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THE SPECIAL SESSION
I
rTS record at the 1919 regular ses
sion showed that this legislature
'has an excellent membership.
There has been more commenda
tion and less complaint of its work
1 than came to any legislature in recent
V history. It has to its credit an unu
' v sual number of constructive enact
' ments. It engaged less in political
. tomfoolery than is usual in an Oregon
legislature. Knowledge of all this was
no doubt a factor In giving confi
' dence to Governor Olcott in calling
the members together in extraordinary
session.
Cndfllal laortulatlvai cAeainni in OrA
gon have not been of savory reputa
tion. The people have learned to
shudder at the thought of having them
convened. The governor was flooded
with protests when the plan of con-
venlng this one was first mentioned.
' , It is no fault of the people that
euch a prejudice against special ses
sions exists. People do not hold preju
dices against anything without some
cause.
ll 18 wnony proDame inai mis win
be a better kind of special session.
,Tbe reoord of the membership at the
last regular session warrants that be-
- lief. It will be helped in Its effort
fnn'A trenA fniAtH K v thft faef. that.
. : the head of the state government is
not a political thimblerigger and that
KJie Is concerned entirely with legisla-
ton for the well being of the state.
l will have further Incentive in the
. knowledge that these are tempestuous
times, that it is a time of all times
"for the highest citizenship and that
we owe it to our dead, our cripples
. and to all who went to war to so
cleanse and purify our affairs as to
mke state and nation all their imagi
nation painted both when they went
. out to serve and sacrifice.
The members at the special session
nave opportunity 10 set mgn example
In civic endeavor and public repou-
sibility.
In ' on county In Michigan one
million dollars is invested In the fox
raising industry. That county will,
on account of the high price of furs,
have 300 fox farms by next summer.
One farm has 150 registered foxes
for which breeders pay $5000 a pair.
The pelts bring as high as $3000.
Some of the farms are reported to
have realized more than $200,000 in
three years. Fox farming thus takes
the place of wheat farming with mil
lions of the world's children crying
for, bread.
i CONTROL OF HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
THE suggestion is being made that
the Jurisdiction of the public
service comx.ission be extended
to the auto and the motor truck.
.There seems to be developing a sen
timent towards declaring motor trans
port lines common carriers and rcgu-
lating fares and rates. It is a subject
which should be seriously considered
before any legislation in that direc
tion is attempted.
, The conditions surrounding this
latest factor In the field of transpor
tation are not altogether analogous to
those which have grown up in the
operation of the railroads.
'Motor vehicle transportation is
based on the public highways. In
v the construction of these highways
every one ha contributed and to the
use of them every one has a right.
In the case of the railroad the raiits
. and ties are a private investment and
, carry; vested rights.
-To Impose restrictions on highway
traffic would have a tendency to
wards the establishment of a monop
oly making it possible for a few to
s "control, whereas if the way is left
"Open a free and full" opportunity
would be given everyone who wanted
to engage in the business of carrying
people and goods over the highways
for profit.
V It Is true that the public should be
protected in the matter of loss and
injury but beyond that point it Is
questionable whether there should Ipe
imposed conditions that would In the
least affect the free play of compe
tition; or favor private interest j
' -' With, the highway, open to ail the
matter of rates would soon be regu-
lated by the shippers and travelers.
Whoever rendered the best service
would get the business in the end.
The main purpose in the develop
ment of highway transportation is to
benefit producer and consumer by the
quick and economical transfer of
products, and anything relating to that
object should not be acted upon with
out due deliberation.
EternaJ justice seems certain to be
meted out somewhere, some time
and in some way. A band of 800
bandits marauding the countryside
in the earthquake district of Vera
Cruz, were caught by flood and
quakes and destroyed.
FORTY-THREE DEAD
IN OUR average affairs, nothing is
more haphazard and demoralized
than our street traffic
A new device has appeared. It
has very great powers of destruction.
Its smooth and rapid glide gives the
race new and extraordinary scope for
enjoyment and effectiveness.
But as has been shown by The Jour
nal's investigations that ho proper
provision has been made in our ar
rangements to make the automobile
perfectly safe on crowded thorough
fares, no intelligent plan has been
devised for contributing to the gen
eral safety, both of the automobilists
and the public.
The new condition has come on so
gradually and yet so rapidly that we
have not grasped the situation or made
provision for the safest and best use
of the new machine.
Thus we have never thought to li
cense drivers. We do require a li
cense for the man who sells drugs.
We license the lawyer who under
takes the collection of a debt. We
license the dentist who plugs a tooth.
We license the barber who wields a
razor.
There is no account that the law
yers, or the dentists, or the druggists,
or the barbers killed or crippled any
body in Portland during the past year.
But 43 were killed in traffic accidents.
1197 injured and there were 9004
smashups within the city limits. If.
there is anything in Oregon that ought
to be licensed, is it not the automobile
drivers?
Long ago the interstate commerce
commission issued the pronuncia
mento that a city is entitled to enjoy
the benefits of its natural advan
tages. The railroads ignored the
dictum as they built up the artificial
rate structure of the Pacific North
west. Seattle pleaded an exception
in order that the commodities of
the Inland Empire might be brought
over its high mountain walls with
out loss from nature's handicap. The
Journal, for a time like the "voice
In the wilderness," declared that
such Injustice should not, must not,
continue. Now the interstate com
merce commission in a preliminary
way has recognized the equity of
the claim. The railroads were wrong.
Seattle was wrong. The Journal was
right.
ZONING THE HIGHWAY
THE presence of unsightly buildings
along the Columbia River high-,
way foreshadows conditions to
arise, wnicn, ir not soon met,
will result in the destruction of the
scenic value of the highway. '
Under present laws the public has
no control of the situation outside
the right of way. There is nothing to
prevent private owners from erecting
any kind of a structure so long as
it keeps within the property line.
Any old shack may be put up to
serve as a garage or icecream stand
on the road side. The only recourse
now open to the public is to condemn
the abutting land. This would be an
expensive process and hardly practic
able. It fs suggested that the problem
can be met by legislation creating a
zone on either side of the road, ex
tending far enough back to protect
the view. Within this zone it would
not be necessary to prohibit building
but to regulate it as is done in cities.
Under this system certain standards
of construction could be required.
These standards could be created by
a planning commission which would
take into consideration the prohibi
tion of any building which would not
be artistic and blend with its sur
roundings.
There may be other ways to deal
with the question, but whatever is
done should be done quickly if the
natural beauty of the highway is to
be preserved.
Men and womeri who drink boot
leg booze have fair warning: During
Christmas week 247 persons in
America died and hundreds of others
who did not die are blind or par
alyzed for life from use of illicit
whiskey. To drink it is to flirt with
death.
THE PEOPLE'S POWER
THE beef trust, assailed by the gov
ernment, hurried into the display
space of public prints with re
iterated denial that any one of
the "Big Five" had profiteered, had
cut the throat of competition, or
had made excessive profits.
The coal barons and the miners,
dissuaded by the government from
continuance of the coal strike, sought
with elaborate publicity to warm the
public heart into new friendliness.
Why was the approving verdict of
the people so Important to the pack
ers, the operators and the miners?
Because the beef overlords, the coal
barons'., the petroleum monarchs, the
automobile autocrats and the trans
portation magnates have never, singly
or all together, approached the au-
thority and the influence of the plain
people. f -.
They live, they succeed, they enjoy
immunity, by sufferance . only. Ad
verse public sentiment is to them
more fatal and destructive than fire
and flood, court decisions and laws
upon state or national statute books.
The great and powerful senate of
the United States sits at Washington.
In detached attitude and with flooding
oceans of oratory it considers the
treaty of peace and the League of
Nations. The voices of public senti
ment roar petition and protest into
its unheeding ears. Its self-accredited
wisdom is all sufficient. Its power
is exercised against the continued
peace of the world. Its position is
negative.
But the greatness and power of
the senate has source alone in the
plain people.- The day comes and is
near at hand when the senate, like
the profiteers, must give account to
the public.
By what tissue of casuistry will it,
can it, cover over its flouting of the
will of the people?
A New Tork preacher has accepted
a week-day job in a hat factory. In
view of the price of hats, in what
enterprise could he more likely find
compensation to bolster up his slen
der salary as a minister ? Is there
any relation between building sky
pieces on week days and performing
as a sky pilot on Sunday? .
VALE, ELK
THE end of the trail looms before
the elk. The Yellowstone nation
al park herd nears extinction.
Driven by drifted snows and starv
ation from mountain retreats the
splendid beasts fall in scores before
the guns of pot hunters.
This herd is one of the last in the
United States. Another is to be found
in the Olympic peninsula in Washing
ton where civilization has as yet been
kept at bay by the lack of transpor
tation. But even in this lonely spot
the stockmen are jealous of the for
age consumed by the wild animals on
j the national forest areas and think
they should be allowed to substitute
horns for antlers through the repeat
ing rifle method. Elsewhere there
are a few scattered bands. Gurry
county in Oregon is said to shelter
a few elk. A half dozes have been
reported from the headwaters of the
Clackamas river. The elk released
from the city park may be roaming
in the same vicinity, but more prob
ably they, in their forest inexperi
ence, have fallen victim to the preda
tory mountain lion. Wallowa county,
in Northeastern Oregon, has laid claim
to a limited number upon which
hunters have cast greedy eyes.
Appeals for the protection of the
elk have issued from the National
Parks association. But these utter
ances are characterized by sentiment
rather than practicality. The B. P. O.
Elks for the sake of the noble animal
from which they take the name of
their fraternal organization, ought to
assume the task. They would, suc
ceed. The city zoning plan is a good
deal like the fish and game contro
versy the inviting subject of both
affirmative and - negative propa
ganda. But the ordinance which
embodies zoning regulation should
neither be defeated nor enacted on
non-authoritative report. The city
planning commission which pro
poses zoning is composed of substan
tial citizens who represent large in
terests. It recommends the scheme.
The planning commissioners should
be able to disclose to the public the
evidence upon whictfi they base their
own convictions. The people have a
right to a clear Interpretation of
zoning.
A FARMER'S HANDICAP
HERE s a handicap under which
wheatgrowers operate : Armour
& Co. controlled 22.3 per cent
of the wheat business in the
Middle West- This is the way they
did it:
They owned warehouses, particu
larly at terminals, where the farmers'
wheat was stored. Average farmers
; must sell their wheat at harvest time
t or soon nftpr or hnrrnw mnnev nn
warehouse . receipts. The money is
borrowed from banks on one day
notes. They are, for example. Ar
mour banks or banks brought in close
touch naturally with the warehouse
managers.
At any time the bankers may de
mand additional collateral on the
wheat on which it holds warehouse
receipts. The market may be falling
or it may not the banker ran find
his excuse for the added collateral,
and if that collateral is not forthcom
ing he can require sale of the-wheat.
A simultaneous movement of the kind
involving many farmers means an ex
tended selling movement, which
tends to make a falling market. On
one-day notes, the power is unmistak
ably with the warehousemen and
bankers, acting together to force such
a movement. Since there is profit
for both in forcing the sale it is al
most inevitable that here and there
that power will be used.
Thus the farmer is in the power
of middlemen.. He cannot even fix
the time when he will sell. Things
can be, and often are, so manipulated
that he will have to sell and sell on
a falling market and sell against his
own best Judgment and against his
wish.' If this is not the case why
was Armour in the wheat business
to the extent of controlling 22.3 per
cent in the Middle West field?
That corporation, when investigated
by the federal trade commission, ex
plained that its participation in the
I wheat business - was - necessary - in
order to protect itself against adverse
corn prices in the feeding, of livestock
for Its packing business.
One of the main purposes of the
cooperative wheat marketing move
ment for the Northwest under dis
cussion yesterday at Spokane, is to
provide a collective credit for all mem
bers of the association whereby there
will be lower interest on money bor
rowed and an arrangement effected
in which six months notes will be
substituted for one-day notes for
money obtained on warehouse re
ceipts. ' Discovered feeding ten dollar bills
to a horse, a Chicago man explained
his weird performance by saying
that the country had gone dry and
he had no further use for money.
Why didn't the idiot feed them in
the form of milk and bread to Chi
cago's many starving children?
A NATIONAL BUDGET
HEARINGS will be resumed this
week by a special committee of
the senate on the McCormick
budget bill. Owing to the gen
eral realization of the imperative
need of budgetary reform in view of
the increasing government expendi
tures, the advocates of a national
budget are looking forward to action
by the present congress on some
form of the McCormick bill.
The chief feature of this measure Is
that it sets up a budget system and
gives the secretary of the treasury
full power to transmit to congres9
through the president the annual ex
ecutive budget in which departmental
estimates of expenditure would be
presented by him, revised or reduced
as he sees fit, and balanced against
available revenue.
It would make the secretary of the
treasury a real minister of finance.
It would relieve him of all activities
not germane to the actual conduct
GT the nation's finances, such as the
bureau of war risk insurance, bureau
of public health and supervising ar
chitect's office.
Under such a scheme the budget
would be the president's budget for
which he would stand responsible be
fore the country. Congress would
still have the authority to revise es
timates. Agitation for national budget sys
tem took definite form in 1910, when
President Tart obtained authority
from congress to appoint a commis
sion on efficiency and economy. The
commission's specific duty was to as
certain what steps should be taken
to reduce the annual amount of gov
ernment expenditures.
Three years later the commission
prepared a report which was approved
by President Taft and by him sub
mitted to congress. It was not kindly
received by the national lawmakers
but it had the effect of drawing pub
lic attention to the need of economy
in financing the government.
Both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties in their platforms in
the presidential campaign of 1916,
pledged the adoption of a federal
budget system. Last July a special
committee was appointed by the
speaker of the house of representa
tives to prepare a measure. Early
in October Chairman Good of this
special committee introduced a bill
into the house and it was adopted
almost unanimously.
The Good bill, though, has not re
ceived widespread indorsement. Its
main provision creates a bureau of
the budget in the office of the presi
dent to which is transferred all of
the present duties of the secretary
of the treasury in collecting and
transmitting to congress the annual
departmental estimates of expendi
BALLOT ON PEACE TREATY
Tot ana efcotea. tadleata preference by X mark 1b equsre.
X I" "1 I favor compromise en reservations and immediate ratification of
L J peace treaty and League of Nations covenant ;
Or. 3
I favor ratification with
Or t, f 1 I favor ratification of the
L J
covenant substantially as presented to the senate by President
Wilson.
I am opposed to ratification in any form.
Or. 4
Name ...
Address
tin ta end mafl
to The Journal. UmJtaOea.
BALLOT ON PEACE TREATY
Vote eae ehetee. InaVata pisfsieaoo by X assrk la
I favor compromise on reservations and Immediate raUfi cation of
peaoe treaty and League of Nations covenant;
I favor ratification wtta Lodge r ervetloma
I favor ratification of the peace treaty and League of Nation
covenant substantial f as presented to toe senate by President
Wilson.
X am opposed to ratification in any form.
Or. 3
Or t.
Or, 4
Nam
Address
101 fat aad nufl to The Jearaal
UaHsttH
BALLOT ON
Veto ene ehoaoa. adlaato preference by X asark to aqeara.
X T "1 I favor compromise on reservations and Immediate ratification of
L J peaoe treaty and League of Nations covenant;
Or. S
r "1 Z faver ratification with
Or t, r "I I favor ratification of the peace treaty and League of Nations
LJ vnnt substantially as presented to the senate by President
Wilson.
Or. 4
I am opposed to ratification
Nam -
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at geafl to Taa JoaroaL lamttstloa
ture and an independent auditing and
accounting department answerable
solely to congress. The bill does not
attempt to Immediately7 set up a bud
get system, but provides the presi
dent the machinery with which to
work out one.
The-McCormick bill differs from the
Good bill radically in that it imme
diately creates a budget system and
places the budget bureau in the of
fice of the secretary of the "treasury.
Letters From the People
Communications sent to The Journal for
publication In this department should be written
on only one aide of the paper, should not exceed
300 words in length, and must be signed by the
writer, whose mail addresa in full must accom
pany the contribution.
Second Hand Smokes
Athena, Dec. 31. To the Editor of The
Journal I see I shot my bolt too high
for '-No More for Me" in my letter of
December 21. I never touched him at all.
Perhaps that is because he is "has
been" in tobacco experience. He has
the best of me there, for I have never
used the weed except second hand or by
proxy, and it has been very unsatisfac
tory indeed. I am not so bigoted about
the use of tobacco that I care a conti
nental who uses it, but I have decided
personal tastes in the matter, apd I do
object to inhaling the noxious and nau
seating fumes so nonchalantly dispersed
to every corner and crevice of every pub
lic place. I line up with the personal
rights crank. I say amen to every word
he says about his God-given privilege to
use tobacco if he wants to, but I am
minded to bean him when he puffs his
fumes in my face while he is blowing up
inspiration for another tirade. The to
bacco user Is either careless of the rights
and comforts of others, or there Is some
thing connected with it that makes him
callous to the wishes of others. Tobacco
users scarcely ever ask you if it is of
fensive to you. They seemingly don't
care.
We are all living here together, and it
is necessary that there should be
abridgments and restraints to our priv
ileges when they conflict with the rights
of others. F. B. WOOD.
Accuses Certain Deputy Wardens
Mount Hood, Jan. 8. To the Kdltor of
The Journal If the fish and game com
mission is going to "clean house" I sug
gest they go on down the line. While
Finley has endeavored to protect the fish
and game, there are plenty of deputy
game wardens who are violating the very
law they are sworn to enforce. There
are two classes of these deputies. The
first class are true sportsmen and are
worthy of their trust. The second are
those who have not the courage to en
force the law when they see it violated,
for the reason that they violate it them
selves whenever an opportunity presents
itself. These I call deputy fish and game
hogs, and they are the ones I refer to
in this letter.
No wonder there are wholesale viola
tions of the state game laws. People
have lost respect for laws. Who would
submit to arrest by a crook? Who would
respect a man for submitting to such an
arrest? Not me.
The people might be Interested to know
who owns the state hatcheries the Co
lumbia river fisheries or the state. If
the commission Is going to clean house
let them clean it right.
I am for real fish and game protection,
clean law enforcement, and elimination
of crooked fiBh and game hogs and the
reinstatement of Mr. Finley.
O. M. DE WITT.
Let Old Folks Dance and Be Merry
From the La Grande Observer
Some of the elderly folk living at
Marion, Ind., held a reunion recently.
They talked over old times and new,
and they sang, and they danced ! The
oldest dancer on the floor was Mrs.
Sarah Jones, 91 years young. And how
she did dance ! Those who were there
say Grandma Jones dances as well now
as she did in the days of her girlhood,
and she knows a lot of new steps she
didn't know three quarters of a century
ago.
Now. isn't that life as It has come to
be lived? Never old, never too old to
have a good time, never old enough to
place one's self upon the shelf.
Why should a person shut the door
to the pleasures of life merely because
one has gray hair, walks a bit slowly,
and has accumulated a flock of grand
children? That used to be the program
the chimney corner for the old folks.
But it isn't now. Grandpa sticks in busi
ness life, and usually he can give the
younger generation a handicap and beat
them. Grandmother trips the light fan
tastic. Lodge reservations.
peace treaty and League of Nations
mmmmr .
ef ballot to auaHfted voters ta requesteaV
of ballot to amriMel rotors k ieaerte4.
PEACE TREATY
Lodge reeenelliine
In any form.
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AUTOCHTHON
By Charles
I AM the spirit astir
To swell the rrain.
When fruitful suns confer
With laboring rain;
I am the life that thrills
In branch and bloom;
I im the patience of abiding hills,
The promise masked in doom.
When the sombre lands are wrung,
And storms, are out,
And giant woods give tongue,
1 am the shout;
And when the earth would sleep.
Wrapped in her snows,
I am the infinite gleam of eyes that keep
The, post of her repose.
I am the hush of calm,
I am the speed.
The flood-tide's triumphing psalm.
The marsh-pool's heed;
I work in the rocking roar
Where cataracts fall;
I flash in the prismy fire that dances o'er
The dew's ephemeral balL
I am the voice of wind
And wave and tree.
Of stern desires and blind.
Of strength to be;
I am the cry of night
At point of dawn, '
The summoning bugle from the unseen height,
In cloud and doubt withdrawn.
I am the strife that shapes
The stature of man,
The pang no hero escapes,
The blessing, the ban;
I am the hammer that moulds
The iron of our race,
The omen of God in our blood that a reople beholds,
The foreknowledge veiled in our face.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Charles A. Brand of Douglas county,
who is a quiet and cool legislator in spite
of his name, has come down to Port
land to listen to the oratory at the Ir
rigation congress, do a little business in
the city on the side, and get ready for
the big show at Salem on Monday. Mr.
Brand is another one of the hopeful, but
at the same time doubtful, members of
the house. He hopes the session .will
be a short one, but sinoe he has come
to Portland and watched the straws
scudding about before the political wind
he is getting more and more doubtful
about it. '
Surprising as it may seem to those
who have been following the fish and
game quarrel, Mr. Brand hats discovered
a new angle to that controversy. He
has discovered that there are three in
terested parties to the squabble the
canners, the sportsmen-anglers or angling-sportsmen,
whichever the case may
be. both of whom have long been recog
nized as interested parties, and the gen
eral public, which seems to have been
overlooked in the political dust that has
been kicked up about the matter. And,
having made this discovery, epochal
though It may seem to be, Mr. Brand is
wondering Just where the public ts at
in the mixup. He is going to keep his
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
(Optimism ta its phase of resolution, and that
exerted under Eratest difficulties, is Mr. Locxa
ley's text today. Those who know him best
will say they know where he got his philosophy,
that being out of his own experience. In other
words, he is here preaching what ha long ago
became adept in practicing.
Say, folks, let's quit talking about
what a rotten old world this is and look
on the bright side of things. It may
seem as if a flood of troubles was about
to overwhelm you, but look about you
a bit and see how bravely and uncom
plainingly others are bearing much
greater griefs and worries. No one -can
hurt you but yourself. The test of
whether you are a man or a weakling
is how you meet difficulties, and wheth
er you overcome them or let them over
come you. Time and chance can affect
your body but not your soul.
...
A friend of mine sometime ago told
me of being in a Canadian city. He
saw a young Canadian who had come out
of the war a wreck. This crippled sol
dier's face was frightfully mangled. One
eye was gone. One arm was off at the
shoulder. He walked with an uncertain
jerking motion, for he had not yet
learned to navigate skillfully wth his
artificial leg. The soldier started up a
stairway and made bad work of it
Looking around be detected an expres
sion of profound pity on my friend's
face. A humorous twinkle came into
the eye of the maimed soldier as he
said, "Buck up, stranger; you ought to
be able to smile if I can."
That's the spirit. His indomitable soul
was unconquered, no matter how maimed
and shattered was his body,
Last week I took lunch at the West
Linn Inn, Just across the river from
Oregon City. After lunch I sat with a
group of paper mill workers in front
of the fireplace. One was a marine wbo
had been gassed and had been shot
through the lung. The other lad could
not talk above a whisper. As he talked
to me muscular spasms Avould sieze his
vocal cords and his lips would move, but
no sound would issue from his lips. He
had a depression in his skull an inch
deep, where the bone had been removed.
A bit of H-E had got him in the head.
He had a hard ridge over his floating
ribs where a German's bayonet had
been forced through his body. It had
hurt more when the German had twisted
it loose and wrenched it out than when
it entered. He showed me the scars of
seven wounds.
How would you feel about it if you
were in his place? Was he downheart
ed? Not a bit of it. He was thankful
he was still able to work.
...
What is your worry? Are you afraid
you are going to be fired ? Forget it :
You can land a better Job if you only
have faith in yourself. Conquer your
fear and work as hard for your boss as
though the business were your own, and
you needn't worry about losing your
job. Are you in debt? . Live within your
income and save so you can show your
good faith by making payments on
your obligations, and thrift and saving
will soon become habits. Tou are not
getting a square deal? Tou have given
the best of your ability, energy, enthusi
The Teacher Situation
From the Bosetmrg Beriew.
The demand for school teachers la
still on the increase and the situation
I is even now more alarming than ever
before, according to County School Su
perintendent O. C. Brown, who-reported
today that there was at present 10 va
cancies in the county with tbe prospects
of considerable more within ' tbe next
few months. The vacancies created in
the last few weeks, Mr. Brown- said.
G. D. Roberts
eye on the bottom of the pile when thev
begin to untangle it up at Salem, and
see if be can find out.
Pat Gallagher, who represents the city
of Ontario, of which he iaed to be mayor.
and the counties of Harney and Malheur
In the house of representatives, Just can't
stand steam heat. Being of Irish an
cestry, as his name would seem to indi
cate, he also has a miRhty contrary dis
position, and every time a bunch of
steam pipes try to get him warmed up
he catches cold and spoils his tenor voice.
Except when he is running for office
and travels in a tin Lizzie, Representa
tive Gallagher uses a Pullman when ho
comes down to attend the legislature.
contending that while he has once or
twice in his life, sat up all night, it
has never been on a train. He did this
trip, and reports that part of him had
a hot time more than equal to a Turkish
bath, while the rest of him was in a
sort of cold storage atmosphere- Now
he barks when he talks and growls
when he keeps still. The thing that
makes him maddest is that the Pullman
company seems to have put the jinx on
his chance of winning the oratorical
championship of the house during the
special session.
asm and loyalty, and your boss doesn't
recognize your worth? He has humili
ated and betrayed you. Study the mat
ter carefully. Be frank to acknowledge
your own shortcomings. Correct them.
If you can't work for him with pleasure
and credit to yourself ; if you can't put
your heart into your work ; if his greed,
injustice and rapacity are taking advan
tage of your energy and abHity without
hope of advancement to you go to work
for someone else, or go to work for
yourself. He built up a big business
through courage and hard work. So
can you.
Don't let the dollar sense blind your
moral sense. Service to others, charac
ter, charity, tolerance, a sense of humor,
courage to face and conquer difficulties,
are more worth while than the piling
up of great wealth through greed, op
pression and predatory methods. The
men who will sell their honor or betray
their friends for "30 pieces of silver"
have no pockets in their shrouds. They
must leave their bonds and stocks, their
silver and their gold, behind them. Keep
your serenity of soul, your poise, your
sense of proportion, your love of beauty.
your sense of Justice ; for, after all, you
must live with yourself, and when you
come to the end of your life you would
rather be remembered for the little
kindly acts of mercy and good will than
to see gaunt fingers pointed accusingly
at you and your blood stained coin, or
your currency wet with the tears of
those you have wronged, oppressed and
Defrayed.
...
Is remorse eating at your vitals?
Have you wronged someone who trusted
you? Right the wronar wlihniit tl.v
"for he who wrongs his friend wrongs
nimeeir more, ana ever bears about with
In his breast a court of justice, himself
me juage ana jury and himself the
prisoner at the bar, ever condemned."
. .
The cast is dead. T th ...,
- - w.u . I ni mai
bury its dead. Life is too short to har-
ivi irvcnKe. uon i worry. Most of the
troubles we worry about never arrive.
Face the future with courage and for
titude. Ixwk up. and help others when
they stumble and are about to fall.
...
Twenty-five years ago On West and
I were members of a literary and dpbat
ing club at Salem. Once iri a while I
drop in to chat with him. A day or two
ago I was sitting at his desk in The
Journal building and I saw this brief
verse, from the Detroit Kree Press,
pinned against the wall beside his desk.
Its personal application to you is to
rejoice in .the sunshine, in place of wor
rying about the clouds:
The world rolls on
From day to day,
la spite of all
That scoff ers say ;
Nor all the cynic's
Bitter cant
Has ever stopped
One growing plant;
Trees Mtnfl to bud
And then to -bloom.
Despite the men
Who srstter gloom;
Nor all tbeir dnubu.
Nor all their sighs.
Can keep the sunshine
From the ski as.
were due chiefly to marriages, and the
d es Ire to leave tbe profession because
of higher pay In other lines of work,
while the situation Is expected to be
more serious In a few more months on
account of the fact that many teachers
this year took the positions -only tem
porarily or agreed to teach for not more
than a few months or until permanent
teachers could be secured. There are
175 vacancies la ths-whols stats. -
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for the
Busy Header.
OREGON NOTES
Smallpox has broken out at Mapleton
on the lower SiUslaw, and threatens to
become epidemic.
A meeting has been called by the fruit
growers of Benton county to form a co
operative organisation.
Senator K D. Cusick has been re
elected president of the bank of J. W
Cusick & Co.. at Albany.
L. C. Scharpf has been elected presi
dent of the First Bank of Pilot Rock to
succeed the late J. N. Burgess.
Heppner and all of Morrow county are
experiencing the second spell of severe
winter weather, with six inches of new
snow on the ground.
Damage to fruit trees and berry vines.
In Washington county by the severe
weather of last month was much less
than at first reported.
It is estimated that the Farmers' Bu-
UtlX'L.S"1; ,?of Ja,'kNon county Haved
n'0.000 in 1519 through economies ef
fected by cooperative buying.
IL C. Andrew has been elected presi
dent and Karl A. Miller secretary and
treasurer of the Cooperative Berry
Growers' association of Greshain.
The McMlnnville Commercial club by
unanimous vote has de-idxi to to on
record as favoring the reestabliHhincnt
of capital punishment in the state of
Oregon.
The Grangers' Eune Warehouse as
sociation has i-oniplett-d a deal whereby
it becomes the owner of the flour miil
and feed grinding plant of Starr & War
neck in Kvigene.
J. F. Johnson of Gold Beach has been
appointed to represent Curry county in
tiie bouse during the speclul Hcnnion of
tho legislature next week, in place of J.
Stannard, deceased.
The water supply of the city of Cor
vallls is menaced by logging operations
in the coast mountains in the vicinity of
the source of supply, and has appealed to
congress for protection.
Heppner's new $ 1 0(1,000 gravity water
system was assured Friday morning
when contracts for material and con
struction of the pipeline from thehead
waters of Willow creek to Heppner wers
let.
Victor, the small son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Howell of Hood Hlver. fell into
a pan of hot watt-r Thursday night,
scalduig himself so badly that the skin
tame from his body with his under
clothing. On the charge of robbing wagons
loaded with grain which were stalled
at Stanfield by the recent high water.
Hill brothers, proprietors of a livery
Htablc. and Harry Mangers and Charles
Travis are under arrest at Stanfield.
WASHINGTON
A total of $ 11. 47 R. 87 has been sub
scribed to the Centralia American Legion
fund.
Walter O. Hufford was sworn in Fri
day night as mayor of Stevenson for the
third successive term.
The city council has ruled that five
cent fares are to remain on Seattle's
municipal street railway system.
The estate of the late ex -Governor
Miles C. Moore is valued at $f0,570 In
Washington and at $100,000 in -Oregon.
The banker - farmer convention, an
nounced to be held at Pullman January
19 and 20, has been indefinitely post
poned. Contraband drugs valued at 14000 wers
found in a raid on a private apartment
house in Spokane conducted by H. D.
Nelson and his wife.
Members of the Seattle Ministerial as
sociation have adopted resolutions 'op
posing the Jones bill to place a ban on
Oriental immigration.
Falling to reach any understanding
with contractors, Spokane carpenters
have announced a new wage scale of (1
to become operative April 1.
Production in the Standlfer steel ship
yard at Vancouver is better than ever
before, according to a statement by one
of the officials of the corporation.
Ezra Perin Savage, who, as governor
of Nebraska, officiated at the laying of
the keel of the battleship Nebraska In
1D02, died in Tacoma Friday at the age
of 77.
The report that three men had seised
a woman from a downtown sidewalk in
Seattle and escaped with her in an auto
mobile is declared a hoax by Seattle of
ficials. The 6-year-old son of J. A. Spear, a
farmer living' near Palouse. was shot In
the mouth by a .22 rifle in the hands of
a neighbor boy who thought the gun was
unloaded.
Kvery 24 hours so far this year has
added a name to Seattle's list of violent
deaths, the latest ' victim being Miss
Blanche Misener. who was struck by a
jitney Friday night.
Albert II. Greenberg, a Seattle furni
ture merchant, was shot In the neck and
seriously wounded by one of two masked
bandits who held him up In his own
garage Friday night.
Whiskey containing wood alcohol Is
said to be responsible for the death of
Mrs. "arollne Swanson, aged 62, at Mon
roe Friday night. She swallowed two
drinks of tbe stuff, which was purchased
from a chauffeur.
IDAHO J
The total enrollment at the Boise htgn
school has now reached more than looio.
William Tiller has sold his ftO-acr
ranch near Deer Flat to J. G. Blanks
man for 420.000.
The Northside Home Mission was al
most totally destroyed by a fire that
broke out In Nam pa Tuesday morning.
J. P. Losser fell from the second story
of the east wing of tho state capltol
building at Boito and sufferod a frac
tured skull.
Citizens of Pooatello have raised by
subscription $3000 for the purchase of
additional land for tho Idaho Technical
Institute farm.
The board of education of the Meth
odist Kplscopal church has apportioned
J7.r.00 to Gooding college for the new dor
mitory and to help out on current ex
penses. Idaho tax assessors will urge the stats
legislature to create a tax commission
and to amend the state constitution so
that the new board may take-over the
duties of the state board of equalization.
The state land board has given Gov
ernor Davis full authority fo enter Into
a contract with the department of agri
culture whereby 184.000 acres of state
school lands scattered throughout na
tional areas may be exchanged for com
pact bodies of forest and grazing lands.
GENERAL
One million cases of influenza are
reported in Japan, of which 12,000 are
soldiers.
The house has passed the Indian ap
propriation bill, reduced from 117.471.
763 to 112.816.013.
The University of Paris has organ
ized a series of lectures covering four
months for Americans.
Knit has been started at San Francisco
in Jths name of the state of California
for the dissolution and forfeiture of
charters of the Associated Dairymen of
California and affiliated corporations.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :
Down to Split Rock, Arkarmaw. which
was a trad in' pint In the Oxarks 'fors
Columbus disklvered Cat island, people
unter didn't know tbe least thing about
prohibition. The storekeeper had a bar
rel of good stuff back of the main room
with a tin cup and anybody that want
ed a little refreshment tuck all he
wanted, as part of the trad In' of hides
and. pelts fer the necessaries of life;
and If he wanted a jug of corn juice he
rilled It up. with or without anybody
a-keepln' tab. There wasn't no revnoo
officers then. I've heerd my pap tell
about ft. If anybody wanted to fight,
they went out on the road and fit ; con
sequently it was a peaceful place fer
tbe doin' of business. Lawdee! If some
of; them there old pioneers could of seen
ahead to where corn juice would bo
worth more'n a bear pelt per snoot full !
But no, no ; they'd surely or not b'lieved
the Angel Gabriel if he'd of come down
In ail his glory and told 'era so. t - . .