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THE jTOLL.
TIREt worn ?o and a man are dead
from the i ire at Elton Court Sat
urday morning. The cause was care
lessness. ; j
At 4 o'cloci Saturday morning a
man was reading a paper in the hall.
He was smoking, as he lounged on the
couch. T The c uch was at the base
of a circular stairway. Fire officials
. betjeye a cigirette or match "wag
dropped. It shouldered, and within
an hour the J. lflarnmable couch was
on fire, then 1hc stairway, and then
the building. Every floor was burn
ing within a f ;w; minutes, the eleva
tor was out if order, and the ef
ficiency of the fire alarm system de:
.. stroyed. 1 j . ; ...
, It all happen so quickly that the
fire, escapes were; cut ,off to some,
others lost the r way In panic. They
crowded to the windows to await the
- firemen. A majority of the residents
waited, some j imped and were killed
or; seriously jrjured. Practically no
clothing or valuables were saved. The
estftnated loss Is S40.000. ,
It was all from a match or cigarette.
'Dropped on orj near an inflammable
couch, it cost ; the.i( lives of three
women and one man. and nine other
people are painfully injured. Others
have lost practically everything they
owp. ; ;
There is atwityj
a trap where the
match or cigarette is deposited, ln
. flammables are everywhere. They are
lying in wait i or the torch to light.
' Then, as in the Elton Court fire, it Is a
matter of mini tcs.
could have been the feeling
.... ofjthe man w tio carelessly dropped
the light, couli ; be have seen the
flames gutting the building, seen
women art girlsl with their- hair
- streaming dowi , helplessly waiting to
be rescued from the seething furnace,
seen Miss Bogus leap from the fourth
story onto an iron railing and drop
limp to the c ?ment, and seen Mrs.
Chaney drdp from on high to the
- pavement and tieath below?
The little pile of rubbish in the
basement, the ,vaste paper in the at
tic the other little heaps of Inflam
: mables, all soer. innocent enough, Put
, Id them, hlddeii beyond sight, are po
' tential tongues of flame, waiting, only
waiting the mysterious influence to
touch them into a j conflagration with
billows of black smoke rolling away,
with the roar of a fiery furnace be
neath and belo'v them the debris, the
blackened rams, j tjhe charred bodies
of human flesh and the other horrors
of the dismal picture. ; L
Yes. the tittN heaps of rubbish and
neglected inflammables seem innocent
enough now. bjut what of tomorrow,
or the day aftjr?
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In one of the parks in Newark.
New Jersey. 310 families are living
In tents. 'They were evicted by land
lords. They kre' provided with a
sewage system
running water, elec-
trie lights and a
isn't so bad with
laundry tent. -It
them now. But
what f the snewsi of next winter?
PULLING THEM UP
HE Portland Northman, a weekly
Journal of
"progress and good
citizenship" tejls of Americanization
work done by
Minneapolis,
the public library at
A representative i attends H court
proceedings . whjere -toreign-born pep
sons are admitted to citizenship. Im
mediately library cards are offered
them and their names registered.
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Their addresses and occupations are
noted and books pertaining to their
work are sent them. At the library
books are kept separately that will be
of benefit to the new eitizens ' and
special attention t paid them when
they visit, t "
? Here is example of service. It fs
servtee both to the republic ' and to
the foreign-born on their way to
wholesome American citizenship.;
More than 8,500,000 people over 10
years old In the ; United States-
can neither read f nor " write
English.! What a fearful -; number
must thfere be who may be able to
read our language' but( have no con
ception j' of 1 1 American , institutions'",
America Issues, or how to properly
exercise ;the responsibilities of sov
ereign American citizenship.
Yet tht weal of 110,000,000 people and
the guidance of the greatest govern
ment on;! the , face of the earth may
turn upon the votes of this Illiterate
mass. Think of - what such conse
quences jmight be, and then think of
the educative Work that is being done
at the Minneapolis public library 1
To what harh tines the American
court martial 'system had descended
through ; mora than 100 years of un
molaatad milttarr bureaucracy, ts
Shown by this war-time sentence in
a, court martUtL case: A boy soldier
was sentenced to 30 years' impris
on ment for 4isobeyine a minor order
of a aecand lieutenant from civil life
Thirty years In the penitentiary for
a minor offense committed 2000
miles frem the frent is an example
of why Senator Chamberlain,
chairman , of the senate military af
fairs committee, secured passage of
law revising the entire court mar
tial system. ! ! ;
EMMA'S CONVERSION
EMMA GOLDMAN'S room at Petro
gradj Is draped with American
flags, says a correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune. "I love America as
I love pa other land," she gays. .
The deportation argument Is both
an excellent; and a convincing argu
ment. Its effect on Miss Goldman was
magical, jf . i : ' !
From iafar, i Bolshevism In Russia
looked gbodjto her. Distance gener
ally lends enchantment ito the view.
In America she preached Bolshevism
and thundered against American insti
tutions and the American system-: She
was at war with the American idea
and American ' traditions. But when
she got into: Russia and saw Russia
and sensed Russia, she turned longing
thoughts back to the America she had
so long and so often denounced.
Some others In America are like her.
They f qlminate against everything
American:. They point ; admiring fin
gers at the wild Ideas and slant-eyed
Isms of European Reds. They think
the red if lag; a better flag than the
Stars and Stripes. Miss Goldman her
self toelped them to extend their minds
Into these unailurlng fields of specu
lative philosophy.
Believing thee things, why should
the Goldman followers waste their
time in trying to Russianize the United
StatesT (If the;- so love the Russian
Idea, why not, like Miss Goldman, go
to Russia ? NVhy not go among -people
of their own way of thinking, and
leave .to j the Americans the privilege
of living; out, their own lives In their
own way? And why not also leave
to the Americans the right to run
America jalon& the lines of free govern
ment and popular rule that It was in
tended to be .run by those forefathers
whose devotion to theAmerican idea
was sealed and sanctified in the blood
of patriots? i .1 ' :
There may be ethical objections to
wholesale deportations. But after
all. why! should good Bolshevist lambs
be required I to spend their haloed
lives here among wicked American
goats?; j j. '
In' the old days of mining ro
mance everybody flocked to the dig
gings when j they heard of a gold
strike, j But ihere is a chemist who
tells ua that; It costs the sugar trust
but S2l3I to make 100 pounds of
granulated sugar out of sugar beets
at $i per ton. When you figure
the difference; between the cost to
the trust; and the cost to the con
sumer, , you catch a glimpse of a gold
strike j worth iwblle,! At $2.38 a
hundred pounds as the cost to the
the 'price to the consumer
affords an example of profiteering
to thrill Ponzi. ;
TO OUR. SHAME
IN THOSE days of conflict when the
wart clouds hung low, when every
American heart beat heavily at
thought of a possible iGerman victory,
what did w think of Russia when
that government "made at Brest
Litovsk a separate peace with Ger
many"? . i ; ; : -: ;
Yet . a "separate peaipe with Ger
many"!; tand a repudiation of our al
lies' peace with Germany is what is
advocated by Candidate Harding. ! Of
that proposal, Governor Cox said in
his acceptance speech that it "would
be the most disheartening event in
civilization since the Russians made
their "separate peace' with Germany"
and that it would be; "infinitely more
unworthy on" our part than it was on
that of the Russians." ,
We all remember the contempt with
which we he4rd of the cowardly sub
mission of the Russians at Brest
Litovsk. We all remember the pity
and disgust that ran; through the al
lied troops In camp and at the front
as the news ; spread of the Russian
treachery to the allied Cause.,
In warfare: for a; worthy cause
when allies cast their lots together.
It was jthe path of honor to be bound
together. 2o fight together and die- to-
S i
gether and make peace together. That
is why the nane of Benedict Arnold,
for bis treachery, to his brothers-inarms
in the Revolutionary struggle. Is
a phrase of contumely and odium.
Yet at the moment when! our late
ajlies are ttrufglingr through the peace
treaty to! hold fast to the fruits of
victory, " Candidate Harding publicly
proposes that we follow the Russian
example, and desert them antnurnto
make a cringinfe peace wIU Germany,
In such a course, what else Could our
allies think of us than exactly as we
thought of the Russians in their mis
erable treachery at Brest-Litovsk?
After our matchlesa record in the
war. is American prestige to be al
lowed to: sink to the Russian stan
dard? i
Yet that is exactly what Candidate
Harding is" asking the American peo
ple to vote for, and, if he should be
elected, that is exactly the interpreta
tion that would be put uponithe elec
tion returns.
The Irish coercion bill went
through' the British parliament by
an overwhelming majority. It means
that British sentiment is strongly
against the Irish revolutionists. It
means that the grulf between tha
British nation and the Irish repub
licans Is ever widening. It sets the
world to wonder if this i new
enterprise of reducing a large body
of Irishmen to obedience through
suppression of trial by jury; and use
of military force can be made suc
cessful in this advanced period of
world history. t
ENEMY OF THE WORLD
t
TJARVEY HIBBARD and Rockl Car-
1 1 ulli were friends. They lived near
each other. They played together. One
was the other 9 years old
Friday, when they went out to play,
Harvey brought a J3S caliber! revolver
along. It was his father's. The boys
were to play with It. Harvey pulled
the trigger twice. There wasi no shot
"Here. Rocki. you shoot It; it ain't
leaded," Harvey ealled out to Rock!
Rocki took the gun. He pulled the
trigger. Jlarvey fell. ! j
Harvey is gone now. Hei died at
the hospital from the bullet that
passed through his body just below
the right lung. ,1 .
Harvey was a victim of the pistol.
There are lots of them.-'Every day
the papers tell of someone! shot to
death with a revolver. I
The gun had been left within reach.
The boys took it to play. Now one
is dead. !
Wherever the pistol is there is
death. At some time they are em
ployed for the purpose for which
they are manufactured killing., Often
it is accidental. And often ) the gun
is used in a fit of r"ge.
Someone Suffers for every victim.
Someone mourns. Often someone is
left without means of support.
And someone suffers for the man
behind the gun. When he is ushered
off to the penitentiary or to The' gal
lows, . someone suffers. Someone
mourns. ,And someone is left depen
dent, l j
What a lot of suffering there is on
earth as a result of the manufacture
of pistols. The revolver is the enemy
of the world.
A wait of 10 minutes by a citizen
who was trying to get central to
reach the fire department j for the
Elton Court fire is one of the state
ments in the story of that Calamity.
To wait 10 , minutes in giving an
alarm of fire is almost a icycle of
time, '. under the circumstances.
Whether his alarm would hive been
the fir8t'or not U conjecture. But
what would a half a minute not have
been in the arrival of the! firemen
to women balancing on a window
ledge, pressed by fire from within
and facing a four-story drop with
out?
THE NEXT GREAT CENTER
THE commerce of the Pacific is to
excede all the commerci on the
Atlantic. j
; That Is the statement of Robert Dol
lar, speaking of,, the possib I flies' in
China. Mr. Dollar is probably the best
informed man in America cn China
and the commercial and i ndustrial
conditions in that country. When the
purchasing power of the Chinese peo
ple is Increased sufficiently, jhe says,
the Oriental country . will beiome the
greatest industrial center land the
greatest new market In the world.
He says: :. " j
: Pp American business men (ever stop
to think that the Pacific Coast looks
across at a billion of people?) In China
alone there are between 400,000,000 and
500,000,000 people who are ripe for ad
vancing beyond their present staa-e a
stage which is exactly the same as it
was before the Christian era. The Chi,
nese are ready to Join the march of In
dustrial progress. These 600,001,000 peo
ple "are all industrious ; children begin
to work from the age of 5 or i The
mind cannot picture the full! meaning
of the coming development o China
a development that is already setting
In most encouragingly.
In the province of Szshuen I here are
70,000,000 Chinese whose only com
munication with the outside jvorld is
by two small steamers of the Dollar
line. But the territory is rich) in min
eral deposits. The people ni4ke mos
quito netting of wire drawn by hand
as thin as can be done with machin
ery. By Introduction of machinery
what would that 70,000,000 people do?
Jn another province lumber wagons
are drawn by a dozen men. Their,
pay is 8 cents a day. By use of
horses and : release of these men for
more productive endeavor, expense
would be reduced ' and the aggregate
of production greatly increased. The
lumber, oil and mineral resources are
only a,vaiting machinery for infinitely
multiplied activity; : j
i An example of what is required and
what Is being done In China lis given
by Mr. Dollar; A Chinese came to
America last year to buy $20,000,000
worth of totton mill machinery. He
is here again this year to Increase the
order. V; W j :-- ' :-
The Dollar company j established
warehouses, . wharves ; nJ power
houses in Shanghai on a scale which
was thought would be ample for "10
years. The work was finished early
m 1919. Before the end of the year
It -was necessary to add ;00 feet to
the wharves and build two new ware
houses, 100 by 900 feet, and two stories
high. iOt her businesses are expand
ing as rapidly.
' The oil, the lumber, the cotton, the
mineral products, the machinery and
other commodities that are to figure
in the development of China will all
be transported on the pacific. It
means a, commerce never before
equaled in any part of the world.
SAKHALIN ISLAND
IN HISTORY
Why Japan Now Wants All Instead of
Only Half of That Inhospit
. ' -. able Terrain. I
Henvhalt Rn-krll in Kre Tort Ereaine roat.
- After an absence of 15 years. Sagha-
lien, or Sakhalin, has made Its way back
Into . newspaper headlines, this Urn as
the subject of a note of protest from the
United States to- Japan. In 190$ this
long, slender island in the Sea of Okh
otsk first came into prominence while
representatives of Russia I and Japan
were at work upon the treaty of Ports
mouth, which was to end the Russo-Jap
anese war. !
By the terms of this treaty Japan was
given that part of the island lying south
of. the fiftieth parallel, which represents.
roughly speaking, one-half of its area.
Since 1875 the enure Island had been
Russia's, but originally Japan had oc
cupied the southerly end of : it, which is
not far removed from the Japanese is
land of Yeso. er Haikkade. 1
And now. in connection with its plana
for the: erection of so-called buffer states
in Siberia, Japan is occupying the north
erly end of the island, which is, of great
importance, strategically, because u dom
inates the mouth of the Amur river. It is
this occupation against which the United
States is protesting. j
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Saghalien was discovered about the
middle of the seventeenth century by the
Dutch explorer Da Vries. It was- origin
ally China's, and when first discovered
was sparsely populated by Ainus, the
aborigines of the Japanese : archipelago,
and scattering tribes of Siberian peoples.
The Kurile islands, which lie east of
Tezo, were discovered .by De Vries at
about the same time as Saghalien. Jap
anese settlers pushed up from Tese into
Saghalien and also Into the Kuriles,
which at that time were rioh In fish of
many varieties and ' in f urbearlng ani
mals. Russians pushed down from Kam
chatka into the Kuriles and southward
from Siberia Into Saghalien. It was not
long before Russians and Japanese fell
Into conflict over the two territories, and
in. 1875 these disputes had grown so
numerous that Japan ceded all ef Sag
halien to Russia in ' return for full pos
session of the Kuriles. It was more or
less of a forced cession, and Japan did
not forget. '
Frorr. that on until the Russo-Japanese
war the island was entirely Russian and
was used as a penal colony,; convicts by
the thousands being sent across the Si
berian steppes and down the Amur river
to Saghalien to live out their lives In
the coal mines and lumber camps of this
bleak, inhospitable land. .
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Early in the war Japan seised Sagha
lien. At Portsmouth it was rumored for
a time that she would exaet from Russia
the payment of 120,000.000 sterling. In
the eTid, however, the Japanese envoys
contented themselves with the return of
the southerly half of Saghalien to Japan.
To the Japanese1 half of the Island was
given the name Karafuto. the original
name of the whole territory.;
Under the terms of the treaty Japan
holds 15.155 square miles, while Russia
has 14.668 of the total ! ef 27.823.
The population is about 60,000, and is
composed of some 15,000 Russians, who
are ex-convicts, exiles or the descendants
of exiles and convicts there are still a
few on the island, although the penal
colonies there were abolished ' several
years ago and 45,000 Japanese. The .
southerly part of the island was settled
rapidly after the Portsmouth treaty, Jap- i
anese settlers receiving 19 acres of land
each, and the fisheries and forests offer
ing other opportunities.
ur tne native population on tne lsiana.
few are left. It is estimated that there
are a few thousand all told of Ainus,
Clilyaks (a Siberian people) and .others.
. . .
Saghalien Is 600 miles long and from
16 to 100 miles wide. - Between It and
Yezo, the nearest Japanese Island, is
Le Parouse strait, which is 27 miles wide
al its narrowest point.
I Ccremunfaalipni sent to Tha 1 Journal (or
publication in thU department should be written
on only one tide of the paper, ihould not exceed
300 words in length and must be daned t Uia
writer, whose mail addreaa in full mast acouia
pany ttis contribution. J I,
I A STATEMENT ON SINGLE TAX
' Portland, Aug. . To the Editor of
The Journal Third observation on the
negative argument on the single tax
proposition on the ballot: i"
'The State Chamber of Commerce
states : "The people would become ten
ants of the state. They would be haunt
ed by the spectre that their sites and all
thereon would be .lost to them during
hard times. Such improvements as they
old make would be of that temporary
or makeshift character that are made
by tenants." -i
How well the landlord has learned his
little piece !
I - Hard times. Indeed ! Fear not. brother.
That spectre will vanish under single
tax; that Is why we want it. Hard
times are produced by landlordism, and
good and bad times by land booms and
collapses. Single tax will .forever ban
ish that. .
Every land owner is a .tenant to the
state i now. He already pays rent to
the state. Taxes, or rent what is the
difference? What we want is that some
property shall be ' his own. We want
him to pay rent only on land ; now
he pays rent on everything, even movie
tickets. The only question is whether
or not he shall pay all . the value the
community creates into the public till,
or only half of it, as now, and- whether
or not jie ean call something his owir
regardless 6f what the state wants. But
think of frightening three-fourths of the
landless, jobless, homeless citizens of the
state by telling them that if we get
this -"awful" single t tax they will
actually have a place to live and pay
rent to the state ; whereas. now, they
live by sufferance of Miller VA Lux
and a -. few other Junkers, I and when
they do pay rent they pay all the traffic
will bear, and not to themselves the
state but to the landlord, who may live
In Europe and who employs this state,
which we make, to charge ! ua all the
traffic will bear to livs in our own
state ; an irresponsible entity, without
vote, or soul, or conscience, j responsible
to no one, not even to the flag that pro
tects ma rent. may even declare
j Letters From the People
WILL
war on us and build submarines to
destroy our government, with the rent
we pay to him. j That is the kind of
tenantry we now have, and it is getting
worse every hourj
Three firms, Miller A Lux, Spreckels
and Weyerhaeuser, own more land in
the western parti of the United States
than is contained in the old German
empire. Miller & Lux own 15,000,000
acres alone, and (they had more men
on horseback keeping American citizens
from settling on I American soil than
there were in the American cavalry six
years ago ; and yet the State Chamber
of Commerce thinks it can voice the
sentiment of patriotism by telling
American cltisens f that this land will
revert to them amd they will become
tenants of the state if the single tax
is carried. They may have guessed
right The peopfe have tolerated this
wrong longer than I supposed they
would. f ,
But, once mors: "No improvement
under single tax.'j j
The best buildings In Portland are '
built on leased land, and the rent is
not paid to the state but to a fore
staller of the earth, one who was born
first Besides, the builder pays a rent
te the state on his enterprise, la taxes,
and a rent to the landlord for the
nujl.M .f W( liUinM ...... V. ...
should erect substantial buildings Is a
mystery. would! be build less sub
stantially if the burden were removed
from the building, and the non
producing landlord eliminated, and the
owner secured by the same title that
is given every warranty deed? Will
It destroy property! te remove the taxes?
Do vacant lots produce? If so, how
many vacant lots
does it take to make
a prosperous pity ?
J. R. Hermann.
RACE f SUICIDE
Portland. July 25. To the Editor of
ine journal sincei the efforts made dur
ing the war te kill off the human race by
wholesale has stopped, another erase fol
lows, namely, an attempt to stop race
suicide. It seems that In some countries
many women are averse to going down
Into the valley of
death to-bring forth
children that they
may become food' for
cannon. This fact) is arousing the hos
tile comments ef the patriotic profiteers,
and they are looking forward to the day
when killers will not be numerous
enough to make it: worth while to Start
another world war. England. France,
Germany and other countries seem to be
losing their patriotic fervor and will
lapk great numbers for future armies.
Oh, my I Ain"t It (unny? And yet there
are others who want the birth rate, to
increase and a stalwart lot of citizens
to be reared, and i are yelling for pure
milk for babies, arid are also associated
with crowds who demand military train
ing so the coming; generations shall be
fit to kill well and thoroughly. Some say
God smiles on their efforts. Methinks
the devil grins, while Jesus weeps over
Such ideas. What think you, Mr. Editor?
f j John Williams.
Olderjj Oregon
Tribulations ef Benjamin Stark
Senator Baker's Successor.
as
When telegraphic communication was
established across j the American conti
nent, among the first dispatches trans
mitted was one conveying the Informa
tion that Colonel E. D. Baker, United
States senator from Oregon, had been
killed at the battle of Balls Bluff, Octo
ber 21, 1861. To fill the vacancy. Gov
ernor Whlteaker appointed Benjamin
Stark of Portland.! Charges were made
that Stark had shown sympathy with
the Confederate cause and was dlaloycl.
For two months his admission to the
senate was held up, but finally. In Feb
ruary, 1862, he was permitted to take
the oath of office; by a vote of ?6 to
19.i A committee Was appointed to In
vestigate the cas and, following- It re
port. Stark was impeached. He was not
expelled, however, j as his term expired
with the assembling of the state legis
lature In September, Stark was one of
the original land owners of Portland.
I
Curious Bits "jof Information
j for'thej Curious i
j Gleaned Froni Curious Places -
; "Tbb war bundle or medicine bag of
the American Indian is a collection of
.prayers," said Chlex Oliver La Mere, of
tne Nebraska pranen or tne Winnebago
Indians, at a meeting of the Wisconsin
Archaeological society. ' When the In
dian has a relative, or friend killed in
battle and desires revenge., he goes to a
lonely place, far away from the rest of
his tribe, blackens ! hie face and fasts,".
Chief La Mere said. "He does not touch
food for seme days. - A little water is
permitted. He remains in this state un
til he goes into ai trance: During- the
trance be sees a vision."
HE MAKE THEM BALANCE ?
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
How about a' little rain now.
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This Is certainly hay-making weather,
isn't It?
..
Now General Wrangell claims a vic
tory on the Crimean front. Somewhat of
a general row, too.'no 'doubt.
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A Portland boy 'named Inches Is 're
ported to be one of a party of lads
who beat their way acrosa the conti
nent' Inches, It may be surmised,
made his way little by little.
.
We knew how we felt about it. but
still there is some' satisfaction In hav
ing Vice President Marshall reiterate
his convictions as to the unsurpassed
beauties of the Columbia river high
way. '
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The high price of gasoline now comes
In for an "official Investigation.' In
view of the results of past perform
ances, who cap be blamed for being
skeptical as to the relief that may be
expected.
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MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Stanley S. Jewett, head of the preda
tory animal division - of the United
States biological survey. Aas returned
from Malheur county, where he has
been making arrangements for an . ex
tensive cooperative coyote poisoning
campaign to be carried on with tha
Malheur county farm bureau and the
woolgrowers" association. The plans
are to put as many government trap
pers i Into the county as funds will
permit, with the farmers and stock
men; employing an equal number of
men,! to work under the supervision pf
the biological survey in an effort to
eradicate the coyotes. A like program
will be carried out in Owyhee county.
Idaho, and in Northern Nevada near
the Oregon boundary.
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E. J. Hanxlik. forest examiner on the
Snoqualmie national forest, is spend
ing; a few. days from - Seattle at the
forest service headquarters, prepara
tory ; to laying out a cutting plan on
the north fork of the Santlam river In
the Santlam national forest. Hanslik
will 'determine the trees that need to
be cut and the rate at which they
should be cut.
it .
F, ! 8. Me Arthur, for four months in
charge of the real estate department of
OBSERVATIONS AND J IMPRESSIONS
1 OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
(Aboti Ben AdU?m haa nothing on Mr.
T.oekley when it in a matter of considering hi
-fellow-man. aa eemethina to at leaat take a
keea in'erart in- Finding hirarelt ta the niidt
of a i pleasant company, ha drawi fnin aaclr
kente ' vital exprearioo, and aoma . of tlief t be
hera preenU.
How It is with others I do not know,
but to me a large part of the pleasure
In seeing new places comes from the
meet Rig of new people. I can best
illustrate what I mean by Introducing
to you. some of the people I met on a
recent evening. On August 4 I spent
the evening at Crown Point chalet. As
I eats on the balcony awaiting the sum
mons; to dinner I was joined by Charlie
McNarv. a boyhood friend at saiem.
now United States senator from Ore
gon. iWe spoke of the magnificent
view and what the highway meant to
Oregon. Then the talk drifted to oia
time friends from . Salem.
After ) dinner I sat with Colonel
LtavidM. Donne, Mr. . Lowengart and
his sen, Mr. Wortman and Senator Mc
Nary : for an hour or more.
This is August '4. I' said- to Colonel
Dunne. "Six years ago Emperor Wil
liam of Germany started something he
couldn't finish."- "Ha cams pretty near
seeing the finish of the world." said
Colonel Dunne, "and, - though peace is
declaredf the war is by no means ever.
Look iat Poland. Look' at Russia. Look
St the world-wide unrest."
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When' Colonel Dunns - had departed
Walter. Goss Introduced me to an over
seas I'Y" secretary from St. Louis Who
had gone over with Dr. Carl G. Poney,
president of Willamette university, and
who had, served with the Third division.
We compared notes on our overseas ex
periences. " .. "':'".
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The next man I met was- D. Q. Tom
asini of 399 Hancock street. Portland.
"Tommy." as all his friends calf him.
is one ef the best known, Shriners ef
the West. As we sat in the darkness
looking at the twinkling lights of the
autos : that streamed in an 'almost un-
NEWS IN BRIEF
1 . SIDELIGHTS
; y
It -Is estimated that there will be
30.s00.000 bushels of potatoes more pro
duced - in the United States than ' there
were last year. Consumers, accordingly,
mav -not have to mr mora than : twice
as much a bushel for them. La Grande
Observer. M l
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From present Indications ' the upper
valley- Is- due to enjoy a smokeless"
summer. Seasonable rains j combined
with an efficient aerial fire patrol, have
produced a most gratifying condition of
affairs Eugene Register. j ; I
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Newberry crater la, in Its iway. Just
as interesting as Crater lake. If we
could persuade the proper 'authorities
that it should be made a park it would
bring tourists without number to Bend.
Bend Bulletin. f i .
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The cost of wheat, flour anil bread Is
going to be lower, it is said, i As usual,
the soil-tillee producer will be the first
to feel, the pinch. He'll be getting less
for a long time before -the f oonaumer
pays Jeesa. crana .American.
the Lawyers' Title Trusti company.
has resigned that position to take oq
similar work i at San Francisco,; tai.,
and left for the . south- Thursday night.
He will be succeeded here
by R. C
Oeder. formerly -counected
Carey-Savldge company.
with the
Dr. J. "Chris O'Day, accompanied by
Mrs. O'Day and their daughters Ce
celia and Nina.- left Wednesday ; night
for San Francisco after two months
stay in Portland. Br. and Mrs. O'Day
will sail f romf San Francisco for Hono
lulu next week and their daughters
will attend school in California. O'Day
formerly praetjeed medicine in Port
land and went to Honolulu j in 1917.
I !.'
The smallest sawmill In Oregon has
been located by E, C. Erlckaon ot the
forest service, who has Just returned
from a trip Into the Whitman national
forest. At JMxie Meadows jthe Prairie
City Box company Is operating- 10
miles up Dixie creek,' cutting todgepole
pine Into box shooks. Logs! cut are no
longer than 10 feet and It takes 50 logs
to make 1000 feet of lumber. There if
a good market for the shooijis In Idaho.
The mill cuts 4000 feet a day, has a 85
horsepower boiler, an old (engine sal
vaged from ai mine, one circular saw,
eight men and .a horse. J
Lockley
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broken procession on the highway be
low, he said : "Sometimes W hen I bear
young fellows talk about j having no
chance I -wish 1 could tell; them what
a wonderful land of opportunity our
America Is. I am ItaliantSwiss. My
mother died when I was 1 years old,
and father when I. was 18.S I came to
America. This was In 1876. the cen
tennial year. I went to- California. I
got a Job in a dairy. At first I milked
but 12 cows, but soon I was milking SO
each morning and evening; I worked
from 4 a. m. .until -9 at night. Often
at night I would get up arid go out to
th horse trough and: put my arms into
the water to my shoulders, to try to
deaden the ache in my wrist and arm
muscles. Jt skimmed the pans of milk
from 800 cows, for we had be milk sep
arators in those days. My employer
would often ask me to play . at dances,
for I played the concertina well. I
would play till I a. m. and hurry back
to the ranch to go to work. Many a
night I have not even gone to bed., I
quit the dairy ranch wheri J was 18.
Soon I owned a store. - Theni I took over
a run-down hotel and -built iit up. Then
I sold out and . went to San Francisco
anri einroriid tha commission business. In
tune I got ahead, so now . I try to make
un for tha mavtime I lost when I WS
a boy.. .
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Next I met Dr. Emma MaRJ , wiea
strom, who came from Finland r as a
girt She worked as a domestic, then
as a dishwasher, then in ja hospital,
where she became a trained nfse. She
went to Vienna, studied medicine, be
came a physician and came to Portland
from Chicago five years ag.
Before the evening was over 1 had
heard the life stories of several other
interesting people, so you see that with
all the charm of new scenes there la no
less charm in learning of ithe hopes
and ambitions, loves and bates, joys
and fears, ideals, aspirations and ex
periences of those with whom! you come
In contact during your travels.
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happening la Brief Forai for ta
ay Header.
OREGON NOTES
The council of Eugene haa been asked
the citv auto cam nine- e.,w i7lr"
fj 10 days at a time. " " v "
The Salem hospital, which was closed
August 1. has been reorganized ami wilt
be reopened August 16 with Miss Gladys '
feteele aa superintendent. J
An Intensive campaign ' is under -at
Klamath FaHe to ralne a lioo.oocr
building fund for the Sacred Heart -academy
and gymnasium. t
tfn.A a t,u .. i .
- - " - " . vuwt uuaru nSS
authorised the construction of SiO lock
ers to prevent the theft of wearing n.
parel of high school studenta .
JThe annual meeting of the Oregon
Federation of Labor, which was ached -uled
to be held at La Grande this year,
wfll be held in Pendleton.
lAn application has been filed with the
state engineer for water rights on Wil
son river for the development of a pulp
and paper mill at Bay City.
lOfflctala of the Socialist party have
filed with the secretary of state certifi
cates of nomination of candidates for
presidential electors and other offices.
iThe Klamath-Shasta valley irrigation
district of California has made anplica- -tlon
to appropriate 1500 acre feet of
water from the Klamath river near
Keno. ,
I An Inspection of the alfalfa fields of
Baker county will be made to determine
whether r not there is any weevil. So
sr aa known the county is free from
the peat. " . .
I Although the acreage of potatoes in.
Central Oregon is not so heavy as In
former years, the quality of Netted
Uems this year will be far above last
year's crop.
I About 800 feet of a dike at Browns
mead in Clataop county haa cotlapfced
and aa a result 200 acres of farm land
Lave been Inundated, causing a loss of
$7000 or $8000. -
I Austin M. Donovan of Klamath Falls
and Benjamin F. Lindas of Med ford
have applied to the supreme court for
permission to practice law under the
probation rule.
"t The state library Is in receipt of ;5
volumes or manuscript copies of- books
and booklets written by soldiers and
others concerning Western participants
In the world war.
Boat,' and automobile races, a carwivai
and lb- best agricultural, horticultural
and Industrial exhibit- of many years
will feature the Wasco eounty fair
which opens at The Dalles October 4.
I The Baker eounty court will let a con
tract in a few days for the Improvement
of tha Muddy creek road aa a market
road. It will be about four and one-half
miles long. Bids will be opened August
24 for grading the Halnes-North Powder
ttAAtir.n nf fit Hr.vnn (,.11
WASHINGTON
Precipitation In Lincoln countv'ln Jirlv
totaled nine-tenths of an inch, aa com
pared with no rainfall In July. 1919.
Contracts have been let by the Chelan
county commissioners for a new concrete
bridge at the mouth of Peshastin creek.
A. S. Kresky of Centralis has an
nounced his candidacy for the Republi
can nomination for representative from
Lewis county.
i A new timber cruise on UO.000 acres
In Cowlitz county shows 7,427.000,000'
feet, compared with 4,6;i,000,000 under,
the former cruise.
" As an experiment. W. II. RoHenoff. a
iRltsville farmer. Is using an auto truck
to nam nis wheat to town. Eight trips
a day are made.
I The Bucoda Improvement club has
been organised. Ita first activity will he
the erection of a large public hall for
community meetings.
I Teachers for the Cathfamet school
have been employed. Salaries of grade
teachers will be $105; high school $125
and principal $165.k School will own
September 13.
Fruit shippers of the Wenatchea dis
trict are protesting agalnat tha recent
ruling ef the interstate commerce com
mission Increasing the freight rate on
applea from 28 to $3 per cent.
The Wahkiakum county board of
equalisation has raised tha valuation of
practically every kind of property In the
county. Farm land has Veen advanced
from $20 an acre to $.10 and timber land
has been doubled. Kiali traps have also
been doubled.
IDAHO
Traffic has been resumed on the Ca
ms a prairie railroad between Lewiston
and Riparia.
The fruit crop In the Moscow section
will be below that of last year In yield'
but better in quality; :
Completed Investments for July of the
permanent endowment funds by the de
partment ef public .Investments ggre
gated $318,116.
During the' month of July. 2533 pieces
of bafsage were received at the Boise
depot of the Oregon Short Line, an in
crease of 139 pieces over July. 1919.
A, corporation has been formed at
Burley to build a cooperative warehouse
to provide storsge for grain and pota
toes In the Burley district for those un
prepared to store them.
W. A. Meyers and V. A. "Fitzgerald,
convicted of bribery while members of
the state dental examiners board, hsva
been sentenced to eight months in tha
county Jail and fined $700 each.
Undc Jeff Snow Says :
If only the Grand Old Party could git.
us to fussln over the tariff and adflorum
duties and makln' the furrlner pay the
tax, like they done In the good old Mc-
Klnley times, there d be some , snow to
su rt another trust' Incubator In the
Whlta House. . :
The Oregon Wild Rose Can
Furnish Parent Stock for
Entire World Supply
(Continued from Sunday)
California norists are more ready
to take advantage of tha. opportunity
to grow rose stock Jhan Oregon. Hv
eral concerns there have gone into
the business, but cTlmatlc conditions
aSJ adverse. The weather Is too dry
for much of the year. The soil Is
not sufficiently fertile. The heat at
times Is too intense. The rose cut
tings do not develop the necessary
size snd vitality.
It Is peculiarly logical that the
business of growing both rose plsnts
and tha choice varieties of roses
should be developed along parallel
lines near Portland. Soil, sunshine,,
j-aln and temperature are ideal. For
uncounted centuries the wild roses
of the lanes and open" spaces have
been testifying to this fact. They
have flooded the air with the spice
of their perfume. They have warmed
every ruril scene with their 'blos
soms. They have grown strong of
stem and their topmost leaves and
flewers . have nodded to the breeze
high above the ground.
But while millions of dollars were
being, spent every year for wild rose
cuttings from abroad the message of
Oregon's wild roses was unheard.
Heed has juxt. in fact, been given to
the opportunity. One local firm sold
last- year 300.000 fose plants at an
average of 20 cents apiece, and 160,000
this year at an average of 30 cents
apiece, the reduction in number being
due to shortage of stock. One Oregon
nursery is now preparing to grow
1,000,004 rose cuttings for budding or
grafting purposes annually. With
other florists simillarly expanding the
enterprise It wilt not be long until
Portland's finest roses grafted on
Oregon's wild rose stock will be dis
tributed In more millions than can
easily be counted, wherever roses can
be induced to bloom.
(To Be Continued)
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