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Great political question stir tha deepest
nature of ona-ball the nation; but they paaa
bora tha heads of the other half.
Wendell Phillips.
BIS CHALLENGE
THE challenge has gone to Lodge
and his crowd to go before the
American people on the Issue of
tne peace treaty.
President Wilson has called upon
-Xnem to do so. Mr. Wilson, as gov
ernor of New Jersey, went to the
people., when a Democratic legislature
was about to repudiate some of its
campaign pledges. As president, he
vent V the people in January, 1915,
when a Democratic congress halted
and hesitated over preparing the na-
tion for war. It has been the Wilson
habit to carry his case to the mass,
-. in whnm rile rmal nnrii1nnp.e ta
lodged, and it has never been In vain.
It is not probable that Mr. Wilson
expects the Lodge crowd to accept
his challenge. It is more likely that
tie makes the move as a means of
arousing pro-treaty Republicans, of
whom there are millions, to bring
pressure upon Lodge and his kind to
accept the treaty with mild reserva
tions. That such pressure will be
. brought now is certain for the rea
son that Republicans owt in the in
terior know that it would be disas
trous to Republican party hopes of
Success to go to the country on an
Anti-treaty platform.
. Qn the other hand, there Is no doubt
that the president means all that he
Bays Jn his challenge. If the Lodge
i crowd is to go on delaying ratifica-
' tlon, if they weigh ( the treaty down
With reservations which are virtual
Changes in the text of the treaty and
will cause long delay and possible
failure of the other powers to accept
'the changes, or if what' is really
nought by them is to kill the treaty
altogether, then it Is the sincere de-
alre of the president that the Amer
ican people be given the opportunity
to decide the controversy.
, Meanwhile, what Mr. Wilson wants
Is immediate ratification with inter
pretative reservations, if need be. He
wants, not an issue for the 1920 cam
paign. but peace, and by that peace a
guarantee through the treaty that
" there will be no more wars. He wants
the uncertainty removed. He wants
J" business to know at once what the
terms of peace are to be, so that it
can make its contracts and enter into
world trade.
He wants war conditions removed
- and peace conditions restored, so
that the country and the world ran
go back to normal. He wants peace
because peace is the first great step
by which the high cost of living can
be reduced.
And all that is what the American
people want in 'overwhelming num
bers. Senator Borah says he welcomes
I the president's proposal to submit
the treaty to a referendum by tbe
f people.! What better way for
. f Borah to get an expression from the
i people of Idaho j than for him to
resign and stand for re-election in
-November with opposition to the
peace treaty as his campaign slogan.
In no way could the issue be brought
( more squarely before the people. If
Mr. Borah would put in his resigna
tion to take effect on election day
he .wouldn't lose a cent of salary,
wouldn't miss a single opportunity
to fight the president in the senate,
and would have the distinction of
securing the quickest referendum
cm record.
THE YEARS BEAR FRUIT
VERY year a little band of mod-
ern pioneers pomes down from
a the inland plateaus and valleys
to Portland, j Their faces and
their appeals have become familiar as
time has passed. Many of them bear
f the marks of struggle v-Hh the soil
. and against hardship.
.They are the delegates to the Ore
gon irrigation congress. TTiey are
-; the voice of the state's development,
j : When they nrgah their annual pil-
I grimages, the reclamation of arid and
i semi-arid land was untried. It was
t the dream of wide visioned men in
tiny board shacks
on the desert. It
was the cause of
engineers who be
lieved that in irrigation
must lie
was, too,
boundless , possibil
ty. H
the eagerly chosen! subject of exploit
"exs of land who sought to reap where
they had not sown, and of politicians
who thought reclamation adapted to
demagogery.
The Irrigation congress has not,
year by yearj always seemed to meas
ure satisfactory progress. But from
the perspective of the present, it can
be seen that1 the experiments in irri
gation law have had their fruit in the
now effective Irrigation district statute
permitting state guarantee of interest
on irrigation bonds, one of the best
and wisest of reclamation laws pos
sessed by any state.
The experiments in Irrigation Itself
have shown the necessity of depend
able storage and making the drain
age ditch the companion of the irri
gating conduit.
Where a few scattered acres felt
the life-giving blessing of artificially
applied water, 1,000,000 acres in Ore
gon have now been reclaimed and
4,OO0,O0Q acres have been shown to
be practically susceptible of the same
profit bringing process.
The state as a whole has recog
nized the value of irrigation. This
is the chief accomplishment of the
Irrigation congress.
Where it might have been expected
that the leadership and aid of federal
agencies would have more than kept
pace with the movement in Oregon,
the government's interest has seemed
to become more remote and less valu
able. The reclamation service office
was moved from Portland to Denver
and euanges in the personnel of this
office militated against its efficiency.
Great federal projects of reclamation
that included Oregon have been wisely
submitted by such men as Franklin
K. Lane, secretary of the interior, yet
the definite result is scarcely measur
able. But If Oregon has heard and re
sponded favorably to the appeal of
reclamation, why -should it not be
equally possible, through the same
patience and sincere purpose, to cause
the nation's faraway seat of govern
ment to hear and respond to the
united voice of the West?
This should be the task of the Irri
gation congress and of Oregon recla
mation, .loin forces with Montana,
Idaho, Washington and California.
Make the ins:stent petition too impera
tive to be ignored by the nation's
lawmakers. It would be a good way
to reclaim many of them from their
besetting trivialities.
BEATEN
T
HE steel strike is officially ended.
It never had a chance to suc
ceed. It was led by radicals at
a time when the country was
full of resentment against radicalism.
That kind of leadership can never
win anything in America. It doomed
the strike to defeat before the men
wefe ordered 6BT4
Judge Gary watf shrewd enough to
capitalize the resentment of the coun
try against radicals and radicalism.
He had brought the anarchists over
from Europe to work because they
would work long lours for low
wages. He imported those whom the
Red leaders piloted into the strike.
But that was all forgotten by the
public in this time of turbulence
when it is the well nigh universal
purpose to drive anarchists and bed
lamites out of the country.
Gary carried public sentiment with
him in his fight against his under
paid and over worked employes.
Strikes cannot win unless backed by
public sentiment.
That is a truth that workers should
get into their heads and never forget.
They should also saturate their
minds with this fact: They can
never have public sentiment behind
them in America so long as they are
led by Reds. That was conclusively
demonstrated at Seattle, and it is
again demonstrated at Pittsburg.
The steel strikers beat themselves
also when they defied President Wil
son in his request for them to con
tinue work and" await the outcome
of the industrial conference. It gave
their action the character of a de
fiance of government. In the public
mind it classified and condemned
them as Reds.
The c&nstitution was set aside at
Pittsburg when the strikers were
denied the right of peaceable as
sembly. But the sentiment of the
community, right or wrong, justified
that course, and justified it because
of the Red leadership of the strikers.
The pitiful spectacle of beaten strik
ers now seeking to return to work
with their old places filled by others
and no work for them to do. should
be a warning to employes everywhere
to hereafter look before they leap.
More than 2000 ships passed
through the Panama canal during
1919. Eight hundred and sixtv
passed westward and 1165 went
eastward. The time and distance
saved is an enormous factor in the
economics of man's scheme of
things. The nation that conceived
and carried out this huge engineer
ing ieai is wormy or any man s
pride.
IN MORALS AT LEAST
T
tin . . . ...
nt. committee or citizens an-
pomted by the mayor to Jnvesti
gate the claims of the contractor
who built The Auditorium, and
his bondsmen, finds that a moral
as well as a legal responsibility may
rest against a citv.
The moral obligation as defined hv
the committee imposes upon the city
the duty of making good the losses
sustained In erecting the structure.
These were losses, due to error, in
calculation, the; price disturbances of
war and the patronage of home in
dustry. But the law seemingly does
not recognize such causes as the
Dasis or substantial claim.
The city got an auditorium splend-
idly built and worth much more than
it cost. To execute the contract faith
fully the contractor and his bondsmen
have been forced into stringent fi
nancial embarrassment. In one in
stance the maintenance of a home un
broken is involved.
The people will applaud the city
commission if it meets fully 'a moral
obligation so clearly established.
Aa a means of equalizing the
foreign exchange rate "allied
money" is being proposed as a sort
of a benevolent godfather to dol
lars, pounds, lire and francs. The
idea is that the participating gov
ernments would guarantee the sta
bility of "allied money's" value. It
will be a good move, but a long time
in coming. First, the European na
tions will have to get themselves
on a basis where they can guarantee
the stability of their own credits,
and they will not do that until they
have not only recuperated from the
destruction of war but abolish it
for the future.
BRYAN AND WILSON
NO HAND applauded when Mr.
Bryan's telegram was read to the
banqueters at the Jackson club
dinner in Portland Thursday
evening.
Every other telegram was gener
ously applauded. Mr. McAdoo's
brought out enthusiastic applause and
cheers. President Wilson's letter to
the Washington, D. C, banqueters,
which was also read at the Portland
banqoet. threw the diners into a tu
multuous demonstration of approval,
and was followed by action in which
a telegram was ordered sent the pres
ident conveying expressions of the
devotion and approval of the Ore
gon democracy.
It was the discordant note in the
telegram of Mr. Bryan that caused it
to be met in silence. There is still
affection for the man who led the
party in three historic campaigns.
There is no lack of respect for his
opinions on general issues.
But those at the Portland dinner
were in no mood for anything that
seemed like an attack on President
Wilson. Throughout the evening he
had been eulogized and affectionately
commended. His letter had converted
the assemblage into a bedlam of en
thusiasm. His hold upon the hearts
of those present was unmistakable.
as attested in every utterance and
every demonstration.
Mr. Bryan's demand for compro
mise seemed an unfriendly note. It
was accepted as a discordant utter
ance in a place where everything
was unanimous. It dropped with a
dull thud. It was undoubtedly re
garded by all who listened to its
reading as an attack on the president.
That was why it fell with a dull thud,
and that was why nobody called for
the reading of the full Bryan speech
at Washington when announcement
was made that a copy of it was in
the room.
No incident could be more eloquent
of the undoubted fact that the masses
of his party and the people are with
the president in his fight for the
treaty. He is endeared to the masses
by the jabs and sneers that his sena
torial enemies have heaped upon him.
His courage in standing by the action
of the Paris conference has won their
wholehearted admiration. His strug
gle to save the sons of American pa
rents from death and mutilation in
future wars has appealed to their
deepest affection. His firm purpose
to make secure if within his power,
all that was won by American fight
ers in the war, commands their sym
pathy and their devotion.
No leader at any time, not even Mr.
Bryan himself, has had followers
more completely devoted.
Is lingerie a naughty term? Is
its movie picturization immoral?
Apparently the secretary of the
board of motion picture censors
thinks it both naughty and immoral.
But lingerie of the pajama variety
has been worn by actresses on two
Portland stages within a few days.
If naughty and immoral in one
case, why not the other? Why
should lingerie be poison to one
audience and wholesome entertain
ment for another? Should the pend
ing police court prosecution of a
film distributor be the signal for
a campaign for general reform or
against prudery?
A CENSUS SMILE
Evk.n tne worried and serious cen
sus taker may leave a smile.
Judge by the dialogue that
occurred a aay or so ago in a
Portland home.
Enumerator, addressing the house
wife :
"You have children?"
"A daughter and a son."
"Their ages?"
"One nine years, the other 18
months."
. "Have they the same or different
parents?"
"The same.''
"What is the son's occupation?"
"Mischief."
"Have you any livestock V
"Why we did have two mice, but
we caught them just before you
came." i w
The Spirit of Insubordination
From the St. Levis Globe-Democrat.
Our problem is much deeper than that
of agreement uipon a working system
between capital and labor. It Is the
problem of bringing our peoole aa a
whole into a truly democratic state of
mind, to a realization that civilisation
Is founded upon order and submission
to law, and that Its highest form is an
order which resultsx'from the will of
the people themselves, to which they
loyally adhere. This is the world's nrob-
lem, no less ours as a democracy of
long standing in an mat of newer so
called democracies, - We must sot only
return to that general state of mind
which respects law and authority, prop
erly constituted, which we had before
the war, but we must advance to a still
higher manifestation of it if we are to
have genuine democracy and either In
dustrial or social peace.
Oregon's First Shipbuilders
Had No Lack of Nerve
Their Feat Probably UnparaWeled
in Maritime History
Oregon City was a pretty small ham
let in the summer and fall of 1842. A
dozen log cabins or less along the river
bank was about the extent of it. And
yet, this little settlement saw the be
ginning of the shipbuilding industry in
the West.
The first seagoing vessel built in the
Oregon country was completed and out
fitted just below the falls of the Wil
lamette. It was called the Star of
Oregon. A group of men from Oregon
City and vicinity thought they could
make some money by building a small
schooner and taking it to Yerba Buena
or Monterey, In California, They
planned to kill sea otter on the way
down the coast, sell their pelts upon
their arrival in California and with the
money derived from the sale of their
vessel and from 1 the pelts, purchase
Spanish cattle, which they would drive
up the Willamette valley to be sold to
the settlers and former employes of the
Hudson's Bay company who had taken
up farms in the Willamette valley.
A group of men, consisting of Joseph
Gale Pleasant Armstrong, Ralph Kll
bourne, Henry Woods, Jacob Green,
George Davis and John Canan. pooled
their resources and hired Felix Hatha
way, a carpenter and former ship
builder, to draw the plans and superin
tend the work of building the schooner.
The partners in the enterprise were to
do the work under the supervision of
Hathaway. Loading their canoes with
provisions, cooking utensils and tools,
they rowed down the river in the fall
of 1841 to Swan island, where they
planned to build their vessel. While
they were at work on the Star of Ore
gon. Commodore Charles Wilkes, in
charge of the United States exploring
expedition, visited them. They were
anxious to secure rope, canvas, paints,
oils and other supplies from Dr. Mc
Loughlin at Vancouver, but he refused
to furnish them the needed supplies
because of the misstatements made to
him by one of the men as to the object
of their trip.
Commodore Wilkes, when he found
they planned to sail down the coast,
did all he could to discourage them,
since not a single member of the party
knew how to sail a vessel. But they
told him they would put to sea and
soon learn how to navigate. In writing
of his visit to these amateur sailors.
Commodore Wilkes says : "5 tried to
dissuade these young men from making
their voyage, for I found that not one
of them knew anything about the sail
ing of a vessel or navigation. I knew
how great were the dangers they would
experience on the voyage." He con
tinues : "It gave me much pleasure
to see the buoyancy of spirit, so char
acteristic of our countrymen, with
which they carried on their plan."
Commodore Wilkes secured the neces
sary materials for them from Dr. Mc
Loughlin, for which the boat builders
exchanged furs and wheat.
The Star of Oregon was 48 feet 8
inches on the keel and 10 feet 9 inches
beam. Commodore Wilkes presented
the boat builders with a United States
flag and also an ensign, as well as a
compass, a kedge anchor, 14 fathoms
of hawser, a log line and two log
glasses. From Captain John Couch's
mate, Joseph Gale purchased a quad
rant and a nautical almanac for 145.
Commodore Wilkes furnished Gale a
document with the United States seal
on it which permitted im to enter
foreign ports, which Monterey and
Yerba Buena (San Francisco) then
were
Leaving the falls of the Willamette,
where they had finished outfitting their
schooner and where they had loaded
their cargo, they headed for the mouth
of the Columbia. It was a year from
the time they laid the keel of the Star
of Oregon till they were at Astoria
ready to put to sea. They crossed out
over the bar on September 12,. and five
days later Captain Gale, with four
farmers and trappers as a crew, an
Indian boy and one passenger, sailed
into the Golden Gate.
They traded the Star of Oregon for
350 wild long-Horned Spanish cows.
They spent the winter in California, and
next spring they organized a party of
emigrants to come to the Willamette
valley. On May 17, 1843, with 42 set
tlers, 600 mares, horses and miules, 1250
cattle and over 5000 sheep, ; Oregon's
first shipbuilders and their party
started for Oregon City and the Wil
lamette valley, where they arrived after
a trip of 75 days.
BALLOT ON PEACE TREATY
Vote one choice. Indicate preferense by X nark tn eonaia.
r "1 I favor compromise on reservations and immediate ratification of
I J peace treaty and League of
Or. S
Or i.
r -l I favor ratification with
LJ
I favor ratification of the peaee treaty and League of Nations
covenant substantially as presented to the senate by President
Wilson.
I am apposed t ratifieatioa in any farm.
Or.
Kama
Address
rui in and
ail tn Tta JonnaL Limitation
BALLOT ON PEACE TREATY
Vote one chotee. tedleate preference ky X mark la samara.
I favor compromise on reservations and Immediate ratlficatloa at
peace treaty and League of Nations covenant;
I favor ratification with Ledge rarent Irrnn
I favor ratification ef the peaee treaty and League ef Nations
covenant substantially as presented to tha senate by President
Wilson.
X am opposed te ratification tn any term.
Or. S
Or S.
Or. 4
Name -
Address
FU1 la sad
mafl te The JsornaL LtmltaoMi
BALLOT ON
Vote one ebetea fadtete nfefcieuea by X mark te agnate,
I favor compromise on reservations and immediate ratification of
peace treaty and League of Nations covenant;
a
I favor ratification with Lodge reservmtionev
V . k
Or. S
Or S.
I favor ratification mt the
covenant nuoercamiauiy aa
Wilson.
Or. 4
X am opposed te ratifl cation
Name
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mil te Tee Jeernet. Itautaaon
Letters From the People
Oammnntoatfoaa wnt to Tha Journal for
publication in ttala department ahuold be written
on only ona aide of th paper, ehoaid not mn
800 word in lenetlt. and nraat be aacned by tbe
writer, wbaaa mail addreae in toll nuut scoMa
penj tha eontrttraUoa. ,
Education vs. Crime
Klamath Falls, Dec. 30. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Since the Armistice
day murder of ex-service men at Cen
traiia. Wash., and more particularly,
since the murder of two "prominent
wealthy" men during a midnight holdup
near Portland, there have been numer
ous expressions In print, including some
resolutions by various organisations, fa
voring return to capital punishment in
Oregon.
Were these expressions well considered
before made? Were they based upon
any considerable knowledge of the causes
of such crimes, or of any crimes? Were
they based upon any considerable know
ledge of the efficacy of the death pen
alty as compared with other well rec
ognized penalties, or other means which
might be devised, to prevent crime?
Murders were committed right along
in Oregon before capital punishment was
abolished and have been ever since ; and
were, have been and are being com
mitted all around us In the states wjiere
they have capital nunlshment Two col
umns of The Journal would scarcely hold
the names of "murderers" and victims
directly concerned in murders ad com
bined murders and suicides recorded In
The Journal and the San Francisco
Chronicle since Armistice day, and the
mere mention of crimes of all kinds since
then would more than fill a page. The
Journal of Armistice day had five items,
and mentioned that 90 arrests had been
made in Portland that day ; November
25 told us Chicago police had caught
25 men and women who had confessed
12 murders and 250 robberies ; November
30 had 16 Items including three murders ;
December 15 tells us the New York
"death house" is full and an emergence
room is necessary for those awaiting the
"death chair" ; December 27 tells of
wholesale manslaughter by dispensers
of "fake" whiskey, and "youth" steals
$141,000 of Liberty bonds. Nor is this
condition altogether new, althougrrMt has
been getting worse for some years. The
Journal, December 9, 1913. told us that
In the year ending November 30 the city
attorney's office had handled 9064 cases
in the municipal court, and there had
been 129 in the ptate and federal courts
and 117 cases otherwise. This was be
fore the war.
We are told that out of 245 boys ex
amined in the Chicago psychopathic la
boratory in 1914 only 18 were found to
be mentally normal. Tn a recent article
Dr. Woods Hutchinson explains some
thing of the Binet-Simon methods of
tests for mental development and Its ap
plication to the 800. inmates of one prison
and the 1300 in another,, and makes the
following statement: "Out of the entire
number of prisoners only 6 per cent In
one institution and nine in the other
were normal or even apparently so :
whil over 85 per cent of these hardened
offenders were found to have the' mental
development of children of 12 or less ;
nearly 50 per cent were under 10 years
of age mentally."
Is it not fully time that more atten
tion be given to proper and continued
education on lines of right and useful
ness rather than in doing all possible
to prevent and distort mental develop
ment of the masses of minds and then
decree that they shall be blotted out
entirely so far ar man Is able to blot
the mind out? C. C. BROWER.
The Klamath Reservation Matter
Medford, Jan. 6. To the Editor of The
Journal I am not in accord with your
editorial In The Sunday Journal of Jan
uary 4 regarding the opening of the
Klamath Indian reservation. What
would you do with the 2000 Indians on
this reservation, and to whom this land
belongs? In order to open it to settle
ment it would be necessary to patent
the land to individual owners (Indians)
and allow them to sell it. The Indians,
as a rule, are wholly incapable of man
aging their own affairs and to do this
would be a crime against the Indian,
as most of them would soon become
destitute and a burden on the country.
I am a frequent visitor to Klamath
county and know how at the present
time the Indians are being taken ad
vantage of by crafty whites, particu
larly livestock dealers, and from the
best information I can obtain there the
principal advocates of the opening of
the reservation are those who expect
to gain for themselves by It. The good
of the Indian seems to be entirely for
gotten in the mad desire of a few people
to exploit the resources belonging to the
Indians. J. W. SHKRWOOD.
Nations covenant ;
Ledge reservations.
at ballot te anaBfied voters k reqaerted,
at kaQet te aaaUfied voters la
PEACE TREATY
peaee treaty end Leagn of Natl ona
proamnion t
the senate tay President
tn mar form.
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COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
The world Is all right. The trouble
is with some of the people in it.
"Mexicans Go Wild Over Japanese."
Headline. What a the big idea?
We have a hunch that there's a snow
storm flirting with the Rose City.
"Cove Women Urge Dry Enforce
ment." Another headline. That's the
oyster.
As a friend remarks, it looks like a
big year If we can manage to live
through It.
e
Sometimes when a person is in doubt
about doing a thing, it la just aa well
not to do 1L
The burglars don't seem to be union
ized. At least the only striking they do
is with a sandbag.
e e
With wages as high as they are, there
would seem to be little satisfaction in
working for a "salary."
Now there's a revolt reported In Bul
garia. We are not worrying a bit
whether or not it affects the Bulgarian
milk supply.
A baby was born in the New York
subway recently, and now New York
newspaper paragraphers are hoping that
the habit won't become common, inas
much as the subway is already enough
congested. -
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
H. H. Corey, who is usually addressed
as "HI," when he is not sitting officially
as a member of the public service com-1
mission, . spent the week end In Port
land and is cleaning up some business
at the Portland office of the, commission.
This, he Intimates as his belief. Is go
ing to be the last time until after the
special session that it wiU be fit and
proper to spell "week end" with three
"e's." He has a hunch, brought down
from Salem, that there is going to be a
very strenuous period of Ume between
now and the date of the adjournment,
whenever that may be. He is very
glad that the putllc service commission
is "out from under." so far as the com
ing session is concerned, and that there
is no one like Dan Kellaher In the as
sembly to heave bricks at the depart
ment of which he is a member. It has
troubles enough, he contends, with just
the regular sessions to struggle through
without tangling up with any special ses
sion as ftill of artlstistlc temperament
as this one seems about to be. .
Joseph Hume of Brownsville is down
in Portland attending the annual meet
ing of the board of directors of the
Bank of Sellwood, of which institution
he is vice president, and. Incidentally,
announcing that he is going to be a
candidate for presidential elector on the
Republican ticket at the primary elec
tion. Mr. Hume used to be a farmer. He is
now. by proxy, but he lives In Browns
ville, is Interested in a store or two
and the bank of Sellwood, and lets the
other fellow run the farm without any
other worry in that direction other than
to eat chickens and other good things
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Prod Lockley
(A window aign starts Mr. Lockley 'i mind
rt
working on the numeral 7, and he proceed! to
look up it! antecedent and historical aaaodaUons.
His findings contain much matter of informa
tion and interest. )
"Know the Future. Advice given in
matters of love and business. Treasures
revealed. I am the seventh son of a
seventh son and was born with a caul.
Learn your destiny from the stars. Life
reading $1."
I stopped and read the announcement
on a card In the front window of a
shabby rooming house in a shabby neigh
borhood near the waterfront in San
Francisco a few weeks ago. I smiled
tolerantly as I passed on, to think that
In this day and age anyone could be so
gullible as to give up a hard earned dol
lar for advice from "the seventh son of
a seventh son." I wondered, if this sooth
sayer, astrologer and revealer of the
future could reveal the location of lost
treasures, why he didn't locate some hid
den treasure for himself and move into a
more prosperous neighborhood.
...
Unconsciously I caught myself repeat
ing the words, ' "The seventh son of a
seventh son." What virtue. I wondered,
was there in being the seventh son of a
seventh son? The more I thought of it
the more things In which the magic and
mystic number 7 were concerned oc
curred to my mind the seven days of
the week : the seven deadly sins ; Rome,
tbe seven hilled city ; the Island of the
Seven Cities; the seven sleenern : the. hat-
tie of Seven Pines ; the seven wise men of '
oreece ; tne sseven Cities of Cibola, which
lured Coronado and others In the days of
the conquistadores. I tried to dismiss It
from my mind, but the more I tried to
banish it the more instances of 7 oc
curred to my mind. It was truly a case
of "Come a seb'm."
I picked up the Gideon Bible in my
room and, opening It idly, I read the
words, "And I saw the seven angels
which stood before God and to them
were given seven trumpets." I remem
bered Pharaoh's dream about the seven
lean kine. I recalled how among the
Israelites the seventh year was a sab
batical year, while seven times seven
ushered In the year of jubilee. Then
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The Corners Patriotic club has ad-
I journedaslne die. There ain't no more
use of bein' patriotic with the Amer
ican Legion on the job and bustln' up
the Bolshevik! with strong doses of their
own medicine and the law to boot. That
there bunch of vets is sure able to
watch out fer the profiteers, fake pa
triots, millionaire I. W. W. and the
whole lot of enemies to the gov"ment.
They're a-gittln' their hand in on the
roughnecks first, after which the silk
stockln' and diamond pin confidence
men and aristocratic ! tinhorn'll come
lnXer what's a-comln' to 'em. Therefore
us old chaps and fellers that nobody
but the shipyards have has shut up
shop while the vets runs things.
Banking Boosting Agriculture
From the Ashland Tidings
In many ways banks are helping farm
development and finance farmers who
are increasing production. Many West
ern banks publish monthly bulletins ad
vocating cooperation and community
movements. The First National bank
of Bend, Or., issues a , monthly news
booklet for the benefit of the farmers
and stockmen of that section. In other
communities the bank is helping to bet
ter hard conditions and seems anxious to
make the farmers' problems Its own.
. While livestock occupies a large amount
of space in the bank bulletins, interest
is shown in a wide diversity of other
topics. Potato growing, the nee of sun
flowers as silage, information about
cream tests and critical discussions of
various kinds are included.
TJaa rnowt significant frilrjsj ,s,hrti tha
NEWS IK BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
Elvin Miller reports to the Gold Beach
Reporter that the annual "hog roundup"
Is "now in progress at Lobster Hill and
he expects to slaughter about 100 fat
porkers this season.
The Sink postofflce and the mall
route running from Mlllican thereto
have been discontinued. This, the Lake
view Kxamlner says, was made neces
sary from the fact that no one In that
community would take charge of the
postoiiice.
e e e
"Write your congressmen," urges the
Hlllxboro Armia "and ask him to ret
the postofflce department to allow the
rural mall carriers to enjoy Christmas
at . home next year. People sending
presents can Just us well get them into
the offices a day or so early. It looks
to the Argun as though the people who
face all weather through the winter are
entitled to Christmas by their firesides.
Keally, don't you think sor
m
Nature story from the Medford Mail
Tribune: "Secretary Steel of the Com
mercial club has received so many ap
plications by letter for seeds from the
nrnimu hnrtor tMana raised by Mrs.
Bessie Anderson of Foots Creek, and one
of which has been on exhibition at the
club since last fall, that he wrote Mrs.
Anderson for permission to open the
butter bean and extract the seeds there-
frnm which nermlsston was reanuy
granted. Mr. Steel thus, obtained several
hundred seeds and they will be given
out as they are applied for as long as
the supply lasts.
, 1
that his lessee brings to his back door
from time to time. He is a pioneer citl-
sen of Linn county, has always been
afctlve in the ranks of his party as a
high private, and this Is the first time
he has ever aspired to office, elective
or otherwise. He did not start running
this time on his own initiative but upen
the suggestion of his friends, who argued
that he had worked for his party with
out thought of reward for a long time
and that he had the Job of presidential
elector from his district coming to him
as a sort of reward of merit.
Marion R. Blprgs of Prlneville, who
has traveled in the front ranks of the
cohorts of Democracy up in Crook
county until his hair has begun to turn
gray under the strain, talks right out
in meeting when he gets started. He
came down to foregather with the
brethren at the Benson on Jackson day,
and the brethren, through the agency of
Harvey Starkweather, called on him for
a speech. He spoke.
Mr. Biggs contended, for one thing,
that there is a larger proportion of In
telligent men and women in Crook
county than in any other county in the
state, and he advanced from that con
tention to the conclusion that it takes
a mighty smart individual to tell his
fellow countymen anything about any
thing, particularly when It comes to po
litical issues, state, national or other
wise. "Therefore," he warned Chairman
Starkweather and his successors, "don't
send any more blamed fools up to Crook
county if you want us to come out to
listen to 'em. Ship us up somebody that
knows something, and we'll all turn out
to hear him- But nix on the plnheads."
came to my mind the seven churches of
Asia, the seven candlesticks, the seven
vials, the seven stars, the beast with
seven horns, the seven sacraments.
Why it is I do not know, but almost
all ancient peoples have held the number
seven in peculiar veneration. It was the
mascot and good luck numeral of the
Assyrians. They noted how the moon
changed every seventh day, and how
these four changes made the lunar
month. They attached peculiar signifi
cance to the seven stars in the Pleiades.
The Egyptians, the Medes, the Persians,
the Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans
all believed in the potency of the num
eral 7. The Babylonians made it a
sacred number.
If a man's sins were 70 times seven,
yet they were to be forgiven. In the old
days when a man sought forgiveness he
turned as he prayed seven times to the
right and seven times to the left. The
sacred significance of 7 pervaded not
only every religious rite but every pri
vate and domestic observance as well.
The Bible, the record of the "chosen
people," Is full of its significance. The
Feast of the Passover lasted seven days.
Seven weeks later came the seven days'
Feast of the Weeks. The Feast of the
Tabernacles lasted seven days. The days
of purification were seven. Wedding cel
ebrations lasted sven days. The days
of mourning for the dead were seven.
Michael. Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Chatn
uel, Zophiel and Zadkiel are the seven
archangels who stand before the throne
of God to carry out his mandates. The
seven sacred books are the Bible, the
Koran, the Eddas. the Trypltoka. the
Five Kings, the three Vedas and the
Zend Avesta.
The alchemists recognized the influ
ence upon mankind of but seven bodies
gold, whose symbol was the sun ; sil
ver, symbolized by the moon ; iron, by
Mars; quicksilver, by Mercury; lead, by
Saturn ; tin. by Jupiter, and copper, by
Venus. Undoubtedly the number 7 will
always be a charmed number, held in
special reverence from the "I come 11"
of the negro street gamin to the venera
tion of the scholar for the seven liberal
arts.
publications is the extreme practical use
fulness to the farmers for whom it Is
intended. A more practical way of
yoking bank and farm together for pub
lic aeervice would be hard to find.
Times Have Changed Tastes
Prom the Columbus Dispatch.
One does not have to be so very old
to have a memory that runs back to
a time when hash was as unpopular as
prunes, but nothing that has meat In
it is despised these days.
Are They tit Kind Thai Cod Helps?
Prom the WheeUnc lntellirncer
According to Europeans, help from fhe
United States is their only chance to
pull through. But have they also con
sidered the plan of helping themselves?
Olden Oregon
Vicar General Blanchet Took Up Resi
dence at SL Paul, 1839.
When the first Catholic missionaries
came to the Northwest their field of
labor was restricted by the Hudson's Bay
company to the region north of the Co
lumbia river, for the reason that the
sovereignty of Great Britain hsd not
been established over the territory south
of the river. In the winter of 1839, how
ever, the right to operate In the Wil
lamette valley was conceded to Vicar
General Blanchet, who took up his resi
dence In a Canadian settlement, now Ht.
Paul, where a log chapel had been built
In 1834. Mass was celebrated for the
first time on January S. 1140. In 1848
Oregon was made an apostolic vicarate
and Vicar General Blanchet was ap
jBftmtart jtrebbjanop,
The Oregon Country
Nortbweat Happenince In Brief rnnn for tbe'
j Buijr . Header.
OREGON NOTES
The Umatilla mnntv ljtr In iota . u
anlmali5'"60 bounUe on Predatory
A special school election Is to be held at
Monmouth January 14 to decide on a
high school gymnasium.
A chapter of the American Association
oT Engineers was organised at Astoria
Thursday with 25 chartnr members.
Tli opening of the Columbia rlvei
highway from Portland to the Deschutei
river is now a prospect for next fall.
With the opening last week of thi
Athena State bank. Umatilla countv now
has 14 banking Institutions in opernttnn
Huge cakes of loe. many of them th
slse of a boxcar, are floating past Tlu
Dalles, a serious menace to navigation.
Fire caused by the explosion of a Unit
destroyed the home of P. F. Waril a I
Hermislon, with all Its contents. Thert
was no insurance
The state board of fair directors wli:
ask the legislature for 110.000 to rcpnii
damages done to buildings bv the recent
heavy fall of snow.
Plans have been initiated by the Hood
River county court for replsring flv
wooden bridges with permanent concrelt
structures this year. r
A $100,000 corporation has been formed
by leading citizens of Albany to do twisl
ness under the nanw of the Merrill Lum
ber St. Hhliigl company.
Woodburn. with f.8.9 mills, and Mount
Angel, With 22.7 mills, are the Marlon
county towns having the highest and
lowest tax levies for the year 1920.
Benjamin Jay. a farmer of Blaciily,
was accidentally shot and killed Thurs
day by his nephew, Hoy Heed, while the
two were hunting ducks on Lake ci'ek.
Records at the University of Oriegon
show that 6! per crnt of th male stu
dents earned part of their expense money
bv outside work, while 25 per cent were
almost totally self-supporting.
Baker led all the counties of Oregon
in the value of minerals produced in
1919. It was followed bv Grant. Uma
tilla, Lane. Malheur, Wallowa. Curry
and Wheeler in the order named.
The Wasco county court has given It
official sanction to the Seu fort -Deschutes
link of the Columbia river high
way, which will follow the river grade
Hurvey as prepared by the state highway
engineers.
WASHINGTON
Several cars of mine-run cosl havs
been received at Pasco, which has re
lieved the fuel situation.
Roy M. Heaman has been elected
proHldent and Hev. O. A. Stlllman secre
tary of the White Salmon Commercial
club.
Seventy-five alumni of Washington
State llege reside In Yakima county,
and steps are being taken to organize
an association.
With an Increase of 322 over Decem
ber of 1918. 2508 books wer circulated
from the public library In (ViiuhIIh in
December. 1919.
Shadricka Haflre, a well known farmer
of the Inland Kmpire, who located on
the Eureka flats 40 years ago. died at
Walla Walla Thursday, aged 79.
Orvtlle Roundtr,ee of Hoimfort, Lewis
county, has gone to Grays Harbor coun
ty, where he uill be leader of oys' and
girls' club work the coming year.
Justice of the k'cace C Hoy King of
Yakima has 103 weddings to his credit
for 191!. Kev. S O. Bnckner. pastor of
the ChrlHtiun church, is second, with a
total of 63 weddings.
Charles E. Coon, 7ft years old. at one
time acting secretary of the treasury
under Iresldent Arthur and later lieu
tenant governor of WaHhinglon. died ui
Port Townsend Thursday.
John C. Waehter. who resigned (he of
fice of county assessor recent ly. has
been chosen treasurer of Skamania
county, to fill the unexpired term of
J. M. Boyd, who resigned.
J. D. Stevens, a convict in the WaJla
Walla penitentiary, who killed Ivan Mr.
Clellan, another convict, with a pair of
scifisors last October, has been found
guilty of murder In the first degree.
Thieves broke into the Yakima liieh
school a few nights ago, stole $20 from
the principal's office, daubed statuary In
the hall with oelored paint and ran
sacked the building from top to bottom.
Proposals for grazing privileges on
the Yakima reservation indicate that
the seven winter and spring ramies are
scheduled to take about 20,0O(i sheep
and the summer ranges 2.", 000 sheep urn
an equal number of lambs.
IDAHO
The secretary of state has granted a
charter to the Elko-Idaho Oil company
of Oakley, capitalized at, $2,000,000.
Superintendent I Wesley Aschelmer
has assumed charge of government
property at Kort Hall, succeeding Majnr
Miller, resigned.
Ada county has entered on an exten
sive roadbulldlng program and has or
dered from Fort Wayne, Ind.. a stone
cruher to cost $6402
The North mill of the Bunker Hill A
Sullivan Mining company at KellrDjit
was destroyed by fire Thursday with a
loss estimated at 150,000.
The Federal State hank of Preston
and the First Bank of Homedale were
given final approval by the secretary
of state this week. Each has a capital
of $r..ooo.
The Kimrock highway district, which
lies north of the 'learwater river east
of Lewiston, has completed the sale of
835.000 of highway bonds to leading
farmers within the district.
The Commercial club of Lewiston has
begun activity looking toward the taxa
tion of Indian lands, a subject of In
terest to all the Northwestern stales
where Indians reside In any consider
able number.
0 GENERAL
The Colorado Republican state cen
tral committee has chosen Pueblo as
the place, and May 6 as the date, for
the state convention.
Representative Webster of tha state
of Washington has been chosen to de
liver the Lincoln' day address In con
gress on February 12.
The single direct trann-Parlfic cabin
to Manila Is again broken. The cut Is
between Guam and 'Manila, and a
month's delay is expected.
Governor Charles J. McCarthy and a
group of Hawaiian legislators are en
route to Washington to present a plea
to have Hawaii granted statehood.
Mrs. Honora McCarthy, a mother of
14 children, was burned to death at
San Francisco, Thursday, when her
clothing caught fire from a gas stove.
The V. S. army transport I -on an ar
rived at San Francisco Thursday from
Siberia with MO drafted men and men
who had enlisted for the duration of the
war.
Powers that have ratified th Ver
sailles treaty so far -are Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Bolivia.
Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Poland, 81am.
Czecho-Hlovakla and Uruguay.
The former transport Ht. Louis was
scuttled at Hoboken Thursday night by
the opening of her seacocks in a desper
ate effort to check flames which had
swept the ship from stem to stem.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Plaeee
The largest of all the flowers of the
world Is said to be the raffleala, a s na
tive of Sumatra, so called after Hlr
Stamford Raffles. This Immense flower.
It appears, is composed of five round
petals of a brirklsh color, each meajt
uring a foot across. These are covered
with numerous irregular yellowish whits
swellings. The petals surround a cup
nearly a foot wide, the margin of which
bears the stamens. The cup of the raf
fles! a Is filled with a fleshy disk, the
upper surface of which ta covered with
projections like miniature cow's horns.
The cup when free from It content
will hold about 11 pints. The flower,
weighs about 15 pounds, and is very
thick, the petals being three quarters jot
an inch.