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THE OREGON , SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY- MORNING, .MARCH .21, 1920. .
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IGNORED TAXATION
COUNTY ASSESSOR REED has writ
ten with rare and commendable
restraint on the vexing taxation prob
lems of, Multnomah county and, inci
dentally, of the state as a whole. He
hat contented himself with placing the
facts "before the taxpayers and allow
ing trtem to reach their pwn Conclu
sions. But his thorough analysis and
comprehensive discussion remove all
difficulty in reaching the conclusion
that the taxation situation demands
attention. .
The first of two articles by Asses-
Bar Reed appears in today's Journal
In preparing them he has performed
a public service.
If, as he says, there is no organized
body of taxpayers which concerns
itself systematically with the remark
able evolutlonpf taxation method, it
is little enough to say that such a
body should exist, actively.
The comfort that one derives from
the statement that the 6 per cent tax
limitation law has kept the tax rate
of Oregon beneah that of either Idaho
or Washington would be greater but
for the assessor's disclosure that the
sta-te, the counties and the munici
palities of Oregon are engaged in a
wild race to evade the law, first, by
legislative bills that fasten expense
upon, communities and school dis
tricts without their consent, second,
by bond Issues which impose interest
and sinking fund charges that are out
Side the regulation of the limitation
law, and, third, by special local meas
ures which by direct vote authorize
.exceptions to the 6 per cent limita-
tion law.
Assessor Reed does not suggest that
,:' the measures and the evasions are not
for Jihe purpose of meeting Justifi-
- able peed, but It Is obvious that an
analysis -of the Inter-relation of taxing
agencies and measures is extremely
v desirable. No matter how or where
f the taxing authority may be exercised,
. the total burden falls upon the shoul
ders of the taxpayer.
Supervision of the manner In which
the terms of the 6 per cent tax limi
tation is obeyed by taxing agencies
seems to be at an end. Under tire
Bingham law of 1915 the county as-
m sessor was required, under penalty,
to report any excess. Now it seems
: that a municipality, for Instance, may
' I exceed the 6 per cent limitation as
. much as it wishes, providing a citizen
:' . of that municipality does not protest
2 by the effective procedure of a ju-
5 diclal restraining order.
It is the Intention of the 6 per cent
5 limitation law that any excess tax
; which may be authorized shall apply
for only one year, but Mr. Reed calls
. attention to the fact that the state
: has voted a continuing excess, tax for
:t market roads, and the city of Portland
' a similar continuing tax for parks
and playgrounds and to add 3 mills
' to the general fund levy. Are both
or. neither Illegal under the 6 per cent
, . law?' Vb,at have the attorney gen-
4 eral and the city attorney to say?
' In illustration of the way the state
f .Hmposes expense upon counties ex-
- pense which must be met by taxation
- rMr. Reed calls attention to the laws
. proving for jackrabbit bounties in
'. Crook and other. counties, the several
measures for s the eradication of ro-
f dents, and predatory beasts, the kin-
. j dergartens for Portland schools, the
' bill adding 11000 ,to oircuit judge sal-
i , aries and the measure requiring sher
-: lffs to make finger print records of
s criminals. , v. -
f 'if It Js difficult to sea how the discus-
I - Bion, Jn Its relation to Multnomah
county.- can -escape constituting itself
A BOUGHT SENATORSHIP ;
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IT WAS highly fit that on the tame day that Senator Lodge was leading his
treaty rippers to victory in the, United States senate, a Jury In Michigan
was finding Truman H. Newberry guilty of. haying bought a seat in the United
States senate.
Newberry, as a newly elected senator, furnished Lodge with the vote by
which his, party organized the senate and packed the committee on foreign
relations against the treaty; But for Newberry's vote, the senate would have
been a tie. the vice president would have cast the'deciding vote, the foreign
relations committee wouid not have been packed against the League of Na
tions and the whole course of the treaty fight would have been changed.
The laws of Michigan provide that not more than 11875 may be expended
for campaign purposes by a candidate for United Stales senator. The federal
corrupt practices act says that such candidates shall not "give, expend, use
or promise any sums in the aggregate exceeding 110,000." Notwithstanding
the penalties carried by both s'ate and federal statutes, the managers of the
campaign of Newberry, Republican, against Henry Ford, Democrat, in 1918,
admitted under oath that they disbursed n6J.
The campaign was a riot of extravagance. Money flowftd in streams
throughout the state like rivulets from the melting snows of spring. It was
the most shock'ng debauchery of the electorate known in modern America.
Popular belief in Michigan, and Indications from the testimony at the trial,
are that the $176,568 admitted by Newberry managers to have been spent, is
far short of the actual expenditures and that the true sum may be between
8500,000 and $1,000,0C0.
Efforts were made in the sixty-fifth congress to Investigate the Newberry
election, but the point was made that
gress and that it was for that body to deal with the case. In the sixty-sixth
congress Newberry's vote was needed by Lodge and his treaty rippers to or
ganize the senate. To' have unseated him and seated Ford would have tied
the senate and given Vice President Marshall the deciding vote in organizing
the body. It would have put friends of the treaty in control of the senate
and, guilty though he then was, as a jury of his own state has now pro
nounced him to be, Newberry was given a seat, he has since served as a
senator of the United States, and the United States senate with shameless dis
regard of honor, law and integrity, has given him voice and vote in its pro
ceedings, has kept him, criminal as he is, as a figure in its councils, has
used him as a force in the assassination of the treaty.
It is almost as if that overruling fate which sometimes Intervenes for good
purposes is human affairs, should have directed that the crucifixion of the
treaty and the judgment of a court and jury should fall upon Newberry at
ahout the same moment. The Infamy of Newberry, his atrocious corrupting
of Michigan voters, his vicious undermining of good citizenship in Michigan,
his lowering of the moral lone'of American elections and after it all, his reten
tion in the senate to do service for the treaty rippers, makes Newberry's
conviction a fit companion event to the work, the methods and the politics
played in the United States senate for more than eight months last past.
Newberry made Americanism the shibboleth of his campaign. Lodge and
his groi p made "Americanism" the shHSboleth of their campaign against the
treaty. Newberry posed as a patriot and declared that Ford lacked. "Ameri
canism." The Newberry statellites and campaign managers rose in the morn
ing with "Americanism" on their lips and retired at night with professions
and protestations of thir undiluted "Americanism."
The wnole profession of the treaty obstructionists has been a claim that
they were only trying to safeguard "Americanism." iliram Johnson's whole
appeal for defeat of the treaty in its entirety was his claim that he was trying
to proteci America.
Newberry attired himself in the uniform of a lieutenant commander in
the navy, and at the head of a body of American sailors had himself filmed
and the pictures exhibited in moving picture houses all over Michigan. It
was his pose as a real American as contrasted with what he termed Henry
Ford's lick of "Americanism."
His conviction now by a jury of citizens of his own state on testimony
by his neighbors and acquaintances and some of his co-cohspirators is ex
ample of what his vaunted "Americanism" is. and it throws a light on a lot
of others who acclaim themselves under the same name. His "Americanism"
was corruption, vote buying, debauchery of the ballot, pollution of ihe most
sacred privilege in Ajnerican citizenship, debasement of the very principle
on which the foundation of the republic rests, and in part and in whole, an
insult to and a travesty on the name of Americanism.'
Let Lodge and his associates rejoice in their triumph at Washington. But
in common decency, they ought to have a heart and a tear for their friend,
associate and Co-worker out in Michigan.
an argument for the elimination of
unnecessary local expense by a con
solidation of city and county govern
ments.
THE TOLL TAKERS
S IT any wonder that cooperative
marketing and buying organiza
tions gain ground in their effort to
shorten the road and lessen the num
ber of toll takers between the pro
ducer and the consumer?
Before the United States senate a
few days ago a piece of gingham was
exhibited as having cost $4 50 at a
store in Washington, D. C. The grower
received 25 cents for the cotton from
which this piece of gingham was
woven.
Over in London, wool spinners were
accused of making 400 to 3200 per cent
more profit than is allowed by the
British government. Investigating
committees reported that business is
honeycombed with combinations and
agreements to keep up prices.
The clerk of a New Jersey license
bureau reports that only one out of
each 100 of persons applying for mar
riage licenses is a white collar1 man.
which means of the clerk class. Cler
ical salaries have advanced so little,
while the costs of living have been
skyrocketing, that marriage becomes
an impossible luxury.
There Is obviously something else
needed in cutting the cost of living
beside increasing production.
Advising them in advance to read
the seventeenth chapter of Mark, a
Texas minister announced that he
would preach the next Sunday on
liars. "Before I begin my sermon
on llars," he said, as he arose In
his pulpit the next Sunday, "1 would
like to inquire how many have read
the chapter I suggested.. One
hundred hands were raised. "Tou
are the. very persons I want to talk
to," said the preacher; "there isn't
any seventeenth chapter of Mark."
AN EXPLODED SHELL
WHEN woa-d first came from Ken
tucky Of the riiscnvprv nf Unci a
John Shell in the mountains of that
commonwealth, it is more than prob
able that more than one sighed for
the salubrious climate which nurtured
and sustained film. His axe, it -was
related, was .132; and he was the father
of a sturdy son aged 6. -For 7Q.jears
the' story said, he" had lived in peace
and contentment with his first wife
before the tardy scythe man had
found his humble cabin In the hills
to cut her down. Then, for a spell,
he nursed his grief in silence and
alone until a sympathetic maiden of
35 caught his fancy some ?six years
or so ago. He wooed her with all the
araor and peristency of a century
back, the story related, until he led
her. blushing, to the altar.
A few days ago Uncle John discov
ered his bride for si years is at but
a day in the span of a century un-
consciotjs In the dooryard. He gath
ered her up, buxom as she was, and
he was chosen for the sixty-sixth con-"
carried her into the cabin where she
died. Then the 70-year-old grand
father attempted to kidnap the 6-year-old
son of the 132-year-old father and
son-in-law, but the latter primed his
long barreled flintlock from the bat
tered . powder horn of 1788, pursued
the fleeing grandfather and reclaimed
his own.
It was an interesting story. But
now unkind and opposition news
agencies say the story is untrue.
Uncle John, they contend, is less than
97. fairly aged indeed, but not so old
as he might have been. The 6-year-old
son came toddling with the mother
when she came to cook for Uncle
John.- The patriarch himself is senile
and bedridden, vacant of mind, weaz
ened of body, just the mortal frame
from which all but the spark of life
has died. Publicity . has changed
Uncle John from a marvel to a pity.
Truth may be stranger than fiction
but It is not so interesting.
A baby played in the street at
Dallas, Texas. T. I. Elliott, 58,
jammed on the brakes of his motor
car. The child was saved. The
shock of the situation killed Elliott.
FOR THE COMMUNITY
01
E of the valuable lessons that
has come out of the war is a
fuller knowledge of the value of co
operation and k gratifying willing
ness and ability to make the most
of this knowledge. The strength of
concerted effort was never better
exemplified than In the social and
recreational activities oarticinated In
by a score or more of agencies with
the one end in view, that of sustain
ing the morale of the men. There
was none too many agencies and with
rare exceptions did they overlap,
each had its own particular place to
fill and each supplemented the other
in a way that rounded out a program
which for comprehensiveness could
not have been approached by any
one of -the agencies.
What was true in war times Is
equally true in peace times. Com
munity Service, the newest of Port
land's social agencies, is filling a need
that existing agencies had not and
probably never would meet. Its plan
and program is broader in concept
than anything that has gone before,
it draws no class, religious or age
distinctions. Through, its trained
workers hundreds of girls and women,
many of them without homes and
home privileges, have been enlisted In
clubs and classes for social and edu
cational activities. It has no physical
properties, ft is dependent upon the
facilities at hand. Its swimming
classes and its classes in folk . and
aesineuc dancing are neid at the Y
W. CL A. and through ' these classes
300 girls have entered the Y. W . C. A.
doors for the first time in their lives,
many of them are becoming inter
ested In its activities. But for Com
munity Service tt would never have
known of them,
Community Serviqe Is . the comple-
ment aqd aid of., every existing or
ganization which has to do with the
wellbeinu of the community, It Is a
supplementary activity - w o r k 1 n g
wholly with and through ithese exist
ing social agencies. It stimulates and
inspires and brings together the vast
army of workers, yOung men and
voting. women whose ;ives are de
tached, whose " social needs ajr-e too
often starved or perverted through,
the commercialized amusement, which
is the only recreational avenutj open
to many of them.
Community Service and the Y. W.
CL ,A. are both doins a splendid and
much needed work and should have
the support of the people of Portland.
"Shoot, and shoot to kill, is the
advice, written to The Journal,' by
a man who is irate oyer the-repeated
orphaning of children, by reckless
drivers who run down and kill
parents. Of course, it will not do
to adopt that plan. jNo man should
ever take the law into his own
hands. But the letter should chal
lenge the attention of police, munici
pal court and circuit court authori
ties. If the thimblerigging, goes on,
if offenders with "a pull" continue
to escape punishment, if ' laws are
laxly and inadequately applied, very
serious conditions could appear. It
is unsafe to permit one killing after
another to go on unpunished and
even unchallenged.
THE MINISTER'S PAT
THE size of the sum that 30 Pro
testant denominations are asking
of Christian America reads almost like
the war budgets of the government.
It is, in fact, a war budget of militant
Christianity. The total is $336,777,572.
So .tremendous a financial drive is
wihout question based upon the con
fidence resultant from the great
money-getting campaigns conducted in
behalf of the Red Cross and the Y.
M. C. A. 'The same organized methods
of revealing the worth of the work
and the imperative necessity of sup
porting will be employed.
The cooperation of the denomina
tions is both a prediction of success
and a stimulus to the hope that they
will also learn to engage in coopera
tive administration. Evangelism in
the past faltered more through the
failure of the evangelists to harmonize
their differences than from any other
one cause.
Beyond all other considerations the
great drive is the response of the
Protestant faith tQ, the challenge of
its usefulness. Such vitality and
courage and vigor in gaining the sup
port deemed necessary to a great serv
ice for humanity are the best of evi
dence that though the church may
have slept it has lost neither its mis
sion nor its faith.
One hoped for result of the drive
is that ministers will receive better
salaries. The Interchurch World
movement has offered statistics to
prove that where one of every nine
lawyers receives annual amounts iq
excess of $5000, only one of every 250
ministers is that well paid. The an
nual average salary paid the minister
is $9c7. Doctors, engineers, manu
facturers, architects, merchants and
commercial travelers, who certainly
cannot be said to be more important
men in the community than the min
ister, receive vastly larger compensa
tion for their services.
The present day minister is in the
same financial class as the teacher;
he usually has invested a large amount
in an education upon which he cannot
earn the rate of interest that bankers
exact for their loans.
Why sink at sea the captured Ger
man warships allocated to the United
States? The theory Is that we must
profit nothing from the war. But
In practice, why destroy costly ships
that as junk could go into articles
of useful service, and that, as tro
phies would for a long time be ob
jects of historic interest ?
PROM EARTH TO MOON
' 0ME interesting reasons why a trip
) from the. earth to the moon will
never be very popular, even if pos
sible, are given by Professor Barton
of the University of Pennsylvania.
In the -.first place' when the moon
Is closest to the earth the distance
is 221,600 miles. At the distance of
i9,500 miles from the parth L a point
at which the attraction of the earth
and that of the moon are equal. This
side of that point a body would fall
back to earth. Beyond It the body
would fall to the moon. To reach
this point the body must be shot from
the earth with a velocity of 6.88 miles
per second, without taking into ac
count the air resistance. To make
the trip to the point would require 88
hours and 5 minutes and to reach
the moon would take an additional
29 hours and 12 minutes.
In other words, it would take four
days and 21 hours to go froth the
earth to the moon.
Assuming that sufficient force could
be generated to shoot a body to the
neutral point there would still bean
uncertainty about landing ',. on the
moon, which is a moving target. It
might be missed and the body go
wandering off into space. Such a con
tingency opens up a vast field for
speculation.
From a seat in thejsenate to two
yef&rs in jail is the decree of the
court and jury in the Newberry case
But Newberry, criminal though he
was, served long enough in the sen
ate to furnish Lodge with a ma
jority sufficient ' to enable him to
control the body against the treaty,
And Lodge . used Newberry with as
little compunction as though the
Michigan seat In the senate were
an. honest seat and not a bought seat.
ALWAYS ROOM
FOR A MAN
Dour Old World Always Kay a ''Hush.
Hush;" and "Nay, Nay." but
That's Only to Test
' This Man Out.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
There is ' always room for one man
more. When he comes he will hot be
scared off by the fact that the crowd
arrived before him. He will make his
place.
The world was In business a long, long
time ere we got here. If we stop to
ask it, we shall be informed that there
are no vacancies. It will behave like
the creatures at the Mad Tea Party,
who when they saw Alice coining in
sisted that there was no room. Even
with America, udlseovered, the world de
clared that It was Overpopulated.
Wherever you go, no vacancy looms
yet somehow the man of genius, the
strong man, discovers a void that yawns
for him where nobody else can see it.
Pessimists persist in considering the
earth old and finished. But it is young
and just begun. It was only day before
yesterday that our little speck in space
began to solidify out of a nebular There
are few people on the planet now com
pared with the number that there will
be, .Just think of aU- the wasted room
both above and below the equator t
A weakling as he looks about him is
terrified by the press, but the strong
man is aware that only a few in that
throng are his real competitors. The
rest may be disregarded. Many of the
whole number put themselves out of the
running by their own slothful, indulgent
habits. They are not willing to incur
the long preparation and the dust and
the pain that necessarily go before a
triumph. They want the finished prod
uct without doing anything to eayn it ;
they desire the acclaim and the laurel
wreath, but they spurn the travail of
the course thereto.
e
The world needs us, even as we need
It. We were not boiji to a vast solitude,
but into a society. Isolation is by no
means healthy that way lies abnor
mality. A foolish shyness, coming from
long aloofness, says that the world is
inveterately hostile ; but it is not true.
If we but make up our minds to unbar
the door and sally forth to where the
people are, that we may grapple with
the facts of life, we shall find that we
have a welcome and that the place we
make for ourselves has waited for us
to claim it Once made, that place re
quires tendance. It may be lost again
In a trice, though it took long to win.
It cannot be permanently held by the
unworthy, for it Is sought by too many
who deserve.
LettersFrom the People
f Communications sent to The Journal lor
publication in thi department should be writtei1
of only one Bide of the paper, should jot exceed
400 word in, length and muirt be signed by tbt
writer, wboee mail address in full mudt at com
pany -the contribution.
OPPOSES COMPULSORY TRAINING
WeBtimber, March 14 To the Editor
of The Journal In The Sunday Journal
of March 7 an advocate of military
training maintains that Switzerland was
in the direct path of the German army.
He Is in error there. My main object,
however, is to convince him of the fu
tility of a compulsory military training
lawi How can a man favor such a law
when the needless slaughtering has
hardly ended? He does not seem to
have much faith in the League of
Nations. Neither have, for that mat
ter, as it does not deserve that name
yet It is merely a league of diplomats.
playing chess with the European na
tions as pawns. It will be a League of.
Nations when the people of every nation
have the. right to shape its destiny by
referendum. The so-called "big three"
have divided the spoils, owing to the
procrastination of our American house
of lords.
But I agree with the pro-military
training man in one respect. Indeed
we need some training not military, but
physical culture, with mental training
for the puppets and" manikins who have
neither backbone nor sense to stand up
for the rights of man. who are catspaws
for predatory wealth and would not
hesitate to shoot down their own rela
tives if told to do so. We must see to it
that the insatiable greed of special
privilege for power is curbed absolutely,
for that is the cause of every war. There
Is no matter whatsoever that cannot be
settled by arbitration.
It is said that civilization is only skin
deep. It is even less than that on some
people. Barbarism is cropping out
openly. Why not take recourse to
ostracism as a means of punishment for
recalcitrant nations? It is more hu
mane and at the same time more power
ful and effective. H. Spelser.
PUBLIC Ow-NERSHIP OF ROADS
Portland. March 3. To the Editor of
The Journal Charley Schwab still plays
the public for suckers. Evidently he
indorses the philosophy of Barnuriv
"the American people like to be hum
bugged." Recently he declared that
when the railways are again in the
hands of private owners an era of pros
perity will begin and great success come
to the steel Industry, as much new equip
ment will be ordered, the inference be
ing that the government would not have
done so. As a fact, the delay by the
federal managers was due to the an
ticipated change. Charley will now
have two chances at the public purse.
As the owners of the steel works are
owners of the railways, there is not
likely to be quibbling over prices, and
then there will be the sale of more
stocks and bonds. Constant perusal of
the Wall Street Journal will secure In
creased returns. This feature did not
prevail, as to railroads, while the war
was on. The financiers were then too
busy fleecing the people with "war
babies" In industry, and so did not
strongly oppose federal management of
railroads. But the public will experi
ence some surprises.. Now that the
change is made, rates will go up. the
"public be damned" program will be
inaugurated, and only prosperity for the
railroad owners be cared for.
To prepare for it everywhere their
hirelings have worked to fool the public
by flooding the papers with stories of
federal Incapacity to run the lines. But
when the hands in the public purse have
shown the purpose there is likely to
be an outcry for public ownership so
loud and strong that it will be impos
sible for our lawmakers to resist, and
even Charley will hear and understand.
John Williams.
LODGE AS CZAR
Hillsboro. March 11, To the Editor
of The Journal Why do people of both
old parties spend so much time and
energy trying to find a candidate that
will be elected president of this great
United States, when the Republican
party has a human being at the na
tional capital that they call Senator
Lodge? Of course there are honest Re
publicans that would not own him as
their leader, if they could do otherwise.
The question is, Would they vote for
him or one of his followers? I think
there are some Democrats that are of
the same feather. Lodge has taken all
the- power from the president and all
other people, as he Imagines. Why not
both parties elect him czar of this great
United States, and Borah as his aide?
.- Mary J. Tillman.
EARLY
By Alfred
ONCE more the Heavenly Power.
Makes all things new,
And domes the red-plowed hills
With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills, j
The throstles, too.
Opens a door in Heaven; '
From skies of glass i
A, Jacob's ladder falls
? On greening grass.
And o'er? the mountain walls
Young angels pass. '
The, woods with riving airs
, How softly fanned,
Light airs from where the deep,
All down the sand.
Is breathinf in his sleep,
Heard by the land.
O follow, leaping blood, ;
The season's lure! i
O heart, look down and up,
Serene, secure, j
Warm as the crocus cup.
Like snow-drops, pure! l
For now the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new, r j
And thaws the cold, and fills i
The flower with dew;
The blackbirds have their wills,
The poets, too. I
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
i
Random Observations Abodt Town
Charles G. Rawlings, who pays taxes
In Linn county, 1b In Portland, talking
about buying the town. Rawlings con
ducted a book and office supply busi
ness in Albany and on the side runs
the city's leading Job printing plant
together with handling the affairs of
one of the leading telegraph compantes.
Just to add to the fortune with which
he is going to buy out Portland Raw
ings will sell a load of wood now and
then from the wood yard whose profits
go into his bank account Half the
school kids of Albany use pencils sold
by Rawlings.
The condition of the health of A. M.
Grilley. executive secretary of the Port
land Y. M.C. A., continues very grave,
according to the statements of the phy
sicians who are attending him at Good.
Samaritan hospital, where he has been
confined for some time since he under
went a major operation. Grilley's
condition took a turn for the worse on
Thursday after marked improvement
had been 'noted.
Astoria delegations occupy quarters
at several local hotels today.' Among
the Astorians at the Multnomah are
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Baker. H. G. Asp
land, D. B. Whitman, Paul Peterson
and John Tait George J. Stone is. at
the Cornelius from Astoria.
His hat already In the ring, Eugene
L. Coburn, county clerk of Josephine
county, is in Portland taking a slant
at the "situation," regarding the office
of secretary of state, to which he as
pires. Coburn is getting "on the in
side," as a guest at the Imperial, where
the daily political festival goes merrily
on in spite of the numbers of persons
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Kred
Breaking out in u entirely new place, Mr.
Lockley, at last, being sorely tempted by two
old pale of his at Coriallis, commits golf. And
not only that, but tells all about it. and will
Tery likely be boasting about .It pretty aoon.
Now read on.
Some communities have the outja
board craze ; others have the flu. Cor-
vallis has a bad case of golf, or a good
case. the. qualifying adjective depend
ing on your attitude toward the game.
I quit riding hobby horses when I grad-
uated from skirts to trousers, I quit
riding a velocipede before I graduated
from short trousers to long ones, I quit
playing croquet aDoui me ume i im
to Dlay baseball. I have never used
perfume. There was a day when I felt
that a wrist watch was a sissy kind of
a proposition, though a year in France
changed my opinion in regard to wrist
watches. I have always regarded golf
with mild deritsion a, on a par wiin
old maid, casino, cne-old-cat and other
such mild and harmless diversions, and
so lt has happened that thorfgh I have
visited most of the famous golf courses
of Southern California, I have never
hit a golf ball.
That is, I never did till yesterday. To
think that I could escape scot free at
Coronado and Del Monte, and succumb
at Corvallis! 1 was inveigled Into the
game by two men whom I trusted C.
K Insralls and N. R. Moore. means
i h,v. acramhlerl down the trail1,
at Crater Lake together and have fliv
vered hither and yon on various and
sundry occasions, and I have learned to
overlook his idiosyncrasies, such as his
learned air of authority when he dis
cusses golf, and a few other foibles, and
have found that In spite of his at
tempts to hide the Jact, he really is a
pretty good fellow; N. R. Moore and
I have eaten chow together in many a
dirty little wine shop in France, and
though I never could teach him to like
snails, yet he assays pure geld under
the acid test, as thousands of dough
boys In France will testify. With N.
Tt Moore aoir isn't a game or a ai-
version ; it is a religion, and he 's i.s
devotee. A Iooa or awe ana exaltation
comes into his deep-set eyes when he
discusses golf. He even reals bout
the ethics, history and traditions of
the game and you have to be pretty far
gone when you 'will do that.
We drove out to the "golf gro;mJs."
A look of absolute pain came over N.
R.'s face when I called it that the
same, kind of a look of pity that 1 saw
or. the face of Ingalls when I asked
him to make a little pyramid of dirt
for niv ball to sit on. as he had for
his. 'Trying to keep the pity and scorn
out of his voice, he sail, "We don't
call that a pyramid ; it's a tee. ' From
what I have observed, half the fame
consists in using the prop"- phraseology
and wearing the right kinJ of togs.
Before I descend into the gulf of golf,
and while I am still enjoying a lucid
interval, I want to say, here and now,
that the Corvallis Country club has
one of the most picturesque courses in
Oregon. To the west. St. Mary's peak,
with Its lesser foothills rising fold on
foldt is in sight. In the foreground
newly planted nchards and emerald
green meadows with here and there an
evergreen-topped knoll are ever in view.
From the crest of the hill to the west
ward there Is spread a vast panorama
of beauty. Silhouetted against th5 sky
line are the snowcapped peaks of the
Cascades, rising from the purple blue
foothills, while Umbered slopes, roll'ng
foothills, broad stretches of fertile val
ley land, the tranquil tree-fringed Wil
lamette and a vast checkerboard of fal
low fields and farm lands lie between.
We started our 'tee party," if the
game isn't too sacred to be referred to
SPRING
Tennyson
who have declared their Qualifications
for the secretaryship.
9l.
Simon Benson, Jchairman of the state
highway commission and Portland's
particular friend,, has returned from his
mid-winter sojourn in the sunny south
and is quartered at the hotel that bears
lii.s name, awaiting the session of the
highway commission set for this week.
M r. Benson has -: been at Long Beach,
I'aso Robles and- other California win
ter resorts, indulging in golf and rest,
it,
Z. N. Agee, R(fseburg, In a guest at
the Multnomah hotel. Agee is vitally In
terested In the present and future of
the Umpqua valjey fruit industry, he
being an orchardlst, and Is looking
hopefully forward to the culmination of
the plans of the Oregon Growers' asso
ciation for the upbuilding of the Industry
in and around Roseburg.
. f
Mrs. A. M. nawson, together with
Mary and Robert, E., are stopping at the
Seward while viaiting Dneny in r-ori-
land. Their hom is at Salem.
Harry Greenbljtt, N. J. Conrad and
A. E. Addspergef of MarBhfield are a
party of visitors, at the Benson hotel
that keeps clerkk on the jump. "An
awful bunch of people-have called," one
of the Greeters averred.
A. Rennie, alitor for the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph company, is In
Portland from San Francisco, ine com
pany's headquarters, on official bus!
ness. Rennie la stopping at the Nor
tonia hotel. I
4
X E. Hayden, Enterprise stockman, is
at the Multnomah.
Lockley
in a jocular manner, by my balancing
a little rubber ball about as large as a
walnut on a wedge of moist earth, and
my being 'handed a "driver" which
looks like a cane with a Club fooL
Moore looked at me anxiously and said.
"Put your right foot back a trifle and
the left foot about like this.' Ingalli
showed ine how to hold my club to do
the utmost execution to the rubber ball
Keep your shoulder down. You are
not chopping wood." said lngall3. Fi-
naIy j hlt the an a Hck that should
nave made lt goar )lke a .wallow for
severa hundred yards, but which made
noDble off like a jackrabhlt with a
broken hind leg. "Too bad," said
Moore. "You topped It." Moor- said
I should arrive at the first station
"green" I believe he termed It i.i H
swipes of the ball. I mad It in 13, and
was quite pleased, till I found !ie had
said four, not 14, and that I had taken
nine btrlkes more than according to
Iloyle.
But If the object of the game Is to
secure exercise and they both assured
me that It was then I got a lot more
exercise out of it than they did. Their
game was more like a walking match,
while mine was no marathon. I stopped
at very frequent intervals to pick my
ball out of a ditch or a hunch of grass
1 ana Rive it anotner wnacn. n i piaye-i
the eame much I would Invent a ball
that after, say, five minutes would
have a valve- .open so that it could
j set up a shrill whistle and tell you
where it is; for the ball I used seemed
to have an uncanny faculty of hiding;
bo that, considered strictly as a gam
of hide and seek, my game was very
successful. N. Ri pointed to the sloping,
grass clad hillside and explained that
lt was called, the "fairway." Being their
guest. I didn't like to say that in my
opinion he was overstating the facts
that it was only fair to middling. I
have a good memory, so some of the
instructions that N. R. with Infinite
patience gave me still linger in my
i memory. Such expressions as : "That's
your putter; wait till you get on the
green to use that; use your brasale
here," "that's right; the wooden one;
that will give you a long, low ball with
plenty of roll";or, "If I were you I
would use the rhidiron; you want a
long balL"
By accident I got the "Jigger,' for
they looked much alike to me, both
having crooked iron heads. I swung
the jigger for a practice stroke, to get
the hang of it, and accidentally hit the
ball, and up lt rose In a long, graceful
flight and lit 125 yards or so distant.
"Now you are beginning to get tne
hang of It," said Ingalls. "Remember
how you made that stroke, so you can
repeat It." He seemed so pleased that
I didn't like to tell him I was as much
surprised as the ball was, when It hap
pened, and that It was an accident. I
found that when '.I was making practice
strokes I could make a swing that would
send the ball a couple of hundred yards
if it had been there, but when 1 hit
at the ball, if I hit it it would In the
most discouraged and fatigued manner
bob along 20 or 30 yards and find a
hole to hide in. I liked the "mashis"
and the "niblick" best, not because they
are better clubs, but because they have
such picturesque and meaningless names,
i ...
Once tn a while I rather liked the
game, particularly when by some acci
dent I had hit the ball just right and
it made a good flight, but most of the
time I thought I would prefer the game
If I had a good hunting dog, a re
triever, to spot where the ball lie I
imagine that for those who like thai
sort of a thing, golf is the very sort of
a thing they would like.
The Oregon "Country
Nrrthaest Happenings in Itrtef Form for the
Buiy header .
on soon
Elmer Sandblast, who was committed
V the asylum from Coos county, has
escaped from that institution.
While driving a light auto truck in
Ueschutes county Jack Usher ran across
a coyote which he killed with a ham
mer. Kt4
A fund of $20,000 Is being raised To
Bend to finance a county fair. Stock to
the mtiount of fi 2,500 has been already
subscribed. !
The treasurer or Linn county has re
ceived S35.809 Ht the first turn over
from the sheriffs office of the 1919
tax receipts. .
Chester QusHn, an Ashland high
school boy, ranked third In the state
In the international essay contest. Hi.
p?rceivtfKe was U6.
Southern Pacific officials-declare there
is no probability of any move toward
constructing a new depot at Marshfteld
within the next six months.
If an ordinance pending before tha
Salem city council Is passed members
of the police and fire departments will
get a niUe of about 10 per ct-nt In pay.
Owing to heavy rains last week the
Umatilla river, which has been practi
cally dry for a month, became a racing
torrent. Many flumes and fences were
washed away.
Clyde Johnston of Junction has filed
with the secretary of state his declara
tion, of candidacy for attorney of Lane
county subject to the approval of the
Republican voters.
According to u letter from Senator
Chamberlain the nr department recog
nises the growing commercial Import
ance of Yaqulna boy and will give full
consideration to its protection.
A campaign has been started In Mor
row county to float a utock issue Of
$25,000 for the new Morrow county fair
association. Heppner has ofrered to
match the total subscription of the rest
of the county.
Cull apple crushing has ended at
Hood River. While cull spples sold last
fall at prices ranging from $15 to $20
a ton the demand declined towards the
end of ihe season and vinegar manu
facturers paid only $10.
For failure to keep an nllegod agree
ment to trade 200 acres ol Douglas
county fruit land for 5&6 acres of North
Dakota land S. O. Thompson has
brought suit at Eugene for $U,000 dam
ages against Stephen Palahnink.
Umatilla county farmers are warned
Dy county Apent Bennion attainst buy
ing inoculation bacteria from a com
mercial company at $2 jht acre when
It can be obtained at the Oregon Agri
cultural college for 2.". cents per acre.
A committee has been appointed at
Heppner to secure a survey of a market
road to connect the Irrigon and Board
man districts with Heppner. The road
will leave the Columbia rrver hlghwsy
between Irrigon and Boardman and con
nect with the Oregon-Washington high
way at Lexington.
WASHINGTON
Coroner Wells of Yakima county ha
found that Orlin Abrams was killed by
the accidental discharge of a shotgun he
was cleaning.
The docket for the Cowlitz superior
court, which convenes next month, in
cludes eight state aaes. Sixty jurors
have been summoned.
The Grays Harbor realty board Is ad
vised by ConKressmun Johnson that it
Is doubtful that congress will appro
priate money for a bar dredge.
. Yakima and Kittitas counties will pay
$500,000 In Income taxes. The individ
ual amounts are not lsrge but In Yaki
ma between 4000 arid fiOOO made returns.
Theodore A. Johnson, president of the
Washington State Klks association, is at
Vancouver arranging for the annual
convention to be held In that city this
summer.
In the Improvement of the state fair
grounds at Yakima 250 shade trees will,
be planted to supplement the grove of
box elders and cottonwoods now on tha
grounds.
Wednesday, April 7. will be clean up
day In Wlnlock. School children In
the upper grades will be asked to help
as much as possible In cleaning certain
parts of the city.
Whitman college woman's debate tcsm.
upholding the negative of the question.
of government ownership of mines, won
a 2 to 1 decision over the University of
Washington team.
The Walla Walla pnrk and civic club
will cooperate with the mayor and city
commission In a big clean up camruUirn,
It will be the first clean up Walla
Walla has hud since the war. ;
Tennas Pete, an aged Indian of the
Oakvllle reservation, was shot and seri
ously wounded by Albert Stout, sn In
dian 24 years old. in a dispute growing
out of a gambling game last Saturday.
IDAHO
There 'is no car shortage in Southern
Idaho at this time, tt is claimed.
The United States Mamifacturlrur
company at Ontario has decided to es
tablish Its business In Boise.
The collection of funds due the stats
during December, January and Febru
ary amounted to $1,043,156. This Is a
new record.
The public utilities commission has
deputized J. L. Campbell of Kpokane
to represent Idaho before the interstate
commerce commission In the rate group
hearing.
Two posts of the American Legion,
one at Burke, the other at Kellogg,
have adopted resolutions urging con
gress to enact a bonus law. The third
post In the county, at Wallace, haa
taken an opposite stand.
lt is proposed to induce private cap
ital to build dormitories at the state
higher educational Institutions under a
guarantee of a return of 6 per cent on
the investment, thereby saving the state
the expense of, putting up the struc
tures. Uacle Jeff Snow Says;
uuwii on uie piuiun uvri , in i eiae,
Bill McCone got his cotton picked mighty
cheap one year 'long 'bout the time
Glner'l Grant had went Into the broker
business. McCone had Greasers doln'
the work. He paid 'em In silver ever
Saturday night, and played monty and
poker with 'em all day Sunday and got
r-, , . . n i . I rr . . -
the next year a Mexican gentleman got
McCone's ranch, cotton, money and live
stock 'fore McCone got on to the fact
that XI . n Y u f ! ume camMUnf mm.
biers, too.
The Journal Has Made War
Against Gambling and 1
Vicious Resorts
After flaunted gambling had been
dr.ven from Portland, back In 1905,
as the result of a crusade In which
The Journal and the decent-minded
people of Portland cooperated, an at
tempt was made to reestablish the
games of chance, with their sordid
accompaniments of Immoral practice,
In road houses beyond the border of
the city.
Among these places was the no
torious Milwaukee club, which The
Journal attacked editorially In Aug
ust pf 190T, and which Governor
West later closed and put under
martial law. Renewed gambling . In
Chinatown was exposed by The
Journal In 1910, and regulation was
secured in spile of the non-commttu'l
attitude of Joseph Simon, then mayor
of Portland, and the franker oppo
sition of the, then, chief of police.
So strongly has sentiment since
developed against exposing the un
wary and Inexperienced to games of
chance or to gambling- devices that
the state fair board, followed by
county fair boards and the board f
other Northwest states, recently de
cided to eliminate every gambling or
questionable device at the state and
county fair a " , '