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i . . SATURDAY. AUGUST 14. THE OREGON DAILY; JOURNAL; PORTLAND," OREGON 1920. AX lypBPEyDtJIT WEWWPAPEB c r. jACKaosi -v--;IublJl!r'r (Be rlm. b eonfldent, fee cheerful sad do nto otbera yen would hat thtm do unto you. 1 I'abliihed rrirj wk dT and Sunda orn)ri. , at The Jovrml Bulldine. Broadway and lam- " bill etr-et, FrtUtMl. -" EiKnd at th poatofto at rortl.rxS fn InnimlKUII thfOlub til Ball U Oman. ItCOU claaa guUec I TfcIJCPHONE84 Main 71T3. Automatic MO-sl. All department reached by " nomtxra. ni.L-ia tritvnriHINM REPRESENTATIVE . BerdafnientDor Co.. tnwrt B0dmjl. ! llnild'm. Clilc-.o. . TiiK OUEOON JOUKNAL ntrrtr the Tight to . reject adrertfains cojnr wbieb It deem ob- : Jectionable. It abo will not print any copy : that In any tway .inmUtea readin matter or that cannot tcadily bo ecognied a adr- " tiains. - I . , ' SUBSCRIPTION BATES , , By Carrier. City and Country i DAILY AND SUNDAY. . One Tree... .J. .1 I Ono month. . I . . . $ .65 ; VAUii 1 SUNDAY On. wak..,.J.$ J j Ono week...... -$ .05 Ono month. . . - .4 t .-.....-liY WAIUAIJ. (HATES PAYABf.K IN ADVANCE Ono year..., O? Three months. . . 52.25 Sis month... J. - DAILY . (Without Sunday) Ono year. ...J. $6. 00 Mix month. 1.. Thra month. J . 1.75 Ono month. . 1 -. .SO WKEKCT ' "' (Brary Wedseadayl Ono year . ... i 1.00 Hut months... 1 . .50 Uoo month. ..... .75 SUNDAY 0nly . Oo yar......$0? Six months...... 1.75 Tbreo month... 1.00 i WEEKT.Y AND ' ' SUNDAY On r.... ...13.50 . TbtM yateo apply only In tbo Wnt ' Rate to Kaatera pointa fnroblied oa applica tion. Make remittances by Money Order. Kxpreea Order or Draft. If your poatoffit to no Money Order OUiee. 1 or 2-t atampa will be accepted. Make all remittance payable to Tbo Journal. Pftrtkfnd. Ore-n. 'God bo thanked that there an aome In the world to wboe hearts the barnacle will not eliqs. J. G. Holland, BLOWS HOT BLOWS COLD RICHARDj DEICH is acting Judge in the rjaunicipal court. He is also a deputy, ditrloi attorney. He is also a nomineej for district Judge. Recently1 the son of a prominent Portland family was speeding on a busy east side thoroughfare. He was arrested ana told to appear in cdurt. The officer was there with hii testi mony.4 Whj;n the case was called for trial, Actinjg ' Judge Deich, without hearing a word of testimony, contin ued iti6 'cake indefinitely. . ; Upon whjat pretext was the case continued jyithout a hearing ? ; Wltere did the judko get details of the case Certainly not' in court, where most people Are called upon to tell their . stories. That is where a Greek hotel proprietor :old his. He got 180 days in jail. : Bui the prominent young man did no ha e to go to that trouble. His case w is indefinitely continued. ' The 14-year-old son of a well known i tlmberman was arrested for unlaw : fully drivlhg a machine. , Judge Deich, as deputy" district attorney, was to prosecute the case. The day of trial neither prosecutor nor accused was present in court. ' An officer who later served a bepch warrant on the father, I was.told that the case "had been taken care pfHvlth Deich. Deich explained a. f utu it iTuut iw li vvvuu 7 ' Cause the boy had been, driving the machine a long time." , Continue I violation of the law, then, under that code, would entitle the of fender to clemency. That is .what he would havu received In that case had not Judge Rossman Insisted that the father be brought before him. ', The father fame, and was fined 125. A man ho, witnesses declared, was traveling 1 1 a speed of 50 miles an hour in his automobile, crashed into a motorcycle." The latter machine was wrecked aid the rider injured. The case came to trial before Deich as Judge.1 "Witnesses insisted that "noth- . ag could have got out of the way," and " that ; assengers in the speeding . automobile "were hanging on for dear life.' ; ,.! ..,; .;. - . This", ca e Judge Deich dismissed. Does he telieve that men should be allowed tc make speedways of Port land streets? Or, does he believe that sbme men should' Je . granted that privilege? '- - ; . ':' . Another man was arrested for driv ing while intoxicated. " He had crashed through a fence, During' the encoun ter; a timber had smashed its way through his machine. Shortly after the driver.' arrived at the police sta ' Mon, ,'Judj& Deich called by" telephone nd ordered the man released on his wn recognizance. 'V The books at the police station show r- where man after, man .has v spent ; nights, and many days, in jail for the same offense. : No one has ordered them released , on ', their own recog nizance. fThcy stayed in jail. Then' the case came before Richard Deich as judge. . The-officer swore .hat the driver 'was intoxicated.' The ' driver. saSd no.' The . case, was dis- . ; nrilssed. 'pr . - - The : cases referred to may be in- - stances of adequate and efficient law enforcement. But The Journal doesn't ; think soJ And, the people of Port land donTt think soJ , Does: District ttorneyEvans? : It mast be said to the credit of Mr. , Dlch that he did In the E. J. Ritzmlan case what the coroner's Jury refused to do. He found the ' negligent . pilot . guilty of reckless WASTING THE PEOPLE'S MONEY 1; v DOES anybody think a trainload of gasoline can be hauled V17I ipiles at the teame cost of operation that it can be hauled only 2048 miles? .! Does Anybody think that the extra haul of J129 miles would cost nothing? Just Chat thing was done when the trainload of gasoline was brought Into Oregon from Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was routed via San Antonio and Fort Worth, through California, 3177 miles, when It could have come, via Wichita and Ellsworth, Kan, and thence via the Union Pacific In only 2048 miles. At least 10 or a dozen extra locomotives had to be used In making the extra distance-! . Each was kept out of use for one day's run for other badly needed purposes and at a time when there is a distressing shortage of locomotives. And the (engineer and fireman on each locomotive were similarly kept out of use in hdiullng other traffic one day by this extra haul of 1129 miles in bringing this traiaload of gasoline to Oregon. ' ! ; J And extra fuel and oil and repairs were required for each or the 10 or a dozen ilocomotives and the wages of the 10 or a dozen locomotive crews went on; while this extra haul of vthe gasoline train was Jn. progress. ; , And the same Is true of the, train crew, of which 10 ,or a dozen were required in this long and entirely 'unnecessary detour of 1129 miles. And the same is true of the cars which were nauled an extra li29 miles and which must now be hauled the entire distance back again in order: to receive other consignments of gasoline. ' : ! . i i ' In public business-, such wasteful processes would, when discovered, become a public scandal. -They would be made the subject of public investigation. In artr small private business such a thing as hauling a whole train of crs 112 miles for nothing, would bring on bankruptcy. ?No legitimate busi ness of lany proportions could stand up under such a system of waste, r Yet v-e Have here in the private management of railroads an actual case or waste la profligate as if the whole cost of the round about haul and the round about return of the empty cars had been dumped into the broad and deep ocean. f - : . ; .. ' r . - u j J ;:6 ' Andthe rUlroad owners do not pay from their own pockets the money so wasted. The principle is now accepted in this country that the interstate commerce commission shall regulate the railroads and that it must allow them to charge the people ;a sufficiently profit t the railroad owners. Because of that principle the Interstate .com merce commission recently authorized the companies to raise the rates an average jof about 31 per cent for the entire country, in addition to an ad vance :n passenger rates. : '. ! KL ' One if the ' items on which that advance in rates was authorized by the commission was the increase in salaries and wages of railroad employes. That i- jto say. the principle is accepted road increase the jnterbtatcj commission authorizes the railroad companies to collect increased freight and passenger rates in order that the i companies may have a fair return on the operation of the rail lines. 1 , , ;,The bcop then, have (to pay all the cost of hauling the trainload of gasoline the added and. wholly unnecessary 1129 miles ov or the long and circuitous route from Tulsa via San Antonio, Texas, through California to Portland. ; i -;; " :-' -v ': ;' i The practice should hi stopped. should put an end to it. It the commission has not the power to doi so then jcongres4 shoul' take a hand. If congress will not act then the people them selves should force out of railroad operation a process that cannot, be defended cn any pretext and that would not be tolerated in any well conducted private driving jin connection with the death of little Donald Harvey.' and sen tenced Ihlm to six months in jail, the maximum penalty. While Ilitz man Is jserving his terra he can re flect onj how! a little caution would have saved aj life, and other drivers can see whither they are drifting. Because a baby njns into the street without j looking for automobiles, a driver m not absolved, from blame for the isimple: reaSon that the baby violated! traffic rules. Babies and small children : do the unexpected. Motorists rrtust anticipate and be pre pared to avoid a fatal accident, j RESOURCEFUL FRANCE THE recuperative powers of France havfe 1 always elicited the admira tion of the 'world. After all her de structive wars from the time""of fthe Bourboris down to the disastrous struggle? of 1S2P, tho people of I the? earth have ' marveled i at the rapidity with ; which the French " nation i en tered and passed the reconstruction period, j But! never have her efforts been mjare successful than since the world war. J . r j '. -y i Seventy-five per cent of her fac tories and' industrial establishments in the war zone have been rebuilt. The population of the devastated areas has doubled! since the conclusion of the destructive struggle. Two thirds of the trenches have; been filled, in, I two thirds of the houses destroyed have been rcjplaced, and two thirds of the barbed (wire entanglements removed. Nearly .half the,, wrecked highways, are agam carriers of trarnc and prac tically jail the crippled railways are again In usci Half the torn territory Is ready for cultivation. The regions are now producing sufficient cereals for their own. use, and a surplus to be distributed to the rest of the country is a-prediction for the early future. Not ljess has the fibre and spirit of the Frelnch nation been exhibited since the conclusion of the ravaging strug gle, than during the dark (days of the Gerraaii advance. The world again views with' bared head the manifesta tion by the people of France of thafl spirit that halted the black menace of Germany at the gates of Paris, this time transposed to the ; pursuits of peace. ' The tcity and county are again ex changing communications over which is to build a certain road. If the governments' were' consolidated there would -'be no necessity for continued debate! over which body is to act. !NOT BACK TO LIFE MAYOR BAKER declares that con ditions similar to those at Elton Court k the time of the receiit deadly fire exist in ! other buildings lin Port land. jHe h as requested Fire Marshal Grenfejll to make a complete Investi gation ; of the conditions and offer rec ommendations to the council I as to meansi of eliminating the hazards. ' There are other such conditions. There are other buildings, on which there js only one fire escape. That is all the law calls for.- There are other buildings ' with : non-fire Break- stair ways.! There are other buildings with elevator shafts that are perfect fire conductors. There are other buildings with inany firetraps. r - '" The mayor ; is looking r toward a safer Portland In requesting a survey and recommendations. The Investiga tion should ; be thorough and recom mendations be made that 1 will ade quately safeguard those who work and live in buildings. And the council should provide stronger regulations, high rate on trarno to return a iair that when the expenses or the ran - 'l ' The interstate commerce commission even at greater cost to builders and building : owners. Dollars -cannot bring the fire dead back to life.; While a Texas steeplejack! painted the flagpole of a tall .building in Ohio, the coroner and the town's most popular undertaker sat on a porch across the street and watched him. . ! ! A JOURNAL POLICY "PHE JOURNAL is issuing to adver- X tisers and to others who are in terested in its business and advertis ing policies, the following ' statement . The Oregon Journal reserves the right to reject copy which it deems objection able. It . also will not print any. coDy that in any way simulates reading mat ter or that cannot readily be recognized aa advertising. j , i j. i , i. In the application of the general policy towards advertising and 1 advertising copy, use these criterions: Copy for medicine taken internally not accepted. . . i Copy simulating reading ! matter not accepted. - s Discussion or mention of symptoms, diseases, ' cures, guarantees, , not per mitted. - r, .. .. - . . i , ; . What may be considered ugly illustra tions not accepted. i - r :, Unpleasant words prominently V dis played must be revised. ? ; Questionable financial or wildcat ad vertising not taken. The above rules conform to the highest standards of modern adver tising science and The Journal rejoices to be the pioneer in so important a forward step in the local field. This paper is thus enabled to bring to the attention of its readers such advertising as it, with its, knowledge or va'ueswouid wish brought before it were the positions reversed. V And every advertiser whose copy is accepted Is kept in the best of com pany. . j ? j Dome ume ago - Tne Journal an nounced the elimination of, so-called medical advertising from Its columns At that time the breadth and fearless ness of i the policy received praise, The broader policy here indicated was adopted at the same, time.' W. v The Journal believes, apart , from the ethical, and moral considerations Involved, in the business soundness of its decision. I ; I Cappers Weekly says there is this difference between sugar profiteers and; Jesse James Jesse; had horse. ; PORTLAND OVERRULED T ISREGARD1NG the Injustice and IlJ the impropriety of the action. and disregarding thfc protest of Port land as repeatedly voiced by the Cham ber of Commerce, -the United States shipping board has confirmed the or der which establishes a j new North west shipping district of wihich Seat tle will become headquarters. " - 1 There! is no reason why Portland should so 'through Seattlei to obtain the allocation of ' merchant . marine vessels., Portland . will be discrimi nated , against In Seattle. Portland will never be given a square deal in Seattle. f The competitive relations of the two i cities, and particularly the destructive attitude of Seattle, render any practical union under such a head impossible. ::' " ;i:v; ;;. The Chamber of Commerce has had its secretary, W. D. B. Dodson. in the national capital fighting against the creation of the new district.; He has had back of him the full strength of a strong community's protest. Admi ral Benson of the shipping; board knows now. if he did not know before, that more vessels of the United States merchant marine are being: loaded out bound on the Columbia rlier' than on Puget sound. He knows faow, if the fact had previously escaped his at tention, that no city in the United States made such a shipbuilding rec ord for the government in speed of construction as Portland. He knows that the creation of the new district is j , intolerable i and unendurable to Portland. But the order establishing the dis trict has nevertheless been confirmed. In maritime circles it is said that the" great shipping interests of the country have selected New; York, San Francisco and Seattle as "closed ports" for their designing purposes. Portland is an "open port" outside monopolistic control. Portland must fight for any fair consideration from the great ship ping interests, i But it was hoped that their Influence1 did not extend to the shipping board. . ' - f HE DISAGREES A FRIEND of The . Journal writes on the other side of i the pistol controversy. He says everybody ought to go armed. j ' Then, knowing that his intended victim was armed, would not : the armed highwayman shoot jand shoot to kill on the victim's first; suspicious movement? Being always! skilled in use of the revolver, would not the' advantage all the time be on the side or the desperado? t I And, under universal carrying of concealed weapons,-would not men in angry, controversy whip out their pUstoIs and shoot to kill? That was the practice in the mining camps in frontier days, and dd we not all re member the tragedies it led to? ( The best minds in the. world agree that if ' all the nations would disarm Wars would be much fewer. If we banished the pistol and disarmed the crooks why then wouldn't; hold-ups and killings be fewer ? ; If bur., friend will study the pistol and watch its effects as The Journal has done for years, he : will ultimately take his stand against arming the crooks and supplying them with abundant am munition. ' . COX MEETS TEST ISSUE IS CLEAR From New Tork World. Governor Cox has met the issue of the campaign, and he has met it boldly and directly, i . He is for the League of Nations not a! league of nations that has ho existence except in the minds of partisan politi cians not . a mythical or intangible as sociation or society of nations which is without form and void. He is for the League of Nations that is already estab lished for the1 League of ; Nations to which 29 governments have already giv en their adherence. The difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate on this issue cannot be expressed better than in the language of Governor Cox himself: ! The question is whether we shall or shall not join in this practical and humane movement. President Wil son, as our i representative , at the peace table, entered the league in our name, insofar as the- executive authoritv permitted. Senator Hard-, MBg, as theJtepublican candidate for ine presaency, proposes tnat we re main out of it. As the Democratic candidate, I favor going in. There can be no controversy'about the meaning of-a straightforward statement like that. Harding is against the league and Cox isfor it. . The governor,; does not insist that the covenant must be accepted; without in terpretations He is in full : accord with the platform of his party in that respect. He : Is willing to accept any reasonable interpretations that clarify the obliga tions of the United States under the league, but he stands firmly against anything "that disturbs the vital . prin ciple" of the league. j- ,-!..' i . ' That, in reality, was the storm center of the senate 1 controversy. The presi dent was : trying to preserve the vital principle of the league, and the Repub- : Weans, including Senator Harding, un der Senator Lodge's - leadership, were trying to destroy it. In the ; national convention the; Republicans were ' man euvered into stUl more vigorous opposi tion by the threats of the Battalion-of-Death senators, and Senator Harding is finally in- accord with Senator Johnson. Governor Cox now makes, possible "the great and - solemn referendum" that the president urged when ratification became hopeless. . : j ' - : i , The Issue is clear. Governor Cox Is. entitled to the! support of all the advo cates of the League of Nations, aad Sen ator Harding to the support of all the opponents of the league. t ' - ) Every friend of the league can give his approval and his applause to all that Governor Cox says in his speceh In dis cussing this question. Nobody has stat' ed the issue more clearly-or defined it more precisely; - j , He has dealt with it in a manner that leaves no doubt as to where he stands or what he would do as president of the United States in respect to the league and the covenant. He is equally frank In dealing with the Knox separate peace which Senator; Harding has made an in tegral part of the Republican foreign policy. It would be, he says, "the most disheartening event in civilization since the Russians made their separate peace with Germany, and infinitely more un worthy" on our part than It was on that of the Russians." And if Germany were to accept such ,a proposal, "It would be for the express purpose bf insuring a German-American alliance, recognizing that the allies in fact, no nation in good standing would have anything to do with either of us." ; - Governor Cox was recently described by a distinguished Republican who had served, witn him in congress as "a right minded man."; That quality shines forth in every sentence of his 'speech of ac ceptancein his discussion of the League of Nations, in bis passionate denuncia tion of the Republican senatorial con spiracy against the treaty of peace. In his .-scalding criticism of the infinite malice of the Republican-platform mak ers in their treatment of a victorious war. In his attitude toward Mexico, in all that he says about domestic ques tions taxation, - - economy ; freedom of speech, railroads, finance, corrupt prac tices and governmental responsibility. J Communications Mat to Thm Joanul for s, tmbacataon in this department ssBoold b written on csl one side of th nwr. sboald not exceed SOS word in length and most be signed by tbo writer, wnoae mail addreao in : lull most accom TO STOP PROFITEERING Portland, Aug. 10. To the Editor of The Journal I understand that the price Letters From the People i urn wi iVrl-lf.s ikfifrjC yH t nasv S f5!' fc w ill . ififi ?i?fi im mv?' . i- of leather has come down considerable and that the boot and shoe manufac turers have declared that they won't buy leather at anx price. Now I wish to suggest to the general public that we do as our forefathers used to do: that there, be a mass meeting and a commit tee appointed and the city divided into smalt communities, and that each, com munity buy the leather, hire shoemakers and make their own shoes as in olden days. This could be done in regard to other wearing apparel, and if the above suggestion was carried out It would bring the manufacturers to their senses mighty quick and would stop this prof iteering. ! If there is no change pretty! soon In the cost of living' I for one propose to. agitate until some such plans, as the aforesaid are adopted. A. J- Clark. I THE DENVER MOB Woodburn, Aug. 8. To the Editor of The Journal In your The Denver Mob" editorial we are told: "The only offense of the Denver Post .was that it argued against the strike of the Denver car men," and that "The true course of the sympathizers with the strike was to meet argument with argument , In open dis cussion through the press." We naturally judge others by ourselves. The Oregon Journal being unusuaUy fair in allowing the use of its columns by those holding various views, probably thinks the Den ver Post would permit the strikers to use some or its space to acquaint meiuneans. - He made tne trip to fortiana public with the facts and acta to -which they object. I respectfully ask The' Journal to read Upton Sinclair's late book, entitled "The Brass Check," especially , pages 162, 16 and 164, as they deal with this same Denver Post in a- similar case the coal strike a few years ago. : Sinclair's ac cusations are specific, and ' presumably true' since the Denver Post' has brought no action against him. Can, The Journal editor Inform the many i "Interested : readers hows strikers can state their case "in open discussion through the pres".t under such condi tions? . ."..; . I'"..'; This is written in earnest. Let it be understood I do not approve of the Den ver mob action; but the point is, as I see it, that the Denver Post is not a free press, and the desire is to learn what means strikers can use under- such con ditions to secure . justice. Henry Chapelle. j CITY ORDINANCES PROVIDE Portland. Aug. 10. To the Editor of The Journal Is it. not a fact ; that the fire and police boards are expected to inspect buildings and factories where people are 'employed, not only as to safety from fire but- safety as to the condition, of the building as well T It is well known among employes of certain factories in Portland that, the buildings in which they are employed are unsafe. These people have told me that If they did report this condition and it were found out they would be discharged. I am not exaggerating this matter, as I have personally talked to employes who state that the places where they are working are overloaded to more than the capacity of their floor space. ; ' A Workman. (City - ordinances proTide for tha proper in mriinn nf hmlriina. both aa to fire risk and overloading of floor. J Olden Oregon, An Early Effort to Secure Prohibition Legislation. , An effort was made in the election of 1854 to get some temperance men elected to the territorial legislature in order to secure a prohibitory law. For' this pur pose a party called the Maine-law party was organized. Candidates were placed in the field, but none were elected. Not withstanding the opposition to the Maine law an act was passed by the legislature in the nature of a local option law re quiring retail dealers, or- those who wished to sell less than a quart, to obtain the signatures of a majority of the legal voters in their respective precincts to petitions ' praying that licenses be granted. Curious Bits of -Information for the Curious - r Gleaned From Curious Places The chief menace to sugar cane In the West Indies is the f roghopper, an insect that sucks the sap from the root and leaves of the sugar cane, and that owes its name to its ability to take prodigious leaps. - In recent years the Insects have multiplied enormously, especially - in Trinidad, where their natural enemies frogs, toads and llsards have ' been nearly exterminated by the mongoose, originally brought from India to kill the rats and snakes. Wherever the mon goose were plentiful the llsards disap peared and ' the ' froghoppers flourished. Five years ago a leading planter, after exterminating . as many mongoose . as possible, placed thousands of ground lizards in his cane fields, with the re sult that the frognopper has almost dis appeared, and the sugar yield is greaUy increased and improved.. , . "PLEASE!". CopjTisht, 1920, by Th COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Lloyd George is said to be badly In need of a rest. It's all right with us. Let George take it. - This constitutes -a wife's conversation with her husband when he stays around the house Sunday: "Please move ; you are in my way." Wouldn't it be a good plan for aspir ing political candidates to line , up the support of the motion picture stars? They seem to sway the emotions of a very large following. . ' The high cost of living is said to be on the down grade, but yet a long way from the bottom. If it keeps on going down, however, we'll be willing to wait, a while for the bum p. - MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town G. W. Hill man, whose father Is re puted to have discovered- Crater , lake while searching for the Lost Cabin -mine more than 50 years ago. Is among the engineers visiting in Portland this week and attending the convention of " civil engineers. - Hlllman resides in New by automobile -with Ms family, coming through California and stopping at the lake en route. - - ,- , . v Major Carl H. Reeves, superintendent of public utilities in Seattle, and a member of the board of public works, was a visitor at the city hall .Wednes day, attending the council meeting' to see how the local city fathers carry on. Major Reeves is attending the engineer ing convenUon. l- - - Dr. George L. Parrish, city health offi cer, has been so far. away from Port land for his vacation that it took all the proverbial three weeks - and then some for his letters to reach him. Dr. Parrish left with his family for Yellow stone July 17. He sent a couple of cards, and then employes in the office at the city hall lost all trace of him. Mrs. Ruth' Carter, his secretary, 7 was just on the verge of sending a-telegram OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN 1 By Fred Che-che-pe-to-i-gi Some name that. It is the name given by the Indians of the Peace river country to a man who not long ago was a street sweeper at - La Grande. It means the' man who moves his hair. This man- can move his scalp, an accomplishment that used to fascinate the Indians of the Northland. ; The man who is in a receptive mood for romance and adventure can usually .find it. You would not be apt to pick out the man who sweeps the city' streets as the sub ject for a story, but gold is where you find it and by the same token so Is romance. - -.' . .- -.' . , "It's a far call from my birthplace in India to Grande Ronde valley, and I have seen a good deal of the world since that far gone time in July, 1869. when I first saw the light of day,1! he said, "My father was an army of fleer in India. When I was 4 years old I was sent from India to the home of my for bears to England to be educated. When I was 14 my father thought I was wil ful. He said the discipline I would get on a stock ranch would be good for me so be found a place for me on a cattle ranch at Elbow. ' now called Calgary, Alberta. I wanted to be on my own, so I struck out for myself. "When I was 19, though I looked several years older, I enlisted with the Northwest Mounted police at Cypress HilL - My. Job was to look out for whiskey smugglers and horsethleves. I put in five years with them. I will never forget my first as signment. It came near being my last. I was sent cJut with an old timer, one who knew all the traditions of the force and who would rather, have died than bring a smirch on the reputation of the organization. We were after two horse thieves who had come across the line from the States. They had been steal ing horses to run across the line and sell in the States. My comrade warned me to take them alive If possible, but to get them dead or alive. . We followed them for a week or more till we were in a rough untraveled country, where we lost their trail. My comrade sized up the, country and said. -They will take one of two passes across the hills. I'll take the one -to the right, you take the other one. Keep your eyes open and shoot it you have to. We will meet on the other side f the hills two days hence. Wait , fori me. I'll find you. I think there is but little chance of our running across them, but one of as may locate their trail. They are several days ahead of us.' ,.;;;. -; , r C V . .- "Next forenoon as I was riding along I heard someone say, 'Hands up.' They bad the : drop on me so .1 put up my pres Publishing Co. Cth New Tork World) NEWSJN BRIEF SfMLIGHTS The IWarrenton suggests -that AKtnriarui come to iWarrtenton for a eAod drink of water. They Rave jit . and we nave nou ASionai i-iuaei. . i , . . A large woolen mill in Baker j would not. only nrovide A new industry and a big payroll for the town, but would at the same time stabilize the; sheep in dustry and keep Western 'money at home ! Baker Herald.- . I : 'Independence was given a hard Jolt by Uncle i Sam in the census returns and must -go for 10 years handicaped with a nitiful, show In ; as to tjooulation. A striving little city jof approximately 2000 people must t content to lei me worm believe that it has ibut-1145. .Think of it! Polk County post. i r to the! park management asking for in formation when a letter - came Friday morning. - Parrish, said he had been 18 miles f'up in the mountains."; The Par rish family is now in the Hood River valley and will be back next week. Paying an interim Visit to the city hall during his month's vacation. City Com missioner 6. C. Pier attended the council meeting Wednesday and transacted some other city business the same day. He left again Thursday morning, and will not; be at his desk again : until next Wednesday. Pier has been sojourning at Long' Beach, Wash.,- with (his family, but he has now j left' for the "Salmon River country to ido "some fishing, ' S Mild Hoadlev of the United States y of the - customs service, Ivan Waterman, pro fessor! of engineering at Oregon Agricul tural college, andi W. II. Wright of the O-W. JR. & N. system, have just returned to Portland after surveying plans for a new lighlhouse to be built at Cape Elizabeth fn the Qulnault Indian reser vation. The new; lighthouse; will catch the light at Grays Harbor: and make it safe for the reef at the mouth of the Qulnault. J Lockley ! hands. The two men we were after too It my horse, my grub, my gun? and all my ammunition-and told me to get back to where I came; from f or ;they would shoot me on eight if they saw me again. I started back . - for help. Then I ; remembered what -I had ! hear,d one of the sergeants say. He said, 'Any man who loses his eauinment by having ft taken away from him disgraces the force. He pad better kill himself than come back with such a repor t.' They doubled back on the track they had come. I followed them. I followed them lor two weeks. During that time all I had to eat was raw digger, squirrels that I caught by making a loop of my shoe lace i and putting it around, the hole where I would see one dodge in at sight of me. I would sometimes wait for sev eral j hours , before I got him but I de cided to starve before I turned back: Finally the horsethleves established , a permanent camp, j I started back to get help from a small band of Cree Indians I had seen a day or so before. I ran across them in one day s travel. I told them the mounted police would pay them for what I got so I took a horse, an Indian-made saddle and the only ; gun they had, a .4S-70 Winchester, and five cartridges, all they had. 1 rode back to where I had left the two horsethleves in camp. Next morning, before daylight. I crawled as close as I could get to where they were camped in the timber. t waited till they were both astir and had started getting breakfast. Then I sang out. 'Hands up or 111 plug you.' Both their arms went up. 41 made them walk away from their camp 100 feet while I followed, covering them with my gun. Then, under pain of death, I made one tie the other's hands securely be hind his back. I made the other lie face down on the ground and I tied bis hands. I tied their hands so tight their wrists swelled up, but I wasn't going to take -any chances, I never untied their hands nor did I close my eyes for six daya and nights while I. marched them afoot to the nearest point where I could turn them over to the mounted police.. They, were all in sad I was as thin as a snake and' my eyes -were so bloodshot 1 could hardlyfi see. I was lucky that time. ).; , .-' jT , - h ; s ! ' "Here.- f will show you a few scars where I have been plugged. Here is where an Indian, wanted for murder, shot me. but -t got him. 1 have been hot five times, but when you sign on for; 60 cents a day and rations that is part of the game. I knowiof no finer bunch of men on the face of the earth than the lads in the Northwest Mounted police." . : - , j The Oregon Country Nortliwt Kp:r.ln In Brief Form for tU liuijr 1'eadcr. - , OREGON" NOTES . i Th nr-lntAria' r iti.a Ia n, r n be advanced August 29 from t s, day to 7. - Th ln9M 1n fi-tv.f ... t.i ... - - - - r. ' v i a win COHI i-.rS ,Zr, PPl trotrs approximately Jmmeft T f fin Inn nf ri i w , . ' " - v..u.vi.wii nun ureu elected supreme master of arms for the supreme loose ivnignis or J'ythlaa. The Bend Commercial club has author sed an Invitation to the Oregon Kdltor al ftRfinriiitinn tt hnlil 1 1 u tion at Bend. Medford theatrical interests have ln raded Ashland, having .obtained an o- ion on a nipc nf prnnml m . . erect a building. Th X(l.anrA form flM-tr XXT t' .. lor. npa r t ha .t.l. n- tk a . . V. of Kugene, has been purchased by John Burglars robbed the safe "of Glover silver. They entered the building through a I AO LJA .. , ...1 I a0. RillUUW. . Fl U r r A k.nn maJIa a TYahIa. to entertain SftO H l. , 1 1., in t, ........ i convention of the State Federation of Labor, September 19. ConRlrttrllnn u-nrk n t Via Wltlnml-. . Grand Ronde railroad has been suspenrt de on- account of a walkout of team Bters. who demand $5.60 a day. After . air wooItb rt oHIHrnr tKpAi.k lava rock, an' abundant flow of .wat-r has been reached at the Crises Lumlx-r company's mill in Klamath county. A 20 per cent dividend is beln re ceived by stockholders in the Cottage Grove Canning company. Gross salos of the company in 1919 amounted to $50,000. " .Hop contracts covering the crop from 50 acres owned by J. L Clark near. Springfield, Lane county, have been filed. The agreement is for four years and the average price is 43 cents per pound. Charles Swalley of Bend made a trip the other day to the headwaters of tha Umpqua rtver to search for a rich placer mine he abandoned 6 years aero. Ha found the spot, but there were only slight traces of gold. The Inland -Highway association wM give a picnic at Manning. In Washing ton county, August 18. The association is advocating the building of a khio highway through Forest Grove, BankB, Manning, Buxton, Vernontu, Mist and Jewel t Astoria. WASHINGTON ' The Montesano Packing company hns started operations, canning its first veg etables tliis week. The 9-year-old son of John Holmb,ri; of Laurel was drowned in the milliHjml into which he fell. Pasco labor organizations ore prepar ing to celebrate Labor day on a larger scale than ever before. Two children are dead at Pasco and another is in a serious condition ua a result of eating ground cherries. Out of an approximate maximum of 4C00. only 2400 Centralia voters httva registered for the September primary. . "The United Contracting company has been awarded contracts on street (in. provements in Camas amounting to i:Z, Baa 3 While out hunting. Ralph Harrlon of Sandy Bend was shot in the shoulder by the accidental discharge of a gun carried by his father. According to astatement of the state highway department, a total of $11, 730. 630 has been expended on roads or con tracted for since April 1, 19l. l)ates for the Adams county fair have been set for September 16-19. The pre mium lit is the largpst ever offered. New and large horse burns have been erected n the grounds. Mrs., "W.-P. Lyman, widow of the lat Professor W. r. Lyman of Whitman college, has been granted a pension by the Carnegie institute, which had grant ed Professor Lyman an annuity before A financial statement of the I. W. W. for the Northwest dlMtrlet has been found in the iocket of liert HMKneit, a Insurer, held by federal authorities for Investiga tion. The statement showed that mori than $100,000 was collected during July by the defense committee. IDAHO ' J . K. 1 Noddings has been appointed deputy state fish and game warden to succeed I. S. J6hnson in the Salmon river country. Teachers are still fe wand hard to get, says Miss Lura Paine, Ada county school superintendent. There are many vacan cies in the Ada county schools. The Boise city tax rate for the; com ing year will be 15 mills. ; The expendi tures 'for the year, aro , estimated at $257,551. ! Ir. F. W. Almond of Boise has been named director of the bureau of public service, department of public wclfuce, to succeed l.'r. E. K. Laubaugh. War has been "declared on the pocket gophers In Canyon county by the farm ers, who have petitioned the county com missioners for ways and fyieans to carry on the. warfare. Governor Davis has received a TTnited States treasury warrant; for $399! in payment of a claim for G per cent of the net proceeds of the sale of public lands within the state. The University of Idaho president, t succeed i Dr. Lindley, will probably n named- Tuesday by .the executive, com mittee of the university at a meeting to be held at Spokane. C. B. "Walker, commissioner of the de partment of finance, ha resigned, tits resignation to become effective AuriibI 15. He has been made president of the First National bank of Drfggs. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: This story about a young feller in Seattle ketchin' power outer the air sounds fishy to me, but If he can make good on his claim, pore old . John D. he'll sure die of a broken heart. We Don't Have to Take Our Hats Off to Anyone When They Talk About Kais i ing Wheat ! - "I'm a little wearied by all the Washburn, Crosby and Gold Medal comments that Kastcrn Oregon's wheat is too soft for the- finest grades of flour," commented A. O. Clark, who Is manaKer of the Asso ciated Industries of Oregon. "Oct over in the Middle West and you'd think to hear 'em talk that they had a comer on the world's available supply of wheat for ; baker's j and family flour. And you would aluo think that such wheat must come from I the Dakotas. Minnesota and Wisconsin. At the very least, from Eastern Montana. The truth of the matter ia that 1,000,000 buhel of Marquis No. 1 wheat was shipped from Eastern Oregon to Minneapolis out of the 1919 crop. "The millers there didn't use this wheat for chicken feed or for live stock. They used it in producing thelf highest quality flour and are proud to send it out to all their mar kets under their own brands. To bo entirely truthful it was a shortage of the Northern wheat that promoted the - heavy purchases of - the grain from the Inland Empire, But the result of the draft upon our supply was the discovery that No. 1 Mar quis wheat produced in Eastern Ore gon and Washington la every whit as good as that produced in the regions most noted for its production. We don't have to take off our hats to the wheat grown anywhere else in comparison with our own. Inci dentally we ought to put aside this thing called prejudice, for it is only an opinion without the basis of ex perience or knowledge." A: