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PORTLAND BOY BANDITS
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.ROVDED with spot light, pliers
and other tools, three boys of 18,
and 15 respectively were picked
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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.