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1 . . IT1 : : -r- AN I!HDKPKXIKST SKWBrVAPKR - Z m i ..KAON i . . . - Publisher C' r li. L. t confident. 1 ? tnto other, joe would bare fu.w do unto jutt- 1 at The Journal BuiWin. Broadway at am- hill mwt. Portland. Urr-on.; T i n i - tntrrl tlw i'o-toifice it 1'uru.mi, claw matjef. All dr,rtmnfc, reached tr " """b" tKl'HKsENTATIVlJ Hni & Kcntn-r C, Mrunawiok Buiidtn. IfUi t ..lU atcliue. Sew Huil'ltna. Chicago York ; uvd Miir THK tiHKtiO.V JOLHNAL redraw tb. reject ndfttinj copy which it lw oo "rtT.b. - It al w.lt not tjrint "P? Ihal in any w,y lmuit reading matter or that cahn.H. readily be recognised li- inx. 1 SIBMi'HII'TlUN HATKS By carrier.' c"y and country. DAILY AM SI'MMT . .05 On. welt " we,k "8 Una Mnlh... .45 I ; BY MAIL.AM. HATKS I'ATABI K IN ADUMK Three morttha. . .$2.25 Ona muoth. ..... .B -. S!CNIAT I Only) . Ona year Si months . . . . I.T Three muntha. . . 1 OO one year ? "V JSix moexhe.... rAii.T " iwuliuut Sunday! ' Ona year - Sia month. . . . 3.JJ Three monthe.. 1.75 llm month SO WKEKI.T. I WKEKI.T AMJ (Erery Wednesday) ' W- NDAY Ona year 11.00 Ona year 13.50 Six months 50 I ; - These rate apply only in the west Rata to Eastern pomta' furnihed Mi applica tion. Make rrmittancea by Money Order, ixprese Order or Draft If your poetoffiee ia not a Money Order Office. I or 2-cent tampe will he accepted. Make all remittance payable to 1M Journal. Portland, Oregon. - I hare been driren many timea to my knee by tho orerwheiming conriction that I had nowhere else lo in. My own witdom and that of nil about me termed insufficient for that day. Abraham Lincola. , A MOTHERS' PLANK THE world has too long driven -the nails of war through the bleeding hands and feet of crucified mankind. In all time, but one plan has ever been proposed to end war, and there by stop the crucifixion of young men. Except one, afl the great nations have accepted that. plan. That one is America, the ' nation that originated the plan. In rejecting, it. America is in the company of "revolutionary Mexico, Bolshevist Russia and un speakable Turkey." There is a sound League of Nations plank in the San Francisco platform. It is printed on this page. It is broad tnoucli to, satisfy every citizen who wants 'a league. It declares for any kind of interpretive reservation that will not nullify the-league. Could anybody who wants a league ask more? If. reservations are to nul lify the league Jhen why a league? If 20 other great .powers of the earth accepted the league as it stands with out dotting an "i" or crossing a "t," cannot America afford to accept the leaguCiWhich she originated withJn terpretive reservations that wiflTnot nullify; it? A great historian said in yester day's Journal that there wil) be another great war within five "years. The future is to be read in the his tory of the past. jPopulation is crowd ing Europe. One reason wfcjf Ger many vcnt to war was to make room for the people who were overcrowd ing her territory. There will, more and more, come to pass that conges tion of population whichi brews wars and battles and the shedding of blood. ; we tnougnt we were isolated enough to keep out of European wars. We learned better. It cost us $26,000,- 000,000 and jnore than i 100,000 dead and innumerable cripples to find out differently. AVe tried to keep out, but couldn't. We voted ln' a great elec-r tlon to keep out, but we got in. We were drawn Into 4he -vortex of the struggle is irresistibly as a dry leaf in the current is drawn over Niagara And if we elect to keep company with Mexico, Russia and Turkey and with hold that moral influence without which the league will go to pieces, we are headed for participation in the next great war just as certainly as that ' a ioird on the bosom of t Bwift river is carried down stream ' We shall be helpless to keep out and we shall be drawn into It just as we were drawn into the last great war. It is fortunate that the San Fran Cisco platform offers a . reasonable declaration for the League of Nations. Through it, mothers whose sons were in the last war can protest against another war. Through it those mothers whose sons perished -in the lasi conflict can vote to save their ; neighbors' boys. Even if the historian is wrong and the next war does not eome within five years, it will come, and when it does come the die vvilfl be cast. , There will be no turning back. The young men will again be drafted. AVe shall see the camps and .cantonments again, and again read the casualty lists. The whole sorrowful tragedy will be enacted over again. There is but one league platform. It ran be read on this page.; ;iue Chicago platform is a no-league platform. It indorses the action of the senators in rejecting the league. It was approtffcd by Johnson and porah, and Borah said he would Dot accept the league even if it were proposed and urged by Jesus Christ. - All tjut a dozen or two people will be g;ad the Vista House litleation was so conclusively decided by Judge Tucker as to preclude reopening the issuer The Vista House may be an exotic excescence "on the summit of the most splendid among the magni ficent outlooks afforded by the Co lumbia River highway. It may have cost two or three times more than it would have cost had the . archi tecture and the materials of con struction been consistent With the nature of the location. . But Vteta House is builti It is irj use.. No one contests its usefulness. The paving and embankments, which were part of its bill of expense, are most worthily devised. JETTISONED IT WOULD be difficult to explain the course of the district attorney's office in the C hi man traffic ca.se. .The extraordinary motion of the deputy at torney to dismiss the action against I'himan merely because he agreed to pay the damages caused by his unu sual driving is hard to understand. Witnesses were, in court prepared to testify that Uhlman was driving at approximately 30 miles an hour .when he crashed into another machine, wrecking it and sending the driver to the hospital. They were prepared to testify that Uhlman took right of way when it was not his. Uhlman him self admits in his report to, the po lice that he did not wait to render assistance to ' the injured man, but abandoned his 'machine and went on to Tacoma to see the races." . The case was brought Into court by the traffic bureau after repeated atf tempts had been made through" secret pull la have it dropped. The officer who investigated the case says at least two dozen people asked him to "help Uhlman out. In spite of all the evidence, the dep uty district attorney offered a motion that 4 he case be dismissed inasmuch as Uhlman agreed to pay all damages. In every traffic case there are three parties interested. One is the defend-, ant. Another is the driver whose car was wrecked. The third is the public. The defendant Is represented by his attorney. Usually the interests of the second driver are in the hands of his own attorney. And the public expects to be represented by either the city or district attorney's office. In the Uhlman case the defendant was well taken care of. The driver whose car was wrecked received his damages. But, what did the public, represented by the. district attorney, get? Uhlman broke three laws, wit nesses were ready to testify, laws that were enacted to protect Innocent men, women and children from reckless drivers, but Uhlman was not made to answer to them. The representatives of the public asked that the case be dismissed. - The Journal ! docs not believe that the influence that. failed to sway the police had anything to do with i the attitude of the district attorney's of fice. But it does believe the public interests were' jettisoned. A dispatch from the east says the cost of ' all i engraving, including birth, marriage and death announce ments, is to bj increased. We have now come to 'the stage where high costs get us from birth to the grave. And they don't miss many places in between. t-.-- --v' SMALLER LINERS EUTURE trans-Atlantic liners are not to be Titanics. , Orders re cently placed by the White Star line for ships; for, the cross-Atlantic runs have fpecified that they be of 30,000 tons as against the luxurious 46.000 tons antttibove previously constructed. The large, magnificent liners have not paid, Is the reason given for their abandonment. ! The Olympic, recently equipped with oil burning engines, is the last of the luxury ships. Every first class staterbom in the big White Star liner has a cot bed and is fitted and dec orated in excellent taste, the more ex pensive suites are extravagantly, fur- nished, and the various cafes, salons. drawing and reading rooms are . the product of years of study in the cre ation of spacious luxuryt The ship is one huge floating spectacle of artis tic magnificence. An expenditure of $25,000,000 is the estimated cost If the Olympic were to be reproduced. iTbes the decision to build smaller and less luxurious vessels indicate a tendency on the part of travelers to demand less luxury on their sea trips? A Connecticut woman imay, have to submit to amputation of a leg be cause of blood poisoning resulting trom carrying large sums of money In her stocking. Word from Con-, necticut indicates that the women's "national bank" may close its doors. FARMS IN THE WEST W3 with the est? The world Is hungry. The peoples of the earth are getting hungrier. Bu Western agriculture is failing to ex pand, t A very interesting graphic chart, prepared by J. C. Ralston, , the . Spo kane engineers in w hose mind as much as that of any other individual was born the idea of the Columbia basin irrigation project, shows that the state of Washington ; made an Increase of 6 per cent; in cultivated acreage be tween 1909 and 1918. It may be said that Washington has" reached the limit of agricultural ex pansion until larger resources tharr are In control of Individuals are ap plied to the reclamation of rid and logged over lands. But Oregon, during the period be tween 1909 and 1318, increased its cul tivated acreage but 22 per cent. This h three and a half times more than Washington's increase.: But Oregon's' arable land attains the enormous total of more than 20.000,000 acres. The cultivated area is probably not In ex cess of, 5,300.000 acres. Had the growth of agriculture- In this state kept pace with the demand for agri cultural products, we ought to show an increase as great as that of Wy oming, which is 100 per cent, or of Arizona, which is 150 per cent, or of Montana, which is 162 per cent Wyoming has been touched by the genus of irrigation. Montana has thrown great tracts of public lands open to settlement. But Washington and Oregon, the states richest In agri cultural protentialitics in all the West, have fallen behind. It is probable that the,, progress of Irrigation "will govern during the next 10 years the agricultural expansion of Oregon and Washington. The reclamation of logged-over lands will be a factor, but irrigation has attained a success so richly proven that the Jarge achievements will be in the Invigoration of arid lands. But the West must hurry up its farming if it wants to help solve the international, hunger problem. ! - One reason for the serious auto mobile accident on Terwilliger boule vard a few days ago and for other accidents there, is the manner in which the highway is constructed. Instead., of banking the roadway on the outside to prevent machines from skidding over the steep incline V.w engineers banked it on the inside. It is,, therefore, imperative ;to their own safety that drivers proceed with unusual caution on that boulevard. THE MILK DEBATE WHY the sudden solicitude for Portland milk dealers? s Deputy City Attorney Mackay : says that to pay them as much for deliver ing milk a3 dairymen, are paid for producing it allows the dealers 'but one-eighth of a cent a quart net proifit. But thje dealers maintain an extrav agantly wasteful, duplicative and ex pensive distribution system. ;As many as 12 competitive; milk "wagons may serve a single block.. Much of the amount they are paid for delivering milk goes into the costs of inefficient deliveries, loss of bottles and incompetent plant management.' Let the dealers reform their, distrib ution system. Let them organize a single distributing company, district the city and end the waste and losses of duplication. Let them seek their profits through efficiency. If the dealers want to make money let them stop their wasteful ineffici ency. Let them abandon their alleged secret organization for an open organ ization obedient to law and in public Interest. The dairymen have an organiza tion. It is a cooperative marketing organization of the kind approved for producers by advanced schools i of agricultural thinking. The announced purpose through their colonization .is to secure for milk the cost of produc tion plus a legitimate profit. To that end they recently expanded ' their or ganization and placed under the man agement and control of its officials a manufacturing corporation. ' The an nouncement will be remembered that this "by-products corporation", had taken over plants - valued at some $200,000. - Through their organization the dairymen have a right to expect cost of production and a profit. But through the efficiency of organiza tion and the lessened overhead expense due to volume handling the consum ers have a right to expect the benefit of economies as well as higher quality milk. , On the other hand, the dairymen say that for years they have been receiv ing less than cost vf production anJ that this item is now actually 9 cents. ' If this is the case how can they continue in .business? In the business of supplying whole some, fresh milk for a large city there are many ramifications. The agencies Involved can only be condemned or exonerated on the basis of all the fa"ts involved. Has the deputy city attorney who reported to the council been able to secure all the facts? If so, he has done more than the investigating com missions which have preceded hi.ii. The public wants to know what are all the facts. It doesn't want bom bast or bunk. INTO THE DISCARD MORE and more so-called morning newspapers are passing out of existence. " r , ; . ; -' City dwellers are more and mere demanding news on the day that it happens. They do not want to. wait until tomorrow to learn what takes place today. It is tlie evolution of "news dissemi nation. Facilities for.news gathering, news transmission and news delivery are tremendously improved. They are already so complete that there is no longer need to wait until .tomorrow for the newi of the world today. r .The late convention at San Francisco afforded ex-ample. The nomination oc curred at 1:40 a. m, Though they had waited beyond the usual time of go ing to press, so-called morning papers carried only the mere name of the nominee, and that in but a few pa pers in the last .end of their city edi- lions. Probably 99 out of every 100 of their readers got no announcement of the final result. The truth is that so-called, morning papers are not morning papers at all but are night papers. Their latest edi tions go' to press shortly after nM night. At that lime, the world naV long been asleep with no news made during the ' interim. SVhile facilities for news gathering and transmission were crude and all the prooessesof new6paperdom slow, the. morning pa per had a field. It is different now. Invention has obliterated - distance and conquered time, Ine newspaper reader can have his news arid all his news on the day' that it happens, and that Is when he wants it. Tomorrow is too late.. To morrow has news of its own and that makes ihe news of yesterday ; history. That is why so-called morning pa pers are passing into the discard. They have, been outlived. The world has moved away from them, and is calling for the fresher, afternoon paper with its story today of what happened in the world today. , HOUSING STATUS AT WASHINGTON By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal Washington, July 15. In January by the federal enumeration Washington had a population " of .457.000. It ia presum ably many thousands less in July, and will be still, less when the demobiliza tion of the army of war clerks and left overs ia completed. The first of this month there was an estimated .decrease of 60OO or 8000 in. the government" force, that being- the end of ths fiscal year and the date when there was In particular a cut-down of emergency officer and workers in the war departmunt. There is no longer such a crush in the, street cars or such great throngs on the street as the visitor saw during the war, but there is such a substantial .permanent in crease, in population - that Washington does not seem likely ever to lapse into the- easy-going. Southern atmosphere which characterized it in pre-war days. e-ee' ' There seems no relief in the housing situation, despite this depletion of . the population, and despite the fact that SO or more new apartment houses are being built. Apartments in new buildings are for the most part rented before ground is brftken for the building, or as soon as the first scaffolding appears, and they command rentals two or three times the pre-war rates. Apartments of m more than three rooms are beyond the 'reach of the average worker,' and nothing ap pears to be vacant overnight. ' One j-eaaon why the demobilization of the war workers has not had more no ticeable effect on housing Is that during the war and for some time after amines that never before rented rooms were in duced to do so. The departure of the tenants has not made any increase in the number of available rooms. Then thousands of war workers were housed in government dormitories, some of which aurviVe, but. are in large papt dis mantled. During the latter part of the war tenants were protected from rental increases by the Saulsbury lawt which prevented eviction for failure to pay higher rent. This was superseded at the end of the war by the Ball law, which declared that "because of conditions still existing, the rental of property .was, stamped. with a "public interest' and therefore subject to regulation under a federal rent commission. This commis sion has heard hundreds of cases and has aided, materially ' in checking the upward flight of rent, but the law. has been declared unconstitutional by - the district supreme court and its. authority to control leases and meet the , many devices of the property owners for rais ing rent is seriously - challenged. The present situation is- one of uncertainty with all sorts of rumors in circulation as to the plans for "landlord raids." :-.. a4 a , e a ,. , . .-..,.. Yet statistics show that the population is shrinking steadily, with scores of clerks vlet out" as a frequent announce ment, and others resigning -before the let out stage is reached. The answer ap pears to be that war-time expedients of overcrowding and - the- lack of building during the war left the housing inade quate for the normal increase needed. - The League of Nations From the Democratic platform. ; "The Democratic party favors the League of Nations as the surest, if not the only practicable means of maintain ing the permanent peace of the world and terminating the insufferable burden of ' great military and naval establish ments. It was for. this' that America broke : away from traditional isolation and spent "her blood and treasure to crush a colossal scheme of conquest It was upon this basis that the president of the United States, in prearran'gement with our allies, consented to a suspen sion of hostilities against the imperial German government ; the armistice was granted . and a treaty of peace negoti ated upon the definite assurance to Ger many, as well as to the powers pitted against Germany, that a. 'general asso ciation of nations must be formed, under specific' covenants, , for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of. plt Ical independence and territorial ' integ rity to great and' small states alike.' Hence, we not only congratulate the president on the vision manifested and vigor exhibited in the prosecution of the war, but we felicitate him and ' his as sociates upon the exceptional achieve ment at Paris Involved in the adoption of a league and treaty so near akin to previously " expressed American ' ideals and so intimately related to the aspira tions of civilized peoplas everywhere.. "We commend the president for his courage and his high conception -of good faith-, in' steadfastly standing ' for the covenant agreed to by all the associated and allied nations at war with Germany and we condemn the Republican senate for its refusal to ratify the treaty merely because it was . the product of Demo cratic, statesmanship, thus interposing partisan envy and personal hatred . in the way of the peace and renewed pros perity of the world. "By every accepted standard of inters national morality the president is justi fied in asserting that the honor of the country is involved in this business ; and we point to, the accusing fact that, be fore it was determined to Initiate polit ical antagonism to the treaty, the now Republican chairman of the senate for eign relations committee himself pub licly proclaimed that any proposition for a separate peace with Germany, such as he and his party associates thereafter reported to the senate, would make us "guilty of the blackest crime.' - "On May 15, last, the Knox substitute for the Versailles treaty Was passed by the Republican senate, and this conven tion can contrive no more fitting char acterization of its obloquy - than that made in the Forum Magasine of . Decem ber, 1918. by Henry Cabot Lodge, when be said : "If we send, our armies "and young men to be killed and wounded in northern France art Flanders with no result but this, our entrance into war with ; uch an intention was a crime hich nothing can justify. The intent of congress and trie Intent of the presi dent was that there could be no peace until we could create a situation where no such - war as this could recur. - We cannot : make peace except In company with our allies. It would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring ruin; to us also (if . we undertook to make a sep arate peace.' , - "Thus to that which Mr. . Lodge, in saner moments, considered .'the blackest crime, he and his party in madness sought to gi-e the sanctity of law;4hat which 18 months ago was of 'everlasting dishonor' the Republican, party and its candidate today accept as the essence of faith. "We indorse the president's view of our international . obligations and his firm stand against reservations designed to cut to pieces the vital provisions of the .Versailles treaty and we commend he Democrats in congress f of voting against resolutions for separate peace which woaid disgrace the nation. fWe advocate the. immediate ratification of the taeaty without reservations which would nmpair its essential integrity ; but do not oppose the acceptance of any reservations makifig clearer or more spe cific the obligations of the United States to the league associates.' Only by doing this may -we retrieve the repu tation of this nation among the powers, of the earth and recover the moral lead ership which President Wilson won and which Republican politicians at Washing ton sacrificed. Only by doing this may we hope to aid effectively in the res toration of order throughout the world and to take the place which we should assume in the front rank of spiritual, commercial and industrial advancement. "We reject as utterly vain. if 'not vicious, the Republican assumption -that ratification of the treaty and member ship in the League of Nations would In any wise impair the integrity or inde pendence of our country. The fact that the covenant has been' entered into by 29 -nations, all as jealous of their inde pendence, as we are of oura, is a "suf i-: cient refutation ot -such , Charge. The president repeatedly has declared, and this convention reaffirms, that all our duties and obligations as a member of the league must be fulfilled in strict conformity with the constitution of the United States, embodied in which is the fundamental requirement Of declaratory actiorfby the congress before this nation may. become a participant in any war." betters From the People (Communications sent to The Journal for publication in thia department should b written on only one side of the, paper, should not exceed. 300 words in length and muxt be aigned by the writer, whose mail addreaa it full must accom pany the contribution. ) , CONCERNING THE ISSUE Portland. July 10. To the Editor of The Journal The ; Oregonian tells us that now that Cox is nominated, the question to be decided at the election is: "Shall the United States be wet, or .dry"? It says that is the prime issue; the League of - Nations is secondary.. . - , The cestui que trust was: silent , when those men and women he speaks of were fighting to , make Oregon , a dry , state They received practically no encour agement from the editor of the morn ing daily. Its editorial comment on what it. now terms the prime issue was-cautious, and discreet. Now however, the question which was supposed to have been; settled by the American people is to be used by Republican editors to de test the Democratic nominee.' - The real issue, ignored by the Chicago platform, is the march of liberal ideas. The.' anarch has , progressed ' across the Poflsh.. frontier. . They come in ever in creasing 'waves. How quickly do they cove' whatever - it is their mission to destroy and to bury. Th news from the Polish, frontier is;, ominous. Statesmen entrusted wtth the ; destinies of nations are- sacrificing human lives and immense treasure in futile attempts to erect a barrier. Statesmen know history. They know what happened to Europe after the miserable failure of the Holy Alliance to suppress the French revolutionary spirit. Today civilization totters. If it falls, a ;j greater ' and grander civilization, founded on' economic justice, will" arise from the ruins. - Mark well "the words of Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambas sador to the United States t. "In Europe we know an age - is dy ing. A realization of the. aimlessnees Vf life, lived to labor and to die, having achieved nothing -but avoidance of starvation and the birth-of children also doomed to the weary treadmill of, life, has seized the minds of 'millions." iln 'view vof t the 'obviously impending menace, how-insignificant is the question, "Shall the United States be wet or dry?" Discussion will only accelerate the move ment that is rapidly assuming the pro portions of a social avalanche. t - W.' P. ADAMS. AS IDLE AS AN EMPTY CAR i From the Iliehmond Times- fMapatch ; Apparently, the country is suffering not so much from car shortage as it is from car slaqkerism. If the 1,000.000 cars now lying . iaie were imi 10 wuin the freight tieup soon would be relieved. CAN BE DONE WITH SAFETY ii. From the San Antonio Express To Any Community If you have prof iteers prepare to shed them now. Curiousj Bits of Information for the Curious s Gleaned From Curious Places :. Early presidents of the United States received strange gifts during their terms as executives, the strangest of them all being, ; perhaps, the cheese l- sent C to Thomas Jefferson, with the admiring in scription. "The greatest cheese in America for the greatest man in America." It was conveyed to Washington by a six-horse team, i Jefferson insisted upon paying for itand it lasted for a whole year. Andrew "Jackson was1 the t recipient of such gifts as a whole - hog from Ken tucky, .whisky' from Pennsylvania, beef from New York and a cheese ; that weighed half a ton or more from New England. The Blue room In the White House contains the -most famous of the gifts received ' by American : presidents, the golden mantel clock presented ' to Washington by Lafayette, who received it from Napoleon. In the Green room is the Gobelin tapestry, made by a process which now is a lost art, -which the em peror pf Austria gave Mrs. Grant. Olden Oregon Flour Milling Attained Importance at Very Early Date. Among the early flour-mills In Oregon were the Standard mills at Milwaukie, built in J860, having a capacity of 250 barrels a day, and the Oregon ; City mills, owned by J. D. Miller, capable of turning out 300 barrels dally. This mill was "originally erected in 1866 to make paper but was converted in 1868 Into a flouring mill. The Imperial mill at Ore gon City was capable of grinding BOO barrels daily. The Salem flouring mills, established in -1870, manufactured .from 5,000 to 16,000 barrels a month and found J a market In Europe. The Jefferson City muis grouna iu,wu oarreis a montn ana J. H. Foster's mill . at Albany - had , a capacity of 300 barrels a day. In . the great flood of 1861-62 the Island mill, built at Oregon City by the Methodist mission, and McLoughlin's mill were both carried away. f .. - - . . -.. ' ' . . ... -.. . - . - .- .. ......... . ... - 1 1 f" - 11 1 1 1 ' r COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF . ; ' SMALL CHANGE Keep smiling. The fire eeason seems to be on with cl vengeance in Oregon- .... . . , a a The 48'ers. -at best, need never expect to go down in -history with the 49'ers. ' Three Inches of snow over In Boulder, Colo. Colder at Boulder, too. no- doubt.-. a We read now of the murderous ac tivities of the -black reds." Which re minds us of the old white blackbird stories.. . The man who waited 30 years for the idol of his heart- to say "yes," deserves to spend his declining years in peace and happiness. - a Kngland is trying to get control of the world's supply of oil, but she is willing to let us continue-to paper our walls with oil stock. A telephone operator in Kngland has given up her job at the age of 80 years. Some Portland "girls" should follow suit for the good of the service. . i a a , The good citizen wants to see in creased river traffic on the Willamette, but . he nopeaitwill go by.at times when he isn t waiting to cross the river. , -. The wheat crop will be a bumper one. according to reports. Wonder what ex cuse the bakers will dig up the next time they raise the price of bread. 'MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Harry Edward Freund, who directs the l publicity for the National Jewelers' asso ciation, is at the Benson hotel, where he tells some interesting stories about jew elry, especially -.diamonds. .; Freund de clares that trade statistics reveal the fact that the workinsman is the real dia" monded plutocrat of the present dav. More working people .purchased diamonds during the period of the war than did the members of the moneyed class if there is any .distinction between the workingman and the moneyed class. Everyone Is wearing diamonds," Freund says. "It used to be that only the rich could buy but since' the worker came into money during the ' war he has at tained a rare discrimination in .jewelry and his purchases, especially in the dia mond market, continue heavy." The jew elry .industry is to be widely advertised through a 8300,000 appropriation made for the purpose by the association which Freund represents. 1 .'South Carolina and Alabama, both en joying some intensive summer heat just now, have contributed to Portland's tran sient population in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Burns of Aikur, S. C, Mrs. W.vA. All and eon, Ernest L., of Birmingham, Ala., and Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Johnson of Allendale, S. C. The visitors are stopping at the Hotel Port- larfd. , jv,v -J :-.-;:rK'- i ; -vii: .- V ."' "''v- .---iV. K. O. McCormick, vice-president of the Southern Pacific company, and Stephen T. Mather, director of national parks, re turned to Portland Wednesday mormng en route to California." The visitors' have been touring with the congressional ap propriations committee, which arrived in Portland for a brief visit Sunday, and they continued to the. Rainier national park with the committee. The congress men are now . on their way back to Washington, D. C, traveling through all IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS . OF TttE JOURNAL MAN By Fred IHnw'ri ma like to be the 'cona-reaaman, if you really had to fire crosa-yemr-hrart answers to the , questions which constitute the principal matter of Mr. Lockley'a article for the day? Answering them for the concressman, nowewr, iw m - Hirferant. matter, and is an indoor sport which will prove not only diverting but edify- in. i Some time ago C. S. Jackson said to me, "It costs -the public 830.000 a year to support each congressman. ana mighthr few of them are worth that to the country." I knew that congressmen received a salary of but $7500 a year, so" I thought Mr: Jackson's statement somewhat rash. My curiosity was ex cited and - I began to . investigate the matter and the more I investigated the more sure t became that he had under stated -rather than : overstated. i i a . '.;" EvidenUy a good many people wonder whether our congressmen , are worth 830,000 a year to the public, for recently each member ef congress received a list of 100 questions from Lynn Haines, who prefaces his questions with the state ment that he is writing a book on con gress, in which he will show how. by whom and why things ;are done in congress, the cost to the public and who receives the benefit. In his letter to the congressmen he says: . ." "Vnn a-iit nf mum' asree with me rthat in governmental matters every in- aivtauai acuvity una iiiiiueiiin ui eviij member is a proper subject for the closest scrutiny. You will want to have all your . public relations completely known and understood. In a democracy public opinion, to occupy its rightful place, must have complete and- continu ous information as to all the affairs of government and must possess truly democratic, easily workable Instrumen talities of government through which tb express its -will and power." a . .. . . I shall not attempt "to quote his list of- 100 questions, but here "are a ..few which will give one an idea of the character of the inquiry, though . I am very much afraid he wUl not secure the data he seeks: "Whom do you 'co.isult. as to your course with reference to patronage, local bills, public matters? Why? This whole question of association and leader ship Is tremendously .' Important. In many -cases it would he sufficient in Itself to enable the people to form an accurate estimate of the member whose alignment . was : thus established. "If you should . be defeated for re election, what would you do? When a member , becomes a lame . duck,' as a rule be does one of three things: Obtains a political appointment, continues at the capital as a lobbyist, or returns home to resume his original vocation, whatever that was. ( "When did you first enter congress? What had been your business or pro fession prior to that event? - Thinking people everywhere are giving attention to the fact that . congress is now com posed mostly of one classlawyers. : i "If a lawyer, .what was the character of your practice? ' What - business in terests, if any, did you represent? "Have you done legal work for clients since entering congress? . "To what do you attribute your first election? ,Was it your platform, ..your personality, or the political help of in terested persons or groups? What cam' palgn promises did you make, outside of platform pledges? ' "Have you controlled in whole or In part . the patronage of . your district? Who among your active campaign ,sup- porters obtained appointive positions through your ' influence? Who were they, and . to what offices were they appointed? "What is the exact amount that you have drawn in mileage each year since entering congress? "How have you handled your station SIDELIGHTS Farmers near,. Yamhill are having the new. city water supply extended onto their premises and are paying for the extension costs. . : a . a : .. . The population of the country is esti mated at 100,000.000, most of which, the Crane American has discovered, "sur rounds Crane in a radius of trom one to 4000 miles' a a a - Colonel Clark Wood of the Weston Leader puts himself in line for 19 24 with this: "We're glad that in any event an editor will, occupy the White - House, having the utmost confidence that any man who can run a newspaper, can. run the federal 'administration." a Between May 1 and June 15, on his father's farm. Clifford Keller, aged 15 of Turner route 2, killed 108 grey digger squirrels, -12 gophers and seven moles. His bounties totaled 87.30. and what these varmints would have cestroyed had they lived would probably total 100 times as much, s v . e " a '' "On Wednesday, July 7, something oc curred in Independence banking circles," save, the Post, "that never happened be fore 1 and ."may never happen . agal n. The ciearance between the two batiks was th utme : that in. t the close of the day's business each institution owed the nther evaHlv thn name amount, to the penny. Perhaps not 100 banks in all the world ever had a similar expert ence. that part of the west Interested In re clamation projects and visiting - all na tional parks en route. The committee will spend some time In Glacier national park and the Yellowstone. - a a . , :. Tourist visitors at the Imperial hotel include Misses Helen Parkhurst and Alice and Harriet Underwood of New York city and Katherine J.-, Emma C. Catherine R. and Clara M. Fornof and Elsie Barnes and Augusta Seaman of Coiumbus, Ohio. The Multnomah hotel is entertaining guests who are muoh pleased with the scenic assets they have thus far been able to see in Portland. The visitors are Mr., and Mrs. D. R. Collins and their daughters. Elsie and Ruth of Gardner, Mass. ...i' :. - , a . a a , Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bidwell of Island City are about home now after a very interesting trip through the Kast. The travelers especially visited Kansas City and -Washington. D. C. While n Port land they were guests at the Imperial hotel. ' Bidweir is a flour miller in the Union county town. - 'a . . .v Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Clark of Canhy, Clackamas county, are visiting in the city briefly. Canby is looking forward to a big county fair this year and some notable race track features are promised, it is said. - - Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop HiRgins of Banbury, Connf, where Higglns is presi dent of the state normal school, are tourist guests at. the Multnomah, hotel. Erie F. Whitney of the General Elec tric company, who has been East and South on an extended trip, has returned to Portland. Lockley ary allowance? What part of it. if any, was drawn in cash? Have you usea sta tionery which was charged to committees or otherwise paid for? I wish you would explain fully why the house han dles all sorts of things under that name stationery. The report of- the clerk of the house for 1917 shows there were paid for. out of 'the contingent fund," 744 decks of playing cards, a large number of manicure sets, 298 bags, purses and brief cases, thermos bottles and Gillette razor blades? "What relatives have you appointed to secretarial or clerkship positions in your congressional office? .Who among your relatives have ; been appointed to posi tions in ' "the house patronage list'? What relatives of yours have received appointments to positions outside of con gress? What persons outside your fam ily have you been instrumental in get ting appointed to positions In the house patronage list? In the "various depart ments? Who among these have contrib uted in service or otherwise to your po- litical success? "What local and - private measures have you introduced? Please classify them, pensions, private claims, cannon, bridges, buildings, rivers and harbors, etc. What appropriation did each carry? How 'many of these ' measures were paxoed ? ::. - . "How many local measures did you Introduce-, knowing they would - not get beyond that stage? How many of these were printed and franked out, to im press voters with the idea that you were .trying to get something for them? What was the cost of these performances? In printing? In labor? In postage, if that has been paid? "How many packages of free seeds do you frank out each year? .What expense. In first cost, envelopes, unpaid postage, etc., would be involved? . How many gov ernment documents do you frank out for political purposes? At what figure do you estimate all the. expense attached to this? f How many times a year' do you frank some sort of communication to all your voters? What does this cost the people? Upon, what - subjects have you actually delivered speeches? How many undelivered speeches have you had printed' In the Congressional Record? Did you write all of these leave-to-print speeches? What Is the total number of undelivered speeches you have printed and franked out? What has this cost the public? ' "How many . government franks have you used since entering congress? What would have been their equivalent In post age had it been, paid? All told, how many enyelopes have you used at public expense?) '. , ' . "What measures, if any. have come before congress in which you had a per sonal Interest? v - "How would you go about it to take special privilege out of politics, making politics "the- servant- rather than the master in governmental affairs, substi tuting statesmen for politicians, rto the end that public service may predominate over self service in -that field? . ."How would 'you divorce from legisla tion the- corrupting influence of both pork and patronage, thereby eliminating a thousand and one kind of local trash and raising members above the status of errand bdys for political bosses and self ish Individuals, communities and classes? "What do you propose to advocate and do to bring- about a wholesome recon struction of the motives and methods of congress? to the end that efficiency and economy may replace the-existing orgy of spoils and special favors within the national legislature? ' , . -"flow would you handle the fiscal af fairs of "the government, as to both ap propriations and revenue giving prin-: cjples and particulars, and reorganiza tion needs from beginning to end'" - The. Oregon Country Northwest Happening in Brief Form for the Buay Header. OREGON NOTES fthttvira T V, - m r , rti ........ ... wviiiiauii n nuuu iwiver c-ouniv nan aiuAi e. . .xi..MAd.. , : . . . uij. '. .inuniFri B IU KflOiBl llllll in enforcing speed laws. Astoria Is, to have another sawmill, wntch is to be devoted to the cutting of alder for furniture arid veneer Astoria automobile dealers have or dered laro-A rinu nritftttt ..e . . . - - -,... a.iuniiT. LI Mill independent oil companies to aecommo- Mat. h.nk ...:. The rllvnf rll.Zi. i t..i- ... na made application to appropriate one second-foot of water from Mill orek for a municipal water supply. A new cooperative salmon cannery on the lower Columbia river is being orsriin- iBed hV trnllar, ..rl III capital stock is to be HOO.ono. The Lane county court has ri-clde-n nnt tn Hull . ....... w i the Willamette t Marrisbure for at leitut ja.c. i ric icrrjr iii ue i-oniinueil. The Tillamook club has sold 18 head or pure-bred . Uuernseys at an avrraue price of 800. The highest price paid for a . single animal was 81150 to Ira O. Lance. On the ground that the city of Wood burn has exceeded its limit of indebted ness, A. C Simmons lias broucht suit to restritn the city from undertaking cer-. tain improvements. t T ?ity ot Rosehurg has ivved !al advice that bonds recently ullvir. . " special election for Hie sum of 87000 for an aviation field outside the city limits, are Invalid. Harry Shown of Twickenham In w heeler county was serioUslv burnpd while trying to start a crude oil burning engine used in irrigation. The torch ex. pioded, throwing burning oil in his face. Practically all the mill-owned ln-frtintr-camps which suspended for the ' Fourth of , July have resumed operations. The majority of the independent camps are preparing to start within a week. The body of Thomas Alexander, aped 6 j. has been found near Hi Hard in noun las county wtth the entire top of the head shot away. Death is thought to have been caused hy the acHrtonlal din- ' charge of a rifle he was carrying. ' ;"; WASHINGTON' Material benefit to crops in Eastern Washington resulted from the rait of Sunday. Some damage to wheat has . been done in Walla Walla valley, in the foothills, by wind which followed a heavy rain. A contract for paving approximately one mile of the Pacifici highway in Sno homish county from Silvana north has been let for 835,436. . , Walla Walla Is planning to advertise;,, for bids soon for a new bridge over Col ville street. The bridge will be 60 feet -long and 60 feet wide. . The wheat harvest will begin In Adams county in J, week or 10 dav. Labor is scarce and $5 per day with board and up Is offered. ; The public service commission will conduct a bearing at Bellingtmm rm the , Increased rates of the Falrhaven Water, Light. & Power company. i. The state reclamation board has au thorized a survey of swamp land; proj ects In Western Washington preliminary to the construction juf drainage and dik- District bonds of the Chelan reclama tion district to the par valu of 88300 will be purchased ny the state reclama tion board for 175,000. The project in cludes 4650 acres In. Chelan county. A cloudburst in the hills north of Sun nyside canalbetween Outlook and Gran ger caused the canal to overflow. The canal was broken in four or five placea, causing considerable damage. .. According to an assistant state fire marshal. 80 per cent of the grain field fire louses in the state last year-were In Walla Walla. Columbia and Whitman counties. The total losses were 8169.134. The state riyrlamation board will make a survey of the Methow reclamation dis trict known as the "skyline" project. The project contemplates the irrigation of approximately 12,000 acres in Okanogan county. ' , - . " ' . IDAHO L ' i - A "pedal election has been called at Rupert to decide whether picture shows may operate on Sunday. , Walters ferry has le.en closed to traf fic until July 17. The ferry is on the road fom Nam pa to Murphy. Application has been filed by the Bolrwi Valley TracUorutiompatiy with the public utilities commission to increase its rales on the Hillcrest loop lines and to aban done the Cole school branch. Four Idaho athletes have been selected to represent America tin the Olympic games at Antwerp thia summer. They are "Babe" Brown and Eugene P. Hhr man of Boise, Pat lej4e of Nes Perce and Neil Irving of Rupert. The district court at IHicatello has lftKueo. an oraer-hskiux mayor biihirit and the city council to show cause why the recently -enacted "price markinc" ordinance should not be restrained. The ordinance is being fought by retail mer chants. :," Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Politics ain't no hos race: leastwise it hadn't orter be. The slacker is the feller that don't go to the ballot box and vote. He won't be let off by the good Lord fer his dqdgln' responsibility that a-way. In fact. the slacker citizen and citiaeiieBs does vote when they don't vote, because by not votin they support rascality, thievery, knavery, special privilege and ail manner of evil. The big bizness fellers and the trusts and the political tricksters exists 'cause the people oftentimes by 60 to 80 outer 100 stays home or goes a-fishin' or goes anywheres 'cepttn' where duty calla, which Is to the vtin' booth. l; Oregon Has Metal Wealth - of Great Value, anu ? Possibly Oil' j Oregon is more of a mineral pro ducing state than' many people real ise. The production of lumber, fruits, wool. , grain, livestock and poultry is so great as to overshadow the yield of the mines. , Yet in 1919 there came from Ore gon mines gojd, silver, copper and lead valued at nearly 82.000,000. Last year was, at that, what the miners call a short year. The mineral pro duction was about $175,000 less than in 1918. While the war was being waged, another Important mineral which la little heard of In this state went to help fight the battles of demorracy. The chrome ore mined in Oregon during 1918 was valued at $865,04S. It is an essential alloy in the manufac ture of the 'big guns which helped . to win the conflict for world freedom-"There la much chrome ore in Oregon , yet. Many-carloads of it. In fact, are ready to move In South ern Oregon, but imported supplies' are - now purchasable In the Eiisst- . cheaper than the chrome ore wljich comes from Oregon. ;? Although most of Oregon's coal .mining ! done In Coos county there are believed to be large deposits of coat . hY the state. The Oregon bu reau of mines and geology In coope eration with the United States geo logical survey Is making constant Investigation to determine the prob able location of coal lands as well as gold,; silver, copper and other minerals. The bureau "not long ago conducted an Investigation with a view to as certaining whether the underlying strata of Western Oregon might pos sibly contain reservoirs of petro-i leum. Its report indicated, however, that the formations were not favor- bi for the discovery of oil. L
