THE OREGON DAILY - JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, DECEMBER ia, 1B19.
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I; THE REAL BUTCHERS
SPEAKING of, the president, the
Oregonlan says:
His Insistence on the league cove
nant without change has blocked
. legislation of all kind.
So we have all been mistaken it is
the president who has been holding
up. the treaty. It is the president who
caused the senate to dawdle away six
months of precious time. The presi
dent Is not the president, but the
senate. Being the senate the president
"blocked legislation of all kinds."
Could absurdity go to greater lengths T
Could" a statement be more unjust or
unfair?
- Returning from France In July,
President Wilson brought with him
a treaty. H had been signed by the
representatives of the German gov
ernment and by the representatives of
many other governments.
' mV. I- nt WIlaAn'l
IUIB UCttkJ nU UUb iTll. itliouuo
treaty.; Jt was the treaty of all the
nations participating In the peace con
ference.
' The president submitted this treaty
to the senate July 10. While the
senate ' was considering this treaty,
Germany ratified It Great Britain
ratified it France ratified it. Italy
ratified it. Japan ratified it. And all
the other belligerents, that fought Ger
many io the war ratified it. Not one
of them undertook to modify It
They all recognized the fact that
whether It-was. the best treaty of
peace, it was the only treaty that had
been drafted and the only treaty on
. which the representatives of the
many governments, concerned, with
their; .'innumerable conflicting inter
ests, had been able to agree.
! Lodge and his group, for their own
private reasons, refused to accept the
. treaty that all the other governments
. had accepted. They insisted on making
new treaty of their own; Of their
new treaty as set out in their reser-
can, said of the Lodge reservation on
Shantung, that it was "equivalent
to rejection of the treaty."
Harding, Republican, said that
"with the reservations, there remains
the skeleton of a league."
Lodge, Republican, declared that
his reservations killed the treaty, in
' these words : "It disposes of Article
10, and, so far as we are concerned,
effectively disposes of it."
- Senator Edge, Republican, said of
the treaty with the Lodge reserva
tlqns: "Here It is; take it or leave it
alone.'1 ;
.These are all Republican authority
as to what the reservations did for
the treaty. They show that Lodge
and his group proposed to set aside
the treaty already aocepted by the
' 28 ratifying nations and that the
Lodge group was offering a new
treaty of its own. .President Wilson
aid that the Lodge reservations were
a "nullification" not a ratification of
the Paris treaty. How, then, was it
the. president and not the senate that
frittered - the senate's time away and
"blocked legislation of all kinds?"
'- After, the vote defeating the Lodge
treaty. In the closing hours of the
late session. Senator Pomerene pro
posed a committee on conciliation to
be headed by Senators Lodger and
Hitchcock. It Offered a compromise
between the' two factions, one of
which favored the Lodge treaty and
the other favored the. original treaty
with. Jnterpretatlve reservations. But
Lodge rejected the proposal. He even
refused to permit , it to be debated.
The facts cannot be' obscured or
perverted. Lodge and his followers
. refused to accept the treaty of peace
that was signed at Versailles. They
refused to accept the treaty that Ger
. many and all , the other governments
t have ratified.. They refused to accept
: the only treaty pf peace that there is,
and insisted upon having a treaty of
their own that' nobody ever negoti
ated, ; that nobody ever ratified, that
nobody ever .. accepted, that had no
status whatever,: either in. law or in
. diplomacy. '. : .
' "Though a- : woman was noticed
driving madly along on the left hand
side of Oak street yesterday there
Is K-noticeable ' Increase In careful
driving. ', Fewer violations of the law
are seen. The agitation for acci
- - ... -
dent prevention will have the same
effect that fire - prevention had In
cutting losses hy Ore. The number
of accidents, as the campaign of edu
cation goes on will be halved or
quartered. Portland will' become a
perfectly safe city for automobllists.
Then every family can have a car
and not be afraid to drive It.
USING THEIR PULL
HAT persons of prominence, posi
tion and influence have, by Im
portunities - and ' threats, meas
urably interfered with the admin
istration of traffic regulations is dis
closed by the Journal's Investigations
into automobile accidents.
They have threatened patrolmen
with removal to remote beats.
They have threatened their posi
tions. M
" They have appealed to friendship
and to lodge ties.'
They have even attempted bribery.
They have invaded the mayor's
office in efforts to gain immunity for
themselves or their friends.
They have attempted to place them
selves above the law.
In one instance, two close friends,
lodge brothers, and a former business
partner were prevailed upon to inter
view an officer in an effort to "fix"
a ease.
A prominent lawyer, after violating
two traffic provisions, told an officer
that "he was not to be stopped" and
that "no policeman could tell him
how to drive." The officer was told
that he would be "sent to the woods"
if he again troubled the attorney.
He was arrested, but before convic
tion made repeated attempts through
the mayor's office and other places,
to have the case dismissed.
Citizens of eminence and influence,
instead of attempting to hold (hem
selves above the law, should be lead
ers in d-mandlng vigorous law en
forcement.
Mayor Baker is to be congratulated
on his stand against Influence in ad
ministration of law. Influence, cor
ruption and coercion have, no place
in law.
No man is above law. His Influence,
friendship or wealth entitles no man
to escape punishment for offenses
against society. We can't have one
law for the wealthy and one for the
poor. Attempts to create such a
status in America tend to foster
nurseries of Bolshevism.
This "stepping down" process that
Reed college, students employed
electrically for thawing frozen water
pipes- would doubtless be informa
tion eagerly received by the maimed
persons who sought to restore nor
mal circulation In frozen colls by
building tires in the kitchen range
and also by the incautious individu
als who selected. ' the blow pipe
method of thawing frigid pipes.
REDEEMED BY 'HENS
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NE of the tragedies of human ex
istence front the American view
point is the life of the outcastes
of India.
This class, the lowest and most
aespisea in tne social scale,- is re
garded beyond the pale and the only
work permitted to it is that which
Is considered "unclean" by the castes
Among these unclean pursuits is the
raising of chickens.
Western progress has at least
reached this class through the mis
sionary, bringing with it the hope
of redemption. By the introduction
of thoroughbred stock, cross-breeding
with the native stack, the value of
the Indian chicken has been increased
100 per cent.
Under old conditions the chicken
of the outcasts was a scrawny spec!
men, weighing about three pounds
and laying four or five eggs a year,
The improvement of the . stock has
brought an increase of 100 per cent
in weight of both chicken and egg
ana increased the average laying ca
pacity of hens to 120 eggs per year,
trices nave advanced from 6 cents
a dozen to 50 cents, and the price of
chickens from IE . cents to 11.
What is more important the market
ing of poultry and eggs has been
placed on a collective basis with
corresponding benefit to the pockets
or the outcaste, helping him to shake
off the clutches of the money lender,
and otherwise Improve his material
conditions. In America the hen is
often described as a "mortgage lifter."
In India she is taking on the char
acter of "caste lifter" also.
Experience with the recent cold
weatner will make the observer coa
naem mat the tenant who haled
his landlady Into court for failure to
provide heat applied the thermo
meter to the radiator,- not her
temper.
kTnE 1920 CENSUS
aPULATION is one of Portland's
chief assets. Population means
people. People are the founda
tion of industry, business and so
cial life. Their demands for service
in a score of essential ways are cus
tomarily recognized in proportion to
tneir number and their energy.
wnen tne census takers bein
counting the citizens of Portland, the
organized forces Of this city must see
w it that every person who led ti
mately has residence here Is included
under-counting and padding
equally undesirable.
are
In 1910 there were many charges
that the census was laxly eondnniMi.
It was generally believed there were
more than the 207,214 people then
credited to the city. Portland has
grown greatly in 10 years. There
ought to be no room or basis for such
complaints in the census of 1920.
committee has been appointed by the
Chamber of Commerce which Is gen
erally representative of the civic and
business organizations. ...The commit-;
tee's immediate duty Is to perfect an
aggressive organisation that will co
operate aggressively and actively with
those 'officially responsible for the
count. It is "an 'important duty. It
cannot be deferred and be performed
welL- t --- -'V; , ' " ,'s
ON TO BANKRUPTCY -
TIE-RE; Is a deeper.' meaning to
railroad legislation -.than' is re
flected 4n '.the, 'news dispatches. -,
; The situation of the roads is
precarious. r Men who know,; say It
is appalling. , f . ,
Operating expenses are heavily In
creased by higher wages and costlier
material and supplies. The .propor
tionate operating cost .was 62 per cent
of gross inoome; now it. is 81. "
This leaves '.too .narrow a margin
to provide for betterments and .ex
tensions required . to , handle increased
volume of traffic "i This volume has
mounted 65 to 75 per cent in eight
or nine years. . ;
With rare exceptions, the roads
have not the locomotives to handle
the traffic. They haven't enough cars.
They haven't money with .which to
buy. They cannot get the credit with
which to make the purchases. The
railroads and the banks were two
great lines of enterprise that did no
profiteering In the war.
The truth is, the railroads are in a
breakdown. It was because they were
in virtual, collapse that the govern
ment took them over in war time.
Under government management the
rolling stock of all the lines was
pooled, and was, without regard to
ownership, used wherever it was most
needed. That was' why the govern
ment succeeded in handling the war
situation after the roads-had failed.
With the roads back in private con
trol this resource will be gone, for
each line then will have to rely on
its own locomotives and cars, and
most of them will not have sufficient
equipment for the traffie offered.
Car shortages, delayed shipments.
stagnation in the movement of trans
portation and Other familiar phe
nomena, will appear. The effect, on
other industries and upon the coun
try is what makes the problem of
tremendous consequence.
All this and more of the same kind
is the reason 'why railroad legisla
tion is so much mentioned in the dis
patches. It is the reason why con
gressional leaders are hysterically
trying to do something before Janu
ary 1, when the lines, under Presi
dent Wilson's notice last May, are to
revert to private owners.
The probability that many of the
lines will go Into receiverships with
disastrous effects upon the country
is one pf the things that congress
should have been dealing with all
along instead of dawdling away its
time in silly talk on the peace treaty,
which did not change a single mind
or make a difference of a single vote
n the final ballot
For a day or two It has been
quite the thing to discard felt lined
arctics' in favor of rubber boots.
And the trend of the times Is so
pleasantly progressive upward, ther
mometerically speaking, that the
slush may soon not be beyond over
shoe depth in outlying streets.
THE COMMISSION'S LOSS
R'
EDUCED to a few words, the com
plaint of the fish and game com
mission against William L. Fin-
ley, the commission's deposed
biologist is that he is an Idealist and
a genius. He has refused to play
the political game. He has declined
to truckle for favors. He has been
so absorbed id his work that he was
willing to spend days or weeks study
ing the life of birds, fish and animals
in order that their ( propagation and
protection might be more successfully
Organized. This kind of organization
has obviously engrossed him more
than the building of a machine to
hold him secure in office. It appears
that another complaint against him
is that he is a 'friend of true sports
men and that their views coincide.
By dismissing Mr. Finley the com
mission loses more than the biologist
is deprived of in losing his Job. It
ought to correot its error.
I
It's an ill wind that blows nobody
good and It's a deep snow that
doesn't benefit someone. RTm
people, deprived of water, provided
for their needs and escaoed th
dangers of Impure surface water by
melting snow.
PARK SITE POLICY
P
UBLIG Interest is the first consid
eration in the city's purchase of
park playground sites. The
money voted by the people for this
purpose is no fund for real estate
profiteers. It, Is not intended to en
rich any private purse.
The properties to be acouired
should serve to the full as recrea
tional spots for men and women and
children. The first determining ele
ment In deciding whether a price pro
posed is reasonable should be the
assessed valuation. All '
should, be confirmed by the council
as a whole and In public meeting.
commissioner Pier has announced
that the basis Of prices offered by the
city for park and playground sites
will be the assessed . valuation, and
that in the : majority of instances
twice the assessed ... valuation is ; too
much. He has announced .that the
city , planning commission ' will . be
called into conference and tits recom
mendations will be given "due weight
He has said that all purchases will
be confirmed by the council. " . -
These , are I announcements expres-
sive of good pXibllc policy. They help
confirm public confidence In commis
sion government. , Let. this policy ., he
strictly; followed and Portland will
realize, 100 ..cents on the dollar- from
Its investment In parks and; Play
grounds. "' K :
AN INDECENT
ERRAND
ran Mission to White House the Last
. Inch In Bartlnahlp.
' - From th Hw York World s
' Through : the eyes of Albert Bacon
FaO of New .Mexico the - Republican
senators have seen the president -of the
United States, s 8 -
Through the hands of Albert Bacon
FaU they have touched him.
Through the ears of Albert Bacon Fall
they have heard him.
Through the lips of Albert Bacon Fail
they have snoken to him. H
Thanks to this unimoeachable Repub
lican evidence, they know that wooorow
Wilson! still exists, that he Uves In the
White Rouse and that, the White Bouse
is at the other end of Pennsylvania
avenue 'from the Capitol.
' All this has been proved beyond con
troversy, and while Senator Fall, in be
half of the Republican majority, was
pursuing bis investigations, the Mexican
government released Jenkins, thereby
exploding the hand-made crisis that the
senate .... committee on roreign relations
had used as a pretext for its partisan
invasion of the president's sick-room.
This visit to the White House was the
culmination of as slimy an adventure
into blackguard politics as Washington
has ever witnessed. For weeks the Re
publicans of the senate have been plot
ting to get their hooks into the president
somehow. For partisan purposes they
have adopted the attitude that he is
totally : incapacitated to transact public
business, that his official acts weYe
really done for him by others, and they
have schemed to drive him. out of office
if means or methods could be found.
The Fall expedition was ordered by a
party vote in the belief that Mr. Wilson
would 'refuse to see the subcommittee
or that his physicians would interpose
veto.! So confident was the foreign
relations committee, of which Senator
Lodge Is chairman, that no personal in
terview would take place with the presi.
dent, that .the subcommittee was in-
structed, in the event of failure, to
return at once "and report to the- full
committee.
There was no excuse, except the ex
cuse of a shameless and insensate par
tisanship, for demanding this consulta
tion with a president who needs to con
serve all his vitality if he is to recover
his shattered health. The state depart
ment had made peremptory demands for
the release of an, American consular
agent who was held' in $500 bail pending
the investigation of charges growing out
of his alleged abduction by bandits. Cer
tain senators who have a fit whenever
the name of Mexico Is mentioned were
using it as a pretext for another jingo
demonstration ; but there was never the
slightest possibility that the Jenkins af
fair would si ead to war unless tne United
States government deliberately forced
war. and there was no occasion what
ever for a consultation with the presi
dent except the expectation on the part
of the Republican leaders that no con
sultation would take place. .
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It Is 'due to Senator. Fall, who: acted
for the -Republicans on this indecent
errand,: to say that he seems to have
behaved most courteously, and his testi
mony In regard to the president's mental
condition1 could not have been grateful
to his Republican colleagues; but listen
ing to one of Senator Fall's harangues
about Mexico is an ordeal even to a
well man. and a sick president should
not have been subjected to it.
Now that a Republican senator vhas
talked ; face to face with Mr. Wilson,
is it too much to ask that there be a
pause in the campaign of detraction
waged , against the president from the
Capitol and that congress turn its at
tention to some of the vital affairs of
the country which are going from bad
to worse every day owing to the utter
incompetence of the legislative branch
of the government?
Letters From the People
tCommenieations lent to The Journal for
poblkxtion in this department ihooM be written
on onl ana lids of the Deoer. bould not exceed
800 words ia length, and muit be sisned by the
writer, wbow mail addrew in run man accom
pany the contribution.
'. Universal-Training
Portland, Dec 18 To the Editor of
The Journal "The people are deceived
by names, but not by things," quotes
Mr. Johnson, on the subject of universal
training, and a very good text it Is. -This
universal training idea seems to be as
sociated In the minds of the people with
universal service, and for that reason
a large number oppose it
The advocates of universal training
desire only these, things: (1) a small
standing army, sufficiently large for our
peacetime needs, to bear the first shock
of an invasion and to form the nucleus
of a war-time army ; (2) six months of
intensive military training for all youths
of IS or 19 ; and () a largo civilian re
serve, made up of these youths, who will
be subject only to call for yearly periods
of two: weeks for further training, to
see that they don't forget what they
have learned, and 1o keep them abreast
with military changes, these periods .to
last for 10 years, during which tune,
however, they would not be subject to
call for army service except In case of
national emergency. There - are other
beneficial features of the plan, such as
technical education, free medical exam
inations and .treatment. Where is the
Prusslanlsm In this? Where Is the "mili
tarism." the "rattling of the sabre," the
"mlUtary murder." the "Prussianising
of this republic"?
Both i Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Monson
have accused me of "handling the truth
carelessly" : both have accused me of
stating i that all the opponents of this
Idea are pro-Germans and radjcals. In
this' they both, handle the truth very
carelessly. Because all the pro-Ger
mans and radicals in the country oppose
the idea it does not necessarily follow
that all the opponents are pro-Germans
and radicals. And when Mr. Monson
states that 95 per cent of the ex-service
men oppose universal training he handles
the truth "plumb regardless." The Amer
ican Legion favors "military training for
ail, but; no compulsory service in time
of peace." (I quote from the American
Legion Weekly). The National Training
Camps I association, composed f ex
officers who took this training i them
selves, are working hard for ft. General
Pershing has come out strongly In favor
of It, and so has "our next president,'
General; Wood; Colonel Roosevelt advo
cated it for many, years. ; t :' -:
L The prominent opponents are Senator
LaFouette. ex-congressman (praise God
for the "ex") Victor Berger, Emma Gold
man, Alexander Berkman, w.u. llay
wood and the' X? W. ' W. J also m large
number of 100 per cent ; Americans., who
are misled, unadvised as to the actual
meaning and hoped for results of the
Idea.-."-! . - J'., ..--' vri
Mr. Johnson also states that the Na
tional Guard association Is opposed to
it. and I do not doubt It It opposes
anything that might tend to detract
from tho-glory and tmportanoe of the
national guard. , X know, for I served a
year te a national guard - division. --
, A. BARNES."
Criticises Anti-Tobacco Methods !
Eugene, Deo. - IT. To the Editor of
The Journal I have been reading - the
letters in regard to the use of tobacco
and the Iniquities of tobacco users, with
mingled feelings of amusement, disgust
and indignation. Ia the first place, the
matter of the use Of, tobacco la not
treated in a fair or square manner. In
the primary schools the children are
taught that to smoke a eigarette or use
tobacco .in any form results in lack of
initiative, - stunted growth, losing all
chances of ever taking, part In any ath
letics, insanity, produces, criminal ten
dencies, and in short, making a general
all around undesirable. Kids have Ideas
of their own, and . when a young boy
does take a smoke, or even keeps it up,
he can see no -difference in himself, ex
cept perhaps he feels sick for the first few
times. He sees he has been bluffed,
buncoed. . Result? He tries to show
the people they can't fool a kid and get
away with It, and he keeps smoking to
"showi them," until finally he gets the
habit That was my experience. 'and I
think my case was fairly typical of
the average boy. If tt would be ex
plained that, 'tobacco is really not s
bad as it 'is made out to be. and has
rather a very gradual and slight harm,
perhaps not noticeable in a couple of
years but noticeable If periods a few
years apart are taken into consideration,
then I think the use of tobacco would
be greatly lessened. But to tell 'a boy
that . to smoke completely ruins him is
to arouse his curiosity to the extent of
deciding for himself.
The use of - tobacco most assuredly
does no one any good, is offensive to a
great many people and is rather expen
sive. I have heard a great many very
old men say that tobacco never does any
harm: ."Look at me. Here I am 96 years
eld ; have smoked since I was a kid,
and look at me now. .Never hurt me
any," as one old gentleman remarked
to me. That's all right, grandpa, but
thing what you might have been If you
had never, used it.
Some people receive harmful effects
more than others. But the question Is,
does the harm, received more than off-
net' t n A nlAMjnir H.rivnH T TnhaMvi iim
ing is a nervous habit in agreat many
instances, and a person uses tt instead
of twiddUng his thumbs, drumming
with the, fingers or foot, or turning a
ring around On a finger. A person is
healthy in spite of using tobacco, not
by the aid of It- A man who says that
tobacco benefits a man is in the same
category as tne one who says that a
certain disease "is no worse than a bad
cold." J. M. MITCHELL.
Calls Tobacco an Evil
Halsey, Dec 15. To the Editor of The
Journal E. A. Linscott seems to be "In
the gall of bitterness" because of the
anti-tobacco crusade. There are always
two sides to any question. I would sug
gest to him to break off the bad habit
Of using the. vile stuff; then hwlll not
be made miserable if the "fanatics'
carry the day. I know it can be done.
for once I was a slave to It myself ; but
my will conquered "the lust of the flesh,'
and I praise God for it
I don't believe, in one class trying
to rule another class (but it seems that
is the way the world Is run), and can
agree with Mr. Linscott in the remark:
"They would want to dictate to God
and make a new heaven." I fear a great
many shall be condemned both in and
out -of the churches through that Same
spirit of wanting to rule. That Is why
"Lucifer" was cast out of heaven, and
I do not believe he will ever get back
into, heaven.
Mr.- Linscoti further says: "Suppose
one man that used tobacco would hold a
cigar. In the other fellow's mouth and.
make him smoke." Let me put , that
statement in a little different form. Sup
pose a lady was sitting in a street car, and
the fumes of tobacco made her sick. And
suppose a man sits beside her with
a cigar in his mouth and puffs away
regardless of the discomfort he causes
her. Would he infringe on her personal
rights?
In ending his letter Mr. Linscott
says, "When the great battle of free
dom has been fought and justice and
freedom shall have triumphed, then we
will learn we cannot disturb the gifts
of God and nature." Is tobacco a gift
of God; When man disobeyed. God
cursed the earth and said it would
bring forth all manner of evil; and the
tobacco plant is one of the many evils
that has spruxfg up.
G. K. WALKEK.
Disheartened by Crime's Increase
. HUlsboro. Dec IS. To the Editor of
The Journal Far from the world getting
converted and 'all men coming under
the power of the gospel, as "spiritual"
guides would lead us. to believe, we can
truthfully say. that greater darkness
reigns today in the spiritual kingdom
than reigned before the flood, or before
the destruction of Sodom, or before
Jerusalem was destroyed. Present day
Christianity most men know to be a
farce, a humbug, a trade and a means
for traffic The young and sensitive
hearts of our chUdren sicken at the
sight of so much void and empty pro
fession of religion, and infidelity Is
taking gigantic strides across this planet
In these latter days traditions of men
ahd worldly wisdom, and science falsely
so-called, are held up bymen to explain
and illustrate the divine attributes ana
government of the Deity, when the un
alloyed, pure word of God is before us.
What are our boys and our gtris com
ing to? Where and what were their
parents? As effect follows cause, so the
trees of mankind have borne their fruits
according to the kind of seed sown and
the ground they were sown in. Cain,
being conceived in the uncleanliness of
the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
became a murderer, and all those who
have since been conceived in that state
show a depravity In their nature which
is revolting to the minds ot all who
are striving for purity. If parents would
only read the laws of God and seek to
give good gifts unto their children in
the shape of pure bodies, we should hear
less of such cold-blooded and horrible
crimes as have been thrust under our
nntww of lata. A -srreat' aeai ot ins
blame, however, will lie at the door of
the clergy, who have taliea to insxruci
their flocks In the tour commandments
given to Ve GentUes, namely, to ab
stain from pollutions of idols, from for
nication, from things strangled, and
from blood the last commana corre
sponding with Leviticus 15:24.
How true ar the words: "Sin Is the
transgression of the 1-"--
Turn the Hot Water Tap
Portland. Dec 17. To the Editor of
The Journal A paragraph on page 8,
column 1, yesterday's Journal, says that
"the man or woman wno ouuas a ure
In the stove without first ascertaining
that the water In the coll is circulating
i. enAii.K tba victim who goes look-
i.. eM ,u leak with a match." WUL
kind enouxrh to tell a lot of US
how one is to determine whether or not
the water Is circulating to the coll? In
answering remember, please, that turn
ing - on the hot water or leaving ;it
running doea not circulate, the water to
the coll but merely, m ine Doner.
T Swiss at ".Verdun.
TXtrtiand. Tec IS. To the Editor of
Tht, Journal The ; German - language
newspaper of Portland reports that ac
cording to jrrencn statistics ouw own
vnVunteerad for France, . of whom over
T700 were killed, leaving hut see to s
COMMENT: AND
, , : . SMALL CHANGE , , '
Well soon ba on tha laat las toward
Christmas. -
New Tork seems to have acquired our
'cold snap'' and is welcome to It. - . ;
The blr five" nar.kra. It wenld seem.
have yielded to insistent demands that
they unpack.
Being a . member, of the President's
cabinet seems to be rather a hard way
of making a Uvtng., , ,
Nobody any lonrer aavs "It's a shame
to take the money." It's a sin to take
It, but there's no shame about It any
Ijnore.
When . Janan abolishes ita "nlctura
bride" plan, the expression "pretty as a
picture" probably won't mean so much
to piera.1 . ;, .
Britons will do weU to elect at least
one more woman to parliament, so that
the membership may be addressed as
"Ladles and gentlemen." "Lady and gen
tlemen" Is so awkward.
Pararranhers ara makine- token about
Nancy-Astor's alleged purpose to sit in
parliament with, her hat on. Well, she
will only be in- the fashion, for that's
wnas m. f4 nave oone time out ox mina
This is a sordid are. but American
ideals are still quoted still higher than
American prices, and that's some height,
we'll say. Moreover, as long as those
who are elevating the prices will keep
their hands off the Ideals the country
wiu do pretty saie.
-; MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Major Emmett Callahan, of Baker, of
Portland, and of the world, is back In
Portland, at the Portland. He harbors
the thought that the Rose City does
not look like the same old place, garbed
in the bedraggled ermine of the snow
as it is, its blooms tfung with the mourn
ing of the frost and. its gentle Decem
ber sunshine in seeming eclipse.
Major Callahan has not been In Port
land for a year or more, and since his
Sparture has figured on the battle front
France and has wandered in far
countries and into distant places. Since
his return he has been spending some
of his time, most' of it in fact upon
his Eastern 1 Oregon ranch, but when
the mercury, began to go south he decided
to go west . He reached here wttn tne
rain and is, again, his genial, and mer
curial self.
-Aside from many tales of travel and
adventure the returning wanderer
brings back one dominant conviction,
namely and towit that there is no ade
quate timber in Wood, presidential or
otherwise. The major has not forgotten
the time when Teddy Roosevelt who had
been his political guerdon, led his
mooses back into the Republican fold
and left him outside and alone. He
cannot forget that, and he cannot re
member Wood. -He does not say It but
it may be possible that he will have
something to say In the days to come.
One time somebody said something
about somebody having gone to a bourne
from which there was no return, but
he was not referring to Jonathan Bourne
Jr.. known of old m Oregon politics In
various ' ways and means. ' Senator
Bourne is going to return, so It Is said
unofficially but with some little shadow
ot authenticity nevertheless. Senator
Bourne is now devoting his talents and
you may use whichever definition of the
word you wish in advancing the cause
of Senator Miles Fomaexter. wno, it is
currently understood, desires greatly to
h nrealdent of the .United States. In-
conducting the Job of being Pomdex
ter's national manager It iVlng to be
necessary for Senator Bourne to come
nut to Oreeon. and other states as well.
to lend his passing, personal ana per-
uniiiv touch to the . game. When ne
will eret here is not announced, but he
is coming, and soma- cay wiu mow in.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JUL) KIN AL main
By Fred
T . 4K nanhnal ad-
l Strange mm , j. t.
TntuM of tate drier ia the old daja,
ryLrr -octal
man-J
driver of
U,, O JIVlli. "
. - n wa tAlllnr ma Of the
early days of transportation In the
Northwest recently, wnuo "
gether in the office ot Major Moorhouse
at Pendleton. f
"I remember," said he. "one winter
Lem Wines, division superintendent
came over the road on a trip of in
spection and said to me. 1 have a couple
of strings of bells I am going to send
up. You and Reese can use them.
"I hitched my team up at Roberts
creek." The 'horses were hardly broken.
I put the bells on' them, and away they
went . didn't? get them stopped ior
three miles, and during tne enure Dis
tance I wa dodging nara biqwoui
thrown up by "the horses' hoofs. I
thought I was never going to stop them.
Thev went over the divide and started
down Into the canyon. As we lurched
down the road tne aingooii oroae.
. ,1.11. it Innked aa if tt Was all Off
CBj VT1U1V mw - -
with the whole outfit but I headed them
into a snowdrift ana puea mem up.
nin want tha leaders. The wheelers
went right on top of them. It sure
ruined those leaders. I started out with
four horses. When I got to the next
station X had only two.
- - -.
rc-. i iaava vind of risky for a
while, but I wasn't half as scared as
I was once when I went 14 mues nang
ing head down from the brake.
"I had stopped to water, l naa a
six-horse team. The horses were as
wild as hawks. I had boots on . ana
bad my overalls rolled up. As I climbed
up to the box I slipped, the brake ran
up my trouser leg, ana over i went
Away went the horses. I couldn't do
a thing. My overalls, being rolled up.
turn to Switzerland, -most of them
wounded. During the German onslaught
on Verdun one battalion of 1000 Swiss
was thrown Into the breach. Tney
stopped the enemy advance for several
hours, but were killed, to tne last man.
That the German organ referred to
should feel a bit peeved over the un
neutral attitude of the Individual Swiss
we can understand when we .consider
that while our country suffered one man
Olden Oregon
Waller Hall of Willamette University
: a Most Notable Structure.
Waller hall, recently partially de
stroyed by fire, was the oldest of the
buildings , of Willamette university. Con
struction on it was begun In 164. The
address at the laying of the corner
stone was made by Governor GIbbs. The
building was named in honor of . the
Bit. A. T. Waller, who was a member
of the famous Lausanne party, which
came to Oregon in 1840 from New York
on the vessel Lausanne. - One of the
first objects of this memorable party of
Methodists WM the .establishment ot aa
educational - Institution. Father. ' WaUer
was Instrumental In the raising of funds
for that purpose which culminated in
Willamette university. - .
NEWS IN BRIEF
, - OREGON SIDELIGHTS ,
Band Instruments have ' arrived ' at
Banks,- and the Herald says clUseaa are
having , "music"- from dawn, until late
at night. v - -
.. -j . " e '- :
The forehanded man, as defined by the
Salem Statesman, Is the one who pre
pares for a cold snap In the Willam
ette valley ii years ahead...
...-- ,.. ' T
In view of the recent completion of
paved highway connection of Hlllsboro
with Portland the Areus remarks:
"Hillsboro's Rip Van Winkles should
take a trip down the highway to Port
land. Those who predicted we should
always wade in the mud were poor
gueasers." -.......-,;.!.? a.m;'
The Independence Post quotes the old'
timer as follows: "Professor J. B. Hor
ner had an article In last Sunday's Ore
gon Journal in which he described the
occasion when the Cascade mountains
arose from the Pacific ocean and gave
us a place to live in. An old timer aays
he remembers that Incident very dls-
tinitlv. hut ha can't recall the time when
Oregon had such weather as at present"
Thia nubile donation is reported by the
Bend Press : "Following the policy of
the Shevlln-Hlxon company ana increny
adding to the park along Tumalo creek,
the Bend company has donated to the
city a strip of timbered land Immedi
ately south of the Tumalo hatchery. The
strip is about one mile in length and one
auarter of a mile wide, embracing ap
proximately 160 acres of land. This
leaves an unbroken stretch of land the
entire length of Tumalo canyon to be
utluseo ny tne city tor a recreation
park."
"Ha, ha." chortled J. C. Smith, the
medical senator from Grants Pass, as he
slithered Into the lobby of the Imperial.
Ma, ha," he reiterated, as he handed
his grip across the desk to Harry Ham
llton. "You will brag about your cli
mate, will you?"
"No," Harry answered ruefully, as he
rubbed one frostbitten heel against the
other. "You heard me wrong.
"Down at Grants Pass," the senator
boasted, "we had only five Inches of
snow, and that is nearly all gone."
"Uh. huh." Harry ruminated, as he
hefted ths senator's grip remlnlscently :
"and up here we've got only 10 rooms
vacant and they're all gone."
"Gosh!" the senator exclaimed,
gotta sleep some place."
"What was it you were saying about
our climate V Harry asked, as he fixed
the senator with a level gase.
"Salubrious, salubrious," Senator Smith
exulted. "Whenever I yearn to go to
Palm Beach and haven't the time, or the
price, I come down to Portland and run
around barefooted among the sunshine
and the dewy roses."
"Sign the register." Harry Invited. The
senator did. and Harry gave him a room.
It was room 23.
Tom Montgomery, who used to live In
Pendleton, and then In Baker, and Is
nnw enazlna- two blades of high priced
whaat and hav to stow where one for
merly (Terminated up In Montana, is
spending a few days In Portland. Tom,
aa ha used to be known In Pendleton be
fore he went to Baker to go Into the
bankina- business, and as he is still, hav
in, vnn mit of the banking business.
has decided that the receiving end of
the wheat business is on the farm ratner
than in the office of the buyer. He has
seen so much money slipping Into the
bank accounts of the farmers that he
decided to get at that ena or me lun
nel himself, which accounts for his hav
ing gone to Montana. It Is all right ne
argues;' to be in the banking business
if you own the bank, but he has a sort ot
Idea that it Is still better to be on the
farm, and that ia where he Is. or where
he will be when he gets tired of visit
ing In Portland and finishes his busi
ness down here.
Lockley
were aa strong as rope. . Eventually, as
I swayed back and forth as the stage
lurched from side to side, my overalls
tore loose, and I was thrown by the
side of the road.
"I had better luck than one of the
other drivers, who was running a six
horse team on that same run. He was
thrown off on the hard crusted snow
by the side of the road. His face was
cut open from forehead to chin, just
as If you bad done it with a butcher
knife.
e e
"Along about 1870 I took the main
line. After driving there for a couple
of years I quit and went to Helena.
I went to work for Bill Taylor and John
Cormack. This was in the spring of
1872. They paid me 1100 a month for
driving the opposition stage to Deer
Lod?8. . ,
"The run from Helena to Deer Lodge
was E6 miles. At that time this was one
of the hardest stage roads in the United
States. They ran five six-horse teams.
I started out at 6 In the morning and
had to get in at 1 o'clock. The whole
ES mile run, with the exception of about
10 miles, was mountain road. The fare
from Helena to Deer Lodge was 110.
The return fare was only 1 2.
"The heavy snows In winter would
fill the gulches bankfull. and In spring
the streams were so high that It was
a matter of swimming the horses. What
with the freight the mall and the pas
sengers, I would often have about 1800
pounds- of dead weight I remember
one time I took to a ton of freight and
10 passengers. The freight consisted of
sugar, bacon and quicksilver, all heavy
stuff that 'didn't take much room.
e e e
"The other stage line cut the fare to
$1 each way during the summer. That
put our line out of business, so I went
to work for the old company. This was
In January, 1878. I drove to the spring
of 1874. That fall I came to Oregon."
killed to every 1830 of the population the
little Alpine republic, officially neutral,
lost one man io every (3 of Its inhabi
tants In the world's defense against over
bearing Prusslanlsm. P. W. E.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
The San Bias Indians occupy the
Atlantic coast and the adjacent Islands
near the Columbian border, and are
among the best natural sailors ia the
world, many of them going to sea on
ships from the Panama CanaL Their
coast and Stands are said to produce
the best cocoanuts to the world. Their
blood is probably the purest of
any of the American Indians, as no
men In the world have guarded their
women with more jealousy and efficlneey
than the Baa Bias, is a statement, made
by C R. Calhoun, in Everybody's. In
a country everywhere touched with the
blood of he West Indian negroes, the
San Bias never show the slightest trace
of any kind of mixtures. . Courtship In
the Ban Bias -is a strenuous matter, es
pecially for the bride-to-be. To win her
the suitor must chase her and catch her
to th water. -.-'."'.''-,
.The Oregon Country Y
Kerthwtst Hsppeaiati ta Brief fora foi ths
' ' - Baw Baadat. . ..
1 . OREGON NOTES
" Ranter eountv - fcea I in ma .
publio lands, of which ail '., tn ?i i.
surveyed. r -
Interstate bridge receipts for Novem
her totaled $J4. 004 55, according to a re!
port just Issued by the commissioners.
urTillLIfv.0! th gymnasium ot the
Monmouth high school caved- in Wednes-
snowsT weigm oi the heavy
Mslheup mnntv V - - i
eln" '"'"J ""rveyed and 4.0?
After lldUidatlnr all IndehtaAnau ft,.,-..
remained In the surplus fund of the
HtSS JtaK7i.botrd on December 1
Henry Blank mnA ft r T a
Plymouth, wis., have aifnounced that
.V.""1" a ou,wu nardwood saw
mill at Harrlsbura-.
The eommlttM In . .
president of Albany college has fixed
January 7 as the date of the ceremony.
vn ixm own mouon the publio service
rom,,,8l.on.t.haf, Instituted an investl-
Eiii?.n. .the .di?.Un,ce' c,a88 na com
modity rates of the Sumpter Valley rail
road. Damage by- broken water pipes,
broken trees in-the nrxh.ni. .a
of stock on the range in Med ford and
tm.ooof11 y U e,tlmlaa
The Lane Shingle company at Eu
gene has purchased from the Sluslaw
national forest reserve 400,000 feet of
red cedar and will manufacture it into
shingles.
The Christmas vacation tours of tne
men s and women's glee clubs of the
University of Oregon Tiave been Indefi
nitely postponed on account of weather
conditions.
A protest signed by 100 parents of
school children has been filed at Rose
burg objecting to compulsory examina
tion of their children by a proposed
county nurse.
Jack Humphrys. 9-year-old son of
Mck Humphrys of Oregon City, was
probably fatally Injured Wednesday
when he was shot by a companion while
playing with a .22 rifle.
The Hawley Pulp tt Paper company
has placed an order with the Oregon
City Foundry company for the manu
facture of several new wet machines,
which have always in the past been
manufactured in the East.
WASHINGTON
Zlllah Is to have a second bank, ap
plication for a charter having been for
warded. Capital stock Is $20,000.
A young child of C. D. Sandholm of
Seattle is near death from the effects
of eating bichloride of mercury tablets.
In taking the census at Seattle the
chamber of commerce announces that
absentees and transients must be count
ed. Murrel Main, 2-year-old son of C. A.
Elliott Is dead at Yakima as the rssult
of burns received when a lamp ex
ploded. The December estimate of the area
sown to wheat In Washington is 919.000
acres, approximately 100,000 acres less
than last falL
The Commercial bank of Yakima, with
a capital of $100,000, has opened for
business In the marble home, especially
constructed for it
K. W. Lyon, an Insurance solicitor,
who disappeared from i.llensburg sev
eral months ago and was pronounced
dead, reappeared In that city Wednes
day. Spokane banks that organised a syndi
cate to market the $3,000,000 two-year
note issue of the Washington Water
Power company report the entire issue
sold.
While watering stock on his farm,
eight miles south of Prescott C. M.
Brotherton, a prosperous farmer,' 60
years old. fell into the well and was
drowned.
W. H. Wood, a rancher, ia In a aarlona
condition at a Port - Townsand -hospital
suffering from two bullet wounds In
flicted by an unidentified person Tues
day night
The national prohibition amendment
will not go to referendum In Washing
ton, the secretary ot state finding the
petitions 1SS8 names short of the 22,627
necessary. ,
Using gasoline which he thqught was
coal oil to start a fire In his range. O.
H. Anderson of Cosmopolla was so badly
burned by the resultant explosion that
he Is not expected to recover.
Minnie E. Billings, widow of the late
Orvtlle Billings. Tacoma capitalist and
politician, has won her suit for $15. (too
against a life Insurance company. The
company was contesting the policy on
the ground of suicide.
On account of th car famine the West
Coast Lumbermen's association declares
the lumber Industry "prsctleally pros
trate" and unable to handle the "heavi
est volume of the most attractive busi
ness ever offered."
IDAHO f
Boise's chamber of commerce has just
closed a campaign for members with a
total of 1665 new applicants.
Fire starting from an electric iron de
stroyed the Moscow millinery store, to
gether with a $4000 stock of goods.
Boise Is offering every Inducement for
factories to locate there and to build
up ths wholesale and Jobbing section.
C. B. Walker, a young broker of
Drlggs, Is announced as the successor to
Guy E. Bowerman, state finance com
missioner. Ward Oano. a prominent farmer liv
ing near Moscow, took In 65 hogs, for
which be received $1886, an average of
nearly $30 each.
The Red Collar line has been forced
to limit Its schedule to one host dally,
running from Coeur d'Alene to Sorting
Gap and return.
Denis Gogglns has resigned as deputy
United States revenue collector to ac
cept a position as manager of a large
mine In north Idaho.
Idaho's population and the extent of
her business enterprises have alike In- ,
creased one-third during 1919, accord
tog to figures of the secretary of state.
Five kegs of corn mash under the
process of fermenting were discovered
In the cellar of M. MeCabe, near Coeur
d'Alene. The stuff was confiscated and
McCabe arrested. - -
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
IT
The utterly Impossible is Callus comln'
round and performln'. Jest a few years
ago we was told that It was utterly
Impossible for a seaport to ever go dry,
and here's the meanest kind of boot'
legger risen up to $17.60 a .quart and
It that ain't dry enough, the prospects
Is mighty good f er It to go to $27.50
'fore long. ,
Today's Standings in
Sunday School Contest
The strongest advance' of the day
to The ' Journal's Sunday school
"want" ad contest was made by the
First United Brethren Sunday school,
which stood seventh Thursday. This
organisation heads the contest to
day, with a total of 65,000 votes to
Its credit against a total of 7500
yesterday. Following is today's
standing: First United Brethren,
85,000: Cloverdale United Brethren,
($.700; Sunnyside Congregational
28.900 ; - Sunnyside M. E.", 18,900 ;
Forbes Presbyterian, 16.900 ; Wood
lawn,', Christian, 11.400; Third Bap
tist, 9900; Christian Tabernacle,
7600 i , Fourth United Brethren.
5100; First .EnrlUh . ; Evangelical.
490 ; Kemlworth Presbyterian.
4400 ; Wavertelgh 'Heights Congrega
tlonal. 8200 Congregation Al Torah.
$100 ! St Patricks. 2800 ; Our Saviors
Lutheran, 2500 : Millard Avenue Pres
byterian, ; 2400 ; ' Marshall , Street
Presbyterian,: 2200 Atkinson Memo
rial Congregational, 1800. ,