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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21; 1920. ; AW PTDEPEWPPrf KtWSfAMB a ft. JCa02. .......... ...... .FobllabeT IB Mis. be einJit."b cbrf Jo 0iothwMymwool4 haw ibsss 4a sstoyoe-l rsMfchtcl w wa nar and Sawtay "J1"' at Th Journal BaUdlng. Broadway aaa H bill atreet. rorUod. Onm. to tared si Um roatofnewat Poctlaad. Ofon, elats mt ttsr. TELEPHONES Main 7178, "e ".i; U doparwsf reached by U uDre. VOREUJ ADVERTISING EpBESESTATlVE Benjamin A Kentnor : . Too iiaJJ.r. Iff rifth A out. Kw Tort j nura BuilaUut, C&ieafo. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Bj carrier, city or country. PAILT AND SfNDAT Oa, WMk .lOn month -6S One NV I .lOfOiw week Ooo month ..... 4& . By atlL All ratea pybl " Jic. - DAILT AND BUNDAT On. tm M-OKlTlire months 12 2 6lx Booths 4.25n Montb DA n.T I srDY (Without Sunday) (Only) On yar S.00Oim. yr . . .1 00 Bit month -ajSl month....... 1.6 Tores fconthi. .. . l.TSTlirf month! 100 Oua moots 0U (Eton Wsdnwdty) I SUN DAT On. ymf 11.00 On year $3.80 But mootlii. l Theae rata apply only n tha Wet. n.ta bitarn noint furulaiied on applica tion. Mak railttAnca by Money Order. k.ipr OrcUr. or Drft ; if yonr PwtoffW ii not a Uoiiay Ordr Offlro, 1 or 2-ont lUmpi aoeaptad. Make ill ramltUncaa payabla to IM Journal. Portland. Oregon. Ilia y$ are upon tl T "? mn. and Ha mcUi ill Iiis going. Job xaiit. 21. WHEN IS A SENATOR? SENATOft FALL or New Mexico re cently testified before a senate committeo investigating Mexican affairs that lie i Hie owner of ij,000 worth of slock in the Sierra Mining Company Limited, the mines of willed nv located in Mexico. Senator Fill is a fiery advocate of American intf renti(Tn in M-wieo. li sought through an agent to arrange a clandestine meeting with Villa about the tftr: Pershing, for the American giernmenl was seeking the outlaw. Whenever there is op portunity to wave the flag and howl Pia rtj j i ri , f i 1 1 1 1 fit t noniii'iii iiitjinnutij with his lungs in full function. all and his ownership of slock in 1 Sierra Mining Company Limited, an episode. The mining stock is .ip 'of his business ventures, lie inust have calculated on the unsettled stale of Mexican life and affairs be fore he put his money into the scheme. Hut he decided to make the pj tinge, lie was willing to gamble. The question is. just how far is the 'United States under (obligation, with American boys and American money, to make the senator's invest ments good?- It is readily under standable why the senator paws on the senate floor and howl.? out his contention that his property in Mex ico be protected at the expense of the American people. That if good business for Senator Fall. Rut is it good business for I'ncle S;i:n to spend several hundred millions dollars and sacrifice many American lives in armed intervention to make safe Sen ator Fnlt's 175,000 worth or stock in the Sierra Mining Company Limited. Then there is another question: Is . it a senator's duty, above all things else, to work in the senate for the welfare of all America, or for the welfare of that senator's Mexican mining business? Is it the true con ception of senatorial responsibility for Senator, Fall to use his senatorial powers and privileges for Fall, the Mexican mine owner, rather than for the well being of something over one hundred million other Americans? Finally, is the senate, as Web ster. Clay, Thurman and John Sherman thought it wa, a chamber of high minded statesmen devoted to a land of freedom, or is rt a clearing house where gentlemen In business meet to use the power and armies of the United States to forward their -private investments! Tn Detroit a tenant named Jackel secured against a landlord named Graff from a Judge named Codd an injunction whereby Codd, forbade Graft to turn off Jacket's gas or to adopt the less delicate measure of eviction, the hurling: of the cour ageous Jacket's furniture into the Btreet. FAULT NOT IN THE STARS A' SMALL funnel shaped cloud of dust is ascending fcrni the high - j way in asco county. The. board of county commissioners ; Is-.criticised, the chairman of the ; state highway commission is charged - with having broken promises and there is a general discontent all around in the matter of getting state aid for roads. The real source of the trouble is in the county itself. For years there have existed several factions or cliques. , When the state highway program was takn up each faction soughj to shape things in the county to serve -its own financial Interest through the. state I road location. ?- The county voted a large bond issue ' orr "the understanding that the state would cooperate. Instead of waiting t until a definite plan of cooperation had been agreed upon and the roads definitely located, the county oiri ' ' efciU r went ahead and expended - roe money where they thought the state Would supplement the work. But when the state highway department came along It chose other locations after much backing and filling. I As a result, the state location docs not satisfy all the local, interests and there is much dissatisfaction. Without entering Into the merits of the discussion there can be drawn from it the lesson that the county has not received value for its bond issue through an effort to make the public interest subordlnateTb a pri vate one. Cecil Rhodes' dream of a Cape-to-Cairo route has com true, but in a way never visloned by the great pioneer of African development. An air route has been established by the British government which is 5200 miles long: as contrasted with 6223 miles by land and steamer, and the flying time Is 5? hours, whereas 59 to 75 days arc required for the route by water and land. It should be e&id, however, that a flying time of 52 "hours means that the aviator would require a week to make the trip. THE GOUGED CAR RIDERS I1V does nobody take up the street car situation? The company is asking for on 8-cent fare. It says it is on tlii verge of bankruptcy, Portland business men are wry. keen to have It operated along the streets where they do business. When a recent proposal was made to operate the cars but one way past their doors, they protested. Testi- Irnr.nv fit tht Reent f a re henrlnflr W&O. that when the curs were stopped by the late snowstorm, business in one big house dropped off 70 per cent. That is to say, if the cars should not run. there would be little going on in the Portland business district. The office buildings would be half empty. Mercantile houses, big and little, would have but half as many customers. Rents would drop to a vry low level. Yet nobody hears of anybody who is taking the slightest interest in solving the street car situation. No committee' of business men, not even one business men or banker or office building owner or prominent mer chant, lias com: forward with a plan. All that is heard is of a dan to hao the public service commission grant an 8-cent fsre. The idea seems to be for the business men and other big figures la sit tight and let an- i oilier two cents be added to the street car fare. That would saddle the added burden on the car riders the tele- the waitresses, the small business man, the store clerks, the wage workers and breadwinners generally. Is H right ? Certainly not. The i street ear system is a semi-public institution. That it is highly prized by those who own building! and op erate in the business district is shown l.y the yell that was raised when it was proposed to run the cars but one way on certain streets. That yell would have become a chorus of ululatlons if one way oper ation of oars on all streets had been proposed. Then, if there, is need for some thing to be done to increase the. reve nues of the company, must all the burden fall on car riders? Is it their duty to alone furnish gratis, and as a philanthropy this very rich city with a rapid transit system? Espe cially is it the car riders' duty to not only furnish the city with a rapid transit system, but in addition, to pay lolls for crossing city bridges, pay for rides of those who ride on passes, pay part or all the taxes on the street car properly, pay for paving and maintenance of paving and pay any and all other charges which the pub lic as a whole may extort for its profit and benefit? It is doubtful if there is another city in America which puts such bur dens on its car riders. Th injustice is liable to go on un til the car riders will rebel and by popular vote force the oi l.y to buy, own and operate the system as a mu nicipal property. February, so the United States weather bureau Informs us, has been the driest month in the his tory of the state since 1889. From what can be gathered by general discussion and reading It has also been the driest month in the history of the United States. FORWARD, MARCH! T HE American Legion has evidently, in common with the great ma jority oT the people, grown weary with watchint congress : mari time, u wants the national legis lature to begin its long postponed advance, and it says blankly that it "does no., hesitate to state that it ex pects definite, action within the next ; GO days." it is, of course, a wild expectation, but. just at this time, when a new presidential campaign is dawning, it may be that there is good reason to believe the bugle of politics can lift the nation's statesmen over the top within a cour)e of months, if the lungs of the leaders do not weaken. The legislative committee of the legion has been in session at Wash ington for several days, and out of it has come a formulated program for. legislative relief for the ex servioo men and women of -the country. ; It demands that federal aid be given former service men and women to encourage the purchase by them of rural 'or city homes; that voca tional education be provided; that adjustment of compensation based on length of service be fixed by con gress; acd that a land settlement act be passed, effective m all states where land is to be had. It is not desired by the legion, how ever, that ail of these four legislative provisions should be applicable to any one service man, but, rather, that they should be enacted and stated as distinct paths of relief down which the veteran might travel at his option. In other words he could take ad vantage of the land settlement pro visions, of home purchase or voca tional education or of compensation adjustment. - " It has been a long time now since the men came sailing home victorious that congress has been dilly-dallying over its 'heralded oldier relief legis lation. It is evidently no farther along than when It commenced. It is natural, then, that the leaders of the American Legion should formu late their program, submit it to con gress and demand early action. The young men and women of America who went Into the world war deserve favorable recognition at the hands of congress, and it should not be delayed. They are not de manding, and do not want charity or that which smacks of it. They ask, only, that provision be made by congress that they may be aided in doing for themselves. They arc young men, all of them. They left their class rooms and their employments to serve their country. TSeir monetary compensation was negligible. Their sacrifices were great. It was a duty they owed their country, it Is true, but it Is equally true that their country owes them a duty. That duty is to do that which will enable them to recover some of the ground lost In civil life, em ployment and advancement during the period they were at war. while the world at home wss marching . on beyond them. A year or two years out of the !!1ronls'. ana wwie it is thought that west . ... , . Virginia will favor the suffragists, Dela- preparatory life of a young man is a ware may go tne other way The gov, Jong time to lose. They have lostjernor of Delaware is regarded as an it i antl : the rovernor of West Virginia is It is the d..ly of congress and of j 7 tra ee88ion8 n the nation to help them bridge the! both these states and both ratify. 8 gap insofar as It may be bridged. i states win have responded to the call. i but there is still an element of doubt aa A London dispatch tells of five British policemen who escaped un injured in a fight with 300 Irish men. Anybody can Deiieve it tnat . . . i as ror us, we Dei i ing Irishmen were : wants to. But as that If 300 fighting Irishmen were ! engaged that it was not a fight, but ' a foot race. ASK NICK SANTELLI 5 AMF.RICAN citizenship SO had as the Reds and malcontents say it is? Ask Nick Santelli. , He came to America from Italy in 1905, worked five years and in 1910, with plenty of money in his pocket, went back to Italy for a visit and to wed the sweetheart of his boyhood. Shortly after arrival home he was drafted into Ihe army and sent into Tripoli to fight the Turks. The Bal kan wars came on, and he was com pelled to serve through that strug gle. Before he got out of the army Ihe big war broke over the world and Nick Santelli was held tighter than ever in military service. He was a brave fighter. He was wounded on the Isonzo. and twice decorated for distinguished service on the Piave. He fought his way through the long struggle, and- it was not until last July that he was finally i . 5 . ir kj ti .ncusru num uiin,. nc uu uicu been in the military service of his country nine years without a break. He is now an Industrious worker in a coal mine in Pennsylvania, where he has applied for American citizen ship. Aftar nine years or army lire while on a visit to his native land, the works and opportunities-or peace in America are good enough fr him; and he has sealed his purpose by nailing the Stars and Stripes over his cottage, to live hereafter under its protecting folds. Some congressman, so the Wash ington News says, wants to save day- j in the spring of 1873. when I waa- 14 light once jnore. Probably he has . years old, I landed a job on the Chero come to the conclusion that dav- I TIrnps.at Cherokee. Iowa," said Bob light is about the only thins there is any chance of saving in these of the hellbox. folding papers, deliver high cost times. I '"8: Job work, making rollers, running the Washington hand press and event- WHICH l0 YOU WANT" w HETHER the present intensive state highway work is to be maintained through next year is to a great extent dependent upon the popular vote in the May primaries on the question of raising the constitutional limit on state in debtedness from 2 to 4 per cent of the assessed valuation. There ts a distinction between this measure and the other ciuesttons of slate finance, which are to be voted on at the same lime, that should be kept in view. It does not Involve an increased tax but provides for an extension of the present capitaliza tion of the motor vehicle license fees and gasoline tax as a liasis for bond issues- The question to be determ ined is whether the excess in this revenue.' after taking care of the pres ent authorized bonded indebtedness. shall be the basis for more bonds or whether it shall be applied to road construction and maintenance directly. , " The present income from the gaso- line tax and motor licenses is ap - proximately $2,000,000. This amount, it Is computed, Will carry bond issues to the amount of 940.OCO.000, which will be the limit of 6tate indebtedness for roads if the pending amendment Is adopted. In the last analysis the question resolves itself into this shall we borrow the money and complete a large mileage of road . early or fall back to the slower process of build ing a little at a time. ;Down nv Georgia a boy of 90 has committed aulclda because a girl of 84 rejected film. After writing long letter about his rejected suit and broken heart, he jumped into the river. No matter how old you get, life on this, earth i one blamed thing right after another. SUFFRAGE FIGHT ANALYZED Bjr Carl Smith. Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal. Washington. Feb. 81. The fight for early ratification of the equal suffrage amendment, so that 11,000,000 women in non-suffrage states may vote for presi dent in November, has narrowed down to two or three state, with the greatest uncertainty as to what the outcome wiU be. Since the Nw Year the states of Oregon. Wyoming. Indiana. New Jer sey, Nevada and Idaho have ratified, giving a total of 80 states. Six more are needed to make the required three fourths. Extra sessions are premised in Arizona and New Mexico, and both, in is assumed, will result in ratifica tion. That makes J2. Governor Rob ertson of Oklahoma has said he will call an extra session1 "if Senator Owen wants it," explaining that he does not wish to do anything that might place difficulties in the way of Senator Owen's presidential boom. It Is com monly thought there will be an extra session in Oklahoma, and that Governor Hart of Washington will also yield to pressure which Is being broug-ht to bear upon him, and that these two states will be added to the ratification list. This makes 34. . Nine states are admittedly against the suffrage amendment. They are Ala bama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mary land, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. To this negative list may be added Tennessee, where a state law interferes with any immediate action, and t'onnectlcut and Vermont where the governors are etrongly op posed to suffrage and are standing out resolutely against extra session pressure. This makes 12 "hopeless" states.' and only 13 are needed to prevent ratifica tion. The remaining states unclassified are two. Delaware and West Virginia. Ho far the aaitatlon in neither of theaa i states for extra sessions has been very to Ohio. The Ohio legislature ratified. whereupon a referendum was filed, and the courts have upheld the referendum right, which is disputed by theasuffrag ists, who contend that the action of the legislature ended the matter and cannot be BUpcndei or reversed by application of state law. This consti applicati tutional question tutional question has been carried to the United States supreme court, and is set for argument next month. Should the decision sustain the referendum, Ohio would have to be subtracted from trio list of ratifying states jiending the referendum vote. That woulddash the hopes of the suffragists for equal suff rage in all the states In the choice of the next president. It will be noted that suffrage hangs in ihe balance Just now because two Re publican governors, In Vermont and Connecticut, are so hostile that they will not call an extra session and permit the legislatures to act. The Vermont legislature has been canvassed and would quickly ratify If given a chance to do so. In Connecticut the legislators are also believed to be friendly. If Buff rage had these two states, success would be assured. The governor of Washing ton stands in much the same position, and a fourth Republican governor, In Delaware, prevents finding just what that state would do. On the other hand, there are only two Democratic governors who are causing the suffrapists any worry, and these are both "light cases," j vTJZ.rlLT both COUnted upon to call extra sessions, although they have not yet acted. In Is" fr 8ta,M whPre Democratic gov- : ernors have not called extra sessions the legislatures are already on record against the amendment, with three ex ceptions, and in those cases the legis latures are known to be against the fed eral amendment, so no object would be achieved by calling extra sessions. If any complaint Is to be found witjj gov ernors it rests with the governors of Vermont, Connecticut, Washington and Delaware. Some History of an Oregon Newspaper and Its Publishers ! "Bob" Johnson Tells of His Coining j To Corvallis and Becoming a Journalist There. I Johnson of Corvallis. sweeping, build ing the fires, sortinsr the cood tvee out ually setting type and writing articles kept me busy and Interested, and on the side gave me a knowledge of spell ing and punctuation that I sadly needed. I worked there four years, working up from $1.50 a week to $12 a week. I saved every cent I could, for I realized I would be handicapped un less I could get some schooling. When I was 18 I went to the college at Val paraiso. Ind.. for I had heard that money would go farther there than at any other college. I found a room at $1 a week and got good board for $2.50 i yi a a 1.' T aa1 tha Mmaviaainl -, studying mathematics, bookkeeping and shorthand. "I discovered that my work in the printing office had given me a decided advantage in many ways over , my fel low students. Another factor that helped was that I wasn't there to kill time, but to get all the education I could for the money. When a young chap earns the money he spends on his education he isn't apt to loaf on the job. I didn't know just how old I was. but I thought 1 must be about 21, so I applied to the court for the money from the sale of my father's homestead. My father had died ten years before and the money from his estate was to come to me when I became of age. The court turned over the $800 from the sale of hi s effects and I bought a paper Called the Free Press, at Cherokee, for $2500, paying $800 down and giving my note 1 lhe Hancock club and I worked and j voted for Hancock and did not learn I for several years that I had voted about a year too soon. Later my people in Scotland told me when I was born. After two years I waa offered more than I paid for the Free Press, so I sold it. I waa offered a paper in Colo rado on most excellent terms and I was Inclined to take up the proposition. "Two of my friends wanted me to go to Oregon with them. I didn't know which would be best, so I said, 'Heads for Oregon, tails for Colorado," and flipped a half dollar. It fell heads, so I started for Oregon. One of my friends in looking around decided to take up a homestead at Summit. I went with him to visit 4iia claim. jOn my way back to Portland. I stopped over a day. at Cor- vallia. M. 8. Woodcock, Who had the Gaxette, asked me to stay a few days and help him till he could get a printer. ( The few days ran into a year. "I roomed with Frank Irvine, who waa station agent for the Southern Pa cific. He volunteered to write items for me about the people who came and went on the railroad. After I had worked on the Gazette for a year the owners of the Leader asked me to take charge of that paper, and I did so. Prank continued to furnish me news, and as he found time he would write articles and editorials. At that time Frank intended to stay with railroad work, but he liked writing: and had a nose for newa, so his furnishing news items of departures and arrivals event ually led to his taking up newspaper work. "I waa on the Leader for a year and then traveled two or three years over the West. I decided that Corvallis wae the best little city of its sice I had seen, so I came back here and started the Times. Frank Irvine had gone to Sprague, Wash., where he was running a dairy. He, too, became homesick for Corvallis and came back, buying the Times from me." Letters From the People t CommuntcaUona tent to Tb Journal for publication in this department shook ba written on only ont tide of tba Daiwr. ibould sot exceed 300 words in length, and moat ba algned by tba writer, wboaa mall add rata la full muat aooosa panjr tba contrlbuUou. j Mr. Jensen Replies to Mr. Christensen Y.. 1 .4 lJ".a. V 1 ft T Vi. T7" 1 1 ftf Tv.n-.uu -. "7" " gon orchardlsts. is a guest at the Port- TheJournal-I have taken gat mterest.Iand settlemelr is from Wood- in reading a letter from the , Rav. M. fl f distributes A. Christensen, which appeared in The, -,, , " tVl. T,l tf,K,na w 1W rnlrr the , nUrserV St0Ck 0Ver a lare Prt Of the cost of a picture as being a reason for exhibiting that picture If unfit for public consumption I think the reverend gentle man misconstrued my meaning. My con tention waa, and Is, that any article costing such a vast amount of money, time and brains, is at least entitled to more thought and consideration than Is being accorded under tho present method of censorship. No matter how much a film may cost to produce even $10, 000,000 or any sum whatsoever if it is unfit for public presentation It should be discarded. Fortunately, however, there are few if any such films being made at present. I wish to call attention to another statement made by the pastor, wherein he declares that the censors serve with out pay. I think if he will look into the matter he will discover he has been misinformed. Regarding the welTare and interests of thousands of Portland's boys and girls, I wish to state that I am as deeply interested as Mr. Christensen o any one else. I have a family, and I would want no child to see anything that I would not wish my own child to see. It may be of interest to know that in & recent checking up on attendance at our theatres the number of children runs from 3 rwr cnt to lean than & ner cent rtt the tntul And tnnrfl than linJf of Riir.h I children were accompanied by their parents ; which goes to prove that motion pictures are not altogether entertainment for. children, as a great many people would have the general public believe. Does Mr. Christensen believe that such a small percentage should dominate and that all pictures should be cut to fit approximately 4 per cent of the people? Or should the 96 per cent be considered. Again, Mr. Christensen says the slides being run in our theatres are intended to prejudice the public against censor ship. This is not correct, as may be determined by reading the slides re f erred to in his letter. I wish to state here that I am not and never have been opposed to censor ship conducted In a fair and impartial manner. My suggestion is, and has been, that a censor board should con sist of three people one to bo appointed by the city, one by the picture interests, and these two to choose the third. My only and. solo desire Is, and has been, to get censorship out of politics and free from political influence. In other words, I see no reason why my business should be bandied around as a political asset for aspiring men and women. I simply ask for fair and square censorship. Again. T agree with Mr. Christensen In his reference to "smutty" bookp. How ever. I did not have "smutty" books In mind when I addressed by. communica tion to the public ; I referred to books aa they come average publications which might include the works of Shake speare. Milton, Dickens. Dumas or any accredited author's works. No, I did not havo In mind the nameless book passed around surreptitiously. but meant standard publications. As to pictures I am of the opinion that "The Thirteenth Commandment" contained no such "Fmut,"' to use the Mtr'. -UL-nrd and T wno nmr.lv ei.a - " . ' . " lajlltxi uy tx jury in j uuge xiossmuu s court In conclusion, if anyone wishes to de vote his time and will secure such films as he deems desirable for children I will gladly allow them the use of the Liberty theatre any morning, without profit to me. for the showing of such films to children exclusively. C. S. JENSEN. Don't Get Out too Soon Independence. Kas., Feb. 14. To the j but wnen jt comes to talking about him- Keithsburg. HI. "In those days there' Harold itarrir of Orangevtlle has ten Editor of The Journal Would it not be j he changes the subject. Ben and, was lots f rafting and freighting on dered tjovrrnor Davis, ills resignation a good plan to publish immediately a . j mve known each other fairly well for , the Mississippi river." he said. "We 1 as a member of the flute memorial warning, against the danger of people 23 years or more. A day or so ago j boys were regular water dogs. We wre I commission. getting sup and around too soon after ! dropped off at Salem to get an inter- ! in the river all summer long. Our fa- An effort will he made at Twin Falls having the flu or grip? Many people j view from him. We had traveled from j vorlte swimming place was near the continue the tuberculin testing for think they are well before they arc. as Portland to Salem together a short I Iowa Central bridge. We used to play , 'rHul ,.?',Ih- " ',' '"".'Vl "Y , "V.Vr'r'vm a they feel pretty well, but their vitality while before on the Oregon Electric and ! in the waves made by the ' passing I Lw, 1 " l're"cnl tcHt r- w' - -- - - - -. o - - - - - - contract pneumonia, ' often with fatal results. I do not believe the public realise their danger in this matter as they should, and I believe you would do much good and perhaps save lives if you issued such a warning at once In this time of emergency. A. L. POTTER. Silk Shirts Portland. Feb 19. To the Editor of The Journal I read in The Journal today that the price of silk shirts next year, will be $20 to $23 or even -higher. That's going some. I am glad for that information. From this day and here after, as long as it shall be necessary for me to wea.' shirts I shall continue to purchase regular shirts, and they will not cost $20 or $25 apiece. Isn't it about time that' we set aside the "foolish stuff" and settlqd down to honest business and decent living? J. A. WILSON. Olden Oregon Manufacture of Flour Dates From Hauxhurst's Mill. 1 834. Webley J. Hauxhurst erected a grist mill at Champoeg in the summer of 1834, which waa a great convenience to the inhabitants of French Prairie, In cluding the Methodist missionaries, who up to that time had pounded their bar ley in a great wooden mortar, and ground their wheat in a small castiron mill called a corncracker. Hauxhurst, who was a native of Long Island, was among the early converts of the Meth odist mission, having made a profession of faith tn 1827. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: I reckon the vote would be unani mous to give all the profits of the sugar trust to the starvln' Armenian kids, and I don't see why Uncle Sam don't shake a few of the trusts down fer enough to set them people up In business. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Little more rahj, please. . ,Lat bours may tell on a man, but nis wife doesn't have to be told. a a Many a man's best days are spent in bed because he works at night, a It is quite easy to convince some married men- that ltis jgood to be alone. Admiral Peary will doubtless find ex perience to his liking in that "undis covered bourne." a a -Y'IV m&y have his price, but it differs greatly from what his neigh bors think he is worth. a The Portland Railway. Light & Power company has been carrying human cargo for bo long that it has come to look upon its clientele as somewhat of a car-goat. Tne street cleaning department in New York citv ia Baking i.vMMVnno Hh w,hi;h to pay for dlggring the city out yi me ohow. ana even at mat the city is probably worth it- MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town F. W. Settlemelr, trees from whose i nursery at Woodburu have produced crops worth thousands of dollars to Ore- state. Young fruit trees are worth their weight In gold, figuratively speaking, for the present and past seasons have seen orchard stock bringing a higher price than ever in the history of Oregon fruit growing, nurserymen say. Never theless, a large new acreage of orchard will find itself under cultivation this year, for while tree prices soar, the price of the product ia also elevating. Prune trees that formerly sold as low as $9 a thousand have recently brought nursery men as high as $90. Meanwhile, prunes have advanced from 5 cents a pound in some cases to as high as lu cents. And good Oregon apples sell at three for a dime On almost any market. W. E. Longfellow, who has directly and indirectly brought about the saving of more lives than he can estimate, is at the Benson hotel while in Portland as an envoy of the American Ited Cross from Washington, D. C, to instruct vari ous Portland classes In the intricacies of life saving. Longfellow knows scores of unpublished methods for rescuing drowning persons and for rendering firBt aid to the ilF or Injured. For seven years he has been spreading this knowl edge under the colors of the lied Cross. He will remain in Portland until about next Saturday. a Multnomah hotel employes have or ganised their interest in- the Near East relief drive now under way in the city and the result. It ts expected, will be a very healthy showing In the return from "the palace beautiful." Donation cards, available to employes and guests of the hotel only, have been distributed to se cure subscriptions. Eric V. Hauser has approved a plan whereby employes may donate as heavily as they feel able and have the sum deducted from their ac counts. a A local hotel register almost weekly contains a sample of the bold penman ship of C. C. Chapman, editor of the -j Oregon Voter, who ' insists upon the charms of the rural life and, therefore, spends a large part of his time at his farm at Amity. Yamhill county. In fact, he spends so Httle time in Portland that the hotel la his local home. Friday Mtb. Chapman entered her name upon the same register, indicating, mayhap, that the Amity farmers contemplate the un usual a week-end in Portland. The Chapmans find rural life the jeal thing at Bunny Lonesome farm, although Chapman freely admits that Mrs. Chap man runs the ranch. Major A. D. Smith. United State air service, was a guest at tho Multhcmah hotel while delayed in his coastwise air- American, is at the Portland hole. Daw- I - o..on ing plane flight ffrom Saa Diego to Seattle, son Is a resident, so his registration ()lfK.jpjn(., m.mrw.rB Who refuse to cK The major, previously a visitor here shows, of Newark. N. J. He Is a native j p contract work. Seventeen haje d after an air trip, srrtved In his forest of England, a veteran of the Canadian j tided to retain iheii conliiivts and t. natrnl routine- nlunn Tiniradav evening armv and the husband of a Very Charm- defy tllO association. but minor troubles and unfavorable ! IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS I OF THE JOURNAL MAN ; , By Fred r 1 r.a.ll. ia mranhiAad Ron W C1f,t t T.V . I I " - - ! f mor of Oregon, who. parannai career Mr. luckier propoaea to trace in this and aut-esed-ing articles. It need only t said at Urb te tliat Uie iketeh will illustrate the itraordlnwy adaptability and Tematility whleb are among the I run American most conspieiroua and TaJ nable trait. One of the hardest men in the state to secure an interview from is Governor Ben W. Olcott. Ben is one of the most approachable and friendly officials who ever occiinled the gubernatorial chair, : xCll IIHH LUJU 1113 ov,t. .v. t".". experiences he had while in Alaska, so I thought I would get his permission to make use of them. When I went to see him he Invited me to spend the day with him, so I could get an idea of Just V lAk rt ffrtvarnnr Included and He tn earn his 113 69 a dav salary. I stayed with him from about 9 o'clock in the morning till 11:30 that night, and I want to say he comes as near earning his salary as anybody I have met for many a day. "There are so many board meetings and so many Interruptions during the day that I like to come back after sup per to clear my desk of work." Gov ernor Olcott said in explanation of his 14-hour day. I tried to get him to talk about what he has accompilsned as ! secretary of state and as governor, but,'' he said, "See nere. r reo. arn going io ask a favor of you. Please don't write anything about my work as secretary of state or as governor. If my work has been good it will speak for itself, and if it hasn't you wouldn't want to oraise It. This thing of blowing your own horn and telling the public what a wonder you are doesn't appeal to rpe. To tell you the truth, I am not even fond of fcdng panned, though I often have to do things that, in my opinion, are for the best good of the state, that result in people who have selfish or ulterior motives, panning mo good and plenty. Let's cut out the interview and we will have a chance during the day to do lots of visiting and you canwrite whatever you please, so long as you don't boost me. or my work." a Personally. I don't see why I shouldn't praise or blame his actions, for the su preme court has decided that he Is gov ernor of Oregon for the next several whatever I write cannot vears. so construed as political boosting. In def erence to hts wishes, however, I shall ask you to forget that he is governor of Oregon and I will tell you what I know of htm as a water rat, printer's devil, shoe clerk, farm hand., surveyor, wool . buyer, digger of aewars, bank NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS About 600 men are now employed in and about the camps at Powers, the Vat riot says, and the company would put on many more if they were obtainable. a No more loyal diagnosis than this, by the Reedsport Courier, could be made: "Everyone in this section of the coun try who have been residents for years, eay that the cause of so much sick ness is the want of more rain. An Ore gonian cannot get along without water. a a a With the high price offered for coyote hides it would seem. says the Canyon City Eagle, "that this pirate tnrxi a rood chance to become extinct. And if he does, to be consistent we will have to enact some laws to protect him so that "he can again multiply and populate the hills. A good coyote is now as valuable as a range horse. In a few years there will be closed seasons on the coyote, for some professor will discover hat God put him nere for some reason tnat Is conducive to health, peace and prosperity." weather caused him to pause in tl.o flight to Seattle until Friday morning. The lower Columbia river highway can't miss Deer Island, Columbia county, unless the state highway commission spends $1,000,000 or so on a new route. As It is now, the highway Is the main street of Deer Island. here Charles J. O'Neill, a visitor at the Multnomah hotel, lives. Tho town is a part of one of Columbia' county's favored farming and dairying districts. a . The Multnomah houses a number f Spokane peoplo today. Among them are V. W. Winters. Dan L. Weaver. Ralph B. Little, Charles Lewis, Juline A. Ger hert. Kllzabeth Keonn, William Mc Eaehran and Ralph B. Lester. Lester is in Portland to review before pupils at the Hill Military academy some of tne fine points of the composition and act ivity of the United States army. "The clerks vised almot to hug and kiss a guest arriving at the Alexandria hotel at Los Angeles," a much wearied traveler at the Benson hotel today re marked. "Travel In that day was not so rushing and there were no waitl t lists of 200 persons. The hotel would welcome a tourist and give him almost anything for almost any price. 0 Last week they charged me $8 for a night's rest and made me feel like I had been to stop there. That shous what the; travel conditions th-re arc. . ..... i Southern Oregon., long boastful of its climatic charms, is doing its utmost, ! through the medium of several county i courts in that section. of the state, to j bring the climate closer to tho people through the construct'on of good una permanent roads. It is said by Orants Pass people, who take special pride In their slogan. "It's the climate," that good roads through Southern: Oregon's beauty land will keep within Oregon many of the summer season travelers who now go to California to find pleasant motor roads. John Hampshire, a Grants Pass road contractor, who revives the belief that no better climate exists, Is a guect at the Portland hotel. It was at Hilt, Cal.. that many Oregon n-eated for Injuries received in aoel folk found freedom from worldly cares ; dents. after Oregon adopted statewide prohibi tlon. At Hilt many people were literally loaded to the Hilt, and tho little town came to be known far and wide for the scope of its liquor business with South ern Oregon. But Hilt today is as dry as any Oregon town, and the once great barrooms are haunted with vacancy, says Frank J. Cattuxio of Hilt, who Is a guest at the Perkins during a Port land visit. Coningsby Dawson, noted author, who, If it were proper to-hyphenate Ameii- . u v.- , -. ii. .t. r'-H.lli.... j canism ' ing American woman. , Lockley 1 SlArlf nroailnin Htn.a. 1. , K. Vovv,. ai.'i i, .,, ,, . amy cwk expert accountant anrl auditor, hop picker, trapper, homesleader. dog team driver and musher along the shores of Bering sea. Alaska sourdough and svl- ator, and will kUidly overlook .the fact that by his quiet, modest winning per- sonalitv- and his efficlenrv hn hna made ! one of the best secretaries of state Ore- . - j g0n ever had and that he is making a1 j fearless and capable governor? I ... i We were talking of his bovhoorl at niuaiiivi o I 1 1 ' ki .a aiiiiKiuil VI 'water rats' living la the river towns j h,ae patr association, has been ac was to be able to swim across the j quitted of the rharge of manslaughter river, toucn tne opposite Danit ana swim back, without resting. My father owned a little grocery store near the 1 (. Kfnthar em.ldi'l trutn rrt e.nt nt .r. she md m. work In mv father's grocery store during the aum- mer vacations, to my great disgust. f0r jh! ex'errninatlon of predatory anl When I was a boy my great ambition : mals and for increased nalarle for for waa to become a pilot or the captain c-st service employes. of a river steamboat. v e liven not far north of Hannibal. Mo., the home : town of Mark Twain, and his career as j a river pilot made even more of an ap- peal to me In those days than his liter- j ery -accomplishments or h's reputation as a humorist. I remember going to Hannibal and hunting up Mark Twain's j heme and going out In the back yard j to see. the board fence he had the boys j whitewaslin i . far lorjZon has always proved an . irrei!!Ub.e iltrf. lo me When I was In ... four of derided to see high the world, particularly Oklohoma and Texas, where there were Indians and cowboys. '.'Skinny" Flynn. "Turkey i Egg" Nevius. Jake Fleming and I struck j down the river aroot tui we reacnea Fort Madison, 'where we took the blind baggage on the Santa Fe for the South west. The brakeman ditched us. We caught a freight and rode the rods till we were again ditched. We rode the bumpers and sidedoor Pullmans, and finally tiad to hit the ties. A farmer saw us and Offered Fleming a Job. at small wages but plenty to eat. so Jake post poned his travels. At Lincoln. Neb., Nevius succumbed to the offer of a Job in a hoteL Skinny and I got as far as Wichita, Kan., before ever-Increasing appetite caused us to apply for a Job in the JacoD uoia c bchii jjau.-n.iiiB behous. We worked ther all summer till our aesire to ju iiuiaw. " ly satiated by seeing so many hogs and steers killed. That fall we decided that, after all, Keithsburg and home looked pretty good to us, so we took a Job punching cattle on cattle train bound for the Chicago market." The Oregon Country Northwatt Happen!! in Brief rom for tat Iluay lUadar. OREGON NOTES Reorganisation of the Bend Republican club has been perfected and a set of new officers elected. The Methodist church of Bend has de cided to erect a $40,000 building with a capacity of 600 or 700,. Hood Itlver citizens are paying taxes In a steady stream. More than $8000 hes already been paid in. Miss Faye Steinmets was elected presi dent of the State Christian Endeavor at tho Pendleton convention. The Benton County Republican club has been organised with the election of Oeorge Penman as president tJeorge 1. Orput of Portland Is in Uoteburg in the Interest of Governor Lowdena cundldacy for president A fund for tho oetshllnhmeht of a Wasco county Young Women's associa tion at The Dalles will be initiated. Owing to the l.irge number of cases of influenna at Mt. Pleasant the publio school at that place haa been closed. Millard J. Lee of Canhy has announced himself as a candidate for represent atlva rrom Clackamas county on the Repub lican ticket. A number of stockmen of Klamath county are reported to have Imported sheep Into Oregon without complying Willi the federal quarantine regulations. Marehfiold'H three nrhnnlii hiv hen closed until February 23 to give time for the recovery of a number of teachers who arc ill from i.ifluenia and vacci nations. Civil service exnmlnatlons for fourth class postmasters in Oregon have been set for March 13. :ik follows: For Har per at Vnle, for Jasper at Eugene, for Mitchell at Condon. A favorable report lia been made by the house intfrstate and foreign com meree committee on n bjll to permit the construction of a bridge over NeatucCa creek In Tillamook county. Two boys. Clnrence Bland of Uend and Kdward Dunn of Mount Vernon, escaped from the Ptato training school while as sisting in unloading a oar of wood some distance from the institution. A contract has been sinned bv Itenrv L. Bents of Aurora to sell hl bop crop of 1920 to an Knglish firm fur 3i cents per pound, tho crop of 1S21 for the name price and tho crop of for 36 cents. The Med ford city council has refused the request of the fJreater Medford club to secure a etore for the sale of surplus army supplies. The council will not guarantee the government the sale of supplies ordered. Charges against nrntiriel tirs of soft drink establishments nl Astoria accused of selling -lder ami other beverages con taining more al-ohol than the law per mlts. will be referred to the federsl authorities. WASHINGTON A new theatre to Bent 1800 will he. TJip Taxp.vera' Magus ha cJ..i,i,.tl lo tart (l clu1,palr for relief from unusually high taxes. A ,, Ho(t)Um I11Prrhlln hBV,. tPlt vl. tlmUed to he extent of $jooo by bud chcrk artists, William Collin, arrest ed at Centralis on a . i-harge of rrnnlinil 'syndicalism, has ben released for lack of evidence. H. K. still has resigned as general western fr iglit agent of tho Northern Pacific with hea'lviaitors at Taoonia. The Business Men's Hub of Knlamu Is organizing a chili to Imll.l and sell houses to relieve the present demand. An Investigation Iihh been sturted St Tacoma of tho charge that landlords on Pacific avenue are profiteering to excess. Three lnepers and mill workers from three different sections have been Proceeds of .iles tf timber and fsmi lands, part of the school and grant lands or the state. February 3. amount ed to $207,402. eer-ordlng to I.rtnd Com missioner Savldge. French war certificates have been re ceived by ihe Aberdeen nost of th American Legion for distribution to rel atives of li Aberdeen bo8 who wei killed during the war. The vders of Pacific county will vo' March 9 on a proposition of inrreaaiM (the bonded indelttones of tne coun i to the extent of $162 '" .f, completing 111 nlgnua. cil llti'J.ooij for me pe Ocean h'a- Fearing R water Hiioriagc. several dependent ditch companies of the VaV Ima valley are. preparing to buy ster ns t frnm thrt ifOverninent. anil V.i--- ' entered into negotiations for voter 'u ! use In cae H is needed, i Failure of the combination of tlx ' Walla Walla tioelofflcc safe tied ir i thousand! of dollars' worth of fctoii ; tteij iirtil Postmaster Inv sevured the M.-ivte.-s of an oxy-acety l.-ne expert I" drill a hole in the safe door. ID.ArlO j he work of paving the streets of Twin Falls will tx gin Boon. J ho paving will cover 12 miles. ; pupate., to the national Republican fi.i..uir. wilt lie rhfiian c'-Mi trllll'lI n ..... -. ... ! at Coeur d'Alene April 28. ,t company hsr been formed to erect a $10.er.'i h'tne plant at Oro Flno. It m'anufHcture dehydrated lime and fertilizer. . , -. , . , r.tarv r. f flam i in connection wiin me anui 01 jni rmti Morris, with whom he had an altercs- t lion. The Boice National Forest Wool '. Growers' association has adopted reso- '"prU.nof "nol'ss Than" iTO,0OO r- 1 I Fight for Pure Milk Warred y The Journal in 1W) Effected a Revolution. When milk dealers and Inspectors of t:e Pacific Northwest met re cently in Portland their comments on the remarkable quality of Port land's milk Kupply snd the high standards of dairymen who serve the c ity were a reminder of the crusade for pure milk that was Inaugurated by The Journal away back in 190. At that time Portland's milk supply was said to be the worst in the coun try. An ignorant dairy and food , commissioner tested milk by tasting", and ald that while milk from tuber-, culous cows would kill pigs It would fatten babies. The Journal's cam paign, strenuously carried on from one year to another, was aided by women's organizations. mothers, health bodies and civic bodies, until the Improvement Justified the claim that Portland's milk supply was not excelled by that of any other city in the United States. Infant mortality was greatly reduced and very much less often did the "little white hearse follow the dirty milk wagon." The pure milk campaign showed that only by active effort on tho part of newspaper dedicated to public welfare and by officials and cltixens ;an cither the milk or the food sup., ply of a city be kept wholesome. The tture milk campaign Is not ended. Jt mist be carried on Indefinitely, .