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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.
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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
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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.
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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. ... : .