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THE MONTESANO VERDICT
THE Montesano Jury found the
. principal defendants guilty but
not of murder in the first degree.
It is evident that the jurors gave
. credence to the testimony of the de-
fense to the effect that s'ome of the
s Armistice day marchers assumed a
threatening attitude when the parade
reached the I. W. W. hall.
There "was such testimony. Seem
' ingly, it was strong enough to throw
sufficient doubt into the minds of the
: Jurors to give the defendants the ben
efit of a second degree verdict.
If that is not the explanation, then
there is the familiar fact that not
, many men are willing to sit on a Jury
-and vote away another man's life.
The common repugnance to voting
' for a Judgment that condemns a fel
low being to death is an obstacle that
will always stand in the way of ef
fective enforcement of capital punlsh
j merit
Many say they have no scruples.
And they think they have none. But
when theyit in a Jury box day after
day and look into the eyes of the de
fendant; when in their own solemn
thoughts there comes to them a vision
.of - the dying struggles, the death
throes and the Jerking limbs of a man
' whom they have voted to kill : when
. "brought face to face with the oon-
. SClousness that the living, breathing
defendant before them is to be, if they
so will, a stark and stiff corpse with
in a few days, many Jurors, when
.the time to vote comes, find it con
venient and preferable to vote for a
lesser verdict In order to escape from
the .oonsclousness of having helped
take a human life. v
Whether this figured in the Monte
sano verdict cannot be known. But
It will grow as a force in future ver-
, diets, and it has been growing in
strength in past verdicts. There was
a time in the world when men were
too little removed from the code of
"the jungle to have the higher Ideals
that an advancing civilization has
brought. The farther we get away
. from the Dark Age the stronger men
'are objecting to the death penalty.
Men were once hung, or. drawn and
; ; quartered or killed In a series of in-
. human tortures for the slightest of
fense. But as times and governments
, and individuals advance in Bplrit-
.-' wallty. the killing of men by law de
' creases.
, The knowledge that an increasing
number of Jurors shrink from voting
to kill a fellow being must be taken
Into the account by "those who urge
j the death penalty, it makes oonvlc
'. tlon more difficult and causes trials
to be far longer and far more expen-
. five.
Notbinr proves more satisfying
that real musical appreciation has
been awakened In Portland than the
report that the subscription seats at
the: Symphony Orchestra concerts
which were once either left vacant
Or occupied by cook or the clerk.
re now utilized toy the people who
bought them.
A SAFE DEPOSIT
MIKE PAULOVICH seems not to
, have been a student of the Bible.
If he were he would have remembered
that the man who dug In the ground
to hide his one talent of silver met
with bad hick. Maybe It is that Mike
was thinking of Captain Kidd when
. he ! went i out Into' 'his garden at
Hoquiam' to hide his savings, where
falling banks or absconding cashiers
' could not reach them. But even so
Captain Kldd ' had bad luck In find
ing the" treasure he sunk in various
sections of the world IT there is any
thing In fable. v
Anyway Mike is bating a rather dif
ficult time of it Having gathered
together various shekels of highly ap
preciated American money he sunk It
In ft hole In ' his . backyard pending
the time when he Intended to return
to trouble Russia, where a ha'ldful
of double eagles now means a bucket
ful, or more, of badly battered rubles.
But, ready to go, he can't locate the
spot, though-he has dug for a" week,
even by lantern light and far into the
night Mike would better haVe hid
den it in his sock.
Electrification la now an estab
lished fact upon the Cascade moun
tain division of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul railroad, as
well as upon Its Rocky mountain
division. Many millions of dollars
have been spent by this railroad in
Its effort to lessen the costs and
nullify the hazards of mountain
operation. What, we would like to
understand is why, if mountain elec
trification proves profitable, elec
trification of water grade lines that
serve ports of the Columbia would
not be even more greatly In the di
rection of economy.
five more: orphans
IS IT Just all right and nobody in
1 the world to blame in the automo
bile accident which orphaned five
children Saturday riisht?
Five other children lost their father
when a driver drove his truck over
him as he worked on the railroad
track. Though the truck lights that
would have enabled him to see the
trackman were out of order In viola
tion of law, the coroner's jury exon
erated the driver and declared that
trackmen should carry red flags by
day and red lights by night.
It may be that The Journal is wrong,
and that nobody but the dead and
orphaned are ever "to blame for auto
killings.
Perhaps nothing more serious than
more dead and more orphans will
come from these continued killings
and the continued immunity for those
who kill. ,
Perhaps not.
The announcement that rail rates
must be Increased in the near future
is a slap at the poorly analyzed pre
dictions that as soon as the govern
ment returned the railroads to pri
vate operation rates would be low
ered and service would be perfect.
But it Is also a rather startling veri
fication of the assertion made by
Joseph N. Teal of Portland Just be
fore the railroads were returned to
their owners, that rates would have
to go up while the service might
be expected to deteriorate until the
railroads are able to normalize their
operation.
RAWTHER FETCHING, WHAT?
H
IS majesty, the king of England,
has found a new fashion for
pressing his pants. He has aban
doned the old fore and aft style where
the wrinkles run up the front and
down the back, so the cables whisper,
and now wears 'em with the wrinkles
on the sides.
Future generations without doubt
will sing perennial praise at this con
structive act of statesmanship, for It
is undoubtedly a move in the interest
of the common people. Particularly
will the hall room boys give thanks
to the king, while the tailors of Lon
don and the world will curse and
curse. '
It will be easy under the new die
tate of kingly fashion. to stretch 'em
out on the floor and iron 'em as they
lie, something difficult of accomplish
ment with the fore and aft style
which calls for Ironing boards . and
things. Once more, thanks to the
king, we can sprawl 'em under the
mattress and wrinkle 'em while we
sleep, something no one but an expert
oould hope to accomplish .with the
other plan.
It must be a source of Joy to have
a king planning for your comfort, as
they have in Merry England, even to
the pressing of your pants.
The possibilities of a Lady Astor
type of campaign open before Dr.
Esther Pohl Lovejoy's candidacy for
congress from the Third Oregon dls
trict. One personality is not more
picturesque than the other. A com
parison of ability is not to the Ore
gon woman's disadvantage. One
war record is not less bright than
the other. And when it comes to
tump speeches, we will stake Dr.
Pohl Lovejoy against all the Lady
Astors here or hereafter.
WORDS DONT REFOREST
WHAT is the use of talking so
much about- conserving the
nation's timber resources and actu
ally doing nothing?
There is a nation-wide famine of
newsprint, yet officials and congress
men persist In using it unendingly
to publish statements concerning
what they think should be done
rather than doing It..
Where are all the movements to
save or propagate forests getting to
anyhow T
The nation has no policy worthy
the name, although 50 years of tim
ber consumption at the present rate
will dangerously narrow the supply,
The forest service is permitted td
do some replanting In a small way
but the vast acreage denuded by log
ging operations remains stark and
barren and ghastly as death.
When. Gifford Pinchot urged con
servation there was a hue and cry
and a shanty Irish throwing of sticks
and stones, which had ; the sole ap
parent purpose of placing ' extrav
agance upon a . political pedestal and
preserving it against the weatherwith
a liberal coat of whitewash.
Now it is perfectly obvious, as Mr.
Pinchot said recently, that "if we bad
kept the lands that are most useful
for growing pulpwood. at work pro
ducing It, instead of allowing their
productive power to be destroyed, the
publishing industry . would have
escaped its present excessive burden."
The United States' is 'now cutting
timber 2tt times as fast as the trees
are grown, observes Mr. Pinchot, and
adds :
Mors than 100,000,000 acres of forest
lands which ought to be growing- wood
have' been devastated, and are now
merely idle wastes. If we had conserved
their vast power to produce instead of
recklessly destroying it, the price . of
lumber would not have doubled, and the
consumer would have been spared the
corresponding rise in the cost of living.
What is the reason that facts like
these fall in bringing about a com
pulsory national reforestation policy.
where yet there is time and hope?
. With only 150,000.000 acres of virgin
forest left out of an original 850,000,-
000 acres, and with the supply being
grown at the rate of but 40 billion
feet a year while we cut down 100
billion feet a year, what is the ex
planation for lack of action, that will
meet the situation!
In our forestry affairs the United
States is like a man who theorizes on
fire prevention while his house is
burning down.
Having succeeded In Indefinitely
extending the visit of Willie Hohen
Kollern, Holland has another bright
Idea, Germany's printing press
money and England's 8 per cent
gold reserve have made ' it so un
profitable to submit trade to the
unnatural exchange that Austrian
merchants began loading a ship
with wares which they proposed to
exchange In London for things they
want. But Holland interests have
countered with a proposition for an
international trading exchange,
where goods but not money will be
passed. Though the idea is worthy
a stay-at-home Yankee trader,
the exchange will be no place for the
Yankees. Our money is worth too
much to abandon its use.
BLACKMAIL ,BT INITIATIVE
ANEW law is needed In Oregon.
It Is needed to protect the pub
lic against a wrong use Of the initia
tive. Four years ago an initiative
bill hostile to the Columbia river
fishing interests Was prepared and
signatures were obtained for placing
it on the ballot.
But it was not put on the ballot.
For a sum of money the men in
charge of it made away with the pe
titions and the measure was never
brought to a vote. Out of the transac
tion one of them, profited to the ex
tent of an automobile.
The operation was so profitable
that the same men are now circulat
ing petitions for a measure to cut
the interest rate in Oregon. Before
half enough signatures are secured.
proposition is made by them to have
the bankers and business Interests
pay them to keep the measure off
the ballot. Twenty thousand dollars
is fixed by them as the amount they
should be paid and certain persons
are approached and told that they
can have half the swag for acting as
go-betweens.
Happily, the proposal was made to
honest men. They not only refused
to enter Into the scheme, but they
made the facts knoupi. We know
from what has taken Tlace that the
proposed bill to lower the legal rate
of interest to 4 per cent and the con
tract rate to 5 was a mere scheme
to make easy money.
The Initiative should be protected
from use as a blackmailing device.
and the public should be protected
from use of the Initiative for crooked
purposes. The next legislature should
pass a law that would send to the
penitentiary for an adequate period
any person or persons who attempt
such skulduggery.
In Portland's loss of the Emerg
ency Fleet office and Seattle's des
ignation as Northwest headquarters
of the corporation, Puget sound's
metropolis gets the setting without
the gem, the bone without the meat.
The Emergency Fleet corporation
has largely served its time. Its con
structive activities are confined now
largely to winding up' the business
and the completion of some of the
spicy and discreditable investiga
tions which affect Seattle officials
of the Fleet corporation. Portland's
demand for justice will be in the
allocation of the vessels of our
national merchant marine.
GOOD LUCK
SALEM wants to be a port. Its
business men. looking the future
in the face, see greatly increased ton
nage originating In that territory
which must be shipped out to market,
and a continually growing Salem
buiind tonnage to flow in. Conse
quently they are asking the county
court to call a special election to
consider the question of the estab
lishment, and the financing of a por
of Salem. The program contemplates
a (200,000 warehouse, docks and other
transportation facilities constructed
where rail and water can meet.
In a little tune Salem will have a
paper mill in operation which will In
itself yield bulk cargoes for the river
boats. It is already a fruit canning
center. New Industries are being
brought there until the sleepy capital
of years gone has passed away. An
open river and facilities for using it
would' be a. great asset tot Salem. It
would mean th,at : traffic rates would
always be , within control and tha
the eommerce.it built could be pro
tected from undue , burdens. Salem
business men. have always been con
servative. Now they are adding wis
dom to their conservatism. ; :
Some of the Items' That
' Benton's Assessor
Has on.His Roll -
List of Larger Agricultural and Horti
cultural , Producers of the
Blue Ribbon County.
One of the Institutions of which Cor-
va.UI Is proud is the recently erected
plant of the Corvalus Canning company,
with Its apple grading and packing plant.
its cold storage rooms and its canning
equipment The ground was donated by
the citlsens of CorvaUls and the company
put up the plant at the cost of $21,000.
Last season the company paid to grow-
eri in CorvaUls and Its immediate vicin
ity $lS.7J0.Ii. paying liberal prices for
fruits and vegetables.
The assessor of Benton county can
answer offhand almost any question put
to him. Here are some Interesting facts
shown by his records. The largest bear
ing prune orchard In the county is owned
by Robert Johnson of CorvalH. . there
being 148 acres of bearing prunes in ex
cellent condition. The largest bearing
apple orchard - in the county is located
at Monroe and Is owned by tne uaco
Orchard company, of which Dr. W. J.
Kerr is president. The largest farm in
the county contains 3961 acres and is
owned by H. C. Cabell. E. E. Williams
has 225 acres In spring wheat, this being
the largest field of spring wheat, while
Thomas Eggers' 225 acres of winter
wheat is the largest field of winter
wheat. W. K. Taylor has; 76 acres de
voted to corn, which is the largest single
cornfield. Judd Smith's 200-acre clover
field is the largest field of clover in
the county; the CorvaUls Orchard com
pany's 123-acre pear orchard is the larg
est in the county. 'Fifteen acres set to
walnuts and owned by the Imperial
Orchard company Is the largest grove of
walnuts In the county. There are 780
farmers In the county who own their
farms,- and 237 tenant farmers. There
are 3960 acres set to clover on the 222
farms where clover is grown. There
are 443 farmers raising corn, most of
which Is used In silos. There are 864
acres of bearing prunes in the county,
the largest orchards being owned as fol
lows : R. Johnson, 148 acres ; A. Bystrorn
of Monroe, 100; Mat WUhelm of Monroe,
60 ; Imperial Orchard company, 42 ; C.
R. Widmer. 40 ; Homer Moore, 33 ; R. A.
Yocum, 30 ; Jens Petersen. 25'; C. B.
Park, 22; J. H. Herren, 20.
The production of wool and mutton is
becoming one of the important producers
of revenue in the county. The following
list includes the names of all the sheep-
raisers in the county listed by the as
sessor. Some of the bands run as high
as 1000, while other owners are running
from 200 to 300 :
Alfred Abraham, .W. M. Abraham,
George Armstrong, Elizabeth Allen. G. C.
Avery, Virgil Avery, W. D. Bayless, S. j
E. Beal, L. F. Belknap. C. A. Bobanan,
.John A. Bottger, E. H. Bowen, H. T.
Bflstow, George Brown. J. W. Brown, i
R. E. L. Brown, Claude Buchanan, J.
Fred Buchanan, John G. Buchanan, F.
H. Burnap, J. A. Carter, V. A. Carter, J.
H. Cartwright, John Chambers, George
W. Dixon, Dodele Brothers. Samuel
Doldge estate. Grant Elgin, E. O. Frantz.
M. L. and C. A. Frants. J. P. Gragg. S.
A. Gragg, Gustav Hahn, C. H. Harris,
Marion Hayden, Hector Brothers, H. C.
Herron, J. H. Herron, R. C. Herron, R.
H. Hewitt, W. J. Holbrook, A. E. Holmes,
W. F. Holman, G. G. Horning, J. O. Hub
bard. R R. Hughes. John F. Hurlburt,
C. E. Jackson, Mrs. Jane Johnson, W.
M. Jones, Richard Kiger, K. Kriens, A.
Kyle, Orr Kyle, Robert Kyle, Joseph
Lester, E. W. Liddle, E. J. Llewellyn,
W. N. Locke, Logsdon Brothers, W. C.
Looney, Frank Lutz, Mrs. L. G. Marks,
H. T. Maxfield, Frank Miller. Richard
McBee, J. N. McFadden, George Mc
Laughlin, R. J. Nichols. Gus Nyman, J.
A. Park. Ethel M. Patterson, B. Paul
son, G. c. Peek, Jens Peterson. D. L.
Pettibone, Wiley Plunkett, Jesse Porter,
G. R Rowland, C. E. Rice, J. H. Price,
John Price, W. B. Price, Peter Rlckard,
Henry T. Ridders, Roy Rlckard, C. A
Rycraft, Henry Scheele, R W. Scott.
George Sebrell, Ernest Seehafer, C. 8.
seeley, J. E. Shade, J. G. Smith,
W. W. Smith. A. P. Starr. Fannie
Starr, P. R. Starr, S. C. Starr, W. F.
Starr. P. A. Swanson, F. M. Taylor, Al-
mlra Tomllnson. C. L. Townsend. T. V.
Vidito, Ira Vincent. Henry Voss, H. L.
Wagner, George Waldon, Jesse C.
Walker, Mrs. W. F. Whitby, A. Widmer,
Dan Widmer, E. E. Williams! R. N. Wil
liamson, J. O. Wilson, Marlon C. Winkle.
Milton Wyatt, A. J. Zieroff, C. L. Zieroff.
Letters From the People
tomnjunicsuoD tent to Th J annul for
puDlleiUon in thu department ihonld be written
on only on nd of th ppr, should not esed
SOO word ia lentb and must b timed J tb
wnier, woo mtu laartsi in lull mint eeon.
Pnjr th contribution. )
On Behalf of the Sightless
Portland, March 111 To the Editor of
The Journal There was an entertain
ment given at The Auditorium Tuesday
evening, March 9, at which a consider
able sum was realized, to aid the blind
of Oregon in the passage of a bill to
establish an institution in Portland.
Should our hopes be realized men and
women without sight, from all parts of
Oregon, would be taught trades and
permanently employed, therefore being
economic assets Instead of objects of
charity. In behalf of the blind I take
this method of extending our gratitude
and appreciaUon to the mayor of our
city for his kindly cooperation and to
the men and women who gave so much
of their valuable time in the advance
sale of tickets and necessary preliminary
work. We very much appreciate the In
terest of the managements of the Hippo
drome. Pantages and the Lyric, also
those who assisted In making the re
mainder of the program so attractive.
We especially thank Frank Coffinberrv
for the successful management of the
evening's entertainment
We are especially grateful to the nress
of Portland for its readiness at' all times
tc support to the limit the work of the
adult blind. t. F. MYERS,
Principal of School for the Sightless.
The Soldier and the Land
Portland, March 9. To the Editor of
The Journal The present ex-soldier is
not the first ex-soldier who has been
treated shamefully after he has fought
a nation's battles. It Is said that after
the Boer war the ex-soldier of England
was rewarded with a permit to beg on
the streets of London (Precious boon1)
while the lords kept wild animals nn
large estates to satisfy the savage in
stinct of murder. And history tells us
that the ex-soldier of our Civil war was
paid witn one kind of money, while
uiuoo wkiubo propenj ne rought to pro
tect were paid another kind of money,
a money of higher value. When. O
Lord, will the soul of man outweigh
the dross of gold I
And now our boys have begun to re
alize that Uncle Sam is not "rich enough
to give them all a farm."" Isn't he?
Let us seeIf Texas were divided into
two-acre tracts with an ordinary familv
on each tract In a five room house, we
could place every man, woman and
child in the world Inside the borders of
Texas, ana. there would be room for
parks ana boulevards left over. Ger
many, the size of California, with hei
C0.000.000 people; stood! off the world
five years. California has less thas
4,000,000; v But it is gwned by Miller ft
Lux et aW and so. are parts of Oregon
There Isn't any room for American farm
boys who went to the front, but plenty
of room for Asiatic labor If we would
take down, the bars. J
But bur most productive and Tunable
land In the heart of Portland ia as much
of that estate for which the soldier went
Into the trenches as the snow capped
The soldier has a weapon In bis hands
more powerful than all the guns of the
kaiser, a power he fought to protect and
tar which it is claimed he was called
to the colors. It is the ballot. He wUl
have a chance to use it this .fall in no
idle boasting. If he wishes to restore
America to all her people on equal terms
he can vote for the single tax amend
ment. J. R. HERMANN.
Shoddy Denounced
Portland. March To the Editor of
The Journal How much longer are the
people of this country going to submit
to the use of shoddy in clothing T Its
use is dishonest and it is put into
clothing for a fraudulent purpose. It
has little intrinsic value, because It is
"dead" wool and will not wear. The
powerful chemicals used to reclaim it
from wool and cotton rags destroy the
natural oU necessary to live wool, and
render the fiber weak and brittle. A
few years ago. when I was a traveling
man, I went through a shoddy mill in
Pike county, Missouri. The manager
was not proud of his business and
frankly said he would not care to use
any clothes made from shoddy. I re
member the shoddy at that time cost
the woolen mills 8 to 10 cents a pound,
which, of course, accounted for ts ex
tensive use.
Does its use make clothing cheaper?
Not at all. The man who makes the
Shoddy knows it is practically worth
less, and the mills that use it know it
has little wearing value. The govern
ment could easily stamp out the shoddy
mills, and woolen mills could be re
strained from using it. The sheepmen
should fight it It displaces millions of
pounds of new wool annually, thereby
cheapening the honest product. The
consumer should fight it because of the
fraud practiced upon him. Rags that
make shoddy are gathered from filthy
sources and are often not only filthy
but contaminated with disease.
Oregon, which has " always been a
leader in progressive legislation, should
be first to outlaw shoddy, in the name
of cleanliness, decency and honest busi
ness. DOUGLAS HEWITT.
The Greater Monroe Doctrine
IorUand, March 12. To the Editor of
The Journal The two great political
parties stand as champions of the Mon
roe doctrine, which guarantees the ter
rltorlal integrity of American nations
against foreign aggression. Now comes
the League of Nations, supported by the
great powers and many of the lesser
powers of the world, which guarantees
the territorial Integrity of every nation
against foreign aggression. It is simply
an extension of the American Monroe
doctrine to all the world, supported by
the combined powers ,ot the earth. This
greater Monroe doctrine Is not only a
protection to all other nations, but is
also proffered to protect the United
States by the combined forces of the
world against any power which in fu
ture may seek our dismemberment. And
yet the senate Is spurning this offer of
protection to ourselves, and to other na
tions, by Its refusal to ratify the League
of Nations covenant. We have long
stood alone against the wtfrld for our
lesser Monroe doctrine in defense of the
Americas. Now we should stand with
the world for the greater Monroe doc
trine, in defense of the- higher civiliza
tion. It is a duty we owe ouTselves
and the world.- The political party that
defeats this extension of the American
rMonroe doctrine will go down in ig
nominy. GEORGE H. BENNETT.
Expressing Presidential Preference
Madras, March 8. To the Editor of
The Journal I am a Republican, but I
don't see any timber m the G. O. P.
which represents the people at present.
I favor McAdoo, who has shown himself
to be constructive. As to parties, I
think the Democratic party has lived
too long, and the Republican party long
enough. I supported Wilson In 1916 and
would support him in 1920 were he a
candidate. I think the treaty should
have been ratified. The League of Na
tion! is a distinct and separate affair
from the treaty and has caused both
strife and contention and delay, to the
detriment of destitute and starving
multitudes and nations The League of
Nations can no more than centralize
power in an arbitrary court.
Germany worked for commercial su
premacy and prepared for war at the
same time. England worked for money.
France reveled and America slept, until
the fatal day. Throughout God's word,
the disobedient are to be punished as
contrary to God's law. Why?
Hoover would be my second choice.
I cannot say what other farmers may
think, yet a goodly number do think
that Hoover held down the price of
wheat to their detriment of II a bushel.
Wilson has done the best he could do.
McAdoo has done well. Hoover has
done well. The Republican senate. has in
a measure wronged the whole world.
G. L PAXTON.
Objects to Sacramental Exception
Walla Walla, Wash.. March 10. To
the Editor of The Journal I see that
the government proposes to appropriate
850,000,000 for expenses the first year
for seeing that the' law against having
liquor, except for sacramental purposes.
Is observed. I am opposed to spending
government money !to maintain this
privilege of the church and to establish
an ecclesiastical prerogative and un
democratic inequity. Mr. Wilson's
democracy will not be safe as long as
they do it. A. JOHNbUiN.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
Modern advertising had Its birth in the
signboards of inn and tavern - keepers
bearing the names of hostelries. Innkeep
ers being the first tradesmen to adopt
signs. It was not until the sixteenth
century that merchants dealing in other
than liquid refreshments began to erect
sgns over their doors. The custom
spread rapidly, and the seventeenth cen-
for the sign painters of England. The
houses, and shops were not numbered in
London, so that a tradesman s place of
business could only be known by a sign.
The Ingenuity of merchants in such a
city as London was taxed to provide
an original and striking sign that would
stick in the memories of passersby. A
man starting in business .considered a
striking sign his most important ; in
vestment. These signs, often of huge
size, were sometimes slung - entirely
across the street.
Olden Oregon
Vast Reduction In Area When Oregon
Was Raised to Statehood. :
When Oregon became a state, in 1859,
the eastern boundary was thus defined;
"Thence up the .middle of the main
channel of? said river (Snake) to the
mouth . of the Owyhee river ; thence
south to the. paraUel of 42 - degrees
north-." This left an of the present
state of Idaho and portions of Montana
and Wyoming attached to Washington
territory untU X186J, when the .territory
of Idaho was organized. ;
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
The best of roada la nn nuj n
careless driver.
Prune your rose bushes and plant a
flower. The Shriners are coming.
ex-kaiser during this little uprising in
vverroany.
A little sunshine is needed now to
coax our early maturing vegetables out
of the ground.
If you spent all day working on your
Income tax report, you may stiU have
time to file it today.
,
It is said that Charles, the former
emperor of Austria, plans to "come
back under an assumed name. But a
tyrant by any other name is just as
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
School teachers and college professors
reserve the week-end for the social side
of their lives except, of course, when
there is other work to be done Which
is assigned by hotelmen as the reason
for the presence In Portland each Fri
day evening, Saturday and Sunday, of a
large number of educators. For instance.
at the Seward hotel, to spend the week
end, the following registered by Satur
day noon: U. G. Duback. H. C. Sey
mour, E. D. Ressler and Mrs. W. F. Gas-
kins, members of the faculty or exten
sion staff of the Oregon Agricultural
college" at Corvallia The same hotel
was host to J. It Ackerman, president
of the state normal school at Monmouth,
who- considers an occasional journey to
the big. city not "germain" to the In
terests of modern education. "Germain"
Is a favorite word in Ackerman's vo
cabulary. Mrs. Gaskins, member of the
staff of the O. A. C. school of music,
of which her husband Is head, has as
her guest Miss Ethel Elliott of Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Hall and Miss
Helen Hall, residents of Toronto, Can
ada, are at the Multnomah hotel while
visiting In Portland. At Toronto. Hall Is
district inspector for the electrical in
spection bureau of his home city.
Boots and all. R. B. Magruder, owner
of extensive delta lands near Clatskanle,
Or., arrived at the Imperial hotel on
Saturday, only to find his favorite room
occupied. Likewise the second, third
and all the other choices were occupied
and a Greeter politely asked the little
Clatskanle warrior-to wait a few min
utes for better accommodations. "Gosh,"
he exclaimed, "I can't wait a second.
Look at me I" And he exhibited him
self adorned - in hip boots, woolen
sweater and mud all of which were In
cident to the trip from the Columbia
river town.
Down around Witchita Falls. Tex., the
did order of things has been transformed
by the discovery of vast quantities of
oil. The bootblack of yesterday Is a
millionaire today and the little garden
patch out at the edge of town is a
pushing well of oil. spouting up for
tunes for its owners. The oil well der
ricks pierce the landscape in a thousand
places, rivaling the composite skyline of
the church district in any score of ordi
nary cities. Oil Is everywhere and the
money oil has brought to" the town and
sent out of it. as well, is counted in
tens of millions of dollars. From that
same humming town, where fortunes are
made overnight and sometimes as
quickly lost C. D. Evans has oome to
Portland. While spending a few days
In the city Evans is a guest at the Im
perial hotel.
Attracted to Portland by the festivi
ties at the Elks lodge Saturday night,
where local "Bills" were entertaining
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
t (Joncludtni hi aerie of article on U
aiomuhir.itif idTenrure of Ben Jarrell In Ore
gon. Mr Lockley report him u reeoWed te
unit hi 1 oniric Ut and tlek to th . t
of th law-abiding hereafter. Th preoartom
trnnre by which the lawbreaker hold bi lib
erty it well illustrated in th episode related
in this final chapter.)
You can get a lot of fun out of life, if
ycu have the faculty of putting yourself
in the other man's place. The papers
are full of accounts of the arresting and
fining of bootleggers and moonshiners.
Did you ever try to Imagine yourself
in the other man's shoes and try to
figure out the impelling causes for his
actions? I was greatly astonished a day
on so ago, in talking with one, to have
him say the reason there were so many
moonshiners was because there were so
many profiteers and so much, land was
held for speculative purposes that he
cculdn't get hold of a piece of land, and
he decided to get money honestly If he
could, dishonestly if he must So he had
thrown tip a smooth dime heads for
holdup and tails for moonshine ; and it
lit tails up., There are all sorts of
grades among law evaders. Just as there
are all grades of business men. from men
of the highest Integrity to substltuters,
adulterators and crooks.
I was talking recently with Ben Jar
rell, who is serving a year in the Mult
nomah county Jail for modhshinlng. He
is at the top of the scale, such as It Is,
being a man of intelligence and having
his own code of honor, to- which he
rigidly . adheres.
"I'm through." he said. "As soon as
T'm footloose I'm going back to North
Carolina, where I have a farm In the
hria-ht tobacco belt. I can do more good
hoeing corn and tobacco there than loaf
ing here. I was caught wnue wonting
at my still near Heppner, by Til Tay
lor and his posse. I escaped, crossed
the Columbia at Arlington, ana went to
Spokane. From there I went to isanaers,
Idaho, to visit an old time neighbor, I
had been raised with him m the moun
tains in North Carolina. When I had
been there three weeks in some way
Til found it out Til came out to the
ranch with Sheriff Nowlln of that coun
ty. I was out hunting when they got
to the house. Word was brought ouM
to me, so X. decided not to come in until
their call was over. I waited out of
sight till I saw them go; then I came
in. Til had left word for me to call
Mm up at Tekoa. He said he was going
there at once. Til is a Mason. So am
I. So I knew' he wouldn't lie to me. I
called him up ' when I figured he had
time enough to get to Tekoa. The clerk
eald he wasn't there. If I hadn't known
Til I would have worried, but I figured
he might have had a breakdown, so I
left word for him to call me up. With
in five minutes he called me and told
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
It makes me mighty proud of bein a
American citizen when I think of how
we saved democracy and freedom and
civilisation and all that our new crop
of politicians can orate about ; but when
I think of them French and British and
Belgians and Eyetalians with their mil
lions of dead soldiers to count up it
strikes me that mebby we crow too loud
and too often. Them chape held up the
Hun' when we didn't know be was after
us, and if they .hadn't of dons It we'd of
NEWS IN. BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
Tigard Community Development league
Is putting Tigard more and more upon
the map.. At th' regular meeting of
the league tomorrow night a special
effort will be put forth in the Interest
of making Tigard a berry raising cen
ter. .Professor C. I. Lewis, chief of
organisation of the Oregon , Growers'
association and formerly chief of the
division of horticulture, O. A. C, will
address the league.
The Ouard reports the supplylngof
one of Eugene's long felt wants : "The
unsightly wooden poles that have dec
orated Willamette avenue for many a
year, serving as guide wire holders for
the street car railway, are now disap
pearing. Workmen are sawing them off
flush with the sidewalk. By agreement
with property owners the eulae wires,
once attached to the poles, are now
attached to buildings."
Seattle brethren- whom they visited a
few weeks ago. Theo A. Johnson, presi
dent of the Washington State Elks'
association, was in Portland over Sat
urday. He was a guest at the Multno
mah hotel. t
E. M. Reagan, publisher of the Albany
Dally Herald, was a guest at the Se
ward hotel Saturday. "Warmsprings"
Johnny Catlin. , to whose reelection to
the office of town marshal, the Herald
a few years ago contributed its efforts,
is again 'seeking the job 'he has had,
off and on, for many years. Reagan
reporta
In . spite of the encouragement of the
song written about the man who wanted
to "drink that old Green River dry,"
John F. McKay, a guest at the Perkins
hotel, never tried that little stunt. Mc
Kay comes to Portland from Green
River, but not the Green River that
made the Bong famous.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shefler of Lake
Grove spent the week-end at the Cor
nelius hotel. Lake Grove's fame Is un
determined, but it Is, none the less,
where fihefler Is engaged Just now on a
road building contract
W. P. Lathrop, president of the Walla
Walla Bafety Deposit Trust company
together with Louis B. ftomalne, member
of the firm of Whitman Romalne, auto
supplies, and J. D. Jones, president and
manager of a machinery concern, are
Multnomah guests from Walla Walla.
.
The Multnomah also houses Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Smith of Milkaukee. Wis.,
where the former is head of a furnishing
goods business of some importance.
. .
About a mile from Crooked river in
Crook county is Terrebonne, where be
tween 50 and 100 persons Vle with one
another In the pursuits of the day.
Whatever is Terrebonne's population, the
number Is temporarily diminished by the
presence in Portland today of W. A.
Giesey and C. Casperson, who live in the
Crook county town. The visitors from
Terrebonne are stopping at the Perkins
hotel.
Mrs. B. M. East, whose first initial,
it has been suspected by friends, stands
for "business," registered at the Im
perial hotel on Saturday morning after
her belated arrival from St. Helens.
Mrs. East conducts the Liberty theatre
at St. Helens and constitutes her own
official and unofficial board of censors.
'
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Craig are
guests at the Multnomah hotel from En-
torprise, where Craig Is vice president
of the Wallowa National bank. Portland
delights in the presence of another bank
er and his fireside partner In the per
sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Beals of
Tillamook, who are registered at the
Imperial.
Lockley
me he had Just got In. He told me I had
better take my medicine out here where
I wasn't known than to be arrested when
I got home, where everybody knew me.
He said it would save a lot of trouble
and expense if I wou Id surrender. So I
told him to come out next morning and
I would go over the whol situation with
him. He said he would bring Sheriff
Nowlin with him. as he had no authority
Ui arrest me. I told him I would not
be there If Nowlin came, but for him
to come alone and I would go to Pendle
ton. Til and I went to Pendleton to
gether. I offered to pay my own way,
but he said I might as well sage my
money, so he paid for both tickets. TU
played square with me, so of course I
played square with him. I got six
months, which I served here In this
Jail.
"I hated to start anything -I couldn't
finish, or to put my hand to the plow
and turn back, so I decided to. stay a
month or so longer in Oregon;, make a
few thousand dollars and then go back,
clean up my debts which was what 1
had come to Oregon to do in the first
place and then retire from the busi
ness. I would have made it If I had
known about the law requiring vehicles
10 carry lights at night It was a little
thing to slip up on, but it got me. I
rented a place on Youngs river, four
miles from Astoria. As I was driving
toward my place on, the Lewis and
Clark road about midnight I met some
officers out on Some 'other business.
They asked me why I didn't have a light
on my .wagon, and told me they might
have run Into me. I apologised and
drove on, but they were suspicious an
followed me and after I had gone to
bed they searched my barn and found
rome of my raw materials and then
looked over my ranch and just happened
to stumble onto my still. They had no
idea there was a still in the country.
I was arrested on June . If they had
let me alone a couple of weeks longer
I would have- had my goods made and
sold .and would have been out of the
country for good.
"Some people think there is nothing in
luck, but it certainly looked as If hard
luck had camped on my trail that time,
for tt was the merest accident that they
chanced to 'meet me, and If I had had
a lantern on my dashboard or tailgate
they never would have stopped me in the
first .place.
"Take it from me hard work and
steady saving is the safest way to get
ahead. There Is too much rough sled
ding in. the evasion of the law. I know
for I have been a government officer
myself, and I have served on federal
grand juries, and in, the long run law
evasion doesn't pay."
been flghtm' the cusses on American
shores by this time and pilln' up a mil
lion or two of our boys as a sacrifice to
foolishness. They ain't dots' much
crowin : they're too . busy, thin kin' of
their dead and their orphans and
widders. t .
Pedestrianism to the Discard
. rrosi ta Philadelphia Ledger
Once man was noted if he Went to
Europe ; now be achieves distinction by
walking all ths way to the office. ; -
The Oregon Country
Kotthwwt Happiln in Brief Worm tot the
Bniy tosder
ORTSQON
C. N.
LSUrhrlri h.. Mai nul Via
position in the office of the secretary"
u enter tne employ of a Con- ,
don bank.
The Roseburg Realty board has adopt-'
ert a resolution urging the county court
to push construction work on the Tiller
Crater Lake road. .
Seymour Jones of Marion county, late
speaker of the house of representajiSji
ves will not be a candidate for re-
election as representative. i. -
' Unless the 1920 centum rennrta m
ceived at Bend before the primaries,
candidates for city offices must be elect
ed in. the fall without nomination by
La Grande is to he 'made the head- .
quarters of the Eastern Oregon district
of the Maccabees. Heretofore the dis
trict has been under the supervision of
Portland.
Uniform dress for high school airl is
generally atmroved at Rosebura- hut
ther is considerable opposition to ihe(
prohibition of silk stockings and high -
heeled shoes.
When Deschutes countv was organ
ized Rend was made the temporary
county seat. A measure will be placed
un me ivovemner ballot to locate It
there permanently.
The state hiahasv commission has :
received notice that Oregon will be al
lotted BO additional auto trucks by the 1
federal government for road work. Thus
far the state has received 170 trucks.
Extravagance in dress will ha ellmi. '
nated from the Roseburg high school.
A vote by the girls or the student body
showed that 180 were in favor of a unt
xorm areas wnue is favored the old order.
The manufacture of apple boxes 'will
begin at Sutherlln about May 1. Last
year over JO.000 appl. boxes wers
shipped Into the district. To meet the
demand this year, 80,000 botes will be
required.
C.,F. Hopkins of Roseburg has an
nounced his candidacy for Joint repre
sentative from Jackson and Douglas .
counties. It' is understood that W. IL
Oore of Medford will not be a candi
date for reelection.
" WASHINGTON
Yegmen blew open th safe In the
postofftee at Rainier and secured $2&0
In cash and stamps.
The, public school and farm bureau of
Sar will give a Joint entertainment next
Saturday at the new community hall.
Free city mall delivery for Olarkston
is in prospect on July 1. The salary of
the postmaster will be raised from (1900
to $2300.
An effort Is being made to adiust ths
long standing wage controversy between
the telephone girls and telephone com
pany at Seattle.
The work of paving Clarke county
roads will begin within the next two
weeks. The county will spend 1.800,000
In paving jhis year.
The supreme court has granted a writ
of mandate directing that the funds of
the Yakima state fair be turned over
to the state treasurer.
Centralla's north end nark will be Im. .
proved this summer. Electric llrhta ani
city water will be Installed and cement
Stoves and comfort stations constructed.
Major Carl H. Reeves, who was an un
successful candidate for councilman at
the recent Seattle election, miy be mads
superintendent of public utilities at 8e- '
attle.
Merchants, fruitgrowers and business
men of Wenatchee have pledged them
selves to raise 25 per cent of the cost
of constructing a railroad from Wenat
chee to Pasco.
Protests against the approval of the
recommendation of the recent welfare
conference of an $18 weekly minimum
v. age for women employes in hotels and
restaurants will be haard by the In
dustrial weirar commission at Seattle
March 18.
IDAHO .
A. Tallman has been reelected water
master of Boise river. His salary was "
fixed at 85000. ,
The Coeur d'Alene school district hss '
Increased the satarv of the supertnten-
dent of schools to 13600 a, year. -
Governor Davis has recommended the
observance of western consumers' week
April 5-11 for purpose of encouraging
home Industry.
Official returns from the Grangemont
highway district election show that the
proposal to issue 1100.000 bonds failed
to carry by a few votes.
Thomas T. Kerl of Coeur d'Alene, con
victed of dlslovalty and sentenced to pT
a fine of 82000, has been disbarred by
order of the state supreme court
Idaho has 23.000.000 acres of forest land
and 130,000.000,000 feet of merchantable
timber according to a compilation f ths
North Idaho Forestry association.
Motion to dismiss the application nf
the Idaho Power company for Increased
irrigation power rates have been denied
by the state public utility commission.
Fred B. Jones of Boise, district mana
ger of the Mountain Stales Telephone
company. ha been appointed general
manager of the company for Utah and
Idaho,
The South Methodist church of Star,
newly erected, has been burned to tba
ground as the result of a fire started
by children playing In a pile of trash at
the side of the building.
According to the report of the county
auditor submitted at Coeur d'Alene te
the county commissioners shows the net
debt of the county has been reduced In
amount,, approximately 8100.000.
The public utilities commission has re
quested the Oregon public service com
mission to Join in an order directing
railroads between Poeatello and Hunt
ington to run on mountain time.
"Christmas Relief Bureau"
Conducted by The Journal
A Notable IPhilanthropy
Portland ia prosperoua Work Is
abundant. The slump that many ex
pected at the end of war as Industries
changed over from military to peace
production has not occurred. Even
ex-servtce men are being absorbed by
desirable employment without unrea
sonable difficulty.
It is difficult to believe there was
ever a time when Jobs were at a
premium, when Idle men thronged
the streets, when the utilization of
th Gipsy Smith tabernacle as a
place for the unemployed to sleep
and eat was necessary as well as the
employment for similar purposes of
an old laundry on the east side.
It Is a tax on credulity to accept
the statement that a few years ago in
Portland Christmas drew near and
mothers in modest homes wept not
more over empty childish stockings
than empty little stomachs.
It was during these "hard times"
that The Journal found opportunity
to be useful in a new way a way
that won the continuous gratitude of
thousands and that gave The Jour
nal readers a chance to express sub
stantially their i own generous sym-'
patby for misfortune.,
A "Chrtstams relief bureau" was
opened in a store room on the ground
floor of The Journal building. Facts
about necessity were gathered. Co
operation was afforded established
agencies. Appeals were published
day by day. It was insisted that aid
should , not alone be for Christmas
but to help the unfortunate and needy
through a long winter. It was said
and said truthfully at that Christ
mas that no child in Portland w
by necessity ' deprived of Christmas
presents and that for every family
there -was a Christmas dinner.
Thousands of dollars and thousands
of packages of food, clothing and
presents were distributed. And the
gratitude of mothers made the ex
perience blessed to all who had
part in it . '