THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21; 1920.
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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.
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Many a man's best days are spent
in bed because he works at night,
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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."
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-Y'IV m&y have his price, but
it differs greatly from what his neigh
bors think he is worth.
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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.
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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 .
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! 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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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, .