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BACK TO PRIVATE CONTROL
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"OR better or for worse, the rail
roads have gone back to private
Control Of public control, Di
rector General Hitres ' recently
said : , t
In a time of great difficulty and with
aa amount of equipment which was in
adequate even before federal- control,
the unified opesatlon of the railroads'
produced a total transportation service
greater than ever before in thef history
of the country, and has done it with far
, less congestion and delay than was
characteristic of conditions of heavy
business under private control.
Perhaps the public will remember
that at the time the government took
over the roads, the newspapers were
' filled With accounts of delays in the
movement of -traffic. Warehouses
vvere bulging with freight that could
not be moved. Traffic stood atong
Sidings waiting for cars. Perishable
products were rotting at way stations
, and terminals.
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Meetings of railroad executives were
being held to consider the grave situ
atlon. The head of their organlza
. tion, In a public statement, confessed
that probably 30 per cent of the traf-
flo could not be moved. It was be
cause of the acknowledged break
: down of the lines in meeting their
responsibility of moving traffic that
the government took over the roads,
- There wele reasons for the collapse.
A few years ago the roads were in
the habit-of adding 150,000 to 173,000
new freight ears to their equipment
annually. Those additions or cars
.were necessary to keep pace with the
. growing volume of traffic.
- t But. a time came when the faith of
the public In the railroads! as an in
vestment was shattered. The roads
could not borrow money. They were
i without means for buying new cars
and;j new locomotives. The volume
of business mounted. The equip
ment of the roads, save in a few in
Btaaees, stood still. A breakdown
became- inevitable. It came to pass
. when we entered the war and effective
transportation had to be provided as
ft war .measure.
Another reason for. the breakdown
was the roundabout routing of traf-
' fjc--the use of the long haul when
shorter hauls were available.
, , As exatnpte, there was the hauling
of Pendleton wheat through Portland
to Puget Sound, when at Portland the
1 gram was nearer to the consuming
' markets, jnotably In Europe.
J Or there was the haul of Pendleton
wheat via North Yakima to Puget
Bound instead of to Portland, with
a loss of 112 miles fn distance.
. Or there was the shipment of 150
cars of soy bean oil from Seattle via
Portland, San Francisco. Los Angeles,
- Is'ew Orleans to Cincinnati, 4173 miles,
; when, by direct routing, the shipment
could have reached its final destina
tion in ofy" 2483 miles.
BysiaChroutings and unnecessary
- length of hauls, equipment was
' wasted, extra locomotives were re
v quired, the time of added train crews
. was thrown away and the general
effectiveness of the roads Impaired.
s j, TjOne of the first acts of the govern-
rbent was an order by the then Direc-1
. tor; General MeAdoo requiring traf
fio moved by the shortest ana most
direct route. With all Jthe lines uni
fied into one big system the round-
. about routings ; were minimized, and
equipment utilized to its fullest ca
pacity. No leas an authority than
Director General Hlnes, a railroad' ex
ecutive of . high reputation and long
' experience, says-jof government op
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' In a time of rreat diff ieulty and with
"an amount of equipment which; was Inadequate-
even' before federal control,
the unified . operation , of the ralrroads
produced a tour transportation service
greater than ever before in the history
a s. jACiaoN.-r...
of the country and ha. . 4on It with
far leaa congestion and delay than was
eitaractrl8ttc of eonditioaa of beary
buatneaa nndar gwrlvato control , .
'." 'J V 'L" a wai aa a a ay , M
It mar b true that it . wa a ro
markablo eolncldonco only tbat sent
upward tb prte of uipar lmmedi
ately upon too refoaae of the federal
price control. The a-OTernlnc fac
tor maf now bo vnurcal. shorta
of supply and abnormal demand, but
the consumer la gTowInc less easily
satisfied with a condition that has
reduced the former plump-bodied
quarter's worth of sugar to a mere
shadow of Its former self. He be
lieves that if he went to tearinc
apart the national ' woodpile " ho
would find lurking there a Sene
gambian plainly . branded "Prof
iteer." There was a time . when
honey and molasses and maple
sugar very admirably took the place
of sugar, and if the housewives of
the country wish to be able to do
any fruit canning thia summer they
may find that the way to brin down
the price is to -organize a "sugar
boycott"- during the next 1 three
months. . . .
THE WOMAN'S YEAR-
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N THE year 1288, before Columbus
had dreamed of a new world or
had even been ' born, Scotland
adopted a law which, without apol
ogy and with but a single loophole
for the Injured sex, ordained:
It Is statult and ordaint that durlnr
the rein of hlr malst .blisslt Mageste.
for ilk years known as lepe -yeare,
like mayden ladye of bothe high and
lowe estalt ahall hae liberte to bespeke
ye man she likes, albeit he refuses to
talk hir to be his lawful wyfe he shall
be mulcted In ye sum ane pundis or
less, as his estait may be; except and
awls elf he can make It appeare that
he is betroth it ane Ither woman, he
shall then be free.
So far as available reference berves
as a guide, this enactment was the first
which gave legal standing to the
pleasant .custom whereby adventurous
and lovelorn maidens of all times
have found warrant for breaking
down the diffidence of bashful swains.
Whether popular among the men or
not, results seem to have been per
suasive, for France adopted a similar
law a few years later and in the
fifteenth century Genoa and Florence
legalized leap year proposals.
But leap year, it appears, was not
primarily established to get aside a
day for feminine aggressiveness in
love making. The indications are that
after the astronomers of Julius Caesar
in 46 B. C, agreed upon a solar year
of 365 days and six hours with an
extra day every fourth year, the
women simply came along and ap
propriated the additional time for their
own purposes."
Mere man's failure to become enam
ored of such sweet advances as are
traditionally associated with leap
year does not today carry the penalty
that Scotland imposed, but whp will
say, law or no law. fine or no fine,
that he has any better chance of es
cape from the silken bonds when one
of the designing fair determines to
snare him.
It is our modest guess that Spo
kane's idea of a khaki club will
sweep witn wild enthusiasm over
the United States. Canada and part
of Mexico. That is, always provided
the soft shirt, Munson last and cot
ton woven coat and pants prove as
effective an auxiliary to business
getting as creased woolens, shining
shoes, shlmmery neckwear and
board-like collars. Nine out of 10
men feel better in their outing
clothes than in any other garments
they possess. And they are always
conscious that the comfort costs
less. '
MORE MASSACRES
A"
NOTHER' massacre of Armenians
by Turks is announced. Sixteen
thousand have been butchered.
among them 75 girls who were
under American protection. The at
rocity follows another of a few weeks
ago, in which 2000 Armenians were
brutally murdered by the unspeakable
Turk. .
Only last week, the so-called coun
cil . of premiers agreed to permit Tur-.
key to retain Constantinople. But
Lloyd George assured the British par
liament that Turkey was so stripped
of power as to be impotent for fur
ther mischief. ;
That sort of assurance has been
heard before. In 1878, when Russia
was about to drive the Turk out pf
Constantinople, England interfered,
and under the terms of the treaty
J of San Stefano that followed, civil
ization was told that Turkey was
to Jpe restrained. In that war, the
Armenians, under a promise of inde
pendence, fought on the side of
Russia.
Under the settlement, their hope
of independence dwindled Jnto a flim
sy agreement, never carried out, under
which they were guaranteed protec
tion. Later, in the Berlin treaty, all the
European governments agreed to re
quire Turkey to inaugurate reforms In
her relations with Armenia. Russia
soon expressed indifference, and fol
lowing that decision Bismarck noti
fied England that Germany was -not
interested in the welfare of the Ar
menians. Soon thereafter, the whole
project of restraining Turkey van-
isnj, ana since that upwards of
2,000,000 Armenians have been wan
tonry an I inhumanly slaiurhtererf.
So far the ; new assurances are as
ineffective as were the old. . Sixteen
thousand .'butchered now and 8000 a
few weeks ago ; are in the "bloody
recura. ; . - .,. . ; .
Doe Anybody believe that - If ' the
League of Nations had been promptly
ratified and if America, with her great
moral - Influence, were now a factor
In the league council and direction.
these bloody, massacre would have
occurred? - '
The Journal doea not, ..' "' '. .
Fifty; Chicago organizations are
preparing to ' make light wines and
beera a plank in, the platform Mt
the national convention - at San
Francisco. "What an issue to bring
forward, when. b many Industrial
reconstruction . and other after-the-
war problems are clamoring for so
lution. ,To make light wines and
beers would-be like proposing the
tariff as a cureall for what hap
pened during the war, V
TO CURB SKULDUGGERY
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S
OMETHING should' be done to
check'skulduggery In the Oregon
legislature.
It should be made impossible
for such things as the Midnight res
olution" to be slipped through both
houses of that body in the closing
hour. It is what, happens the last
night of the session that is to be
dreaded. That is yhen the legislative
crook gets in bis deadly work.
Most of the men who go lo the leg
islature are anxious to render good
and faithful service, But there are
men who go with ulterior purposes.
So many bills are introduced that the
state house becomes a babel of con
fusionnobody knows much of any
thing about anything that la going on.
It is the testimony of men at the
late special session that they were
not able to become even partly fa-1
miliar with a majority of the bills
offered for consideration, and that
they often voted on mere explanations
of; measures by memberswho pro
fessed to know. One honest member
has since ascertained that he Is re
corded as voting for two bills to wWch
he finds himself unalterably opposed.
Save the interested few, nobody
knew until long afterward, that the
notorious "midnight resolution" had
passed. Even the attorney generalof
the state, who was directed by the
resolution to appear before the su
preme court at Washington and "op
pose the government's contention" in
the grant land suit, did not know that
the measure had passed until accosted
on the streets of Portland weeks
afterward and asked when he was
going to Washington to carry out the
Instructions of the resolution.
There should be no opportunity at
the legislature for such performances.
So long as there is opportunity for
crooked work, there will be legisla
tive crooks who will function. Some
of them doubtless go to the legisla
ture because there is such oppor
tunity. A divided session is: proposed by
Senator Pierce as a remedy. At a
preliminary session, about the length
of the present session, iall bills would
be brought to the poipt where they
would be ready for final passage. But
before they are finally acted upon
there would be a temporary adjourn
ment Of 30 to 60 days to give time
for everybody in the slate to find out
exactly what every measure proposed
and what all its provisions are. Then
there would be a very brief session
In which the members would recon
vene for final action. At this short
closing session, no new. measures
could be Introduced. Nqr could there
b changes In measures pending, ex
cept by unanimous consent or by a
nearly unanimous vote of both houses.
The added cost of the arrangement
would be $6000 to $10,000, according
to the length of time allowed for it.
Under such a plan, just how would
legislative crooks be able to put over
their schemes T i
In her years as a teacher. Hazel
Weller Will, through her gentle
personality and generous affection,
left a wholesome impress upon many
a pupil. In the several communities
in which she lived in Oregon, she
was universally esteemed. To all
these, her sudden death is a em
prise and a shock.
PORTLAND, FURNITURE CENTER
EASURED in money, the pur
chase of the Oregon Chair -company
by Heywood Brothers dt
Wakefield company, Is only a
moderately large transaction Involv
ing the fifth of a million dollars
or so.
What the transfer really Involves
Is the recognition of Portland as the
furniture manufacturing center of the
Pacific coast by a national furniture
manufacturing organization.
The Heywood Brothers & Wakefield
company Is the .oldest and largest
chair producing concern in the coun
try. Its principal factories are in the
East. Its Portland branch has for a
number of years assembled and fin
ished -furniture "shipped in the
white," and the owners of the com
pany until recently have deemed it un
necessary to go beyond this point in
local Or Pacific coast manufacture.
But changed commercial conditions
brought .o the concern the realization
that it must have a Western factory.
It had the choice of all the principal
cities on the coast and selected! Port
land for purely business advantage.
Thorough investigation, not sentiment,
based the decision. .. ; 1 J
PortlarJl has become the furniture
manufacturing and supply center of a
territory that covers so wide an area
as that comprised by Alaska, British
Columbia, Washington, Oregon. Cali
fornia, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada,
Colorado and a part of Wyoming. The
retail value of the furniture manufac
tured in. this, city in i19 reached the
handsome total of $6,000,000. a :
The experience that furniture manu
facturer have had' In Portland Is lit
lustratlve of the constructive and dis
tributive advantages which . thiscity
offers -many kinds of industry- The
benefits of natural advantages are
lasting and increase as - man makes
use of them. ? , ;
' CONSOLIDATE THEM , .
I
F THE plan to consolidate eity and
county government in Portland Is
carried out, a great deal of waste,
duplication and overlapping of en
deavor will be- eliminated. Both are
maintaining . a complete' system of
government. - Both have administra
tive departments. The county has
Sheriffs and constables and the city
has an elaborate police syfjtern. There
is ' duplication and doubled overhead.
Thej only people, opposed to the
plan are the politicians. The only
reason for maintaining the arrange
ment is to make more jobs for the
taxpayers to pay for.
, By consolidating and coordinating
the two systems, money could be
saved for county taxpayers and money
be saved for city taxpayers.
There is consolidated goYerament
In San Francisco, and it functions
smoothly; effectively and satisfactor
ily. If you would propose inaugura
tion there of the arrangement In
vogue in Portland, the San Francis
cans would give way to a merry
ha ha.
Portland, has a splendid system of
city government. Practically the
same overhead for administration
that underwrites it would, in addi
tion, flnaixe county government with
little if any added cost.
It is foolish jiot to make the change,
How Two Letter Carriers
Made Side Money in
Vacation Time
Her e's a Back to the Land Story
That Deals With Spud Raising
In Benton. County
Fritz and Phil Flelschman are broth
ers. They are letter carriers. They
work in the postoffice at Corvallis. They
work efeht hours a day routing and de
llverlng mail. This and their two weeks'
vacation gives them time to make
little .moraey on the side. Last year
they dec? died to raise potatoes to earn
their side money. A Journal reporter
visited them at the postoffice In Cor
vallis a day or so ago. The spokesman
of the two said:
"We rented 10 acres from Dick KJger
on K-igefs Island. : near Corvallis, lor
1100, We planted Burbank and True
White Rose potatoes. . We planted 14
bushels ' to the acpe. We had to pay
cents a. pound for our seed potatoes.
We plowed the land In February, plow
ing fairly deep. Ws plowed It again in
May. Then we disc harrowed and culti
vated it three times before planting;. We
treated our potatoes with corrosive sub
limate to kill the disease spores on the
surface. We gn-eened our potatoes for
five weeks before planting. To 'green'
potatoes is to put them into an airy
place where they have subdued light
not sunlight They turn greeo and begin
to sprout.
"Phil took his summer vacation about
the middle of June. We decided to make
money through change of occupation
during vacation, instead of spending
money as one usually does in vacation
time.' Phil planted the 10 acres between
June 15 and June 20. We also planted
some Netted Gem potatoes on a few
acres we had contracted to buy. We
planted nine acres to potatoes on the
Kfger 10-acre tract we had rented. We
got 1292 sacks off this nine-acre tract
The sacks averaged 110 pounds, field
run. There was a week's rain at hop
picking time, early In September. Our
potatoes, having been planted late, con
tinued to grow. The vines were stiU
green In the middle of October, when
we had a hard frost. We had sold 100
sacks before the cold snap at 3 cents a
pound. We sold 1100 sacks after the
freeze at 5 cents a pound. Includftrs;
the potatoes raised on our small tract
we sold 1476 sacks.
"During the below zero cold snao we
had our potatoes in storage. We bouchl
tnree 011 stoves, an electric stove and
two second-hand wood stoves and hired
two men to keep all. of them .groins'. We
never lost a potato. It cost us for the
stoves, fuel and labor a little less than
J100. We sold the potatoes, however,
after the cold snap at 2 cents a pound
more than before the cold weather, net
ting $2440 more than we otherwise would
nave got? so our 1100 Investment In
stoves paid. 'After deducting the cost
of the rent for the land, cost of seed
potatoes, labor and heat, we netted a.
little more than $5000 on our nine acres
of spuds, which was pretty good side
money. As a matter of fart, our sal
aries from Uncle Sam. for carrying; the'
man turned out to i be the side money.
- - " -
"We have purchased 21 acres. Dart of
it at $12? an acre and the rest at $150.
We shall plant 10 or 12 acres this spring;.
10 get some more side money."
Potatoes brought a lot of money to
Benton county growers last year. The
following list Includes the larger potato
raisers to the vicinity of- Corvallis:
Fleishman Bros., Dick Kiger, F. O. Har
ris, J. it. Crist Harry Asbahr, J. A.
Seavey, Will Whiteside, Albert A. Wilt,
George McLaughlin, Clyde Miller. O. C.
Beals. M. C. Winkle, F. C. Gates, Adolph
rromnerz, jonn n. Williamson. Grant
Elgin.
There are a large number of potato
growers in the vicinity of Junction City,
the following being the larger growers
there: Bird Rickard, Lottie M. Meek,
Ross Barclay, Hinton Bros., Albert Zie
roff. H. C. Herron, Frank Wlgle, Manley
Anderson. Dodd Bros.. R. R, Rust, F. A.
LAicas. (jiyoe Starr. O. K. Jennings, A.
Goracka, Charles Hartley. R. M. Max
fieldr.Earl Barger, S. G. Wooley, A. Wal-
aen, o. is. Rose, c. Wooley. William
Binshadler. Joe Prohaska, O. S. Brown.
Letters From the People
I CoaamnBteattoBa tea m Th. T.
publication ia thia department should a writtea
i lr' j .T lam paper, uosm not netted
e words la aniKth, and most be turned by the
writer, whose auul tddm Is full swjt aooos
pnj th attribution. J
The Liberty Bonds' Discounts
Redne, Feb. 23. To the Editor of The.
Journal In looking up the Liberty bond
market which runs from $90.70 to $9$.0
per 11UU, according to the Issue, I am re
minded of the comment.. by papers and
citUens of Portland some two years back
when a resident of that city discounted
a Liberty bond, which was taker at .the
time as an insult to our government,
whose war bonds-were worth par and no
less. ; What of today? The man working
for wage who put his spare money into
these securities not aa an investment,
because - we all know they are not a
short time Investment but directly to
aid the cause find that they are dis
counted, avnd not lightly, either, when we
were given to understand, indirectly, that
they would never go below par. It-cannot
be denied dat these bonds were
forced on the public. to a great extent
You were - supposed to invest according
t your ability. The bond slacker in war
time has the laugh on us at about the
ratio of $90.70 to $10ft,-It looks aa If the
premium was en the stacker by about
1940. . Am. I wrengT Wnai oc w ooj
-over therV who paid for hto bonds
out of his little Id 30 pert , After
the noise dies down, his reception home
i orsrotten and he rets In such shape as
to oompel him "to dispose of bis war
bonds. . Do you thin n cent on
dollar win be very sweet music m nw
ears? When the war was fat the balance
these, securities sold for par. How, wivn
the. waur won. If it becomes necessary to
dispose of a - bond yon must sell at a
discount, was It the intention oi uie
government when these bonds were
IuumI that the man needina his money
should be pinched by the broker? What
causes tms aecrease ox nemrty aw v
cent? Our government is certainly not
off 10 points or one point, wui some
one please explain through The Journal
columns? lbbuiiuuhi.i
Profiteerino Remedy Proposed
Portland. Feb. 22. To the Editor of
The Journal Profiteers are the prod
uct of the profit system. Abolish the
profit system and there wui oe no
nroflteers. If the business of our army
stere in Portland should be . enlarged to
Include the buying- of all commodities
purchased In Portland and selling them
to the consumers at cost pros expenses
of running the store. It would eliminate
the profiteer and this would add him to
the working force of the country, which
would he a good thing for him and also
help the country generally. I can see
no good reason why this should not be
done.
Of course the profiteer, looking at it
from his standpoint, sees reason why
it. should not be done, bat he is viewing
it from a very sorry standpoint indeed,
I '.consider his position. This plan
could be made universal. Why not em
ploy a remedy that will get us some
where? W. H. BLACK.
Ranters Rebuked
Med ford, Feb: IS. To the Editor of
The Journal We haVe had a great many
Lincoln banquets throughout the United
States. Tou would think from the ora
torical display that the Republican
party would not be lacking presidential
timber. Scores of men In every gath
ering know more about how to run
the ETOvernment than any president ex
cept Lincoln. They take their hats off
to him, but they are fully equal to
Washington or Roosevelt ; they are head
and shoulders above all others. I
think it strange that so much brain
power Is - lying around unutilized fti
high places, but when you look at and
listen to these ranters with an unblasted
mind, you will see they, do nothing but
vilify what they cannot equal or sur
pass. It puts me In mind of the wild
Indians in bygone days, when they used
the tomtom, or. a gourd with a rock In
It to scarje away something they were
afraid of. Why all this vilification?
The people know how to vote.
Abolish the United States senate as a
public nuisance. Elect one representa
tlve from each state ; then there will not
be so many to jangle over every little
technicality. Congress, as It is, is noth
ing but a farce, a disgrace and a hin
drance. If this body could read the
handwriting on the wall, tt would stop
petty politics and get busy with the
country's needed legislation.
AN ONLOOKER.
Discards All Candidates
Athena, Feb. '20. To the Editor of
The Journal Your list of candidates for
straw vote contains the unlucky num
ber 'of 13. Not one of them ever did
any work with his hands as a laboring
man. There is not one of them that
can have any real sympathy for the
underdog. If I were to vote, 1 should
throw up a nickel, heads or tails, for
Wood or Palmer. Either way I lose,
but I would be a good loser. Wood would
make a. first rate dictator, with plenty
of action machine gun action to con
trol labor, situations. Palmer, "with his
Puritanic Intolerance, makes a fine sup
pressor of free speech and radical elim
inator. He would have us all thinking
alike In no time. If we had ships enough
and prisons enough, "Vive le Jmperator."
F. B. WOOD.
John Barleycorn
Portland, Feb. 25. To the Editor of
The Journal We hear John Barleycorn
is dead and buried, murdered by , his
enemies. Many, many thanks to' .the
minister that1 officiated at the grave.
We still miss our friend John in medi
cine and in sficknesa. John Barleycorn's
spirit was not burled with his body.
The Bible says the spirit is not buried,
and tells us ''they that are burled shall
rise again." j KATE SULLIVAN.
Accomplishments -
From the Minneapolis Jobraal.
Spinks I know your -eldest daughter
plays and' the second one sings. What
accomplishment has the youngest?
Bobleigh (proudly) She neither plays
nor sings. ,
Olden Oregon
In 1846 a More Southerly Immigrant
-, Route Was Located.
The first wagon road from the Wil
lamette valley Into Southern Oregon
was located In the summer of 1846 by
a party of Polk county residents, among
whom were Jesse and Llndsey Apple
gate. The party made its way through
the Unipqua Valley into the Rogue river
country to the; Siskryous. where it turned
east and crossed the Cascades Into tbe
Klamath region to Tule and Modoc
lakes, thence through Langell valley to
the lower endl of Goose lake and thence
to Surprise vUley in Northern Califor
nia. From there . the party made its
way to Fort Hall, Idaho, where connec
tion was made with the old emigrant
trail.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious -
Gleaned From Curious Places;
Communism was first tried out In
America more! than 800 years ago in the
first settlement mane by uie mngusn
UDon American shore. Mary Newton
Standard, in "Colonial Virginia," says
that "the colony had been managed
from the. beginning on .the community
plan all sharing the work and such
provisions as were at command." Al
though the people in the communist col
ony had every incentive In the world
to stick together and -labor for a com
mon - advantage, the situation was so
critical when Sir Thomas Dale became
governor -that! he" "at once allotted all
of the settlers private gardens in addi
tion to public! ones," and in 1(13 gave
each man three acres of cleared land to
farm for himself and his family. The
reason for Governor Dale's, actions is
found in the old records which, tell us
that "when the settlers fed out of the
common store 1 and , laboured jointly s to
gether, glad was he that could slip from
his labour or slumber over' his taske,
he cared not how, - nay the moet honest
among them would hardly take so much
palnes In a week as - now themselves
they , win doe In a day.r. ' .' j . - ;
Uncle Jeff Snow -Says:
Lew Metterhaas - is - a-layln' - offea his
job in Portland so's riot to hava ' his
income run over $2000 a year and
thereby make hlsself liable fer a income
tax. Lew riggers it's easier tie lay of f
a few, days and lome back to the Cor
ners and git acquainted with . the? old
home folks a spell than to fill out one
of them there income tax questionnaires.
: 'nrwk a cmt A wn rvi cx;c tm ddi cr? - III
. - V.iTlTaA- fatlaV ;11U YY J. Ill aJiVit-. . -Ml
Kj p ' SMALL CHANGE K ",. -
Had Tou steeled yourself for the ver
dict: The United States Steel corpora
tion 1 not a trust"? -
Attorney General A. Mltchen Palmer
saya he doesn't want the presidency, and
H's a cinch he won't get Jt unless he con
descend to part his name differently.
We read that the transport Buford.
the "soviet ark" that carried the "Reds
to Russia, is back and In quarantine. It
will certainly need a thorough fumigat
ing before release, too.
The return Of , the raflr-naula rn nH..I.
control does not mean as much in our
J"u"s iiie as u mignt nave some years
ago, when railroad transportation was
vmn si we newspaperman's life.
Notwithstanding the aervfo an mm-
modlc strikes in Portland the net earn-
jiibb we American Telephone a Tele
fph company for 1819 were $80,000,000.
Had It not been tar tha
the company would doubtless have had a
tuuai Bausieciory year. ..
MORE OR LESS PERSONA!
Random Observations About ToWn
"I can't make myself believe this Is
winter. It is just like May hack home,"
says John Eklund, of WUmot S. D..
who is looking for a small farm In
Oregon. Back in South Dakota, Eklund
farmed on a large scale, raising corn
and grain on three quarter-sections and
keeping- one half section in pasture and
hay land, besides raising a large herd
of livestock. Labor difficulties caused
Eklund tq sell all but his hay land, and
he . Is gjfcow looking for from 15 to 40
acres somewhere In the Willamette val
ley where he will make his home. "1
like the looks of this country," said
Eklund. "I came out 4o look at it be
cause I wasn't sure about the winters.
Now I am sure this is where I want to
live." ; - '
!
The Oregon hotel staff, Sunday, re
newed acquaintance with two formerly
prominent figures in the life of the
hotel. Charles Wright of Seattle, for
merly of ; the firm of Wright & Dickin
son, owners of the Oregon and the
Hotel Seattle, dropped in to occupy a
room and meet the gang. A short time
later came M. K. MacRae,' who was
manager of the Oregon under the
Wright A Dickinson administration.
MacRae, also a resident of Seattle, is re
turning to the Sound city after visiting
relatives at Little Rock, Ark. "I stayed
in Arkansas as long as I could stand
It and am powerfully glad to be nearly
home again," the traveler declared.
-Mr. and Mrs. Bayley Hipkins, the for
mer aistrict manager or-the f oundation
company, which had a shipyard in Port
land during the war, are at the Benson
hotel, en route to their home at Seattle.
The Hlpkinses have been in New York.
where Mr. Hipkins was called on a busi
ness trip, and returned to the coast by
way of California. The statement of
M. Baron, French under secretary, who
declared recently that of the many
ships built in America for the French
government not one put to sea, is flatly
denied oy Hipkins. "Not only did the
vessels built for the French by the
Foundation company put to sea," he
says, "but they arrived in France, with
out an exception that I have heard of."
C. L. Ireland, who makes so much
money running a weekly' newspaper at
Moro, Sherman county seat that he
doesn't even bother to. collect all Tils
advertising bills, is spending some of his
gains In Portland, and while here Is a
guest at the New Perkins hotel. Ireland
has been at the helm of the Sherman
County Observer for so long that he
can hardly remember the day he start
ed where his father left off. In con
nection with the publishing business,
Ireland conducts a book and stationery
store -that supplies the needs of most of
the school children in Moro and other
Sherman county cities.
The Imperial hotel lobby was popu
lated Sunday and Monday by a frater
nal gathering of visiting hotel men.
Among the notables, for instance, were
Dan Bass of the Frye hotel, Seattle;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller of the
Hotel Marion, Salem, and Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Moore, formerly of the Moore hotel.
Seaside. Mr. and Mrs. Miller spent
Sunday here after an automobile trip
from Salem to Astoria, on which they
found the highways passable to motor
traffic and. In fact In good condition.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore, who some time
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
; OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockiey
f Diseonnw of Major Mill hi presented hr Mr.
Iockler today. Major Mills ptjra t tribute to
his chief. Colonel DUque, and sketch hi own
and a portion of hi celebrated father'! career,
ckninc with a significant parable which ha had
from bia father.
A day or so ago, M. E. Lee of Port
land, president of the Inland Empire
Boat and Truck line. Senator E. W.
Haines of Forest Grove, Major Mills and
I, drove by auto from Corvallis to Port
land. The matter of the animus of the
attack on Colonel Disque came up.
Major Mills served under Colonel Disque
and has known him for many years.
"Colonel Disque rose from the ranks."
said Major Mills. "He won his com
mission by sheer ability. While serving
as a captain in the Philippines a South
ern state, needing an organiser and ad
ministrator to take charge of Ha manu
facturing Industries In the state prison,
heard of Captain Disque. Investigated
his record thoroughly and cabled him to
resign from the army and take the re
sponsible position of director and man
ager of the manufacturing industries
carried on by the state. These various
Industries had shown a loss. He ac
cepted the position and put them on a
paying basts.
."When the war broke out he applied
for. his old position' as captain in the
regular army. He was made a major
and assigned to the air service. He put
his baggage aboard a transport and was
on the point of leaving for France when
he was Ordered by the war department
to remain over for an Important con
ference. This having been attended to
he again boarded a transport for over
seas duty, when he was asked to take
charge of the . spruce production activ
ities of the government Very much
against' his will he consented to do so.
I served with him and -learned to re
spect, and admire him greatly, not only
as an efficient officer, but as a clean,
square and likable man."
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'Major Mills la the eldest son of the
noted evangelist B. Fay Mills, and la a
resident of Portland, living at 774 Wasco
street For some time he has been fill
ing the ! pulpit of the; Central Presby
terian church on the east side. He was
born September 28, 1881, in South Da
kota. 1
"I waa on the Ellison-White Interna
tional Chautauqua circuit and liked
Portland so much I decided to bring my
family here and make It my home." salt
Major Mill. "Tou have possibly heard
my father, B. Fay Milts, preach, as he
pent some time in Oregon 20 jrear or
more age. I was the eldest of a family
of - aix -three - boys and three girls.
Father was , rather-remarkable char
acter he was so many sided. He was
graduated from- college at the age of
is. He went to San Francisco and be-
' '- I 1
SIDELIGHTS
-TeU us about mrntng." urges the
Salem Statesman. -Let's prove that
Salem I a coming mtning center. Which
it is. by the decrees of the fates."
"There have been ho genuine efforts."
complains the Woodburn Independent
to find oil in this section. There may
be an abundance of oil here, but nobody
seems willing to back up such an opinion
with cash."
Charles W. Hughes, large timber own
er of Curry county, in Eugene from Port
Orfy.rH tan. thai Rttartxter I that the world
famous Curry county cedar Is In danger
01 extinction, as 11 is oeing bo ruiy
used and little attempt at eonservauun
made. 1
I
"City street tmproveraent has been
planned on a large scale. With streets
Improved and old woodm sidewalks n
the discard by replacement with cement,
what a change there will j be In civic bet
terment!" fervently exclaims the Baker
Democrat.
ago disposed of their Interest In the
hotel at Seaside, have ! been Spending
the whiter at Spokane.
a j !
Mrs. Willis Van Horni who has been
keeping vigil at the bedside of her hus
band at a local hospital for many week,
has returned to her home tti the Hood
River valley for a rest, of brief dura
tion. Mr. Van Horn . has . had quite a
siege, but Is rapidly recovering strength.
It Is reported. The Vah Horn home. In
Hood River valley occupies a command
ing eminence In the heart of the valley,
and the apple orchard ithe estate com
prises is on the slopes below the home.
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Andrew Chllberg. Carl J. Smith and
F. M. Duggan. a party Of Seattle bank
ers, are registered at ithe Multnomah
hotel while in the city on business, E.
V. Carter, president of the First Na
tional bank at Ashland, is another of
the banking fraternity In the city. Car
ter Is stopping at the Imperial.
AmonaT the Astoria folk in Portland
is B. F. Stone, president of the port of
Astoria commission and leader In the
campaign to locate there a submarine
base for the United States navy. Stone
is at the Portland. At the Portland
also are Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Pilkington
of Astoria, who are In the city on busi
ness. J. Lapping is at the Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. John Doran of Spokane.
where the former is president of the
John Doran company, automobile deal
ers, are at the Multnorrtah hotel. They
came to the big city for the auto show.
From Spokane, Mr. and Mr. E. T.
Chapin have registered at the lultno
mah while visiting in the city. Mr.
Chapin Is president of the E. T. Chapin
company, manufacturing cedar poles.
Mrs. P. G. Schreuders has returned to
her home in Portland after spending a
pleasant month among Tacoma friends.
P. G., who is one of the greeters at the
Portland hotel, revealed his wife's re
turn to his fellow workers by the un
usually happy demeanor he exhibited
Monday morning.
Captain John Lapping, who has been
in command of some of the Red Star
fleet of the International MercanUle
Marine In trans-Atlantic service, re
turned to Portland Sunday "from New
York and will continue on to his home
at Astoria, from which he has been
absent about 18 months. Captain Lap
ping has been transporting cargoes to
Hamburg and Antwerp and has some
highly Interesting stories from post-war
Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Williams of
Salem, the former a member of the
state public service commission, were
at the Oregon hotel over Sunday, with
Mrs. D. Williams of . CouncU Bluffs,
Iowa, and Mrs. R. R. Twamley of
White Lake, S. D.
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Mlrza Ahmad Sohrab, who Is a guest
at the Portland hotel, registers from
Teheran, Persia, . He Is In Portland In
connection with a nationwide lecture
tour.
W. L. Diamond, whose company man
ufactures matches that light most of
the fires on the Pacific coast and a large
portion of the smokes of the rest of
the continent and other nations as well,
is at the Portland hotel from Seattle.
came a whirlwind seller of real estate.
He got In with the wrong crowd and by
the lime he was of age he had become
a professional gambler. He was a
plunger and singularly successful with
cards. All of his forebears had been
ministers, educators, judges or profes
sional men, and he couldn't stand the
thought of being the black sheep of the
family. One day he threw down the
cards he was holding and said, 1 am
through with cards and with living for
self. I am going to Hve for others. I
am going to be a missionary r He was
sent to a little home mission church in
South Dakota. My father hailed from
New Jersey while my mother, Mary
Russell Mills, was born In Kentucky.
a ' "f .
I was sent to Montclair military
academy whence, after graduation, 1 1
went to the University of California and j
was graduated In 1902, I became pastor
of the People's church at Santa Rosa. .
Luther Burbank was a parishioner. From i
there I went to New York city as as-'
slstant pastor of a large church, thence
to Rockford, 111., where I was married.
My wife was Ruth Ticknor. Il was
called as pastor of the Independent
church at Battle Creek, Mich., where I
served five years I rpade lt a regular
Congregational churcQ shortly . after
taking charge of it It was while I was
pastor of a church at Denver- that I re
ceived my commission as major and was
ordered to the Pacific Coast to work
with the Four L's, as we termed the
Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumber
men. -i
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"I spoke of my father's ; conviction
that a man should live to serve his fel
lows. He told me a story ionce that I
have never forgotten. An utterly selfish
man, ' the story ran, was once sent to
the lowest depth of hell, where he was
condemned to dwell alone forever In
utter darkness. When he , had been
there countless; ages a single ray "of
light shone through -the dense gloom.
He cried out 0 God, save me from my
self I will never again think only of
self, but will serve my fellow men.' . A
voice came down from heaven, saying,
'Have you ever in all your life done one
unselfish deed? He thotfght for some
tune, and said, 'Once I stepped oarer a
spider instead of stepping on H and
crushing it' Suddenly a spider web de
scended. Into hell and he seised It and
held tight as it drew him upward to-'
ward heaven. Other lost souls seeing
him ascending clung to him and were
also raised toward heaven.' Seeing them
he was afraid the spider : web might
break, and -cried out i "Let go? this Is
mine.' At the fatal word 'mine' the web
parted and be, with those be was saving,
fen back Into h"'
The Oregon Gsuntry ; 1
North weat lUppcniem la BrM gora for the
V -.: Bsay Bsadet : ..... ,.
m . OREGON NOTES - ' , f "S
,"9 order Geer estimates the In- ,
I nfl pen cases at Cove at not laaa h.n
zou. "Tsl
r x - sioo.oou nave been - a.
rr "A ""pwi ior us installation
"i v. "J omul, .
r-a wiiar bvui am
contract for a new school house 0x7l
L ."a w? stories high has been -
" wwu rosier.
tt1??",? re thr school districts - In "
arva Jnty ,ththve been unable
g uuinv.nucni 01 us water system. ..?:;
I Plans are belna- d
school , house at Parkdale. It will ha
120x60 feet and built of white con- -
Roseburg will be a stopping place for
aircraft which It is said will soon be
plying between San Francisco, Portland
ajnd , Seattle.
Pierre Remsyer. committed- to the
state hospital from Marion county in
1919; escaped from the asylum wood
camp last week.
A Jersey bull association ha been
organized at Toledo, with the object
of improving the grade of the dairy
cows of the country.
The state encampment of the O. A. R.
win be held in Astoria next June. The
chamber of commerce is making plans
ui uio leccpuun or uu delegates.
Mrs. C. L. Wilson, prominent Xnde- .
pendence woman, who was run down
by an automobile at Salem three months
ago, has died a the result of her In- .
1uriPL
Jamea it Hoffman, aired l, wae in
stantly killed at the Crown-Wlllamatte
, wP"ny" logging camp near
Astoria when a log struck him, break
ing his Jaw and crushing his chest
. While ordinarily the blanket of snow
in me nigh altitude of the Cascade
mountains is from four to six inches
aeep at this season of the year, it I'
mi omy a iew inches 1
eii a.i me present, time.
The Hood River Annie nmuW
sociatlon to date has made total distri
butions of $1.10 per box on all va-,
rlettes and grades of apples not af
fected by frost A total of 90 cents
per box has been distributed on frosted
WASHINGTON
i'U 137 total .tax levy
The influenza situation at Walla
Walla is much Improved, but smallpox
Is Increasing.
R. H. Nelson has been awarded a
$38,000 contract for eight miles of road
from Hartllne to' Wilson Creek.
The flu ban has been lifted at White
Salmon and all Hchools, churches and
places of amusement are now open.
Two bandit robbed, and killed J. P.
roBuuiiK, ptMumanier ana storekeeper at
Cumberland, a coal town near Seattle.
The offices of ttie general superin
tendent of the Oreat Northern svstem
have been transferred from Seattle to
Spokane.
The Democratic state central commit
tee has selected Spokane as the meeting
place for the 1920 state convention. May
17 is the date. ,(
Beavers in the Touchet river valleys
are destroying thousands of dollars'
worth pf fruit trees and rendering many
acres of land useless.
Reports that oil has been struck by
the liamflton-Canfleld corporation,
which is drilling near Waitsburg.j are
said to be groundless.
Japanese owners of a jewelry store at "
Seattle have reported that burglar n
tered their establishment and stole Jew
elry worth close to $20,000.
Despondent after a long sickness with
Influenza. Fniu. rH t a u T1 tnmmitimA
suicide at Yakima by slashing his throat
ana wrists wun a penanue.
Albert Fleming, aged 62, and Mrs, l
Clara Fleming. 62. were instantly killed
at Seattle when an automobile In whloti
they were riding was struck by an In-,
terurban car.
A big Texas corporation has decided
to enter the Hanford-Colurf bla oil and
gas field, and are erectlnk three big
derricks prepared to drill 2000 to 4000
feet if necessary. . J -v .
, Because of an alleged collusion of
bidders, the state bureau of inspection
has ordered- canceled a $260,000 paving
contract between Pierce county and the
Independent Asphalt company.
Governor Hart has denied the appli
cation for a pardon for J. Harwood
Morris, formerly cashier of the Fre
mont State bank of Seattle, convicted
of embezzlement of the bank's funds.
IDAHO
Mayor Whlfaker of Pocatello has ap
pointed a special committee to investi
gate profiteering.
The Non-Partisan party has raised
$25,000 to carry Twin Falls county in
the coming campaign.
The Idaho Tech at Pocatello has been
chosen as the training school for South
ern Idaho service men.
The Boy Scouts of Lewlston have
started a membership campaign with
the goal of 400 members.
School has again opened at Cotton
Wood after being closed for two week
on account of influenza.
Lewlston and many of the towns sur-"
rounding the city are stilt in the clutches
of the influenza epidemic.
The ninkwell A Rlitlsdra mills St
Coeur d'Alene have started work with
two full day crews and a night crew.
Olaf Delain. in the employ of th city
of Caldwell for the past 10 years, was
found dead in the city's storage room.
Southeastern Idaho Is enjoying what
the farmers call "a million dollar snow
Over six Inches have fallen at Poca
tello. i ;
Railways Neglected Oregon
Until The Journal
Made a Campaign
The railroads, of course, hold the
center of the stage in America just
now. Their return from government
administration to private owners ha
awakened the old, old question as
to whether the1 transportation of the
nation should be permanently direct
ed by the public Oregon has a great
deal of interest In the determination
of the question, because there are
thousands of miles of railroads in
this state and upon efficient serv
ice depends the prosperity and progress-
of the Beaver state, as well as
returns from many millions of dol
lars Invested In industry, agricul
ture and business. .
But there was a time when Ore
gon's voice would scarcely have been
heard on a railroad Issue among the
company of state a When The Jour
nal entered the newspaper field,
away back in 1902, there was a rail
roadless area in the interior of Ore
gon aa large as the state of New
York.
Oregon had been bottled up tinder;
the Harriman policy, which, fortu
nately, !s no longer the policy of the
Union Pacific. Lacking a newspaper 1
leader sufficiently courageous, Inde
pendent and energetic t campaign
for railroad extension free of retard
ing Influence, Oregon's' development
suffered. Washington, the' scene of
aggressive and competitive railroad
bupdlng, was going ahead ' rapidly
in every desirable way. Read Jour
nal files previous to 1906 and th
protest against lack of transporta
tion will be seen to have been fol
lowed by activity In railroad buUd
Ing. As a direct result of The Jour
nal's "agitation" the Hill railroad In
terests entered Oregon. What the
past - has accomplished la -. Oregon
railroad building is only a suggest
tion of what the future should hold-