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Newspaper Page TextJ THE OREGON DAltY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 21,I919. ' i ya m mmm w ' 1,1 0. . JaCEsOM.w Fmbllaha VsblHaad' ttf say. sfUrsosa 5 morvAaa laenit Sunday ftnoo), t Th Jcmroal . Building. Bros? ana TaahiU it, fprtlapd. Oresoe. Juatorad at Uva Pottofflaa at PorUtaA. Omon. fur traamiidoa Ui rough toe aaUa aa mad " alaai saattaf. &LJBIHONKA Mala 717; Boaaa, A-6051. - AU dapartBMfita - nuM by tbmm nnmbm. ' Tq tbm operator what aapartmut nn want rpREiaW ADVEBTIBINO BEPBEsIMTaTIVB niearia aV Kaetaor Ca.. Braaawiak Building. "21? ruth afaoaa. Jaw Tort; 900 atallcn BntldlM. Chleaa-o. '- tab&rtotioa Unu by bmU. or ta an addiaala : the I lifted BUtaa or M.xleo: " DAILY (MORNINQ OR AmtBMOOW) Om yaar 15.00 Ona swath $ CITOAY Om yaar $1.80 I Ona month J DAILY (MORNING OB APTEBNOOM) AND j , SUNDAY t Ona yaar 17.09 I Ona month I .SB If ar magion, -bq xoereiore an eiemaai n Maoe; but lara which Include both, u ' ilia' whole. George Sewell. CAN HE EXPLAIN? -S 1 BNATOR M'NARY of Oregon will i nave to explain to the people of j 'Vj Oregon why he surrendered to '! ' Senator Lodge. Thev will want to j 'know why, at the last, he was driven ( Unto camp to vote politics primary to ; jpeace. When he returns home, as he j (00U will, his constituents will expect JWra to explain his position. A short time ago 28,007 people in j Oregon put themselves on record ) through The Journal, as favoring the ' gratification of the League of Nations covenant. In opposition all of 173 sent in their votes against the league. JThe sentiment of Oregon as shown was 162 to 1 in favor of the league. , Those people wero not voting for the emasculated covenant thrown at 'the senate by Senator Lodge and his jhand picked committee on foreign re flations. They were voting for it as .it was conceived. They wanted the 'world to have peace and tliey were .Willing that America should bear her Share of the burden and of the obliga tion necessary to keep the peace of ythe world. 7: It is not true that President Wilson ) demanded the treaty without rcserva- tlons or not at all. He told the people "Portland heard him say it here nd he told the senate he was not l Opposed to reservations that would I reserve and explain, but he was Opposed to reservations that would . mutilate and destroy, j.,; That was the issue presented oy the Lodge reservations. They maimed the covenant and left the league a cripple, ; robbed of Its strength to function. Senator McNary, and those others With whom he banded in the begin ning, were in a position to rise above ; the selfish and sordid plane of part isanship and politics into the purer fair of statesmanship to serve man kind everywhere and heal the scars of -war. But they failed to rise. Their -feet were too heavy with the clay. They could not soar above their .leader, who is Lodge. Lodge would not rise above politics. So they failed 'America and the world. Lodge is more culpable than they. " The National Parks association i Observes that last year's attendance Of 8086 at Glacier National park ; was increased this year to 18,956, or ; more than 100 per cent. Only Yel l lowotone made a larger proportion J ate gain. At Yellowstone accom- pltshments and plans for tourist ! hotels have been more noteworthy ; than elsewhere among America's .. i Playgrounds. The general increase j In the attendasce at national parks fj ; was 70 per cent, or from 451,691 In 11118 to 7S,0tain 1919. The na tional park visitors of 1919, in spite i f their number', were but guides- of i 'the multitude who will follow. It ; Would not be surprising five years y hence to record a general attend 1 ance of more than 3,000,000. and V Ot 60,000 at Crater Lake. Reallza i tion of the latter prediction, how ever, will undoubtedly be contingent upon the construction of adequate vL tourist hotel facilities. ENERGY IN ILL DOING IT MAY be there is something in the Reds for the average good citizen to emulate. For instance, we are r told on the authority of E. B. Fish .that four tons of radical literature a ,week have been entering Washington. Perhaps there would have been no Centralia massacre of ex-service men had citizens who believe in law and order been as active in distributing wholesome reading matter. There are more than a thousand ex service men In Portland who need ;Work. Yet only five employers came to a meeting to which To had been invited in order to discuss measures calculated to avert unemployment. ' Nobody wants an emergency of invol untary idleness, but Is it possible that Only one fifteenth of the employers are v willing to do anything to pre vent it? It; is frequently said that .the dan gerous radicals in this country con . etttute a: very small minority1 of the . population. But a 'minority that is 100 per asnt active will sometimes out- V number a majority that -is only 6-3 per cent active. It is time to indict the apathy of good citliecs who by sloth and ab sence give evil right of way. It is likewise time for remedial measures to be aa pungently effective as the social disease of radicalism is viru lent. This ia going to be a great Thanksgiving for father. The Con sumers' union of women, with an anticipated membership of 35,000, 000, Intends to call first a general strike on styles and to give vogue to the wearing of last year's hats and gowns. Then will come em bargoes on profiteeringly priced foods and articles of wear. From the suffering depths of our purses we'll say it is some union! IT DOES NOT PAY BERT BLAND has been oaptured and Is in jail. He faces Indictment, trial, conviction and the hang man's noose for the part he played in the I. W. W. atrocity at Centralia. He is nearing the end of the road of Red violence he sought and chose. It has not been a pleasant journey. It will not be a pleasant ending. It has not paid. Bland is a young man, but three years past his majority. He is a radi cal who believes in violence, in disor der, in death rather than in the or derly progress of the law. He be lieves In taking the law into his keep ing, in faring forth with a gun in his hands to enforce his individual ideas and desires. He has discovered that that does not pay. For a week Bland was a hunted ani mal skulking In the forest. The armed hands of honest men were turned against him. He suffered extreme hardship, almost unbearable exposure, hunger, privation and want. At last he surrendered. He faces the law he flouted and the punishment that comes to those who disregard the law who The by violence only to die by vio lence. It does not pay, except as it has paid Bert Bland in suffering and will pay him, in all probability, in death. .For thousands of years mankind has been striving to escape from the con ditions which Bland and his kind would bring back to the world. Out of their striving has come the justice- woven fabric of our laws, our courts and our governmental institutions. They have risen from injustice, unre strained might of violence and griev ous oppression, for the protection of the weak against the strong, for the firm establishment of human liberty and the universal equity between man and man. It has been a long, long fight. Abuses may yet exist. Injustice may yet be done. Greed and rapacity are still fighting their losing fight everywhere: But the world has progressed, and will as the years go on. The common man has come up out of the depths into the sunshine. The old chains of class and caste, of Inherited place and power, which for so many centuries bound the hands of the poor and the humble, the weak and those of lowly birth, have been stricken off to let these touch the door of opportunity to swing it open for their entrance. The world lives In a new day. Inequalities exist. They alwavs'wlll until the millenium comes. But the days of the swineherd and the serf are dead. Man, the common man, stands unshackled and free. The up ward road lies open before his feet- He may walk it if he wills. About him lies the protection of his govern ment, its laws, its justice-driven power, always going forward towards the goal ot mankind everywhere, to ward that time when ineaualities will cease to irk him who is striving on ward, and when absolute justice will reign supreme for everybody, and for ever. Dynamite and dirk will not smooth the road nor hasten the Journev's end. They have had their day and time. ineir usefulness has gone. The world has passed them by. The Bert Blands and their creed of violence are out lawed of men. They have no place in the present time. The footsteps of those misguided few who, espouse their cause walk side by side with death. It does not pay. For the benefit .of the anxious questioners who fear that the former mayor of Seattle may have swung from the extremes of anti Bolshevism to I. w. W.'ism, we hasten to announce that nativity of Ole Hanson is Norwegian, and that Ole Hansen, sought in connection with murders at Centralia. KinnUh Nor do we hesitate to add our hope that if the latter is guilty it will be his finish. A MAN A CITIZEN of the United States recently celebrated his eighty second birthday. His children are scattered over the face of the nation. Only two of them remain at his side to do him honor and rever ence as he passes his furthermost milestone. By wonted accounting he is not a successful man. He has accumulated no fortune. His sons and daughters have been compelled to fight their own way. He is dependent upon them for the care he ret- pie has devoted a long and active me to tne service of others. He has never grudgingly kept for himself what another needed. He has not condemned the frailties of his neigh bors nor has he spread ill report about any man. Such as he has had he has divided or has given all. But this man is powerful and tri umphant in the measure that gives place to moral and spiritual values. Ha ' baa , literally obeyed the injunc tion to "lay up your treasure above." He baa visited the sick and com forted the widow and the orphan in their bereavement He has never lacked courage In the declaration of eternal principle, and he has repre sented an abiding quality of 'unshaken faith for the inspiration of the weak and the yielding. He has prepared the bequest of a good name and the inspiration of a resolute example for those who will come after him in his footsteps. There are thousands who bless the fact that he has lived among them. Has not this man found the true secret of success? Now you get the picture. The I. W. W. of Centralia like wild beasts have retired to forest fastnesses and in thalr lairs threaten and defy the agents' of law. Like wild beasts they have no compunction as to whom they will destroy. The wife who wails over the loss of her soldier husband and the mother who clasps her orphaned babe to her breast and weeps and will not be comforted are nothing to them. WHY EASTERN SHIPS? WORD comes from Harold H. Ebey, director of operations of the United States shipping board, who is now at San Francisco, that a fleet of eight or ten new pas senger and freight vessels is to be permanently assigned to the Pacific coast for trans-Pacific service as soon as they are off the ways of Atlantic coast yards, where they are now' be ing constructed. The firt of the fleet will reach the Pacifio coast during the coming spring, so we are told. While the Pacific coast will be glad to have such a fleet allocated by the board for service here, all those in terested in the continuation of the shipbuilding industry of this coast will naturally wonder why locally built vessels could not have been fixed for Pacific coast service. It seems a little unjust that Atalntic coast builders be given the task of con structing vessels for Pacific coast service when fully equipped yards at the various Pacific ports are falling into idleness for lack of business and of support. But that is something which appar ently can not be mended now. The big thing for Portland at this time is the task confronting it of guaranteeing sufficient cargoes to bring its share of the allocated vessels into permanent and continuous touch with the Port land harbor. If that is done, as it undoubtedly will be, the final result will be the upbuilding of the com merce of the port even though the shipbuilding industry may have suf fered by neglect. The "mild" reservationists of the United States senate remind one of that ancient limerick which runs: There was a young lady of Niger, Who went for a ride on a tiger. They returned from the ride With the lady inside And a smile on the face of the tiger. IN THE DAY'S NEWS TWO police officers arrested 20auto ists Tuesday for infractions of traffic regulations on the bridges that span the Willamette. Mrs. Susan Perry sustained a broken leg and other injuries when struck by an automobile guided by Mrs. Fred Mason. Levi Tyler, on a motorcycle, struck J. Collins and both men were bruised. S. II. Rout Jr., ran down Harry Lei pold, the latter sustaining a fractured skull. On Wednesday the city council and the Ad club adopted resolutions get ting back of the campaign for reduc tion of automobile accidents. It is time that every driver should adopt and practice a resolution to "Drive Safely." The nobles of the Mystic Shrine have given to Portland streets an aspect of exotic color and cheerful energy highly pleasant to laity, who, without knowledge of the ritual and obligations of the order can yet detect the brotherhood that binds its members. BUILDING ZONES THL building zones proposed for Portland and submitted to public hearing by the city planning com mission, cover so wide a range of contemplated control that to pass the project lightly would be distinctly in error. Some thirty neighborhood zones are contemplated, the list comprehending the whole of the city. Each deals with the height to which buildings may be erected, the proportionate area to be covered by buildings and the uses to which they may be put. Eight classes of use districts are sug gested and are argued as necessary to prevent scattering of building and the intrusion of inappropriate buildings in a way that would adversely affect property values. These classes relate to business structures, residences, public buildings and industries. In regulating the heights of build ings the commission insists that the commercial value of light and air must be taken into consideration. Thus it apparently believes that busi ness and office buildings should be limited to heights ranging from six to ten stories, dependent upon their posi tion, that apartments be restricted to heights of three and four stories and that residences not exceed two and one half stories. It Is the position of the planning commission that it is better to have a large number of comparatively low buildings established over a wide area than to concentrate a few skyscrapers la one place and leave hundreds of Iota vacant. The health obtainable from freely admitted light and air and the segre gation of buildings put to diverse pur poses can be supported with argu ments hard to refute. The chief con cern should be expressed as to how speedily soning regulations, no mat ter how desirable, should be allowed to affect existing conditions. UPWARD FLIGHT OF SUGAR PRICE By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal. Washington, Nor. 2L The sugar sit uation is rapidly getting out of hand, according to reports reaching Wash ington of the restoration of the "open market" and the doubling of the price the consumer is required to pay. This is the result foreseen by Senator Mc Nary, chairman of the senate commlt teo which conducted an inquiry into the situation. With the peace treaty pend ing to the practical exclusion of all other business, it became impossible to bring the question before the senate for action on the McNary bill, under which the Cuban crop could have been ac quired at only a slight advance over last year. McNary considered addressing the senate on the matter to direct at tention to its urgency and the immense losses to follow from non-action. By so doing he felt that he might discharge a duty growing out of the situation in which he is t placed, though he could hardly hope or ask that the treaty be displaced, in view of the opposition of the Louisiana interests and the cer tainty of prolonged debate before action could be had. So week after week has gone by, and sugar is going up. Louisiana refiners are selling on the New Orleans exchange at 22H to 274 cents. New crop Cuban is being quoted at 14. This Cuban sugar, in the opinion of the attorney general, will reach the consumer at 15 to 20 cents a pound as soon as the period of control expires on January 1. Recent reports indicate that the rise in price is not going to await the ex piration of control. The reason for this Is that the sugar equalization board is only assuming control of what remains of the old .Cuban crop, which Is dis tributed at 9 cents, and such beet sugar as it is able to purchase at 10 cents. Michigan producers are now contend ing that the latter price does not allow them enough, and Assistant Attorney General Figg Is meeting with them to determine a fair price figure. a Attorney General Palmer has ad vised Senator McNary that his depart ment has not considered it advisable to establish a maximum price. Guided by the question of production cost, the at torney general is exerting his power to determine what a fair price will be, and to let competition operate if it will. Thus the federal district attorney at New Orleans, after investigation there, has reported that 17 and 18 cents will allow only a fair margin to the Lou isiana planters, and this conclusion has been accepted by the attorney general. That is what the department will re gard as a "fair price" f. o. b. planta tion for Louisiana cane sugar, and 10 cents is the accepted fair price for western beet, as determined by the sugar equalization board. As new Cuban is being quoted at 14 cents, the attor ney general holds the opinion that this should reach the consumer at 15 to 20 cents and It is possible that a big sup ply from Cuba will be so offered as to hold down the price which the Louisi ana planters evidently count upon re ceiving. Hope that practical results can be secured from the McNary bill has practically faded. The time for purchase of the Cuban crop at a small advance over last year has apparently passed. The only solace for the consumer is the amended Lever act, which authorizes prosecution for exacting more than a fair and reasonable price. The attorney general promises enforcement of that law upon complaint against any dealer, wholesale or retail. If the dealer can show that-he is making only a fair mar gin over the cost to himself, the re sponsibility shifts back to the one from whom he purchased. Confusion is prom ised from the variation of "fair prices" in the different kinds of sugar, as there will remain no agency for equalization of the price. Apparently it will be pos sible for a dealer to have on hand at he same time Louisiana sugar selling at 18 cents, Cuban at 14 and beet at 10. The fair price for each will be different, but will the dealer draw fine distinctions and inform his customer that if be takes the sugar from one bin it will cost 6 or 8 cents more than if taken from another? Had the senate not fiddled so long with the peace treaty there might be a different story to tell. What the situa tion means to the consumer is pointed out by Senator McNary in this wise : An increase of 1 cent in price on the domestic consumption amounts to $80, 000,000. If the increase is 5 cents, $400,000,000. If the increase is 10 cents. $800,000,000, nearly as much as It cost to run the government before the war. Neighborliness As a Cure From Detroit News Has the art of neighborliness been lost? There is still a remembrance of it. Many people in Detroit recall life on the farm or in some rural village. Government had little to do there. There were few officials prying Into private affairs. Every man, and every woman, too, did that which seemed good, and general acquaintance and wholesome public bpinion was all that was needed as a corrective. It was there the beautiful relation called neighborliness flourished. None could suffer lacking sympathy and as sistance ; none could meet misfortune without finding staying hands all about him. And no neighbor's dignity was compromised and no neighbor's self respect was wounded by the offer or the acceptance of neighborly aid ; the good turn was expected to be passed along merely or paid back in kind. Such was neighborliness. This factor as a corrective, sustain ing, binding influence in modern so cial organization is missed by those who have the intereesta of the great city at heart. In Cincinnati an effort has been made to replace it artificially. In what is called the Social Unit organiza tion, each city block is made, the pe culiar charge of one person, usually a woman, and supposedly possessing the characteristics of the old-time'neigh-borliness. The intricate organization of the Social Unit scheme cannot be de scribed here, but Its aim is the wholly laudable one of fighting that bane of modern city existence loneliness. Whatever the name of the method, the thing is splendidly worth doing. Sim plified, indeed, would the problem of the big city become if every Individual could be 'made to feel that he in a dis tinct and recognized wa counted in the affairs of his community; if he could believe firmly that It made a great deal of difference what he thought, what he believed, how he conducted himself, and whether h helped or hindered. Letters From the People tOoflUMuriosttoaa Mat to T1m Jownal for pobiloition la thia department should b wrtttm on only om Mm ot Uw paper, ahoald not wwd OO wordi in luxth. and mart h liMd br tbt writer, wbaee mail addraai ia (all Boat aooon pany the oontribntioo. v Not Unfriendly Criticism Portland, Nov. 18. To the Editor of The Journal After our recent bitter ex perience in loosening the strangle hold of an unreasonable bousing code upon the city it would seem that- wisdom would Indicate that we go slow in adopt ing a coning ordinance and give most careful attention to the needs and the peculiar conditions of our city. A zoning law may be the best thing in the world for Portland and there may exist at present a burning need for its enactment but because of what zoning has done or promised to do for other cities it does not necessarily follow that similar action would produce here the same immedi ate results its enthusiastic supporters would have us believe. The fact of the matter is that zonning, like the - super housing code, is a comparatively new wrinkle in civic development, and fos tered and Introduced by enthusiastic sup porters who have seen the new vision and by those whose long study has made them experts in matters of this kind and who are in demand or are able to create a demand for their excellent wares at so much per demand. Mr. Cheney, we are informed, is paid a sal ary of $500 per month to do the pioneer zone surveying, while Mr. Veiller, an ex pert in housing matters, wrote us that he would give up 3 or 4 days for help ing, fit the model housing law to Port land for $1000 and all his expenses. It is at least plain that these are not in any Bense eleemosynary movements but are put over by those who are deeply interested in their adoption. This Is not intended as .an unfriendly criticism of the work of the zoning commission, but to call attention to the fact that it is easier to adopt a new fad In govern ment than It is to get rid of one that is found not to fit this particular local ity. O. G. HUGHSON. Use Eyes and Ears Portland, Nov. 19. To the Editor of The Journal I am quite interested in the campaign against reckless auto driving. I think that both pedestrians and autoist should use their eyes as well as ears. So far I have not yet heard of an accident among the deaf mutes except one in which the autoist was speeding. As they cross the street the deaf mutes will continue td" use their eyes in both directions until they are clear across and onto the curb. Not long ago, as I was crossing Fifth and Washington streets, and was on the look out for autos I was sure all was safe and had just stepped, off the curb when an automobile driven by a young laay turned the corner. In doing so she didn't put out her hand and was looking in another direction. I got out of her way just in the nick of time, and I am deaf. Some pedestrians who can hear seem to think that's enough to prevent an accident. Those automobile horns sometimes get them excited. When they are not on the look out then they won't know which way to turn. When I lived in Omaha several years ago a like acci dent happened In which a-young lady was run down and killed. Witnesses said she became excited at the horn, when the driver was doing his best to prevent It To thinkof little Viola Cummings being run down and killed by an autoist under the influence of liquor is very sad. Those drunken autoists ought to be deprived of their license for-ever- A JOURNALIST. A Killing Blow Portland, Nov. 20. To the Editor of The Journal I have no doubt our wily Japanese friends are quietly chuckling that the Remiblican nartv nfrlo,1 h o half dozen Democratic traitors, has suc ceeded in placing the United States out side the pale of help or consideration in the matter in which all thn nthrn have joined for mutual protection and aia in war pern. Japan is now in league with some 20 nations to stand by each other In a war crisis, and our country without an ally, but in sympathy with thejttlun. Nippon has many grievances agffvst the United States, and she wilf, in my opinion, not lone delav In asking for explanations. A. the present time, in Oregon, an effort is being made to dislodge and thwart JaDanese interpsts in unlawful ways, which can only have one result icacNiineiu ana reprisal. With Uncle Sam out of the league and out in the cold with Germany, look out for a Japanese ultimatum In a very few days. As far as the west coast Is concerned Lodge and his partisans will be found to have dealt us a killing blow for no excuse except a factional spirit and a political sparring exhibition. CHAS. P. CHURCH. Wants Prorils Divided Oregon City, Nov. 18. To the Editor of The Journal I am an old member of the carpenters' union and I must say that I never liked it, but it appeared to be a necessity. But I believe there is a better way for laborers to get justice than to go on a strike along with a lot of radical aliens, a good many of whom care but very little about the future welfare of our country, and try to force our demands. Let us go at it in a dif ferent way, and say to congress, "You enact a law requiring every corporation, company or private Individual carrying on any business that requires a good many employes, to pay their employes a good living wage, according to the kind of work they do and the necessary cost of living, and in addition to their wages one-half of the net profits of. every plant, ractory, mill or whatever kind of work it may be, shall be divided evenly among every employe working at that plant or work. In proportion to the number of days each employe has worked. This division of the net profits shall be made at least once each year. GEORGE HICINBOTHAM. Queer Old Chap, Wasn't He? From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Most city dwellers, professional peo ple particularly, have a yearning for the country. There is a fascination about it to the city born. Four out of every six professional men dream of the day when they can abandon the treadmill and get out among the fields and woods, where the skyline is nature's handiwork and not a serrated border of housetops and skyscrapers. The late Charles F. Warwick, former mayor of Philadelphia, was the one conspicuous exception to this rule that I recall. He had. a horror of the coun try. Several years before his system gave way to the attacks of disease, and while he was yet wprking on his "His tory of the French Revolution," his physician advised him to go to the country for a rest. "The suggestion is abhorrent," he said. "I detest the isolation and, above all, the silence of the country. To sit and listen to the crickets, frogs and night insects gives me the blues. I want to be in the city, where I can hear the noises of the city, the clang of the trol ley and see the fire engines go by." And the brilliant and clever Warwick had his wish. His last days were spent in the city within hearing of the sounds he loved so well. "An Educated Gentleman" From the ReTicv The one thing from Lowell's Harvard address of 33 years ago which the Har vard of today can best adopt and 'en deavor to realize is its clean-cut and lofty definition of what he held up aa COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE ' Hash la the ghost of a square msaL e e A man seldom forgsta a favor he does another. - . . . Butter and axle grease, look alike to a man in love. e e Little boys who throw stones grow up and become critics. e e e A husband on earth is worth two In the other place sometimes. . Divisions among families are an un satisfactory kind of arithmetic A woman seldom laughs at a man's jokes unless she has pretty teeth. Only a doctor of long experience can look doleful when an epidemic is brew ing. A polite person is one who doesn't let other people know what he thinks of them. e e. It doesn't take much of a philosopher to draw moral deductions from the mis fortunes of others. A man wastes more time during a six months' courtship than he does all the rest of his life waiting for street cars. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred IJonahtan Tibbet, one of Southern Califor nia a interastins personalities, relates a pioneer story to Mr. Lockle. J All over the West one comes upon in teresting pioneers. Recently, in River side, I met Jonathan Tibbet, the presi dent of the Pioneer Memorial Museum association, a member of the Los An geles County California Pioneer asso ciation, of the San Bernardino Society of Pioneers and of the Southern Califor nia Veterans' association. "My father came to California in 1848," said Mr. Tibbet. "He really started in 1844. He was a wheelwright and a carpenter, and on his westward way he stopped at Nauvoo, III., where he was employed by the Mormons to make their wagons, ox yokes and ox shoes. He was the only Gentile to be employed by them, as they were very chary of employing outsiders or spend ing their money with anyone but their own people. The Mormons pulled out for Salt Lake City in 1846. After fin ishing his job of getting the Mormons ready to leave on their overland Journey for Salt Lake, father settled at one of the jumping-off places for the Wrest, now the city of Council Bluffs. -The emigrants who went to Oregon in '43 and '44 sent back such favorable re ports that all along the frontier the prairie schooners were gathering for the 2000 mile trip across the plains. All through the spring of '47, father kept busy, working for the emigrants, who were gathering to make the overland' trip to the Willamette valley and Cali fornia. His principal job was making ox yokes and repairing wagons. After seeing the big emigration of '47 off, father decided to go west himself, but as the season was late, he postponed his leaving until next spring. He started as soon as the grass was good in 1848. "There was no trouble with the Indians that year. They were friendly and, while they used to come o camp. It was more out of curiosity than to make trouble. My mother had very dark hair and dark eyes, and was considered handsome. She weighed about 165 pounds, was quite vivacious, and a good cook. An Indian chief, who visited our camp, became infatuated with my mother and tried his best to buy her. from father. He finally offered 75 In dian ponies and 35 buffalo robes, as well aa some handsdrne beaded buckskin shirts. Father, refused. This angered the chief, who thought my father want ed a larger price. Finally father smug gled my mother, during the night, to a train - of wagons about a day's march ahead, and the chief, after hanging around and haunting the wagon train for a day or two, finally departed in disgust. "If you will talk with the old pio neers, you will find that In most of the wagon trains there was a good deal of friction on the trip across the plains. Most of the men were individualists, and believed in having their own way. The captain of the train in which my father came out was a very set man. He was one of those rule or ruin men. The men of the train finally held a meeting and took away his authority as captain and elected my father. When the wagon train got to Salt Lake City, father met Brigham Young, for whom he had worked at Nauvoo. The Mor mons at this time were not unfriendly, particularly on account of their ac quaintanceship with my father. Fath er's party secured supplies here for the rest of their journey, particularly bar rels and bags made of rawhide, to hold water for their trip across the desert. "When the wagon train reached the Colorado river and the desert country the feet of the oxen were so sore and the trip had been so much harder than they expected, they decided to stop there and send two men on for help. My father and another one of the emigrants were selected to go on ahead of the rest of the party and seoure fresh animals, with which to make the rest of the Journey. After crossing the desert, my father and his companion ran across a herd of wild Spanish cattle, which Im mediately attacked them. They took refuge on a rocky butte. Father shot a bull, which was leading the herd of cattle. All the other animals immedi ately gathered around this bull and, at the smell of his blood, began pawing and bawling ; meanwhile, my father and his comrade slipped away and escaped. fhe appropriate Harvard ideal. "Let It be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth who is put under our charge ; not a conventional gentleman, but a man of culture, a man of intel lectual resource, a man of public spirit, a man of refinement, with that good taste which is the. conscience of the mind, and that conscience which Is tho good taste of the soul." As the finished product to be desired, without raising questions of content of curriculum or method of instruction, at what point would even the most modern educa tional theorist be willing to attack this definition? Standing of a Horse Thief From the Detroit News. Churches throughout the country are asked by a New York speaker to look upon profiteers as worse than horse thieves. This will give the younger gen eration an idea of how well a horse thief used to stand. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Most any statesman kin tell the coal miners and the railroad men where to head in at ; but where he Is going to head, in at if he don't take his feet off the steam radiator and do somethin' about It, Is what the av'rage statesman don't know. It will be a hot summer that'll take the furs offn a lady s'long es furs are the style. NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Li na county ia to have lots of road work done this winter, according to Commissioner D. H. Pierce. e e The apple fruit crop because of the shortage of cars Is still being moved very slowly to the Eastern markets, according to the Medford Sun. e One of the best evidences of the pros perity" of Athena is the decision of a dozen or more - of its prominent f arna, rs to establish a new bank. - The sugar situation in Pendleton is worse than it was at any time during the recent war, say local grocers who are struggling to fill orders for sugar in spite of empty sugar sacks. The sucoess of the tractor exhibition and demonstration, which exhibifion was attended by 600 persons, and as a result of which many sales were made, has decided the Medford traction mer chants to hold such an event annually and make it a very important event in the local farm machinery world. An advance in the salaries of all city officials and employes has been made by the Eugene council, effective as of October 1. Salaries all down the line from the heads of the police, fire and street departments to the tenser em ployes of these departments, and from the city attorney to the city hall janitor were boosted from $5 to $15 a month i each. Lockley "Within a day or two they ran across a vaquero, who worked for Antonio Maria Lugo. At this time Lugo owned this entire country. It was an old Spanish land grant, which he had pur chased. This Mexican cowboy brought my father and his companion to Urbita Springs, where Lugo happened to be at the time. My father told Lugo the plight of the rest of his party and Lugo at once sent out a large party of Mex icans and Indians, with bull carts and pack animals, to bring the party in. At that time there was no wagon road over the mountains, so the Mexicans and Indians toJt the wagons of the emi grant parj. apart, carried them across the pass ox sleds or on pack horses, and reassembled them on this side of the pass. Lugo not only helped the party in, but furnished them provisions and guides to continue their trip to Southern California. On Christmas eve the whole party camped on the San Gabriel river, near the San Gabriel mis sion. I have often heard my mother tell about their first Christmas celebra tion in California. They cut a willow tree and tied additional branches to it, to make it as much like a Christmas tree as they could. The women folks made rag dolls, which they put on the tree for the children. In the evening they all gathered around a camp fire and sang old fashioned hymns and songs. That was Christmas eve, 1848. "My father met D. B. Wilson, who lived near San Gabriel mission. He helped locate many of the party, and advised my father to go to San Pedro, where he could get work as a carpen ter. Our family went there, where father secured a job at $10 a day as a ship carpenter, repairing a boat in the harbor. Mother made more money than my father did, doing fine sewing and making buttonholes for the wealthy Spanish women. After working at San Pedro for two or three months, a Span iard named Manuel Dominguez grub staked my father to so to the mines. This was in the early sprinp of 1849. Word had come down to Southern Cali fornia about the fabulous riches to be found in the gold fields of Central Cali fornia. My father was 6 feet 3. In pite of being a very strict Methodist, he was a good deal of a scrapper, and was always able to hc4d - his own in any trouble that came htf way. Short ly after they got to Hangtown, which is now called Placyville, father started a pack train and mother started a res taurant. She got a dollar apiece for all the pies she could make. Father was not only a good worker, but he al ways seemed to be lucky. He made a lot of money with his pack train and with this money he began hiring new comers to prospect for him, and ajso to work claims that he had gotten hold of. He soon was making money hand over fist. My mother, however, had the biggest stroke of luck. A miner stopped at her place one night. Next morning he was too sick to go on, and so for the next few days he stayed there, re covering his strength. Mother nursed htm, fed him well, and when he was ready to go on he told her that he only had a very little amount of gold dust, and he doubted if he would be able to pay the bill. She told him there was no bill ; that she was glad to have been able to help him, and that ne would need what little gold dust he had, and to keep It. He said to mother, 'I may bp broke, but I have a placer claim ; I am going to write you a deed to It. 1 can find another claim. In any event, I am too sick to work this one. You can have It.' When father came, mother told him about this claim. He had It prospected. It turnedjout very rich. Mother sold It for $40,000, which was pretty good pay for two or three days' lodging. For months, from every miner who stopped there, she made Inquiries about jthe sick man, but as she had only known him by his nickname, she was never able to get any trace of him. Father finally hap pened onto an exceedingly rich claim, so that he soon had several times as much money as my .mother had gotten for the claim. She said -to father, 'We have all the money we need. I want to go back home. We only came out here to make money. We have made it. Now let's go home and buy a good ranch and live near our people.' She kept after father until he finally sold out his pack train and his claims, cleaned up and, in 1851. with several hundred thousand dollars, they started by ship for the Isthmus of Panama." Curious'Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Plsees There was no capital of the United States during the Revolutionary war, for the reason that there was no United States. The United States did not he come an organized country until lf89, when the government may be said of ficially to have begun March 4. Dur ing the Revolution what are now states were merely colonies of Great Britain. The will of the people was expressed by an organized body, however, known as the Continental Congress. That con gress had various meeting places dur ing Its career, as events, made changes necessary. It met first In Carpenter's hall, Philadelphia. September S. 1774. The second Continental congress convened May 10, 1776. in Independence hall, Phil adelphia : third, December 20, 1776, Bal timore, Maryland ; fourth, March 4, 1777, Philadelphia ; fifth, September 27, Xjun caster. Pa. (One day's session) ; sixth. September 20, York. Pa. ; seventh, July 2, 1778. Philadelphia ; eighth, June 10, 1783, Princeton, N. J. ; ninth, November 26, Annapolis. Maryland ; tenth, November 1. 1784. Trenton. N. J. ; eleventh. Jan uary 11. 1785, w York ; twelfth, Nov ember 7, New York: thirteenth. Nov ember 6, 1786, New York : fourteenth, and last, November S, 1788, New York. New York was the first seat of the goy enuzient under the constitution. -r , : $ , The Oregon CoiitTtry ' V, Northweet Happening la Brief Tom 1st the Buiy Reader. OREGON NOTES Of 1850 students registered at the Uni versity of Oregon, only 20 are foretgn born. . Two feet of snow has fallen at Ka mels. in Umatilla county during the past week. Completion of the Roseburg school census shows 1396 children In the city between the ages of 4 and 20. William Lowe drove into Burns a few days ago with $2500 worth of furs that ne had trapped in Harney county. The school census in Hood River county. Just completed, shows a total of Z3.2.r an increase pf 261 over last year. Steps are l.eing taken at Fossil by mothers, wives and sisters of ex-Holdiers to form an auxiliary to the American Legion. Of the 11 students graduated from the state normal school last week, eight al ready have positions as teachers In Ore gon schools. .Ji!1".6 fund" for Playground, school children of Kugene collected dur- ,afft he Wek 7tU0 I'uni8 of paper and 19b0 pounds of old rag. f,A Vnt walk bullt by students . Jllamette university, was dedi cated Wednesnay night, a bottle of milk being used for the christening. Several small bridge .,n Maple creek and a long spun on Kiddle creek in the western end of Lane county were wTashed out by the recent high water. While repairing an automobile near Silverton Willie Sandel was ba-Uv In jured and his eyesight nearly destroyed when the gasoline tank exploded Night ad day shifts are niching work On the giant tunnel tnr tho i i Project ip Umatilla county. Nearly phMed f Ule 12,341 feet are t'om'- Frank Elmer -Holdman. ' disclTarKed sailor, was shot through the left leg by an armed hobo near Gold Hill Hohl Tl11''8 compelled to crawl three miles to his home. nev' iGnilaer' wh0 represented Har ney and Malheur counties in the ion 5 u'Pi announces hia cand.dacy for Snere,ectedhC PrVlded ho ' N. F. Macduff, supervisor of the S(a- veyar. h0' fre"' for "rnbof years, has been appointed supervisor of ClydeaRCaseeitati0na, ,or-t nnAv,ar?n GiJ,b,'r, 2-yar-old son of St4 St m Cotla" Grove, died sudden!? lSttMn-aytne y"ner children find ing him dead on his bed when they re turned from school. y . lL Young, postmaster at Hermls- ton has resigned his position to return Orelnn in frm Wh'Ch ,ta,e "' came 2 Oregon 10 years ago. He is to ha ceeded by Charles K. Skinner" ' WASHINGTON r.vlT? i,undre,l pefsons took part In a inn dIl.ve .at . asco recently, in which 1800 of the little pests were slain PoNri rirSSTt plYcetusint0 aft6r A 6 " W e" arVlv-TCTa X IrLt! tTots'1 Ut l - rw.a.il0 J"1"0" Rt Bellingham and Chehalls, which opened last Monday have closed down again, making "he shutdown complete In the sTa". J. A. Hearst, for many years a m-om. inent merchant of Leavenworth wm drowned while out hunting at the had of Lake Wena tehee last Sunday Automobile owners of Chelan county Th 9,formetl a, vi"nce committee for he fawPanrt r ,lorting , violn.ion. of tice bringing violators to Jus- Nineteen Industries of Taeoma have rganlsed "The Associated Industries of lacoma" and. will ftglu for he own plan of government. Lee Linton of Everett, a taxlcab fhr lVrinZ" ' !per Ti6d,hav.lnK. PI'rntly been mur- ,, mAH-au was miSBlng. With the remark that it wai too warm in the room. Mrs. J. H. Hatte opened a window on the fourth floor of the obb building in Seattle, climbed over the ledge and dropped to her drth. The Indian reclamation service will construct a siphon two and a half miles long and 48 inches in diam-ter thm Tjj-Dr i ;onv'y wn'er to 3UOr lu r, 8 f rertile land on the Vakima re.-.ervat Ion. Ninety Russians met at beanie a few days ago under police protection ;,nd drafted a petition to th,. ..v.-rnm-nt asking that Russians In Am.-rlr-y d.nli ous of returning home he ici.int.d ,. porta. ' With an offer of power cheaper than the municipalities are able to i;rumf;ic ture It. the Washington I'oucr company pas recently made important extensions in the Inland ; mplre and lias reached a record lead of sh.Ouo horsepower. Dr. Issa Tan im lira, commlsaioner of livestock for Japan, has arrived at Se-' attle or the purpose of providing the emperors stable with the bent f per I men of the horse family in existence, and is willing to pay as high as $.,0 0K) for such a horse. IDAHO Four ranches In Lemhi counlv. sggre gating 1097 acres, have heen "snld the past week for a total of $59,000. According to the November, report Just released, the Idaho state potato crop this year will amount to fi20 cars. I. H. Nash, stats land commlsntoner. reports the sale of 2760 acres of stats land, at an average nrlca of 122 Sfi an acre. The state of Idaho has purchased from six Idaho banks $650,000 worth of her own treasurv notm noti i u riU, . in state finances. The burenti nf .riv, ..ti.... that the Idaho crop of commercial sd- nu win loini carloads an ncrease of 00 cara.over thi; previous estimate. ., u All hone of f WiH ! , , - ,u i -. - , V. .......r, i iiin.in in Charles Patterson of Salmon, who was iwoi. in me mgn mountalna nt the head of Hayden creek three weeks rigo while hunting, has been abandoned. Van E. Rogers, cashier of the McCam mon bank at Pocatello, who was found at his home a few days ago shot through the head, has Admitted nn attempt at suicide, owing to despondency over ill health. A special grand Jury hai returned 120 Indictment in connection with the recent Omaha riots." The recent election In Belgium gives the Catholic party 7;i Keats In the cham-t ber of deputies, the Socialists 70 and the the Liberals 34. The first foreigner to receive a war decoration by the young Polish govern ment ia Captain Merlan C Cooper of Jacksonville, Kla.. flight leader of the Kosciusko flying squadron. Victor Rosewater, editor of th Omaha Bee. has been adjudged in contempt nt the district court as an outgrowth of a campaign the Bee has waged agaWet the Omaha police department. Judge Nueaale, In district court at Blamarck. N. D.. has lesued an Injunr. tion against the aeixure of coal m1ne by Governor Frazier and has ordered them returned to their owners. Olden Oregon Founder Oregon's Sheep Industry Was Potential Filibuster. I r .Tanh t ,R it tt'hn m nrar i eA u lit. ....-v . V,. .V.l.l .1 TI I 111 IIAV- ing brought the first band of sheep ta Oregon, was a native of Ohio and a dreamer. Influenced by stories of th richness of California, circulated long be fore the discovery of gold, he conceived the scheme of founding a colony) He planned to land a shipload of men on the Califernia coast, raise the Americas nag and organize an American state. The scheme did not materialize, but Lease-went to California via Mexico in 1835 and there accumulated a drove ei heap. ... : .