8
THE i OREGON DAILY : JOURNAL,' PORTLAND, "OREGON
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3. ItZO.
AJf I.DE1EDENT WTCWSPAPEB
C H. JACKSOSf , . ,.;.;..... .. . .Pubtlabrt
IB mIh. mmfident. be cheerful and do
koto Mhn a row. would here Ikm unto roo. J
, at The Journal BuikJn, Broadway and tat
bill street. Portland, Orafon, ;
ICiitMl . h- ratorfiea at Portland. reton,
. for tnnmiaioa throuab the awila mm aeeood
'''skua matter. , - , ...j -
"TKf.KPHOS'KS M.in 71 Tt. Automatic 60-61
All Amartmenta reached Vr thaee Bombers,
XpKKHiN ADVERTISWO EEPBESESTATITE
- r)Tal Refitnor Co.. Brnnawk BofMrnt.
225 Fifth arenaa, Kew Tort; 000 Maiieri
""BnUdlna, Chicago ' - - "'
I THK OREOON JOURNAL.
tha rialit to
I J reject Jertielnf aopy which
it derma ob
. . ieeUonal
i . I Via A Is.
it abo will not print any eopr
j that cannot readily ba raoogaised aa . adTei-
A ,
8CB8CBIPTMW BATES
JB- Carrier, City tMT Oeeirtry r$
a
a
. VA1L.X A.TIJ UJ I,
Foe imi . 4 . .
TiAVLX
.$ .1 )
Ow month. . . i ..85
One week. $ .05
ttae WMK......S .10
I Cfnm Month ------ .45
! HT MALI AIX RATES PATABf. IS ADVANCE
DAiLI AM Dt.HUai
; cwer.. ..;..$
Sis aaontha.. . . ... 4.28
i DAILY .
, (Without Sunday V
hne rear.... ..$6 0O
Fix months. . ... S.2S
Tbaee mntltha . . . 1.75
Oa SB oath.. .... .B0
f WEEICLT
1 ! (Eer- Wadfleaday
Ona mr 1 1.0
, Sis aaontha. . . . . .60
Three wiontfcs. . . 82.Z8
Ona month. . . . . .75
. -. StTNDAY - - ;
One) year. ... .."i$ 8-M
Si month 1.70
Threw mooUiA. . . 1.00
TrEEKt.T- AND
I - HITKTlAY
OtM year....... It. 60
Thau rataa aonhr only in tha Wet
Bataa to TCaatern jtolnta funiisbed oo applica
tion. ; Make ramlttanoae by Moner Order. Express
Order or Draft. If your poatoffice la a
Money Order OfAee. 1 or 2-ernt atampe will ba
acenrted. Make all remiUaoeaa pejable to The
Jonraal, Portland. Oregon.
Tbtr'aarast way ta prevent aadittona (if
the tmiea do hear lit) la to take away tba
nutter for them, for If there be fuel nre -
k cared It ia bard to tall whence "tha apark -P
ihall coma tbat abatt eat it oa fire.
Baaoa.
AND THE PUBLIC PAYS
rp HE Increased railroad rates : an
1 nounced Saturday will gd into the
f ost of living. The added toll 1 about
U.500,000,000, wtich, collected from
ilOjOOO.000 people, means a new tax of
iwarly 114 a'head per year for every
riSan, Woman and child in America. ;
Nor Is there assurance that this ad
vance will be the last. It, does not
cover all the demands which' the roads
, riiay "put forth for. Increased. 'reventfe.
- landed indebtedness soon' falling: due
ajid paying low interest? rates will
. have to be refunded in a' money mar-
ket that now tnore than doubles form
ej Interest rates. Then there are other
casts not provided for. in the present
increases in revenue, and all these
added charges combined are raising the
sgrious question of , whether private
operation Is going to prove- Its su
periority. , ; : .
tit Increases must go on In the future
al they have in the past, when will a
time be reached la which the publie
aJII demand the operation of the roads
ofi a non-profit basis? A fear that
fetich, a time may be reached 13 one
of the present anxieties of the railroad
world.
IThere are other, ways in which, the
roads are adding to : the high cost of
laying. There is delay and inefficiency
In- moving traffic. Goods" are hauled
over mountain chains at largely in
creased operating cost. That 'Is In
efficiency and waste for which the
publio has to pay in increased ; rates.
It is done every time grain and ojher
heavy traffic, is moved from the Co
lmbia basin to Puget Sound instead
- of down a -water grade to Portland,
.Vancouver and Astoria. It" is done
every time a consignment of trans
pacific freigljt is routed to or from
the East and Middle West via Puget
Sound Instead of Portland.
iThen there is the use of iroundabout
Instead of direct routes.
Grain, for
example, en route j to Europe from
' Umatilla coonty, is sent j more .' than
300 miles io -Puget Sound when It
could reach the ship's side in only 223
miles via Portland.; To, do that re
: Quires . the service of train. I crew,
.eltra train extra fuel Hnd all the
Qiher divers extras; for more than a
'., day. It is added cost and lit goes into
. ' tllti railroad expenditures! and those
added expenditures call for increased
revenues to be'derived only through'
increased ates. And, the increased
rate - gbes directly into" the cost of
living, which the public must pay.
Vhile this Indefensible practice gems
on, there will be constant clamoring
by the roads for. Increased rates. It is
inefficiency; and it -is - waste. V And It
a Is practiced, not in the Pacifici North
west alone, but all over, the . United
' States, : Until the Interstate commerce
.. commission maies the v shorty direct
water grade route absolutely - manda
tory and Insists that traffic be routed
td the destination where cost of oper
ation will be reduced to ihh mlnl
roum, the . railroads will Icontinue to
be inefficient and continue to clamor
v "for higher rates. ; ' ' .,
;And there Is Another way in" which
the roads are adding to the high cost
" of living. - They are not moving- traf
f o promptly. ; On the goods lying in
yarehouscs waiting foif cars by which
they can be moved,; the" owner Is fail
ir.g to make his turnoverl And he Is
raying interest to his banker on the
goods so delayed. And the thousands
of cars loaded with such goods -and
standing on sidings, are not rendering
the service for which they r are intended-'
They are, as temporary ware
houses, kept: out of use in delivering
traffic. And on those goods the mer
chant' is suffering both an Interest
loss , and a delayed turnover. ; ' t
For all this the public has to pay
Transportation is as much a part of
their dally budget as bread, meat and
the children's shoes. . .-.V-.
Is the wtBh father to the thought?
Else' why these' recurring newspaper
stories which seem' to be effort to
hurry: the death of president .Wil
son? Though his physician declares
that the president I - is doing, more
work and, enjoying the best health
since - his illness began.- newspaper
ghouls' at "Washington ' continue to
spread broadcast distorted reports of
his condition.' If they' are incapable
of realizing the splendor of the. man,
have they no. patriotic respect i for
the office or sense of the proprieties
of common decency? 7
A TEN MIIi.ION MONTi
TEN million- dollars in foreign
commerce 'for Portland in July
Is an encouraging total for those' who
have long had faith Tin the maritime
possibilities of this port. :Yr?"
It is f2.000.000 more than the .banner
month of June. I Is the largest record
in foreign trade ever made by Port
land- It confirms the predictions made
by The Journal over and over again
in war time that the return of peace
would bring on a great revival in
maritime activity, in which, with
proper effort, Portland might well
share. - . " ' .
Following swiftly on this Increase
in foreign commerce, came the an
nouncement yesterday of a new Port
land-New "York-Holland line for both
freight and passengers. The first ves
sel,; a 12,000-ton steamer, sails from
Portland Jn September. Sufficient
cargo for the first sailing Is already
secured. Here is an addition to both
foreign and domestic commerce. i
Advances In both freight and pas
senger rates on the railroads will
caused heavy Increases in domestic
business by fwater between Atlantic
and Pacific ports.. Thirty-four vessels
carried a heavy coastwise business out
of . Portland during July.' Higher, rail
rates will be certain to drive more
traffic'to the ocean routes.
A revival of ocean passenger busi
ness is almost xertainiy presaged by
the advent such lines as the service
out of Portland to New York and .Hol
land., Without meals. It now costs a
passenger 1198 from Portland to New
York by rail. With meals and all
other charges, the cost'tirst class by
steamer through the Panama canal is
f 105, or less ) than half the cost by
and routes, i ; '
There never have been so many as
suring signs of the power of Columbia
river ports to build up maritime com
merce. The actual figures of growth
tell the story.- im onerasable figures
And the tr&thcring omens of additions
certain to be 'made should give Port
landers encouragement to fight on and
struggle on to -create here a greater
and greater shipping business. -
A law" abolishing com pulso By mili
tary service was passed yesterday by
the national ; assembly in Germany.
The peace treaty and. the League of
Nations are .functioning. Enforced
and universal service in the army was
the basis of the process that led
Germany to deluge the world in
blood. The peace treaty and League
of Nations, which, are thus cutting
the heart out .of militarism.- are
the. V peace treaty and league
that .Lodge, Hiram, Borah and the
other members of the battalion of
death in the American senate refused
to ratify, even with interpretative
reservations. They are the same
treaty and the same league which
Candidate Harding is denouncing mo
bitterly, and against which ho is now
appealing for a mandate 'from the
people., " il ",-.i"?T' ' :
NO -LYNCH LAW.
: j -, - - , ...
POSSIBLY the extent, to which there
. was desire by persons in Pendle
ton to lynch Hart and Owen Is over
drawn, by some of the correspondents.
Newspaper reports ff omi there have
jiot agreed.4- At this distance, it Is im-
possLoi& io Know exactly, wnat nap-
pened.' V The Journal's" correspondent
has described the proposal as an un
organized expression by & few per
sons., .n
In . any event, there has been no
lynching. ; Sober second thought pre-'
vailed and the good name of the fair
city of Pendleton still stands, very
much to the satisfaction of the many
admirers of that prominent and popu
lar place. ; ! M, A; -. ';.' :,
It is true that a very severe strain
was placed Jon the people of that
community. I Two eminent citizens
fell at the hands of bandits In the
Vicinity of Portland recently. A sher
iff, who stood high in general esteem,
was cut off in his career of great use-
i fulness In the late jailbreak.
Tne patience and forbearance of all
citizens : were - sorely . tried by the
crimes.". But a lynching is a lynch
ing. : It is defiance of. the law, v
There is nq record, so far as known;
that the courts " at j Pendleton ; have
ever failed to do their duty. There
is not the slightest reason to expect
that justice in this or any other case
there will miscarry. , Then, there was
but one wiscourse; and that was to
leave everything to the law and the
courts. That ;was Till Taylor's way.
He lived, within-the .Jaw and the in
tent of the law. -
And Pendleton has acted with wis
dom in looking upon human life as
he would have done.,
The act of Hart and Owen was hid
eous. f Bui the place -for sentence .'to
be passed on that act is at the county
courthouse. . .And the people to pass
that' sentence are the constituted
authorities. Any other course would
be a course of regret. ? "
One of the best things about Ore
gon is that her record on mob action
Is remarkably clear.
i A HEAVY COST ' : ;
T'HERE, can be no maximum reduc-
X tion in automobile accidents in
Portland until pedestrians do their
part.- Drivers alone cannot eliminate
the casualty toll. ; 1
In the thr,ee fatalities t last week
within the city limits, the pedestrians,
police say, were wholly responsible.
Sunday, on Division street, a man
with his back to a motor- vehicle
darted across the thoroughfare and
was uninjured only because the ma
chine : was under perfect control.
The same day another I pedestrian
crossed Third street at Alder with his
eyes on the pavement In front. He
paid no heed to approaching machines
until he was brought to his senses
as two cars speeded by, one on either
side of him. ' . '
Every day there are hundreds of In
stances In which ' pedestrians with
thoughts elsewhere throw themselves
open to serious Injury by ; sauntering
carelessly Into the streets. They jay
walk. They step from behind parked
cars. ' They cross streets with backs
to traffic. They practically sleep their
way across In some cases.;; , '
Automobile drivers ' can sometimes
avoid them. By skillful handling of a
machine they can sometimes avert
a serious or ratal injury, i, But mere
are times when drivers have no op
portunity to dodge them. ; In that case.
the pedestrian pays sometimes with
his life. : v : L ' I
Cannot pedestrians get this message
of safety? Can they not take warning
from three of their number killed last
week through "what the police records
show to have been their own fault?
In 10 months of study of traffic acci
dents and their i causes. The Journal
has become thoroughly j convinced
that education and warning and pro
test are as necessary for pedestrians
as for drivers. I i
A ten million dollar business in
foreign commercethrough Portland
for the single month of July is an
eloquent story of progress. But we
can make . it $20,000,000 a month.
We will make it $20,000,000 a month
if this new spirit of maritime ac
complishment among the men of
Portland : grows in aggressiveness
and purpose. The whole trouble
has been that for a lorig time we
forgot about the ocean and failed to
realize the importance to us of those
distant markets, to which ships on
the ocean can deliver our products.
ONE ESCAPE
TO MEET expenses Incurred in oc
cupation of. the Rhineland by
American troops for 20 months, this
country is to receive $500,000,008 of the
first twenty billion marks gold of
reparation bonds issued by Germany
under the terms of the ! Versailles
treaty. -: ;
There are now in the neighborhood
of 15,000 soldiers In the American
army of occupation. The daily ex
pense is a trifle less than six dollars
per man. The cost of maintenance of
Belgian, French and' British- soldiers
averages five francs a day and "six
francs for horses. The greater ex
pense in maintaining American sol
diers is due to higher pay and larger
cost of transporting supplies from
this country. re
payment of the cost of maintaining
the 15,000 men now in Europe is one
of the few that the American people
may escape. It Is one cost of war
that is not saddled on the people of
this country. But we will be paying
for . years to -eome the other and
greater debts that resulted from the
destructive war.
The State Taxpayers ; league is
rendering an important public serv
ice in the Investigation It is conduct
ing today into the plan and processes
of the Dairymen's league. I The Tax
payers' league believes in coopera
tive marketing and if it finds that
the dairymen are fair, it will sup
port them. ..,
THE MONET MENACE
GOVERNOR COX, it is said, will de
mand publication of a weekly list
of campaign contributions.
And why not? Didn't Newberry buy
a senatorship? And with it in his
pocket, didn't he enable the foreign
relations committee to be packed and
thereby cause the peace treaty to be
rejected? ' ;
And w&i not money by the millions
spent In - the presidential ; primaries.
InchidiBg the outright purchase of
delegates? 4s these riot a money
menace? '
Why not have weeklv statements
of campaign contributions?
Offhand, at least one good reason
why alcohol made from sugar will
not be a satisfactory substitute for
gasoline ; occurs to - the economical
mind. What was the last quotation
on. sugar?
SELF FUELERS
ALASKANS are giving their South-
ern brothers the laugh. They
ask for no more sympathy because
automobiles refuse to traverse their
frozen wastes. They hatfe an ex
panding means of transportation un
influenced by gasoline supply. 5 They
have reindeer.
During a period of 10 years begin
ning with July 4, 1832, some 1280 rein-.
deeriwere Imported into Alaska. The
natural Increase now numbers 160,000.
The herds double at a " rate . of once
every three years, after allowing for
the use of 10 per cent of; the animals
for the flesh and hides, j
Mayor Lomen of Nome, Alaska, esti
mates that in 20 years the number
of reindeer In Alaska will exceed 10,
000,000, and that" the time" will come
when tralnloads of reindeer meat may
be brought to metropolitan- centers
to help cut down the high cost of
living. -
A reindeer team driven by the late
Walter Shields at the bureau of edu
cation in the Northwestern district of
Alaska, more than duplicated a famous
10,000-mile trip by dog team in the
far North. - a
The best of it Is that to carry large
supplies of provender for reindeer is
unnecessary. - With keen scent they
find moss under the ' snows and
speedily uncover it with Bharp, hoofs
and strong legs.
No automobile yet invented has been
able to find its gasoline !. supply and
take it aboard at every stop, i
SALARY LIST OF
N. P. OFFICIALS
By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor
respondent of The Journal.
Washington. Aug. J. Lists of salaried
officials of the railroads in 1917. recently
published, show the Northern Pacific
was rather less liberal than' other norm-
ern roads or the Southern Pacific in the
sums paid to executive and operating
officials. - f
Pierce Butler, counsel in presenting the
railroad side of the case In the valuation
of property before the Interstate Com
merce commission, received aim oat ai
much as President Hannaford.
The figures given below I are as they
appear on a list prepared for the Inter
state Commerce commission. They are
for the year 1917. the last year before
federal control, for salaries of $5000 and
upward. Those of $10,000 and over are
here first given: . I
J. M Hannaford, president, $50,000 ;
George T. Slade, first vice-president.
$35.120 : ' Thomas Cooper, assistant ' to
president. $25,000 ; . George T. Reid, as
sistant to president, $15,000 ; James G.
Wood worth, . secretary - vice - president,
$22,500; Pierce Butler, counsel of federal
valuation, $45,000 ; Charles W. Burn, gen
eral counsel, $30,000 ; Howard Elliott,
chairman executive board,! $18,180 also
down for $37,381. as president and di
rector of the New Haven and for $5190
as chairman of the board bt the N. T. O.
& W., total $60,751 ; Charles Donnelly,
assistant general counsel, $20,000; E. C.
Blanchard, general manager, - $15,000 ;
John W. Rapelje, general manager, $12,
000 ; Gunn & Rasch, - legal department
counsel, $14,900 ; Henry A. i Gray, comp
troller, $10,000 ; Chas. A. Clark, treasurer,
$10,000; John B. Baird, freight traffic
manager, $10,000; H. K. Stevens, chief
engineer, $10,000 ; W. H. Wilson, assistant
to first vice-president, $10,000.
a i . ..
The lesser salaried officials, above
tsuvv ana up to iu.uuu, exciuamg ue
legal department,' are recorded for 1917
as follows: W. C. Albee, division
superintendent, $5200; Henry Blakeley,
general freight agent. $7000 ; ; A. D.
Charlton, assistant general passenger
agent, $6400 ; Martin H, Clapp, superin
tendent of telegraphers,' $5180 ; R. W,
Clark, secretary, to president. $5000 ; A.
M. Cleland, general passenger agent,
$7000 ; A. R. Cook, principal assistant
engineer, $5000 ; Howard j M. Currey,
superintendent . of - mechanics, $9000 ;
George II. Earl, third vice-president,
$7932 ; W. P. Every, general claim agent,
$5000 ; F. H. Fogarty, assistant general
freight agent, $5000 ; Edward A. Gay,
secretary and assistant treasurer, $6000-;
W. G. Johnson, 'assistant comptroller.
$8300 ; P. H. McCauley, superintendent
of transportation, $7400; C. L. Nichols,
general superintendent, $7200 ; F. G.
Pre st. purchasing agent, $8400 ; J. B
Richard, general superintendent. $7500 ;
M. T. Sanders, tax commissioner, $5400 ;
Charles F. Seger, general freight agent,
$5000 ; H. E. Still, general western freight
agent. $7000 ; W. H. Strachan, superin
tendent, $5825; Hazan J. Titus, superin
tendent of dining car department, $7000.
, . a .
- The legal list for the Northern Pacific,
over J500Q gives: Charles W. Burn, gen
eral counsel, $30,000 ; Fierce! Butler, coun
sel of federal valuation, $45,000 ; Charles
Donnelly, assistant general counsel,
$20,000 ; Gunn & Rasch, legal department.
counsel.' $14,900 ; Charles S. Albert, at
torney for Idaho and (-Washington),
S7500 ; Britten & Gray, legal representa
tives, $6000 ; Edward J. Cannon, division
counsel, $5100 ; J. H Carroll, attorney.
$6000 ; George A. Ellis, assistant counsel,
87500 ; D. R. ; Frost, general attorney.
$5000 ; D. F. Lyons, assistant general
counsel, $8400 ; B. W. Scandrett, general
attorney, $6604 ; Watson, Young & Com-
JI.J.l. i m n r- n n 1
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle shows
the following list: L. C. Oilman, presi
dent, $30,000; Carey & Kerr, general
counsel, $22,500 ; Alex M. i Lupfer, chief
engineer, $12.400 ; A J. Davidson, general
superintendent. $6000 ; Wi D. Skinner,
traffic manager, $8400; W. F. Turner,
comptroller, 9000. I ;
The above are also officers of the
Oregon Electric, Oregon Trunk, Pacific
& Eastern and United Railways.
Letters From the People
Communicationa cent to Tba Journal for
publication in thia department ahonld be written
on only ona aide of the paper, ahould not ezeeed
SOO words In lenatla and most be aimed by tha
writer, wboae mail addreea in full must accom
pany the contribution. J
THE LEAGUERS AT, YAKIMA
Underwood, Wash., July 30. To the
Editor of The Journal The convention
of the Non-Partisan league that met at
Yakima, July 19, will no doubt be his
toric. All the counties in the state were
represented and with delegates of other
progressive bodies meeting at the same
time there must have been an attendance
of 1000. It was a political convention
different from any other ever assembled
on the Pacific -coast. It was made up
wholly of honest-to-God men and women,
industrious tillers of the jsoil, perform
ing the most useful tasks. They had
the appearance of good citiaens terribly
in earnest, with the inspiration of pio
neers, pathfinders, foundation layers,
animated also by the holy enthusiasm of
crusaders battling for the; better day of
justice and economic -. righteousness,
when government shall be taken out of
the hands of special privilege and Re
stored to the people. Old, time conven
tional war horses and spellbinders were
In the discard. These people knew their
psychology' and had plenty to say hut
no time to make speeches. A' platform
was' speedily n formulated art adopted;'
the gist ot which calls foti Ptiblic own
ership of , public utilities ; state' owned
powder,- - sugar and " packing' plants,
creameries, terminal elevatorsv and fiOuf
mills, warehouses and storage plants for
Bgs. ' frnita potatoes;, and v other- farm
products ; exemption or rarm improve
ments from taxation; rural credit banks
operated at cost; equal 'taxation of all
property of the ..big corporations with
that of the small producers ; restoration
to the public of vast harbor and tide
areas which have been seized by special i
. i , t I i - : - , - - ' . I '--r -
a ?- 3&-y ?&r4e. - -trrr?ft
' " "-"i""" ' " . "'? A&:asfV w- 'Vi-'i V If '
i y .. .!" - S AA". ;:.r-: t - A - . , 1 . i$ ' ' . : ,T- , ,..A
privilege, and which are now worth huge
sums and mostly untaxed.
On i this platform Robert Bridges of
Seattle was nominated for governor and
Bowles, a farmer of Yakima, for lieutenant-governor.
There was a full slate
named for all federal and state officers
and these candidates will be filed on
the Republican ticket in the coming
primaries. The Railway Men's Welfare
league. the , Workers V . Non-partisan
league, and various other- progressive
groups . Will join the Non-partisans and
all go down the line together. This will
make a campaign of education such as
was never known on the Pacific coast. ,
Governor Hart and his understrappers,
who. denied the progressives of Yakima
the use of the armory, the fair grounds
and even the court bouse steps, insulted
the American - flag and the declaration
of independence and. trampled upon the
constitution, ; which -. guarantees to aU
Americans the rights-of free speech and
peaceable assembly. Such petty perse
cution makes votes for the league. It
also encouraged the mob at Walla Walla
that tried to lynch a league speaker,
and. the mobs which have been doing
dirty work in Kansas and other places
against the leaguers. These mobsters
who proclaim themselves 100 per cent
American are a libel on American de
mocracy. They are bringing on by rapid
steps the day of ruin for the whole
wasteful, barbaric and Inhuman eco
nomic system. H. V. Rominger.
SMOKmG IN PUBLIC PLACES
Portland, July 31. To the Editor of
The Journal .The personal liberty plea
is often brought up as a means of de
fense for the indulgence in the tobacco
practice, but the term is so ambiguous
that people who smoke or many Of
them do not comprehend its true sig
nificance. A few evenings ago with a friend
attended ' one of the band concerts at
Mount .Tabor park. Although the fine
entertainment was in the open air, the
smoking pf cigars and cigarettes became
so annoying we did not remain long.
Now where did we enjoy 'our "personal
liberty"?
When men arrive at the age of 40 it
is a foolish fancy to smoke cigarettes.
In fact, there Is no time in a person s
life. It is safe to say, when the tobacco
habit is necessary. But It will be boost
ed just as long as the tobacco, companies
make persons believe it la good for
them to use it. Aside from tobacco
being offensive, expensive and unwhole
some, many a disastrous fire has orig
inated from cigars and cigarettes in the
hands of careless Smokers.
There, were many brave deeds done in
the army, and probably among users of
tobacco, but we. haven't any . reason to
believe the habit made them brave or
that cigarettes won the war, as the
venders of the weed would have us be
lieve. A wrongful indulgence, ho mat'
ter whether out of the army or In it.
has not proved the best course, and the
public as well as individuals will suffer
sooner or later. We welcome every
effort made for the extermination, more
especially, of the -cigarette, but realise
it win have to be accomplished mainly
through educationalv channels..-
- --, - . ' Julia A Hunt
Olden Oregon
Penitentiary and Asylum Sites Pur
chased , at $45 an Acre.
When the state capital was defi
nitely . located at Salem in 164, the
legislature , created a- - board of com
missioners to select land for the peni
tentiary and asylum. Of this commis
sion' Governor Gibbs was chairman. The
commission chose 147- acres near - the
eastern limits of the town belonging
to M. L. Savage.7 The price paid for
the land was $45 an acre. The water
power of the Willamette Woolen Manu
facturing company was also purchased
for $2000. , George H. Atkinson was
employed to visit other states to make
a study of their penal buudings pre
vious to" - undertaking r construction.
Temporary : buildings were erected, and
in 1871 the present penitentiary ' was
started. . It was finished in 1872 at a
cost of $160,000.
Curious Bits of Information
for the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
, -p . : ,
Judge Francis Hopkinson. signer of the
Declaration of Independence, jurist, in
ventor, artist, poet, essayist, scholar,
organist, composer ana first graduate of
the class of 1757 Of the University of
Pennsylvania, Is known as the first
American composer. Judge Hopkinson
was especially noted as a composer of
fetching . songs for the harpsichord. In
1788 he published seven songs dedicated
to his friend, George Washington. In
the quaint fashion of his day, he wrote:
"However small the reputation may be
that I derive from this work, I cannot,
believe, be refused the credit of being
the first native of the United States who
has-produced a musical composition. If
this attempt be not too severely treated.
others may be encouraged to venture on
a path yet untrodden in America, and the
arts in succession win tajte root and
flourish among us."
HIS REWARD
Jtow Una Brooklyn Eae-te. '
We cry loudly for a man of visioa and
when we get one we call him a visionary.
SUGGESTION FOR THE NEXT;
' - .-
Copyrlsbt. 102O. 'by Tha
COMMENT (AND
SMALL CHANGE
j
" Thoue-h. the maioritv rules, the minor
lty Insists on telling the majority how to
OO it. i-
There ia more fun
In the preliminary
engagement than
there ia in the first
domestic battle.
- !A . man probably - never realises how
mean he is until he has become a can
didate for some office. -
-I ('
t With the shortening of the days' upon
as. little wonder the price of coai In the
Pacific Northwest is tobe advanced, j
Add "comebacks" ! One Kerensky,
once Socialist premier of Russia, who
now arises in .Paris to ask that trade
blockade barriers surrounding Russia be
broken down. s
MORE OR I LE$S j PERSON AL
Random Observations About Town
Carl T. Tengwaldj rnanager of the
Holland hotel at Medford. arrived at the
Imperial around about 3 a. nv Monday.
He came from Astoria, where, he had
been attending the annual convention of
the American Legloni of Oregon. The
special upon which he and other legion
aires traveled from) Astoria left the
dOwn-rlver town at nearly midnight and
got into ' Portland before dawn Monday.
Eh route to Medford iTengwald, who is
a consistent Greeter.j. plans to stop off
at! Roseburg and take dinner with Ray
W. Clark, formerly Of the Multnomah
hotel, and now in charge of the Hotel
Umpqua dining room.j - "
" 1 , i -r
The Benson "hotel is entertaining Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Blodgett and John Jr.
of Grand Rapids. Mich.' At the . same
hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Norrls BCadley of
New Haven, Conn., and Dr. and Mrs.
NOrman E. Dltman of New York. Blod
gett has big' timber and bank interests
in! Michigan and is a heavy stockholder
lnj the Booth-Kelly company at Eu
gene, as weU as in Pacific coast timber.
rookllne, Mass.. misses Mr. and Mrs.
M. R. Bryan and daughter Janet and
the West welcomes them meanwhile.
They are tourist guests' at the Multno
mah while seeing the Northwest. ! i
A ' - r :". f "!'' .
Chicago eends to Portland for a brief
visit Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hollenbach
and Elizabeth and : Morris Hollenbach.
The' tourists are at the Multnomah' hotel.
- i ! ! -
W. A Barrett. Albany merchant, is
registered at the Hotel Portland. ;
-! ' " - " "!.:
Mr. and MraL. V.j Moore and son of
Moro, Sherman; county, are1 guests-at the
Hotel Oregon. j ,
i .(. , I .
At the Imperial hotel are Mr. and
Mrs. L. C Owens and S. D. Owens of
New York city. ' t i )
! - ' I a 1 !
Mr. and Mrs. Edward . A. 'Clark, Miss
Helen Clark and Geoffrey R. Clark of
Boston were among the numerous tour
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
v OF THE I JOURNAL MAN I
By Fred
Tba abort and aimple annals of certain Work
en whpwork becanaa they would rather work
than not. mgrmrn Mr. Loektey'e pen on thia oc
oaaion. This rare senna ia! tb.ua ahown to-: ba not
ao nearly extinct aa current newa dispatohea and
diaeOMioQa of aazne micht lead ona to appra-
fiend.J . i j
i -s . ' . i A
'The chronicles of obscure lives i Inter
est me far more than! the doings of the
great or the near great. Recently I
dropped in for a chat, at Seaside with a
woman cobbler. She was Cutting out a
half sole and . doing j a most excellent
job. "How did I happen to take up this
work?" she said, repeating my query.
"During the war we were unable to get
a workman and I came in to. help my
husband. I liked, the! work. and . within
a few months I was doing as good work
as; the ordinary workman. Now I am
rated .an expert. With the high; price
of shoes sensible people have their old
shoes repaired, thus: getting months
more 'of wear out of j them.' j. t.
-..'f.-'".-'-W;.,e-fJ;--v.. 1 4-
t dropped in to chat! with J. W. Breed-
love, a mender of shoes at White Sal
mon. Wash., recently. The minute he
spoke I knew he was from North! Caro
lina. "That's right, be said. "I'm from
North Carolina.- I have been In White
Salmon 12 years. . North Carolina a
good deal such a country1 as this roll
ing hills, and mountains, only we have
more springs. ' - Almost every, draw has
a spring in it. The folks, though, are as
different as day and night. It. is hard
to tell you bow they, are different We
are more Interested in each other there.
We "have more time to talk. Wei' don't
work- as hard as you do here. : People
out here don't know how. to put in their
time unless they are working, j Back
tfrai ws don't naad an muchtmsner: an
we are not willing to waste all our
time working. We go out and gather
hickory nuts or . beech nuts or ) black
walnuta We go fishing" and hunting.
We visit around more. We have more
time to be friendly. - . j . r
k-,.; .... ... ..-..j. a . i a A I' t.'f
Iff fntbee hail A i(Sfl(mrm farm mM.
way between Franklia and Bryaon City..
CONTEST
V. ' V- -' A ..- r -l00'
I i -:A
nm PobHjblna Co. (Tha lrw TorTr World)
NEWS IN BRIEF;
SIDELIGHTS
Life in Los Angeles these days seems
to be one biameo tremor alter anouier.
Hod River News . j j
Government geologists making a sur
vv mt Dr,pnn can aoend some of their
time studyinar-the flora and fauna of
local vaca.nl iota. Medford Mall Tribune.
- rH ..,.. . i .
Congratulations 1 to the Bend Elks on
their edecesa In Salem. Bend People
Owe '.Elks a lot for the publicity they
are getting tor the town. Bend Bulle
tin,: -j.--- : - ;.!; -
Lritlc
Alas for logic! lOne set of critics says
It; won't do to enter the League of Na
tions because it's too dangerous, and
nnnthnr it XVM It won't do because the
league doesn't amount to anything. La
o ramie uoserver. . it
ists registered at the Benson hotel over
the week end. i i
' : a
From Pasadena, Cal., come Mr. and
Mrs.; J. Foster Rhodes, who are guests
at the Portland hotel for the present.
Twenty-five missionaries en! route
from Richmond,: Va, to the orient will
arrive at Portland by special car,! August
12, according1 to arrangements made by
the passenger department of! the OrW.
R. & N. The company has also arranged
to handle a Raymond A Whltcomb tour
party of 35 people, who will arrive Au
gust; 7 to remain a day. The;tour party
will be en" route from Seattle to Yellow
stone national park.
! i .a a 7 a ;
Wlllard Massey, general agent for the
Union' Pacific railway system! at Boston,
arrived Tuesday on a tour of the Union
Pacific to familiarize himself with the
line.! This is the first trip Massey has
mad, to Portland. While in Portland
he is the guest of officials of the O-W.
R. N. - ;. j , ..
.-! ' I ' ' . a "i . .
Colonel W. C Langfltt. former major
general and chief engineer of the A E.
F - who served at .Vancouver barracks
as engineering officer in 188$ and later
as engineer of the Portland district en
gineering office, has retired from acUve
service, according to information con
tained in a recent issue of the Military
Engineer magazine. "
! I i 'I I
L. J. r Falk, proprietor of the Falk
Mercantile company of Boise, Idaho, reg
istered Monday at the Hotel! Portland,
ii - : . I ! '
Mr. and Mrs. E. O. McCoy and their
son i; of The Dalles spent Monday in
Portland on their way to the beach at
Seaside. McCoy- is a banker at The
DaUea, vj t
. !: ; . :, "'' .
Harry Day ..one of the owners of
the Hercules Mine company and owner
of a hotel at Wallace. Idaho, spent Mon
day i in Portland. He registered at the
Hotel Portland. -A I . .
Lockley
1
We i kept tally, and for th year we
kept count there was never a night we
didn't have some . visitor . Or visitors
overnight with us. No one ever thinks
of charging travelers for putting up
overnight, . except revenue . officers.
Father charged them because he hated
them for Interfering with" other people's
business the. way they do. He charged
them so high they quit coming. ! Father
was mighty glad of it, for it Is hard
work being polite to : revenue officers,
and I when they are your guests jyou
have to treat them right, j '
A-.. . ; J ;. L .' -.r ,
"We raised lots of sheep, j cattle and
hogs. My' three sisters were good cooks,
so we 'always had good meals for all
comers. The bogs got fat on the mast.
The sheep could be oat in the hills with
safety, . for everyone down 1 that way
keeps a pack of bounds and there are
no varmints left. There is much oak,
hickory, beech. Tass, t walnut and chett-i
nut timber. It's a pretty country. We
raise corn, cotton . and tobacco.
"Wife and I 'got so homesick we went
back there, to stay. We stayed eight
months, and came back here for good
I don't know what ailed4! ua We had
got so into the habit of 'working that
it ' seemed slow, - just sitting around
visiting ; so we came back. I There are
lots of people f rotn North Carolina com
ing i out to Oregon and Washington.
They generally settle along! the edge
of the mountains, as X. have." :
,;J ;ji t Am .. .. , 1.
At ! Stevenson, Wash., I dropped Into
a - little . restaurant. - The proprietor, I
could eee, was. of French blood, f "Yes.
my folks were French.. he said. "My
name is P, F. St. Martin. 1 was born
near! Vancouver. In 1856. My .father,
Andrew St. Martin, went to work for
the i Hudson's Bay company at Van
couver in 1837. . He .. worked-, for Dr.
John ' McLouarhlln as a millwright. He
was at the Wolf meeting at Champoeg
In May, 1843. He was there with bis
friend. F. X.Matthieu. Father live to
be old. He did not die till 18S6." ,
' 1 -
The Oregon Country
North waat Tiappeninaa 4n Brief Form for the
, Buf Header. -
OREGON NOTES
a t ... . . ... m. . .
p a nw inviui.f 7 in Aininy win ti" nm
manufacture of tUe by the Albany BrCpk
& TUe company. ;
An immense crop of wild blackberries
: ha in r harvested in I Inn
is
the CaTapoola river.
Deemincr the offer at S fna nnnA
too small fishermen have discontinued
gillnetting on Coos Bay.
E. N. Smith has purchased 71 acres of
land adjacent to the city of Coquille in .
; tuuuij tur av - vuneiaeratlon 01
$35,000.
- TOTa-, MAM.. Tl.n T'. . . .
Victor Beauregard will remove the pig
itciis wh ui vViuniDia river aignway eaat
Of town.
Springfield. Lane county, is to have a
new city hall. The old wooden building
on Main street, in; Use for many years,
has been razed. ,
The public service bodies "of Oregon,
Washington and Idaho will meet in
joint session at Seattle, August 10, to
consider grain rates, i
The small fire at Taylor, in -Lane,
county, near the summit of the mountain
In the Cascade national forest has been
brought under control.
The four troops of boy scouts at Eu-
the war. will soon be reorganised through
" cnaramr or commerce.
The Klamath County Woolrrowers ss--Oclatton
has levied an assessment of
2 cents a head on ell sheep owned by
members to provide funds.
.The public service commission will
da hearing August 6 on the petltton
or the Cottage Grove Electric company
to raise rates about 25 per cent -
Stat Engineer Cupper is conducting a
aeries of water I users' meetings in
Deschutes county, preliminary to the or
ganization of a new irrigation district.
. A barrel of home made wine has been
found by Frank McFarland tinder a tree
at the foot of Mount David, in Lane
co3inijr" .lt nM not i yet been claimed.
Out of nine applications received at
Bend for a position In the publio schools'
oniyone showed qualifications up to the
to
Sui
jperin-
tendent Moore. "
G. W. Wineland of Salm, who Wm ar
rested on a charge of violating the city
ordinance when his' car ran down and
killed Mrs. E.'E. Dennlaon during the
Elks convention, has been acquitted by
a Jury in the recorder's court.
WASHINGTON
Hoqulam and Aberdeen community
service girls have joined in a matinee
swim each afternoon at the Hoqulam na
tatorium. '
In mmTwNHnn with (ha T. nnM n.n.
wy Power company, jitneys operating
i-Mii. uaiaia win nam passengers
over Tacoma streeta
While tentincr mif sin tViV Ti..tn. vi.k
wr.west of Centralia, an automobile
""B"! on urn inrongn a ieajcing valve
and went up in flames.
O. S. Thnrntnn. knrlnau ,,4 11....
Qer ftennie. fireman. war Inaimii.
killed in the wreck of a Northern Pa
cific lumber. train at Fremont,
Mm Snraa rVorlr di...
. , " . ...... ... . . .7. Kiin wna
killed when au automobile in which she
wan naing len uie road in Fourth of
July canyon, near Wallace, Idaho.
Tha amlrnmant nf t XT lilt - . .
blns, the alleged slayer of his wife, on
ir " mwruer naa oeen postponed
at Vancouver pending an examination
as to his sanity.
Virtually aJL the pear-crop of the
Wenatch.ee district has been sold by
growers at from $75 1 to $80 per - ton.
, .a muiuBLcu m ew
nfin loads bringing growers about $600.-
An arbitrating nn.l
' . -v..m.,,vh-, i ' lji ' t n l ri
hv tne mmm h imAta a nr.n. 1 1 . m
' ' vn t i im, n ana
county 4nd the city of Walla Walla
iHKuw urn aecision mat the county
must, rtav 7A n a,n .v. . .. i
' " , - .nvi iiio city dv
health r9f fleer, ""f" ut
,Ai ;i-H5AHO -
Vramla A Tamljrlna knu.. a i--
-.v. . - . vi inn uni
versity, of Idaho, has been promoted to
lh. ml.l.lM . . . . . .
i . n""11 v fruuwjr ana xinancial
adviser.
Erwln Wv, tf a nnii V n . i
nf,arai,a,Teil' wa ruck and Instantly
killed (by lightning while returning from
A dbzen fires have broken out In the"
' Je and Priest river districts of
.2r?i. -According to the forest service
officials three or four of them are as
suming large proportions.
Cowboys from the Boise section of the
Salmon river who are planning a big
roundup tor this week are receiving as-
lurancaa that rtdra frnm lTa,tra aaa-k-
ington and Oregon will participate.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :
In my time I've heerd some rattlln
good speeches on the issues of the day,
but I'd like to've heerd Bryan onct
more at San Francisco when he whooped
it up fer a dry United States and a dry
Democratic party. My! my! How the
country and parties does revolute 'thout "
no revolution ! They, sot on Bryan
'cause the country's already dry and the
partyd better be, and least said soonest
mended.
Portland Does Not Suffer in
; Any Coast Comparison
of Trade Areas
' During August 9 to 14. Portland
will hold the eighth annual "Buyers'
Week."
: Merchants will come from as far
north as Alaska, from as far south
as Los Angeles and from as far east
as Eastern Montana.) Merchants will
come from Idaho, rora Wyoming,
from Washington and from Oregon..
It will be the largest gathering of
merchants Intent on business that has
yet been assembled ; in the Pacific
Northwest. ".-I
Why?
The answer Is what makes Port
land's Buyers' Week interesting to
this corner. (
Portland Is the chef wholesale dis
tributing center of the Pacific North
west It is to be doubted if the vol
ume of Jobber distribution In San
Francisco or Los Angeles is as large
as In Portland. Seattle Is not in the
same classification as Portland as a
distributing center j for wholesale
housea - , i
Portland's trade area comprehends,
the Columbia river basin, some 254.
000 square milea Portland's exclus
ive or non-competitive trade territory
aggregates 164.15$ square miles. Se
attle's exclusive trade territory
amounts to 34.939 square milea San
Francisco Is limited as to exclusive
trade area about the same as-Seattle.
Los Angeles to the south is a very
vigorous and successful rival of San
Francisco aa a Jobbing center. -
Portland may thank the Columbia
river for the fact that the volume of
sur lobbing business amounts to prob
ably several hundred millions of dol- 1
lars annually, it is the water grade
transportation afforded by the Co
lumbia and its tributaries which, ren
ders it possible for Portland to reach
so "much more territory than Seattle
on more-favorable terms. Should the
tentative decision of the Columbia
basin rat case be confirmed by the
Interstate ..: commerce commission,
some 10,000 square miles, tt is es
timated, will be added to Portland's
exclusive trade' territory.
While the opportunity which nature
has afforded Is exceptional, Port
land's business houses have taken
vigorous advantage -of it and the
wholesale enterprises of this city
probably excel those of any other city
on the Pacific coast.