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.4 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, .PORTLAND, SATURDAY. OCTOBER .11, 1919. ' AH I.VDKPBNOENT HBWBPAreB U. 8. JACKSON. , ...Publisher I'abttsbad 'rry day, efteraooB iri aiorntos . en4 Bandar afternoon), " J,rnJ Building. Broadway . aa4 Xessbltt unci, I'ortland, Oregon, ' . . .ntd at the roatofftoe at Portland, Ona. . fo transmfsaioa through tha nails m coona class wetter. - . - ' TfcI.KFilO.VKS AUin 7Ht Home, A-SOSl. AH department reached bf these somber. Tell the operator what aeparUnsat voa waafc XJHE1J.V ADVERTISING EEFKKSENTATIVE ' Renjamls Ktstaof C. Brorawirk BnMlnji, 225 ruth arenae. New Xork, 80- iUIUn Building. Chicago. - v ' . utMsfipiicMi terms by mail, a to anr address to ti the United ntates or Mexico! - - .- - DAILY MORNINO Oil AFTEBlfOOW) Ou year.,... ,3.00 1 -One lsoBth,....f .50 .- - .. .- srjMDAT - One rear. , .J. .S2.S0 J Ono montb. -, . ,'. .3 IJAILT .(MOEN1NG OR AFTEBJfOOM) 'AND w 5 .SUNDAY - . x On year.;... .17.60 t On Btoetb...,, .63 i Commerce ba mad all winds bef aies- i saogers. all climes liar tributaries, all peoples her serranta. Tryon Edwards. "COLONEL SLATTERVS FINDINGS 0L0NEL, SLATTEltY finds: ; That use of existing facilities is pro-requisite In further har bor development. That Portland's harbor In its pres ent condition is utilized to not more than one fourth of its capacity. , That the position of the .city in Itself, offers inviting opportunity for '.lha creation of a network of water .transportation. That -congress will be slow to accept government preferment of other ports as an excuse tor failure to develop commerce at the average .rate, ' or that this complaint call entirely; Justify us for laggard port progress, '. That channel widening and deep ening alone will not be sufficient to attract commerce. That development of industry and the port are inseparable. J " That ' encouragement of - home ; owned ship lines is of the greatest .'community value. , ,That culpability rests upon Port land business interests for under-use ."of the oort. ; Colonel Slattery represents . the United States engineer corps. .He Is ;in-charge of the improvement of the t lower Cojumbia 5 for the government. j no is aoou 10 maae arecommenaa '.tlon for or against, the project to ' create 'a , channel i from ? Portland to the sea, having a minimum depth Of ,.'35' feet and a minimum width of ;C00 feet The comments recorded were among those which he made in the course of his address before the Portland Ad club Wednesday. - It is unusual for a government 'engineer,, to go out of his way and Tgive a ' port, In this frank and t friendly - fashion, the benefit of his 'experience and observation. We may not agree as to the essential char acter of all his conclusions, but of this . there can ; be no doubt : Use is the greatest of all powers in shaping port development, In securing shin service, and in gaining government -aid. The time has come to get down to cold, practical faots in port mat ters. Colonel Slattery Is rendering a rare publio service in thus advising JS." In.. New York successful musical ' shows have advanced prices of. best seats to 3 and J 3.60, exclusive of ; war tax, which adds 10 per cent. J3est opera seats have srone to. $7, which, for a pair of seats, with the '.war, tax added, makes the charge .'.115.40. . This, with a little supper after, makes even a plumber's salary look leaky. ; The New York publio la said to be so keen tor amusement that, a successful play can sell Out, even on the advanced ' figures, at every performance. ' ' SEEDS AND SEEDS "-H ERE are seeds and seeds, the t . Searchlight v has discovered : by an -examination of the agricul tural ; appropriation bill; recently ! passed by congress. Some are dla . tributed so that vegetables and things ! will grow in the gardens of various congressional districts, but more often j that votes may grow, in those dis trlcts. ,The Searchlight objects b& cause of ; the resultant high eost of votes. t , . f" , Last year "it cost the United States treasury 1242,000 to plant .tin seeds of congressional success in "the hearts ""of ; the - nation's voters, while this year's bill has raised, the total ante ; to $359,980. The Searchlight believes .that it . would benefit . the' publio 'ioU Just as much if not wore, were the congressional vote cultivators to do a little summer fallowing now and- then1 and permit .. the United States malls and the long suffering populace to resV up ,a bit. v ' While the 'agricultural appropria tion bill was up for discussion la the house Congressman Blanten of Texas, - whose district seems , to have . been '' sufficiently seeded, rose from his seat with the remark that he "proposed " to remove garden" seeds from politics" I by requiring them to be mailed out under the frank of , the department cf agriculture., Mr. Blanton, -was 15 "' - found to be 'out of order" by various -of .bis ; colleagues who bailed - from apparently seedless districts, and who want lo do their own seeding. -Then Mr. Walsh of Massachusetts, the broad and. somewhat abandoned J acres of whose native . state do not seem to yearn for political planting, moved to strike out the whole para graph carrying the seedful appropria tion. This motion threw the monkey wrench into the proceedings j until it was discovered by some parliamen tarian that the bouse was in com mittee of the whole where roll calls are not, .recorded, "whereupon ', the Walsh attack on, congressional , privi lege was voted down with but two votes in Its favor. Then Mr. Blaii ton tried to shave the appropriation down 1100,000, which -attempt found but two supporters. Mr. Walsh and the mover of the motion, Mr. Blan toih ' And so the seeds will continue' to be sowed. broadcast over the country to grow their biennial crop of votes; and the mail service will continue to be cluttered up with unremunera tive mall sacks. " , ' '. 'Speaking of the refusal of the tel ephone company longer to tell sub scribers the tlme is a reminder that under a competing service in the re cent past the telephone girl told the result of tbe ball grame, gave you the exact time any time and called you if you wanted to get up early Sun day morning to go fishing. And that was before the advance rates made telephone service a luxury.' PUBLIC SALARIES IERE can .never be anything $ut disputes over the adjustment of city salaries. V In public, as in private employ, there are always workers who . are conscious that the faithful and ef fective service they are . rendering is worth 'Nmore ' than the '. time server who works, not; to effectively serve, but for the salary aarthe chief elm. Two employes, of the same rank and in the -same line of work may be of vastly different value. One is active, alert, energetic and anxious to succeed;' the other watches the clock and waits for pay day. Private employ is the better. It offers the jmore opportunity for recognition ' and reward. There is where the alert worker stands the best chance to be discovered and called up, higher. In' the publio serv-r ice, in the very nature of .things the tendency is to regard two employes like two peas equal in all things, and, therefore, to be paid the same wage " If 1 in r the same classification, without 'regard to merit, capacUy or applicatiofi., , Thus, all mistakenly look alike in the publio service. The effect is to drive the best and more ambitious out of publio into private employ and thereby kv lower the standard of-the public serylce.' ' On a"generar at" er ac;.lt 1 probable that in the 'aggre gate, private employ has a personnel of the higher standard, .wherefore It is to be deduced that the publio serv ice is never warranted In paying more liberally than in private employ," a fact that seems to be the general practice. "Time" will still be given at the police station, even though the time of day ls withheld. SUCCOTH " S' UCCOTH, or the Teast of Taber nacles, which is now being ob served, by the Jewish people in cerebration of the . gathering in Of the produce, of the threshing floor and . the wine .press,, is the third and chief of ' the three annual pilgrim ages connected respectively with the harvest of the barley,, the wheat and of the vine. Being a -pilgrimage festival it was in the old days celebrated for seven succeeding days In rustic booths from whence It derives its name. The cus tom of dwelling for part of the day at least in booths is still kept up by the orthodox who have temporary huts covered with branches erected in their court yards. Those who have no backyard resort to the extreme of making holes In the roof of their dwelling across which branches are laid. . It is reported .by Josephus that when Alexander Jannaeus in the year 95 B. a, was acting as high priest In the temple on the Feast of Taber nacles, instead of pouring the libation of water on the altar, according to the Pharisaic custom, he poured It at his feet. ' This caused a riot in which 6000 men are said to have lost their lives. 1 ' : ' i i , ' The Feast of Tabernacles is purely an agricultural one and is one of the few Jewish festivals described by classical writers. Whether it was derived from the Canaanites, who had a similar festival, is uncertain. Other nations had their harvest or vintage feasts. Tbe Athenians had their Oschophorla. The Syrians cele brated every three years fa. booth festival. At the Hindu festival of Dasara, which lasted nine days, tents made of canvas or booths constructed from branches, were erected in front of the temples. . The Spartans had a bine days' festival called Carnea, during which they dwelt in : pavilions . and tents in memory of their old camp; life. No other plan has ever J been of fered for, ending war. - It has been the rule for nations to go armed In order to keep the peace. That plan has always ended In new wars, the latest of which was the most hor rible of all so far.. After our experi ence with the old plan, la it not eur- j prising that thero should be objee tlon t trying, a new one? In all other things we have adopted new plans, and by that process we have , greatly, advanced In civilization. Xt is only , In the resort 1 to war that we stick, by the old idea. . And the longer we stick the worse It gets. , - - ' ' - t BIS DEPRESSING VIEW t HAT is the "essence ;,of Senator Johnson's - opposition to - the League of Nations T" The -words of the old . Quaker tell It di rectly: "All men are liars save thee and me and sometimes I have my doubts 'of thee." . . . Senator Johnson 'made : It clear : In his Portland addresses that In his opinion America should stay out of the, League of Nations because we can place no trust In the other con tracting nations. We cannot believe that Italy, whose sons fought mag nificently in the crags of thT Alps, could have aught. but selfish motive. France, . of whom it was said that if her men were all killed the women would take their places, if .the women were all killed the children would take their places, and if all were killed the dead would rise to fight on. Prance " had only greed in the peace conference, according to Mr. Johnson. And Great Britain, to' whose splendid marine we are indebted for the fact that our boys reached .ie fields of glorious victory. Great Britain, if you listen credu lously to the senator from California, usecf the peace conference only 'for the purpose of adding lands and peoples to the wide domain of Eng lish dominion. ! Are the objects for which America entered the war so quickly forgotten? Is the faith that cemented the alli ance of war so easily " broken? Can the nation accept Senator Johnson's sordid and depressing view that America is a China and all our late brothers in arms mere bandits and buccaneers? MEN OF BACKBONE S' OME men seem-born with back bone; others acquire it, and many pass through a neutral existence without it. An old motto advises the individual hesitat ing on the verge of Imminent deci sion, "To escape criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." The clod, the clam and the spineless human can take such counsel and not 'feel its irony. The .Nazarene pronounced an eternal judgment on those that are neither hot nor cold. Both the positive and the negative types of men have complete contempt for the irresolute who woo safety by cower ing. The fighter may win opposition by his choice of a cause out by his courage will command admiration. The individual, the community and the nation lacking aggressiveness born of conviction attach themselves to the lists of the - -unfit 1 and for gotten. In these "days there has come among the - peoples of earth Issues that disturb and perplex. The paths of the future lack the signboards of precedent and experience. Human welfare is in the balance. The Ideals to -which countless generations have committed their strivings seem al most within the grasp of bravery and devotion. The dead weight of those who lack vision and purpose can prevent achievement even more than the strife created by others who follow a false Ideal.' Troubles that harass the world will be put to rout sooner if every man stands for something In which he believes utterly. Support your Judg ment -with your backbone. A NEW NOTE A" NEW note at labor meetings was sounded by L. W. Buck, secre tary-treasurer -of the Washing ton State Federation of Labor, in an address before the Oregon federation at Bend. He characterized the resort to strikes as a waste Of energy and ' productive of personal antagonism. It was detrimental to progress, he said. , There is no doubt that workers lose ground in strikes that are ill advised. The old Knights of Labor went to pieces because it resorted too much to force and violence. The badly misguided strike at Seattle was an unfortunate occurrence so far 'as the standing of 'workers in that city with the publio was con cerned. . . . . ' The power to strike is generally a more Effective force than the strike itself. Unlike the unsuccessful strike, the power to strike loses no ground. ""Mr.. Buck's contention will arouse discussion, among workers. Most of them will hold that a strike with a Just cause behind it that will be an appeal to the publio, is. a success ful weapon against an employer who will not listen to reason. There are some such employers, though their number is greatly decreased. Beyond, all, of course, is the arbitration and a submission to dis interested parties of the dispute, and in such a process, thrice armed i Is that side whose cause Is just - CAPTURED BY THE WEST A MASSACHUSETTS millionaire-and' his. bride were. recant visitors "in Portland. They went away , ' saying that they were eager to return home and sing the praises ."of the Columbia- Viver - highway. Mount Hood and other seenio masterpieces of the Oregon country. They con fessed that they; had come-through what they regarded as a happy ac cident - - -. : - - i While the . Massachusetts , couple were planning their honeymoon trip in Europe f Frank Branch Riley came to their city," sent by the civic or ganizations of Portland - to" interpret beauty in . the - terms - of .eloquence. They told him, before he spoke, that they, had seen the West that they had visited Niagara Falls and St Louis. . Through the invitation of the speaker, they 'came to a West - that had previously not been . in - their minds, '.and on a quest for scenic malesty and charm that was richly rewarded. . Incidentally, they bad left some housands of dollars along the line of their, tour, . i The people :- of the United States are. Just beginning , to awaken to the wonders of the : Pacific Northwest. In times to come" they will crowd the trams, the automobile highways and even the air lanes. '.-.. Irving dock on the Bast Side just below the Broadway bridge is to be repaired. , May be the' movement to rebuild the whole Portland water front is on, with thia as a beginning. The ancient shanties that now serve were doubtless adequate in their time. But that was long, long time ago. They are scarcely a lure to all those thousands of tourists we are Inviting to see Portland, or to the men who sail ships that we are asking to ply their vessels into Port land. ; "ANTI" SENATORS AS INQUISITORS By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal . Washington, Oct 11. One group of Republican senators finds a favorite form of amusement In offering reaolu tions calling upon the president, the sec retary of state, or some other high of ficial, to furnish Information about this and that. Scarcely a day passes but some member of the group introduces a resolution of this variety, occasion ally It is pertinent, but more often it is only pertinent as an excuse for making speech assailing the administration. Frequently the resolution is dropped as soon as it has served this purpose. The senators who have developed this Inquisitive mania are practically all ex treme opponents of the LeaguQ of Na tions.' It. Is part of their campaign of harassing the administration. , The pur- noso in each case Is to find some new basis for developing discontent. New of Indiana, Johnson of California, Mc-, Cormlck of Illinois. Fall of New Mexico, Sherman of Illinois and Moses of New Hampshire are conspicuous in this group. Lodge and Knox stay a litUe more in the background, but It is well understood that they are the directing leaders of the bushwhackers. Lodge and Knox pull the wires and the manl kins perform. . A typical Instance Is the resolution asking for Information about the land ing of American marines at Trau. Knox, New and Moses appeared to.be greatly disturbed over thia They were horri fied by the thought 'that an American force, without bloodshed or difficulty. had restored order at this little town an the Adriatic coast, which had been seized without authority from anybody by a band of Italian lrregulara Lodge sagely remarked that, "we are not at war with Italy' The Impression sought to be created was that America was In terfering with Italian territory and Italian affairs, and that American forces were being ordered about in some mys terious and dangerous way. - T The facts of the matter are perfectly clear, and were, of course, known to the senatorial group. Trau. where the marines landed, is not Italian territory. but belonged until recently to the Aus trian .empire It is located in a sectioa oi me Aariauo coasuana, ana its dis position Is to be determined in the war settlement. Until that settlement is made the district : is policed for the maintenance of order by forces of the allied and associated powers. Trau is in a district assigned to American pa trol. The rupreme council, therefore. gave an order through the American naval commander, for the occupation of Trau. That order was executed, and the Italian irregulars retired from the town It is one of those incidents which the allies have recognized as likely to occur until the final settlements are made. They are maintaining their unity and acting in concert, pending the ratifica tion of tho peace treaty and "the estab lishment of tbe League of NaUons. That is the Incident at Trau. . It in volves no hostility to Italy and no de parture from American policy. Outside of Trau itself there was apparently no excitement over it, and no import a nee attached to It, except in a few superheated minds of the senatorial haters of the league. a "No doubt when the world needs this country again It can have us," said Senator Lodgre, during debate on the Fall amendments, under which the United States would have been removed from representation upon all the commis sions established In the treaty of peace for locaUng boundaries and making; gooa tne peace settlement for the liber ated peoples. . "Tea, the senator says they can have us," returned Senator Williams of Mis sissippi, "but at this, the very first op portunity to do something of servce when the . world wants us to do, the senator asks us to stand from under." The entire running debate on tbe Fall amendmants was of much the same border. It was a .clash of wits between those who want to run away from all responsibilities connected with the ar rangements of pea.-e. and those who beueve that tbe united States cannot honorably quit until the Job Is com pleted. Senator Brandegee represented the first idea in declaring that he was opposed to the United States taking part In fixing boundaries anywhere, and be repelled the Idea that It is a moral duty of this country to have any participa tion In the commissions provided in the peace treaty. . Senator Spencer of Mis souri took the other view when be said .the United States should be represented, because tt is the great stabilizing force of the world, and common decency re quires . that the work of establishing peace snau not do suddenly deserted. The voting on the Fall amendments furnished little Indication of what the senate may do on reservations later on. but It did establish emphatically that the senate 1 not going to adopt amendments which will take this country out of the responsibilities of - settling the affairs growing out of . the great war. Particu larly, it is not going to desert the aUies at tbe time when the new nations freed by American arms are beta set uson their feet. Later on aa effort Is to be made to attach a reservation to the ' treaty which will authorise the United States to withdraw -from the treaty com missions as congress may in the future determine. - This -reservation probably wiu rau. inere is a question how many reservation eggs the- reservatlonlst hen can cover. Senator ; Pomerene of Ohio declared mat no amendment or reservation needed. i . This country is amply pre- wciea. am potmea ; out,; Because- it can quit tne,. league; la -two years If It de sires, or It can" propose amendments to the covenant if not. fully satisfied. j. -.- ... f One feature of the Fall amendments vote which It Is assumed will not escape the notice of the country is the position taken by Senator Lodge. He voted every time with Fall. Knox. Brandegee, Borah and Folndexter. Nothing was too 'hard boiled" for him to swallow. If any evidence still were needed as to what Lodge really wants to do to the treaty it was suppUed by these roll calls. ; Borah and " Potndexter furnished tne only votes from the Pacific Northwest in favor of FaU's amendments, except that Jones of Washington voted differ ent ways. He opposed, for example, the amendment to exclude this country from tbe Belgian-German boundary commla- aicn, but voted for an amendment to eliminate thia country from the Saar valley settlement. Chamberlain and JMcNary of Oregon and Nugent, of Idaho voted no on all the Fall amendment. Letters From the People f CamaamrfeaitSona aaat tat Tha Jonnal for pnbUeatio in thia department ahouM ba writtan on only onr sum ot to paper, aoouia not mctca SOft words la lcotth, and Boat fea flamed by tha writer, whoa mail addreaa in full aawat accom pany thai contribution. - -, ' A Crltitx Answered Portland, Oct. 7. To the Kdltor of The Journal The editorial in The Jour nal of October 7 against Senator John son comes exceedingly close to being mere defamation and vilification, uttered in something approaching hysterical rage. The editorial i compares the League of Nations "pact with the Declar ation of Independence and the emanci pation proclamation. Kay, it even hints that its nature is divine and its words almost as inspired as the words of Christ himself. In what does the League of Nations pact, as unamended by the senate, re sembla the Declaration of Independence? The editorial does not say. It merely hints a vague resemblance. The truth is that the covenant, as prepared In Paris, actually repeals the Declaration of Independence and make's ot our coun try, a sort of policeman who takes his orders from . an international body In which the United States has not so much as an equal voice with other nations. It is to assure the sovereignty of our coun try abd to give us an equal voice with every other signatory to the league that the United States senate proposes to amend the pact. Have we come to the pass where such a design is ground for abuse and denunciation in our country? The League of Nations in its present form wiU prevent war, say Its cham pions. But they cannot show specific ally bow it wiU do so. Senator Johnson showed that disarmament under the present draft of the league n entirely i optional. There's not a line which lim- its armaments or makes their reduc tion compulsory. So we witness this astounding fact : every national govern ment signing tbe league is actually making greater preparations than ever before in its history for larger and larger armies and navies. That does not mean peace, but inevitable war. Already cer tain groups within the proposed league distrust each other. If war Is. Inevitable and necessary for our national preserva tion, the United States wiU fight. But the senate amendments to the covenant make It possible for our government and people at the time to decide for them selves just' where American interests lie and iust what action the situation requires. We want to keep our destiny in our own hands, not turn it over, as Senator Johnson says, to a secret con ference of representatives of European and Japanese Imperialism. HERBERT J, FOSTER. fThe above writer doaa not know wMt ia in tha covenant. Else ha would not say that the covenant "makes of oar country a sort of po liceman who -takes his order from an interna tional body in which tbe United States Baa not ao mueh aa an equal .voice with, other natkma." If the writer will turn to that part of tie covenant which describes tha council, which , ia tho body in which action originates, De wiU find that there are sine member nations, each with, one vote, and ha. will find further that no action can be ordered except by unanimous vote. Since therefore no action can be taken except by the consent of America, the correspondent's contention that America "Ukea orders from an international body fails to tha around. By further study of the covenant he win find that through its guarantees of fraeedom and its baa against aggressions from the out side oa peoples and races- who have been under subjugation, tyranny and despotism, the league is an extension to ail mankind of the principles of tbe I ecla ration of Independence. tK course, loose wno read only Senate John son s speeches and do net read tbe covenant find tt impossible to - know ranch about the League of KattensJ ' From the Han Who Pays Portland, Oct. 8. To the Editof of The Journal I want to learn the truth. If the officials of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company fail in their loyalty to the shareholders by using other means of transportation than those provided by the company, why must I be further taxed, particularly at this time, to keep a company in existence when the people who are making their hying off it do not patronise it? Am I to dip " Into my pocket now growing shallow so rapidly to perpetu ate a mode of traveling which the presi dent and officials of the company and the great majority ot the public will not use but prefer to drop a little gasoline on a spark and float away on Its vapor? Any person standing on Broadway bridge between 5 and I o'clock p. m., particularly when there are four lines of automobiles on tbe road at one time, will "learn the truth" much quicker than he -will from that cheap bluff in tbe stret car. Pair play, Mr. Griffith t Tou must not make me pay for your vacant seat. C. H. JOHNSTON. Mining Assessment Exemptions La Center, Wash., Oct. 6. To the Edi tor of The Journal I have heard that assessment work on mining claims has been relieved by the government for the year 1919. Please publish whether that Is a fact. ; SUBSCRIBER. Exemption has been extended, covering 1919, to the extent of five claims. However, the elairh holder most file a notice with the land office of the district in which hie claim lie. that be In tends to resume assessment work in the period following the exemption term. ' Thia la notice to all. that be has not abandoned bis claims Johnson Forgets Proa the Pendleton East ORtonita Many of those named on the commit tee to receive Senator Johnson on 'his arrival In the state are declining . to serve. They mean no personal dis courtesy to the prominent visitor but they do not want their names used In connection with the campaign he is waging. Johnson has .been vicious, un fair and at times untruthful-In dis cussing the League of Nation He has dealt in half truth, unjust Insinuation and buncombe when the American peo ple are entitled to the full and frank truth. Johnson has discussed the sub ject from a political standpoint of states manship. The world has suffered cruelly from war. The people want peace. Tha old ways brought misery and death. We want a better way of adjusting troubles. The League of Nations, offers a ray of hope. ' Tbe league plan is favored - by the best thought of this nation and all other nations. It Is an affirmative constructive policy. Johnson : preaches negation and pessimism. He is out of tune with the times he Is sot at all ta lino with tbe sentiment of tbe progres sive Pacific coast. It is commonly believed that John son is running for the presidency. If so he is missing something. ' He does not see the graves of our soldier alain and he forgets that those men went bravely to death believing they fought in a war to wipe out the rule of blood and Iron and to set up a higher order of world leadership, - , COMMENT ,AND , - SMALL CHANGE , . ' GrTn.t,nV hai TVgaart tine aMisirtii In the Baltic! " ' " It's rood news that the, nrejtMent la nearly himself again. i e Tha-aalai of at. tv. vskUm is reported. Feed what? . , - . e - - - . The - lrV.nltnM - ( : ushiMlt iinmlVri a leader In the transcontinental airplane race. - . r ; . . , It's -ffatttne in aAm amt,As WH that pedestrians ;, will hardly stop long enough to watch an airplane go flying past. - - ,v r m - - - . - - As a matter of fact, strike aire mo common these days that we're not tn- icreeiea enough to read about them any more. . Is It significant that the nolle rounded up a score or so of burglars just prior to the day on which they ask the city sue m. uavt increase in salary .' . New York theatrei? muianni have raised .the pries of seats, "because .the actors won the strike." That strike was surety worth its "waif In gold. g A snapshot picture of King Albert at ease, shows him wearincr aUHnenrl- ers. and ftom the :n nlr-rurn wa talce it that he hasn't the sort of hips that ev w rnaae a oeit sate. ' a Reading that someone took a couple of snots at an American mlsaionarv r. minds us that 1n -the olden dava we uuea to oeueve mat u a missionary es caped boiling alive he had nothing f ur- uicr iw iesu. A United States government commis sion reports that undue profits are being in mioes. we anew tnat. anyway, and the mere tellinar of tt on arovern. ment authority isn't going to help us keep the baby's feet warm and dry this i : IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Hare are goms stories of frjat Aoti bjr great shooteri temporarily treat, that to to WJ-I One of these celebrated marksaoen is Mr. . ley himself, who ia disingenuous enough to walk off with glory sad let it go at that! Several years ago at Brownsville I hap pened to meet Morris King. Morris King is a typical Westerner. He. can ride a bucking horse, throw tbe diamond hitch cr Spanish loop, rope a steer, rock a cradle either kind and do any kind ot outdoor work, though he prefers to do the kind that can be done on horseback. Somethin was said about shooting, ana I aiked : "Are you a pretty good shot, Mr. King?-. For some reason the ques tion seemed greatly to amuse him. He shook with laughter and finally said: "Am I a rood shot? Tou tetter go up to Baker and ask some of the old timers no there If I am a eood shot or. not The question reminds me of something that occurred nearly 30 years ago, wnen I was a husky young fellow, ready for a fight or a frolk, and abls to lick my weight ia wild cats. "Lrfokinr back at it. I can see there was no real harm in me, but a heap of animal spirits. With some other young chaps from the Willamette valley, I had driven some stock from Central Oregon to Huntington to be shipped to Omaha. We had been paid off and were headed for our homes In .the Willamette valley. "About 20 miles east of Baker, just as we were unsaddling to go into camp, a couple of well dressed fellows drove up with a good team and buckboard, and stopped to pass the time of day with us. As we talked we heard a nig oiue grouse hoot. In a tree about 75 yards away. One of the chaps In the buck board asked the same question you did Just how. Pointing to. ths gun on my hip, he asked,: 'Are you a good shot? I had a -long-barreled Colt sixahooter in my holster. Almost before the words were out of bis mouth 2 had- pulled my gun, and as I did so I said, 'Am i a good shot? Watch me snoot tnat grouse through the eye. I raised my Colt and almost without taking aim X let drive. Down dropped the grouse. No one was more surprised tnan J. was myseu, Shorty walked over, picked up the grouse and brought tt to the buckboard. The bullet had gone through Its head, leaving a great gaping hols where Its eves had been. If X had shot for a thousand years I doubt If I could nave done tt again. An awed look came over the face of the driver ot the buckboard as he said: That is certainly marvel ous shooting. You didn't even aim. As I walked over to help unpack the cook mule I overheard Shorty say, 'Marvelous shooting, nothing! There ain't a man In our outfit that couldn't have 'done that, though! will say that King is a little quicker on the trigger than any man X ever saw pull a gun. Tou ought to see him In a mix-up. Hs is sure one bad man In a melee.' X have seen him shoot his way out of more than one brawl. After they had driven on we had a good laugh over Shorty's pictur esque lies." "We-had lust been oald off and were full of devilment, so we decided to live up to our reputations Next dayk when we approached Baker we dismounted at the edge of town. We fastened every bit of loose tinware to the back , of the meanest horse we had, and then tight ened his hind cinch. Away he went. He tore down the main Street of Baker City, squealing, bucking and kicking to beat the band. You could have heard the jingle of the tinware for half a mile. Away we tore after him on our horses, rounded him up and loosened his cinch. We dropped our bridle reins in front of the hitching rack of a saloon on the Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places Tha Jackson statue, in Lafayette Park, Washington, waa tha flrat ansifrlan letabe unveiled la ths United States. The famous statue of George in, which the New Tork patriots pulled down In 1776, was built before ther was a United States. The Jackson statu was de signed and erected by Clark Mills, ' "self made1 sculptor, who started life asi a plasterer. He pd never seen an equestrian statu before he started work on this one, and th appliances for mod eling and casting were made. by him. The metal in the group is mad of can non" captured Toy Jackson from ths British.. . . r , The equipoise of the group Is perfect and no Important balancing- rods are used to keep the statu from toppling. Mills claimed that be had so perfectly attained - the center of gravity In the work that th group would balance per fectly on the hind feet of the rearing charger. This fact was proved, but when th statu was erected tbe hind feet of th horse were bolted or otherwise fas tened to the base or pedestal to secure it against the possible effects of high winds or other disturbing or mischievous causes. . ! - ;- ; . . . These Times - - Tress tha Pittsburg Post "Ton don't sea much of those old-time courtly bows." "Nor - Now my son's idea of saluting a lady is to shift his hat trom the back of bis I bead to th front NEW5 ?IN ; BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS HV.nr'a i shanrut nt Pommsre tS ilanninr a - membership "v drive. The L lusiness men of the city ara. solicited to sret busy and organise on a standard equal to Salem and Eugene." ; irks Mitnsr aana anlv a few miles northeast of Baker," says the Democrat, Is developing .wonderfully, and In min ing circles is seen a big movement la copper output In the near, future. i . . ' witn a sign oi protouno rwi Superintendent Byland announces com pletion of the list of Clatsop eounty teachers for 1H9-1920. There are -14 city teachera and tl county teachera Bend's hopes of a Carnegie library tiava haven . dlsaanolnted. notification having been received that It will r jot th. uKnr nf tha cormratiOll te aid In any more library projects '"during the period closeiy following ins enu u . . a . - . .. .. A mischance fTi the bird world ia nar rated by the Ashland Tidings as fol lows: -Honey dew lately has been get- llnir In Itis work nn Mr. Robin, yesler- daar V. R. Blue releaead eight robins that had been stuck to the leaves by honey dew In a walnut tree In front of ms nquse at uisn vv. a itornevit Ci. II. McCoHoch and W. a t.ii.iii iisiva nremred for and pre sented to tbe city council of Bumpter niais tnr a. new cltv charter which ealU for a commission form ot govern ment. The council has accepted he plan and called a special election tor DtcemDer . - - wifb Mmnt sidewalks, curbing and mi streets in all parts of the city outside the paved districts. Baker will start the coming; year with n m ..wnt that win ma,kav every resi dent of the city glad that an amend ment to the charter was voted , a few daya ago, the Democrat says. " Lockley main street and pushing open the swinging : doors we walked up to the bar- and slammed our money on the counter as If we owned the place. saw the city marshal duck out and beat it down the alley. I heard someone say, 'Better lay low until they leave. They are the tough gang we have heard about. They are all carrying hardware on their hips and they say they can sure shoot' We sure would have been bad ones if we bad been half as tough as they thought we were. That Is the onlyttans I eves played at being a bad man. . "As for being a good Shot oh, X guess I could hit a barn If I happened to be inside of It" Twice I myself have by lucky acci dent made a reputation as a good shot In the summer of 1918 late in July or early in August I happened to visit a tank outfit on the British front not far from Amiens. A couple of Tbmmies were shooting at a mark against a steep bank. Back of this the landscape was pretty well torn to pieces with shell holes and trenches. Driving a peg about the else of a lead pencil Into the bank, they put an empty cartridge shell on top of the peg. Each one shot several times, their bullets hitting the bank within an Inch or so of the- peg. One of the Tom mies noticed that I was watching the shooting with a great deal of Interest and said to me, "Take a shot Tank; you fellows usually shoot pretty well. See what you can do." X took bis rifle, pulled down on the shell quickly, and pulled the trigger. "Tou ought to be a sniper," he said as he looked at me ad miringly, I looked toward the shell. It was gone., I bad cut the peg- off just under- tho empty cartridge shell. The other Tommy said, "Walt a bit X Will i fix up a new target, see u you can no It again. X thanked them, but told them X had to be going on. I knew X wouldn't have two lucky accidents in succession. ' e . The other time X received the unde served reputation of being a good shot was at Newport My wifs and I were walking-up the beach to Foulweather ligntnouse. Not zar from. Monterey my wife noticed a jfcluster ot yellow flowers that looked like snapdragons, banging from a bank above us. Pointing to them she said: "I wonder if we can get up on that bank. X would like to get those flowers." There happened to be a party of Easterners walking directly hack of us. I had been Indulging in a little target practice with my .81 calibre Smith Tc Wesson. Taking it from my hip pocket I said, W won't-have to climb up there to get them. I will get them for you." What I Intended to do was to shoot near the roots of ths flowers, dis lodge them and pick them np when they fell. I shot but ths revolver kicked a little and the bullet went .high, hitting several feet above . th " bunph 1 of flowers I aimed at It cut the atom of a hong cluster, which fell. . Making a quick run I caught th flowers as tney feu and handed them to my wifa X replaced the revolver In my pocket and we walked on up the beach, without comment X heard the people back of me say, "Did you ever see such marvelous shooting? He cut the stem of those flowers without even taking time to aim." Next day my wife and I happened to be passing one of ths hotels and X heard someone say: "Come on out Quick ; here's the tnan that is such a wonderful shot going by with his wife." My .wife, who is pain fully truthful, wanted me to confess that it was just a lucky shot She didn't think tt was right for me to sail under false colors. : But I refused, so to this day these people still believe they saw an example of clever shooting. Olden Oregon First Republican Meeting In Oregon, la Jackson County in 156. Th first Republican meeting la Ore gon was held in th southern part of the territory, wher pro-slavery senttr ment was most pronounced. Xt was a nominating convention of the Republi cans of Jackson county, held In May, 1856, at Undley's sohoolhouse. In Eden precinct H. Colver adressed the meet ing, ' showing the alma objects and principles of th Republican movement. Th following August "a number of friends of the Republican cause" met at Albany to . Inaugurate Republican or ganisation in th territory. . ;! , . Uncle Jeff Snow Says .'; n... " .i i .ii I ri.i I -j mJ- 'About ever year or two them there Turks nuutsacrees all the Armenians to the last man, woman and child, and that sorter thing has been goln' on. fer over 40 year. " to my positive ' recolleetlon. Now unless w send 50,000 marines or somebuddy over there right away them Turks Is a-goln' to waller In trmenlan blood fer tbe last Ume. . After that there'll b the world league to hold 'em down- It looks like'there had orterbe a massacre of th Turks by th Arme nians onct in a while, anyhow. . Jenny Was the Makln's 1 ' Trroa the TdaiUmorg Son Llttl' Jenny, aged I years, asked her brother for a glass of water. : H drank out of It before handing It to her. Much Incensed, she said to him: . "Hasn't you been told ladles first T -Tea said little BiDjf ut you ain't a lady." - - Jenny, Indignantly : " "But X am what ladies' is made of." ' The Oregon Country - Northwest lUppeningi u Brlaf i Foia (or tbe . Baa BsaoW. -' ', v' . ' , OREGON NOTES For kllltnar a hmu Am singer of Mill City was fined 2B. ' Mlss Aetna Kmmel of Woodburn. MIT graduate Of Willn.mett nlvmll In 3?Vte?$r ?. V?p to Iriw; where she will take the field as a missionary. ; vvsqov schools in the state of Oregon, , ISO have been unable to open this fall on account of lack of teachera. In spite I of an increase of approximately 30 per cent In salaries, , G, IT.' Coon, a lumtuirmaM ejf . entn field, received a fractured collarbone. ! two broken ribs and m. had uh in tha t - face when he was knocked from a pile of lumber Thursday. . Arthur Waters, a msmW ' W. W.. who was deported from Astoria, . was signed as a deckhand on the Co- iiu i 20 Cfinta a month until no reaches England. For the Quarter anrtlnar .ntmK In " there were 23 divorcee caeca in the cir cuit court of Marion county, and dor- In. ffti mu m. liw.. t. . .... i .:- rlags ilcenses issuejj. A message has been received by Mr. and Mrs, Grant Wlloox of Kosebura- an nouncing the deaj ot their eon Iter- , bert aged 19, at 'Fort Lawton, by th accidental discharge of a gun In response to an inquiry as to wheth- ' er the dredge Chinook, was soon to be returned to the mouth of the Columbia river, General Black has advised Senator Chamberlain that there is no need of dredging the bar. . . . Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Carrier of Salem have given $1000 to the Lausanne hall fund of Willamette university, and . fidi 1 Poney announces that he has two $5000; gifts in sight as soon as th fund reaches I50.Q0O. " A valuable hound belonging; to Pol I eel mana Harms of Portland, which was lost by him while hunting In the wilds vJJ1,.co.Unt3r' WM foun Thursday by lm..?apk?.,'- T'1" n'mal had been without food for 10 daya -. WASHINUTON For having liquor tn his possession, S;. A,; Mitchell, -at Centralia, was fined' 250 and costs. , ( . viriw Tor,t "oWlePS who are at Camp rlm J1 their state election w po neia govern nor . TneASteamer Whi Tr 1a4i a aaa . 000 to 6,000,000 feet of lumber on Puget sound consigned to Shanghai. A,t Taklma Thursday Matt Budesellch and T. 3, Hudson were arrested with y 17 gallons of moonshine alcohol. 1C- Welnstone, a Junk dealer. Is under ' arrest at Tacoma for attemDtlna to sell oiu, American flags for wash-rags. A report issued at the close of th ' first month of the school year in Napa vine shows, a total enrollment of 181. vcii i ciucBeniina; DS posts Of the iaion met at Seattle Thurs day for the first annual state conven tion. . II. A. Chinln hss anl.1 1.1. m .' ' - berry ranch near Puyallup to W. O. Speakers at tha Rta -r.r.... conference at Walla Walla Thursday de- "v vuurea union nas jveea a failure. - l!!!-0? a00 mtn '"P'oyed In th lumbar mills and camps at Clear lake went on Mooney.ay trik ,B eh,f ot vbam . ,fme" Heed, deputy revenue col-" lfl herdeen. has been indicted on seven counts on charges of using his office for extortion. ' . Search Is being made for tl IX John- mofr JWnend'JVh0 wt hunt. io?Lm . than a week ago, and has fafled to return to his home. m-?din,w'tosta4 Agriculture Com mafi2"er Bno". Waahlngton, , VJr " Untted States for apples. Tha 1919 CrOD Will raaoh i na ftTrt'""- InfcuY- w1Wa.a,comrS.eion"y gJ& of the suti? Ma ,or th o;Wnr girls dea,M.nt mV?. "Kelso carted ,. P"tern Wsehlngton stock raisers face the oss of thousands of dollarv'worth of livestock unless cars areremotlv furnished to remove the stock from th mcuntalns. wher ther 1. Tm tongay 'w' Claude X. Stewart married Ollle I. Loner at Seattle three weeks aro, rot another girl, and is now in jail at Che larceny? rgerynd grand' IDAHO .Mora buildings must be erected at' Lewlston to accommodate the lara tt;h0w:eBtrt" to th thwe'.t ' Reports from the 25 precincts of Nes u.,"ntr nd,c1t t th Moo ooSi hon for good roads and brldse' carried by about 2000 to 1000. V fdahP.Hfi'd'hot .Cretan' of th . fair, ia under arrest. Sha5,a JJLth the murder of Michaels cession at. the fair, The men had a1 disputes when Hendershot' struck Mor-i Ha fromtfae affects of which he has I sine died. ' GENERAL, " ' o."??.11' 1J4er of tn Independent! Socialists, was shot In Berlin Thursday.! H was not faUlly wounded. 7 ! -AiSepuVit'on. ' Brttlgh miners has called on Premier Lloyd George to urge I crim iii.i h naiinnaiiMTiMi sir whIm ... . w. - www W Elght hundred shopsnen of th South -rn Psclfic company at Tucson, Arts.,' struck Friday as th result of local dlf! ferencea , . , Captain a Paul Phillips ha been de-. dared w nner of the. army-navy balloon race, which started from St Louis Sod-! tember it. ... 4 Ueutenant Colonel Hart a to his Mar-j Un limbing plane, arrived at Sacra mento Thursday seven hours after leav-' Ing Portland. . , DesperaUneed of raw materials 1s t evident in Germany. Th coal supply IS also a vital factor to th re-establish- V, uiauiiMKvsii uii m urewar basla j The united States Shipping board steamer Yaklok is totally disabled and drifting in th Atlantic, according to a wireless aispatcn receivea at itamax Friday. ... Edward Bell, who has been la Xxmdon six years as a member of th American diplomatic service, has been recalled, to Washington for th purpose of strength enlng the stat department ' According to Herbert Hoover, ther ara ample supplies of essential food! commodities to feed, th world until next harvest but there must be an in-, crease in city productivity. Dr. Paul S. Reinsch announces that; his resignation as American minister to' China was occasioned by- a desire to; re-enter American affairs before losing, touch with them through long absence. ' Tbe lat Mrs. Ellia Anderson Lawton, ' daughter of General Robert Anderson, I left 125,000 for a statu of General An- ( derson at Fort Sumter, and 116,000 for the jpurcnase of chimes for th onapeli at Fortress Monro. Clark Appreciates The Jour nal's Editorial A. O. Clark, manager of th Asm elated Industries of Oregon, v has written Th Journal as follow: "To allow your editorial, 'Mad In Oregon, of the 7th, to pass without acknowledgment from this office would show a lack of appreciation. .- "Therefore r we are writing you this letter. "Even with- our experience In working to indue otbars to feel that support ot our Industries is the proper action, we, find the ; angle from which you approach th sub ject brings out thoughts that ar val uable to us and which' w appreci ate." ' . r 'a S