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10 THE OKKGON DAILY JOUKNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY. MAY 7, 1920. i ' : : 1 1 i 1 r ountal AH typEPEXDEWT WEW8PAPEB C'8. JACKSON.... FttbUatoet (Be ralm. b confident, be cheerful and anto othr m jron would hae tbfni do onto yoa, I rnbUthed eT mk day and Sunday monjin, at The Journal Building, Broadway tad tem hill stmt, Portland. Otxoa. - ? -.." fer trnmUion torouh tha mail aa eeeond TELEPHO.NE8 Main JU, Automatic 680-61. ah deoertnenta reached b these nomtxn. FOR Elf iN aDYERTISINO REPRESENT AT1VJS Benjamin Kentnor Co.. Bramwick Bmldnm. . 225 Fifth arenoe. New Tork ; 00 - MaJton BuUdiae'. Chlcasa . - . 8UB8CKIPTIOM RATES . By carrier, city and conn try. .. .". ' DAII.T AND SUNDAY " One week . -... .16 J aaonta,. . . . . , DAILY I 8CNDAT One week. .10 On week. . . . . .6 -05 One month..... .46 I BT MAIL, ALL BATES PAT ABLE IN ADVANCE PAILY AND 8 UN DAT ' One year......S.OO I Three men tha. .12,2 a.. Mnnih. 4.2t I One month. . . . . - . DAn-T Without Honda j) On, year . .... .600 SUNDAY ! (Only) On ' year. . . . . .58-00 Six months.. l.i 6 Three month. . . jl.OO WEEKI.T AND ! 8 UN DAS On year. .... .63.60 U .- ' Six month-.. . . . S,2 Three months... 1.75 Ob month. ..... .00 WEEKLY (Erery Wedneoday One year. . II 00 But month . Bate to Eautern point furntohed on applies tion. Make remittance by Money Order, Expreie Order, or Draft. If your postof tiee i not a Money Order Office, 1 or 2 -cent atampe will be aeeapUd. Make all remittance payable to The Journal. Portland, Ore on. j Murder.' though it bar no tongue, will speak . I ' j With most miraculous organ. ! - Shakespeare. . BEFORE LEAGUERS COME REPRESENTATIVES of agricultural, commercial and. financial interests are to meet in Portland tomorrow to discuss the enactment ! of a market commission law. j i It is timely action. Markets are as important as production, and of late, everybody has been j yelling for pro duction as a means of reducing prices. In comparison with California, Ore gon farmers are greatly handicapped as to markets. War prices alone have saved many an . Oregon farmer from bankruptcy. The -oad to market frotti the farm has been too much ob structed. Too many' speculators and. too many profit takers have! cut away slices of the farmer's produce while it was on hc long and tortuous road to the consumer. -!! ! .This great fact has been overlooked The better the farmer's market vine more he gets for his products, the more money he has 'to deposit in the banks, the more money he has to spend with merchants, the more he has to pay for what others have to sell. ' " I " :L. ,.. The proposal to jmove for better market conditions in Oregon is highly intelligent. California has already demonstrated what can be donj by the process. California farmers are more prosperous than in any other state. . They have, changed chaotic markets into profitable markets. The better market and better conditions are all reflected in bank deposits and In the general prosperity of the state. In 6ne big community there are $25, 000,000 in bank deposit's by farmers, where but a fewyealrs ago there were only 13,000.000 to $4,000,000. Some business' men have had the idea that the farmer has no grievances. They are wrong. Farmers are seeing potatoes, which they sold at iVt cents, retailed in Portland iat 10 to 12 cents. That is a grievance. The farmer knows he was wronged. He knows that such, a spread between the pro ducer's price and the consumer's price of potatoes is absurd. And everybody else ought to know it, the business man included. There is no doubt! that the meeting tomorrow to provide for a market eunimiwion cm is a sincere move ment. It Is one of; the! steps which The Journal in a series of Non-partisan league articles poiniea out, as a con- KtrilftiVft nlart fop kOonlnir fliwiran I of state socialism and a bitter class war... It is a fortunate -incident that the' business and financial Interests of the "slate" have awakened to an understanding of the situation and are now proposing to join with the agri cultural interests jof the state in emancipating Oregon farm production from a iotten market and distribution : system.; - - ' . It is a better plan than that fol lowed , in North Dakota : When the farmers complained! there they were told to "go home and slop the hogs." And they did. j i It Is understood ; that If the price of overalls is boosted through adop tion to combat the; high cost of liv ing; the working classes threat en to go to the shops arrayed in silk pajamas. i . -.. THE PACIFIC FACES WEST TWENTY nations which border the Pacific ocean will have trade rep resentatives at the; National Foreign Trade convention in San Francisco f Two thousand business leaders of this and other countries have signi fied their intention of bein present.. A new foreign trade policy is the objective of the convention. How fortunate, and how significant It is that such a purpose at such a time as this calls such a convention on the Pacjfo coast of) the United States ! I':., jv. v ' It will be years before ) Europe will inspire confident ambition, for the de velopment of i trade.! Europe's credit and resources are both nearly wrecked. The great new ' trade field is the Orient ; Powerful trade Influences will extend their lines through 'the ports "of the Pacific to the Orient. Our harbors will be their embarcaderos. Their forwarding, exporting and trans portation agents will be stationed here. :'v H" ' : 'V As the trade representatives of the Orient gather !at the National Foreign Trade convention opportunity will be given oar larger number to learn how to organize; the beginnings of a new commerce. Such knowledge will, be invaluable to Portland. This Is to be j one of the great ports of Oriental trade. The announcement that excursion fares to summer conventions In Portland will: apply; to all who wish to travel, means, just one thing: As many as can J travel will. People who stayed home during the war are eager to go somewhere. They have learned a great deal more than they used to know about the charm of Oregon. The' conventions will crowd Portland. The additional travel will congest it. Hospitality will be im perative. We J at last have our big chance to make Portland famous. WHEN DRIVERS SMOKE i WHILE a driver fumbled with a VY cigarette jJn his mouth, he narrowly-escaped a bad accident in a congested street intersection. There isn't time for anybody to do buteone thingl while driving a high power automobile jon a busy thor oughfare, and j that drive, drive, difive. one thing is to He has time for niithine hut. trt ciiirtp ruirie. snilrfo his steering wheel.) ; Just ahead there; is a pedestrian. Slightly to one side there is an on coming auto.j From behind and in front street cars are approaching. At any instant a j careless pedestrian, a woman, say, with a 'baby buggy, may emerge from behind a streetcar. , In such a situation, and every situa tion on a congested street is such a situation, a driver, needs every faculty, needs all his jvision needs .every one of his senses at 100 per cent efficiency, and .above all, needs to have his ma chine in perfect and complete control. With vision blurred by tobacco smoke, what chance has he in a crowd ? His attention divided between his cigar or cigarette for the fraction of one little second may mean a smash-up, for a smash-up is often the result of but part of a second of hesi tation, or a tiny doubt or a. mere shadow of uncertainty. . . When you drive, drive, and do noth ing but drive. If you attempt to do anything else, you may be the next regretful and sobered central figure at a coroner's inquest. A $250 saw was totally destroyed in a British Columbia mill recently when it struck a 25 pound; naval shell in an apparently sound timber. It is believed the shell lodged in the timber at target practice; of British ships years ago. The sawmill busi ness in France, it would seem, might be rather costly. j STREET j CORNER IBOYS n'T HE street corner crowd 'is the 1 beginning of the gang," a Chi cago police judge told a I boys' club in a recent address. I "Wash your face, change your shirt, Jand hunt a job if you haven't anything to do but lean against the drug store." The advice; lis sound, and if boys or their parents fail to remove the menace of the street corner crowd themselves, it is entirely proper and expedient for;police authorities to dis perse them. .1 j .. ; . That could well be done in Portland. In the outlying districts of this city It is no strange sight to 'see Crowds of young men gathered on the corners. But even worse, on Washington street, between Fifth) and: Broadway, up to early mbrningj gangs are gathered, in front of poolrooms, on the curb and otherwhere until the sidewalks are almost . impassable i at times. Younir i women alone. land even with escorts. ; are often subjected, if not to insulting i remarks, to the leering glances of boys whose business is otherwhere than on the street corner, f r . ! : The. corners should be cleared! The duty is with the parents, but if it Is not fulfilled by the parents the police should take 'a hand. -Had the j 140-pound New York woman who fought a brawny burg lar to a standstill been one of the w4ves of the Tjos Angeles Bluebeard, his sordid career might have come to an abrupt! close with an exhibi tion of the bumper bumped. A RUINOUS BUSINESS TO SELL Oregon road bonds at . 91.5 would be sacrifice. It Would be a ruinous; business. . ,c , Interest rates through sale of some securities ranu as high as. 7 and 74 per cent under Wednesday's quota tions in the New York money mar ket. That is a gambler's interest rate. When the money market is so fe verish as to yield such rates, it would be folly to attempt td iell long time road bonds until the money fever i. is over.' ; t v . j ? J : - We are' not building roads merely for tomorrow; We are building for a generation. They do not have to be built next week. They can wait until the week after or the week after that. After waiting 70 years In Oregon for a good roads systenj, we do not have to build them now In a minute, .espe cially if we have to finance them on a pyramiding money market We have sold road bonds at 98 plus. That was last December.: To float them now on a forced market at 91 plus J a loss of more than seven cents on the dollar would be like throwing j money into the wide ocean. " .- ; s There are millions of idle money in Oregon banks. In Clackamas county they put that kind of money into' pub lic service and into private service by subscribing for Clackamas county road bonds. The people there absorbed ?360,000 worth, the entire amount of the first block of 11,700,000 issued. That was enterprise and patriotism and good business sense. And under that plan the Clackamas county roads will get one dollar of money for every dollar of bonds soldi the bonds went at par. . ' ; ' . Oregon people could, if they wished, similarly absorb the present : state bond ; issue. They would i keep the money at home. They would pay the Interest to themselves. They would be building their roads on sound busi ness principles. 1 ? ; A New York woman, returning to. her .apartment, found a burglar, fol lowed him in a hasty, retreat to the roof, and there fought him for 15 minutes. , Reports tell how the in truder forced her to the ledge of the roof several times in efforts to push her over,' but she fought on until police arrived and captured the burglar. Pluck and determination are admirable qualities, but there are those who will feel that they had rather allow the : robber , to escape than to grapple with him on the ledge of a multiple-storied build ing; .. . NEW YORK AND HIRAM NEWS from New York is that they are little concerned there with Hiram Johnson's successes. They read about them,, yawn, and then for get. : : I' ; ;. :v .- In New York the big figures do not see beyond the city limits. : They think the United States revolves around the towers and minarets of Wall street. They regard the people to the west of -the Mississippi as wild eyed, long-haired tribes of socialists. In New York they care little about whether Hiram should bolt at Chi cago. They believe that New York will decide the election anyway, as it always did until 1916. They have even forgotten that year when all precedents were reversed and a presi dent elected without New York. But the wily Penrose has a different idea. He proposes Knox for . the Chi cago nomination. The informed sense the sagacity in the Penrose idea. Knox and Hiram are bitter enders together. When you look down from the senate galleries, they say, where Hiram is there you also see the shiny bald had of Knox. In their senatorial conferences Knox has whispered a million whispers into Hiram's ear, the observers hold. ' I And .Penrose knows of this affec tionate relation between the irrepres sible California bull mooser and the Pennsylvania reactionary, f and pro poses Knox as a stalking horse to keep Hiram within the fold after Chicago. Could Hiram be caught by the Knox molasses? Hiram has a mind of his own. He has delegates, and is getting more delegates. Knox has none. Hi ram has the hyphenates, and there are lots of hyphenafes. And ; above all, he has a beautiful vision, a Joyous vision; of Hiramj in the White House and California on the battlements. Hiram may eat Knox molasses and thereby fail to be a wild bull and a big moose on the rampage in the china shop at Chicago. He may not. THE MOUNTAIN TO MAHOMET TESTIFYING before interstate com merce commissioners as a witness in the Columbia basin rate case, L. C. Gilman, then federal railroad adminis trator for the Pacific Northwest dis trict, identified what appeared to him the reasons for ; the amazing growth of Puget Sound ports and the corres ponding sluggishness of the ports of the Columbia. The ports of Puget Sound, said he, had looked to the sea; the ports of the Columbia had looked to the land. , f , v As a railroad man and the servant of railroad. owners, Judge Gilman neg lected to be more specific and to say that the northern railroad lines looked to the sea and the Columbia; valley lines to the land. The northern lines made traffic arrangements and built docks for the transfer of Oriental and Alaskan exports and imports..! They were aggressive. The O-W. R. & N. did not permit itself to go beyond a rather: expensive experiment in mak ing overseas connection. When com merce grew on Puget Sound, the O-W. R. & N., by an arrangement' for the use of the " Northern Pacific : tracks between Portland and Seattle, suc ceeded in getting into both Tacoma and Seattle, seeking Its competitive share of the business incident to rail and sail interchange. ' 1 But now conditions have changed. Portland, which was without ship lines, is getting many ship lines which connect us with many world ports. It Is not necessary for the Union Pa cific to "extend its service to Puget Sound in order to connect with the sea lanes. The sea lanes have been extended to tUi port The O-W. R. A N. may well take cognizance of this fact. It may well make itself. In fact, Portland's transcontinental line. Port land would reciprocate. v i " CANDIDATES AND PLATFORMS IN , OREGON George E. Chamberlain and Harvey G. Starkweather, Two of the Four Candidates for the United . , States Senate. United States Senator George E. Chamberlain, candidate for'renomination and reelection, was born near Natches, MIks., January 1, 1854. . Ha attended the public, schools until 1870, when he began work as a clerk in a general merchandise store in Natcher. In 1872 ki he entered Wash ington and Lee uni versity at Lexing ton, Va., graduat ing in the academic and law- depart ments in 1876. He cane to Oregon in December, 1876, locat ing at Albany. During a part of 1877 he taught -a country school - in Linn county and was appointed deputy county clerk during the latter part of the year. He resigned in 1879 to commence practic ing law at. Albany. He was elected to the house of representatives from Linn county in 1880, and in 1884 was elected district attorney for the Third judicial district, then Marion, Polk. Linn, Yam hill and Tillamook counties. In 1891 he was appointed attorney general, when that office was created by the legisla ture, by Governor Pennoyer. In 1 892 he was nominated and elected to the same office. He resigned this .office and moved to Portland, where he opened a law office He was elected district at torney for Multnomah county for a four year term, and in 1902 was nominated and elected governor. He - was reelected in 1906. In 1908 he was nominated for United States senator and elected by t,he legislature in 1909, being the first senator to be elected by the legislature under the mandate of the Statement No. One pledge taken by the members of the legislature. He was renominated at the Democratic primary of 1914. and reelected a the general election of No vember, 1914. for the six year term ex piring March 3, 1921. He is now seeking renomination and reelection for a third term. . . -. .' j Senator Chamberlain prior to and dur ing his service as governor was a strong advocate of the initiative, the referen dum ana recan. tne airect primary law, direct election of TTnitrl Kfnroa and those other statutes which compose wnat is generally denominated the "Ore gon System." He was one of the earliest and most consistent aAvrwnteu rf 'Anna) suffrage and furthered that movement Dotn in Oregon and in the United States senate. By reason of his long service and con structive ability, he has risen to a. com manding position in the United States senate and, as chairman of the military committee, became a national figure prior to and after the entrance of the United States Into the great war'. Dur ing the critical period when congress was confronted with the solution of the vital war . measures necessary for the successful prosecution of America's part in that conflict h wan r-ollo lvw pd. dent Wilson to take personal charge of tne selective service act and the food adminfstration measure in the senate when Senator . Gore and others had turned against the administration, and It was largely due to his influence and leadership that these vital measures were put upon the statute books. He advocated) and supported the federal farm loan act, the trade commission act, the federal reserve act, the shipping bill, and the other great constructive ! meas ures which have made the legislative achievements of the past eight years notable in the history of the country. Senator Chamberlain is now the rank ing minority membet of the military committee of . the senate, and holds im portant senioritv nositinn mittees of agriculture and forestry, ap propriations, coast defenses, commerce, expenditures in the wnr A.Trim.i.i public lands and revision nf ih n.r the United States, a joint committee of me Berate and house. ' : . Probably - Senator Chamberlain's out standing achievement nnssosKlnc-. o sii. tlnctlve local" interest was the leading part taken by him in bringing about the settlement of the lone- ntsmHno- n.,n and California, land trrnnt which resulted in wresting the vast area t . V. n . : l . a . . v. mai. mmuau gram irom sequestra tion by the Southern Pacific company and its opening to public entry and set tlement under the terms of tha i-ham. berlain-Ferris act. His the settlement of thA r?ftr, -Rqv road grant controversy, and the opening ' ianas 10 tne puDilc, is also well remembered. i Senator Chamberlain's slogan In the primary contest is : . "My country, its preservation ana tne perpetuation unim paired of its institutions." In his nlat form he says : "I will strive for world peace and such legislation by Congress as wm staDiiize tne agricultural inriua trial, commercial and anoint Mfa r.t country and hasten the ' restoration of normal pre-war conaiuons ; tor legisla tion for th oroiur nr rf thnDa have successfully fought the wars of our country ; . for cooperation,,, between the federal and state .governments in road construction r improvement of our rivers and harbors anrl arid lands ; for the establishment of avi ation stations and the nrotertinn tv air plane of national forests, as well as iorests in private control, in cooperation witn tne owners thereof." i Harvey G. Starkweather of Milwaukle candidate : for the Demnpn tion as United States senator, was born at Milwaukle, June 20, 1868. He was member of the commission which drafted the work men's compensation act and was also on the federal rural credits commission He recent v re-. signed as chairman of ; the . Democratic state central com mittee. ; . Star lew athsi- slogan is : . "I favor ratification of the Versailles treaty as recommended bv President Wilson," and in his platform he says he Is "opposed to a universal system of. compulsory, military training ; in favor of universal education ; favors llDeral and prompt legislative aid for re turned soldiers and sailors; laws to en courage the upbuilding of a merchant marine and improvement of rivers and naroors ; tne development or Water now er and natural resources ; immediate de velopment of . resources of laska and ooenine of its coal mines i ar1nnt in in Pacific and submarine base on Co lumbia; the right of labor to organize ; the exclusion, of Asiatic labor and alien tana, ownership .free : press and Ti speech; -: national highway system: square deal for Oregon in irrigation funds; clean elections and strengthened corrupt practices , act." :, Letters;From the People, COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF f Coramrunicationi aent to Tha Jonraal for rmbli cation in this departaacnt aboold ba writtea on only on aide of tba paper, aboald not czced SOO worda la length, ac must b aiciMd by taw writer, rbaa mail addxeaa a full muat aocoaa paoj toa coatnbatioB.J : i WOMEN OP. SOVIET RUSSIA Portland, May 6.-j-To the Editor of The Journal I wish to thank Mr. Kim ball for his enlightening letter with re gard tt the j women of soviet Russia. The women of our land have beenstriv ing for greater responsibilities for: some years, and should be greatly pleased with the outlook for! their future prog ress, even though man's chivalry may suffer somewhat in the process. Mr. Kimball calls attention' to the fact that the wife is held responsible for her share In the support of the family, lead ing us to believe that she Is forced to do manual labor ' as a man, and then in another quotation from the Soviet's rules he makes a statement to the effect that the woman's domestic labor alone is all j that Is required of her by the state. 1 It would appear from that that her share in the support of the house hold would quite please many of the ladies;: and if they stop to think of that phase I or the subject the jchivalry of the men will appear beyond! reproach. His ! description of the 1 process of divorce .would surely not get the sanction of our courts, for it would cut out some' of the fat fees,; but where the man has a privilege we would be led to believe that the wife would be accorded the same right. .What's sauce for th goose is sauce for the gander. There is one thins: that-1 the woman should rejoice 'in. She can have the right to support-, herself if i she is left dependent' upon her own resources, but the one thing that crowned the whole letter was the assertion that' the woman would have no power to leave her money to start a pension for dependents. A high school girl very aptly answered that by saving, "What's the use? There would be n6 such animal."! ' X W. Burt. A WARNING ; Portland, May 3. To the Editor of The Journal Warnings seldom save those who most need them.i - Men often court or brave known danarer or srrow careless when familiar with it, ' but as a -rule we go to disaster unprepared, or ignorantly, thinking no evtLf The perils of boating near the falls Of the Wil lamette, or any like ones, ought to be made wejl known. We should thank- ruiry heed the word of the old river men on that point, and their: counsel is sternly reinforced by lessons of sad experience. ; Below waterfalls or rapids on any considerable stream there are swirling currents, not safely to be judged or trusted by surface appearance. The area. direction and power of thesis depend on the volume and swiftness of the waters and the obstacles they meetr the nature of the bed and the configuration of the shore. ; Often only the trained eyes of veteran voyagers are competent to se lect the safety zone. They are extremely cautious. Without some previous knowl edge of the -locality, even- a skilled boat man, to reach his desired landing, will choose a channel very hard but not dan gerous rather than hunt fori one he sus pects would be much easier but highly risky. I have seen on the iupper Nepi gon. Ontario, and quite a space below a strong rapids, such a curiously decep tive stretch of water, over which one might think he could almost swim, that strained every fiber of muscle and pad die '.in two' of us for five minutes to cross "hardly twice that number of yards. Canoe and paddles are a better reli ance on troubled waters than the. more unmanageable boat with oars, but the handling Is different, and must.: be learned. In either case, always take along, an extra paddle or oar, even if portaging is ahead. A paddle is a-great controller. It can at the' same Jime steer, propel and Steady. In the hands of one of them it might have saved the boys the ' other day: We do not know, but we can: easily, imagine an F oar broken or wrested from one side and the helplessness that followed. Then, or before, it could have given laid, perhaps decisive. C. S. R. t REJOICES BECAUSE OF PENSION . Portland; May 4. To the Editor of The Journal After reading the letters of C. N. McArthur, congresFman. I feel it 'a duty to tell what Mr. McArthur did for a-widow of an old Civil jwar veteran. She was entitled to a pension, but every thing at Washington seemed against its being passed. Time dragged along until she was about' to mortgage" the little home, . and as a last resort she wrote to Mr, McArthur. Within i three weeks the pension was granted. ; He thereby helped the helpless to : save a home. This kind deed alone should be enough to reelect him for another term, He is the right man In the proper place. Why make ,a change? , He did not go to Washington as our congressman to talk about things; . but to do them. But this is only one of the kind deeds of a' good man,- and it hould be ap preciated. X do not know Mr. McArthur personally, but am just tryine to say a Ttind word because that's .so seldom done -f for those j Wishing . an office at election time, no matter i what good they have been to our country. . j ; i ' May. K. Renner. A TYPOGRAPHICAL : ERROR Portland, May 5. To the Editor of Tile .TournaJ- In a letter in The Sunday Jour nal f May 2, over my name, the word "defense" was used instead of-"defiance." It should have read : "Political prisoners were victims of plutocratic zeal ,in defi ance of conservative American rights." t wish here to further observe; that the declarations of innumerable candi dates of being loyal Republicans or Dem ccrats disgusts a rational citizen. I have studied such terms and policies ' some and find that, like the terms "American isrr." t i and "democracy," . they, ' mean, nothing definite any more, i Those of us who are not registered to sWallow hook,, line and sinker cannot vote for the few we might pick out of the "whirl" at the primary, but when we get wiser than a moth and stay away from the glaring party lights they may turn- on the dim mer and stand for something definite some day and let a mutt vote for what seems fittest. Let's look ; bevond vic torious' parties to well protected homes. C. 'A. Reichen. OREGON PRODUCTS Portland, April 30. To the Editor of The . Journal The - Atlantic . coast i has awakened to the fact of "Oregon prod ucts." I sent to -West Haven, Conn., i a box of "Oregon products." it It came as an eye-opener to the New, Englanders, and has put Oregon, in ' a more vivid shade on the map. Here's 'a chance for us all to show the East that we are not asleep in production. i Mrs, Homer, A. Dowd, Olden. 'Oregon Showing the Spirit In Which the Early Missionaries Came. , Shortly after completing, in 1838, his journey to the scene of his missionary labors In the Northwest, the Rev. H. H. Spalding wrote to an Eastern friend a long letter opening as follows; -.."ft gives me great pleasure, that I am permitted to say the Lord has brought us safely through our long, doubtful journey : and SMALL CHANGE Warming up. Whafs happened to the overall fad? "'(:.: . !:''. The patience of those who ait down and wait for dead men's shoes is not a virtue. . Our idea of a frenzied financier is man who ' Vmv m rwlf Arlinnlr Art credit. : . - ' ,' .V'-"' , ' ''. This earth is freauentlv desie-riated as ""she" because no man knows the age thereof. ; A Wise TOUnp m rt na ouni i.r, riA pretty girl and marries a homely one wuu uta cook. , N rothing is more distressing than young a trviner to ar-t aIH oni .,1 H wj- men ing to act young. -i - ..M.i.nv.wio i c iiic great Ameri can electorate still has the nerve to Holland nffiolnla Infnpm t, fha , V a kaiser is free to go back to Germany. Sure. . And his fleet was free to come out into the : North sea. Centralla Chronicle. . .. - : The Anti-Torar-t-ri 1aj)d-ii wn k iinnhi. less created to give employment to ttaow people the Anti-Salnnn lene-ii mtt when the country put them in a hole by uuiig ury.oeaiue Argus. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Grand opera singers are tempera mental. At least they have proved them selves such at the Portland hotel, which 4ias entertained within Its long career a good many important troupes. Just now the Portland is host to the Sonora Grand Opera company, arrived Thurs day morning. Late that afternoon it was problematical whether "the singers would get rooms, for their business manager had failed to wire for reserva tions, as is the custom, and the Port land was already crowded, when they arrived. The j manager had an alibi, however. He ; appears to be traveling between the devil and the deep sea, for if he does not get reservations he is criticised by ' hotel managers and the singers as well. But if he does wire ahead the' singers hold, him personally responsible for everything, from the ap- pearance of the hotel's front door to the condition and number of the towels on the shelf.. And every time anything is wrong somebody threatens , to quit the company. So the manager takes his players to a good hotel, puts their names on the register and trusts, to luck" for the rest. "If these folks can't Bing any better than they can . write," a guest looking over the Portland register ' re marked, "they are, in a bad way." G. S. Hall of Hubbard, a guest at the Multnomah hotel, may have been one of that army of Oregon farmers who dug up their hops when the state went dry.. Whether he was or not, it will take more than a little dose of local option to get him to pull 'erh out by the roots again, ' with talk of 85 cents a pound in the air and the whole na tion dry as a bone. Lots of 'folks thought the hop Industry went the route of Oregon saloons, and their hops were plowed under. But on the scales today a pound of hops threatens to balance with a pound of gjpld. , . . Circus days are cominsr. In thn that the present sahtbrious weather doesn't clear up and rain. Which is a sign of summer.. R. W. Thomnsnn. ad vance man for a well known circus,, ap peared , at the Imperial hotel Thursday seeking accommodations while here to arrange for the. annual local season for his show. 4- ' Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ferexison and Mm A. H. Ferguson' and son are stopping at the Cornelius hotel, arriving Thurs IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS i OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred You never know what you can' do 'till you, try. When I went overseas I was told that.' in addition to w;orktng from 12 to IS hours a day. for Bix days in the week, I would, have to make from two to three 30 minute, talks each Sunday. I carefully explained that I was ' a writer, not a talker. I was told kindly bu firmly that I was supposed to do what I was told to do, and that they Jiad put me down as a .talker, and it was up to me to make good. I gave my superior officer a snappy salute and said: "Very jwell, sir. From now on I am a talker." And I talked twice each Sunday at nearby concentration camps to doughboys and marines, gobs and labor battalions, at aviation camps and artillery- schools, and wherever else I was scheduled to go. ' Last fall, wheri I went , with the na tional parks party on a "tour by auto of the' tourist resorts of the West, once more the wires got crossed and I was scheduled to speak at' numerous ban quets and get together meetings on such subjects as "The Scenic Resources of Oregon, "What the Tourist Trade Means to the Coast," "The Lure of the West," and similar subjects. On a re cent trip I spoke before the Commercial club of Cottage Grove . on "Team Work in Community Building," and . to the class in journalism at the University of Oregon on 'The Ethics of Journalism." I was particularly interested In, appear ing before the students of the school of journalism, because here are the future leaders of Oregon's opinion. .. ' . .. I know of no man who wields more Influence for good or ill than, the editor of a widely read newspaper." Newspa pers. - like individuals, j have character. The. editor who possesses vision, integ rity of character, poise, aggressiveness and common sense Is one of the most useful, if not the roost useful, citizens of his community. I don't care if his paper Is large or small, whether he has that our eyes have actually seen the, long. long, long wished for Walla Walla, the end of our journey of 4100 miles. By the .blessing of God. we arrived here on the third of September, seven months arid three days from the time myself and wife left her father's house. " I cannot realize that I have crossed the Rocky mountains since the morning I drove sorrowfully out of Prattsburgh, and im'now actually on the banks of the terrible .Columbus, but it is really so. ' I have already been paid a thou sandfold by what my eyes have seen, and all America with her gold and hap piness could not purchase a place for me in the states, if I must leave these poor heathen standing thick around pleading with their own tongues, actually, for the bread of eternal life, unpitied." Uncle Jeff Snow Says : ' It'd most likely be a quick. way of git tin: the country shet of Jhe Wobblies to line, em up and shoot 'era ; but who's a-goln to say who's v Wobbly? Some fellers placed In power might git around to me and you, unless we had a court and Jury to settle it 'fore the shootin' begun., Even then there'd be apt to be a few mistakes. ' I hain't no great admir-- - - - ' I SIDELIGHTS "The more money -there is spent for automobiles the, less there seems to be for good roads to drive them over," complains the La Grande Observer. it' .. Despite popular belief that the fall of moisture last- month ; was unusual, W. D. Maxwell, weather -observer at Baker, says the deficiency there for April was .04 ot an inchj and the deficiency for this year is thus far 2.23 inches, i . ., . ...- , A new ferryboat will b built at once to replace the Id craft on the Willam ette river at Harrisburg," where the Pa cific highway crosses- the river, accord ing to announcement following a meeting of members ' of the Linn 5 and Lane county courts at .Harrisburg. H ; La Grande people $re willing to place small bets on Gentle; Spring. Riverside park is now open' to the public and 'with the coming of the spring days of sun shine and Warrnth, the. Observer says, a number of picnic parties are being planned, many f them to-take place at tha park. : , . ; Bert H. - Rioi. arrivinr In Medford from, Klamath .Falls,'; reports the Green Spring : mountain , road 'in frightful shape. 'It took him five days to make tne trip, tne ftieriroro ,Maii-'i riDune says, and two days -were itenent in the mud. Near the Bumwiit iart of the road is completely washed away. He went via Ager and advises anyone contemplating a motor trip to Klamath Falls to take mat route. & , i . - day from their Ihome: at Hood river. A. J. Perkins and William Lozler, also Hood River residents, are guests at the New Perkins hotel. : ' . tj s - R. E. Brattan, jwh'b sells real estate bounded on aft sides by Grants Pass climate, is a guest at the Multnomah hotel, while transacting , business in the city. -ti . ( ; Captain and ,Mrs. Allan A. Bynon of Pendleton, where the" former war time army officer is an attorney, are stop ping at the Imperial. The Umatilla county town is f represented at the Mult nomah hotel by Mr and Mrs. Charles E, Bond, the former being a member of the clothing.rfirm jof - Bond Bros. -C. J. Edwards and R. B. Miller are among the Tillamook! folk who are find ing surcease from the rush of life In that busy coast tbw by .visiting Port land. They are stopping at the Seward The Seward entertained on Thursday Dr. P. J. BartSes and Dr. W. B. Neai, Eugene dentists, ana Thomas A. Mc- Bride, chief justice of . the state supreme court. ; - - . Archer P. Sinclair : president of the T. M. Sinclair- Meat' Packing : company at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Ts at the Mult nomah hotel while in Portland for busi ness purposes.' " - .,-'. f '. '. The Rev. Frederick G. Jennings, Epis copal divine from Eugene, isj stopping at the Cornelius hotel while spending a brief time I in ithe city; James Moore, superintendent 'of the- Eugene district of the Methodist Episcopal church and a resident of Eugene, ia also at the Cor- nejius. : ( , . ' C. -C. Clark, Jformejr mayor of Arling ton, Or., and now demoting much of his time and energy to tjie promotion of Ir rigation in aistern Oregon, is- a guest at the Imperial. - ft .:.-: :' : Mr. and Mrs. M.E. Randolph. Mrs. A. P. . Karsterjjand Mrs. F. Douglas, a party of eastern tourists, 1 are at the Alultnoman,. registered rrom Chicago. - ' -.- ,: -1 Mrs. F. D. Clarke. Mrs. L R. Candle. Miss A. L. Cafcdle and Mrs. M. R. Otis are registered ia t the " Portland in con nection with tjheir tour on the Pacific coast.' The fiimt three are residents of Flint. Mich., aihd Mrs. Otis is from St. PauL- ! i Lockley j-4- hundreds or thousands, of readers, he is a constructive force in the community and is a producer and a lifter, not a leaner and a id rone. Few communities reatize how large a debt ' they owe to their local paper. .There are few news paper men that could; not make more money In . sonse other work, but they love their Job With all the problems and perplexities pf getting out the paper, they can Htee the result of their work in better community team work, in a citi zenship with higher ideals of community service, and im .the growth and pros perity of theif city. The i metropolitan dailies have thir place, and it is an im portant one: ut they can never take the place of the local , paper, which not only chronicle the life of its community but which is the, Voice and interpreter of the community.' ',- j : -- if , '-'' t . ... Of , the numerous -departments of the state university, to my mind the school of journaIismi occupies an .Important place, ' for here ideals of service are taught, right 1 thinking is emphasized and the value!: of Integrity of character is hammered j home. In talking with Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism, hei, said t "We have rent H of our students to positions on newspapers and magazines. We follow the careers of all of our students, for we want to see if they' are making good. !;not alone In a financial way, for that; is not always the real measure of success," but In service -to lhs communities In' which they locate. "Many an able and forceful editor has graduated! from printer's devil to, the editorial chair, but the same man with the advantages offered: by a course ot journalism'! would have risen more quickly. ' You can't put a polish on a pithy - plank, but if a chap has good material In Mm, -we can send him out with, u, knowkdge- of the theory and practice of newspaper making, .and we can Inspire Mm with- the ideal of service to his fellows." " a tion ; fer Jedge Lynch, even when : he's put in by laws ;The. constitution of the United States j l good enouKh fer me. and not even: to git rid of the evll mlnded Wobbly or Bolshevick would' I be Willi n' to fergif It. : 4 , Curious Bits of Information For lithe Curious ' Gleaned jFrom Curious Places , The oldest -ds-awitjgs. in' the world are believed to hate been made about 25.000 years ago by prehistoric man In Uie caves of the Pyreneips mountains, says Boys' Life. ' Some oif these pictures show re markable Iskilfl in drawing, suggesting tbat clvlllaatloiwwas comparatively well advanced at thjj4prfod. From the relics jot this period; R is believed that these men had a religion of Dome kind, that they buried their dead, were governed by Chiefs and, made instruments of flint. Exr amples of -their.1 painting and sculpture bave been fosnd. jAs man goes n bout, the earth analgrzing'f nd dlHsectinB evttrv object a 'great amount of scientific ,.1!!' formation is being gathered which wiJl some day enable him to solve the great mystery f bi early histor The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings In Brief Form for tha Buay Under. OREGON Juries Percv Rl Kellv la nnulillntr at the May term of the state circuit court tor Llr.n county at Albany. Members of- the rnurtt fnuntv Sheen and Breeders' B.ani'lutlmi him Ha. ciiietl to form a mohair pool. On the first rtav of thA rii-iv fnv it. Isens pledpedel50 of the 500 quota in the Salvation Army campaign. Hood River has voted a blanket con cession to the local noal of tha Amrri. - can Legion for Fourth of July entertain ment. Mrs. Charles Solev. nresiilent of th Associated Charities of Hood Hiver, says mat promotion has ended the need for the organization. A temoorarv ljinrllri ir flnlrt 'fnr ale- planes is being prepared at Bend In anticipation of the arrival of C. J. Thompson In a biplane. Slsson Paul' Curtis Jr.. 2 years old. Wandered from hnmt and waa rlrnwnnit in Mill creek. The body was found about oiiBijuarier or a mile from the house. Walter Nltzell. a . Shedd schoolboy, . killed 113 gophers and moles in the six months preceding April 1. and won a prize of $10 offered by the Linn county farm bureau. . - M. V. Logsdon of "Not! was fined 825 on a charge of allowing sawdust to enter f.iK -creek, a fishing stream. Iewey French of Noll was fined 925 on a chart or iisning without a license. : Vern Baldwin, farmer of Scroggins valley, near Gaston, while driving an au tomobile, was struck by a Southern Pa cific electric train at a -crossing and suf fered f.v.o broken ribs and bruises. French Brothers, sheep dealers of Cove, and their mother, Mrs. Adelaide McKennon of Clarksville, Ark., have sold their 680 acre farm one mile out of Cove to Stewart McAniah and sons for 53.300. . J. O. Holt, manager of the Eugene Fruitgrowers' asHooiatlon, and field manager of the Oregon Growers' Co operative association, lias gone to San Francisco to attend the meeting of the national foreign trade conference, of whjch he is a member. A. M. Williams, president of Albany college, has gone to Philadelphia as one of Oregon's representatives to the gen eral assembly of the Presbyterian church. He will also go to New York to appear before the general board , of education of. the church in ttxo lntere.sts of the college. WASHINGTON . Taking of the fehool eensu at Cen tralia is under way, Seattle reports " an unusual rush of prospectors to Alaska. Fishermen at Vancouver, are Jubilant over the heavy ' run of salmon in tha Columbia. : The Doty Community club will share its clubroomB with the local-post of the American Legion. Plans for the annual pioneer celebra tion at Rochester on August. 11 and 12 are being dincuswed. The " Royal Prunarians" of Vaiu-ou ver have been Invited to march in the 11im Festival parade at Portland. Mrs. Jasper Frye, 52, died May 4 at the famiry residence near ilontesuno. She was the mother of 14 children, all of whom are living. Mrs. G. F. Johnson of Yakima Mir prised burglars in her home and they nailed her in a clonet. Friends releaMod her some hours later. ,. Friends of W. E. Warren, who lias not been heard of since the Lincoln hotel fire at Seattle, are concerned about his safety. .' His body was not found in the ruina after the fire. William "Yell, who served at Ypres with the cycle corps of the Ser-ond Ca nadian division, died at Spokane from tuberculosis, said to have resulted from gassing . received while In the service. ; Contention that the federal prohibition amendment supercedes and .invalidates that of municipal "bone-dry" statutes was contained in a demurrer filed In a Seattle Justice court by counsel for Pat McKniifht, a marine fireman, to a charge of violation of the state statute. IDAHO An interchurch drive war arranged for at a meeting at Bonners Ferry. Rain in the .fuliaelta district has helped grain but has retarted seeding. Examination of buds on apple trees in Lewiston orchards indicates a light crop of fruit next season. Miss Esther Gerke has been selected to represent the St. Joe school at the county declamatory contest to be held at St. Maries. On the evening of June 9, Shake speare's "Twelftji Night" will be pre sented as the senior play at the Uni versity of Idaho at Moscow. Following the death of James Mosen, 98, of the Nm I 'tree tribe of Indians, members of his tribe held an elaborate ceremonial on the reservation. Chee Wah, .Chinese cook, resident of Lewiston for 2S years, committed sui cide by shooting himHtlf through the heart. He was despondent because an Injwry to his arm prevented his work ing. . .; ; ,-; j , WHEN WE BLOCK DJ5BATE - From tlii IiiUi-pt-uiIrnt The trouble with suppresKlng the free speech, -ot the Red Is that at the sam time and by the same- act we suppre the reply which might be made. To abolish one side of a debate aboIi.Mhes also the other; since no debate can exist if only one point ojrfew Is permitted. WILLING EMANCIPATORS Knim -Uie lioton Tranariipt "Your husband ia simply a slave to money." ".Well, there are lots of would be eiwncipators. - You ought to see the wildcat schemes that are mailed to him." Soliciting the Ad and Seeing That It Is Got Into ' The Journal Right. The successful advertising solicitor must study the business of each of h!s clients as earnestly and . xon scientlouHly as though the business were his own. He rnuBt adv1ne and plan with the owner of the buHlness to secure the maximum results for the minimum expenditure, and only advise an increased expenditure -.hen he Is confident the results wilt justify It. The Journal employs only the beat Tien it can get as advertising so icitor and each man Is. charged with the duty of protecting bis ad vertisers' interests first. Newspaper advertising automatic ally divides itself Into two major classes or klndn. "display" and "classified" advertising. Ilrtsplay ad vertising Is the kind iu.sed by depart ment stores. markets, furniture stores, clothing stores, etc Classi fied advertising , is rommotily re ferred to as "Want ads." i . When . a display -advertisement i handed in over the counter of The Journal It' is received by the desk man.- who makes out a ticket for it, marks the jsize ordered, ees that the cuts and mats are all .there, places it on a schedule and takes It to the composing room, where it if set in type. If the advertsement Ik received farJr enough, ahead to allow time the desk man Will gt a . proof of the advertisement and send It to the advertier for his i approval. After the paper is printed the denk man checks the -paper to see that all he . display advertisement ord"reJ or that day iir lnsi-ierJ jiccordiiur , instriictioi.!, , and If s-.ny crrrors "tave been rnad h ne?H that they are corrected In the next edition. (To Be" Continued.)