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Newspaper Page Text8 AH tNniirBVDCMT ' WEWSPAFEB 0. JACKsOW.. Febllatwr FuMt-hcd .terjr oar, afumwoa ana Elrt Sunday ifunwoo) t Th ulldiC. Broadwej end TalUU . Portland, Oregon. for tranTni-k throoaa the aUs as - flVI PUlVff, - MLEFHONE tfata 111. Aetoinatie 0-M. . All dprtwnt nacB by thaae Tn Iba operator what di)rtmfU w wanfc rOKIIGM ADVERTISING W"AT,? Banjsiaia Kantnor Co.. Build 32t nfth do, Krw Torts Mailer ' BBUdloc Cbleaso. ' Butvcrlpilou tmma w mail, or u toa LaiUd BUta. or Mexico: DAU.I OtORXINO OB ArXEHSOOIf) Ou itr......l.00 One swath.....! .80 . SUNDAY Ant year 18.80 On nvmtb $ .S DAILY MOBKINO OK APTEKNOON) AMD SLNIAX One year 17. BO I One month f - B eIi, be confident, be cheerful food will ' to neu. The Bbrrty of the oreaa ta the inif nwuura of all liberty, for all frredom without Uii must be nominal. Challidd. COURTING DISASTER IP THE legal rate of interest in Oregon were only 4 per cent and the contract rate only 5 per cent, Oregon money would go to other states wliere higher rates could be obtained. You can make the legal rate 4 per cent but you cannot make people lend their money at that rate. Or, you can make the note or contract rate 5 per cent, but the people will themselves decide what to do with their money they will send it to be loaned in other states, where rates are higher. petitions are in circulation provid ing for submission to the people of an amendment fixing interest at these low rates. It would be foolish to sign them, and more (polish to adopt the amendment. The effect would be disastrous to borrowers. Men f would withdraw their loans and send the money else where. Money could not be borrowed to finance new industries. Merchants could not borrow money with which to 'extend their business. Builders could not borrow money with which to erect new houses and office struc tures. On homes where there are mortgages now, the lender would demand his money at the expiration of the note, and the homeowner would, in many a case, be unable to borrow the money with which to pay off the mortgage. Low interest rates stimulate pro duction and enterprise. But Oregon cannot alone, by mere edict legislate trie rate that borrowers may pay for use of money. If Oregon tries to do this thing alone, great harm will come upon a large part of the people. "Why the women?" writes a cor . respondent, referring to the an nouncement that the forest super visor in the Eugene district will era ploy a large number of women In forest fire protection next summer 'Why," he says, "when there are so ftnany ex-service men in want of work, and who have families to sup port?" Probabty there will be work for all next summer. There is need for everybody to be busy in order to produce the wealth with which to pay the more than $28,000,000, .000 of war debt which can be met only by collection of taxes from the - people. SPEAK A NEW LANGUAGE BiutuA, it seems, nas no grudge A against Portland and Portland has no antagonism against As toria. The two cities, indirectly to quote Major Gilbert's address before the Ad club, are on one river, are at opposite extremities of the same har bor, have back of them one great uruuuoras empire, ana nave in front of them one great ocean which will brine to Portland an1 Aernrla u - - - - .vwv,,w iituta than enough Ujade and commerce for oom. . If there Is no hostility between the cities why go on acting as If there , was? Why do the Astoria news ' papers, as eagerly as the publications of Puget sound, expand into dlscredit- , ing sensation trifles relating to the : ' Port ot Portland ? Why did Astoria respond Jo Portland's silence in As ; toria's own rate case by aligning with , - the port interests of Puget sound against recognition of the Columbia water grade route to the Interior? If there is no fear In Portland of Astoria's grotvth as a port why do some of our older business men - shake their heads doubtfully when Astoria's progress is reported? J - If Portland's and Astoria's port and 'Industrial interests are one why do not the two cities join in common " exposition of the advantages of the n . rtf that rVhlttwiHi lamtin Ka ' division of the business which may be attracted.; tp equitable Internal . ar rangement, tne efficiency of port terminal facilities and the operation of Immutable economic law? If. Portland and Astoria have no : feud why not abandon the vocabulary BACK TO CORRUPTION? HEN United States senators were the control of the senate and house organization was of great value to the political boss, and to the invisible Influences that guided him. It was exceedingly desirable, If not absolutely necessary, for him to control the organization which ran the assembly. Unwritten history tells us that upon one occasion two deciding votes for president of the state senate were bought for $2000 each, which gives some idea of the financial value of legislative vote's when invisible government wants to have its hand at the legislative throttle for any purpose particular to its program. - The current market price of legislative votes suffered an awful slump when the direct election of the United States senators became the law and that function of government was transferred from the ballots of the assembly to those of the general electorate. . Now, Senator Moser and Senator Banks, both of Multnomah county, offer a plan to restore the old ruling prices insofar as it may be possible so to do. Just how much the deckling vote in the election of a president of the senate who might succeed to the governorship would be worth Is, of course, problematical. It- would depend, in part and in probability, upon the life expectancy of the incumbent of the gubernatorial chair. But it would be there, intangible perhaps, but existent just the same. When Senator Moser and Senator Banks ask the people of Oregon to ratify their offered amendment to the constitution providing that the president of the senate, or, if anything should happen to him, the speaker of the house, shall serve as governor in the event of a vacancy in that office, they are asking the people to revert to the old order of two thousand dollar votes for president of the senate or speaker of the house. They are asking the oters of the state so to amend the constitution that any one of 90 members of the legislature would be a potential members of the senate were to be cumulator of outside, and, possibly, stand at all times ready and waiting him. It is worth a groat deal for invisible" government to control the senate ct Oregon, for when it does it controls, to a master extent, the laws of Oregon. It would be worth very much more to it if it could control both the senate and the executive .office, for then it would control both the law and the government. . of the feud and speak in the terms of fellowship? From far away Mississippi come five votes for ratification of the treaty as submitted by Presidents Wilson. They are accompanied by a letter written by G. W. Maynard, for 29 years an Oregonian." There s "no place like Oregon and no city that appeals to me aj does Portland. Every one I have talked with Is strongly in favor of ratifying the , treaty as it was presented to the senate," he says. The votes were received too late to be counted in The Journal's treaty poll. Some one says that when God made the world in six days. He didn't have the United States sen ate to bother with. IN THE DAY'S NEWS 0 UT in St. Vincents hospital is Holmes Gabbcrt. 20, with one leg cut off by the wheels of a mov ing street car, and the other so mangled that it must be amputated. It is the old, old story he tried to board the car while it was in mo tion. Parents : Tell it to all in the house hold tell them about safety. Tell them about this luckless lad. maimed for life. Tell them about how to avoid auto mobile accidents. Parents: Tell these things to your children and help save them from the cruel lot that has befallen young Holmes Gabbert. Hers is one process in which the ultimate consumer gets hers: A wealthy young woman in Paris worked for a time, incognito, in a fashionable dressmaking establish ment. Later she said this: "Ten dollars' worth of material skillfully cut and draped by a girl drawing $75 a month, hung with sequins costing $11 a thousand, sewed by a sweat shop tenement worker, who was paid $6 for each garment, was sold to a New Tork buyer for $1800." Then some millionairess probably purchased the dress at $2500 at the price of a house and lot. After all, what fools we mor tals be! MANUFACTURER PROFITEERS S ENATOR CAPPER of Kansas has the virtue of plain speech. When he has spoken he leaves no twi light zone of misunderstanding as to what he meant to say and to whom he referred. In Washington last Saturday he 6aid that the net profits of the Ameri can Woolen company in 1918 were 812,324,084, and In 1914 $2,'78,600, in both instances after federal taxes had been deducted, He said that a year ago the stock of the American Woolen company was quoted at 45, today in the neigh borhood of 130, and that the net earn ings on the common stock was more than $100 a share, or more than the par value or tne stock. He said that the grower gets 17.37 for a suit of clothes sold at retail for $100 He said that during the period when we were sending our boys to Prance the United States Steel corporation earned $1,300,000,000, that Crucible Steel which was quoted a year ago at 52, is now 209; that theock of the Cuban-American Sugar company has advanced 200 per cent in a year: that Central Leather stock was quoted at 58 a year ago, Is now around 105, and that one leather company showed profits or 52 per cent on Its stock. He 9aid that it is not uncommon for speculators on the exchange to boost the value of the cotton crop $50,000,000 in a single day: that 4,000.- 000 people are homeless because of profiteering in lumber, and that weekly advances of $2 to $5 a thou sand feet for lumber are not unusual, He added: These gigantic corporations have be come drunk with profits extorted from a too-compliant public The outstanding fact is that there is nowhere th aiiM indication of any change In the strategy va 1MB TW trusts. Mmknu on A In dustrial corporations in fattening their profits. A thief has only to steal half as much property these days to commit grand areency. but it seems a profiteer corporsnon may take all it can get from eleeted by the Oregon legislature governor of Oregon. Whichever of the the best "organizer" or the best ac invisible and invidious support, would for the executive office to descend to the people and then make them pay its war taxes besides. We deport the Reds, and I heartily approve the government's effort in that direction, but our chief trouble makers, the price gougers, we still let run wild. This is the statement of one man. The authority of the assertion is in creased by the fact that he is a senator of the United States. His sources of informatipn should be many and authentic. If hlg cnarge9 are k . . f ,.. ,ated durjng tne w&r thepe g no course but that of decisive federal action against the manufacturer prof iteers. THE REAL CULPRIT S' O IT is President Wilson that is holding up the treaty! Lodge didn't do it he has been for the treaty all the time. John son didn't do it his voice of thunder, as he stood with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, has been all along for the treaty, and nothing but the treaty. Nobody but Wilson has been against the treaty if the newest position of the Oregonian is to be accepted. There is Borah and there is Poin dexter how they have labored with the wicked Wilson in patriotic fervor and with no thought in their pure iouls about the 1920 campaign, and all in vain. The president is so "ob stinate." However, in passing, how would it look for the president to advocate changes in the treaty? After reach ing agreements under the most dif ficult contentions with the allied ne gotiators, could Mr. Wilson appear In very good light before his country men and before our late associate na tions in the war, if he came over to America and publicly advocated changes in the agreements made at Paris? By that course would he not be treacherous to the conference and be a vacillating and unstable man in the eyes of his own countrymen? George W. Wiekersham, attorney general in the Taft cabinet, who went to Paris to oppose the league and came back an advocate of it, declared last Monday in a written statement that the Lodge reservations as they stand are an amendment of the treaty and would require resubmission of the instrument to the powers, open ing up again all the disputes, complex ities and confusion of the former ne gotiations. Of course Wilson wrote the Lodge reservations. Lodge lately made concessions and the news indicated that he was about to make others to the Democrats and mild reservatlonist Republicans. The latter were, independently of the pres ident, trying to reach a compromise. Whereupon the Johnson-Poindexter Borah-Moses tTOup of standpatters notified Lodge that if he made further concessions they would bolt the Re publican party. Of course, President Wilson acted with the irreconcilables in compelling Lodge not to further compromise. It is so like the presi dent in his uncompromising hatred of the treaty and his undying devotion to Poindexter, Borah and the other bitter-enders. LOSING NEEDED FRIENDS P AINTERS worked many days in the news rooms at The Journal office. A radiator in an editorial room was to be gilded. The heat remained shut off all day waiting for their convenience to do the Job. Around 4:30 in the afternoon their work In the other rooms was finished and they announced that It was too late to do the work on the radiator They were urged to do the Job, but instead, they packed up their belong ings, called their work at The Journal office completed and went away for good, The Incident Is unimportant In one sense. It is highly important in an other. That one unpainted radiator, which could have been, taken care of In a comparatively few minutes, the haughty disregard and the contemptu ous unconcern, are a spirit that, prac ticed here and there by Occasional unionists,! to coating , the ; deserving I cause of union labor many a friend. HOW'THE CROOKED STRAIGHT TICKET BILL WAS PASSED, AND KILLED C. C Chapman in Crooked methods not financially crooked but legislatively crookedwere followed Jn the futile attempt to deprive independent voters of Oregon of their present form of baUot and foist the straight ticket form on them with out regard to violence done to existing law or the traditions of good , govern ment. The courage of Governor Olcott was never better exemplified than by the promptness with which he an nounced he would veto the ' iniquitous measure, 8. B. 61. A bolder attempt to use the legislature in a crooked manner In working out a purely party scheme has not disgraced the state house for many sessions. It seemed like a revival of disreputable practices of old days when tie gang machinery got Into full swing. As might nave been expected, Senator Gus Moser was the leader in the plot It was at the somewhat celebrated hour of midnight to be exact, 11 :60 p. m., of Thursday night of the session that he sprung his scheme. The bill had been held back until that late hour of the day and session for the palpable rea son that by being held till that late time it would get little publicity In the last minute rush and could nottbe print ed in time to be examined by any save the legislators and the lobbyists around the state house. As. was expected and planned, the printed bill did not arrive at the state house until Saturday after noon, too late for it to be sent through out the state to be examined and com mented upon in time to influence a legis lature that was to close officially at Saturday noon. It vm at the late night meeting of the senate judiciary committee that the scheme was sprung openly. Mr. Moser pulled a bill out of his pocket and laid It before the committee. Kvidently the committee was expecting it. for all the members present appeared to understand that it had the political purpose of so arranging the ballot for the November, 1920, general election that George E. Chamberlain could be defeated for re election to the United States senate. As al! of the members of the Judiciary com mittee were Republicans, all were in ac cord with this orthodox Republican pur pose, although half the members had doubts as to whether it would accom plish the result expected. Senator Handley openly expressed this doubt, vihich was concurred in by Senator Nor blad. Both of these senators expressed themselves as believing there would be such a popular protest against he ballot change that It would tend to make more Republican votes for Chamberlain than otherwise he would get. Yet even these two and Senators Jones and Thomas, who. with these two members, actually voted against their own committee's bill i on the floor of the senate, consented in the Interest of Republican party disci pline to let the bill be Introduced as a Judiciary committee bill the following day. The bill was hastily patched in some particulars, with the belief that the patching would make It more ac ceptable to the electorate, and without any consideration of whetner it oove tailed into all the other elections laws of the state, all the members present agreed to let it be reported in unanimously. By having It introduced as a committee bill. the delay Of having It referrea to a committee for open discussion and hear ing on its merits was entirely avoided. In the conversation about the bill, Sen ator Moser admitted that "the way had been greased" to pass the bill through both houses before there was any chance for opposition to it to make itself felt. So the bill was patched up, out :t was not Introduced until Friday noon too late for it to be printed and circulated! nn Fridav. and as events proved, too late for any printed copies to reach the session before the noon of Saturday set as the time for final legislative ad journment. Word as to the contents and purpose of the bill was given to OreRonian read ers in a hurried account at midnight Thursday. A. M. Churchill. Republican, who was at the state house Thursday night, was apprised of the existence of the bill and carried word as to its sinis ter character with him to Portland on the early train Friday morning. That noon the City club of Portland, com posed mainly of Republicans of an inde pendent turn or mind (aiinougn mciua- Ing some Democrats) passed resolutions against the measure. Many other pro tests, based on the Oregonian account and Mr. Churchill's activity, were tele graphed and mailed to the Multnomah delegation during Friday and early Sat urday. But the genesal Impression was that surely no such bill ever couia De passed. Skepticism wa9vuniversally ex pressed that In this day and age a plot could be laid to use a whole legislature to foist an archaic, discarded and dis credited form of ballot unexpectedly on the Oregon electorate and that such a plot could be executed without advance notice to the whole state or without the bill even being printed in time or re ferred to committee for hearing. While this skepticism was natural and reason ably Justified, the facts were that the "way was greased" and both houses passed the bill the senate rushing it through two readings in Jig time on Fri day and passed it Saturday, and the house repeating the performance by rushing it through three readings with out committee reference or report, later on Saturday. That "now Is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party" was the slogan of Republican leaders In both house and senate. In fact a num ber of senators and representatives had received telegrams from leading Influ ential Republicans of the state quoting the above words and mentioning the straight ballot bill. Party committee chairmen were on hand to rally the weak ones. There was every evidence of careful preparation of a campaign to in troduce and pass the bill - at the last moment before the public woke up, In the house, plans had been carefully laid to Jam the bill through In one of the rushes so it would attract little atten tion. But the plans of the Republican leaders were upset temporarily when this bill along with all the other bills yet on the clerk's desk was referred to a special committee of five members for them to report them arranged in the order of their Importance to be taken up before adjournment On this committee were the spokesmen for the opposition to the bill Eugene E. Smith and Chris Scheubel. With these two and the other three committee members retired from the room, there was an opportunity to pass the bUl without creating attention. Pat Gallagher, always alert add a quick thinker, and always a stalward Repub licn who loves to "play the game," in stantly saw the opportunity. Few mem bers caught the significance of his In tent as be moved to have S. B. 51 recalled from the special committee "in order to save time by giving the house some thing to work upon while the committee was in retirement." His motion waa car ried, as any other ordinary motion could have been in the disorder that existed, and the clerk dashed intothe committee room and brought back the bilL Be fore the committee reported, a few' min utes later, the biU was" passed. It had been passed without debate and with out many members knowing what thev were venng jkw tact. -m. number ef members Inform! the Voter later ia the Oregon Voter. . u . . : mat tney did not know it was the "straight ticket" bill they were voting on, and had been told it was an other bill. When Representative Eugene E. Smith returned from the committee session and learned of the clever trick that had been played in pulling the bill away from the committee, he demanded the floor and castigated the house for sharp practice and for the tactical party error, as he saw it, of passing this kind of legislation. He endeavored to secure a reconsideration of the vote, but the party followers were too well lined up, so the bill was passed ready to go to the governor. Wth the bill passed, the chief concern of Senator Moser as the Republican party chief was that It would be re ferended by petition. If so referended. it could not go into effect until after the November " election, in which event its main object (the hoped for defeat of Senator Chamberlain) would not be ac complished and the whole trick would have come to naught. So. with his usual resourcefulness, Senator Moser con cocted the scheme of inserting an amendment in the special election bill (H. B. 40) providing that all special session laws referended by petition should also be voted upon at the spe cial election in May instead of at the general election in November, which would be the usual course. Hie amend ment made no provision for existing law, which specified the time for filing arguments and publishing the state pamphlet, with the result that after the expiration of the 90-day period allowed by the constitution for filing referendum petitions, the days set for filing argu ments and having them Included in the official pamphlet would have passed. The two periods overlapped each other, wiUi the anticipated effect that the pe titioners referending the straight ticket bill would be deprived of the right to file an argument and have It included in the rfficlal pamphlet. Senator Moper and his party asso ciates positively gloried in this trick "What do we care If they can't file an argument so much the' better for the bill." The utmost indifference for the rights of the referendum petitioners on this bill or any other bill that might be refirended was displayed bratenly. On this amendment, inserted after midnight Saturday night and adopted by the senate, the two houses came into conflict. By that time many of the Republicans in the house had discovered the mistake they had made in voting on this bill, in that they did not know at the time that it was up for considera tion, and they wielded enough influence to induce the majority of the house to refuse to concur in this senate amend ment. A conference commlttiee was ap pointed, and by a vote of five to one actually agreed to insist on holding the Moser amendment In the bill, until the pleadings of Representative James Stew art and of friends of the university and Agricultural college convinced some of the committee members that the scandal over the straight ticket bill would be so intense that in the reaction the pros pects of the road legislation and the col lege millage would be jeopardized. This view prevailed with the majority of the conference committee, and Senator Moser receded from his Insistence on the amendment. So the election bilh was passed without the offensive clause de priving referendum petitioners of their Just rights. But their pains were in vain. As soon as Governor Olcott heard of the bill, he announced quietly that he would veto it This announcement was withheld until after the legislature had adjourned formally, for, if the Republican leaders had had wind of It while the session was still on. they might have held the session over until after the time for fil ing a veto had elapsed. Monday morn ing his decision waa given to the press. Governor Olcott deserves great credit for his courage in making this prompt decislo. as he was proceeding against the purpose of the recognized chiefs of the stalwart wing of the Republican party in Oregon and also defying the wish of National Chairman Will H. Hays, who has been advocating the strnlght ticket or was so quoted by legislators. It has been Governor Ol cott's steadfast purpose to unite the Re publican party in Oregon. By the stal warts, he has been classed as an inde pendent who has advanced politically by the favor of independents and of Demo crats Os West. Chamberlain, et el. Al though Governor Olcott has bee-' strict ly "reular" in his party allegiance, he waa under the party disadvantage of having been appointed originally to of fice by a Democrat, ex-Governor West. To overcome this disadvantage, he has In party matters endeavored to work with the old-time party- leaders. But this latest act was too much for him. Tet. in filing his veto, he realized full well that his act would endanger his stand ing with the men who put party above men or principle. He went into It with his eyes open a fact which will not be forgotten by independent voters. All the foregoing has been devoted to the history of what happened. Now about the bill Itself. It provides that names on the ballot should be listed under party headings instead of as at present, and that by marking a cross at the head of the party ticket as listed, the voter would thereby record his vote for ail the party nominees except those whom he "scratched" by voting for a nominee of another party by marking his name, or by writing In the name of an Independent In the independent col umn. In vto, the straight ticket Is simplicity itself. Any "bohunk" can vote his party ticket by simply making one mark, and his vote counts for every nominee of that party. The objection to the straight ticket is apparent. Under cover of a straight ticket vote, any yellow dog whose name U listed under his party heading will get "the fit eVvounies. those voters who remember that he is running know how to "scratch him by voting fbr an opponent. Under the present ballot, each voter must vote by name for each candidate voted for. Thus, the names of all can didates for any one office are. certain to come to the attention of the voter, so the vote for or against any one is cast de liberately and consciously. Instead of like a blanket. It was frankly admitted by party lead ers at the legislature that their pur pose was to vote "bohunks" wholesale, from road gangs and the like, by In structing each simply to mark his cross In the circle at the top of the col umn. " t There are more Republicans of inde- pendent mind in Oregon than there are strictly straight Republicans, and Re publican leaders know It if they stop to think. There couldn't be a Republican elected to any state or national office in Oregon on a strictly party vote. It Is the independents, who are more con cerned with principle and men than with party, who hold the balance of power In Orajron elections. And to outrage the cherished convictions of these indepen dent: Republicans by such legislation as waa attempted la to bid for . Republican defeat in this elate. Evidently some of our Republican party leaders yet have numerous lessons to learn. COMMENT AND . SMALL CHANGB I The weather: "Liquor Bound for rtlnd Is Seised on Train In Idaho." Headline. , If tne German ex-crown prince "settles In Mexico, that will put toe final curse on that country. Motorists without new license plates are to be arrested, report says. February 2. But why wait? A man never becomes so gVeat that his Wife is unable to see where she can make any more improvements in him. Tou must hand it to Leonard Wood for one thing, anyway. He isn't going around trying to makeanyone believe he doesn't want that little old presidential nomination. The Bolshevik! are publishing a news paper in Holland in the Russian lan guage, according to the dispatches, and we 11 say that we're happy that we're not a copy reader on that sheet. The defense in the trial of the Cen tralia murder suspects ask that an op posing attorney named Abel be removed, but if there's anything in a name he would seem to be quite Qualified to remain. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Their proceedings lighted only by candles, the Greetera met at the Im perial hotel Tuesday evening with a new set of officers presiding. G. O. Madison, new president, appointed the following board of governors for the year : J. W. Bushong, chairman, Alder hotel : Earl Stack, Benson ; C. C. James, Washington; Harry Carroll, Benson; K. W. Macafree, Congress : O. R. Stouf fer, Mullory ; Joe Herman, Portland ; Harold Olson, Hillcreet. ''The next meet ing will be held on Tuesday evening at the Multnomah hotel. Indeed, tlfose were the happy days when romance was young ! To those merry lads and misses who were con tributors to the construction and use of the little private telegraph system that connected the very firesides of lover and beloved, the pretty little Polk coun ty city of Independence will ever be a shrine of memory. Dreary winter eve nings were made happy while the old Morse code clicked Its love-laden mes sages over the wire. If you press her for a statement, Mrs. O. D. Butler will tell you that the messages that kept the Impromptu telegraph wires hot be tween the homes of favored young folk in those joyous days led "from one thing to another" until the preacher usually came out winner in the end. The memories of those youthful ro mances are so tender that it is diffi cult to get the story from any of those who were concerned. Nevertheless, once upon a time, so It Is reported, Dr. O. D. Butler, then a promising young practitioner at Independence, sent a lit tle message to a certain household the preacher won again. Which leads to the statement that Mrs. Butler Is a guest at the Hotel Portland from In dependence. Robert Hay, city passenger and ticket agent for the Canadian National rail ways at Vancouver, B. C, was a Port land visitor on Wednesday. Hay has been in California for several weeks enjoying a semi-tropical vacation and is now returning to his home. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence T. Harris of Salem are at the Imperial, where the Judge endeavors to disguise himself by omitting his title. Judge Harris is. In case the omission is a successful dis guise, an associate Justice of the state supreme court. , "Down for dinner," a perfectly accept able reason for the presence at the Benson hotel of Mrs. C. N. Ravlen of Hood River. Mrs. Ravlen returned to Hood River Wednesday night, but not until she had thoroughly enjoyed the dinner she came to Portland for. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. She! of Salem, who are accompanied by Mrs. T. L. Mllgaard of Thief River, Minn., are guests at the Benson. A mtor bus line between Portland and Astoria will bid for passenger traf fic to the mouth of the river "and its summer resorts when the travel season opens. Oregon Greeters have been ad vised. The line will be operated by C. A. Warren, who discussed hit plans IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Mor food ttoriw of Arctic trfeaauta an Vibts prentl by Mr. lyOcklT. H rc1te th moro or lew amusing sdTenturw of Gerg W. Joupb uid fundrjr partotn of his vhils tiuj were sdrenturing In Aluca once upon a tatbet trnutou tiraa. George W. Joseph of Portland Is a better lawyer than cook, if his old "sourdough" partner Is, to be believed. This is a fortunate thing, for he makes a living, and a good one. practicing law, while I am afraid he couldn't earn his salt as a cook. Judge Adams, his part ner, who was a good cook, took charge of .the commissary arrangements the first week. Bright and early the fol lowing Monday morning George as sumed the duty of cooking. He made the tea, thawed out a chunk of beans, made some bircults and fried the bacon. Then, with fear and trembling, he summoned Judge Adams to breakfast. The judge "sat in." He put some sugar li his cup of tea and tasted It critically. "Just a suggestion, my boy, if you don't mind," said the Judge. "Next time you make the tea I believe it would be well to put a little tea Into the hot water." He broke open a biscuit and, looking at Its sticky interior, said. "I have an other suggestion. If you will permit it. A. dough. the biscuits are eminently successful, but next time do you mind baking them?" He took a taste of the beans and said. "No use of our starving in the midst of plenty. Lots of food here. All it needs Is cooking. Why not cook Itf - "111 get the wood and melt the Ice. judge, if you will de Letters From the People ( Communications atot to The Journal for publication in this drpartaMnt abaold b writua en only on aid of A papw. ahould not xcd 109 words In Uncth. and most bo aifae br tba wriur. wboM mall addrea in foil onwt accom pany tba coatribution. Voting In Other States Portland. Jan. Jl.i-T the Editor of LTne Journal A few lines about the voting systems' of other states might be ef some Interest to your readers at this time. I lived many years in Missouri, near the Iowa line, and am familiar with the voting systems of both states. Iowa ha the Identical law Just passed by the legislature of Oregon. In Mis souri the "voter before entering the. vot ing booth is given a separate ballot for each party having nominees to vote for Republican. Democratic Socialist and so on. He returns to the election judges folded op the ballot he wishes to vote, and the others unfolded, aa he got them. Should he. pot want to vote fortthe can didate priuiea.on nis pauot am aa NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS The Crane Commercial club is t;k"K steps toward the Incorporation of the town- . . . "Thls'jvarm Oregon 4aln the most effective influensa remedy yet discov ered;" aptly observej the Eugene Guard. During a recent lull in Old Man win ter's proceedings the Canyon City Eagle remarked : "The thermometer has been running low all winter. A few day this week it went into intermediate. "withnut doubt Baker." asserts the t t sum receive more good ad vertlsing in Grant county from the visit of local Elks ana ooosver - other means. The meeting of Baker and Grant folks will leave an impression all which will not soon be forgotten. Let's have more such trips. Enterprise seems to be in- line with a group of Big Sisters, as per the fol lowing. In the Reporter: "Oscar Colpitis had a corn removed from his toe last week which took about all of his toe. He has been getting around on crutches but Is ready to throw them away. He says while he has been crippling around, some of the ladies broke into his house and left a pan of doughnuts and a pie and at various other times left food. with hotelmen at a meeting on Tuesday evening. Mrs. C. E. Ward and Mrs. J. F. Hen nesay. whose names often appear In the society columns of the Butte, Mont., papers, are guests at the Multnomah hotel. From Portland the visitors will go to California for a midwinter out ing. Spokane society is represented on the Multnomah register also, since Mrs. T. H. Herbert and Mrs. W. Scott Jamca are guests. Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Day are at the i Imperial. Day pleads guilty to the charge of supplying Linn county with a large proportion of ita motor cars, with gencies at Albany. Lebanon and else- F.'ni """P" t Provide irriga . . . , ti on along Ihe river below Crnt. k... All.. - - - Colonel Joseph K. Portello, U. S. A., commandant of cadets at the Oregon Agricultural college, Corvallis, is so journing briefly at the Benson hotel with Mrs. Portello. The colonel is credited with being a most effective human shower upon the youthful ambition of college men to escape military drill. Mrs. J. W. Patterson and son, to gether with Miss K. A. Hayes of Aber deen, are guests at the Multnomah hotel. Mrs. Patterson's husband Is man ager of Hayes & Hayes, bankers. In the Grays Harbor metropolis. A new tourist and shopping guide. j planned as the most comprehensive and authorltative offering of Its kind so far as Portland Is concerned. Is about to be issued by the Greeters of Oregon, repre senting the leading hotels of the city and state. Charles Schrieter, business manager of the publication, reports splendid progress with the compilation and declares the booklet will be ready for distribution by March 1. Frank Schafer, who parks his grips in the Imperial hotel lobby every once in a while. Is in the city from San Francisco. Schafr is traveling pas senger agent for the Paoiflc Steamship company. Peter Nelson, whose natural habitat is Bay City, Or., la touting Portland wholesale houses while transacting other business In the city. Nelson la registered at the Multnomah hotel. H. A. Scandrett, who, at last reports, bore distinction as assistant to the di rector of traffic for the Union Pacific system. Is sheltered at the Benson while he visits local railway offices. Under the j rinciple that one Is better late than never, W. E. Craven of the hardware firm of Craven & Hall, at In dependence, appeared on the horizon at the hardware cealers' convention Vednesday. Craven Is one of several men about Independence who would raise no objection if he possessed 1.000. 000 acres of thriving hop vines, with prices at the present high mark H. F. McCormlck, St. Helens ship builder, has signed a contract with the Hotel Benson to occupy quarters there while he keeps himself busy for a short time in Portland. Lockley r the cooking said the innl of the team. "A most exceUent sug- f?i A Dnlel com! l Judgment." said the judge. "I'm old-fashioned enough to prefer my food cooked, so hereafter I'll do the cooking." r ,t n.th tlm' wh,, mining from Little Minook up the Yukon to- Dawson, our genial friend Joseph, with two trail mates, was pulling a heavily loaded sled. It was 40 below sero. the load was heavy, the snow was as dry as sand and the tempers of the men were 8hi G.'eo wtched his teammates and finally came to the conclusion that they were loafing on the Job and that he was pulling the entire load Occa sionally the rope on the lead man would bend and the brittle ice would fly from U. The next time It was not taut George said. "Say. If that rope Isn't stiff enough to push you along you had better get on the load end ride" r.n,n 'J? turned around. Biff, his fist landed on George Jo seph's Jaw. As George started to fall, biff: came the fist of the other man on the other side of his jaw. In a mo ment there was a three cornered fight They fought till they were tired and then sat on the edge of the ice to divide up their things and go It alone, but within a minute they were all frozen to the lee. Getting loose from the Ice caused a diversion. They forgot their plan to 'ust" their partnership and getting back into the traces, they muahod on. the name of the parties he does not want to vote for and write In the names of any for whom be wishes to vote. If he cannot write, he gets one of the judges to write for him. I heard no complaint from the voters that their right as votere were- Infringed upon. Towa is a strong Republican stats and Missouri a strong Democratic state. Both have the Australian ballot system. W. A KINO. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: I don't reckon anybody really wants the kaiser to be tuck out and hung, but by keepin' up a reeve he'll stay m Holland to be safe. He makes me think of Pete Madrone. down in LaVaca county, Texas,' who got jailed fer stealhV cattle and broke out 'fore hie trial come off. The vigilantiea got after him and Pete tuck back to Jail as fast -as hoeees feet'd carry him, and was mighty glad to be there, while the vigi lantiea was mighty glad - to know , he was there and sot la active life. ' The' Oregon Country Nortbwtrt H&ppntnm in Brtf rota tor U OREGON NOTES sociluon " NaUon1 Farm Loan a5- thll 5" warJd contracts for ln V?i ,of ? nw h,h "-hool build ing at a cost of about $60 000. offhlf'8 wa,er BUPP'y has been cut clogged with mud. owing to recent rain v thr...1"? ,f """""P a reported at " ine state in vpr i . a .. . i ...... . . c Al ,jay r:oraeu weanes- A third nfiti,ii ... , be h A"rljr "regon may gati -t s-?'ne ,of a nieeUng of dele gWges. rm Ubor unlon tionbS, xlkn ma" Krm Loan as'socla m.rt. S1?1"11 has 2S members and has lMt 'thl11: """fating J70.000 In the w j ccai b. epdbThe'-S.-.egrip-h 2nOh..JFuUt?ei!l f"re' creamery, with with u'".'; h8 "'"sed to merge r,,'th. the Mutual creamery, but has de cided to remodel Its plant. Development of he 30.000 acre Lang halt'hS. dl,,r,' K,""t" county Ts ofalaC00a0 bTdue8 ' thJdl Baker hide and fur dealers have nur- chased of the Pioneer Kox farm on pixie mountain fox ,.elt at prices rang ing from $350 to 11000 a "kin. .nIrttP.0riIa'?'1 publi0 "choole have on. fh? ,l:2-3' -an 1nPr"""' ot 293 over that of the spring term last year. st.TdpehtWioHa.n,t,,e ""'"""y elated fEt ir?r1 ,n favor of he estab lishment of fraternities and sororities. The manager of the Bohemia Lumber iJVl'V'J. clam, census enumerator m . ? counted some 200 employes and tliat other camps in the county have been overlooked. ' Kuropean apple canker, called the ?.rf,i tree d'?ttHe n Europe, has been appie trees in Oregon, accord- ,to, Professor Zeller of the Oregon "smuiiurai college. Owners of lower Rogue river ranches lurmea me (irav tv D strlrf Tin. Th. . . - v ' Y ei iiacKimn eoun- t is planning a campaign to interest Ja.rm!ir.Jn ,he Kwing of amber cane. Jn addition to the svrun. the rmn nf seeds is valuable as rh . kn .nrf feed. -iTi "C S f,rin of a,""on sales mill be held at Pilot Rork February and 7 under the auspices of the newly Termed SKsoolatlon composed of farmers, stockmen and business men. All kinds w yiwyvnf win ne orrered. WASHINGTON Four thousand rabbits were killed in a drive near Burhank. Walls Walla county has 3000 head ef dairy cattle out of H total of 10,400 head of stock in the county. Takima batik rlrarlnra laat nlr 88.6 per cent greater than for the cor responding week one year ;ago. Property owners of Cowllts county will pay this year 1529.327 taxes, an In crease of $47,765 over last year. The audit of the books of Cowllts county has been begun by the state bu reau of Inspection and supervision of public offices. . One Juryman has been chosen and an other tentatively accepted in the trlsl of the accused Armistice day murderers at Chehalis. W. C. C'ordlner. pioneer cattle breed er, has hen reelected prenidcnt of the Walla Walla Valley Pure Bred Breed ers' association. i The Civic club of Centralis has in dorsed a bond issue of 172.500 for the purchase of property and erection of a new gr4de school. Beekeepers of the Inland Empire have formed an organization for the furth erance of bee culture by adopting a con stitution and by laws. A movement has been started at Spo kane with a view to the creation of a new state out of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. The Tacoma municipal water and light riant made a profit in 1819 in excess of 500.000. The profits of the light de partment were 1439,000. The National Paper Products com pany has acquired the paper mills at Port Angeles and will at once heeln the . mn.jia-iUnng ox news print paper ex- IDAHO The expenditures of the state bureau of mines during 1919 were IH.J61. The annual meeting of the Canyon county farm bureau that was postponed from Decerrtber will be held at Caldwell January 29. Watermasters will be elected Msrrh t at approximately 70 places of election designated by the state department of reclamation. Tom Watoki. a Japanese, has been ar rested on the charge of padding the payrolls of an extra gang on the Ore gon Short Line, which he has been run ning. The Republican state central commit tee will meet in Boise February 13 for the purpose of determining how and when delegates to the national conven tion shall be chosen. The new election lawe of the state have created a tangle In frying to apply their stipulations to three new coun ties in order to ascertain what repre sentation the counties shall have at the coming partisan conventions. Olden "Oregon How Vancouver, and Net Gray. Might Have Pound the Columbia. One of the few incidents which change the course of history was the meeting of Oray, the American, and Vancouver, the Englishman, off the .coast of Wash ington In 1792. Gray reported to Van couver that he believed that a large river flowed Into the ocean at 48 de grees 10 minutes north. Vancouver re ported that he had failed to find the mouth of a large liver between 4 and 47 north. After this exchange of In formation Vancouver continued north and found and entered the strait of Juan de Kuca and explored Puget sound. Gray came south and discovered and entered the Columbia river, to be fol lowed later by a part of the Vancouver expedition, which made its way as far aa where Waahougal now stands. Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places Joseph Hopklnson, a Philadelphia lawyer, wrote "Hall Columbia" to help out a young actor friend, Gilbert Fox. It waa written in 17SS. at a time wjien President Washington was having great trouble guiding the destinies of the new republic. The money was then chiefly of the paper variety, and the unrest in Europe, due to the great war between France and Kngland, and the straining of our relations with European coun tries, brought us onto the brink of war several times. The actor appealed to Hopklnson to prevent failure overtaking a proposed benefit concert by writing a song to the tune of "President March." then a popular air. He said that such a feat would put the concert "over." and the song soon biased Its way to popu larity. It was played as a compliment to Thomas A. Edison, when he entered the Grand opera house In. Paris in ISO, and until superseded "by "The . Star Spangled Banner." was played en every ship In Uncle Bern's navy javhen the aei ors were lowered at sunset . "