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5 .! THE i OREGON DAILY : JOURNAL, POR TLAND, " MONDAY. JANUARY : 5. 1320. 6 .psbuiber Building. Broadway sod TafSliUl Straai, : 1'ortiSDd. OlB rW.-,. - - - -- ' - Katend at tha IWn t Portland. Omfc .for traaaalaaioa ttarooch U matte aa saoon elaat' matur. '; ,' . TELEPHONES -Mate 1X11, AutosiaUo 560-61. ' . All iqaitaMb raoM by tbM BttJB bar. ' TH the- aoaraw what department ynai want. FOREIGN ADTBBTI8INO BEPBE8BNTATIJB ' fkmjamte Kantnor Co.. n,"SABlM,5!: 2S rfth ikiim, K( lorkl 000 atsUeni Building, Cbteaco, . . ; v, -.. - - ' . Snbwripticw term by mail, or t aay addrata la tb t'nitad Stataa or Maaico: 4 . DAU.T (MOUSING OB AfTEBHOON) One er.'.i...$6.00 f 0n month ...... .80 ftCNDAT ";- 5 On yatr...... I2.0Q j One month I .25 UtAiLX (MOBJflNO OR AFTEBNOON) AND , SUNDAT Oao yatr.i.,.. 97.60 I Ona month..... .03 What soapowdar did for war, the prlntlas pra did for tha mind; and tha Utetmaa U no longer clad in tha ateei " of apactal adaeatton. but ery reading maa i bia Judge. . - Wnden Phillip. WE KNOW NOW T I it. & HtJ Sorensen case has been of value. It has served a good end. Sorensen himself was only an eDisode In the passing show. He Is one of many of his kind. What f we have to deal with henceforth is not Sorensen, but the system of which he was a part that -crowd of drivers with a "pull" and with money who Ignored traffic laws and managed to ( escape just, penalties. His case has confirmed the wisdom of The Journal's course -when It set but to Investigate the 'causes of -accidents. It has revealed to us a state of fact that contributed heavily to the mounting number of smashups. Unable to successfully impose Jail sentences because the circuit courts consistently set them aside on appeal, the municipal court had taken away . $ from it the most potent weapon with I which to deal with the worst class O. . JACKSON. I 1 ;. - of traffic law violators. Jail sentences . v. could not be. Imposed with any ccr- 'talnty that the offenders would be ; Absent to prison. It was Immunity from punishment because, being rich and powerful, the convicted drivers managed to escape penalties. , . ' The position of the municipal court ' 'and traffic officers was humiliating. - They could do nothing but impose fines, and fines were of little effeck 1 Though, held responsible for trafflo ' - conditions and often criticized for ' , them, the municipal court and traffic Y i officers had their hands tied. They were made almost impotent so far as ' ".t;frectlve-'authorlty waconcerned. It .was a' weakness in th traffio situa tlon that has had a great deal to do "with the Increase In the number of " accidents. : , In what has thus been disclosed ,, i the community is in position to apply correctives. We know a lot . .that we did not know before.- It is doubtful if the circuit courts realized what '- a demoralization they were 'throwing 'nto, the administration of ' Jthe traffio laws. They must realize it . ; new from the overwhelming mass of adverse public opinion arousec by the - , reorensen caser , The Jail will do what nothing else twill do in controlling reckless and -.drunken driving. " We send a poor , devil to Jail "for stealing a loaf of ioreaa ror a nungry family. Why ' -shouldn't we jalt any drunken or reck less automobillst whase irresponsible '..sdrlvlng kills a woman or cripples - va chlldt ' . f To civio organizations that have rec 'ognized the pay roll and entertain i ment value , of retaining the Alcasar players for, Portland credit is due. and with' it the reminder, that the .theatre company has a problem which. In Its solution; leads directly ,to the boat office : Resolutions and commendation ' .will not meet the flosses which caused the local men who financed the Alcasar players to 'reach, the; unwilling conclusion - that , Portland had failed to appreciate the possession of a first rate musical .stock; company. ; ; Uke any other 'company, the Alcazar players can be ' retained only by financial sup ; port expressed In the form of ticket spurchases.r ' ' . IN OTHER TIMES AND PLACES ; fjHB Bar of San. Francisco, inspired, no doubt, by the lamentable ex perlence of Justice, In the 6tate of ,, - California, adopted a code of ethics which it would be well for -' Home of our Portland lawyers to read. In reference to criminal cases it says " A lawyer who invents or manufactures - defenses for prisoners, or whe -procures their acquittal by ; the practice of any pnamier ox ueceii, cajolery, wtiiui aiator - tion or misrepresentation .""-of facts, or - any other means not .within the spirit -as well as the letter ef the law, Js to "be reckoned as an enemy tto society mora : dangerous than . the criminal ..himself; while successes at the bar won by such methods can never be the basts of de sirable professional reputations, but. on the contrary, are badrea of infamv..' ' .V. Sorensen's . attorneys must ie fol lowers of Lord . Brougham who in - making an argument for Qdeen Caro- - line about a hundred years ;ago..ald . An adrocate.' i hy , the sacred . duty vhlrh h om Ms Vit, Vts, in the discharge .of that oUiue, but one pera JS In th world tht client and none other. To save that client by aU means and expedients, to protect that client at all hazards and. coats to all others . ana among others to himself, is tbe niftiest and most unquestioned .of his duties ; and he must not regard th alarm tbe suf fering, tha torment. the destruction which he . mar bring- upon any : cither. Nay, separating- the duties el the patriot from those of an advocate,! he must go on, reckless of consequences, even If his fate should unhappily be to Involve his country In confusion for his ellent'a pro tection. ' ' ' -. It : '-' By omission of a! decimal point; $4.50 waa Inadvertently made $450 In a t discussion bjr The Journal of the Rockefeller benefactions. - That was ten days ago.- The following day The Journal pointed out the error;' ' Ignoring the! correction the Portland Telegram last Saturday, seven days after the correction was made!, permits the omission to throw It into a series of conniptions. It owes The Journal art apology. Ia it honorable enough ; to make it? i SCHOOL MEN AT WORK A' T, ' SALEM 34 ' of I the 36 county ! school superintendents of Ore-! gon, under the leadership of State I Superintendent Chnrchlll, have been working and planning for several days for the wellbeing of Oregon schools. : - It is a remarkable fact that but two In the entire state are -absent from the conference. There is a devo tion in the school officers and school teachers that is too much overlooked by the general public. Their ' lines of endeavor are of tremendous con sequence to the state and nation. Wc ought to think more about what they are doing .and about what their work meanB. We owe It to them to throw 'more of encouragement and sympathy and assistance to them. They are entitled to adequate re muneration and an., eminently re spectable position In every com munity, "if not for themselves then for the effect such a status will in evitably have upon the , pupils com mitted to their trusteeship.. Among other things, the superin tendents have fixed upon J$500,000 as the amount of War, Stamps to be floated among the school pupils of Oregon during 1020. It will be Instruc tion Of the children in the ways of thrift.- It will be leadership among the pupils in that frugality which means a competence later on. It means home ownership instead of tenantry. It means Americanism in stead of radicalism. The government at Washington knows what an agency thrift is in combating radicalism, and it is as a part of thef great movement for Americanizing America that the na tional administration is continuing the sale of War Stamps. It is of the highest value that the county super intendents of Oregon, led by State Superintendent Churchill, have enlist ed in the great campaign. Their quota will be fully filled, and the school pupils of Oregon will watch the old year out 'and the new year in 12 months hence with $500,000 in their hands that would otherwise have been spent, probably, on baubles. Despite recent sales of leather for shoe uppers at reduced prices, deal ers call attention to the fact that as yet no consumer demand has de veloped for cheaper footwear. It Is the clamor for fancy shoes cut on fantastic lasts, they say, that keeps the prices "up. This may be true. The suggestion, at least, pro vides an opening. -Why not insist on dollar value only the 'next time you buy a pair of shoes? BARRING THE BUYER EALTH has ever been a hazard ous possession.; "Uneasy lies the head that Wearff a crown." may soon be given a typically American paraphrase, j Since 1914 we have been engaged in cornering the gojd of the. world." Now bankers and business men are suggesting that trade safety is likely to depend upon redistribution of the precious metal When the United States sells food, fabrics and machinery abroad at the present time pay Is exacted in gold. The immediate result is an abnormal unbalancing of the rate of exchange. It has reached an altitude as great as 173. The price of American goods in foreign markets has been greater than ever before. It has made bus! ness extremely difficult to transact. The credit of many foreign nations has become more uncertain rather than more stable , Post-war read justment measures have been corres pondingly -Impeded. The situation threatens a commercial blockage. There Is a point beyond which busi ness cannot be carried on. The rate of exchange and the centralizing of gold are capable of becoming insuper able trade walls. Uncle Sam's bulg ing money.box will profit him little If the goods he has for batter overflow their storage - while foreign ..custom ers keenly desiring his merchandise yet lack funds or credit with which to buy. ' I ; ';"' Although the quandary is of national proportions, it has a rather penetrat ing local application. A recent re quest of "a Portland firm ,0f brokers for a cargo ; guarantee, which " the voters authorized the; port, commis sion to furnish as a means 'of at trading commerce, furnishes an il- lustration,' The ship servlce could be made firm, It was cargo offerings" of the made firm. :-,',,. declared, If the port were also In other words, the ship would come if sure of cargo and the foreign or ders precedent to assembling- the car go could be obtained it tbe ship were assured. The intervention of a .third, guaranttelne.; pnrty was apparently uccebbary In order lo bring the ship and the' shippers together But the port commissjon has hesitated and Is still doubtful because of the high ex change; and the oncer tain condition of foreign credits. Thus It is appar ent that opportunity to do business may. be Worth more to this port and to aa business than an : abnormal, commerce retarding exchange advan tage. . "..-'.' - It was because of this actually pres ent ' harm to American trade, ..and threat of more harm to come that the New York State Chamber of Com merce recently appealed through ex tensively circulated newspaper adver tisements for the immediate ratifica tion of the peace treaty. ' With the treaty ratified and America in the league pact, credits would be availa ble to European countries with which to buy American goods. ., '-"". CHRIS - H ERE is a report of an ideal land lord as recorded by the Wallowa Sun: . Chris Bauer is renting- four houses lor the same rents that he has collected heretofore. Re is renting three houses for $13 a month each that would easily rent for $20 per month, and one rents for $18 that could easily be rented lor $21 per month. 3ut Chris says what's the use! He has all the money he needs. It is a beautiful story. It Is a dupli cate of a similar case recounted re cently as existing in a far away East ern state, in which a landlord was renting six dwelling houses at exactly the same figures as before the war. What if, like Chris, all w.s men who have money enough would be content to seek no further profits I What if, like Chris, having plenty for their own livingall such were con tent to let others live! Take a Carnegie, a Frick or a Rocke feller. What they take above their needs deprives hundreds of others from obtaining all the comforts and means of survival. What the h fish take away comes from the little fish. The philosophy of Chris is ideal philosophy. How "wonderful it would be if it could become epidemic among those who have all they need I -If more coupons are needed in voting on the treaty, wire or write The Journal and more will be printed on this page. But a few days are left in which to vote, and action should be prompt. The voting is taking place at the very moment when the senate is making a new effort at ratification, and the results are being wired to Washing ton. It offers you a chance to make your influence felt in the senate. WHO WANTS HIM? s OMETIIING unique is the adver tisement of a minister for a church recently app'eared in a church publication. In his ad vertisement the preacher, is .very frank and definite, leaving nothing open for future misunderstanding. He says: I am 30 years old, studious and quiet. Not a whirlwind. At social gatherings I am pleasaftX but make no pretensions ox oeina uiq oisbvsi &wi hi un tiuwu. am not a public entertainer, but a rentlehian. Neither am I a prise fighter nor a gymnast. I am not a nowiing aiiwiia with- vounr -rjeorjle. I rerard the eight-hour day as sound in principle and good even for ministers. I am dili gent in parish, but do not like tea. neither smoke, chew nor drink. I pay my debts. Height 5 feet; weight 120 pounds. I want 92500 a year. I do not want much to do with women's clubs. am unmarried. Where is the church that will ap predate all these qualifications? , Fill ou your coupons and hurry them in. The results of the poll are being wired to Washington, and at the time when new efforts to ratify the treaty are being made. The totals in The Journal's poll are already a formidable notice to Lodge of how unpopular are his reserva tions. His reservations are snowed under by an avalanche of ballots. WARRENTOIVS DOCK c OMMENDATION and censure will doubtless commingle as the S., P. & S. railroad presses its suit to prevent Warrenton, near the mouth of the Columbia, from selling $350,000 in bonds to bulk, a publio dock. The dock campaign would scarcely have been launched had the railroad shown a disposition to use every means to continue use of Its own water-rail terminal at ttiat point instead of surrendering Its structures to the purposes of a fish cannery The disposition of the community to provide, facilities for trade in which it will certainly be given opportunity to share as the commerce of the Co lumbia expands, is praiseworthy. On the other hand, the proposal to pay .as much as , $1350 an acre for land not valued at more than 1330 an cre looksxlike extortion and, possibly. collusion of the most indefensible kind. Port developments should never be subordinated to any real estate speculation. A Paris financial publication de clares: "We consume too much: we do not work enough to balance our consumption; 'we ask from abroad too many things we could get on without or which we could produce ourselves." s CHEAPENING TEACHERS C 1T1ZENS and lawmakers can not afford to close their eyes to Or egon's V: educational emergency. Teachers are deserting the schools and ' colleges I by scores and even hundreds i for better " paid positions. Partially; trained substitutes are being employed in their - places but cannot do their xvork. .' The sufferers are" the children. Every-other-; slate institu tion will weaken If (he public gchoolg arc' not maintained iq strength. . The professions and business will be im poverished. A man without good -pub-lie school training can scarcely be a good mechanic or ail efficient farmer, Girls will fail to be fitted for the duties of borne. Why 'Is it. when the product of their work Is, so precious,' that we hold, the work of our teachera so cheaply? "4" i-V-- .. ';:':'. Y Tbe teachers of Oregon are making their own plea to he allowed to re main in their chosen vocations by receiving pay enough to live on . de cently. .; Their' compensation; is now far ' below ; the amount Imperatively necessary to allow them -to live on a plane which would entitle" them to their communities41 respect and . con fidence, it Is unintelligent to let such conditions continue. TIT-FOR-TAT ON PRINT PAPER By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal Washingrton, Jan. 6. Newspapers which have been asked to curtail their use of print paper by 10 per 'cent are bee-inninjr to ask If the government de partments can not reduce at least that much. So Chairman Steenerson of the house poetofflce committee has intro duced a resolution calling fori informa tion from the officers of tbe cabinet, calling first, for a statement of th amount of print paper they use, and whether they can reduce 10 per cent. Then he aska another - question : "whether the large amount of printed matter now sent . out to dally and weekly newspapers, which they do not ask for anfl do not use, could not be dlsconunued without Injury to the pub lic interest?" : A new bureau in the department of ag riculture in recognition of the growing importance of tractors and farm ma chinery and related farm problems of engineering and power, is proposed In a bill introduced by Congressman Sydney Anderson of Minnesota, under the name of a bureau ot agricultural engineering, with a director at $4000 a year. The objects set .forth are : 'The acquiring and dissemination of information pertaining to the art and science of engineering as applied to ag riculture, including- the design, -con- struction, testing and certification. standardising, repair, operation, appli cation and economics of farm tractors. implements, machines, vehicles, tools and other mechanical farm operating equip ment ; farm buildings and - building equipment; farm lighting, power, heat ing, ventilating, water supply and sani tation systems, farm drainage and irrt gatton and the application of engineer ing methods and engineering science to all of the same." The bill embraces a plan for testing and certification by the bureau of trac tors and power machinery and the adop tion of standards to insure to the pur chaser a certainty in what he buys, and full Information as to what will fit his needs. J. L. Blakesley. fourth assistant post master general. In a report to Senator McNary on the subject of a star route from Bend to Burns, says that repeat ed investigation of the conditions has brought the conclusion that it is better to adhere to the routing of mall by the railroad from Ontario via crane to Burns, despite the poor train service- From Bend to Burns would require an overland route of, 170 miles, he says, and experience Das - shown mat long routes are never so satisfactory as use of the railroad, even though the rail' road is not of the best. Irregular serv ice by rail' is believed to be more or less temporary. Argument in favor of a Bend-Burns route was forwarded by Burt C. Jones, secretary of the Burns Commercial club. Oregon ' City Has Oldest Masonic Lodge in West Charter for Odd Fellows Lodge Has Many Adventures. The first fraternal organisation to be Instituted west of the Rocky mountains was Multnomah lodge A. F. & A. M., or ganized in 1848 at Oregon City. The preliminary steps toward securing a charter were taken early In 1846. The first issue of the first newspaper pub lished in Oregon the Spectator con t&lned a notice requesting that the Ma sons meet on February II, 1846, for the purpose of taking such steps as were necessary to secure a charter. The Masons signing the call for a meeting were Joseph Hull. P. G. Stewart and Wil liam P. Dougherty. On October 19, 1846, the grand lodge of Masons issued a char ter to Multnomah lodge at Oregon City. The charter was delivered te P. B. Corn wall, who started westward by ox team In the spring of 1848. The news of the discovery of gold In California reached the emigrant train he was with, so he turned off at the forks of the road th,at led to California, delivering the Masonic charter to Orln Kellogg, who, upon reaching Oregon City, turned it over tp Joseph. Hull, chairman of the Masonic committee, who had issued the first call for a meeting of Masons to take steps to secure the charter. Shortly after Kel logg's arrival in the fall of 1848, the first regularly organised lodge of Masons to meet in the West opened their lodge on the evening of September 11, 1848. Jo seph Hull was worshipful master; W. P. Dougherty, senior warden; and T. C. Cason. . junior warden. The first wor shipful master to be elected under this charter was Captain J. C. Ainsworth. Four Masonic lodges were Incorporat j Multnomah iodgeNo. 1 of Portland, Jan- ed during the early months of 1854 uary 19; Willamette lodge No. Z, also of Portland, February 1; Lafayette lodge No. , January 28 : and Salem lodge No. 4, in February. General George B. Mc Clellan, who at that-time like Grant, Sheridan, Pickett, Sherman and Ord, was an - unkonwn young army of fleer sta tioned tn the West, took the three de grees of the Blue lodge in Willamette lodge No. 2 of Portland. The legislature of 1865-66, in addition to issuing' city charters to Eola and As toria, granted charters to the following Masonic lodges: Tuality No, 6, Temple Ao. 7, Jennings No. 9, Warren No. 10, and Harmony No. 12. In addition to being the home of . the first Masonic lodge, Oregon City has the honor of being the first city west of the Rocky mountains to apply for a charter for the Odd Fellows lodge. The appli cation for a dispensation to establish an I. O. O. F. lodge was made by the Odd Fellows at Oregon City In 1846. It took four years for the charter to reach Ore gon City, which, to say the least, was rather leisurely Journey. HJhe charter was granted and sent In care of Gilbert Watson, who started for Oregon City by a ship sailing around the Horn. . Heavy weather caused the ' ship to put Into Honolulu, where Gilbert Watson died. The Odd Fellows at Honolulu decided to organize a lodge,, so drawing a tine through the words fX)regon City Lodge No; V they wrote above the original name "Excelsior . Lodge ' No. I." For three years the Oregon City charter bung In the lodge room of the Odd Fellows of Honolulu before the Oregon City -. Odd Fellows could get trace of it Meanwhile A V- Fraser, who bad come to the Pa cific coast in 1147 to supervise the rev enue service-to Oregon and California, i was appointed . spectatt cmmlasionw to establish 1. O.' O. F. lodges on the Pa cific coast. He did not come to Oregon foe three years, so the first lodge was not established tn Oregon till ISoO. when Chemeckta lodge No. 1 was organised at Salem. : Tbe Oregon City lodge' was not orranised till 1851. thousrh Its charter was the first to be granted to any lodge in the West, ; . ; , , , - - v f rvimlflatiaa aant ta Tha Journal tor pOBlicatioa to thia departaMat ahooVi ba wttttaa -Ltm J tK- n-n-r ahonld not norma SOO worda in mata. ana aran aavBian"" " writar. whom mail addraaa ia full atuat accom pany tha contribution. "The Case of Berjer" ' Gold H11L Dec. $lw To the Editor of The Journal I have read your edi torial enUtled. "The Case or erger, in The journal or. uecemoer . in u narae-ranh of said editorial la In these words : "When Victor Berger presents his credentials the house will be In a deli cate position." Farther on u says: "Will the house reject himr Ana iar- ther. "The temptation to do so will be very stronev" It then goes on to enumer- ate his various acts oi aisioyauy , o acUvltles in the making of Bolshevists, L w. W., etc.. and farther on says: "As a citisen, Berger ia out of harmony, with the country, is no supporter of American institutions; 1 unfriendly with tne American i government ; is, m xaci, au that a congressman shouia not oe. Ana begins the next paragraph with: "But there is' the consUtution, and there are American traditions and American nis tory. with guarantees of free speech, free thought and free worship. How far can the house go In denying representation to the Fifth Wisconsin, district?" And farther down you say: "No Victor Ber ger ought, to be in congress. But a big congressional district elected him. There is no charge of fraud- .xne proceouuign were In conformity with the law and the constitution. There was a secret ballot and a free count," etc., etc fin tha same Dace, under the heading. "New Bill Aimed at Alien Reds," is a reference to the bill introduced, and now pending before congress, ny Aioen nf Wnjihinerton. I am a daily reader nt Tha Journal and of the Oregonlan and other papers and Journals, and thought 11,1) T understood wnere tne journal stands when loyalty to our country is In question. I was of the impression that The Journal would not hesitate to assume Its proper stand as between loy alty and treason, nor hesitate to find proper methods in deallnft with such sub jects, whether. the recalcitrant was an individual or "a great congres sional district" The pendingjrill against alien Reds will express the sentiment of congress In reference to that subject, and the same great body ought to be able to deal with the Bergers and other manufacturers of "Red" sentiments and doctrines. The editorial is out of tune with the hitherto expressions of The Journal. I am a Republican, but have held The Journal In high esteem bo far as its loyalty, honesty and patriotism Is concerned. The United States constitution pro vides. "Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifica tions of Its members." etc It will cer tainly not find It difficult to determine what to do with Berger, who is under sentence of 20 years for disloyalty and who has just been expelled from congress as a criminal ana a traitor io me coun try. Neither ought they to be at a loss what to do with a "great congressional district" that has nouted and Insulted not only congress but the whole great nation, by this reelection. Every senti ment of, decency, loyalty and self-respect as well as self-preservation, speaks with no uncertain sound, and .congress will not fall to hear It, and in an expeditious manner will deny him a seat. There are no buts, lfs nor ands in the matter. C. B. WATSON. Advocates Cause of Berger Athena, Dec. 31. To the Editor of The Journal According to your editorial, en tiUed, "The Case of Berger," there are about 4000 more than a majority of in his district, who are traitors pure and simple. While you do not make that statement it amounts to jusi um. which is a very hard thing to say. for it -would not be Strange at all If some of those who voted for Berger fought In the trenches , In France. Victor Berger has now conclusively proved that he represented his constitu ents in congress, and that they, an over whelming majority, are wiUlng to go as far: as he does- 'He has not lost any of his prestige, and he stands today In the eyes' of a vast number of people a vastly bigger man than La Follette, Poln dexter or Lodge. And while you speak of Newbury in connection with him, I ATTt n r a loss to know why. There Is nothing In common between them. One is th sponsor or weann, me oiner oi the masses of the people, une oDiainea a majority through the use of money and political chicanery, the other through th public sympathy for a pub lic cause. This country was founded upon the principle of representation and that ma jorities rule., and that "rulers derived their just powers from the consent -of the governed." If Victor Berger is denied his seat In congress after having submitted his actions as a public servant to a vote of his constituents, then good bye to all claims of political freedom and constitutional right If we can abrida-e. abort or construe the constitu tion to fit factional fancies or needs we. are on the road to the same aesunauon. that other nations have gone that adopted the same means. We are greatly exercised over I. W. W.lsm and direct action, but direct action formulated by our congress would be a thousand times more drastic and fur nish a compelling precedent for future wrong. Victor Berger should be allowed to take his seat by all the rules of the game, and the Fifth Congressional dis trict of Wisconsin should not be out lawed by congress, ii it is. men Lin coln'! famous phrase becomes a myth. F. B. WOOD. Berger and Newberry Portland. Dec 81. To the Editor of The Journal In answer to your conciua ing query In your editorial of Decem ber 80 on the case of Berger: "Where do the privileges and prerogatives of the house in such matters' endr let me suggest your own wods in a preceding paragraph: "But Jhere is the constitu tion." "Each house shall be the exclusive judge of the qualifications of its own members. What Judgment has been given, and, while the house may reverse itself, it need not The will, or sise, or relative importance of a con stituency does not figure. Even if a state entire, or - two, or any less than half the whole, deliberately chose, to be represented by a blatherskite or wOrse, In the national councils, the majority of the states, as represented, in the sen ate, has, most properly and consistency as well as constitutionally, in this coun try, the right and power to receive or reject a blatherskite, or worse, and itself to pass on the (not altogether : impos sible) question. We are a- nation, but also a family, and it one member aches to be ostracized a little absent treatment can hardly fall to ctire the recalcitrant. True, our; government is largely one of public opinion, but. does that mean the unbridled opinion er wilful wrong con duct of any individual locality, stale nr section T - - " i, 8. R. A. ,: A 'Job for Every 'Person . . ---- - --- -. ' .Portland, Or, Dec 27. To the Kditor ol The Journal In yesterday's Journal Utters cmi; the People YV COMMENT ANDREWS IN BRIEF 1 1 ' - " . 1 1 SMALL' CHANCE ' Out with. the Teds.- ? - - - , ' No more snow, thank you. V . , How's the newyear going, so fart - Have you' noticed that a little base ball news is drifting Into the sports columnar. Spring Is coming. . . Now an earthquake is reported from Mexico. Just as though things weren't always shaken up enouh down there. - noover, it seems. Has decided net, to for the presidency. Maybe the i u"?,oe,uVJ rew Hooverislnr in the White House. Since the South Dakota law holds po litical slogans down to eight words onj old copy desk man may be ex- th ii a wllQ one wat wiu aaut a. wnen tne Harvard boys . get irrt - 1 ?n lnlr Boston rriends, 2XfJ, th baed beans and brown bread, Jn i Oregon youn "Portsmen we grow m Millions Of dollars' worth nt hi.i,.i, moving for shipment overseas, mostly to y" "-'J' ira ao, wnetner a wet or a dry, you can exclaim, "What has Ger many done to deserve this?" a. a . a .7 w" known "leaves In Vallom brosa" are hereby declared passe, as a type of thickness (used in the sense of numelty)" For us, we'll : henceforth utyi92? Mldentla, candidates MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Joe Singer Is not entirely In harmony with Ben Selling's plan to beat the high cost of living in its own lair. It Is a theory that is all right as a theory, but one that-does not always work out la practice, he contends. "Me," Joe says, mournfully, and with appropriate gestures, "Me, I have a pair of pants to get If I had an accident to these, what would I do? I ask you?" "Why don't you try overalls?" his sympathetic friend suggested. "Overalls!" Joe exclaimed in horror. "Overalls at $3.60 a pair, when we used to get them for half a dollar. It hurts me." "But I ask you," he persisted, "when you got one suit that's wore out al ready, how are you going not to buy any like Ben Selling says? Would he wear nis d. v. o.s without any suit in Janu ary, like he says? I ask you?" "Get a blanket," his friend offered as a second suggestion. "What you mean, a blanket?" Joe de manded. "What you mean, a blanket for mer he amended, as the full possibilities of the suggested covering unfolded be fore his mind. "Ain't I got a' right to talk sometimes V he -asked: "How could I do it in a blanket? I ask you?" "Tie it on." his friend advised him. "And freese my arms?" "he queried. "Why should I do It I ask you?" a a a E. N. Hurd is having trouble with his pigs. He has been having more or less difficulty with them for some time. He says they are sick but he does not know IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley Mention ot t! tally hiatorle matter pabliaboil i in Oreaon'a first nempaper. tha Spectator, in IMS. Jaada Mr. Locklej to an taTastigatlon of tho career of one Selim E. Woodirorth, which repara hU'efforta. .- i. -i The first newspaper to be published in the Oregon country was the Oregon Spectator, printed at Oregon City. The Spectator was first issued on February 5, 1846. If you will glance over the flies of the Spectator you will run across many an Interesting bit of history. For example, in the Spectator dated Septem ber 3, 1846, and -also in the issue of Oc tober 1, 184j6, you will see brief reference to the fact that the long-hoped-for news had ' come that congress bad passed the "notice blU." by the terms of which Great Britain was given notice that the convention of 1818 was abrogated and tn a year the Joint occupancy of the Ore gon country . would cease. Bellm 1 Woodworth brought the news to Lieu tenant Howlson. who was at Vancou ver, not only of the settlement of the Oregon question, but that military posts were to be established between the Mis souri river and the Columbia, and that a regiment of riflemen was to be raised to protect the overland route to the Wil lamette valley, with the further promise of the establishment of a mall route to the coast and the suggestion that a route be surveyed for a national rail road to the Pacific. When I read the notice in the Spec tator I wondered casually who Selim K. Woodworth was. I decided to look him up, and I was richly repaid for my trouble, for Selim Woodworth had a most interesting career. . His father, Samuel Woodworth, was the author of that old-time school favorite, "The Old Oaken Bucket" Selim was born In New York city, November 27, 1815. When he was 12 years old be ran away from home, bound for the Rocky mountains. He had tramped $00 miles when he was halted and sent home A few years later, while he was still In his teens, be Joined the brig Margaret Oakley on her maiden - voyage to the South seas. She was built In the yards at Baltimore and was In command of Captain Ben MorrelL For three years she traded through the. South seas, and with a full cargo started for home by way of China and the Cape of Good Hope. Heavy weather piled her up. a total loss, on. the island of Madagascar. After many months there Selim Wood worth, in a small boat, made his way te the Isle of France, as Mauritius was then called. His four years In the South seas had made him want to see there appeared an article signed V. R S. who asked. "Am , I entJUed to a Job V I answer, yes. Every man and every woman wbo wants work is en titled. Everything we consume or that adds to the comfort of mankind is pro duced by labor. If all Jived on farms, where they could produce : the neces saries of life and were able to manu facture them into food and clothing as In the early history of our country, it would only be necessary for tbe man who is in need to go to work and pro duce or make what he needed. ', In early days there was not such an overplus of labor as at present If a man lot his Job he could go onto the public do main, ; take a piece of land, , and in a. couple of years he' was an employer instead of aa employe. - With the set tling of the country, these conditions Olden Oregon, Census of 1845 Showed a . Total v' -. PopulaUon of . 2110. ,v ' . " 1 1 ' t 1 .1 1 A census of the Oregon" country taken In -1845 shewed - a ' total - population of 2110. - There were -1259 males and 851 females, of whom lie males and 41 fe males were over, the age of ,45. Be tween the ages of. IS and 45 there were 616 males -and- tit femaiea. - The popu lation Was distributed by counties - as follows r Clackamas Jlf ; Chsmpoeg (Marion), 705; Clatsop, 91 i"- Tualatin, .; Yamhui. -. ' , - r SIDELIGHTS Salaries hf nlt-v water collector and all firemen at Baker have been- raised, tbe increases ranging from. $2 60 to $15 a month. ' Optimism -up to' the minute, as per the enthusiastic! Fossil Journal : "Be of good cheer. The world didn't come to an end. The big anow a gone. ina days are getting longer. The nights are getUng shorter, Thv electric light bill wm be getting smaller ..: ., , , Xand,n saya the Eugene Register, 1st again selling actively in the Wil lamette valley, and this time It Is being bought by men "who propose to develop it instead, or selling it a weex os so later at a higher-price. Land movements ot mat Kind result in permanent, proa perlty." . - - i--. .. a - Here is a fine little .thrift story from the Gold Beach Reporter: H. U. Mc Clung, a resident of the Oak Flat Com munity ud the Illinois elver, recently killed a large cougar which bad the car casses of eight hogs burled about his lair to tide - him over the winter. Mr. McClung reports many deer wintering aiong tne Illinois." a Of a protected new enterorise at Hills- boro the Argus says: "The ground floor oiue print tor tne new cannery is- now tn the hands of the promoters, and - the specifications follow lines for the finest plant ever installed in the county along cannery cbnstrucUon. The whole plan of building has been such aa to make u. a model atrair." Vhat it Is that Is troubling them. 'He has tried to fix them up but, expert as he is, they have defied his best efforts, so he put a couple of them in his pocket and brought them down from. Seaside to have them analysed. Then you can find opt what they are made of, and what they lack, or what they have absorbed mat is not good for their constitutions. Then, he advises., when you get that In formation, the cure Is easy. All you have to do Is buy what they need to have put into them, put them Into a pot. melt them up. all together, stlrr the mixture for a few minutes and run them into dean moulds, and there you have them just as good as new. . Melting ahem does not hurt them, he argues, but makes them finer pigs than ever. It might be proper to state, Incidental ly, that Mr Hurd's piga are made of metal and used In the linotype machines of the Seaside Signal, which he ; edits when he Is not working as mayor of that city, or - representing Clatsop county in, the legislature. Speaking or the legislature, Mr Hurd says there Is not going to be a long ses sion, "if he can help it," but he grins a sort of feeble grin when he says It. as though he had some faint and unaccus tomed doubt about his prowess when It comes to stopping a stampeded Oregon legislature. He almost admits as much when he confides, confidentially, that he is going to have Mrs. Hurd be sure- to put In an extra collar or two when he packs up to go to Salem next week. the world, so he Joined the navy as a midshipman to go with Captain Wilkes on his exploring expedition to the Pa- clflc coast of North America. .Instead, he was sent to Join the Ohio, which was sent on a three years cruise in Medi terranean waters. Upon his return to the United States he again asked to be sent to the Pacific Northwest, for he still wanted to complete the trip to the West that he had started on when 12 years old. Instead, he was sent on a four years' cruise to the Gulf of Mexico, and thence along the coast of Africa. Returning from this trtn ariv in 1846, .he asked for a leave of absence to go to Oregon and see what the West was like. He left Independence, Mov, on May 15. 1846, and crossed the plains, reaching Fort Vancouver in the unheard of time of 60 days a trip that usually took five to six months. He visited for some time at Oregon City, Portland and Salem, and put In the summer and fall looking over the Willamette vaUey and other ' sections of Oregon. a a a . In the winter of 1846 he traveled down the coast to Terba Buena, as San Fran- Cisco was then called. Uponhls arrival there ne learned that a party of emi grants the Donner party were starv ing in the mountains. He took charge of the rescue party. They weat from San Francisco by launch to Sutter's Fort where General 'John Sutter fur nished mules, Indian servants and ad ditional provisions.. They had to aban don the mules and carry the supplies over the deep snow on their backs. They found the 70 survivors of the Donner party eating the flesh of those who had died or. who had been killed for food. Lieutenant Woodworth went to Mon terey. Joining-the Warren. From there he was transferred to be commander of the Anita during the Mexican, war. In 1849, while in Monterey, -he was asked to organize a company of rangers and clear Monterey of an organised band of cut-throats' and desperadoes that were terrorizing the whole district. He ran the. band to earth, killed some and brought the others in as prisoners to be tried and killed by legal process. He moved to San Francisco and erected the first building on piles over the water. His ; firm. Woodworth Morris, thereby handled practically all of the lighterage business of the port for many years. He served aa state senator in the first session of the California leg islature and became one of California's useful aid respected citizens. have passed. ' Today much of the land as well as machinery Is in the hands of the capitalist and the many are de pendent on the few for work. Never theless, the work U here to be done. Look at our .lumber industry. Our vast agricultural and mineral resources are undeveloped, and with our unlimited waterpower Portland might become the first city in 'manufacturing on the Coast Why, then, need any masbe idle? Let capital and labor quit trying to rob1 each other, .work together for their own: benefit. and the good of hu manity, and every man may have a Job. . . A. WORKING MAN. t . I" 'SS-sasmssa. gj w ,M , I . Dressing; for; the Part :Vf . rrors the Boston Globe. " The Boss AJ1 we have for you le a Job as night watchman. - How-soon can you come to work' at it? . -:Mr. Torporson Just as soon aa I can g home and. get my ja Jamas. Uncle Jeff Snow Says : ?, WhHejwa've laeea . av-takln' 'liberty to an - tbe world, our patriotic trusts has been, a-taktn' liberties ; with . us. , If they dont look, out' some,! they'll be a-takin' one too many, fuet thing they know. W aright sweeten things ap some if we tuck a lot of German vessels and sent 'era to the Sandwich .islands fer some of that there sugar they've got. a-waltln fer us there, ... ' ; ,j ' The Oregon Country Nortn wait. Happening ta Brief Vona for the " ' Baay Reader. -J OREOON kOTES . ' . Two does ailffain Wk ..Li., k. sen. l lil sens fear an epidemic of th disease. waek,0L1i8d,e1ia? McMlnnville last week, aged 92. Major Brace's rrand. mower was a sister of Daniel Boone ".A.,BJltch- from (Senator McNary - t ttf. l,ht the outlook for a federal PnfiTi! r?r tn Joovelt highway' in Western Oregon is not at all bright vrJe.r J" Eugene were more J?- nfOX1, yfr according to a report of the clearing house uon. , ; . After 23 years in continuous service f!LS?ixaritr p,el- Jn h North Umpoua. Lafe Bngela has resigned and recommends the discontinuation of the olfloe. -.PoU,"nl. capitalists wn have been experimenting for oil in the Amity vicin ity for some time past are said to have struck a pocket of gas 1600 feet below the surface. Nearly 800,000 boxes of' apples reman VI warehouses on the line of the Mount Hood Railway company, there being no motive power to remove them to the " main line. J.3 - FloK of.Tlgard Is taking the .farmers week short course at Oregon Agricultural college. Mr. Flook was a member of the legislature In 1867. and voted and worked for the college land grant bill. .D.ri i Fv Rfcddv. former mayor ef Mad ford, who went . heavily into the chrome mining Industry during the war, has received an, award from the min eral relief commission which praotlcally amounts to $86,000. v y While trapping for - wild animals, Charles T. Selgel, a Camas valley rancher, was accidentally shot by his 16-y ear-old son Harry. The collarbone was shattered and the bullet passed out through the breast. A careful survey of Polk county orchards since the freezing weather of two 'weeks ago reveals tbe fact that in no instance had damage worth report ing been done to the large prune orch- .More than 7,000,000 feel of 'Douglas ' fir, red cedar and hemlock timber on Salmon creek, In the Cascade national forest, will be sold within a few weeks by the forestry department Bids will be received up to February 1. WASHINGTON The police of Aberdeen made 285 raids and seised 586 gallons of liquor In 1919. The people of Centralla to date have subscribed $1169.62 in the Jewish relief campaign. j August Paulsen, a wealthy mining man, has presented the city of Spokane with a $30,000 library. In 1919 there were 2900 divorces granted tn King county superior courts. These figures surpass all previous rec ords. . A site has been selected at Port An geles for the construction and operation of a marine railway and shipbuilding plant . Seattle's street railways under the first seven months of municipal ownership w"re operated at a net gain of $10, 659.38. The Brought on National bank of Day 19? JlM Increased Its capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000 with an additional surplus. The Hod u lam American 1j( nn ha a purchased a dpwntown business lot upon which wlli be erected a $60,000 . business block. " It la estimated that there are 10.000 ' members of the I. W. W. in the vicinity of Spokane, practically one third of that number being aliena " - The Washington State bank of Port Angeles opened Its doors Monday with k Lauridsen aa president and J. P. Christiansen cashier. - - A gain of $200,000,000 In Taooma bank . -transactions during the past year is shown by figures made publio by the Clearing House association, f . While starting a 'fire with kerosene at " Seattle, the clothing of Mrs. tSmma Parker caught fire and she received bums that are said to be fa taL - , Charles A.. Fleming has been chosen mayor ot Spokane and president of the city council. Mr. Fleming served a previous term as mayor of that city. Frank Hunt of Walla Walla has been appointed principal cadet to West Point military academy by Representative Summers. Louis Rodell Is alternate. Tolbert Bright was killed near Colfax when an automobile, in which he wis bringing a party to town from a dance went over an embankment Saturday night Resources of the banks of Clarke county, the smallest but one of the rich- -est counties In the state, increased more than $1,000,000 during the year just ended. Cave-Ins have forced the Standard Oil company to abandon lta present well site at Mocllps after attaining a depth of 639 ' 't1-. Dr1Ji,n of new WU "ill start in about 10 days. Final estimates of the grain, 'potato and hay crops in Washington indicate a total area oi a.ajD.uva-acres with a pro duction valued at $16l,0f,000, as re ported by the federal bureau of crop es timates. With 24 counties of the state repre sented, the Washington State Teachers' league completed Its organisation at Se attle Saturday and adopted a constitu- ' tlon aimed to promote the welfare of all educators. IDAHO H, A. Lyon, director of the state farm products bureau, will succeed O. P. Uen dershott as state director of fairs. The Kendrlck highway district of La tah county will hold an election on Jan uary 10 to vote on the issuance of $107, 000 In bonds for road work. - i GENERAL Gold production In tbe United States during 1919 was $68,488,800, less by $0, 000,000 than the 1918 output Fire In the business section of Dan ville, Va., Saturday night caused dam age estimated at more than $1,000,000. During the year 170 ships under the United States flag arrived at Buenos Ay res, with a total tonnage of 860,000 tons. ' An order prohibiting marriage tn the Mexican state of Bonora between Chi nese and Mexicans has been Issued by. Governor Huerta. The county recorder's books Show that one out of every three babtes born In San Joaquin county, California, during llt was Japanese. , .-v. The departure of Brigadier General William l). Connor from Parts on the evening of January 9 with 100 officers and men marks the final withdrawal of the American forces from France. . TVnflA ttiMfl,4l t,n,ma la .11 1919 exceeded that of any preylous year, 239$ shlpp of 7,128.000 net tons; in addl-J tidn to naval ships displacing 1.000,006 luiin, iMuia uuvuf i wto wiiwrw. Curious Bits of Information -; For the Curious Gleaned From, Curious places All the life of the Eskimo may be ; sain to revoive arounu tne lamuy tamp, which makes It possible for them to dwell in an .- otherwise uninhabitable region.. They depend upon It for their very existence. It consists of a shallow; semi-circular dish of, soapstona, with a wick of fat-saturaUd moss.' It derives its oil from drippings of a piece .of seal blubber . suspended near the - flame. : Above the lamp is hung a pot for cook ing. and above that is a network of thongs containing articles of clothing put there to dry In the ascending warm air. The lamp gives a brilliant and beautiful ' .light . it " cooks the -' food, it dries the clothes; it heats tn nouse, ana, not, ins least important, it melts the snow for , drinking water. The lamp Is tha recog nised property of the woman head ot the . family.' and when - she dies it Is burl4 with her, i -I. . - - , . ,