THE OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL' PORTLAND. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23, ,181.
O S. JACKSON;
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IXJRBIOW ADVEBTISIJCO f '"B"E1,NJJ1!?
Ben. mil KastDor Co., Braruk Ba Id n.
. Maudlac Omenta. - - "
abwriptiaa terw T mil, or to en sddrees la
the United Sutes er Mexico' ,, .
pAItt iUOBSWO OB jUTEBSOON) :,
Om tsar.. ... .88.00 I Om siantS... .. .60
A- SUNDAY . ' "
i: On mf ... .82.6S f Ooa r.t -26
DAU.X (MOHSPW OR -imMOOl)
Om r.;....T0 Oae oath -S6
. Orwt ability without dUcretien - eomei
slatest iHTrUblj to trtfic end.
UembetU.
BIGGER TOAN THE PACKERS
f
UBLIC , confidence In American
government is greatly strength
ened by what . Attorney General
Palmer his done with the pack
ers.
f - The Big 'Five 'were spreading their
. monopolistic tentacles through .the
. country. They were a source of
.alarm to observing men. Their power
over food distribution was colossal.
onstrated both Its value to the coun
try and the wisdom of its. creation.
The wholesale grocers of America,
the farmers, the livestock growers
and millions of Americans generally,
will breathe more freely in : this
newjy demonstrated exercise of the
power of ; the government over i the
encroachments and", menace of the
growing personal and private , power
of the packers,- " '
It : Increases public confidence , In
our . government . and our country, i
1 It Is difficult to resist the appeal
of children.' The protest of the boys
and v girl ;ln . Portland's "' schools
against the 'dismissal of "W. I. ; Fin-
ley from his work as state biologist
is impressive. Mature people may be
actuated by political or other, mo
tives.' The ; children have but one
thought. Mr.' Finley has opened
their eyes . to the wild . life of the
state. He has been helping. to. pre
pare them tor their duties as citi
zens in connection with birds, fish
and animals. .,''.'- . wvV-"
NO MORE THIMBLERIGGERS
I
i J.only proper that the governor
should insist mat A. ii. Lea; or
whoever it is who directs and
controls the state fair, should see
to it that Oregon's big annual exposi
tion should be conducted "without
taint of indecency or ' immorality." .
Times have changed since -racetrack
touts and gamblers, sure thing men
and all their motley retinue flung
their raucoutand ribald orgiee openly
to the public gase at the state fair
ground.. Those days are dead. But
of late there has been the' increasing
odor of, their, carcasses in the air.
Lotteries and thinly veiled gambling
concessions have been permitted to
slink back, camouflaged, perhaps, but
unwanted of decent people just the
same. " " '
i
Complaints have been made so per
sistently that the governor says he
is constrained to believe they have
"been founded on fact": that "some
have made, places T for 25, and the
furniture , manufacturers nine; It
is the true spirit. Whatever may be
the status otherwhere, let it never
be said of the state that was first
in every activity In the war, that
her people were ungrateful to those
who went out to fight ' for the
victory.- ' '
UNREPORTED AUTO ACCIDENTS ;
L'
ESS than 23 per cent ' of the col
lisions - between, streetcars and
automobiles are reported tortile
police station , by : automobile
owners. The Journal's investigations
show. The law. requires that owners
report within 12 hours. ' v,. :
. Although the 1 Portland Railway,
Light A Power company records show
that tlure were 3411, collisions With
automobiles from December, 1918, to
December, 1919, only 775 were reported
at the police station. - x..;
Resident; Griffith of the railway
company has announced JLh&i he wlU
Instruct all carmen to Jake the license
numbers of automobiles in collision
with; cars, - and report them ' to , the
police station; President Griffith's an
nouncement indicates faithful ful
fillment ofa civic duty that should
result In ' arrest and punishment of
those who in the past have cheated
the law. -- ,, -
suit of the war.. No such revel of
expenditure. was ever seen.! U must
result id ; a reckoning later. on..)
In one - branch' the government is
trying to teach thrift by sale of War
Stamps And treasury . : certificates. It?
efforts i In that field are far-seeing
and exemplary. Yet in the, smaller
details against which this effort Is
directed, there is practice of tmtbrif t
by the government itself. v' : , "' ,
It is economically1',, immoraL AVhy
doesn't some senator or some con
gressman anxious to render the Coun
try a service,-, or, some -bead of a
department, or somebody else, 'chal
lenge this,, practice whlch in; itself
ereates spendthrifts and wasters ?, r
- The committee . for Armenian re
lief ventures the hope that gener
ous giving at Christmas time will
include the milions of persecuted,
oppressed, star vine people In a
tyranny darkened country. While
extravagant sums go for articles of
little use It will be rood, if only for
the sake of contrast, to think. 'of
those to whom a crust of bread is
luxury, and a ragged garment wealth.
NEW SLEEPER SERVICE
0
They bekl a controlling interest in of the go-called' shows have Dassed
67 companies, a minority interest in the border line of morality and de-
s 05 otners ana an unaeierminea inter- nv tn finh Qn nant no tn k.
NE of the most welcome of recent
announcements is that a sleepaer
train service is soon, to : be er
tabllshed by the O-W. B. A N.
railroad between Grays Harbor and
Portland.
Southwestern Washington belongs
pst in 91 a total of 762 companies, LlB.hiv nttcna,v fha naturaUy In Portland's trade territory
..ii.. i. m AMnfnnHitiM larffplv I ... . i .. . I uuzchs or Hoaulam. - Aberdeen and
MHuu iu . i patrons oi me iair. so, ne warns tw ..: , .
I'fftod nroducta. Thev had a near mo- caM.... t . other commumties of Grays Harbor
i il.'S b Wted "for purely legitimate and f.0, i T S!i
;proauceu ou,o wura M entirely lawful and moral purposes u. ... iTi. T ' ,
; cotton oil output. Productionof lard only. Btate of 0reU " he con- .J
SUOStltUies was O per cent in weir teBds; Js ot g0 pW nor are its I "Z t ": . -1 C "
hands.
citizens so dfiDraved.'that It is nftces- . " . ",."M DV
in 1916 thev sold nearly 100.000.000 L. I . ' - laesiCADie botn tp these towns and to
ounds of noultry. 90.000.000 pounds
Of butter, 70.000,000 pounds of Cheese, t0" oander to grosser tastes' to draw rea!0nS. DPl"nea but traceable
and over 155,000,000 dozen eggs, all in . crowd.. He warn thfi secrctary Prooaniy to ineir own activity and
; . . m a 1 I li'TAI'SIOn fT innnenAA rt ava S m e n r
artrtiunn to tneir saies or meau anui. 4h-k Kim ka vwvw v uuCU, vc uau u-
- ------ - i skuvi. iuiuuKii utuit uic iiuatu. tuat auj
v, ' meat products. undesirable concessions will be
111 1916 they slaughtered 5 per cent, cleared out in the future hv the
t Hi au ine ubs, per ccut ui wi pr0peP aythorities, or, should they
" fa- ram w a " fan to act, by his office.
- and 18 perxent.or an tne Bneep Kiuea bc better s0
'.-- k. Ct.l.a Th.v
held and operated 89 per cent 61 the
vantage and consideration beyond
their deserts.
The new service should end the
It wiU dlfnculty- " win doubtless give' both
nruur auu -yruaa ousiness
interests a strengthened trade oppor
tunity. It cannot fail to increase .the
T t in trial .nntivh tn nnaa a o a r h
; LVinter-stete slaughter houses and main- er8. examlnaUon. , When to It there 1 friendliness Grays Harbor and
?. tamed over 90 per cent of the car m.,Rt. , a Wrrnov of a Tnii
. . i - - .
rnntp iiapri hv intprstaifl Klanenterers. u: .t.
- " . w I kill T. M , V40 UiQ voov
Portland for the 0-W. a A N.
They dealt in fresh tomatoes nd Q( the teachers who went to Baker
;i banjo strings, in breakfast foods and for the test, real courage is required.
.; : fertilizers. In potatoes and gin fizz, There are heroines otherwhere than
- 4.f m soap and soaa rountam fixtures, in in the war zones.
: curled Chair, pepsin and washing
powders '
: Their, branch houses were not only
ts i stations .. for sale of meat but they
ii took on the character of wholesale I
; r -grocery ' stores. Armour had these
branch houses in nearly 25.000 cities
TAKE THE "MURPHIES.'
The chief Interest of a girl of 15
ought still to be her dolls, her child.
ish games and her school. Yet i
Portland girl of 18 recently pre
sented herself as a candidate for
marriage to the county clerk of Van
couver." The would-be groom was
a man of 22. There was a disparity
of nine years in their ages. Very
wisely the official refused to issue
the license. . .
HEN Tom Brown arrived at
the famous school at Rugby,
as a "new boy" some genera
Hons ago the delicacy oi the
" an3 towns. Swift In nearjy 24,000, Wll- season was the "murphy" or baked
v son in more than 19,000, Cudahy in po. wnicn tne Kngiisii public
f, P more than 4000 and Morris in more school boy devoured in quantities
than 4000. ., Bu Tom's new purse and money
The Big Five sold machinery." salt, I burned in his pocket, and the cheap
i j j I Anf m.,nK..tt ..... ...
jco aoa noxes, owneu or neia uire- i 'ue muiyuj wtu lv w '.( , . ,. . .
toratei m 62 hi. banlM In 14 r!r,ci- him. With a lavish disDlav of wealth u " r auowea
, i . - i in .aiun. mo n.T nr th. foHn.ni a .
; iiu nuicrivsu uun, emu. rio cm vv..uVv. ... iuuip.n.o o.ua en- m,,,.!... in... j .' :
1 f TOU1J1, MH.ll vnuuwuil """"J " v.... rt L. n,,-,- rrK .1-1... ,1
banker especial In livestock dis a sumptuous meal. That expenditure " rm;rm7"
- : 4-i. trr,. 7-a v, m9v hav mpnt Hpctlirtn w " the railroad offices, at the docks.
... ......- . .u. fh ftf h- v.i k.. the guardians of all the fiitrapces and
country, owned livestock trade papers I In pocket and admiring friends were
Von which livestock feeders and grow- wo much for Tom.
, : ers relied for livestock-news. -
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MORE SEATTLE SPIRIT
VERYBODY Is on his -toes up at
Seattle preparatory to the cen
sus taking. No available Individ
the exits to the city are to be on
watch that no careless Seattleite' shall
forget to add .his name to the total
The people of the United States had h- ....
i'- . - - " . . . i . r xjm. miiu uihi m uguciiuimi iiiiiiii im i.iiiii nlii
, . wnw tiiui uutCD. llic mato analnnes mam a.mmIIa..
business In Alaska. .They' canned blazing pockets of America mav- vet "'r 1,. vr,, "
u cuu- getner with acommon purpose to see
auunuic MIC f t.ht thov Auiint: 'em all
It Is another . evidence of the per
Rhtlmr ill thfi Gulf Of Mflltan. ThAV start a'nnnfla 0TO T Isvn Ifisf urtll nn.
r - . - - m vvutinQinviuu tiiaa lgi vuir
orted . tea 1 from Japan and grew sume the whole
;-anc?jlmported tropical fruits; from nation's prosperity, and bring disaster
iiawan. xney naa aistrinuung agen- m its wake.
:-"Vf
':'s??r.per:cent.':
thoughtful leaders use to characterize
HELGOLAND'S
iDESTRUCTICW
Olbraltar of North Sea In Process
of Utter Dismantlement 1 5
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J yCUMJVVpiN 1 . Ainu lNtswo hn jomcr , n
from a Berlin News Dupttch '?, r "
With the dlsmantllnsr .of. the German
fortress on the island of Helgoland, the
"Qibraltar of the North Sea," the mys
teries of that rocky Islet have been re-
vealed to the world. Hitherto they were
known only to the chiefs of the army
and navy and to the troops cf thgar
rlson npon the Inland. ',-.
viewed Trom the little boat that makes
the trip from the mainland to Helgoland
twice a week, tf the weather - permits,
the Island is apparently an lnsienlfl-
cant pile of red rock rioingJut of the
sea. From 'casual apDearanceK-Jt did
not seem to be the powerful fortress it
really was.- " ' -zr-'"
Helgoland vu . rxt of- tha former
kaiser and the soundness of his judg
ment in turning- it into w great defen
sive work was shown tost the fact that
for four years it kept' the alUed navies
away from the German coast.
Half a billion marks were spent by
the Germans to transform the '100 foot
cliffs of Helgoland Into, a mighty fort
ress. But now ail lis changed. The
tunnels connecting the various gun pits
have been uprooted; the observation
towers ' have been torn down and the
great cannon are being -melted up, for
junk. -The searchlights, formerly used
for war, now are engagedSTto direct
peaceful maritime traffic. ; '
VAriel Varges,' an American v' moving
picture operator, whe has just, arrived
from Helgoland, . gives a graphic de
scription of the place.
"The mass of rocks was studded with
hidden turrets and fire observation sta
tions," he said. "Protection was af
forded by silver steel armor plate a foot
thick. For years the kaiser's workmen
burrowed their way through the solid
rock of the. Island until they had hewed
a series of honeycombs connecting 'Vari
ous large "underground chamber. . This
giant anthill "housed a garrison of SOOO
men during the war. The underground
city was three stories in depth and one
could travel from one end of the island '
to the other without appearing, in - Xhe
open. Sixty feet of solid overhead: jrock :
protected the immense power, plant
which furnished the barracks, and the
underground passages with electricity.
'As one enters the electric plant he
is reminded of a modern municipal sta
tion and he Is apt to forget that he is
out in the midst of the ocean on a deso
late rock. ':..
The officers rooms were -Sbotlessly
clean, with neat, tiled floors and hot
and cold running water. ' There are. hun
dreds of telephones- scattered every
where over the island and one can get
in direct communication with Berlin in
a few minutes. There was a direct ca
ble between Helgoland and WUhelm-
strasse during the war to keep the mln-.
1 try informed of any possible naval
movements off the. German coast.
"Included in the ' equipment of the
fortress were 21 seaplanes for scouting
use. A sea magazine open to the water's
edger was used to house the machines.
In the middle of the island were eight
latest model howitzers. They were sunk
Into the rock" at the base of a gigantic
funnel; 12 inch guns in double turrets
were employed to cover the flanks of
the fortification. In some respects the
Island reminded one of a Herculean buj
perdreadnaught .anchored in the sea." -
About S00 fieTier people were banished
from the Island during the .war. but are
now permitted to return." . They grew
to hate the big fortress with Us roaring
guns and stern discipline. Not only had
It driven, them from their homes, but
threatened their lives.
. The thick- steel turrets are being cut
Into movable pieces with oxohydrogen
jets of flame. The old shells are being
taken On lighters to Wllhelmshaven,
where they are te be sold as junk. An
Iron foundry In Hamburg has contracted
to buy the gun metal and armor plate.
Thd secret passages are all to be
sealed with mud and cement and Uie
"Gibraltar of the North Sea" will oan
be as harmless as though war had never
been', thought of. . ;
and erected on the site now occupied
by the Oregon City Woolen mill, was
not disturbed .by1 the Indiana, v " ;
This was Oresron City's first store.
Powder and shot, calico, beads aad other
wares were' exchanged.' here for dried
salmon, beaver skins and other furs. :
In 1140 .' the , bark Lesanne brought.
the reinforcement of missionaries and
laymen to Jason Lee and. the other
Methodist missionaries already estab
lished in th . Willamette valley. , WhUe
the Lausanne was anchored ' at , Fort
Vancouver- the : brig Maryland. - com
manded by Captain . John H. Couch.
passed: on no the Columbia and. enter
ing the Willamette, went up to. the falls
at Oregon City. While Captain Couch's
brig was anchored near the falls. Rev
Alvln F. Waller, a Methodist mission
ary, with his wife, household possessions
and some goods'belonglng to the Meth
odist mission, came up . by canoe from
Fort Vancouver to establish a suasion.
This was in the early aommer of 1840,
II - years- after Dr. .MeLoughJln had
taken up. his claim there. . Mr. Waller
asked permission of Dr. McLoughlin to
establish the mission on Dr. McLough
lin's : claim. Dr. McLoughlin not only
granted him permission to build, but
gave him the heavy timbers that be naa
had -squared for -his mill. Mr. Waller
made -use of these squared mill timbers
in the construction of a large two room
mnKUng. . One room he : used for his
home, this other as a' storehouse for the
goods of the Methodist telssion In his
charge. This was the first home to be
established iaj, Oregon . City. " "f ,
Letters From the People
v SMALL CHANGE
First eafl for leap year ! Only 11. days
away.now. tt m v . , ,'.- .
. We hope ' to live through many more
end-of-the-worldscares. t f.
The mistletoe merchants wUl let you
know that there Is also a 1L C of K,
i"i -''-' ' '' '"- '"'I ' v-x '.r . -.
"Even congress Is going after speeders
and reckless drivers.. Portland leads, as
usual, i ' ; - ;' ':. '- -
'It's too late now to do your shopping
early but do.lt aa -arly as you can,
anyway. .
" Maybe the green flames reported to
have been thrown off by the sun In
AlBffra. came from Greenland. .
The arrest at Vancouver, B. C .of
Filipinos who were carrying liquor in
sausage skins opens a new avenue , of
operation for local bootleggers.
Back East there is much doing or
talking, at any rate In the way of 10
per cent stores. Meanwhile, we'll still
put our money on yea. and Into the
weU known 10 "cent store. , -
In that grand old book, the Revelation,
there is first and last a good deal about
seals. We ' don't know exactly what
those eal8were, f bat it's a cinch they
naven i anycomg on tne Mea wross seais.
Learning that Enves Pasha1 ha been
made, or has made himself Icing of the
do hope to live long enough to see what
finally happens to: that man: 1 ; f
tCommnKtiOT Mnt t Th taaroMt tot
pnbUcstlon in this department hoold be-jnittea
oa eaiy rid f -ha pmpar, 11101114 not exceed
100 worfU la length, and anus be timed by the
writer, whom mil eddrne is full aiust ccb
peoy (be rwBtTibatidn.1 fj .-
Aoaln Pefends. Delivery Boys ,
Portland, Dec 18. To the Editor of
The Journal I see they are advoeatinsi
the licensing of the delivery boys, so if
they break the speed, limit their licenses
will be taken away. 'It is the most cruel
and Inhuman and non-Christian .thing
that could be done'. No Christian would
advocate it RememberiVwe' were all
young one day. What is to become of
these young men when they lose -their
licenses? They will be blacklisted all
over the city. A' great majority have
dependents. It would be a terrible hard
ship. Did you eyer hear the orders the
most of these young men gett I have.
If hey can't get them ouUthey "wiH
have to get out themselves. ,
J haven't been busy the last two
months. I have watched on the streets
downtown to Bee for myself. I say,
when anyone says the delivery man . is
the worst speeder, he can't prove it.
The so-called business roan and the
women are far the worst At 10 o'clock
the business man gets out; and woe be.
tide the pedestrian that doesnt get out
of his way. One day I was with a man
very weU-to-do and doing a great busi
ness. Another business man very nearly
put Us both out of bushsess for life, be
tween Washington ana Yamhill on
Broadway. I askedv ."Why don't they
arrest him?" He said. "He IS fto-and-So,
a very prominent man." 1 asked, "Will
you give in his number?" And 1 noticed
they both had the same lodge, button on.
If they must-have a license, make the
rich man take out one first. Letting
the rich do as they please knd arresting
the poor. Is making a terrible hatred
among the poor toward the rich. - They
wouldn't do it if they knawhat ill
reeling it la causing.
I have no connection with , the delivery
men whatever, but ,1 am on . the Btreets,
off and on, all day and know whereof
I speak. If the police wepe upheld in
their work there wouldn't be nearly sa
many .mishaps, and there would be two
white -collars in the police courts to one
of the delivery men.
EL.I A. BOWBEER.
-ncBS.
was colossal structure of bust- the present attitude of the Aneri: ""r1 " J. "
Its pharacter was revealed to people toward monev. Wi ." 10 I.lDQ..0U!.D?w
i - - " niHiiv nvnnin t nprn im in rns , nttnfi
V.:.ia. , timio .us..,- iai" " .,7.; . . si8len tnat Seattle overlooks no
.. . ""of i vi vu icouers oi me nation to-i beta when It eormvt tt nvhlnr hear
!iV? d.CT fW'oanyi. "'day agree that the gravest danger ?? sS'S'S
inroiiffn tnftsfi tnpv niM.ririiitpfi tnpir i xhih nnt nntnia h n i - - ' v. : v
. " ' ....iv... ivimuuia wic I CS nMunnal kn. ..... .....t-i j
meats from America, Argentina, Uru- in the possible continuae of 1:":.!
, Vuay. Paraguay, Brazil and Australia, present high cost of living. An "orgy ty and L it is going t7bL that
t la I91Q they controlled 40 per cent of ' spending," 'vlld extravagance? SJViSSLI'.!! Cf,
or we meat shfpmeAts from South "the reckless expenditure. of money" lKttTbZml&l
America. In 1915 they controlled 65 -these are some of the phrases which EteVS to back tip the
It is a, proper spirit. That Js what
le census is for, to find out bow
, -. w-, . ."v w nig arc necessary io ormg aown h... whn h-v . hm k
VMtlffAtlnn . The rnmm u nh'. iwnnrl ih. n.. a. 1 " -
j - . - - - i mo Duaiiug viic ueccbbiiies
.wafy sensational and many 01 the of life,
suwrnents'Were denied by the packr The people of the United States ought to be tht 87w u eXre
?ers.rThtC commission itself was as-Mare followina Tom Brown's
-Jrr.. . . y-"vv..iu reiusms lu-oe MiiaTieu . Wltn 1 Tf la estimated that. verv otminn
S!.1Z U! Dig business humble "murphy." They say money lta consumption of Weed seed, and
cueap, ana mey rorgei mat money destruction of insects, is
will not always be ch.eap. THey are to $25 to tho farmer It
aiding the Profiteer bv" navin
price asked for anything thev wnL vl. ...... .w
" -w-- - va, nvn u uic itixiir: lib Him 1110 ""firirv 1 i a . . .
Mon s a Wfiiilt of a .nit hht . r.-7Zr?'lm weu witn quau me coi
' oiivuuiug. nun is Li ip. 1 inn iar s vm,.. - -
hjCLM the thri" -nich ihe &t: ha S
. w ... wion .uuDiuiw j . wtxu nnicncia ueuoie nractiAri in effn.. t .
' '. r "V. " irecognizea.
i vi ww.wi0B. v.wuiu; w wvi mm umjr w am m wuimng the war.
. packing business as - butchers is a 1 Now is the timA tn nnt t.,..
-virtual pleaofguiUy ioall the federal I of the thrift campaign of th vinM
tirade" commission charged. . The pack-1 division of the treasury department
. crs aro to , seu : ait t uieir. siocsyara ana "save ..; first: spend afterwnnfs
j Ipterests, valued at $400,000,000. They Now is the time for the continued V W Washington departments,
are w uiapoMs u meir opuu American i mvesiment or savings In War fisvinra ti " Envelopes known as 10's are
ana Australian, noraings.v They are isumps and treasury savings cerUfl- In. carrying printed letters that
io aoanaon tneir aiuea acuviues injeates. :. I could better, be carried in sixes.. The
,100a products s.na confine tneir opera- What - better Christmas rmpn: matter is sent out womlscuously and
Uons tb the, meat industry. .:,. brance?. v in prodigality,; One family, received
The government is thus proven tol - no less that 40 such enclosures in "big
be bigger man ,. the packers. The I Local ldmbermen have arranred envelopes In a single week.1
Beginnings of Oregon's .
Oldest City
iStory of the Laylng.of a Common
wealth's Primal Foundations. '
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Siinnitfr. rnvernment under Its re
cently adopted commission, charter, has
been established, with W, H. Qleason
as mayor and John Weatherly and W.
U. Jamleson. commtssioBers. , .
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' The mow that beran to fall at Toledo
on December a, the Leader says, was the
first in nearly three years." as near as
we can learn." the Leader further says,
"this is the finft time that the trains
were ever snowbound on the-Yaquina
branch, some 8S years." . ' t
-Its understood." says the Lakeview
Examiner, "that the fuel : shortage Is
becoming acute, and that many faQJles
are dangerously low, with littler re
lief In sight. If there are any who
have wood for sale they should make
the matter public." - .. ...
"We thous-ht ." savs the Eurena Ouarfl.
"berry prices were high in Oregon this
year, but listen to this: English Jam
manufacturers and canneries last season
paid $425 a ton for red raspberries, $jZ5
for black currants, $250 for red currants.
9210 for gooseberries ana b ror straw
berles."
Moving picture of a print shop at the
peak of a snow blockade, drawn by the
Banks Herald In Its blr Christmas-ad
vertising- .Issue : -"Lots of fun 1 Mails
didn't come; no freight or paper stock
no service ; press and Ink frose up ; n
wood ; gasoline engine joined the ma
Jority and refused to work. Any man
mat would maae us a preseai 01 a
gasoline engine, we'd shoot him on the
spot, and not be particular as to what
spot But here s the paper, anyway."
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Kow and again, from day to day the
shuddering , public is accustomed to
reading In the police court news about
a tail man and a short man, or a dark
man and a light man, who have- been
working shoulder to shoulder in the ac
complishment of deeds that are dark and
dangerous. But it takes politics to
bring the fat man and the lean man
together in unity for the consummation
of any fell design. All of which has to
do with .Dan Kellaher. ex-senator from
Multnomah and ex-commlssloner . of
Portland, on the one hand, and D. C.
Lewis, who has not yet had the mystic
cross put In front of him well Known
cognomen by the voters of vSt. Johns.
For, so Dame Rumor is whispering into
the political ear, Senator Kellaher and
Representative Lewis are intending to go
out and wipe County Commissioner A. A.
Muck off the official slate.
Not that there is any cooperative col
lusion being practiced or intended by
Messrs. Kellaher and Lewis, for each Is
traveling his own peculiar and individual
path. But both are after Muck. In
the opinion of both of these gentlemen
Mr. Muck has been county commissioner j
fer quite long enough, and tney desire,
each of them equally, to see him retired
to private life. It is also the coequal
desire of each that he should step in
from where they intend Mr. Muck to
step out, and they are whetting up their
battle-axes to see that all or this comes
to pass. Senator Kellaher points with
pride to his political and official record
as the reason why he should succeed
Commissioner Muck. Mr. Lewis does the
same thing, eyept that he also has the
added talking point that he hails from
St. Johns, just as Mr. Muck does, and
that thta district should e directly
represented in the county government
as the home and seat of the municipal
terminals, and various' other budding
and budded activities.
"Well, well. .Here he is," R. Alexander
beamed as he advanced with his right
hand outstretched, just as he is ac
customed to do on Main street up tn
fenaieton, nis own home town. .
Bird Feeding-Shelf
Portland, Dec 16. To the Editor of
The Journal I saw various requests in
The Journal - during the recent cold
spell to feed the birds, but I . believe if
many of cur citizens could, know the
pleasure afforded by a bird-feeding shelf
there would be few birds going, hungry.
To scatter . crumbs ' on the snow does
some good but it also gives hungry cats
a chance to feed on our little feathered
friends. A few days ago I made a
rough little feeding shelf just an or
dinary board, ' with some small strips
around the edge to keep the seeds from
blowing off and called It to the sill
outside my kitchen window. Evidently
I was . watched with interest,- for as I
turned to put away the hammer before
shutting the window several birds came
onto ihe 'shelf to eat tbe crumbs and
seeds. Since that time there has been
a steady stream of visitors to my little
"tea party" and 'we watch them and
rstudy eiheir pretty ways and little quar
rels wiui a great aeat oi interest.
In a few hours after - our .shelf was
put up, one of our neighbors, .seeing the
birds here,-put up a similat ehelf on her
window f so you see it pays to "Let
your light shine before men."
MRS. E. E. K.
"Tee."' we admitted, 'here we are,
what's left of us."
"What do you know?" he asked confl
dentially.
Not a thing," we admitted again. "All
the sources seem to be dried up."
So am I." Aleo mourned. "It's awful.
ain't it?"
B. Alexander, who is one of Pendle
ton s pioneer and leading merchants, and
Roy Alexander, who is not so much of
a pioneer but is his son. are both in
Portland to do some Christmas shop
ping. , , t
"It must be fate," Dr. E. J. Klrby of
Elgin Confided sorrowfully as he wan
dered absent-mindedly about the hotel
lobby. "It seems to pursue me."
"What?" a sympathetic friend wanted
to know. .
"Well," he explained, "here I have
been sticking at home - for a year or
more, trying to heal the sick and soothe
those who are too sick to heal. And it
gets 40 - degrees below aero, and I come
down here to get warmed up, and the
minute I get Into the Willamette valley
the laboratory of .Willamette university
blows up and Waller Hall burns down,
Can yon beat it?"
' Nobody round about seemed to be
able to do so, and the doctor continued :
"Nobody ought to. be convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence, I wanted to visit
up at Salem for a while, but now I
don't know. When I studied medicine up
at Salem, every time anything went
wrong In the laboratory I was the
sacrificial goat Circumstances always
convicted me. It got to be a habit, and
now I hesitate to go near the place for
fear they will say. There comes Klrby,.
Ask him about It' There's Just as much
ground for soaking me for this x
plosion as there was for a lot of those
which happened years ago. Ain't it the
truth?" and he fixed a level eye on Phil
.Metschan, who studied chemistry at the
same time and place. .
"If the court please," ' Phil' answered,
after conferring with counsel, "I plead
the statute of limitations."
The Oregon Country
Nertftveet Happenings la Uriel na for the
v t Busy Reader. W
i ! Is , OREGON "NOTES. '.
Many horses In the nnttar Cfub
Cion of Umatilla county are dead be-,
cause of cold and insufficient feed, -
Mrs. Martha A. Smith, amwt tft J
on of the oldest . residents of Lane '
county, died at Eugene Thursday. ;
With teams of three, Mmmnnlllu .)
to hear from, the Hood Rlvor
chapter already has 1800 members for
: The recent sero weather and heavy
rail or snow did much damage to con
servatories owned by fthe florists near
Qreron city, . ,
' Til. AM,V..A.In Vm - . I ,
... uvoi. uv.iiuu ujr nit) ui mr Colum
bia Lumber company's plant, south of
The Dalles. Is reported. Only a few
minor articles wre saved;
The first case of amnutatJon rtinrtei
at The Dalles as the result of fi-
was that of E. Clossen. a sheepherder,
na ieg laaen on Thursday.
The recent cold spell cost the resi
dents of McMlnnvllle, in loss of fruit,
potatoes and vegetables frosen and In
plumbing bills, an. average of 1100 for
each faml'y.
The first student ohniwtl At
the.Patlfic university school year was
given lnurstiay morning by the senior
elans. Iilshor ISumner eddrnwd th
students and faculty.
The state hlch
started surveys on the llepnner-arant
county road which was authorised bv
Morrow countv taxnav
clai election last summer.
The Portland Railway, Light & Power
company filed for record at Oregon
City Thursday a mortgage covering Its
entire property. The document covers
30 pages of closely printed sheets.
J. E. Williams and family of Eugene,
who were believed to have been lost in
the deep snow at-the summit of the Cas
cade mountains while attempting to
cross Into Eastern Oregon with a four
horse team, are reported to be afe at
La Pine.
WASHINGTON
Road work tn Clarke cqunty to the i
extent of $1, 306.461. 30 was contracted for S
during 1019. . . ,$
Barbers of Spokane are ' demanding J
128 a week and 65 per cent of the re- a
celpts over 140.
f
. . ( vuuuuuiii, turn bavwu V. . 1 U. .VUWB,
Xfe LocUey reports him down to the end of the
Ute eoech epoch, sad on beyond sa' a placid
Boniface and later a farmer in the Inland
Empire.
Uncle George Webb, Oregon's oldest
Odd Fellow, celebrated his ninety-fifth
birthday at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Jap H. Stevens, at La Grande, re
cently. A good many years ago I used
(frequently to. drop tn , to. see Uncle
George, to 'listen to stories of the eariy
days In Pendleton. Along about the
centennial year, or it might have been
in 77 he was running hardware store
in Pendleton. Not long ago I spent a
few hours In the office "of Major Lee
Moorhouse. at Pendleton Dave Horn
happened in, and we began talking of
Pendleton's early days..
'-.
Alnne ahnnt 1R7S Or IS??. When I
used to drive a stage from Umatilla to
Pendleton," said Dave, "Pendleton was
a pretty small place. Auntie Raley was
runnlnc a hotel near, the bridge. She
STOP THE WASTE
ASTAGE by the government is
exampled In literature sent out
federal trade commission, created, as to give employment to 300 Service ' The government ought to set oo
a part or the great constructive legis-1 men. Portland bakers have met the J such example, of waste. A peril of
latlve program in' the early years of j quota assigned to them, for employ 1 the time is the orgy of extravagance
tha, Wilson administration, has tw I meat -of ,idie .fighters, the bankers I that has Seized the country &3 'a re-
Ten years hence Oregon City will cele
brate the hundredth anniversary of Ma
natal day. It was founded In 1829 by
Dr. John McLoughlin, chief factor of
the: Hudson's Bay company, who. was thai
virtual governor of the Oregon country.
The history of Oregon City is inter
woven with the romance and tragedy
of the bitter warfare between the Hud
son's Bay Fur company and, the Korth
west ' Fur company. When the treaty'
of ne are was signed by these contending
companies and their adherents burled
the hatchet, the directors of the consol
idated company looked arouno. ior a
atmne and able man to manage their
combined interests. They found the man
they wanted in the person ,oi jjt. J.onn
McLoughlin, who was born in Quebec
in 1714 and . who had studied In Parts
and secured his jdlploma as a doctor.
Ha founded Fort Vancouver. tne
bank of the Columbia, rtver.neat its
iMnth. In 1824. Five years law am
took up a claim at the lajls of the WI14
lamette, dug a mill rape nuBt
log storehouse, which was the rirst
lid in erected on the slte -f Wbat ' la
In.fiUng his claim on this site he de
scribed it as Including the andt."from
the upper end of the iana acroe to uie
Clackamas river and down to where the
Clackamas flows Into the Willamette,
including the whole point of fgnd and
the small Island tn tne xauavon woica
th. tnrtin imi made."
The Indians tore down the first log
hniiH out un by Dr. McLoughlin, as
riiv believed the white men meant to
take " from them tne iaus. wnera irm
time Immemorial tney naa securea tneir
winter supply of salmon. Astor :men
had riven them ' offense ta. 1812, ' and
four -yeara. later a-party of trappers
from Astoria under Alexander Rosa, re?
fusing to pay tribute to the Indians at
the falls, had responded to a. shower of
arrows with, a vouey ;irom weir, iuni
vwir. klllinsr one of the Indiana. Peter
Skene' Ogden's knowledge of the In
dian character, combined 'With blr tact
and sens of justice, healed tne wound
ed feelings of lie Indians at the falls.
and Dr.. McLourhlln's 'second tbuildtng
of logs, - surrounod by a log palisade
Objects 4o Rose Festival Tax
Portland,.' Dec.,, 15. To the Editor of
The JournalIn the Oregonian of last
Sunday there was I an article . headed
'Festival Tax. Favored.", Thla was from
4he , realty 'board, asking the commis
sioners to levy a taxrfor the 1920 Rose
show." Why 'should the people be taxed
for this? Why not let it be through con
tributions, -those giving who 'Wish to?
Why make the people pay for that which
many do not want and get no benefit.
not -even pleasure, from?. Why include
any. thing more in our budget for the
people to pay? We are willing to pay
for the expenditures of our county and
city, .though no doubt many of us find
it hard at present to meet even these
obligations. Why Is not the Rose show
financing Itself, 'after all these years?
Where does the zntmey go? It is the
same old show over and over again, only
notao good as the first few years.
Let us get. the question to the people
by vote if possible, not just the realty
board and a few that benefit
While I voice this as a protest against
what the realty, board pray for, if it
can . come, before the people and they
wlah.lt ' cheerfully I accept the fact that
majority ?rules. G. I. PETERSEN.
.'Rebukes Literal Interpreters
Portland, Dec. 11--To the Editor of
The . 3 oum al 1 1 seems remarkable how
the average person is beset with rear,
Th-doctrine of the ' Burning or tne
world" and the doctrine ot eternal tor
ment are on a par both the result and
product . of fear. Christian ; teachers
have done wrong in teaching these false
theories to the people, and the net re
sult is widespread superstition and ap
pealing ignorance, isotn ooomnes are
baaed on the mymbology of the scrip
tures and not its literal statements.
"Parables and symbols should' never be
used as the basis of great biblical doc-,
trlnes." . wrote Adam Clark, the great
English commentator on the Bible, who.
In . his time was called "an ocean of
learning. , Clark was right ' He was
sensible and scientific. The Genesis ac
count shows that the Creator was ages
la preparing and making this earth a
suitable abode for man, and while ages
may come and go. yet the "earth abid
oth forever (Ecd. 1 :4). Isalah 45-1S
very clearly states that "He created it
not 'in vain; he formed It to be Inhab
ited. . Many texts eouleT be quoted to
prove tharthis planet will taally "btos
scm as the.rose" and that It will be the
eternal home of redeemed man, a world-
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN '
. '- By Fred LockTey
character in those daya He hailed from
Arkansas. He wore his hair lonsr and
uauaCy kept it braided and tucked under
hf9 hat He was a killer. Hevhad killed
seven men In Virginia City, and had
never been tried for it I met Sam
Brown at Carson, t also met Mark
i warn mere, one of our old stage driv
ers down there, named John Nye, became
me. ursi g-overnor or .Nevada.
"Governor .Moody, Senator Mitchell,
Senator Dolph and all those old-timers
have been my 'passengers when I was
driving stage, or have stopped with m
at my notei at umatiua or at Pendleton.
e
"I wai married on November 22, 1877.
I bought' the old Union hotel at Uma
tilla from. George Miller. .On April 1,
1878, I quit the road to devote ray at
tention to running the hotel. My wife.
whose maiden name was Emma E. Mead,
came from Racine. Wis. I met her In
Montana. I was driving a band of 100
cayuses.to Montana, and stopped at the
stage station .10 miles out of Deer Lodge.
John Cleman. an -old pioneer settler
of Yakima, has sold his 970 .acres of
rasing; una ior ao,uuu. , j
Annoimrpmertt la marin hv SUrrntmrv nt 1
the Navy Daniels of the award of the
navy cross to Ernest Spencer of Toppen- :f
ish.
Fifteen million dollars is the est I
mated return to growers of the Yakima '
valley for the sale of their 1919 apple
crop. '
, Fire starting Jn the Liberty theatre S
at Dayhon dentroyed the theatre anl :
adjoining property, causing a loss of
130,000. ,v
Coal production in Waslilngton has
reached 60 per cent of the normal, al
though several mines have not yet been-'
reopened.
Plumbers In Tacoma have made new
demands upon employers for a five-day "
week and double wages for all work done '
Saturday. .
The Chehalia Mill compnny will lit- ;
. 1 1, . . . L LU. . ) .1 .... I A k
Biau a inn initciiuio uic him ul i" ,
.nmlit, vud. ulth a rlitllv runiirltv nf
v m . t ...... - - ,
80.000 lath. - f
A ten-weeks' campaign of thrift will
be undertaken in the Lewis county"
schools immediately after the Christ. '
mas vacation. '
Land has been purchased for 110,000".
at Aberdeen, for a state armory, the"
legislature having appropriated $125,000
for the building.
Th Pathfinder Consolidated Mining
company, owned chiefly by residents of
HDokane.'Tias let a contract or mw ?
feet of tunnel work. - - . :
The Standlfer steel shipyard at Van--couver,
which has been closed for some;
time on- account of weather conditions,.,
will reopen Monday. , , :i
Pullman's buslneas is on a six-hour A
basis as a fuel conservation measure,
and all lodge -meetings are abandoned
until further notice.
Fire 'starting from an attempt to thaw ,
frosen pipes destroyed six frame build- -ings
in the heart of Buckley. The loss
is $25,000, with no insurance.
The mines of the Washington- Union
Coal company at Tono and those of the -Mendota
Coal ft Coke company at Men
dota have resumed operations with full ,
crews. .
Mrs. Alice Von Rlckert, a midwife at
Spokane, has been indicted for murder
in the second degree after revolting tes-
timony before a coroner's jury Involving
the death of Susie Hopkins.
The Washington Poultry association
will, hold Its annual poultry show at
Wenatchee the second week inf January. .
Between 600 and $00 entries will be ex
hibited from all over the state.
Wtlbelm von Brlncken, formerly mil
itary attache at the German opnsulate i
in San Francisco, took a paupers oath
in federal court at Tacoma Thursday ;
to effect Mi release from .McNeills Is-C
land penitentiary- -
used to feed" 7mlghty well. too. gteve iHerathe. - ran the station, which was
Sanford and Dissosway had a saloon near
the hotel ; Frank Gray bad a harness
shoo: Lot Llvermore was agent ior tne
staga and for the Wells Fargo company,
and was running a general merchandise
store. Bill Swltzler had a log store just
a block from Auntie Raley's hotel.
Uncle George Webb had a hardware
store on the left hand aide of the street
as you came back from the bridge. Near
him was Marshall's blacksmith shop, and
not far back from the oiacitsmiui anop
was a Chinese laundry. -Then came
Hendrick's restaurant Uncle Dave
Wright and John Bowman were the
proprietors of tne uvery staoio. werrjr
Despaln had a butcher shop. A Norwegian-named
A. Jacobsen was running
a saloon on the, corner of Court and
Main streets. The old court house was
about where the People's warehouse
now stands. Mose Goodman had donated
two blocks to be used for a court house
and school bouse. Down the river a lit
tle way a L. Morse had a log house,
not far from Swift's Station: that is,
about two miles west of Pendleton.
We used to have some mlghtly inter
esting characters In those daya Hank
Vaughan was one of them that all old
timers win remember. They 4 "1U re
member his spectacular fight with Char
lie Long, and also nis wagic ueain.
"Sam Brown wai another well known
what was known as a breakfast station.
While I was coming through I stopped
for a meal. I saw her and decided' to
stop for another meal. After I had eaten
a second meal I decided to see if I
couldn't get her to cook my meals right
along. A-
"I had pretty good luck with that
band of cayuaes. Bill Switsler had
bought fhem from the Indians for $2.6$,
a 'head.- These Indian ponies , ranged
from the mouth of the Umatilla to the
Blue mountains. I picked dut 100 ot
them, paying $12.60 a head. X drove them
to Moatana and sold them for $25 a
head. So Bill and I both did weUL '
"Along about 1878. the year , of the
Bannock war, stage driving began to
play out I decided to go into; some
game that was coning and not going. I
ran my hotel in Umatilla until the fall
of 1882, when I came to Pendleton and
rented the Vlllard hotel. That was
about the time when the stages were
pulled off the main line on account of
the coming of the railroad. I ran the
Vlllard hotel from 1883 until llt when
I rented the Pendleton hotel, which I
ran until 1$4. . ,
"In f89t; when the reservation lands
were sold. I bought some land on Mc
Kay creek. I moved on thla place in
1894, and lived there for the next, 20
years." . ' .' . '
wide Eden on a large and enduring
scale when .
All thing then, an rishtcd
Aad ataa to au united. 7
As is Eden as. ef old. tr
J, Jx. w.
Curious Bits conformation
For the Curious
'
Gleaned From Curious Places
Olden Oregon
Arbitration With British InleresU
Worked Well In an Oregon Case.
IDAHO
Twin Falls lodge B. P. O. E has,
authorised inauguration of work on a ;
$300,000 four-story lodge building. .
Representatives from 12 Southwestern
Idaho counties win meet.
ary and 7 to consider the reclamation
of arid lands.
Ttui oihr nt noise has purchased 400 ; I
- . T. I 1 . 1. ...1 1 1 1n M Ari tk,
porus OI wgga hiuui it win ym.r ...w ,
market at -cost to relieve the present,
fuel sltuauon. '
Tw.niv aiipd anarchists and mem
bers of the I. W.,W. were placed aboard y,
a train at Pocatello this week on their - ?
way to New York, where they will be
deported as raaicais. , - v.
Mr. and Afr. IT. 1 Moodv. formerly
of Spokane, have given $20,000 toward a.'
new gymnasium at uoooine coitesa, pro- .
vided. other friends of the InstituUon
raise the remaining $14,000 needed Of,
the $160,000 land. .,(. '-'.'-:
Unde-Jeff Snow Says:
I
I was readln' how some of them there f
. . .. i .... I. .n.i.f .
mgn-orpw jFre;iir mwv mm.., y
ot tainchln' a dosen country oongrega?
Uone together with one preacher in a (. I
12 cylinder auto to cover tne neia ana f
take along a good lookln' bevy of high. ,
class opry singers from one church to.
another to talk and sing the gospel. .
That's a mighty good Idee, and It they'll i
throw a movie .picture outfit into the
baggage U'U draw some .better., How-,
ever, the church preachers ain't leadln
the neOcle much. They're mostly a-fol- ;
lerln' of'em, and mighty nigh all of g
"em rrom so to ?f year dwuho. jraps
In about H more years the preacher '11
be tellin us about the evils of land roe
nopoly, if It's abolished by then. f
This year marks the centenary of the
detachable collar. It was 100 years ago
that Hannah Montague, wife ot a black
smith in Troy, N. Y-. made the first de
tachable collar. When -rs. Montague
surprised her husband with the new col
lar 'she founded van Industry which is
today -turning out 200.000 yards Tf goods
every day in a single factory for the
manufacture of collars. The Rev. Ebe
neser Brown put Mrs. Montague's invention-
on the market and it was the fore
runner of about seven square blocks of
collar and shirt factories wittin a mile
radius in Troy.
After the setUement, of the Oregon
boundary question , between the United
States and -Great Britain In 1844, there
remained to be adjusted the claims of
the Hudson's Bay company and its ad
junct, the Puget Sound Agricultural
company. In 1862 Secretary, of State
Webster was willing to pay $1,000,000 in
full, settlement but negotiations were
broken ' by his d e a t h . The matter
dragged on until 1883, when a Joint com
mission was appointed by the' two gov
ernments. : This commission met at Vic
toria, August 6, 1885, and began to take
evidence. The h e a r I n g lasted until
August Z, 1887. On September 101889,
the commission made its award, grant
ing to the. Hudson's Bay company $450,
000 and the Puget'. Sound Agricultural
company 8200.000. The former had asked
for $481.3$ and the Utter for $1,168.-1
000. . . r - " J
Standings Today in SfTnday
i School Contest ---i'
Three important advances were
made In The " Journal's Sunday
school "want" ad contest ' today.
Woodlawn Christian advanced from
fifth to. fourth with a gain of 7200
votes, r Chrtstlan Tabernacle left
eighth place and obtained a hold on
seventh. Fourth United Brethren's
gain today givesvit a total of 6500
votes. ' Hefe is the standing ; ... .
First United Brethren., ...... 63,000
Cloverdale United Brethren... 63,700
, Sunny side Congregational.,, 23,900
'Kunnyside M..E.. .............. 1$,$00
Christian 'Tabernacle...,.!... 18,600
Forbes Presbyterian..,.. t....
Third Baptist. . . ..... .'.
Fourth United Brethren. ......
First English Evangelical.,..,
Kenilworth Presbyterian......
Waverleigh Heights Congn'l..
Congregation ?Af Torah.
8t Patricks... il.W.
Our Savior's Lutheran ........
Millard Avenue Preabyterian..
Marshall Street Presbyterian.;
16,600
.900
$.500
4,900
4,400
3,200
8.100
2,800
2.600
3.400
2,20
Atkinson Memorial Cong'n'L.i l.soo