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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON OAILV JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY JUNE 3, 1820. " AX IXDEPEXDSNT NEWSPAPER C. S. JACKSON. . ............... .Publisher f. (Be calm, be confident, b ckenfnl ud 4n Vto otaaro as yon would hare them do unto you. Ihibliarted ever wrk and Mnndxy morning, 1 at The Journal Building. Broadway and, Xam- 3 nxll street, Portland, Oregon. - - Lntarcd .al tha Poatoffiea at Portland. Orecon. (or trariamiaaion through the mail M second i' daxa matter. TELEPHONES Main 7173. Automatic SCO-SI. All department reached by thes number. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE I Benjamin A Kentnor Co.. Hrunewtek Bonding, 1 225 Mth aTcnua, New York S00 Mailer J Building, Chicago. ' ' - - SUBSCRIPTION BATES v Br carrier, city and country, s ' DAILY AND SUNDAY ;On week .1 I One month . I DAILY SUNDAY iOn week. ... . .$ .10 I On week. . . . . .6 .OS One month..-. .44 BY MAIL, ABC BATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE VAll.X AINU BUAUal On Tear S3.00 Three month. . I2.S5 Ona month..... .76 SUNDAY V (Only) ..' " On year . y. ... $3.00 Six month..... 1.75 Three month. . . 1.00 . WEYTCLY AND ; SUNDAY On yar.......S3.S0 Six month. ... -25 1 DAILY ! f. (Without Sunday) : On year . 00 iir month. . .. S.25 Thr month.. 1.75 jOn month.... , .SO WEEKXi" " ! (Every Wednesday) On year. . . . .SI. 00 Si-months ... .60 4 ! Thee ratse apply only In tha West. Rate to Eastern point famubed on applica tion. Make remitUnea by Money Order, Expra ' Order, or Draft. If your postoffic i not a Money Order Office, 1 or 2 -cent stamp will ba accepted. Make all remiUanc payable to Th journal, Portland, Oregon. i' To hare what w want ia rfchea, but to b ahl to do without It t powar. - ! . -Goorg MacDonsld. THE DEATH RACE BEFORE a coroner's Jury Tuesday evening the scenes leading up to toe death of Tony Pollch in an automo bile "accident Sunday were re-enacted. The death race at high speed up the heart of the west side residential dis trict : on Sunday afternoon, . the cars whizzing by other machines, crossing ear tracks, flying by dangerous In tersections, and finally terminating in . the fatal torn at f Thurman street these details j were all vividly re counted. The jury found, that Polich met his death! as a result of the reck- less driving of George Vrvilo. I Nineteenth I streef was . converted Into a speedway. The mad race be : gan at Washington. From that street to Thurman, two motor driven Juggernauts, threatening death to all tn their path, speeded on. They stopped for nothing. They' couldn't stop in half a block. ; They;; didn't slow down as they passed other machines. They didn't hesitate for car tracks. ;; Even dan gerous intersections where machines, women or babies might appear, re ceived no consideration. It was a race with caution and care thrown, to the vinds. : . - . " ; Other motorists marveled as the death machine and its rival racer whirled by. , They, marveled that a wreck had not occurred. They mar veled that no one had yet been killed. But almost as the thought was -pressed,; the crash came. The fatal turn was attempted. At ; first . two wheels left the ground, then four, and the moans and groans of the injured floated 'out as the .wreckage settled on one side. - ; The race was ended. Death had taken its toll; as is its wont, after riding with the hurtling machines for IS blocks through the heart of the city of Portland. - With a scarcity of food tn Ger ' many, the Teutons axe marvelling at conditions in America when deal ers resort to advertising to sell ham. They; might be advertising ham in , Germany, too," if the kaiser hadn't grot jl 'lot of foolish ideas about "Me yiod-Cott" back In 1914, INTO" A STORE FRONT : . "( A POLICE car was wrecked at Grand and Hawthorne avenues Tuesday. Part of a store front was torn away. Both cost money. The police car was on emergency call. It was bound to a fire. .But it had no siren., - There was no -way to warn traffic that a heavy vehicle was pounding its way down the street. There was no way to keep other traf fic out of the thoroughfare, There was no way; to Insure1 the fleeting rolice i. car a clear right of way." Other traffic had no way to learn thatthe emergency car was in the vicinity. An oil truck glided out into the fiorougMare.l The police chauffeur, lightning work, avoided the truck ; ? face a streetcar, fr He averted a h with thie car and probably seri c j if . not fatal Injuries when he I . I; J his huge . machine onto the ill: wall and eventually Into a store ? v- - -: - - - rortunately, there were no pleasure rs in the street,; and but a single : clear and a single truck. And ; 'Alf, crowd3 of pedestrians' were ; ca the sidewalk. Fate prevented : : : U3 inj ury and "killings. - But , the - - 3 to be paid by the taxpayers ; .1 run into hundreds of dollars. . :. :re are -ether police-cars without rs. Patrols, touring cars and mo- v 'i t, A 'if V. WHEN LEAGUERS COME , " - " . ' "! a --wawawawwawaw '" ' : DY THEia hostility Jto the farm mD trying. to throttle cheap loans present the suspension of loans." The above ls from a Washington news dispatch, A suit attempting to prove the farm loan act unconstitutional prevents issue of farm loan bonds to secure money, to loan the iarmerg. The case will not be argued until next October. . , - -. ..- ' ' . , ' Meanwhile $8,000,000 in loans to farmers have been approved, but there is no money, and cannot belintil bonds are sold. Judge Lobdeil, of the farm loan board, estimates that 440,000,000 would be required to meet the appli cations 01 rarmers for loans up to October i. But the farmers will have to go without the? mopey. . - This is the kind Of thing that causes Non-nartlaan le&tniea. Greedv finan cial interests do not want the farmer ana wng ume; they want to loan the nign interest rates. ; With them it la a matter of gain, of greed, of usurious profiteering. : . . For 30 years the' farmers begged congress for a farm loan system. The financial interests fought it. For 30 years they prevented it. And when it was established they kept up the fight. An organization at unicago nas been flooding the country with propaganda hostila to the system ever since the farm loan banks goeq to every important newspaper. ; It wnicn me rarm loan board has repeatedly and on the highest authority proven to ne raise. i Their agents swarm about conjeress tion that would hamstring the system. on watch constantly to prevent these or seutue. - These money profiteers and gain hunters are enemies to the welfare of the republic; The struggle of agricultural population, to make their Industry pay is well known history. It has been a sirumrfe asrainst odds. Farm boys flocked to the cities because farming, the premier industry in feeding tne world, didn't pay. The old homesteads went under the mortKaoe. Farmers, formerly independent, became had owned and tilled. Farm tenantry rose and rose. More farm and went to the city. Farm tenantry, which began at zero, went' up and up until it reached 38 per cent under the 1910 census. It is higher now. Farms went under the mortgage because interest rateswere so high that agriculture Could not. pay the toll and .survive.: But certain financial inter ests, blinded by their mania for personal and private gain, refused to see why farm population was moving into the was rapidly rising, refused to see that rarms and farmers white i with high The farm loan system with low rates, long time and amortization features is o.ne of the saving and protecting activities of the republic. It gives the farmers a Qhance to pay off the mortgages and to equip their farms with economical machinery. It supplies them ations ana increase production. It gives them a chance to remain on ? the land and Improve it and enrich It and till It on the basis of profit Instead of loss. It enables them to ; remain farmers' on productive farms instead of being driven to the city to increase there the already over congested popu lation, and ultimately to swell the trict.;;-;- ;-. ' ; . ' r V:-. ::: i;r ;-j-7:' - ; . The chambers of eommerce, the business men's clubs and all the tnstitu tlons of power and Influence in America the usurers and gain-hunters who are trying td destroy the farm loan sys tem. The farmer's welfare is their welfare. If the farmer makes money the banker's vaults are fuller, the merchant's sales are larger,' the office building tenants can pay higher rent, the whole structure of trade and finance and Industry is more prosperous. If the farmers profits are nil every activity languishes. : - , j - ; 'r ;; But above and beyond all the farm loan system with money at living rates to farmers is one bulwark against Non-partisan leagues, one insurance against state socialism, one step in "warding off class war, discontent, strife and passion. ; ; ? ;.,-.;. ; f . ; torcyclSs alike are not provided witti a warning whistle. ' Some are, but many ' are not. Those vehicles are sent out practically. .every day for fast runs. They are forced by the nature of ; their ; work y to i plunge through the congested districts of the city, by school .houses, and past dangerous Intersections" at high speed. How are the public, traffic and prop erty to be safeguarded if these motor driven Juggernauts are to pound down the ' street at breakneck ' speed with out warning? ; It is surprising that the city com mission has so long tolerated police cars speeding about without sirens. The "city hall owes it to" the people to use its authority, and .its prestige In support or the accident preven tion campaign; - "' It .Is runny how a lot of aged fathers 'who have been' competent enough to build up immense for tunes are suddenly found to.be in competent to handle them after ac quisition. ,' i ' s PORTLAND'S GREAT TERMINAL WITHOUT salesmanship modern merchandising would fail. Sales manshlp and its twin brother, adver tising, are fully as valuable to com munities that have ambition to pro gress. . ' A few days ago the commission of public docks completed the bulk grain elevator which it has been : engaged in constructing during the greater part of three years. As a utility the structure is truly remarkable. It has a capacity for 1,053,800 bushels of grain and Pro vision has been made for adjacent storage of an additional 1.000.000 bushels. Its electrical machinerv en ables the elevator .to receive wheat from the cars at a rate of 15,000 bushels an hour and to deliver it from the elevator into the shin bv means of long conveyor bells at a ratOj or zo,ooo bushels an hour. The elevator contains equipment for clean ing and smutting the wheat and for otherwise seeing that the grain is in first class condition before loading it into the rvessels which sail to the far parts of the earth: ;But the elevator is only a unit of a terminal development that also in cludes great piers, each 1500 feet long. storage racuiues ror the vegetable oils of the Orient and for 'molasses, together' with handling facilities and storage-space for every type oj com- moaity mat comes and goes in boats. It would be most interesting for interior, grain growers and shippers to inspect the elevator and the termi nal as a whole. It would be pleasant for them to learn how promptly and efficiently service can be provided locally to ran to sair transfers. ' ' Why not invita iem ;to come to Portland before the summer ends and the movement of the 1920 grain-crop begins? Why not organize In Port land a welcome; befitting the esteem in which this community holds the producers of the Interior? Why not provide entertainment similar to that which the communities of the Inland I8aa system, financial interests who are to farmers, have accomplished for the , : ' . i. - - to have money loans on low interest money themselves and to loan it at were established. The anti literature recounts alleged abuses in the system , s and are constantly advocating leTlsIa Committees of farmers have to be agents from carrying out their schemes :"':'-. i, ':: ;: i : '4 - tenants on the land that their fathers i '' and more boys and girls left the cities, refused to see why farm tenantry they themselves; were bleeding the interest rates. '? V; s with money to extend their oper ragged regiments of ' the .tenement dis . . ;' ;,., : ; , ; ought to throw their weight against Empire' so hospitably provide "when delegations from Portland call upon them? .v ; j .;; -.' ? M ' :v Wb are providing on the Columbia port : facilities that render it quite .unnecessary for the exportable prod ucts of-the interior to be moved by other than the water grade. News . dispatches say ; Provisional President Huerta of Mexico was ill on the day he assumed office. Judg ing from the past, President Huerta stands an even ; enhance of ; being much sicker before he relinquishes his office. ' , DOCK : BONDS THE last annual repprt of the com mission -of public docks shows that, there are still unsold 199300 of the first f2,500.000 in dock bonds: 8500,000 of f3,000,000 4n elevator bonds, and 13,750,000 of 15,000,000 In harbor aeyelopment r bonds. . ,. The i total of unsold bonds at the C time; of Uie report was 14,349,800. Not lonj ago it was estimated that the com pletion of contracts oendtnor t th municipal terminal No. 4, would tll ror a total expenditure aggregating $4,000,000 The amount, first voted for this terminal was $3,000,000. Thus It is evident that the plans of the dock commission contemplated the expenditure ef not more than iiiwi. - wfVWVf 000 of the Uiird or 15,000,000 bond autnorizatlon. Will not the dock commission have on hand some i 000,000, which can be used in con nection with the $10,000,000 . Swan Island port program? And will not the possession of solaree a anm already authorlzled render it unn ccs sary to vote more than fS.ooo.fion with which to finance the new project? There Is service in the plan for a six weeks' extension course Jby the Oregon Normal school to be given In Pendleton, beginning ; June 21.' A Joint faculty Of tha.Nnrmal school and , Eastern On?nn tors will give-the course in the com modious Pendleton hieh iw.rinoi building. ; President Ackermans idea In thus extending tha wnrir nf the Normal-school, In which he is aiaea by Superintendent Austin of. Pendleton, will be of value In help ing supply-teachers for the partly teacherless Oregon schools. , - FIRE PRILLS AT SELLWOOD school the children dbubtlesa have hppn trnino In fire drills since their first ; thnorous, six-year-old aDDearance. - And donht- less frequent repetition has many times proven irksome. Perhaps chil dren have more than once ImnatientlT said, "What's the. good . of these old fire drills, anyway? ; We never have any fires." ; , ; ;;.;,-;; ';. "--.i-;" But the fire fiend is never farther away than the distance between a match; and dry wood. The fire came to Sellwood school while the children Were at their lessons Tuesday morn ing. With , the coolness acquired through routine training. 750 little boys and girls answered the bell for fire drilL All were out of the build ing In 45 seconds. vThe danger of panic was held at bay. i All . over Portland mothers and fathers have reason to be easier to mind about the presence of their chil dren In Inflammable . buildings ; be cause of the fire drills that assure the tots safe escape from. periL Par ents have reason to be grateful, also, to the public ;t safety commission, which, by its campaigning and prize contests, put the fire drills among the schools upon their present basis of prompt efficiency. f - Only by unremitting attention to the precepts of safety first Is hazard escaped. In traffic, to Industry, in mountain climbing, in school to the routine of every day; thjs price of safety. Is forethought, caution and coolness in the face of danger. TALKS TO EARTH NOT MARS Serious and f Wonderful Purpose .Dwells Inside of Marconi's v Recent Pleasantry. - . 'From tha Philadelphia Public Ledger That it was a mere' pleasantry that led the world to waste a good i deal of con jecture as to whether certain wireless disturbances noted by William Mar coni came from Mars and; were in the nature of signals from the Martians was a foregone ; conclusion long ago. But now that Marconi is back at home after his experimentations ; at sea. it is obvious that this very practical savant has been more .concerned ! over talking to and through and about the earth than in picking up messages in inter-stellar space. Though he announces to the world r a new ?d!sco very," r in reporting that he has been able to talk over 600 miles . at sea with a very small radio telephone, he should be so disinclined to claiming anvthlnar as marvelous In what tie does that he will no doubt frankly admit that this latest success of his with a radio telephone at - sea Is but the natural development of experiments and discoveries that lie at thei door or jee De Forest and Major General George O. Squier, of this country. Marconi's "invention" -of a new radio angle meas urer that picks up the direction of the waves and their location and the sound of the surf on a rocky shore would seem to be another application of the .principle of the - highly sensitive "oscillating audion" about which De Forest re ported to the Franklin institute in Jan uary. This new -form of audion-the audion in its magnifying j powers being to sound what the microscope is to sight was in turn a direct growth .of the commercial audion which; appeared as long ago as 1908, just a short time be fore General Squier carried on his earlier experiments in "wired wireless," the final outcome of which was triumphant ly laid before the National Academy of Sciences by General Squier the last week in April. -j -;.;";-; ;;,;-. -; With a possibility of insulated cables disappearing and with the age of radio telephony over long distances well in sight, the new Marconi discoveries take their place, therefore, as : possibilities which one niay expect from any one of the great inventors and electro-physicists. Over land for instance, radio telephony has made it- possible to tele phone recognizable messages 1500 miles. But conditions are very much more fa vorable .over sea for any.kind "of wave transmission, ana it looks as if Marconi has applied some simpler apparatus of the highest practical advantage . with out however, taking away from our own scientists their leadership ' in' ex periments ' of this kind. De ;; For est has made it clear that wire lessing straight through the earth and not around it Is a possibility of the near future,; and he anticipated in January the discoveries of Max com! by pointing out that "the future radio signaling at sea lies with the telephone rather than the telegraph. The simplicity by which voice transmission can now be had will rapidly limit the crudities and laborious pess of the Morse code signaling between ships. Yet today, scarcely the dawn of this new; epoch has been seen.- Vessel owners are today almost - as skeptical regarding the practicability and utility of the radiophone as we pioneers found them toward the wireless telegraph 16 years' ago. . m . . If Marconi's rather dramatic method of research and his picturesque allusion to Mars give this subject therefore the t-roper place in the public .imagination, De Forest will not have to complain very long over the indifference and skepticism ot those who on land or sea are to be benefited by the annihilation of space by which man is put in touch with man anywhere by voice as if he were actually at his elbow; a marvel before which Martian possibilities sink Into insignifi cance! - - ; ---. Those Who Can and Will Not Are the Traitors ; What Mark Twain Had His Tankee" Say About Loyalty, v ' From tha Shipyard Standard If someone called all who failed to vote at the last election traitors to the cause of labor, there would, no doubt. be some very badly vexed people. ; Nev ertheless one of America's best writers, in one of his writings, calls all who fall to ' vote that short and ugly word- traitors. The following; is from Mark Twain's "A Tankee in King Arthur's Court": . " ' "You see, my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country not its insti tutions or its offlcehoidiers. "The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing. It Is the thing to watch over, and - care for and be loyal to. Institutions are extraneous ; they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, , dis ease and death. "To ; be loyal to rags, - to shout for rags, , to worship rags, to - die for rags, that Is loyalty of unreason, . it Is pure animal ; it belongs ; to monarchy, was invented by monarchy. Let monarchy keep it! "- 'V; "I was from Connecticut, whose con stitution, declares ; that all . political power is inherent ln , the people, and all free governments ' are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit ; and that - they have, at all times, an undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their 'form of government in such nAnner as they may think ex pedient' i " i TJnder that gospel, tne citizen wno thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out and yet holds , bis peace, and ' does not agitate for a - new suit. Is disloyal he is a traitori ... "That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay does not ex cuse him. It' is his duty to agitate anyway, and it- Is the' duty of others to vote him down Jf they do not see the matter as he does." , A SYSTEM THAT WORKS i " - . From tha Kansas City Star j It is suggested that if all the women would stick together they could elect a oxnan president of the United States. That's the secret united effort and stern organisation It works every time. You see It every year in congressional ejec tionsthe business men join forces and elect lawyers, the farmers join together and elect lawyers, the laboring men get together and elect lawyers. It's an In fallible system, and the women will not be slow to take advantage of it. Letters From the People t Communication seat to Tha Journal for publication in thia department ahould be written os only ona aid of th paper, ahould sot exceed S00 words In length and must ba signed by th writer, who mail address in full must accom pany th -contribution. .DEFENDS THE STRIKE UmatUla, June X. To the Editor of The , Journal Referring to the account of the debate of Samuel Gompers .and Governor Allen of Kansas, held in New York, it would appear that Mr, Gompers has the best of the argument. In a recent Interview regarding his views on labor and labor ; strikes, Mr. McAdoo said : Labor has rarely If ever secured any thing in any ; other way except by strikes. f Mr.i Allen says the heads of nnions are dominating, coercing and In timldating. I wonder. If George Wash ington used the most delicate and per suasive methods to keep his army to gether during the .winter at Valley Forge. I do not believe the rank and file were as eager to win the war as their general, or is it likely they would have suffered as much privation or hardships bad they not been compelled to stand by their- guns? Washington was filled with fire and indignation at the unjust taxes imposed by a foreign country, and used every just means to throw off the yoke. Pershing is. said to have been- a driver and a man of iron will, but what other methods' could he have used to win the war in so Short a sirae? ; Strikes are minf- alure-wars and are no doubt faulty and tyrannical in some instances, but. labor has v not yet discovered ', any other; or easier jnethod of' relief. ; The leaders of labor today are striving to keep down the elements "of unrest until an economic adjustment 'shall' have taken place. Pos sibly Governor Allen pointed out a better way of settling labor's troubles, as in the -Country Gentleman he stated that "three per cent of the , pepple own 90 per cent of the" land" and that single tax would restore t the land to the people and relieve the labor situation by mak ing it possible for laborers to own their own homes, employ themselves, and get relief from the present excessive burden of taxation. . .; Christina H. Mock. . . ON RADICALISM Portland, June 2. To the Editor of The Journal Radicalism is a disease. It makes no differance how Ignorant one is. he.; takes-' it just the same ; in fact, it seems to affect shallow thinkers worse, I have a little touch of it myself. It doesn't affect all people the same. Some Kave it in the form of a bloody revolu tion, ilt makes others want Bolshevism or radical Socialism.) What. we need to day in a good economic doctor, one who will trace this disease to its origin, When this is done the doctor will find it sprung from our robbing . economic system, and the disease will continue to grow; worse until the system is over thrown and a just one established. Some go .crazy with the disease and want to overthrow the government. That wouldn't do any. good, as the trouble never sprang from our government. -You will find no particular individual or class responsible for the plight we are in. It is our decay ing social system. We are "not to get mad and want to kill John D.. Rocke feller, and other " rich men. They a not to blame. They are working under the same system yoji and I are, and we have had an equal chance with them. But that is not the idea we must es tablish a system that wilt not allow the shrewd -to rob .the simple. We can't all be captains of industry ; neither ; are we all born with an -accumulating, 'fin ancial instinct. Under our system-this class has the robbing, dominating power over, the great ; producing masses, but the producing masses have the power to overthrow it. ; Our j economic problem is the greatest ; that confronts , us. We don't have to butcher one - another-; ,to sol,ve this problem. - We. must have a system .founded on righteousness, or - it will not stand. I suggest the best brains In America go into conference and form ulate a system of justice and put it up to the! people to ratify. , It is not only the poor who want our social or eco nomic system changed. I know of men worth millions who think it should be changed. 12.' A, Ltinscott. TWO TICKETS v Portland, May 18. To the Editor of The Journal r-There are really only four candidates for president that merit rec ognition, as standing on the principal issues that the people are interested In: and they should be made candidates for president and vice president. The Re publicans should nominate Hiram John son 'for "fpresident and. Borah for ; vice president The Democrats should nom inate ' Woodrow . Wilson for1 president and McAdoo for vice president Should there be reliable evidence that President Wilson's health.' would not allow him to assume; further ; ; responsibility. then someone known to indorse his gtand on the League of Nations, wholeheartedly, should take his place. -Presumably Gil bert ; M. Hitchcock will come as near filling j the bill as anyone. All others should be excluded, because they con fuse the issue and the people should not encourage any other parties of whatever kind, and when the election is over we will know where we stand. This will be especially true If the congressional can didates line up under their respective heads.- Samuel Montgomery. Olden Oregon Archbishop Blanchet's Preparations for .v 1 Missions in.-Oregon. , Oregon was . made ' an apostolic vicariate by Pope Gregory XVI In De cember, 1843, but it wa in November, 1844, when the papers arrived in Oregon. Vicar General Blanchet was appointed archbishop of the territory. , As vicar general he was succeeded by the Rev. Modesto Demers. 'After receiving his nomination Archbishop Blanchet pro ceeded by sea to Canada for consecra tion, after which he made a, voyage to Europe, to find means to build up the Oregon mission. He secured funds and volunteers and returned to Oregon in 1847 with 21 recruits, including seven sisters cf Notre Dame de Namor, three Jesuit priests, three lay brothers, five secular priests and one cleric ;. ; , Curious Bits or Information ! For. the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places Gently swaying to and fro, a huge granite monolith forming a, unique nat ural monument has been discovered on Green countain, several miles north of Canon City, Cola' It-is believed to be the only "swinging monument" In the world. The shaft is more than 100 feet nigh, and in the course of many years has become, free from all sur rounding earth formation except at the base, which is about 12 feet wide. In the center the granite column Is about hO feet in thickness and tapers off to a width at the summit practically the same aa at the base. The entire shaft moves, probably from two to three feet at the apex, and the swing is constant under the pressure of light winds. The base of the shaft ress in a small hot low about three feet In depth, and the continuous granite formation has been entirely disconnected. j ' COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE The former price of it will not buy it now. , ;;7f ; ;;;;-; V- ; . ;: ;-.--.!;-;; .v" Colonel Proctor must have thought he was conducting a soap advertising cam paign. . v'V: v'"-;":; ; ff ; : ';!;;;;;;.;;;- .;" .; The stealing of gasoline will probably oecome so universal as to cease to be a crime. ;. a The Republican host is marking time at Chicago until the arrival of the Ore gon delegation.- - . . . -v. .;;,.;:- According to a report, sugar can be bought in Brasil and Argentina for 7 cents a pound from American dealers. L SP,03 Ko. s-ain leaps Into fame in British annals. This time it is the win ner of the Derby that was overlooked in the betting. . .. ... ; Penrose may not be at Chicago In the body,, but, his spirit is etlU already there, as- is indicated by talk of putting Hiram on the tail of the ticket MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About ToWn As the season advances Mount Hood lodge is proving a popular resort for those in search of rest and recreation on the slope of Mount Hood Many par ties motored up for the week end. Nor man Kupp and Willis K. Clark, starting on foot from the lodge,' were the first to reach ; Cloud Cap Inn this season, making the trip from the lodge to the inn in ; SMi hours, the last three miles being , over the snow, which is rapidly disappearing. The road to the inn will soon, be open .to motorists.1 Among those who have passed some time lately i at the lodge are : Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allen Russell, Harry K. Love, Kenneth Beebe. Chester A. Wheeler, Harry J. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kupp, Mr. and Mrs. Willis K. Clark, Mr. and Mrs, H. B. Van Duser, J. M. Van Duser, Mrs. Lawrence Wheeler, Miss Jean Macken sie and Dr. and. Mrs. F. D. Whiting of Portland ; Mr. and Mrs. William , 8. Walton of Lake George, Ni Y. j Mrs. P. M. Benton of Detroit Mich. ; Mrs. S. C. DeWitt i of Toronto, . Canada; Miss O'Bear and T. N. O'Bear of Hawkes Bay. New Zealand. ' ... . .. . i . . , . ;. ' , .-- :; Mr. and Mrs. W.-M. Turner, Mrs. W. R. Rogers, Mr a' N. Rogers and Miss K. Rogers of Cincinnati, Ohio, where Tur ner Is In the oil business are, registered at the Msltnomah. -They took" a trip up the Columbia highway Wednesday. They spent thei winter in Southern California, where they own.. their home, so jthey had no trouble finding a comfortable place to Hve. -They are on their way home via the Canadian Rockies. -. --. . Henry 1 Gray, consulting engineer, who claims . Seattle as his home, but spends three-fourths of his time in Portland,- is telling what a wonderful time the National Electrical association mem bers had i at their convention at Pasa dena, where they filled up three of the leading hotels a week ago. and wire entertained by movie stars mid-sessions. About 160 of the electrical men came through Portland a few -a. days ago, where they were entertained. They were again entertained in , Seattle before leaving for their homes.- A number of the Western electric officials are still in Portland, where they held a luncheon Wednesday at the Multnomah. Gray says Seattle is losing money operating her street; cars, but is breaking even on her light i and. power- system. He be IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS j OF THE JOURNAL MAN : By Fred In thia lnktallment of the Hondini sketch Mr, Liockley preaenta. aom family history of th great prestidigitator, who also tells bow nearly he once gaie away, his great and special act for .the price of a ''Sunday story. Houdini is now in the mories, and ha talks about that, too. . -y '- . -; Harry Houdini has earned the titles of Man of j Mystery and Handcuff King. We speat 1 an evening together & fw months ago. He introduced me 1 to his wife. - When she had joined some friends I asked Houdini where--he met, and won his Wife. He smiled and said,' "One day I was hired to give an exhibition of lug giing and i sleight - of hand, wori at . a children's party In Brooklyn, N. Y. At the close of the exhibition a little girl of about 16 said to me, very, bashfully. T think you are awfully clever andj then. with a bltish, she said, I likei you.' How much-do you like tne1 I asked; enough to marry met We had jnever seen each . other before. She nodded. And so. after talking the matter over the little girl, whose name was Wilhelmlna Rohner, and I decided to travel in double harness. . We were - married June 22, 1894. 'Last June, at the Hotel Alexan dria at Los Angeles, we celebrated our silver wedding anniversary. Mr. Lasky gave us a beautiful silver service. Many of the famous moving picture people were there-Charlle Chaplin, Fatty Ar buckie, and the . rest of ' them. Fatty Arbuckle, at the close ef the banquet gave a very artistic dance on the table. To look at him you would not' suppose he was light on his feet but be is. "The day after we were married we went to Buffalo. I spent part of my honeymoon in Jail there. My wife-was only 1, but didn't look that. old. She had short dresses, and when I registered 'Harry Homdini and wife the hotel men were suspicious and I was arrested for abduction. After 36 hours In jaU I was able to sef bre documentary evidence that we were legally married, and I was re leased. .(.: a "Shortly after our marriage hard times struck us good and plenty. Theatres were having hard sledding. A great many actors were out of work. I found that while both of us continued to have a good appetite three times, a day it was some job to secure the wherewithal to satisfy those same appetites- Finally I went to the Sunday editor of the New York 1 Herald, told him I had - been a reporter, that . -I would get myself, ar rested, unlock the handcuffs, escape from the jail and write . the whole thing up for a Sunday feature story. The Sunday editor was not at all impressed. I went to the World, the Times, the; News and every other newspaper in New York city with this proposition, but not one of them was interested. Inasmuch as I have since made hundreds of thousands of dollars out of this ability I am. glad they were not Interested, - for I had planned to tell in the article how it was done.i ;";.';:.... " ';... ,;;.. v., , "My wife and I bad pretty hard sled ding for three years. we lived In gar rets rand ate at the cheapest places we could find. ; She was true blue. She never complained, and she says she has never - regrettea our nasuiy arranged marriage. . After all you can court a girt for two or three years, and If she hasn't the right stuff in her and lacks character you will not be nappy, -ear you' dan court her for 24 hours and; if she is the right girl you will be happy, and the same thing is true of the man. "Where have I been? It would be a good deal easier to tell you; where I haven't been. " I have been all over Europe, through the Orient through Africa, South America and - Australia. I have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, ' - NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS "A representative of the American Au tomobile association is to map a high way connecting the. national parks of the West." says the Eugene Reg ster, "and something will be overlooked if he Isn't piloted up the Willamette highway to Crater lake." . Of the coming Union stock show j the La Grande -Observer among other things says: "People wlU be there from miles if ih, m ahortaare continues to exist it will play havoo with the at tendance, but Old IJODWa Cn o iwiiea out of the pasture and harnessed to the shay. Why not? This ia a stock show. Under the caption "Middle Muddle Ex plained, the Pendleton East Oregonian of last Saturday said: "Through a mis nnrlmitfl.nliris it was announced yester- Lday that middles would be worn by the gins Of uu renaieion oigu iuiuvi m. uating class on commencement night The middies will be used in the senior class picture, which will; be taken Mon day morning, and the usual display of dalntv crowna will be In '-evidence at. the commencement exercises;! next Friday."! lieves, however, that a; street railway system should be entirely a municipal proposition. "Down in California," says Gray, "it is hot and lazy. People get up. yawn and . decide. o play a little golf. Then they go and lastly move around a little, and call it exercise." Gray is staying at the Benson .while in the city.. - - - . , -r,-. . .. - Complimenting Portland hotel clerks on the interest they show in their guests. Lawrence Sanders of the Scenic Amer ica company spoke before the Greeters Tuesday night Sanders has just re turned from a four mcsntha' trip in the East where he found the treatment ac corded to guests far la ex in g in courtesy, compared with the Wfestern mode of reception. From -the Snoraent he -left Minneapolis, Sanders ijaid, the service grew more inefficient and the employes less interested, and person could re main at V. hotel for days and his face sttU be unknown to the desk clerk. San ders objected especially fto the hat check ing system. In the East whereby it costs a man not less than 30 cents a dsy to get his hat aaraln after meal time. Sanders- emphasised the impor tance of courtesy In $he efficient ad ministration of a hotejL I nW. E. Grace of Astoria, who was for merly potentate of Al Kader temple Of the Shrine, is spending a few days at the Cornelius. Grace is in the drug and stationery business at Astoria. -He doesn't intend to engage a room in Port land during Shrine week, leaving - the rooms for visitors from far away, while he rides up front Astoria every day that he can: to attend the convention. Mra A F. ; V. Davis had al hot and dusty motor ride . from Kelso- Wednes day. She registered at the Imperial, after putting up her car. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Crooker "and E. L. Crooker Jr. have removed to Portland from Austin, Texas. Crooker is in the government employ. - They are staying at the New Perkins until they find a permanent; location. ; ... - ; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Thompson, who are among the big wheat ranchers and members of the younger set at Pendle ton, are taking's, few days off at the Benson. .1 Lockley - ere let me show you a trick. Did you see how I did ItT Do you know why you didn't? Because I can move my nanas raster than your eyes can fol low, mat is a large part of the secret of the work of the magicians or conjurers."- Conjurers and mariclana. all over the world, exchange tricks, so that s constantly learning new things. I learned many valuable things along this line from Chinese magicians. One of ine naraest men l ever-tried to deceive was Theodore Roosevelt. He seemed to have an uncanny aotitudn for uuino through a trick and arriving at a solu tion. - After be had put me to confusion several times I decided to turn the tables on him,- It was Just after he had come dsck irom boutn America. Taking two perfectly clean slates I let him tie them together. He asked -me questions, the answers to which I was to write inside or me siate.. .He opened the slates, and, putting them on the " tables, -he found the answers to his Questions written on the slate and below the answers was a map or fouui America, with- a river in tne interior, marked The River of ajoudc lie was a game sport, and said, " s one on me, an right'" '..-i--..-. ; ,-..;,--; :r"! - While Houdini was talking I studied him closely. He has a broad forehead, a heavy mop of blue-black hair, in clined to curl; his eyes, when he. looks at you, seem to look 3 through and be yond you. "How tall are your 'I asked him. "Five feet six inches," he said. I have always been a good guesser of a person's weight I sized him up care- luiiy. I noticed that he was thick, had a heavy hest powerful shoulders and a rather slender waist and I concluded he would weigh somewhere from 157 to 160 pounds. "How much do you. weigh?" X asked. "One hundred' and eighty pounds." he answered. It seemed unbe lievable, 1. put my Jiand on his leg and found it hard as Iron, His forearm, his upper : arm. his shoulder wherever I felt there was absolutely no "give." He laughed and said, "Milwaukee is famous for two things its beer and the 'Mil waukee Marvel.' When I first went on the road I was billed as the 'Milwaukee MarveL X had a strong man act and I have always . kept In perfect physical condition ; in fact, if you want to stay in the game, you have to. I have never drank in my life ; I have never smoked ; X have never dissipated in any way. Did yon get that? I mean that I have not wasted my strength with wine or women or anything . else that would pull me down. .. . - .i , : ; 1 T doubt" if there are many -men who have had as many ups and downs as 1 have had in my career, sometimes won dering where the next meal was coming from; and again seeing the money roll in. Just at present things are coming my way. I am being paid $200,000 for the film we are now working on. It will take eight or ten weeks to complete it This moving picture business is a won derful thing. When I used to be tied to a chair on the street corner in Cof feyville or some , other little town, be fore the doctor got busy selling his medicine, there might be.an audience of two or three hundred watching me work. Tonight audiences ail over America, Great Britain and Europe are watching The Grim Chance,' or some other of the films that I am in. At least 18,000 au diences somewhere in the world see me act tonight When you think of it It is a marvelous thing that X can be sitting here, talking with you, and yet be acting at tne same time in 16,(HMJ theatres. "Durlnar the war I put in nearly two years at war work, giving free exhibi tions at the various cantonments and camps for, the soldiers and sailors." The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for tha Busy Header. OREGON NOTES A. M. Fray and associates of Aurora - v ,m d application for a charter for a national bank. , v - Vm trl olM dub of the University .J'"gon hM lcted Kate Chadburn of abandon president J ,.5id'r "ner order the state capltol buildings will be opened to the publio on bundays from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Mr"i ra Cosper of Dallas has been elected secretary of the state Rebekah assembly for the .twenty-fourth consecu tive year, . From Jannin, 1 f ... oi .v. i.i. . 111. 1 V T" . j I ViZ 12?PrVehic, licenses were 1.85i,- registrauon at present is 87.809 machines. Edwin Russell Jsckman.' senior in agri culture at the Oreson Agricultural col L.B?ir M been chosen agricultural agent ot Wasco county. It U proposed to form a new company V talt ver the holdings of the Call i?n nn"Jon Power company and Issue $10,000,000 In bonds. The Hood River experiment station Is " conducting tests with 45 varieties of strawberries in hopes of discovering a ling Producer than the Clark seed- ' The owners of land In the Umatilla drainage district have elected three su pervUora, in order to get a centralised body that can perfect the drainage sys tem. . , Bid for supplies fo the various state institutions will be opened June 15 by' the board of control. It la wnenteri that Ijprices win show an increase of 10 per The Jackson county farm bureau has taken possession of the Perry warehouse, which It recently purchased, and will use it for offices and general warehouse purposes. The Medford chamber of commerce has received 266 inquiries from outside the state the past two months from per sona contemplating settling in the Rogue river vajley. Reports of officers show that the Eu gene branch of the Association of College Alumnae has paid Its $500 subscription 1 .A! University of Oregon woman's building fund. Both houses of congress have passed the bill restoring to entry In Modoc snd Siskiyou ' counties In . California, and Klamath county, Oregon, $0,000 acres which were set aside daring the Roose velt administration as a bird preserve. In the opinion of County Agricultural Agent Smkh of Linn county a 60 per cent shortage in crop acreage was saved this season by the use of tractors. There are 250 tractors In the county. The wheat and oat acreage is about $5 per cent of normal. - WASHINGTON . William A White has been reappointed receiver of publio moneys at Walla Walla. ; At the twelfth annual commencement of the Elma high school a class Cf 23 was graduated. The fifth district chapter of the Na tonal League of Women Voters will be organised at Spokane June 22. . Iloqulam observed Decoration day by laying the cornerstone of the new vet erans' home, which is to cost $75,000. Preparations are made at Aberdeen to. Lentertain 1000 delegates to the Washing ton nuiie grange-convention in la week. The Knights of Pythias lodge at Me Cleary will take over the management of the community library and conduct It Rucker Brothers' sawmill at Lake Stevens-, near Everett has been de stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $150,000. Two men awaiting trial at Prosser for the alleged theft of the mayor's automo bile have escaped from the Benton coun ty jail. Commencement exercises of the state normal school will be" held at EJlens burg, June 4. A class Of 35 will receive diplomas. s According, to R. L. Rutter, president of the Spokane clearing house association, loans to fruitgrowers will be made this year as usual. Farmers along the upper Tucanon have closed the stream to fishermen. Campers and sportsmen are blamed for several fires and the shooting of hogs and cattle. District Horticultural Inspector- A 1 bect has announced that unless the con demned orchard on the Miller place near Toledo is removed by June 15 it will be done by the state at the -expense of the owner. The public service commission has set June 30 as the date of the hearing on a petition of the Central! .Chamber nf Commerce for a physical connection be tween the Milwaukee, Northern Pacific, Great Northern and O-W. R. A N. IDAHO -The Payette river highway, between Emmett and Cascade, has been thrown open to. traffic. A special election at-Nampa resulted In the adoption of a 87r,000 nehool bond issue by a majority of 212 votes. The first community council for Idaho has been organized at Pocalello by the Northwest division of the Red Cross. State owned timber to the value of $491,574 will be sold at auction at -Hand-point, June 5. -Under the terms f the auction- all the timber must go to one bidder. ' The Jerome chamber of commerce has elected. 14 directors, signed up 65 new members and received from members pledges for $5000 for furnishing new quarters. . A crusade against unsightly and dis used buildings will be made by Klre Chief Weeks of Spokane, who expects owners to tear down some 200 ot these buildings throughout the city. The Interstate commerce commission has agreed to postpone the hearings on the i,rangeville-New Meadows railroad -extension until September, at the request PI tne state pubnc utilities commission. Uncle Jeff Snow Says : Some people jlst loves to read about murders and killing and the trials of the same "by Jury, and so on. That's why they're so often spread out on the front page of the papers, and not 'cause th paper" editors likes to tell about 'em, i reckon, j : This1 $30,000 Payroll Created by a Portland Woman in Just 18 Months. ; Once upon a time a woman in Portland decided that a - woman might conduct a business as well as a man. Instead of starting in the automobile business, and running the chance of running' out of gasoline she started in a line that a woman might be presumed to know something-about She secured one sew ing machine and one model dressr She patiently sewed and as patiently sold her gowns - wherever she could find ."a market - for them. Quality production had its inevitable result. Demand grew. It wasn't long until she was able to employ helpers. Her business increased' with tremendous rapidity. Today she employs 30 peo ple who are specialists in the man ufacture of women's and children's dresses. She turns out 0 different styles of appareL -She has moved her-factory three times in-order to find room for expansion. Women and children wear her dresses In Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California and Montana. She has a payroll of $20, 000 a year. Do you have any Idea how lor-r ago that "once upon a time" . with "Which this article started was? Pre pare for a surprised The one ma chine and one model go'-m have grown to the dignity of a -manufactory with 30 employes, a $30,000 pay roll and distribution throughout the West since December, 1918. J v" r i ;' "- ; i-;; ; :;-;;; ;:; ;.?; ';-' ) ;