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:-' 1 8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,' PORTLAND. OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1S20. . I- It I ' tf-i . 11 !. 'il;- 1? -. ii;l. lit . Ar: ri- ' 0t . . mi?': i i v.--- "af. - - - - " - - - " i id AX INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEK C. S. JACKSON..... ....... it.... Publisiwr U calm, be confident, be cheerful and do Ji'o mocn as Tvro woohx Dirt uma w vnw j i llibltened every week day and lUjncUy Boratal, fa All rfUUmil PUWilTia. 01WMW bill street. Portland, Oreeoa. - - . Entered .t th pewfir. t. Fonid. oro (ar.tnnimMmi throum toe atalla aa Hconilt. . i . ... . cLua inaUrr. . - - TiXKFHONKS Main Tt7. Automatic A60-l.. All depertaente mcl,l bOi b 22 firth .ne. sr. Xork; oo aikr Buiidin,. chico, , t. THE OBE;p.f JOURNAL reserve tba rlrtt reject alrtlalm copy wnwn u aerine jectiooabia. i it also wm not print any eop tta iiSirira 'Sd tiainc. . , - BUBsCBumos bates Bt Carrier, City and ConntTT DAILT AND SUNDAY Ona irack. ..... .16 1 Ona awnitl).. . on.iroonth...l. .4s . MT t LIT. XI 1, B1TBH PATiBLE IN APYAJlvE r ,au-t and scndat . - l Ona yar. . . . . . Six aontha. . . .8 .00 Thre. month. . . 3 "j DAILT -fWltbout StmdTtr On .-.. t Six month... 8.2 Tlm BODttll.i -25 Ona xoont h . . . . . .W, WEEKLY (Ercry Wedaaaday) On yea. ....1.00 Six month...:. .50 SCNDAT vi.f0nl,) t An Ttarta month. . 1.00 1 WEEKt-T AND su: Ona yr. BUND AT : r: r.'i.n .nn Won. Maka ramituncaa by Monay JJrnar. Expraatl kionVy Order cKtic. 1 or 2-nt .tamp win b eerpuo. Maxa an iroimwn Nerar thick that God'a delays ara Ood'i denial. Bold enl Hold' atl Hold outl Patlenc is xenio. Count d- Baffon, ADDED GASOLINE !i v . i j n I ' ' - . i -.' . I THIN a few hours if I has no r already. done sov a tralnload of f.-Kasoline will rparh the Or.irnn ctatn !':: . . i ' !; :;. " A committer of thraiprf of or. a committee of the Dealers Motor h;. Car Association of Portland is bring - f :--ln into Portland 350.w gallon, 1 '1 w : .I . : r- chased independeaiyi of the companies u that rearularlv riflivr pasniinA in thin ! territory. Other purchases from out- , crn;XCnr,::U feitotalimnortfrorrrth.o H : V" V" -! -imreg(,n,J. Tney-rorgot that Oregon is .Utween 5Mand 600glons. .It is largely an asrlealtural .5 that ! V vc7 I,Cilvy uu won 10 lue naiurw i. supply. The ' Union : Oil rnmnanv ha nnr. chased in Oklahoma and Texas 1-00,- . - - - " . I OOO gallons which it Is bringing by ran 10 mi neia tnis gasoline is or better ; Quality, the price is slightly niguer uaw ireigni cnarge nas to .uucu. , iue uuion company is , mixing ae imporreq - siuu witn its h California product and is selling the v mixture at a slight advance in price. .ufto-'r..The.iSheir; people la Portland have had an -allotment since April 1 of 50 per cent more, than the allowance of last year. The Associated i Oil pany has beett allotted an increase of 50 per cent for Auirust over its auota for August of last year for the. Port- i ' land trartn. RtanrlarH haa nnnminJ 1 , - vwuvu-s. -km, au UU liUUUVU I - that It Will frrim T-ra on aIHm ai.. -waa v a0 UaaVaV. VbllVl KJ U V 1 side fields, supply Eastern Oregon be- yond The DaUes without drawing on Its California output, a fact that.-It is assumed, will: give it larger allotment for distribution in Portland and West- ern Oregon, f i; - -? These facts; are given. The Journal by a - prominent motor car- dealer 1 whose study of the gasoline situation has extended jover several years, and they are regarded as entirely authen- tic. They should, in his opinion DutJ an early end to the shortage, so-called. I The country as a whole hp av is flooded with gasoline, t On April 1 the surplus inlAmerlca was the largest in the history of anv roimtr-v vn ' . such thing as rationing i has been '- ... .... I Known in any part or the country ex-l cept in Pacific coast states ? - l A nficuHar feature m th. tnJi. ( 1 shortage so-called, is this: Portland rtMir SPn n, . a trainload in one of the mid-Southern fields. The 'train ' Was loaded and 1 standinir nn t trav Hv j w vf VUUJ ; W A-CX V 1 for Oregon. A wire from- the .selling ffpn(v nntlflwl fho Pnrtln aha f Jr ? n .k.k. I!!: bidden the sending of the trainload hf of gasoline to PortUtnd. : ' As thej?result of this and similar I kappenings, this query is raised : Was ! Jt desired, by ; powerful; oil interests J that there should be a shortage on the pacmc coast, ana is tne purpose con- k sequent from a desire to .raise the H price here? j , j . , Tomorrow is a fateful day for two - . i -ri. a. . . ; . . I sm AHieuwus. ia uiei. aay ion wnicn ;i Governor Cox is to deliver his speech f 1-J J of acceptance. What he says or woolen goods is forced to pay a fancy to have the same beam, but Is 5 feet ;y ;falls to say will have a great deal Price, i The high figure Is occasioned, longer fl74 feet, and has a dlsplace to do with" the future of : both him- he is" told, by a shortage of the man- ment exceeding the Leviathan's by al nt self and Senator Harding. . 'If he ufactured product. At the same .time most 6000 tons. ' ? - : J '; wabbles and camouflages and covers word tomes that the American Woolen Curiously enough, both ships are i his meaninsf in meaningless words, as company, knovn as K the, "woolen ex-German liners. In the pre-war days ir. narumg aio. one great asset roT his presidential race will be lost! Neither Is yet! sure of election. The election may be lost ; and -won two r three times between now and November. The prestige that : the Republicans had several months ago was lost at Chicago. A Cox oppor tunity comes tomorrow. How will he UBS it? : , - !.' . Just xjke hiram E NEED to he rescued from s w .. ..i.-i :.! mo 'imuiiuj uu 11 uiwojb pursuit of peace; through super gov enmient" f said t Candidate Harding. II f i r 1 1 i u t vrin r miin w AinACfta "Super; government is what he thus CWIS me WogUe Of Nations. That IS rtifS: ,t fAn " !s whaMselt their, product to the manufac- j "1 : ; f. Candidate Harding referred to the te plan as "visionary and fruitless." SO , T -. ,, j aoes Hiram.-So does Borah.- who said ne wouldn't accept the league even If I proposed Jy . Jesus Christ ; I Mr. . Harding talks the language of the irreconcilable bitter enders. He s .b J uses the; words , of the battalloA . of J of -the growers. uThe company appar $'roeIleath' ' jently is waiting for both producer and $ Hiram himself couldn't have spoken I . - , ... , of theUeague In more scathing phrase, "Visionary,": j and fruitless" and super government are as strong words &s could be used in denouncing a.iaiuie jeague. ii is as 11 uiraiii, in one of his most volcanic moods, had writ - ten that soeech which Mr: Hardlna - ,, . lh r.. gatlon frpm his front porch. That the league is "visionary that it is - fruitleSS and that it IS "super gov - I emment' were Mr. Harding's emphatic 1 wordS, 'Mr. Harding's surrender to Hiram and. Borah, when ha got the nomina tion, was. complete. He Is delivering the goods on his own front porch. To avert theibolt by the league haters and to hold the pro-German. voters in line, he went Into the "bitter ender Mmn hoo'jj nn ; hrAr.h an1 Ma fulminations Wednesday from his J"nellfe itself," he says, "and the front porch show that he is sticking DUsiness of keeping sou! and body to to the bargain h 1 gether in these times of profiteering On three separate occasions In'the ' Mi. . point of being ratified, league, and all On each occasion, all the trouble was on the pbint of being ended. On each. the small! body of irreconcilables de-1 scended upon the negotiators with threats of bolt, and such men as Lodge apd Harding weakened. It was one of the greatest examples In all his tory ; of dictation to a nation and to a great party by a small senate cabal. To the little group toaay is aue Air, ui,ye Hnnnrintion of th jM -"-""O " - - a -1 ... ... . . , , . , . , AH who hate the league should vote for IIardI g. He lg the noeague , ! 4 ua ,hl A1! h league should vote .... pmer enaers. L is cjectedthe great moral in- fiuence of America will be ara nst the 1 leaKUe and America will continue to J v..?L!Sl!? n:ii . cuiuyu wnii rcvuiuuuuttij Mexico,'.' rBoIshe I : tl"iV the . l : 011'0?0'90 m agricultural districts in America L , . ,..J.-. not Increasing In normlation aa ran-la Ui . j . I mi V HIK U1H C1L1PI1. 11(1 noT I I I it ia i mentioned., how manv of a realize that decadence of agricultural lmes an evil omen? Have they noted I that there Is. in instances, ran actual faiilns offof population In' some of the aerrictiltural districts of this state 7 1 ALBERT M. GRILLEY TIE. WAS dedicated to usefulness and X the service of his fellows. He put I com-laside any thought of a financially sue- jcessful career, in order that he might make a distinctive contribution to the I wholesomeness of . men's bodies . and minaS. lie DrOVCQ that a man mavltir? vpsp I - " I IX1V6 I US rellClOIl. . . V . I - I utner men may take his place on the secretarial staff of the Portland Y. M. c A. Other men imay take up the burden of - eivio work where he has Iaid i down. Other men may go on with the routine affairs, of the com- u,uul,"y- aui DO oiner man or men can Pss"ly furnish substitute for his raUant personality, his splendid opti- mlSIn an4 his rare and genial helpfulr ness ot spirit. : i : v"ile health was his he lived with- out thought of self or selfish - interest. I wnen war auty caned he rendered an excePtional service in the organization A activities at Camp Lewis, Wherever he was and whatever he naa n Bave 411 ror tfte common good, ' WTinn f4fal mnln.lt. n n nn n J I . i I iauj laatcucu uscu i upon nim tne quanty that endeared nitI n,s associates persisted. He smi'U r 1 e deatn sentence of aisease. ti cannot oe saia that his was X a .completed task bu Portland ""u wo icas uecause OI I me completeness or nis usefulness. j, L a-naasiaBssBs-a-a Maaaa..a " ' ' wuuvojr m .roruana P will not ffiW. 1 11. J i , . I Pe hushed.: . It ought - not to be w'n oversy ought to go T J? l if dealers t 'mnr ror- itr-iKf ir, milk than' dairv farmers eet .fnr producing it, the full facts ought to become Bublic NOT CONCEIVABLE A MOST extraordinary situation ex- isls in the woolen industry in the I TTn:nj ri.i i I -uuiicu oi tues. I A consumer who attempts to buy irus nas ciosea tne mills, m Law- rence, Massachusetts and that several thousand workers have become ob- Jects of public reUef: because Of com- pulsory idleness.! Officers of the com-1 Jpany declare the mills were closed'be-1 J cause of a surplus of manufactured goods A shortage and surplus at the same time Is an unusual circumstance in deed, a, most extraordinary situation. In fact, it .is' not conceivable. ; k What Is apparently the case Js this: I , : 1,., k i:tih. ! - e- i n't nhliln th mnnil- - , - .,, npnHni.f - Natnrallv the orice ,rt 4ha Mc,,m, Mmain hirh tn . 1 " wiMy ..,.. wuu ...j,... while he can't get ; the 'product the I u,-nnlpn rnmmnv tiilth a atrlnar of mills Vn.n turer. The- wool market Is seemingly turcled Th situation nlctufes the woolen 1 - j company as the profiteers-attempting to hold the price of his product up J hv ref usln to suoolv more eoods. and I holding the price of the raw material I down by closing the door to the wool consumer to yield, the manufacturer 1.' . j o reap the .reward. , I' In the meanwhile, the public is held I up for wool, the grower is facing j ruin, and Lawrence is feeding the iciiyiojco. n is nno nauic cuiupttuy 1 that the government recently at- 1 temoted to orosecute for Drofiteerimt Wsnu a1 (AnnliAU : Ifi the Lever act. Wt-' ;"y Could there be a fitter field for gov- j emmental action? VICTIMS OF PROFITEERS DR. ROYAL S. COPELAND, commls , sioner of health in the city of New' York, charges that profiteering "11 ' ge e re- T2JS ,ncreasIn nmber VI 9 U1V1UVO CLAtlvrsiQ VVU11IVU "It Is the increased complexity of the 1 At it J , a . m . . WTfg"?":. women folk serve as a buffer between owr pay envelopes and the profiteers.' It is not impossible that the profit- 1?0 Just at tin They are on the earnings of whomsoever ap pears in their greedy pathway. They are conscienceless and hard ened. They are the "hard boils", of commerce. Whether or not they drive women to suicide is of no consequence them- Whether or not they snatch il. i -m 4u - i . mouths of cWldren amounts to notn. away uie Busteoauce iruin ine - A, -k,,- v rauitnh8.hi WWr t ing in their scheme of things. I Their ood is ?oid. their creed Drorits. 4K.,. -Am.m .. possibie by conditions and their profits , .. , . V . I , L w A stete of widespread hunger 1 1 thpir Rienal to action It 1i thpn imai iney ouy up proaucis ana noia To their past crimes Dr. Copeland, 7 -JusUnably,- adds that of causing increasing suicide among women. An American destroyer never laid nntiiai. .Aia arAx than cAno . . ... . , Ua.il4na h nn hi. M 1 ri. o.- definitely taken but one stknd. That ia wherein . he Joined hands with Johnson , and Borah to beat the League of Nations. A STATE CHEST W HY not extend Portland's Com munity Chest ideal to the state as a whole. The Community Chest will - condense into one drive , reauir ing a Week all Portland's drives, each of which, under present conditions, is independently organized I and which. one after the other, occupy the en- " a) -. at a. VV"hv nnt c.milafv nnnlaneA Ata j svsy uitmiui a j vuuVAVUdW VIO gon's state-wide drives? Each of these now requires ; its own Organization. Each organization dissolves at the end of a given drive and must be reorKan- ized not only for the next campaign of the same nature but for other relief errorts As in Portland, almost always the same group of people will be found in an out-state community aiding the combat against disease; and securing financial aid for the relief of need. They would be saved a. great deal of time and be put to little more effort for all drives than for one if all the causes could adopt a joint budget and unite organizations for a! single cam- paign .rTl-. T rAM.. . 11 J . 1. 1 iuc imupie w urcguu uum uuuui- less be so grateful for the congidera- Hon that they would give more gener ously than ever before i , : T There is a recently Inaugurated campaign agauini. auiviuuuua auui dents In Philadelphia, There, motor cycle officers stop speeders on the arrets mo lecture inem, in i-ori- land they are arrested and fined. . . . . . n THE BIGGEST SHIP THE biggest ship in the world will not long sail the oceans under the American flag.: The Leviathan, - formerly the German passenger liner Vaterland, but now an American ship, is to be displaced as the largest liner by the steamer Bismarck, soon to take the waves under the British flagl The Leviathan is now the only ship afloat that cannot nass the Panama . ". . . ..... canal. Tne locks are the cum width as the ship.' 109 feet.; The Bismarck is England and Germany entered into a rivalry in constructing monster ocean greyhounds. ? TTie British built three hnm. liners, the OlvmDlc. Britannic, and Titanic: Thev were all White Star liners. The .Hamburg-American line however, put out three larger vessels, the Imperalor Vaterland and the Bisr marck.' The Bismarck was christened by the ex-kaiser shortly after the outbreak- of " the war, and 6he is now nearing completion in a German yard to be turned oyer to the-British under the j treaty of peace. All three Ger man liners are afloat, but of the Brit ish big three, only the Olympic still rides on the waves. The German liners, however, are all to operate i. under allied : flags. They are turned over as reparation for the ships sunk by' the Huns submarines during the war. It is one of the prices Germany is forced to pay for her ruth lass 'submarine policy. 1 SALARY LIST ' ON THE MILWAUKEE By, Carl Smltlu Washington Start Cor : respondent of Th Journal Washington. Auflrr.-Th Chicasro. AiuwauKee & - St. 1'aul railroad had crood sized corns of hleh salaried of. ficlals in 1917. as shown bv it renorts of that year, filad with the interstate commerce commission and recently nub llshed. The proportion of salaries above 910,000 was, unusually larg-e. Two men ppear on me list xor tnat year as presidents of tne road, which mar be ..u.i.iu. uj a, ,aaug0. iii cue presiaency. The salary in each case la for the vear. . 1. : .l . . . which Was the last prior to federal con trol. .-!... Salaries renorted over Slo.ooo loiiowsj : A. J. Earline. . nresiilnr $75,319 ; IL E. Byram, president, $60,000 (as vice-president of the C. B. & Q., Mr. Byram receive an additional $22, 500 a Henry R. WilUams, vice president. $31,117 ; - L. L. Bush, vice president, $20.030 ; H. B. Eariing, vice president. $20,000; J. H. Hiland, vice president. $15,000 : E. D. Sewall. vice president, $20,160; C. A. Goodnow, vice president, $17,500 R. M. Calkins, vice president. $12,000 E. W. MfcKenna, member con ference committee, $20,000 ; Burton Han son, general counsel. $25.000: H. H. Field, general solicitor, $18.000 ; C F. Loweth, chief engineer. $15,000; Guy J. Bunting, comptroller. $10,000 ; Clark B. Ferry, vice president and assistant sec retary, $10,100; A. M. Ingersoll. assist ant to vice president, , $10,000 ; IL B. Pierpont, freight traffic manager, $12, 000; (P. t c. Hart, general manager, $12,000 ; F. TV. Root, solicitor. 412,000; Nelson J. "Wilcox, attorney, $10,000; George R. Peck, general counsel, $10,000 ; F. Mi Dudley, general attorney. $10,000 ; O. W. Dynes, commerce counsel, $10,000. i .. Between $5000 and $10,000 the follow ing are listed : E. W. Adams, secretary, $8500; Walter Alexander, superintendent of motive power, $5000; C. H. Barrett, assistant general superintendent. $o416 ; Reinier Beeuwkes. electrical eneinoer. ; $6000 F. D. Burroughs, freight traffic manager, $5000; W. S, Cooper, general superintendent, $6000; P.) C. Eldridge general superintendent, $6000: J. H. roster, general superintendent. S7000 W.. B. Foster, general superintendent. oo; ueorge B. Haynes,-general pas. senger agent, $5000 ; George W. Hibbard general passenger, agent, $5000 ; A. G Holt, assistant chref ensnneer. $5000 William A. Linn, purchasing agent, $5020 ; K. A. Miller, passenger traffic manager, $8000; F. G. Ranney, treas urer, $8333; Edward O., Reeder, assist ant chief engineer, $6000; J. W. Taylor assistant to president. $8.500 : J. R veitch. assistant traffic manager, $5000 J. welch, : assistant general auditor, $5000 ;irWalter .Vr Wilson, assistant gen erai ditor. $5000 ; James T. GiUick, general manager, $7583 i Grant Williams, assistant ir. $500; John R, LHck lnson. j assistant to general, solicitor, 9000;i Edward Li. Grantham, assistant solicitor, $5000 ; John N. Hughes,- solid tor for Iowa. $7500: Carl S. Jefferson assistant solicitor. $6000 ; H. J. Killilea, solicitor for Wisconsin, $7200 ; William u. sorter, solicitor. $4720. Letters From the People I CommtmlealioBx acnt tn Th nnm.T n publication in thia department ehoold be written on only one aide of tlje paper, should not exceed avy troras in lenirtn and most be aisned by. the wnier, irnose man saaresa in Hill must accom pany mo conxriDuuon. j ' A STATEMENT FOR SINfiLK TAY Portland, Aug. 5. To the Editor of i ne journal becond observation on the negative argument on the single tax proposition on the ballot: The Cham rer or commerce states, "Under the single tax a vacan t lot would pay iden tically i the same . taxes as a. lot ' next door to; it containing an apartment build- uig. a - - . Vacant, lots .pay. .no ttaxes .whatever; nor would they .under the single -taxi Vacant lots produce, rwthiner' but beonmri a menace , to -the health and liberty of povpie, uney spread the city out three times Its . normal size, thereby causing labor and commerce to expend three times the energy to produce and exchange. They collect weeds and tin cans - and dead cats, and . are hiding places for burglars, but they do not pay taxes," for taxes come from the activity . of labor. , .Labor, pays, every1 earw .inai enters into the life of .commerce, and vacant lots do not muisr, Mime wise and some otherwise Individuals who do labor seek - to. hold Ji? .othr Jaborers by monopolizing land They will' not use it, nor allow anyone else tot use it. and think they "can get more by such forestalling than the taxes w. xney pay the taxes and the most of these would-be speculators pay a price that reaches from this worwi into the next. The c-amhiino- ...i . -- vi nomeuung ror nothine ntnnm short of nothing outside the gates of fwuiuuii. .,ies..uiev mv th tu but wacant lots. - never. ----- . . The negative further t9to. . . . , , - ., V" uci a ui uiginy improved nronertv wn..i ably be able, to pay their taxes." weii, mat is more than they are do ing now, according to v Professor Sellg man of Columbia uniwraitv n the producer to ''evade the law. 'since it is confiscatory and they cannot live and obey the, liw." Holders of vacant .u pay ( more taxes than they would under Single tax. for the eco nomic rent Is (already taken in many histances. y-It ds only the ..gambling ow.w umi causes them to sacrifice una uiwcuiuon tnat the rionr going to make them ti,. lilYf"1 'holding win Bm&e tax, but there will be no Incentive for them to do so. Since, according to our nnmn.n. lH, ld-onlyjfor use- men W hold land Idle for use under single tax, but l" iwim, ior the monopoly feature ! will be! erasel it tv. Ql follows the law, . . ine amendment don tint dd.m,. ' letter In the title to a deed for land, nor does it change the moral obligation or contract between the government and the people. Uncle Sam nefer guaran- r,2fVaIUe0f land riven In patent, and reserve! h.l .. eminent domain and taxaUon. Oregon In the last election emphasized that law by a constitutional amendment, by sav ing the welfare of the people is supreme. - J- R. Hermann. A TRIBUTE TO ALBERT nntiTxnr' Portland, Aug. 5. To - the Editor of T. e-irntrla tn Passing of Albert M- Orilley "this community has lost one of those virile types of manhood that it can Ul afford to lose. Those of us who, had the privilege of association with him and fortunately many of our athlet ically, inclined young men had can tes tify to his love of clean sport and fair play, and lie endeared himself to his legion of friend because he ' had Im bued 1n' his make-up the qualities em bodied in the best type of citizen, namely, the spiritual, mental and physicaL In spite of the fact that b had been fighting a losing battle with disease .for many months, doubtless accentuated by his unsparing devotion to his duties as chief of , the welfare activities at Camp Lewis daring the war, yet he maintained an optimism and hopefulness up to the last. No finer example of a life well lived can be left as a heritage to the young men of this community, than, this life of untiring service to. the cause of clean manhood, and we who knew him and loved him . will forever enshrine in our hearts the memory of this splendid Y. M. C. A. worker. John G. KUpack. ' - JOHNSON AND M'CAMANT ' Salem. Aug. 2. To the Edftor of The Journal I and thousands of others have for the "last few - weeks been reading in the public press articles contributed , by Hiram Johnson and Mr. McCamant rela tive to the latter's conduct at the na tional convention of the Republican party at Chicago, where McCamant waa a dele gate from -Oregon. It would seem at this, time that Johnson has one over on McCamant, from the fact that the plat form of the Republican party is a John son made platform, and McCamant must indorse the, Johnson platform from be ginning ;.to end.- Of course, so far as McCam ant's pledge goes, the reader and L the ; general public will not notice any umgism inai. - juansou - raises, yiot- tically all of them understand that men living in glass houses should not throw stones. From the fact that Johnson bolted the Republican party, after he was made by that party, one would draw the conclusion that, he broke a pledge with his former Republican friends which they considered Just; as binding as it could have be in if it had been written on paper. Johnson and McCamant live in a Republican house, and this house can not stand, from the fact that it is divided and from the fact that McC-mant is a well known and respecied citizen of Ore gon, it is hoped that he may realize that the public are interested ' in his stand against the Johnson platform, and that they will elect Cox as president, and by so doing give McCamant a victory t r Johnson. . Will E. Purdy. NOT TIL TAYLOR'S WAY Portland, Aug. 5. To the Editor ot The Journal AH heads in Oregon have been bowed in reverence to the memory of Til Taylor,; whose sterling character and noble life have been an Inspiration to us alL . AU thought of lynching was forgotten when the loved sheriffs name was mentioned to the little mob that gathered in the courthouse yard at Pen dleton. Should not the same Influence have played 'a part in the . hearts and consciences of the men who applied the third, degree to the murderers of Til Taylor? . . ' . i Til Taylor, a lover of justice and fair play, could not approve- the methods used by those who administered the third degree to his murderers. ' In this day, when humanity has be come less barbarous than in the old days, we are shamed when a few men return to the primitive ways. The methods they resorted to are inhuman. There must "be other - ways more sane and dignified to bring a confession from a criminal.. The methods used in. these days for the third degree . seem little better than those - in the days when crude, un-Christian men applied the thumbscrews, and other ancient means of torture. -The new, world, the Chris tian world, cries for decency and dig nity as" well as' justice. ' , i A Subscriber. . -THE THIRD DEGREE " Portland,- Aug. 4. To the Editor Of The Journal ;I cannot: resist the call to voice a 'protest. , Lamentable as is the death f Sheriff Taylor, and as mueh- as all good citizens regret the same, is it not time to call a halt on such dis graceful proceedings as are depicted- In Monday's Journal?- Far better to i let the : guilty suffer the penalty of their crimes at the hands of lynch law, then- no need to atlush for shame when we think of justice and all that goes to make civilization. Can anvone who knew, and respected TU Taylor picture mm applying ammonia to a bound and helpless individual, or brutally beating a nair-wit? Speed the day when "such brutal inci dents will be things of the past. Let not blind rage . hold us in its ruthless sway, bqt rather reason guide ua in our dealings with the unfortunate. . Mrs. Viola Ames. Curious Bits of Information -for the Curious .Gleaned. From Curious Places By the- ; expression, '"The Seven Wise Mentor Greece." is-meant" a ; number of men among the Greeks of the sixth cen tury before Christ, distinguished for their practical sagacity and their wise maxims or principles of ? life.' Their -'names are variously given., but those most generally admitted to the honor are, 'Solon, Chilo, Pittacus. Bias, Periahder ,(ln place of whom some give Epimerildes). Cleobu- lus and Thaless They -were-the' authors of the' celebrated mottoes inscribed in later ,days in , the . Delphian temple. These mottoes, with the name of the author cf each,' were :' "Know thyself," ly Solon; "Consider .the end,? by Chilo ; Know . thy. opportunity." by Pittacus ; Most men are had," by Bias ; "Noth ing ' is impossible to industry," by Peri ander ; "Avoid excess." by Cleobulus ; and "Suretyship Is thV precursor of ruin, by Thales. ' Ofdcn Oreg-ori Incidents of - Prison Administration in . the . Early Days. ' . - - . On the first organization 1 of a state government the penitentiary, which waa located at Portland, was leased to Rob ert NeweU and L. K English for- i period of five years ' beginning June 4. lean, tne lessees adopted a policy of wwiuug cunyicLB. ouisiae tne enclosure as a result many made their escane. In a special message to the legislature of 186Z (governor uiobs proposed a radical change in tne management of the lnati. tution, suggesting, that the working of prisoners away irora ine prison tr round be prohibited. He also recommended that the convicts be put to work mak ing brick lor state buildings' and ad- visea tnat tne . penitentiary be located at Salem. .The legislature passed an act making the governor superintendent of the institution and ' making him re sponsible for IU management THE JOURNAL BY SEAPLANE . . From the Atoria Budget (July 2T) Beginning Thursday of this week a seaplane from Portland will alight at Astoria every- day except Sunday until Labor day. This was the announce ment made today by The Oregon Journal of Portland, which has for the past few weeks been - operating - a plane to Seaside for the delivery of its early edition. This service - will be extended te) include a daily stop at Astoria and the plane will descend in Young's bay or on the Columbia. The plane will carry only papers-, for street sales, . ac cording to" the announcement of avid H."-Smith, circulation manager." . ; v The Journal has the distinction of op erating the first and only seaplane de- uyery in tne united States - - -. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE j : " ' . i .Great weather yet- , , ' ' , No more, rest now until Labor day. Portland welcomes the vice president of these United States. . i - - Debs - won't be able r to i do much "stumping this campaign. , , ' How about the furnace? Doesn't lit need cleaning about ttiia time? j . . TTnjl Sam , , nMU II, I. Japanese all right, but he doesn't like too many of them. I There s enough sporting blood In most of us to make us desirous of keeping the gambling taint out of. baseball, j . . ..... , . j There seems to be a considerable drug trade carried on in .the city. In which the drug stores are not considered, i ' Portland's city '-! commissioners "have every desire to be rough on rats that Infest the city, but they don't know just how to go about it. i Why wouldn't It be a good plan ito assemble, a fleet of airplane hunters ito go out on the trail of the pesky ear, wigs and shoot them all down? - i MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town The Oregon - Washington Veterinary Surgeons association is . in convention at- the Imperial hotel, where Cliff Ack ley, state veterinarian for the state bf Washington, is a prominent personage. Ackley comes from Olympia, Wash., of ficially, but the veterinaries are regis tered from most of the important cities of the two states. - In charge of Franc Campbell, general manager of. the Beau Campbell Tours of Chicago, , a summer outing party lof about 30 persons arrived at the Multno mah hotel Wednesday evening by auto mobile over the Columbia river highway. The party has visited - Yellowstone Na tional park and the Canadian Rockies. It was recruited at Chicago, Cincinnati. St. Louis and Milwaukee. A - tourist, group at " the Multnomah Includes Mrs. O. L. Hoff, Sarena Haft and Mrs. C. L. Hoff of York. Pa. Other visitors are Mr. and Mrs. O. U. Shepardson and daughter, and Mr. arid Mrs. A. O. Hubbard of Minneapolis.! - - ' . -- , J- Mrs. Frank E. Caldwell. J. Clayton and Calvin H.' Caldwell of Brooklyn, N. Y are guests at the Hotel Port land, where also are Mrs.;W. J. Dooley," Arleen and W. J. Dooley Jr, residents of Salt Lake City. 'I Manager A. B. Campbell of .the Hotel Multnomah returned from annual vacation Monday a tired and sunburned man.. He -spent his vacation at Lake 1 Yarrow, Wash. , . -. . i Mr.and Mrs. R. H. Williams of Jo seph, Or., and Charles Anderson- and family of Dayton Ori, are among? Ore gon folk registered at the Hotel Oregon. . ... . . - - . - , j -. Homer B. Vanderblue. director of the industrial research committee . of" the Denver Civie and Commercial associa tion, is a Portland business visitor,- stop ping at the Multnomah hotel. ! j . - 'V R. . P,1 Bonham, chief of the United States Immigration service, has returned from a week's trip into Rainier national park, on which he was accompanied by Mrs. Bonham and their 'cousins, Mr. and Mrs. H.'A,! Thomas. t The trip was made t by automobile. f Bonham reported : OBSERVATIONS ' OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Amacinc figure of mortality due to earth quakes, in Ihe historical period are incorporated ry air. uxjuey in uu article tor tne day. lit cent quakea in Southern California aire-special pertinence to any list of like event. 1 .What do you - know about bradyseis mical movements? They Include hori' zontal displacements, upheavals and subsidences. -Los Angeles has recently been experiencing a succession of brady sejsmical ' movements. You and I call them earthquakes and let it go at that! Scientists explain -that - the earth trem ors at . Los Angeles are occasioned .by "flexures in the surface of the earth in connection with secular movements of the, earth's crust." It so happens that - Los 'Angeles lies directly- above the seismic focus or center of impulse of the recent "fplding." . Professor T, Jj J. See of California has pretty conclu4 sively proved that tremendous pressure on the water , In the bed of the ocean; forces It through the underlying forma-; tlons to where it comes In contact with internal heat. There, steam , is formed, which, exploding. :- causes volcanic dis turbances or earthquakes," or-both; in some cases. ... Los Angeles can take heart, for, while she may experience ,v an occasional tremor, Japan has an average of over: 1000 tremors a year, which explains why the" Japanese build flimsy houses of bamboo ' and. paper. ' Take 'the . seven-: year period from 1885 to 1892 as an example.,: The official records show that Japan experienced . 8331 earthquakes. Earth tremors pand vibrations - are 'so frequent there that little or no attention is paid to, them. . - i Scientists who . have made a study of seismology estimate that about 13,000, 000 . lives, have been lost in earthquakes: since - man began , to make historical records. The first earthquake' of which we have'any; record "was in 425 B. C.. during " which the- Island of : Euboea ' arose from the sea. Here is a list of the most destructive, earthquakes 'since the' crucifixion; 'of ;Christ. whert ' the earth trembled and the veil of the- tem ple was 'rent' In twain, up to the earth quakes In Sicily and the Italian' penin sula In 1909 : . , t . 17 Ephesus and other cities . demoU Ished. - f- ?! I ,. - ' 79 One accompanying the eruption of Vesuvius and destruction of Herculane um, and Pompeii. 115 Antioeh destroyed. ' 157 One hundred . and fifty towns wrecked tn Asia Minor and Macedonia. 657 Thousands perished at Constant inople, t ' . - "- .: 742 In Syria, -- Palestine and . Asia Minor. Immense loss of life. 936 Constantinople desolated. ' ' ' 1137 In ' Catania; SicUy ; 15,000 per ished. : . - - 1158 In Syria, etc ; 20,000 perished. J268 In Cilicia; 60,000 perished. ' 1318 Greatest earthquake , known in England. 1456 At Naples; 40,000 perished. 1531 At Lisbon ; 30,000 buried. l26 In Naples ; 70,000 perished. 1693 In Sicily: 354 cities, towns and villages destroyed ; more than 100,000 perished." '- :;-" " ;--;,---. 1703 in Jedoo " tnow xoayo, ; japan ; 200.000 killed. : 1716 At Algien; 20,000 perished. ' . 1731 In China ; 100.000 perished. 1746 Lima and Callao demolished ; 18,000 buried. ' 2755, November 1 Great Usbon earth quake. In about eight minutes most of the city ; and 50,000 people were ( de stroyed other cities In Portugal, a large part of Malaga In -Spam, -one half of NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS. J ! . Dallas la rapidly increasing its city treasury by catching speeders. It is get ting so thes days that each town should have a speed, cop and Amity needs one, too. Amity . Standard. ' . ! What not to believe about the Demo cratic political ..situation Is portrayed with a markedvdegree- of inexactitude by the esteemed Oregonlan's Washing ton correspondent. Weston Leader. . .... .. a., a l: .. . . . j . It's got so down In Los Angeles: that when people take a bath they leave the tub filled with water expecting an earth quake before the next ablution i and dreading the fate that befell San Fran cisco. CoqulUe RemlneL . - j ; : The state is to establish 60 mode! farms in Coos county,! which will un doubtedly do more than any one thing that has ever happened to place this sec tion to the front agriculturally. Powers Patriot. . . h i - - " . ,- " i : . . ' Even the merchants will '. tell you not to .buy it tmless you need it. So you wiU help even the merchants by not burning your money'. (The representa tive merchants are as: anxious to get back to normal ground as you are. Moro Observer. I " ' f the' roads not in bad ihape except be tween Kelso and Cbehalis, where: slow driving is necessary, j For : about 40 miles the road is ruttyi Between Port and and ' Kelso and Chehalis and the mountains the road is i fair and much of it is paved, says Bonham. " " . " -F-.:' v - Dr. C. H. Chapman, former president of the University of Oregorj and later an editorial writer on The Journal, spent Wednesday in PortlandjDr. Chapman is devoting himself to writing land is spend ing most of his time at his country home at Woodland. Wash. j t I ' ' Touf H of the Gillesple-Klnsport tours arrived at the Impertall hotel Thursday monilng after", traveling through the Canadian Rockies. They will -remain In Portland two days, one . of thelrf side trips being a ride over the Columbia river uignway. mere are zu people in the party. H. A. Kinspprt is conductor. Colonel and "Mrs. L. C. Brown of Camp Lewis registered at the Hotel Multnomah Wednesday. " - i. j j I iv'- . . " ' ;- -I'-' . I -! . Vacation season is Seven having its effect upon the legal profession. Wednes day morning when Federal :Judge R. S. Bean took the : bench1 there; was hot ' a lawyer in the courtroom. All had set their cases over untU a later date iwhen the call to the beach and the mountains Is, not -so loud. The j various, deputy United States district attorneys are no exception to the rule, j They are busy cleaning--up odds and ends jand for the most , part ,' will endeavor to; start I their 30-day leave, within another' week. r- -' ! i ' I Some pessimists .were heard to .re mark during Shrine convention week that the hotel business iri Portland Would take a big slump afterj the convention crowds left the city. These persons are due for another. &nd much , different guess - Stand--around the ihotel- lobbies of a morning and listen to the clerks say. "I think someone is gdlng td leave on the 11 o'clock train,, and if ithey do TJl let you have their room." j The real; wise persons traveling through Portland dur ing August are. making their reeervatione before -they -reach the elty. - Rooms In the f iret class hotels are not; going1 beg ging for guests, ! - AND IMPRESSIONS Lockley I Fes in Morocco, and half the Island of Madeira were ruined. j : f ' 1759 In Syria : 20.000 perished. ; . 1783 In . Calabria ; shocks continued to end of 1786; towns and villages de stroyeo. l 1797-Country between! Santa Fe and Panama destroyed, including; Cusco and Viuito; 40,ooo buried. ; ; . iguii At r roaoione, ; Italy a- 6000 per .isn ea. -,-.--: i -. - " 1812 In Caracas; whole city ruined 10,000 inhabitants buried; .- .1 I 1815 In island of Sumbawa.' East In dies; one bf the mos-t vlblent eruptions recorded In history. , 1 ii!--At Cutch, India t many towns oyer a wide' area converted into ruins. 1822 Aleppo destroyed, over 20,000 perished. " . - : . 1 - - i 1822 Coast of Chile was permanently raised.: : , ; - - -!-.- . : 1835 In ' Chile ; Concepcion. Talcab.ua- no an other towns wer destroyed ; 1839 At Martinique ;- nearly half of ron ttoyai aestroyca. r, 1842 At Cape Haytien, Santo Domln go; .4000 killed. . 1851 Melfl, Italy, : wrecked ; 14.000 perished. ' i 1857 Mohtemuro and cither towna In kingdom of Naples destroyed ; 10,000 perished.' (Lacaita says that in 7 years, from 1783 to 1857. the kingdom of Naples lost at least 111,000. inhabitants by earth quakes, or more than 1500 a year, out of an average population of 6,000,000.) . 1860 At Mendoza, -Argentina about two iniras ot tne cuy aesiroyea, ana 7000 lives lost. . . 1863 Manila, P. I. ;' grea,t 'destruction of property. . 1868 Cities of Arequipajlquique. Tae I, na and 'Chincha, and many email towns in Peru and 'Ecuador destroyed ; about 25,000 perished. iv : i f .: : ;).-;. 1874 Cities in. Guatemala destroyed ; great loss or me. - 1880 Shock at Br leg. several killed. : SwJ tier land ; 1883 Java and neighbof ing J Isles des oiatea. - - v , . -. -- I - . 1884 Several Spanish towns destroyed. 1885 in province of Granada, Spain 696 perished. .; -' - : - i - a, - I , 1886, Adgust 81 ' Shocks throughout juastern United States; at Charleston. 8.1 C, 41 lives and $5,000,000 I worth lof property, lost ; I I - f I 1887 Severe shock in Southern Eu rope, especially in the Riviera t estimat ed that 2000 perished, m 1 ; i . 1891 In Japan, officially estimated 4000 perished and 50,000 houses destroyed. 1893 'Islands of Zante and Stromjboli, the former west of Greece, the latter west of Calabria. Italy, severely shaken. Great loss of life and property'at Zante. ,1897 In Assam, India; much damage ; many killed, ' '4 v ! '1906. April 15-Violent shocks in Cali fornia - wrecked San Francisco t and ad jacent towns ; bursting, of j water mains In San Francisco eave in city over x,o, ; what was the greatest fire In all his tory; lasting two days; area burned wfes over three times-: greater than that of the Chicago fire and 10 times that"" of either the Bosti or the Baltimore fire: great loss of life, and 33,00,000,000 of property destroyed ; -over 300,000 home less ; Stanford university buildings were damaged to the extent of 92,800,000, in cluding the fine Memorial church. . j 1906. August 16-17 Atf Valparaiso, Chile, - causing great destruction of life and property...? t ": "'--":."-- ?? i lSOT Large part s of . Kingston. ' Ja rnalca, destroyed. . . " j. - .); ;---j' - j M909 In Sicily and Southern . Italy t Messina and many towns and ' villages desolated ; appalling loss Of life ; thou sands buried alive, the survivora home less. X The Oregon Qountry Nortbweat Uappenlngi In Brief Form lot the s V .; , -. . liiuy Seadec . : -. , ..- ' - ' OREGOX NOTES . The etateboard of dental examl.fers has declared againBt a rertpi-ocal ex change, of license with Eastern states. .Paving work has begun on the seven Of Jefferson0 Paclf'c highway, north Sampel M. Garland and Mj D. Shanks, Lebanon lawyers, have forrned a part nership for the practice of their profes sion. ; ; . ; . . ,.... , - According to the weather records. July ?'f an exceptionally dry month at As toria. The precipitation for' the month was only .8 of an inch. . The license of Edgar Shanka, a Rose burg jitney operator, has oeMi revoked ?iy the city council pending an Investiga tion of a charge of Immorality. " J- C. Nelson, an Oregon ploti.'e1, ene.i at Jils homo In Newberg Tuesday at the age of S3. With his parents 'he located in the-Chehalem valley in 184i. , The First Christian church of Albany has elected the Rev. Roy Healy of Grid ley, CaU, as pastor. He is expected to take charge of the church September 1. . )Y" Butters of Allegany has been held to the grand jury in Coos county on the charge of selling rocks for chutim bark to improve the weight ef the bark. . Mrs. Etta Bradford of :Salem lias been appointed temporary secretary of the Salem Young Womers Christian Association to succeed Miss i Inez Cook resigned. j The Pacific highway In the Wolf Creek section is In"! good .condition and a dailv jitney service between Medford and Roseburg is running on schedule time doing a good business: j Residents of Hood River icountr are PjjfcParing to formal lv celebrate August 19 the completion of th pavement, on the Columbia river hichway between Portland and Hood River. j jeri .ni"? th "seal year endlrns JurV 30, 880 dentists were licenced td practtre In Oregon. Of these, 1M wefe non-resident. The licenses of 81 dentists were revoked because of noh-paymoiit of fees. The Klamath Falls council has de cided not to remove dice and rard sames from pool rooms and other public places but will amend exintinn ordinanrps by providing for revocation of: license in case gambling is allowed. j- m Fire protection at Roseburg and Med ford -is declared inadequate; by O. W. Stokes, an investigator for the state fire marshal's department. ln Roseburg Stokes, found only 63 hydrants. There should be twice that numbexi lie says. WASHINGTON Drurless Dhvslelana tn th' : number of 85 have taken examinations at Spokane unaer ine state Doard or drugleas ex--aminers. j Two of Pullman's successful farmers have offered to donate from' 200 to 500 tons of straw for the relief of the drouth " stricken Big Bend country, i Thieves who entered a North Aber deen grocery store made nsa of a row boat in carrying away a safe containing 300. The safe weighed 400 pounds. Clyde Stacey, while tylni? his ?hoelc on a window ledee in a Yakima barber shop, lost his balance and crabbed through the pane to the pavement below. Judge Hsrcourt M. Taylor, who recent ly resigned as juolge of the juvenils court, severely criticises the Yakima of ficials for failure ; to cooperate in the work of the court. notn the Northern Pacific and the 0-W.R.-ri N. have entered protests with the public service : commission apainiit granting the city of Pullman a -prude crossing for a highway to the city park. While Walla W'alla police were lyinir in wait to catch suspects thoucht to be intending to rob a clothing store. thievin entered" a drug store, partly owned by Mayor Powell, and robbed it of $10 in cash, -ice cream and other articles. . " Unknown dogs have klHed seven head of sheep on the F. i Li Stewart place at La Du. It is planned to make a teHt the law passed by the JeglRlature of 1919 providing for compensation for sheep killed by dogs whose owners are unknown, out of tha dog license fund. i . - v IDAHO" ' ' I .The brooding county farm bureau ll conducting 15 grain grading schools throughout the county, - Work has been commenced on the new tourist park at Nam pa. In conjunction with the motor park there will be a children's play ground. - i " Considerable comment in Pocatello po litical circles-has been caused by the fact that the greater part of the colored resi dents of tlje cifywire falling to register for the coming election. . j Eleven railroads 'operating !in 'Idaho have filed a joint fuipplerrtentary petl tion with the publicl utilities commission asking: for a hearing on the railroads' petition for increases in' freight and passenger rates, to be effectives. Septem ber , - 1 ! , - Information has been received by the bureau of farm markets that Idaho alfalfa hay is barred from Arizona. British Columbia. California Mxniuno Nevada. Oregon and j Washington on ac count of weeviL I . Uncle Jeff Snow Says: It required some force and nerve' at one time to stand up; in a pulpit and de nounce slavery, and iwhen it waa a live issue there was mighty few preachers that done it. There was enough of 'em In the JVorth, however, to mention with pride now in 'most lever denomination. but who remembers t'other' fellers? There's sever'l kinds of big public eins that preachers nowadays steers clear of. or only mentions on the side In a glnerl sort of way. To, advocate their aboli tion is "most inadvisable," as otic of 'em told me when I ast him to preach a ser mon from the Bible on the silt of land monopoly and tell us; how to cure; It. 1 Oh,'Piekle!,' ' When It's No Flippan.cy 'ortland s That Votl Mean I As boose cot into a pickle, Port land pickle makers !got out of-their pickle. (Wonder Vhyj it is that every one wants to treat pickles allltera tively a la I'eter Piper picked 'a peck of pickled peppers?) j The business of making sweet, cider (began to climb toward popularity" aid profits which hitherto had -represented to ;lt un scalable: heights.. j ' . i - As a result farmer in Oregon wore a broader smile. Thy had a certain market for some thousands Of car loads of second grade tipples which various conditions barred from trips to Eastern markets in fancy! boxes for sale "at more fancy prices.- i The vinegar, .cider,! pk-kle and rel- ,ish business in Portland is -J- home inuusiry mai peculiarly tuniriDUies to the success of agriculture. ; The output of four pickle plants, two cider plants and two vinegar plants, with the associated manufac ture of catsup and relishes, amounts to $2,000,000 or mpre a year and em ploys, seasonally, a good many hun dred people. , i .L' The pickle plants buy cucumbers grown on a thousand jacres of land 5000 to 7000 tons and nearly, all the cucumber patches are iwithin-.a radius or 100 miles of Portland. 1 Catsup manufacture,., controlled from Portland is conducted at Med ford, where, in the ! valley of the Rogue, topnatoes -arej most success fully grown for commercial, purposes. About 1000 tons of Orffron grown Vv matoea a season ! go. Into ."Oregon Quality" catsup. V ' ' j Some of the other product ef the ' industry are) mince meat, apple but ter, sour crout.v mustard, ami those reliishes fwhlch "mingle r the delicious qualities of both fruits and vege tables. ' r' 1 . - ' - - r I - . ' 1 1 . f
