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Tbraa montbi. . 18 00 1.75 1.00 WEZkl.T AMD BCNDAT Om year.. .18.50 -v. ThoM nt apply only in to Wort. Bates to tyatsra point furnUhed on applica tion. VtmttUneo by Money Ord.r Ixptiw ""Ordor. or Draft: if our Pwtoffleo H not a Metier Order Offleo. 1 or 2-cent tjmp will be arapted, Mako all nalttsiu pajabi to The Journal, Portland, Omoa. L mi Hearoo will b inherited bf afarr man who bu beareD in hia toul. Henrr Ward Boaeher. DEAD rrHE treaty Is dead. ' ?z 1 " It was signed at Versailles on i the twenty-eighth of last June. It was presented to the senate July 10. It was' crucified on the floor of the sen : ate March 19. For eight months and jnine days the American senate has been playing politics with the peace of the world. - All the other great powers that were parties to the framing of the treaty ratified it months ago. Eleven of the smaller nations invited to become members of the league have signed . ' the covenant. The senate of the United State,, alone Aas rejected it. The senate alone has betrayed man kind and thrown the world back Into the Old order of conquest, subjuga tion, the. malied fist, imperialism and forcible annexation of conquered peo " pies. v It Is only the United States senate : that refused' to enter into the peace agreements expressing the best of pur- pose that there Is in the world, and -""'jlnstead has set up a policy of national cowardice and national impoteney ind named It Americanism. The end that Henry Cabot Lodge i? all along aimed at has been accom- i plished. Me and his imperialistic asso .y elates never Intended to ratify the .. Paris treaty. For eight months and V nine days they have been trying to ; make a treaty of their own .vlthout respect to the other nations with Whom we were associated In the war They never Intended to accept and approve the League of Nations. They have been'writing a covenant of their ' own in which they accepted all the benefits of the league but recognized 1 to duties, no obligations, no reepon- . Bibllttles. They have never Intended or desired 'to' agree upon reservationsHhat would - be assented to by President Wilson, Jfhey have been engaged exclusively - tn hacking out vital parts of the league pact until certain that the president would reject it. The fight on the treaty began ' imonths before it was finally framed WhUe a second draft was under dis- ' s cusslon at Paris, President Lowell, in '-the Boston debate, asked Senator Lodge two questions: - i "If the covenant Were amended as you wish, would you vote for it?" J "Will you formulate and send to V M' . . the proper quarters the amendments ,;.you wish made?" ;tr Lodge dodged both questions. He - was even then playing, politics with jthe peace of the world and the future of crucified mankind. He was even : -hen giving notice that anything Pres ident -Wilton would do at Paris would not be acceptable to him.. t , , Lodge and 36 ther senators signed a round robin, declaring against the k ; league pact and cabled It to Paris tn while the negotiations. were In nro- Jress. It was politics played by American 'Imperialists on the - very 'doorsiep of the conference chamber while the great powers- of the world .were' trtlng to harmonize . disturbed --end crucified millions of earth, after Ihe most destructive war in history. , Although the treaty . was not ?yet . JUramed. Juodge, when the senate con , Jrened, packed 'the foreign relations v ' yommittee with senators known to be J egalnst the League o( : .Nations, for. the purpose, not of ihonest deliberation, " 4 but to secure i an;., adverse report on : . the treaty, y jvr. " Though, professing -to - favor .the Jltrcaty, Lodge Joined' hands with J3 senators who publicly advocated tVe rejection of .the. treaty In its entirety. . " senators who pretended that ill the desired " was to safeguard . AmerJcan iflterestt voted with ? senators - like Borah, who publicly declared that be would cot vote for the treaty even If It were presented by Jesus ; Christ ., The millions in Europe who have been looking- to the United States for succor from Imperialist and subju gations, will now link back Into de spdndency. The newly formed re publics like Poland and Czecho-Slo- vakia. already alarmed by the designs of imperialistic France under the new militarist party, are likely, with Amer ica's influence withheld, to break up nto fragments. The junkers of Germany and the mllitarlstlo satellites around every chancellery In Europe will rejoice at the senate's action; Politics In the senate has palled down a great structure Of peace that has been offered the world. A petti fogging partisanship by a group of American Junkers has robbed the na- oa that turned the scale on the tide of humanity in the war, the right to use Its influence for a better .world and compelled the American people to knock at the doar of Germany In suit for a separate peace. . A Roman emperor, a Russian czar or a Prussian kaiser could never have hoped for action more suited and sus taining- to the purpose of world au- tocracy. There U a place In Portland where 300 pairs of old shoes are repaired every day. In the more than 300 working days, It means approxi mately 10,000 pairs repaired in a year. Kememoering tnar, tnern are epair places all over Portland, even in the euburba, you g-et some Idea of how people are wearing old shoes and probably old clothes to avoid present high prices. MILLION DOLLAR ASSETS DORTLAND has garment making industries that are nearly half a century old and whose payrolls ap proach the million dollar mark. -It has others established so recently as 1918 that are ten to thirty times as large as when they first started and are still expanding under the Influ ence of insistent demand for their product. Portland records no failures of In dustries that were properly organized and that have engaged in the manu facture of articles for which there is need. Millions of dollars are spent in paying the wages and salaries of thousands of workers In local gar ment making factories annually. The dresses, suits, hats and fabrics manu factured in Portland and- in Oregon are in use in jf rigid Alaska, in the Orient, in metropolitan .New York, as well as throughout the full breadth and length of the Pacifio coast and the Northwest. High standards of manufacture, the utilization of wools from Oregon sheep, the .employment of skilled workers and excellent mark eting methods account for successful expansion. But more fascinating than these outward facts is the story, in' almost every instance, of a man with vision, courage ead energy, whose business Judgment commended Port land to him and who is now building successful Industry for himself and, the community. As President Huntington of Associ ated Industries of Oregon said at the Ad club's home industries exhibit last week, a successful manufacturer who is also a good citizen ' is a million dollar asset to Portland. IN SEVENTEEN MINUTES! M ONE of the laboratories of the Oryhing they want to start. egon Agricultural college there are 21 gas burners. By concentrating the flow of gas into one burner a pint of water can be brought to the boil ing point in 17 minutes. If all the burners are put in use at one time boiling heat can never be reached. This condition has been revealed by a -committee from the American As sociation of Engineers wh went from Portland Thursday to make an In spection of the institution's facilities. Not only does this condition exist in the laboratories, but it is typical of the whole college equipment, which is not sufficiently up to date, due .to lack of funds In modernizing the. plant. This is not only true of theIabora- tories but of, much of the equipment. Students in departments are not cen trallzed, but, for lack of adequate floor 6pace, are scattered through va rious buildings. This results in much loss of time In passing from one class room to another at a distance on the coUege campus. Moreover, class rooms are congested and In some (two or three classes are trying to proceed with-recitations at the same time. It is all a serious handicap to Oregon young people in the acquiring oMhe education needed to fit them for effective' service In after life. It is unthinkable that the people of the state will fall to approve the new millage bill in the May primary flection. - . v . Ate widows especially long lived? Anyway. 80 widows are still drawing pensions for the war of 1812, 1 a war that was fought . more than a century ago. .; ' - ' ' 1 1 ' i """' ;' THE ANGEL OF ONTARIO IT DOES not -make much difference whether Lester I. Herman ever was the, general counsel - for the "Fur Trade, as he contended. Very proba- oiy ne was not, but he nulled the wool over the eyes of the canny citi zens or Ontario just the same. What he did In that village, and to it, dem onstrates what , a Rufus Wailingford can do when he cornea,: ladeji ' with gifts and all lit up with pleasant talk. Into the ctvlo life ' of an ambitious, aspiring eomoaunlty. - . , Herman. . seems to be a patient worker at his chosen game. He made his bow to the citizens of Ontario behind the drygoods counter of one of; its Jeadlng establishments. "After, a' few month of preparatory work he went Into the ".cleaning -fid press ing business," and be seems to have done quite a good Job of cleaning. Now various estimable citizens 'of that thriving municipality are press ing for a settlement of sundry unpaid, obligations of imposing amount. He made the local commercial club a present of f 1000; he offered to buy the city a 14500 combination chemical fire truck for its fire department; ht of fered to donate 17500 for the Improve ment of the city park; he entertained the leading citizens at expensive "stag parties' at the local club, and he got the goats, financial and otherwise, of a portion of the population. Then he beat It ' It is a sad story, but how he ever put it over with Pat Gallagher as one of the leading citizens of that town is a conundrum. It must have been while the legislature was in session and Pat's attention was diverted from the affairs of his home town by the worries of legislative t statesmanship. The national foreign trade con vention at San Francisco, May 12 to 15, gives the Pacific coast opportu nity to furnish the entire country With an authoritative interpretation of the puzzling economic situation. It will attract the attendance of statesmen In finance, commerce and business. It will furriish evidence of the place foreign trade will oc cupy in the fortunes of Western ports. It is a good meeting for Port land business leaders to attend. ALMOST THE LAST STRAW TIME was when owners of apart ment houses in Portland waylaid the tenants of their competitors with the temptation Of flatterings. favors, and inducements in an effort to keep their places full, or even partly so. They would renovate, they would tint, they would clean things up gen erally and do almost anything from washing the windows to reducing the rent. What they wanted and needed was tenants. Now times have changed and owners of the city's cliff dwellings seem to desire to do-nothing for. their tenants except to raise the rent. Probably it would be more in point of fact to say that they seem more desirous of doing something to their tenants than doing something for them. We read that the Apartment House Owners' association has issued general notification to the effect that frora4 now on "a charge of $2.50 and up ward, depending upon size, will be made for cleaning apartments when vacated." It is a very Interesting notice but somewhat Indefinite in its terms. It does' not Intimate just what it means by "and upward" but in all proba bility the sky's the limit with the Joker wild and the aces up the land lord's sleeve. Nor does it say, in terms at least, whether the fellow who goes out or he who comes in is destined to be stuck for the new ante. Maybe the notice has been worded that way so that the thrifty landlords can catch them going and coming, as the exigencies of the case may deter mine. It might even be possible that a superefflclent financier could soak 'em both and get away with it. With things as they are theyseem to be able to get away with almost any- This is the time when they are shearing the goats, but it does seem as though they had nicked the skin a little with this last snip of the shears, unless they are now going out to get the skin as well as the fleece. Some day the sweat of the shearers will drip on a raw spot and some tolling fleece remover will eet kicked in the abdomen, a common occur rence in the shearing pens but provo cative of profanity and future caution. Some, day, too, if we are to believe what we have been taught, the Lord will temper the wind to the shorn, about the only thing left to hope for. but a circumstance to be appreciated unless too mach of the skin has gone with the fleece before hat day dawns. TWO-SIDED JUSTICE T'.HB city council is to be com- , 1 mended and, doubtless, the" eity of Portland is to be congratulated upon the method used to dispose of the zoning ordinance. The ordinance merited trial. The council enacted It. The people were entitled to express their will as to the permanence of the law. The coun cil provided that a repealing ordinance should be submitted to vote at the next city election. The policy permits, both to those who oppose the measure and those. who Support it, a fair chance to prove their contentions. If during the pro bationary period it Is found to open the way,to"beneflts for neighborhoods and for the city at large, a recital of the good . accomplished will be suf ficient to ensure the defeat of the repealing ordinance. And If on the other hand zoning to found to work against neighborhood and . public In- teresEJtbe people will abolish zoning. In the meantime, under the zoning ordinance, it becomes possible for the first timj in Portland's history to draw definitely the boundary lines of industrial districts, and to say to the manufacturers . that - for the time,: at" least, they will not be dis turbed by intrusive and alien use of adjacent property. Nor will it be possible, during a period of respite. THE OREGON DAILY- JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 0,. 1820. , to establish tombstone works to resHi dentlal districts, or to thrust jwithln a .district any establishment not wanted by a 'majority; of; the people in that district " a : ' Zoning as majority nils of neigh borhood property hasan. invitingly democratic aspect- -f" CHANGES IN THE I. C. C. By Carl Smith, Washington Staff l Correspondent of The Journal. Washington, Marcn 20. Clyde B. AJtchison. Oreifon member of the inter state commerce; commission, retired as chairman of that body on March 17, and- is succeeded by Roger E. Clark of Iowa, its senior member. During the Aitchison chairmanship the commission has been in a transition period. The ending of the period of federal control has been constantly In view, but not definitely settled upon until the passage of the Each-Cummins bUl in February. The commission's activities have been restricted to some extent by this uncer-s talnty. although, there has been plenty of work. The vear was marked by a positive as sertion by the commission of its authority to deal with rates, restricted only or the limitations of law as to the consider ation to be allowed the government dur ing federal control, and the commission has conducted numerous Important in vestigations. Chairman Aitchison per- aonallr took charge or one in jmcag-o. dealing with complaints against the packers. With this exception, the chair man haa remained in Washington most of the timet one particular duty of the chairman being to "stand watch" when others are away. During the coming summer Mr. Aitchison expects to make an extended" trip and to visit Portland during his westward swing. Under the rotation rule Commissioner Robert w. Woolley was, entitled to be. chairman for a year from this month, and Commis sioner Joseph B. Eastman next ; but as they are "baby members" in point of experience and servloe, they declined and the honor reverted to the senior member. , The commission Is granted greatly en larged power onder the new railroad bill, and the next year promises to be one of unusual Importance in Its history, It will take over the work of regulating security issues. It probably -will be confronted with applications for large increases in rates, involving the new principles of return by raUroad groups. The valuation work is approaching com pletion, with knotty questions coming up on the final hearings in valuation cases. To meet the enlarged work the commission will have two additional members, making 11 in all. and the salaries of all have been increased from $10,000 to $12,000 a year, ranking with members of the cabinet in pay, and $4500 ahead of senators and representa tives in congress. Letters From the People t Communication mt te Th Journal for publication in thlt departanent abonld wo written on only ena aide at the paper, ahooid sot exceed SOO word in length end most be eisaed try th writer, nboee mail eddreet is rail moat aceoat pan th contribution, j TOO MANT CITIES COUNTED IN CARFARE LIST Portland. March 17. To the Editor of The Journal I notice in today's Journal a communication from the editor of Watt's Watt" purporting to give a list of the towns and cities in which the Streetcar fares have been advanced. This seems to be on a parity with Engineer Newell's report on the financial neces sity for another raise in Portland street Car farea In the list of cities referred to appear the names of Champaign, III. and TJrbana. II L, and the inference is that there are two seperate streetcar lines in those two towns (not cities). Cham paign is located on the Illinois Central railroad, in Champaign county, and TJr bana is the county seat of Champaign county and is situated just three miles east of Champaign and Is on the Wabash railroad and the streetcar line Is just one line extending from one town to the other without any branches extending out through either town, so that there are ' no two systems, as the editor of Watt's Watt" would have us "believe in counting the two towns in order to swell his list of the town in which streetcar fares have been raised. This unfairness seems to be the joker of the Portland Railway, Llgb & Power company is playing all the way through to bolster up an unfair claim. If this company will make a true statement and let the people know the exact truth about who Is getting the greatest benefits of this multiplicity -of advances that are being asked, it wiU find that the people will play fair. As it Stands and is being manipulated, the only thing left for the time being, in case the eight-cent fare tunt Is pulled off. ta for the people of Portland to see to it that the next city council will be composed of men who will reinstate the jitney. We shall then see who is who" and "Watt's watt." A. S. Thompson. ATtPiATrtNS PARTY T.TT, A DFTRS " Newberg, March To the Editor of The Journal It is amusing to note the sensation Herbert Hoover Is creating wijh leaders of both the old party or ganisations. One Republican senator Bays he is not enough Republican to suit him, and a Democratic senator says he is not enough Democrat to suit him. Their rear objection to him is that should he "be a candidate and be elected they could not handle him to suit their selfish aims. The rank and file 'of both the old parties aim to be honest, and simply demand honesty and Justice in politics and legislation. AU mankind have grown tired of being led by politicians and selfish alms of both the old parties. xnese senators often Quarrel among uicmwiTca uvcr uwi oia cnesnai. me tariff, and abuse and call one -another names, but this, too, is amusing, that any Republican senator should blush at being called a Democrat, or a Democrat grow restive when labeled Republican. This is atrangs indeed, when it is so perfectly obvious that the two are merely two sngntiy different devices . for milk ing the same cow. To suppose that these men care particularly about the device, is to smile. What they are particular about- is the, milk, and then to skim off tae cream ana let their victims be con tent with the skim milk. - W. D. Honens. HERETICAL HERBERT HOOVER Portland. March- If. To the Editor f The Journal And now comes Mr. Hoover, who says he is not an adherent of any party but stands upon the pre rogative of an American citizen. It is simply scandalous I It goes squarely against the common superstition that parties are essential In a, free govern ment. It may. be that Mr. Hoover has consulted Webster's , Dictionary, which says that "prerogative' means "an ex-i elusive or peculiax privilege ; a. prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and es sential possession." Then. . too. Mr. Hoover may he-ve been reading th Unit ed States constitution. wMcb Jays down things fundamental. If he did not he looked In vain to find any reference to pevrty or any provision which " would admit of the application of the party svstem. The makers of our constitution saw that in the European governments the party system was the devil' own idea, and so It was left out .Washing ton warned against it. and ' now : Mr. Hoover takes sides- with that Father of his Country, and says that he "stands upon the prerogatives Of an American Ctisen. In other words. Mr. Hoover la not a fractional citizen. If this country were ancient Greece I fear Mr. Hoover would be accused of Impiety to the gods and, like Socrates, would be required to drink the .fatal hemlock. - "In union there is strength. ' A house divided sgalnst itself cannot stand." So say we all of us. That Mr. Hoover Is consid ered ' ineligible by the . extreme ' party man is quite a recommendation, we have tolerated partisan politics almost to our wreck. Give us a true, unadulter ated American citizen for' president. Ihere Is nothing the, matter with Her- . .. . . . I m T Don nana1, . a. n. v.uun. PRESIDENTIAL PREDICTIONS Portland. March II. To the Editor of The Journal I am a seer. I am not a spiritualist, neither a spiritualistic me dium, clairvoyant nor occultist. I be long to no organise church, lodge or cult I repeat it I am a seer, en dowed with that spiritual capacity that can discern "the signs of-the times' and give "the Interpretation thereof." To prove It. I predict the following events, which X knew months ago would surely come to pass : N The senate will ratify the treaty. It wiU be camouflaged so like the original as to deceive even many of "the elect" but will still be a counterfeit draft and readily recognised as such by Wood row Wilson, who will refuse to deposit It. The treaty Article X will be the one Issue of the coming campaign. There will be three candidates for president as in 1912. These will be : Hiram Johnaon. representing the "irre- concilables" ; Ellhu Root who wiU be nominated at the Chicago convention by the conservative element in the Re- publican party, who .will favor the Lodge amendments.' Woodrow Wilson. that champion of human rights, that Gibraltar of democracy, who will be nominated at the Democratic convention at San Francisco, and who will be re elected. This campaign will witness the begin ning of the greatest spiritual awaken ing the world has ever known, .and when these things come to pass you will know that a prophet haa risen among you and that God has again "visited his people." John L. Schuyleman. CHANGING THE TIME PorUand. March 15. To the Editor of The Journal In the Old days of 10 hours a day . work commenced at 7 o'clock a. m. and no one complained about it When the nine hour day was adopted. 5 o'clock was the time of quit ting, or one commenced at ,S o'clock and quit at d o'clock. ' And to go to work at 8 a. nr., whea the sun was up and hot, looked as If it was all out of order and it is. It hurts no one to commence at 7 o'clock, and It is much better to commence when it is cooler. Seven o'clock should be the legally es tablished hcur. Tout in the short days it might be better to begin at 8 o'clock and light p at one end of the day. It is better for the workmen, as they do not have to turn out ao soon in the morn ing. If they want to tend their gardens, it won't hurt anyone to rise early to do so ; In fact. It is better and healthier, too, instead of lying In bed until break fast is ready. Workman. VOTES' J. B. A DEAD ONE Portland. March 7. To the Editor of The Journal A few days ago there ap peared in The Journal an article stating that a few of the solons of New Jersey were endeavoring to prove the invalidity of the prohibition act. Now, " do not vish to appear as a rabid prohlbUIonlst, for I am not. In fact I have been one of the wets, end very wet . at times at that But it seems that since John Bar leycorn has been executed, why not hst him rest? There never was a time in his wild reign that he benefited anyone except those who manufactured and sold bocze. The average workingman of to day is far better off since the passing of John Barleycorn. I have found from my own experience that his conditions are far better under a dry regime than a wet He Is better off morally and financially. Hunger end an empty pock et do not go well toward betting work ing conditions. A Reader. NO PRIVILEGED CLASS From the Pendleton East Orcfonian Democracy means democracy. It does not mean rule by the proletariat nor by the patricians. The government is Jusy waging relentless warfare on the Reds, who have been plotting to overthrow our form of government and who would set up in this country, if they could, a duplicate of Russian tyranny and demoralisation. The peo ple approve of the antl-Bolshevlk cam paign. They know it is just and timely. Neither do people want disorder from patricians. They believe all should bev amenable to the law, be they rich or poor. If a rich, man gets drunk and through, recklessness kills some one with his car, he should go to JatL He should not have privileges that are not granted to other men who have less money and fewer lawyers under fee. Whenever a man of wealift or promi nence is given, special treatment by a court discontent Is aroused and people tend to question the workings of democ racy, They have grounds for doing so. -Real democracy calls formaklng the nation 'safe against either a privileged proletariat or a privileged plutocracy. Americanism calls for a square deal for all and no favors. Let those who do not believe in such a system get out. Change in Cabinet Under Roosevelt Outnumbered Those Under Wilson Frets th Albany Democrat. The president's opponents try to cre ate the Impression that the changes In the Wilson cabinet have been more than ordinarily numerous. . The comparison of the number of men holding each cabinet post under Roosevelt and under Wilaon wUl tell the tale : . State Department Under Roosevelt Hay, Root Bacon. Under Wilson Bryan, Lansing, Colby. Treasury Under Roosevelt Gage, Shaw. Cortel- you. Under Wilson McAdoo, Glass, Hou ston. War Under- Roosevelt Root, Taft, "Wright. Under Wilson Garrison, Baker. . Navy Under Roosevelt Long, Moody, Mor ton. Bonaparte, Metcalt Newberry. ' Under Wilson Daniels. L Attorney Generat- 1 unaer nooseveit ivnox, Moody, Bona parte. Under Wilson McReynolds, Gregory, Palmer. Postmaster General I Under Roosevelt Smith. Payne, Wynne. Cortelyou, Von Meyer. Under Wilson Burleson. - Interior : Under Rooeevett Hitchcock, Garfield. Under Wilwir-Lane, Payne. Agriculture Tinder Roosevelt Wilson. Under Wilson Houston, Meredith. iSFjeTT Un Snow Says: With bootleggers runnln' rom Jail and women runnin' fer congress it does look like the U. S. A. had been a doln some peaceful revolntln' itself di'' th pas 19 year.-- .' ; 1 Vj-'S'V Tf'vwis s - . ....... .-- . - -.. i . - j, . ; COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF . small Change , i ; sidelights Come on, rain. .Jt take more than a reduction I" th." grlc milk to persuade us to live in Seattle, . a , l-VnwVnr'th";tJ3"1' ejeath of relief iVi whn;. rtend husband. The Eaater hat la yet to come. . e e Now Kansas Is suffering the effects of a dust storm. Just as though it weren't dry enough back there without rubbing it in. Sara Kee and Ah Sing were arrested t? Aottery, rAld to Portland police. Now the Judge wUl probably determine in what Kee 6am shall Sing. e " "Come gentle Spring, ethereal Mild ness, come, ' sighed one of our most quoted but least read English poets once HS5. MP Jjth accent on the Tnlldness." we fancy. Anyhow, that's whr w.e re placing it. Otherwise, gentle Spring is doing pretty well as she is. Judare Rosmn v a . ..v. ..!, c e?idtnTlf r11388 automobile drivers to h. hti8 our Permission to go as far as he likes. But the news from 8pokane uie staying or a. iaUer by . u iun in mat institution, only 8n?w that a person isn't safe even in Jail. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Orchardists in the Wenatchee valley sold $22,000,000 worth of apples last fall, many of them clearing more than S2 on a S4 box of apples, says W. F. Ramsdell, newly appointed supervisor of the Ump- qua national forest, who is at the forest service office on his way to Roseburg. Ramsdell, who was acting supervisor of the Wenatchee forest succeeds S. C. Bartrum, recently resigned. THie valley, which is only 26 miles long, will soon be paved from end to end. says Rams den, and land is selling for $2000 an acre. The town is undergoing a mush room growth as a result of last year's exceeding prosperity and nearly every automobile in the - United States is rep resented there. During the war the people were about starved out, but now, with the trees coming Into full bearing, they are making up for past losses. Hotels are crowded and sufficient ac commodations cannot be had for tran sient guests. The apple trees, says Ramsdell, receive better care than the children, alnce the residents spend their entire time and energy in the develop ment of their orchards. Even garden produce is shipped from the Puget sound region. The Multnomah hotel has acquired an assistant manager in the person of E. M. eLarrabee, according to announce ment made Friday by Eric V- Hauser, president of the hotel company. Lar- rabee has had wide hotel experience. For a time he was on the St. Francis hotel staff at San Francisco and later was manager of the San Francisco Union League club. As assistant man ager of the Belmont hotel. New York city, and manager of the Hotel Statler, Buffalo, N. Y., he gained valuable ex perience, which was augmented by his service .with the government in charge of a group of commissaries and can teens. E. T. Allen, secretary the Western Forestry and Conservation association, who has been in Washington, D. C, for the last six months, will ' return to his office In Portland Monday, he has ad vised his co-workers. Allen haa .been working with the Internal revenue de partment on the tncome tag' question naire and other matters pertaining to the tax. e Not satisfied to send one man into the Portland trade field and subsequent ly flood the community with its modern IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS -' OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred (An ex-aerric man tall Mr. Lockley about hia dnflcultJe in (ettin into th army, and of certain disappointing feature of hia aerrics after he got in. Ha waa aent to Siberia and relate rpmnct on th paawc to the uncomfortable land and during hia erric there. On March 10 General Graves reported to the secretary of war that there were 199 American officers and 1845 men in Siberia and that by April 1 all American troops would be out of the country and en route home. Recently I saw on Yam hill street near Broadway a returned soldier with the Insignia A. E. F. sur mounted by a large "S" on his over coat sleeve, so I hailed him and asked him how long he had served in Siberia. "I was there 15 months,H he responded, "and I have never been able to figure out what I did to deserve, being exiled to Siberia." We fell. Into step and as we walked toward the library he told me of his experiences over there. "My name la George R. Jones," he said, "I am a Portland Joy. I was born on the East Side, 29 years ago January 4. I went to Holladay school. I am five feet 8 inches In height You are required to be 'five feet four Inches high to get into the service. I tried to get into the aviation service but was turned down. WThen I tried the motor service, xor i savvy cars, out again i was lurneu a own. I went to Camp Lewis to volunteer in any service where they would have me, but there was notnmg aoing, so j. dropped off at Tacoma, where my luck changed and they let me enlist. I was at once sent to Fort McDowell and five days after my arrival there I wa aboard the transport Sheridan and on the way to the Philippines. There were 2500 of us. Some of our i.umoer we len at Honolulu. We dropped some at Uuim, and the rest went to the isianas. on the way over I got well acquainted with Walter Reeaing. a Portland boy. He was a buck private, like myself. He had worked at the First National bank, h.re I believe his uncle still works. He won a commission and is stlU ia the service. We logged 7412 miles ana were SI days on the way. We were Inoculated nine times for various things, such as Olden Oregon Spokane Falls and Cheney In -County Seat Fight in the SO. The original oounty of Spokane, in Washington, was abolished In January, 1854, and its territory annexed to Stev- ,ens county by the territorial lelgslature. On .October . SO. j7, a law was enacieo recreating Spokane county and placing the county seat temporarily at Spokane Falls, but providing that -the seat of couety government might be changed at the neat general election.. Cheney be came a rival of Spokane Falls for the county seat In the election Cheney obtained the most votes.- bat 'lost its majority of 71 when the vote of Spangle prectrict was thrown out on an alleged irregularity. While the Spokane people were celebrating their victory at a dance the Cheney partisans, stole the official records. They were taken to Cheney and ; kept - under armed guard, for; elx weeks, until the excitement subsided. In another election, .held ia lltl. Spokane easily woo. . ;;-' : ; -s .i : a. -py The Gold Beach Reporter's Euchre Creek correspondent reports: 'The toys now have the schoolgrouna ciearea ana on .mono ay me pro wan jmvwcu. James furbishing th uam and .plow. The teacher and scholars wui piani. anu hone to raise, a beautiful flower garden on the i cultivated ground. j i- - . w. - ,w . Travel' report from Saturday's Bend Bulletin : "On Its first southbound trip of the season, the Klamath stage left this morning, with a full load of passen gers. The incoming stage, which arrived vftatentBv mart he trln in 14 hours by way of Crescent- and driver and passen gers reported the roads xin unusuaiiy bad condition. Bird note from the Weston Leader of last Friday: ."Bluebirds, those gentle .reminder.- that anrinsr 1m a.t the door. made their appearance . in our city lastJ week. The soft notes and rsrmea air of these little creatures lead some au thorities to regard them as the most beaujiful of North American birds." - Increase In building coats as illustrated by the Reedsport Courier : "A carload of lath and shingles was shipped from here this week to Roseburg. The lath hmiia-ht IIIIO nnr thousand and the shingles J6.50 per thousand f. o. b. Some difference in the price of these articles now and what they were a year or so ago." electrical appliances, the Universal com pany of New Britain. Conn., is repre sented at the Benson hotel today by P. D. Lonergan, JF. J. Wachter, J. rV Mitchell and W. Jc. Sears. The com pany manufactures ' those little 'dinner table combinations that do half a dozen things at once, all by electricity. Mr. and Mra. J. F. Sherlock, who departed Friday from the Multnomah hotel, where they stoppped on their way from Los Angeles to their home at London, Ont, could well afford to pay the $250 a month demanded of them as rental for a Los Angeles apartment lduring their winter sojourn there. Sher lock Is reputed to be the most exten sive manufacturer of pianos under the British -flag. With the visitors was Miss E. Wagle of London. "The same apartment I rented for $260 had brought 165 a month two years before," Sher lock declared. e e Mr. and Mrs. C. II." Relncke. together with Florence and MUdred Relncke, res idents of Farjio, N. D., were guests Fri day at the Benson hotel. . . . Twins and all, the Laraways from Eugene are at the Imperial during a brief stay In the city. "Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Laraway and twins," is the way they appear on the Imperial register. ... Mr. and Mrs. William Huber of New Tork are registered at the Multnomah hotel. Huber, who represents a pottery manufactory, finds delightful contrast between Oregon and New York climates and enjoys being beyond the reach of snow five feet deep, as It was in Mew York this winter, i . a . J. C Herbsman of Seattle, manager of the wPolndexter-for-president cam paign, is stopping at the Imperial hotel while assisting in the more solid estab lishment here of campaign headquarters. Lorfl Kitchener, British war secretary in the early days of the world war. is Immortalized for Britishers in having named for him a town In Canada. From Kitchener Mr. and "Mrs. J. Baltz and daughter, together with Miss M. Crews. are at the Multnomah hotel. j - Mrs. Thomas' Genfle and daughter of Monmouth, where Mr. Gentle is an in structor at the state! normal school, are stopping at the Bewaird hotel while visit ing in Portland. s Lockley typhoid, para-typhoid and Asiatic chol era. I believe we were the first Ameri can troops ever inoculated for Asiatic cholera. We were Inoculated in Siberia by a Japanese surgeon. "T was assigned to'Compsny L. Thirty first infantry. regutara. We spent six months in the Islands and on August 10, 1918. the Twenty-seventh regiment pulled outfor Siberia We followed two days later. General Graves who is In command there, didn't arrive till two months after we got there, so we were under the command 'of a Japanese gen eral, and we didn't; like It a little bit We wanted to be possed by our own folks, not by Japs, f Up to the time of the armistice we got: along with the Japs pretty well, for thy sure can fight, but after November 11 We didn't get along very well with thenj. One trouble was we would go to the top sergeant and ask how soon we wre going home and what we were here for, and be would ask the skipper, and, he would ask some body else higher uA and nobody knew anything about why we came, why we were there, or when we were going home; so It made us all restless and discontented. jf j "I picked up enough of the Russian language to get "by' with, and some of our boys picked up Russian girls as wives. This getting: married business is largely a matter of propinquity. At first it used to astnlsh us to see the Russian girls and Women strip and go In swimming In the .rivers with a whole bunch of men folk around, but It Is the custom there, ard nothing is thought or it. XjOts or the, girls are gracerul swimmers. They dJn't know, about our custom of bathhouses and bathing suits, and if they did the peasants couldn't afford them. i , "1 left Siberia Optober T. 11. and was mustered out in the latter part of November, a little jinore than a year after the armistice was signed. Lots of 4he boys volunteered for service ex pecting to be sent ro France, and were sidetracked to Siberia. Most of us re sented being kept tjiere long after the close of the war." f Curious Bits rjf Information ft For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places The principle upon which the storage battery operates yas discovered by Plants la lttO, he having found that If two plates, one of jpure lead and the other of lead peroxide, were iaainersed in dilute julphurie acid, electric current would flew through an external cir cuit. After a time; the surface of the plates became charged, and the current t ell to sero. Upon- sending a current through the cell In the opposite direction the plates were restored to their original condition ana the celt would again give forth current' Thl process is the foun dation of the storage batterylnduatry. The title -electric storage battery" Is a misnomer, In that It. 1s In reality a con verter and siorer of energy. The chem- irwl energy given te the. battery during the process of fcharging is transformed Into electrical energy, and is available In that fona. - The Oregon Country Northeast Bappeninsa In ftrlet form tot tke Boay Header ' OREGON Five .charges of the state training school for boys, escaped last Sunday night , .The Population of Mount Angel is S3?. This la a gain of 293 in the last 10 . years, or over 60 per cent The Union Oil company h as-asked the , public service commission for authority .V to construct a spur railroad near TbV Dalles. ... p It is estimated by Cor v alii real estate , ."' men that over 100 families were forced V to iivl6 caUM lhcy uld et no place ' Hardman union high school board of,- directors have called for bids for the on..t.n,ct,on modern high school . building. . g Elvlh Witham, a farmer living in the foothills west of Junction, has been ar- -rested by federal off totals on a charge - -of operating a still. Teachers of both Washington and Sher-' man counties have joined in the cam paign favoring the so-called, elementary school tax measure. W. L. Crlchton, deputy county clerk of Polk county, has filed his petition for nomination as county cierk at the Re publican primary in May. ' W. O. Frill of Fossil has filed with the ' secretary of state his declaration of candidacy for county attorney of Wheel- ' erpunty on the Republican ticket. J. B. Messick. former county Judge of Baker county, who was recalled durlngr hia' administration, will be a candidate : in the May primaries for a rtnomina.' uon. Lieutenant Paul Scherer of the United 9 states navy has nun-hari the friitt,. ranrh sif !. lit .71. . . 1 .Point The price paid for 77 acres waat $23,000. - : Thomas M. Dill of Knternrlaa ha fllxl with the secretary of state his declara- , uon or candidacy for the Remib ioanT nomination for district attorney of Wal-1 The state irrigation securities com-) mission ha certified to $40,000 In bonda iSBUAd bv the ntAarnt-leiaa lHareiA fllsi. tHct in K" In mtt tVi nnnntv Tla a41silelvt I - Includes approximately 2400 acres.. An application haa been filed with the state engineer by J, K. Johnaon of Vale to use waterpower on life middle fork of the Malheur river in Harney county for electrical purposes at a cost of S3o0,000. v WASHINGTON Traffic in drugs at Spokane Is to be mVAflHtruf a1 hv .rla.n 1 ........ Income tax payments are expected ol exeeea an records at the Spokane office On the opening day of the army goods tore at Yakima the sales amounted to I iouuu. The week of March 22 has been destg-j nsted as "Marne week" by Mayor Flem-l ing of Spokane. - The Montesano city council has author i . mo vuiviias? ui a muwr Aire uuca. I at a cost of $10,000. ' tt C. P. Bush of the farmers' group. hasi been elected county chairman of the' Clarke County Triple alliance, John Herman Momulklewlcs of Van( couver has petitioned the Court to change his name to John Herman Gum, The first pile for the flret unit of the new port of Taecfrne lias been- driven. The cost of the first unit is estimated at $600,000. The Norwegian Methodlsh Episcopal : conference for the Pacific Northwest 1st now In session at Aberdeen with 20 min-i latere present. The Spokane Chamber of Commerce! has Invited the-(seventh Day Adventistl church to hold Its Northwest conference! in Spokane next June. For fishing out of season O. T. Orel- ner, T. J. Fellow and 11. V. Louslgnot of Vancouver have been arrested sndl fined. The fishing season doos not open until April 1. Timber workers from California, Ore gon, Washington and Idaho are in at tendance on the convention or the Loyal t Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, in session at Spokane. IDAHO The assertion that flour mill operators' are profiteering is made by State Com-1 mlsionerof Agriculture Cannon. C. S. Meek, former superintendent ofj: the Boise schools, has been elected ( superintendent of the publlo schools of Madison, Wis. Boise high school basketball team woe the championship In . the Southwestern Idaho league by defeating Caldwell by a scare tof 24 to It. . Twin Falls high school wrestlers oiit-i clasved Boise high school grappiers la I a tournament at Twin Falls. Of sIxM bouts held Twin Falls won rive. The board of education of Frultland ' has voted to each teacher and Janitor a; bonus of $100 and, hired Superintendent! MlUer for. two years at a year. Organisation of the Haho state fair, a non-profit-earning stock corporation, has been -completed. It will take over1 the old asmx'iMtlon and will hare ani authorized capital stock of $30,000. The first protests of Idaho farmers' against the proposed change from Pa- clflo to mountain time has been filed with the state public utilities commls-l sion by1 A. F-. McCloud of Wendell. j Timber lands In North Idaho aggre- J gating 2233 acres have been dear-listed j to the state by the federal government, j All of the lands are in the Coeur d'Alene district" and many of tire tracts! are heavily timbered. ' According to an opinion by Attorney! General Black delegates to Idaho party; conventions, both regular, and special,,' may call upon the state for railroad , expenses until the $7600 appropriated' for that purpose is spent Portland's Census Ranking Due to Action Taken by The Journal What will be the 1 920 census re port on the population of Portland? Few questions are more exciting Just now than this. Portland was credited in 3910 with a population of 207,214. and In 1800 with about S0.OO0. A gain of 100.000 In ,tha dec IBs would allow Portland now a population of more than SO0. 000. There can be no doubting that the city has grown, and perhaps it has to this extent. A correct count of any city's pop ulation 1" exceedingly Important to it Its rank in commerce, business, trade, and Industry is - largely gov erned by the population credlted W it The Journal was not being pub' II shed when the census of 100 was taken, but when 'the county assessor made a census in 190S this news paper waa Insistent that the count should be accurate and comprehen sive. We were credited with 110. 000 people. The Journal felt that there were more, than that number in the city. It paid the expense of repeating the count in a typical dis trict arid by. so. doing revealed' that thousands of homes had been over looked. The Chamber of Commerce took action, calling for a recount. As a result Portland was credited With If 0.000 people. In IS 10 it became apparent that slipshod, methods might invalidate the census. The Journal reviewed the .methods and the results -that were being secured by the census taker, as a result a clUuns' com mittee was created. Volunteer enu merators supplemented; the efforts of persons officially employed. Many thousands were counted who would apparently have been otherwise over looked. ' ' ... .. - j - Improved methods and organ lie tlon permitted the census tf-1820 te bev. taken very quietly and, it ; is hoped, with complete accuracy. ; lv ------.-"5 7.: