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Newspaper Page TextTHE OXEGOU DAILY JOU HIJAL. PORTLAND, . OREGON SATURDAY, JULY 31. IZZO. AS IN'DEPEXDKNT N'EWBPAPEB ' C H. JACKSON ' JJa r (lie calm, t confident, ba cheerful and to , nnu, others a 7 on would be them do nate yon. 1 '- lUbltehed awry week day nJ Sunday morning. at The Jorn.l Hulldinc. Broadway and im f hill Xreet. fortUnd. Orreon. . Kctered at the I'o.to(tr at Portland. Uiwb. (or tr,iumkioa throusb the mail aecooel : j ciaas matter. - ; " ' -'' ' TEU-rHOXES Main TITS, Automatic S80-51. All dfpertment reached hi- enj..ln K.ntnor Co.. rar," B"d'"f 22 Fifth entte. New twk; 0 XUllm Hoilriin. Chtraan. ' - THE OUE;OM iOVUSAV TTUJ7r. . th.J Jl . reject adrtMn copy which JectioneWe. It alao will Bot print any copy that in any way airaulatr rradiiuj Butter or -1 that can Dot readily bo recocniied a aArt- tninc. . . gt'BSCBIFTION BATHS By carrier, city and country. " IA1LT AND SUN DAT On. 0n S?5nV . .65 On. wee".".! On. wee $..03 On, Month.,.. ;? BT MAIUAIX HATES PAlnu. n -" . IJAII.T AND SUNDAY . Om ear...... 8H.0O Thre. montha. .,$2.25 th.. I I On. Booth 7 a - DAILY SUNDAY ' (Without Sunday) cmly) On. year On. yea'. . . . . Mx montha.... 8.2 HU month.... . Three month.. 1.15 Thre. montha . . 13 00 1.75 1 00 On. month.... .oW I WEEKLY i (Eery WUiw1ayV One year. .....I 00 WEEKt.Y AND aiNDAY One year,. . ... .$3.50 Sis montha.... . I- Thee. rate, apply only th the. Wot ' Rate, to Katern point fnmUhed on applica tion. Make remittance by Money Order, Kipr Order or Drat. If your portofttce hv-not Money Order Office. 1 or 2-cent Umr "IJ accepted. Make all remittance, payable to To. Journal. Portland. Oregon. i It U among th. eriK and perhaps not th. I amalleat. of drraocrmtical goeernraenU that I th people mwt feel before titer will see. i When this happen they are aroueed to ae ; Uon. Hence it U that tliwe kind of goveru- tnent ar ao ilow Wahington. . 1 WHO OWNS AMERICA? IT automobiles will be without mo- tivc power. - : . t Fears engendered by gasoline ration 1 Ing on" the Pacific .coast 'are ground- S less. Even were there prospect, of a ( vanishing?!! supply, some equally ef- ficlcnt substitute would be produced. j 'ine sen ice that trie various forms or. motor-driven vehicle can render civi 5 lizatlon has been so powerfully dem I onstrated that the Inventive genius of I ntan'will never permit them to go Into ; uisuse. ' ( Thus two-fifths of the automobiles i of America are in use by farmers. The facility these cars have given fthe I farniers'.ln doing business Is so great that the trading orShopping radfus : on the farms is extended ;from a" three j miles distance from trading points to I 35 miles. It Is an agency in civFHza- lion that man will never give up. It y vu. aw. - a a j a a-a. m -a a a. a ua . affairs that mankind ylll never sur-1 ,. render or abandon. ' I- The recurring prophecies that the ; crude oil supply is nearing cxhaus- ' firm art cfincatfnrnliam rrtiaA V.a been similar reports about coal since time immemorial. But. the earth con tinues to give up coal to us In un limited quantities and wllUgb oh do- - ing so for hundreds of Vears, accord ing to the geologists. . ; And even should the crude oil sup ply become exhausted, there is the shale rock from which;"jvvit.i no fewer than 25 plants, Great Britain Is now " manufacturing petrol. ; The claim is that there is enough shale in America, notably in Utah, Colorado and Texas, to provide petroleum enough to last hundreds of years. Its manufacture has not jet Leen undertaken in Amer ica because of the cost of production, , which is placed at 40 cents per gallon for the refined product the present cost in England. That whenever its use becomes necessary, American in jventive genius will lower this cost and make its use entirelyfeasible is the universal opinion of engineers. , Meanwhile, It is on the Pacific coast ; alone that the process of rationing the - 'use of gasoline has ben applied. The - rest of the country as far west -as Idaho' Is using gasoline in reckless abandon. We are told here that the unexpectedly large increase in the ' number of cars, in use is responsible for the shortage. But there are other -states far to the-east where there are similarly large Increases in the num- . beirof automobiles, but upon which no process of rationing has been laid, There Is no known reason why two i'cr three Pacific coast states should rhave their , usual affairs, interrupted , while other states in the country pro ceed along the even tenor of their way, unmolested by regulations laid upon them by the oil refiners. " The condition examples the folly of permitting a few private individuals Mo exercise the power of determinina "Who shall have the benefit of a pub- lie utility and who shall not. Exer cise oi sucn great powers ty private authority always results In discrimi nation ana inequity, , . It has been so with railroads. ., which : no less . an authority than the , Interstate commerce commis sion aeciarea duhi up one city at the ' expense of another and pulled down, one district to build up an other. It has been t so, whenever and wherever . a small . group ' had the power to . control a great national agency, and It will, always be so. The lesson of the situation Is this: If there is to be rationing of gasoline in any section of this country, let it become a matter of public, not private, rationing, and let the regulation be country-wide and not confined alone to two or three Pacific coast states. To the traffic bureau: Complaint ia hereby "entered ' against most of the filling: stations In Portland. ;At many of them, automobiles are al most constantly " permitted to ob struct the "sidewalks. forcing pe destrians to take to the street in. order to pass. '; The automobiles do enough in monopolizing the street. They have no right on any pretext to monopolize the sidewalks. THE DEAD, ENGINEER E VEX though block signals might not have prevented the railroad tragedy, on the Southern Pacific at Bertha station on the ninth , of last May, Die system would have been an additional safeguard. And . after the accident, the company 4 would. Ji&ve pointed to the block signals as reflect ing full, effort by the line to guard the lives of its passengers. - Too often it is the trainmen : that are called upon by an undiscrlmlnating public to bear an unjust share of the blame. The public jdoestft know all the complications ajjd complexities of actual railroad operation, as the train men know them.. J The public sits comfortably In cushioned seats In the cars or In swivel chairs in luxurious offices withoht realizing how time has to- be made, how almost numberless trains are oh a single line, how some times the head of the engineer Is in a whirl with train -orders abandoned and train orders canceled and new or ders substituted until in the' confusion there seems no beginning and no end to the trains on the single-track and no limit to the sidings needed for them to safely pass one another. Nor does the public realize ; that some of the tracks leading out of Portland carry as heavy a traffic as some, of the busiest-line's In America. The Journal has heard t trainmen who declared they would rather lose their jobs than operate trains on one of the busiest of these lines.' ; Until the public does know some of these com plications'in railroading. It should be chary In concluding that "the dead conductor" or "the dead engineer," piled up amid the debris of an acci dent, was at ault and responsible for the tragedy. . -1 -' . The installation j. of block signals costs money, but so do railroad acci dents, and the order of the Oregon public service commission Js not amiss. Nor is there reason why brake men should not also be given copies of .train orders as an additional safe guard on overloaded single tracks, as suggested by. the commission. H Is a safeguard that would cost nothing and that might within a very short time be the means of averting a tragedy. A blare ? of. noise from - hostile camps heralded the Wilson-Cox con ference. There were to be disagree ments ranging from. the forensic to the pugilistic. The loss of the.pow erf ul Wilson support was be the one thing, that would undo Cox. Then the conference passed off with out clash , or . conflict. : The two parted in harmony. Who will be the next to cry "Wolf"? ... GASOLINE j FOR ALL ., TPIIE United States geological sur-e A - reports that the world s supply of petroleum is 00,000.000,000 barrels, enough to furnish gasoline fo? 168 years at the present ,rate of consump tion. ';..;:.:".-:;- . From the same authority comes the assertion that the , supply of the United States Is 7,G29,P00,000 barrels, enough to keep us-in gasoline for 20 years at the present rate of consump tion. . .-' - .; - - ' j ': - ;. Then why the gasoline scare? Why the gasoline shortage? ; The Standard Oil company's recent bulletin, which, by the way, is the first apparently frank statement which has appeared from that organization, declare it is simpjy due to the fact that the num ber of commercial and other vehicles increased on the Pacific coast from 236,691 in 1915 to .748,765 in 1920. the last figure being exclusive of 37,533 motorcycles In use this year, and that the Increase of facilities for the production of petroleum and the man ufacture of gasoline has not kept pace with the tremendous Increase in the .number of gas ; propelled vehicles. Motors In the same period have in creased from 3000. to 23,200 on the pacific coast s j - ' The same company answers the re port that it is exporting much of the oil produced on the Pacific coast, by saying that its gasoline i exported in 1918 amounted to "05.741 barrels and in 1920 will total 213,351 barrels of 50 gallons each.' ' . The general figures of the gasoline situation for the Pacific coast are that California will produce this year 100, 000.000 barrels and the Pacific coast will consume .110,000.000 barrels of petroleum. ! vlf fuel ollajs taken off the market in the earlyautumn as has been an nounced, and if the-"cracking" process resulted. In double' the production of gasoline, from the; same quantity of oil. and if the depression In the auto mobile business chiefly caused by the gasoline' scare continues, there will certainly be a definite, relief within a ; few- weeks. . i' - . 1 ' ' - '-- In the meantime the public Should have learned that the control of gaso line supply cannot be safely entrusted to the oil companies. Gasoline Is vital to industry and to national recrear tion. The second ! factor in national transportation depends upon It. There should be government control of the gasoline supply. H should be a public utility. , ; - : ' A new appeal has been made by coal operators to President Wilson in an effort to secure an adjust ment of differences to the end that operation of idle cpal minee may proceed. ; Ia the presidency more and more, as a result of precedents set daring" the war, to become ; an intermediary for adjusting indus trial -differences, v If so. the office takes on a new responsibility which adds to the Importance of filling the position with a man of capacity. ' , BOTHERED READERS ' ITS "bothered readers" are worried because the Oregonian doesn't stand hitched on- the League of Nations. One of them wrole the paper as. follows : . As the Oregonian does not agree with Hiram Johnson's views on the League of Nationii, I jim naturally led to believe that it also opposes Senator Harding On the isue, as Mr. Harding is In ierfect 'harmony with Hiram ' oh the; league plan. I think Mr.' Harding is worse than Johnson on-this matter, as he does not seem, to want any league unless it is Harding made. Does Mr. Harding think that the American people wish a league of nations dictated by himself and the United States senate? I hardly, think they do. Surely the Oregonian Isn't going to let politics change its view on the League of Nations, l . ? All of Us "bothered readers", should bear this in mind : That our neighbor is In a most, difficult role. For. a long time it was a straight out League of Nations paper. - But it is confronted with Candidate Hard ing, whom Hiram has congratulated for "his firm and , emphatic stand against the League of "Nations. For a league paper to support Hiram's candidate, it is forced to be as ' ca pricious as a one-lunged flivver,, on a muddy road. So soon as it gets on again it has to go off again. f Thus, in his speech Of -.acceptance. Mr, Harding was as dead .'against the league as ever Hiram was, or Is. He ridicueld the present league as "super- government." ; That is what Hiram does. He denounced the "written com pact" as a factor in any league. - So does Hiram. He thundered against the. present plan with everything he could lay his tongue' : to. So does Hiram. i I v" , Saying the things he said In his ac ceptance speech, Mr. Harding, like Hiram and like Borah, couldn't be for he present league even if, as. Borah said, It was "proposed by Jesus Christ." When Hiram congratulated Mr. Harding on his "firm and emphatic stand against the League of Nations" he knew a tbing or two. He knew that he was going out on the stump to round up all the anti-league voters fori Harding. He knew that he and Borah and the rest of the senate junta are preparing to thrown every antl- loague vote in the country to Hard ing and then, if Harding is elected. claim with perfect assurance that the verdict is a mandate from the people against the League of Nations, r Gymnastics Is gymnastics. Its bothered readers" must not expect the Oregonian to take a firm position and stay in it for long. ' Under the cir cumstances, it could no more stand hitched than it could remain static on the billows of the ocean or sit tight on a Los Angeles earthquake. To support Hiram's no-league can didate and at the same time maintain its league ' position, I the Oregonian must .flip a flop i or two almost every day In order to play ball with, the team. For it to be with Hiram at the head of the no- leagne legjdns and at the same time be with thse thousands of Republi cans who want the present league saved from decay is a double barreled performance that is "some job" even for our gymnastic contemporary, i Its "bothered readers" must bepa tlent and forbearing when for cam paign purposes it does dizzy somersaults,-flip flop.:, nose dives and tail spins In mid-heaven. : f - Central Oregon communities f are in a squabble over the use of waters for irrigation from the proposed Benham Falls reservoir site. It would be easy for contentious inter ests thus to obstruct each other and Indefinitely defer the actual recla mation of the lands In the great Central Oregon irrigation project. Central , Oregon 1 will make little progress in irrigation unless ; the various sections cooperate. ' AUTOMOBILE DESPERADOES LET all who drive automobiles in Oregon get, this into their heads: - First Every driver must have a drj ver's license. , - .4' ; Second For cause, such as speeding, reckless driving and driving while In toxicated, such license may be re- Lvoked and with the license thus taken away, such driver is not permitted to operate an auto, i . ; 1 - J j - -This means that the old order of recklessness and folly is : changed. Drivers can no longer be automobile desperadoes. The wild practices of the; foolhardy became so unbearable that the people arose, and the legis lature, in response to public demand, passed the drivers license law. : Under that law,: the drivers who are a menace will be deprived , of .their right to drive. They, will not be al- Uowed to operate a car at ajl. It is a drastic process, but it had to.be In vokd.as a measure of public safety. It Is the first time traffic officials have had a law byvhich theyrbuld deal effectively; with speed maniacs. There,is no Question now about their power to do business with . speed idiots. And there Is no question that the public win back them to the limit In rigidly applying the new law. : Those who expect "pull! to save them from having their license to drive taken away will be disappointed- Pull, is losing Its "vogue at the po lice fetation. And it will more and more go out of fashion, because cases in which puH" is employed are going to be watched and exposed. ' LEAGUE WORLD'S DIREST NEED War'a Aftermath Worse Than War It 4 self, and Present Portents .Are of the Worst. .. .. ,- From the Kuccn . Gnatd. Many persons In this country are hon estly opposed to a league of nations to enforce peace; some oppose it as a par tisan measure. ' , . The need of such a league should, how ever, be apparent to all fair observers of world politics. Europe and Asia are in turmoil, with Bolshevism and anarchy running wild and gradually gathering in thejr folds the nations adjoining or that have communication with Russia, where it is the controlling power. War fare is not diminishing, but on the other hand is gradually extending in western Europe, the Balkan region and Turkish Asia. With Germany.-Austria and Hun gary unsettled and in the throes of po litical, evolution or- revolution, the area now-covered by the ravages of war may at any moment be . vastly increased. That Is the situation , that has existed since the signing of the armistice.; : , f " i Peace does not prevail, because there is no unified, coherent power to enforce the mandates of justice and civilization. The former allies are not in accord, and tne jueague nations, tentatively formed, is abortive through the failure of the United States to become a mem- ber. Just now there is great need of concert of action in regard to the plight of Poland. but there Is no means by which such action may be' taken effect ively. Meanwhile the victorious Bol shevik ar:nies sweep forward, threaten ing to engulf Poland and much adjoin ing territory, extending possibly into Germany proper. : .The future of the world, for the events transpiring In Europe and Asia must in time influence,' to some extent, at least, the people of the New World,' is dark with foreboding signs of the veritable breaking ; up of the cherished ideals of civilization. At best there must, be a long period of turbulency ; the- worst Is not at all pleasant to contemplate. The evils which follqw war are generally worse than the evils of - war itself, and the recent war, in which nost of the strong nations of the world participated, was the greatest In the annals of his tory. A long period of war,, commonly called the Napoleonic wars, followed the revolution in France, to which the Rus rlan revolution bears a striking" similar ity.5 The French armies under Napoleon, who rose as a 'revolutionary commander, overran most of Europe. - Bolshevism .Is another name for the communism that overthrew the Bourbons of France, and 1f such a train of wars as followed the French revolution is to be the outgrowth of its initial triumph, the stronger, more intelligent nations of the world should be organized to meet the shock. The Western ideals of civilization are at stake, and these ideals call for-concerted action, for a league of nations which Ijas for its cornerstone the only real bul wark of civilization and Christianity the peace of the world founded on exact justice In dealing with the relations ex isting between the various governments and 'peoples of the earth. Letters From the- People 3 r Communication seat to Th Journal tor publication in this department aliould ba written on only one ide of tlia paper, should not 800 word In "length and must be sinned by the writer, whom mail addresa in full miut accom pany tha contribution. 1 - - - . THE CASE OF GEORGE W. ELDER Salem. July 28. 'lo the Editor of The Journal Recently you published a letter from George W. Elder of Pendleton, severely criticizing the workmen's com pensation law and its administration, particularly , as applying to. a . serious Injury occurring to Mr. Elder. As the statements contained in that letter are entirely misleading, we ask for the op portunity of briefly stating the facts. Mr. Elder was employed as an auto mechanic and his injury occurred at 12.15 o'clock, during the noon hour, being struck by , a - train while driving an auto across r railroad tracks. The injury was a severe one. later resulting in amputation of a foot. The work men's compensation ' law provides that if a workman is injured away from th plant o the employer, through the negli gence or wrong of another not in the same employ, the injured workman has the option to take the benefits of the compensation law or sue the third party. Where he takes under the compensation law his rights are assigned to the com mission, but if, he sues the third party and receives less than the amount to which he is entitled under the compen sation act the aceident fund must pay him the difference. Mr. Elder was fully Informed by the commission as to his rights and he formally advised the commission that he elected to sue the railroad company. As a result of his decision, he received a greater amount from the railroad company than , the total of compensation benefits for his particular injury. , Then, having settled his case against the railroad company, he insisted that te commission pay to him, in addition, the full amounts provided by the com pensation' act. , : STATE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT ' COMMISSION. :! By William A. Marshall, Chairman. MURDER MODES. OLD AND NEW Portland,' July 26. To the Editor of The Journal Your editorial last night entitled 'Ending' in Folly," is entitled to profound consideration. Whoever can explain just why It la funny" to mur der with an auto while ''hanging 'Is too good" for a man who murders with a knife or a gun. can trace the rise and fall of nations. It only illustrates how little the individual thinks. Killing with knife or gun is as old as the human race, 'and its evils have been so indel- ibly stamped on the subconscious mind Lof man. that we still resort to the prim , man that w. still In K itive method of attempting to prevent It by capital punishment. But the auto is a , new toy--Just funny, like firecrack ers, or like bathing without clothes, ana some big man or some mighty, news paper i or; some powerful . government must tell us, and compel us, to see the right and wrong in it all. For we are children; we do not think. Is there anything 'more childish than that a peo ple should stand across a fence "In sight of millions of acres of rich land, and starve to. death, simply because they have not wit enough to take down the fence or jump over it? A cow knows better, v But man, - poor .. man, - he is psychologized- by. his superiors. And so they are his superiors.. And he will be free only-when be thinks for him self. .-' :.-"-." ' 3.' R. Hermann.. . BILLY SUNDAY CENSURED ' . Oregon City, July .28. To the Editor Of The Journal Billy Sunday says 'he " is a Republican, and he does not see how any , true American citizen can vote for the League of Nations in its present form, without reservations. Now, com pare these remarks with the stand taken By the Republican platform, and .the stand taken by the Democratic platform. and see what you think of them. The; Republican platform wants to throw the League ef Nations Into the waste basket until after the .presidential election, and try to get the people to think that if they elect a Republican president they wlU then gret a far more satisfactory League of Nations than can be made out of the present draft even if the pro posed list of reservations were accepted. The Democratic platform is in favor of immediate ratification of the treaty and League of Nations with such reserva tions as are necessary for the protection I of our own independence and safety. Think of the difference between the two ways of working. , It looks like Billy Sundays object is to work against the League of Natijns by confusing the minds of the people and trying to make them think It more Important for them to look after the Interests of prohibition, at this election, than after the future peace of the world. I am a Republican, but I would be ashamed to vote the Republican ticket at this time and under present conditions, with such a platform a they are indorsing for the coming election, t Let tie first make sure of in ternational peace. r , -: - -; ; i - George Hicinbotham. v t L i i .' . A WORD FOR THE CHALLENGER Portland, July 28. To the Editor of The Journal we have been singing our oyt praises and covering ourselves with glory for winning the International yacht race, but not aaword of praise of the slightest kind for the defeated one; in fact, it has been otherwise. 'In the past 25 , years American yachtsmen have not at any time demonstrated their superior ity over. British yachtsmen when sailing in foreign waters. The Shamrock's cap tain and crew had three trial races and had to race a sea-going yacht against a racing shell. ; Nothing v appears : in the papers except Yankee smartness , and British bungling. .When the Resolute crossed the line first, the British bungled. When the Shamrqck "crossed the line tir8t. it was called an error of judgment by Captain Adams. We have to buy a foreign paper to find out that it was not the -Shamrock that proposed to quit in Saturday's hard blow-off Sandy. Hook, but Thomas Llpton acknowledged that it was not the best of weather for the fragile-built Resolute, and, like a' good sport, he - waited for a day that-would suit the defender.- We all thought we had a native-born American ciew, but instead , we J ind 27 Norwegians, seven Swedes and'one 'Dane. ; What has happened- to the native-born American sailor? W. C. WT. ' REMARKS ON SLOGANS Newport; July 28. To the Editor of The Journal With : pleasure I - noticed the letter of Mr. . Purdy commenting' on Judge Lowell's slogans, "Cox and Cock tails" and "Harding and Home." May be the judge means that Cox will have cocktails in ; the White . House, : while Harding remains at home for his. "Re publican leaders refused to even let the delegates at ' Chicago : take a vote on the floor of the convention on such light beverages as light wines and beer," says Mr. ,Purdy Well, that was mean arid contemptible I However, w need not wonder at it; It's no new thing..' If: a long practiced habit. In commenting on their villainy, Mr Purdy says: "The Democrats at - the national convention went on - record by an overwhelming majority against even light wines and beer, and that "over 100 delegates at San Francisco voted- for a bone dry plana to be : placed in their nlatf arm. This, together with the further fact that William Jennings Bryan pleaded with all the ppwer of soul and tears and ora tory for such a . plank. Why did not the convention place it there ? Because the great Bryan and the 100 bone dry delegates, " added to the "overwhelming majority against even light wines ' and beer." was overpowered by the influ ence of ? booze politicians. No use of arguing.;; So far as the liquor business is concerned, the two old parties are as like as the halves of a split bean. E. W. Durkee. - -p LOITERING Portfand. July 28. To the Editor of The Journal I read an article In" The Journal recently qn loitering on street corners, especially on the loitering of RusseTl Brake. Now, as a mother. I ask you not to be too harsh, and not to bias public, opinion- by ' printing editorials which might be a detriment to the boy. The boy is Innocent until proved guilty. He is young and away from home, evi dently a stranger in a strange place. I have a son awayr from home. It seems to be natural for most boys to wish to get out into the world, to be on their own hook, and oftentimes it is good for them, even though they must rough it and face hardships. It puts stamina a?nd backbone Into them. . . , Regarding the street corner loitering. Why Is that a crime? Old as I am, I like to loiter; on my way. I like to see the crowds go by. I like to study the different types. Sunday my husband and I took a long awalk through the upper part of the west side, in the apartment and rooming house . section, and after we had walked a lona- distance We sat down in a shady spot, for a good wnue, . mosuy studying the men and women coming and going to and fro from a popular fancy eats shop. It was a very Interesting study. I assure you. Also, one time we stood and looked into a dance hall from the street. Surely this loiter ing can , do no one harm. , Ada Matthews. WERE THE TREATY SCRAPPED Wolf Creek, July 25. To the Editor of The Journal After having carefully read Senator .Harding's speech of ac ceptance, and, especially that portion re ferred to in an editorial in The Journal of July 23 regarding the senator's plan to scrap the treaty 'drawn by President Wilson and our allies after about six months of the hardest kind of labor, and make a new peace, I am obliged to ad mit his plan will likely make a great hit with the statesmen of Europe, without a doubt. It is such a simple plan. Why, you might say it is just as clear as mud. Nothing to It for Warren G. to fix a little old peace treaty. He : fixed the one Wilson brought. back, all right, with the aid of a few-more brainy boys like himself. ;.-.!;.,- I recall that Henry Ford once had an Idea that it would be Just a simple thing to go over there with a few more good intentioned souls and settle it all up. too, but somehow Henry took sick before he fixed" up- the row, and Jiis plan fell through. , as to Senator Harding's state- I ment that he would "honefullv a nnmar-h th. nstlnn, t 1, a- J . . . . v. iiu oi ui earxn (and the planets surrounding the earth and so on ad infinitum), somehow I am of the opinion that the senator's reception over there with his proposal to scrap the treaty and make a new one to conform lo his Ideas, If he has any, would be a decidedly cool one In fact, frigid. His hands are not just clean, you might say. In regard' to making treaties. In fact I believe his proposal would be answered much the same as Major Whittlesley an swered the German demand to surrender his bunch of Yankees , who were . sur rounded for a few days and nearly wiped out before assistance resched them. Vr... will recall the major's reply: "Tell emJ tn mm tn Hll rv S t . Olden Oregon Present Teacher Famine Has Nothing on That ot Early Days. , There was a shortage of school teach ers in the Oregon country as far back as 1851. At the request of Governor Abernethy and others five young women were sent out from Vermont by the na tional - board of education. They made the trip by way of the Panama route. They were under contract to teach two - COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE ' Hope the sugar hoarder sentenced to two years in prison manages to keep a sweet disposition during -the period of his incarceration, , .. "Raisin association Jolted by Uncle Sam,- says a headline, which, we take it. means that the "jolt" In the home-made liquor supply is endangered. Will this anti-liquor agitation never cease? - - ' - J ' " The dispatches Inform us that the question of coal relief is tip to the presi dent, 'although just-as present we are rather- more concerned with the matter of relief from the heat.. The government Is i now going to in vestigate the gasoline shortage up Puget Sound way. The investigators may be expected to do a lot of gassing, but un fortunately it won't be of commercial value. - i . . . "., : : The man who was fined $100 and sen tenced to serve seven days In- the city jail for making a bad turn with an auto mobile, has probably come to the con clusion that one bad turn deserves another. -- Neighbors say that the Hat-dings, who have aspirations to live in the White House. are just "plain folks." They won't be the first '"plain folkc" to have lived In the White House, If their aspirations are realised. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Sumpter S. Smith, manager of the Med ford Vf all-Tribune, is a consistent boost er for the home town-. His business card is a four-leaf one. bearing cuts of Crater lake and Rogue river scenes. Medford is declared to be the gateway' to Crater lake and the ' most progressive city In Oregon. ,: As to Jackson county,. itr is set forth that it is unsurpassed for fruit, climate, scenery, fishing- and' hunting; in short, that it Is "the land of sunshine and prosperity." - ' John Cochran, who Is assistant to Sec retary of State Koser, was in Portland Friday, being relieved of the burden of the secretaryship of the Republican state committee. The excitement at Salem over the visit of the Elks is dying out. he reports, and things are dropping back into normal once more. ' ' After completing his work before two federal grand juries. Chief Assistant United States District Attorney Hall S. Lusk quietly slipped out of his office over the weekend to get a much needed- rest. He did not even tell the office boy where "he was going or . when he was coming back. Lusk had charge of the last two . grand juries, which returned about 100 indictments. - ---;--"-' - -i " Dr. Edmond Labbe has tired of profes sional life for the time being and will take surcease from calls aaid operating room for the next six weeks. , Dr. Labbe was a passenger out on the Rise City Friday morning for San Francisco. From the California elty he will proceed to New York and Boston. , ;--:; :";'-;' - ;;. .; : . ' Two parties ".of tourists arrived In Portland Friday morning. One Is the jGlllesple-Klnsports .tour from New York, com posed of 24 people, and the other is a " Raymond " &. Whitcomb from New IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS ( OF THE JOURNAL MAN - " - ' " ' s. By Fred Lockley r a wwn.M lu l a tnia roamODOlitan of a Quite modern "rariaty U hra presented by Mr. IK-kley. She matea her own way and I proud of it, meanwhile keeping an ay out for under doge of eery nam and order. 1 ; 4 "My father was one of-12 sons," she said. "They were all big men. us father used to brag he had 72 feet of sons, to say nothing of his daughters. Father didn't have so many children as his father. . There were only 13 of us. I was born " in ; New Hampshire, where father owned a big tract of timber. Father was never cross. He was not even stern- Vet I never remember dar ing to do what I knew would displease him. When I was nine I went to a con vent BChool, where I spent 10 years. Then I spent four years In hospital work. After graduating I worked in Bellevue hospital. , I- was assigned to the alco hnllr. ward -for women. Later I had; charge of drug addicts. Thence 1 went to the maternity wara 01 n city hospltaL All of my cases were charity cases. The beds were always full. There were little giris 01 n ana 14, and there Were women of 45. Very few of the babies that arrived had fath ojts. The tragedy of little plrls In their earlv teens starting out In life with such ; handicap finally, got ray goat." It seemed life was so needlessly cruei. late , so unjust, making the woman sutler for the sin of both. It got on my nerves, so I threw up my job and said. 'Never again-' -1 had been sending: most of my money home, so I had to connect with a job at once. I saw an ad where a woman with nursing experience was waniea , as a companion for a semi-invalid. I landed the Job. ? My employer was a woman In her seventies who loved to travel. We spent two years in Europe. My em ployer finally decided to live witlf a rel- atlVe, SO i IOUK. a JUU a a wealthy society woman. Thanks for the compliment. I may not look over 30, but I was born 47 years ago. My mother is still alive, and never a month goes by that I do not send her at least $50, sometimes more.; , . . a -.. ; "Yes, I love children. I am wild about babies. No, I have never married. A woman elves so much and gets so little In return in marriage that is, a decent woman. There are plenty or me otner kind, parasites, who look down on the girls -on the street while their code of ethics is not so high as the street walk ers, for they cry 'Give, give, give',: and give nothing in return. I have seen many a good man dragged down , by such women. - "... . -- . ... . .' ,. "Yes. I have an insatiable curiosity to trv new Jobs and new experiences. I love the study of psychology. I love to analyze motives, to study why some suc ceed and others fall, to put my finger on the flaws that has kept them from roinar hieher. Sometimes it is lack of audacity, sometimes a -yellow streak. sometimes sensitiveness and ' timidity. Most people fall through lack of stickto- years or refund toe money advanced for their Journey. After arriving in Ore gon their marriage followed in due course. Miss Wands to Governor Gaines, Miss Smith to Mr. Beers. Miss Gray to Mr. McLeach, Miss Lincoln to A. Skin ner t and Miss Miller to Judge E. M. Wilson. ' '- Curious. Bits of Information for the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places New York state had a rent war in 1840. wt 1th was won by the tenants. When Stephen Van Rensselaer died In 1839 his e -ecu tors, collecting rents long In arrears, met resistance, and Governor Seward caUed out the militia, The trou SIDELIGHTS - - - All the earthquakes In Los Angeles occur around 4 a. m., beating the aiarm clocks to it Medford Mall Tribune, , The youngest son of the ex-kalser com mitted suicide because i he feared the royal Itouse would never again be re habilitated. - He had a good .hunch, no matter where he got it. Salem States man. . .; "All visitors enthuse, over the beauties of the scenery of the Columbia highway, but r would it appear so beautiful to auto mobile travelers if there were not some thing artificial that is. If the highway were not paved? Woodburn Indepen dent. ' i - -: ..... . - The people of Grant county are buying the county road bonds. They are not de pending upon the bond market, but when the county court needs a few thousand from the authorised issue of road bonds, the people simply go down in their pock ets, so to speak, and deliver the money. Prlneville Journal, v - . -.:,--. 'Wood Is starting on here for ?9 a cord for four feet -and 10"a cord for the 18 Inch. Canvon is only about a mile from timber, and the country is overstocked with gasoline saws, and yet wood costs monev. Labor is scarce and gasoline high. But if there is anyone who does not like to pay the price they can cut their own. There is plenty of room in the hills for all. Canyon City reagie York, compqsed of eight persons. The GUlespie-Kinsports tour-party is regis' tered at the Imperial hotel. It came in Friday from Rainier National park and will remain In' the city over Sunday. This is the second section of tour C and is under the direction of Manager L. B. KInsports. The other party Is In charge of F. M. Harsell. Shortly after arrlv ing In the city it left for a trip over the Columbia river highway. ; Captain "Billy" Patterson, ex-pilot and new retired' capitalist, spent Fri day in' Portland. . He came to the city from ; Seaside to : have an Injured ear (port side) attended to. Captain Pat terson will ' rerfiain at the beach resort during the summer. - w ;. ;; . ':'', Clarence L.: Reames, former United States district attorney in Portland, reg istered ,at the; Hotel Portland Friday. Private business, interests brought him to the city. Reames Is now practicing law in Seattle. j ' Mrs. C. G Van Orsdall. grand guar dian of the Neighbors ot Woodcraft, Is at Riverside, Cat,, superintending the ar rangements the N. of W. home for aged members. She is enjoying a tem perature of 110 in the shade immensely, but keeps in the shade. - - . . ... .' . John M. Scott, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, returned Thurs day f rorri a trip to the Tillamook beaches to Inspect general conditions. Scott says Indications point to a big tourist month for the beaches during August. . A tourist party from San Francisco stopping at the Hotel Benson Friday was composed of Frederick L. Ehrman,- Mrs. Albert L. Ehrman, Louts Schwabacher and Whitney Tenny. itiveness. Theyt can't stand the gaff. They are quitters. ... . . .. . : ' ;" 'fYes, I have gone pretty well all over the world. Adventures? Plenty of them. Once when I was checker In a famous New York restaurant my chum and I were enjoying our day off window shop ping on Fifth avenue. Two chaps, aw fully attractive lads, pretended to know us. We felt in the, mood for adventure, and both felt perfectly capable of taking care of ourselves, so we consented to go with them and take In Coney Island. They were princes ; to spend money. 'Red' and 'Slim' were the names they gave us. They were forever leading us into jams and crowds. Suddenly I saw Red lift a leather. I watched him. and soon he frisked another man. getting a fat "wallet. . I called him to one side and said. 'Red, I'm hep. Thanks for a good time, but well have to beat It.' He went white, and said, 'You wouldn't snitch, would you 7 - I said, 'We don't know you. . We never met you. As far as -we are concerned you are safe, but take a tip from me and cut it out Crooked money Is bound to get you In bad.' - Six- months later I met Red on the street. - He was no longer debonair and well dressed. I hailed him. He looked furtive and beaten. 'I guess I'll have to do- a Brodte from Brooklyn bridge.V he said. , The bulls are onto me. "jheJdlcks have queered my game. They won't even let me leave town. ' If I land a Job they threaten to squeal It I don't divvy. 1 I took him to the hotel where I worked and gave him my room while "I went; to stay with my "chum. We let him stay there a week. Mean while we bought a wig and a complete woman's outfit, and I went with him to the boat. He capght a boat for Ber muda and got away safe. , "I am an easy mark, I guess. The under' dog always runs to me with "his yelp and . I always respond. I bought a 40-rpom lodging house for av dollar once to help a girl out who had to dis appear. I ran It for nearly a year and when the owner could once more show up I turned It over with a good sized balance in the batik I had earned for her. , "t" "' "I have bad adventures in plenty but you can see the" same kind of stuff for a quarter at the nearest movie theatre, so well pass them up. : "Say, what's your job? Yoi are the best cross., questioner I ever ran serosa Either you are a newspaper man or a college - prof essor or an author trying to get material for a book. If you are a writer, don't use my. name. It's a good old Irish name, and lots of my folks are highbrows that pass by on th other side when I" happen by. I am the family skeleton, though- I have always made my own way, seen and enjoyed life, and haven't married, as they have, to have some man support me. ManyCa woman who is -cowardly marries, not the man she loves, but the man who can give her luxury. Thank God. I have never sunk that low." V - : ble iaste- six years, culminating in the killing, of a deputy sheriff, but the ten ant vote held the balance of power be tween parties and ' In 1846 the st: le framed ; the "Barnburner constitution." under certain; principles of which New York state residents stilt live. The New York World points out that the word "barnburner was figurative ; that the tenants didn't ' burn barns, but built them. : A barnburner, was simply 'a rad ical one who would "burn the barn lo kill the rats." The constitution, called radical In 184S, prohibits feudal service and leases on farm lands for longer than ii years. The "patroons" then m exist ence broke up and sold their estates and Individual ownership of farms -became, and is today, the rule In the Empire state. The Oregon Country Northwest Happeninea in Brief form fur tha Boay Header. OREGON NOTES The Marlon Countv Veterans' asocl- atlon will hold its annual convention and picnic at Sllverton August S. The bah on gasoline for pleasure cars will be lifted at Albany Sept.-.nl er 1, according to a Standard Oil representa tive lcrace Svkes of th atal flrA mar. Fhni's office has gen to Amity to adjust ine lire loss on tne orrgon Indipendent Having compa.ij-'i i-la nu ' ; One Of the nurnoaeii of th nenlv nr. ganized Washington County Automotive wu-ui-iauon is- to, relieve the gasoline Bltuationr It ha8 members. W. Henning.. who. drives a jiti.y t-e-twten Astoria and Kimppa, nai bten arretted on a charge of manufac'.uilng mo3in?hlne whibkey. S. L. Baxter left a Lane county hay field on account of the heat and went fishing. He had no license in hla pocket and was arrested and fined S5. A fire started on the Arthur Meyers ranch near Fossil by lightning Ih how under control. It 'has burned over 60 acres, destroying hay and timber. Plans for the Improvement of the dangerous Pacific highway crossing newr' the state fair grounds ure belna; con sioered by the Marlon county court. The Deschutes Mutual TeIephon company has ordered the addition of another line into the Powell Butte ter ritory in the way of improved service. Notwithstanding there are no bidders Tor a 122,000 bond Issue, the city council of Eugene will go ahead with the pur chase of an aviation field, paying in bonds. - . Six extra gravel cars have been as signed by the Southern Pacific to Marshfleld at the request of persons Interested in the paving of the Marsh-fleld-Coquille highway, s - F. V. Yake. alhlttic director of the Baker Y. M. C. A., who has Just com pleted the summer training course of the Y. M. C. A. "at Seabeck, Wash.. Is now serving as a leader of the boys' training camp at Seattle. WASHINGTON The Union Oil company announces that the price of gasoline at Seattle will be 26 cents. . A movement has been started at Bucoda to have the Pacific highway routed through Bucoda. Three grain fires have been reported In the Walla Walla section. Two of them were near PrescotU- KJeorge S. Canfield will be placed ;n charge of the Spokane county Demo cratic campaign headquarters. Grays Harbor logging camps which have resumed operations after the miu stimmer shutdown are workiuij at full capacity. The nine Veeks course of the Cen tralla summer normal school will i-Ioba August 4. The session has been a suo--cies from every point of view. , According to an estimate made by Vice President Adams of the Union Pacific, the wheat crop of the northweHt will be approximately 60,000,000 bushels. A bonus system In the log-Ring camps and lumber mills of the Inland Empire Is being- considered by the Loyal L-c;loir of Loggers and-Lumbermen as well as cooperative stores.. Fares on the municipal street railway at Tacoma will be reduced to 5 - cenn August 1. An additional 3 cents will be charged, for transfers to the pri vately owned lines. A fire burttlng in the logging camp of the Wind Itiver Lumber company In Skamania county has destroyed three Jogging donkeys. Forest ranr.trs and state fire wardens are assisting in light ing the fire. . ( While the cltlxens of 'union Gap In Yakima county were cheering their baseball club to victory last Sunday, thieves entered a soft drink establish ment, took $100 from the till and rifled the clothes of members of the ball team which had been deposited in the store during the game. ....' . ... ' IDAHO . k'., - Mrs. M. A. Sargent has ben named associate professor of - - the Romance languages at the University ot ldanj. . The planting of 87,000' brook snd rain bow trout in North Idaho ttrca:ns has been completed by District Stte Game Warden Johnson. The Caldwell, Traction company has filed a petition with the public utilities commission for authority to increase passenger and freight 'a tea. The charge Is made l.y state and federal ..xperts that there Is net one dairy In Boise that ' has certified or clatifled rr.f.k or has had its cows tented for tuberculosis. . According to an opinion by District Judge Bryan, Washington county banks should be assessed DO per cent of th 100 par cent assessment made by the ccunty board of equalization. McCuIlomtown has b-jerv fornwd oit. of an addition to Hu'il. Tho reparation from Buhl is due to a cont.-ovsrs rela-.' tive to amalgamation with the original town of Buhl. The nf town lias a population of between -0J and Sou. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: J When It comes to beln' soaked and talk- in' dry, there ain't nuthln beats the fix Elder Doyleson waa in at a campmeetln' down on Turkey Creek, Arkaqsaw, about the time Jeff Davis was turned loose after the Clvll war. The elder liked to drink milk that was cold, and Ma put a pitcher of It Into the cold spring 'fore the preachln. Some of the boys slipped In a lot of apple brandy they borreyed from the store when the store feller wasn't look in,' and the elder spoke four solid hours. The more he tipped the pitcher -the more powerful he preached on temperance. Ma 'lowed that fer a dry preacher he acted mighty wet, but he certainly give rum a awful Walloptn'. Pendleton Saddles. Positively Uncqualed Anywhere in This World In Eastern Oregon Is" Pendleton. Sometimes it is called the Round-Up City. Sometimes it Is spoken of as the ' biggest city of its size In the world. .Whatever the reference may' be, it is always admiring, and often affectionate. And Pendleton Is one city that has developed an industry to a Pacific coast leadership despite the condi tions that usually give such position to the "metropolitan centers. ' ' The finest fad dlea used west of the Mississippi, river and that means in the world are manufactured in Pen dleton. The figures ar-Frrtjt available tor establish the value of the industry there, but the amount is a small con sideration. 4very saddle Is a master piece. It Is the product of craftsmen unequaled in their art. It is heavy with braid and the adornments of beauty. Its goodness goes into the "tree." in the padding and Into the richly embossed leather. The most beloved or cowtoy mounts carries his master on a Pendleton saddle. The happiest dream of many a cowboy heart Is the prospective Ownership of a Pendleton saddle. -.Pendleton saddles will be found In many a frontier town whence the big ranches of the West are reached. And they will be found, too. In the finest saddlery stores of large cities. - A Portland business man who start ed in the harness and saddlery busi ness here In 1874 said,: "Pendleton has built up leadership In saddle manufacture on a quality basis. We could make saddles for the trade, but the orders go to Pendleton. The Pen dleton Industry deserves the busl-, ness. 1 take off my hat to Itswork; men. its policies and Its standards jaf quality."