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AVBAD BILL
f
pT WILL be a mistake for the coun
try, and particularly for the West
ern states, if the Townsend road
bill, so-called, be passed by con
gress.
A sufficient reason Is that there Is
no call for it. Another reason 13 that
passage of the measure would bring
to a stop a general system of road
building under a plan by which spen-
did progress Is being made.
The Townsend bill proposes a com
plete change of program In federal
aid. It would create a national high
way commission of five members to
have complete charge of all federal
construction ,of highways. It would
require a period of preliminaries with
stagnation of perhaps three years in
which no federal roads would be built,
due to the delays encountered in or
ganizing the new plan and putting
It into active operation.
For example, it proposes that a na
tional highway commission shall build
an east and west and a north and
south road across each state. Where
such roads are already built, the na
tional commission would take them
over and pay the cost of such roads
to the state. The negotiations be
tween states and national commission
would require a long time and would,
obviously, be the first step In the new
program. In New York, where such
roads have already been built, the
exhaustion of a eavy fraction of the
federal appropriation would result
without an iota of progress being
made In federal road building. There
would also be the opportunity for a
waste of publio funds.
Meanwhile, under the Shackleford
act, a strong organization has been
effected In every state that is building
roads, and that organization is func
tioning with splendid results. To
change the plan, and begin all over
again at the very time when the pres
ent plan Is In full career would be
destructive.
Under the Shackleford plan the fed
eral government is cooperating with
the 6tates on a 00-50 basis. There is
double supervision that by federal
engineers and that by state highway
commissions. The federal engineers
." cooperate with each other in plan
ning interstate systems and cooper
ate with state engineers for Intra
state systems. It is a better idea and
a better plan for building highways
suited to the greatest good for the
greatest number.
0n such a basis, It has the advan
tage over the proposed plan in which
all federal aid would be planned by
a board of five men at Washington
, with academic Ideas and little regard
for practical' requirements within the
several states.
nThe very proposals on which the
change of plan is demanded are
founded on error. They offer this
, checker board of federal highways as
. IJa'plan for the movement of products
iftnd alvle them market rnarle it i.
ebsurd to propose to move a truck
mow or iuner or potatoes, for
, aeaampie, lruui ruriiauu w iew xorK
?ra truck load of pig iron from
- . . 1 ' - A 1 1 A- . .
" iPKtsburg to NeW'Orleans.
-3 The- motor truck Is to be a big
f actor. In transportation, but it will
' not function as a transcontinental
.carrier over federal highways." The
.distance, ls too great. Tran&conti-
.,. ental carrying will be by water and
by ralL . Thus, the proposal for the
change - is based either on erroror
. .on Ifalse pretense. ;
When the ;work Is going forward
. Io effectively ' and; swiftly,' why
v change? : Why match academic theory
against actual and proven practica
bility f Why jump Into something
that is unknown and unpromising
and tbandon the demonstrated?
Senator Chamberlain has a bill In
congress continuing for four years
the Shackleford plan with slight modi
fications. It would keep the splendid
organization In each state In con
tinuous operation with complete co
operation between the federal govern
ment and the states. It would avert
the three or four years of stagnation
in federal road building that would
Inevitably result from adoption of
the Townsend bill. It would keep
going road construction that, under
the close supervision of both federal
and state engineers, is without favor
itism to the cement trust. Is beyond
the reach of the road machinery trust
and that Is building roads on the
highly approved principle of getting
a dollar's worth of road for every
dollar of public funds expended.
. Uncle . Sam's aerial mail service
is proving worthy of Its salt. The
postmaster generalcports that the
revenues on established air routes
are larger than the expenses. Mail
carrying planes in 507 days covered
473,210 miles at a cost of 80 cents
a mile. The mail handled has been
at the rate of 22,000,000 letters a
year and on each the time in tran-
Bit has been shortened an average of
16 hours. On the longer routes it
has been found possible to discon
tinue excess postage. The post
master general is convinced that
mail by afr is no longer an experiment.
A NEW PAGE
TRUTH is stranger than fiction. No
writer has produced a soenarlo
with a plot equal to that in
which ?6500 was taken from the
Aurora bank. No short story writer
has woven a web of thrills more ex
traordinary and yet within the actual
possibilities of human conduct.
Here was a divorced wife who
longed for return to her former hus
band. Here was a mother who ever
saw before her eyes the pictures of
her two children. Money, in her
thought, was the means of restora
tion and reunion.
In her temporary employment in
the bank she saw 150 to 1100 bank
bills. On those bills, perhaps, she
saw the pictures of the reunited home
and of the faces of her children. With
the longing ,and the impulse tugging
at her heart strings, she yielded.
But she was caught, and before her
is the condemnation of the law. Over
there is the court, and the lawyers
and the Jury, and the sheriff. And
there is 'the commandment In the
great Book, "Thou shalt not steal."
' It Is a 'page out of the book of real
life a new page; a page extraordi
nary. It Is a page about a woman's
heart .and children and a home. It is
a happening of a kind in which many
of us have never been involved and
concerning which it is difficult for
us to pass Judgment. And until we
know more about a mother's yearn
Ings for Iter Babies, which of us is in
position jo condemn those who hold
that justice should be tempered with
mercy?
The prediction that gasoline Is
soon going on up, that the petroleum
supply of America will not prove
sufficient for our navy and that Im
pending high prices reveal a real
shortage and not a profiteer fill
buster are all facts that support
former Secretary of the Interior
Lane's appeal for national economy
In the carrying and use of petroleum
products from the well to the fire
box or the cylinder's explosion
chamber. But our great difficulty
Is to believe that a supply which
was sufficient to bujld up the great
est of modern fortunes should dl
mlnish so rapidly that prices must
skyrocket In order to maintain the
feudal baronies of the petroleum
princes.
THE PORT MERGER
T
HE consolidation of Portland's
port bodies is highly to bo de
sired. A merger of the port com
mission and the dock commission
would result in economy. It should
reduce administrative costs and short
en the salary lists.
More Important,-the merger should
permit the adoption and actual ap
plication of a uniform polioy of port
development. The arbitrary division
which says that the duty of the port
commission is confined to the main
tenance of the channel and the task
of the dock commission exclusively
related to the construction and oper
atlon of the terminal structures is
unnatural. Functions Inevitably over
lap.
But passing by the abundant argu
ments In favor of the consolidation
we come to the more tedious ques
tion of method.
The committee of i5 Is reported as
recommending that the Port of Port
land take over the property and debts
of the dock commission. Without
question the very proposal will raise
up debaters declaring that the reverse
means should be -employed and that
the dock commission should absorb
the Port of Portland.
If the question reaches dispute stage
something may be said on both sides
The Port of Portland commission
for Instance, is. a creature of the
state legislature. The boundaries of
the port district are not co-extenslve
with the boundaries of the city. The
commission Is to greater or less' de
gree independent of the sentlmen
and the official authority of Portland
The personnel of the commission' Is
subject to political Juggling at legis
lative sessions. Those truiet Interests
mat snow exactly what they, want
and how to attain their desires look
to a distant, and, perhaps Influenced
legislative appointment more hope
fully than to a more local appoint
ment or election. .... If the port com
mission should swallow the dock
commission it would mean we sur
rendering of properties In which the
people of the city have Invested mil
lions and to which they look- hope
fully as utilities, for the building of
desired commerce.
But on the other hand, the dock
commission's powers are in large
measure confined within the "corpor
ate limits of the city. It is a sub
ordinate body, reporting to the coun
cil. Its members appointed by the
mayor, and the appointments have
not always been with close reference
to the port and maritime knowledge
of the appointees. WTille a state
enactment and, possibly,' a Portland
ote would be necessary in the sur
render of the dock commission's au
thority and property, it is difficult to
say what would be the nature and
complexity of the amendments, meas
ures and ordinances required to vest
he dock commission with powers af
fecting operations from Portland to
lie sea.
The consolidation of the port and
dock commissions is a thing to be
desired. But the thing that has de-
ayed the merger until the present
time and renders it a tedious task
for the future is that ever recurrent
question, as to which is to swallow
the other. The formulation of a
satisfactory plan is a work, which If
performed by the two commissions'
ivic committees or others, should win
the gratitude of Portland. But no
plan will be acceptable, no matter
ow fair on its face, if developed in
secret behind closed doors. It Is the
people's business and should be done
in full view of the public.
Muslo Is "the common denomina
tor of a community's recreation
Most girls go wrong because they
do not have an opportunity to go
right. People's need of fun is as
great as their need for food and
exercise. Such are the arguments
with -which the Community Service
association, successor to War Camp
Community service, prefaces its ap
peal for a large supporting mem
bership In Portland. If community
service in teaching prosy men and
women how to sing and play can
make Portland happier and more
friendly, it should have its chance.
A FIRST DISADVANTAGE
A
NNOUNCEMENT has been made by
the Great Northern that, com
mencing March 16, Its trains will
discontinue use of the Union
station and again be routed In and out
of the. Hill depot at Hoyt street. It
is a change that will be regretted by
the traveling public because it will
work inconvenience, and, oftentimes,
delay upon them.
Whatever may have been alleged as
disadvantages of government opera
tion of the rail lines of the country
there can be no question that it
brought at least two distinct and
much appreciated advantages to those
who travel, whether for pleasure or
of necessity. One of these was the
consolidation of the ticket selling
agencies -of the various systems into
one office: the other was the unioni
zation of terminal stations Insofar as
that was possible or feasible.
There are no operating reasons In
Portland at least why these two Im
provements could not be continued.
It would undoubtedly be in the inter
est of the traveling public. The Union
station is here, and it could be used
by all steam lines serving the city
provided the various companies would
get together and agree upon a plan-
It would cause their patrons to feel
a lot more kindly towards them if
that Is an incident In the operation
of a railroad business.
POOR HICKSON
D
R. WILLIAM J. HICKSON, head of
Chicago's psychopathlo labora
tory, is In an awful stew. He
fears that "the decadence of the
nation can only result from the as
cendency gained by women In affairs."
Dr. Hickson is. of course, a psycho
path, or he would not hold the job
he has. Being a psychopath It wojuld
naturally seem to rollow as a matter
of reason that he is psychopathic, or
his soul would not be attuned to his
dally task. The dictionary says that
an individual so endowed possessess
"abnormal sensitiveness to spiritual
phenomena, characterized by extreme
susceptibility to religious emotion.
conscientious doubts and fears or sub
ject to hallucinatory Ideas In . such
matters." So, it would seem that
the doctor is in an awful fix as well
as in an awful stew.
Dr. Hickson contends that "the
women have secured the drop on the
men in this country" which may or
may not be a hallucination, according
to the vantage point from which our
circumstanced, marital or otherwise,
lead us to view the statement. He
goes on to mourn because "the nation
has put its head . in the noose of
Puritanism" from which he deduces
that "degeneration of individual and
national fiber is inevitable."
Dr Hickson next seems to let the
thirsty cat out.of the bag by. remark
ing that "prohibition Is typical of
the modern puritan mania. So also.
he argues, are "church movements"
which he points out with prohibi
tion and AWlth the so-called high
standard of morality result in a de
terioration of masculine physical and
mentaTvirillty "American pep," he
grieves, "which was the result of a
tnascullne-domlnated - country, soon
will be a thing of the past"
Without questioning the doctor's
J diction , it may Just be possible., that
he meant "Jazz'? when he said "pep."
Jazz and gin ricktes shimmle along to
gether In pretty good shape, but when
you take the gin oat of the rickles it
seems to take the zizx out of the
Jazz.
It may be possible, of course, that
man "is taking second place" In the
race of life in this country, but it is
to be doubted If that is so much be
cause the segment of society Is losing
its American pep. It may be that
some of the conventional hobbles
having been taken off our sisters they
are outfootlng us a little bit, pep and
alL
But, be that as It may, It Is difficult
for those of us who are not endowed
with psychopathlo temperaments to
conclude that our fiber, either indi
vidually or nationally, is going to de
generate because we have ceased to
soak it in alcohol, and have begun to
trundle it into the path of "church
movements" now' and then, or to ele
vate it upon a "high moral standard"
above the gutters and the deadfalls
we used to have about us.
It may be, as Dr. Hickson complains,
that "the nation has put Its head In
the noose of puritanism," but even so,
It will have to hold its head up a
little higher among its neighbors
than of yore, or choke. Dr. Hickson
talks like he was choking now. Chok
ing seems to have been a common
pastime with 'many of us since the
ides of last January.
BONUS PLANS
VARY WIDELY
By Carl Smith, Washington Staff
Correspondent of The Journal
Washington, March 13. UnuBual heat
and disorder have developed at the hear
ings conducted by the ways and means
committee of the house on the question
6f paying in some form a bonus to sol
diers of the war with Germany. Dele
gations of the American Legion and of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars have
clashed and Chairman Fordney has at
times found it difficult to maintain or
der. Some members of the committee
joined in these exchanges and with five
or six talking at once the official re
porter of the proceedings 4ost out al
together. It is apparent that the com
mittee Itself represents several shades
of opinion. There are advocates Of an
outright bonus, there are others more
disposed to provision for farms or homes,
and still others who think it inadvisable
to proceed with legislation at this time.
Four leading Democratic members of
the committee, former Chairman Claude
Kitchin of North Carolina. Henry W. '
Ralney of Illinois, Cordell Hull of Ten
nessee and John W. Garner-of Texas,
are considered aligned with the opposi
tion, from the lines of questioning they
have pursued, and apparently will be
supported In this position by Nicholas
Longworth of Ohio, the third Republican
in rank.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars have
so far presented the most complete pro
gram. They propose 830 a month bonus
for each month of service, excluding
those who served less than two months
and those whose pay was more than $60
a month, with a minimum payment of
1240 for those who served as much as
two months, an additional $100 for those
who served overseas and also federal
aid In the purchase of homes. On the
other side of the ledger they propose
a surtax on all Incomes over 850,000 a
year, reaching- to ? per cent for incomes
of $1,000,000. This is estimated to yield
$200,000,000 a year to cover interest on
bonds and to create a sinking fund for
their retirement.
...
Their plan is midway between that
of the American Legion and that of
the organization of private soldiers,
sailors and marines. ""The Legion has
suggested a service bonus of $50 a
month. Including officers, who would
be excluded by the others. As alterna
tive plans the Legion committee suggest
ed aid in farm purchases, city homes or
vocational training for unwounded men.
The Legion made no suggestion for
meeting the expense. The organization
of private soldiers, sailors and marines
indorses the payment of a flat sum of
$500 to each man, and to meet the cost
a surtax on all Incomes in excess of
810,000, retroactive to the year 1915. It
is their contention that $12,000,000,000
was made by war profiteers before the
United States entered the war, or five
times more than enough to defray the
expense.
Differences in the recommendations
made by the soldier organizations hae
led to the suggestion that the matter
be held in abeyance until the soldiers
reach a common basis of agreement.
This Is resented by some of the soldier
representatives as an effort to send them
away empty handed and indefinitely de
lay the payments.
Here Is Where You Meet
Friends of Far Distant
Days in Corvallis
Ancient Newspaper Files Show Who
Were Doing the Business
Fifty Years Ago.
To look over the files of the Corvallis
Gazette of 60 years ago gives ne a
most accurate picture of the times when
tnose who are today the rrtty haired
pioneers of Oregon were boys and glrla
ii gives one also a picture of a Corval
lls that was in contrast with the Cor
vallls of today. It tells the history of
the changing times and of the transi
tion from horsepower to motor vehicles.
No longer do you see the advertisements,
as you did in those days, of gold dust
bought; of gunsmiths; of hairdressers.
The advertisements of the harness mak
ers, blacksmiths, livery stables and
stage companies have given way to the
ads of the agents for autos, trucks and
automobile accessories. Though most
of the old time merchants of Corvallis
have crossed the divide, yet the old
names linger on the signs as the sons
and grandsons have succeeded to the
business.
a
Take a retrospective glance of the Cor-
valUa of a half century ago, for example.
midsummer of 1867, and then walk down
the street of the Corvallis of today and
notice the firm names. Tou wiU see
many names still familiar. Here In
1887 is the sign of Gujtav Hodes. gun
smith. Hodee' gun store is still one of
the business institutions of Corvallis,
Here Is the Corvallls Gazette, run by
William B. Carter, which is still, as
In those days, one of the leading factors
of the city. Souther & Allen's drug store
is now Allen's drug store. On that June
day, more than half a centary ago. 3. It-
Bay ley, Francis A. Cbenowlth, Eramus
Holgate. John Kelsay,,T. B. Odeneal,
Reuben H. Strahan. and Thayer A Bur
nett represented the legal profession of
Corvallls. Milton Canterbury, Lee &
Sharpies, James W. Murray. Taylor M.
Snow and T. J. Wright were the physi
cians.1 W.' A. Flnley was president of
Corvallis college and pastor of the Meth
od i at Episcopal church, South,- Join
James was pastor of the Methodist EDis
copal church. A.-V -llcCarty of the
Christian and Richard Willy of the
Presbyterian. Henry L Day, J. H. Stew
art. Hunt Blcket and A. Ft- UeCon-i
nell kept saloona Andrews A Stair and
William Dyer ran butcher shops. Bloom, !
Moscowlts Co.. Cohn h. Falk. Fox
Bros.. C. H. Friendly. H. E. Harris. I
K. Kline, Jacobs u Neugass, J. O.
Krelchbaam, T)umpso A ' Eglin and
Walters St Clark were handling general
merchandise. Simmons A Kiger and W.
A. Wella ran livery sublet Brtggs ft
Preston, Peter Couglan. Joe Gerhard,
Adam Holder and Knight tt Titus had
blacksmith shops. James M. Chlsham,
Andrew Purdy and Francis Matthews
were wagonmakera. W. A. Emrlck
operated a factory for the manufacture
of saddletrees. Ernest Fisher And Hiram
Flicklneer made and sold harness. J. O.
Adama waa a sign painter. E. S. Altree
had a flour mill and bakery. Louis Bel-
flls and Joseph Bidder were watchmak
ers. S. H. Bernard and 11- Q. Dill were
coopers, William Fliedner was a hair
dresser and John Herrbold was a dent
ist. Oaylord Swick had a sash and
door factory. Robert T. McCune and
Henry Harris ran sawmills. Houghton ft
I lannett operated a tannery. David Ir
vin made boots and shoes. . Walter Mc
Farland had a hardware store. Temple
ton At Foster were, photographers. R.
M. Thompson was postmaster.
Today Corvallls has a greater popula
tion than the whole of Benton county
had half a century ago. The develop
ment that will occur durins; the next
half century in Corvallls. in Benton
county and in the Willamette valley is
tta far beyond what we of today can
foresee that were we able to unroll the
future and see the Oregon of 1970 our
most optimistic and roBeate forecast of
today would not come anywhere near
the facts.
Letters From the People
( Commuiiicatinns sent to Tha Journal fcr
publication te thia department ahould Be written
on only on tide of the paper, ihooid not ece.
800 wcrdu in lencth nd must be ifnd fil tha
writer, whoaa mail addreaa Ut full miut accom
pany tha cpDtribution.
Wants Vote on Zoning Ordinance
Portland. March 10. To the Editor of
The Journal In regard to the zoning
ordinance I beg to say I do not believe
tnat one person in 100 knows what It is
or what it means, and I am honest to
confess that I do not know myself, hav
ing had no time to attend meetings
where, I understand. It has been dis
cussed. But I have heard enough about
it to know that it is a question that
should be settled by a vote of the peo
ple, and in no other way. regardless of
what Mayor Baker or a few commission
ers think to the contrary. Every prop
erty owner should have a voice In such
vital questions and I sincerely hope The
Journal will see It in this light and.be
with the people. E. T. MANN.
Wants a Declaration From Hoover
Portland. March 10. To the Editor of
The Journal Ex-Governor West, it ap
pears, is acting sponsor for the candi
dacy of Herbert Hoover for president.
The Inquiry arises. Has he Inside knowl
edge of Hoover's political bias, past and
present? If so. is it authoritative or
guesswork 7 The views and bias of a
private citizen cannot be called, in ques
tion, so long as he holds them in secret,
but if he presumes to aspire to leader
ship and seeks positions of trust or
leadership, the public has the right to
demand explicit showing of his fitness,
including policies and personal bias, as
well as ability. The voters are not in
clined to accept a pig in a poke.
The governor claims that .Hoover Is a
Democrat. Is he a flopper. like Colby
and Crane, whose-minds are on a level
vith that of President Wilson? As to
Hoover's stand, claiming not to be a
candidate, he belittles hlm8e,f by not
frankly declaring his party affiliation,
instead of adroitly posing so as to flop
to the party that will give him the nom
ination. His pleading unsettled condi
tions, dependent, upon lines of progres
sive development, is flimsy artel beneath
the dignity of statesmanship.
Political progressiveness as exempli
fied In the last eight years is like that ,
of the crawfisli backward.
I have great personal respect for
Hoover, from the little I know of him,
but I Want, and think the public de
mands, frank and explicitly dependable
statements on all lines of public policies.
W. ti. JD.i.
Queries
Portland. March 9. To the Editor of
The Journal Kindly inform me whether
it Is permissible to send a catalogue
through the mails showing prices on
dry goods from this country to some
European country, or not ; also, to whom
should one write In regard to taking
out final citizenship papers in this state?
A DAILY READER.
f Th first aUMtlon ia not stated fully enouah
to make it pouible to anrwer it with aaeuranee.
The inquirer would do well to apply st the
poatoffiee. The county clerk, at tha Multnomah
county courthouae. haa charge of naturalization
matters. Apple to him
The Payer of the Taxes
Vancouver, Wash., Feb. IS. To the
Editor of The Journal If your Seaside
correspondent who suggests a means of
taxing capital were a student or econom
ic! ha would realize that capital cannot
be taxed, more than could be the erst
while saloon. The saloon could not be
taxed; its patrons paid all the taxes
levied againat it. , Not this alone, but
they paid for the silks and diamonds
worn by the owner's wife. In like man
ner labor pays the capitalist's taxes. It
also builds and furnishes his mansion,
constructs and mans his steam yacht,
pays for his automobiles and keeps them
up. feeds his flunkeys, dogs and guests,
and subsidizes the foreign numskulls
who marry his dollars.
Productive labor pays all the bills, ana
the parasite, whether he be capitalist or
booe-vender. Is but a medium through
which taxes are collected.
.EX-SERVICE MAN.
Congressional. Investigations
Portland, March 6. To the Editor of
The Journal For manufacturing politi
cal capital our congressional Investiga
tions axe certainly the real thing. The
public looks for real Justice, but Instead
receives partisan defense of and partisan
accusations against the administration.
What both party organizations are look
ing for lS "hot Stuff to Use as cam
paign material. Think of-it! Campaign
material, based on no "purposeful search
for facts.
In times like these, when the IrwJus
ttial population Is crying for remedies
for the increasing cost of living and as
piring to better conditions of life and
labor, to see our great national legis
lature indulging In long-drawn har
angues, now and then putting over some
ready made legislation that savors of
granting of special favors to the few at
the expense of the many, should be the
criterion by which all intelligent voters
will go to the polls and vote those po
litical non-statesmen to a life of repent
ant solitude. RALPH I WALTER.
Curious Bits of. Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
Maize, or Indian corn, In its present
form, represents one of the great
achievements of primitive planters, the
North American Indian, says Robert II.
Moulton in Popular -Mechanics. It came
originally from Southern Mexico, and
waa eaten by the Maya tribes. Ai first
it was nothing but a coarse grass, op
which were tiny cars - resembling -the
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Chare B Clark refnsea to run tar nrl.
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The oueation "Who's TTrt l . .
become 'What'a Hoover 7 - r-
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Secretary Daniels, we note, la among
the latest to 'View with alarm," It seems
to be quite the favorite - indoor sport
Just now.
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If "Billy" Sunday could win rwiltticnl
converts as- effectively as he can re
ligious converts, he might be -elected
president, at that.
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If no woman ever married except for
love, a lot of homelv men wmiM H
making less noise than they make about
uie cost oi living.
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Kansas has had a "million dollar
rain. And if Kansans need, any more
of the same kind, all they Aave to do
is come to Oregon.
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There's some incentive towards the
diplomatic corps now that it has been
decided that diplomats may keep their
liquor stores with them.
With a new lumber mill promised St
Johns, and Vancouver interested in the
possibility of paper mill activities, things
in general around these parts seem to
be milling most lively. -
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
C. Y. Tengwald, Medford orchardfst
and active in the organisation of the
"Lowden for President" club- in that
city, was in Portland Thursday to take
lunch with local Lowden enthusiasts
Lowden sentiment is growing steadily
throughout Southern Oregon, according
to the statement of Tengwald, who de
clares he is entirely satisfied with the
reports from Middle West and East,
where, he claims, steady gains for Low
den are evidenced. "Indicating that
sentiment for Lowden's candidacy is
crystallizing here as it is elsewhere,"
Tengwald said, "there are already Low-
den clubs at Klamath Falls. Ashland
and Medford.
If Henri Thlele, the Benson hotel's
chubby little chef, should appear one of
these days without that dainty little
beard that adorns his double chin It will
be all the fault of a new trench mirror,
relic of war days, that a friend wished
on him. Many otherwise mysterious
"wounds" on the faces of soldiers were
accounted for by the fact that they
shaved before a trench mirror, and In
spite of his personal knowledge of that
fact George Underwood, f com a vantage
point behind the Benson desk, urges
Henri with all the enthusiasm of a re
turned soldier, to use the mirror.
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W. W. Cryder, until now supervisor
of the Umatilla national forest, has been
transferred to the Malhaur reserve. His
successor on the Umatilla forest is Su
pervisor John C. Kuhns.
John Tait, whose laundry at Astoria
does most of the washing for the com
munity, is registered at the Multnomah
hotel. There also is C. B. Foster, chief
of the Astoria fire department.
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To Royal M. Saw telle of Pendleton are
confided, in the course of the business
day, some of the most tender secrets of
the bashful swains of Umatilla county.
For Sawtelle presides over the affairs
of one of Pendleton's leading Jewelry
stores, which dispenses lustrous dia
monds to the lovelorn young ranchers
and others. He is a guest at the Port
land while in Portland on a business
trip.
C. L. Carlisle, a field worker for the
United States public health service. Is
transacting official business in Portland
and while here is stopping at the Seward
hotel.
M. Vernon Parsons, whose aspirations
for election as secretary of state to suc
ceed Governor Olcott are aided and
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
Ben Jrren i today farther reported by Mr.
Lockley Jerrell ia a moonshiner now earring
antnca. He discusses his trada from that
trade's standpoint, but personally reprobates the
use of pooze, and t more 10 the use of drugs.
Solomon must have been thinking of
the bootleggers when he wrote, "In the
revenues of the wicked Is trouble, and
he that is greedy of gain troubleth his
own house." A day or so ago a govern
ment official took me through the "still
room" at the custorrtfhouse and later
through the "moonshine" department. In
a large room we saw S scores of stills
of every description. There were stills
made from wash boilers, tea ketteles.
slopjars, churns and 10-gallon milk cans,
and some beautifully made stills with a
capacity of 60 gallona In principle they
were all alike, despite their wide vari
ation of construction. The can had a
dome from which ran the gooseneck
which connected with the worm or cop
per coll running through receptacle
containing cold water. One of the stills
had an Iron worm in place of a copper
worm. Pointing to It, I asked my guide
If the iron worm served the purpose as
well as the copper worm. "Yes. you can
make moonshine whiskey with the Iron
worm, all right," he responded, "only
when Iron or galvanised Iron is used
arsenate crystala are formed and you
are apt to die young. I asked a boot
legger we caught the other day If he
didn't know that the rum he was mak
ing from corn syrup and "nitric acid
would eat holes in the stomach of the
man who drank it. He said. "Hell, yes ;
but I ain't figuring on drinking it. I
make it to sell, and I should worry if It
eats holes in the other fellow's in
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Ben Jarrell. who Is spending a year at
the courthouse here in Portland as a
guest of the county, is known to the
revenue officers as "King of the Moon
shiners." A day or so ago we were talk
ing about the Injurious effects of the
vile concoctions made here and sold as
llhuor.
"The trouble is," said Jarrell. "that
you folks out here don't know how to
make real moonshine or, if you do know
how, you have no sense of honor or
top of the wheat stalk. . The plant is
essentially tropical and, despite cen
turies of culture in the temperate tone,
is stlU sensitive to frost- The tribes of
North America saw the possibilities of
the grain and hastened Its evolution.
There has been crossbreeding by white
farmers, yet, as a matter of fact, the
corn culture of the present day is prac
ticaUy as It came from the hand of the
Indian. He had adapated and modified it
to various sections of the country by a
process of careful selection- $
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Charlie Dellflat assured his aunt
t'other day he was goin' to have ijis new
set of twins christened Carburetla and
Sparkplug, 'cause they both give him so
much trouble. The 'old lady told him if
he ever done such a heathenish thing
she'd cut the whole Dellflat fajjj'ly dead.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
Spring ts believed to have come to
Durkee. as buttercups are in bloom and
the robins are there.
It is reported that at Crater Ike
there Is now but 3ty feet of snow, com
pared with 13H feet at (he same time
last year.
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Contract for the building of six con
crete -bridges in various parts of Hood
River county were let recently at $7864.
The contract calls for completion within
three months.
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The shortage of cars at Baker for ship
ping lumber became less serious, the
Democrat says, when a long train of
logging cars was received by-the Baker
White Pine Lumber company a few days
ago.
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The quarantine officers of La Grande,
the Observer slates, report all ilu signs
taken down, but there seems to be an
epidemic of umallpot going the round.
and several residences are quarantined
for that cause.
For the first time in 12 years, the
Baker Democrat Hays, ihe Baker county
jainnas naa no occupants ror rive con
secutive days. "Hard times are always
noticed when the cells are crowded, hut
prosperity for all gives no excuse for
crime, therefore the county may con
gratulate itself for the present record,"
is the Democrat's comment.
abetted by an enthusiastic campaign lie
has launched' for himself, is a guest at
the Perkins hotel while In Portland to
tell his friends what a good secretary of
state he would make. Parsons' home is
at Eugene. '
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Walter M Pierce, state senator for
Union and Wallowa counties, resident of
I-a Grande and prominent in Eastern
Oregon development activity, is so
journing at the Imperial hotH during
one of his frequent Visits in Portland.
Pierce is one of the three good Demo
crats in the state senate, each of whom.
oddly enough, represents a progressive
Eastern Oregon constituency. The others
are George T. Baldwin, Benator from
Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath
and Lake counties, and W. H. Strayer
of Baker, Benator from Baker county
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Jones and
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Leacock of Bend
compose a party of Portland visitors
stopping at the Portland hotel while In
the city.
Nineteen miles west of Clatskanie, on
the Xelialem river, and within Clatsop
county, is vesper, , home of Mm. E
Gulstlna, who Is at the Oregon hotel
while visiting in Portland. Vesper
being 19 miles from the railroad. Isn't a
metropolis by any means, but It Is a
business place, nevertheless, and has a
payroll.
John H. McNary, brother of Oregon's
junior United States senator and an at
torney at Salem in his own riuht. is in
Portland on a business trip, stopping at
the Seward hotel.
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R. P. Anderson. W. D. Pierce and II.
M. Reiff are Baker, Or., citizens regis
tered at Portland hotels. The two for
mer are at the Imperial while Reiff is
at the Benson.
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Little Medicine, Wyo.. is the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Burnett, who are
guests at the Mul(nomah hotel during
a brief stay in Portland. If a few mil
lion gallons of Oregon's mist could be
transferred each year to the country
around Little Medicine there would be
a wealth of verdure on the plains there
that would rival the Garden of Eden, It
la said.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McKiUop, whose
confectionery factory and retail store at
Corvallls help to supply the demands of
the sweet tooth of the Oregon Agri
cultural college student body, are visit
ing at the Multnomah hotel.
feeling of humanity, or you wouldn't
make the horrible stuff that Is being
sold as whiskey. Oown south, where we
have been making moonshine since be
fore the Revolutionary war. the knowl
edge is handed down from father to son.
I have been maklr.g It down in North
Carolina since I came of age. and the
price -we get for thft best grade there ts
from $1 to $1.50 a gallon. Out .here the
horrible stuff they ;make sells for from
110 to $12 a quart. The men making It
ought to be sent up, not for making
moonshine, but for! making such harm
ful substitutes and selling them aa gen
uine moonshine. ;
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"What do I think of whiskey? Well,
you 'can tell what I think of it when I
sell you that I never let the men work
ing for me drink a drop of it, and I very
rarely take any myself, . A man making
moonshine must only Employ men of
the utmost discretion, and a man who
drinks Is not discreet. I have seen too
much of the effects of liquor not to
know that it Is bad and wrecks more
lives than anything else but dope. These
drug users get my goat. That is worse
than liquor drinking. I should think
they would prohibit the manufacture of
these nerve wrackjng, soul destroying
drugs. A man is worthless who Is mas
tered by drink. The best way is not to
drink at all. for ih the end liquor is
pretty apt to get you and wreck your
family, your fortune and your health.
That is why I let $t alone. Looks like
the government, though, would abolish
the manufacture of; drugs, for they are
a heap worse than ljquor. bad as that la.
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"How did I happen to come out to Ore
gon and get caught making moonshine?
1 was running a etore back home and
was too easy, giving credit to the folks
I had been raised with. I couldn't bear
to turn them down When they said, 'Just
charge It.' I finally got In debt over
$8000. I can't abide not being able to
setUe my obligations, so I came out here
to make some blgitnoney quick to -get
my debts cleaned up. I figured if the
people out here were bound to get whis
key I would furnish it to them and I
would he doing them a good turn by
making la high grade of genuine moon
shine instead of the hair oil, varnish and
pain killers they were using. But the
officers didn't agree: with me ; so here I
am."
Olden Oreeon
Heavy Immigration inlS47. Following
Boundary Settlement.
Following the settlement of the
boundary question In 1846, the Immigra
tion of 1847 was heavy, numbering be
tween 4000 and 6000 persons. They
began arriving at The Dalles as early
as the latter part of August and con
tinued to come until November, when
200 wagons were still on the eastern
side of the mountains. Every expedition
by wagon had been attended with loss
and suffering. The foremost companies
exhausted the grass, forcing those In
the rear to delay In order to recruit
their stock. Many of the prospective
settlers died of an epidemic called black
measles. In addition the Indians were
troublesome between the- lu moun
tains and The Dallea,
The .Oregon Country
"Norll.-eit Happeninn in Brief fvtm tut tbt
Biujr ttaadar
OREGON NOTES
,A.v,frous campaign has been started ;
in Jackson county against violation of
the game lawn.
- Thri"' district attorney
helr couuty. has filed his candl
dacy for reelection.
nfw J'vci for the price of timber
V?, .th' 8u,e of a n't of 1 acres f
in Clatriop county for J60.0OO.
jft nan i1," bPen .rlfl at Salem for
i Vj 'M rr" ,,ps wnlon re to be
planted at Sartlls. British Columbia.
The entire mortgage cf $21,000 that
In Baker county lor. 10 years has been
An intensive salting and range man
agement plan hns been adopted by the
North Powder Cattle and Horse Rais
ers' association.
While influenza is on the wane In
town it is said to be gaining In the up
per Hood river valley sei-tion around
Parkdale.
John E. Churchill of Hosehura- has
been arrested at Los Angeles on the
charge of wife desertion and non sup
port. A Inrjre riuantltv of TNT allotted to
the stato highway commission by the
W'ar department hus bei'n nrdnrmi
shipped from Camp Lewis.
The llosehmc nnat of tliA iniplfun
Legion will Midfavor to have Robert
Rlsle transferred from the state insane
asylum to a government hospital.
The city council of Kuekhc hus nrl noted
an ordinance providing lor the paving'
of Twelfth avenue from Ouk to Klncald
streets In front of the university campus.
A total of Ii04 applli-iiHonH for real
entate licenses fur lao have been re
ceived at the Male Insurance depart
ment. The number, last year was 1537.
Alumni of the University of Oregon
nt Hend are planning to (?lve a reception
and dance In honor of the University
Olee club which gives a concert at Bend
Ma nil 30.
Indications are that Douglas county
stockmen will win their fight for a res
toration of the former rate on mixed
carload ehipmeius of livestock to the
Portland market.
Penitentiary dTfielals have received
word that A. B. Foster, who escaned
from the state tuberculoHis hospital, (mi 1
been seen at Seattle and was evidently !
uii ins y 10 mo i niiuiuan Doraer.
Steps have been taken at Oregon City
for the improvement of the road con
nectlng the Clackamas county seat with
the Capital highway through Willam
ette and Tualatin.
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WASHINGTON
Bids will be opened ul Chehftlls Marrh
22 for the paving of a 18 foot road be
tween Wlnloi k and Cowliti prairie.
Nearly X50.000 has been paid Into the
office of the Clarke county auditor ho
far this season for motor vehicle li
censes. Erection of a community building In
Centralla an a memorial to the victims '
of tiie Armistice day shooting Is being
urged.
More than 2&00 citizens of Yakima ;
have filed their Income tax returns. The
.iciuuiB biiuw an increase oi au per cent,
over last year.
According to C. L. Robinson, district
horticultural lnHpector' at Yakima, the
December freeze did not kill insect pests.
He advises spraying as usual.
Preparations are under way at Walla
Walla for the trial of three alleged t.
W. W. now In jail on the churge of vio
lating the state syndicalism law.
M . F Oose. former supreme Judpe. haa
been nominated for state senator by lh
Republicans of the district comprising
Columbia, Asotin and Garfield counties.
From SO' to 90 acres of berries w ill be
planted this spring in Chehalls and
within a short distance of the city limits.
in all In the country tributary to Che
halls from 250 to 260 acres will be
planted.
The new sawmill has begun operations
at MontOHano. At present It will be run
by a shift of 75 men, but a second shift
will he put on whrn five machinery runs
smoothly. The cost of the new mill waa
approximately $2-0.000.
The Yakima county commissioners
have passed an order creating the Roa-
Ilenton Irrigation district. Water will
be taken out of the Yakima river near
Hosa to serve approximately 64,000 acres
In the territory below Union gap.
Wenatchee school district officials are
In doubt as to whether the proposition to
' Increase the school tax levy from 10 to
20 mills has been leKHlly carried. Ona
section of the law requires a three-fifths
majority, another section li satisfied
with a bare majority.
IDAHO
Recruiting has been begun' at NamD
for the organization of a cavalry troop.
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Building permits- amounting to $41,800
were Issued during February.
N O Thompson has been elected
mayor of Buhl by the city council, to
succeed C. II. McQuown. resinned.
Articles of Incorporation of the Ramey
Waste Ditch company of Frultland have
been approved by the secretary of state.
The big new rock cruher for the
Moscow highway district has been In
Stalled near town and soon will begin
the work of crushing rock.
A plan Is being considered by the state
highway officials to build the bride
across Snake river between Caldwell and
Nam pa by force account.
Total deposits In the four national
bank- of Boise amount to $16,813,000.
The total shown by the previous report,
December 31, 1919. was IK,.63,00O.
Idaho stream measurements made by
state and federal agencies during the
past six years are now available to pub
lic use, according to the annual report or
the state reclamation commissioner.
The Journal Led the Fight
That Established Direct
Election of Senators
In 1906 The Journal began a deter
mined fight for the election of legis
lative candidates who had subscribed
to Statement 1. This fight was made
for the purpose of Insuring to the
people the power of electing their
senators. The fight was carried on
all over the state under The Journal's
leadership. It resulted n the elec
tion of a majority of legislators
pledged to Statement I. The old Re
publican machine and the opponents
of the popular election of senators
thereupon began a fight to Induce
the legislators pledged to Statement 1
to go back on their word. This was
fought vigorously by The Journal
with the election in 1S07 of Jonathan
Bourne, who had received he popular
vote in the election of the preceding
June.
An editorial comment on March 10,
this year, the occasion being The
Journal's eighteenth birthday, helps
understand more clearly the meaning
of this fight In behalf pf the public.
It. reads in part:
"For seven years the struggle raged
over Statement 1. ' Just before the end1
of the long conflict the Oregonlan led
a movement to restore the old con
vention system and kill Statement 1
under the name of the assembly.
Politicians almost without, exception,
the old political bosses, the thlm
blerlggers and 'not a few henest peo
ple who believed in the old order,
were on one side, and masses of peo
ple who wanted government cleansed
and the old rottenness overthrown
were on the other. From the
moment of its birth The Journal took
the side of those who wanted crooked
politicians and crooked men driven out
of control in this state. It de
fended Statement 1 in the time when
other newspapers and the politicians
seemed on the verge of destroying it,
and lived to see the plan adopted In
Oregon"1 lead finally to. adoption of
direct election of senators, in the na
tion." ' '