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frHE i Oregon daily journal, Portland, Oregon WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1C:0. ; AN DTDEPiarDIWT NrwSPAPM ft a. jackbon........ ......... .tflbuj r Bla K. nalMaal ha gliajrflll and sato others as yon mold he bm do unto yon.1 Fvblished iTcrj wee day, and Sunday Mraisa. . Ttm Journal BulkUnc tsroMway man i fcifl street. Portlaad. Oiesoa. - Cstere at the Fostoffios- at ForUeed. Oreseo, ior uuoualM Uarouso Ui aula a nu, . . ULJLPHONua suia tits. Autmatie sao-su rOHEION ADVEBTUIXQ REPRESENT. TIVK BenJamia A Keataof Co.. Itru nswlc K uijuih. 226 Filth eetrue. Mew Sort Irvw Building. Chicago. rejeet adTerUstas copy waiea u asems w ieetionsble. to lOso wUJ not print say eop : that la a waj simulates retains BUM OS 'that saoo readily bo , Hamsun! SOBSCBiPTION BATES By carrier, city sad ooonUy- Ob ink.. as I On. mouth ...... '.a I tH-kT.s On Month. ... .4S BTVAll,ALLTPATABLBmADVA On rear. . ... .8.00 8 J ssocths. . . . .2S DAILY Without Bandar) Ob year. . ..... OO 8t ntoaibo. . . . S.3S Three ssonths. . l.JS One month . .... , .00 WEEKLY (Every Wedoeedsy) On yaw 11.00 Six Booths. . . .0 , Three months. . .I3.2S una munui SUNDAY (Only) Om hu .18.00 Six mootbs . .... 1.7 VtlM. MMh : 1.00 1 1 WEESXT AND ' SUNDAY On year. ... . . .$3.60 assi aaW vfr 4m the WsbbbL ' Rates to Eastern points fnrnkbcd oa appHet - Hon. Mat remittances by Hour uraar. fcxpi Order or Draft If your postofftos. ta aot a Money Order Office, 1 or 3 -cent stamps will ba aeeepted, sfske all remittances payable ta Ta Journal, Portia no, Oracoa. ' Go eminent la a contriTanca of tamu wiadom to proTUio for human wants. Burka. I COX AND ROOSEVELT, AFTER maSiy hours of a deadlock . the . San - Francisco convention named a candidate for president. : It is peculiar that the deadlock did not Invfivp hifmnOB Thi n.n,o. v aavowa 1UU UV Tf DUUlUa 1 descriptions or its closing scenes r.0- '-'VoonM indicate that the end came amid very great enthusiasm. Perhaps each realized that the other was urging a worthy candidate. Cer tainly the contending parties united on "one " of the best party : platforms ever adopted by an American conven tion. In its directness and its" free dom from evasion the convenl.on took the people of America into its fall confidence. If it has done as ; well In the selection of a candidate it will win very great support for the ticket His friends insist that Governor Cox stands fnnr Koar n ,ha of Nations. He. made his campaign In thA fait rfifinna h tL j l on the then new Issue, nnd In cimnnri I or the Wilson administration. If all this- Is true it is a record that fits perfectly Into, the splendid conception of an order of t,oace and constructive "building in America and the world as proposed in - the San b ra. lat- Torm. - To have been three times elected a Democratic governor in a Republi can state means that Cox, was highly rronwealth. It Is a, very' strong cre dential. If is particularly strong in a state of the Importance of Ohio and involving the complexities incident to a great industrial state like' Ohio. It suggests rare executive gifts and power of leadership far beyoad the usual. The- most ' distinctive achievement claimed by his friends - in behalf of oovernor Vox is his success in solv ing social and economic problems In his state, his zeal In leadinjr hiat-neo- ple Into progressiyie and efficient gov-1 emmeni ana in harmonizing the dif- iticuces oeiween, tne: twn parties to industrial endeavor. There I couia be no more favorable , time for 1 a statesman to appear who can apply to the nation the harmonizing settle- iiicnts v, .icn nis friends insist Cover-J ur vsvx uas appiiea in Ohio. - I The second place on the ticket hears a well known name. His thought and I convictions are revealed In his strnna-1 support of the present administration. If, as will be shown by future de elopment and a further Bearca of the record of Governor Cox as ; the searchlight of the campaign plays upon it the past and the pledges of Governor Cox Bquare with - the San Francisco platform The Journal will support the ticket Otherwise it wiU not This is most emphatically 'a year when the presidential "star t.shines for newspapermen. Hardn? is a newspaperman. ' Cox Is a n . perman. v Likewise Irvin s. Cobb gota whole vote and Rino- -w t ner a half vote from the Democratic J convention. - . THE TWILIGHT ZONE ' I B ISIIOP WALTER .TAYLOR SUM- j "uk oeaiue ana dellv- ftfrXi (ha rtDraltiiMtA J J 4 .wcu.ulc. ,Uuress io tne graduating class of the University of Wai -ngton. Among other things he said: , . 4 . - . .. Tour destiny is in your own handsl Do ' ' " " not find favor in mediocrity. The great mass of humanity neither enjoys much 1 nor suffers much because it lives in a sone of twilight which knows neither de feat nor victory. In the "twilight V zone" of which I Bishop Sumner speaks there is ever and again a flash of light. It -may be the fire of ambition kindled, in some boy's heart. , It may be a lamp set in a window by a mother's band to guide ; the return of wandering footsteps. It may be the spark5 of I revolt struck by flint and steel fric tion with adversity. Prom the twilight zone come men who live In the light of their own radiant careers. . But always in the shadows Just around them will be found those who are watching with wistful and tender eyes. Bishop Sumner speaks truly when he says that mediocrity is often self I elected. But when he says the "great mass of humanity, , neither enjoys j much nor suffers much" he must nave heen speaking merely for rhe I trical effect. The Port of Portland commission SI has tout itealf in a. wa v to win nra lsn 1 - . 1 . 1 , . . . A . . n nu inaugurated ins survey ue- signed to discover the best method 1 for deepening North Portland har bor. Doubtless surveys are needful. 1 but only as preliminaries and never as substitutes. ; what the anxious industries of North Portland must have in the end is not the map of a survey to hang- on an office wall but a channel Into which ships may be brought to carry their products to world markets. ' NOT DEAD fight for light wines and beer X in the United States is not ended. In the coming election the people of this "country again may be called upon to express their will, on; the prohibition ; question, i this ! time' with the ' strong drink' and saloon issues deleted. ' The vote on Congressional candidates 'may decide temporarily the -fate of 1fghf wtaesand beer. The'reeear afecJsfdn of the "supreme court, upholding the- ; eighteenth amendment, does not, according to current Opinion, banish light alco holic- beverages beyond the power congress- te revive them. In effect, the. . eourt -holds , that latoxioatins: liquors, cannot .be manufactured or sold within. the. territorial Umits of the United States. But it Is within the scope, of congress to define alcoholic Iiqqo.rs . Jt.has. .be.ep, ,done through the Volstead act which declares any u wcoiioiiB content Vv -. ...ttt. . . 1 1 it. ' a a aoov one n" i one per cent to be - " ' - ' i ' . Intoxicating. 1 (To 'amend it 'anbt- place the Wilteht it a higher "percentage. only -a 'rhAjdrtty vxrte' la 'congresvia necessary It . Is evident, therefore, that con gress could " declare wines and beer with a higher percentage of alcohol non-intoxlcatiqg. As to- - the point tp which the 'content could be raised without inviting annulment by the courts Is questionable. It ts a point on which elasticity of construction might be placed, and with a wet vote Y 'l? i1' is D.0t "reasonable lu we courts would agree Tnnt T cons,derf h0 one half . of one peu cent is non-intoxicating, There ls a least sufficient doubt concPrnn the limit of the power of conress to determine what is8intoxi- catln liquor: that the .wet element lhrouhout the country is preparing to campaign this summer and fall for me wet , candidates xn .congressional I tickets. If ..they are elected- there ls I little question that thev immediately find that T the Volstead h"v iuu wn, euiu tyuuiu, iereiore, move to amend, it. And, indeed, a wet congress could, by slashing to the bone ; the appropriation for enforce ment of the prohibition law, limit the capacity ofVthe government to cope with those whowere evading it. It Is generally accepted thai the saloon has Vt passed ? foHXall time. Whiskey, ginand the other hlghBM J a I a . . ' 1 iuiuiicaung liquors were -doomed by the eighteenth amendment. But the fate of light wines and beer may. rest with- the electorate. " Professor Rauder .Of the Univer "Ity of California thinks he has dis covered an electrical divinine : rod that locate the place and extent ' oil Pool" With as much certainty as the hazel twig designates the presence or subterranean water. If tne invention is the real thing. Pro- feBSOr ..Bander had : better prepare for unwonted prosperity. The wild cat U CQmpanIeB will probably buy t '5 a fabulous sum and then sup press it . as I some of the ' synthetic gasoline formulae are said to have been purchased and hidden, by the oil companies. POLITICAL. BUFFOONERY ' ,ALL down (the ages the exigencies of political campaigns have served as excuses for tarnishing the names of able Americans and for mis representation as to their exaet sta tus. ; Throughout i Amerl nan r.rlf f raT hlstry odious catchwords have been . - , , avaivai ppenaea to xnose whom th nnnlo seemed liable. to-call into public life, None more unjust nor miinomn.!o. wcu cuiueo man mat of "crown Prince as applied to Wflliam McAdoo. The hioift .eame' in' m. k.;i....j with odium as applied to e son or tne once German emnpror Th was ratsea to his position bv Wrth. regardless of his ability or lack of ability. To apply the cognomen to McAdoo, whose record of achieve- ment Is among the most notable In American history, is political buf foonery of low order. McAdoo has taken his place among the foremost Americans because of frequently demonstrated ability. He became secretary of the treasury and director-general of railroads , because of his capacity to cope f with ti the problems of those offices. He stood before his country on his, merits. He was a member of the cabinet for some time! before" the married the president's" daughter. But in spite of the - facts In the ease McAdoo i was nicknamed the crown prince," an" act as unfair and absurd as it was un warranted. t ' ' I THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE fKB moment he was bright eyed. V gay, filling " the air with shouts and r laughter, heedless ; In ? his : play the next a crumpled bundle of broken flesh. The little rompers- he had worn so near the earth all day that mother had despaired of ever getting them clean again were all at once stained and wet with blood.; The voice the childish treble,- that im periously had demanded all of a small boy's wants from a section of the sun to a "bite, p'ease a bite,' was choked with sobbing gasps for air. Racing homeward, mother s arms held him oh, so tenderly I Her tears fell fast upon' the. upturned face and in her heart was a straining pain as great as that which racked her baby's form. ' - But tears could not revive him. Hope could not save, hinn Prayers cou. on'y shorten the agony. t Life went o around the boy but his pulse ceased to beat ' Officials took charge. The driver .of the auto mobile went through , the form of his report but no words he could write on formal documents, no words he could frame to make excuse; could rob his seared memory, of an active, happy little form that was suddenly a bundle, of broken flesh. ; The accident happened on the Co lumbia River highway Sunday when the Fourth i of July was being cele brai-l. It maybe said that careless ness brooded at the side of the road where the child should : have been kept from running under the wheels, but little folks are hard to keep con stantly Still. : ; But let those who run and read take preventive thought so that the tiny boy on the aighway shall have died that others like him may live. ' While people live on crowded city lots where po 'plan is made for chil dren's play and ; in modern homes where . the polish of furnishings t is guarded so jealously that the firsi words introduced Into the childish consciousness are "Don't touch,' ; so long will t broad, .smooth pavements tempt restless little feet Just so long should every driver , go slowly where children play and be as watchful as mothers are expected to be. Then fewer .little forms .will be crumpled Into - bundles of broken flesh. ... ': ,. -. -..(;; Walt Mason has rippled forth with a rhyme to the effect that profiteer food and bed prices which tourists are sometimes asked to exchange for scenery are. the result of mighty bad policy.. According to Walt, "The system's foolish and Insane, so profiteers will find it; and gaudy ad vertising's vain r if piracy's behind it." . He is quite right: A PARABLE REVISED ET us repeat the parable of the I wise and the foolish virgins. But let the parable be applied to coal, to wood, to industries, apartment houses, and homes. . ' ' ; : Fuel oil is to disappear in the early autumn. This is the announced dic tum of the oil companies. Where oil has - been burned a substitute fuel I --L I . I UlUfet DC 1UUUU. , , J Will substitution, be deferred until fuel oil supply has been withdrawn ? Will- manufacturers and apartment house managers think to avoid the evil day by ignoring it? Just now the coal companies are doing their best to acquaint the peo ple with what are undoubted "facts. Coal can be moved "from many mines in abundant supply for next winter's needs if early orders justify it More cars- are available now than will Be gain, perhaps. In many a day. Doubt less supplies -of wood are more avail able . for .next .winter's -consumption now than when the movement of the summer's ' cropsj; will conflict with congested fuel orders.-, , It would seem to the wise that the substantial certainty of fuel oil's with drawal, coupled with knowleuo-. that fuel supplies can be accumulated "in coal and wood, would lead to Imme diate action. - , i . The man who gets his -..Inter's supply. of fuel put away In industry, aparunen. house or home will cer tainly have more of a carefree feel ing than he who waits. The anti-fire cracker ordinance In Portland ; produced the, ideal condi tion. Toungstert got their firewoi is beyond , the city limits where ordi nances don't rule and their parents got " big restorative doses of the out-of-doors. , A SUGAR REFINERY THE American Sugar Refining com pany recently selected the Ritj. nt new plant in Baltimore. It will build at an expense of at least 18,000,- 000 the most modern facilities 5 for the manufacture1 of sugar. : Only one other "Industry ' attributed ; to Balti more will be larger, the Bethlehem Steel company, headed by Charles M. Schwab. One of the arguments used decis- Ively In attracting the industry was that a consuming population of 3,000,- uuo people was tributary to Baltimore, , On the strength of the same argu ment Portland invites the American Sugar jRefinlng company or any. other substantial manufacturer of sugar to Duua plant here. Tnis is the natural distributing center for the Pacific Northwest At least 3j000,000 people can be supplied from Portland. Raw suga can be brought by water direct from Hawaii and i thje Philippines. Port facilities are exceptional, s Climatic " conditions are idejal.s Water grade transportation provides access o the interior. Only a few j hours travel Is necessary to reach all the communities of Paget sound.' . , Most! convincing of all, the Pacifio Northwest needs sugar. The people are tired of Inadequate supplies at imr possible prices. The fruit canning in dustry and the homes are handicapped Dytne sugar, shortage.' . Baltimore welcomed' the American Sugar ! Refining company cordially Portlaiid will extend a .welcome radi antly cordial. -':::i!i;r-: : HARDING AND iTHE LEAGUE By Carl Smith, Washington Staff : Correspondent of The Journal Washington.'. July 7. The t hi event in me political ring ia the Hard ing speech of acceptance. It has n cuiiar importance because two well Known Kepublicans of the far west. Sen ator Johnson of California and Senator tioran Of Idaho, along with lam num. oers wno Hearken to the voices of these senators, are . believed to await Hard tag's speech before tby determine their course. I Johnson and Borah, Judging from, what they Bald and the way they Denevea tney bad won a victory on me uague or iMations issue In the Re publican -platform, and that the league naa Deen turned down. They left Chi cago wth, that belief, and most of. the ptatiorm analyzers thought the same thing. Since "then the irreconciia.hlAa have ; begun to wonder if they were trickedi Taft says the platform means me treaty - with reservations i Smoot says there is nothing in the platform to prevent a Republican administration from putting through the Lodge reser vations; Hoover says a "forward-look ing interpretation" may be adopted which will harmonize with auoDort of tne league, with Article X cut out- How about Harding? What view awui the Republican candidate take? Will he pussyfoot and utter airy nothings? Does he agree' with Johnson and Borah that the platform repud iates the league ? Does, he still favor the treaty withthe Lodge reservations, which he supported as a sehator? It is known that Harding has received all sorts of advice concern ing what he should say about the treatv. He has) been giving it serious thought. Those Who know Harding and his men tal habits and know his associations in the senate do not believe that he is go ing to -repudiate his own vote and the votes j f j those senatorial , associates who had so much to do with his nomi nation.! It Is not believed that he will come out : against the league but that he will j choose a course of flexibility un der which if elected president he can act without embarrassment. ! It wtil be recalled that Hardine was a thick and thin .supporter of Lodge in the treatjr fight - He wai a member, of the foreign relations committee that re ported the 1 reservations, and he sup ported them loyally, -? He resisted the assaults ; of mild reservationists and of irreconcilable. He voted against the Frelinghuysen . substitute for Lodge's reservation on Article X, which declared : TThe United States assumes , no obliga tion , to j preserve the territor iaK integrity or political independence ' of any "other country. - The United States assumes no obligation to . interfere in controver- ; sies between nations or . to employ its military or Its naval forces or its re source for any purpose under any ar-; j ticie or the treaty." The Frelinghuysen substitute was supported by several sen J atora, like Frelinghuysen i himself, who were near-irreconcilables, and voted for the treaty itself. Harding did not Join that group, but stayed with Lodge, in putting through the committee reserva tions as they were written. Since; the platform constructed -at Chi cago is being construed in : different ways, the course Harding himself takes Is regarded of the highest importance. He la in a difficult position, and what he says seems likely to determine the de cision of Johnson and Borah concerning nis cancuaacy. . - i '-A- . - The board of engineers for rivers and harbors! has Informed Senator McNary that the report of the district engineer on a 15- foot -channel from Portland to the sea is on the way to Washington, andr has promised that it shall be given prompt! consideration after It arrives. The survey was directed - by the river and hai-bor bill of last year, and the re port will be submitted at tie .next ses sion of! congress, y It is thought the rew port will prove favorable to the project. though official comment is not' now ob tainable. ' - '" ' ' -.. - Through error in telegraphic transmis sion, a recent dispatch appeared to quote A. C Dixon of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company as . testifying i before the interstate commerce commission that there has. been a revulsion In Oregonn against government railroad operation This reverses the statement made - by Dixon, t the correct reading being that "there has been no revulsion in Oregori against government railroad operation He expressed the Opinion that the ten dency Of sentiment has been rather In favor of unified operation since Jthe rail roads were returned to their owners. From Willamette lodge. No. 63. Inter national Association of Machinists, tf Portland Senator Chamberlain recently received resolutions asking for speedy adjustment of wages for navy yard me chanics. Admiral R. K. Coonts. acting secretary 01 tne navy, nas miormea the senator that the whole Question of navy yard pay will be the subject of study by representatives or the department, the shipping board and organised labor, pending which no action wilt be taken. - Hbmer Cummings' Speech From the New '.York World. 1 The ) first ' day " of the San Francisco convention revealed in the . person of Hornet1 Cummings. temporary chairman, an orator of commanding gifts. His ad dress, however, was much more, than a notable display of . forensic power. It was a masterful array of facts, a superb; tribute to the better nature of the Amer ican people in peace and in war and a fitting denunciation of the 'meannesses of our partisanship. In all the long dis cussion that has followed the armistice no one has presented the Issues with greater force or clarity. Platform-makers may trim or ddge, but th s speech will ring true for many a day. t Is true In its record of Demo craUc achievement and of Republican failure In constructive legislation : In its recital! of our motives in entering the war, the high ideals which we upheld and which the world accepted and the invincible 'force with which we sustained them, and in its lofty' appeal to the conscience of America not to be swerved by envy, jealousy and timidity from fin ishing, its task as in honor bound. There Is no word of apology. It now there Is to be a retreat from the advanced posi tion occupied by our people under Presi dent Wilson's guidance, the DemocraUc party at least will stand fast.. ;.. Mr, Cumraings shows that-the Idea of a League of Nations had the sanction of Republicans and Democrats alike until it came Into; being; that the ' senate Itself .by. unanimous vote In 1916 re quested the president to take the lead In such a movement; that the allied and neutral powers accepted the principle, as did the enemy nations at the armistice, and that suggestions made by Mr. Taft. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Root were embodied tfl the covenant, In spite of which a senatorial cabal set out deliberately to wreck the treaty and break faith with a war,cursed world. He stands with the president for the Covenant, pot against reservations If they are deemed neces sary. but against nullification, and. like Mr. Wilson, he pleads for a return to the reverence and pity and TUgh resolve that inspired the American people, when they resolved upon a war to end war. There never was a better cause or a nobler appeal. Letters From the People f Cramnnlctlori. aent to Tha Journal for publication in this department should to written SOO words in length and mnat to timed by tha wnter. whoee oul address ia full must aceoam rn to eontribuUon.J -- . - - - - i- -.. - , FARES AND OUTLAY Portland. July 6. To the Editor of The Journal The s Tnrtisn r?.i.. Light Power, company has put it over on US In the way of raialne- fag : Tk. public is overburdened now, and has been w " .re, ins street railway com pany has not suffered the 1, f cent in the last 10 years, for Portland has Increased In population three to four times The number of autos that have been bought, and never In the history have the street cars been so crowded as in the past few yearfc ; On mav nt- at any jour of the day, and he will have to stand up, scarcely ever getting a seat. This Is the case with men folk, abso lutely, I .travel a lot on the cars, and scarcely ever get a seat. - .-. - On the other hand', in ih loot in the company has not made any repairs of vuuwjuence. ; Tne tracks are not in good condition, by any means, and this would show to the Public that thv wsrc paying, if the company kept them ta good order, but if they were let go down until Ihey became so rough that the traveling r public would have their senses shaken out of them the company would have the chance to drop in with the plea of poverty. Sly dog. Now if the public will look around they will see that the rolling stock ha nnt Yw paired painted or varnished,- then where does the company expect the public to come from that will continue to pour "'"f" fwiui into meir hunk om.nt without a kick, when such wasteful mi management is going on? : Nowhere is KDo so guuiDie as in the United Kn.a.5 ui America, f.--:. .- i uic are not satisfied wlf h . i .a .. t . . s ,n i wjin me city of Portland some liivtn, just let them eo intn h.i. ruptcy. and then Jhe city can take over yira at Danxruptcy price. First, the city commission should squeeze the Hr f lt'.and y at the right price. The cry of the company has been high wages paid to the, employes The one-cent raise amply took care of the .in wages., nut Inefficiency wilful neglect and poor management will 'put the - best business in . v,i dWnwrd TO i Let It com b- pie.ncn election, and set tile farft Stt fi rantn v i w ,via va avsi. , Hit! I ii get QUI. ," j Observer ; ON THE CLOSING OF MILLS xieeaviue, JUlv S. Tn . tV, The Journal The closing . down" of the lumber mills in so many places means ; lurooer. barons ha gone on a strike. It means industrial sabotage in its worst form. It menn t.o profiteers in lumber are going to try to maintain their grip on the throat of the consumer- Let me ask if this Is not a far greater Crime against the weuare 01 tne general public than a strike of workers would h - iM v.t what can we expect the authorities- to uu aoout r jjoes the press of the courrtry rise up In general condemna tion against tne strike of ! the mill owners? It -does not : yet. when labor, seeking to improve Its condition, using vmy weapon n nas at its Command, goes on strike, our press at once erets busy , and tells us of the injury the oiivc is uumg lu me puouc tn general. This nation should be rededicated to the proposition that all men and that uictuus mi classes or men. no matter woai jineir position-m the 'industrial world ' might be, whether employer or ciuuiuyc we createa equal; The great desire of the human heart' is .to be w surrouna itseir with the bles sings oi nome. unis . has long been aemea tne great moving mass we know aa common laDorers. - we continue to drive them from -job to" Job, wasting uiuuice uiey may nave accumu lated atthe last Job in seeking employ ment elsewhere. We rob them of their rights as citizens by not keeping them in one place - long enough for .them to estaDitsn tnemseives as voters, and so to protecf their rights at the- polls. Then we wonder why labor does not cast a heavier vote. ; ( - we van., kuq : BOlQier to . quell a strike - of workingmen, why .cannot we compel the owners t factories hn ciose aown wnen the whole world hun gers ror their products, to resume op erations ana ' at ' the same - time ariva employment to men I o. B. Frank. Curious-Bits of Information For the Curious ..Gleaned From Curious Places - Genuine coral may be red. Dink. white, blue, yellow, green or black, the last being the. rarest and mofct hitrhlv prizea. in next . valuable is . the red corai, wnicn is -susceptible ;of a hiirh polish and is most in use for Jewelry, ucuig j uib wi n oi commerce. Uorals are roughly classed under two heads, the horny corals and the lime or stone corals.. To the former belong the red and black forms arid the white to the latter. Red coral is chiefly found tinl ne .Mediterranean. The corals found on me Atlantic coast or Florida are the lime, or stone corals, which are the reef building forma . - 1 ... s - T Olden Oregon Wasco Is Whaf Is Left of Colossal County. : a Once Wasco county is the mother rmmiv f Eastern Oregon. Named after a tribe of , Indians who lived neat The Dalles, it was organised in January, 1854. It embraced all the territory east of the .;- Cascades. ; The name nt -mi- Dalles, the ? county seat. . is ' of French origin, meaning a trough, " or gutter, and describing the - narrow, channel' of the Columbia river at that point. The Dalles was founded by theMethodiat mission- in 1838. After its abandonment by the mission in 1847 the federal gov ernment established a military post, which figured largely. In the Indian wara During the mining excitement of the '50s and early '60s The Dalles , be came an important distributing; center and continued eo until the completion i of the .railroad. i ... i COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Ohio Is living up to its' best traditions. Jl? has an orchard full of prunes ia to be congratulated. . v Asphalt softened by tha sun's rays Is rather a relief for tlfeetVway. Now the home gardener Is beginning dUelw. h to'Ji.mKSKVIl? dayifs refreshing to remember that the nights In Portland are always cool enough, anyway. it Ihw. Iool. whatever way you figure It. that a newspaper man is going to be the next president of these United States. - .. I Manufacturers are reported to be well Hil" w,h 1,0111 Party plaornT. Prices again n ce,ebrat raising 38kImo.H?" la Bald to be the latest erase in London. If it ts danced la natfve costume we can't see where It would be a very agreeable performance on a summer's evening. . Ex-service men in camp with the national guard at American Lake will doubtless find pleasure and recreation In fighting again some of, the engage ments of the vivid days over seas. MORE OR LESS. PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Among the many tourists at the Mult nomah are Mr. and Mrs; Emil Cockin and daughter of Baltimore, Md., where Cockin is in the clothing business; Mr. and Mrs. C E. Dlngwald of Milwaukee, Wis who are in the grain and feed business, and their daughter. Miss Flora Dlngwald r Mr. and Mra M. E. Grant of Minneapolis; Mr. arid Mrs. W. J. Nes-. bit of Providence, Ky. ; . Miss Lula A. Cos and Miss Inez E Cox of Llyermore, Ky.; George A. Kelly, wholesale drug gist of Pittsburg,' Pa. ; Mrs. S. R. Kelly and Miss Eleanor Kelly. In their special car from New Tork, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Merrill, Mrs. A. M. Booth, Mrs, Walter Lawrence and Mra Sanford Rowan arrived Monday at the Multnomah, where they are occupying the Royal suite ? of roorns. The New Yorkers s went out over the; Columbia river highway Monday afternoon, with which they were highly delighted. : ' ' ' .z - - . : . Harry G. Pollard, president of the Rotary club,' arrived Tuesday at the Benson hotel, from Lowell, Mass. - V - . - Nell Bertrandls. who travels over the country for the Standard Oil company locating oil prospects,, after a return from the . Bend country received word Tuesday at the Benson of the death of his father In California." Bertrandls left Tuesday night for the south, r - ... C. L. Smith, agriculturist of the O-W. R. & N., left Tuesday evening for Bend and Crater Lake to meet 'members of the .congressional -appropriations com mittee and officers of the national parks service, who are scheduled to arrive at Klamath Falls for an inspection trip through Central Oregon, Thursday. Al fred Aya. and P. Hetherton, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley . f v. . Romtnes and mystery of the North are re flected in the absorbing epistle Mr, JL-ockley has Inst receiTed from his old friend " end fellow Journalist, Bert Hoffman, who is no on a mission that carries him far through ti wilder ness that lies Just to the westward of Hudson's b.y.1 : s -- . h'. -- ' One of the pleasant things of life Is to" keep track of old-time frlenda When I, was a student' at Oregon Agricultural college one of my claasmates.1 Lois Stew art, rom Union, in Eastern Oregon, told me of her neighbor, Bert Huffman. Bert planned to come to O. - A. C, but love and work interfered with his .plan,: o he did not come. When I heard Lois speak of him. I : hadf no idea that Bert and I would ever be 'fellow workers and partners on the East Oregonian at Pen dleton. Lois went- to, Alaska aa a teacher and we kept up our 'correspondence. She wrote me next from ' the Philippine is lands, then from China, ' Japan, India and other places' in the far corners of the world. Last New Year's , day she yas our guest. ' ' . t ; A day or so ago I received a letter from her from Manila and by this morn ing's mail I received a letter from her boyhood chum and admirer, Bert Huff man. Bert's letter is so interesting' that I am going to share it with the readers of The Journal. It is dated at The Pas, Manitoba, Jdne 22. He says : --. "Dear .Fred : I . know you will Be ' In terested in the journey: that I am now making through Northern Manitoba to Port Nelson, on Hudson's bay. It. Is the oldest, and yet the newest, country In Canada, "unsettled. except by Cree In dians at their: various lake s and . river villages, a few prospectors, an occasional mounted policeman (in a canoe) and straggling trappers. ; --Wl .:..-.., "The . Hudson's Bay -railway grade has been completed right down to Port Nel son, a distance of 428 miles from. The Pas, due northeast, through muskeg, tamarack swamp, bleak, barrens and low lying hills a dreary and most lone ly country, yet wonderful and fascinat ing- to one who loves the- wild. 'The track has .been completed to Kettle Rapids, mllepost 333, but a mixed train runs twice a . month ; In summer (and not at all In winter) ' to mllepost 214 It hauls out supplies for the tew miners at Wekasko lake mines and also to the few men who take care of the tracks and bridges farther on, and hauls in the, trappers and their furs. . . I. e - . - From mllepost 21. the end of your railway ticket, an occasional tourist like myself is taken - on1- a gasoline traek speeder ,-through the unbroken wilder ness' to - the - end of the steel at Kettle Rapids. Tnllepost 833. . There a magnifi cent steel bridge crosses the Nelson and from there to. Port Nelson' I hiked with a pack on . my back, 95 miles. I slept on heaps of spruce and willow . bougha. drank from the ' creeks along the -way and feasted like a king on bannocks and bacon. And I was repaid for the lonely hike ten thousand thousand times, as I came In sight of the bay, and stood for the first r moment gazing across "the delta of the Nelson, the romantic re gion ; where. - in ; the past 250 years of Hudson's Bay activities, the most thrill- ng pages of North American history have been written. -: . "Just across a tongue of land on the south side of the Nelson and only seven miles from the Hudson Bay railway terminals," now a few abandoned bunk-1 houses, stands York Factory, the Hud son's bay gateway to the new world. Ninety miles dtrfe north or me, by land f!80 miles' py.water,' standa-'old Kort Churchill, at the mouth of the 'Churchill, and dotted along the- Hayes river to the southwest for 400 m lies is a ctring of Hudson's " Bay company posts, all a of them surrounded by thrilling incidents, until Norway House, - the ' mother and arch-romancer of them all. stands on an Inlet where Hayesriver starts on its Journey: from Lake Winnipeg to Hud son's bay. . ; "It Is' the land of tradition, and ro- mance-fvast. silent, uninviting and It NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS ' : - . June rainfall at Pendleton, 1.28 inches, exceeded the normal by over a quarter of an Inch, and was more than eight times that of June. 1919. The Independence Post buoyantly an nounces : "Some of our citisens have become enthusiastic enough to cut down the weeds around their places.' ' - - - "And a census now." claims the States man, "would show over 18,000 In the corporate limits of Salem, and over 20,000 if all our suburbs were included." The Pendleton fire department- wnt through June without an alarm, a record of which the: city la duly proud. The chief, however, says the public is ob serving fire prevention rules. ' The Eugene Register gloats., in this fashion s - - 'The - . beauty of . - Oregon weather , is that the hot days are Just hot enough to make us appreciate the cool ones that come along at the psycho logical mometit." ., -: ,. . .: f . The swimming season having .arrived,-1 the -Albany Democrat hooraya as fol-Io-ft "Plop ! v A pretty one ! These days -we see dignified business men of Albany, aa well as undignified young sters, head-ifirsting from the divin board over at the swlmmtn' hole. Tip! Oh, you hot weather! Watch me, fellers!. also left Tuesday evening to meet the delegation as representatives of .the chamber. They will travel direct to Klamath Falls and meet the visitors on arrival here. The party expects to be in Portland Sunday evening for a few hours. " O. H. Edwards has been selected as successor to F. E.. Chilton as assistant manager of the Seward hotel. - Chilton is entering the beaneryselling business. To all of his employes at the Seward, Owner W C. Culbertaon is giving theJ title: "assistant manager. On Mra Cul bertson he has bestowed the title "gen eralissimo. since -"she is the power be hind the guns," he saya John B. Easter, deputy county clerk In charge of. the naturalization bureau, has as his guest his ' brother, , A. C. Easter, wife arid two children, from Bartlesvlile, Okla, The brothers had not met for 28 yeara A. C. Easter ; was ' formerly mayor of BarUepville, and. lakes an active interest In Oklahoma state and national . politics. ' . . 1. " . D. Soils Cohen, who recently sold the Rivoll theatre in Portland and who has since been residing In Los Angeles, is spending a few days at the Benson. -' - ' i . . ' Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Tarker of Pendle ton are among the recent arrivals at the Multnomah.. . . Mrs, C. H. Edwards and baby of San Francises are among the guests at the Kwrri f- w ir.riwarda Ik nrnnriotnr f th. -i..w wi . son w.r.i ' Judge C. H. Marsh of Pendleton is .... registered at the Seward. Judge Marsh Is oneof the most active Round-Uppers of Umatilla county. : eeems almost sacrilege to invade it with .i.uw.jr. -Ana yet, irom Calgary to Liverpool DY in IS anort CUt around ,th Small end of the globe." the dintanra ta last miles less than by way of the Great J-aices and Montreal. So tha watstem farmer is interested in seeing, the route open for. wheat , shipment. - . "Nelson .is a mud delta! shallow water. windy,, unsheltered and v already some .en millions nave been spent In dredging ior a naroor, with no result. I am here to write h up and arouse enough Inter est in the matter, if possible, to" have mo jiort cnangea to Churchill, where there is a fine rock-ribbed, granite har- bor. " sheltered, nrntor-i. s i ... v cu uui py nature ror such a pur- .... . . i a . . pose, t tiut pontics stands in the road ot progress, as it always 'does. . ,- uuuis ic.viiiS ing jrti i made a number of boat trios north. ntir.t iew smau lakes in a canoe and hiked . .... - w.. u over several, portages. - I visited Cum- berland House, on Lake Cumherian the first Hudson's Barrel ..t.hii.kJ in the interior. It wuHit K. " uel Hearne in 1774. ahoirt Rn vo.. i tore John McLoughlin went to Fort . . . uisen snaps oi a r'T i ,4tC rai o,q Btone chimney, I built in 1 775:- b nrl u-hich i ,in . I In a tumhiMn.n .. 1 also saw a sun. dial constructed by Dr 1 tSVoMlrilM i i -i.. . '1 -O.UU uy mm at --cumber-I mmiu nuuee mi me time or the Franklin expedition. However, the Dresent Hurt. son's Bay post at Cumberland is a mod ern structure, but very, large, having Borage warenouses ior shiploads of turs. Aooui ouo swampy Crees. an An gucan and a v Catholic mission, - with scnoois, make up the present Isolated settlement on the shore of Cumberland iaae. . , ' e e . e . "The country. Is flat and low lying, and in the spring is mostly under water. About 75 years ago the Saskatchewan river cut a new channel from its north tank Into Cumberland lake, and then cut another channel out of the lake 60 miles below, thus leaving' about CO miles of Its age-old riverbed abandoned. A very jarge mining reit has been discov ered north of The Pas. and at Flin mnn and Beaver lakes two large mines are operating. But transportation is slow s nd costly. The ore must be hauled over tne winder trans to the lake shore and is then hauled by tugs and scows in summer to The Pas, the nearest railway poinv i - mnes away. On my . trip i" a niw Bcvvrsi .or tne ore , scows iioaung aown me (Saskatchewan. "Here you see hundreds of fine huairv Hugs, every oooy .f travels With dogs tn winter. About half the population is nauoreea. tne oirspring of French and Scotch employes of the Hudson's Bav wiuiiijt wi i"ie wf unvers. canoe- men and ; poker' players. Every tnin one meets in The Pas has a history snu . ewrx ; aos - an enviable j-ecord. Practically all the white children the Cree,; and the Crees swear in Enc '"i. ' " - ' ' . T Jiave met a dozen or' so A mHo raining engineers on tne long hike to the north. They -lay in a year's supply of iuvu, a. canoe am an Indian boat man, and disappear into the ereat Hii,t tanu. x ne "jouaees or rot-tune beckons to them as she holds before them hr golden chalice of dreams, and they lose themselves In the labyrinthlan lakes and shadowed canoe routes bej ond The Paa ' ' - - ' - e ; . I am wrltlnsr this on a crranit. der, with the shimmering face of Hud son's bay at Port Nelson spread out be fore me. I am sending it in to The Pas by an employe of the railway, who ia going back today. From here I- ex pect to be able to get a schooner to Fort Churchill, and hope to make the return Journey to The Pas by canoe un the Churchill, the Little Churchill and pm .lake, some too miles. I hope to get out some time In September at lat The Oregon Country North vest Barwnlne In Brief Form for the Busy Header. - . - OREGON NOTES v WITIIam PollmaTi has presented the city . of Baker with a 20 acre site for a park. A. H. Carson," pioneer horticulturist Of Josephine county, ls dead. lie was the founder of the Tokay, grape Industry in Oregon. The first tralnload of 1920 lambs has been shipped by Smyth ' Brothers. There were 13 carloads, containing about 8600 lambs. , : A leaky pine, which' has been the cause of a water shortage at La Grande, has been . repaired, and .there is now water for everybody. ' Three revenue officers raided the resi dence of George Keys at Woodburn. it is alleged they found a still and six gal lona of finished product. . Because of haying, the visit of Uma. tllla county wheat men to the Moro ex pariment station In Sherman county has been postponed until July 8. Crawford C Lemmon. formerly of the Hood River produce exchange, has been named field manager for the Oregon Growers' association of Medford. " Grande may hold a special election to vote on several questions includlnK issuing bonds for water Improvements and increasing the number of city com missioner from three to five. County Engineer Morse of Lane countv has found a low grade for the road from Crow over the summit of the mountains to Panther creek. In some places th grade of the old road ls from. 20 to 25 per cent. According to tha report of H. C. Sey mour, state leader of Boys" and Gir! clubs, Deschutes county leads all coun ties in respect to the largest club with a perfect score. The distinction has been won by the Redmond Cooking club with as members. Marlon county has the largest number of clubs, six.- WASHINGTON By virtue of a law passed intl919, Clarke county officials will have their salaries increased next January. ' JE"? 9.reat Northern Railroad company "build a new 2700 foot spur track at bntiat at an estimated cost of $740j). 'Two. persons were killed and two se riously injured in a wreck on the Great Northern at Halford, 50 miles northeast Of Seattle. - t R. E. Cook superintendent of Cheha lls schools, has been elected to the chair of mathematics of the new state nor mal at jCentraH a. Grays Harbor County grange has au norized, the purchase of the ntore of the W. E. JohnBon Mercantile company at Satsop for $30,000. The gasoline shortage at Vancouver has again become acute. Distillate has not been on the market for several 1 weens, ana Kerosene is also absent. After a fistic altercation with the camp .cook, J. E. Monahan, foreman for the McOormirlf l.nmhrr inmimv liear Centralia. dropped dead from heart disease. Within 10 days' harvesting of wheat will begin in Walla Walla valley. The j wheat is so far advanced now that It i is oiaimed hot winds would da damage. . W. O. Clark, a rancher near Wal- luia, arrested for alleged bootleirginr pleaded as a defense that his wife had left him and that he wanted to raise money to get a divorce. Yakima county's - roadbulldinsr pro gram will be indefinitely suHpended after this summer, unlesn conditions change, says Chairman Dimmiok of the board of county commissioners. - , IDAHO On account of high water, the 40,000 Iroutlings intended for the Arrowrock district have been transferred to (he Welser district - - Three miles of the Idaho City road (by a cloudburst. It. will take a month I to repair the damage. I ' Knlu ermv harr,-!,. ..l.kll.hu' ln i 1865.: have' been of inverted into a marl. ern hospital for Northwest soldiers and I sailors wounaea in tne war,. I Work has started on the new $110, 000 bridge across the Snake river at Own- leys ferry. It is expected to complete the. structure by February-next year. Heads of all departments - of the 1920 state- fair have been named and plans are going ahead for the improve ment or the lair grounds on tne out skirts of Boise. Crop conditions In the Palouse sec tion, and Camas prairie country look j better than they have In the -last three I years, says Julius II. Jaeolmen of the rpnn crop reporting service. Governor Davis Is sending out letters to every county, urging them to -send at least one representative to the an nual conference on taxation to be held In Salti Lake in September. i awarded the contract for building the I aiio kr7 jmk 'i a t j ' The state - highway department hn I Pickle butte bridge, on the Owvhes JhlKhway between Caldwell and . Clay- tonla, across Snake river, to the Urn Bridge company for 73,hm Uncle Jeff SnOW SaVS : While we're a-dreenln' swamps and Irrlgatin' deeerta to git more land to raise more grub from, and bultdin' ; - mors good roaas to git people on the land to. produce . more eats-fer the big cities, it alius did kinder wonder me why; somebuddy don't start somethin' to git the feller- outer the way that's got dreened land, irrigated land and land next to good roads and won't .use It nor let "nobuddy else use lt : There's a plenty of land nlgrh to big cities and plenty of land Irrigated or dreened, and some of it both, to keep ever'buddy busy and happy and fed up if only we had some way of makin' its cost more to keep it idle 'n to keep It used. , In Oregon Is Obtained Large . Part of ; the Country's , Output of -Platinum The platinum setting of the -Jeweled pin you wear may . have come from the southern hills of Oregon. The indestructible point ; of your fountain pen may have the same pic turesque source. And beyond the Jewelry and the. objecta of platinum that are partly utilities and partly . luxuries, the platinum ofOregon. helped- to win the war. All of it was commandeered by i the government and was of the highest Importance in what Is called "chemical dlaassociatlon" incident to the manufacture of armament and munitions. - , Oregon and a small section "of Northern California Just over the line fromj Oregon - produce, all the platinum of the United States. - The Oregon total, according to the 191S report of the United States geologic survey, was 65 fine ounces. In that year, valued at $7185. California's production was Inconsiderable. It Is evident" that the importance of platinum is not measured by either ounces or dollars, but platinum frorrf Oregon constituted 10 per cent of all used by the United States during the world war. j Platinum is a'fcy-product of placer gold mining. It ta about the same weight as gold, although much harder, and settles with the gold and other concentrates at 1 the bottom of the placer mining "rif nes." It does not amalgamate with other metala as gold -does with mercury and the separating process is tedious. Only the larger grains or flakes are saved. The finer particles are swept away. It resembles old tin foil when first produced Russia has always been the chief source of the world's .plat inum supply. , . - f
