THE' OREGON DAILY ' tOURNAL. P QRTLAND.. FRIDAY. MARCH 19. -:. 1980.
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Tha peopla tha people ara the right
fol masters of both concreseea and eouru
Dot to overthrow tha constitution, but to
overthrow tha men who perrert it.
Abraham Lincoln.
OUR GOOD REPUTE
ON AUTHORITY that is beyiwid
question The Journal is told this :
That Portland is widely known as
a city comparatively free from Indus-
trial disturbances, that workers and
employers in Portland are trying when you contemplate more than
harder to cooperate with each other $4,500,000 as the mere tax on an in
and are more considerate of each other come and when from that you try
man in otner coast cities; that Port-
iana is pointed to in rival eitles and
m otner parts or tne country as un-
usually free from disturbances and
mai mere 19 m Portland more of an
air of confidence for going ahead with
building and other constructive en-
deavor than in any other city on the
P AC I fi0 CO&St.
11 is reptile tnat is or value aiiae
to worker and employer. Th,e more
airrerences are settled oy negotiation
ana mutual agreement around a
council table, the closer the principals
o mausiry wm gei logexner in Fort-
land, and the more Portland's repute
as, a city of peace and industry will
ByretlU.
Force settles nothing. Agreements
reached by force are only a truce,
They create hate, and hate by work-
era means a reduced unit of produc-
tlon, unconscious sabotage and a
lowered efficiency.
Fundamentally and unchangeably the
business or the Industry is an Inter-
est mutual to both owner and em-
ploye. It is of concern to both that
It succeed and prosper. Its surest
success and largest earnings come
only from a comradeship and coopera-
D J?e!WeeV l86 ,n and about
It. whether the humblest worker or
toe at head. If Proof is
needed, Henry Ford and his enorm-
ously successful Industries can be
cited, along with a growing number
01 institutions similarly conducted.
This sort of thing Is working more
In Portland than most people have
supposed. That is' the secret of Port
land's repute abroad, as olted above,
on authority that is unimpeachable,
coming, as. it does, from mediation
agents of the United States govern-
ment, whose work has brought them
;"' k1 a . inau8inal
troubles in many parts of America
-It is a valuable and lappy status
for the city, and Portland owes it
to those of its employers who are
human and broad visloncd and to its
workers who are sound, Intelligent
and constructive.
According to pension bureau rec-
orfls, 2636 veterans of the Civil war
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passed away during January. The
ranks of the Grand Army of the
Republic are thinning fast, and now
muster around 200.000. The na
tional meet of the organization oc
curs at Atrantic City, September 26
to October z.
OLD STUFF
VANKEES seem to be scarce
Xj Europe. And ideas scarcer! The
IT ... T. Is r Irom acr09S Not as a reflection upon old fami
ne Atlantic from London, in fact- lies, but as a statement of fact, here
that the hospitable Dutch are busy is example" of fiew money brought in
contriving novelties to help thirsty by newcomers expended in modern-
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tlflra ' la ITes-K (hit A lka . 1 1
' V1MVU wbj prouaiyi
presem cnocoiaies or Herculean pro-
uc u.. wuicn is
guaranteea ta proauco one complete,
lasting and satisfactory souse for even
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mo wiwoiaiw upoa es.aji.ins.llon
are found to oonUio kuemmel, brandy,
ruin-ur euyrry oranay. r-runaoiy to
rnase certain Americans reel perrecuyibe sold to Seattle, bought them to be
at home while, abroad wood, alcohol run as lumber carriers out of Port-
will be added, and, possibly, benzine
or shellac. :. -v '
, A11 of this is exceedingly disappoint
ins. - To American Ingenuity it . ap
pears, as a pallid, tawdry and unorigi-t
nal expedient. Chocolate-coated booze
was long ago tried and discarded hi
this country both by court order and
Jaded taste.
Since Europeans moke a virtue of
imitation they should know that
Yankee methods of moving booze from
where it was to where it shouldn't
be, have nearly reached the altitudes
of art and genius.
Shotgun shells, for instance, are
found to contain wadding that serves
as a cork for small but prized con
signments of fiery hooch. Even the
shotgun muzzle has been found be
"loaded." The interiors vof pianos,
automobile tires and gasoline tanks
disclose to alert prohibition officials
contents neither musical nor propul
sive. Aromatic and innocent appear
ing bo'.Ues of perfume, crockery
packages in household goods, false
bottoms In trunks, cleverly concealed
spaces in boxes of books and motion
picture l:lm cases of the kind marked
"Handle with extreme care," all have
been subjected to employment for un
natural purposes. And reference is
entirely unnecessary to. the patent
remedies which prohibition has failed
to denature but which have grown
bo marvelously In popularity since the
national "lid" went on. 4
Sophisticated Amerlcap tourists
traveling abroad, however thirsty they
may be, are likely to view European
camouflage with alarm.
For a port like Astoria, which is do
bating the advisability of building a
drydock. It is Interesting to know
that four financial houses of Balti
more and New York have agreed
to underwrite a drydock project for
Baltimore. They believe an invest
ment of possibly $3,000,000 will pay
good returns. A port without; a
drydock is like a city without a
hospital. As there .are always sick
people to care for, so there will
always be sick ships to repair in
any port that attracts ships.
WHO SHOULD PAT?
SCORES of Portland firms and in
dividuals paid an income tax of
more than 1100,000 last year."
So rnnu a newn stnrv in The Journal.
And a number of Portland firms and
fnrf fv Iri.ia la no fr. a tar nf mnr th on
fi.ooo.OOO each. And one Portland
firm paid an income tax of more than
$4,500,000.
to figure out what the whole income
of that Portland firm was, what is
your honest conviction as to who
should pay for the war?
it Is not stated what firm made
these profits. The question of what
rra it was does not figure. The
heart of the issue is the fact that
I on v firm txrna ahlo r iyUa nr. ansh
a colossal Droflt out of the war for
oniv the ,.- mua have m ch
an earning possible.
I A DroDaranda in hein snr-ad
through the country to,the effect that
the excess profits tax should be
abolished. Should it? Should this
more tnan $4,500,000 excess profits tax
. rpfiirnod to the DnrflanH firm onH
vv aviuiuii iu im t VI vstatsva Alt til QUIA
the sum he collects in widow.' mitP
through taxes on Ice cream and the
p,cture shows and the other small
ltem9 by wnlch piain people are drag-
netted?
It U no r.rlm t ho rfrf. ?nm H11
Uiwova hp rioh onrf cnmo
and more wlttbe POpr if America con-
tinues in her present gambler's career
of spendthrift extravagance. Some
riteromphvirip. .na,. hvth,m
nnr, aom- hv ,priff(;riai Vna fnj.
accumulation. So. in general, there is
w"- to be made on riches and no
mson to decry the wealthy.
But here is the point: The war made
Hiffi(M,it livino- fnr i,
With nrl(. na ,.
i8 hovv 80me are abIe to survive at
fln n fnnv nwnv th h,,eino00
changed the entire careers of many
of those who went to war. But It
enabled one firm in Portland to pile
up such colossal profits that it paid
an Income tax of more than $4,500,000.
Wm I rl It hp rlo-rit fnp thnca whn ra
by tte ,war paJ . for the wap?
wm,M it , k-
profited so enormously from the
war
to pay for the war, or most of It?
Thousands of feet of timber are
accumulating at the mills of com
munities like Reedsport and Gardi
ner at the Mouth of the TJrnpqua
river. Cars are unavailable to move
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aggressive steps which other ports
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have taken, the stringencies of rail
transportation would be - Incidental.
water transportation, would solve
the problem.
THEIR EXAMPLE
SOMETHING like a quarter of a mil
lion dollars has been expended In
in remodeling and perfecting the Mult-
nomah hotel.
izing and facilitating Portland.
I
The Multnomah was a big, unoccu-
pled, darkened structure, unpromising
and forsaken when the two Hausers
and Grant Smith saw it, sludied it,
vlsioned the future and put their
money into it. Once identified with
Portland, thev mnonl no toHpr in
wood shipbuilding, and when they
saw Portland-built vessels about to
land as Portland owned and Portland
operated ships, r -j
f There are other names of new
corners who could be r mentioned as
virile units In their newly adopted
community. What better example
could there be of faith in Portland,
and why should not that faith extend
to and obsess older residents?
At the end of a convention of
scenery salesmen and community
promoters from 21 states held re
cently at Denver, Colo., under the
name of the American Travel De
velopment association, Portland was
recognized and the Chamber of Com
merce honored by the election of
Its delegate as first vice president.
The fact that the delegate was a
woman, Misa Marguerite Salomon,
probably argues less for the chiv
alry of the assemblage than for her
own alert and valued participation
In the convention. The purpose of
the gathering was to devise means
of keeping the American dollar at
home and busy circulating at tour
ist behest. Oregon will wish the
movement unlimited success, for we
have a great unduplicated stock of
the highest grade scenery worth the
highest prices but offered now at
exceedingly reasonable rates.
ON WHAT CHARGE?
WHY this holdup of the nomina
tion of Balnbridge Colby, named
by the president for secretary of
state?
What horrifying thing has Lodge's
packed foreign relations committee
discovered of which Mr. Colby is
guilty? Has he been running a "blind
pig"? Or, as in the case of President
Wilson, has Senator Fall waiched
Colby's left leg for a full hour with
out seeing it move? ,
Is It suspected that there is some
taint In his ancestral line, or that he
evaded the draft or communicated
with the enemy. during the war?
Penrose says Hoover is a Democrat.
Lodge's committee evidently thinks
Colby's desertion to Roosevelt in 1912
and his support of Wilson in 1916 an
unpardonable sin.
To the high lights 5f the Republi
can faction now dominant at Wash
ington, what a horrifying thing it is
for a citizen to show progressive
leanings 1
Forty-five dollars was demanded
by a New York undertaker from an
American mother for transporting
the body of her soldier son, newly
brought from France, from the
steamship pier to the Pennsylvania
station. The Knights of Columbus
interfered and delivered the body by
motor truck at the station free
f charge. Profiteering seems to
have become a world-wide mania.
WHY NOT COMIC OPERA?
A3 YOU sit for an evening with
"Pinafore," or the "Mikado," or
other of Gilbert and Sullivan's pro
ductions, you wonder why comic
opera has so nearly disappeared from
the stage.
Is it because other Gilbert and Sul-
livans have not been born? Nothing
more delightful br relaxing or enter
taining is offered the" wearied and
spent worker for an evening's enjoy
ment. The familiar airs of "The
Flowers Tnat Bloom In the Spring,"
or "Titwillow." or "Three Little
Mliids" carry you back to the peace
ful scenes and pastimes of boyhood
and girlhood. They were halcyon
days when responsibilities were light,
war taxes easy and old H. C. L. a myth.
Under the spell of song and orj
chestra, you dream all over again of
the wood-fringed streams, the bird
choruses and the heyday of life. The
delights of the music are the thrall
of the listener and the humor of the
situations a diversion incomparable.
Art is in its most agreeable mood
and the stage In its happiest and
cleanest role In these oldtime comio
operas. Why do not other geniuses
appear to add to tlie Gilbert and Sul
livan productions and restore comio
opera to its ancient ascendency?
The "free seeds" sent out by con
gress are not free. They cost the
government $239,000 a year and the
people pay the bill. Still, public
money is sometimes more foblishly
spent. The free speeches never
delivered, but sent out by congress
men at heavy cost are a worse pest.
CLOSE TO THE BONE
TROM March 29 to April 3 Oregon
1 Washington and Idaho are to en
joy, If that be the proper term.
cheap meat week" under the auspioes
and direction of the department of
justice. Plans have been laid, so it
Is announced from Washington, by
which the retail dealers in these
three states will make special display
of those "highly nutritious and pala
table" cuts which are known to cost
less and are suspected to chew longer
than those to which the general appe
tite of the meat eating public seems
to have been trained. It is expected
that the thrifty housewives will co
operate with the department of Jus
tice by absorbing these displays, thus
lessening ' the demand for the more
expensive portions and resulting in
"lower prices thereon."
Itwill be interesting to watch the
developments of this . procedure as
reflected by the current quotations on
T-bones, porterhouses, tenderloins
sweetbreads, cutlets and all the rest
of the lorng list of prime cuts so much
in demand and so costly to buy. May
be, since the American public seems
willing "to try anything once," it
will Indulge in rump and brisket, tripe
and liver for .a, few days Just to see
whether the old adage is true after
-all that the closer :Z the ' bone " the
sweeter , the meat," Maybe' if they
try it once they will get the habit.
If the thrifty i housewife is at the
same time .a nifty cook. ,
'Suspicion persists that one controll
ing cause tf the great demand for high
priced cuts is; that the sweethearts
of today do not know as much about
cooking meat as did the mothers of
yesterday. ,
It requires time in the kitchen, pa
tience in preparation and care in the
cooking to make the "highly nutri
tious" ' but much neglected sections
of the butchers' stock overly palata
ble. t Milady may not rustle home
from tne matinee and cause her lord
and master to smile with contentment
over delicatessen salad and chuck
steak. It requires more, than a bronz
ing oven and a twist of the wrist to
work that miracle. If they have-no
time to fix the cheaper meat they
would better stick to porterhouse and
tenderloin, or have the dentist file
hubby's teeth down a little bit.
AN AMERICAN
IMPERIALIST
Lodge Finds Nations Resuming the
Old Game and Can See Nothing
Wrong In It.
Wnm ti N.w York World.
In Eneland the people who frown
upon every ideal of the League of Na
tions are called jingoes and Tories; in
France and Italy, militarists ; in Ger
many, junkers ; in Austria and Hungary,
dynastic Hapsburgers; in Turkey, Ger-
manophlles ; in "Russia, czarists, and in
Japan, expansionists and warriors. All
are .Imperialists and - reactionaries.
Sympathizing with these elements as
only a member of the Old Guard and a
standpatter can. Senator Lodge natur
ally is hurt because the president in his
recent letter referred rather pointedly to
the revival of the militaristic spirit In
France and Italy. The senator has
made a careful survey of all the, world,
especially of Europe, and he can find
no signs of Toryism, junkerism or mili
tarism anywhere. Everything is pro
ceeding normally. The nations that
have the power are helping themselves
in the good old way and they are pre
paring to keep air that they can hold.
It Is not often that the senator re
veals his state of mind so unreservedly.
Where every prospect Is pleasing to
him, why should he allow the League
of Nations to become a workable affair?
Like every other adherent of the old
order at home and abroad, he sees in
that contrivance the probable end of
things as they have been, and his crust
ed conservatism revolts at the prospect.
To have peace on any newfangled
theories of justice and popular rights Is
as offensive to htm as to those trained
in the ancient diplomacy. The way to'
make nations and races tranquil is to
pin them down with the bayonet.
If the American people, confused to
some extent by the treaty controversy
at Washington, will examine the men
and things in Europe that have Sen
ator Lodge's most cordial approval, they
will learn why the League of Nations .is
so hateful to him. All imperialists are
standing together.
Letters From the People
f Communication sent to Tha Journal fcr
publication in this department ehould e written
on only one tide of the paper, should not fieeed
800 words in length and moat be fiened or the
writer, whose mail addresa in lull most accom
pany tha contribution. )
BELIEVES IN PARTY ADHERENCE
The attention of contributors is called to this
letter. It is brief. It Li to the point. It goes
directly to the beert of the subject. It expreeeei
what Mr. Hudebrand has to sav. tersely and ln-
ctsirely. Then it ends. In its construction, in its
brerity, and in its avoidance of consuming space
unnecessarily, it a model letter for this column.
Cannot all The Journal'i contributors follow Mr.
HUdebrand's plan? The Editor.
Albany, March 16. To the Editor of
The Journal It seems to me the Ameri
can Legion, the grange and united labor
are mistaken when they refuse to have
anything to do with politics. If we had
any other way of making beneficial
laws than through politics or the. poli
tician it might be all right to be in-.
different, but when there is so much to
be accomplished through united political
effort of all of these organizations it
seems absurd to be inactive. We, the
common people, and these organizations
are doing the will of the boss politician
by being indifferent. You could not hire
boss politicians to be indifferent. It is
only, through united political effort that
good laws can be enacted and bad laws
repealed. Almost any law is an ex
periment at first. The people might
make a few mistakes, but the politician
does not make many mistakes when it
comes to class legislation. I believe ev
erybody ought to belong to one or the
other of the old political parties. If it
cannot be done any other way there
ought to be a compulsory voting law
If people had to go to the .polls and vote
they would study politics. Then we
soon would have better laws.
Douglas Hllderbrand.
DID NOT WRITE THAT LETTER
Portland, March 18. To the Editor of
The Journal I notice a communication
in the Letters From the People column of
The Journal of Wednseday's issue, signed
R. D. Merchant." I was not aware
that there was another R. D. Merchant
In the city. That communication was
not written or signed by me. Will you
kindly publish this statement and oblige
me? Ralph D. Merchant
764 East Thirty-first street.
INDUSTRIAL READJUSTMENT
Portland. Feb. 28. To the Editor of
The Journal My father voted for Lin
coln in the early pioneer days of Minne
sota. A government of the people, by
the people and for the people has been
my Ideal since early boyhood. Equal
rights tor all and special privileges to
none, is the foundation principle of true
democracy. None but lawful and con
stitutional methods for redress of any
wrong, of individual or community, can
be tolerated. Class legislation and class
distinction are evils that must be driven
out, lest we go down ultimately to ruin
as a people.
With these as my bedrock convictions,
I wish to express myself as to capital
and labor. Labor has ever been the
under dog. Capital entrenched, grow
ing ever more powerful owing to ex
ploitation of labor's production, has ever
fought for special benefits at the ex
pense of labor. ' So ingrained has be
come this Idea of living off the sweat
of the other fellow's brow that all who
do rot do physical labor take it as a
matter of course that theirs is a legiti
mate privilege to reap where they have
not sown. Business, big and little, is'
all based on this idea, and what is called
a desirable competitive system has long
been but a cutthroat brigandage under
colqr of law. Laws have been specially
framed by those who serjve special in
terests, so as to take front the real pro
ducer and give to the exploiter. News
papers, deliberately or .because of ex
pediency, uphold this. The courts inter
pret the laws as passed, often because
they have no choice, and the poor man
who steals a loaf of bread to feed his
starving children goes to prison, while
those who rob whole communities very
often go free. , '--. .
Selfishness,! bordering on sanction of
robbery outright en the part of those
who exploit the producers, is the root
of alL The remedy is an absolute m-
rooting . of this root. Heretofore labor
has been docile. A change has come.
Retribution and readjuiunent are now
to the fore." The working-man has ceased
to sax, "Baa." and has assumed a re
senting aggressiveness that is startling
the politicians and the exploiters nigh
Irto a panic.
I hope and pray , that as labor steps
Into greater and greater powers, mis
use of these powers will be avoided. It
Is believed that sUbUlsing will ensue
and -the mark to which to go will be
respected. P. Oldrtch.
RIDICULES MEDICAL PROFESSION
Athena, Feb. 2S. To the Editor of
The Journal I have great respect for
the medical profession. We owe it much
for the advancement of ,-the world in
the way ot hygiene, better standards ot
living and public health.
No doubt there are many things the
layman does not understand in the way
of science, but usually he has horse
sense, in the aggregate at least.
In olden times disease was considered
an evil spirit and had to be "exor
cised." A man was considered to take
on devils by the quantity, and when be
got seven devils, he was sick enough to
call the priest We have ceased to
"exorcise" to cure, ' but we run the ga
mut with method. The enthusiasm of
the adherent of one method is as strong
as that of any other, to say nothing
about the "regular" medico, with his
powders, pills arid little pus injector,
and who- will cut your appendix out and
examine, it afterward to see if you
needed it; or he will disembowel you
and scrape your Innards, but it will be
"regular," with the price sufficient to
satisfy the ethical standards of the pro
f ess ion.
Neither will' we forget the quack with
his roots, herbs, barks and strong-
smelllng lotions. Nor can we quite
forget the common remedies that mother
used to make. How can we forget those
compresses of smartweed, those infu
slons of dog fennel and the good old
boneset tea? How we looked forward
to our castor oil and our sulphur and
molasses !
But all those things were for getting
well after sickness. The medico of these
days doesn't propose that we shall get
sick. How he laughs up his sleeve at
even the "regulars" of other days. Old
Dr. Hornbook1 with his saddle bags has
long ago gone into the discard. Our
modern medico will "immunize" us and
to do this he has invented a little squirt
gun which, with the kind cooperation of
sick cows and diphthetical horses, he
will "immunize" at so much per squirt
of defunt germs, which he calls anti
toxin. And he gets busy to make It
mandatory upon the people to be "antl-
toxicated." or vaccinated, at certain
times, and if they live they are ever aft
er "immune," or at least as long as the
rotten "serum" percolates through the
blood.
Nature has lots of surprises for the
Inquiring mind. If Solomon lived today
he would be stumped by the question
how the rotten blood of a lower animal
could invigorate the blood of a man.
B. F. Wood.
"SAVE TOUR OWN DAYLIGHT"
Prinevllle, March 12. To the Editor
of The Journal At last those who want
to camouflage an extra hour of day
light have hit the right nail on the
head by going to work an hour earlier
and let the old clock alone. Going to
work an hour earlier will not upset con
ditions and customs like setting the
clock ahead. Neither should this ac
tion be binding on the whole commu
nity : that is, it should not become a
law, but if the majority of any crew
of working people desire to commence
an hour earlier, they should take the
matter up with their employer and let
them get together on the question. The
setting of the clock ahead certainly was
a curse to the farmer ; also to some
businesses. This thing of scrapping
over higher wages and shorter hours
and saving an hour of daylight gets
one nowhere. If one wants to raise a
garden, if he will get up at 6 o'clock
and put In ah hour or an hour and a
half in the morning and again in the
evening a little more time, he wiH not
have to worry about the saving ot an
hour of daylight
Now let's act all together and, instead
of thinking that the world owes us a
living, let us think there is a living
for us in this old world if we work for
It, and not be parasites. Let everyone
get down to really earning his or her
own living. Gen Ulne.
DISCOUNTS ELECTION PROMISES
Portland, March 18. To the Editor of
The Journal It looks as if we were go
ing to have a full crop of candidates
this year. The boys are throwing their
hats into the ring very rapidly and
promising the dear people all kinds of
good things. How they do prate about
honesty, efficiency, economy, square
deal, equal justice to everyone, and all
that sort of bally rot. In the past we
have let the candidates get by with
their promises, which they have forgot
ten after they have attached themselves
to the pay roll, but this year we ought
to challenge them to prove what they
are going to do, and how. For exam
ple, I was today handed an election
card bearing the name of Cadwell for
assessor, and the slogan "Lower
Taxes." Now we all know that taxes
are high, and in. all human probability
will be higher. The legislature 1b vot
ing, expense, and so are the people. We
are asking and getting many things,
and that means more taxes. It does
not seem to be within the power of
anyone to reduce taxes. But Mr. Cad
well promises lower taxes. How is he
going to do it? Is he going to close
the' public schools, stop the harbor- im
provement, put an end to good roads,
shut up the library, abolish the leglsla
ture, nail, up the doors of the poor farm
and county hospital, tie crepe on the
city hall and courthouse, keep us from
employing a staff of competent teach
era, or what? Is it In his power to do
all ,or any of these things? We are en
titled to know what this candidate
means by "lower taxes," and how he
is going to keep his promise.
G. W. Mohr.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
Owing to Queen Victoria's hatred of
tobacco, one German ambassador stay
ing at Windsor was driven to lie on
his bedroom hearthrug when smoking a
cigar and puff the smoke up the chim
ney,. Baron von Eckardstein relates in
his reminiscences. The queen's preju
dices against tobacco were shared by
many or ner subjects until quite late in
her reign. Admiral Victor Montagu re
cords having "stayed in more than one
house where smoking was not allowed
at all, and in many houses you could
not possibly smoke until the ladies had
departed to bed. Then .you were rele
gated to a damp, dreary cold office In
the vaults the servants' hall or the
housekeeper's room." Outdoor smoking
was considered equally wrong In places
where fashion thronged. Lady Dorothy
NeyUVdweUing on the rigid code which
regulated social Hfe in mid-Victorian
days, says: "To smoke In the streets
was bad, but to smoke in Hyde park
was a serious social crime. The first
gentleman to defy this unwritten social
law was the grandfather of the present
Duke or sutnerrana. who, to the aston
ishment of his friends, one day boldly
walked to the park with . a .cigar be
tween nis nps an unconventional act
which created craita a sensation. 1
COMMENT AND- NEWS IN 1BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
TTiey're rather grving Newberry the
Tass-berryf' back in- Michigan.
The half million nnanria nf TKT
SPm.!.nl to Oregon will doubtless make
Itself heard 4in due time.
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The - boothlm-V smatiji n i
of selling moonshine will probably find
n more profitable to stick to shoe
shine. Winter is breaking early in Alaska,
Now will some good weather "prophet
please tell us what effect that wfu have
on our season down here?
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Hog Canyon, on the Columbia River
highway, has been renamed Havana
Dell. But Rowena Dell by any other
wuuuj oe as entrancing,
Chicago's chief of police has told the
city council that he will rid Chicago of
crime in six months or resign. But sup
pose the police wont let htm !
B.nI7 Sunday having conditionally ac
cepted the vice presidential nomination
in advance, we'll say that if Billy were
vice president for four years he'd tret
next to enough sin to keep him preach
ing for the next four centuries.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL)
Random Observations About Town
Portland hotel men individually take'
a very decided stand against following
up the. practice of Boise, Idaho, hotels,
which have just sent out, through the
Idaho Hotel Men's association, the fol
lowing notice : "Travelers : Please
notice. Boise hotels will be overcrowded
March 26-27-2$. Please avoid Boise dur
ing that time-if possible." This is the
second such notice posted in Portland
hotels at the request of the Idaho or
ganization. 'Wouldn't we look nice," a
local boniface declared, "announcing to
the world that Portland hotels would be
overcrowded in June and urging travel
ers to avoid the city? Impossible ! We'll
take care of every visitor somehow, and
they will be made comfortable."
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Pat Gallagher, orator, statesman and
irrigator, from Ontario, Or., Is at the
Hotel Portland again from his Eastern
Oregon wilds. The particular purpose of
the present visit was to spread the man
tle of his oratory over the St Patrick's
day celebration of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, of which "Pat" is a member.
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J. M. Hawkins, who deals In abstracts.
etc., and who was formerly a moving
picture show magnate at Albany, Is a
guest at the Seward hotel, with Mrs.
Hawkins.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ira P. Powers were
guests at the Portland hotel Wednesday
night following the return of Mrs. Pow
ers from an extended visit among friends
in California cities. Mr. Powers re
turned from a month's sojourn In the
south several days ago.
Ed W. Hackman of La Grande is stop
ping at the Imperial while viBiting in
the city. At the same hotel is C. P. Car
ter of the Union county city.
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Some 60 members of the senior class
of the home economics department of
the Oregon Agricultural college were reg
istered Thursday as guests at the Mult
nomah hotel. They were accompanied
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
. By Fred Lockley
rrbnaa whn her been watcbini the Joint
smoke of Corralhs and Benton alias the Blue
Ribbon count?, and nae wonoerea wno irao
.i , mw.A k-nt it ffnina. are hereby in
formed. Mr. Lockley lists the AchteTementa and
prospects of the city and county aioreaaiu, aau
ascribes leadership and consummate orcanixinc
ability to the Jorrallls commercial
h. xhnix anirita who founded it and hare
since made it a power for f orwerdint the highest
interests of town and country auke.
The Corvallls Commercial club is the
civic center of the community life of
Corvallls. It Is the child of the citisens
league, which in the old days met
monthly In the city hall to aiscuss tne
w.lfarf of the city and county. A group
of the forward looking citizens of Cor
vallls decided about 10 years ago that
a live commercial club would stimulate
the growth of the city, so the club was
organized and quarters rented. A com
mittee consisting of Burt W. Johnson,
Bob Johnson and A J. Johnson, none of
whom Is a relative -of the others, by
the way. went to Portland and investi
gated the plan of operation of the Fort
land Commercial club; and, incidentally,
spent several thousand dollars for equip
ment for the club, including billiard
tables, carpets, rugs, furniture and an
elaborate set of dishes with the .mono
gram "C. C. C." The Oregon Agricul
tural college architect was called upon
to draw ud plans for the remodeling of
the quarters for the club, and about
$6000 was spent on tne aecorauons anu
equipment of the rooms. A committee
secured 100 members who paid an initi
ation fee of $25 each and agreed to pay
dues for one year, and the club waa
successfully launched.
A group of us. Including C. E. Ingalls,
president of the club, ; N. R. Moore, a
former president ; Bob Johnson, one of
the charter members and one time secre
tary : H. W. Hand, the present secretary ;
E. M. Duffy, a trustee, and several
others, sat In the lounging room of the
club an evening or so ago and discussed
the club's past performances, present
activities and future plans. Inasmuch
as everyone present contributed to the
conversation I am not going to directly
quote any one of the group, but will give
the facts as A learned them.
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The club has issued several illustrated
booklets for distribution throughout the
Middle West, as well as many leaflets
and folders, spending approximately
$6000 on printed matter, as well as using
advertising space in various eastern pub
lications.
One of the most successful bits of pub
licltv fathered by the Commercial club
was .the taking of the Oregon Agricul
tural college band and a large delega
tion of students to the Rose Festival.
where the students carried a banner COO
feet loner In the procession, portraying
by text and picture the products of
Benton county.
The club backed the gathering, pre
Olden Oregon
Preliminaries to the Creation of the
Territory of Idaho, 1863.
After the territory north of" the Co
lumbia river had been eut off from
Oregon and organised as Washington, a
sentiment developed among the settlers
east of the Cascades for a separate ter
ritory. In January, HL the Washing
ton territorial legislature was asked to
adopt a memorial to congress asking for
the creation of the territory of Walla
Walla. It was lost fa the house of rep
resentatives by a vote of It to 12. Peti
tions were then circulated asking , the
legislature to submit to the voters a
constitution for the proposed new- state
of Idaho. After the bUl bad been amend
ed In the lower house by substituting
SIDELIGHTS
The Carlton cltyf; council has placed
an order for 165 feet of hose to be used
for washing theclgr; streets.
Astoria was not I classed among the
cities that have urgent need of new
federal buildings, and the Budget de
clares that "if there are 15 cities In
America more needy i in this respect than
is Astoria, they're; hot needy; they re
downright, destitute;"'
" "Heppner," says the Oasette - Times,
"Is finally enlnr forward with great big
progressive 8trides.S . Modern business
bloeks. improved streets and above an,
an adequate watei- 'supply, will soon
give our city an arjparanceithe like of
which but few of ! us dreamed a few
years ago." Jj
What an Oregonlri-any Oregonian
thinks of his stat climate in com
parative terms la illustrated by a travel
note In the Crane American: "Tony
Matejovitz returnedi tlee first of the week
from Manitowoc. Wis., where he had
been visiting since ( December. Tony is
more in love with illkrnev countv than
ever. He says tHere were only two
thawing.-days during stay In Vi Iscon
sin. and that llvirjgr -was a failure so
far as he was concerned. In such' a cold
Mllmn.A I I
bv Mine Ave. TV At3 1 h m aind M rn & w
Prentiss of the stjitft college and were
conducted by their instructors through
number of Portland's, leading foodstuffs
mauuittLlui iQBi f
"Jjggs and Maggie" had quite a time
finding a place to rest their heads Thurs
day, following their1 arrival from Ana
conda, Mont, wlth Mr. and Mrs. W. A
Maclntyre of the sme city. "Jiggs an 1
Maggie" are properly known as Mr. md
Mrs. J. H. Duffy, lut their friends have
.branded them with the names of The
Journal comic characters, perhaps be
cause they are sa exastly opposite to
the funray folk. Tjhe' Anaconda visitors
are stopping at thejSeward while visiting
briefly in Portland.
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C. W. Meldrum'of Seattle, assistant
general passenger) igent of the Great
Northern railway, together with J. M.
Doyle and T. B. . Dlgnan of Everett,
Wash., superintendent and assistant su
perintendent of the same road, are guests
at the Multnomah' ' At the same hotel
is H. H. ' Francisco, a general agent for
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe rail
way, who, it is rumored, is in the city
to arrange for the establishment of a
Portland office for the company.
Seaside's quota of visitors In Portland
Thursday Included H. S. Sheldon at the
Multnomah, E. N. Hurd at the Oregon
and Mr. and Mrs. 4.!W. Chapman. Hurd
Is mayor at the coast city, where t...ngs
are thriving apace and a splendid tourist
season is lrt prospect. In fact, a number
of summer beach cottages have already
been occupied, some of them by persons
who plan to remain through the few
coming cool spring days.
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A H. Cox, prseident of the Oregon
Lumber company, accompanied by D. V).
Phelps, both of Pendleton, are registered
at the Multnomah hotel. Another lum
berman whose name Is on the same reg
ister is W. H. Doughertyt president of
the Newport Lumber company. K. T.
Wodeck. secretary, treasurer and man
ager of the Crossett Western Lumber
company of Wauna, Or., is also a Mul-
tonmah guest.
paring and display of the Benton county
exhibits at the various state fairs, which
resulted In Benton county winning the
blue ribbon over all other Oregon coun
ties in 1907. 1908. 1910. 1911 and 1912
and securing second place In 1913 and
1917. This won for Benton county the
title of the Blue Ribbon county. The
club helped prepare the exhibit that won
the mammoth silver cup donated by the
Great Northern railway for the' county,
making the best agricultural and horti
cultural display in 1911. To Frank
Groves, W. H. Savage, and, later, Sidney
Trask, is due much of the credit for the
success of the prize winning exhtbUn.
The club has secured many Industries
for Corvallls. such as the McCready saw
mill and the new cannery. For the can
nery the club and the surrounding farm
ers raised a fund of. $4000 to purchase
the ground that was donated to the
cannery.
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The club has promoted innumerable
get together excursions throughout the
county. It keeps open house during the
short courses of the agricultural college.
It has been back of the road legislation
and the securing of a county agrlcul
tural agent. During the war the Com
mercial club- was headquarters and the
guiding spirit In the various war ac
tivities, such as the L.. L. L. L., the sale
of War Savings Stamps, the Liberty and
Victory loan drives, the Red Cross, the
y. M. C. A. and Salvation Army drives,
the rounding up ef slackers and the pro
moting of enlistments. It has promoted
and backed the drives for more silos,
better poultry, more prune orchards,
greater acreage of berries, better stock
and more of It rotation of crops and
the greater usefulness to the state and
the west of the OrJegon Agricultural col
lege and the University of Oregon by the
raising of more revonue for their support.
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The club is planning to secure a man
ager and an executive secretary and to
start aggressively on a campaign of civic
betterment The program contemplate
the securing of a $200,000 federal build
ing, a public library, a community center
where farmers and their wives can meet
when in town and which will serve as
headquarters for the county agricultural
agent, a box factory, the planting of
more vegetables and berries for the can
nery, the extension and improvement
of the present auto tourist camp grounds
and the building of a much needed com
modious and strictly modern hotel.
The present officials of the club are
C. E. Ingalls. president ; H. W. Hand,
secretary ; H. C. Woodcock, treasurer,
and J. C. Lowe, E. M. Duffy, M. H.
Bauer and F. I. Kinney, trustees.
. Each Tuesday noon' from 50 to 60
of the live wires of the community meet
at lunch to discuss the problems ot com
ni'inlty betterment and out of these meet
ings have come a splendid spirit of team
work, cooperation find community spirit.
Washington for Idaho the measure was
tabled. The settlers east of the moun
tains then took their cause to congress,
which on March 3, . 1863, created the
territory of Idaho and fixed the present
eastern boundary of Washington.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
I count D. S. Dunbar of Fairvlew one
of the richest men in Oregon. Dunbar
come to this state when he was 6 year
old, and that was nigh 70 year ago.
He's got a big stock of recollections and
experiences to draw from, and a mighty
good life of usefulness besides, and I
reckon when he giU to heaven Dunbar's
check'll pass among them there celestial
financiers with more flggers on It than
some of our most notorious millionaires
and timber grabbers. '
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happentnsa to Brief ream for the
Busy Uaader ;
OREGON NOTES
It Is nroraflsiAf'. tr lrarte fa si SisiW r..i
hatchery Just south of Hood River.
Countv FVuil Inanu-ii,. tn,uv,n arl. ,
vises. Umatilla county fruit growert tr
spray for scale now.
Three craten At rhin... nh....ni m :
have been shipped to Bend for dtstrl- '
Dution in Deschutes county.
The annual state convention of the -,f.KOn
Aoaoriation of Master Plumbers '
win oe neia at Salem May 14, ,t r
A mall service three times a week be-
tween Prinevllle and Mitchell has bee
promised by the postal department.
Bids are being asked for the leas
ing of more than 200 trarts ot wheat,
land oh the Umatilla Indian reserva
tion. Machinery has been ordered for a
factory to make Swiss cheese In Coos
county. This will be the first factory
of its kind In Oregon.
four new trains have been put on by
the Oregon Electric company between
Portland and Eugene, necessitating
many schedule changes.
The county commissioners of Wal
lowa county have' authorized a loan of
J 1000 to the farm bureau to be used In
buying squirrel poison.
Lumber amounting to nearly 10.000,
000 feet will be shipped from the Co
lumbia rivur to Australia, China, Cuba
and South America' this month.
O. I. Davidson, a farmer on tha
Oohoco project, has placed an order for
250 pounds of Orlram alfalfa seed. It
will cost him about 70 cents per pound.
W. L. Norton and J. M. Campbell '
have purchased 400 acres of the Runs
estate opposite Coqullle and Intend to)
convert It lntc a first cl. dairy farm.
The first' candidate in . !ataop county
to file his petition Is 11. F. Coffey of
Hammond, who aspires to the Demo
cratic nomlnatton for county commis
sioner. Owing to the low stare of thai o.
lumnia river, the Wind River Lumber
mill at Cascade Looks is experiencing
difficulty In floating logs over the bar
of Wind river.
At a recent meetlne- of llvnalnrk tirn.
ducern at Prinevllle a resolution was
passed demanding an Invest ination ot
the methods of the Portland Union
stockyards. No specific charge was
made.
The. state hoard of control has sold
111,000 worth of flax to an Eastern firm.
Much new business Is being offered
the lumber mill of Western Orenon
and Washington by buyers for the rail
roads. The Thrift ranch, one of the land
marks of Curry county, near Langlols,
has been sold for $72,000. It const1ed
of 810 acres, Son of which are under
cultivation. With the ranch went 100
dairy cows.
WASHINGTON
Street car fares at Walls Walla are
to be raised from 8 to 10 cents April 15.
Garfield and vit-inlty have been fav
ored with a. rain that has thoroughly
soaked the ground.
Engineers are preparing plans and
specifications for about tiiO.OOQ worth of
street paving at Endlrott.
Sheepmen report at Walla Walla heavy
losnes In liimbing tills year on account
of the cold spring weather.
Total shipment of apples from We-
natrhee to date amounts to 10,032 cars.
Nearly 1500 cars remain to b forwarded.
Seven girls and seven boys- were horn
in Ceiitralia during Kebruary, according
to the records of the city health officer.
A subscription list has been started
nt South Bend to raise $5000 to furnish
new headquarters for the American
Legion.
Apple growers In the Wenatchee dis
trict are loading their apples In box
cars for shipment East In default of re
frigerator cars.
The federal1 employment office at
Yakima reports that $65 a month with
bonrd and lodging Is not enough to at
tract idle men to work.
A report from Pasco says that more
rain Is needed by wheat growers. Marry
report that much of the fall sewn grain
will have to be reseeded.
Word has been received from the
state highway commissioner that Im- .
provement between Pomeroy and Clarke
ton will begin Immediately.
H. B. Gilbert has been elected presi
dent of the newly organized Republican
club of Yakima county. A vice presi
dent for each town in the valley will be
named later.
Governor Hart has denied a pardon
to Charles Gay, former constable of
Toppenlsh, convicted of assaulting John
Pack wood on Armistice day. ll was
sentenced to five years' Imprisonment
A law giving school directors power to
Increase the state school tax levy from
10 to 15 mills will be asked of the com
ing session of the legislature by the
conference of school directors and teach
ers. Death has claimed two of Bpokane's
oldest citizens. One was Thomas Street
who would have been 101 years old
March 21. Theother was Samuel Mer-
rltt who was loo years old last Jan
uary. About 100 commanders and other of
ficers ,pf American Legion posts at a
meeting at Yakima declared themselves
In favor of the enactment by the leg
islature of a law giving service men a
bonus or Jli for eacn montn servea.
IDAHO
In anticipation of a bad fire season
North Idaho lumber Interests are organ
izing a strong fire protection.
H. R. Rlsley of Oraner Junction, Colo.,
has been appointed manager ofthe Idaho
district of the Mountain States Tele
phone A Telegraph company.
The Influenza situation at Fotlatch has
so far improved that churches will be
allowed to hold services. The ban con
tinues on other public gatherings.
According to nn estimate of the Star
Valley Independent of Afton, Wro.,
$8,000,000 expended In the upper Star."
vallev of Wvomine would make nossl-
ble the Irrigation of 2,000,000 acres of
Idaho land at a cost or only so per ncrc.
The Journal Always Worked
For That Great Municipal ;
Asset, The Auditorium. .
Portland will entertain during the
summer of 1920 the national Shrine
convention, the national T. P. A. con
vention and the national Kiwanls con
vention. Other great gatherings are
In prospect for the future. Many
smaller but little less Important as
semblage of bn.sinesf. clvl- ;ind re
ligious character will be held here.
Portland has become one of the
great convention cities of America.
Its standards of entertainment and
honpltality are not excelled. The
sightseeing tours one may: en joy with
Portland as a base, Including trips
to the Pacific, through the Gorge of
the Columbia, via the Columbia river
highway, to Mt Hood and Crater
lake, render Its attractions Irresisti
ble to those who enjoy mingling,
recreation with convention attend-,
ahce. ' ,':
A great factor in drawing the many
meetings to Portland Is The Auditor
turn. And asJt has aided in securing
outside conventions, so it has offered
stimulus and a theatre for massive
local productions In music' and drains.
Portland would scarcely know how
to carry on the life of the community
without The Auditorium. 'Those who
doubted the wisdom of 'building it
doubt no longer. Those Who crltl-,
clsed The Journal for advocating the
buljdlng of The Auditorium as 'far.
back as March ZS, 1911. praise it to
day for the foresight which enabled it
to predict what has come to pass' In
benefit to the city from the bond ap
propriation of $600,000 which the peo
ple voted for the financings of The,
Auditorium ana wmcn this newspaper
supported with every appeal in Us
power, J "''
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