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Newspaper Page Text! 10 - THE .OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; ' PORTLAND, TUESDAY, APRIL 13. : 1920, T S AN pCPBPEXPEWT MBWSPAPEB C. s. Jackson :-"'f "I! - f Be mm. eonndant, te ; eneemu sm ' nnta other, J job woald hare them ao Wo ye! t.iik.a v Amm Kful fllindav mom in t The Journal Bonding. Breed way and I" ,.-! hilt street. Portland. Ottroa. Inteied at! tha Poetnffloe at Portland. Orecoo, for trswmlesioo tbrouch th mails v elaa mstter. ; : TELEPHONES Main 7178. Automate 860-61. : ' All department reached br V number. rORElON I ADVERTISING BEPRE8EN J J. . Benj.mlti Kentoor Co.. grn"wB"i,ld'n' 12S ri(th arena. New York: 00 Mailer ' BnudiasJ CbtcMo. - ' ISUBSCBIPTION KATES . By carrier, city and country. 1 DAILY AND SUNDAT . 'On week. I 1 .15 one nnui .09 SUNDAY On KMk t -05 DAILX .One areek.T $ 10 I " On month; 40 BY MAIL. ALL RATES PATABtE IN ADVANCE I DAILY AND SUNDAY On. yMf..U..- 2 81i month 4.25 DAILY (Without Sunday) Ob year. .j. 00 Six month 3 25 Three month. . . 1-75 One month' 60 WKEKLY (Eery Wdnedy) : On year..i 11.00 Three month. .. 12.25 On month 76 BUN DAY (Only) , On year 88.00 Six month...'.. 1.75 Three month. . . 1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY One year S3. SO Six month t" I , The rate apply onljr In the Went. Bate to! Eatern point furnished on applica tion. Make remittance by Money Order, Expraw Order, or i Draft. If your pontoffice ia nota Money Order Offlci, 1 or 2-cent. stamp will be accepted, i Make ail remittance payabla to The Journal, PoitlantL Oreaon. II hit own country and in hi own houie. . '1 is hi own country and in hi own houie. : Luke rill: 8 7. WITHOUT STENCH THE city recently purchased two park sites. The Buckman tract in the Central East Side, assessed at .196,000 was purchased for 1102,000. The Spencer tract, condemned, was assessed at f4,000, and Uie fry's ver ': diet set the price at $58,000. The own ers asked 175,000. The purchases are widely different from those made in the past by the city. They foreshadow fair verdicts by juries and reasonable prices by -land owners. They indicate that the preposterous prices that have been collected for Portland reaH estate when bought by the municipality are par of the Unretumlng past. They indicate that there are to be no more Marquam Gulch scandals, no more purchases in which the price is : several times the assessed value, and - no more verdicts of the condemnation Juries fixing figures at seven times ' the assessor's valuation. There are two things that have not adanccd In price since the opening of the war. One is gold, the other unused land. The cost of labor and materials has held idle property val ues normal. There Is no reason for ascension of price. There Is no excuse on which to gouge the city. The recent purcnases are of interest in view of the proposed Swan island project, involving extensive land deals. They hold out hope that future buys '. may be unaccompanied by a stench. , It was on Fifth between Morrison . and Alder. It was at the busy eve ning hour, when street traffic was hurrying homeward. 'Though auto mobiles were darting hither and yon and heavy trucks and motorcycles - competing for room, and street cars i clanging their gongs for gangway, a mother and 6-year-old child walked " ths entire block alongside the rail ; way track. No bystander could give single reason for the extraordinary ; performance. Every onlooker ex ..'pectedlat any moment to witness a bloody; accident. The acts of some pedestrians are past finding out. ' There Is a Jaywalking law that, for safety's sake, ought to be strictly enforced. A GOOD SLOGAN UTPO VOTE against last-minute leg- ; , 1 (slation not carefully consid ered and to vote against measures of doubtfpl merit" are public statements : Of his position as a candidate for state representative by Charles C. Hindman of Multnomah county. If alj legislators would act on that formula there would be more confi dence Jin representative government . In 'everything else but a legislature J "laSt-nUnute" action fs regarded as unsound. In all business, professional and other life, it is the rule to con- . sider well before taking the step Where; there is even a lingering doubt, the proposition is rejected. hTa IvntA a trains! laet-mlrtitta !,! lation, fend to vote against measures of , ' doubtful merit" is what the public ' wants.l Midnight legislation is almost "universally bad. legislation. It is held t back until midnight because it is bad Midnight legislation and legislation of . doubtful merit have brought the leg- , Islature into bad repute.' If there is not time to.- pass legislation in the daylight it is better unpassed. If , legislation is of "doubtful merfi," it is ' . belter 'unpassed. . :-i 1 We have too mucif legislation any- way:; jit :!i not' the number of bills ; he Introduces and passes that makes a legislator. - More usually, H is the WHEN LEAGUERS THE program of the Non-partisan league for the state of Washington Is outlined In an address delivered by a league organizer at a school house in Clarke county, a stenographic report of, which is in the possession of Trie Journal. . . i It Is highly advisable for all to know exactly what is proposed by the league or these Northwest states. It is better to know in advance of the Oregon Invasion just what sort of program the existing business order is to meet when the leaguers come. When they ktw just what is proposed, the world of private business will know what line of defense to adopt Hitherto, all discussions of the league have been confined to denunciation and condemnation without any statement' as to the nature and purposes of ; tne organization. As has been said repeatedly in these articles, that plan has universally failed, as the increasing and spreading momentum of the move ment phowg. In outlining the program for Washington, the league 'organizer at thej Clarke county schoolhouse said : I will take up the program of the Non-partisan league for the state of Wash ington. The first feature in 'that program la state owned powder factory and packing- plants, cannerlea, creameries, milk condensarles, terminal elevators and flour mills. That means owned and operated by the state. It means built and owned by the state at cost, and operated for the benefit of producers and consumers alike. I Instead of shipping- your cattle Into a privately owned yard, you will ship them into a state owned yard, where you will have the privilege of selling to a private packer and If you want to, under the Non-partisan league program, you can order them to state owned packing plants, and they will be slaughtered there for you and warehouse receipts will be issued you and you can borrow 75 per cent on those receipts from the bank. Tou can get 76 per cent of the value of them at the time you put them in the warehouse, and they will still belong to you. The hides of your cattle and the meat still belong to you and you can order them out Into the market at any time you want The enabling act which the state of North Dajtota adopted for owning and building and operating packing plants and cold storage warehouses is so broad that the state will, if so desired, handle the meat all the time from the moment the cow arrives in the stock yards until it is placed in the hands of the ultimate consumer. Describing the next plank in the program for the state of Washington, the speaker said: The next plank In the pYogram Is terminal elevators, state owned warehouses and storage plants for eggs, fruit, potatoes and other farm products. The farmers in tne state of North Dakota haul their grain into a state licensed warehouse and elevator. When you want to go into the grain buying business, you may take an examination in grain grading. After passing this examination, a license la issued ; to you upon receipt ofthe sum of 810. You are Dermltted then to ro out and buy grain. If, for some cause or reward, i ii u. wuen n inouia oe rxo. i, according u tne state grading, men you win have to refund to the farmer the difference between No. 1 and No. 2, and on top of that, your license is revoked and you can buy no more grain in the state of North Dakota. In the league program is the state ownership and distribution of water power. As explained by the league organizer in his address, it is as follows: That means that the state will seize and own an4 develop all undeveloped water sites within the borders of the state. The state will operate the sites and dis trubute electricity to the people of the state at cost A foreign corporation con trols all the power plants of this state at the present time. Its headquarters are. in England and its hindquarters are In the Columbia river, and you are paying 13 cents pea KW. hour, and Tacoma offers to sell juice for all purposes at one cent per KW. hour. The state will seise all undeveloped power sites and build power plants on them and operate the whole thing for Ahe good of the people. There is held out of use In the state of Washington enough electricity by the Stone and Webster people to outfit a company to build a great white way all the way from Seattle to New York city and to build street car systems on that white way and operate them for the free use of everyone who wishes to travel ; and under this new system, proposed by the Non-partisan league, every farmer will be given elec tricity at costr and. It Is all yours and will be.. But they won't let you have it now. There are other planks in the program for the state of Washington that will be presented in a later article. As will be noted, the plan provides for state owned and state operated grain warehouses, elevators, milk condens aries, packing plants, canneries, creameries, cold storage plants and various other enterprises now owned and conducted by private business. It is a revolutionary plan, which strikes directly at much private business and which is purposed to give farmers direct access to consumers on a non-profit basis beyond the actual cost of distribution. In the address of the organizer there is no mention of state operated chains of stores and a state bank, such as are a part of the North Dakota plan. The program is a proposal to pit state capital against private capital, to force the business group to go into competition against state operated activ ities and finally to array one big group against another in what would ob viously be a very bitter struggle, a struggle on the one side for existence. number of bills he votes against that makes him worth while. Every new crop of laws brings on a new crop of lawsuits, a new grist of legislation, new work for the courts, a new burden of court fees and other, expenses of litigation to be paid. What better campaign slogan could there be than Mr. Hindman's pledge to "vote against last-minute legisla tion and against legislation of doubt ful merit"? Here is the first reminder in sev eral years of the time when the Southern Pacific placidly proposed to exchange a goat park In South Portland for certain east side street intersections which provided the public its future hope of access to the central waterfront: The Salt Lake Railway company offered to give Los Angeles lands needed in harbor widening. All it asked in return were 70 acres a little farther back; a contract obligating the city to build a dock 1000 feet long at public expense; free use of the dock; use of the property to be received in exchange without payment of taxes. DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS i' port of a meeting of the Portland Federation of Women's Clubs ap peared In Sunday's Journal: Mrs. G. J. Frankel reported that the women s protective department had re cently completed a survey of 123 res taurants for cleanUness, decency and general hygiene, in which they found some : well-conducted places and some deplorable conditions. She called at tention to deplorable conditions In local swimming pools which should be cor rected. What are these "deplorable condi tions" in some restaurants, and which are the restaurants? The city maintains a department of public health. Connected with that department are sundry inspectors, whose business and only excuse for employment is to provide against "de plorable conditions" in any Portland restaurant. The public depends on these inspec tors and the health department to see to It that all eating places are sani tary! and the food wholesome. If Mrs. Frankel's report is true, and there is hot the slightest reason to question it, tlie people are paying for a pro tection that they are not getting. It is a matter well worth the attention of the city council. And what about the swimming pools? What are the "deplorable conditions" in them? What does the city government know about it? His wife had the "fu," and an Indiana man cooked breakfast for the children. They didn't like the syrup 'he made for the. buckwheat cakes he had mistaken Epsom salts for granulated sugar. WHEN? THE extent of the switchmen's strike is extraordinary. It; was inaugurated regardless of the authority of the national officers. Indeed; it Is -opposed by officials and V COME-N0. 14 you should grade some farmer's wheat j leaders of the organization. Lt is a remarkable example of re sistance in the ranks to authority set up by the membership. It raises the question if there is a growing spirit of resistance to all authority and if the repudiation of its own leaders by this and kindred organizations is to continue to spread. In the overthrow of governments, the destruction of thrones and the set ting aside of existing order in various parts of the earth, has a permanent spirit of revolt and rebellion been created? Is the repudiation of au thority and the leveling of power to proceed until many things are changed or will men's minds presently se,tle back into normal thinking and the (Orderly processes of life b!e restored? As the ocean, after a violent storm rears up great waves and cross waves and ultimately subsides Into restful and quiet placidity, so the tumult and turbulence aroused in the social order by the world-wide war will finally settle back, and human affairs return to the level of orderly processes. The question of the time is, how long will it take, and when will the world again be lighted up with the ! onnahinn rvf naona r.A ,j n mi, , sunshine of peace and good will. That the day may be hastened Is the Wish and hope of the millions who are wearicd and worn with what has been .., . ... ... . . ... going on in this disturbed and dis- hevgled world since the kaisers drew the sword in 1914. ry a vote of 34 to 43, a strict party vote, except that Reed and Shields, Demo- t .i. n . ; cratic Irreconcilables. voted In the nega- To read the list of the wearing ilve. The jdge reservation was adopt- apparel of the late Theodore Shonts, i ed by 58 to 22, 17 Democrats voting in street railway magnate, makes one l"6 affirmative. gasp for breath. On the list are j; President Wilson never expressed hlm these: Four panama hats, 13 night 'self specifically upon this reservation, shirts, 12 English walkine suits. 18 farther than to approve the text of the sack suits, a dinner coat, three dress suits, 45 pairs of shoes, 16 pairs of socks, 16 pairs of gloves, six umbrel las and 10 walking sticks. UNITED STATES OF RUSSIA A UNITED STATES OF RUSSIA, Is th ! ' ,lt m..h iiv r'4. c. ii 0,1 tne general subject Of the protec- much like the Lnited States oftlon afforded the Monroe doctrine by America, is the prediction of one who Sthe League of Nations covenant and has been studying affairs in the land i'tne sreat step forward which was accom of the late czars j-plished In securing the specific recognl- tion of this American policy by Euro It is altogether likely.; Sovietism, 1 Pean nations, which never before ac in the very nature of things, will pnowledged its validity, President Wil oresentlv rtemrfnctratp tt. ln,nro,.l. n.ln ht? Dch at Portland. Or.. Sep- J7.T ....k." cability. As a system, it is too in coherent to endure. Its processes are too complex to yield lucid and ef fective results. Sovietism is only a theory in the actual administration of things in Russia The real author ity is vested in and exercised by two near dicMors. That exercise of au thority is necessary because a defi nite policy and final results could never be realized under a pure soviet plan. The chief difference between gov ernment by the czars and government by Lenin and Trotzky is that the former were reactionary and selfish, while the latter, In theory, at least, are attempting to better human con ditions, i ;: Evidently, they have done things to better satisfy many of the Russian lower orders or they could not have I ed States is left free to enforce it" iwlnutoed.th.etj hold .oUvetob The fact that they use the army asierration win be discussed. .. the source of their authority Indicates that they themselves realize that so v let ism cannot function effectively in government on a large scale- ' History Itself and the rise and fall of governments indicate that a sys tem simpler than sovietism is essen tial, and that ultimately a model re public may appear on the ruins of the late autocracy. t After drinking three quarts of bay yum and a bottle of milk and eating a dish of pickles, a Delaware man has crossed the great divide. A mixture like that would send a marble statue over there with acute indigestion. THE TREATY AND THE SENATE NO. Differences Over Monroe Doctrine Resolved Into a Question of the Reservation's Phrasing. By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Correspondent . of The Journal. I Washington, April 13. Disputation in the senate over the Monroe doctrine simmered down at the last to little more than a difference in phraseology. It was not a great stumbling block, al though one of the most important ques tions dealt with in the reservations, as the objection of those who opposed the Lodge reservation was directed more to its tone than its substance. In the early debates there was much discussion as to whether the Monroe doctrine was properly described as a 'regional understanding." This was iareelv an academic discussion, for no 0ne could deny that the Monroe doctrine .nifaiiv.inirnizpd in the leasrue covenant, whether accurately described or not- Whatever it is. It was recog nized. Article XXI of the league cov enant reads : ; "Nothing in this covenant shall be Seemed to affect the validity of Interna tional engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine for securing the maintenance of peace" The Lodge reservation says : "The United States will not submit to arbitration or to inquiry by the as sembly or by the council of the League pf Nations, provided for in said treaty of peace, any questions which in the judgment of the United States depend upon or relate to its long established policy, commonly known as the Monroe doctrine ; said doctrine is to be inter preted by the United States alone and is hereby declared to be wholly outside the jurisdiction of said League of Na tions and entirely unaffected by any provision contained in the said treaty of peace with Germany." Viewing the history of the Monroe doctrine as a policy applied by the Unit ed States alone, and the declaration of the covenant that nothing in it should he deemed to affect that doctrine, many believed that language could not be much plainer, and that therefore no res ervation was needed. The reservation sentiment no doubt gained ground from a statement issued by the British dele gation at the peace conference which said that in case question arose as to whether or not a particular matter came within the scope of the Monroe doctrine, "the league would be there to settle, lt." So the reservation, if it has importance, has it because of the declaration that no question will be submitted to the league which "in the judgment of the United States" comes within the Mon roe doctrine, and that "said doctrine is to be interpreted by the United States alone." Critics of the reservation for the most part found no fault with the purpose expressed, but believed it could be framed more diplomatically. They particularly objected that in the form presented by Lodge It might be regard ed as offensive by some of the South Anjerican countries that are "touchy" pn'the Monroe doctrine. It was to meet (this sentiment that Senator Hitchcock offered a substitute, modified by a sug gestion by Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada, reading as follows : "That the national policy of the Unit ed States known as the Monroe doctrine, s announced and interpreted by the jJnlted States, is not in any way Im paired or affected" by the covenant of the League of Nations, and no question which in the judgment of the United States depends upon or relates to such doctrine, shall be subject to any Inquiry, report or decision by the council or as sembly." i Senator Townsend of Michigan. Re publican, wanted to know how this dif fered from the Lodge reservation. Pitt- f' nan replied that "It does, not volun arily use language which might be con sidered obnoxious by some of our friend- natlona." He thought the language ' ueu in me uxige reservation mignt pre- !w Bome other country from accepting. - Lodge told the senate the reserva- i tlon he presented had received "the clos- i est '""J110" and care," and said : "I i hope the senate will adopt it as it stands." . The Hitchcock substitute was rejected substitute proposed by Hitchcock, which at the time it was submitted to him. ended with the words "League of Na tions." The remainder of the Hitch cock text, as quoted above, was, as be- jfore explained, offered by Pittman and accepted Dy iitcncock on the rloor or ;the senate shortly before the vote was .taken. Etember 15, 1919, said: "Take the Monroe doctrine. As a mat ter of fact, the covenant sets up for the world a Monroe doctrine. What is the Monroe doctrine? The Monroe doctrine is that no nation shall come to the West ern Hemisphere and try to establish its power or interfere with the self govern ment of the peoples in this hemisphere ; that no power shall extend its gov erning and controlling influence in any form to either of the Americas. Very well ; that is the doctrine of the coven ant. No nation shall anywhere extend its power or-seek to Interfere with the political independence of the peoples of the world; and Inasmuch as the Monroe doctrine had been made the universat doctrine, I did not -think that it was necessary to mention it particularly, but when I suggested that lt was the desire of the United States that it should be explicitly recognised, lt was explicitly recognised, for it is written in there that nothing in the covenant shall be Interpreted as affecting the val idlty of the Monroe doctrine. The Mon- i ro, doctrine is left intact, and the umt- Letters From trie People r Communication cent to The Journal for publication In ihi depart ment should be written on only one id of the paper, ehonld not exceed 300 word la length and miut be atsned by the writer whose mail addrea in full mut accom pany the contribution. J SEEKS TRUTH AND FINDS IT Salem, April 8. To the Editor of The Journal I have read your editorial In yesterday's Journal entitled "Dodging the Bonus," and to say that I was de lighted Is to put it very mildly. I was so pleased that I take this opportunity to Impose this little bouquet upon you. Bat are we, every last man. or woman, going to have the chance to vote our convictions, and not return such a spine less congress to continue this political play with the most sacred duties that the masses of the civilised world have laid upon them? I am clipping that series on the treaty and filing away for reference. In my humble estimation of the de mnnris nf fho m a mu In th. United States, the right ntan has not yet arisen to lead the countrv to vlrtorv and neace- i fully lay the burdens of a noble citizen ship on each and every one. I am supporting The Journal because I believe I am getting the whole truth. J. Oliver. TWO REASONS FOR THE LKAGUE White Salmon, Wash., April 10. To the Editor of The Journal I am a fruit BTrOwer from Wnshlne-tnTi' a mmhpr nf tne Non-partisan leaeue. one who hoDes f0r concerted political action on the part of the common people of that state, and I want to give you two more reasons why. I have been a purchaser of fertiliser In car lots for years. Application of that fertilizer to my land is all that has kept up production and enabled me to support my family, and I am only typi cal of my whole district. That fertilizer has been on sale by feeders of sheep for $2.50 a ton f. o. b. Lyle. : Its application at that price was practical for many farmers, and the supply was large. This morning the agent of a certain business concern came and told me that his company has cornered the supply of that necessity and that lt will sell me all I want it $32 a ton. He admitted that nothing has been added to the fer tilizer but the cost. No; useful service has been performed. Now that business concern is acting well within the laws and entirely accord ing to business principles. It is not to be blamed. ' But we fruit; growers face a serious situation, while it faces an enormous profit. Last winter Wenatchee apple growers procured a vessel to carry a trainload of apples under refrigeration to New Yqrk at reduced freight by way of the canal. The fruit was made ready and the ship hove to. How did the appiea stand the voyage? They froze crossing the Rockies in the dead of winter be cause the railroad flatly refused cars from Wenatchee to Seattle. Where was the public service com mission? Where were the courts with those handy injunctions.' What did state officials do? To: answer those questions truthfully would be to libel myself under tlie criminal syndicalism laws. But the Great Northern owners reaped the profit and the farmers stood the loss. Paul McKercher. SPEED FIENDS Portland, April 9. To the Editor of The Journal The only solution of the problem of auto accidents is to pass a strict law enforcing -four miles an hour as the limit in the business dis trict. When horses were ;n use people were satisfied to go that, gait, or six at the most, and there were no casualties. In Broadway and the cross streets in Irvlngton they do just as they please and I have seen motorcycles going 40 miles, easily, on the cross streets. Make them follow In line and never pass without good warning, apd whistle at every crossing. I have had narrow es capes on account of just uch insanity of the drivers. I have often seen them cut the cornerr within two feet of the curb. What chance for a pedestrian who happens to step off. with no warn ing given of a turn? If the laws are no good, then let lynch law take its place, for these crazed drliers. What differ ence la there between shooting a person down or knocking him down with a club and being driven over by speed lunatics? The death of the lady, at 12 miles an hour, cannot be truly called an acci dent, because of the speed laws. Had the limit been four miles, she might be alive now, with her family. Osborne Tates. THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE Portland, April 2. To the Editor of The Journal The eternal triangle, is the theme that Is ever flashed on the screen In filmland, but why always have lt enacted as a part of a magazine story when it can just as well be the story of real life behind the screen i at least of one moVie queen and king, with the eminent minister of the .gospel, to make it more spectacular? If he could not add to the screen Christian grace, the real dramatic art with which his church audience is held spellbound would have a more advantageous setting. Surely some film company with an eye to busi ness will get the vision and .lave that notable marriage ceremony filmed. Cupid might be added fwith his angelic countenance a little changed)., showing how he lures to the screen three people licked from the biggest stage and pulpit actors in the world. Cupid used to send his darts through the hearts of Innocent lovers in the .days that are rast and gone, staying with them to keep the home fires hurning "until death Co us part. But look out Tor him i.ow. He has some poisoned, fiery darts of the wicked one mixed up in his quiver, that are causing a merry-go-round from the marriage ceremony to the divorce courts and back again a good many times in the drama of many lives before the curtain drops and the scene is closed. Mrs. Nellie Wolfe. N EVERYTHING " From the Home Sector. "Brinkley's going to be married at high noon." "So the price of weddings has gone up, too." Olden Oregon Old Oregon Trail Between Baker and j Huntington to Be Improved v j The state highway department is now making a survey of the tld Oregon trail between Baker and- Huntington with a view of its early; improvement. Thls was the first road in! Oregon, being the one over which the immigration of 1843 came. Previous to that time wag ons had been left in Idaho under the belief that lt was impossible to brli g them all the way to the Columbia river. It was demonstrated in 1843 that it was practical to drive all the way, and that the worst section of road between the Missouri river and the Columbia was the Burnt river canyon: ( Uncle Jeti Snow Says: Up to the Corners last; week a feller from North Dakoty warned us some thin' strenuous agin the; Non-partisan league and told us how them fellers back there axually packed the state su preme court and the: standpatters couldn't help thelrselves. Jedd Hullmyer axed him if he hadn't never heerd of ne supreme court bein' ; packed by no buddy else, and the North Dakoty fel ler, he said back that he b'lieved Jedd COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Thing are growing. Wonder what's happened to the "no beer, no work" crusaders. The old -awlmmin' holes will soon be the mecca of the boys who know Just where the best ones are. Civil war in Mexico will not be so bad so long as they continue to keep It within the Mexican lines. e Sherlock Holmes himself might find interesting work on the case of that fellow Watson, alleged Bluebeard. General Pershing was splashed with champagne at a recent ship launching in the East Couldn't have happened in this land of grapejuice. , ... . I There never before was so much build- lng KOlna; on in Portland and novor before has It been Rn hard tr flnH a rtlna " llve- Where are all the people com- i ln from7 I MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town The redoubtable Augustus Nulle. man ager of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, a hostelry that made New York famous, has come and gone. He arrived early Sunday morning, took breakfast as a guest of Manager A. B. Campbell at the Multnomah hotel, luncheon with a party of hotelmen at the Highway Hazelwood at Multnomah Falls, where J. H. Joyce was host, and dinner with R. W. Price at the Hotel Portland. Meanwhile, he accomplished the purpose of his visit here, which, hisf press agent announced some time ago, was "to study Portland hotels." As a matter of fact. Nulle did inspect the Multnomah, and fcund there, as elsewhere In the city, the low rates the most unusual thing about Portland hotels. Nulle left Sun day night for Seattle, where he will "study" Sound hotels. The visitor, known as one of the nation's best ad vised hotelmen, proved lt when he ex pressed very great surprise at the size of Western cities and the fact that the Indian wigwams of the fiction supplied to Waldorf-Astoria guests have been supplanted by skyscrapers. "I have been surprised at every stop," yulle de clared. He made up for an appalling Ignorance of Western affairs, however, when he praised the Columbia river highway as a leading American scenic charm. He toured the highway in com pany with five automobile loads of hotelmen and their wives. Portland, Or., and Portland, Maine, are to be brought closer . together through the first vacation Sherman W. Walker of the Supple-Ballln Shipbuilding com pany has essayed in a quarter century. Maine observes its one hundredth birth day this year from June 28 to July 6. Walker, a native of Maine, will return east for the big celebration. He is In terested in getting in touch with natives of Maine who desire to join in the home going party. e Failure of Eastern concerns to supply promptly building and other materials needed on the Pacific coast will cause the early establishment of factories on this coast, H. B. Rowell of Tacoma be lieves. Rowel!, in Portland on business, recently abandoned 'Chicago and located an asbestos roofing factory at Tacoma. Six to nine months' delay In handling Pacific coast orders Is leaving excellent openings for Pacific coast men to help themselves and erase dependence on Eastern manufacturers," he said. Row- IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Here begin the etorr of one of Lane coun ty's oldest and most notable pionrer. The tory will be published in three installment. In it Mr. Lockley assembles rat deal of that most valuable of all historical material the testimony of the actual tiarticipant in the basic events of a basic period. 1 Eugene, Or. He Is' 84 years old. He has lived at Eugene 67 years. He has served his city and his state In many capacities. He was a delegate to the' Republican national convention at Chi cago in 1868. and again four years later at Philadelphia. He served one term as secretary of state for Oregon and in .77 . Z L V .k.1 "?intfd.., "f"1 ' 1 139S was' a state university. I visited him recently home in Eugene and foundhlm able repository of the political of. the state for the past half at his a veritable history century. This is not to be wondered at wnen it is rememoerea mat ne lounaeo the Oregon State Journal at Eugene on March 12, 1864, and was Its editor and proprietor 45 years. "I was born In Madison-county. Ind., January 3, 1836," said Mr. Klncaid in answer to my question. "JCly father, Thomas Klncaid, was a Virginian. My mother, Nancy Chodrick. was born in Ohio. Mother was 14 and father 30-odd when they were married. , I am the oldest of the nine children In our family, Father could turn his hand to anything, He was a regular jack of all trades, and good at most of them. He was a black- smith, joiner, cabinetmaker and shoe - maker. My people shifted about through Indiana. Iowa. Illinois, Missouri, Arkan sas. Tennessee and Kentucky, and not finding a place entirely to their liking i farm was about all the property he they decided to come to Oregon. 1 was j had left. I saved my money till I could 17 years old when we came across the j buy a team of oxen and a wagon. Then plains. That was In 1853, the year after J bought fruit and vegetables and, driv tho 'cholera year,' and the trail was lng into the mines, I would peddle my marked at every camping place as well wares to the miners at a good profit, ac at many places along the road by ... graves of those who had died the pre- "My folks wrote me to come home to ceding summer. Father took up a place Eugene, as they needed me, ; so, leav three miles southeast of here. Klncaid lng my oxen and wagon there. I came park joins our old donation land claim." home to our Lane county farm. When ... ,1 got home I decided to stay, so 1 wrote We talked for awhile of some of the i my cousin, George Chodrick, to sell my early settlers In and about Eugene i ""i and sends me the mone In a Eugene Skinner, for whom Eugene is th ,OT two he wrote me he had sold named; .Elijah Brlstow. a VTrsinlan, f n nd. waJon for who was one of the first If not the first i . ood price I wrote i o urmimti aattiar in ijins i and thanked him, and asked him to county, taking up a 640-acre claim at Pleasant Hill and building the first house in that part of the Willamette val Hy : and Hillgard Shaw, Felix Scott. Ben Richardson, Jacob Spores, John Brown, IV uvvure 4V" - ,r-,,.. t.- .r.A miaa Rn John C Mulligan. Bill Smith, Lem Davis and 1 ver heard of my $600, which represent .,1 ,' aattiarf in h vi-; ed my savings for two years. I cut a cinity of Eugene in the late forties or itf ;ill rm l .j luuvo. "In 1854 I worked for Ellas Brlggs," said Mr. Klncaid, "digging a mlllrace, and when that was done I got work aa a farmhand and laborer. On June 6, 1855. with my outfit on a packhorse. I started afoot for California. Hearing that rich strikes were being made on was a Bolahevlck and wasn't worth an swerin'. Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Oleaned From Curious Places There has recently keen placed on ex hibition at the New York-museum' of natural history the only giant panda ever brought to this country. The skin was obtained from a missionary In western China. The riant panda,1 which NEWS IN BRIEF J SIDELIGHTS "An Iowa hog has just sold for $40.- 000. That Is evtdently the kind bacon is manufactured: from." surmises the Eugene Guard. i e The city council of Hlllsboro has passed resolutions to put up the $16,000 Shute park improvement to the voters in June, and to put down five additional blocks of paving at designated areas where it will do 'the most good. i Tval Imnrovenient sote In the Argus: "Hlllsboro is jus beginning to appre ciate the fact that the Weil building ' Unds an attractiveness to the city and if good butldings were oniy orawiutwu across the street we would have some fine ooklnK Mai? "I't1' Ht,rry Bledler Of Wallowa is putting ln " a7wmHl ni Lostlne and will saw bnoxa Jn?bmrU ThJ Capacity of the mill wl j. about 25,000 feet daily. Corn- mentlng, the Enterprise Reporter ayj "Th. anu-milla mierht to be located Jn .,ir hnv nt timber In VN allows county. The prise is good enough to make it a profitable business. ell's factory cost. $200,000 and will serve building contractors and others as far east as Denver. He is stopping at the Multnomah hotel, Alpine, Leona and Helix are three of the little heard of Oregon towns repre sented on Portland hotel registers Mon day. AlDine is the home bailiwick of W B. Cobb, who Is stopping at the Hotel Portland. From Leona come G. H. Cur rier to the Cornelius and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fischer and daughter to the Oregon. Helix is the home of E. v. Shippey, a guest at the New Perkins Alpine is a postoffice in Benton county, Leona is a Douglas county town, and Helix is within the borders of Umatill county. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Goldsmith, If you please. The combination was created by a marriage ceremony at San Fran cisco a few days air o. The happy couple have returned to Portland, where Gold smith is connected with the Fleischner Mayer company, and will establish a home here. In the meantime they are registered at the Multnomah hotel. The Oregon hotel register contains the names of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Caufield of Drain, Douglas county town that was formerly the home of a prosperous state normal school when Oregon boasted three such institutions. W. L. McDonald. Roseburg ; W. R. Wallace, Eugene ; C. F. Stone, E. D Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. William Crawford, Klamath Falls, and Mr. and Mrs: R. W. Terrell, Medford, are few of the "down-state" folk who were oti the Imperial hotel register Monday The same hotel was host to Marion Jack of Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Wells Jr. of St Paul, Minn., where Wells Is an exam iner for the state securities commission. are at the Multnomah hotel. They have been touring the- coast. - Dr. J. W. WaUek and Mrs. Watsek of Davenport. Iowa, are at the Hotel Port land. They are on their way home from California, where they have been spend-t lng the winter months, and will visit their sons, A. R. Watzek and J. W. Wat zek Jr. of Portland and C. H. Watzek 1 of Wauna. Dr. Watzek is interested In the Crossett Western Lumber company, which operates a mill at Wauna on the Columbia, and in' the Big Creek Logging company at Knappa. Lockley Althouse creek I decided to try my luck there.' While I was working there my pony, which had left with a rancher In the Illinois valley, was stolen. The Indians were waylaying and killing small parties of miners, so the miners In thA Althnnaa " roa i A mi r rt term,A nvs I decided to take my chances with the I Indians, so my partner. John Williams, and I walked to Crescent City, Call- , fornla. We split redwood rails there) for a few months to get a stake. i "I Invested $20 In a steerage ticket to San Francisco. I put up at the Wh-t Cheer house, a hotel very popular with travelers rom Oregon. I not . ftrlS'nnVn ! 'f"t i5f f TohTovriirt ' Jobv l"5 Into a sluice box. Soon the water uvtuiuieu .iiu itiey iia.u 10 my on, bo , , went tQ MarJ,8vUle where I got a job as chambermaid In a livery stable. ' tello. Whn I got tired of currying horses and i Serious charges of unlawful dlscrlm cleanlng the stable I went to work for inatlon filed apraltist the Mutual Oresm a rancher named Parka who later ry company of Malt Lake by the Co JLJTJ ? . Jl nil- J' i operative Creamery company of Jerome moved to my home town, Eugene. I -, b heard Hl' 3erorM Apr m by had not worked for him long when he j thf, ,,,ata department of agriculture, sold out to a man named Hamblln, i from Maine, so ; I went with Parks to ; , Colusa, where I split rails. From there I went to work for General J. A. Sutter, In whose famous mlllrace Marshall had discovered the gold that focused the eyes of the world on California. He . drove to Marysvjlle every day. He was j a nice old chap,. I was sorry for him. ; for the goldseekers had jumped much of his land and the lawyers had got most of the rest,, so that when I worked 1 for him, what was known as the Hock i send the money as soon as possible. 1 He wrote back that the money was spent long ago; that with wine and; women as expensive aa they were in California. $600 illdn't go very far nor , last very I Jong. That was the last I j lot of logs, rolled them into the river, i rafted them down to the mill, had them sawed into lumber on shares, and hauled them to my homestead. When I had built a house I found out it was on railroad land, so I had to get off, which, after ali my work, was oulte annoying. I decided to get an educa tion, so I started to school at Columbia college, here In Eugene." in sixe and general shape reaembes a bear, ia In reality a diatant relative of the raccoon. It is sometimes called the bear-raccoon. Its striking black and white coat and short muzzle, as well as curious black patches about the eyes, give it a most extraordinary appearance. Very little ia known regarding it habits, but It is said to (feed on roots, vegetables and bamboo shoots. It is one of the; rarest of animal, having been nrst dis covered in 1869, In the, mountains of Moupin, : eastern; Tibet, by the French missionary and explorer. Fere David. -' The Oregon Country Northwest Happening! la Brief mm for the Boa Header . ORKOQN NOTES Teachers In the'Hennner schools next year will receive m minimum salary of $1200. John H. Seaver. hoorrower of Lane county, has contracted his 1920 crop at u rami a pouna, After a marrlort Ufa nf i vaara R F. Thrasher of Cottage Grove has brought suit for a divorce. Life I nmirArtisk mmniilii nnkatlnr In Oregon transacted uew business to the v. or ,ii,ouo in 1919. The Wflr lurlnltlnd. Xfnn.l. 1 1 jk has been designated by the city council . of Ileppner aa clean-up week. ' Two dozen rarltladn nf hnv hura haan shipped from Baker the past few days to various sections of the county. ' The Dallas Commercial cluh haa irnna on record in favor of all of the measures to be voted on at the May election. The timbermen'li Indorsed the higher education tax to De voted on In t3ie May prtmsrlea. Mrs. 3. K. McFurland nf I'nttara llrnva has sold a veal oaJf weighing 113 pounds for $27. It was half Jersey and half iiolsteln. The Medford lodge of Elks will hold a session April 2 in Gratitn Pnu In compliment to Its members residing In mat uiiy. A heavy fall ttt anow ovar a foot In depth. In the mountains above Black KOCK. Polk COUtlitV. last werk rnueed suspension of logging operations. The directors Of the John llav Irrln. tion district tire planning to secure a competent engineer as soon as the iinancea or the district are in more liquid form. Ground Is to be broken this waek at Astoria for the construction of a large meat packing plant to cost approxi mately $60,000. The death of Lois Jory Smith, the 16-year-old daua-hter of Ir. J. N. Smlrh superintendent of the state home for feeble minded, is reported from San Diego. The Keno Power company has sold its plant and equipment to W. B. Parker of the Klamath Development company. The consideration is said to he about 180,000. La Grande post of the American Legion will purchdse a bronze memorial ?? w,n!ch t0 '"scribe the names of the 17 Union county men who lost their lives in the aervdee. WASHINGTON Most of the fiprague farmers that seeded winter wheat last fall will have to reseed. A district convention of Rebekaha will be held at Centralia May 6. with Ivy lodge as host. Mrs. Olive F. Dunning of Hoqulam haa entered the polltleai ring as a candidate for county treasurer. Another large shingle mill la te he erected at Stearnsvllle to care for the cedar in that vicinity. The scale of farm wages for common laborers at Yakima has been advanced to 180 a month and board. Wenatchee valley's great blossom fes tival will be held May 7. It In propoaed to make it an annual event. Hoquiarn has started on a two weeks clean-up campaign. The slogan Is "Make Hoquiarn clean and keep her clean." Julius Wang and Adolph Schmld of Trout Lake, who 'trapped last winter, have netted $4500 from their catch of furs. The Rldgefield school district la te hulld a 20.000 school building at once. Bonds for the purpose have already been voted. The Benton county wool clip thla year Is estimated at L250.000 pounds. At 40 "cents a pound thla will produce about $600,000. Daughters of the American Revolution have ended their state session at Walla Walla and adjourned to meet at Spokane next year. IDAHO Display of home products Is being made at Caldwell. Arthur H. Potach has been appointed postmaster at Genesee and Charles J. Simmons at Grangevllle. The orgalnzatien of a new national bank Is announced at Lcwlston. It will be capitalized for $100,000. March receipts of the office of secre tary of mate reached J4VJ9. Of this amount 12376 came from corporation fees. Ethel E. Redfleld of Lewinton haa an nounced her candidacy for reelection a state superintendent of public instruc tion. T r k ra u sad uaisir 'rn isu f rw t li . 1 1 i f f j invs Water company of Malad have been annroved fev the nubile utllitiea commlsnlon. Citizens and officials of Gannett have made a plea to the public utilities corn- mlBxion for a railway audit and an express service. As an Inducement to the eatahllahment of the state headquarters of the Amer- ?r lnC 1 ' "J t focateiio. mat city naa ! CBt KtWMn ,100:00 ftnd ,2"00- About EO delegates, ministers and lay- 1 ' A" '".f,'-1!? rect. a memorial hall to , conference at Hoie of Die Free iletho- i cilfll cnurrn. j ne uminci rnuirHttrs uis ! territory between Huntington and Poca The Journal Receives From a Subscriber a Highly Valued Appreciation It is better ho be a builder than a destroyer. It la better to be a producer than a parasite. It la bet ter to live by the product of the toll of one'a brain or hand than to prey upon others. It ia better, speak ing newspaperwlse, to have a per sistently constructive policy for the community, to be free of entangling alliances, and never to submit to any compromising condition that would abridge Che liberty of fearless utterance, than to be ulterior, un scrupulous or forceless. That The Journal's policies .favor ably Impreis newcomer ia well aa those who have, lived In the OregonJ country longer periods ha illustra tion In a letter. It Is an unusual communication and a valued appre ciation. It was written by Ralph B. Carr of 4901 Seventy-second street southeast. F'ortJand. He has lived in this city 18 months. Here are two paragraphs from it : The Journal is the fairest and squarest paper I ever read." "I hae taken the - off and on, merely auhwcrlblng to help the neighbor children get a present of some kind. bu I get so disgusted with their editorials 1 soon discard It. Any paper that is so partisan aa to ittack the president of the United Statea when he la broken In health, caused by members of their own political faith, will have to do aomething else- to get subscribers besides hating children beg you to subscribe so thy may obtain a pres ent of some kind. It is my belief that the!emano la for only the good things nowadays and only the In ferior articles are "forced upon peo ple. My parentis and all my rela tions were Republicans, but I am non-partiaan and all of the younger generation wits whom I am asso ciating seem to be the same. I pre dict the days are gone forever when one voted the ticket straight because that's the way father voted. Papers like The Journal will never have to hant subscribers and use car adver tisements to tell the people It is Portland's fastest growing: news paper." ; , - i;;;v'-S" . .....!.