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THE OREGON ! DAILY ; JOURNAL, E ORTLAND; , FRIDAY. JUNE 18. 1520. 10 IK WDEPEXDEST KEWgPAPtB C . JaCKSONf ....... i . . - ,PttblJd? C Be calm, be confident. be cheerfal and do smto othr n yra wovkl hare thorn do nnto yon. I ; FubUhd every week day nd Soiiday morning, at Tlx Journal Buildtn. Broadway ana bin atreet, Portland, ureton. Entered at the Fotoffx- at Portland. Ow. for trennussioa tarouca we rtxm matlrr. . ' TELEPHONES iain 7173, automatic 660-61. AU department rraehed by tlww Bomber. Foreign advebtisinu BEPBESKNTATme Benjamin Kentaor Co.. Brop.wick BoiVlin. 225 Fifth tfimt, lln lotki SO nailer Bnuf) rg, Chteo- THV OS. OS JOUB-NAfcie-errei r the Mrfzht to reject drtin copy which tt deems oo jectitmsbie. It also will not print any copy that in my way simulates readin Majjj that asaaot readily be weokiuaeU . turn - ; " " -'-' SCB8CRIPTION BATES , By carrier, city and country. . On week. ,....$ as One month . . . . . DAILY On Mk $ .10 . .1. - 8 US DAT . One week, i . , . . . 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A THIRD PARTY HPHE' petitions in circulation asking ' X Senator Johnson to head a third i. party will be without result. Senator Johnson will not bolt. He lost the presidency at Chicago. But he won a victory. He forced the con- ventlon to rip up the peace . treaty. He conSpelled it to undo the work of the Paris conference. He required it j to abandon France and; our other as- sociate nations in the great war-and to commit the party to his plan of a t. iipnaralo npnrp with fiprmnnv " 1 The clique or Old Guard senators ("conceded all that to Johnson as sop I to him when it named the candidate. : That concession stopped Johnson from bolting, and by the same stroke cinched the pro-German vote and the anti-British vote. It Is the introduc tion of European issues into Amer : lean - politics v and an indirect ap proval of the present . German con tentions. But It cinches the pro-German vote, and that may win ; the : election. - ' . " " , With the no-league platform' plank In his pocket, it is difficult now for Senator Johnson to head a third party. But there will be a third party. There is always a third party and it is a powerful party. It de-t cides most elections. It 13 a paty that holds no conven : tions, frames no platform, nominates I no candidates. It has no campaign ' managers, collects no campaign fund, i sends out nq campaign speakers, dls- tributes no campaign literature.; It ' has a vote so valuable that the man- agers of the two big parties maneuver , to secure it, and the one that gets it I usually wins. - , f -: This third party Is the great Inde f pendent "vote or the country. It is I composed in part of voters ; who are I truly and continually Independent in I political action, and in larger part of citizens who are nominally .Republi- cans or Democrats but af e detachable. To a large extent, both classes vote on ; conscience and on their best Judgment as to men and measures. A There have been , few presidential 'elections in 40 years in which they have not been the deciding factor. Their number is growing and they 1 win more and more turn the scale. i Those men who broke away from I the old Whig party in 1856 and again i in 1860 were independents. ; They be- ? came the Republican party. In two . generations of existence, they have in ; turn become addicted to the party 4 fetich and largely -vote by label. That 1 - is why the Old Guard made its own J program at Chicago it counted on the I party emblems and party traditions to deliver a vote that it assumes will I always stand hitched - The IndependenU beat Blaine in i 1884. ; They went to Tilden in 1876. . w hen New York and Indiana, swung . together to Tilden and - 'caused the election to be decided, not by what ' the vote was, but by a device created , By congress, and ; which in a Jess ' poised country would have resulted in ; civil war. :t,l-:-.:,'.u It was the independent voters ' in the Democratic party that beat Bryan in 1836," and It was the independent t and protest voters who went to Roose- I velt and beatTaft In 1912." It was the 'I Independent voters in and out of the 'Republican party, notably- In the . ; West, that rolled ; up the greatest popular vote ever polled and gave the presidency to Woodrow" Wilson in 1916. - In over 50 years but two , third parties have secured votes In - the electoral college. ; : The Populists grot 22 electoral votes in 1892 and the Pro gressives 88, or. four times as many, as a result of the Roosevelt bolt in 1912. ' 4 The great silent, unorganized, un captained - third party vote of 1920 will , be unusually heavy. The stage is : set for- It. There are r issues to stimulate It. Where it will be thrown depends very -largely upon action at San Francisco. A' very large detacha ble vote is waiting to see what will be done there, f : Some one with little to do has de vised for those with more money than occupation,' visiting- cards and cigarette cades for dogs. .The little woolly dogs are . to have delicate, feminine cards.; The big. rough dogs are to have masculine cards, but not many of. the latter will be printed as there; is a prejudice against the former on! the part of persons , who want canine calling cards. , It is not' stated whether the cigarette cases are to contain smokes or dog biscuit. ' r BACK TO THE JUNGLE rVULUTH Minnesota, reverted to a-' the barbarian Tuesday. Law, the i barrier between civiliza tion and the Jungle, was ; abandoned when a mob 5000 strong surged about the Duluth Jail, battered in tle doors and lynched three negroes for a crime of which they may have been entirely innocent ; , - A white girl had been attacked by negroes. Trucks filled witn pmzens wheeled about the streets, the occu pants calling for volunteers "to avenge the Attack on the girl. Three negroes were held in the city bastile as suspects: Officers were searching for others. j . ;n "I":- The ' mob ' gathered : until '5000 men headed for the Jail. Windows were smashed, doors demolished and sev eral person Injured before the pris oners were reached. They were given a mock trial and condemned to hang ing. . One swung three times, main taining his innocence, until his neck was broken. V American institutions were violated and the majesty of the law overthrown,- A pack of wolves, leader less, unruly, and ' without ' organiza tion -or authority, set themselves . up as the ruling legion of the land. They acted in a spirit of anarchy and de struction. . They were bent on death. whether the victims were Innocent or guilty. They destroyed the jail, the house : that stands as a sentinel against wrongdoing. Law was swept aside, submerged, in, the lust for blood. Nobody Is safe under the : rule of mob and mobbers. A wild and mur derous,, suggestion, receives . greater. consideration at the hands of the mob bers than sane leadership. A bloody suggestion is like a torch to the tin der. It lights the f ire' and the mob sways forward ;to pillage; demolish and murder. ;; . v Without law a country or city is given , back to barbarism. The licen tious and lustful take- command. They rule with the gun and dagger and rope. Mobbers want revenge and take it, regardless of guilt. "", The trial by jury for which Englanders so long fought is abandoned to be replaced by the inquisition, ; and : people are sent to death without a shadow of evidence against them. America is built on a foundation of law. The Immense structures of in dustry, business, government and pop ulation have been reared under the protection of law. Without that law there would be no ; government, no business, no Institutions and no pro tection for human life. There would be nothing but a cabal, the weak enslaved and murdered by the strong without a whisper of . protest. The leaders "of the Duluth mob. like the leaders of every other mob. should be sought out - and sent to prison. They have tarnished the most sacred of American institutions. It should be made known that America is not to return to the ' savagery of the jungles. By all means, law violators, whether they be black or white, should an swer for their crimes, answer In full. But they should answer through the channels of civilization, not throut, . the processes of the jungle. Of3,266 fires on farms during 1 9 18, 1 9, 8 2 0. or 61 per cent, were due to lightning. It looks as t the old time lightning 'rod "agent, in spite of his bad name, may have oeen less 01 a swindler than an apostle of safety first. S. O S. T"HESE high cost times have double me price of bread. The price of sugar is multiplied by tnree. ;. Ni.; VS:v-C Potatoes and r prunes have been transposed from classification as com mon t viands to i luxuries. Meat bills, grocery bills, fuel bills rent bills, all are higher. Likewise the cost of motion picture shows, soda water, silk neckties, shoe shines and gasoline is twice what it used to be. While we have paid without com plaint much complaint the Increased prices of necessities because they were necessities And while we" have paid the- In creased prices of luxuries because w wanted them at any price ' We have been niggardly in provid ing school rooms for our children we nave used basements and flimsy portables and wornout build- lngs rather than build suitable school rooms. : - - ,.. - We have boasted of .Portland's growth and have ignored the; needs that growth in the school population impose upon school facilities. ; -, As a consequence Portland is 13,000,- 000 behind in its school building pro- grain. - And as an S. O. S. to the taxpayers and the parents of Portland a special 3-mill : tax,' enough to realize about $1,000,000, is asked at the school elec tion Saturday. , , . Of course, taxes, are high. But everything else IS high,- Surely we should" pay for schools when needed so badly as ' uncomplainingly as r we pay" the Increased cost of bread and meat .and - as willingly as wc pay the doubled cost of soda water, shoe shines and 'silk neckties. On Saturday S. O. S. means "Support Our Schools." e This talk that a proposed cabinet for Candidate Harding will be put to the front In August or September can hardly be other than rumor. As political strategy. It would be an al most fatal mistake. It would tend to confirm the thought already In the minds of thousands 6f his own party that the nominee's career and experience has been with such small affairs, as to make him light presi dential f timber. The pre-election naming of his cabinet would be al most equivalent to a 'confession that his own . party managers realized that something had to be done - to counteract this widespread impres sion." - ' I ' FREBDOM AT STAKE A N AUTOMOBILE was bound west a on Stark street at a conservative speed "Wednesday: It entered the intersection at Fourth. ' A delivery truck was traveling squth on .Fourth at much higher speed. The first machine was in the intersection 15 feet before the second car entered. The second driver, because of his position on the right, assumed that he had right of way, and f accordingly. whirled through without slackened speed. The 'Stark street driver, al though he was clearly entitled to right of way, because he unquestionably entered the intersection first, brought bis machine to an abrupt .stop, yield ing right jof way and avoiding an ac- cidenL : ' ; Another delivery driver made the same assumption a week before at Fourteenth and Taylor. He was to the right, and, therefore, assumed right of way. The other driver in that accident claims he was in the inter section first. . Neither stopped. They smashed, and now both are threatened ; with manslaughter charges. In the ; collision, J. H Rankin was killed. ; ' The two -delivery pilots acted iden tically. ; Bom were traveling rapidly. Both were to the right, and therefore rassumed the right of way, regard less ! of the position i of the other -two machines in the in tersection. Neither .applied .brakes. One is in the toils of the police, await ing action of the grand jury. The other may have escaped the same fate. because of the conservative ; driving of the second operator. ; ' r- Drivers don't -always yield right of way. There Is frequently, question as to who is in the intersection first. Even if one is clearly entitled io rigl.t of way ; the other driver ; may not yield it. There is always the personal element in automobile operation, and one driver may make a mistake at any time. If he does at an-Intersec tion, and the other pilot falls to pre pare '- for such a contingency, there may be a killing. . There is only one safe wav to come into Intersections. It is with a ma chine entirely under control in order that the driver may bring it te a stop within a few feet." When he enters with control of the machine the . driver is prepared for the mis takes of others, anticipates them, and is ready to avoid collisions and fatal ities, even if forced to yield his rights. Thatman seldom faces a - coroner's Jury with his freedom at stake. ' J As pointed out by W. F. Wood ward, a bond issue for school build ings was defeated by Portland peo ple.. That was on the supposition that i a millage tax for building was preferred. Now the 3-mill bill is of fered as substitute. Will it, too, be beaten? : Are you going to . rote against the children ? TELL THE PEOPLE 1TERE is something from the Port- land Evening Telegram : 1 in passing we should also . confess agreeable surprise that ; The Journal should institute direct conrast between the cost of paving, under contract with the city and through the operation of the city paving plant, and ; the lowest bid under which the Warren Construction company was awarded a contract on sifaiiiar and adjacent work. Previous to this we have never known The Journal to ; be otherwise than mindful of the Warren Construction company's inter ests, nere is tne manifestation of a change of heart which is commendable, ii it snail prove lasung and sincere. The Journal has always encouraged and publicly favored the municipal paving plant. '. The Journal is not a "kept" newspaper. It is ' for Justice wherever it sees It. It holds no brief for any paying company or any tim ber company or any other company. It. Is free from secret ; entanglements. alliances or " understandings, and -1 is under no obligation to, or remotely. directly or indirectly Influenced by, any private or secret Interest. Instead of trying to Injure honest institutions and blacken ;. the reputa- lion of almost every decent man in Oregon, the Timbergram, If its pro- fessed piety, is genuine, should do this : - n - -:'mfr'--K-' Tell the waiting people of this com munity why the fake Bluff Mountain Forest reserve was created; tell them the names of men who got worthless lands there and exchanged them to the "government for enormously valu able forest lands; tell them the names of persons who made large fortunes in the process and tell whether any such persons bought a newspaper and for what purpose. they bought It. . four hundred employes' to please their s employer, , exhibited their pocket money, says Forbes Maga zine. 'They had a total of. $11,200. an average of $28 eachl ; If workers who engage in "pocket hoardings" would invest r their money, say In Liberty bonds at present rates, they would avoid the danger of wearing holes in their pockets ' and' they would have less reason for future complaint that the money power of America has . cornered the govern ment's securities. . HIRAM JOHNSON -S VICTORY It Carried the League Question Out Into the Open, Where the League's . Friends Wanted It. rmrn the New Tork World (Jniu 111': Senator Hiram Johnson has had his way about the League of Nations plank in the Republican platform. This was inevitable, because there has never been a substantial disagreement between Sen ator Lodge ' and Senator 1 Johnson over the treaty. They have differed as to the weapon that should be employed in killing it, but In the general policy t?f I assassination they have worked together. a . ni i j . i . . lire numiTsa in vnicago wu a, quarrel about expediency.,- not about principle. The Republican national convention is governed mainly by Republican senators who beat the treaty, ? and the platform controversy revolved around the -issue as to how they should exalt their achieve ment. Johnson insisted that the bitter end method be vindicated. Certain others believed that all ' of the people, could again be fooled part of the time by" a straddle. They wanted . to keep the voters guessing until after election, but Johnson, being an , aggressive element. nas succeeded , in committing the lie publican party to the senate's actual record and not to the hypocritical pro fessions or the .Lodge reservatiomsts. The Republican, party in convention assembled is against the treaty of peace. It is against the League Of Nations. Its demand for a world courp is made doubly ridiculous by the fact that Article XIV of the covenant of the league provides for such a court: ,jt . "The council shall formulate, and sub mit to the members of the. league for adoption plans for the establishment of a permanent .court of international Jus tice. . i V'---- - fi.t-i Elihu Root, who' is said to have sug gested the compromise plank adopted yesterday, is on his way to Europe to participate in the organization of such a . court. - The only way to . get ' it is through the League of Nations and the United States is not a member of the league because a Republican senate has refused to permit it to become a member on any terms that drd not involve the destruction of the equality of duties and obligations upon which the league rests. It was inevitable that the Chicago con vention . should refuse : tO advocate the ratification of the treaty of peace. It was Inevitable that it should indorse the action of the senators who' killed the-4 treaty and repudiated: the league. These senators had made the party record and that record " could not be evaded. Th3 one issue before' the convention was whether the responsibility incurred by a Republican senate-should be frankly accepted or whether a further attempt should . be made to carry out the . pre tense that the senate was trying on.'y to "Americanize" the treaty. In no respect are the resolutions clear and unequivocal. - But a League of Na tions' plank that has the enthusiastic approval of Senator Johnson and- Sen ator Borah can have only one meaning. The convention has surrendered ' to the Battalion of Death. - J e e e . Insofar as Johnson, has compelled the convention to take this i definite -stand against the league and in favor of the treaty killers, he has rendered a pubnc service of ho mean valuei The question is now in the open, where it belongs, and it can be taken to the ballot box on its merits. . ' i I Letters From the People " f Communications lent to! The Journal for Snblication in this department ihonld be written on only one ae oi toe paper, inouia not exceea 800 words in length ana mnst be signed by the writer, whose mail addresa ia full must aeeom- vmaj tne contntrauon. j ; i MRS. SHERMAN'S QUALIFICATIONS Portland, June 17. Toi the Editor of The Journal To say that Mrs.? Francis A. Sherman should be elected as school director because she is a woman would be at once most insipid and an insult to the intelligence of every qualified vofler.' To say she should be selected because she is "the" woman is an argument at once appealing, cogent and - also - truth ful. - - . .7- . Some claim .that if the bond issue passes there -will be much building go ing on that needs the master mind of man to direct We do? not expect that Mrs. Sherman will be called- upon to don overalls, and measut-e lumber, count brick i or attend to any duties that call fcr brawn rather than brain. But she is fully competent to attend to many minor but exceedingly important details, the minutiae of which do not appeal to the mighty masculine intellect. All Port land's school buildings were planned and built' by men , alone. - Are any of them quite Ideal? Few, indeed, are those which have even fair acoustic properties in their auditoriums. And in how many of them do conveniences: and sanitation go ha nd - in hand ? M rs. Sherm an. by reason of wide travel, innumerable visits to the best : of 'educational institutions both in our own and other lands, and also by reason- of an unusual' degree of personal taste, is amply qualified to give much thought and effort to . just such questions as these. : She to prepared - to devote, not a few hours snatched .from other engrossing occupations,' but all her time, all her. thought and all her effort to the bet terment of . all our schools. Her long experience as an educator would alone make her the peer of any other candi dates and her . familiarity with an im mense number -of textbooks also adds greatly to fier value. Many : questions arise regarding morality; among the pu pils -which need advice and consultation. To whom would the teachers, the major ity of whom are women of delicate sus ceptibilities, be more apt to carry sucn problems than to another woman? One might go on and -on' and on, citing good reasons and sturdy arguments In ftvor .of -Mrs. Sherman. . No claim is made that she is a super-woman or an Admirable Crichton. or even an angelic visitant. : She is just a woman. "'nobly planned, to warn, to eounsel and com mand.", one of culture,-travel, education and refinement, ' of superior ability and moral worth.. She measures up to every standard of required knowledge. - She Is a mother, and knows a mother's prob lems. Sh is a teacher, and knows the game from that side also. ; She has man aged her own affairs well, and is there fore worthy of trust. We feel sure she will make good,; and on these grounds do we ask the people of Portland to cast their united ballots tomorrow lor Mrs. Francis A. Sherman. - - .- Marian D. Merry. AN AMERICAN ASSET Portland.' June- 17. To the Editor of The Journal Sanfleld MacDonald, man ager of the Johnson campaign in Ore gon during the primaries, made the following statement to a representative of the pregonian . The Johnson organ- ization will go down the line for the Republican ticket. : ;This is official.- ' With-all due respect for the official position held by Mr. MacDonald in the Johnson organization, and for his right to speak, authoritatively, we contend that be is not a court of last resort. . No man .knows what is seething in the great mind 'of Senator Johnson on this ques tion. Until there is, made public a tel egram of congratulation ; Irom senator Johnson to' his 'succMsful opponent, or some public announcement from Senator Johnson ; to -. the American . people, we shall continue to hope that he will ..enter the campaign as an independent Repub lican, i - - ' If Senator Johnson refuses to run as an independent Republican, our organi zation will concentrate our efforts upon an attenpt to bring about a coalition and consolidation of the delegates to the convention of the Committee of 48, the delegates to- the convention of the Amer ican Labor party, , and ; the delegates to the convention . of the Non-partisan league, all of which meet in Chicago between the 10th and 15th day 6t July.. In furtherance of this object, as large a delegation as available funds will per mit will be sent from this state. A great many years after the death of John Wycliff, his remains were dis interred and his ashes thrown into the waters-of the river Avon. A-poet of the time penned the following : "The Avon to the Severn flows, the Severn to the i sea; the ashes of Wycliff will 'be borne as far as the waters be." v' s The Johnson spirit is rampant through out the .land. ;Il is an idea. There Is no power in heaven or earth that can kill an idea. It demands and. will have expression. Hiram Johnson is more than the greatest asset of the Republican party ; he is the greatest asset of the American people. W. P. Adams. THE LEAGUE YES OR NO Vancouver, Washi; June 14. To the Editor of - The Journal Anent the League of Nations, I consider Taf t and Hughes- its roost sane and 'conscientious critics.-. I look on the maudlin mouth ings of kept politicians regarding it as but political guff. As regards the league, I stand on neutral ground would accept or reject it, but would never straddle it Through taking a positive stand in op position to the league. Johnson, Borah and Poindexter have saved the reputa tion of the Republican party.. If at their Convention the Democrats can eliminate W. J. Bryan, the Rev.. . Dr. - Aked and Mrs. WIn8lows Soothing Syrup and de clare in plain words . for the league. they will hold of their party all that is worth holding. The league is good.-or else bad. Let it go before the people. so they can vote '"yes" or "no." ' . J. Harold. URGES MRS. SHERMAN'S ELECTION Portland. June , 16. To the Editor of The Journal Why shouldn't we have a woman on the school board? If there is a place where the - services of woman would be beneficial to the in terests of the people of Portland, It Is in ' the capacity of ' director of the school board. ; Most of the directors in the past have been men active in busi ness and who never have been able to give any - great amount of time to the duties of : school business. There is plenty of business -to; be ' transacted, and if the proper interest were taken in school affairs' it - would require a great deal more time than has been given in the past. Mrs. Sherman, the only woman can didate- for place on : the board, is well qualified, having, been a teacher for over 22 years and having spent four years of that time as a representative of - the United States government in the Philippine islands, where she was sent to establish the public school sys tem in some of the islands. . She Is a woman of high educational attainment. , Her - wora in tne schools of this city should be suffi - cient : recommendation - to all of the people as to her interest .-In the wel fare: of the - common j. people. i p : As a member of one of ; her Ameri canization, classes, I am familiar with her work, and I am very grateful for the untiring efforts that she put forth in the interest of the people who by force s of circumstances ; have been de prived of .the advantages of higher education..' Night after night she - has labored in the night schools of this city, giving all her time uncomplain ingly, endeavoring to make better American cltirens ; of those classes off oppressed people who have come to our city from all parts of the world. . Mrs. Sherman speaks seven different lan guages and has been a comfort to the foreign people of this . city in their ef fort to s prepare - themselves; to become loyal American citizens familiar with the customs of the American govern ment. I appeal to that class of peo ple who belleveta. the institutions of this country fid who appreciate the efforts of a good woman to give them the advantages tfaju they have been deprived of through lack of opportu nity, i If the people of Portland Knew Mrs. Sherman . as I know her. there . is no doubt she would receive' more votes for school director than all the other can didates combined. . . - - L Davis, ; ff PROCTER AS WOOD , "ANGEL" ; -Cbicaco Special to New York World,- June T. Colonel William Cooper . Procter, the financial manager- of General Leonard Wood, is proving : to be an "anger in more "respects than one. He not only contributed $700,000 to : the . - general's camnaian. but . is footing the bills of quite a number of guests at,the Chicago 1 hotels, - the ' rates or wnicn are- prrnjr high and the accommodations scarcely worth the money It - developed today that, before the colonel Informed the senate committee the extent of his generosity in promoting the Wood campaign he telegraphed the following invitation to the delegates in structed -for General Wood, to workers who had helped the cause and to news paper writers who have written favor ably for the Wood promotion: -vv " -."We are very anxious to have you as our guests . from May 28 -till after the convention. .Hope you iWill be abla to accept, f Please answer :r collect, care of Wood headquarters. Congress hotel. i .y ' "W. C. Procter, "Leonard Wood Campaign Committee." It is understood that several men and women also received this invitation and accepted it with pleasure. - Olden Oregon Benton County, as First Formed - in 1847, Was a Huge Domain. Benton county 'was named in honor of Senator Thomas H." Benton of Mis souri, who took a prominent part in the discussion- of the Oregon question in congress. When the county was created, in 1847. it included alt the territory on the west side of the Willamette south of Folk county and north of the California boundary. The present boundaries of the county were fixed January .15, 1851. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE 1 Have you a little automobile' driver's license In your garage? - . e e !.. Don't forget to let your guest have a eight-key. It may come in bandy. , - -No use talking about the weather. We'll just have to let it have its own way. - . ;. . i. . v. "' e . e ,:: e . - ':: Home-brew stocks will suffer a lot next week should the weather warm up A -court at Astoria hasdenied citizen ship to a Finnish slacker. Quite the proper finish for him. .1 - We have no silver to sell to the -"mint for $1 an ounce. Storekeepers soon-take what little we can get together. There is no money on hand with which to pay a "needed prosecutor of liquor law violators, which is probably one lit tle ray of sunshine for the moonshiners. The price of gas has gone up in Chi cago. Wouldn't you think there would be enough hot air left over from the late convention to last them for awhile, any way. e '. e . Henry Ford in consider-in? th manu facture of Zeppelins, and suppose when' he starts turning them out wholesale they'll be fliwing around in the air like so many hornets. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About ToWn Lakeview folks,:- it .seems, . are per fectly willing , to be labeled with the brand of "sagebrush," for Lakeview is 'some city in the opinion of its many enterprising citizens, j The "sagebrush" brand designated Mr. and Mr. H. - M. j Nolte and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. utiey. who drove into Portland Thursday from their Southern Oregon home town. The travelers : came , by r way of . Bend' and thence over the ; Columbia ' river high way all to be on hand when the big Shrine show opens Monday and to an ticipate its opening by being here to see preparations for ' the entertainment completed, .When the families left Lakeview some wag tied a sagebrush bush on the rear . of their car, and all unaware, they say, the quartet drove on and into - Portland. Once on the streets of the city the motorists were accosted by the glib cheers of urchins who called to them, "Hey, sagebrush ers I" as " they drove about town. The brush." however, remained on the car as a badge -of distinction.: Lakeview . is coming along apace, the visitors say, and the only - thing that could make it a better town would be direct railroad connection with Portland.. Mr. "and Mrs. Gale Anderton of San Francisco are in Portland for a few days before returning home. The vis itors have been at Seattle attending a convention of bankers, in which An derton was personally interested by reason of the fact that he is secretary of the - London & Anglo-Paris Bank of San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Ander ton are at the Benson. . W. G. West, resident at the Klam ath 'Falls agency. , Klamath county, about which sportive braves cavort in expensive automobiles, is a guest at the Imperial hotel. ' . ' y Increasing activity In mining opera tions in Eastern : Oregon, resulting in several important strikes in the Green bom and other gold mining districts. Is reported by N. H. Jones, 499 Web- IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF; THE- JOURNAL MAN ' - By Fred fA pioneer atory quite out of the ' ordinary ia now recorded by Mr. . Lockley. It to a tale of hardship suffered at the hands of man. the victim aeeminc to -ha been especially marked by fate 'for the haft of misfortune and in justice. J . , . . . . - The G. A. R. veterans, the Woman's Relief Corps and the Daughters of Vet erans came up from their convention at Astoria last Saturday on the Georgian a. It waa mv eood fortune to be with them. I it was like . having the ' clock of the 1 years turn back to listen to their stories nf th ntirrinsr davs when Father Abra ham was calUng for more recruits -ana the boys of that day were rallying . to the colors.- So vivid were . the stories tniA bv niur of the gray-haired boys and girls for at heart they are still young that one could almost hear the reverberations or tne guns urea at rwi Sumter or hear the rebel yell as Pick ett's gray-clad warriors charged against the lines of blue at Gettysburg. Of all the stories. I heard during the- afternoon and venlng I am going to re peat but one, and that isn't a story oi the war. I sat for a, while with Mrs. Lizzie - Smith of Portland, past depart ment commander of the W. R. C "I'm related to the war only Dy mar riage." said Mrs. Smiths in answer to my question: "My husband, Joshua Smith, was in the Fourth Iowa battery of light artillery. But I didn't marry him till after the war was over and done. We were married July 1.- 1876. and ever since I have taken a keen interest in the W. R. C. "You want a story from me 7 bay, if I should give you a story you would ' think v It was a hard luck story. Yes, I may seem jolly and good natured, and I reckon maybe I am, but i, !. wnnu I have had a happy, care-free life. Jl-'am older than I look." I - was born at Quincy, IH- October 17 1849. I never saw my father, Ezra Wyatt, rHe left early in the spring of 1849, for the mines of California, and I was born that fall. He got a good claim. Mother heard. He quit writ ing and the authorities out there wrote Mother that he had died of mountain fever typhoid they call it nowadays. Mother had the farm to run, and had two little children. : Eliza Jane was nearly 2 years old and I was the,baby. I was christened Mary Elizabeth. Mother felt she needed a man about the house. In those days a widow was a good deal more helpless and dependent than-they are these daya . She married a man named McMahilK .,; , .. "In the spring of 1853 Mother turned most of her property into cash and we started by team for CaUf ornia. J ane was nearly , and I was going on 4. We were driving a horse and a mule. On Green river the horse played out, so we camped for a spell there for him to rest up. After we had been there a few days some more emigrants drove up and camped not far from ua The morning after they had pulled in .my stepfather rode to their amp on the mule and said, Tm going to California. I have a' couple of children. You can have them if you want them. They are no kin of mine. Their mother is dead Take them if you want them. I haven't any way to take care of them, nor any The original name of the county seat was Marysvllre, but owing to its be ing confused with Mary svt lie. CaL, the name was changed to Corvallis. - NOTHING BUT PEAKS rrom the Loyal Amerioaa , - 7 Statisticans tell -us the peak of prices has been reached and that a decline has Etl in. Have you noUced It? W haven't. NEWS IN BRiEF - SIDELIGHTS -For the City of Prlneville railroad a Po flfVfnt h been 'purchased the iong felt want, na own ui a I similar ranw2V of Washington. . Tn m. nlrlt of we shoufd worry about in a spirit oi w M"u'';,.r-' -vs: W y'vK that It is a good town, rather than a big town, a wholesome town, rather than a mush- room community.. - : ; - .. ...'. e a Coqullle's Fourth; of t Julr Jjl?" American Legion, the Chmber - of ,0,,ntt iwwttKraMnir i -KvrVthlng IS to I JSUl dAyonday eXCP rcNuarur m.". v aIUi..- local oubllclty cSmplains that "daily., for the last sev- eral days. . homeekers have . passed throurh here destined for an Inferior whl?- iTrU of . enterprise haf eaewn t M nMmrtr SV I nM I . railH AIIIV1 e I Inaugurated . an irrigation vij- 1 development is . In progrftaa, . i t . I . . .1 . M Ai mr . we Art 1 '-mere is generjn , . I ;ss of drives,' but tne oaivaumi m I I" -lne."on- , ,i,Vmcvietl drive; it is merely -collectieg themoaest sums it neeos in oruer C help every down-anaupe.. needs neip ana nas Bwnvw ster street, who : returiaed . this week J from working his placer -claims mi LRair nnri rim ni omirttiea. Jones Is i asslsted in his operations by his two sons. Rosco H and ,W. D- and by w. ,-77 , I Charles" F. Fleischman of Portland, I a student in division of ence , d engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, has been fleeted to the business staff of the J new technical journal, the -Carnegie f. Engineer, fori next year, according to, wora receivea from the school. Its is! said that the new publication is viewed with great interest at the institute and tnai n the. full support of the faculty,! whose members expect much of the Journal. ? :. - - Joseph F. Morris of i .Vancouver, B. C, accompanied by Mrs. Morris, regis - tered at the : Multnomah hotel Wednes-1 day" and spent the day 3n dodging, con- ventlons and arranglng'tother meetinga Morrts is grand exalted ruler Of -Uie Canadian lodge of .Elks', and his great - est hODe" for the presant is the eariyi JSST or mo "vb ui uro "-"; . Canadian lodge. The lodges, however, cannot be connected otherwise than so- daily. ; , ' - ii . .t With practically evef?V state in the v . : Union represented by guests at the! The state board of education Is ln riQ j hntai -Mr and. Mm. R. Hatch I vestigating the method mud at the of "Thane. Alaska, put their names upon! th- riti-1 nndtherebV the territories were represented BefcVe the week H7hZ L t, ., h- , - e out. clerks beii H.iit O0am; Porto CoB t' nd." Jr Rico and the Virgin Islands win sena Visitors to Portland. ' : America's fussy little neighbor atthe south-contributed a Visitor to the Mult - nomah hotel w Hineaaay, wnen r.i u Van Zandt Jr.. registering from Mexico City, Mexico, , arrived in the city. - - w Mr. and Mrs. Mark Cameron of Hood while visiting briefly fin the city. Lockley .v - use for them if I had,) He didn't tell them his name nor wbtre'-he could be located when he got -t.j. California, so we never heard of him again. , "Tliey hitched . a span- of oxen to our wagon, a strange woman got into the wagon to ride with us.; and we started on for Oregon, r She .aked Jane what mother died of. , Jane' said, When I woke up Mother : was lying still. Her neck was cut open and blood was all over her -dress.: Papa' tut her in a hole In the .ground.' My stepfather had mur dered my mother, take the money and gone on to California. "The families that toqk us were named Daniels and Ball. - Thei took the wagon and the outfit in 'payinent for taking care of us. These two families went on to Southern Oregon. They gave us to a family down there. W6 were taken for a while by. one family and then another, and passed on till we landed in the home of the Rev. William Rival, a Methodist minister,, poor as a ch-urch mouse, but mighty - good, for he ept me several years. In 1859, when i I was 10 years old, I was a good worker could cook, sweep, do -a-family washing and do the chores, so I got work witJt the Rev. J. L. ; Parr ish at Salem, t Later I worked for Colonel Ike Moore's! family in Salem, then for a farmer hahied Blair, near Corvallis. Later L worked for the Mal loys. When I was about 18 I got work With Ralph Geer In the -Waldo hills. He Is an uncle of ex-Governor T. T, Geer. "On New Year's dayj ' 1867. I married W. H. Lewis, a photographer. Three children were bom - to UaLinnie, Clar ence and Nellie. My husband thought having children- had sjioiled my girlish figure, so he made me so unhappy and was so harsh that I bad to quit him. "In January, 1911, my second husband. Joshua Smith, while riding across Mill creek on Winter street in Salem, was washed down the strfam. His horse got tangled 'in a lot of illoose barb wire. He drifted against a tree and climbed up into the tree out of the swlfV.water. Neighbors heard his cajl and came out to rescue him. They threw him the end of a long strand of barb wire and told him to fasten it around his waist and they would, pun him d. shore. He fas tened the wire and started ' to swim ashore.-, They pulled On ; the wire too hard, and where there was a kink in it the wire broke and my husband was car ried down stream. They found his body two days later. i . : jt : . In MIS Professor JT. -H- Crawford, principal of the Portland high school, went East and loca ted. our relatives, but they weifcn't very enihusiastic about claiming relationship, as they had heard we were all dead and trSey had taken the farm and didn't want tp glve.it up. We let them keep it. t T . Tes, I haven't had an altogether haocy life, but I bave made the'' most of what happiness I have had- I had such a hard, unnleasant girlhood that I can stand more unhappiness than lots Of people, for hardly anything that hap pens is as bad as lois-or in uiraji hui to stand as a little homeless girl. when I was passed on from family to family, and when I earned my Dreaa in bitterness." '-. We still see - a, whole j flock of peaka There is the Egg peak, the Butter peak. the Milk peak, the Meat peak, the Bread peak, the Fruit peak, the Potato peak.' the Sugar peak, the Shoe peak, the Hat neak. the Clothing peak, the Laundry peak, the Coal peak, the Rent peak and a host of other, peaks. We. can't see any thing but peaks. What has become of the good old valleys we used to have? The Oregon Country North' Happening la Brief Form for tike Bat j Reader. OREGON NOTES , The nurebred sire campaign will be fostered bv th Lana Count v Purebred jffi WlaUon with. w-thi. The Dallas Canning company will be- pn operations next Monday, having a large quantity of strawberries under nlct , v . Hermiston farmers are indignant over the action of congress in cutting off all appropriations for carrying on the rec- tarnation service. ,,Te r,lutlrS class of the, Sheridan largest class ever graduated in the hls- tnrv rtt Ih, au.kt ..The 'new state' bank at' Freewater. umatllla county, will open for business fr??"1 July The Institution Is incor- - bnr,alning 27 draft horses has nhlPP4 from Albany to Iowa by express. The horses were purchased in the Willamette valley. itaeoiine snortage at Baiter has, been relieved temporarily by the arrival Of three carloads whl.-h rnduend th ti,).. . ar . ' - " w vents again. It is rem embracing more than 200 , V48 D" soici. mo announcement j, mAtl of the Duyer or price Th Min.i . .v. No-rth MHmXXliS r0.,"', closed for an inn m'J " un price oi jumntr, Chlr. Lung has let the contract for plowing 1415 acres of land near Midland. in Klamath county. The land will be plowed to a depth of eight inches. .Practically all loggftig camps In the Vicinity of Astoria will -close Saturday for a neriod of so iave k.. h.- accumulation of red fir logs at the mills. The Sherman county farm "bureau has placed an order With a California, mn- cern ror 7& wo gallons of dictillate. It Ji1 edi"r-butd among farmers for UBC "unng narvest. The Harney Countv National bank at tV" "r "r1 J'T?1"? an eiectno cioca on jryng notniy im- building, but adding a convenience to the town. The largest loe cradu in n '.nri has been completed, by the Hammond uummr company at the mouth of the j Col"fnb.i ve5 l , coat of 30.000. The .1? na oo-ieet wwe I - : ' r a . . I WASHINGTON I , The program is being prepared for I e meeting ' or the Washington State j Press association at Yakima, July 15. 1 Victor Zawaska has petitioned the Lewis county superior court to have his name changed to, Victor George Vincent. i m, vueets xraamg company an- " . "i construct a large 1"!? "olei at moul I the QueeU . . . . . . EOr Ors rT K'OTh'S pwart awanson, a prominent Hon u am business man. 1 The Grays Harbor gasoline Tamine has been reduced by the arrival at f,A?een.,01 Iour tana cars carrying f 40.000 gallons. jsHlng ham Normal school, In granting ?J?LOIn?. ovr hlch -there has been a increase of nearly one billion feet of I timber on lands cruised compared with the cruise of 1908V . The mvnlcrv of th rnt i.n v,r..ir j at Yakima has been cleared up by the unmwiioii oi uiraer ocnmiat tnat ne stole the keys while the jailer slept and released the pgsoners. i wuomcon iiiviia hui iruwc ih ana snip- pers at Yakima are considering raising proposed increase in ratea The Chehalis Citizens' club has passed formal resolutions commending the Lewis county superior court and " Jury for the conviction of four I. W. W. on the charge of syndicalism. - IDAHO Of the 88 teachers to be employed In the Gooding city schools, Tt have been secured. Salaries have been raised to 81200 a year for grade teachers. If plans now forming are carried into execution, farm homes along, the Spo kane & Inland Empire electric railroad may be lighted with electricity and have power for domestic uses. . The Kellogg Water and - Power com pany and the city of Kellogg have joined in a legal action against the Big Creek Mining company to enjoin it from pol luting the water supply of Kellogg. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The Corners conference on good of the community t'other night had up the question. "Resolved, That the sugar trust is a greater danger to the coun try than Emma Goldmen ever was," and Jist es Ezry "ickhammec got well warmed up In the 'firmatlve Nate liedg marker Interrupted to ask if Ezry didn't take some old spuds he found In the back corners of his spud house and sell, em in Porand fer 9 cents a pound. President Petersen ruled the question outer order and after three hours more of oratory we passed - the resolution unanimous. ; THE RANKING OFFICER From the Home Sector, . Wonder why that newly returned cap tain always salutes his wife? She underwent a major operation while he was away. - Portland Has Overalls for the Entire Population of the Great Northwest 7 When the overall fad fanned its way across the North American con tinent it had the effect of disclosing to the supporters of home industry the gratifying fact that Portland was ready for the faddists. - In overall manufacture Portland has the distinction of leading the Pacific Northwest. Three firms, which employ some four hundred workers., have enough machines to provide nearly everyone in the Northwest with a suit of overalls if overalls' alone were worn. One au thority is responsible for the esti mate that we could produce 2 61, 000 overalls - a month, - or more than 8,000,000 a year, if we had to. One firm, with 125 machines, turns out 150 dozen overalls they are too busy to count -them singly . day. An other firm, using alj Its machines in overall manufacture, eight hours a day, 800 days a year, could supply two pairs of overalls for every man. woman and child in Oregon. There are eight or a dozen differ ent kinds of overalls. The term de fines any garment which slips over a finer garment and saves it from be ing soiled. There are overalls of white duck, of brown khaki and of blue denim. There are overalls for men. femlnals .for women, and play suits for tiny tots. And, by the way. the youngsters never look so cute nor seem so happy as when they are garbed in the staunch little blue overalls with, their red trimmings. War developed quite a demand for femlnals. but as soon as the armistice was signed most of the women went back to skirts. There is little de mand for this particular kind of gar ment, but. bifurcated outing clothes of khaki are in high favor among outdoor girls. The overall fad? We didn't have kny. It never got beyond the symp toms, in Portland. 'V