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THE ."MIRACLE MAN"
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HE sufferer's viewpoint has notj
ohtnged. The lame and the halt
Ions to walk and to leap. The
pain-racked pray for surcease.
The sightless yearn to see.
r i
i years ago, found the "multitude of
i the afflicted. They crowded around
'I His sacred person. They pleaded for
the healing of His touch. And the
'' Biblical accounts that the blind saw.
; the lame walked, and even the dead
"i were raised. .
Thus James Moore Hlckson, styled
v. the "Miracle Man," found the handi
capped of humanity when he came to
Portland last Friday. The paralyzed
were carried by loving hands within
reach of his touch. The sightless
were guided into his presence. Little
children, crippled from birth, and the
aged borne down by the infirmities
: of their decrepitude crowded about
- htm. -
It would be too much to say that
t! falth brought all of those who were
carried on stretchers or hobbled on
crutches and canes to the modest East
SRte churoli. And, even hope does not
entirely account for the impulse that
summoned thousands from beds of
pain and sickness, and from dark
ness, to wait, many for hours, until
. the healer could lay his hands upon
them.
But there was yearning in each to
be whole. There was that deep yearn
ing, which, when inspired by some-
v thing above all desired or endeared J
lays a tightening grip around the
heart brings an ache to the throat
and mists the eyes with unshed tears.
Who can deny, or fail in sympathy
s with, such yearning? The method of
1 the "Miracle Man" may be as spirit
ual as when the first apostles of
Chrlat went out to follow the example
of the Master In the laying on of hands
to heal diseases. Or it may be merely
psychic. Or, It may be both. But
Impartial observers testify that Hick-
son Imputes to himself no power,
- and says he is only the agent of
that Power which every rational man
, ' knows in tiis heart is not less able
-. to banish disease and restore health
than to create the universe. And the
, ' same source of evidence credits to his
- work remarkable cures.
There dwells In every Individual a
spirit .which desires a normal rela-
Won to life and a body unfettered ly
- - disability. Blessed- Is that agency.
whatever It may be, that helps cast
, , off from humanity the shackles of,
.-'any oppression.
Commendation from the director
of public service of the railroad ad
ministration of the services of J. H.
k Lothrop, secretary of thel Portland
Traffic. Transportation associa-
t Ion. is an acknowledgment of good
' . work that was already well known
to the Portland business world and
' to Mr. Lothrop's many friends. A
a. thorough traffic man. widely eXperi-
enced in transportation, a fair and
'- intelligent thinker and always de
i ; : voted to his work, Mr Lothrop has
been Invaluable in the many traffic
t. ; problem J that have constantly been
i presented for solution. e
OREGON THIRD
A'
HOPEFUL sign In the general ex-
travaganoe sweeping . over the
country Is found In , the recent
report of the savings division of
' the United States treasury t the effect
; that during thelyear of .; 1919 over
: H34 .009,000 worth of v Thrift - Stamps,
-' Wu Saving. Stamps and treasury eer--.
-tiflcates were sold.'.' ! -
; - In the- Twelfth : federi,reserve dis-
tHct" the amount , was-" in excess of
I f 10.000,000. Oregon was third in the
district ith f 1,863,000. : . 1
The decision to make these securl
ties - a permanent feature is pleasing
to everyone interested in thrift here
1 oo .better security . in the. world.
Kor An Investment guaranteed by the
fovernment the rate of Interest la
high and unlike the case of bond
thre. are o market fluctuations.
The fact that small savings may be
thus invested is a great encourage
ment to the establishment of the habit
of thrift a practice badly needed at
pi'esent
On th galleys in The Journal's
composing room are IS columns of
letters from the people, all ready
for publication. .But, because of the
newsprint hortage, thero-haa been
o far literally no room In the
paper's crowded columns to give
them publication. Correspondent
will learn from this why there is
delay. They will also 'understand
from it the Importance of compres
sing their contributions within the
Shortest posible apace. It is physi
cally impossible to print long letters.
If correspondents do- not cut them,
the paper will have to.
BOND SLACKERS
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N TUESDAY'S Issue of The Journal
a correspondent refers to the cen
sure of Portland newspapers and
citizens which was heaped upon
those who discounted Liberty bonds
during the war- He congratulates
bond slackers because they have suf
fered no loss through depreciation of
Liberty bond values, and wishes to
know the reason for the present low
market value of these securities.
No Portland newspaper censured
persons for discounting Liberty bonds
during the war so long as they paid
market value, but every Portland
newspaper censured the unscrupulous
shysters who took advantage of the
ignorance of some bond sellers by
paying them only 50 per cent or 60
per cent of the market quotations.
True it is that bond slackers lost
no money on Liberty bonds, but they
lost th respect of every loyal Ameri
can citizen and have brought upon
themselves a stigma from which they
can never be cleared. s
Liberty bonds are listed unusually
low because they are no longer given
a favorable discount rate by the
federal reserve board. During the
waj banks could borrow on Liberty
bonds from the Federal Reserve bank
at extraordinarily low rates. These
low rates on loans secured by Liberty
bonds were made to encourage banks
to extend liberal terms lo persons
who wished to buy these bonds 1
through them.
In many communities the citizens
did not respond as readily as they
did in Oregon, and banks, instead of
Individuals, purchased the bulk, of
Liberty bonds. The possession of-
great blocks of Liberty bonds by
banks and a bifr business houses,
toupled with an abnormally low dis
count rate on paper secured by these
government, securities,-' resulted in
tremendous borrowing from the Fed
eral Reserve bank. This borrowing
caused great inflation to our currency
4nd was one of the important factors
in the high coBt of living. To dis
courage speculation and to deflate our
currency, the federal reserve board
greatly increased its rediscount rate.
This increase made borrowing on
Liberty bonds unprofitable, and bnks
and business houses which were in
need of funds threw great blocks of
these bonis on the market. A single
New York bank sold 24 million dollars
worth of Liberty bonds in one day,
and banks throughou. the entire na
tion have been unloading. There have
been many sellers and few buyers,
and this acoounts for the present low
value of our government securities.
Liberty bonds today are a splendid
Investment for personswith available
funds. It Is only a question of time
until they will rise in value.
With the West Virginia legisla
ture now tied and a legislator hurry
ing across the continent to break the
deadlock, the suffrage amendment
hangs temporarily suspended by a
slender thread. But ultimate victory
is as certain as taxes.
FAT WOMEN WANTED
1
F THEY only knew it the medicine
men of .Calabar, a province tucked
away in West Africa, could make
their fortunes far beyond the
dream even of a'5medicine man by
coming to the good old U. S. A.
Back In that country the ardent
swains insist upon their Tuture wives
being plump, very much so, in fact.
Years experience in keeping the
feminine avoirdupois of the country
up to par has made them experts In
that line.
Back there, when a tribal maiden
plights her troth she assumes an ob
ligation to take on much weight be
fore she can be Jed to the altar In
the highest circles of society. . She
may be a sytph so long as she is
single, but there is jio such thing as
being happily married and thin. So
she seeks the medicine man and Ms
treatment never fails.
He shuts her up in a cottage of mud
and begins to 'feed her. For four
months she eats all she can swallow
until,, on her nuptial day, 4hy . re
move the walls from about her and
she. waddles out to the altar' fat be-
yond the dreams of America's femi
nine avarice.
; Over here in these days of fads
4d fancies the medicine men of Cala
bar ought to be able to reap harvests)
from, the , slim 1 maids and matrons
whose bony structures " oause theiri
and" their v dressmakers;, to J grow
wrinkled brows -and . artisti tempera
ments. . If some dusky doctor would
dot some sylvan delt liereaboUts With
his beehive eottafces and promise cer
tain relief to that anxious femininity
whose shoulder blades axe beginning
to look, too much like wings when
draped in the prevailing evening garb,
8-oent ares would bold no terrors for
hint. ' What a lark it would be, and
what change when everybody is
trying to- get back to nature to live
in a bungalow of Oregon mud 'and
watch the , wrinkles lee. Some Ethi
opian is overlooking a good bet
FIFTY-nm' OR FIGHT
ERE men politicians are up
against it hard. ' Here they have
been jiggling around for the past
50 years Or so trying to keep
their political- sisters from getting
the right to vote. All the tune they
have been contending that equal suf
frage; meant nothing more : than a
multiplicity of votes because; if they
had the ballot the dear creatures
would not know what to do with it
uiJess they asked their husbands, or
brothers; or sweethearts. 'All the time
they have been holding Up their
bands in horror while they ; argued
that the tender and unsophisticated
females would fall an easy political
victim to the wiles of unscrupulous
politicians; who would colonize them
for or against ,men or measures as
practical politics might demand. It
has been a dark and awful picture.
And all the time the unsuspecting
female has been reversing the English
on the rugged protectors of her po
litical rectitude until here we wake up
with national equal suffrage knock
ing at the door of the federal consti
tution while its ancient hinges creak
and groan.
And now what are they doing
these clinging vines in the defense of
whose political virtue so many prac
tical politicians have tied their vocal
chords in calloused knots? Are they
asking hubby, or buddy or ducky
what to do? Are they taking their
ballots to them to be marked? Are
they pausing at the thresh ho Id for
the guiding hand, or shrinking into
the shadows waiting for theSvlse o,d
owls to hoot them on their way? The
sobbing e3h0.es of the leaders answer
not.
Back in little old New York they
are demanding 50-50 representation in
the councils of the parties with which
they have cast their lots. Out in
ifornia, up in Washingtonrall Over the
land they are doing the same new
thing in the same new way. "
Think of itl Fifty-fifty female rep
resentation in Tammany Hall! No
wonder that ribald feline growls and
shows his yellow teeth while his refl-
rimmed eyes glare green. French
heels are treading on his tortured tail.
But what's the use of growling?
It does no good. The bewhiskered,
smoking, cussing bifurcates ; of the
passing political order had better be
good and take the 50-50 compromise
the ladles offer or the dear creatures
will begitt to think of reservations,
and cop the whole show. Haven't
they done It with our pay checks?
Havefit they chased us down into the
basement to smoke with the furnace?
We'll tell the world they have.
A way to deal with the problem
of how to Increase salaries and keep
Within the favor of the taxpayers is
suggested at Chicago. It Is to put up
to the voters the question of issuing
bonds to meet a proposed salary in-;
crease Of nearly six million . dollars.
This is an easy way for the city ad
ministrators. They can sit on the
side lines and not be drawn Into the
melee. If the popular vote is against
the bond issue the aldermen are not
at the mercy of the employes' or
ganizations, who must vent their
wrath on the taxpayers. If the Irote
is in the affirmative then the tax
payers must take the responsibility.
EVERY ONE CAN HELP
THE retail merchant could make
himself a power in the more rapid
growth of Oregon industries if his
sales effort were extended In be
half of local factories, i
No one can deny that payrolls are
the principal source of business for
the retail merchant and in using his
influence to increase sales of Oregon
goods it is simply keeping alive and
prosperous the source upon which he
draws for trade.
An increased demand for Oregon
products will be followed by an in
creased Industrial payroll and the
bigger it grows the greater a retail
business becomes. We know that from
what we saw the shipyards do.
Every business man has a com
munity responsibility that must be
met, and when local goods may be
obtained of equal quality and price,
it is economic waste to bring them
here from ' elsewhere.
MAKE A GARDEN
1
N THE sweat of thy face ahalt
thou eat bread," Is .k. most timely
text for those who groaningly
pay foe parsimonious fare from
a flattening pocketbook when they
might feast on the fruits of the work
of their own hands. v T
There is a vast difference the
schemes of increase adopted by na
ture and man. Nature's increase
starts with the insertion of the seeds
in, the Boil. Sun and rain, air and
earth, are joined with the tiny life
germ. The laws of propagation mul
tiply the grain into many and for a
slight investment - of. effort nature
pays a rate of interest that would be
usurious to a less prolific power to
pay. . -
Man's scheme of increase starts
with the harvest' The vegetable or
fruit passes frpm hand to , hand, leay
ing such profit as the traffic will Bear
in each. . By the time It reaches the
hungry consumer its ability to satisfy
his appetlteis nauch, very much, less
thab his deep inset, mentally dyspep-
tie,' regret at having to pay bo much.
Garden, making tune is coming The
soil can be plowed now. Some early
peas have already been planted.? Our
moderate jweather, average warrants
optimism that tender plants will not
be ? frosted Every vacant ' lot holds
food in storage. The spade, the rake
and the hoe, and seeds, are the leys
that make . it accessible. , Thee are
so many vacant lots unutilized in
Portland that we are In the position
of those who , pass half irevealed
wealth, unseeing.
Why not make a garden, and do it
now? ..Why not prepare to be inde
pendent of price makers? Why not
possess the health of the exercise and
the wealth of soil production.?
Intensive Farming Shows
Splendid Results in
Bentorf County
Beekeeping Engages the Attention of
, Many Thrlftful Citizens, to
. ' Their No 6maU Profit
In the Old days a man In the : Oregon
country wanted 40 square miles to make
his living, for he made it . (rapping
beaver, and the proximity, of neighbors
would ruin his .business. Later his son
was able to make a living he had
4000 acres, and some back range to run
bis cattle on. Eventually he found that
a donation land 'claim would support a
family. His children found that 40
acres farmed Intensively or planted to
fruit or devoted to poultry -' raising
would render one independent, while
today it has almost come to (the point
whers 40 square feet and a few hives
of bees will keep the wolf from the
door.
There ts an old nursery rhyme that
goes something like this : "Hew doth
the busy little bee delight to bark and
bite, and gather honey all day long
and eat It up at night" There seems to
be something wrong with that 'eonplet.
for the Benton county bees are better
behaved. They spend their nights not
In riotous living, but In resting up for
the next day's wojc. Did you ever
stop to figure how many miles the bees
have to travel to get the honey you are
eating on your buckwheat cakes of a
morning? At the present price of
honey a score or 100 hives of bees keep
ing busy on the spring and summer
blossoms .means a fat bank account for
their owners. The beauty of It is that :
you can keep bees in addition to car
rying on some other vocation.
For example : P. Tallman. a mail
carrier at Corvallis, Is a successful bee
keeper. So also are a dozen men who
are grocers, prune growers sheep
breeders or are carrying -oni mixed
farmings Here are some of the best
known beekeepers In Benton county : L.
Beck, Millard- Brown. Claude Buchanan,
C. F. Durgar. George Fellers, . G. P.
Hopkins, Lloyd Hyde, C. A. Ingal, A.
Jamison. Robert Johnson. W. C. Klein,
E. F. Mallard. J. A. McOlasjari. W. L
Rice. Dtck Scott, P. J. Schmidt, MilUe
Smith, C. Starr, P. A. Swanson, ;P. Tall
man, A. C. Tunlson, Thomas Vail. H.
Wachtendorf. H. O. Wicks. A- IC. Win
ney and Will Whiteside.
From bees to beef is some jump, but
the turning; of alfalfa, corn eillage and
millfeed into beef is becoming a profit
able business In Benton county. Here
are some of the larger feeders in and
about v the county : Herbert W. Jones,
Suver: Edwards Bros, and Ben How
ard, Monroe; Paul Zedrlck,! Milton
Wyatt, Jo Wilson and W. Jones, Cor
vallis ; Ed Williams , and Dr. E. M.
Howard, Alpine ; Judd Smith, ! Peoria :
William Malloy, Junction City,; Frank
Plunkett, Philomath: William Flnin,
Blodgett; John Sheedy, C. R. Ballard,
Gene Jackson and J. A. Peters. Wren.
Poultry raising is getting more and
more converts and Is no longer a side
line with many who are carryiing It on
is a scientific manner ana ma&jng gooo
at the business. Here are some of the
people who are engaged In poultry
raising ' in Benton county : At Cor
vallis, Mrs. Claude Buchanan. Tr. R. G.
McAllister. W. W. Coon. P. A. Tinkham.
Mrs. John Buchanan, Bert PHkington.
Mrs. Bessie Sutton, Mrs. William Locke.
Mrs. W. Lampert. S. L. Col'emian. Mrs.
J. H. Wilson, Mrs. Akers. Mrs.' F. E.
Hopkins,, Mrs. George B. Coon Charles
Armstrong. M. J. Brown, B. Z. Riggs,
Seth Hulbert, Tom Petit, Rusch Poul
try Farm. Dr. William T. Johnson. J. A.
Hansen. W. L. Butler, Calvin Ingle.
Aaron Enochs, Sam Hartsook and E. A.
Miller ; at Junction City, Mrs. D. Ross
Barclay, Clyde Starr and Peter Whit
aker: at Monroe. Mrs. R. Q. Mills, M.
L. Walker. R. E. Sherriff. Mark Web
ster, W. J. Sausen. Mrs. O. K. Scott
and Mrs. J. D. . Perin : at Wells. Paul
Dodele and H. F. Douglas ; at Philomath,
Professor A. 1. Applewhite afnd S. I.
Pratt. Besides these are Uriel! S. Burt
of O. A. C. and Jim Newman, who gels
his mail on rural route No. 4, Albany.
Letters From the, People
OommtinlcatloiM Mint to Tha Journal for
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paoj Um. eontribatiou.
A Statement on Christian Science
Healing ".,
Portland. March 4. To the Editor of
The Journal News Items have appeared
In The Journal relating to the arrest and
trial of a Christian Science practitioner
for alleged neglect to report all quaran
tine a case of socalled Influensa. One
of these items contains statements that
are misleading and should not be al
lowed to go uncorrected. One smelt state
ment la: "Part of Miss Ross' (the prac
titioner) treatment is said to have been
over the telephone." This statement.
coming as it does under the heading
"Absent Treatment by Practitioner Is
Alleged; Boy Dies." combines with, it
to give an entirely erroneous notion' of
what constitutes Christian (Science treat
ment, and Is calculated to leave the im
pression that because the boy had Chris
tian Science treatment his case proved
fatal.
Christian Science' practitioners use
thetr telephones for the same purposes
that physicians, lawyers and others use
theirs, namely, for consultation, making
appointments, giving advice, receiving re
ports of progress, etc. Christian science
treatment, whether the practitioner is
absent from the patient or present with
him, is the conscious realisation of the
ever-present infinite power Of God. good,
and its application . to human i problems
through prayer. And there is abundant
evidence at the . disposal : of any
unprejudiced inquirer that itnV per
centage of healings iindfer Christian
Science treatment is greater than
that of any other method of healing
known. Christian Science lis based
squarely and completely on the teachtngs
and practice of Christ Jesus, and the
Master healed both when he was present
with, and absent from, the afflicted ones.
. For a Judge on the bench to declare
In dismissing the case tn question : That
la my opinion the death of the boy was
caused by neglect and that I bad the
simplest ' remedies 'been applied such i as
hot lemonade, the lad would be alive."
merely because medical treatment was
not had for the boy, la for tint to as-
ume an unusual responsibility, especially
when expert - evidence - pronoanced '- the
cause of death as sent fnflttensfc of both
abdominal and respiratory, types. Such
as assertion could be made only on the
assumption that material remedies never
fail in such cases. As a matter; of tact,
something-, like 100 cases of jtafluensa
nave proved i&tai in roruana aurmg me
laat SO day, and only this one. so far
as I know, did not M materiai nmedies.
On tkt other hand, statistic that nave
been rathered In several states show that
Christian Science treatment has proved
itself to be fully 20 times more ef f ecUve
in healing Influence andpneumonla. than
nas oramary , meaicat procure
Eddy's statement on page 180 of "Science
tfnd Health with Key to the Scriptures"
regarding her own experience, in healing
disease is fitting here. She juiys: "I
have found divine Truth more potent
than all lower remedies. And why not.
since Mind, God,, is the source and con
dition of aU, existence?
. A. O. FREEH
TtM Quadrennial Road Show
Hlllsboro, Feb. 2t. To the Editor of
The Journal I have read an editorial
In the Saturday Evening Post of Feb
ruary 21, under the headline, "Con r
Coalition, that appealed to me so for
cibly that' I think it deserves a place in
our valuable pSper. . I shall not give it
all, but just sketches:
"That dreary old show, 'Presidential
Party Politics.' is now in rehearsal pre
paratory to' going on the road the old
minstrel show. There is nothing new
the same old ideas. - dances and gags.
What is a Republican? What is a Dem
ocrat? 1 give It up. One is born every
minute. Great Issues are before the
people today, but none on which the old
parties should divide on partisan lines.
For months a struggle has been going
oh for poUtical advantage, in which the
advantage of the country nas: almost
been lost sight of. The only utterances
of presidential sice, of national and in
ternational understanding, are ithose of
a man who has not sought the presi
dency, who has oeen nominally a Re
publican, and who has actually been
rendering a great non-partisan service to
America under a Democratic administra
tionone who has worked first, last and
all the time for country and not for
party. When Hoover was first men
tioned for the presidency the query was.
not whether he was the' best qualified
man for the place, but, JWhat is he-a
Democrat or Republican?' That shows
the leads. Did he have the party brand
burned in his hide and the bull ring of
party regularity in his nose? Today the
oW parties stand for nothing except ap
petite for office, and the real issue be
tween them Is simply whflch is going to
get the most power and the offices and
salaries that go with it.
"Why "not try coalition in its place?
Whv not force both the old parties to
Indorse 'the same -man for president a
non-partisan, business man, who will
form a coalition government from the
best' men In both parties and that still
larser.element of straight thinking, clear
headed Americans wno nave no s
for the old show? The business man Is
tirec or me tira bumnot -
rT rvirtv noli tics
The above is my idea exactly. I haye
been a Republican since 1882. My busi
ness has been ruined by Democratic free
trade. But I think Hoover is "equal to
protecting American interests so as to
put them on a legitimate, paying basis.
G. A. OLSBN.
Indorses Mr. Schuyleman's Views
CoqullleAFeb. 25.-To the Editor- of
The Journal I heartily agree with Mr.
Schuyleman in regard to the Lawrence
nin To mv mental vision, Wood-
row Wilson la already where history
will place him on the pedestal wttn
Waahinirton and Lincoln. He Is but
human; therefore i ao not expeci
writer to assume that he is perfect. But
when he is systematically picked upon
and pitched into, it .arouses my patri
otic indignation, as it would If 1 heard
the abusive and belittling thing said
of the other two of our greatest presi
dents, which their enemlea said when
they were doing thel' work.
A COQUILLE WOMAN.
Labor's Riant to Self Defense
Placer, Feb. 24. To the Editor of The
Journal It is not within the power of,
the Telegram to do anything but ridi
cule labor. Labor, in adopting a reso
lution to establish newspapers through
out the country favorable to labor, is
only exercising a natural right, and no
campaign can be carried to success
without publicity- Do not the trusts
advertise? They have the public by the
neck through their adverUsing systems.
They know how to strike and do not
fall to use the knowledge at the right
moment, though the poor white- trash
have no right to strike.
Mus"t this nation be made 6f classes,
and claws hatred .ensue? It is not with
in our constitution that it should be so.
If capital had stayed within the pro
visions of our constitution, that all men
shall be equal, and had given labor an
equal chance, there would be no occa
sion for labor to organize. Neither
would there be any occasion for capita)
to organise. But if capital has a right
to organise and to strike, labor has
the same right If part of the people
are governed by one law and the other
part by another, we are setting up a
government of plutocracy, and class
hatred is sure to follow. Capital was
first to organize. ' It set the exam Die.
'and was followed by all Industry. Now,
labor throws a monkey wrench into its
machinery by adopting the same plan.
One cannot be right and the other
wrong. Capital does not fail to call a
strike, to the detriment of the public,
whenever it sees fit Papers like the
Telegram fall to take cognizance of
this fact, when they are condemning
labor ' and branding labor leaders as
-ignorant and criminally inclined.
N. H. BLALOCK.
Fence Question Answered
Portland,' Feb. 28. To the Editor of
The Journal--Can I be forced to "pay
half of the cost of a fence erected by
my neighbor between his property and
mine? A SUBSCRIBER.
(If the land of both yoa and your neighbor
ia enetaaad on tfaa outside, both ara nquired br
law t Join ts tha eoat of building a partition
fenca j,
Dallas. March 1. To the Rdltor of The
Journal Brown sold his let acres join
ing Smith, Brown and Smith having
their fencing equally divided. Brown
sold 60 acres to Wilson, and all the
fencing between Smith and Wilson be
longed to Smith. Will Wilnon have to
build or pay for half of said fence?
SUBSCRIBER
(If the partition fenee wail built before tha
fate to WQwn. thea WUm nakee Brown'l place
and will not have to par Smith for hla half of
tha fence. J
Why Not Reward Good Service?
" from the Pendleton 'TSat Orasonlan.
At a Democratic gathering in Port
land recently the various county chair
men were urged to "get out a fuU ticket"
for the next election.
It la poor advice when applied to
County affairs. When a county official,
be he Republican. Democrat or some
thing else. Is performing his duties sat
isfactorily and is not using? bis position
to serve partisan ends the logical thing
is to -retain him in office. If people, ir
respective ol politics, will cooperate to
support officials who are making good,
forgetting the party end. the general re
sult will be wholesome.
As a rule a good official could make
more money by giving up his offieeand
engaging in private business. Under
present conditions a coonty is fortunate
to have such men upon its payroll and
common sense calls for saving them un
COMMENT AND
Y-; SMALL CHANGE V
i ' An honest statesman is no match for
a dishonest politician. , .
Savages hunt for a living and civilised
men hunt for easy Job.
j The man who .doesn't worry la entitled
to a lot of creditthat he never gets.
Ths Lord has mors respect for an hon
erite r tn,Ln for tn P"T,n bypo-
A woman imagines' that her husband
would save a lot of money If he didn't
smoke. -
The man who cant trust himself al
ways Imagines that other people ought
to trust him.
vlL n'. could exchange troubles
there would be Just as mulh kicking as
In a horse trade.
. . .
A fool man will go through any old
thmg for a pretty woman-even through
his bank account.
The pen hay be mightier -than the
sword, but there are times when a double
barreled shotgun is worth a carload of
eimer.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About town
S. W. Adams rushed into the Multno
mah hotel to register on Friday morn
ing that he might be assured shelter from
threatening showers while lit Portland on
a brief business trip. Adams Is man
ager of the Grand hotel at Walla Walla.
In sptte of the "rush" with which he
entered, he still had time to pause to dis
cuss with Greeter Ray W. Clark a score
of things about the big business in the
hotel line and to tell him that theOrand,
like moot Northwest hotels, is turning,
prospective guests away from lack of ac
commodations. The Grand, Incidentally,
Is said to be undergoing renovation, from
flagpole to basement.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Wheatley, the for
mer member of the Astoria firm, of
Sllnes it Wheatley, are guests at the Nor.
tonia hotel while spending a few days
on business and pleasure seeking in
Portland.
a
Dr. Margaret Snell. affectionately
known to practically every man and
woman of the older generation of Oregon
Agricultural college students, came to
Portland Friday with a group of visitors
from Corvallis to see and hear James
Moore liicknon. the English miracle man.
"Mother" Snell's efforts In an earlier
day were responsible for the establish
ment at the state college of the depart
ment of home economics, and for some
i years she was head of the department.
j H home a,ong,ido tne co,eg nll8 al.
j ways been the harbor of students, and
to scores she has been a kindly and
sympathetic adviser. She was accom
panied by; Mrs. A. L. Smith of Corvallis
and, with Mrs. Smith, was a guest at
the Cornelius hotel.
Judge R R. Butler of The Dalles,
whose political and business connections
are legion, arrived in Portland late Fri
day from his home east of the mountains.
Here on Friday night he delivered the
chief address of the evening at the cel
ebration in commemoration of the birth
day anniversary of Robert Emmet, Irish
i patriot. Hs was a guest at the Imperial.
Alfred O. Lunn. poultry husbandman
extraordinary and particularly an ex
pert along the feathered chicken line at
the Oregon Agricultural college, was at
the head of a delegation of students
In Portland on Friday. The students,
under Lunn's direction, were studying
metropolitan poultry markets and their
methods. "I've been batk in Oregon
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
QF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockiey
(Hera ara rasited the chiaf incident in tha
youthful career ot Burt Johnson of Corrailt u
related by him If and reeotdad br M' Looklw
for reader at Tha Journal. Ht. Johaaon had
eipartancoB a a pioneer frunvmiatr and fruit
dealer, and tolls .what certain commlfion man
of California did to hire. In another iaaue thert
will be mora about 'Mr. Johnaoa.
B. W. Johnson for more than 1$ years
was postmaster at Corvallis. He quali
fied for the job by doing a little of
everything else, from tramping through
the country looking for -work to study
ing law. When the Corvallis & Eastern
railroad had ambitious plans of extend
ing from the ocean near Newport to
Boise. Idaho. Burt got a job on a sur
veying gang running the line from Al
bany eastward toward Detroit, in the
foothills of the Cascades. They located
the line, cross sectioned It and later su
perintended the laying of the track.
"My father was a -lawyer," said Mr.
Johnson. "He thought I Was wasting
my time on a surveying crew. He asked
me to come and read law with hlrn.
which I did, till the spring, of 1887. Law
had no appeal to me, so I bade Black
stone and his legal cronies a fond and
final farewell and went to Portland,
where the O. R. N. gave me a Job as
- man u rA unt m 1a TV R 1 1 1 1 ) Q
, G w Hunt wa8 pUnntng to run a
p.ni.il.n tn Hell and thnee
on to Wallula. The O. R. A N. wanted
to beat him to it, sd.tt had us survey
a line from Pendleton to Hells and also
from Pendleton to the Cold springs
I ntry and 8tm later from Wallula
to Eureka Flat Later I was transit man
for a party surveying a line from wal
lula to Rlparla. -.
a ' a ;
"Returning to Corvallis, 1 bought the
Interest of Andrew Keesee in the firm
of Matoon & Keesee, We handled fruit,
candy and periodicals. I conceived the
idea while handling fruit here of be-
fcoming a fruit shipper. If you have a
pencil and a piece of paper you can rig
ure yourself rich raising rabbits in the
same way I figured myself a fortune
in the commission 'and vhipptng busi
ness, I went to San Francisco and
visited the big commission men to learn
how they wanted their fruit. graded and
packed and also to establish business
relations with them. That faU I went
all over Benton county buying the crops
necessary campaigning expenses when
possible. If there is anything wrong
with this line of reasoning the East
Oregon lan would like to know where
It is. '
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
The python klllg by contraction, eaya
Professor John A. Jordan is the Wide
World ! Magazine. He says be has
heard many discussions as to hew this Is
done, some men stating emphatically
that the python must get Its tall around
some solid object to get a leverage.
Most agree, however,, that the giant
python can overpower and kill almost
any anlmaV 8ome declare that the
width of - his Jaws will oW allow of
the passage of an animsl about the size
of a goat. This ia not correct, saya
Professor Jordan, for he claims he has
killed a python with the horns of a Topi
hartebeest sticking out of the Jaw. and
the .Topi, weighs weU over SrO unda.
NEWS Itf BRIEF
. i SIDELIGHTS ::J
Lane county dogs! had, up to Wednes
day, cost their owners a total of ever
1000 In license fees under the new state
law. the Register of that date reports.
Board man. one -of the progressive
towns of the UmaUlta project, has this
week been dedicating its new com
munity school. The three days pro
gram is closing today with an-"Oregon
Products" dinner. I i
:
There is a rumdr, the Courier says,
that outside parties and some local
capitalists are planning to build s new
and up to date hotel at Reedsport It
Is reported they have purchased three
lots en L. street, opposite the Pabney
building.-for this purpose.
The Gold Beach Reporter voices ap
prehensions as follows! "Owing to the
lack of snow in the mountains,-It Is pre
dicted the commg season wBl be a poor
one for the canneries and fishermen hers
on account of a laek of snow water in
the river, the fish' being attracted to
other streams. With the big Increase
In irrigation throughout the upper Rogue
river valley. It is predicted the bed pf
,k. -..-, inn Hi miirM In this county
may be used for a highway durlngths
cummer months a tew years ma,
since January, after t time in British
Columbia and a .longer time In Pennsyl
vania," Lunn saUL. "and I've gained 14
pounds in weight airady."
"-;''
. When the population of . Oak Pomt,
Cowhts county, Wash., stande up to be
counted there are JI5' noses- One of th: n
belongs to C. H. Crandall. who. with Mrs.
Crandall. is a guest at the Multnomah
hotel. . CrahdaU deals in dairy and
creamery supplies and in spite of tha
limitations of the population of Oak Point
It 1m the scene and center of a very active
dairy and creamery Industry. Oak Point
is in the verdant Columbia river valley.
e ' .
The Rev. and Mra E. T. Simpson are
two of the many Corvallis people whose
names graced local; hotel register! on
Friday. The Simpsons were down to
hear James Moore Hickaon and to see
his healing wonders performed. With
them came the Rev.r Adam JJndsay -and
G. B. Ilickard and Mrs.Morris Palmer,'
all of the Benton -county seat. They
were registered at the Cornelius.
a a .
From Corvallis also Professor and Mrs.
F. D. Ressler were in Portland Friday,
topping at the Seward hotel. Professor
Reseler. who is the leadlt.g pedagogue in
the department of education at, the O. A.
C. came into fame through the fact that,
for years, bis coat lapel v as always and
everlastingly adorned with a flaming red
carnation. And when he dresses up in
his Sunday best, even now Ressler wears
a flower.
...
J. E. Oates. who gets most of the
money pleasure seekera at Seaside pay
for the privilege of swimming in the
natatorium tank, is at the Multnomah
hotel during a visit In Portland. Oates.
who owns the natatorium. is also heavily
interested in the new Seaside hetel.
f
Daisy June Trout is the name of an
Indianapolis, Ind., woman who is at the
Portland hotel while she visits in Port
land. ;
Mr. and Sirs, R. It. Palmer of Baker
are guests at the Multnomah hotel dur
ing abu6inee's and pleasure visit. Palmer,
together with H. ES. Denham, conducts
a store at Baker, where Baker county
farmers find harness and like necessities.
'
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Stewart of Knappa,
Wash., are at the Portland hotel while
enjoying a -visit in the city. Stewart has
a lumber mill at Knappa.
of apples and pears on the trees from
the farmers. hired a gang of Chi
nese and went' With them from orchard
to orchard. plektng and packing the
fruit. I packed 1400 boxes and hauled
It to Corvallis. Thtr, by the by, was
the first large shipment of fruit that
ever left Corvallis. 1 shipped the fruit
to Vaqulna, where it was loaded on a
ship bound for Han Francisco. The
first car consisted of apples and win
ter, pears, and arrived at San Diego In
good condition. The commission firm
notified me that&be fruit was In fine
condition and fhe demand for Oregon
fruit was active. I figured out my
profits and decided what I would do
with the money. I shipped three cars
to San Francisco, sending each- car to
a different commission firm so as to
see which gave me fhe best service.
rf-
"Ahotit thfen I got my returns from
the carload sent to San Diego. They
wrdte me tfrat the apples had paid all
freight charges and commission charges
with the exception of 42 cents, but that
they had sold 40 empty, boxes at 10
cents each, so they would remit 13.51
in full payment for tny- carload of
fruit and the boxes.
"From the three commission firms In
San Francisco T received word that
there was no demand for fruit, that the
fruit had arrived in bad condition, and
that while they had sold It all. the
expense had Just equalled the charges.
The scheme was all right, but I hap
pened to run up against crooked com
mission men. I was out the price of
the fruit and the wages paid the Chi
nese. I retired from the fruit ship
ping business.
"When 1 was 14 that was In the
summer of 18K0 I took stock of all my
worldly wealth and decided to become
a botjaiisa orchardist and farmer. I
had. by dint of hard 'work, saved 8125,
which I pild in on a five sere tract
near the college. . The price was 8!--1
planted It to prunes and hardly had 1
got the trees in till the pries of dried
prunes hit-the' toboggan and kept go
ing down ' till you could hardly give
them away and ipany farmers begsn
grubbing Out their; trees. I went back
to surveying to earn some -money to
live on."
OHen Oregon
Pioneers Had to Resort to Buckskin
For Wearing AppareL
Fortunate was the Ynan who pos
sessed s suit of dressed buckskin In
1841. When the homespun suits brought
from Missouri were worn out there
were no others to take their, place. The
women made dresses out of wagon cov
ers, and some wore buckskin clothing
like the men. Moccasins took the place
of boots and shoes. The circulating
medium of the country was either furs
or wheat.
Unc
nele Jeff Snow Says i
H. Oreeley Jones was pulled la Port
land I er goin so slow he got in people's
way. His cross between a lie can and
a baby rattle wasn't goln'.but neven
miles a hour and the speed cop got rat
tled watchln' . the whls wagons .turn
around H. Oreeley; It's surprisln how
many changes In the president'! cabinet
takes place 'thout no Oregon statesmen
beln' even mentioned. .. .
The' Oregon , Country ,
KerUnnat HaptMntna fa Briaf Fata fas Ike
.. i Boa Baattar -
OREGON NOTES
III0. "lat the cy hall haibeea
' m" emergency noepltSi.--
Umatilla project during 191 was 00
000. averaging almost $75 peTac re. r
DaMiiw ?,po63 Mrs. Sallis
ert.rf,bu8&t,nUnt- aned
ficTtsrufwT
m VieleFa?n wlr Instead of four
Will soon be in use between rv,i?"r
and Baker, a new copper nS?
stalled between Ported . wdnvft
Republicans, of Klamath cOOntv mm
this week and organised i -if 5
-rvelrh,nVurCnV' t0
dleton. headquarters at Pen-
John L
Leweitvn of Myrtle Point, a
..?urth. ''y of the dli
uni of
the ilti
vir.
passed
disease
without ''y of, the disease
condition y PPrent change in his
irivVti!" ","?"5;". 1"..
mill Thi MpC- Johnson aa w-
would have reauiVed r '"UCh dmM
Thorns CJ Mn"8 n ownership.
to tMnr.8.d"croTene
stork' wmk.or, b;r.dCiVhTcapnai
tock will he Increased to $200,000.
fcamuef stroheoker Jr. of Corvaflla
. - , wno resigned,;
word. Is received by Mrs 11 R FiM
had died in Siberia V,. .-0.
forces " workr W1,h U" America
WASHINOTrtTU
thre-cta'UK'o? fflfciK
began btekTaC0,nJl ad Cto "
J?!0-"1 PVink c- Bftk'?r ordered to
J0?6.".? pmlntlon of applicants
for the med.cai corps of the irmy at
Vancouver barracks.
F'lfty thousand, brook trout from east.
sTream"1'," .,wl" , h" ',8n''- ' the
r.im".v0f u-' Harbor country
within the ntxt 30 ltya
Pullman local of the Farmers' union
has ordered a carload of grain sacks
for Its members. The price pa d Up
proxlmatcly 20 cents each.
The Walla Walla Farmers' union has
passed a resolution asking the govern-
mf,'Kto.r,onUnue. ,n itwanteed pries
of wheat for at least another year.
Oregon trail. Is. t lheage of 0 yar
itA . , '"'"'S t puuncatioR enu.
reas " WaBnlnSton deveu Years Prog-
CommisHioriers ' of Ynhlma county
ihk.!. war( d a contract to place bltul
lltrtlc dressing on seven mile of road-
ri6O70 Ma,Jton an" Suiinyalde at
K. S Pavno and Vmn, tr..wi. .
members of the Kyerett iollce force, are
.k.. j in connection H'lth
thefts of candv and t,K .., - ' ,
gar store.
JiL a mMtinv r-f MA -..K . . .
the Horse Heaven district, at Mabton?
Miens werr ukm .. .. C
of the Washington Wheat Growers' as
sociation. C A. Rtrm T,.n. i , :
been appointed by the Crays Harbor
port communion to make a survey of
the harbor and prepare a plan of Inv
uvrmriu.
Kflward L. Lahrnian. a braketnan on
tne logging road of the Vmi.ii. r ,
company at Carlinle. wan InHtanllv
killed when he was crushed between tws
colliding cars.
Tacoma building permit for the first
two months of 1920 are more than 100
per cent greater than for the same pe
riod last year, and lat year's was the
heaving since 1U09.
An $18 minlrnum wage for women sm
ployed in restaurants and occupations
termed as "public housekeeping," has
been rfetermirim! unm, ,v K .t.. t
dustrlal reltef council at Olympla.
Three hundred ex-service men are
registered In Tacoma for the Knights
of Columbus free evening nfhi.nl Of
the 300 students enrolled nearly 200 de
sire to study automobile mechanics
IDAHO
The name of the town of Lakeport,
the terminus of the Northern Idaho rail
road, has been changed to McCbJI
The Rupert farm bureau shipped 488
pounds of .rabbit hldea to Chicago this
week. There were 2600 rabbit skins in
the shipment. ; -
The Rose City Lumber company,
which cloaed Its big aawmltl last Novem
ber, started full operaUona thla week
for the season's run.
A contract for the building of 8.4
miles of the Clearwater highway from
Greer to Fraser has been awarded to
Spokane contractors for 8180,000.
The city council of Lewlaton has be
gun the construction of an automobile
camp site in Delsol park. All roada
leading to the park will be hard sur
faced. .
The Heyburn Improvement company,
capitalised at $26,000, has recently been
formed in Heyburn In an endeavor to,
take care of the shortage of reside ices f
In that city.
Felix Jovanovich. held in the county
jail at Wallace on a criminal amdloal-V
ism charge, attempted to commit, aui
clde by cutting bis throat with a rasor
while shaving.
A small pimple on the lip of Miss"
Rose Oelger caused her death In s-hos-j
pltal at Moscow. Blood poison followed.
her head swelled to twice Its natural
sice and she suffered intense agony unJ
til relieved by death. .
Toll-Free -Willamette Due
Largely to Efforts of
The Journal
One of the Ideas for the develop
ment of transportation in the Wtl
lamette valley ts the intensifying of
steamboat traffic an the river and
the establishment' of supplemental
auto truck lines which will link theTi
towns and the producing districts
with the water tines. An Inducement
for greater use of the river Is tha
fact that the locks around , the pic-
turesque fails at Oregon City are free
to the use of all craft. For this fact
a large measure of thanks Is due to
The .Journal,-
The locks were originally construct
ed by private capital.' The mainte
nance of the property and the profits
from the Investment came from tolls
Imposed upon passengers and freight
carried by the river steamers. -
, ' The Journal took, the position that
the locks of Willamette river falls
should be toll-free. In this It stood
alone. No other paper supported the
contention. Ultimately the govern
ment appropriated a total of $380,000
and the stats of Oregon $100,000 for
the purchase- and reconstruction of
the locks. Nearly the entire amount
has been spent. The locks have been
rebuilt and deepened. The way. Is
open, free of tolls to build up river
business that will aid the Willamette
valley to come Into Its own.
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