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EIGHT CENT PARES
SPEAKING of the troubles which
are now disturbing the peace of
mind of the trolley car magnates
of the country, the Nation's Busi
ness remarks that :
Cause for thee qifficultles reverts
back to the Vanning of the enterprit,c3.
Which were christened Iti characteristic
American optimism more than in sound
economic principle.
Of course, optimism is not the only
thing the matter with the streetcar
companies, as rnuy well be seen from
local experience. It seems that the
"riding habit" has something to do
with It. This habit holds Iwu phases:
On. the one hand, the man who has
graduated from the straphanger tc the
motorist; on the other, those who,
because of Increased fares or other
Wise, have decided that it h more
healthful to walk than to ride un
less someone Interrupts their morning
constitutional by a lift In his automo-
bile. But whatever the reason the ,
records show that where the street
car habit Increased between 1902 and
1907 at I he rate of 27 rides per in
habitant of the I'nited States", they
also show that this ratio ha 1 fallen
to 15 during the succeeding five years
and to nine for the period ending
with 1917.
Because of this, us well ns because
of Increased operating and mainte
nance costs, the street railwas have
been having a sorrowful time. It is
eptfmatrij that nearly 20 per c-nt of
fhe 'nation's street railway mikapc
has been scrapped or is in Ihf hands
of receivers. IHvldends are becoming
rare and interest payments are skip
ping stitches here and there. P,heu
matlsm is attacking the equipment,
extensions have ceased while not less
than 763 miles of road have beej dis
mantled and 237 miles abandoned.
Increased fares granted here and
there have not helped In any great
degree to stay the progress of the
disease. The traction mauagers them
selves do not see more than a tempor
ary surcease from trouble in that
remedy. They are fronting a deeper
seated caiir.c of trouble than the
Cheapened nickel. The Nation's Busi
ness says it comes from too much
optimism and too little sound eco
nomic principle in the beginning of
things, which mav he a nolHe wav
of saying too much water h-illt up handle the traffic ln tlmi; of war
in "too manv successive nvmmiH. i The managers of the roads themselves
But the fact remains that the street
railway systems are not in a healthy
condition. They are too aged in con
ception. They need new Interstitial
glands, but their surgeons do not
know where to discover tnem.
Meanwhile the big business com
munities know the situation, but do
nothing. Their thought stwis to be
to sit tight and let the car riders who
are providing cities with rapid transit,
cope alone with the growing burdens.
The first thiug they know, the pro
testing, car riders will, by popular
xote, force the public to take over
nd operate the properties.
And, if things go on as they are,
who oould blame the car riders?
Speaking of American extrava
gance, an 8-year-old lad at Pitts
burg found a $100. bill one morning.
Before noon, he had a $40 bicycle,
several air guns, a hatful of candy
and 42 cent left.
A PICTURE
A BROWN-EYED mother walked
down Fifth street Saturday
morning. A chubby hand was1
clasped in each of hers. On the
outside th4 "tallest" flanked the "lit
tlest." Thus, hand in hand, the four
Went together.
. Arid those who met them gave wide
passage . room with smiles and nods
that were reflected from the bright
and proud eyes of the lltUe mother.
The children were sweet and 'dainty
with the sweetness and daintiness
that belongs to babyhood enhance 1 by
cleanliness aui care. Every garment,
it might almost be said every stitch,
betokened a mother's loving touch.
To all passersby the small brood
was a lovely pibture." To those who
knew, H was evident that here was
a triumph of mother toil aqd that
her pride in the beautiful babies more
than paid her. It was easy to guess
that no divorce scandal lurked In the
home that is inseparable from the
background of such a picture.
A dry United States has trans
formed Havana. Cuba, into the
Monte Carlo of the Western world,
with everything- "wide open and no
limit up or down. More than 60,000
Americans have applied for pass
ports to Cuba since Christmas, and
the exodus increases. The anxiety
of the bibulous to get Into wet terri
tory is a marvel with New York im
migration officials. Room rates at
Havana hotels are said to range at
$20 to $50 per day and none Is to be
had at that. Added to the situation
la the statement that the fine pas
senger steamer Miami, known as
"The White Flier of the Lakes," Is
to become a floating saloon between
Florida ports and Havana.
NEWS PRIM HOGS
NINE and three quarters cents a
pound is the exorbitant price ex
acted from many country week
lies and home interior dailies for
news print paper.
Many of them can only get a prom
ise of a ton at a time at even these
unheard of rates.
There have been times when coun
try publishers did not know from
week to week whether they would '
have a supply of news print for the,
next week's requirement.
While this stress is laid on interior
publishers, there are single metro
politan newspapers that are wasting
enough news print in one issue to
supply many country weeklies for
weeks .o" comfc. Many, not all, the
big dailies have contracts on which
they have an unlimited supply of pa
per, and regardless of the desperate
position in which the interior-- pub
lishers are placed, are wasting paper
as drunken sailors waste money.
To the news print hogs more than
to anything else Is due the distressing
situation In which country, publish
ers, not only In Oregon, but all over
America, are placed.
The big dailies ought to conserve.
When legislation was pending under
which it Was planned to force them
to conserve, they flew to Washing
ton and made promises before the :
senate committee that was Investigat
ing, the news print situation. On
those promises, the subject was
dropped, nothing of value was done,
and conditions are little changed.
The waste goes on In the big cities
and the outside publishers must
skimp and petition and beg for paper
and pay extortionate prices for it.
The government ought to inter
fere. Nine and three quarters cents
for news print is a crime. The fed
eral trade commission should d in
the news print field what it did witn
the packers.
One of the reasons why the Jap
anese seem to live pretty well on
very much less than Americans, is
that instead of paying $5 to $8 a
pair for children's shoes they put
wooden clogs on the youngsters'
feet nnd the little folks seem to like
them even better than the close
fitting leather because they slip off
and on so easily.
KNOW-IT-ALLS
"G
OVERNMENT ownership of
railroads is being advocated
in this country by a class of
men 'whose heads are always
above the clouds and whose feet are
never on the ground,' " said Senator
Pomerenc of Ohio in an address In
New York.'
He pronounced goernment opera
tion during the war a failure.'
But the government delivered the
traffic Private management failed to
do that. Private management broke
dovri under lhc task of trying to
publicly confessed that they were un
equal lo the problem. They oned'
up that something like 30 per cent
of the traffic was standing unmoved
at stations and tn warehouses.
I'omerene ululates that the govern
ment had a deficit in the operation of
the roads, ut the deficit went most
ly In higher wages to trainmen, whose
living cost doubled ln the period when
their wage was cut ln two by soar
ing prices. Was the wage Increase a
crime?
It was because the railroads could
not raise money that operation under
private management collapsed. If they
had continued operation, they would
have created a deficit, too. But as
their credit was gone, and they could
not borrow, and as the war was on
and the railroads had to transport sol
diers and munitions and supplies and
provisions, the government had to
provide the money and had to oper
ate the roads. That made the deficit.
ror doing this, tho government is
criticized by Senator 'Pomerene. He
Is unfair and he is ignorant
The hullabaloo against .government
operation is mostly by politicians, by
railroad clao.uers and by uninformed
honest persons who will know a great
deal more about the subject after the
roads have gone back to private oper
ation and rates are raised, and when
the lines are separated Into individual
units, instead of being mobilized and
operated as one system as the govern
ment did It.
Nobody knows better than the rail
road men what is ahead, and nobody
Is more frightened at thought of the
new problems they face.
It is the Pomerenes who know
it all.
A recent explanation for the fact
that Increasing quantities of game
may be found' tn some of the popu
lous sections of Europe, while in the
little developed American West,
game animals, birds and fish are
-becoming scarcer year by year, is
that "over there" the game crea
tures are conserved and their ene
mies are slaughtered, while "over
here" every hunter or fisherman is
a potential "game hog" and such
destroyers as the crow, the owl, the
hawk, the' cougar and the coyote
are allowed to flourish wflh no ef
fective effort for their extermina
tion. TI1E YVOJIE.N
T
HE women of the League of
Women Voters went on record in
their first annual convention at
Chicago in favor of the League
of Nations without reservations.
Women do not ' want a disturbed
world. They want an organized
world, a law-abiding world, a world
directed by peaceful counsels. They
want armaments reduced, want boun
dary lines of nations permanently
fixed, want international disputes set
tled by a court of the world rather
than by a military decision.
It was the women of the West that
returned that overwhelming verdict
against war in the presidential elec
tion f 191G. It is tn the hearts of
women that the agonies writhe and
struggle when war is on. It is on
their breasts that the babe once
rested that is called by the draft and
sent out on No Man's Land to face
tyre and steel. It is In woman's soul'
that the iron Is plunged when war Is
declared.
The bravest battle that ever was fought.
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the map of the world, you'll find it
not
"Twas fought by the mothers of men.
'Twas not with cannon or battle shot.
With eword or nobler pen :
'Twas not with eloquent words and
thoughts
From the Hps of wonderful men
But deep in a welled up woman's heart,
A woman who would not yield.
But bravely, silently bore her part
Lo, there is that battle field.
And millions of American women
know it. They remember the pangs
and heartaches of the parting and re
member the agonies and slumberless
hours In the night vigils while he was
over there.
When the American mothers and
wives and sisters and sweethearts are
finally heard from, the will of the
United States will be for peace on
earth, good will among men, through
mankiaJ organized to enforce peace.
A California woman has found a
new way to torture her husband
she drapes his picture with crape.
It is a new way, but it isn't half as
bad as fitting ner cold feet close to
his ribs when the mercury Is below
:.ero outside. Nor can It be so ef
fective as taunting h.ni with tho
stai ment that he came Irom a fam
ily of low brows and married above
his station.
SHIPS FOR PORTLAND iRADE
T
HE reorganized plans of the Co
lumbia-Pacific company include
a service of steel steamphlps be
tween the port of Portland and
pnrts of China not now commercially
related with this port.
The success of the service depends
primarily , upon the allocation of ves
sels by the United States shipping
board. One ship has already been se
cured, but four others are needed.
Next, of course, will follow the ne
cessity o a sustaining and active loy
alty ln the matter of cargoing the
rraft and thereby adding to the ex
port and import commerce of the
port.
The Columbia-Pacific " company Is
entitled to community cooperation. It
is organized for the practical carry
ing out of the thing we have long
urged, local organization and control
of ship lines. It is already success
fully operating a large number of
vessels. In financial backing and cap
italization, in experience, ln extent of
operation and ln operating organiza
tions, the company meets the require
ments of the government. Its appli
cation for allocations should be
granted readily.
In order to make sure that they
will remain with her, a wealthy New
York woman has legally adopted
her servants. The plan may serve
the purpose but what about the cost
as they "adopt" her standard of liv
ing?
MOTHER" LAWRENCE
1
T IS distressing when the aged
enter ihe shadows of life's clos
ing days alone, without comforts
or money, bereft of children and
uncheered by the gracious offices of
relatives or friends.
Such an instance occurred not long
ago In Portland. HuBband and wife
are well past 80. Debt and decrepi
tude were about to take from them
the little home in vhich they had
lived for years. No eon or daughter
could be called upon in the!r extrem
ity. A pauper's place at the county
farm seemed their only refuge.
But "Mother" Lawrence of Pisgah
home colony found them as 6he
trudged about the city seeking to do
good. She learned of their prayer
ful desire to be taken, when death
should Claim them, from the endeared
spot they had so long known as home
instead of through the cold portals
of a public institution.
She energized in then- behalf the
generous services of carpenters,
plumbers, electricians. She secured
gifts of lumber and other materials.
The rtrn-down home was made com
fortable. Out of funds received from
contributions the modest stipend of
a young woman to care for the house
and cooking is being paid. The sym
pathies of an elderly man were en
listed and he looks after the tasks
outside. The matter of the debt was
arranged. The blessing of heaven
was invoked upon Mrs. Lawrence by
an old couple whose eyes were bright
with happy tears.
This is but one of the less conspic
uous services rendered by "Mother
Lawrence and the organization she
has built up around her with which
to comfort and aid the afflicted and
unfortunate. Many a derelict man,
many a victim of hopeless old age,
has been helped and steadied at her
Pisgafi home or Pisgah home colony.
It is to support such blessed work
that an effort is now under ay to
make other citizens of Portland part
ners in it.
FOR A BIGGER
AND BETTER
PORTLAND
Three Factories Turn Out Phono
graphs That Hold Their Own
With the Best.
Portland Is rapidly becoming the cen
ter of phonograph manufacture on the
Pacific boast. The Industry is less
than a year old in this city and three
factories are now in operation turning
out an aggregate of 75 machines dally
More than 150 skilled mechanics are
employed in the three establishments
and the anticipated sales for 1520 will
require the trebling of this foroe, ac
cording to the management of the con
cerns. The Pacific Phonograph company, lo
cated at East Thirty-third etreet and
Broadway, was Incorporated in May,
1919, with a capitalization of $75,000.
The rapid growth of the business re
quired a recent increase In capital to
$300,000. Operations began In August
with an output of 10 machines daily.
The present output is 50 machines and
the management of the company pro
pose to build 15.000 Stradtvaras during
1920.
The Pacific PhonogTaph company em
ploys 100 men. Six models of the Strad
ivara are made in all woods and retail
at prices ranging from $125 to $300.
Business of the plant for 1920 to esti
mated at $1,500,000 for phonographs
alone, not taking into consideration the
record and accessory business.
Officers and directors of the company
are : W. B. Wiggins, president ; S. L.
Eddy, treasurer ; E. W. Barlow, v
ice
president, secretary and general mana
ger ; Ira F. Powers. V. A. Douty. George
Broughton and F. N. Clark, directors:
The plant of the Emerson Manufac
turing company, at East Tenth and Lin
coln streets. Is rapidly being outgrown
and the increasing demand for Emerson
phonographs will necessitate the erec
tion of a larger buildlng wlthln the next
six months, according to John E. Cro
nan. president of the company.
Manufacture of the. Emerson nhnnrv 1
,u k.,.. ! ,r ,u
graph began only a few months ago
ana 15 machines are now being turned
out dally. There are three standardized
models of the Emerson machine and
vi'o "iwiq iuv.i ,o ironic uiaiuiou. A lie
machines range in price from $125 to
350 and find a ready market ln north- I
western and Paclfto coast states. The
company has 45 men on it pay roil and
extensions of the plant now under way
will double that number.
The Cremona Phonograph company Is
housed In a building at 353 East Tenth
street occupied In part by the Cutler
Manufacturing company. The Cremona
lias been on the market about one year
and has gained Immense popularity, ac
cording to C. G. Wakefield, salesmana
gcr of the company.
An average of 10 Cremonae are being
turned out dally in seven models rang
ing in pr.lce from to $28o. There
are 21 men employed in the manufai
ture of the machines and this number
will be Increaspd with tho installation
of new machinery.
The Cremona Manufactmans company
is capitalized at 175,000. T Officers of
the concern are F. W. Cutler, president,
and II. K. Ilitham, secretary and treas
urer. Phenomenal Success With
Chickens in the Good
County of Benton
Jesse A. HansotVs Career Exemplifies
Possibilities of a Great Willam
ette Valley Resource
Do you know who J. A. Hanson is?
If you were a chicken you would know
all about htm, for he is the White Leg
horn wizard of the Willamette valley.
Any man who can add a few chic-kens
to J25 in cash and get a wife and baby,
a $10,000 ranch and a $6,000 a year In
come as a result Is some mathemati
cian. Men have been known who have
added a chicken or so to an already
established family and come out of the
deal with a divorce, a breach of promise
suit a case of alimony and a reputa
tion as a had egg.
Jesse A. Hanson has a 30 acre chicken
ranch two miles from Corvallis and has
orders already booked for this spring's
delivery for 100,000 day -old chicks. Be
fore describing the Hanson chicken
ranch, it will not be amiss to get ac
quainted with the Hansons. Jesse Allen
Hanson was born near Cleveland, Ohio,
October 21, 1887. Mrs. Hanson, whose
maiden name was Lora Mtllan anc"
whose sister. Dean Millan, is doing
splendid work with the girls at the
O. A. C. is a graduate of the Los An
geles Normal school and came to Ore
gon in 1916 to accept a position as
teacher in the East Salem school ln the
capital city. Elinore Hanson arrived
at the Hanson farm about two years
ago. and is certainly a fine testimonial
to what good care, plenty of freh
milk, fresh eggs and prune juice can
do. Lady Superior, Big Ben and O. A. C.
27 used to be the most noted characters
on the ranch, but with the coming Vf
Baby Elinore they have had to take
a back seat or, to be more exact, a
back perch.
Jesse Hanson is 32 years old, but
doesn't look it Wkh him and chickens
it was a case of love at first sight
When he waa a boy he used to run
aU the way home to be able to gather
the ggs. He used to put in all his spare
time watching the chickens, and a newly
hatched brood running about their
mother like animated puff balls equalled
In interest, the old swimming hole on a
srfmmer afternoon or a game of base
ball ln the lower pasture.
"When I got to Oregon In 1911 I was
24 years old and had exactly 815, so
I had to connect up with a Job at once,"
said Mr. Hanson. "I could have got
work at better nav than the lob I took,
but the job X landed was working- with
chickens, and that more than made up
for the difference in pay. Too many
men are doing work they don't like,
because they lack the nerve to give up
what looks like a sure thing, for an un
certainty. The sure thing ts a meal
ticket only, and they never make a suc
cess in it, for their hearts are not in
their work, and to do a thing supremely
well one must love to do It I got a
Job with Professor James Dryden. who
is in charge of the poultry department
of the Oregon Agricultural college. I
had been graduated from the Missouri
State university, but my work was like
taking a post-graduate course.
"I was offered,' and accepted, the po
sition of manager of the Browndala
Poultry farm ln Clackamas county. R.
H. Brown, A. C Black, C. C. Colt and
others were interested in this enter
prise. I worked there IS months, by
which time I had saved $1000, so I
returned to Corvallls to go into the
chicken business for myself. This was
in 1914. I leased this place, paying
$500 a year. I was required to pay the
entire $500 in advance, for the owner
considered it ridiculous for a grown man
to expect to make a living raising chick
ens. He thought I ought to go to work.
I borrowed $1000, which, with my re
maining $500, I put Into improvements,
stock and equipment. I purchased five
Incubators, getting the Cyphers and the
Buckeye., I started my chicken ranch
without any chickens, as it waa cheaper
,to buy eggs and raise my own stock.
I retained 650 pullets of the chickens I
hatched, and borrowed breeding males
from the college. The following year,
1915, I raised 1350 hens, but, running
short of money, I had to sell some of
them to supplement the revenue derived
from the sale of my day-old chicks.
"I met hundreds of people who could
and did tell, me why I couldn't succeed,
but I met very few who told me I could
or would make good. One of the people
I met who believed in me and was sure
of my success was MIbs Lora Mil lan.
She finally consented to help me make
the enterprise a success, so we became
life partners on June 22, 1918. The
best asset a man can have ln any
business Is a wife who Is a real help
mate. I got one of that kind. We
bought the place last year, paying $9250
for it Yes, the chickens bought It
for me. Let me take you over the
ranch so you can see for yourself Just
how It was possible for my chickens
to buy this place for us and make us a
present of it."
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Letters From the People
Pnb'.SrnnrtHtrd"rttmetSt S'tE I
on only one aids of tba paper, ahouid not axeead
300 worda in lenatb. and moat be atgned bj the
writer, wnoae mau arurcj la (nil mutt aocosa-
paojr U cod tribu lion. J
Discurses the Social Evil
Portland, Feb. 18. To the Editor of
The Journal War reveals a naUon'a
weakness as well as Its strength. Amer
ica was Indeed unprepared In the late
war. But she had begun to get ready
only when the war ended. The weakness
of the nation was repealed as well as
Its strength. It proved conclusively that
"eternal vigilance Is the price of liberty","
, and, as some one his added, this price
must De paid in aavance. But tne
greatest revelation to the goody-goody
' T .u . v, . w . ,
"m" yi ui nuv, lQ R:Mr and E JJ
eiicicii uise&ieB oui 01 tne army ana
iiuw iu bwAiii' utem oui ai iiumo. Ana
now the health department is requesting
movie companies to run a play on the
screen to tell the nice people all about
it It calls a spade a spade, and de
clares that silence Is not golden, but
"criminal."
Indeed ! Another feather in the cap
of the social reformer. But what is the
cause of this social delinquency? Is
lo -me. or u
the young man to blame, or la It because
I landlordism has closed the door against
a healthy, happy, normal home? Ah,
! there's the rub. Silence is criminal about
the effect of a cause, therefore It must
! be doubly so about the cause Itself. We
, . . ,
'Zatn J '"efT "kT
' af SOme '," nMh. b',fr
T '"f"8 on t-'6 "' rather than
I 1 J 1' . 'ul,an
ena 10 tne conauion tnat breeds such a
monstrous hell In the midst of so-called
Christian civilization.
We must not only djuet our social
and economic conditions but we must
cast superstition aRide and study nature,
if we are to survive as a race. Other
wise, some ineect will wipe us off the
earth, as we should be, because -we have
failed to hear the voice of od.
J. R. HERMANN.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
Here is the story of how "The Little
Church Around the Corner" tot its
name, says the Detroit News. When
George Holland, a noted actor of the
last century, died ln 1870, some of his
friends went to Dr. Sabine, pastor of the
Church of the Atonement, Fifth avenue
and Twenty-ninth street, and solicited
the use of his services for funeral rites
over the dead. Dr. Sabine took the
committee to his church and showed it
gaily decorated for a Wedding, and
asked if such surroundings would be
suitable for a funeral. He suggested
that they might go "to the little church
around the corner." The general belief
at the time was that Dr. Sabine had
refused to have the funeral take place
in his church because Holland had been
an actor. A wave of indignation swept
over the- city. The old actor was burled
from Dr. Houghton's little church around
the corner. From that time, the church
haa been the actors' church, so to speak,
and It is always affectionately referred
to as "The Little Church Around the
Corner."
Olden Oregon
"Boston Men" a Term Long Applied
to the American Settlers.
Among the Indians the first settlers
were known as "Boston men." This
designation grew out of the fact that
the first trading expeditions sent out
to the Northwest by Americans were
from Boston. Mass. The name fimt
ame Into- use in the beginning of the
eighteenth century, when American and
English fur traders met on tha shore
of Vancouver island. The Americans
were called Boston men ln order to dis
tinguish them from the English, who
were characterised as King George men.
From this point the title spread over
the entire Northwest, being kept alive
by the long controversy between the
United States and Great Britain over
the Oregon question.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
I never was much on charity, but I
go some on justice. Here we're foolln'
time and money away tryln' to feed
them starvin' Armenians when we'd
orter be hammerln' congress and the
president to send a-plenty over there to
feed 'em and enough soldiers to perfect
'em from the Turks. The Christian folks
of the world don't seem to take no mors
interest in them people 'n If they waa
coyotes. The Turks sure needs pome
justice laid onto their backs, and Uncle
Sam and John Bull had orter lay it on
good and plenty and feed them Arme
nians "thout this hat-passln' charity,
which Is alius slow and glnerally cold.
Not. of course, that I kick on glvln' my
sheer, but thataway ain't She best way
in this case.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Sharpen the old lawn mower.
Window shopping would be more fun
If one could revise the price mark.
r,i'r.1 5uthoHUe" hve ritructed re-
de er to tr,m thelr Prices a
little along with the meat.
a
.ifL.chnc"!" .ar8 thM number of
ramlliei are going to be more dlasatls
Ited after a visit to the auto show.
The happiness that people get out of
doing spiteful things to others is about
as sweel an the elder that is squeezed
out of crabapples.
America is going to present to France
a statue representing Liberty Jn dis
tress, unless conditions change right
away the sculptor can use Misa Colum
bia for hia model.
that prohibition may be a good thing.
Betcha the queen met him In the hall
after he d been hitting the decanter.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
6- , 1 4l
Random Observations About Tclwn
It was with the best Intention in the
world that Chicago friends of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Rodger of Chicago arranged
for the reception in Portland of the
honeymoon party prior to thelr arrival
here. The friends sent a heavyweight
purse to the Multnomah hotel, asking
that the Rodger room be decorated with
Portland's fairest roses against their ar
rival. All that the Chicago folk could
wish was done to welcome them.
But with the uncanny preceptlon of the
newlywed, the Rodgers scurried past
the Multnomah door and are stopping
at the Benson while ln Portland, having
eluded local friends and perhaps other
expressions of good will than the
flowers that were placed In their room.
Hood River is never so forsaken by
her citizens during the apple season as
it has been over the past week-end.
Hotel registers show the following
persons from that famous valley as
visitors ln Portland: Mrs. W. A. De
Lashmut, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stewart
and M. F. Nesblt. at the Oregon ; Mr.
and Mrs. F- A. Keith, Mrs. J. Moller,
Miss M. Moller and Bliss Davis, at the
Mill tn Am ah J TT1 Ru1lirtffr an4 T? W
Caldwell, at the Perkins ; J. F. Volster.
at me imperial ; w. a. neatn, at me
Eeward ; A. W. Stone, at the Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Gordon of Marsh
field are guestf at the Multnomah hotel
while the former Is Inspecting wholesale
shoe stocks ln Portland with a view to
supplying the varied and extensive de
mands of Marshfleld folk. The Coos
Bay city requires the roughest and the
finest in shoes and Gordon endeavors to
supply all demands.
From La Grande the following visit
ors are registered at the Portland hotel,
which was only one of those apparently
crowdad to "cots in the halls" over
W aehington's birthday : Mr. and Mrs.
1 Al Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hilton
Tuttle and II. C.
Reeg
Grants Pass and Ashland, each boast
ful of the charms which, their residents
say, set the towns apart as the finest
in Southern Oregon, joined hands for a
trip to Portland on Monday and C. L.
Hobart of Grants Pass is here with
Thomas II. Simpson of Ashland. The
visitors are guests at the Seward ho
tel. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Canfield of Salem
are visiting ln the city and are guests
for the occasion at the Seward hotel.
Canfield la chairman of the state board
of barber examiners and his name ap
pears prominently on the permit of every
registered barber ln the state.
K. K. Piaseckl. district attorney for
Polk county, is at the Benson hotel with
Mrs. Piaseckl. Aside from being one of
the many Inveterate sportsmen of Dallas,
Piaseckl Is distinguished, equally with
his wife, for the consistency and quality
of his "300" or bridge game. "
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
Furtlier er In fie rareer of GoTemor Bn
W. Olrott art traced by Mr. JOrlT tnnj. It
eo.,dUo,g mm from . '' a""""'ph J next hilltop, l came to Palem and land
Illinow thriuih rarWi YllMtno t" a ran , . , . , , , , . . .
c.lerki"liii In Salem and then Into nrltifh i .
lumbia. where ha hunla for gold and doesn't
find it.
His friends and he has a host of
them -call htm Ben, but he was chris
tened Benjamin Wilson Olcott. His
mother's maiden name was Wilson ;
hence his middle name. His father's
name is Hiram Wallace Olcott. When
Ben was tn his teens ho landj'l a Job
as printer's devil on the Kolthsburg,
III., News. The proprietor was one ot
the old school. He carried ada for all
the "wet goods emporiums" In town, snd
took it out in trade, if, Bun's middle
name were not Wilson It would be
"System and Order." and after .he had
been there a few weeks and had no
ticed that the proprietor made no at
tempt to keep any record of the money
that came ln snor the expenses of the
shop. Ben. who had taken bookkeeping
ln high school, suggested installing a
set of books and a cost system. The
proprietor goodnaturedly consented, with
the remark that he was. afraid it would
prove too good a check on how much
of the paprr's income went over the
bar. Many of the subscribers were
in arrears for the paper, so Ben sent
out statements, writing on the bottom
of the statements, "Please remit at your
earliest convenience." When the irate
subscribers began writing ln that they
had already paid, and had their re
turned checks to prove It, the propri
etor shook his head and said, "You see.
Ben, what comes of these new fangled
schemes of keeping track of the money
we get In. Too much education Is a
bad thing. You mean well, but the old
way Is the easiest, and lots less trouble."
Ben got hold of a copy of Washington
Irvlng's "Astoria," and right then and
there decided to come out to Oregon.
Wages had been rather uncertain and
Irregular, so In lieu of wages the owner
of the paper gave him a letter to? the
advertising manager of the Northern
Pacific at St- Paul, requesting him to
give Ben a pass to Portland, Or., and
return. The return portion of that pass
is etill unused.
"How did I happen to leave the old
home tow n and come to Oregon T' said
Governor Olcott. when I asked him what
brought him. "1 suppose 1t was my love
of adventure, coupled with the romantic
idea I had of the West. When a young
fellow Is 20 he feels the lure of the
The Dotf Tax Law
f'rrfli th fanTon City Eatfe
County Clerk Hilbourn has Issued over
400 licenses for dogs. This Is a state
license and the application for license
comes under the provisions of a state
ts, lirense costs 1 and the license
law
'ir.h th ciuntv nas ro
supply costs about 60 cent. , The law
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
Jim Kyle, the corn Hlnf of Stanfield,
expects a big crop thlsarear. as his land
has been flooded four stlmes and much
silt left after each flood, the Pendleton
East Oregonian says. Corn growers say
that conditions are laeju lor a Dumper
crop. j
Joe Morrison, son of a pioneer Weston
preacher, was In that town recently, try
ing to locate a few old tehums and land
marks. Joe was a meiiber of the cele
brated baseball team, the Weston Stars,
who cleaned up everything tn that coun
try a third of a century ago. They had
the only curve pitcher, Jim Shields, then
on the coast, the Leader says.
t
"It is reported." eaye the Gold Beach
Reporter of recent dale, "that several
dead coyotes have been found on the
range east of town. -The cause of the
death of the varmints Is a myatery, but
a mystery, out
them .tat. their
in some strange I
those who came across
tongues have been cut; in some
rvi a nncr
to death. The carcasses were not
skinned out. since the? discoverers say
they were afraid of being poisoned.
P.. K. Felt. II. W. Cu$ertson and S. F.
Norton compose a pafty of travelers
from Salt Lake City stripping at the Ore
gon hotel while In the city.
a
John A. Nelson and Mrs. Nelson are
at the Multnomah, registering from Bay
City, Tillamook county, where Neleon
is a merchant. They are Improving the
spring day by inspecting wholesale
stocks in the city.
a
Caroline Lockhart, author of delightful
Western fiction, arrived at the Corne
lius hotel Monday from her ranch home
at Cody, Wyo. The Lockhart acrea for
merly were owned by William F. Cody
("Buffalo Bill), who was Miss Lock
hart's particular friend. From Portland
the visitor will go to Los Angeles to see
the presentation of her moat recent
moving picture scenario.
The Multnomah hotel this week houses
two notable Eastern educators. One la
Dr. John W. Bowman, president of Ohio
Wesleyan university, at Delaware, Ohio,
and the other Is Dr. Frank W. Chandler,
dean of the college of liberal arts at
the University of Cincinnati. The lat
ter Is ln Portland to consider, and be
considered for, the Reed college presi
dency. Mrs. J. M. Murray of Huntington. Or.,
where ahe and her husband feed the
hungry hordes at the O-W. R. & N. eat
ing house, is at the Multnomah hotel, en
route home after spending some time at
the Murray ranch, S5 miles south of
Portland.
John B. Eakln terminated a success
ful period of service as a lieutenant ln
the sanitary corps of the United States
army by returning to the "Hort" Eakln
fireside at Dallas to plan the handling
of the Polk county apple crop. That
campleted. he entered the real estate
business and the business of matrimony.
Mr. and Mrs. Eakln are at the Multno
mah during a brief visit in Portland.
C. 8. McN aught who has several
claims to dlstinCUon in Umatilla coun
ty, among which it the fame that comes
to him as a member of the city council
at Hermlston. is a guest at the Mult
nomah. The test as to the extent of damage to
Willamette valley orchards from the
December enow and under zero tempera
ture will come with the "June drop of
fruit," said B. W. Johnson, vice presi
dent of the Skookum Packers' associa
tion, which haa been in session for a
week at the headquarters In Seattle. Mr.
Johnson, who also is part owner and
manager of the well known Oaco or
chards near Monroe, Benton county, was
In Portland yesterday. "There Is far less
fear now." said Mr. Johnson, "that the
damage to the orchards from the storm
will be serious, and a general spirit ot
optimism prevails. Good prices for good
fruit for the next 10 years are predicted
by all orchardlsta." Mr. Johnson Is
one of Benton county's leading citizens.
Lorkley
, winding road
nd he wants to know
w nat th
country looks like over the
ed a Job as bookkeeper and shoe clerk
for William Brown & Co. felling shoes
did not particularly gratify my love of
adventure, so my roommate, Os West,
ana i piannea to go to Southern Oregon
and spend the summer prospecting.
Something came up that upst t Os' plans,
so he couldn't go ; but I decided to go
anyway. I Spent the summer ln South
em Oregon, working for a time on a
stock ranch not far from Ashland. When
I came barck to Salem In the late fall
of 18S3 the hard times were at their
very worst and there were three men
for every Job. I landed a Job on the
Putnam ranch at Eola. working for my
board. ppeaktng or Eola makes me
think of how astonished I was up In
Alaska to sMt a river boat whose name
was Eola. I hunted up its owner and
found he was a Polk county boy who
had lived at Eola. The Putnam ranch
at Eola Is now o ned by Senator I. L.
Patterson. The next spring I went to
work for my old boss. William Brown.
He had sold his shoe store and was
buying wool and hops. One day a tall,
slender farmer came in from Waldo
Hills to sell hi wool crop. I bought
it of him. He waa T. T. Ger. From
Brown's I went to work In the Ladd
Rush bank. I was what the boys
termed a "deckhand. I was bookkeeper
and handy man. I worked under Claude
Gatch. Among my fellow clerks were
Steve Sanford. Os West, Harry Staple
ton. Alec Molr. Fred Beak and Joe
Baumgartner.
"1 worked there three years, and
then the longing for change and
adventure became so strong I decided
to go up Into British Columbia, where
a gold strike was retorted In the Fort
Steele district. Ham Fletcher, son of
Governor Fletcher, Itenry Kundret and
myself jvent up to Spokane, where we
outfitted for the mines. Buying our
packhorses and loading on our plunder,
we startsd northward up the Kootenai
river. We spent the summer In virgin
country, prospecting. There were plenty
of deer, bear, bighorn sheep and moun
tain goats, so we lived on the country.
When we tired of game w e could catch
al! the trout we could eat ln a few min
utes' fishing. For weeks at a time we
were out of all touch with civilization
It was a wonderful summer, with one
exception, and that was we didn't find
anything in the mineral line worth lo
cating. When the snow drove us out
we went to Fort Steele to earn a grub
stake for next season."
may seem silly and foolish, but that I
not the point- It is the law. and If a
man has a license for hl dog he is la
much better shap to protect dog
and to keep himself out of trouble If his
dog get Into difficulty. There are a lot
I more dogs yet t hear from. Through
me aasessmeiu run wi '-
check on th don of the county,
The Oregon Country
North wcat lUpixntnn in Brief rorm for tk
Buajr Raadar.
OREGON NOTES
The first general overhauling of a loco
motive ever attempted in Central Ore-
Son has Just ben completed at Bend.
A sudden nMm, .j - . , w
Central Oregon has caused the postpone
ment of an Elks' Initiation at PrlneVlUe,
7h firt of tn n"ual open house
a1Vf People of Eugene and Lane
wntw. hCld l the M Unl"
win . he,r',.1.0tcaI tomoblle dealers,
bulldf. 1 the rct,n of -0.DOO
FPil?',.n.ave b',l drwn at Klamath
-hi ?K.Ule erei;,lou of a new Cathollo
boarders? 8ummer t0 accommodate 100
The March riinin .v. w - .
,i,i,i.. , , v" manun county
.xamlnauJ ori nV" to
Ul0nmnl ,nfnts of arrested de-
velopment-
A gasoline tank on the C H Ha.la-h
tractor blew ,,p while h, machlnea.
ve'refy Turned by h'" "n' Who w" -
ofMwa-1 Tlffanvf the Lincoln school
th t fh ?'.,ha; bwn elected to handle
tt ?,b,i?lty for lh Proposed two mill
tax for elementary education campaign.
Some action will soon be taken by
Lane county to compel Southern Pa
ri,. rmpany .to reeoiiatnact the wagSn
t? Kb.Tir'"n ,Mf'tn and Cushman on
tne Musluw river.
07Thh.P!al.,n of ,,0,,! eountv for 855.
;iback so on th iy wagon
road grant la.us haa been allowed. t,loV
of the money will bo placed In the
general county fund.
The United Slates reclamation office
KZrV1 Wi be received at
leaVlnVhofFaS, o". "p to ,arch 5 for
Jia nrth Brr' " marsh land on
uie north and east shores of Tule lake.
JJ'-?1'. P(imro'. special Investigator of
H?!L"iaSe flre """"hal's office, haa re
turned from n trip lino Extern Oregon.
i km ,fr"J0l ,hat a uPh'lmis case
grand jSry " Ea"tern Oregoo
The North Yamhill Water company
Vu .a "rnporary '"Junction
against the city council restraining it
?,m. .do1," a"y work or Proposed
municipal syatcm for which bonds have
been Issued.
WASHINGTON
E. Nyhus has been appointed postmas
ter of Westport. He is a grocer.
Several business houses of Centralis
hour eady aloPte1 the early closing
Tacc-ma school teachers are planning
to make a demand on the school board
for substantial pay Increases.
.Th.e University of Washington defeated
Whitman college ln the first debate of
the Northwest collegiate serlesj
A 10 foot vein of silver and lead ora
.7 TfJ"ZK a to have bPn uncovered on
the -000 foot level on the Hecla mine.
Experts in motor transportation will
address the Vancouver Chamber of Com
merce on the cost of hauling and freight
ing. A strike of linemen of the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph company at Ta
coma has gone Into effect About 200
men are Involved.
The Vancouver triple alliance delegates
nave returned from the state convention
and t Is rumored that they will nominate
a fuli county ticket.
The reported demand for increased
teachers salaries at Tacoma would ralne
the maximum salary to 2400 and fix
the minimum at $1400.
Harry Lyons, while Instructing In the
use of a new machine In a Vancouver
shipyard, was knocked from a piling. Ha
suffered a broken ankle.
The Northwest Mining association at
Ita meeting In Spokane adopted resolu
tions calling for an international con
ference to increase the gold reserve.
Wahlnrton apple onhji rdlntu will
have the Crown storage apaces, which
will control 60 per cent of the state's
output and regulate the returns to
grower.
U. J. Dinahue. chief of tho dairy and
livestock department In the commissioner
of agriculture's office, has reltcned to
become manngcr of the Carnation Stock
farms company.
Carlos L. Byron and Kdward M.
Comyns, charged with having used the
mails to defraud In a land r.ettlemrnt
scheme, have been found guilty of 4
of the 50 counts on which they were
tried.
IDAHO
A contract has been let for the immedl.
ate construction of SO residences In pocs
tello. ' Idaho has received ISfit.lSO Irirome
from the national forest rince 1308. Last
year the total was 911 5.76 r.
Every teacher In the Boise puhllo
schools will receive m bonus for the
present year. The average will be Z0
Another seed warning has been issued
to farmers by th university eitrnslon
division relating to obtaining purr: revj.
The road between Bolso and Payette
Is said to be in epIemJId condition except
tho stretch between Bolso and Eagle In
Ada county.
An appalling sanitary condition at
Pocatello has been disclosed In a survey
made by the Id Cross and Antl-Tubcr-culosls
association.
The city council of Kind Point will
cooperate with the county snd whool
district in the employment of a publlO
nurse for children.
Governor Davis will slrn the national
woman suffrsce amendment, although it
Is not necessary to make tne action of
the legislature legal.
A Rochdale cooperative store will be
established a Twin Kails soon. Farmers
mainly are Interented In the enterprise.
At first only groceries will be sold.
I ' r
t
The Journal Has Led in All
Efforts Made to Put the
Port in Portland
The port terminal program of Port
land has been cumulative. F.ach time
tho people haie been aaked for money
for docks the amount asked has been
voted by strong majorities. The ex
pression of public determination,
confidence and hope thus (riven are
the reasons why port officials should
be Inspired to keep the faith, secure
maximum results from the money ti
vested and count success still a thing
Of thh future until the harbor bas
been filled with shipping.
All of which Is a reminder that
Portland found In The Journal a
newspaper leader for port develop
ment. Away ,a.k In 1910, Joseph
Simon, then mayor, refused to take
the steps necessary for tho sale of
J500.000 in dock bonds voted under
the administration, as mayor, of the
late Harry "Lnne. An Issue of $2,500,
000 in bond waa proposed. The Jour
nal devoted unremitting energy to
the campaign, and the Issue was
voted with a majority of about two
to one. With the money derived from
the sale of the bonds the first steps
were taken toward ending the regime
of private and corporation control of
the waterfront, and public docks were
built on both side of the river. Since
that time the people have voted an
Issue of $3,000,000 with which to con
truct the piers and million-bushel
bulk grain elevator of the St. John
terminal and have added authority to
Issue Ji.000,000 in bond with which
to carry on the harbor program. The
Port of Portland, too, was authorised
by the vote of the people to issu
$1,006,000 In bonds with which to
equalise port charges and offer In
ducements to shipping. The Journal
during the year has maintained its
constructive and aggressive attttuda
toward port terminal construction
and has seen formerly negative jnews
papers fall Into tine.