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DIRTY POLITICS
iAILURE of the senate to ratify
tha treaty has caused the pres
ent Bitqatlon In foreign ex
change which has resulted in
. cancellation by European buyers of
. large orders, placed with. American
manufacturers."
; ; Such, Is 'a statement "read int the
senate record In the debate on the
- treaty Saturday.
. The British pound and the French
. franc are greatly reduced in purchas-
lng power in America. The German
. mark is almost valueless. There has
not been" such demoralization of Euro
. peaa finances In a century.. Defeat
; ot, the treaty means that America
does not intend to exert her great
' steadying influence in settling the af
fairs of the world. Just as America
speedily settled the, war, so she could,
by her great moral weight, quickly
seine me peace.
1", The senate refuses. Its non-action
means a continued state of war. It
' means renewal of negotiation and the
seeking of a separate peace with Ger
manf. It means more months, if not
more years, of uncertainty, unrest and
: turmoil;
European buyers cannot -afford to
J. buy American made goods and pay
the ruinous rates of exchange. They
- cannot afford with their depreciated
nioney to pay a great premium in ad
dition to the cost price of goods with
out, inviting bankruptcy. The effect
to deprive America of a European
market, and the ultimate consequence
! is certain to be felt here in reduced
exports of, American goods. A slow-
' lng dovn of the mills and men thrown
out of employment is a certain pros-
' pect if the situation is allowed to long
continue.
, Meanwhile the treaty is in the sen
Ate and the farce goes Jauntily on.
The country wants the treaty ratified,
, wants the uncertainty removed, wants
- to go back to hormal conditions, wants
business' given a chance to lay its
. plans unharassed by the interminable
uncertainty In which the senate keeps
' the country and the world.
But Lodge is obdurate. The irrecon-
,- cilables are obdurate. A coming idle-
pes8 of men and stagnation of busi-
ness are nothing to them. They are
;' trying to make campaign issues. A
lot of them are running for president.
111 fares the land to hastening iJIs a
; prey. Wa have the Bolshevists. We
have' senatorial politicians. Of the
two, the dirty politics of the senate
, "is the most harmful to the country.
: .The politicians are the" most danger-
; oug and destructive because clothed
... In the robes of respectability and ca
.pable of playing upon public cred-
r Ulity.
If lean days come to America we
shall owe them to the senate poli
ticians and senatorial politics.
William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson,
of anti-saloon fame, evidently be
lieves that the vision of the one eye
left hint by hoodlum London stu
dents will be keen enough to hunt
out many a blind pisr vet. w,
the. Chicago News opened a eub
, CrlptIon for his benefit. Johnson
wrote asking that the fund be used
Vaa.A - .
iuubb wno nave lost all their
signt.
TRADE PROVINCIALISM
T 'HAS so long been the habit to
win or tne Philippines as
. I wearied parent thinks of
tarded, not very lovely, adopted
wiuu, yia a suggestion from a Ma
nila publication that America will
fait 4n foreign trade if she continues
. her provincialism, comes with ih
"shock of surprise. The Philippines is
., ""oi. ttuiuii GUUUUQ9 vnjg ag.
, , serUon: v ,
' w0r ,n h natter of foreign commerce
tlttt great bulk Of Amort nan r,u
, ,nd Americans engaged In mercantile
pursuits either on their own account
v . w,m,Jre or. outers . are - "boys'
. when H comes to trading abroad, nar.
ucuiariy m the Orient. Hence It is that
-s mm Americans who are
seeking balnes m the Far, East and
American bankers who are undertak
ing the. duty Of Slirmlvinir inurl...
banking machinery tor. handling that
business will send "boys" to market.
In many instances they are themselves
boys; ad those who are not tnitst
choose their representatives Xrom among
V. corps of employes who at mostly
rboys" so far as the) Orient fa concerned.
; The magazine goes on tq state that
in seeking post-war foreign . , trade
America 'has less of the equipment
furnished by experience than the Eng
lishman whose front yard has been
the seven seas for five centuries, the
Frenchman, whose language has been
the language of modern diplomacy,
and the Hollander, whose overseas
buying and seljlng are as old as tra
dition. While Germany Is not In
eluded in the reference It is well
known , that the Teutons planned
trade colonization as systematically as
they plotted the despoliation of Eu
rope. 5
America enters, the broader enters
prises of foreign trade, especially In
the Orient, as a novice, and almost
as an apprentice. Without an "open
mind for trade maxims, a readiness to
learn and a standard of service that
will wrap the package as the buyer
wants it; the ambition for foreign
trade leadership would be humiliat
ingly defeated.
These are suggestions which have
particular value to Portland and the
Oregon country, because our own
trade success must lie largely in the
volume of our business with the
Orient.
Former President William How
ard Taft finds in an incident of the
I. W. W. outrage at Centralla his
own assurance that the American
Legion will ' safeguard the Interests
of America and of Its own organiza
tion. When the bullets of radicals
pierced the khaki clad bodies of
men who had fought for liberty in
France, American Leglonists re
strained the outraged citizens who
would have lynched the assassins.
If the American Legion can keep its
head when Its own men are shot
down, there need be little fear .of its
yielding to impropriety or sordid
motive In its relation with political
and civic affairs.
WITH A FEW DRINKS
I
S booze to fresco the coming special
legislative session? 9
Lobbyists Often fit up rooms at
Salem, stock up with variegated
liquor and proceed to have govern
ment by booze. They used to main
tain such places as an adjunct of
senatorial elections. In one the state
ment went out over Oregon that
women as well as booze formed a
part of the senatorial campaign at
Salem.
At the last legislative session one
booze party developed Into a soandal.
At others, certain state commissions
are known to have used favorite
brands of liquor in large stocks in
an effort to influence legislative
votes. The prohibition measure itself
is known to have been passed under
circumstances scarcely less wet than
in the palmiest days of old John
Barleycorn.
.Some day a legislature will come
along In which there will be determ
ined men who will move an investi
gation. And it might so happen that
men named on the committee would
refuse to whitewash, and would go
forward in a resolute purpose to
bring out the facts. And the public
ly that would result would taint
names and make lobbyist booze joints
o r e v e r unpopular thereafter. It
might happen at the special session.
It is an insult to the legislature to
follow the members to Salem with
cartloads of booze, which booze is, of
course, relied on as a means of influ
encing legislation. Is It not indeed,
an insult, not only to the state but
to the - legislator himself, to assume
that his vote can be bought with a
few drinks?
Aliens who hurried off to Europe
after the war are now scurrying
back. They were shocked by the
poverty and desolation. They found
the cost of food and clothing higher
in Europe than in America. The
facts are worth attention by "those
who are trying to make a Europe
out of America.
UNCLE SAM GIFT MERCHANT
CLE SAM also stands behind the
gift counter. .
As a Santa Claus merchandiser
he has on display a line of pres
ents possessing exceeding attractive
ness. The Ideal Yuletide offering is a dec
laration of good will and affection.
It should constitute a lasting remem
brance. It should be valued by its
recipient. It ought to be chosen with
delicate consideration.
Uncle Sam's gift list meets these
requirements. His price tags reveal
values that range from 25 cents to
$1000. He can accommodate the light
or the heavy purse. The ordinary
gift begins at once to depreciate in
intrinsic value. Uncle Sam's stock
begins at once to increase in value,
In addition to the avowal of kindli
ness and hearty good wishes behind
every truly offered Christmas gift, the
presents selected at Uncle Sam's coun
ter convey wholesome and welcomed
lessons in stability, integrity and
thrift. '".
It must now be apparent that the
Christmas gifts which can be pur
chased from Uncle Sam are War Sav
ings securities. These are remem
brances which awaken pleasure and
gratitude. To buy them not only
keeps the Christmas spirit it also
constitutes an act of patriotic serv-
ice in financing the post-war needs
of the government
' If In , its prosecution of citizens
delinquent in removing snow from
the sidewalks, the police bureau
will include the owners of vacant
lots, tnere will be Mttle trouble
about pedestrianing along: suburban
streets. It la most often tha side
walk bordering the vacant lot that
becomes fringed, and often choked,
with, weeds in summer and . impass
ably drifted with snow In winter.
HIS MONUMENT ' ' 'J
T
OM JOHNSON'S work at Cleveland
lives after him. .While . other
cities are yielding to the demand
of streetcar companies for In
creased fares, Cleveland fares were
yesterday reduced to sixjor a quarter!
, Tom Johnson's life was shortened
by the desperate fight he made in be
half of low fares for the people of hts
home city. The combined power of
syndicated wealth was against him.
The great business interests of the
city fought him with all Jhe power
and all the resources at their com
mand. It is doubtful If there was ever so
bitter a local struggle in America.
Predictions of financial disaster and
bankruptcy to befall the traction com
pany were spread broadcast In the
effort to confound and confuse John
son's followers. All the invective
and all the calumniation to which
tongues and the printed page eould
be laid were heaped upon Mayor
Johnson.
But Tom Johnson had the vision,
and had the courage. He had more:
he had the indomitable spirit that
refuses always to compromise con
science or bargain with convictions.
He endured on, sacrificed on, fought
on and in the end triumphed over all
his opponents.
The struggle wasted his strength
and shortened his life. But he left
an Imperishable monument a street
ear system organized on business
principles and dedicated as much to
service as to profit. It is a standard
to which all public utility systems
must ultimately come. Tom Johnson,
at the cost of his life, created the
model system from which all must
fashion. .
These are days when one hears
less talk about climate and more
about weather. Judging, too, by the
thermometer, the much discussed
end of the world might, be due more
to a transference of the north pole
than any new relation to the sun.
RECREATIONAL RESOURCES
r
HERE is. more friendliness than
obstruction In the warning that
as Oregon becomes more acces
sible to tourist travel through the
building of expensive roids the tour
ist travel might become less valuable
to the state.
When it becomes possible to cross
Oregon in a day and a half, there will
be, during the tourist season, a con
tinuous stream of motor vehicles bear
ing the- licenses of many states and
flitting happily along their way with
few stops, unless reason is given for
lingering.
This means that if the tourist is
to represent more than a road wearing
debit, Oregon must be able to guide
him and his family to attractive
hotels built In regions of scenic charm
where fishing and hunting and out
door sports will give the stay, no
matter how protracted, the tang of
fascination.
Although this is the winter season
and abnormal storm has laid a ban
upon all but the motor travel urged
by necessity, It Is a good time to plan
seriously and fruitfully for the meas
ures that will dot Oregon with tourist
hotels, stock the streams abundantly
with trout, replenish the game of for
est, and make the state permanently
a place which recreationists will
hasten to, but never away from.
While we are building the roads,
why not make them yield to us the
utmost of value?
The man, or woman, who builds
a fire in the stove without first as
certaining that the water in the ooil
13 circulating, is as foolish as the
victim who goes looking for a gas
leak with a match.
WIIAT OF IMMIGRANTS?
r;
E annual report of the commis
sioner general of immigration
shows that the year now closing
has witnessed a net Increase in
alien population of 20.790.
The total admissions were 237,021
The departures were 216,235. The
total admissions of Immigrant aliens
as distinguished from non-immigrant
was 141,132, or 30,514 more than last
year. During the year 1917 the Imml
grant aliens admitted aggregated 295,-
403. In 1916 it was 298,826 and 326,700
in 1915, or a yearly average for the
five years during which war raged of
234,535. For 10 years previous to the
world war the corresponding annual
average was 1,012,194.
During the past year the number
of aliens denied admission was 8626,
or 3.5 per cent of the applicants.
Twenty-three per cent of the rejec
tions were due to the, new statutory
causes included in the act of Febru
ary 5, 1917. Among this number were
included 1455 illiterates, 464 stowa
ways and 19 Asiatics. There -were also
40 enemy aliens. -
The number of deportations was
3068. Of these 115 were physically.
158 mentally and 590 morally defective.
As to the question of future immi
gration the bureau after a general
survey finds factors growing out of
the war which may retard it and fac
tors which may promote it
' It will depend greatly on condi
tions in Europe. On the one hand
perhaps eight million men of the age
groups from which most of the immi
gration- comes perished during the
war. Other millions were maimed and
diseased to such an extent as to pre
clude their admission under our laws.
Then there will be the demand at
home for reconstruction and rehabili
tation. ' This may produce condition
which will be more attractive than
the lure ' of emigrating- to America.
Again, there -are those countries such
as Poland,' where long sought politi
cal freedom has been realized. . Yet,
on the "contrary, .there; will be in
these countries an element ,. of con
quered nationalities who will wish to
leave those countries where sover
eignty has been forcibly transferred.
Another, factor, which may stimu
late immigration is that of war weari
ness in Europe among victors and
vanquished alike. With all, there Is
a doubt that peace will be perman
ent. Many look to the United States
as a land of peace, where , they and
their children will not always be in
the shadow of armed conflict.
How immigration will be affected by
the war is problematical. The his
tory of the past furnishes no basis on
which to speculate.
That there should be careful dis
crimination in the future admission
of immigrants Is a lesson that we
learned from the action of disloyal
aliens during and since the war.
PRYING INTO
THE INFINITE
Man Enlarges the Known a Llttlo, But
" the Unknown Enlarges Faster
From the San Francisco Can
Man's knowledge of the universe.
greatly as it has increased, may be in
relation, to the whole truth no more
than Is the size of the earth in com
parison with the extent of the visible
heavens. What the scientists call nat
ural laws are nothing but descriptions
of the manner In which certain phenom
ena which we can watch and Identify
take place. Under certain conditions an
object in the air will always fall to the
ground. Hence the law of gravitation,
which enables astronomers to calculate
the mass and movements of planets and
even the movements of such apparent
ly Bolshevistic bodies as comets.
a .
But as our ability to perceive phe
nomena increases the laws have to be
modified or extended. Dr. Alfred Ein
stein has electrified the scientific world
with the theory, now apparenUy es
tablished as a respectable hypothesis,
that rays of light are bent by the at
traction of gravitation. It follows that
light must be, or be transmitted through.
tangible substance. It has long been
held that space Is filled with ether, but
this theory has never rested upon any
physical demonstration. No one. had
ever seen the ether or weighed it. But
If light Is deflected by the attraction
of the sun it wUl be a comparatively
simple matter for the scientists to weigc
the light itself or the ether in which
it may be a form of motion.
,
Furthermore, if light is ever deflected
by gravitation it always is, and it. fol
lows that what the scientists have been
calling straight lines must be curved
lines. When the astronomer thinks he
is looking straight Into space he may
be looking along a parabola or a great
circle. "Probably this will mean." says
Professor Harold Jacoby of Columbia'
university, "that there is no limit to
space, but only to the distance our tele
scopes can penetrate. If the instrument
can be made powerful enough the ob
server may be able to look all the way
around the complete circumference of
the circle and will - thus see his own
back." ' i-;. "
These speculations -are regarded by
most of the astronomers as a sort of
plaything to amuse the layman, who
can not possibly understand what the
new, discoveries mean. But though the
layman can not understand the mathe
matics involved in the passage of a ray
of light through a crowdeM sea of stellar
systems he is well able to comprehend
that the visible universe has suddenly
been made more vast, and more mys
terious. Once it was commonplace to
all men, including some as wise as any
alive today, that the earth was the cen
ter of the heavenly systems; the views
that our wisest astronomers held as re
cently as yesterday may some day al
most certainly wUl some day be looked
upon as being quite as fallacious. New
explanations of creation may be based
upon Kinsteln's discovery, new philoso
phies, new conceptions of human destiny.
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The universe might be compared to
the continent of North America as it
was when Columbus sighted San Sal
vador, and man's knowledge of It to the
little that Columbus was able to gain
from his visit to that island. We can see
th land, but behind it there are moun
tain ranges, vast plains, huge rivers,
strange inhabitants of whose existence
or nature we can only make conjecture.
This is the point to which science has
brought us after the greatest hundred
years In human history. A generation
ago it was thought that research would
soon take the element of mystery out
of life, but where it has lifted one veil
another has always appeared behind it.
and where It has led us to the top of
one mountain other mountains, range
beyond range, peak beyond peak, have
forever reared themselves in the unpen
etrable distances.
Though we go down through the val
leys and across the passes of the once
unknown universe, that part that is still
unknown recedes and recedes before us.
Through no secular instrumentality can
we as much as glimpse the position of
roan in the universe or the nature and
meaning of the universe. Compared with
what there is to know we know literally
nothing.
The Cost and Must It Ever
Be Paid All Over Again
From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger
Philosophical observers continue to In
sist that there cannot be another war of
conquest in Europe for a; least 100 years.
The various peoples are urea ana dis
illusioned. Governments are weakened
and impoverished. Such are the evi
dences on which a good many students
of politics base the convictions that a
more or less enduring peace is assurea.
no matter what happens.
This appraisal of the situation might
be oueBtioned. Germany is tired, impov
erished, disillusioned and as eager tor
peace as anyone else. But Germany lost
and lost heavily. She has incentives for
new war unknown elsewhere. She can
not lose any more. Powerful cliques
are trying to convince her mat .some
time in the future she might win..
Japan has ambitions in Siberia. In
a pinch, perhaps, she would fight for
them.
Meanwhile the savants associated with
the Carnegie Peace Foundation have
been estimating the coats of the war.
The earth they believe ia poorer by
$372,000,000,006 than it was five years
ago. Losses of life, property and divert
ed effort are included la this calculation.
Civilisation paid some such total be
cause it had not formulated a universally
acceptable philosophy of life and national
relationships.
j The peace treaty and the covenant of
the League of Nations were drawn to
establish Just that sort of philosophy.
We all know what has been happening
at Washington. And it is impossible not
to wonder whether olviliaaUoa wUl have
to pay aiav -
PORTLAND, TUESDAY, . DECEMBER ,16, 1919.
HilJ..ill.i).lll i M.i.i ill ,. Mjr HllMini .iiiilllir .. II .1, .l II. . ..
Letters From the People
f ContmttBMstioB aecC . to The Journal for
publication In thia department ahookt ba written
on alr one M of tha paper, ahould not exceed
SOO word la lenttta. and muat be eigned by the
writer, whoa mail addraa is full mart accom
pany the contribution. .
: Argue Case Against Tobacco
Portland. Dec 11. To the Hditor of
The JournalIt 1 hurrah for, prohibit
tlon of tobacco, now, ays the well
meaning E- A. Linscott. in his, charge
against those "who delight in hatching
up something to make others miserable.
I wonder If the world is so -one-sided
that any one class should be made
miserable all the time. The above state
ment looks good on paper, and sounds
good in argument, but such people over
look the fact that other peoples can be
made miserable, also. Why so many no
tices posted in public places "No Smok
ing Allowed.'? -Because it makes the
many miserable while a few are enjoy
ing their liberty. Why did the depot
agent compel five Italians to stop
smoking when the mother took her two
sick children outside to get a breath
of fresh air? Because it made babies
miserable. Why should four apparent
ly gentlemen, "after lunch, smoke cigars
half an hour at a table, to the discom
fort of ZS others, two of whom left the
room because sick from tobacco fumes
and declared they would never return?
Because it made others miserable. Why
are thousands of mothers, who, cau
tioned, reasoned, pleaded and prayed for
and with their boys to abstain from to
bacco, now seen with a careworn look
as their returned hero saturates their
once clean and sweet scented homes
with the filth of tobacco, as well as
stains his fingers, fouls his breath and
turns his ivory teeth amber color. Be
cause it makes others miserable. Why
do the railroads cage smokers in a car
by themselves? Because they think oth
ers have a right to breathe unpolsoned
air and not be made miserable.
The supposed case of one holding a
cigar in the mouth of another and mak
ing him smoke is not a fair one ; no
one would do it. Neither would any gen
tleman compel others to inhale air poi
soned by tobacco smoke. If one .should
poison a spring t he would be mobbed.
Why should anyone have the right to
poison the air?
The saloonkeepers confess that they
are to blame very much for the pro
hibition laws, because they abused their
privileges. Unless the tobacco venders
go a little more careful they will stir
up moral sentiment once more a power
not to be fooled with.
ALBERT M. BEAN.
Practical Considerations
Portland, Dec. 13. To the Editor of
The Journal Let us hope that the visit
of Mr. Rawson of England to Portland
may result in awakening thought and
action that otherwise might have re
mained dead. Let us hope that the in
creasing unrest in metaphysical thought
may pierce the veil that clouds the soul
of man, and that, however new may be
the path they blaze, wj may safely trust
that the laws of the universe will ulti
mately bring them into harmonious
unity. But the social reformer still has
a duty, to perform, a clarion note to
sound to those who would leap across
the material chasm Into perfect bliss
without the slow process of evolution.
We who' have reached middle life may
assume that personally we have solved
part of life's problem. But what about
the untold millions who must tread the
pathway we have trod? Remember,
every statute we place on the books
either blocks this pathway, to these little
ones, or it removes the obstruction, that
they "may more easily ascend to that
perfect unity Mr. Rawson talks about.
The confusion' the world is now in is
doubtless the 'result of false pictures
resident In the mind, and one of the
most pernicious of these is that the ma
terial universe he speaks of. that has no
reality, is owned by a very few men,
because of the false pictures of the
many, and the result Is we are all in
hell, and no amount of hypnotic delu
sion can convince us that there is a
substitute for coal, or fuel of some kind,
or for food, in our present environment.
The laws of political economy are na
tural or divine laws, just as much as
the 'aws of healing, and the problem
of this life is to so conform to those
laws In mass that the higher expression
of the infinite varieties may blossom
into full expression. Let us not forget
the footstool while star gazing.
J. R. HERMANN.
The President and His Foes
Newport, Dec. 8. To the Editor of
The Journal What Is the difference be
tween "hyena-like" and "like hyenas"?
Or, what is the difference between foreign-born
aliens and American home
made aliens? Or, what is the difference
between an alien enemy and an I. W.
W.? I can't see much difference. A lot
of them behind the bars In Seattle went
on a hunger strike, but after a time
they repented, begged for food and ate
ravenously, it is said. How shall we
view the actions of some of our United
States senators, trying in every con
ceivable way to belittle the president
and discredit our government and free
institutions before the world? They
even attack the president upon the sick
bed, thus the more easily to worry the
very life out of him. With venom they
undertake to undermine all his efforts
to quiet our turbulent country. Their
acts are an awful lesson to set before
Red radicals, when they impugn the
president's . message that pleads in
strongest terms for pure Americanizing
In an effort to hold the country in a
safe anchorage. No finer definition of
government in the Interest of all classes
could possibly be made than the presi
dent made in his message to congress.
It portrays the soul of a great man de
termined to render honest service to bis
people. When his illness, in his deter
mined and Impartial service to the peo
pie, no member of congress moved reso
lutions of sympathy. But In 1912, when
Colonel Roosevelt had been shot. Mr.
Wilson immediately sent a telegram of
sympathy. When Mr. Roosevelt finally
fell ill, our president was one of the
first to wire sympathy to the sick cham
ber. And when Quenttn Roosevelt fell
in France, Mr. Wilson promptly cabled
condolences to the Roosevelt home. This
shows the true spirit and genuine pa
triotism of Mr. Wilson in contrast with
his political opponents and league fight
ers in the United States senate. May
God strengthen our president against all
political rot to the end of his term in
the interest of humanity.
E. W. DURKEE.
Arraigns Tobacco Users
Portland, Dec 11; I am surprised to
see any man, as E. A. Llnscott does, de
fending tobacco. There Is nothing more
filthy than tobacco after ft man has put
it into his mouth. Man has become so
filthy, man haa got bo dirty with to
bacco that It haa become necessary to
pass laws forbidding him to spit on
tha sidewalks. A man got off a train
the other day, who said he had had to
sit in the smoker, the other cars being
crowded. Of course, he had to stand for
the choking smoke ; but, what was worse,
some previous occupant of his seat had
chewed tobacco and had formed on the
floor a great pool of tobacco juice. I
suppose that was a God-given right
Haa a mas a right to puff tobacco smoke
In your face"? In spite of all you can
do he Insists on doing it If you com
plain he says that Is his God-given right
l say no. A decent man wouldn't do It.
The Bible says there is nothing from
without a man that entering into him
aa da&la Mat but tha thlnga that coma
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE '
Going up the thermometer. Let er go.
It seems to be a case of off again, on
again with passenger train schedules.
As i we understand it. Bolshevism is
caused by everybody In the world except
Bolshevists.
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' Granting that everything said about
Mr. Burleson was true, still he never
wore whiskers, like Mr. Redfield did.
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The way father and mother are both
buying this year it looks to this quarter
colyum as if it will be up to the kids
to hang up both stockings.
Between the llauor situation at one
end and the egg situation at the other,
the -immemorial holiday tipple is going
after the rimless-cipher championship
of the world.
Difference between hard tunes and
good times: In hard times you are
afraid to buy; in good times you are
afraid not to. Aye. aye, sir ; this world
is always full of fear.
Portland women are on record in favor
of strict enforcement of the traffic or
dinance, to help prevent accidents, and
now to be consistent they must be even
more cautious about stepping off back
ward. The Medford Mail Tribune's Smudge
Pot dopester, observing that Senator
Wiles Poindexter "has issued a state
ment setting forth 22 reasons why he
Is good presidential timber," Observes
further that "there are 23 reasons why
he is bad presidential timber." And
we'll say there are at least that many,
to start with.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
' By Fred Lockley
Hera are aome frienda and neighbors of
Mr. Lockley whom be meets while on a Journey
and to whom he Introduces Journal readers,
doling with the presentation of a tribute in
Terse to crosa -continent arlatora, written , bj a
former Oresonian whose work ia well known.
Not long ago, in front of the post
office at Los Angeles, I met Miss Mar
garet Walton. As we both live on
Mount Tabor and frequently meet at the
Mount Tabor Presbyterian church, we had
plenty to talk about We walked across
the street to where her grandfather,
C. W. Qay, was waiting for her. Mr.
Gay has lived in Portland for more
than half a century, having moved to
the Mount Tabor district when it was
a farming rather than a residence dis
trict. "Margaret and I are visiting my
daughter, Mrs. William tM. Spears." said
Mr. Gay. "We went from Portland to
Atlanta, where Margaret's sister Helen
is a nurse in the army hospital at Fort
McPherson. There are more than 1800
crippled soldiers - there. She is in the
ward where injured arms and legs are
treated. She got a few days leave and
with Margaret went down for a visit to
New Orleans. I like to travel, for two
reasons : I am glad to see new places,
and then I am always so glad to get
baok to Portland."
One of the telephone operators at the
hotel where I was staying in Los An
geles, the Alexandria, is a Portland girl.
Her name is Mrs. R. J. Hunter. Her
father, W. O. Moe, lives in St. Johns,
where she was reared. She worked for
five years for the Fred A. Jacobs com
pany of Portland.
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At Avalon I ran across Bert Weaver,
who wanted me to give his regards to
Phil Metschan when I saw him, "I'm
thinking that young Phil will make
nearly as good a hotel man as his father,
and if he does he will have to go some,"
he said. '
When I was in Ban Ffanciscb I met
a number of the aviators who had made
the cross-continent flight, and I also ran
across an old argonaut who had come
In the old days, when it took six months
with an ox team to come from the Mls-
nut nt ntnv ' theinfl are thev that defile
Illin. IUU pev, I1UUI Jtaua w
filed, and yet his body in this state of
defilement absolutely rejects the dirty,
flithv tobacco. It compels man's mouth
to pur it out, and he has no respect of
place or person or law. He deposits u
any place to get rid of the dirty stuff.
I once wanted to get rid of five cats
that bothered me and the whole neigh
borhood, so I got a pipe that a man
smoked nearly all of his time. I took
a broom straw and poked it into tne
pipe stem and took out the contents. I
put this upon five pieces of meat and
gave a piece to each cat. They passed
out of life without pain, seemingly. And
yet my friend would encourage such
stuff for the rising generation.
ELI A. BAUBEAR.
Instead of Capital Punishment
Portland. Dec. 11. To the Editor of
The Journal There is a cry by some of
the people for the return of capital
punishment Would they be willing to
do this killing themselves, or do they
expect the state to maintain a slaughter
house? Simple, isn't it; yet, those same
people, through fate, may see a brother,
sister or other relative, probably through
circumstantial evidence, condemned to
pay the price with life, later to find they
were perfectly innocent. Who suffers
most the one that died or those that
still live? Imagine that occurring in
yoflr own home.,
Wouldn't it be better to enact laws
(Iron-bound ones) classifying crime with
a specified sentence for each classifica
tion, and when one was found guilty of
a crime calling for 10 years' Imprison
ment, that he were compelled to do 10
years to a day, not three years and a
parole for good behavior? In that event
a mistake could be rectified, if it was
found one had been made.
Some will say It means too much ex
n maintain a orison full of con-
victs. It is absurd to think a perfectly
healthy man can't more than pa y h s
bare Uvlng expenses. Build with their
labor a few million aouars worm
good roads that Oregon needs. That la
the best way to punish a person that
To my way of thinking, there is very
Uttle punichment in death. Hence the
dead person's relatives are the ones that
are really punished. Let's change the
laws, but not oaca l
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HiVHi.
Complains of Grain Inspection
WoMinnviile. Dec To the Editor
of The Journal I notice where the emer
gency board, amonw ouier
tl'ons, made a $10,000 appropriation for
the grain inspection department My
experience with the local grain inspect
ors this fall cost me 1100 worlh, of
wheat to have. No. 1 inspected eroded
and tested down to No. 2, and after
cleaning by JW?An"i. J"?
Sheridan grain house, docked 4 per cent
It appears to me that the grain cor
poration, which is a part of the inspect
ing' department should be self-sustaining
I also noticed a statement made
by a Middle-West senator in congress,
that the grain corporation last year
made 823.000,000, and under the present
grain regulations all I can see for the
wheat growers of Oregon to do Is to
bring in their grain and get rtaved.
A FA1UUUK.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says;
Alt this trouble over the coal short
age comes from our great statesmen last
July not beln' able to see far enough
ahead to know . thai December was a
comixk' sure. " . -
NEWS IN BRIEF
.. OREGON SIDELIGHTS
This from Bruce Dennis of the La
Grande Observer : "Only give us a lump
of sugar in our ' coffee and a lump of
coal in the furnace, and it will be a
merry Christmas." " '
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"The increase in the egg production
In and about McMinnvllle is flattering
indeed." says the McMinnvllle News
Reporter. , "Of course. McMinnvllle is
not yet a Petaluma. but the egg Industry
Is again coming Into Its own.
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The secretary of the Baker Coramer
plai rluh hjia hum) a.t work for some
time on a net. advertising booklet for
the club, and has been instructed to
have 5000 printed at once, as the supply
of old pamphlets has been exhausted.
"Visitors at the Oreeon state fair will
aCTWL- savs tha Aurora Observer, "with
its -secretary that a board of censors is
needed to pass on all concessions at the
fair. Some of the concessions at state
and county fairs are an annual disgrace
to the commonweaitn.
"The dry farmer," "says the Baker
Democrat, "has a prospect of seeing
hqpe long deferred realised the coming
year. All signs point to deep snow this
winter and the fellow on the mountain
side and in the dry gulch may get a 50-bushets-to-the-acre
ieW next harvest."
Soon as snowfall ceases, work will be
started in Deschutes county distributing
alfalfa leaves impregnated with strych
nine in a campaign against the jack
rabbit pest, the Bend Bulletin says.
With heavy snow on the ground, condi
tions for the war are considered the
best since the winter of 1915-16, when
85,000 rabbits were poisoned.
sourt river, in place of a day's actual
flying time to come from ocean to ocean.
on the course of 2701 miles. A few days
after I had interviewed Sergeant Kline,
who accompanied the "flying, parson,"
Lieutenant Maynard. across the conti
nent, I received a letter from Bert Huff
man, my old time partner on the Pendle
ton East Oregontan. His letter was
dated at Calgary, and contained the
following tribute to the argonauts of
the air :
The Arconanta, the Arsnnaata bare coma.
Their wins a-leam o'er San Frencbco bay I
Arrow the continent their motor hum
To apan its breadth in one awift. matchlem
day!
How proudly, glorknuly, they slide
From state to state, from mountain chain
to chain!
A, abore the rollinf clouds they ride.
What plaything! aeem these eitiea of the
plain!
What narrow sflrer thread those riTers gleam t
How Iniiisnlfieant the fields below.
With what disdain they pan from dream to
dream
From sunrise glory to the eunaet glowl
Ah, whits winger argonanta of sir and akr.
The landscape you bare crossed are wet
.with tears!
From yon far glistening height, eould ynn descry
The panorama ot the bygone years?
Listen and wonder at the story told:
The plaint you passed, the silrer streams you
apied.
Within their breasts a nations' epio hold
A tale. of other Argonauts, thrioe glorified!
WOd streams were they and plains without a
track,
With sarage foray and the midnight raid:
nnn ahead nn thonaht of tomins back:
The men fought on, the women hoped and
prayed I
Weeks, months, they toiled at aome wild moun
tain pass.
Where no now glide in one delightful hoar I
The mocking mirage glowed like molten glass
To bold them in its taunting, mystie power I
Ther dropped and died upon the lonely waits ;
The teaseled earn in golden glory warea
Where, at the midnight hour, they made in
hasto
A thousand unrecorded, unmarked (rare I
And in the winds which Ussad your westward
(Ton Argonauts, more fortunate than they!)
Tbeir whimpered prayers now greet, yon in delight
To bear you on to this triumphant day!
My Dog
St John Lucas In Philadelphia Ledger
The curate thinks you hare no soul;
I know that he haa none. But you,
Dear friend; whoee solemn self-control
In our four square, lamuiar pew,
Was partem to my youth whose bark
Called me in summer dawn to Tore
Hare yon gone down into the dark
Where none ia welcome, none may lereT
I wfll not think those good brown eyes.
Hare spent their light of truth so toon.
But in aome canine paradise
Tour wraith. I know, rebukes the moon.
And quarters erery plain . and hilt,
Seeking its master. As tor me.
This prayer at last the gods fulfill:
That when I paaa the flood and sea
Old Charon by the Stygian coast ,
Take toll of all the shade who land
Tour little, faithful, barking ghost
Mar leap to lick iny phantom hand.
All This In One Oregon Town
From the Ashland Tidings.
Sales of real estate, an activity which
has been moving at a quick-time pace
for several months, broke into double
time in the past three weeks in Ash
land. Nineteen residence properties,
four suburban home places and four
ranches near the city have been re
ported sold in that time. In addition
Ato the movement in residence and farm
properties, numerous changes nave
taken place in the business section and
seven new firms are offering their goods
and services to Ashland people. Be
sides the new establishments, several of
the old established business have changed
hands and are expanding. An Inrush
of homeseekers has made "To Rent"
signs as scarce as flies in an Ice plant
and rentals and property prices are
booming skyward. Most of the bargains
in real estate have been snapped up
but property continues to move at a
rate which prophecies big things for
the coming spring. The total lack of
apartments or cottages has caused a
furbishing up of long-vacant properties
and with, the city crowded and more
coming, an extensive building campaign
is sure to come when winter has passed.
A number of house owners are remodel
ing their homes and one or two new
residences are being built even at this
season. Sales of Ashland residence lots
are recorded every day.
The new business establishments re
cently opened include a bakery, meat
markets cleaning and dyeing works,
plumbing establishment electrical sup
ply store, variety store, and restaurant
The upper story of a business block Is
to be remodeled Into up-to-date apart
menta A cabinet works plant is being
built
Olden Oregon
Where the International Boundary Line
Might Possibly Have Run
During the controversy over the
northern boundary of Oregon one of the
compromises suggested was the follow
ing : Beginning from latitude 49 degrees
at the Rocky mountains, - southward
along the height of land to the place
where Lewis and Clark crossed the
mountains, said to be in latitude 41 de
grees 42 minutes, thence westerly along
the Lewis river until it falls into the
Columbia, and thence to the sea. This
line would have left the Rocky moun
tains at Lemhi pass, in central Idaho,
and followed the Lemhi - and Salmon
rivers to the Snake, the Snake to the
Columbia and the Columbia to the
ocean,' . . J
The Oregon Country
NorOiwaet Uappenbifs to Brief form tor the
Bw Header.
OREGON NOTES
Considerable fruit- and shrubbery att the
state hospital at Salem has been dam
aged by the present cold weather.
John Murphy, aged 56. found in a de
serted shack near Echo, is in a hospital
at Pendleton with both feet frozen.
On account of the ferries being fiozen
up. It requires a trip of 135 mil to
reach Hood River from White Salmon.
"The report of Union county school dis
trict clerks shows an enrollment-of 313
high school pupils for the 1918-1919 term.
Henry Rldgeway, 64 years old, was
found dead in the woodshed at his home
two miles west of Liberty last Satur
day. Fifty farmers from all parts of the
county met at Klamath Kalis Saturday
and perfected a permanent farm organ
isation. In all Hood River churches Sunilav
pastors and congregations Joliiprl in
fervent prayers for an abatement of the
winter storms. .
The Hollv Milk (VrpHl nittiiimii ot
Amity, has discontinued evaporating inllk
on account of the cold weather and
shortage "of fuel.
O. Van Marrn. a faller for the Urookp
Scanlon Lumber company, waw killed
near Bend when a tree limb fli. .ti ik
ing him on the head.
The present below-zero weather will
reduce the 1920 longanherry crop in the
Willamette valley about one fourth, ac
cording to the growers.
Mrs. Etta Handsaker, one of the Earli
est pioneers of Oregon and whose hus
band established the first store at Gosh
en, died at Tacoma a few dayB ago.-
The University of Oregon K. O. T. C.
has ordered 2500 text books covering i
military subjects over a four yeara'
course for use by members of the corps.
The motor propelling Oregon Electrlo
train No. 6, north bound to Portland,
burned out on a Salem aiding Sunday,
with a loss of several thousand dollars.
Deschutes county's first bond issue of
$125,000, to draw interest at the rate of
5Vfc per cent, was purchased Monday by
the Ralph Schneeloch company for $126,
750. Because of the present cold weather,
the annual Marion County Corn show,,
which was to have been held from De
cember 16 to 20, has been postponed one
week.
According tot an estimate by th$ for
est service, deer tin the western division
of the Umatilla national forest have In
creased 300 per cent in the past five
years.
Students in the department of geology
at the University of Oregon have Just
organized the Condon club, In honor of
Dr. Thomas. Condon, pioneer geologist
of the state.
WASHINGTON f
A grain exchange has been formed In
Tacoma and will begin to function Janu
ary 1.
John Joseph Kilkelly, a farmer living
a short distance from Kalama, was
gored to death last week by a bull.
W. a Elliott division freight, and
passenger agent has announced aa em
bargo, effective at once, on all freight
shipments out of Spokane.
Oakvllle schools were closed Friday
indefinitely on account of inability to
heat the rooms sufficiently for comfort
of ihe children and teachers.
Nearly all the coal companies of
Washington have announced their In
tention to pay the 14 per cent wage
Increase fixed by the government.
As the result of the coldest weather
ever experienced on the harbor, all the
timber camps in the vicinity of .South
Bend have closed down Indefinitely,
An exploding water coil in the range
at the home of Ed Mosher in Kelso com
pletely wrecked the ransre and kitchen.
many parts of the range going entirely
through, the ceiling.
Seattle officials are searching for' a
bandit who late Saturday night held up
a restaurant and escaped with $140, after
a revolver battle ith three policemen
who were eating in the place.
Kelso having been two days without
water, the public service commission '
has sent , Its chief engineer to take
charge of the city water system owned
by the Kelso Water company.
John Meade Jr. has just returned to
Raymond from Flume. Italy, where he
haa been stationed since the close of the
war. Mr. Meade enlisted In the army
the day after war was declared.
IDAHO
All mills In the Coeur d'Alene coun
try have closed down because ot the
extremely cold weather.
Judge Lovett at Boise has ruled that
the Oregon Short Line Is not responsible
for interruption of construction on the
railroad spur rrom its Yellowstone
branch to the Teton coal mines.
The controversy over the control of
the Idaho slate fair has resulted In the
suspension of Miles Cannon, state agri
cultural commissioner, as we 1,1 as the
personnel oi tne state lair oureau.
The Blaine County Investment com
pany, which is in charge ofJhe Blaine
county irrigation project, HmTi brought
suit against Blaney Brothers & Co. for
$100,000 ror alleged breach oi contract.
If the Dreeent negotiations between
the federal and atate governments go
through, Idaho Is likely to have one or
the biggest and finest game preserves
in the United States, if not in the world.
GENERAL
Congress has begun a drive to clean
up pressing affairs so as to adjourh Sat
urday for a two weeks' holiday recess.
Searching parties are but looking for
men who Sunday night near Dungloe.
Ireland, shot and wounaea rrom amousn
four constables.
Having won all his demands. Gabriels
d'AnnunzIo will hand over command of
the, citv of Flume to regular troopaomder
General Cavlglia, former minister war.
Charles Thomas, a rancher, wai&shot
and instantly killed at Lyons, .Colo.,
Sunday by his father-Jn-lawlrhlle
Thomas had a revolver drawn w1 hie
wife. iTr
The airplane of Captain cedricwSowell,
nna nf tha British airmen In the JaOTldon-
Melbourne flight was wrecked! St
George's bay December 10 and ffi is
no hope that eitner tioweu or ninaecn
anlcian escaped. , Kfr
J. W. Cool Id ge, aged 61, of KSEncll
Bluffs, and William H. Bay. . of
Omaha, vetefan engineers, whllel i ylng
different sections of the Overlaii i lim
ited. Saturday, were Both strlck ( with
paralysis while at the throttle. Vt
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Curious Bits of Informa to
tot the Curious
" ml,-
Gleaned From Curious Flao 1
The first presidential proclai atlon,
appointing a day of national t tanks
giving In the United States, wasjssued
by George Washington, who desffaated
Ocober 3, 1789, as the day. While the
festival continued to be observed in
many sections, especially In New Eng
land, where Thanksgiving day origin-
ated among the early colonists, it waa
not until Lincoln's administration thai
the last Thursday of each Novembef
was officially declared a day of thanks,
the observance ot which waa urged In
proclamations Issued by the president
and governors of the various states. It
was largely due to the agitation of Mrs. 1
Sarah ' Joseph a Hale of Philadelphia
that Thanksgiving became genera!
holiday throughout the United fltatts.
For a score of years she carried on
propaganda ; through the columns ol
Godey's Ladles Book and the Ladle
Magazine, of which publication she Wag
editor, and eventually she was success- -ful
tn her plane for having Thanksgrve
ing made a national festival, to be ob
served on a uniform 5 date in all . the
tatec. Canada followed the precedent
of the United Stajes, except In the mat
.ter of date, the dominion festival com
ing several weeks before .the .day oh'
served in the United States, .