THE OREGON DAILY JOURNALT PORTLAND, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 4 Asia, 12 4; , ......ynbflab IiitiHhed Tr das.- f sjenrtn - ltlra( Sonde afternoon), . Building, Breed - Mi Perutnd, Orrtmi. at The Journal . - . . i - KMtklrf. OMSOB. , far lr.ii taraue the Muia wood TLErH0XZ8 Mttn 7171 H. AJ All ditt Mac-had fc thM Hint ' TS ta eserator fct Separtme r gORElO aDVEBTISISa BCTBKe!TAtTT8 . n..i.mi m. KMr (k. Bramwiek Bafldinc. V" 225 rifta tmu. XortJ 00 Mallets ubripUoa Urn by Mil. at to so addr " tb tnit4 gutM of Muice: DAILT IlIORNUra OR UTtRMOON) On mt tS.OO I On Month I M --..-. '- flCX DAT iu m ' ... SS.BS I On mnnfh . . ... . S -SS " DAILY (MOBKINO OR AFTEBNOON) AST) ; Ou Mr 1110 I On taonth t - WkOtW thtokl S fmltl pts to . Think what a'r was, do U, nor Pop. PORTLAND BOY BANDITS P .ROVDED with spot light, pliers and other tools, three boys of 18, and 15 respectively were picked ' . ak- -.. 1 Ik. DaIiwI up uu wic streets uj mo rwrtwiiu .'police shortly after midnight. All were armed with loaded revolvers. .Two of the guns wtre newly pur- chased. ' - i Here apparently was a newly pro ' Jected bandit gang. The police believe ' the trio were starting out for a hold f up. Keep the ages in mind 18, 16. 1$. ' And think of the hour after midnight. ) Where were their parents? Why did ' they not see to it that these boys were - In bed In the family home, where all ; boys' of that age ought to be at that - time of night? -A few days ago In Portland, three boys of 17, 18 and 19 confessed before J the police authorities to seven hold ; ups. They1 were captured in their ai ; tempt at an eighth. What is a city coming to when the imaginations of :,. Its boys in their teens are fired with J thoughts of banditry? . - Is there among many of these youths In Portland a widespread, talk along the line of valuable things to be ob- ' talned by hold-ups? Are boys hearing! ' from one another of the exploits of boy gangs who have successfully 'held up citizens and taken their valua bles? - Boy nature Is bey nature. The war - gave them Impressions. Thellins, the , battles, the uniforms and all the satur ' . nalla of slaughter awakened the sav age Instinct. The stories of gallantry and bravery appealed to their lmagi- ' nations. The "aftermath Is here. Boys 'with newly bought pistols ready to go ; out on an expedition of banditry are a very likely consequence. , Mayor Baker's position Is unassail . able: when ha Calls upon parents to have a care. The thought of parents that their boys are all safe is fol de l' rol. Borne of their boys have already gone wrong. It was somebody's son Of tt that did the deadly shooting, at Claremont Tavenu Three of some body's sons, have confessed to seven hold-ups in Portland.. Three1 of some- body's sons were picked up after mld- nigfat with a dark lantern, revolvers - and tools, ready to force belated cftl- - sens to stand and deliver. It Is not In Portland alone that these v things are happening. There. Is a wave of them all over the country. There la a deep underlying cause. The ab ' normal conditions that follow war are -. to ; be reckoned with, and parents v whose boys have been safe In the past must Inaugurate new measures or Some of them will be like the gray haired little woman who, in deep dis tress, flew Into the arms of her bandit I. son of 17 under arrest at the police . station the other night. These boys ought to be saved. They do not know what they are doing when they' are out with dart-lanterns and burglars' tools and revolvers after midnight " Mayor BalTer should be supported! in , bis appeal to the parents of Portland . to look after their boys and girls now as they never did before. , -. On the Pacific coast we have been hearing, sympathetically as a . matter ;f pride for the West, Se- , aUIe'e boast that she had become in second port or the nation. Now Philadelphia arises, and with a claim of ,7.tl,lll gross tonnage for the fiscal year, demands second place, contesting the honor with New Or leans and referring not at all to the Puget sound metropolis. FOR CHRISTMAS 4 0' lREGON first In the Liberty loans Should , be first on the ledger when the government closes! its books December 31 on the 1019 sales j; of War Savings Stamps and v treasury savings certificates. That .marching Americanism which brought upon us the eyes of the nation during the Liberty loans, eoupling the name of the estate with everything best In American character, will keep us In Jlrsi place.. ; , Ohio leads now In per capita jnviest meat. Less than a month,, remains to aos lier out,. anoVevery man. and woman who has at heart the honor and reputation of Oregon should get squarely behind the - fruitful - War Savlngs"stampaign now being waged by Oregon Elks to keep the state in first place. " - ", - t The , government Is bending; every effort to Induce people to give War Saving Stamps and treasury savings certificates for Christmas presents, hoping thus not only to Inculcate thrift but to cut down the prevalent terrific Indulgence in luxuries. -By damming the tremendous flow of capi tal now pouring into the production of non-essentials and turning It into a greater output of necessaries, by the unflinching thrift and saving of mil lions of citizens; we can bring prices of the essentials of life within reach of the man of small means and thus at a stroke silence those who would recruit hungry men in a war upon the Institutions of the republic. . The government's Christmas thrift v call is a reveille to the sound, simple, robust, responsible Americanism of our fore fathers. Unless we heed the call no man can predict how high or how hard the waves of economic rebellion may beat upon the shores of America. Again we rise to commend the discerning Justice of Governor Ol cott. His denial of the right to drive automobiles for 30 days to N. P. Sorenson and Joe Mlelke, both of whom rest under heavy fines and jail sentence for traffic law viola tions, makes all who traverse the streets feel safer. TH& BIG I. W. W. "f T WILL be a damned long time before they send Truman H. Newberry to Jail," said Congress man Pordney of Michigan al Detroit Tuesday. If Newberry Is guilty of a felony as charged in the grand Jury indict-' ment, why "a long time?" If. in violation of a statute, Newberry spent naif a million or a million In corrupt ing voters in Michigan, why should he not be punished, the same as any other man? Are the Jails only for boy bandits and not for Newberrys? Are rich Newberrys beyond the law and only poor folks subject to legal i penalties? Are there two kinds of law in this country toothless law for Fordney'g friends and laws with teeth for plain people? Vongressmen Fordney rants and 6torms against I. W. W.ism, as be i ought to do, but what more dangerous I. W. W. is there than a congressman, elected to make laws, who insists that laws must be suspended for his wealthy corruptionist friend? The thing that most reluctantly enters the city Is netghborliness. It flourishes where communities are smaller and life Is simpler, but in the city where the average Indi vidual is submerged by dollar chas ing and commercialized pleasures, neighborllness Is little more to he expected than a thaw at the .North Pole. If the plans of community service organization result in creat ing a spirit of neighborllness In the various districts of Portland, if the people are led to get acquainted, to provide their own entertainment, to seek out talent from among them selves and to become friends it will be worth a thousand times Its oostv no matter what It costs. THE CHANNEL PROJECT P ORTLAND must work out her own port salvation. This Is the force of Colonel Slat- tery's recommendation against the 35-foot channel project. It i a demand that the business which follows port Improvement shall be sufficient to Justify further im provement. It places a new emphasis upon the necessity to organize and finance home owned steamship lines, to advertise more broadly our present extensive port facilities, to secure business getting representation in other port9, to support the Industries which will create Inward' and outward cargo movement; to give merchant and ship per support! td" steamship service al ready provided, to persist in the Just demand for a rajl rate that will recog nize the Columbia water grade and thus give ports of the Columbia the position to which nature entitles them In assembling and distributing the freight of the Columbia basin. There is nd use quarreling with the engineers conclusions. He sees the question from the engineer's careful and analytical point of view. The cost Of the Improvement already mad charged against the commerce which the port enjoys on a per ton basis, is very considerable. Our argument that shipping of the future will Justify additional Immedi ate outlay, nj matter to what extent, will have littje force expressed merely in words. . We know that the commerce which will come to the Columbia will make this one of j the great ports of the world. But j faith without works Is dead. The government has done much for the Improvement of the Colum bia. The people of this community have assumed debt amounting to manjr millions of dollars to provide water terminal facilities. Now Is the time for business Interests and business men to capitalize and Justify all this publlo liberality. AH the argument for the 85-foot channel voluminously, filed with Colonel Slatitery for the consideration of the United States engineer corps would seemjfeeble contrasted with the convincing oree of one well organ ized, strongjy financed, home owned and home supported steamship line. ' The hlgji; cost ot clothing fluids a unique- explanation la. the observ atlon of .a Portland merchant 'who has been In the East. Prohibition oxa it, he ' say., - jaan Who - once wore rags to order .to buy now paint are now buytnsr 'garments to match Improved, complexions. . - , THE PRESIDENTS PROPOSAL r N THE president's message are these words: i Thm rlefct of Individuals to strfkela imrioi&t nA niiB-ht not to b Interfered with by any process of govemnAnV but there Is a predominant rigM. and that to the right of the government to pro tect all ol iti people .and to assert its power and majesty against the challenge of any class. The government, when It asserts that right, seeks not to antago nise a class, but simply to defend the right of the whole people as against the Irreparable harm and Injury that might be done Bv any class to usurp a power that only government itself has a right to exercise vas a protection to au. Any other course might lead to com plete anarchy. The prime purpose of government is protection of those who live under it. If there Is to be no protection there need be no govern ment. . If a group of coal miners, mistreated by grinding employers, stop the entire production of coal and plunge In dustry Into stagnation and thousands into idleness, that is not protection of the people. If government does not interfere in such a case it does not fulfill Its responsibility. It does not serve the purpose for which It was created. It becomes a failure, and when government falls, we have anarchy or near anarchy. The president suggests a means of 'settling such disputes. It is not a ! new remedy. But after all, if the I principals to Industrialism cannot agree among themselves what other remedy is, there? His recommendation is arbitration. Employers have long insisted that they 'have nothing to arbitrate. They held that the business was all theirs, and that they were under no obligation to recognize their workers, or to treat with them collectively, or even to negotiate with them. From them, some workers' groups have learned to oppose arbitration. The coal miners refused to arbitrate. They chose a general coal strike with the avowed intention of stopping coal production and freezing the country into submission to their demands. There is no reason for any group of any kind to resist arbitration. In the end itust come to that, because there is no, seeming way of settlement to be reached otherwise. Certainly, the present turbulence and -discord cannot continue, because if it does, the coal strike will some day have its sequel in a greater general strike with more sinister consequences than are the present unfortunate conditions. Portland will now witness whole sale deportations of a kind peculiar to the closing year. All the unli censed dogs are to be hustled to the pound. The whines of protest would Inspire sympathy except for the thought that town is a poor place for a dog anyway. WE WILL HOPE AYBE the present session of con gress will give the country a budget system for the regulation of national appropriations and governmental expenditures. President Wilson, In his message just presented to congress, urges that such legisla tion be enacted. He has been a con sistent advocate of the plan since long before his election, contending first in articles written by him that good business demanded the reform, and, after election, In his messages. For years there has been a growing publlo demand for such legislation at the hands of congress as would put the budget system Into effective opera tion. Congress alone has stood out against the reform. There has been too great a hankering after pork and political expenditures for such a scheme to win warm support In either the house or the senate. And, too, it has met with the opposition of the departments and bureaus of Washing ton. These have had too free a hand in fixing the amounts which they contended congress should give them. All they have had to do, generally speaking, was to ask in order that It be given them. President Wilson urges that legisla tion be enacted which would make It the duty of the executive department to prepare and submit the annual budgets to congress. He also advo cates that these be passed upon by a single money committee in each house in order to centralize both the request and the granting of appropriations against the treasury. But' he also makes another, and a most important suggestion, when he urges that an adequate plan of accountancy be formulated In order that congress and the people might know how the money given the various departments was expended and for what it was spent Senator McNary gives it as his belief that the ' present congress will enact a budget law. It Is to be hoped that he Is right in his supposition. If Senator Polndexter does not atop trying "to upset Wood's boom" as a current headliner says he is doing, he la liable to "shiver - his timbers," as the old salt would say, Distrust of the United States - Fnw tt Toronto Oloi In British countries parliaments wffl hereafter decide Issues of war and peace; the days of , traditional diplo macy which puts the power to do so In the hands of a few men, regardless of what , public . opinion might he, have passed, sit congress can take to itself a Ilk authority there can be no" reason able complaint by any of the free coun tries of the world. But when such an asseveration is preceded by a declara tion that the United States will not be a party to-any peace treaty terms that i would place upon her the slightest bur den looking to thV settlement of the problems left by the' war or the guar anteeing of future peace, the senators must not be surprised If their country is regarded with some distrust. European countries that suffered alt the horrors of a ghastly conflict for nearly five years cannot forget that the completion and signing of the peace ireaty, to them of most vital Importance, was long delayed In order that the plana of the United States for the prevention of war might be presented by that country and. made part of the terms that Germany and her allies should be compelled to accept. THE PROPHET OF HOPE itarry Lauder Holds 1hat God's in Bis Heaven, and All Will Be Right With the irld. ' By Earl C Brownlee For Sir Harry Lauder, favored son of Scotland's heaftiered hills, the war struck home. Through the heat of the strife cam a great illumination when, among the flaming popples that covered the mound of his son's grave In Ploardy, the quaint Scot found his God. There came also that vast lesson In service to mankind that Lauder pic tured brilliantly before several hundred Portland club men. gruests of the Port land Rotary club at the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday. , Through a maze of rolling "R's" dripped a melody of sentiment that drew an appealing picture of the new role he Is -enaotlng In the light of his own sacrifices a picture colored with the vigor of those sacrifices to fit a frame new to the character of the famous comedian. Prom the hearthstones of the homeland to the great family circle of nation, Lauder's picture held true to a splendid faith in the goodness of a war wrought world and the ultimate prevalence of all things in the world that are right with God. "God is right," Lauder declared. "If we are right with Him we will be right all along the line. "For English speaking peoples to be right there Is nO need for a League of Nations. Among ua our word la our bond. A "put it there,' with a hand clasp for a seal, is better than the golden seal of other governments. "But for these other folk who are not like mi WeU. thev must slan the pact the League of Nation a ww I have known nothing all my life but hard mrk. There were 10 years of it in the coal mines and other years elBe- vht" Tender Raid in an interview following the enunciation of his stand on the League of Nations. - in De ov years old next August and I'll feel that my life and my labor had been vain without the reward of a clear conscience. 6o may It be with nations. It may take time, but only right can prevail. "If we can rignt a wrong mai w 1 uin tn rnmmit and do it In the same length of time it took up to fight tttm trnrM'a imgtnt WM. Wft ahall haVB done marvelously welL But, be It four years or 40, we are going to right the world, and tne; Droaaest step in mm direction is the League of Nations. "In the Individual llfs clean living is the thing of first importance. The knowledge of those of us who had clean, manly fathers, and clean, woman ly mothers. Is of greaf cheer. There is no bound to our progress no bound to the progress or nations uuwo up ui such as we. "I am convinced beyond argument mat the League of Nations is of clean parent- a rrai T Dm mnvlTICMl th A leaCUe iS right. We will come to it tomorrow If we do not come to it today, une league oi Nations la inevitable. "Of course,. I have my own opinions as to the action of the senate of the United States, but I feel it til behooves me to express them. "RaiHhevlam and the other Isms' can not prevail among English speaking peo ples. There neea db no iear ui wai. The old world has had many tussles, but .i.h i riirKt Klwava. The war was a fight in which were two gods the God in heaven and the god on earth. And today the German kaiser is growing a beard to hide his shamed face. Right again prevailed." ct, tTarrv fnncluded his interview as lie did his address, with a stirring refer- - nrVAra and their worka Dlll- gent service, without thought of reward. will ever bring its rewaro, utuuur de clared. "There is not In the world today a successful man who worked by rule and the clock and there never will be. Successful men are amgent, applying fniie-t; Anereies toward their work. The worker who dictates a limit to his day and at the same time attempts to .i.. o limit to hla emoloyer's capital cannot always reap the rewards that under present conditions, ne aemanaa. The Farce of "Deportation" Charged to Congress From the New Tork World. The nation will receive with deep dis appointment official confirmation of the fact that deportation as a bar to unfit Immigrants has broken down, and that of the "Red tralnload" of agitators brought from Seattle six months ago with such a flourish, only seven men have been sent away, while but three are held 22 who advocated forcible revolution having been turned loose in the metropolis. feeble-minded or diseased persons have been liberated under bond and have simply disappeared in the mass of humanity, often under new names. The almshouses shelter thousands lawfully subject to deportation. Red leaders Who are still held make no secret of their subversive aim. "You have got us in iaU." they say. "but our turn is coming and then God help you I We will blow the heads off a few people like you (members of congress) when the time comes." Every country is sole judge of the' conditions upon which immigrants shall be admitted. If in this vital matter the will of America is thwarted, not all the blame rests upon the administrators of present laws. Tne visiting represen tatives and their associates In congress must admit their share of fault for failing, in a case so plain and a need so urgent, to pass stringent and practic able laws. Let us not waste time bewailing the fact that deportation has been a farce else must we include tn the Indictment a congress, fully warned, that has done nothing I Let us face the future. -Let us have a deportation law and deporta tion ; administrator that will deport. New York's East SideNow Like Any Other Good Town From th Boston Transcript. If the king of the Belgians has seen many American plays or vaudeville sketches be must have been disappointed In his recent slumming tour of New York's East Side. . Like San Francisco since the fire, the Bowery since th war and prohibition is not what it once was. Perhaps It never was what it was pictured as . being on "the American stage. Anyhow, the tough who wore a black sweater and cap, who walked with a swagger and .. talked profanely through his nose is ao longer to b seen on the East Side.' Neither is his stage companion, the shabbily dressed, - - - - i - - v . - v tousled haired girl, who talked a strange dialect out of the aide or her mouth. -The crowds that throng. East Side streets today are not much different from - those seen on - Broadway and Fifth avenue. They are as well dressed, as alert, as clean and as respectable appearing. The girla wear chic hats and expensive looking coat, suits. The men dress like the well dressed men of any other city or section, and some of them carry canes. Branches of fashionable Fifth avenue . shops have been established in the heart of the lower Last Side and are apparently do ing a prosperous business. The gin shops have largely disappeared and their places are taken by well stocked storea Corner loafing is a thing of the past. All that makes the present East Side of Interest to the tourist are the pushcart markets and the density of the crowds that parade the pave ments. So if King Albert bad formed a notion of New York's congested district on the basis of stage representations he will return to his kingdom dissatisfied. If. la addition, he had built up a pic ture of the West founded on the motion pictures, he will go back home regard ing all - America as a snare and a delusion. Letters From the People i i fr . " wjma wu mi a urn j uuiuai lur r (WininiUUM ..a - m. T M ruup-,uuu au ims uryaruneni uiouia dsj wniun MR nnlw nrtm mirA. f k K.a 800 wprd in length, and most b usnad bj tb vntr. whoa m&il sxktreA la full xaut ccob pan? tb contribution. J To Stop Automobile Murder Portland, Dec. 8. To the Editor of The Journal What 1b the matter with Portland? Every day I see in the paper "What will we do to stop automobile accidents?" It Is not what will we do. but whaj we will do. Get busy and taUceiess. Do something. What is there to hinder the mayor and council from getting- together and drafting an ordi nance to stop this slaughter. It seems to me they don't realize that most acci dents happen where there are no traffic offgcers. Have the nut who wants to commit suicide looked after. Go to the upper end of Broadway and Sixth street at night if you want to see crazy driv ing, and even on the bridges. Cut the peed down so It will be impossible for machines to run together. Let every reliable cltlsen appoint himself a traffic officer, and whenever he Bees careless or fast driving take the number of the machine and turn it in to the police station. People are speed crazy. Too many boys and girls are driving ma chines. It would be Just as safe to give a boy of 10 years a high power rifle and let him shoot as hi pleases as to I ici euiuo oi me nuts arivs a machine on the east side, where they go 25 to 30 miles an hour. r-JWe can't help but have accidents. Mike them all slow down to 10 miles an hour at all street intersectiona Then they can stop and not have the accidents we are having. It is a shame and a disgrace to allow things to go on as they have been. Look at the Southern Pacific railroad during No Accident week in October not an accident on oyer 1200 miles of road and with over 5000 employes. If the city fathers can't devise some means, some railroad man can tell them how it can be dbne. When a railroad company finds bad conditions it gets busy and issues a bulletin at once and. changes the bad conditions. It doesn't wait a month, or until one or more are killed. It Is not safe now for a man to take bis family out for a little pleasure. He can't tell when some nut will come along and run into him. I see by today's paper that nothing has been done yet to stop the slaughter. This time last year we had the flu with ua Then we got busy at once. We quarantined and did everything possi ble to check it. We did not just ta!k, like we are doing now. There have been 36 deaths so far this year. This is simply murder. Besides, there have been 1100 accidents. Who is to blame? I wOl tell you the mayor and council. They are the servants of the people and their duty is to protect the people. When we had the horse there were speed restrictions and no one was killed. There is no excuse for the absence of arc ordinance which could be passed In a day, to stop this slaughter. Make it severe at first, to wake the people up, and it could be modified later. Let something be done. An automobile is "no toy or boy's plaything. It is as dangerous as a loaded rifle, in the hands fof some of -the nuts now handling them. As I said before, get busy and do some thing and talk it over afterward. Tell the people what is what, through the columns of the newspapera Send a few more to jail and make fines heavier. Adopt the one-way traffic system on the streets ; then, when a pedestrian crosses the street he will not have to dodge cars both waya And keep pleas ure cars off Washington and Morrison streets from Tenth to Third. There are a dosen ways to stop this needless slaughter. A RAILROAD ENGINEER. Oleomargarine's Claims Stated Chicago, Nov. 30. To the Editor of The Journal The Journal of October 27 contains an article by Hyman H. Cohen, entitled ' "Oleomargarine a Butter Men ace," which attempts to warn dairymen regarding the increases In sales of oleo margarine. We feel that the question of oleomar garine production should be considered from the standpoint of publlo interest, rather than from the effect upon one interest, such as the dairy industry. As a matter of fact, weare convlnoed that there Is room for both industries. In that butter production in insufficient to meet th demand for edUl fats, and many persons would have to go without a spread for bread if they could not. use the less expensive oleomargarine. We claim that if it were not for oleomar garine, th supply of fats In this coun try would be insuf fcient, and that serious results would follow. Notwithstanding the fact that there is a demand for more butter than is pro duced, many other outlets for milk are being developed, such as ice cream, con densed milk, cheese, etc. There is am ple room for the growth of th dairy industry without any discrimination against! oleomargarine. Finaliy, scientists agree that oleomar garine is equal to butter from a food value standpoint, and that oleomargar ines. In, which there is a large percent age of bleo oil and som butter, contain the growth elements, or vitamines, which are being so widely discussed in dairy circlea ; Undoubtedly your readers would be interested in hearing the facts on the Other sid of the case, and we trust that you win accord us the oourtesy of space in your columns for th publication of this letter. SWIFT tc CO., Per O. C. X. MATTHIES, . Commercial Research Department. Another Lost Pocketbook Portland, Deo, 2. To the Editor of The Journal A recent contributor based his opinion of th betterment of the world on the recovery of an almost empty pocketbook, and by the same pro cess of arguing X might base an entirely different opinion. On November 1 I lost a pocketbook in the town of Gresham, containing over $50. I Inserted a notice in the Gresham Outlook for two num bers, and have not heard from it alnoa. X suppose it did not fall into the hands of an honest Chinaman. . The world no doubt Is good enough for sinful mortals, but according to prophesy we are not improving in morals or honesty, for It is said by inspiration, "Evil men and se ducers shall wax worse and worse, de ceiving and being deceived." - WILLIAM I. REE Vila. COMMENT AND SMALL ' CHANGE V !W Have a thought. for the birds. ' H Now Senator Fall wants to take one out of Mexico. The public cannot walk out, no matter how obstreperous cither capital or labor may be. But some day it will walk up Massachusetts, it seems," has gone wet" But Isn't It a litUe too late to be a draught of comfort to the nation at large? . Another tidal wave is reported. But being a "tidal wave jot progress and grosperity," It is not one fibout which become particularly alarmed. , . First crack out of the box Lady Astor Is reprimanded for talking. She's go ing to be heard, too, before she's been very long in the House of Commons. Isn't It about time the old phrase. "Tou bet your boots." was, being changed to "You bet your shoes V As a true sport's expression, this revised ver sion is our idea of the last word. "Blessings on thee, little man! bare foot boy," etc. should be revised to "Mercy on thee." in view of what the shoe dealer does to him when it's time of year to be shod again. Sometimes a burning steak in a kitch en raises such a smudge that the house is thought to be on fire. In such cases all effort should be concentrated on sav ing the steak. Let the house take, its chances. - When.we read what Harry Lauder has to say about being a good citizen and a downright good man besides, we II say we feel that he not only means what he says but is "what he saya IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley In thb Installment, tb iweosd of four, ot hi sketch of tb career of Simon Beiuon, Mr. Lookle; nrrin tha ktorySon to the point wbi re rrt nice em ha beta achieved and lbs proeeu of Ktlizing. the me in terna not only of jood, hard cash but alto of food hard, pi trio tic atu (action ban got WeU under way. 1 "Losing your money doesn't amount to anything, so long as you don't lose your courage," said Simon Benson to me a few days ago. "A wound in the pocketbook is more easily healed than a wound to the spirit. I had made one start toward Independence here in Ore gon, and after 10 years I was back Just where I had been when I came to Port land broke. I went back to St. Helens, where I had got my first start, and bought four yoke of oxen on credit from Sam Miles. I contracted to buy some timber near Reuben, just across the river from Kalama. at 60 cents a thou sand, stumpage. At the end of the first year I had enough money to pay for the four yoke Of oxen and to pay up my bills at the store. At the end of the second year I had $3000 In the bank after all expenses were paid. "I decided to become one of-the lead ing loggers and lumbermen of the West. I decided to build large and modern sawmills to cut up my logs. I knew it would take years and require hard work," courage and sticktoltlveness, but I knew I could and would Bucceed, If you have a legitimate business. If you will be square and work hard and plan your work for the future, if you have faith in yourself, you can make good. If you have no goal, if you don't know where you are heading for, you will never reach the port ot success. "Ordway & Weidler bought my logs. They had about 4000 acres of timber down the river near Cathlamet They wanted me to buy it. Like myself, they had but little money. My credit was good, for I had always paid my bills on or before the time I promised payment. I suggested that we go Into partner ship. We decided to build a railroad into their timber. W had no money. We got hold of some second-hand rails and logging -cars. I put in a mile of track at a cost of $4000. We bought a small locomotive for $6000. Within four years we cleared up all notes and out standing bills arid had $20,000 in the bank. "We contracted to buy the stumpage of a large body of fine timber at Oak Point, on the Columbia rive, at 50 cents a thousand. Times got hard. The price of logs went down. Ordway offered to sell his one third Interest for $10,000. Weidler and I bought him out. A year or so later Weidler wanted to sell, so I gave him $33,000. I paid him cash. I had to borrow. I got $18,000 from Everdlng & Farrell, paying 8 per cent interest. "I was running one camp and employ ing about 90" men. We were using oxen in our logging operatlona Several log ging camps had put in donkey engines, but they had proved unsuccessful and had been given u I studied them carefully and found why they did not succeed. I knew I could remedy the fault, so I sold all my oxen and bought donkey enginea They were a success from the start Tou- may remember how the papers at the time had articles about my camp being the first In the Pacific Northwest to conduct all oper ations with donkey enginea We didn't have an ox or a horse in the camp. The donkey engines cut the cost of produc tion In two. I received $6 a thousand for my logs and I reduced th cost of production from $4.60 to about $2.10 to $2.15 per thousand, so I mad good money. I cleared ovr $76,000 th first year. "I at once put th money into more logging railroad, to go farther back into the Umber, which, of course, kept the cost of logging down. Every time a settler who had a homestead wltb from 4 000,000 to 7,000,000 feet of timber offered me his plac I bought it. Other loggers thought I was crary to pay ' from $1500 to $2500 for a homestead, but I looked a few years Into the f u-, ture. I had lots of homesteads offered j me. as I was paying what In those days wer considered high prices tor them. Whenever they fitted into the district Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places TMtn a irrench traveler who spent some years in Persia at th beginning of th last century, relates that whenever the shah traveled out side the capital his suite Inpmded a dwarf, a giant, a Jester, a historiogra pher and a poet laureate. The last two wer kept busy, for while the h.s torlographer had to record for posterity all the dotngs and sayingsof the king of kings, the laureate was expected to celebrate a large proportion of these in verse. ' Persln highly commends this custom, which be found rigidly fol lowed, -"for the shah, knowing that many of his utterances and deeds would be crystallised in odes, felt bound on these royal progress to speak and be have majestically."' Calls the Curfew Lew Good rrora the Coo Baf Hal - Mayor Baker recently stated in aa In terview that the curfew law has don more to dean np Portland Jhan an? othtr ordinance on th statut book. Eu gsn is ordering the polio to keep ail boys of 16 or under off the striit after l:0, unless accompanied c. by their parents. Other cities of Oregon are enact- NEWS' IN BRIEF' , : ' OREGON SIDELIGHTS Property owners in and around Salem, the Capital Journal reports, are taking advantage of the fact that houses are at a premium and a number of them are building new homes or improving eld ones. -.. "In our mlxun with turkey dinners and holiday frolics, let us not Overlook th raet. warns the La arande UDserver. "that next summer is coming and the water supply of La Grand is still in adequate." "How times have changed V exclaims the Eugene Guard. "Oregon wool grow ers met in state convention, resoluted and sdtourned without declaring in fa vor of a high tariff or any other tariff on their product. Kernel Clark Wood of the Weston Leader banters thus : ' "The crop from 38 acres of Netted Gem potatoes at Castlerock brought $10,000 and now who wants to trade a spud farm for a country newspaper in good running order 7" Catastrophe reported in the Weston Leader: "Dogs broke into a corral on f SpaIii4im nlf snA killed 25 sheen belonging to H. A. Barrett. Others of these valuable animals were wounded by tne dogs, wnicn evwenuy iouna n to get through or over th web-wire fence in which the sheep were enclosed." The Odd Fellows of Enterprise expect win tn 9va the walla of their new home completed and the roof on. The Reporter says: "This progressive lodge will have one of the nicest homes in the new building and are to be congratu lated because of their good work In financing such a building entirely among their members. so that I could work them profitably I bought them. "I soon built up an export demand for special lengths and Blzes. For this I received from $10 to $12 per thousand. Soon I was able to borrow all the money I needed, and I borrowed freely to buy land or build mills or. logging railroads. I always insisted on knowing each eve ning how much I had made that day, how much I owed, and all about my financial condition. Soon I was netting a profit of $2800 a day. When I began to make a clear profit of $300,000 a year I saw that I could make my dreams come true. "I constantly studied how to produce lumber more cheaply, for the more cheaply I could produce it the more lumber would be used, and the more that was ued the more money I would make. Freight on lumber to California was one problem I studied a long time about. I studied the problem of why the rafts of piling broke up while at sea. I found the rafts were not prop erly made. They had not "broken bonds' properly, nor used the right sys tem of chaining the rafta I built a cigar-shaped raft of saw logs containing 6,000.000 feet of lumber and shipped It to San Diego. It got there without the least bit of trouble. So I built a big sawmill at San Diego and shipped 12 rafts, or about 75,000,000 feet of lumber in the form of logs. As I saved $2 a thousand on freight this made me an extra profit of $150,000, besides enabling me to fill orders for timbers any length. When we had rough weather, the steamer stood by and let the raft wallow In the trough of the sea; consequently we never lost a raft. "A man named Frank Lynch, from North Dakota, wanted to buy an inter est In my mill at San Diego. It was worth $400,000. That was just what it had cost me. He s&kcd me what my annual profit was. I showed him that I had made about $400,000 In three years. He bad only. $.'0,000, and this would buy only an eighth interest. I told him to taks the whole nill at $100. 000, paying me the $50,000 he had. and the mill would soon earn the other $360,000 for htm. He accepted th prop osition and made good on it within two or three years. Then he wanted to buy one of my logging outfits with th l-tnd surrounding it This amounts! to $2,- 000.000. He was able to finance the deal, so I soM It to him. Then som bankers from Duluth bought 25.fOO acres of rry timber lands for a price approxi mating $3,000,000. e "I then built the Benson hotel and It began losing . money so rapidly that I had to take it over and run It myself. Just as I studied the mistakes made tn operating donkey engines and in con structlng seagoing rafts, I studied the hotel till I saw where I oould cut out waste, and by Improving service In crease trade. I soon had It paying, and for the past three years It has paid me a profit of over $100,000 a year. I built it to help Portland, so when I recently sold It for around $1,000,000 I did not worry because I was getting $350,000 less than It cost ma I sold it because I liked the type of people who wanted to buy it I could have undoubtedly sold it for more money, but I would not sell It to the wrong kind of people, It bears my name and I want Its repu tation maintained so that -1 need not be ashamed that It Is named for me. A man owes a debt to the state and com munity which gave him bis opportunity of making money, and no man has '& right to sell a hotel, a streetcar line, a newspaper or any other public enter prise that vitally affects the public In terest to a corporation or an Interest that will be detrimental to the city or which will betray the publlo Interest "What is the best investment X ever made? I think the Benson fountains, for they helped knock the profit out of the saloon business and were a factor In making Oregon dry, and that means a better Oregon better tor wives and mothers and children. In other words, It mean better cltisemhlp. Material things, after all, amount to but little j it is the quality of our citizenship that makes Oregon a great and worthy state." ng and enforcing similar lawa North Bend has a curfew ordinance, at least we are told w have, and her is hoping that th officials will see fit to enforce it a littlemore strictly.1 The Angry Farmer Speaks at Last From Capper' Weekly The following notice was sent to th Klgin. Chautauqua county, Journal, for publication after some town hunters had been trying their luck in the country nearby. The editor couldn't edit the Item without spoiling the meter, so he let it go as It fell, to wit: "NOTIS tresspassers will B perse cuted to the full extend of 2 mungrel dogs, which never was over sochll to strangers and I dubbl bar! shotgun which alst loaded with sofa plUers dam if I alnt glttln tired of this hell raisin on my farm." Uncle Jeff Snow Says: There uater be a whole tribe of Mo Klnnons down in Arkaneaw round th Eureky Springs country, and one of 'em, D. B. VcKinnon, settled la the Grand Round valley In. Eastern Oregon. I have et corn pon- and hominy with a dozen of them Arkansaw McKlnnona, and X was mighty glad to see one of 'em agin t'other day at th Imperial hotel, down to Portland. The Oregon Country V XsrtkwMl Happenlast U Brief Fona let tb Baay Badef. . nnmnvittvima ogon &ilnfigt& Bids will be opened on December 9 &u?uV"W 50e0 .hTPifen ruItgrowerr association nipped ti cars of apples thlsiMasniT ' th season having Just clied. w?on r iQTL I. "s employment bureau ; llt. At Eugene found jobs for 61 service men during November. medsswiLh a ir The city council of Dallas has set aside ,500 to be used in altering thl cRy ?or touHsts8 " " Dt0 Camp rounJ .-W1fli8hlnir,on conty now has a publlo atfi.h Su7?. ,n tne Person of Mrs. wm mlu' whoe headquarters are ThA Kftl-aiaur wtalH.l . . ' about 20.000.000 feet ot burned-over' cedar that is said, to be available for the manufacture of shingles. Huber. In Washington county, will ?llr cth.e ?Pnln of the Paetflo high ay Saturday night A free ban- ' quet will be tendered all who attend. . As the result of the explonlon of a dynamite cap, Morris Crum. 13-year-old son of C. B. Crum of Bend, lost two fingers from one hand and the sight of J an eye. , Tractors are now claiming tr aW tentton of Hood Riyer orehardiets, who . are using the power machlns ot smallr model more and more for plowing and ' orchard cultivation. . ,. Rev. A. ' Melvin Williams, pastor of' the Grace Presbyterian church of Al bany, has been elected president " of Al' bany college. President Williams Is a, native of Linn county. A new mining syndicate has opened offices in Curry county and is taking leases of property in the vicinity ol Denmark. The metals sought Include platinum and iridium, A' The school board of Tillamook haT called a special election for the purnoawl L authorising the expenditure of W.4i ?0 for the purchase of five acres andr the building of a gymnasium. Jf At a price of SO cents a thousand fee the Prarle Box company of Prairie City5 has contracted to buj 200,000 feet ofl lodrepoie pine timber in Whitman) notional forest from the government j WASHINGTON . 3f. i. More than 200 appl lea t lone have beat : made for the proposed auxiliary to lis Montesano post of the American LegloT. : Apple growers of th Wenatchee dW trlct have suffered a loss of over $B(Kv4 000 by the freealng of apples shipped ' in box cars. i At Centralis thieves broke Into the Farmers' Cooperative creamery . and stole $50 pounds of butter, using an auta truck to haul away their loot. Ralph Davis Page, one of th youths arrested In connection with the robbery of the Glover hotel at Oakvills. admit?? that he was an I. W. W. organiser. Walla Walla county commivnlonersj! have awarded to the Union Bridge com pany of Portland the contract for sl conorete bridges, aggregating $69,267.. . p. Aberdeen is afflicted with petty burglars. B. W. Drovoct reports th loss of $300 In Liberty bonds purchased during the bond drives of last year, i ; Drilling at Moellps of the Standard ' Oil well Is again under way after hav :; lng been stopped for some time by tha? denting of the big 12-tnch pipe. Thf hole is now 631 feet. . ,j" All the necessary machinery is on the, ground and 'work will begin at once on' the new bridge across the Snake river to be erected Jointly by Walla Walla . and Franklin counties. Scores of aliens who have neglected to perfect their citizenship have been ' discharged from service by the city of Senttle. Some of them had been on' the payroll for 29 years. ,1 A no-true bill has been returned fby 4i? federal grand Jury at Seattle In the ease I of EdJn Selvln, editor of th Business, Chronicle, arrested . recently - charged with misuse of the. maila . IDAHO Th two hanks of Filer on November 17 had resources totaling 0 $1 t&O.OOO, nearly double those of a year ago. Three thousand acres of famf lands lying below Challls are to be Irrigated with waters from the Salmon river. The cannery at Jnllaetts etoe Its 1 season last week with an, output r ap proximately tons of all kinds of ' fruit and vegetb!ea - ; , A srvv of the bean Industry shows ? that $15,M0 was realised in th Filer -country this season from 6000 acrv of garden beans of 40 varieties. The' two-story brick school hone at Minidoka was rfeet roved by fire- last week. The building was worth S40.00t and $12 000 insurance was carried. 3 1 The Declo Hot Springs company was) organised at Declo last week with a capitalization of $50,000. A sanitarium and hotel are planned for the Bprtfjt. Reclamation applications filed with the state commissioner of reclamation' sine March, 1919, total 725, against ,600, applications for th sam period last 1 year. The stat of Idaho has asked th fed eral government to remove from Idaho and deport from th nation approxU mutely half of the 100 I. W. W. suspects f who have been arrested in th state. 1 y GENERAL 'itf A constitutional amendment providing for a referendum on national prohibition-: was proposed In a resolution Introduced, in congress Tuesday, - 1 i 'f Two oases Involving charges of rriur der against Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Thomas 3. Mooney, have been set for trial in San Francisco on December.; a. ; Emphatic denial of reports from Parts that Premier Clemnceau expected to visit th United States shortly comes : from th Frencb embassy at Washing ton. ,. . i ( ;l It was revealed In New Tork Tuesday ' that secret service agents frustrated a plot to assassinate William Howard Taf) - when he was president of th United Statea. 1 . t Clttsena of Carlisle, England, hav m . veiled a tablet near the entrance of tha ; Congregational church to commsmorat the visit to the town of President Wli son In December, 1911. ; . ' An appeal for th repatriation of all 4 war prisoners still held by th bellbjf mnt has been addressed to all na. J tions which participated In th war by . the Swiss federal council. v Tn Increased eonsnmntlon and i to encourage the sat of lower priced 3 rtniim. the United States rraln eor po ration will place on sal small pack- ages of Tour at nominal cost 1 Rush . orders sending 10 officers. 10 r mechanicians and four isrge seaplanes to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for permanent , duty were received at th naval air sta- tion in San Francisco Tuesday. . ( Gordon Fawcett Hamby, bank robber . 4 and mnrderer. awaiting execution - la-. vw Tork. has sent a nlea t h AW trlct st torn ey stating that he wlahas.io be executed as quickly as possible. 1 1 . V Olden Oregon ; 1,1 Provisional Government Took Pains to Exclude Slavery and Fmdmen. V ? , Th .Oregon provisional government was based oa the ordinance of 1717.. The political purpose in this wad to 1 settle th slavery, question : west of the r Rocky mountains Just as it wasy settled In the northern states of the middle' west Th anti-8lavry pro vision of th ordinance of 1717 was copied In th i Oregon document. Whil th first set. , tlrs " of Oregon bad in general little sympathy with slavery, those who had been In direct contact -with it before -coming to Oregon' had a still greater ' aversion - to free negroes. This was shown In an act of the first legislative; ' eo mm! tie prohibiting th presence ' of tree negroes In the new, territory.