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GAG RULE
1VE Episcopal bishops, one Meth
odist bishop and 16 clergymen of
national prominence have made
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a public statement against the i
inew spirit of "intolerance" in Amer
ica. They protest against "proposed
'repressive legislation now before con-
!gress threatening the primary rights
J Of free speech, free press and peace
table assembly" which they declare
. vlo be "evidences of an excited mood
fyn the part of our people."
; tVThe people will rue it if they ever
fhake laws to prevent free discussion.
Wag rule is poison to a democracy.
Under the czars, free speech was
dead. Government spies kept their
ijjpars to keyholes and gendarmes pick
jpte
ted every assembly. Men were seized
Jin their reds. and,, without trial and
jeven Winoui oeing iniuniifu as iu j
the charge agafrilt them, were hurried
)ff on foot to Siberia. The fruit of j
glhe policy Is Bolshevist Russia. i
, 4i Under the kaisers, free speech was j
largely dead. It was a crime to j
'criticize the monafeh. Men were
sometimes sent to prison for so-called
infractions of Tree, speech. The fruit
Jof the repression and the system of
government that practiced it is a
ruined Germany. .
j" The' aln and sedition laws in
America killed the old Federalist
party. The "Intolerance" pointed out
y the churchmen approaches danger
ously nea" those laws. Because es
pionage was necessarily applied dur
ing the war, many, in the excited
r flood to which the conflict left us,
hink extreme repression 'must also
re practiced in peace.
Te tua thniiM Dnnlv (Ho mfi'icitma
j S& ,,v diiuuiu a'pi j vts phi uijuni'
that many men are advocating, we
would Prussianize America. If the
olonists had all believed in such
measures the Declaration of Independ
ence never would have been written.
tind we would still be the su!
ts of
Great Britain.
I A, for the agitators who ar-' pread- i
Ing propaganda through the country,
trying to poison the minds of the
inlnformed and illiterate, they are
'tibllc enemies, and deportation of
hem is highly proper. And while
that is going on the utmost effort
Should be made to bring the more
than 8,000.000 Illiterates of 10 and
over in America into schools for in
struction in the language of America.
)n free institutions of America, In the
? meaning of the ballot in America and
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n the K.oals of America. Books are
etter than bullets and bread better
pan bombs In dealing "with this un
digested foreign element which gen-
jfralissimos of industry brought here
-In hordes In order to exploit them on
"pauper! wages.
' j Nobody is more anxious for repres-
y sion of free speech than profiteers.
; ' Nobody would gloat' more over the
leuppresslon of free discussion than
,:4.hose who want an autocratic state.
, ne history of the -world is a re
:, Jhearsal of the tragedies that have be-
-fallen peoples who meekly submitted
' 3o gag rule.
Occasional coupons are still re
ceived, though too late to be counted
Jn The Journal's recent treaty poll.
One yesterday came from W. C.
jCorbine. 8S, from Ogden, Utah. It
5raa for the treaty as submitted to'
2he senate by President Wilson.
DOVT LET IT LAPSE
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P INSURANCE were not wise as a
protection ' and as an Investment
insurance companies would not
grow and prosper as they have
. done and are doing. They most have
something-to sell which is for the
best 'Interests of those who buy, or
they would go out of business.
Men owe ' it to those- dependent
Tupon them to make provision for their
future. A They owe it to themselves
ito practice "thrift'' and to save, m-
isurance does holh.- .
2 No prov'i.: ... r made by this
I country 'during, the war -was of -more
J present and future importance than
. Uhe establishment ot .war risk in-
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suranee..? It put thd pension system
on a sound business basis. " ,.- " - '.
?' Announcement is now made from
Washington that' complete arrange
ments have been made for the rein
statement of all policies, permitted
by , the holders to lapse since the
signing of the armistice. Advantage
should be taken of the new plan by
all those service men who have per
mitted their policies to lag or lapse.
It is an obligation they owe to them
selves and their dependents. Beyond
that it is good business.
In conformity with its policy ever
since C. S. Jackson became its pub
lisher. The Journal prints on this
page today the initial article In a
series descriptive of the home In
dustries of the Oregon country. By
keeping the story of our home prod
ucts constantly before the public,
the paper is convinced that a con
structive end is served. New pro
ducing factories are constantly
adde1 to the already large array,
and it is certain that these stories
of what our factories are convert
ing from raw material into finished
products that go all over the world
will be of very great interest.
HAMBY'S WARNING
"N1
EVER start doing wrong. Once
you get started in crime you
can never stop."
Such was the final warning
to boys by Gordon Fawcett Hamby,
alias Jay B. Allan, whose long trail
of bank robberies, train holdups and
murders ended at the electric chair in
Sing Sing Thursday night. Of him,
the judge who passed the sentence of
death said he was the worst criminal
' of WiOO who had come before him in
i ti is time on the bench.
"I have flunked," said Hamby, just
before going to the electric chair. He
was a college graduate, a specialist in
psychology and but 26 years old.
I Thirteen bank robberies, two train
r0rbories and many kinings WPre on
his list of performances in crime.
"Once you get started in crime, you
can never stop." A warning has come
to youth from every gallows from
whose fatal drop men have fallen.
Every criminal caught in the meshes
of the law and brought to doom, ut
ters the same warning. The story is
as old as courts and executions.
In the old school readers there was
a story of a boating party that pres
ently noticed that they were moving
gradually along In what seemed to be
a current. It carried them on and on
as the motion became more and more
perceptible. They thought it delight-
iui, aim uicir uijb miu mugiiicr vteus
out over the waters.
And on and on they wept as the
current became stronger and stronger
and their boat moved faster and faster,
And presently they began to hear
a muffled roar. Meantime they saw
that they were passing round and
round in constantly narrowing cir
cles from the center of which came
the thunder of waters, now growing
. miiner ana louaer. rneir gayety
! changed to fear and then to terror.
: They tried with their oars to pull
their boat out of the charmed circle,
but their efforts were futile against
the powerful curfent. Like Ham
by, once started within the
deadly currents of the great
maelstrom, they could not stop.
And at length the doomed boat was
drawn irresistibly to the center where
I me roar ui me waters was awiui anu
the tiny craft, poising a moment In
mid air, shot into the dizzy depths
of the horrible vortex.
With the warning of every criminal
who ever went to doom ringing in
! his ears, what boy is ready to steer
his life boat into the inexorable cur
rents of the deadly maelstrom of
crime 1
That American refiners were ex
porting sugar at 8 '4 during De
cember, that the average price to
the consumer at the same time was
14V4. and that in some cases the
profit divided up by Jobber and
retailer in some American cities
was around 100 per cent, is the
statement of the department of com
merce made public yesterday. Sena
tor Capper says there is 17.87 worth
of wool in a $100 suit of clothes,
and points to the enormous Jump In
the stock of the American Woolen
company as evidence of where a lot
of the difference goes. Why doesn't
congress order the income tax re
turns opened up to the public?
OREGON ROAD BONDS
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I'T of the total authorization of
sUtc road bonds to the amount
of fl7.819.280 there remain un
sold $7,679,280. This is their par
value, but owing to prevailing finan
cial conditions the amount to be
realized would approximate $7,400,000.
The interest rate on the unsold
bonds is 4 per cent on 12,679.280 and
4Vs per cent on $5,000,000. Owing to
the abnormal condition of the finan
ces of the world no state road bonds
have been disposed of at par. The
average price has been 93 for the
fours and 98 for the fours and a half.
The discount, however, has been part
ly regained in interest on the sales
of bonds deposited pending settle
ment of contracts.
The failure to sell bonds at par is
not a condition peculiar to Oregon. It
exists in California where this year's
nignway construction program of
spending fijOOO.OOO a month threatens
to be upset by Inability to borrow
$40,000,000 on bonds bearing 4V4 per
cent interest.
Under the California law the bonds
can not be sold at less than par. On
account of the low interest rate there
has been no market. It is now pro
posed to purchase the bonds with
slate insurance funds and sell them
at a discount in the open market.
The loss to the state insurance fund
is to be made up by legislative ap
propriation. One suggestion to save a discount
on Oregon bonds is their purchase
by home capital at par, charging the
difference in the market value to the
account of state patriotism.
GENTLEMEN WITH PULL
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NE reason for mounting automo
bile accidents, so conspicuous a
few weeks ago, is that the city
administration of traffic laws Is
not well co-ordinated.
The Journal's investigations show
that some members of the police
force are doing all in their power
to enforce the laws, and that others
are not; show that some offenders
receive punishment and others,
equally culpable, do not; show that
"pull" gets some offenders released
while others pay the penalty; show
that innumerable lapses and laxities
stand in the way of an administration
of the laws that makes all offenders
look alike to all officials, whether
patrolmen, detectives, traffic officers,
city attorneys or courts.
Nobody has been paying attention
to what was going on at the seat of
administration. Gentlemen of Influ
ence have been regularly getting
guilty persons released. It has gone
on so long without being challenged
that it has come to be regarded around
the police station as more or less
legitimate. Sometimes flimsy ex
cuses are found that seem to justify
the immunity bath for men whose
reckless driving has smashed up some
other man's car. Then there is the
gentleman of influence or position
who has been guilty of a rank viola
tion of law, but is given immunity
from punishment because he has paid
the damages.
The men at the station who are
trying to do their duty ought to
have the support of all others in the
organization whether policeman, cap
tain, city attorney, Judge or what
not. The chain can be no stronger
than its weakest link. The weak
kneed officials are a demoralization
of the entire organization. If they
persist in being weak kneed they
ought to be weeded out.
Whenever they are once weeded out
and it is made perfectly clear that
gentlemen of influence need not apply
a lot of drivers now reckless will
suddenly become more careful.
Until it is done, there will be de
moralization in the administration of
traffic laws.
It is Venus and not Mars that
is attempting to call the earth by
wireless, according to the director
of the Smithsonian observatory. It
must be springtime where the pro
fessor is.
KEEP THE COPRA
HEN the Kaola company was
organized In Portland several
years ago for the conversion of
copra Into cocoanut oil and its
by-products it faced a hard struggle.
The organizers of the company
were entering a new field, so far as
local experience went, and investors
were cautious. But the company
was put upon its feet and demon
strated the foresight of those who
had stood sponsor for it.
Time passed and the Palmolive com
pany, whose field of endeavor reaches
even beyond the boundaries of this
country, saw the opportunity here
and bought the local concern. Now,
the local plant destroyed by fire, the
Eastern managers of the parent or
ganization will rebuild at Oakland.
They may do so if they will, but
the opportunity will yet remain with
Portland, limited only by the ability
to bring the raw material here for
the demand for the finished products
far outruns the supply.
The local business men who met
at the call of President Van Duzer
of the Chamber of Commerce to put
themselves behind the replacement of
the local industry gathered on a con
structive errand. They have started
on a right path for the upbuilding of
Portland, as a city and as a center
of trade and industry. They are de
serving of universal and active sup
port, personal, moral and fjnancial.
Such endeavor backed by such sup
port will lead Portland on towards
supremacy.
It may be Just as well that the
proposal to give the head of the
air service a seat in the president's
cabinet was rejected by congress.
The cabinet is up' in the air often
enough as it is. :
APPROPRIATE CASING
T
HE war has taught us many things
we never knew before, and to do
many things we never did before.
We used to suspect, those who
were married, at least, even before
the horrors of war came upon us, that
the dear partners of our joys and sor
rows were potential high explosives.
We, some of us. had seen them blow
up upon sufficient provocation and
occasion, and we had learned, some
of us, that safety lay In cautious and
careful association.
But it remained for the war to teach
us to bundle them in cartridge cloth
used by the ordnance department "to
hold the explosive charges used in
firing heavy artillery." That Is what
they are doing in New York.
Of course it is Immaterial that
cartridge cloth is woven of pure silk
The point is that years of scientific
Investigation by the army ordnance
experts have proven tt to be the best
and safest container of those tern
peramental compounds continually
fretting to unleash their potential
forces of destruction at the slightest
excuse. It is also interesting to note
that up to; date 102388; yards of
cartridge" cloth have been sold" to
drape , the feminine .form divine. -
So far as has been reported, how
ever, all oLthlft Has' been used to In
sulate the ladies of the Eastern states.
None f has come westward with the
star of empire. Our precious charges
are yet uncased In accordance with
army regulations. We tread with
caution.
FOR A BIGGER
AND BETTER
PORTLAND
Local Enterprise Solves the Problem
of Saving Valuable By-Products
of Douglas Fir.
Turpentining Douglas fir is a new
Industry. The first plant equipped for
extracting: turpentine, rosin and other
products from, the pitch of the fir tree
was recently installed and is now in
operation in the building at 368 East
Ninth street north, formerly occupied
by the Portland Rubber mills.
The process used In extracting and
refining turpentine from fir pitch is
similar to that employed In refining
petroleum. Four stills are In operation
at the new plant, with an aggregate
capacity of 4000 gallons of pitch dally.
At present the plant is handling 1200
gallons dally and producing 700 gal
lons of turpentine.
Rosin of the finest quality Tuns from
40 to 60 per cent in weight td the raw
product. Other important by-products
are Douglas fir oil, used extensively
for medicinal purposes ; rosin oil, used
in the manufacture of soap : gear grease
and beH dressing. There is practically
no waste material, the final residue en
tering into the manufacture of belt
dressing.
The plant is owned by the Northwest
Turpentine company. Incorporated un
der the laws of Oregon with a capital
stock of $10,000. Officers of the con
cern are W. B. Roberson, president : II.
A. Ballin. vice president; H. V. Meath
ers. secretary and general manager.
Officials of the company announce that
the capital stock will be increased to
100.000 and the plant" enlarged at an
early date.
Pitch is shipped to the refinery from
points in Oregon, Washington and Brit
ish Columbia. It is secured by tapping
the trees and is shipped In barrels which
are afterward returned to the woods for
refilling. Yellow fir is the chief source
of supply, though red fir and larch are
depended upon to a considerable extent.
Trees selected for tapping are rarely
less than three feet in diameter and
wind shaken trees are preferred to those
growing in sheltered spots. An auger
is used in tapping and the bore runs to
the heart of the tree. The amount of
pitch taken from the tree varies with
the species, soil conditions and the sea
son. According to Meathers, 30 gal
lons of pitch was drawn from a large
fir tree near Eugene in three hours, the
bore being made In the autumn. A
better flow may be had during the
summer months than at any other
season.
After the flow of pitch has ceased the
hole is stopped with a wooden plug
shorn off flush with the bark. Trees
may be tapped each season, though bet
ter results are had if two years elapse
between tappings. Cuttings from trees
tapped for pitch in the manner described
show no deterioration in the fibre of
the wood and In trees tapped several
years ago the bore is filled with har
dened pitch and the plug covered with
bark and new wood.
The company has secured pitch rights
on approximately 200.000 acres of tim
ber land in Lane. Douglas. Polk. Yam
hill and Benton counties and is rapidly
extending Its leases, with a probability
of securing over 2,000,000 acres. For
the privilege of tapping trees in forest
reserves the company pays the govern
ment 1 cent a gallon for the pitch se
cured. Employes of the company working In
the woods are required to take special
precautions against fire and must act
under direction of officials of the for
est servics in fighting fires, whether the
blase originates on leased land or on
adjoining tracts within one mile from
the company's holdings.
According to T. T. Munger, forest ex
aminer of the United States forest serv
ice, the removal of pitch from the trees
does not retard their growth or cause
deterioration in the quality of the tim
ber. On the contrary, he states that
where the pitch is drawn a few months
In advance of logging operations a bet
ter quality of lumber is secured and
mill operato.-s have less difficulty In
cutting the logs.
Lumbermen and owners of timberland
are maktng a close study of the effects
of tapping on fir trees, according to
Fresident Roberson of the Northwest
company, and are practically unani
mous in their cooperation with the new
enterprise. The price paid for the pitch
at the plant runs from 30 to 40 cents
a gallon and men working In the woods
are able to make the average wage paid
skilled operatives in the logging camps.
The market for turpentine on the
Pacific coast will absorb about 1000
gallons daily, according to Meathers,
and the demand is constantly increas
ing. The quality of Oregon pitch is
superior to that produced in any other
part of the world, he avers, and the
medicinal properties of the oils extract
ed are unequaled.
Turpentine and other products of
Douglas fir pitch are successfully placed
in competition with similar products
from other sections of the country in
the Eastern market and there is a
constantly increasing demand from for
eign countries. Officials of the com
pany announce a recent tender of an
order for 1,000.000 gallons of turpentine
from China, and large orders have been
Voffered from other parts of the Orient
Turpentining Douglas fir has been un
dertaken In a small way by other con
cerns in the past, but the Northwest
Turpentine company is the first to meet
with any great measure of success. A
still for extracting turpentine from
pitch was operated for several years by
a man locally known as "Huckleberrv
Finn," on the McKenzie river about 25
miles east of Eugene, and more recently
a plant was established at Llnnton for
taking turpentine from sawdust and
other mill refuse, but these operations
have not attained commercial success.
rue Northwest Pitch company plans
to establish auxiliary plants and is
making Investigations with a view of
entering upon the destructive distilla
tion of waste materials in logged-over
areas. A wide field of operations opens
to the new enterprise and it gives every
promise of success.
What It Takes to Get
Biddy on the Job
Demonstration Furrdsbed. In a. Tour
In Clackamas County.-
With Grant Dlmick of Oregon City In
his powerful Jordan car, a Journal re
porter recently made a trip of inspec
tion of the roads In the Vicinity of Ore
gon City. Clackamas county is under
taking an extensive road program and
there are but few of the residents of
the county who are not in hearty -sympathy
with taking the county out of the
mud .and giving those ; who travelauid
that includes most of us good ' high
ways on mhich to do our traveling..:: The
taxpayer have found that good roads
not only mean Increased land - values,
but that a rood road means they can
get to market with greater ease and
comfort with a larger load at less cost,
thus, by decreasing; the cost of trans
portation, increasing the profit on. their
prod acta.
While our speedy and comfortable
Jordan sped over the rolling, hills we
could not help noticing on every hand
the new buildings and the fine type of
cows, hogs, sheep and chickens on the
farms, sure index of prosperity of the
farmers, atid equally sure guarantee of
increased Income for the future. For
Clackamas county farmers have proved
to their satisfaction that pureblood
stock pays larger dividends In cash as
well aa in satisfaction than scrub stock.
Mny of the farmers throughout the
Beaver Creek district are from Wales.
They are hard workers, who use their
heads as well as their muscles, and as
a consequence they are prosperous. We
stopped for a brief visit at the Hughes
ranch, near Beaver creek. Mf. Hughes
has nine acres and 7S0 White Leghorns
of the Walter Hogan strain. With Mr.
and Mrs. Hughes we went through the
various chicken houses.
"We have 230 pullets in this flock,"
said Mrs. Hughes, "and we gather from
110 to 120 eircs a day. We feed them
plenty of kale, carrots and sugar beets'
and scatter mixed chopped corn, wheat
and oats in their litter. We give them
plenty of grit, charcoal, oil meal and
broken oyster shell. We will bring off
about 1700 chicks for our own use in
March and will hatch about 3000 to sell
as day-old chicks."
As we went over the place Judge
Dimlck explained how necessary it was
to feed sprouted oats and other green
feed, and how a flock of hens was Just
like a manufacturing plant.
"To get their product, eggs, in pay
ing quantities," said Judge Dimlck, "you
must make UBe of the right quantity and
quality of raw materials. An egg con
sists of 65.7 per cent water, 11.4 per
cent protein. 12.2 per cent ash, 8.9 per
cent fat and 1.8 per cent lime. Conse
quently, if you do not furnish the hen
plenty of clean water your egg produc
tion will go down. If you don't give
her lime or oyster shell, preferably both,
she can't manufacture the shell of her
egg. She needs green feed kale, sugar
beets or carrots ground bone, sands
and grain to manufacture her product.
She needs to be dry and comfortable
and not to be worried or made ner
vous. You can't let hens eat wheat and
roost In the trees and expect to succeed
in the chicken business. When they are
moulting you should give them Iron, oil
meal and sunflower seeds so as to help
them grow the 8000 feathers the average
hen wears. The sooner her feathers are
replaced the sooner she wUl commence
laying again. When your hen Is 2Vt
years old take her to the butcher shop,
for from then on she becomes a star
boarder and consumes more in value
than she produces.
"Scores of men here in Clackamas
county who look at chicken raising in
the light of a legitimate industry and
not as a side Issue to something else
are making a good living at it and we
hope to perfect an association of chicken
raisers and standarlze our product so
that when the housewife in Portland or
in New York city buys a Clackamas
egg she knows that It will be rresn ana
has been produced In clean ana sanitary
surroundings. There is a big rulure to
the chicken raising industry."
Letters From the People
Communications nt to The Journal for
publication in this department fbould be written
on only one side of the paper, should not excetd
800 wort in lencth. and must be signed by the
writer, utiow mail address in full must accom
pany the contribution. 1
Let Presidential Candidates Define
Portland, Jan. 29. To the Editor of
The Journal Tour editorial of January
28 on "The "Drift to Hoover" suggests
the Idea which is capable of much fur
ther development It is that every can
didate who permits his name to come
before the people as an ostensible can
didate for president, senator or congress
man must define his position toward
certain concrete lines of national policy
for which he is willing to work and vote
if elected or to go down to defeat if
must be. These governmental and eco
nomic principles for which he stands
should be known before the primaries
and held up for the knowledge and criti
cism of thw voters at all times.
These times are too critical in the
history of the world and the influence
over future events which the United
States must maintain, to permit of any
other procure: The protective cn-
didate may enlist under any party ban
ner he chooses. He may begin nis aec-
laration of principles with his party s
slogan. Party lines at this moment ( the mldnjgnt BUn said E. 11. Collis of
have been so gerrymandered that they portiand to me recently. "It was love
remind me of the precinct boundaries : of adVenture that made men answer the
between which I lived in Chicago. We : oa, of xorth. There was adventure
will naturally expect every candidate there in plenty adventure, and tragedy,
to make a declaration of his 100 per j too
cent Americanism, as a matter of course, j -jn 1901 three men from Teller went
But this is the day of the Independent j out to prospect a claim on Clara creek,
voter who wants to "get a run for his : That district lies Just across the water
money." And I say this in all serious- 1 shed on the slope toward the Arctic
ness. My meaning is plain. ocean. They stayed till their grub ran
If -ither of the leading parties out- I out, and then started on a forced march
lines a program sufficiently in detail to ! for Teller. They were caught In a blii
satisfy the demands of the hour, so much j sard and. trying to make their way
,v. n iitar Tf net the inde nendent vot- through the blinding storm, they be
ers who want certain things accom-I came confused and soon lost their bear
phshed by our next national leader and ings. When the storm was over the
Sre'ntatives in congress must pre- soft snow lay in dr ift. 0 ee deep In
nare them. No "candidate snouja oe
pare mem. ... .
given a single vote wno w 11 not qua iiy
iioo-Pfltinnn ronia na nerein.
aiu ii 1 e o "-a
JAMES J. SAYER.
Recommends Hot Water for Flu
Portland, Jan. 28! To the Editor of
The Journal Any person having symp
toms of flu. grip, cold, rheumatism, ty
phoid, pneumonia and kindred diseases,
who will drink a pint of hot water every
hour while such symptoms abide will
never have fatal results. Every per
son should drink a quart of hot water
every morning before breakfast.
ONE WHO HAS BEEN BENEFITED.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
That the bedbug has the peculiarity
of being able to live a whole year with
out sustenance Is a statement made re
cently by H. B. Weston, an entomolo
gist. Mr. Weston declared that investi
gators had kept bedbugs In tubes for 12
months, at the end of which time the
bugs were "hale and hearty."
Mr. Weston said he had kept a bug
for six months and he was still alive.
He also pointed out that a bug can't
be frozen out, and Incidentally related
how he had kept one in an outside shed
lor severaF days in temperature De
low sero, and how ' it soon Recovered
from the comatose condition in which
he found It, when , h removed It to
warmer quarters. v
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The Texas legislature one time passed
a law that anybody offerin" a chaw of
terbacker to a lady'd be sent to the pen
fer two year. The supreme court de
cided that it was sumptuary legislation,
or somethin' like that, and that any
lady had a right to take a chaw or let
It oasn. list as she chose, accordin' to
the fourteenth amendment of the con
stitution of the United States. Which
shows that a supreme court is useful
oncet in a while to weed out fool laws.
Our own Oregon supreme court works
overtime at tne job after ever' session.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE -
Ko matter If the irrand opera company
wilt soon be on its way, we still have
with ua the old reliable talking machine
records :,r. ;
The 2-year-old baby lit " Kansas who
climbed a ladder to ive tha surrounding
landscape the "once over," bids fair to
get up in the old world.
A news Item says a man who has lost
his memory may have lived here. But
surely no man who ever lived here
would ever forget such a delightful ex
perience. A man who tried a second time to
jump into the Willamette was arrested.
Tha police probably want to break him
of something that threatened to become
a habit.
Ole Svehang, master of a concrete
barge in trouble on the ocean off As
toria, refused to desert the ship, but
stayed with it until he could make port
again. Svehang evidently believes in
hanging on.
Always modest and unassuming him
self. Colonel Clark Wood of the Wes
ton Leader hands it to his fellow
townsmen Just like this : "This burg
may not show ud so high in the census
statistics, but insofar as the quality of
lb i:iLiraiiaiiip ues n litis ew iora
looking like a nest of Malay pirates."
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
The beautiful Mount Adama country
will be opened to the motorist and out
ing party in a more satisfactory way
than ever when the . new road being
built between Guler and Mount Adams
is completed. This is the opinion of
J. M. Mann, forest ranger of Guler. who
is at the Portland office of the forest
service. The present road enables mo
torists to reach the snow line, Mann
says, but the travel is difficult because
of the roughness of the highway. Mount
Adams and Its surroundings are con
stantly Increasing their popularity be
cause of the combination of scenic
charm, good" fishing and good accom
modations. Professor Dexter S. Kimball, dean of
the schools of engineering at Cornell
mil versll' is a guest at the Multnomah
while visiting with Cornell alumni, at
whose annual dinner he was a speaker.
Lilian Tingle, who, as head of the de
partment of household arts at the Uni
versity of Oregon, is teaching Oregon's
future housewives how to boil water,'
Is at the Seward. She is accompanied
by Antoinette Shumway of the univer
sity staff.
F. Klevenhusen. president of the Columbia-Northern
Packing company, one
of the big salmon packing firms in the
Northwest, is at the Oregon from Al
toona. Wash., the home of his plant.
With him are J. G. Bjorge and Mrs.
Bjorge, the former manager of the
Altoona cannery
En route to their home at Pendleton
after an outing In California, Mrs. J. E.
Peringer and her son, C. C. Peringer,
are at the Benson today. Mrs. Perin
ger's husband, then an Important wheat
rancher In Umatilla county, was killed
by the Claremont tavern bandits in
Portland some months ago.
Salem women find particular delight
in doing their shopping in groups and
coming to Portland for that purpose
occasionally. At the Benson from Sa
lem are Mrs. T. H. Galloway, Mrs.
Frank G. Myers and Mrs. Walter Kirk.
W. O. Parker, who pleads guilty to
the charge of selling Oregon furniture
to Washington customers at his store
In Tacoma, is a guest at the Multnomah.
Which reminds those close to the furni
ture trade that an unprecedented de
mand upon furniture manufacturers is
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
A terrible tale of famine and ore. in tha
Far North. Mr. 1-orklcjr today recite. Alon
with it goee a .to ft of heroiFm so sublime that
it is scarcely disparaged by tne gruesome (ami
i that falls u,on it at Ua.,
'It wasn't altogether the lure of the
yellow metal it wasn't altogether money
madneS8that drew men to the land of
i --
i k ihnnih 4t itra feathers A thaw
, . " -w! hsm. wa-
i v..
tery slush. For days they wandered on.
wading waist deep in soggy, siusny
snow.
Two of the men. Dean and Hastings.
were Engllshmep. both over 60 years of
age. me tmra man. 1 inorr,
35. was a German. They ate willow
buds and moss. After 10 days of star
vation and exposure Dean became insane
and refused to walk. Hastings was too
weak to carry him. so Thierry carried
him on his back. They came to a stream
running bank full. It was 100 yards or
so across. Hastings gave out and ad
vised Thierry to go on and save him
helf. Thierry refused to desert his part
ners. Thierry was strong enough to
swim the stream but was unable to get
his partners across, so he walked up
stream more than 20 miles oefore the
stream was shallow enough to wade. It
took him a week or more to make this
distance, as he had to carry both men.
He would carry Dean a lttUe way, lay
him down, and go back and get Hast
ings and carry him to where he had left
Dean.
"Twenty-one days after starting, dur
ing which time they had eaten nothing
but willow buds and mosa, they came to
the Agrapuk river. It was too deep and
wide to cross. Thierry found a deserted
Eskimo igloo into which he put his two
partners. ...
"Isn't It strange how the vital flame
will flicker long after it should have ex
The Teacher's Pay
From the Carlton Sentinel.
The teachers of the state will have
the support of all cltixens who are alive
to the needs of the country In their
campaign for higher wages. No right
thinking people want teachers la their
schools who are Socialists and raicals,
for the reason that It would Imperil the
nation's safety to have the minds of the
youth of the land made the repos'tories
of vicious BolshevisUc doctrines. But
to force teachers to fight against the
cost of living today with such slight
support as they are getting In the way
of financial remuneration can not but
NEWS IN BRIEF ;
. SIDELIGHTS
'In Its notice of -a local county Judge
candidacy the ' Canyon City Eagle in
cludes this: "Lan Birge says he has
done his bit for the development of
Grant county. When he was active and
In the game he built 10 houses and
barns, nine county bridges and five pri
vate bridges. ...
Of the newly established six times" a
week mail service out of Baker to Here
ford and Unity, the Democrat says:
"This service will give the people of the
Rnrat wivr auction sDlendid mail facili
ties, a great Improvement over the thrice
.....1,1,, urv4r Kt tha S. V. railway to
Whitney and thence- by stage to Unity
and Hereford."
Troubles of a newspaper publisher, as
per the Enterprise Reporter : "The Re
porter is preparing to enlarge but finds
that printer's material is as hard to get
as many other kinds of material. It s
send to Chicago or some other fc-astern
city for everything. "And when you pay
the price asked it takes a long time to
get the material."
"If there is nothing else before the
people, we would like." says the La
Grande Observer, "to hear from a few
more regarding the proposed city water
improvement. For just as sure as there
is snow on the ground now. there will
be warm weather and a short water
supply In July. There is no other way
to figure It, and now is the time to
discuss all plans."
just now in evidence. Some factories,
as a matter of fact, are unable to ac
commodate any new business and are
only apportioning their output to cus
tomers of long standing. Production Is
not nearly keeping up with demand, it
is said.
Caotaln and Mrs. E. T. Jones have !
Joined the military colony quartered at
the Multnomah, having taken apart- j
merits there permanently upon their ar- i
rival from Camp Iewis. The uniform ,
in still much in
Multnomah lobby.
evidence about the
.
W. C. Burcoff. Mill City merchant. ;
is makinr the Oregon his headquarters
while he transacts business in the city
and. Incidentally, while he looked In on
the closing session of jhe hardware
dealers' convention Friday.
.
The Rev. M. M. Jones, superintendent
of a Washington district of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, with headquar
ters at Walla Walla, is at the Multno
mah. Dr. Jones attended the meeting
of district superintendents and was on
hand for the temperance meeting at the
First Methodist church Friday night,
e a a
President William Jasper Kerr of the
Oregon Agricultural college and Dean
J. A. Bexell of the school of commerce
at the state college had a heart to heart
confab in the former's apartment at
the Imperial when the dean called on
the president Friday. Others registered
at the Imperial from Corvallis on Fri
day were Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Locke and
Frank H. Shepherd.
a
Folks around the New Perkins lobby,
ever alert when Oregon's charms are
discussed, believe that G. Olafson of
Brown, Manitoba. Is keeping his weath
ei eye open for a likely place to settle
In Oregon.
a
Dr. Thomas C. Ohmart. well known
Pendleton resident, is a guest for a few
days at the Multnomah.
a a a
Standardized trail signs for use of
all the national forests in Oregon and
Washington will be adopted by the for
est service, this summer, the sign to
be of white ivory with letters of green.
Forest Examiner M. L. Merritt, tn
charge of trail work. Is impressing upon
his supervisors and rangers the import
ance of putting up numerous signs along
the forest trails for the guidance of
hikers and horsemen.
pired? Isn't It strange how tenacious
is the hold of some men on life? Hast
ings became unconscious but seemed
unable to die. Dean, who was insane,
wandered around the igloo, muttering
and seeing things that did not exist.
Thierry found a body on the beach
wrapped in canvas. He made the frame
of a boat out of willows and covered it
with this canvas. The canvas was so
rotten you could poke your finger
through It. When Thierry launched his
canvas canoe It sank. Then he made a
raft of willows, but it would not support
his weight.
"Dean lapsed into a stupor. One night
he recovered his reason and, calling
Thierry to his side, gave him a message
to his wife, at Canton, Ohio. He thyn
said. "I can live but a few days. Do
me a favor. Kill me and eat my flesh.
It may keep Hastings and you alive
till help comes," Thierry refused. Next
morning when he spoke to Dean he
did not answer. He was dead. Thierry
cut the flesh from Dean's leg from
thigh to knee and made soup to feed
Hastings.
"Two of our boys. Woods and Rich,
happened to land with their boat on tne
shore near the mouth of the Agrapuk
river. Thierry cried to them In such a
hoarse and terrible voice that they de
cided he was a crazy native, so they pre
pared to launch their boat and beat tt.
He staggered toward them and said,
'For God's sake, help us." One of the
boys said. 'Why. that scare crow is a
white man. They went back and helped
him up. He pointed to the loo and
told them to get his partner. They car
ried Hastings to their boat. They also
brought Dean, or what was left of him.
Thierry and Hastings had been eating
stew made of Dean's flesh. They were
both crazy and thought Dean had come
back to reproach them for eating him.
. . .
"Hastings and Thierry had lived 15
days In the Igloo. They had been with
out food for 36 days with the excep
tion of willow buds and moss, and, dur
ing the laajt day or two. the soup and
stew made from their partner's flesh. I
never saw such emaciation in my life.
It took us weeks to get them so thsy
could travel. We all chipped In and
raised money to send "them outside. We
paid for a ticket for them to Seattle and
gave them enough money to get home.
Hastings went to Southern California,
while Thierry went East.
"No, the claim they, prospected on
Clara creek was of no value,"
make hundreds of them lenient toward
Socialism and radicalism, if not actually
to encourage and promulgate it. We do
not want that, and we should therefore
prepare to pay the public school teacher
a Just, living wage.
A Problem In Penology
Prom the Philadelphia tuning Ledger.
Twelve Alabama farmers, having fin
ished their harvesting, surrendered
themselves at the Jail in Anniston, in
accordance with. an agreement with the
court, to serve sentence , for - maktng
moonshine whiskey. J Which cause one
to wonder Just what good purpose is
served by Jailing such men.
The Oregon Country I
NorUmaat Happenlnc in Brlaf Tatm tat um
OREGON NOTES -rJVunTn'T
fJu cw have been
S.PorlUnd' ffiaK'n the to
Home made beer caused the arrest of '
eTghtuam. Bend- The PO"c foUn
,Th,?ifim.5a".e of 'nfluenia l, reported
at Klamath Falls, strict quarantine
measures have been taken.
Tom R. Graham, chief of the Corvallls
fire department, has been made drill
master of the Portland fire department.
A sale of 68.000.000 feet of timber in H
trie Santiam national forest east of Al-
service '"ad b ,he tom
All the records of Alpha school dis
trict In Une county have luen destroyed
by a fire which burned the home of
George A. Ai-heson.
W. C Hanliiin has been elected presi
dent of the Kosebui'K Chamber ot Com
merce. The chamber will attempt lo
secure an aviation field.
Some 20 lira valley fannars In
Sherman county have formed :1 club
for the purpose of keepmB cost records
in the product ion of wheat. i
The Y. W. C. a. win establish n per- "
manont home at The Dalles, and a
location Is being soucht it win i,.
a noon day cafeteria for working glrln.
Quarantine regulations against the
-u ,,are brinK rigorously observed at
VVallowa. Schools, churches and plctuia
shows are closed and all public gather
ings prohibited.
The Eugene Chamber of Commerce
has indorsed the mlllase bill for tha
support of the University of Oregon and
the Oregon Agricultural college to be
voted on next May
,J?irBe8 and cat,,e ,0 ih number of
1020 and 16,700 shoep will graze this
summer in thp Cascade national forest.
All hut 600 of the sheep will bo located -In
Deschutes county.
George Bauer, an employe of the Kay
woolen mills, luis been arrested on the
cnarge of sending nliw-ene literature
through the mails to his wife in i-un-H
from whom he had separated,
State Representative Scheubel of
Clackamas county has initiated a bill
providing for a salaried highway coin-
" '"i-ee who shall be paid
J.tbOO and traveling expenses.
Daniel K. McBrtde. convicted of oh.
taming money under false pretenses by
""'IcUIng funds lu the uniform of the
Solvation Army, has been sentenced at
naiem to zu days in the county iatl.
W. Simmons of Cottage Grove sus
tained a double ftactgre of the leg when
he became entangled with a sprocket
wheel of the sawdust conveyor at the
Western Lumber and Kxport company's
mill.
WASHINGTON
A Palm Hcach party was staged last
Tuesday by the Klks' lodge of Raymond.
Fire losses in Aberdeen last year
amounted to $441,000. the heaviest loss
in years.
Fire losses at Walla Walla last year
were $4fi.fi4S. of which 3H,12 was cov
ered by insurance.
A shortage of water for irrigation '
purposes threatens in the Yaktma valley
uniess more snow rails in Uie moun
tains. Sales of Red Cross Christmas seals in
the Centralia district exceeded the quota
by nearly $200. The sales totalled :
$518.86.
All but 16 of the 44 Poland China hogs
auctioned at the state fair grounds at
Yakima were purchased by Yakima
breeders.
Charles Redmond, commissioner of
police in Dublin who was killed re
cently, was a nephew of Mrs. M. H.
Stelnborn of Centralia.
The Indian appropriation hill which
has passed the senate carries an ap
propriation of $300,000 for continuing
work on the Wapato project In the
Yakima valley.
At a reception given newly elected of
ficials of Klma the needs of the town '
were discussed and assurance given ill
officials that they would be backed up -
in all constructive measures.
The planting of additional berry acre
age and the contracting of acreage
alreadp lanted to canneries is urged by
Theodpre Albert, district horticultural
agent for Lewis county, rather than tha
building of a new cannery.
The Toledo council Is preparing to
collect from a new source of revenue.
A clause In the town's telephone fran
chise provides for a payment of 2 per
cent to the town on the annual gross
earnings oftthe company.
City Engineer Shiner of Wenatche
has filed a protest against a probable
60 per cent increase of gas rate, and
a hearing win te neia ry toe state
public service commission February 1J.
The Elks of Chehalis are contemplate
ing the building of a $100,000 temple.
The lodge has now a membership of
approximately 500.
IDAHO
A unique ceremony was held at Bolsa
when Rev. Rrank Hale Touret was In
stalled as Episcopal bishop of Idaho.
Mrs. Lizzie Hurd died 0 menthol
poisoning. Death is believed to have
been caused by an overdose of cough
medicine.
Application of the Northwest Light aV
Water company to the state utilities
commission to raise rates has brought a
storm of protests from Wallace resi
dents. The snowfall for December was much
greater than for the same month last
year. Forest supervisors say water
content Is exceptionally high, assuring
plenty of water for irrigation this sum
mer. The Commercial club of Lewiston has
passed a resolution urging the commis
sioners of Whitman county, Washing
ton, to complete the road from the Idaho
line down the north bank of the Snake
river.
GENERAL
Soviet Russia is being devastated by
typhus. There are said to be at least
2,000,000 cases.
Los Angeles retail produce dealers are
making a profit of 60 per cent on po
tatoes. Spotted fever is making Increased
ravages in Galicia. Out of 100,000 eases
"10,001 deaths have resulted.
Energetic steps by the Italian gov
ernment, and the adverse attitude of
public sentiment, are breaking therall
w ay strike.
Chicago school teachers, who appealed
for a raise In wages of 60 per cent will
receive a blanket raise of $400 to $500
a year.
An entire army of 10,000 men In
Ukrania Is stricken with typhus, and
30,000 men in the East Gallclan army
arc in an almost equally bad plight. '
Wives and children of the radical
aliens sent to Russia on the army trans
port Buford may be passengers on the
first th'p to leave the United States for
sovl t Russia, since the lifting of the
blockade of that country
Olden Oregon
How All New Discovered Lands Once
Fell to Two Nations.
Owing to conflicting claims of Port-
gal and Spain for ownership of the new
world, which was being discovered late
in the fifteenth century. Pope Alexander
VI in 1493 issued a bull giving the Span
iards all the region west of a line drawn
from north to south 100 leagues west of
the Azores and to. the Portuguese all
lying to the east of that line. The
boundary line, known aa the line of de- '
marcation, corresponded to the fiftieth
degree of longitude west of Greenwich.
Under this division Spain had authority
over the western coast of JCorth America,
including the Oregon coasf. Its domln
ion was observed until; HIT, whea Fran
cis Drake, following hla raid on tha
Spanish main, entered the Pacific ocean
from the south and coasted along Call- '
fomla and Oregon, claiming the land for
bis sovereign-