THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY HORNING, OCTOBER ID, 1C1I
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T YfHY doesn't congress end the un-
f I certainty? .Y ;;Y "
' U If ?v Why Keep lbs country in
: tnnnoll With further futile de
bate on the treaty? Not senate
mote ls being changed by the dlspus
sion.: The debate It merely obstruct
. Ing passage of reconstruction legisla
tion already long overdue. The main
reason why conditions remain un
settled, why business is pestered with
uncertainty and why no progress can
be made against , the high cost of
Irving is the interminable delay of
the senate In letting the country
and the world know whether we are
to have a formally ratified peace or
whether-we 'are to reject the treaty
and begin all over again the negotia
tions for a separate peace with
Germany. v '
If the!; treaty Is to be rejected. It
Should be rejected at once. Not a
- single senate opinion Is being changed
by : the Interminable debate. If the
treaty li to. be ratified It can better
be done now than later. Then the
eountry- will know and make its
preparations accordingly.
' Every .indication li that Lodge and
his crowd are f beaten. . , They never
were ; In .full agreement. ' A small
group of about 15 ire against any
league, vjDthers1 are for 4 textual
changes. - Others' are mild reserva
tionists.' ; Some of the more pro-
- rounded Tare .playing, partisan poli
tics, trying to make an Issue for the
1P20 campaign.
' Unable to present a solid front, the
, obstructionists are merely playing
for delay, in the hope that something
may turn up to their advantage. The
Shantung :" vote, " so ' pronouncedly
against them, - was a staggering blow
to their plans! ! The thing that came
vut significantly In that .vote was a
marked sentiment in unexpected quar
ters against changes that would send
the treaty back to the Paris confer
ence. If those unexpected senators
were unwilling. to send it back to
conference on - the f Shantung Issued
they . will also be unwilling to send
It back on other , textual changes.
When. men' like Hale of "Maine took
that ground. Lodge was repudiated.
Of. all, the provisions in the treaty,
the Shantung arrangement is proba
bly the most objectionable. Presi
dent Wilson himself declared that
he : did .not like It, but that, with
' France and England pledged, under a
war treaty tolet Japan retain the
,Gwrnan , concessions for a . certain
. period, he was "powerless to change
It. If. the ' obstructionists could not
tecura textual changes Tin the Shan
, tufig provision,' if proposal to change
that; provision was beaten 55 to 35,
there can be little chaqce of euc
cessful attack by the obstructionists
- on any other provision.
Were the truth known. It Is proba
; ble that, r back of the scenes, : the
Lodge, group Is tn hopeless confusion.
It is very probable that their strength
-is1 disintegrating. Johnson has can
celled his - NewVYork; Bpeaking en
gagement Doubtless the pressure of
the ; country upon the . senate ' for a
vote Is beginning to tell.
In any event, there should be defi
nite action and at once. The country
wants: the : unsettled status to end.
If the treaty is to be rejected, reject
It. If It la to be ratified, ratify it,
and put- the .country In position to
go back to the security and. tranquil
lity of peace. v - - -j .
' Portland police did rood work in
the capture of the two yeggmen who
have confessed to some of the 20 or
more burglaries committed during
tha paat two months in the Irving--ton
district. Wbat did the burglars
make out of their enterprise? la it
the peril of. tha game that la the
Jure? ; Certainly. It Is not the profit!
A PLANNED PORTLAND :
-n. ECOMMENDATIONS" whinh 1 win
arrest public attention arain
the first ; annual, report ' of the
city planning commission. Among
r ; em ; are I - municipal . xonin. the
; csignatlon' of heavy . traffic , streets.
V'1? narrowlnr of u purely, residential
ect3 the ; oodrdinatlon of play-
ind establishment by school and
: ;'JicrltleJ, and the replacement
"t f - v , .... i .
of the Morrison and Burnslde bridges
wjth high level spans better calcu
lated .to carry rapidly Increasing
travel. , - , f , " v
(Zoning, in the definition'' of the
commission divides the city ' into
areas which are to be subdivided
into - groupings of Industries, , resi
dences and business structures. Thus
each r soce becomes an independent
unit '.'Where : neither industries , nor
business will bs permitted to en
croach upon residence districts but
where each will have its own latitude
and boundaries. 1 .-. .
Zoning also relates to the ! height
and size of buildings with reference
to the admission of air afid light so
that : healthfulness -as -well' as ef
ficiency may be conserved. .In ' a
city such1 as Portland.' composed of
smaller 'communities that became
part i of ; the , whole through ' natural
expansion and merging of boundaries,
a zoning ordinance such as the plan
ning ; commission proposes , might be
impossible unless . It provided ma
chinery for. the complete , rebuilding
of the community. ; Such a purpose,
it may be assumed, to not a part of
ttie program, but rather a govern
orship of , future , structural activity
as will gradually and reasonably
bring about the desired result. There
Is little doubt that the growth of
the city must be Intelligently guided
and practicable zoning seems f to be
the . only suitable method.
There is much -to recommend the
proposal for; directing of heavy traf
fic along streets that will reduce
congestion. Truck, ; automobile and
street car operation7 might well be
segregated so that -ponderous and in
flexible vehicles will be as little in
terfered with as possible and in order
that lighter and swifter vehicles may
be neither retarded1 nor endangered.
There is vast loss of time today
through promiscuous Jumbling of un
classified' traffic r
As a street should be planned to
carry its. travel efficiently so the
narrowing of . residential streets of
fers an economy that in no wise in
terferes with utility, t There , ought
certainly to be unity in playground
location for all the agencies involved
represent the public and ought not
to work In diverse directions.
New bridges at the Morrison and
Burnslde street crossings of the
Willamette are already recognized as
a necessity and they should represent
an advanced type. Their economy
will be measured by their efficiency.
and their building is a matter of con
cern to both city and county authori
ties, and the public at large.
The planning commission has given
Its preliminary study to subjects of
solid worth.
In Austria, the cost of living has
risen 800 per cent, there is but av six
day food supplyand several million
people ait facing starvation. . Were
the Xeague of Nations fully organ
ised andlranqullllty thereby substi
tuted f of the chaos throughout Eu
rope, these starving people could be
delivered from their misery. Would
it not be worth while? What would
the Nazarene say about It?
THE CITY TAX LIMIT
HERB are comparisons, taken at
random, between the cost of
what tha city bought Ifi 1914
s a 1AIS.
ana in wiv; . ....
Wood i In 1W4, 13, now $9.
Brass goods, formerly 31 cents a
pound, now -60.
Police salaries, then 185 to f 100,
now 115 to 1140, with 75 additional
men In the force.
Unskilled labor, In 1914 3 a day,
now' 40.i r
Gasoline,; 13 cental, Increased to
Piping, $30.20 per ton, advanced to
170 per ton.
Sand and gravel, 70 cents a yard,
now 1.50.
Cement, 91.23 per barrel, raised to
12.59. : . :. .i
The. average cost of building ma
terials for public works has ad
vanced 220 per Cent
Arc light fixtures, formerly $35,
now 160.
Pay of firemen In 1914, 1100, now
1140 per montb, with 75 additional
men under double platoon system
voted! by thi people.
Things the city buys have increased
the same as things bought by indi
viduals.' Any citizen knows whether
or not he is paying more, andJknows
further about how, much ' more he 7 Is
paying. "
The Items of Increase cited above
are intended ; only . to give a general
Idea: ; They are but a drop in ? the
bucket.' The list of articles increased
could be extended indefinitely. The
tax rate to raise money with, which
the city may buy wood, for instance.
is the same as it was in 1914 when
wood i was 15 a ' cord against the $9
that it now costs. ; There is no power
to levy a larger rate now. than In
1914 when cement was $1.25 against
the $2.59. that cement costs in 919. t
Mea&whlie to 1914, ' revenue from
saloon licenses, Interest, premiums
and on bonds and other 'miscellaneous
sources totaled $739,147; In 1919 this
revenue is reduced to $158,756, nearly
$600,000 .less." -It Is a -very' great
shrinkage in income,- - . . - s
Meanwhile, as a conservative meas
ure, few .improvements, were' made
during the ' war. - In that field the
city has remained at a standstill, in
spite of a large growth, in , popular
won.. The lipse has created an In
creased need for improvements i and
betterments in many lines 'and made
it Important to do now that- which
was left undone during the war. V
In v private . life ., we are compelled
to buy what we have to bur in spite
of the high" prices. It is impossible
to 'see how to avoid the rule in pub-
lie matters. , . . - . .
U'e increased levy is' undesirar
ble, some other means of raising
revenue, such as occupation taxes, or
otherwise, would . seem . to ba inevi
table. , K t"tn. 1
The national assembly In Austria
has ratified the peace treaty. That
is government, not' by a. kaiser,' but
by Austrlans. It is the thing the
president of the TJnlted States urged
In diplomatic notee when he was en
eooraglng : peoples to break away
from kingcraft. - It: is the kind of
government the Declaration of In
dependence declared for. It Is the
kind , of v government that was j at
stake .to the late war. . What av boon
It would be to these people to ,have
the moral support of America as a
member of the League Of Nations!
What would that support be, but ef
fort by America to help the Aus-
iriana reuun ana uva unuer uyeru-
ment.of, for and by the people?
A GHASTLT RECORD
IP BURIED as' American soldiers
were Interred in Flanders, the
people killed in accidents in the
United States during the 19 months
of war would,-laid side by side, make
a grave 48 miles long.
In the period, the number of service
men who fell In battle or died of
wounds was 58,167. In America dur
ing the same 19 months, the number-
killed by , accident In the home.
In the street and in the Industries
was 126,654, more than double the
number killed In the war. The kill
ings, by accident averaged 240 per
day.
It Js a gory record. If the war
was hideous, what are the accident
massacres with more than double the
toll of victims? gearing in mind
that, if interred as the soldiers were
laid away in Flanders, the victims
of accidents would make a burial
ditch 48 miles long and In the bot
tom a solid sidewalk If human bodies,
does the situation not give us pause?
If not,, what about the rapid rata
at- which accidents are Increasing?
What about the killings that are
multiplying in an ascending progres
sion? Thus, in 1910 the number of auto
mobiles in America was 400,000, and
the automobile killings were at the
rate of 2 1-3 persons in every 100,000.
In 1917 the number of automobiles
was 3,000,000. and the rate of killings
91-6 per 100,000. The increase in the
number of automobiles raised the
death rate from 21-3 to 91-6 per
100,000. What must have been the
rate of the killed in 1918, when the
number of cars and power trucks
rose to 6,000,000 T
Nobody yet knows. It makes one
shudder to think of the death rate.
It Is appalling to think of the long
burial ditch that .would be required
to inter the mutilated victims.
There is scarcely a higher call to
the American people than the appeal
of these stark and mute dead for
measures to save others - from their
fate. If their appeal is not enough;
then there are the orphaned children
left without support and care, the
widowed women thrown upon their
own resources and the families whose
breadwinner has been taken away.
Here is a tremendous query: If
the rate of killings mounted from
21-3 to 916 per 100,000 through in
crease of automobiles from -400,000
to 3,000,000, what will the tieath rate
be when the automobiles number
twelve or - fifteen million, as they
surely will in the near future? Ths
paved roads are a bid to every fam
ily to own a machine. The mood of
the time and-the drift of the social
order . Impel people to 'have cars.
Multiplication of machines .to an ex
traordinary degree, is as certain as
doom. ,If .xve go on as, now" what
will be the -death rate in 1921 or
1925?
Accidents - can be checked. By ef
fort to do so, the steel Industry has
greatly reduced the number of acci
dents In its plants. In the United
States Steel plants, the company, es
timates . that, in the 12 years which
their anti-accident work has been
pursued, 23,815 lives have been saved.
It asserts that by these results it has
saved ' in compensation -for industrial
accidents -more than $1,000,000 a year
over and above the cost of the life
saving work. The . Intelligent and
effective use of safety . -appliances
and educational propaganda by the
steel companies, has caused . the In
surance companies to now classify ,
the. steel .industry as a "non-hazardous"
instead of the "hazardous activ
ity under which it was formerly
grouped. - .y. ; d. " i
A great organization is operating
in all the states ol America to reduce
the number of accidents. It is the
National Safety Council whose re
gional field secretary Is "W, H. Ras
mussen, now in Portland and to re
main . here a month. : Its plans In
clude schools for foremen of indus
trial plants, the introduction of In
struction against accidents In . the
public schools, and numerous other
intelligent processes. ? Among other
things, Mr. Basmussen has organized
a "local division' of, the council In
Portland. . ' . .
There - could vcaroely ' be a more
purposeful and . deserving enterprise.
The . mute and mutilated dead, --the
miles " and miles of scarred bodies,
all luckless victims of preventable
accidents,' are a challenge to all peo
ple to cherish' and -support the or
ganization. - ' r
As interest on Liberty bonds. -the
government bf-this, year paying out
$810,000,000 to the great army of
bondholders ', estimated - to include
one out of every, three persons in
America. The sum is more than it
cost to run the government before
the war. In 1914 congress appro
priated $684,757,271 for the expenses
of : government for the then- fiscal
year. As the interest on the war
debt cuts nothing off the principal,
and as there are enormous war taxes
to pay in addition to the bond inter
est it is made " apparent that war
costs hugs sums, v Why not a league
pact to end war and this terrible
drain? ' -- z V ; .
READY. TO FI6HT
WITHOUT a dissenting voice, tha
American ' Bankers' convention
indorsed T compulsory military
r training in America.; ,' .,
' We are told that Great - Britain is
plotting against : us, " that:, France i
plotting against us,' that Italy-is plot
ting against us, that Japan is plotting
against us. There Is not a nation or
a people anywhere but has designs
on us, not a nation or a people any
where that Is not ready to turn
against and destroy us, if the speeches
of anti-league senators are to be be
lieved. They demand that we edter no pact
to preserve the peace. If we follow
them and if their speeches are true,
we must be ready ' at any time to
fight any number of nations leagued
against us. v ?
Then,' we" must be . prepared. We
cannot, as in the past, wait till the
war is on to begin preparations.
The armies must be ready. The
men must be trained In advance. The
guns must be in the forts and in
the arsenals. The battleships, great
numbers of . them, mu6t be in our
harbors or on the high seas, ready
for. immediate' service. We cannot
wait until the Invader lands on our
shores. ' . . -; '
If our career is to be military,' In
stead of under a pact of peace, we
must have universal and compulsory
military training. Under no other
system can we have armies adequate
to a situation In which we are de
scribed by j anti-league senators as
the object of hatred and design by all
other nations.
Compulsory military training and
the selective draft are the sound and
the fair method in raising and main
taining big armies. It is' the' only
way in which every mother's son in
America can be reached and be forced
Unto military; service. :
This is exactly the end to which
defeat of the league of peace, leads.
If the Johnsons and Borahs manage
to keep America out of the league,
compulsory military training for the
United States will "be as certain as
doom. I-
There is more fighting- in Russia
now than there was at any time,
anywhere, in 10 years before the late
war. The act that started the late
unparalleled conflict is infinitesimal
in comparison with what is now go
ing on in Russia. If we do a
join the league we shall be compelled
at all times and at all cost and at
all sacrifice; of our young men to
be ready to fightry, S
Congress t appropriated a billion
dollars with which to pay the differ
ence that It was then supposed there
would be between the world's wheat
price and the American basic price
But man proposes and supply and
demand disposes. .The Northwest
price of hard wheat today Is 40 cents
above the government's basic- price.
The clamor that the government was
favoring the farmers Is dead. Not a
cent of the billion dollars is likely
to be used. In most' European coun
tries the wheat price is $3.50 or more.
THEIR NEW PLAN
A'
NEW formula for reconciling
labor and capital on a basis of
equity, has been submitted to
the industrial conference now in
session In-Washington by a group of
industrial engineers.
The prevalent unrest in industry, It
Is declared, 1 results j from a system
which permits the acquisition of
wealth for which no adequate service
has been-rendered and tolerates spe
cial privilege with the resulting ' ex
ploitation of men, women and chil
dren. To correct this condition and
remove our industrial evils the fol
lowing declaration of - principles is
submitted : : c. :
, First, eliminate all unfair nrivi
lege of employer or employe' and
make business and industry fulfill
meir respunsiciuues to tne com
munity.
Second, fr?e all Industries produc
ing socially necessary commodities or
supplying public service, from sel
fish or Incompetent autocratic control.
In other words, it is said In this '
declaration of principles that no per-1
manent peace is possible so long as
one jnan is able to 'exploit the serv
ices of another for his own benefit
and that there must be placed in
charge of all Industries, producing
socially "necessary . commodities men'
who have . the ability to run them
democratically .and . efficiently.
These men should appreciate their
responsibility to the community. The
Industries should notbe run by those
whose only clainv fa authority r Js
ownership. t ,. J vf
There is no intention of disturbing
present ownership; It is riot cared
who owns fee plants and - tools so.
long as they are properly used and
perform adequate service. The ; im
portant thing, it is i explained, is to
eliminate autocratic control from In
dustry which, is thai cause o1 profit
eering, industrial jnrest and of eco
nomic disorganization in-general. i
Hie suggestion is made thgt every
plant and. industry should be so or
ganized as to Induce" every man "to
do his best by giving him adequate
reward for, his service.
' It-is not proposed to discharge the
less efficient, but to teach and train
them to greater efficiency. Every
man and wonjan Is ; to be rewarded
and promoted to positions of respon-j
record. By placing in authority Only
those who . know -what to : do and
how to do it, the arbitrary control
of ownership will be eliminated and
industry be -managed by those who
are trained for the Job, it Is claimed.
and by - rewarding only for services
rendered the, -lowering of costs be
stimulated and cost or Irving be : re
duced. ' ? . f.'. ;. ;l
Not only is a change In the method
of rewarding employes contemplated.
but also a - change la the system of
cost accounting.
Under, the present system " every
article Is made to bear not only ; the
expense" of - producing; it,, but. is
charged up with a share of the ' ex
pense in maintaining' parts of the
plant which are unproductive. This
gives an excuse for high prices, mak
ing possible the -claim of idle capital
for a reward for which -It performs
no service. ,
ANNIVERSARY OF
A, TRAGEDY
Past Drawn Upon By a Satirist to
lUuminatST Today
From tha Hew York Ermine Pact, October IS
This year's Columbus day carries a
warning of peculiar poignancy for all
thoughtful citizens. Every October 12
before this has, no doubt, brought home
the lesson of that fatal enterprise of the
Genoese visionary and mariner, who re
fused to recognise that the Atlantic had
been eternally set down as a barrier
which humanity and civilisation could
surmount only to their destruction. To
day the recollection of that catastrophe
wUl be made by all good and true men
more than an occasion for -vain regret
over what happened 427 years ago. .The
memory or that sinister, if successful.
attempt to cross the Sea of Darkness win
serve as' a stimulus to all those who are
now laboring to prevent a repetition of
Columbus' disastrous adventure tn the
reverse direction. They will draw cour
age from the example of the brave man
in . Columbus' day who set their faces
against an attempt to entangle Europe's
affairs with the dread uncertainties that
lay beyond the seas. . They .were over
borne, those gallant and enlightened men
who fought for the maintenances, of a
great tradition ; but their devotion to an
ideal will ever remain a beaoon light In
history. -: - Yv .i
Not all of those who stood out against
the wild and dangerous dream of the
Genoese sea captainwere defeated. The
calamity which he was instrumental In
bringing upon the Spanish nation wag
warded bff from the neighboring Por
tugal by the heroic efforts of a few of
her sona Six years before he saeceeded
in victimizing the Spanish monarchs Co i
luznbus was preaching his doctrine at
the court of Lisbon. A council of dig
nitaries was convened to consider 1 his
proposals, in that council the patriotic
and far seeing 4 bishop of Ceuta raised
bis voice against aU mad adventures
overseas : h ,
They tended, he said, to .distract
the attention, drain the resources and.
divide the power jot the nation. While
their forces were thus scattered abroad
on remote and unprofitable expeditions,
they exposed themselves to attack from
their active enemy, the kins' of Caatila
In the Portuguese .nation It would be
madness to launch into enterprises with
out first considering them In connection
with its means. The king had .already
sufficient undertakings in hand "Of cer
tain advantage, without engaetng in
others, of a wild, chimerical nature. Xt
he wishes employment ' for the active
valor of the nation, the war in which be
was engaged against the Moors of Bar
bara was sufficient, wherein his tri
umphs were of solid advantage, tending
to cripple and enfeeble those neighboring
foes. " ' . i
The force . of this argument will be
better understood when It ' Is realised
that the Portuguese were accustomed to
speak of the Cast 111 an pern,, and that
the Moors of Barbary lay due south of
Portugal and occupied a country rich
In minerals and gracing lands. : -s
Tet even In Portugal there were vision
aries who yielded tq the seductions of,
the Genoese adventurer. Thus it. is re
lated that Don Pedro de Meneses,. count
of Villa ""Real, attempted to reply to the
bishop of Cents. He argued : - j
It would be the greatest glory 1 for
Portuguese valor to penetrate Into 1 the
secrets and horrors of the ocean sea, so
formidable to the other nations Of the
world. It was an affront to the Portu
guese name to menace it with imaginary
perils, when it had proved itself so
intrepid . in encountering - those- which
were most certain and tremendous.
Great -souls were formed for 1 great enter
prises.,. He wondered much that a prel
ate so religious as the bishop of Ceuta
should oppose this undertaking i ths tuU
,mate ohlect of which -was to augment
the Catholic faith and spread it from
pole to pole. He dared to prognosticate,
with a .voice and spirit as if from
heaven, to whatever prince should
achieve this enterprise, more happy suc
cess and durable renown than had ever
been obtained by sovereign the - most
valorous and fortunate. Y?
But the sturdy common sense and
unflinching patriotism of the bishop of
Ceuta prevailed over such wild and
whirling words. , The Portuguese council
refused to ratify Columbus' proposals,
and be was sent aboOt bis business; but
only to make his way Into Spain, which
soon fell a victim to his fatal designs. ,
a : ' V v " ' . .- f
i Not that" there were lacking brave :
men In Spain to array themselves against
the dread menace. In a great council at
Salamanca wise men arose to point out
the danger of cutting loose from the
ancient tradition pf a flat earth, on
which Spain had prospered, in favor of
a round earth such as Columbus advo
cated. It was shown that if Columbus
were right it would only mean that .the
Spanish people "would be embrplled in
the affsiee of strange peoples who
walked on their needs amidst trees and
vegetation that grew - downwards , and
spoke uncouth languages such as"
Here there is a gap In the manuscript,
but scholars nave - restored the text to
read: "Uncouth languages such . as
French, Hungarian and Czecho-Slavic."
Unfortunately for Spam, the saner
counsels did not prevalL ' . Under pres
sure from the government and the Pin
son brothers, who were the leading rep
resentatives of the international finance
of the time, the Spanish nation plunged
Into the mad - enterprise. The result
was that while Portugal within the next,
50 years increased Us population from
2.S45.87C to 1348,987, the Spanish people
and their government tn the same period
were driven pretty close to distraction
by the cares attendant upon a trans
Atlantic ' empire and several million
square miles, a steady stream, of gold
taden galleons, and the position -of lead
ing power hi Europe, and the world. Be
cause the lesson of entanglements over
seas has bitten into the consciousness of
mankind, October IS is now observed in
parts of the United States as a general
day of mourning. : v.S -
. , " . j ' f '
' Contentment . ' ,
- rnrra Vh ATtwnjr 7oorrAt '
Behold the Salvation Army ; its mem
bers nevjer strike, and their . pay Is
small.- - -
THE SIERRAS
By' Joaquin Miller
-1 IKB frsginents of an uncompleted world,
. -H From bleak. Alaska, "bound in Ice and spray, ' j
To where -the peaks of Dirlen Be curled 1 ' ,
In clouds, the broken lands loom bold and tray;
The stamen netting. San Francisco bay -Forget
the compass here; with sturdy hand -They
seize the wheel, look up. then bravely lay
' The ship to shore by rugged peaks that stand .
The. stern and proud patrician fathers of the land.
; ney'j.'wniteistaifi fceaVeni-rtiBd a fine .
Of liitinc endless and eternal white; .
They look upon the far and flashinf brine.
Upon the boundless plains the broken height
Of Kamlakln's batement$. Y "The flight
- c Of time Is underneath their untopped towers;
y ' They- seem to push aside the moon at nirht,
To Jostle and to loose the stars. The flowers
Of heaven fall about their brows in shining showers.
They 'stand a tine "of lifted spowy Isles,
High held upon s tossed and tumbled sea-
. ' A sea of ood in wild unmeasured miles;
White pyramids of Faith where roan is free;
i White monuments "of Hope that yet shall be
The mounts of matchless and immortal songv
I look far down the hollow days; 1 see
' The bearded prophets, simple souled and strong.
That strike the sounding harp and thrill the heeding, throng.
Serene and satisfied!' supreme! as lone
Theimantllng wings of night are crushed and curled
They loot as cold as kings upon a throne;
, The mantling-wings of night are crusb'd and curled
As feathers curl. The elements are hurled
From off their bosoms, and are bidden go,
Like evil spirits,! to an underworld;
They stretch from Cariboo to Mexico,
A line of battle-tents in everlasting snow.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JdURNAL MAN
By Fred
"Timlin ' S kwnHa'i" H a toed wwklii rale.
mt u rta la vtAAA the WOTid MOT. Ah
thonsb that thaocy i uqOMtiooed aaonc sua
who ink hid tmnnt, J pictio Uy uewtton
bscozn the tola Mr. Tackier UxU KM Um
at grmt Dndew bo were sue tm w
atfTci wMOth. He ths flooU froi b
old minr h one toU him mm oo Mmms
of tha placer daja laOncoa.1
Some years ago I had a most inter
esting talk with Death Valley 8cotty,
the man -who would disappear in
Death Valley and come out a few weeks
later with money enough to charter a
train across the country. With Death
Valley Scotty It was certainly a case of
easy come, easy go. When he was
flush he scorned to give a bellboy a tip
smaller than a 930 gold piece.
In Nome. In Butte and in many other
mining camps. I have run across men,
who were hanging arouno Tne oar wan
ing to be invited to take a drink, who In
their day have made fortunes, and lost
them.
Some time as I visited the Tread well
mines, near Juneau. Alaska. The "glory
hole" had caved In and the mine was not
being worked. A - few years ago - John
Treadwelb discovered ' of the TreadweU
mine, was adjudged a bankrupt. His
liabilities were about two : and a, half
minion. His assets were of unknown
value. John Tread weU and his brother
James sold this famous TreadweU mine
nn Tvrazlas lBland and went to oas
Francisco. Here they .managed for S
while? the - California Safe . Deposit-
Trust eemnany. It was chargea mat
James TreadweU had a" band m its
rreekinr. and he was tried for this of
fense. ' These two brothers could dls
cover a mine, and even operate It suc
cessfully, but when they got into the
realm of . hleh finance, tney were easy
marks. They fell victims to oil pro
moters, mlninc stock salesmen ana ail
others who live by their wits. They In-
Vested to a system for the brtanettlng of
eoal, and in various systems xor extract
ing values from ore, but use only values
these systems were able to extract were
easy money from ths pockets ox the un
wary. e , -
Marshall, who went to California from
Salem. Or. and who discovered" gold in
tha race at Sutter's mill in 184$. died
poor. Comstock, who brought untold
wealth to Nevada, could not keep any of
it for himself. Pierce, the discoverer of
gold In the Clearwater country in Idaho,
died poor. Tabor, who made millions by
his discovery of ore at LeadvMle, Colo.,
lost his health, his happiness and his
wealth and died In . poverty. John S1I
verthorn, to whom Montana owes so
much for his mineral discoyenea was
unable to keep any of the wealth he dis
covered. A. J. Pritchard, one of ths
early settlers at Spokane Falia who dis
covered gold in the Coeur d'AIenes, let
his wealth sift through nu fingers, and
died as poor as the poorest prospector.
Three Fingered Smith, who in the earl?
days of Florence rocked out over I30O0
a day on his clailTC" kejpt none of it.
min O'TJnurk. wha aecldentallv stumbled
upon the wonderful lode of the Bunker
Hin and Sullivan mines, was too open
handed to keep any of the $50,000,000
that these' mines have produced.
No matter whether they can keep the
money or not. the lure of the -unknown
will always draw -men into the desert
Letters From the People
CommonieatloBS ant to ' The Journal for
publication is thl department ihould be written
ob ooljr one aide of tb paper,' thooki not exceed
800 words la length. aa4 anat ba ateiM by tha
writer, wkaaa moil addma im full mm0t aoeoca
paar tha eaotrihaUon. -
Calls for Real Showdown
Portland, Oct. 8 To the Editor, of
The Journal After every war there has
been a spasm of price boosting and busi
ness Inflation. . This period of expan
sion has invariably been followed by a
crash and consequent hard times, during
which ths masses suffer, the - middle
classes lose much of their savings and
monled Interests take their profits. We
were told that the recent war was fought
to make the world sate for democracy J
that is. for the masses. It rests with us
to makes it such. Men will never go
hungry a grain in this country- and beg
the chance to work for their board.
They must have a square deal, for the
first time in history. Don't let us stop
with exposing a few petty profiteers on
Yamhill street. -Don't let us be content
with a "confidential ; investigation'" of
master bakers. Bring the books of our
large food and clothing - Jobbers and
wholesalers Into court. Let as know the
earnings of our millers and grain deal
ers and our cannerymen. and above, all,
let u' know how -those leeches, the
brokers, have fared. - Let us be fully in
formed where the earnings of our pub
lic service corporations., are going. We
need officially conducted - probes of all
these interests, and results of, same
given the widest .publicity. And we want
not Investigations by . fossilised and
politically petrified ' senators and con
gressmen .or by .quasi official citizens'
committees, but.byexperts, men who
have" had years of experience in the
phases of business they are investigat
ing, -i 'Such men In the employ, of the
department of Justice could do nntold
good; even if prosecution failed. Crucify
our profiteers and robber barons on the
cross of - public opinion ; foster - coop
erative, marketing; encourage profit
Lockley
and into the hills to prospect for hidden
wealth.
"Sixty-five years or so ago there was
a stampede of miners from ail over the
coast to the mines of Jackson county.
Oregon, and the beach placers on the
Curry county eoaeC said William Pack
wood, in telling me of the early day
mining In those district "In places the
beach was very rich. Heavy storms
seem to renew the beach, and the place
thaf has been worked out. after a win
ter's storms, will freawent!ypay to re
work. The beach Just across from Ran
dolph was the richest I have ever seen.
They found a back beach there as well
as on Sixes river. v
"In June. 1854. a party of miners.
while going through tn the big bend of
the Rogue river, camped on a creek ana
due a hole near the trail. A man named
Johnson had organised the party. They
panned out $95 In coarse gold from that
hole. They named the creek Johnson
creek, and Johnson was ever afterward
referred to as Coarse Gold John son.
"Abbot and X had about decided to
give uo the store' and go over into the
Willamette valley to go Into the cattle
business, but when Johnson found
coarse gold and lots of it we chanced
our plans end decided to stay. Johnson
persuaded us to pack what goods we
had on hand and come over to the creek
he had made the discovery on, and start
our store there and also take up claims.
We followed his advice, and did well,
for during the summer several hundred
man camped along the creek and we
carried pa a profitable trade.
. .
"One of the young chaps I met here
that I formed a-liking for was a man
named John HaQey. Later he became
a stage contractor and ran the stage be
tween Umatilla and Boise and still later
ran stages (ran Portland to Kelton. He
became a delegate to congress from
Idaho and Is now state librarian Of
Idaho. His son, Tom Hailey, became
one of Oregon's supreme Judges. Tha
first 'time I met John he. was with
two other young chaps. . They came into
our store and told me they wanted to
prospect but had no money for sup
plies. Abbott and I had made a rule by
which we would outfit a man for a
week, furnish him' tools and grub, and
if within a week he made nothing he
was to bring- the tools back, pay the
1 bill it possible, or whatever bs could.
and It would be all right with ua Some
times they couldn't pay anything. Fre
quently they were able to pay the bill
in full. The margin of profit was suf
ficient so that we did not mind losing
out . occasionally. Strangely enough, In
the long run we lost very little,' be
cause the men to whom we extended
credit would afterwards find a good
claim and send the money to us. I fixed
up John Hailey and his two friends with
a week's supply of grub, and they startea
out. That very day they struck a claim
that was good. John came In that night
and paid the bill for their week's supply
of grub. They worked that claim all
summer. - Whenever strangers would
come, in and want to get hold of nug
gets or coarse gold Z would always take
them to John HaUeys claim, and John
or bis partner, Billy Royal, would sell
me the nuggets. Royal didn't leave this
mining district until 1S62. He went from
there up to the Auburn mine, near what
is now Baker."
sharing: enforce the right of collective
bargaining. Give the people of the
United States a square deal and they
are loyal to the last ditch, but beware
the wrath of a mild tempered man.
Y LEW W. GRIMM.
Gambling at tbe Fair
from tha Aurora Ooetrvar.
The Clackamas county fair counte
nanced a beautiful, array of fake con
cessions this year from'., the- "Happy
Canyon,", with Its painted, vampires,
down to the "kewpie" grafters, who
raked in the money on turns of where
the operator stood a 20 to 1 chance to
win. ; The "Happy Canyon" was so
rank a fake that many demanded their
money back And they got it! The
"kewpie" graft received a setback when
the sheriff stopped one , Thursday after
noon, which was fleecing the public the
worst. Thai operator of that game is
said to have taken in $100 without giv
ing out a Single' "kewpie." These fakes
are a positive injury to any fair.
Tbe Easiest Way
froia ths Boctea Tfstieript.
Following-the line of least resistance
Is what makes' rivers and men crooked.
r
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :
Dawn in Arkansaw a friend of mine
died a while back and left eight million
dollars he . would . like - to : of . tuck ; to
heaven with him, but couldn't : Uncle
Sam and the state of Arkansaw come in
for about, a million and .a half of it
'thont askin him a thing about it. I
reckon it would of been better 'fer the
heirs and worse for the .lawyers If the
state of Arkansaw had of tuck another
two or three millions. It would of been
enough to run It 'thout taxes fer quits a
spell. ' If ever time a millionaire died
a stated take SO per cent of what the
TJnlted ' States goVment left we could
run 'thout taxes sometimes fer a year
or two ever onct In a while, and have
good roads a plenty. besides, . .
The Oregon Cbufitry?
RertBwwt Hppiliic Brief Vera tut tbs
' Bunjr RMtdcr.
V OREGON NOTES ' t - '
0fBSdi1,iiLo,,hM-Jn "ment
yeari Yi ' rnfB from Is to 60
: Vnllam Vh J Y-a ' J ' -
"wna truck load of lumber at.Ko..n ?
oaiaraay ana lnsuntly killed. "
The Pnmiw.w.1.1 . . M . .
, ' ia. its msiory. -
. Cider and vinerar mo
a una xaii ana winter. '
d-rt1 wtate veterinarian's -Sf
MmnlLSa uPe-vid the dipping
?LTn of 8he,ep ln the southern .
uer of Oregon counties.
Concrete work on the new 7P0 barrel'
flur n mill at Pendleton Is
nearly completed, and the aiill will
begin operations January 1.
ii2.?fcrc rar torms of plant life, .
members pf the O. A. C. botany faculty"
?i.'!?b?3?.r3r ??ik" v highest moun-
Three bulldlnn ami ..vi.. ...,
tossing camp of Elmer Russell on the
Coos Bay branch of the Southern Pa
cific burned to the ground Friday.
Aioert Aarier, senior in arlcultvire
from Portland, has been elected editor
vii v0!0.11 Coujitrjman, a periodical
Published at the Oreenn A ,W.ilhi..l a
college.
Mra Marv Catherine McOiuun iv -
2.fhJa9 Supreme Judge Robert
Rakln. died at Salem Friday, a rod 4. t
Mrs. McQueen had lived in Oregon all
her life. .
After burnlnr ever 800 iwh nf vai.
low pine timber, fires which have been
ragring- in me jrTingie iutt section -of r
Deschutes county were under control
aaturaay. j-
A disease Irnnwm aa Tr... v.- '
plague has broken out. in Central Ore
gon. Gearge Hodman, a Jefferson coun
ty farmer, has lost 28 out of his herd
of SO horsea .
Everv . countv in Onmn- .v.
states and territories anT aa van fnulm.
countries are represented ln the enroll
ment oi more cnan zboo students at Ore
gon Agricultural college.
- At a meet In fir of tha tavara tnaftn
Of COOS COUntV. each tearhar aimm
Pu t??'.to accept a posiUon at les
than 11000 for nine months, to be paid .
tn 12 equal installment
M. J. Garrison earn all tlia wav w '
Asotin. Wash., to Eugene to take chares
of an alleged thief who had stolen, his
car, and when he arrived at Eugene he
luuiiu mac we man waniea was nis
own on.
. WASHINGTON
Ths 'tax rate ln Taooma will ha fa
mills for 1920, as compared with 68 mills
for im. - ., .
According to Polk's directory for I91,
just oompiled, Seattle has a population
of approximately 420,000. (
An examination will be held at Che
halls November 19 to provide a list of
eligible for postmaster at Vader.
Free night schools win be opened In
Aberdeen November S for the purpose of
teaching foreigners the English lan
guage. "
Otto Myland, who will have about 10..
000 boxes of Delicious apples on his
Selah ranch, baa sold his entire crop at
4 a box.
Captain Herbert J. tfagg of Seattle
has been appointed to succeed D. F.
McCurrach as chief engineer of the pub
llo service commission. .
From March 1 to September SO Yak
ima county collected and turned in to
the state treasury fl30.114.S0 ln auto
mobile and truck licenaea
Growers around Elberton are getting
$50 a too for their prunes, by whU-h
they- are realizing from $300 to $500 an
acre from this year's crop.
The South Bend Canning company
put up 43,000 gallons of blackberries
.this season, and 10,000 gallons were lost
because of a shortage of cana
A civil service examination will be
held at Winlock November s to choose a
successor to Miss - Wing, who recently
resigned as Toledo postmistress.
Tbe trolling launch Last Chance is a
wreck at Chinook. The crew were ,
washed overboard, but were rescued
after spending a night of peril clinging
to a rock.
Entries for the Western Royal Live
Stock show, which will be held at Spo
kane November I to 7, Include more
than E00 head of pure bred horses, cat
tle and swine.
The W-J. the second concrete ship to
be built at Vancouver, wan given a trial
trip down the Columbia Friday. Asld
from defects in .the steering gear, the
trial was satisfactory.
Alfred Bachtold. a well known resi
dent of Walla Walla, was found dead in
a berth in a sleeping car in that city
Friday morning. Ho had Just returned
from a trip to Canada.
The total shipments of Yakima prod
ucts to and Including October 11, as
compiled by the transportation com
panfosVshows Hint' 12,781 carloads have
been shipped to market.
Y IDAHO
t w. Merrill has filed his resignation
as 'county judge of P'""
and W. H. Gillespie has been appointed
to fill the vacancy.
Announcement is made of the sale by
E. P Dunlap to B. L. Bradford of 69
acres' three miles east of Twin Falls (or
$2,700. or $5S5 per acre. ;
The Idaho Fire Insurance company,
capitalised at $200,000. has been ap
provad by the secretary of state. Its (
headquarters will be at PocateJIo.
Don D Shlrla is held by Pocatelle
authorities. on suspicion of being Impli
cated tn tbe killing of iames Adkln. at
that place during a moonshine raid.
More than a dosen of the larger
lumber camps of northern Idaho are
shut down because of a walkout of tim
ber workers affiliated with the X. W. W.
Seven carloads of sheep ' were fl Is- .
patched to maraeis una wee uj ovm
valley ranchers in cooperative shipments
from Caldwell. Meridian, Nampa and
Kuna. ; '.Y'
With only 12 acres more of apples to
pick from an orchard containing 40 -acres,
A. Si Miller of BuM has already,
picked and marketed $80,000 worth, a
little more than $1000 to the acre.
Mines of ths Wallace district which
rinsed for thre. months on account .
of tha . strike,- are - fast recruiting their
crews and . mining operations are now
under wajr with tne men avanavie. ,
Y V GENERAL ' .
The steamer Pocahontas Is eh route
from London with 109 English wive of
American soldiers and sailors. , -
A strike of alectrical workers has shut
down the power station that supplies
tbe greater portion of Berlin with light
and current.
For the tHrd" consecutive term ex
President Taf t has been elected presi
dent of the general conference ' of the
Unitarian church societies at Baltimore.
A format statement from the shipping
board, regarding its policy for disposal
of the government's merchant fleet has
been requested In a resolution adopted
by the senate. ... ,
Industrial womeft workers of the new
Polish republic will be represented at
the International congress of working
women,: in Washington by five young
women from Poland,
t In a statement issued from the head
qnartera of the United States Mine
Workers of -Amerlcg. the rise In the
price of coal is "plain every-day profl
teertng." The statement adds .that there
Is absolutely no reason why coal should
advance. - . - - j . r '
f Th'e. Journal Is First In y
, ' Features " , . ,
: The Journal - takes pride In the
variety and excellence of the fea
ture material It' offers its readers.
In ' every edition a reasonable
amount of material to amuse and
entertain supplements the -news re
ports j as Is in keeping with a com
let newspaper, '
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