wuBi.t ,fc t u.n a wnaie.
Drilllne tni- nit - . .
. - - - -. .jf control lea
by the Oregon Oil company at the
xTnTii. V"' J1'"' south of Mo-
Minnville, has- been started.
Plana rYi fniinitn . i. , . .
chool in Marshfield have been an-
V. . . vt icuevitt of at.
Monica's church of that city. .
tAS apptepacklng school Is to be opened
in Roeeburg in an effort to raise th
efficiency of worker, thu gaining relief
from a prospective shortage of help.
A shipment of 1120 lambs, sold for
13 cents a pound- and averaging about
79 Ppunds each, was sent to Denver by
S. 15. Miller, a Cove district sheepman.
A reduction of approximately 30 per
cent in fire Insurance rates for Astoria,
Ui result of a recent survey by the
state Insurance department, ha been an
nounced, s
A part for the airplane piloted by
Lieutenant Kiel waa received by mall
at the capltol In Salem, the first parcels
Dost nnrksra nf Ita irinri , ....
tat building.
The Columbia River highway, between -Hood
River and Cascade Locks, which
Was tft hAVA h,,n flnaAS. i A ... : .
paving, will remain open until the latter
aa eve) n W Ka s
V Mlf TTQClVs
natflAmAn .-It Trmerllta ..... ...
y wsaisahiaaassb WUII ,J WkTm
planning- to winter their atoclc at home,
7. tvam irum aoaea cost of
sending the cattle away 1 equal to
losses due to hay shortage at home.
w Bute hospital Inmates at Salem nnm
Pfr 1724 and the per capita coat la
$15.57 ; Inmates at th feeble-minded ln-
aHfllfA mirrK4. ill . , . . ,
. . - v wvm vi f ll.Ui
each; the training school ha 150 at a
trm , Sin j, .i .....
v av.io, .jiu WIO lUDCrCUlOSIS
hospital 75 at a cost of $45.98.
WASHINGTON '
.hen a threshing machine engine ex
ploded near Garfield, Jerome Tid well,
the engineer, waa Instantly killed.
Three Cathlamet boy a George Stener,
Ralph Smith and Richard Olmaiaau,
have returned from oversea service.
Th presence of hog cholera near Fair
field, where one owner is said to have
lost 20 head, hi entire herd, has' been
reported. '
A prisoner at Aberdeen gained pos
session of a hose and drenched the
jailor, prisoner and th Jail before the
hose was taken from him.
Lieutenant W. W. Judson and Carl
ton Hampe. Sergeant Loren Stephen and
Rudolph Overly, service men from Cen
tralis, have returned home.
L. M. Holt, superintendent of trrlga
gation on the Yakima reservation, re
port 98,600 acres on the reservation In
crops and that the yield will -total .ap
proximately $8,000,000. '
Private J. Vincent Robert. son of
Rev. John T. Robert of Yakima, Is a
proud father In France, hi wife, a niece
of General Mangin of the French army,
presenting him with a son.
The Todd shipyard ha v laid off
another 1000 men with a statement that
th reduction in force la permanent
and the men will not be taken back
should the striking blacksmith agree
to return.
GENERAL -The
Spanish senate was unanimous In
approval, of Joining thecLeague of Na
tions. The naval seaplane NC-4, which
crossed the Atlantic, may fly to the
Pacific coast,, it is announced. t
Amnesty to political offenders during
the last electoral campaign has been
granted In the' republic of San Salvador.
The house way and mean committee
Voted to recommend a bill to license dye
stuffs imports and plac a heavy tariff
on them. - .
The tax of $20 on Japanese who en-
frage in fishing In California was upheld
n an opinion by Attorney General Webb
of California.
The portfolio of minister of agricul
ture In the Dominion cabinet ha been .
accepted by Dr. A. V. Tolmle, member of
parliament for Victoria, B. C.
Nine-year-old Virginia Byineton re
turned to 'her home In San Francisco
after being sought all night, saying she
had visited "friend In Berkeley'
Annual Bflolarah!n Daring $100 a
year at Gooding college, Gooding, Idaho,
are to be orrerea oy in,wsujiiwn k
the American Revolution of the college
city.
a formal ball wa given by the Ban
Francisco Knight of Columbus at the
close of, the officer' training camp a
th Presidio in honor of the departing
officer.
Inhabitants of Shantung are gather
ing together 20.000,000 yen to pay back
the loan made by Japan to China for th
railroad In the province. In the hope that
Japan will cancel the railroad agreement
In accordance with her offer to China.
Uncle Jeff Snow Saya ;
Some of these here Corner fellers'
ha voted Tllden Mocker plum crazy
'cause he left hi farm on the medder
and .went to town. He uster raise 80
ton of hay of a season, but now h run
a sorter aafety razor pushcart thing on
a patch of grass. that he won't let grow
more'ri a Inch or so high 'fore be har
vest his crop. II don't git enough
eras offen a little patch about a big
a a. half a chicken run to feed a calf.
but he work away at it moat a hard
a he uster do in real hayln'. Tilden
low the children's bound and deter
mined to tay in town and 'tend school,
movie and other elevatln' and tnspirlu'
adjunct of civilisation, and he Jlst play
at th Job be ha tuck up fer health
and exercise, and In no way ezpect to
store up much hay.
Government Thrift Campaign"
Helps All Savings Banks
1 f Stories of aehieeemeni ia tha encuma
UUob of War Marinas Stamps, sent to Tha
Journal and accepted for publication, will
be awarded a Thrift Stamp. )
The purchase of government bona
aif Savings Stamps ha increased
rather than decreased savings depos
its in the bank of the country. Re
cent statements from various sec
tion, from Portland to New Tork,
how that sine th armistice wa
signed the savings bank of the coun
try have been flooded with deposit.
- Th postal savings bank hav con
ducted only very limited educational
campaign In th past, and credit for
present big Increase i freely given
to the work done In the Saving
Stamp campaign. Person who get
th thrift habit practice it In savings
deposits a well a in Thrift and
Saving Stamp purchases, it ha been
shown. .-
Thrift Sumps and 1919 War Savlnci
Stamp now on sale at nsu&l ancies.