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TIIEIK COSTLY LESSON
c
OSTLY lessons in the value of
water competition are being
brought boma to Northwest wool
men.
Their former rate of $1.25 from
) ,Portland to Boston has been increased
I to. $2.39 ptrr 100 pounds. The in
crease is' $1.14, or nearly 100 per
cent. The former rate was based
i a . MAn-.nMt:.n in.iltM v.rltK 4H0
.'railroads which the railroad admin
I 'istration holds does not now exist.
I Officials of the, railroad adminis
) ration, following a former ruling by
,the interstate commerce commission,
f -hold that actual water competition
I land not potential water- competition
t Is ' the only basis on which lower
I 'rates can be granted. Otherwise
j 'stated. It means that the ships must
be in service and actually carrying
wool from Portland to Boston before
ports can expect the lower rates to
be continued.'
There is no way to misunderstand
the situation. Actual water competi
tion is a factor in rate making. Po
tential water competition is not. It
is a position toward which Inter
state commerce rulings have long
been trending, and at last it is em
phatically and powerfully here. Its
I penalty is an added charge of $1.14,
I or a "nearly doubled freight rate on
1 wool from Portland to Boston. It
j 19 a toll upon every head of sheep
I owned by every wool grower in the
J' Pacific Northwest.
In its long .time insistence that
steamship lines out of Portland' are
I a fundamental factor in the economl-
cal handling of products, The Jour
I nal is now proven to have been
I right. The benefit is not merely
' for Portland.
Here we see how lack of steam-
l ah In Ilnpa artverae.lv nffWfa th waaI
j grower. It has nearly doubled the
( freight rate on his outgoing wool
Clip. It similarly affects the or-
:hardist, the dairyman, the lumber-
man and the grower or manufac
turer of every other product used on
'the other side of America or abroad.
To fail to provide the lines is to
further increase the tolls on products
already groaning under the burden
Of high freight rates. Twenty-five
,per cent added recently to rail rates
ifA a factor In the situation. Other
1 i increases in rail rates may be
I counted on.
Nothing Is mpre1 unsettled than the
I railroads. They are now confronted
I 'with the most gigantio demands for
. wage increases in their entire his
: ,tory, They were 'Wrecked by the
I .dishonest stock jobbing processes of
I itheir managers in a 30 years period
of railroad corruption, and must have
f 'huge butzZ for betterments. Nobod-y
f, .knows where rail rates will ultimate
ly go to.
-The sea Is open and free. The
Jsh'lps 'are within reach.. Water
i (transportation is the lowest known
j. to, man.
j-'.; Their, way jut of an ugly situa-
'tion Is for the producers of the in
t 'terior and the great business In
' 'terests of the port to turn to the
t 'sear for relief. .
With, the ships in motion, it will
; tmatter little what the railroads may
-see fit to. exact in increased rates.
Chicago chorus girls are promising
Z strike unless they are given extra
k i pay for Sunday performances. When
f , they threaten to kick' in unison, it is
I 'enough, to make even Chicago sit up
I and take notice.
JAHES M'CAIIV
T
fjHE legal profession of Oregon
loses one of its foremost mem
bers . , the. death of. James
McCain of McMinnvilfe. Born in
Indiana . he came to Oregon as
l a small child, lived his life, received
f his education and practised his pro
f fession in this state. ...
" .Throughout his career he was
' recognized by-. the bench and - bar
h of the state as an able- lawyer, faith-
rui- 10 nis clients ana rair ; in ; the
conduct of his practice, while the
.multitude of his friends bespeak
the character of his citizenship.
A ' decade or more ago, his name
was of frequent mention in a public
way, and ; the ; round ' of his :. activi
ties a part of the life of the com
monwealth iai whleh he was long
an actor. 1- "TV : -;" ' "
Chicago bakers have raised tha
price of ptes, which is causing some
little turmoil among the lunch-eaters
of the Windy City. If the Increase
were to become general throughout
the nation, there would be no ques
tion about the high cost of living be
ing due for a tumble. If public senti
ment could encompass it.
reaY, bank smashers
w
HAT has happened to the North
Penn bank at Philadelphia?
They can't find out yet
whether the shortage is $800,000
or $2,000,000. The casnier is out
on $23,000 bail, a paying teller is
at large In his $3500 automobile and
the bank is a wreck.
The most that is known is that both
officials and employes passed through
gala days while they were spend
ing the resources of the institution.
A $35 a week teller lived in splendor
in a fine house, had a $3300 auto
mobile . and two other cars; was a
brilliant figure in the downtown
cafes and gave $5 tips. Another em
ploye received side money of $50
a week for. permitting an automobile
firm to overdraw its account, ex
tended the same privilege to his
relatives, who overdrew $15,000, and
had similar side allowances per week
from other patrons of the bank.
The bookkeeper said he saw the
others using bank funds and con
cluded that he might as well do it
too. A $25 a week clerk ad both a
five and a seven-passenger automo
bile, employed jazz orchestras for
frequent parties at his home and
lived on a scale of expenditure to
have made even a bank president
wince.
The plundering is astounding in
that it was so widespread, and ex
tended over a period of years. The
examiners even declare that the
wrecked bank reached a state of In
solvency two years ago, but the facj
was concealed and the' stealing went
on as usual.
The call of the great white way,
the lure of the cafes and the ways
of luxury and swift living have often
worked havoo in banks. But here
is wholesale bank wrecking that
smashes all records, and, by compari
son, reduces all former bank thieves
to mere bungling amateurs.
If China were to start a world war,
it would almost be worth the trip
across the Pacific to hear a Chinese
regiment sing Tipperary in the Chi
nese language.
PUNISn PROFITEERS
S'
PECULATORS are withholding
vast supplies of food from the
market in the hope that hunger
impelled strikes mayi bring higher
wages with which to purchase their
stocks. ,
Such is the staiement of the federal
trade commission in a report made
public yesterday. Accompanying in
formation is that stocks of food held
in cold and dry storage were 19
per cent" greater on June 1 than on
the same date last year.
The commission points out that
in Juno a year ago United States
stocks of food were in demand for
feeding the armies of the allies as
well as civilian . populations in
Europe. The, fact that many import
ant stocks of food are nruch larger
now than at that .time while prices
are as hlgk or higher than in June
last year, means that they are being
held speculatively for a world de
mand. There Is no reason to be doubtfql
of the trade commission. It was
created by act of congress. Its
members are men chosen by reason
of especial qualifications for the
work, and they are under oath to
investigate and report illegitimate
and Illegal business operations as
they are commanded by statute to
do. There is not the slightest reason
for' them to be unfair or partial.
It may be accepted as true, from
their report, that greedy men seeking-
unconscionable profits through
profiteering in the foodstuffs of the
people are in part responsible for
the high cost of living.
The IS -year-old lass from Hailey,
Idaho, who tried to choke a moun
tain lion to death and nearly got
away with it will probably have her
way about the way things run about
the house after she changes her
name.
WILL CLEAR OUR VISION"
T
;IIE country will wait with more
than normal interest for ' the
result of the government's prose
cution of the big packers should
those suits or prosecutions" be com
menced as promised by the attorney
general. Then we will know, or at
least we hope we will, whether "those
big concerns are really hoarding food
supplies of all, kinds and controlling
tarkets and prices against the in
rest of the public and for . the In
terest of their bank accounts.
, The attorney general says publicly
that his office has evidence on hand
which Indicates a "clear violation of
the anti-trust! law." The packers
deny that this Is true. Tha public
undoubtedly, leans to the presump
tion that the betting, odds are with
the government and its legal , department.-
A full and vigorous Investigation
and presentation of the charges be
fore the courts arid their juries will
do ' much to clear the atmosphere if
nothinsjjjmore.' ? Now the bulk of the
people firmly believe tlrat the pack
ing concerns are robbing both, pro
ducer and consumer alike; that they
control ; the prices : paid to the pro
ducer, to the Jobber, the wholesaler,
the retailer and ultimately, to the
consumer. If they are wrong they
will be glad" to know it. The Ameri
can peopla are not prone to howl
at what they have to pay when they
know that the price is a reasonable
price. They ; will, ; and do, howl i if
they' believe that they are being
forced to pay more than a reason
able price for ..what they most; con
sume. '
The packers contend that they , will
"welcome" investigation by the gov
ernment, which makes everything
lovely. It makes . it easy for the
government and, if they are honest
in their assurances, the outcome will
soothe the ; public ., mind.
But, should the prosecutions show
that the packers have been profiteer
ing the anger of the common man
will be slow to cool.. He has been
bending his back beneath Increasing
cost burdens for a long time, stolidly
and uncomplainingly, because he has
been taught to believe that they
were "on account of the war" and
necessary for its winning. But the
war is over and the time' is coming
for things to shake back to normal.
The man or -the -group of men who
arbitrarily hold costs up for their
own benefit will not be jpopular In
this country any more than the
kaiser, who started everything. And
people have a tendency to think
more strongly of the fellow nearest
to them than the reverse.
MAX H. HOUSER
MAX H. HOUSER has. views. .
They are sound views on the
subject at least of Portland as
a port. He voiced them in
Wednesday's Journal.
We cannot go into shipping on
thousands, because Portland's ship
ping requirements will be In mil
lions, he said. We have to figure,
nat In small change, but in fortunes.
We cannot expect our maritime future
for the price of an outfit of office
furniture.
The start must Derforce be modest.
but it must be backed wmi a wealth
of money and public interest. "The
trouble seems to be that we have
been aiming at the stars with noth
ing to shoot with. We are not
going to make a seaport of Portland
overnight, nor are we going to turn
the trick with a few thousand dol
lars in the pockets of a few, inter
ested nen." Here is one of Mr.
Houser's proposals :
Would it not be a splendid thing for
the shipbuilders, whose plants . are now
largely idle, to launch this shipping: de
velopment era by agreeing to build tor
local interests one or more vessels at
cost? Do you see what an Impetus such
a thing would automatically be to ship
ping? In sum and : substance a big
capitalization ana a big and general pub
lic interest are the essential necessities
of the port Just now. Given those two
things I think the shipping future of the
port would be assured.
Mr. Houser says of any, sound pro
gram of investment, "I shall gladly
be a part."
Are there not many other men
ready to join with Mr. Houser?
Realizing what his own financial
rise has been, how can anybody
question his business judgment? If
able, sound and successful in his
private affairs, is not Mr. . Houser
a safe counsellor in public affairs?
Mr.. Houser can do a great deal
to put Portland where she belongs
commercially. He can probably do
a great deal more than he thinks he
can do.' Having advanced to a posi
tion of financial Independence, would
it not be a call to his ambition to
use his great talents in behalf of his
adopted home city? Is there not
something more for every man fi
nancially independent thad the mere
piling up of money on money?
By and by, as the shadows begin
to fall over men now in the full
strength of life; what consciousness
more satisfying to each than realiza
tion that he has done something that
beneficially affected a great com
munity? Howiinsatisfying, on the
other hand, must be the conscious
ness in such a time to a man who
has used his great powers for self
aggrandizement alone?
By "his record and his reputation,
Mr. Houser Is able to move other
men. He has all the qualities of
leadership. To, him and those he
can draw around him, Portland's
shipping future, well realized, would
be a lasting monument.
If one forest patrol airplane has
stopped the hens of one chicken fan
cier from laying and scared the cows
of a dairyman until they have re
fused to give their usual quota of
milk, what will happen to the birds
and beasts of the Willamette valley
when the six planes now ordered to
that service get into dally operation ?
SIGNBOARDS FOR THE SKY
NOW enters a new need into, the
rapidly growing . complexity of
our dally, life. Airmen are de
... manding signboards, i upward
turning towards v: the heavens; for
their guidance as they journey across
the skies. ; ';
Nearly all towns :- look alike from
high aloft, they 6ay, so that a few
moments above the fog at a hundred
miles an hour leaves the pilots float
ng over an unrecognizable world when
they come within sight of the land
again. Forest patrols making their
headquarters at Salem already have
lost their ;way.' after wandering
through the clouds a little while and
have heen forced to cruise in circles
above the . valley until , they could
spot the "copper dome, of the capltol
building and come home again. ; ,
So they are' advancing the conten-
tion that the names of Willamette
valley towns and villages should be
painted on the tops of their most
prominent buildings In yard-high let
ters to chart thero on their journey
tags frpm -hangar to forest and back
again. - California towns, they . in
form us, - are already heeding the
suggestion and have provided such,
guide posts for the aerial highway.
We live in an advancing world.
Ages ago we had buoys I upon the
sea and lights upon the promontories
to guide the mariner safely into port.
For other ages we "have had the oc
casional sign board at theT cross
roads to show us how to turn. These
we met with a level eye because we
Journeyed on the sea or on the land.
But now we must tilt our chartings
toward the heavens so they may be
seen from above. Man is flying, as
well as time.
THE RECORD 'OF A
SENATORIAL FAKE
Senators Inconceivably ' Ignorant, or
Playing It to Fool Others.
From the New York World.
The full text of the treaty for the de
fense of France was published in the
tf ternoon newspapers of the United
tates on July 3 and in the morning
newspapers on J uly 4. Many of the
senators expressed their opinion about
it in newspaper interviews, including
Borah. New, Curtis, Spencer and Ken
yon. It was discussed editorially by the
daily press and the weekly periodicals.
Previous to its publication President
Wilson had issued a. statement in Paris
defining its scope and purpose. In his
address to the senate t on July 10 lie
said :
"I shall presently have occasion to
lay before you a special treaty with
France whose obiect in th tin
protection of Franc from nnnrnvnktil
aggression by the power with whom
tms treaty nas been negotiated. Its
terms link it with this treaty. I take
the liberty. hbwever. of riuurvin i rvw
special explanation on another occa
sion.
Exactly three weeka &ftr rhl
had been printed in the American news
papers, Harvey's Weekly appeared with
the text of the treaty and the amazing
uBciaraiinn mat in lhA hut at m,
knowledge it has not been published in
this country." althoue-Vi "it an-
peared 1ft England." The attack that
Harvey's Weekly made on President
Wilson in connection with the treaty
had evidently been nla.nnr1 1
tion with Chairman Hays of the Repub
lican nauonai committee, for two days
oefore the Weakl-v was leaner u....
sent the following letter over his own
signature to various campaign fund
contributors from the committee's head
quarters at No. 452 Fifth nvpnn -
"You will of courso hear of. and no
doubt will sea in full, the editorial by
Colonel George Harvey, published this
week in Harvey's Weekly, relative to
the proposed -Franco-American treaty. I
want to be sure that you see this with
Its remarkable subject matter; hence
this letter calling your attention to it."
The night before the editorial made
its appearance, Lodge, Knox. Brandegee
and Borah held a conference in which
plans were made for attacking the
president. The next morning Brande
gee read the editorial in ' Harvey's
Weekly to the senate. Including the text
of the treaty.' In the course of his re
marks the senator from , Connecticut
said: . j
"Here is the Thunderer, the London
Times, of July 4, and the whole cove
nant Is here; every Britisher knows
about It as well as their own, but we
do not- know about it and cannot."
And this from Lodge :
"When the senator from Connecticut
showed me this article before the as
sembling of the senate, it seemed to me
Inconceivable that the fourth article
should be there. I supposed the editor.
Colonel Harvey, was very accurate and
careful, but it seemed to me simply in
conceivable. I saw a copy of the Lon
don Times containing the fourth article
from the White Book, which was laid
before the house of commons, but I
could not get a copy in private hands.
However, I afterward found a copy of
the French paper Figaro. It is a Paris
paper under the date of July 3, and
carried on Its front page this article,
headed 'Guarantees of Peace.' "
.
What Senator Lodge found with such
painstaking effort In the British White
Book and In the Paris Figaro and in
Harvey's Weekly he could have read In
every American afternoon newspaper
July 3 and every American morning
newspaper of July 4, just as the
"secret" labor clauses which he found
in Elihu -Root's copy of the original
draft of the peace treaty had been
printed weeks before in all the Ameri
can newspapers. The fourth article of1
the treaty, which Beemed to him "slm-i
ply inconceivable," is right there word
for word. There is no more mystery
about it than there is about the text of
the president's recent public address toi
the United States senate' in open ses
sion. What is "simply inconceivable" to us
Is that Lodge and Brandegee and the"
other participants in the staging of this
senatorial fraud are as ignorant as they
pretend to be. Tet they must be. or
they would not have taken such pains
to make themselves, ridiculous before
the country. a
Jn the meantime, while Lodge is clam
orlng for the president to submit the
treaty with France, his committee on
foreign relations has had the treaty of
peace in its possession for. 16 days and
has not even finished reading the text.
It Is said that it wiU not have com
pleted the work of reading the treaty
before August IS. Tet, whUe it is hold
ing up peace, Lodge is assailing the pres
ident for not submitting another treaty
for it to mess and muddle, and Will
Hays blissfully believes that this crew
of disUnguished fakers is creating a
political issue that can be helpful to the
ReputMican party In 192
Bourne Hotly Denounced by
League to Enforce Peace .
From the League; Bulletin.
The so called "Republican Publicity
association," which is conducting a cam
paign of propaganda against the League
of Nations, has no authority to (speak
for the Republican party and does not
represent, in any: way, the Republican
.national committee. , j.
The Bulletin is led to issue this warn
ing because many persons have given
attention to the pronunciamentos ofj
this associaUon In the belief that they
express the official views of the party
organization. The Republican PnbUcity
association is purely a private organi
sation, controlled by a few office holders
and ex-office holders who include im
placable enemies ef the League of Na
tions. Its statements represent the opin
ions of the extreme group among the
opponents of the covenant.
The president and one of the chief
moving spirits, of the association is the
Hon. Jonathan Bourne Jr.,-" ex-senator
from Oregjn. Mr. Bourne ooes npt
even represent the majority sentiment
ot hie own state.' where both senators
one a Republican : and tne other a
Democrat favor the ratification of the
league covenant. It Is well known that
the association not only has no authority
to speak for the Republican party but
through Its unreasoning attacks on the
league covenant is. causing serious em
barrassment to the Republican leaders
who are opposing all . efforts to make
the league a party issue.
The declarations Issued by the Re
publican Publicity association show that
this organization, or rather its officers
and executive committee, for it repre
sents no constituency. Is unalterably op
posed to the entrance of the United
States Into any league of nations or
other International agreement lor con
ttnuing the cooperation that enabled the
free nations to win the war. It advo
cates a nolicy of national selfishness,
which the American people repudiated
forever when they entered the struggle
for world freedom.
Letters From the People
tCommnnicationa Bent to Tha Journal for
publication in thia department should be written
on only one aid of tha papar, ahould not exceed
800 worda in length, and must be cigned by tha
writer, whose- mail add ma in lull must accom
pany tna contriDttUon.
Booze Traffic's Bad Company
Athena, Aug. 5. To the Editor of The
Journalr Mr. Llnscott in The Journal
of August 2 says that I remind him of
a '- lawyer Dleading a case. xnanics,
Well. I will say that he does not remind
me of a lawyer at all; one expects at
least a little logic from a lawyer, me
wets remind me most of a drowning
man grasping at a straw, and they have
been clutching at a straw for some time
now. One day they are howling about
their personal rights, their beloved, HP
alienable constitutional rights. One
would think the constitution was espe
cially formulated to preserve, protect.
and further the liquor traffic, to let
them tell it. Next day, they are quoting
scripture In such a fervid manner that
one would think the one great purpose
of the Bible was to encourage drunken
ness. And now Mr. Linscott has made
his crowning discovery that the mem
bers of the legislature that voted pre
hibition had their cellars full of booze.
and he calls them the rankest kind of
hypocrites, to boot. I don't know how
he came to find out that these legisla
tors had their cellars full, nor just why
they voted for prohibition If they were
so fond of liquor as that.
Now, as far as I care myself, it
doesn't matter how much booze they
put away surreptitiously, so long as they
did the right thing.
As I look back through my life, and
visualize the thousands of men I - have
seen ruined by whiskey, I feel thankful
that my son will automatically escape
the pitfaUs that I, through good for
tune, escaped.
And let us nrft be too hasty in calling
those who differ with us fanatics ; they,
by chance, might be right and we, by
chance, might be the fanatics and dupes.
An institution that has not a single
virtue but has a thousand evils, and is
the mother of a thousand, more, is in
bad shape to argue the matter. There
Is no argument to meet.
I: have noticed in my travels that most
men and women of questionable charac
ter, or of a questionable business, are
in favor of the liquor traffic ; that the
criminals, blacklegs and human wolves
are all in favor of ,the liquor traffic ;
that where you find vileness, squalor,
dirt and disease, there you are sure to
find the liquor traffic. Now, I don't
mean by this that aU men who favor
tha- liquor traffic are of question
able character, but I do mean they are
going with that crowd. That which
makes for degradation will have a fol
lowing of the degraded and low. That
which stands for cleanUness and moral
uplift will have a following of those who
believe : in advancement, : culture and
virtue. F. B. WOOD.
Concerning Prohibition
Portland, Aug. E. To the Editor of
The Journal A. F. Wilson "Is right in
his condemnation of prohibiUon, for it
has been carried to extremes through
the insanity of Its founders. Prohibition
is all right to a certain extent, that of
duttlng out the liquor traffic, but when
it forbids the making of home made
wines for the use of home it has en
croached on the legiUmate rights of man.
For thousands of years wines were made
for home use and were not condemned
even by biblical authority. They were
and are, healthful, and the people of
those ages lived longer, even past the
century mark. Pure wines and liquors
are essentjal to health, or they never
would have been used by the ancients,
for In those days they prided themselves
in the strength of their bodies. In this
age it is fast living that has" reduced
the standard. Wines and fruits were
the main goods of the past. People lived
plainer and ( studied healthier dress
modes.
But now, what? They have to resort
to all kinds of thfatgs to try to preserve
health. Look at te fashions. The body
Is hampered in its natural growth. Less
study of dress and more of the body will
Increase the standard of age and beauty
of man. Home made wines and plainer
foods will be its best contribution. We
call this a free country and a free age.
It Is a misnomer. We are abject slaves
to fanaticism, and prohibition is the
greatest enemy of all. As A. W. Wilson
says, there ,wlll be a reaction. The
people are waking up, and the govern
ment must act in regard to the food
question and also to the rights of Indi
viduals and their home rule. The home
is a sacred place and its rights no one
had a right to say what a person or
family hall raise or make for their own
use. -
I am 75 years of age and have never
been under the influence of liquors.
Neither am I a total abstainer, and a
good glass of beer was the best medi
cine and tonic 1 that I ever drank, and
only occasionally; . If there were purer
wines and liquors we would not have
so much use for medicines and adultera
tions of that kind. A. OSBORNE.
Idle Men in These Days
' From tha Astoriaa
Wages ' around Astoria are high
enough , to tempt almost any man to ''
work, but nevertheless it is hard to get
men to take Jobs unless they are hard
up. There have been more jobs than
men who are willing to work, all sum
mer. At the government employment
office yesterday a call for four men to
work at the Port of Astoria for Martin
& Wills, the flouring mill contractors, ;
came into the office. The wages offered
were $ 6 per day, yet several men who
had droppd in to look over the board
and see what Jobs were open, refused to
go out on the work, although they said
that concrete mixing was agreeable to
them. One man said he did not care to
go to work for a few days and another
said he would think it over.
In walking down Bond street one
would thlftk there are enough idle men
in Astoria to supply any number of
workers and there are. But as long j
as there is sunshine and they have:
money in. their pockets, . they will not
work, i
There Is plenty- of work for everyone
around Astoria these days and any men i
who are Idle are so by choice and not
of necessity. . v
' Speaking' of Houses
From tha Brooklyn Eacla
Most houses now on the 'market have
two stories the buyer's and the seller's ;
and then there is the tenant's but that's
another story.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
- SMALL CHANGE
' The war Is over, but peace 'isn't. Help
It i ... ... -
It's a sad Joke, but it's the soft pedal
for PeidL .
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...So far, nobody has talked about
"handing the postal system back to the
corporations."
.
"Price of shoes not warranted." says
the esteemed headline. And. what's
more, neither are the shoes.
-One thing we'll say for this chap Bela
Kun : You can pronounce his name,
whether you know how to pronounce it
or not.
The fellow who "says It to your face"
Is usually the one who doesn't say it to
the face of the man that's bigger than
he is. ,
One could think better of that, man
Lodge if he ever cracked a Joke. Just
think of Old Joe Cannon. And then
think of Lodge!
We should worrv ahnut TVir-tlanrVn
k!o8ing out on that army bacon. Fel
lows we Know say army bacon aln t
much shakes nohow.
a
A Michigan" man has been convicted
of putting adulterants into bologna.
Howeaer, the Jury must- have made up
the verdict on the theory that he had
been .putting bologna into the adulter
ants. :
Our fellow-lucubrator (not lubricator,
please Messrs. I. Compositor and Ct
Proofreader) Jay E. House is of the
opinion that, with the nation dry, the
chronic soak who would be a brilliant
and successful citizen if he would only
"let it alone" will be forced to frame
up another alibi.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF, THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley """""
Further experieneea of William Comfoot are
detailed by Mr. Lockley today, thia article brins
ins tha atory up ta tha point whera Mr. Corn
foot decides that the west coast of America
is tha beet of coasts and tha city of Portland
tha most beautiful of cities, and it'a Portland
for him and no mora the seasoins life. )
"After being at sea for some years,"
said William Cornfoot of Portland, "1
was asked to superintend the building of
a ship at Greenock. She was christened
the Adato. She was a 6700-ton steel ship.
I went with her as chief engineer. You
will be interested to know that for com
mon labor I paid 20 shillings a week and
for skilled mechanics 32 shiUings a week
in the building of the Adato. That means
that we paid $8 a week for the highest
priced labor. This ship was the first
ship to put in to Selina, . Texas. The
canal had Just been completed. We went
there to ret a load of cotton, wheat and
vegetable oil. When our new ship pulled
into this new canal they held a - big
celebration. A number of railroad mag
nates were there and - helped celebrate
the event. On our way to Rotterdam
the cotton caught fire.. We closed the
hatches, pumped water In the hold and
ran for Falmouth, where we beached
her and pumped her hold full of water,
finally extinguishing the fire. When
repairs had been made we went to Malta
to get a cargo for Liverpool. We were
then sent to Calcutta to load for London.
From London we went to Cardiff, where
we got a ' load of coal, which we took
via the Straits Settlements to Hongkong
for the use of the British navy. At Hong
kong we got orders to go to Portland,
Oregon. This was In 1899. We were
chartered for three years to a Mr.
Graham of Portland. We went to Port
land light, and took on a cargo of flour
at the Portland flouring mills. We were
here 10 days. I went about quite a bit
in Portland and liked the city very
much, though I hadn't, the .faintest Idea i
at the time that I should ever make my
home here. ' '
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"We were held up at Kobe, Japan,
for a month or more. The man who
chartered us was unable to carry out his
agreement, so we were chartered by" the
Pacific Export company, of which7..W.
D. Wheelwright was president, We
were again ordered to Portland to take
on a load of lumber for Manila. We
came to PorUand, where we took on
2,500,000 feet of lumber, which we tin-
RUSSIA IN
By Paul
Special Correspondence to Tha Journal and tba
CbJcaso Daily News.
Ufa, Russia At Mlas In the Ural
mountain the other day I Saw them
building a house. ,The foundation was
in place and waiting, but not a timber
had yet been laid upon it. A few yards
away was the house itself under process
of construction. The log walls were
nearly all In place. The carpenters were
at work with their hatchets and no other
tools. A Russian peasant carpenter can
do wonders with a hatchet and this may
be the only implement in his bag. In a
week or two the house will be con
structed and when that day arrives the
same carpenters will proceed to tear it
down, taking log from log. and then,
erect It anew on the foundation that has
long, been In readiness.
Quite satisfactory, of .course, but the
question persists. What would happen If
that troop of raw recruits marching
meditatively down the wide street sim
ply had to hurry? Suppose it became a
question of life and death, of national
existence, whether they, could adopt the
Ii4a it tii nan .nations that long SCO
learned to step quickly . and vlgorously.-
And what would nappen n itusma ieu
suddenly had to move faster to catch
up, at "ST moment when the affairs of
the whole world and of Russia were at
a crisis? - .
The wisest Russians saw the approach
of the hour when their nation would
hear the world call to "Fall in!" with
the rest. They knew that a change was
Curious Bits of Information
For th e Curious " . .
Gleaned From Curious Places
Of the 10 known existing skeletons
of theV great auk in the world, the
United States Is the only country pos
sessing two. Greater Boston has these,
one being in the museum of the Boston
Society of Natural History and the other
In the Harvard university museum. The
Boston museum contains also an egg of
this extinct blrd.v In view-of the fact
that a single egg has brought as high
as $535, this Is considered a most valu
able relic This flightless sea ' bird
formerly was distributed along ' the
northern coasts and islands of North
America. In Its coat f sobe coloring
with a-vest of snowy white it resem
bled nothing so much as a short man Tn
evening dress. Since- it was flightless,
the bird was easily exterminated, the
natives relishing it as a food. It prob
ably was whony exterminated by 1844.
Shortage of Teachers
From' th Canyon City Kacla
Th school teaching crop is getting
woefully short and some districts in the
county are going to find it hard to get
a teacher at all this year. One can
scarcely expect to get a - man teacher
for. the wages that have been paid; for
why should a man work for 175 or 185
a month when he can do much better
at employment that is calling for him
from every, direction? , ' - '
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS
A course in farm mechanics is to be
co-related with the vocational agricul
ture at the Hood River high school next
yW; ' a a a ' .,- '
There are 75,000 automobiles in Ore
gon, according to figures Juat announced,
and fishermen, the Eugene Register drily
observes, are often willing to swear that
half of them go up the McKenxie every
Sunday. - . ..... ,--
The "baby lodge of the state," that of
Bend, will go to the Elks convention at
Klamath Falls 150 strong, and- will be
housed in their own large tent, with
all the housekeeping fixings, prepared,
it seems, to do their own cooking and
eating.'' .
.. ".
A family touring through In the old
fashioned covered wagon drawn by a
team of horses appeared on the streets
of Burns last week, the sight of which,
the News says, caused the -pioneers to
become reminiscent. "It was an old
fashioned family, too just as many
children as possible between 18 years on
down to a babe in arms, with all patient,
happy and seemingly contented. It was
a novel feature both the family and the
mode of transportation." says the News
in conclusion. - -
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"The roads are in excellent shape
here now," writes the Baker Herald's
Long Creek correspondent, "except for
the dust in some places, being almost aa
smooth aa pavement. The bands of
sheep passing over them smoothed out
the ruts, and the cars have packed them
until they are better than they have
been In years. The sheep did great dam
age to the Long Creek-Prairie City road
through the mountains,' however, kick
inar atones Into the road and caving off
embankments until in some places it is
little better than a trail." .
loaded at Manila, taking on a load of
hemp there for San Francisco and Port
land. We made three or tour trips to
Portland. - On one leg of one of our trips
we took on coal for the Dutch East
Indies. All I need to do is shut my
eyes and see the brown skinned natives
in their little canoes taking on the coal
as we lay out on the roadstead. There
were no facilities for landing the coal,
so we unloaded It in native canoes. Over
would go a canoe. The coal would go
to the bottom. Up would pop the native,
right his canoe, and signal for more coaL
The natives are at. home in the water.
They can swim like seals.
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"After several trips to .Portland we
took a cargo of phosphate at Singapore
for Wallaroo, in Spencer's gulf. Aus
tralia. I: had been married while our
ship was r being overhauled when she
was beached at Falmouth the first trip.
This was in November, 1900. "1 married
a schoolmate of - mine, who had been
raised on . the same street as myself.
Miss Elizabeth McDougall. I had been
married but three months when I signed
on' for trip for a year, intending to
Come back and get a job ashore. When
the year was. up the captain asked me
to sign up for one more trip, which
would, be for four months. When the
four months were up we were away
from home and he asked me if X wouldn't
sign on for another year,. The last year's
enlistment expired at Sydney, Australia.
The captain tried to get me to sign on
for another year, but I was arfklous to
see my wife. I had been : away three
years. He finally paid me off, let me
go, and I took passage for home.
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"After I had been home six weeks my
wife and I talked It over, and decided
that I had better quit the sea and go
into business for myself, v I had been
all over the world and it seemed to me
that of all the countries I had visited
the west coast of America was the best,
and of all the cities X had seen that
Portland was the most beautiful, and
that ocnortunities were best there. My
wife - and I took passage for Portland.
This was in 1903. I had one friend in
Portland. - a fellow townsman, Alex
wrie-ht assistant cashier ot the United
States National Danav ana j. anew oana
would stand by to give me a lift If I
needed it"
RECOVERY
R. Wright "
cominar and welcomed it, but they hoped
that Russia might be so prepared that
the quickened pace, with the meviiaDie
easting aside of, much impediments,
would not bring absolute disaster.
But they reckoned without the Bolshe-
vikl, these impauent souls who anew
what they wanted and insisted upon
having it at once and In their own way.
Doubtless some of these were zealots and
enthusiasts, and doubtless others were
purposeful and keen minded exploiters
of the Russian people. In either case
the result was the same.
If ever there was a time when a na
tion needed to make haste slowly it was
backward . Russia, engaged In a deadly
war and engaged also In throwing off
an outgrown system of despotism,
bureaucracy and autocracy.
.These Impetuous Bolshevik! devised a
system that on paper was quite beauti
ful and alluring. But no paper scheme
Of government will work when tried out
upon a people not ready for it. And the
Bolshevist system would not fit the most
enlightened people on earth today. Yet
the Bolsheviki insisted that it should be
tried upon the unlettered and ontralned
inhabitants of this wide, slow moving
Russia. ' "
The result is as you see it. The land
is deluged in blood. When Russia was
compelled to quicken her pace she stum
bled . grievously. : -
Other nations' have stumbled and have
risen again; There is reason to believe
that Russia Is now recovering herself.
Copyrl't. HIS, by ChlcaHa Pally Wawa vo.)
Olden Oregon
First .Catholic Missionaries Came to
Oregon in 1838.
The first Catholic missionaries came
to Oregon In 1$38. They were the Itev.
Francis Norbrt Blanche!, afterwards
archbishop, and the Jtev. Modeste Dem
ers, afterward a bishop. They were
French Canadians, and thereforetBritlsh
subject. The noted Jesuit : missionary
Pierre De Smet did npt come to Oregon
until 1840, remaining only a short time.
... Tho Bigehderal Pronoun .
From ' th , Corralli GancUa-Time
Every writer has yearned for a new
pronoun that1 would, represent both" the
male and female. When in an article
the pronoun V'he' is used it refers hi
many instances to "she" also. 4 There
should be pronouns that would mean "be
r she," "his or hers" and "hira or her.7
-Woodburn Independent, i
"Than" is a simple contraction of
"that one" and should be used in all
cases where either sex or both sexes are
referred to. Instead - of saying "Each
member of the congregation should con
tribute "bis share or "his or her share,"
we Should say "Each member of the
congregation should contribute thon's
share." The word is not a freak for it
has found its way tot the regular list
of words in the Standard dictionary,
which says it has been in use since 1858.
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Brlered for Benefit
of Journal Readers
OREGON NOTES
.Ilrl?,!LvinS.Ma"onB ra completing plans
to build a $15,000 two-story brick temple!
s "t-'Htenan' t. Kennon has returned
to Salem after 20 months in overseas
aS'ftrvica
, The Sclo milk condensary Is to be en
larged because of the growing demand
for its product.
TJ1." ',m c,tT council has chosen
Robert Craig a member, succeeding J. S.
Austin, resigned.
Eighty XJnn county schools lack teach,
ers, although all of the grade school
positions are filled. .
-.Plans are being made to ask the next
legislature to pass laws licensing and
controlling air pilots.
John W. Houston, Crook county live
stock man. died Sunday. He 1 survived
by his wife and six children.
Portland gymnasiums are to b stud
' by J. E. Wicks, architect of tho new
$25,000 gymnasium to be built for the
Astoria nigh school.
Salem volunteers gave up skin for
Erroa King, 11 years old, burned severely
while on a berry nicking trip, and hope
for her life Is held. .
- Th Oregon Interstate fair will be held
In Prtneville, October 1-4, and the Sher
man county fair will be held in. Moro,
October 8-11. -
A Salem boy, Victor Cooler, son of
Mr. and Mrs, Joseph II. Cooley, warn one
of the 6000 marines landed Sunday at
New York from overseas service.
Mrs. Ralph Gibbons, widow of Chief of
Police fVibbons of The Dalles, has been
voted $500 by TheDalls council. Gib
bons was killed by two of the youths
who robbed a bank in "fVaahougal.
Heirs of William A. Reynolds have
agreed to pay off bin Indebtedness in
order to save his holdings In the liver
ton Lumber company, estimated to be
worth $49,000.
The expenditure of but $900 in fighting
fire In th Deachutea national forest has
been necessary tb'w season. For pre
ventive" measures $6000 had been spent
earlier in the, season.
V. W. Marx, former Portland man.
was named city engineer of The Pall.
succeeding T. A. Garrow. who relgnel
when allegations were made .that h wn
working in the interests of paving com
panies. R. R. Emmons. Investigating a window
seat In a home, which he likd pnrohawfl
in Aibany.'wmcn na neen rented, dis
covered Inside a coffin, with a system of
electric wires and switches and a pillow.
Indented as though It hd been used at
some time.
Remains of a three-toed, meat eating
horse of the Miocene, are and -a tlnv
camel. In slae shout as big as a modern
Jackrabblt. hump'eaa though otherwln
Hrrillsr to ttione of the rtrent are, werw
found by University of Chicago sclen
tlats In rnven between The Dalles and
Chenowlth.
WASHINGTON
Richard Cowan. 78 years old. ft fIoneer
timber contractor, died in Seattle.
An order forbidding Seattle policemen
to lean on posts or buildings while on
duty has been posted.
For the f Irat time since record rf
rainrall nave neen Kni at urayn nar
bor, no rain fell In July.
Carpenters and bricklayers are needed
at Chebnllw owing to the large amount
of construction under way.
A right crew been put on at th
National mill In Hoonlam aa the result
of Increased orders for lumber.
Funds were raised at a dance In
skimp, to defray cost of ahlpment of
five tons of fruit donated for the baae
hospital at Camp Lewis.
Premiums offered fnr the Grays Har
bor ounty fair at FTtmn. An runt 27
M. will approximate $10,000, of which
$RO0O Is for hoYse rao.
Imitation dlam'onds. valued at Mfln,
were taken by thieves who broke a
window of a Taooma Jewe'ry atnre.
They left valuable Jewelry and watchea.
Formation of a "HardInr-for-prel-dent"
club In Waphlnston la protxiaert
bv Colonel C- R. Forbea. so overwea
veteran and friend of the Ohio senat
or. . '-- .'-": ,. -
Ilnrrv Allen of Freewater. a" surviv
or of the famous "Lost battalion," was
severely burned while flrMlng a sep
arator fire near Walla Walla, caused
by smut.
Thlrtv gallons of -moonshine whlrfkev
were seized and six men arretted In
th Miwen coulee section ef central north
ern Washington bv federal and county
officers, but the still was not found.
Mrs. Kate Worst, a Bnoanalmle In
dian woman. 89 year old, will christen
the wooden steamer flnoonalmle. to be
launched at Seattle Monday. A hun
dred of her tribe will attend the cere
mony. Exnene of 'the government In fight
ing the Rattlesnake creek forest fire to
taled rrotft $10 000. aocordlnr to Runr
visor Fenbv. Two men ohnrr! with
leaving unextinguished fires In tht sec
tion were fined $10 each.
Tn accordance with the terms of a law
passed by the last legislature. Mrs. Alma
I.lsfer. widow of Governor Lister, who
died In .Tune, will be paid $5ono hv tii
state. .The supreme court upheld the
law.
. GENERAL
Approximately 150.000 Iron foundry
workmen in Rome struck, demanding
wage Increases.
The Order of Merit lias been inferred
on Premier Lloyd George by King
George of England.
Senator Chamberlain will speak Eun-
if.v r,im-ht at Khelhvvllla. Intl.. and
Wednesday night at Shelby ville. 111.
A violent break In money rates cause
the French frano to drop In value o
7 to the American dollar. Before th
war the dollar equaled b' francs.
Mineral salts In the Sioux City, lows,
water supply stalled a dozen locomotives
hauling freight trains and cleaning will
bar necessary before they can be used
again. .
Winter barley from a 10j acre traet.
running approximately 60 bushels to th
acre, netted Charles Coon of th Kes
I'erce section of Idaho more than $100
an acre, w
Tk. lmlMn armv flvera ar vio
lating Mexican sovereignty by flying
across tn ooroer is tne rnarge man in
a protest by Mexican military authori
ties. The Americans deny the charge.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :
The - way these here profiteers and
food pirates ts a-acUn' makes me think
of a buckskin hoss Bird Meldexter
traded fer one time at Tailholt. Tulare
county, Callforny. That animal hadn't
no limit fer eatln', and the more, he et
the meaner tempered he got. Bird kep'
a-feedln' of the beast till one night It
kicked the barn down on itself and died
of a broken back.
Treasury Department Wants
; - to Help You Save
' (Stories of achievement tn tha aceum ti
ls tion of War Sarincs Stamps, sent to The
Journal and accepted for publication, will
be awarded Thrift Stamp. 1
The treasury- department pledges
its full aid in making th habits of
real thrift, thoughtful and Intelligent
use of money, and saving for a real
and worthy cause a part' of the na
tional habits and activities of the
American people. With the idea of
promoting this habit among the peo
ple and affording them an oppor
tunity to Invest their savings safely
and carefully and at the same time,
by so Investing them, to obtain an
Increased participation in the gov
ernment and take a more intelligent
interest in our government and Its
activities, the treasury department Is
continuing the Savings campaign and
the sale of Savings and Thrift S tarn pa
Thrift Rtampe and IBIS 'Vfsr Ssrlngi
Stamp now on aala at msual .acenciea.