THE OREGON DAILY, JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, MAY 24,
1920.
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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?-
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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"
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-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.
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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."
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,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.
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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
$2400. with a months vacation : have
doubled . the benevolences item in the
budget, and at the Sme time cut out
suppers and bazaars ss means of rais
ing church funds. j : .
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Never before, thff Medford Mall
Tribune say?, has t$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." : -
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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
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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,