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THE OREGON DAILY JO U RNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1820. 1 1 : - If" i ; ,. ? i! I" W in Frrrr-' -s ; AN INDEPENDENT KEV7SPAPER a. JaCKSOX . . . . ........... . t-noiiaoes II Be ealm. ba confident, be cheerful and o" onto others aa ou woald bare them do nio jrau- j fDblbhMt ., nk and Bandar BBorning, at The Journal Bolldlna. Broadway and Xaaa- hill street. Portland. Orea-oa. KtSrred at the postofflee at Portland. Orecon, for .tmsrsLaaioa through t&e Bail M Was miU.tr. - . - - T.L1LKPHOSKS Main 71TS, Automatic seo-Sl . Ml departsnenta- reaenea pt we mum MttlKIHN ADVERTISLVO BEPBESEXTATTVE. i Ilenjamtn e Kentnor Co.. nw , i 225 1fth awuua. Htm Tork;' S00- llaUers '- Bnildinr, Chicago. ? -- - - t TH GREOOS JOURNAL. Teaerrea the ricbt to select advertislne- cotrt which it deema oo . Jectionable. 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Oreaon. IIE .'mob that attacked the plant of ithe Denver Post aimed a blow at speech. In striking at free speech, e In the mob struck at themselves Thje, people who, for jtheir-own pro tectaon, should be most concerned aboqt the survival of free speech and a free press, iare. the great working ; mass. AH the privileges of free action f and free government that they have 1 1 were won by free . speech.'; The , ptr- petuation of that free action and that free government depends upon the sur- vjval of free discussion. "1- ' Wnan 4ISaa vi'ipA n k n l ci ah wA.-ct 1 f Poslira thy better, let thy wont thoughts L v i I dla. Sir Walter Baleish.. ! """ THE DENVER MOB i J - . ' I T .i 'Mother A was-no-free government. There was little freedom of action. Men bound .to ; their masters. Whole es were races . of near slaves, were peop many of them actual-slaves. If those in ihie Denver mob Will read the his i tory !of a few centuries ago, they will , ' discd fer what a. fearful mistake they 'made in striking at free speech. ?- . 1 'i The only offense of th Denver Post was hat it argued against the strike .of tie Denver carmen. . The true course of' the sympathizers' with the strike was: to meet; argument with argunent in open discussion through j the p: "ess The company had imported j hired strikebreakers! The strike ; break ers vere armed 'and the com pany' i act was la near resort to civil war, a course that the publio does not approve ani l a fact that the car ; men :ould have used with deadly ef ! feet . n publio discussion. : 1 Mol s . are never reasonable. -The j leader who rises -for'the moment to guide a mob U usually a desperate ' and ill-balanced man. The whole trend of mob action is to do the wrong thing :'7-'fi:'::-y.-r':,: j ," - We are advancing toward a day of reaso 1 and discussion and settlements . by compromise ? and concession" It 1 is ; a better and. more civilized process. 1 Xet mob action j and , its fury and folly perish from the earth. ; 1 'j Ouf on the' Willamette the .other I 1 '. afternoon.'. he and she were in: a canoe. And she sat in his lap. t , Whene was her mother? WHEELS WITHIN ' WHEELS ' TD rVHAT tent is the Non-partisan tl If ague movement to influence the result of the presidential contest? i Emboldened by many successes, full- handed with campaign funds and gath- cring I recruits, in numerous states the " Non-partisans might cast vote to change the electoral vote in a state or twb and thereby figure in the presi-- dential decision in case of a close L x f . F.Y&mrilfi Of the fal in fhp itinvm.nt is af f irded in RlinnesqtA, where,Jf 12.000 'was raised in contributions at a single ,mass meeting.: 'It Is a pian in that ' ;'i state Ito raise 100 contributions of 8100 2 ; In eacfi of the 5 counties which would ;v. yield ;an emergency campaign fund of $860,000, all in addition to the huge : 1 fund provided by $18 membership fees. Jin th, league. The movement is run- ning feomething like the following in the northern, tier of states: ' The Non-partisan League of , Idaho selected a complete, state; ticket and a 5 "Farmer-Labor platform; at their state convention which cama - to a close Thursday evening after a two-day ses sion, n Katnpa. i More than 1000 dele gates Jwere" in attendanee. ! At jthe forthcoming primaries In Montana the league will have an en tire state ticket on the Democratic bal lot, "This ticket has been indorsed by the Non-partisan league of Montana and the Montana Labor league. The Montana Labor league and the Non partisan league are working together. The labor' league is composed . of railway employes. I miners land other workers. It is the political branch of the Montana Federation of Labor. In Washington: the triple Alliance, the strongest branch of which is the Non-partisan league, is to , place a Farmer-Labor ticket In the field for the elections this fall. : The Non-partisans are expected i to enter candidates In the Republican Primaries and because of their admitted strength plans are under way by the Republicans to hold an elimination contention before the primaries to narrovf the candidates to one who will run against! the Non partisan. . I . : j In. Minnesota ; a full Farmer-Labor ticket j comprising lor the .most part the league candidates beaten at the reeent; Republican primaries, ,wiU be In ; the field. Should the supreme court sustain the decision of the lower ccurt In ousting' thi Rev. O. J. Kvale, league Victor over Congressman Vol stead for renomination, it- has : been announced that Kvale will run again in the elections against Volstead on the Farmer-Labor ticket at the general election. i , In the few instances in Nrth Da kota where the leaguers lost the Re publican nomination; the defeated can didates will run again at the general election on a Farmer-Labor ticket. In Wisconsin, South Dakota, Colo rado: and Nebraska the Non-partisan league has complete state tickets. In Wisconsin the success of the league ticket hinges upon support by Senator Robert M. Li Follette. La Fol Iette has been 111 for some time and up to the present lhas not declared himself in Xavor of tickets. i ' any of the state Some very good salaries are paid by the , Milwaukee jrallroad,. as re vealed in The . Journal's news dis patch yesterday from Carl Smith, Its Washington 'correspondent. - Presi dent Barling was 'paid $75,319. H. E. Byram, who also! appeared on the salary list as president as a result of a chance In officials durine the year, got $6 0,00 f as! president of the Milwaukee,; and 122600 as vice pres ident of the Burlington. The salary of each was in excess of that of the president of the United, States. Has private management' of the roads shown results commensurate with such salaries? EFFECTIVE PUBLIC ACTION CITY and state lavj" enforcement of ficials are deserving of commen dation, for the changed conditions at coroner's Inquests on killings in auto mobile accidents. Ai atmosphere of ignorance of details, indifference and loose investigation has been sup planted byi vigorous : and thorough probing into the causes of fatal col- Jjsions I and. a sincere effort to effect-? ually fix rcsponsibflity. In the early days of the accident prevention , campaign, coroner's in quests were 'next to farcical. No traf fic officers I were present to throw light on accidents. Public prosecutors were frequently absent. No one, save the coroner, was theje to protect the interests of the publio. Many a signi ficant noint was never brought to the attention of. the juryj . Facts were ig nored, except? those brought out by the; attorneys for the defense.'. As a result, negligent drivers were released. one after another. 1 ' ' , At the inquest on the death of George N. Pattison thre was a differ ent atmospnere. even aiiorneys were there, there I with a realization that they vvere convened flor serious' busi ness, the business of fixing responsi bility for a death. An expert from the traffic -office; was there. He gave com- prehensive testimony Two competent attorneys, one from, thie city attorney's office and one from tlie district attor ney's, were ' present publio interest.' All o care for the points were brought out and presented to the jury effectually. After theevidence was in. the Jury acted and acted quickly. The "entire Investigation was one of grim and thorough business. Through the -work "; of the conoder and . other public agencies, motorists are coming to" know that .lives cannot be wiped opt without a reckoning." They are coming to realize that it will be their portion to answer forj criminal negli gence. It is made plain that their neighbors are to sit inj grim judgment on those who participate in fatal ac cidents. . j r To date, grand Juries have not found sufficient cause to hold erring motor ists to sthe courts. Jit is unusual in the light of frequent 'Verdicts of coro ner's juries" in which drivers have been held to blame. Are all the facts com prehensively; laid before them? ' In seeking a divorce, a deaf and dumb wife complained that her hus band swore at her im the sign lan guage. 1 Why didn't she look In the other direction, or, , If it was in 'the nlfiht. turn off the light? GREASE, SPARK I AND FIRE PHILADELPHIA hadj a 11,000,000 fire recently Scores of girl employes escaped from flaming buildings by jumping into outstretched blankets. Firemen were forced I to slide dowu ropes to safety as walls crumbled. A dozen w more firemen were slightly injured. Nine firms jsuffered ' heavy losses. , . Here, is a report on the way the fire started : ' , j "When an electrically propelled cut ting machine : on the second floor of the six-storyf building housing the Philadelphia Blanket (company blew out a fuse, i spark darted out and started the blaze, - The inflammable nature of the greasy woolen, fiber In the blanket company's plant was re sponsible for an almost . simultaneous outburst of flame the length and breadth of the big rooni.".. - Tli at is the way dozens of immensely destructive - fires originate. Greasy rags, oily substances and other inflam mable materials are left about.: ' It was only a- few weeks) ago that an apartment house was fired in Port land when a greasy rag was deposited on a table. A match or an electric light touched it, and occupants of the street hurried. Into the streets - for safety.. i i5 v V i p"- " i In another instance an electric light was left burning near i linen in an apartment house. A fire started and again residents were forced to seek safety from the flames. Inflammables left about, especially oily materials, need not come In con tact with a match to start a ; confla gration. Electric lights, stoves, fric tion: and heat from any ! source will soon fire them. And then the 'Phila delphia scenes are enacted, girls jump ing from the heights to be caught or not caught in blankets, firemen slid ing to safety from crumbling walls. bodies burned and property destroyed. It will always stand to the credit of Portland that 7225 citizens used their automobiles In carrying Shrin ers ' on sightseeing trips. ' The gen eroslty of Port lap d ers In this respect Is a common remark among visitors It pays. 1 .' A TALKING CLOCK A PHILADELPHIA man has Invented a clock that speaks the hour In stead , of striking. A phonographic attachment to a hand made; clock works the wonder. . j ' "1 The clock has a 30-day " movement and can be made' to call the hour, half hour; quarter hour, or all of them In addition, it will make whatever comment the inventor desires. ' For instance, at 11 the clock says; Eleven o'clock; time to go home." The Phlladelphian : has an ! 18-year-old daughter whose friends are thus sent home at the proper, hour. The inventor studied clockmaking in Italy and produced the talking clock. after 18 months' work, l; f ir Such a ; device could be extremely convenient as a usual thing, but there are times when the "go home" warn ing could work immense havoc. After months in which automo bile fatalities were remarkably few, an epidemic of killings has suddenly appeared. Let the t authorities promptly take away the licenses of drivers who figure culpably In such accidents, and let them travel on foot until ; they can learn to drive with prudence. The drivers license law, administered by officials worth while, will make all careless drivers care ful. If : in ' no other way, by making them , all . walk. ..,,,.'. , . THE HEART WORKERS YOU can hire a man to work with his hand or brain, but it isn't with money that you get his heart to work for you. That, in effect, was In epigram In the address of Vice President Marshall at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon in his honor yesterday. 1 When you have a man's heart working for you. he added, - he doesn't pay much at tention to. the clock.. j ' If this Incontrovertible formula could ! sink into the mind of every employer and be applied, the problem of hire would be half solved. Em ployers would thereby ; create an atmosphere around their Institutions that would quickly be sensed by em ployes.'. And once sensed the spirit of a generous ; cooperation between the two principals to industry would be half established. Tho road would then be open for getting ! the hearts of workers into their service. , On the Cher: hand, workers them selves can greatly ' forward this pro cess of cooperation, by giving loyalty to the institution. s After all, in work ing ' for the institution, the employe is working for himself, for the more successful the institution the more it can afford to pay for service, f There is great , roonj : for progress in getting the employe to. work with not only his hand, or brain, but with his heart. The heart j workers have been too often unrewarded. Also, the brain and hand worker ! tod often tries to do as little as possible. It Js a conspicuous' fact that there Is a trend nov to do as little '' and get as big pay as possible ' - The sooner the two sldes: get nearer each other and bring hearts into play in the business, the better and hap pier it will be for all. But for- the bitter enders, the league pact would .have been rati fied with ' minor reservations. " But the little group of bitter enders by their threat of bolt, ran the senate. And though there were but a dozen or 15 of this little senate cabal, they dictated to "'the -: senate, dictated to the ; Chicago convention, dictated to the ; Republican party andl are now, through Mr. Harding, asking! the people of America to approve their action., And because of the delay in the final settlement of peace due to the little senate cabal, Europe is again pn fire. , .. ; - A PLACE OF PERIL INTERSECTIONS are "intersections. Autamobiles travel cross ' intersec tions, some bound north, some south, some east and ' some west. Cannot drivers get it Into their minds s that with:, automobiles crossing narrow intersections in four directions : and 1 often at . unlawful speed, a condition of Imminent peril is present? ' ' Can drjvers not realize that v two automobiles cannot occupy the same space at the same time, and that when ever that thing is attempted there Will be a smashup? ,1 ' , , - Can ' they not realize that most - of the accidents occur "at street inter sections as the police 'records show? ' Must it become necessary, in order to lessen killings and smashups, to pass a law requiring automobiles to come to a full stop before entering an inter section on main arteries? " CHALLENGED , BY WOMEN A State Executive Arraigned Be ' cause of Refusal to Call Special : . Session , to Act on National Suffrage Amendment. t The 1 subjoined document; reproduced from tha column of the Woman Citizen of July 24. is an open letter to Coventor PercrWa.1 W. Clement of Vermont, from the National Woman Snffra asaocUUoft. ! --'"' ."."''' " A careful perusal of your proclama tion . refusing to .call the legislature of Vermont . into special ' session Impresses the most casual reader with the convic tion that you have doubtless - told the truth, but not the whole truth. No one outside; fit Vermont, believes you have. Perhaps Vermonters, knowing local pol itics, may read between the lines and understand, but outsiders never.- In or der that this generation of your fellow men and posterity may not misunder stand your position, the National Amer ican Woman Suffrage association urges you :' to supplement your ' proclamation with replies to the following questions: Do you acknowledge that the federal constitution is the supreme law of this land and supersedes all state constitu tions whenever the two are in conflict? Do you challenge this fact that has stood unchallenged for 131 years? Do you know that on January 10,' 1791, Vermont ratified that constitution, al though she had one of her own, and by' so doing accepted the precedence of the federal constitution over, it and by that act was admitted into the Union as a new. member of the United States of America? : i If you do know these facts of common knowledge, why did you throw over your refusal to call a special session the camouflage of a dissertation about tne alleged conflict ' between the Vermont and federal constitutions, which has nothing whatever to do with the -calling Of a special session of your legislature? Do you not know that the method of amending the federal constitution has remained unchanged from the beginning. and that over and over .again federal supreme courts have declared that the provision is to be interpreted exactly as it reads, and in no other way? Do you not know that Vermont has ratified each and every one of the 18 federal amend - ""'j' ,r . "IVtf' "C.L"",:... other state has ever instituted a move ment to change the method? Do you not know that when a legisla ture acts upon a federal constitutional amendment, it draws its authority from the federal and not from the state con stitution, and that the governor has ho responsible part in the transaction ex cept as custodian of the amendment when it comes from the federal secre tary of state and returns to him with the - certificate of ratification? You profess to fear - "an invasion of states' rights" and take upon yourself the responsibility of preserving "the foundations of free popular government- Then why did you veto the presidential suffrage bill passed by the legislature of Vermont in 1919, which was strictly a state action and conferred the vote upon the women of Vermont . alone? Women of 14 states will vote for presi dent in November by the. authority of such a law, the validity of which has been tested In more than one court and confirmed. Unless the women of Ver mont are willing to expend the neces sary money , and , exert the necessary energy to test the validity of your veto and carry the question ; to the United States' supreme court, they will be de nied the right to vote, unless the ratifi cation of the federal amendment takes place. Why did you single-handed and ajone thus checkmate the legal grant by the legislature 'of i a j legal right to the women of Vermont? m Dp you not realize that no Bolshevist ever made a bolder repudiation of the elemental principles of our government than when you say, "As; it sianos ana is interpreted by the supreme court to day, the ' federal constitution threatens the foundation of free popular govern ment"? Then why did you say it? Was it not to t bewilder those who regard constitutions as beyond the pale of or dinary understanding? ; The - constitu tion, as interpreted by the supreme court. you say. leaves "the people at tne mercy of any group of men who may lobby a proposal for change of. federal constitu tion through congress and the legisla tures of the states" and "In the face of this situation I am asked to call the legislature of Vermont j into extraor dinary session," etc ' Just who or what has been the ob jectionable 'lobby" of this , proposed change? ::-. ,i ..i-.--. Your - national r party convention kin 16 indorsed the principle of suffrage am just, and in 1920 called for comple tion of ratification .In time for women to . vote for the next president. Your party's national committee In the interim of conventions took action three times, once asking the congress ! to submit the suffrage amendment, once favoring early ratification, and once calling upon Re publican governors to call special ses sions in order that ratification might proceed. ' Your state party convention asked you to call a 'special session, j Yoir party's state committee asked you to- do the name thing. ,-Your, legislature has asked yoiTto call f a special session in ; order that it might have the opportunity, to take action upon the amendment. Hun dreds of Vermont women recently visited you in one deputation for- the : purpose of asking you. to call a special session. The chairman of the national Republican committee and the chairman of your state Republican committee have asked you to call a special session. The can didate for president of your party has asked you to call a special session. This is a very distinguished and notable group to be dismissed with the impli cation that your- people j are at their mercy. " !-"" .r:;-,;--::' .'.:: '.' . k: : ;::.' ;?U'isfe - . ir ,." ;i:. '.:".'- t : . !'"'''"' ' : -P'-.- ' We, on the outside. --cannot be'lieve you so ignorant of the federal constitu tion and its history as your proclama tion implies, i We cannot believe that you so readily insult the j legislature of your state and set aside the .wishes of so distinguished a list of your fellow partisans without far more controlling motive than appears in your proclama tion. :-"t -:--::': :- -v- -j " . i Why do - you repudiate : the . constitu tion of the United States and introduce Into your proclamation & long discus sion of entirely extraneous subjects? WHv do vou Blander the members ,- of your own state legislature; oy ins impli cation that they . do no possess either the Judgment or the conscientious pur pose to represent the people of Vermont on this question? Why-do you reject the pledges and pronouncements of yoor state and national party?) Why do you take the responsibility upon your indi vidual self to stand between the women of Vermont as welt-as the women of the nation and " their right t to -vote in- No- vember? Why do you thus. In the year 1920, when the great nations of the world have enfranchised .their women, attempt to block , the normals legal and natural procedure, in this republic? Do you not know that by your section, in the eyes of the world you Impugn Hie good faith of your party, that party's national committee, its accredited lead ers and its presidential nominee on the subject of ratification? v : p ' Nobody can accept it as a fact that on you is to rest the real responsibility for your refusal to can Vermont's legis lature in special (-session. To accept that as a fact is to accredit; you with authority superior to that of your party and its leaders. . You cannot seriously- expect to' be so accredited.: t- You owe it to the Republican party and tXM the world to' explain your as sumption of an authority that belongs to your party leaders. By what right do you make' this assumption? Governor Clement, tell it all THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE 'ASSOCIATION, r r (Signed) Carrie" -Chapman ' Catt. , -.: - - ' President. i Letters Fom the People f Communicatlpna sent to Tha Journal for publication in this department should be written en oair one side of thai paper, should- not exceed 200 words in lensth and must be aisned by tha writer, whose mail address in full must accom pany tha contribution. - 1 i ': THE EQUAL SUFFRAGE CAUSE Umatilla. Jury 22. To the Editor of The j Journal Kindly permit space for a word- or cheer to those brave women in the ' East who are giving of their strength and talents and their means for: the ratification of the suffrage amendment.- " , .- . Three years aero there was carried on in this and other states an extensive campaign , by the Woman's Congres sional league to urge congress to pass the, Susan B. Anthony amendment. The Democratic congress and the president were held responsible for - its failure to pass,; and the women of Oregon were urged to defeat the Democratic candi dates whether .they 'were personally in favor of suffrage or . not. , , State legislatures which, refuse ratifi cation of the amendment, or governors who refuse to ; call legislatures that would ratify it are very much like the senate which refuses entrance of this Country into the League of Nations, de signed to settle internationals disputes, prevent wars and protect smaller na tions. - What must we say 1 of Ameri cans who withhold the same ; liberties from the women of their nation as are accorded by proverbial "Darkest Rus sia, "heathen' China" and other na tions?! Might still rules as right, when mothers have to go to 'their sons, whom they have nursed j and taught and trained, to beg permission to have a voice on i the question of whether we are to have a , schoolhouse, - or pure milk, or, say, a world war all matters of eaual imnorf tn mnn ni wrnnan 1 . - -. I Men who refuse ; women the same MberUes as they, themselves enjoy be long to the ox cart, log hut and sickle age, and not to our progressive period. - ; J A Square DeaL OFFICE GIRLS' CLOTHES . Portland, July 20. To the Editor of The Journal With reference to the state ment in the paper a few days ago made by some society woman about office girls wearing georgette waists in the of fice, permit me to ask this critic If she thinks j it is any more Immodest for a girl to wear a georgette waist than for a society woman to wear an excuse for-address, namely,' an evening dress, as they term it. with absolutely not a thread for a sleeve, and as foP a waist they have only. a girdle belt which does not, come up' as high as their: armpits, showing t their entire form, which they seem to be proud of for some unknown reason, saying nothing of what the world thinks about it, and going further to the question : of their skirt, same being slit up to their knee, showing their sup posedly beautiful legs. Will this lady please answer this question : What ground has she to criticise the clothes an - office girl wears, when she has not the slightest speck of modesty about her own manner of dress? She does not stop to realize that a girl in an office has to sit there and pound a typewriter till her shoulders ache, and that it is not a. very cool job in these hot days with the tem perature up 90. . So in the name of com mon sense, -please do not criticise a poor working girl for wearing a. cool waist, for she at least covers her .form with underwear . that is not transparent. If the lady who wrote the above ar ticle referred to a 'few days ago will kindly consider my reply she will find that she has no room for criticism. ; An Office Girl. , PRISONERS IN IRELAND v Portland, Aug... 6. To the Editor of The Journal Reports from London tell us that Lloyd George has presented a bill to parliament demanding the aboli tion of trial by jury in ' Ireland, and requesting greater power for the police and military in arresting . persons sus pected of republicanism. . , Though an American ' subject . I was forcibly detained in Ireland from Oc tober to the middle of April last. My passport was seized and pigeonholed by Dublin Castle in spite -of continued re monstrances. I was, unwillingly . at first, brought into , direct contact with the Sinn Fein camp, and as a necessary consequence came into collision with British militarism. During my stay in Ireland I did not see or hear of a single case in which a Sinn Feiner got a jury trial. But' I can recall dozens of cases in which political prisoners were tried by courtmartial, and. I can recaU scores Of cases wherein such men were ar rested without a charge -being preferred against them, and, without the sem blance of a trial, were deported to English prisons for an indefinite period. my brother- and brother-in-law being amongst them. When the former- was handcuffed one night in bed, he ' asked the officer In-charge of about 150 men. What charge have you against me this time V (He - spent last Christmas in Jail.) The Answer was, "No charge. We , simply got orders to take; you." He was Jailed s in Bandon, Cork and Belfast prisons, and when I sailed from Southampton he was in a London prison. Last, week I was informed through the columns 'of a New York paper that he had recently- been carried out of Worm wood Scrubbs Jail on a .-; stretcher, a living corpse,, after undergoing IS days hunger strike as axprotest against in carceration without trial and against non-political treatment, . ; . .. , . (Rev.) J. P. O'Flynn. Olden Oreg-on First Attempt at Lighthouse Erection ' '-.- Met ; Disaster. 1 The work' of erecting lighthouses on the Oregon coast was begun in 1853. The first t attempt rencountered a 'delay through the loss of the bark Oriole, which was. -wrecked on the 'Columbia river i bar, September. 19, . Just after the vessel bad arrived inside with-materials and men to erect the lighthouse at Cape Disappointment.- On account of her heavy, cargo,' which Included building stone, : the Oriole - was quickly broken up. The crew and lighthouse workmen. numbering - 20, together with the con tractor, F. X. Kelley, and the bar pilot. Captain; FlaveL ? took to the boats. Through strenuous work' on their, part they escaped being carried out to sea. COMMENT ANDi l . SMALL CHANGE ; War news on page 1 again. . Twill soon be open season for county fairs. . : .. . i ; ' Lo Angeles seems to be resting easy again. i-i-'- ' Have you some little earwigs on your lawn? - . - -. ' Ferris seems to have spilled some "Gore" down, in Oklahoma. . c - A little rain on the asphalt pavement is somewhat of a dangerous thing. ; In Portland the last - rose of summer will be in blossom along about Christ inas time. ' There's going to be plenty of gas after while, providing you have the price to pay for it. . - . .?. ; There's plenty of money In the world. The difficulty for most of us is in getting hold -of some of it. We don't blame small boys who figure that nature has provided them with the best kind of a bathing suit. i Germany i promises to send ' paper clothes to this country, which should help .somewhat to relieve the shortage. t In view of the 'increased passenger and freight rates staring the people of the United States in the face, there is little consolation In the news that the grain rate to Europe has been reduced. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town - W. A. Johnson,: conductor for the American travel bureau,- spent Wednes day showing a party of 12 tourists, all from Baltimore, the beauty spots about Portland. Wednesday morning they- saw the Columbia, river highway. In the afternoon they saw the city and at night Were taken over the Skyline boulevard. They left Portland on a late night train. jThey - were registered at - the Benson hotel. . ' '' 1 Miss Lou Stafford of Seattle, an ex pert milliner, has . engaged the largest sample room at the Hotel . Benson and is demonstrating a complete line of her wares for the benefit of those 1 attend ing the millinery convention. i .... - e , L. C Hammond of San Francisco, who became an "ace" : during the war, and his new . bride, arrived at the Benson hotel Wednesday for a brief visit in the City. . Hammond is the son of A. B. Hammond of the Hammond Lumber company. . 1 '" i -""' .e ' "e : :. : ;.'?'' "". ' ,., i Major F Charles Starr of the quar termaster's department, Washington, D. C, . registered ' at the Multnomah hotel Wednesday. :---""-.:::-- 1 - I'-- -- - .. ' ' A. V. Victorious of New York, promi nent eastern : shoe merchant, arrived at the Hotel Benson; Wednesday. He is accompanied by his wife and two chil dren,' Janet W. and Paul B. They are being entertained by William Knight of the Knight Shoe company, . I e ' ' ! 'John Speed Smith, chief naturalization examiner of i Seattle. . accompanied by Mrs.- Smith, is spending a few days in Portland. Smith is attending the meet ing of the Washington County Clerks' association - at Vancouver. Smith ad dressed the clerks Friday morning. Fri day afternoon the entire convention was taken for a ride over the Columbia river highway to Eagle creek. Where dinner was served, v - - : . - i ;': j --e .:..-. :, . '" ? G. W. Clopton, a reUred farmer of Sedalia, Mo., i 80 years young, has been visiting his cousin and Dlaymate. F. Jon- lbi, a retired farmer of Clackamas coun ty, now residing in . Portland - at 673 Clackamas street, ; Clopton was born in Pettis-county. Missouri, June 28. 1840, and concluded to celebrate his octogena rian year with a trip to Oregon. He ahd Joplin have been swapping yarns ahd taking in the sights for the past three weeks., and intend to visit Seaside this week, where the -young Missourian Will view the ocean for the first time in OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS ! OF THE JOURNAL MAN; I' By Fred (The 'conflict between s immemorial respeata bility and tha rifht of the liutnan will to have 1M way in all nabteoua impulses is lUuuated in the story Mr. Lockley teiU today. An alles-ed black sheep, who U not black at all. tells tha f-l . " ., - ' -.:' : jSome years ago in Victoria. B. C, I visited a British officer. He had served inj India 30 years, retiring a brigadier general. - From him I secured valuable information on the industrial invasion of j the Hindus, into British Columbia, for a magazine article. A year or so later I happened to be at La Grande Feed Currey was then city manager of Grande, a position somewhat similar toithat of mayor, only having more re sponsibility and greater authority. -As Fred and I were talking, tie pointed to a roughly dressed man pushing a hand cart in which he shoveled the", street sweepings. "You are always looking for unusual stories," he said. " "That man, I am sure, .has a story, though I don't kniow what it is. Why not tackle him ani find out?" - " :. -j. ' - .... I thanked Fred for the suggestion and,, joijning the street cleaner, said: "Did yoi know you were due to tell ; me enough about yourself to make a col umn story?" My rather unusual intro ductory remark didn't, seem to feaze hirp. in the least. He said, "Sorry, sir, but tha city of .La Grande If paying for mjf services and I feel it .would Tiardly be: right to talk on its time i but' if you care tq come to my house. in 'Oldtown' tonight I will be glad to spend an hour or bo with you." ; That.evening I strolled out to Oldtown, the original site of La Grande, and spent a ; most enjoyable evening. I , found ; my host the , street swper was i a cultured : Englishman, who could talk from first-hand knowl edge of many of the seldom visited cor ners of the world. He : had lived in Mexico, Japan, the V Philippines, .South Africa, India and South America,-' and, hating been ai keen observer, he talked mopt interestingly of the customs of the people of the various countries he had visited. I asked, "How does it come that you are holding down the job of street sweeper? Can't you land a bet ter i Job?" He smiled, and said. "It isn't the) Job ' that matters : it. is how well yo4 do the job, that counts. .No matter hoy menial the Work, if you put your heart into doing it creditably you can dignify it and feel that you are preserv ing your self respect ; and, after all, that is the big thing." .. , . ; i : '.' t . "What is your real name?" I asked. After 12 hours they were picked up by the pilot boat and taken to Astoria, . tturious Bits of Information - for the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places Travel off the beaten paths in the famous painted - desert of our South west would .be a dangerous ma 1 1 e r were it not for the stone sentinels set up i by ' the Navajo Indians : to direct.1 NEWS' IN BRIEF . SIDELIGHTS r - ' - : j : ., . The Germans are going to deliver 2.000,000 tons of coal a 'month to the allies, indicating better car service than exists in Oregon Crane American, j ' ' - .: , . I - I " A Boston man Is in Eugene looking for a sanitarium location for those with weak lungs. Nobody In Eugene has weak lungs. Corvallls Casette-Tlmes. -A: .' . "... ' - 'I ) ' . The man who "sleeps day times and raises hell at night" better be mendin' his ways. A woman writes- the Post that she is going "to print his name.'" Independence Rest , i 1 messengers f frequently find snakes loose- in their cars, according evidence at a hearing in Chicago, looks- as if there must be' a loophole to It in the Volstead Register. act somewhere Eugene i - - Householders who would like to see a little street sprinkling in the summer time and other evidences of greater pep in the conduct of city affairs will do well to consider the move to make or city government more efficient. Pendleton Kast Osegonlan. . . . j - j , Out of the J900.000.000 iannual profit the railroads will makeout of the wRge scale settlement, the Southern Pacific ought to be able to spare. th few mil lions necessary to complete the Natron cut-off. Oregon Is entitled to a slice i of the melon, and that Is the biggest rail road project unfinished in. the sUte. Eugene Guard.. ': ': :" ! ' - " ' ! '- his life. Clopton looks like a well pre served man of 60, ahd many men at that age lack the vigor and also the fine head of hair possessed by hinf, . f , -i ', , -- ,: I-.'' V .: . Wlllard Rouse, boys' work secretary at the Y. M. C. A- is counting the hours until next Monday morning, when he will start out for Spirit Lake cam at .the foot of . Mount St.. Helens, with) a group ofjlve youg boys. He will spend three weeks in the mountains, enjoying himself by giving these boys a happy vacation. - ' ... i In spite of. all his investigation i into the milk situation and all the knowledge he gained about . the . business. United States-District -Attorneyj Lester JW. Humphreys Is still at a loss to know why he must pay 2 cents ja quart more for milk than newspaper reporters who visit him dally. He admits the milk men haven't violated any i law. and so satisfies himself with paying the higier price. . ' , . j ,:" .' '-:: .-:! . ":' : j : ' ''.. Captain Frederick Elder tn charge of the local navy recruiting Office; is con sidering very seriously .thje advisability of taking a course In deteptlve work, In order that he might more! easily recog nize the 14-year-old boys; who try to put one over on him and get into ':he navy. - Wednesday a lad came in to see him, for the second time in two weeks Captain Elder said the 'youth denied ever having been in the office before, j so .he Was given a physical test. When the finger prints were taken and exam ined -Elder found the boy jhad not only been in ' two weeks previously, ' but also several months ago. "I wish that boy had been old enough to take," that cap tain remarked. j - t 'Harry Raffety, vice president of the George W. Bates company, returned Wednesday from a trip through British Columbia and Puget Sound cities. On the return : trip Raffety visited. Para dise valley and other points of Interest in Rainier National park. The road frojrn Tacoma - to Paradise Inn Is in splendid condition, he avers, and 200 additional j trooms will be afforded by ia new addi Uon to the hotel. : f - ':-' 1 - ; Returning' from a long visit in San Francisco and- Southern! California, Mrs. J. M. Simpson of - Spokane is the guest of her brother, George Funk, city auditor. Mrs. Simpson attended the Democratic convention at San Francisco. She will be in Portland several days. before . going on to her liome. Lock ley What, reason have "you for supposing tnat- i nave not given ybu my real name?" he asked. I pointed to a pic ture of a British officer on the wall!, and said, "Do you know 'that man' He looked up and said, "Years ago I used to know him. In fact-, he is a relative of mine. I said, "That is whjy I asked you what your real name i. The name you gave, me is not the name of that officer. I happen to know him I also have a mighty good; hunch that he is your father.. How about it? Am I! right?" He looked me squarely In the eye and said, ."Yes, . you are right. In my day I have supped on hardship and banqueted on defeat, and 1 decided It would be fairer to my kinsmen to drop the-family name. The name by which I am known is my mother's maiden name, an old and honorable name In British history, as you , probably know. You say you know my father. Have you ever' met him? If soi when anl wherer "Does he know 1 where yoti are?" I asked. My host shook his head and; said,; "No. thank God. I am off if clally dead ; and have beeni for many years j l am the black sheep of our family. Let me amend that by saying that in their- estimation i I am a biack sheep. I have gone my own way,' been true to my own code, have never stooped lb do dishonorable, acts, so -J have pre served my self respect S My father was a- Just man and. according to hie lightsj acted for the best,- He believed In Iron discipline. He failed to understand thai as boy has a will of hlsi own. -- We clashed, and I was marked off the fam ily register. - Insubordination and mu-i ttny, against the established order was irk my - father's mind, the Unforgivable sin. When I became a forbidden Ject in the family 'councils il went mv own way and became an adventurer and soiuier oi iortune." -s:- ---1. ! . - . t He was eager for everv ncran rf in lormaiion i could give him i about "the governor," as he called his father. Be-j fore the "evening was over he had told, me enough adventures to fill a book, but always speaking of hlsinarrow es capes jokingly. - "I am the .first of our line In more than 20 fenerations not to bf an officer in the ' Brltlsht-'army." he aid. 'When a man marries a farmer's daughter he is . fifiishedj according to my father's, creed. What are a crest ana a coat of arms and a hall of old paintings of dead and gone1 ancestors. compared to marrying the girl you love? aia so, ana nave never regretted my choice." ; ;-. , - - t . - the stranger traveling through that coun try, where once was water lni plenty but where now are only : the : dry beds of rveraA''.' - V' '-! - -1 . iThese sentinels are piles of rocks, as high as a man, located on rises of ground where they may be readily seen. In the body of the monument is placed a pro jecting rock which is arranged to point the - direction to the nearest spring or water hole. If one follows the direction indicated, although he may have to pro ceed a considerable distance, the precious water will always be fou.nd.' 1 The Oregon Country Northwest Happenina-s in Brief Form for tha Busy Header. OREGON NOTES , tJ Sf.w-!L,ike.U. of, fcet,- Mont., has Groetrghd.cnoo.cip4l, ot the C,ttaee ascent of Mount Hood. ? .BI,in unty has 4 threshing n wti Lr.m Pr,,re,nt inalcationa tht crop iu be the best in yeiru. Lee Nelson, a street preacher who Was fllSri on a char-re of in sanity, has been release-l and advised to go to work. .KitirUPk on tn he?.d by a filing limb' .while logging near Elmira. Charlea Har rison is in a Eugene hospital in iv.a.ri. ous condition. , ! V1Th application of the Cottage drove J'.lectrici company for an increase in rates has beeir taken under advisement by the public service commission. , The first unit of the Langell valley Irrigation district la Klamath county has , made application to the state to approve a bond issue of $197,000. W. IL Ellenberg of Corvallis lias re ceived from the war department a cita tion, for distinguished and exceptional gallantry in France, September 2t. Uis. - The Fruit ; Growers' league of M,d rord has opened an employment bureuu with the object of oooperau'nsr with oth er fruit growers in the allocation of pickers throughout the valley. Following a confession by Olaf An derson that he had thrown his wife from . a boat off Tongue Point durlnir a quar rel, her body was found at Flave), eitht miles from the scene of the drowning. A coroner's Jury at Klamath Kails has found that the death of John Dorin. Canadian overseas veteran, was acci dental. I He drank lysol which had bewi given him by a drugget instead of lyke. The tailoring class in -the summer school at the Oregon Agricultural col lege has established, a record of 37 suits, 16 long coala and two make-over con la for children In less;than bix. weeks. The class numbers Go. i -"While testing' out I a ! forest servke radio outfit at Eugene, human votes were picked up by the Instruments. It was learned that the voices came f rem Portland through a wirelcas telephone apparatus in that city. r -.-. ' " i i WASHINGTON Bids for the construction of the Walla Walla armory will be opened August 30. j Approximately 1188,000 has-been paid by the Libby, McNeil & IJbby i-anneiy at Yakima for 700 tois of cherrie?. . The Milwaukee railroad has renamed daily train service on the Hanford branch, between Hanford and Beverly. Of 22 grain samples taken this year bv one dealer at Wallu Walla only one tested as low as 68; pounds to the bush eL j; - i.... . i ! Road construction building operations' and the; increasing i demand for help In the harvest fields have left no idle men in the vicinity of Davenport. The Pacific Power & I.lRht company, which operates a central -heating plant t Yakimit, has announced an increuse of from: 20 to 35 per cent in rates. Federal officials have begun at Seattle the destruction of 2000 quarts of liquors seized by customs j officials on trmeV Pacific steamships ; entering .Seattle. : A list of 1250' unlicensed dons in Yaki ma county has been turned over to the sheriff, who now is faced with the-task of collecting the license or killing the dogs. j Henry Holt la dead at his home in Tacoma. He was one of the first North ern Pacific conductors in the North west, entering the service of the com pany in 1870. City commissioners of Spokane are In favor , of ; Increased salaries for city em ployes lri certain departments and will probably provide therefor when the budget of ISi'l is made up. ' :;. : vv.'.- I V IUAHO In a raid on the home of R. K. Men- denhall at Boise, deputy sheriffs found a distilling outfit almost under the capl tol building. j ' Thetotal damage to grain and fruit lii the Lewiston section caused by the re cent hall i storm is estimated at between 8175,000 and. 100.000. 1 Acceptance by the state of the Marys vine Carey act Irrigation project near Ash ton is announced, by Commissioner of Reclamation Swendsen. ' Sheep scab has been practically eradi cated from Idaho, with the exception of the Idaho Falls country and Twin Falls county, according to State Veterinarian Adams. ' In view of the fact that an averac of 2000 bathers take advantage of. the Snake river beach at Lewlston durliic ' the present hot weather, a life saving corps is to be organized. The state board of. education has made"" a ruling that teachers connected with stnte inxtitutions must not eeek public office. In conformity with this- ruling N. B. Adktoson of the Technical insti tute -has j withdrawn i his candidacy as representative from Bannock county 'on . the Republican ticket. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Ike Mehaney has Wrote to Governor Olcott how to git back to safe and sane conditions , on the gasoline shortage.: He proposes to rip up the hard surface-high' ways and do leave 'em ripped up fer lx months. 1 told Ike his remedy was sure and certain, but It was like a Injun cure fer toothache I onct heerd of, to burn a hole In the big toe of the sufferer with a redhot iron. Ilfs a heap easiea? ta git along with the toothgthan the. to, and you may. have both. to look after. Oregon Quality Has a Super Meaning When Applied t to Oregon Wool. When either Washington or Cali fornia . Wants the products "of its woolen mills to be accepted by buy ers as unusually fine, it applies the brand "Oregon Wool." r This practice ia due to the fact, first, that Oregon produces the finest wool in the United States, and, sec ond, thait Oregon quality wool has so long been accepted as the standard of quality that it has actually -become a brand to be applied to wools of equal fineness and length cf fiber. PorUand has - become the wool center not alone of Oregon-, not alone of the Pacific Northwest, not alone of the Pacific Coast narrowly de fined, but of the entire region west of. the Rocky mountains. Due toja several hundred per cent increase In local consumption within a brief period, Portland has become the western leader In the manufac ture of Woolen goods. The list In cludes, ykrns, knlt goods - such as sweaters ! and bathing suits, and fabrics for clothing, blankets and niackinaws. It is said that the annual receipts Of wool at Portland aggregate 14. 000,000 pounds or. 'more and that of this amount local industry consumes some 8.000,000 pounds. -Government officials during the war were delighted rto discover that Oregon plants were capable of turn ing out the best of army blankets in quantjties equal to their demand. It is significant now that while eastern woolen mills are slowing up, running part time or closing down. Oregon's woolen mills are In several instances f running double shift and have even more than they :can do. The imminent increase In freight rates will make Portland more of a wool center than ever, for arreater quantities of Interior woo! will be shipped here In order to obtain 'the benefit of terminal rates In trans continental movement.
