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THE OREGON DAILY, JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1920. it til ! I If i ii ! i 3 I AK . INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C 8. JACKSON. . 4i . . . . ....... , Publisher T Be calm, be confident. be cheerful and do unto ethers as you would un them do unto you. J Published , every cdi day ud Sunday nomine at TM- Jem mil Huiicnng. oroaawsy ana iw - hill traet, Portland. Oregon. Entered at the Fostof f iea at Portland, Oregon, far transrntssioa through the mails aa second . can natter. -., . . tBl,KPBOVE8-rHia 7 ITS. Automatic 680-61 All departmente .reached pgr theae numbers. roftEIGN ADVKRTISINO REPRESENTATIVE RanumlB at Kentnor Ck.- Brunswick Building. 229 fifth avenue, New Xork; 00 Mailers Building. Chicago.. SUBSCRIPTION BATES 1 Bf mer, city and country, DAII.T AND SUNDAY On week ...... .15 1 One . month $ .65 ruri.v - I SUNDAY . One week. . . ..$ .10 I One week. . ... . .05 One month.. ., i .45 BY MAIL. AhV RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE rtne veaf . . . . ,$8.0 Three months . .$2.25 . . .7 Six montha.... 4.25 DAILY (Without Sunday) Ohe year . ..... 00. Six month.... 3.25 Tbree months.. 1.75 One month . . .-. .60 WEEKLY tEvery Wednesday) One year. . , . .51.00" Six month ... .50 One month. . SUNDAY, (Only) One year $3.00 Six months..... 1.75 Three months... 1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY One year 53.50 ' Theae rates armlv only in the West. Rate to Eastern Doints. furnished on applica- Uon. Make: remittance by Money Order. Express Order, or Draft. If your postonice is not a Money Order Office. 1 or 2-cent stamps will be - accented. Make all remittances payable to The Jcurnal. Portland, Oregon. Let Of therefore east off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.' Romans iiii. 12. THE COMMERCIAL WORKSHOP PORTLAND is making marvelous . progress In commerce,- in industry, In ship service, in port development and In general business. Do yoa know why? Portland is clasping hands with world ports, is becoming internation ally noted for power in trade, is dis tributing the manufactured products of the Northwest's forests, farms, or chards and mines through many coun tries. ' Do you know why? Portland is gaining in prestige as a terminal for rail and water lines, is credited with a financial leadership . unexcelled in the Northwest, is com manding more and more of tht ad vantages which accrue to a city which is recognized as a distributive, In dustrial and agricultural center. Do you know why? The vigorous business heart of Port land and the Oregon country Is the Portland Chamber of Commerce. The work of the Chamber of Com. merce accounts for much of Port land's progress and Oregon's dcvelop . ment. - It has become a zestful body of con genial men intensely devoted to co operative effort in practical phases of community advancement. , It has proven Its aright to the sup port of Portland. It has established; its leadership It has converted Its critics. It has placed itself in a posi tion to. be more vital in endeavor and more valuable in achievement than ever before. It is beginning to .reap the harvest of seed planted for thfi ' nourishment of Portland during . many years past. The Chamber of Commerce can. dem onstrate to' -the most doubtful that it has actually " put Portland over the top in securing ship lines, Industries, constructive investments, and worth while publicity. : It Is recognized as the business voice of Portland, a center of friendly as sociation, the host to important per sonages and the commercial work shop of the community. . The Chamber of Commerce has gained a position where it confers upon its members more prestige and privilege than obligation. The Chamber of Commerce this week Is engaged in a campaign to increase its membership to 4000. There are at least 10,000 business men in Portland whose best Interests would be served by membership in the chamber. ' The legislative slate came out of the. .conflict ; somewhat smashed. George W. Joseph, who was not re garded by the slate makers as an elegible, leads the senatorial ticket, while some of those listed for elec tion are far down the" column! Slate making is a perilous and precarious enterprise. " WHEN DRIVERS GAZE THE attention of a young automo bile driver was diverted on Wash ington street a few days ago by a whistle, he turned his head to locate tn sound. ' He was traveling at a good.- speed and for several feet his ear proceeded ahead while he was looking about. " It was a mistake. -.The young man should have kept his eyes on the road way. He should not have been peer ing around in another direction. A pilot's eyes should not leave the street directly In front 'A car moves rajjidly. It may traverse 50t feet while the operator -is looking in 4he other direction. Other ;eara go last. What may have been a clear roadway when the driver peered to one side may turn Into a heavily laden street or a busy Intersection ! when he looks back Changes of scenes are kaleidoscopic. In the meantime a pedestrian may have walked out . from behind parked machine, or an automobile may have slipped into the path. Per haps the driver sees them , too late to act. ; If so, there Is a smashup and perhaps an injury or killing. There is no time for side glances for star gazing or for Investigation as to the tsource of the sound. A second's lack of attention has caused many a wfeck, many a crippled hu man being, and has filled many a grave. ' The decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia that the federal trade commission has no power to require monthly reports from corporations showing the cest of production is another extraordin ary finding by the Judiciary. It fol lows the decision of the United States supreme court that stock dividends are capital and may not be taxed as income. Corporations may no r keep their books locked up. It may be law but it is not the law that congress tried to make.' And it is bad public policy. v STILL DOUBLY TAXED THE measures for the relief of car riders are beaten. They were doomed when the city council levied in each a millage tax, and doomed again by the statement in the ballot title. The title stated that the pur pose of the tax was for the relief of the street car company without any qualifying phrase to indicate that it was ; not the company but the car riders for whom the relief was in tended, i . ' ?. Many people vote by the ballot title. Many pay no attention to the issues untH they go to the polls. All such read the title, and all such who voted on the street, car measures read there that they proposed a tax for, the re lief of the railway company. With thousands, the company is in disfavor and many a J car rider voted straight against himself in the mistaken be lief that he was taking a whack at the corporation, i . - Many a car rider by voting against the measure, voted on himself a year's carfare .of perhaps $40 or $50 when adoption of the measures would have taxed his little home possibly $1 and have saved him the $40 or $50. So the car riders will go on paying double taxation go on providing the city gratis with a rapid transit sys tem and providing In-addition several hundred thousand dollars a year for support of the city government, and providing it all in- high fares. The Journal did what it could to relieve the car riders. But it couldn't do it all, especially when the state ment on the ballot title and the levy ing of the special taxes doomed the measures to defeat the day they were submitted, j In a former election practically the same measures, submitted under the more favorable conditions that they levied no tax, were beaten 18,000 to 5000, or nearly four to one. Sentiment in favor of relief for the car riders has greatly gained since then. The latest proposals to deliver the fare payers from double taxation met with a far smaller adverse majority. . Some day j they will be approved, for, a wrong; cannot always endure. The price of white paper has gone up 400. perf eent in' the last three years and-cannot always be had at the increased price. 'The suspen sion of newspapers or the merging of one -with another is a common occurrence, f But for an increased volume of advertising, many pub lishers would be on the verge of failure. Even the magazines are hit and are considering, publication bi-monthly until the paper shortage is passed. CROP ESTIMATES TV7ITH a paper shortage as acute Vy ,as the need is great for unusual efficiency among governmental divis ions during the reconstruction period, whjy do the j weather bureau and the bureau of crop estimates persist in duplicating publication and effort? The commonly understood duty of the weather; bureau is to predict the weather. Yet the weather bureau for the Pacific coast district appears with a sizable publication entitled "Weath er and . Cror Bulletin." Af. the same time the bureau of crop estimates of fers a bulletin on precisely the same subject j Aside from the consideration of du plicating material, man power and cost, the two issues are confusing. The bulletin of the weather bureau is op timistic, that of the bureau of crop estimates pessimistic. One foretells good crops; the other a scant yeld. Since Chief Marvin of the weather buYau, sitting in his office at Wash ington, conceived the idea of consoli dating the Pacific coast weather of fices in one at San Francisco, mak- ing it necessary to send the forecasts for Alaska, Washington and Oregon to California and back again before they can be authentically announced, the bureau j is having quite enough difficulty to give service which will be.both prompt and valuable without unnecessary, duplication of tasks on the side. f ,:: " -x -, ; ;t s -. - Why not let the bureau of crop es timates attend to its work without in terference by the weather bureau? Charles E. Hughes is said to be making a million a year irr the prac tice of .law.. It is sliehtlv har. compensation than the $14.(00 he ceived as a Justice of the supreme court. Is it possible that the nation had a bargain ' in him and didnt know it? queries an exchange. THE BE RG DOLL RECORD THE criminal activities of the rich Bergdoll family of Philadelphia during the war and after and the fla grant defiance of all law and order is one of the dark spots in the war his tory of this nation. Not content with contemptible evasion of ,'the draft laws, the mother and two sons have now attempted to set aside all army regulations, and the escape Friday of one son from guards, apparently with the aid of ; the mother, is the most recent chapter in the black tale. , The Bergdolls made their millions In America. They supped of America's riches and drank of her liberty. They thrived under her free institutions And waxed fat from her alms.; They ac cepted all she so bountifully provided. The war came on. The Bergdolls had two pampered sons of draft age. The country that had been so benevo lent to them called for their aid.: Hu manity appealed for assistance. Lib erty called them to the rescue. ; With the aid of the mother one son disappeared. He refused to answer the call. Rather than come to the de fense of his country, its women, its children, its free Institutions and ethe oppressed of other nations, he became a fugitive from justice. He fled from the call. He shirked his - duty, ; He refused to pay his debt. ; The ' second son was called. His country appealed to him.; Bleeding Prance, its women and children,1 and Belgium, they asked him to come. With the aid of his mother, the second son vanished.. He fled from the call, like his brother; he became a draft evader. To all this sinister plotting the mother was party. She was so con victed. On four different counts ver dicts were returned against her. She had aided her sons in the escape and had helped them to hide from the na tion that was asking their assistance. One son was caught and convicted. He was sentenced to serve five years in an army prison. A lenient govern ment allowed him to return home un der guard for a few days. - The mother left the house. 1 The telephone rang. The, son left to answer it. -He disap peared. , Then the mother returned, Guards believe she aided in the escape. Such ; is the reward of a country from a family to which ; it was so munificent. And such js the record of the .Bergdolls during the war and after. BACK TO SANITY O EDUCTIONS in prices that very a v quietly have taken place in Port land during recent weeks almost without the public's knowledge and even more appreciable price slumri that have been noted in the East and Middle West, may, in part, be traceable to natural slashing of prices during spring sales, but the fact re mains that a decided slackening of the people s eagerness to purchase is also, in part, responsible. - Prices may recover in clothing. In Eastern cities the reductions amounted in several instances to as much as 50 per cent. But clothing will not return to the ( level it reached last winter. and prices of other articles will de cline slowly to fit into this reorgani zation. Liquidation by banks and lethargy on the public's part are having their inevitable effect. ? No one hope for the old time when $1.80 a day would support a working- mans family in a semblance of com fort. None but the thoughtless could wish for this, but sanity on the pub lic's part in making purchase as con trasted with the late extravagance, should bring some relief in anticipa tion of that happy day when the na tion Is normal : once more. An American soldier who did his bit writes that the money which big business will spend in the ap proaching political campaign and that spent in capturing delegates, will be sufficient to pay each re turned service man a bonus of $1000. Maybe his figures are a little high. Anyway, Big Business would rather spend Its money in politics than to give t it to those who saved their business. CHINA TRADERS THE friendly sentiment of China opens the doors to American trade more than to any other nation on earth. Yet America is the one nation that cannot trade? with China under her own name. ? t There Is no such thing as an Amer ican Incorporation for foreign trade. Our concerns which engage in com merce abroad must incorporate under the laws of one of the states. Bearing the burden of all the ordinary and -extraordinary taxes imposed by this gov ernment American traders must meet the competition of foreign' corpora tions frequently subsidized by ; their home governments. They do it under present conditions most frequently, in China, by transferring the allegiance of American money; to Great Britain and by permitting American cash to sail under the English flag. i j By Incorporation under favorable English laws they escape excess costs and they meet competition on an equal basis, but the credit of the com merce goes to England. Under a re cent ruling, even the active manager of a concern that is financed with American capital t must be a British subject. " American trade ought to be con ducted under, the American flag. At a - time when , we are endeavoring to re-'build a national merchant marine, ne- cessity for camouflage and indirection in order to meet foreign competition should be 'eliminated. - . ,. - i When the delegation mt American exporters and importers from Shang hai reached the foreign trade conven tion in San . Francisco they brought with them copies of the bill which they had framed consistent with their knowledge of the steps that must be taken to meet the situation In China. This . measure Is now pending before congress. High authorities ; com mend it. '4 ' CUMMINGS AS KEYNOTE MAN By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal Washingrton, May 24. The San-Fran cesco convention will be a-Wilson con vention, strongly and overwhelmingly, The administration leaders will be in control from the start., and the nominee will be a man thoroughly in sympathy with the policies of Wilson, in both for eign and ' domestic affairs. ' All linger ing doubts : on this question have been removed by the primaries and conven tions of the last few weeks. . From Maine to Texas, and - from Missouri to Call fornia, the same answer has - been ' re turned where the issue has- been pre rented. Only In two or three states have the anti-administration forces been able to scale the walls with a few delegates, who will be lost in the mass. e The keynote speech is to be delivered by Homer S. Cummlngs, chairman of the national committee, a Connecticut man with a strong personality and decided convictions. He is a vigorous supporter of the progressive, policies of Wilson, and an advqpate of the League of Ka tions.. Some forecast of what he will have to say when the convention meets is afforded by what he said in address ing the Democrats of his. own state the other day. He recounted some of the things accomplished by the administra tion in this fashion : ; we na-e made the Income tax a permanent, part, of the revenue produc ing agencies of the government. We cured the iniquities of the tariff sys tem : we established a' non-partisan tariff commission. Pan-Americanism was encouraged, dollar diplomacy was destroyed ; the Clayton act was passed, taking labor foreVer out of the category or a mere commodity. "We created federal employment bu reaus, and we made a place in the cab inet for a -secretary, of labor. A bill was passed known as the Philippine self government bill, which has not only brought prosperity to the- Philippines, but has set its people on the road to self-government and freedom and made them peaceful and contented, thereby removing the need for military control. "We created the federal trade com mission. We passed child labor lejrtsla tion. We established a rural credits act and a farm loan banking system. We passed the Smith-Lever bill for the im provement of agricultural conditions, sMd we established the federal reserve sys tem. . "So admirable have these acts been in operation and so quickening have been their efferttit umn Inrliiittitr mil xnm merce that there is not a man in pub lic life today who has the courage to nse and . ask for their repeal to whole or in part. "Was it not Senator Lodge who pro claimed In the senate that the federal reserve system was foredoomed to fail ure? Was it not Senator Root who said it would ruin the financial structure of America? Was it not Senator Penrose who ook the same position? Did. not alt these gentlemen oppose the passage of , the shipping bill when It was urged oy secretary McAdoo two years before the war began?" Mr. Cumrntngs predicted ths the peo ple will see. back of the, abuse of the president, the purpose of this group of leaders who are now trying to persuade the country to abandon its international responsibilities, and give them once more the reins of power. . Letters From the People f Communications aent to Th Jonnul for publication in this department should be written on onry one side of the paper, should not exceed 300 words in lencth and must be aicned by the writer, whose - mail address in fall mast accom pany the contribution. i THE ZONING ORDINANCE. Portland, May 12. To the Editor of The Journal Please inform us what this zoning code means. We are aw fully mixed up. One says you can't even put an addition to an apartment house if any of the neighbors make a kick. What was the kick on the Berkshire apartments? Was it the city building code or the neighbors who did not want it there? A Constant Reader. The boildinc zone ordinance nrenared by the city planninc commission was passed by the eoan- e'l. March 1 ?, and waa to have become effective April 17. A referendum petition filed prior to that date by the "Anti-sonine league" brines the ordinance to a rote of the people at the NoTem ber election and it will remain non-effectiTe pend inc the result of the election. Accord ma to section 2 of the proposed or dinance the city is to be divided into eifht classes of nse districts, as follows: Class 1 ,' sincle-family dwellings; claaa 2, all kinds of dwelling's; class 3, retail business, offices and dwellings ; class 4, pub lic and semi-public uses; class S, wholesale and retail business and dwelling; class 6. hospitals and institutions; class 7, ordinary warehouses and factories without dwellings; oJaas 8, noxious in dustries without dweUinca. Section 3 proyiuea that in elasa 1 districts no building shall be erected, altered or maintained which shall, be used or intended to be used for any . other purpose than single family dwelling. church or schoojl. This section would bar altera tion . on apartment nouses socated in class 1 district. - Section SO . of the soning ordinance provides that "any owner of Drooerty in any distrW of roe coy desiring a change made in the clarifica tion or any part of that district, shall file an application with the auditor stating the nature of the chance desired, shall file therewith a mac or piau uowui we nwratna or un area pro posed to be reclassified, together with the names and addrtninis'of the owners of an nmn- erty therein and within a distance of 200 feet outside the outer boundaries of the said area, and the same shall be immediately referred by the auditor to the city planning commission for investigation and report.' -. In the case of the Berkshire anaitnutnt rmmi. dents living within 200 feet of the proposed site iiina oojecuons io ine erection of the building wiut we ciiy council ana. tnous-n the imini ordinance was not in loree at tne time, the council sustained uiese objection. J LOW LANDS ON THE COLUMBIA Portland, May 17. To 'the Editor of The Journal Please let us know if the dike along the Columbia will be com pleted in time to keep high water off low lands. Also, will the pumping plant be ready? We wish to plant some few land. - J. A.' Brunh. (Diking on the Columbia . Droieet has tint progressed to an extent that overfbvw r in lands will be shut off for the present season. A top stage of river at Portland is not looked for to .exceed IS feet, which is a vary low stage for the June freshet. FOLLOWING THE PRIMARIES Soldiers' Home, Or ting. Wash.. Mav C. To the Editor of The Journal As the re ports came in after the primaries In the different states the objects to be at tained by the leaders are becoming clearer, and to remove any doubt the letter written by Ex-President t. shows that the defeat in 1912 is -till . membered and all who stood for nroe- . .1 . . : , " ' . uiai ume Know now just what to expect at Chicago. Just what tti; outcome will be Is hard to determine other elements not outlined will have ... ..aiig, wuv Will gO XO the White House. Many Progressive. will sympathise with Johnson in m. l kl (4ri L tight with the old stand-pat crowd, but ' will' not support any man who would Hve away all the Uvea that have been given and the burden, of debt and taxes our children are bearing, leaving the oprld in the same condition aa when we started In the war. with no better pros pects of peace and prosperity for the wwld, but far worse. As a nation we could be a great help to -humanity, but to lie down on the job as our nation is doing the idea is unthinkable to all men who love justice and righteousness between nations as well as - individuals. When will selfishness and greed be rele gated, and righteousness and justice rule In this world? Certainly It looks as if. pouueauy, me time ts. a long way off. ' ; - J S. Van Scasoc. RECAPITULATION AND PREDICTION 1 Portland. May 21. To the Editor of j.ne journal The crash has come. Just run over my letters to The Journal for the past year and see how far I have missea it. No, it will not be a so-called financial panic ; the federal reserve can stop that. But the liquidation will go on as k nas in the past on schedule tune, and in time it will start again. only the many will be poorer and the tana will be in fewer hands. It will not last long ; it will be quick and sharp : M is the regular 10-year liquidation. The nig one is lue 10 years hence : that is. if we have not In the meantime estab lished' enough single tax to check It, or at least put a damper on it. What happened? Nothing new simply mat ine guir Detween producer and con sumer was too ; wide, and the producer stopped buying. It was not a conspir acy a- deep laid plot on the part of anyDoay; nor was this collapse caused py a rew overalls. It was in obedience to a natural economic law that worked in spite of all .that men did or said. Just as long as we allow individuals to take economic rent we shall have industrial panics, or hard times or give it any name you wish. It is here, and soon cur streeU will be lined with the usual unemployed. We all know : the story. J. R. Hermann. WOMEN IN SOVIET RUSSIA Portland, May 9. To the Editor of The Journal My revelations regarding the subordinate place which women in Rus sia have sunk -to tinder soviet rule seem to have - been undervalued - in - their sig nificance. But as my critic was a man I can well understand why . he would be inclined to . discount my information. No American woman to whom the facts of soviet Russia are presented, disclosing as tney do the inferior position of the sex there, will scoff at what I have said. , ' -1! ' ' It Is the ambition of every decent American man to spare his mother, wife and sister the pains of as much mo notonous and arduous toil as possible. Women with us have first call on our working energies, for the reason that we men wish ' to assure them as great a degree of elegant and refined leisure as circumstances will-allow. The only regret of the American man is that he cannot provide" even more opportunities wnicti win permit the queen of creation. the American woman, to add delight to lire by displaying at leisure all her cleverness and charm. A woman in Russia undoubtedly does not have the deference shown her nor the privileges . accorded her that our women in the United States enjoy. . I have it from an actual observer that in street cars In Russia men no longer give up their seats to women. In pass ing through doors, men are seen stalk ing brusquely along and crowding women out of the way, simply because. being male animals, they feel themselves physically the stronger. In; Russia men no longer doff their ? hats to women. Why should we?" ask the males. "Are wc not all equal now? Why maintain a custom of the hated bourgeoisie?" If, they were to exchange places with Russian women today, American women would find they had lost much. Once they become convinced of this fact, there will not be much likelihood that Bol shevism will gain a foothold in the United States. - Thomas KimbalL OUTSIDE OF THE LEAGUE Independence, May 7. To the Editor of The Journal The Republican senate kept us out of the League of Nations, and now we are told that the issues in the coming campaign will be clouded. say not. Nothing could be clearer. When the little group of senators com menced to Tight Wilson and the proposed League of Nations, before (there was a syllable of the covenant written, nobody supposed they could control votes enough tc defeat the league. But, unfortunately, tne little group happened to be in the saddle, and by bulldozing: and threat ening to bolt and divide the party they succeeded in lining up all the Repub- cans except . McCumber, ; who had the courage to stand for what he knew to be right. There were a number of Re publican senators who. like McNary of Oregon, had been favorable to the league all along, and- it was confidently ex pected they would support it to the end, but the idea of the "grand old party" being divided would never do. Better have the world seething in perpetual warfare than to endanger the' G. O. P.. for in that case they might lose their jobs. And so they stood in like little men and voted with the gang. The Re publican ' senate kept us - out of the League of Nations, and the Issues are not clouded. i - At the time the peace treaty, including the League of Nations covenant, was negotiated, all the greater nations were perfectly willing to agree to disarma ment, with the expectation, of course. that- all .nations would belong to the It ague. But now what? Every one of them Is preparing for war as fast as it can. Why the change? Because the United States' has said to ;the world, through her Republican senate, "We will have none of this League of Nations stuff. and will settle our affairs in our own way ask . no favors nor grant any. And now we are cp against the world ; It we get into war with a member of the league we are In war with the world ; if we should get into war with Japan, Japan is a part of the League of Na tions ; then ' of course we would be at war with the league. And ' what are we doing? We are preparing for war, J. K. P. Harris. THE ACCUSED SYNDICALIST Portland. May, 20. To the. Editor of The , Journal Does It pay society for men to be arrested and. held indefinitely on an imaginary charge ..of being advo cates of the doctrine of criminal syndical ism, unless there is definite proof that the accused are guilty of the overt act? In Portland recently we had the excite ment of attending the trials of two men who were accused of criminal syndical ism, and it seemed as if .they were con victed on evidence brought from other states, and even then, it was not proved that the defendants belonged . to an or ganization that advocated violence ; in fact, two of the. books the prosecution laid great stress on can be obtained in several bookstores and also from the public library. It looks like society is loser in playing that, kind of a game. If those men cf the I. ; W. Wi are really the forerunners of a new: form of so ciety, putting them in jail will never stop tneir organization rrom growing, and if one man is held in jail one day society loses the productive labor of that man. which, to put it in dollars and cents, would be approximately S12, ac cording to the best authorities on eco nomics. ; Then multiply that by the num ber of men in the Multnomah county jail. and then again multiply that sum by the time they have: been in tliere since November 11, 1919. most of them, and the sum total will be appalling. Another factor to be considered is .the detriment to the health of these men. w aasasvaa swesvaa mrvr lit jwm oi iiivtthiiai ssrsga more and ever be. as physically fit as COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE ; Too much Johnson?- e e Did your favorites win? e ';. The primary object of the primary has been : attained, anyway. . . . - , . Well, If your candidates didn't win. they had the satisfaction of trying, any way. . .,, In Wisconsin rats destroyed $S75 In currency, hidden by a miser. .Rather rough on the miser! In - perfectly legitimate manner,? a movement is under way to make dry Central Oregon "wet" e e -Three hundred lightermen are on strike in New York. Which won't make the h. c 1. any lighter. : e . No one will care very much whether or not the manufacturers admit that prices are "on the toboggan" as long as they continue to drop. Governor Olcott to be plane passenger to Stockton, Cat Headline, j Probably trying to approximate the state motto, "She flies with her own wings." MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town On his way to Burns, where he will attend a meeting of the East Oregon Slockgrowers' association, C. E. Arney, attorney for the Northern Pacific rail road with headquarters at Spokane, spent Saturday in Portland. The Northern Pacific is keenly Interested In various development projects, says Arney, among them stockraising and 'various agricul tural activities. In; Its development de partment It has employed about 15 men who cooperate with the settlers In every thing from raising potatoes to wool. "We have a great department that is trying to develop . territory adjacent to its holdings," said Arney. "The railroad owfis tots of land in Central Oregon used for gracing, and it gets a great deal of traffic in livestock. It has a half interest in the Oregon Trunk railway." From Burns Arney will go to Boise as the guest of Joel Priest of the Oregon Short Line, before returning to Spokane. He, stayed at the Portland. : '' ' e e Oregon politicians gathered at the Imperial Saturday to talk over why it v as and why It wasn't. Never did they grow tired of how they did it by talking the right things at the right times, while the less fortunate ones wondered how it all happened. The customarily smiling Harry Hamilton, who extends the wel come, greetings to the Imperial guests. was gium. "i have nothing to say" he sighed. "I lost. I lost my better Judg ment, and when one's good judgment can't be depended upon, it is sad." I .:- e ,A meeting : of the Oregon Guernsev Cattle ; association was held at the Im perial Saturday afternoon on the call of E. L. Westover, extension field dairy man of Oregon Agricultural college, to consider the problems confronting the aairymen or today. Mr. and Mrs. A, Lelchhart and Mr., IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred f The rood loser is manifest in every line of the aitide- Mr. Lockley presents today. Jie chortles over his own detested ambitions, end officiates as precentor to his fellow voyaceurs as they intone their dirge in their toilsome pro ems toward the remote headwaters of the slucgisb and evermore tortuous Kio del Salinis. J The 21st. of May has come and gone, hope all the candidates got as much fun out of the game as I did. I have been aboard submarines, ridden in tanks and in airplanes, and been up in the air in observation balloons, but for the first time In my life I have been a candidate for office.- I have had enough Interest ing experiences to make a book. I don't really believe I can claim, to. have run for office. I didn't go fast enough or far enough to entitle me to use the word "running" to describe my progresa An old time politician, a good friend of mine, said to me : "1 am sorry for you, Fred. Tou are an amateur, and the cards are stacked against you. Some of the papers have referred to you as 'incorruptibly honest." . You haven't de nied it, and It will be. hard to overcome such a damaging impression. We need a man who is "reasonable' one we can count on, one who is willing to ask. What's the constitution between friends? I am sorry, but It would be a lean season, for the practical politician if you went In; so we will see that you don't get in." I asked an average citizen how he was going to vota He said, "I vote for the two or three people I know, and, not knowing the others and not having time to Investigate their merits, where it says Vote for five, or vote ror 12. i pica out the first five or the first 12 and let It go at that." If the names are ar ranged alphabetically, and many people vote as does the friend I have just quoted, then the candidates named Smlt or Taylor should change their names to Ames or Benson. ' e e e Do you remember Xerxes, the strong man In the circus, who, when the show went broke, stood in line to get his pay and found that the employes were paid off as itheir names were alphabetically listed? The money ran out when the let ter T .'was . reached, and Xerxes went aadlv awav. Later he applied to another circus for a' job.. He gave his name inl as Ajax. .the strong, man. The circus owner said, -"I thought you were billed as Xerxes." "Not any more ; not any more," said "the strong man. "Not as long as the payroll Is arranged alpha betically." ' . The solution of ..heedless and unintelli gent voting is to have a short ballot, so that every; voter can look up the can didates and measure and vote with real knowledge In: place of by guess work. . . Moat of the. people who were "up in the air" politically . are back on terra firma. . One of the candidates, pointing to the stubs in his checkbook, said to before. Therefore he will not be so er- ficient to produce when at last ne is allowed to assume his place In industry. as he was before. And society pays the price. Tom Waldon. CHANGE OF VIEWPOINT ' From tbe Dallas News ,.T Mrs. Peevish says that before: they wsra married Mr. Peavish used to dis cuss the true, the good and the beautiful, and now he talks about light wines and beer. " Olden Oregon Conflict Among Government Branches Over Capital Location. Tbe first' important conflict between executive and legislative authority be gan in 18S0, when an act of the legis? lature locating the capital at Salem was passed.' Governor Gaines vetoed the law. The, supreme court became In volved in the controversy owing to the fact that ft was required to hold a term of court annually at the seat of govern ment. The next legislature-elect, or a I majority of It, convened at Salem. Two NEWS IN 1JRIEP SIDELIGHTS The Prineville Journal has changed from weekly to semi-weekly issue, com ing out Mondays anJ Thursdays. Kcl Itor Lafollette says hi has been enabled to do this "because oh the excellent sup port given this nuWitation." La Grande Presbyterians have raised their pastor's salaryj t00 a year, to $2400. with a months vacation : have doubled . the benevolences item in the budget, and at the Sme time cut out suppers and bazaars ss means of rais ing church funds. j : . -- li' ' Never before, thff Medford Mall Tribune say?, has t$e telephone com pany been so busy putting in new phones and taking care Of removals as during the past 90 days. AP or which Is only one more of Medforft's ways of regis tering prosperity and . growtn. On the O. J. Wolfir place, Just out side of Huhbard. writfes the Salem Capi tal Journal's correspondent at that place, is a mineral Spring that Is at tracting the attention of many tourists. The spring flows 10ft gallons a minute. at the spring, and tleW is talk of de veloping the property Sapi making' It a resort worm wnue. tx 3 s ., " and Mrs. W. S. Taylor of Kelso drove in their machine to fPortland Saturday on their way south. fThe. roads are In a very bad condition frm Kelso, they say. excepting those right m Multnomah coun ty. They are made urther difficult be- cause of constructio work being done is staying at the upon them. The par New Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. J. vallis are at the Porter of Cor ultnomah. Porter deals in lumber an agricultural college livestock at the own.. , i A. W. Norblad o state senator, is ii Astoria, , formerly the city, having come In the interest of the Shaw case. He is staying at the Seward. ,-: E. E. Lucas of Spykane, secretary of the Oregon Retail Hardware and Imple ment Dealers' association, is registered at the Imperial. . : .' . J. H. Moran, whorls connected with the Fisher Flouring Mill company, with headquarters at Los Angeles; J. A. Mac- Kichner. manager sf the MacKlchner Bread company. an Robert F. Collen- der, are registered pit the ' Multnomah from Los Angeles. 3 Captain Earl C. Flefgel, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Flegel of, Portland,. has re turned, cured, irom ! me military tios- pltal at Fort Bayard, N. M., where he has been under treatment -for Incipient tuberculosis since September. He was granted, a SO day furlough from the army and has applied for an additional month. During his holiday and before returning to active military duty with the Thirteenth Infantry, he will visit his relatives at Salem and Portland. Mrs. Flegel, who Is a daughter of Dr. Rob ert E. L. Stelner of the Oregon state hospital at Salem, is finishing her senior year at Willamette university. Lockley me: . "Never again. jjYou pay a year's salary out to get the office and then 'you don't get it." I . My wife isn't a mefober of the I-toId-you-so club. nor of th4 I-wlsh-you-hadn't club.. When I showed her the stubs In my checkbook and sJ!id. "There's where the Dodge ar you granted has gone," she said. 'We still hjave cents left to ride oA the streetcar. 3and we might have been run Into and killed if we had bought a car. Let's forget. It" ' i -I have had, some mighty nice things said about me by my fellow newspaper men and my other friends, and I emerge from the fray, serene, untroubled, with out loss of self-respect and able to cheer fully say. The voters have spoken; so mote it be." : - e ' e J. e ' Now that the smoke of the battle of the primaries has drifted away and with it, let us hope, any acrimony engendered In the heat of the co (it est, a man shows his character as muh in defeat as in victory, and a good loser Is apt to be a good citizen. The thing to do Is to congratulate the- winner ' and consider that particular event, a closed incident, except to retain a. warm spot In your heart for the good words and good work of youy friends. Postmortems will not bring departed hopeis to life, so get busy with all your epergy on something else that will help promote the general welfare. Show the world that you are a good American and a rood citizen as well as a good loser by working for better citizenship and! better government. xnere are plenty of food causes to en gage your attention Aplenty of new bat ties to be fought. ' 5 e e Edgar A. Guest, in;, the following lines, tens or. a battle we can all engage In. He says : -f : There arc other battles to; win, , There are other fights to be fonght; We must struggle, as ev4r, with sin. We must war with tyrannical thought. Oh thereS much In our Jives to improve. There are goals that ill pear we must rearh. We've been Jarred from jhe old. narrow groove. And now we should live as we preaeh. Tbe day of the small mind ha fled. There la work here frir big souls, to do. The despotic nation is d sd. But men were tyraiuBtaal. too. We have Uved for ounelves overtong. We have worshiped a self's petty throne And chosen the right an the wrong From the interests off none but our own. If it pleased us, 'the motive was food. ' m If H cost us we said ) it waa bad. In separate lines we have stood Each seekine: ta hokl I what k. hf And now, as grave problems we face. Belt seeks to enslave us again. But each one should stand in his plans And do what is best (for aU men. As we take w must learn how to give The thing that's immMiat nt.htt The creeds that we speak; we must live. . ror uie truui witn ourselves we must fight We must turn from Oiet old, narrow ways Where selfishness lnr n. .1U. And must grow In these glorious days sw maniy to protit t)j wrong. of the three supreme judges met at Oregon City."1 The (jhlrd Judge. Orson Pratt, took the legislature's view and went to Salem. The controversy reached to congress, which confirmed the loca tion at Salem? by joint resolution, In 1852. . i " Curious Bits of Information ' For the Curious i Gleaned From Curious Places. The home of Mark Twain at Hartford, Conn., where "Tom Sawyer" and "Huck leberry Finn" were written, was recently sold to a Hartford red estate firm. Un til not long ago thei building had been used as private school. Built by Mark Twain in 1870, up to the time of his death the big house Was a magnet that drew to Hartford the great of the land among statesmen and writers. - Here Mark Twain held forth In his billiard room until all hours of the night, smok ing, talking and playing; and here he read the chapters of ,"Tm Sawyer" and Hue Finn" to his wife and children. gathered around the fireside at night.' The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for tbs Busy Reader. OREGON Pendleton's new auto camp grounds In the hast Knd of the city are rapidly be ing put into shape for use. A move Is under way to establish a union high school for the 1( school dis tricts around Forest Orove. Several members of the ITniverslty of Mregon faculty have accepted positions ?lS.'i.e for ths summer vacation period. -.e!1""- E""be,h p- Chapman. 8 years or age and one of the oldest pioneers of iiuVa" county, has been stricken with paralysla The last nf itr.".. imo crop handled by the Hood Ulver Apple . "n"ociauon have been shipped to Ner York. ' Ron-eau has been appointed councilman at Corvallin to fill the vn- r-a,Mi.'UBP by the resignation of Councilman Connor. iJln l!?1 '"iRstlon securities commis sion will probably adopt the poll. y of 2ir?,?!!r5ln the "' bond until the return of normal conditions. l.9Ut .'.J'm" are reported to be tlilnn Ing out the onion fleldn In the Lake Ls blnh parden tracts. From 15 to -20 per cent have already been destroyed.. The Initial run of the new Pullman 5itVtrei ,raln -"tween ' Ku-rene and Marsnfield was featured by a small wreck and Injury; to the firemsii. Sheriff Stlckels-'of Lane county ha discovered an attempt to breuk Jail at H-ugene. Two Iron bars at the bottom of one of the cells had been sawed off. . A C. Marsters of RoHeburo; In said to be planning to Irrigate over 6000 seres of land north of uijer Klamath Lake bv of n4o"ooo'nff 7i-m"e ditch at a cost The Hotel Albert at The Palles. which was destroyed by fire a ynr niro, will f.i.. H!11 and ready for occupancy within the next 60 days If the plans of owners are carried out. WASHINGTON P'rry Ferrier has been sppolnted n the Toledo school board to fill an exist ing vacancy. Danger of -serious forest fires In Washington has been postponed by the recent rainfall. Mrs. Evon Heterre Mitchell of Ho--qulam. a French war bride, has died after a brief Illness. - The biggest grain deal of the neanon J JlTI'1 ha" bpen rl""l by the al of 25,194 bushels for 16,889. The Rldgefleld high school Glen eluh gave several numbers at the all-dsy meeting of Pomona granue at Sara. Attorney-General Thompson- has ruled that a truant officer cannot be a bene ficiary of the teachers' retirement fund. Whole families are reported to have been missed by the census at Ilooulnm according to a recheck being made by the city officials. Mayor Caldwell of Seattle declare that the city waa buncoed out of five or six million dollars in the purchase of street railway lines. The Spokane county farm bureau ex ecutive committee has decided to hold. Its first annual picnic in June to organize a potato growers' union. A commission of six members' has been appointed by Governor Hart to re vise the state school laws no that funds may be more equitably distributed. A gasoline-operated car will be put on the Watervllle railroad line June 20 to run between Douglas and Watervllle in place of the present steam train. The price cutting movement has spread to Spokane, where a large cloth ing store announces a 20 per cent re duction on. all lines except where price Is fixed by manufacturer. Ironworkers at Tacoma who went on strike In the construction of the rtnat building have gone back to the Job sfler an agreement to arbitrate wasrnti. 1'hav ask for $8 per day. The industrial welfare conference has recommended to the welfare commission the establishment of a minimum weekly wage or le ror women employed In the manufacturing industries by a vote of 6 to 4. I IDAHO The citv council of Twin Palls has re fused to grant an increase of f0 cents s day to city laborers. A Jury has been selected at Twin Falls to try A. W. Carver on the charge of murdering a Basque sheep herder. Repurchase of state treasury notes valued at 1400.000 not due until July 1. has earned for the state treasury I'jooo The Kmployers' association of Idaho Falls has opened an industrial nchool to train young men along Induntriiil lines. ' Net Perce Indians are conferring with Indian Agent Lipps on what ninpoMl tlon to make of the Indians' forest re serve embracing 82.000 acres. Tliverdale Irrigating company of Franklin county has petitioned the state department to be allowed to Irirreiise Its capital stock from 11 ZOO to $15,000. State Game Warden Jones, has In structed his deputies to keep a clone watch on all campers or tourists within timbered areas as a protection agalnxt fire. - The Ne Perce county commissioners have not yet come to a decision In the matter of Improving the Clearwater highway between Arrow and Cheery Lanes; Felix Jeavnovlch,' on trial at Wallace on the charge of syndicalism, cut his throat with a razor during a rex-ess of court in a second attempt at suicide. His recovery is exjiected. ' The Lewlston Gun club has entered a protest against the Issuing of any permit by the state game warden allowing game blrdsand animals to be caught, killed, sold and shipped either inside or outside the state. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: HI Johnson'll be like a zebrsy mule a feller down In Georgia turned loose In his bam when he bought It from a cir cus feller. That critter liked the place and the, feed and he couldn't he got out, and wasn't fio good In. You couldn't harness him and he wouldn't stay hitched, and two hired men quit because he kicked, bit,: pawed, rolled over and Jumped sideways all to onoet and the same time and simultanyus. At last the barn fell In on him and caught afire. Johnson is a-gotn' to be that zebray critter at the big barn In Chicago, I do plum b'leve. It Takes Larpe Figures to Express Annual Output of Northwest Mills. Portland occupies second place as a flour milling center In the Pacific Northwest. Surprixing as It may be Tacoma leads, and Seattle is third. The record for 1919 gives Tacoma 1,686,443 barrels. Portland 1.619,780 barrels and SeatUe. 1,649,245 barrels. The aggregate daily milling capa city In 1919 of the flour mllla In the Pacific Northwest was In the neigh borhood of e&.OpO barrels. .Operating 300 days a year by these mills would result In a production of ' 19, C00, 000 barrels of flour. Such an output would call for about 60 per cent more wheat than the Paclfio Northwest ha ever produced in one year. Last year, when more grain was ground than ever before. In any one year, the flour produced represented about 60 per cent of the capacity . of the mills. During the year . nearly 50,000.000 bushels of grain were ground Into flour. Tacoma, Portland and Seattle grind about half the flour produced In the Northwest. The remainder is milled in Astoria. Pendleton, The Dalles, Spokane and other of the smaller communities,