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GASOLINE A PUBXJC UTiLrTY
THE federal government should de
clare gasoline a public utility.
Congress, at its next session; should
pass a law giving the interstate com
merce commission authority to review
and to control the production, trans
portationsupply, service and price of
the commodity, ' ' . - " : '
If necessary nd it probably will be
the law should coveir the whole sub
ject of petroleum production and dis
tribution. ; 'i, ' :
Gasoline, with thrilling rapidity, has
reached the place of second import
ance in "the transportation 1 of the
country. Only the investment In rail
roads surpasses" the investment in
automobiles. V I " .
.While railroad repairs, extensions
and car building have been lagging (he
production 'of automobiles t lias pro
ceeded with accelerated pace. - At the
beginning of ,1920 there' were approxi
mately " 7.000,000 pleasure cars and
trucJts In the United States By the
end of. this year there will -be
10,000,000. : I i
When the railroad managers threw
up their .hands in despair in the face
of the still unsolved problem of mov
ing the congested freight of the coun
try, the motor truck was brought in
, to .fill the breach and it is doing it,
For short hauls the motor truck, has
a permanent place in the transporta
tion of. the nation. It will-Jeed both
the. rail and the water lines. (it will
perform the-short radius distribution
of cities, bringing in agriculturahcom-
modlties and taking merchandise to
the farms. ".' ' v ..... ;.- . "j
. But. just at , the moment when tLa
automobile and truck were reaching
the crest of their efficiency and .use
fulness their, operation was depressed
and delayed.by a"shortage of gasoline
that could be explained, as to its
source or cause, merely by the state
ment , that the supply had been
i limited. . ' ...
The rubber tire always had . been
spQken of as the weakest Una in the
automobile industry, but the gasoline
shortage disclosed a greater; weak
ness, and a greater hazard 1 to the
whole industry. Purchase of ears fell
off . both in new and second-hand
vehicles. Organizers of truck - lines
resolved to wait : until more certain
of fuel before proceeding with their
: . plans. ... ,,i.;-.-..t .J'.-:,- . .,
Yet, according to the report fur
nished by the State Motor Dealers'
association, the shortage was net real.
" Outlying towns of Oregon to ' which
supplies of gasoline ?had been denied
and which secured carloads f of the
motor, fuel independently, are said to
have at once received additional sup
plies from the very concerns that
had claimed, they , were "out, but
perhaps, were merely putting them-
selves in position to be found out.
Instead of holding to the Juniform
price which fair dealing would have
dictated to the alleged emergency, the
report continues that the oil com
panies cut their price far below the
cost of the independent supplies.
oucn pracuces, true ; . savor
' strongly ; of ; trickery. : If . the same
policy obtains among the Interests
responsible to America for gasoline
supply and if the purpose Is to pri-
pare the public for sharp increases in
price, it is most certainly time for the
national government to take a con
trolling hand in the game. ; j x s
No one has yet been able to define
clearly the influences that arc
f - 1 " t. ' . i;
strongly moving in the Jjackground of
the entire, question of petroleum
supply.' s"
There is no question that a titanic
struggle for dominance in world pro
duction is under way. While Deterd
ing, the Hollander from Java, by me
teoric rlsej has, placed himself at the
head of the European pil Jjpombinss,
the Standard Oil company Js complain
ing that the Europeans, particularly
the English, are: reaching out for con
trol, of j the supply in this country as
well as in other countries where pe
troleum is found. " : '-v -
Deterding has alfeady usurped a
large part of the Standard Oil ' com
pany's Chinese market, and is looking
for fresh conquests. 1
But the, American public is not: in
terested primarily in the trade battles
of huge and, self ish interests. What
the American pedpleNvant Is gasoline.
They want it in adequate supply and
at reasonable price. They wilt submit
to arr regulation that will bar waste
fui..use. But they do not want their
needs j to be the sport of schemers;
Th problem 1 is so big and jso mo
mefitokis, so much of the future of
transpjortation ie involved, so much of
the development; of the country's in
dustry and agriculture is ' at stake,
that only the congress of the United
States moving fearlessly and , refus
ing tobe sidetracked either by sinister
influences or specious argument, can
solve L . ; I ::X--
Petroleum, the base of gasoline, is
a natural resource. It belongs to ihe
public. .Its value arises from the
need which the; public has of It. The
production and the disposition of
petroleum and Its derivatives, should
be freed of profiteering manipulation.
Pay should be based upon the value
of the service rendered. The big oil
companies .should be made to occupy
the position; not ; of ; masters but : of
servants. Otherwise they may begin
to regard themselves as greater than
the government. ; - : . "
POOR ECONOMICS
SENATOR HARDING is a poor econ-.
omist if he is to be, judged by
the advice given the people of Amer
ica. in his initial address prepared' fo-
phonographic distribution on : July 4.
"It js fine to idealize," tle senator
says in that address in undoubted
reference to his concept of the
foreign policy of the United States
and Its : relation to the League
of Nations, "it . is fine - to ideaI-4
ize, but it is very practical to
make sure that bur own house , is in
perfect order before we attempt the
miracle of old world stabilization."
The house of America is not In per
fect order and it will not be so long
as the house of the world is filled
with the wreckage and debris of war.
America and, the other nations of the
world are too closely reciprocal .in.
their twentieth -century, relations for
it to be in perfect order while they
are In" disorder. There- is Ntoo much
of the dust of economic and industrial
unrests too much of the smoke and
soot of smouldering anarchy aiid red
Bolshevism blowing upon us from the
highways of the. world and from the
camps of muttering mankind ' along
them for our house to ; be spotless
until those conditions change. J
; For the past year and more, econo
mists, financiers, j students' of' world
conditions large and loyal Americans
all of them have insisted that .the
string arm of America; must be ex
tended to help the emaciated iftd.
shell: shocked nations ;' of Europe to
their feet and 'upon their .difficult
tasks of reconstruction before this na
tion j can I see normal ; and ' enduring
peace and prosperity. Those men
know, and they do : not preach the
doctrine of Senator ? Harding: They
have a broader vision, unimpaired by
the exigencies of partisan politics and
undimmed by the darkness of political
strategy. ! : .?j ; j. i jr
The time has passed when one na
tion of the world is self sufficient.
Each "part of the world is interde
pendent 1 upon i the .other parts in
greater or' less degree. America is
strong, stronger in resources, bjroader
in fertile territory, more rugged fi
nancially than other nations. But the
health of America j would be safer
were! there no social -distempers, no
epidemics of -political or industrial
unrest, no national disorders, both
infectious and contagious, inflaming
the blood and wasting the bodies of
her neighbors..! ' I ,
America as the wise guardian of her
own health owes it ;as a duty to her
own people to do, what she can-to
nurse the war-sick! world through
convalescence, back to "health and
strength, not foolishly nor Ignorantly,
not inefficiently, but firmly, ; wisely
and effectively as America would. Not
td do so might well make her home a
hospital, i Senatbr Harding, nor. any
American, wants that to be. ; i
The measure providing for a di
vided legislative session will be on
Che T November' ballot. Under Us
terms no bills can be introduced at
the; final session. And -under it. If
adopted, there j could be no "mid
night resolutions."
THE HAGOOD RESOLUTION
"THERE are -more middle size worts
than big ones along the coasts of
the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Gulf
of Mexico. There are, in the aggre
gate, more people tributary to the
smaller than the larger ports. Con
sequently the Hagood resolution, pre-'
sented to the resolutions committee
of the Democratic national convention
was designed for the many,. The words
of the appeal were: ,!
1 We ask a declaration in the platform
pledging the Democratic party to allo
cation of government-owned . ships for
the maximum encouragement of devel
opment of Independent ports and ship
ping companies and the largest possible
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service for producers nd ma icturers
of the whole nation. Such a. ion will
encourage the organization &C new bbtp
pins companies lqcally financed in the
many ports of the country and it? will
prevent monopolistic-eon trol' by massed
capital of the offshore shipping business
of the country. , . i ' J " .
The appeal': asked for', nothing bof
justice; But it was made at a- time
when nothing could be ihore popular
tian justice. During the war the ship
ping board and the railroad adminis
tration announced I that; it would be
their policy to route the traffic' of
trains and ships in such a way as to
make maximum use of all; the ports,
to encourage their development and
the growth of their industries, and
ail without congestion.5 f ;v H t
An engineering report declares that
the losses annually in the New York
harbor due to congestion amount to
the almost incredible sum of $3,000,
000,000. -If this sum only couldbe
saved all the channels the nation needs
could be dredged, port facilities could
be provided, roads could 1e built and
the railroad deficit could be made' up.
; In addition to the more literal al
location of ships to smaller ports,
there -should be a. systematic and de
termined policy of waterway develop
ment by, national administration. We
have reached the point where water
ways and ship lines equitably distrib
uted . must solve the transportation
problem of the United States. Noth
ing else will,, and delay is more costly
than any investment made to gain
the ends desired.
Part of the year the interests that
desire to consume our forest re
sources within the present genera
tion ': are busily engaged In propa
ganda against continuing to hold
public lands in national forests. But
this is a time of year when the prop
agandists and all others mayseek
the ; vacation ; spots of the national
forests, grateful that Uncle Sam has
playgrounds where there is never a,
sign "No trespassing," and much
less, "Keep off the grass."
THE HARVEST COMETH i
THE nation's immediate emergency
X in production Is the absence of
producers. More narrowly; the diffi
culty lies in securing harvesters.; .
Grain soon Twill be ready . for the
reaper and ranchers are sending 'out
S. O. S. signals "of distress. Without
men they-declare thegraia will shatter-upon
the ground. . ; i ' u
Fruits ofr many kinds are ripening
but will spoil upon the trees with
out pickers. Potatoes must be dug,
corn must be cultivated and harvested,
vegetables must be gathered and laid.1
away, , but a shortage of farm help
stands, in the way of . feeding the
hungry, v.- .x -:l :
Secretary of Agriculture Meredith
says that this year 12 per cent less
ground than normal was sowed. The
labor shortage accounts for the fail
ure to plant all the fields. , "
The supply of farm labor is 28 per
cent less than the actual need.
The production of food promises to
be 20 td 40 per cent less than normal.
But if farm workers could be sup
plied the shortage in food production
might be reduced to 12, per cent, orH
even less, because the pgr acre yield
this year promises to be large. l'
What is going to be done to bring
in the harvest? The public 'minded
citizens of the cities are agogj over
the question. They don't like the ab
stract idea of food wasting or Bpoiling
in fields and orchards. They i don't
like the prospect of straitened stocks
and continued price elevation! t , f
But the trouble with the luncheon
club discussions; is that they jare not
practical. ( Too much time is spent
over whether a man would' rather
live under crude farm conditions br
in the glaring lights of theatre row.
The question of this year's harvest
does not depend, even upon whether
the Non-partisan league gains a foot
hold or whether the cooperative or
ganization of faririers solves the prob
lem of marketing, and, hence of prices
and permanent prosperity. i
We confront a fact, not a ! theory.
The best estimates are that agricul
tural products next winter will be
limited In supply and 25 to 40 per
cent higher in price than at the pres
ent time unless there , are enough
workers to bring In. the harvest from
the limited acreage planted. " "i
What Is wanted now is not talkers
but workers,1 and they are needed on
the farms.
A Shriner ' from North Dakota
visited Eugene after the recent con
vention iii Portland. Thursday it
was announced that he had pur
chased one of the finest dairy
ranches in Lane county. There will
be other investments in and, remov
als to Oregon as a result of the
Shrine convention. :
; FRUITS OP OREGON
f ET all men know nfw by these
1 presents and withoat doubt or
difficulty why the rain the past weeks
nas so promptly followed sunshine
and why the soil has never been al
lowed to lose more than its surface
moisture.
Oregon fruits are ripening.:
Straw! erries might stain a deener
red. the rosiest lips that welcome
them. ; : . ' : . HM
Cherries are gleaming jewels in set
tings or green. , ? ; . ; . : ;, ' ;
Down the gentle lane of'mimmw
the raspberries and blackberries, the
peaches and pears and even the ap
ples of harvest are trooping. ;
Soon the loganberries will hang their
protKt, austy heads above the full cup
or tneir own aromatic beverage.
, And grapes will grow into tight
covered globes full of sunshine and
sugar and wine white and red.
Oregon's fruits tell the story of Or-
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND. OREGON
egon's seasons. The gentle weather
of winter, the rain invigorated days
of epxing, the bright climate of sum
mer and the fair days of fall all help
explain their lusciousness, their ' super-generous
sizeand theu, unequaled
flavor . "
(Oregon's fruits do not admit com
parison with the yield of other re
gions. Just try. a strawberry or a
cherry and see. . ; - ,
CONGRESS SAVES
AT THE SPIGOT
By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor
, , respondent of The Journal.
-Washington. July 3J About 60 lines Of
work under the agricultural department
will. have, to be r abandoned or seriously
curtailed. Secretary Meredith, announces,
because of the reduction by congress of
the appropriations' for this work, $2,185,
000 less than for the year Just closing
and $6.000,000 . under the estimates sub
mitted by the department. This reduc
tion was made under pressure by the
house leaders' on the - plea of economy.
It is a small : reduction, comparatively
speaking, for - the estimates called ' for
only 937.S0O.00O aU told, as an aid to the
basic - industry of agriculture, which in
this country has an Investment of $80,
000,000,000 and returns around $25,000,
000,000 in products. i . - "v ' v
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It may , be; noted that for the army
there was appropriated $392,000,000 and
for the navy $433,000,000. ; The peculiar
congressional idea of economy 1 in its
treatment of the department of agricul
ture may be further illuminated when
it is recalled' that the house insisted
upon, and finally, secured against the
opposition of the - senate, the inclusion
in the agricultural biU of $239,000 to
continue the free distribution of seeds,
which Secretary Meredith asked to have'
Stricken out. Seed distribution has long
been recognized as political agriculture,
and the house would not give way on
that. . ,
Here are some of the specific things
which Secretary Meredith says must be
stopped or greatly reduced as a result
of the congressional policy :
Closing of cereal' field . stations in
North Carolina anil Tennessee, at Ama
rillo, Texas ; Archer, Wyo. ; . Highmore
and Brookings, S. J. : Nephi. Utah ;
Burns, Or., and Llnd,- Wash. "
Abandonment of stem rust investiga
tions at Ithaca, N. Y. ; Corvallis, Or.;
Lansing, Mich. ; Tucson, ' Ariz., and Au
burn, Ala.
.Discontinuance of irrigation experi
ment stations at San Antonio, Texas ;
Hermlston, Or., and on the New lands
project in Nevada.
.. Reduction of cereal disease Investiga
tion work at Berkeley, CaL ; Pullman,
Wash. ; Bloomington, 111. ; ' Madison,
Wis. ; Lafayette. Ind. ; Ames, Iowa ;
Manhattan, Kas. ; Fargo, N. D. ; Knox
ville, Tenn. ; St. Paul, Minn. : Milford,
Conn. ; . Crowley, La. ; New Brunswick,
N. J. ; Hershey, Pa., and Arlington, Va.
.Dairy specialists will- be dispensed
with , in North and South Carolina, Mis
sissippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Okla
homa.. Beef cattle specialists are dropped, in
the Carollnas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas
and Oklahoma. t ; ; -
Two thirds of the work for eradica
tion of hog. cholera will be discontinued.
and cooperation with the states in sev
eral instances ended.
Investigation of animal diseases re
duced, including the ; study of poison
ing by plants and by parasites.
Abandonment of cow testing in Ohio.
Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Pennsyl
vania, t West Virginia, : Ithode Island, New
Jersey and Connecticut. " ; ; 7 . .
Large reduction in studies under way
of flax and rice diseases, corn mildew.
stripe - and blotch disease of barley,
wheat scab,- and soil rot of corn ; roots,
stalks and ears.
Total abandonment of investigations
as to. temperature, moisture, soil, air
and aother factors in plant growth.
These are only some of the high spots
bit by the curtailed appropriations. Sec
retary Meredith hopes this will be a bad
year for insects, stock diseases and the
pests of the field and orchard, as the
department will be unable to cops with
any unusual, outbreak and cannot pur
sue an aggressive policy should the need
arise. .i-i 1
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The possibility that Oregon mar. have
hitherto unknown resources of coal in
the vicinity of The Dalles is being in
vestigated by the United States geologi
cal surveys A -report on the subject is
expected in about two weeks, but it is
believed that the report will not be con
clusive and that furthet borings will be
required before, the .existence or non
existence of coal in commercial quanti
ties is known.- Dr. John P, Buwalda.
professor of geology in Yale universityJ
wno does investigation work for the
government, was asked last summer by
Congressman Sinnott to look over the
coal prospects at the Murray farm, near
The Dalles. He did so, and . what he
round wm be told in a report son to
be made. It ' is understood the report
will make no positive findings, but will
show that certain borings from a 'core
drill are of good quality of bituminous
coal, and that it is of the' same type
ana may oe or the same drift, as can
be seen in a narrow ledge which crops
out at an old railway cut two miles
west of the Chen o with ranch. The geo
logical survey advises caution and care
ful authentication of the facts, which
are yet too scanty and uncertain ? to
make definite conclusions. The coal
may be in small pockets and too much
scattered to make it profitable for work
ing, further drilling, under close oh.
fcervatlon. will be necessary, it is thone-ht
Deiore me aeposits can be said to be of
vaiue. JJurlng the coming summer Dr.
Buwalda will again visit Ore iron to m.
duct geologic work on the oil and gas
iwoeiuiimes oi ine vale and; On
tario region and in the Snake river val
ley between Weiser and Mountain Home.
Letters From the People
fCommnnlearlona sent to The Journal for
publication tn this departaaent ahouM be written
on mlr one side of the paper, should not exceed
800 words in length and most be sijrned by the
writer, whose snail address in full saust sweoae
peny the contribution. 1 . cwiea-
CALLS ' THE COMPENSATION ACT
; A FARCE .. ( .
Pendleton, June 30. To the Editor of
The Journal I wish to warn those who
are unaware, that tlie great' state of Ore
gon is taking money every day- from
thousand of poor men in this state to
protect them against accidents and. wjhen
it comes to the showdown, gives them
nothing in return. I was hit November
7 last and in St. Anthonys hospital until
Januarjr 2S. t After' being out about two
months I was compelled to go back and
the doctors found it necessary to am
putate my foot. I was there 22 days
the last time. 'After X left the hospital I
sent my doctor bill and hospital bill to
the state industrial accident commission,
thinking of course I had insurance .un
der, the compensation act, as I had paid
into the fund for almost a year. First I
worked for the Simpson Auto company
and later was employed . by Charles H.
Torrance. Both these employers paid lo
the state for me under the compensation
act each month as long as I worked for
them. When I lost my foot and am entitled
to $2200 to $2500, the commission says it
will not pay me a cent and has written
the hospital, also Dr. Hattery. Why? The
commission -writes aw that in order to
collect compensation insurance from th
state it was necessary for me to transfer :
to- the state or commission any- claim
which I had aganist the O-W. R- & N- I
defy , any man . to show me any insur
ance company, institution or corporation
who ask such a thing as that. Does any
one think if I bad insurance in any old
line accident insurance company it would,
ask me to transfer any claim . I had
against the railroad company before it
would settle with me?
i Every man - Insured under the state
industrial accident law is interested in
my case. For the simple reason they
have no protection, whatever, if this law
is good. For instance, the commission
writes me that I am entitled to $2200 and
had I transferred my claim against the
railroad company to the state it could
have brought suit in my name and col
lected up to $20.000 and. turned it over
to the accident commission and I could
have dbne nothing. If such a law Is good
it is about .time the people who are in
sured under this law should know it.
, You see in the Portland papers the
great sura of money the commission has
on hand. " No wonder, when it takes
every week a cent a day from every
workingman in this state, and pays when
it feels like It.
I have known cases-where the state
agent went into shops in this city and
demanded of the owners that they take
out insurance under the state industrial
compensation act. ; Blue sky insurance !
i lb, looks to me that this law is to
protect the big employers . and -not the
working men. Now, after being laid up
seven months and losing my foot, and
an expense of $1400, if I get any money
from the state industrial accident com
mission I - must collect it through the
courts of this state. ' My honest opinion
Is, that any ; man who . Insures his em
ployes under the industrial accident law
of this state commits a crime, helps the
state to take' employes; money for In
surance they can never collect unless the
commission sees fit to pay.
An old line company doing business in
this' state that tried to crawl out of a
claim like mine would have its license
canceled, . but the state can apparently
do things it sees fit,, 'Geo. W. Elder.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT v
Portland, June 29. To. the Editor of
The Journal Is it not strange that Im
mediately following the restoration by
the people of the death penalty we ar
advised of such crimes as the attempted
murder Of a young woman by a club-wielding-
fiend,, and the murder of the
car driver. jDubinsky? Will these - in
stances of murder and murderous in
tent succeed n convincing people that
the imposition of the death penalty does
not deter I murder? . Of course, there
comes the argument from some that the
restoration! of the death penalty was
not yet in effect when these crimes were
committed ; and yet, after reading the
Oregon! an of June 20 (a paper that has
fought tooth and nail for the restora
tion of capital punishment), we find the
Oregonian quoting one of the murderers
as saying that he expected the death
penalty to be imposed and was not aware
that the law was not in effect at ' the
time of the commission of the crime.
Something . unusual for the Oregonian,
inasmuch as we read in its columns at
the particular time when capital punish
ment had been abolished, that, a certain
murderer who had been apprehended had
remarked that had. capital punishment
been in effect he would not have com
mitted the crime. Some few days after
the apprehension of the murderers of the
men - in the Claremont tavern, at , the
time when the news' was being paraded
before the public in "extra" editions of
the evening press, several youths .went
forth and staged' 'a streetcar holdup.
How does one account? for the fact that
after the news Was spread broadcast
that Alvln 3enolt ; assaulted a young
woman with a .club, we read "bf several
similar crimes throughout the country?
One case (I don't just recall the place
but think, it was in Seattle) the yonng
man who emulated Jhe example of Alvin
Benott was adjudged insane, but' there
has been no intimation on the part of
our own officials that Alvln Benoit was
or is insane. One of r insanity ex
perts has diagnosed his case as a . "pain
fiend." yet accountable for his actions.
Whoever it was that framed the new law
of cajpital punishment certainly had the
thing nicely camouflaged to mislead the
people. - N. F. Case.
PEDESTRIANS ON HIGHWAYS
Freewater, July L To the Editor of
The Journal I am much interested In
your safety first campaign. I have al
ways understood . that the; right side of
the road is the legal side in traveling,
and. I know it is so regarded by vehicle
drivers. -But a party here says that
for pedestrians on a public highway
the left ; hand side is the legal side :
this, in order that he can always see
an approaching car or other vehicle,
while if he were on the right side he
could not know what was approaching
from behind. Please answer.
s H. C. Clark.
" (It does not appear that there is in Oregon
any enactment en tb aubjeet of pedestriana
on highway. A Journal --conmnutor some
weeks aco offered the suggestion that pedestriana
ah on Id keep on the left hand aide of the road,
where they would be oat of the track of
vehicles approach in- from the ; rear and could
at all - times see vehicle approachinc from
ahead, which snccatioa obviously has much in
its favor a, it relates to country roads, where
there are not constant at reams of traffic, though
on a city . street it would for obvious reasons
f aU to apply. . , Possibly the person quoted by
the present inquirer read this communication
or a similar one and retained a confused recol
lection of it purport. J -
' THEN YOU'LL SEE RED '
Fran . thai New York Tribune
. The glasses that once were used for
brandy ponies , they were called need
not be destroyed. The soda profiteers
will be using them before long for ice
cream sodas. Compare, if you can, the
size of the 1914 10-cent glass with that of
the present 15-cent or 20-cent glass; and
then dip into the future.
Curious Bits of Information
1 For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
Silas Deane, the first diplomatic agent
of the United States, was born at Gro
ton. Conn. He was a -delegate to the
first continental - congress and ,in the
spring of 1776 was sent to France on a
secret diplomatic mission, posing as a
merchant from Bermuda. Upon his ar
rival in Paris he sought ' an .interview
with' Count de . Vergennes, the minister
of foreign affairs, who refused to re
ceive him. "Deane was. reduced to the
direst poverty and was ejected by his
landlady. Finally hej was given an au
dience with Vergennes, ' and , began the
diplomatic relations which eventually re
sulted in the French alliance. In 1777
Deane was recalled. Controversies arOKe
over his mission after his return and he
was driven to poverty and exile. He
died In England in 1789. Congress later
awarded a large sum to his heirs.
Often Oregon'
Polk i County .- Oncef Extended . From
, -! Yamhill Line to California.
Polk county, named after President
Polk,, was organized in December, 1845.
Originally- it comprised - alt of the ' ter
ritory lying south of Yamhill and west
of an , imaginary line drawn from the
mouth of the Yamhill river to the Call
f ornia boundary. The southern bound
ary of the county was definitely fixed
in 1847. and its western in 1853, when the
counties of Benton and Tillamook were
created. Dallas, the county- seat, was
named after George M. Dallas, a former
vice president. Dallas was made' the
COMMENT AND
- . SMALL CHANGE ' - I
Hoo-rny for th Fourth of July and
the fifth,, too, . '
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Optimistic note: t Hood River fruit
crop breaks record. 1 Looks good for the
cider supply next fall, too.
"-";;' , 'tj . ,, ,;..rii.Jii4s1.
. Sugar : down, milk . up. If ; someone
doesn t get our extra pennies, someone
else will, so what's the use?
. .- . . - ..-
;' Portland's baseball team isn't exactly
in the cellar, but it may be said to be
sliding down the cellar door.
The Polish army is reported to be
shortening its lines, which is all right
if it doesn't -make them too short,
- -. .
-"Information" will' also be glad when
the choice of the Democrats at San
rancisco has been definitely deter
mined.". m
An automobile carrying an Idaho
license plate ran up on the sidewalk oh
a, Portland street and knocked a man
down. Little of the "wild and woolly"
from a Bister state.-; -
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;A .Tnan. who used a 'steriliser for a
still has been fined $200. Now he doubt
less feels aggrieved that his efforts to
make the -pure quill" were not appre
ciated by the law. . .;: .
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ivGfow)ng things find the sunshine and
the warm weather irresistible. It means
a HfUe extra work on the part of the
home gardener, however, inasmuch as
the moisture demanded must come from
the faucet if it doesn't come direct from
the heavens in the natural course of
events. . -.f
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town x
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Stone of Thorn
ton, Wash, have, been spending a few
days visiting Mr. , and Mrs. James Potts
at 1108 East Pine street on their way
home from Honolulu, where they have
spent the last five months with their son,
Don F.- Stone, private secretary to the
governor of Hawaii. The Stones have
made two visits to their -son in the sev
en years he has been in Honolulu. Toung
Stone went to the islands as a school
teacher and : latar entered ' newspaper
work with the Star-Bulletin before tak
ing up his political position. AVith them
on-the trip were Mrs. Laura Woodward
of Walla Walla, a sister of Mrs. Stone,
and her son. G. B." Woodward.- Amer
icans in Hawaii are pretty much stirred
up over the Japanese question, say the
Stones. A great part of : the labor in
Japanese and during the .winter they
went on strike on the sugar plantations
and tied up fhe Industry. :. There-'has
been a feeling that the Japs are trying to
use too much authority. The Stones left
Thursday, night for The Dalles, .where
they will visit their other "son, ; Dr. ; A.
B. Stone. Before moving to Washington,
about 16 years ago, they operated a
large farm in Umatilla county, near
Pendleton. ; x i :-
H. Walch, supervisor of San Francisco
city and county, -was a Portland visitor
Wednesday and, guided by Commissioner
A. -'LJ' Barbur, inspected the municipal
paving plant and : some of the - paving
work i now being constructed on the east
side. ' He was also taken over the Co
lumbia river highway to Multnonfah
Falls. .' i .-.;-'- . J'
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J. E. Yelverton, chief of the. field serv
ice division of the general land office
of Washington, D. C, arrived In Port
land Friday on his annual Inspection
trip. - Yelverton will spend two or three
weeks In the district conferring with
Harry E. Laughlin, chief of the' land of
fice here. ; .' -:v
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Portland's roses are. advertising the
city through the energetic "efforts ot
hotel men and rose growers, as a result
of the . start made in that direction by
Manager Campbell at the '.Multnomah
hotel .during Shrine convention week.
Large baskets of roses dally make their
appearance at several hotels, especially
the Multnomah, donated by those who
prefer to pick and distribute the blos
soms rather than to permit them to die
on the bushes. Greeters on duty at the
hotels see that guests from the East
are provided , with all the flowers they
IMPRESSIONS AND " OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN f
-'. By Fred Lockley ''. '
country and sood roads with it or at least
the besinnlng-s ot sooa; rosaa m wh wu.
by Mr Lockley, who quotes a pioneer of the
second " seneraUon. . A garden truck enthusiast
la also auoted effectirely concerning horticultural
potentialities. . '
-Cmm -UTThAeler- T went ud the river to
Nehalem by launch, with Will Anderson
at the wheeL Later I went from Ne
halem to Mansanita and- Neah-kah-nie
with Emll Anderson at the wheel of the
auto. As we followed- the winding road
through the heavy . timDer rrom xne
banks of the Nehalem river to the
ocean shore I asked, "How 16ng have
you lived in the Nehalem country T
Emll turned to ma and : with a srrtle,
said, "Before there were any roads hre.
We traveled by boat on the river, 1 or
on foot or on horseback on the mountain-trails.
" I am 36 years old, and 25
of those; 36 years I have lived right
here. ; . We came from' . Astoria;- aboard
the Augusta,- coming in over the ixe
halem bar. My brother Will and I got
hold of an ox and we used to slrlve
him r a murl antW Ar a lizard abo Ut
the farm,' Finally we sold the ox.for
$49 and bought a sorrel horse, paying
$45 for It. - : - -
"ifter a vr nr in thev cut the trees
and stumps out of one of the trails for
a few miles and made a rsad. Wi got
hold of an old buggy and fixed It up.
We had the only horse and buggy in this
whole neighborhood. We used to spend
Saturday arternoon poiisnmg iae puggy
and oiling the harness and currying our
hnraa Mv f nllcia wr I srlad wet took ma
much, pride in presenting, a good ap
pearance to . go to cnurcn ana ounaay
school. ; We didn't tell them we wer
not olng- all that, work to win ths
approval of the preacher or the Sunday
school teacher. We bad discovered that
being the owners of the only horse. and
buggy in- the country made us mighty
popular with the girls, and I guess as
far ' back as" history 't has any - record s
young fellows like to make a hit with
the women folks; anyway, we did.
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' "Well, after a while they began talk
ing about roads. The oldtlmers grum
bled a deal about it, as they said it
would raise their taxes ; but the road
talk went on in spite of the oldtlmers
claiming that they had always ' been
able to get along by using the river
and the ' trails, and . what was. : good
enough for them should be good .enough
for us. Pretty soon we had some roads,
after a fashion. Then we began hear
ing about automobiles. I had never seen
one, but I remember; saying that you
county seat' In 1850-51. In i 1876 an act
was passed by the legislature providtng
for relocation -of the- county seat, but a
popular- vote confirmed the- choice of
Dallas. - r
THE SHRINERS AND THEIR HOSTS.
" TProm the WcodtraTn Independent.
Every city it) the United States is sup
posed to be hospitable, but it is not every
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
A 1000-gallon gasoline tank has been
installed by a La Grande garage, and
the Observer thinks it is the largest in
that part of the country.
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Medfbrd hotels the Mail-Tribune says,
are doing an uncommonly fine business
owing to the Influx of tourists en route
uorthand south stopping off for a day
or mpre. . ,
A pubiie -flag-raising and band concert
will be given at the Salem automobile
tourist camping grounds on the evening
of July 9, when an appeal will be made
for funds needed to maintain the camp
ing grounds the, remainder of the season.
p J- ." . e ,
From a space in his garden 270 square
feet in area Bud Komp of Eugene, the
register states, nas aug potatoes mai u
has sold for $a.C3, one hill producing 61
cents worth. Mr. Komp dug this
patch' 'to give lnterplanted tomato vine
a -chance. . The potatoes were planted in
February.
" The farm labor situation in the vicin
ity of Pendleton is reported by farmers
as fairly satisfactory. Most of - the
ranchers, the East Oregonian says, have
full crews for present needs - and - the
workers are giving good results. The
harvest situation is still somewhat prob
lematical. ,
; "With the knowledge that plenty of
gasoline is obtainable, tourists, says the
News-Review, "are passing through
Roseburg in ever, increasing numbers.
The auto tourists' camp ground is. filled
each evening with tourists f nom all parts
of the country who, undeterred by bad
roads, are out to see the wonders of the
Northwest."
want. As one of them remarked to
Manager Campbell, "Thla is a fine spirit.
Roses less beautiful costfrom $8 to $12
a dozen back home." ,
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George-Youell, commission merchant
of Seattle. Is registered at the Nortonla
hotel during a brief business visit In
the city.
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, "Ben" Culver, who "used to hurl fast
ones, for the O. Xt C. baseball team and
later for league teams in the Northwest.
Is back from Europe. Culver spent many
months in the 'UniteI States army air
service, with a constant hope always in
vain that the next day would bring or
ders for overseas duty. But the armistice;
was signed while he stayed on this side
of the water. As 'soon as he was re
leased, however. Culver made haste to
do as a civilian what . he had not been
permitted to do during -the war, and bled
himself to Europe, . where he browsed
around' for nearly a year before,' as he
said Friday, he got van eye full."
j L F". Prldemore made a hurried trip to
the metropolis from Government Camp
Thursday", checking out at the - Hotel
Oregon Friday. Pridemore's' busy-sea
son Is aboli t to open at the. Government
Camp hotels and soon at terji the last of
the snow has. vanished he intends to
entertain hotelmen at the south base of
Mount Hood,
....;- ' "
P. H. Watt, who manages the Frye ho
tel at Seattle, a - hosteiry .said to be
one of the rapidly dwindling list of those
not owned by the Japanese, i a- guest
at the Multnomah while in Portland on
a business trip. HotelmetrTieclare that
many of' the leading hotels at Seattle and
Tacoma'are quietly owned - by Japs, who
employ white help and managers, to cam?
ouflage the ownership. S
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J. D. Woods, identified wtth the fed
eral board of vocational education at
Corvalis. was a Friday evening arrival
at the Imperial, coming to Portland for a
business chat at -the -local offices of the
board. ' .
' -. - . , . ' -.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwln W. Corwlne and
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis E. Cram, all resi
dents of Chestertowh. Mi, are tourists
at therPortland hotel. '
. 1 , - , . . .
Here ; to see the, Columbia river high
way, a tourist 'party of 15 people, re
cruited from many cities lij Georgia, are
at the Multnomah.
could never get. me in one of those dan
gerous - contraptions. " I had it "in for
them, for-'the first few that wandered
over Into' this country pretty nearly
soared our teams to death.. Pretty soon
I got sick of seeing city folks passing
my team as though I was -standing still,
and I began reading everythfng about
them I couldL . The first thing I knew
I bought one. After that it was good
bye team. Then I began hollering for
more and better roads so more people
from outside could, come in there and
spend their money with us, BeTore that
I had-made my spending money catch
Ing.salmon or trapping bears and other
animals. No sir, I never expected, when
I was cussing out automobiles, to own a
garage and be operating launches and
automobiles.
"We are hoping that the Roosevelt
highway bill will be passed by congress.
When that road goes . along the coast
beside the ocean shore we shall have, a
constant procession of automobile tour
ists through this country. You have
wandered all over this country and up
and down the coast, so yon know what
a wonderful high way from the stand
point of scenery, it will be. The trouble
here ln- Qregon is that we-are. so used
tq beauty to our forests, 4 our bead
lands, our rugged, seacoast that we take
it as. a matter, of course - and we. don't
realise that the' folks from the middle
west, the prairie country, will come
across the continent if necessary to see
our beauty spots, t We-" have a wonder
fully fertile-soil here and a fine, mild
climate, and some of the tourists who
come here to hunt and camp and fish
and see the scenery are going to decide
to come here as settlers ; so I am strong
for letting them know about our country
and for making good roads so they can
get here in some comfort. Air this coun
try needs is to be made accessible and
let folks know what a wonderful section
It is, and we shall soon have more set
tlers here."
e ,
At Manzanita I met an old-time Port
lander, Emll Kardell. Some years ago
he was secretary of the Multnomah
County fair. For the past few years
he has been postmaster at Manzanita.
He runs the postoffice In connection
with his store. He took me out to see
his garden. His peas were over six
feet high and still growing. "I had no
Idea till I came here, said Mr. Kardell,
"that-the soil here at the coast was so
fertile-, The moist, mild climate, with
the "rich soil,, makes ideal growing con
ditions.. Some of these days we shall
be knowff as a rich agricultural as well
as a prosperous dairying district":
cfty that wants to entertaln.the Shriners.
They are goodfellows, and all that, but
It 1st a blgJob to take care of about
75,000 guest. Apropos. Portland is some
village, and the remainder of Oregon will
haye to doff the hat in recognition of
Portland doing the honors for not only
that city, but the whole state. The nobles
remember not only Portland, but Ore
gon. - See? - .-.
SATURDAY, JULY 0, 11 Z0.
Trie Oregon Country
Northwest Happenings la Brief Form for the
Busy Header. -
' OREGON NOTES
Electric storms last Monday were the
cause of 13 foreat fires near LaPine and
Crescent.
With the set price of if cents there Is
but Jittle eictivity. In the prune market in'
Douglas county.
The First National bank of Clatska
hje has opened its doors for business In
temporary quarters.
Three Lane county market road pro- ,
jects have been approved by, the state
highway department. .
The building of the state highway be
tween Klamath Falls and Mali'n Is
being delayed by right of way trouble.'
During the month of June the clerk
or -Lane county Issued 69 marriage li
censes as compared with 36 in June last
year..--'.
For the second time this Beason the
mercury passed the 90 degree mark at
Bend Thursday It registered 92 de
grees. ,
Uriah Coonrod of Birdie Bree. Klam
ath county, was crushed to death by a
log in a sawmill near the 'alifnrnlii
boundary. '
The- gasoline shortacrn at The Dalles
has been relieved by the receipt of a
tank car from. California containing 12,-
aav gallons. . .
One of the largest classes In the sum
mer school at Oregon Agricultural col
lege Is the ladles tallorinar class. It .
has an enrollment of S5. . '
- L O. Hulin of Kucrene has reslened aa
cashier and director of the First Na
tional bank of Springfield and sold his
Interest to Lloyd C Martin,
v Many applicants are seeking to file on
Oregon and . California grant lands at
the Roseburg land office. Soldier's pref-'
erenoe rights will expire July 8.
; Reed sport has broken all drive rec
ords by subscribing its quota to the
State Chamber of Commerce fund tn
one minute. It pledged at least $300
for three years.
American citizenship was denied Taul
Otto Gerbig In the Linn county circuit
court because he claimed exemption
from military service on the ground
that he was an alien. . .
A special train will be run from Eu
gene to Wendling July 2 to accommo
date people living la the lumber camps
of Wendling, Mabel and Marcola. who
wish to attend the three days' celebra
tion at Springfield and Kugene.
WASHINGTON "
The price of milk will be raised at
Tacoma to 1 cents per quart from
12T4 cents.
f Several of the logging' camps in the
vicinity of Kelso have shut down for
30 days or longer.
Hazel Kephart. a 10-year-old girl of
Puyallup. died 10 minutes after being
stung by a bee. -
Under the direction of the Civic club
of Centralia the annual rose rsltow will
be given July 10.
- Lower river fishermen on the Wash
ington side of the Columbia propose to
establish a salmon canffery. ,
-Two large two-story garages, repre
senting an expenditure of $75,000, have
been completed at Vancouver, t
' Vancouver chapter, American Hed
Cross, is -giving a series of classe's in
home . hygiene and care of the sick.
Rev. F- A. Meens of Chehalls has
celebrated the twenty-fifth annivprsary
of his ordlnailon to the Catholic prlewt
hood. Federal dry officials have seized SI
gallons of raisin mash, and a null nit
miles from Aberdeen up the WlMhkah
;rver.
- Official .sanction has been , received
:atSeattIe for a hydroplane, mail BervW-e
betweeni Seattle and V'ictorla, to bcgin-i
.early this month.
3. MulllKajn and K. Dickinson, ar-'
rested at. Walla Walla under an ordl- ;
tiance makiiig' parents respofisible for
acts , of cidldren, have been fined $--3
eact
Jovernor Hart has reaueeted the
bouse committee on immlKration, of
which Representative Johnson of Wash- ,
Jngton, Is chairman, to make an Inves
tigation of the Japanese situation In
the state. . .
i A spruce log displayed by the Grays
Harbor Shrine club at the Shriners" con
vention in Portland has been presented
ito the Philadelphia Shrine club. Accord
ing to. the annual rings the Ltree was
366 years old,
The (Washington State Federation of
Labor,! In convention at Spokane, has
voted 'to refer to the enllre member
ship a resolution providing for fhe
election of officers of the federation by
referendum, as well as their recall.-aiid
exterclirig their terms of office to two
years.
, " IDAHO
t Ranchers of Deer Flat are busy cut
ting., (shocking and stacking the first
crop pf hay. which is heavy.
i After an 'exhaustive survey- of i the
Idaho) field, the national conference of
social work has selected Dr. J. W.
Fleshfer Its state secretary for Idaho.
County Farm Agent Peavyof Idaho
county reports the grasshopper plague
far aiore serious than last year. In
Some localities 40 per cent of the crops
will be destroyed". ( j
: A (special election will be held at
Nampa, July 27, to vote on a bond issue
to iave34 tlxks in the businex and
residential districts at an estimated
cost of $287,000. v " i .
".. Permission has been granted by the
public utilities corrnnfssion to tlie Ashton
nd St. Anthony Power company to ren
der services to the village of Drummond
and vicinity in Fremont county.
! Payment of $238,035 to contractors en
gaged lo municipal Improvements has
been (authorised by the city council of
Poeateilo. The amount to be paid on
street paving contracts Is $218,415.
Uncle Jeff npw Says :
Wlth good red likker at $27 a quart
a man don't have to be a miser or the
least mite stingy to Jine the prohibition
jjarty. , Belgef McFade, who paid one
btg fin fer a valise full of It some time
back, flggera that at present prices the
officers must be mighty keen on th
smell of It. or it wouidn't be but $20.
Meanwhile Belger's a-ralsln' spuds, cal
cuiatln' to git even if prices don't drop
rr.ore'n 50 per cent before he- hits the
market. f
Currant, Gooseberry, Plum in
Utmost Perfection Are
' Grown in Oregon
i. This is the day you get a surprise.
A currant bush Is a modest object.
But Oregon grows 2.000,000 pounds
of currants a year and sells them
last year, for $2,160,000.
Currant Jelly, currants dried and.
currant pie. Whisper it softly., cur
rant wine,- which is very good and
wholesome and not under the ban.
-Oregon's currants are, like other
OregonNfrults, the very best. They
have more flavor and sugar and
tartness. v
But If the currant production
reaches 2,0.00,000 pounds, who would
ever . Imagine that gooseberries out
step .. the currants. Just two paces
and a half to one In quantity?. The
gooseberry production of Oregon In
1919 is registered as .$,000,000
pounds. The selling price was, how
ever, less than a fifth that of cur
rants, amounting to the modest fig
ure of $400,000.
Oregon's, plums, also a fruit prod
uct which compares favorably in
quality with the yield of any other
region, reached a "total of 6,000.000
pounds last year, -but the selling
price was only $300,000, all of which
T goes to suggest that if cherries and
prunes) stay out of a modest pocket
book's -, reach this year, perhaps
gooseberries and plums will not.