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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1920. 6 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND; OREGON a S.t JACKSON . V I ,l4 I He calm, be confident, be cheerful sod mnta ether as you would bate thtra do auto yaw-1 Published eery wk diy and holiday mornin. t Tbe Journal Bulldin. Broadway and Xa kill etreet; Portland. Oncoo. Eirtrrrd at the pwtoMtre a.t Portland. Orxi, loTWwwirthrwWlh.th mail M KCOKl clan mUr. f EI-KPHONES Main 7173, Automatic 68O-6I. Alii department, reached br the BBmbera. ?2 Fifth (mitH, New York; DOO MiUm ; ltiiUdlne., Chicaao. . - - V':i ' " '' -y' llifj ittKUON OUIt.XAL rwrtrt the right te reject adrerueios copy which K deems -Jwttonable. It elo will not print any copy that in ay wy .inmlatea readme mttr o J, that cannot readily be reeosmzed a: edrer tauac. - i " - ; - . -. - 7T SUBSCRIPTION BATES i , r I By Carrier, City and Country ! I - DAILY AND BESPAT ! ' One week.. lOne month.. . . .:.$ .68 DAILY : I SCNOAT An week... ..,$ .10 J Os week. . . . . ... f .05 One month .... . t .44 VT MAIUALL. BATES PATABt.E IN ADVANCE One year. ...... Three month .12.25 . .78 Bis moat li a. . . . , 4.3 -"t PAU.Y - (Wit hoot Sunday) On yar. ...... S.OO Sta moptha. . . . . ; 8.CS Three !Bontba.:. . il.75 On month- .... .00 WEKKI.T1 E very W addenda y) One yar. ...,.$1.00 Six tnontha.. . . , .50 On month. . . . . grNDAT lOnlwi On yar. .3.0 Pii month. ;., 1.75 Tbrea month. .:. 100 WEERXT AND , Ht:NI)AY I One joar. .13.50 Tbflta rate apply only la the wen. ( ' Kaiim oolnta furniahed on epplice tion. .Mia n-mittaacea by aoney Order, Kxpreaa Ordf, or Draft.. If your port office la not Money Order Office. 1 or 2-eent aUmpe wUl be accepted. Hake all remittances payable to The Journal, Portlands Oregon. V I 'V - " ! " ' ! TMmn will I always be found by per. eons who know I how to' employ their j time; those; who want time are the peopki , who do nothing. Mme. Koland. , j CONCERNING NEWSPAPERS L: S. B D V M A N, ' of Portland, jwrltes: :: " - : X . Wilt you please? eive me a. dcftnitlon of thei old-tims phrase "Freedom : of the ; Pressf? I . .- . A i la my friend and numerous lecturers right When they say the press is unduly Influenced by j . i 1. llovie, advertining-. t. BVW.W . - ; 3. Automobile) advertising. 4 TBi giving publicity to Just such things as suits! the newspaper, snd also by withholding just such thincs as suits -i them. . : ,-!J..,.- ; f".- -:. I bear no malice to newspapers , but see It Us an approachlns issue of import-:-.nce. .;. , ' ) r ;" y . .;, . Thehe are newspapers and newspa- pcrs, just as (there are lawyers and lawyers and preachers and preachers and merchants, and merchants. So long as the human equation enters . into 'anythjfns, there is always the chance that tcre wil be frailty4 ; ;j . There are a few crooked lawyers-! . they tiring a measure of odium upon their profession; It is the mlsdolnfcs : of thel crooked lawyers that va most hear .flf, while : the high 'virtues .of thousands of honest ; lawyers go'un annalrd. . ' - . - Occasionally a preacher goes wrong. Naturally .' enough his misdeeds "are widely heralded, while the- lifewort fof thousands of toiling clergymen is never ficard of. . ; : , ; j '- Thene are crooked nevspaperswWcri - are guilty of all the things charged by ; the correspondent. They are without heart br soul, . The men whr own them, (are mercenaries.. They are In ; fluenced by all sorts of commercial and cotrupt agencies: ' 1 ' j . Olheij' newspapers are secretly owned by bigpnterests rr. financially packed 1 by big interests. 'That kind of Inews paper exists to influence the publio for the benefit of the secret owner or packer. . . v -t ..;', -- It Is j probable that the percentage of newspapers controlled by greed or secret ownerships is small. Many news pipers! ; are as free as the wind to say what they please "and do what they pleaset- They .are publid institutions -; and not private hacks.' No attempt 13 . made by department stores, movie houses; or other activities to Influence them.. They know they could not do so If they tried, and it is also probable that, not many of them would have reason tor desire, to influence them. . A great many good people With fads snd hobbies, apply to the newspapers to help them convert the world to . their iew and because the papers do not embrace their plans, jtficy go off and proclaim' that the papers are cor rupt de Influenced by advertisers and ' so on and so on. The most unreason- able people in the world are J those who rpek themselves on hobby horses from, punrise to sunset and ffoni twi light tin til dawn. And there are al most limitless groups of them." A mian ireccntly wrote a book about newspapers, and In all the long list he found jno -case of an honest newspaper. On ilsfVery face, his book is a libel on newspaperdm- What is the mind of a niari whose faith In his felloW man is so small and his conclusions as to facts so absurdT . , : - j The I readers of , a ' newspaper can . easily tell whether it Is conducted as a pubtio Institution sincerely 'devoted to the! public welfare. . .., Special 'Influence can never 60 se cretly worm It3 way Into the control - of a newspaper and make use of it j Without public detection and without a consequent public neglect. Meanwhile, how much better if those who are always seeing the faults of a newspaper would take a glance at its virtues. A; good metropolitan newspaper ; gives away thousands . of inches of costly space In free publicity for public movements and public en terprises, all for the public welfare. And the country newspaper gives Its space as freely in proportion. The papers bear the community bur dens.1' They support the community activities, s They fight the community battles. They are always in the front trench, always on the firing Iine.- Give them-an honest judgment and the newspapers will be less libeled. . . , " ' A pew tourist map for the Oregon country "and Britsh Columbia is Under ? preparation by . th Pacific Northwest Tourist association. It is 16x22 inches and is accompanied by a folder giving Information of value to travelers' and vacationists. : The association is in close touch with all the tourist agencies of the country, and fin various ways haa brought thousands of sightseers to the North west country. It is the largest of all factors in diverting larger ; and larger tribe of good money spenders from European globe trotting to the Oregon country. . DO THEY APPROVE ? T"" QES Mayor Baker approve the 1 ' manner in which the police court is administered by Acting Municipal Judge Deich ? Are his acts as deputy district at torney approved by , District Attorney Evans, 1-Is chief T .(' ti Po Mayor Baker and District Attor ney .Evans know ihat efforts at acci dent t prevention j are seriously ham pered by the-acts of the atate prose cutor!' and acting" "judge?. Do they know that ; the morale of officers swor to enforcej the law is . shaken by thie acts of Mr. Deich? 7 . He 'lndefinite,ly postponed the case of a speeder, without hearing a word of tcftimony In court. , He attempted to drop prosecution In the csase of a minor who had been driving an automobile. The father was 'later haled before a court and fned.j..; -:r.:J;u; i;: i - v.-, - He refused to (punish a man who had wrecked a motorcycle and in jured: a driver asi he piloted his ma chine down a street at what witnesses declared to be a speed of 50 miles an hour. .", .. : Although Deich told the defendant he was guilty on both charges he did not sentence a man who was charged with, (reckless, driving and' operating a car v(ith defective brakes. - Thd man had previously crashed Into a ma-r chine standing in the line of traffic. And he had within . the. last three months been found guilty and fined for both speeding ahd feckless driv.-: ing.' ; t ' f 'f'rky' "Dtrkh did not sentence a man whom the arresting officer testified was traveling 32 miles an hour down Uniod! avenue with three passengers in the front seat (and who had passed 14 machines at that pace. t He (failed to sentence several other speeders on. the same day whom offi cers, had testified' were going at least 30 miles an houri ! : - Are the people (of Portland entitled to protection on (the streets? Or are violations of the law to be condoned by a man sworn o enforce provisions of the law?? i If traffic laws are applied to some offenders and not to others there can be nothing. but demoralization among those administering the regu lations. Suppose a policeman arrests a speeder, secures the evidence and presents theasei if the offender is let off without penalty, as Is often done Jby Acting Judge Deich, the ar resting officer is (discouraged And his morale in his work undermined. It would seem as if there had been kill ings enough in the past two months to warrant some effort by the muni cipal court to apply the law THE CHICAGO OF THE WEST "11 THE livestock business alone, we could make Portland the Chi cago of the West." ; This is the statement of a conserva tive and eminent hian of long experi ence f in the packing industry. 1 It is made in a letter to George Quayle, secretary of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce. The letter continues:. f Portland is the natural market for the hulkiof the livestock country west of, the Kocky mountains., becauao shipment can be made here by water grade, thus sav ing shrinkage resulting from shipping live animals overt tortuous mountain grades. But the present market here depends upon the meat consumption of th North weat. and to i- materially - in crease the demand) in this . market for livestock we should! be able to send beef, mutton and pork to the Atlantic coast and i European markets in refrigerator ships directly from the place of killing, where there! are also large cold storage facilities in! -which to accumulate, ear goes. Our success depends upon reach-, tag (outside markets economically. t The present total of the livestock in dustry in Portland! is about r20,000,000 a year. In the letter, to Mr. Quayle, this authority on the business says it could , easily : be doubled or trebled within a few years. If loaded directly at the Portland doeks of tlje packing plants,1 refrigeratof ships could reach the. Atlantic coast and European mar kets on a basis that would quickly ab sorb all surplus and stimulate live stock production j because it would make a more economical road to big consuming markets. , -. . . . - - . The Increase In'jalf rates will have a tendency, to . drive a great deal of traffic, now (carried : by rail, to the water lines. t-Jt will create an unex ampled opportunity to take livestock products out; of the Oregon - country directly by sea to Atlantic coast and European markets. It "will have a dl- rect effect 'towards inducing other packing plants to locate here. :!- Before this can be brought about, the channel to North Portland harbor will have to be dredged to a sufficient depth to permit deep sea ships to reach the docks of that big industrial district. Can Portland port authorities get the idea? - 1 1 v r : Suffering with an Incurable dis ease, a Michigan woman; requested her 1 husband to mix- somavParis green with water and leave it at her bedside.' Her purpose waa to (swal low the poison and, end her suffer ings. The husband did as (requested. In his absence the poison (waa swal lowed and the wife died, j The hus band, was convicted of murder, and the appeal In his case is pending be fore the Michigan supreme court. THEIR IXT APPROXIMATELY $400,(500,000 was appropriated by congress for the army for the fiscal year ending; June 30, 1921. More than 1400,000,000 was allowed the navy, or a sun exceeding $800,000,000 a year for thejtwol5 Ap propriations for support ttf the gov ernment amount to more than f 4,- 000.000,000. ; I 1 The one item of interest qn the pub lic debt, due largely i to j the) war, exceeds the whole cost of government during peace t mes. : The jmore than $800,000,000 to be spent for military purposes exceeds by S150j000,u00 I the entire ordinary public outlay previous to the war. . -; J i I. !, The treaty of Versailles provides for reduction of armaments! by all na tions.' .The League of Nations Council has already inaugurated a; survey, of trie armaments or an member nations forihe purpose of reducing them. It is the t first time in history that an actual plan of relieving peoples of the enormous burdens of huge armaments has been attempted. V . j f : j ': j !- Yet what we have is the. spectacle of a senate cabal keeping America out of the plan and a further amazing spectacle of a party platform i and a party candidate attempting at the dic tation of the same senate cabal, to array; the people of Ameritia in oppo silion.to'the plan. ! : M If the senate coterie and their candi date succeed, the people of the present day will ; pay with the earnlpgs of their toll for the armies, ithe j navies and the armaments. And the children of thd future will pay with their dol lars and their lives for future Wars. J Declaring that he had-nine daugh ters ahd eight sons, a Tennessee legis lator,' opposing suffrage declared in aV speech that . "I do not , feel that those daughters should have a vote." Thenhe added: "Giving the negroes the vote was the worst "thing that ever happened to them." j . j t - - vthen'leaguers come. EORGE AKIN, editor of the On- v tarlo Argus is an experienced, poised : and fair-minded newspaper man.:.; ;( V- j . S-' He recently made a trip to North Da kota to investigate the Non-partisan League, and last Saturday delivered an address on the subject before the State Editorial association at Astoria. As a result of his address, the association passed a resolution declaring it$ oppo sition to the league. ; i '-.-. . ; ; . A feature of the discussion was the announcement by several ofj the! news paper men oi me prevalence in ipeir communities of a sentiment in favor of the Non-partisans. . The gepejally ac cepted view was that league organiz ers Would, in time, enter the state and that" there would ultimately bej a try- out of strength by those for, and against the organization, t j ; In his address, . Mr. Akin advised against a campaign of mere negation by those opposing the movement.: He insisted that the newspapers should make an honest effort to help ( the farmers get the measures of relief for which they are struggling, rind by that means make a resort to he (league movement unnecessary. It ifs the same course wh ich The Journal tried . in a recent series of articles td point! out as the best and only way to) defeat the Non-partisans. If, as In North Dakota, the farmers are' merely told! to fgo off and slop the hogs," there j is a vefy good chance for- the next governor of Oregon to be a Non-partisan leiguer. Those interests In Portland who are bitterly fighting the dairymen's (league and those others that are sending out campaign propaganda against this mar ket commission bill are playing the very game that Non-partisan organiz ers want them to play, , There is sound philosophy for mo torists In the following rhyme j given to the world by an exchange: fHere lies the body, of "William J Jay, who died maintaining-his right o way. He was right, dead right, is he sped along, but he is Just as dead as if he'd been wrong.";" , j . METAL FLYERS THE ALL-METAL alrplalne may take the place in aerial transpor tation that steel ears have decupled in the railway; industry since (their sub stitution for the wooden car. '- It. is evident that they are safer from the fire that almost invariably follows ac cidents in the wood machines, and an accident ait Omaha not long ago; Indi cates that they afford greater protee-tion-to flyers. .v-'i-".:-') X Bound from .New York to San Fran cisco an : all-metal . machine stopped temporarily -at Omaha. Asit was to depart, the plane failed to rise suffi ciently from the field. It crashed into a house. The building was practically, demolished, the radiator of thei ma chine was smashed and the propeller and a wing broken. But the occupants of. the plane were hardly , injured. They eontinued'thelr flight in another machine. : 1 1 ; The steel cars on the railway lines of the countryhave saved many a lifei They have avoided thousands of seri ous injuries. In accidents where, hun dreds would .undoubtedly Have been crushed or burned to death in the wooden carriers, they have escaped because of the sturdy- steel .con struction. ,(".". ' :.i The , Omaha accident Indicates thft if the metal machine can; be developed to equal the wooden type as a flyer, it is certain to replace it as a carrier of passengers in the air. ' j? . "- :. LOOPHOLE FOUND i IN LEVER LAW By Cart Smith, Washington Staff Cor i respondent of The Journal. - , Washington, Aug. 18, When congress amended the Lever food control act to make profiteers in "wearing apparel" subject to its penalties, and dropped out certain other definitions, it was not try ing to 'limit-the scope of the law,, al though this seems the effect of what it did in at least one respect in view of a Court decision in the American Woolen company case. ' ...". ' ! In this -case the, court held that the dropping of woolen fabrics from express definition and use of th words "wear ing apparel" . confines, the" operation of the act to profiteers In made-up cloth ing and doe noC4ncludi the 'manufac turer of the doth, y ZThose who were around , the ' lawmakers when the law waa amended remember I that a point much discussed was the inclusion of ar ticles of wear, especially shoes, which had not been covered by the original law. lit was not considered good policy to at tempt an enumeration of all articles of wear, which would . give a loophole for anything omitted, and the phrase "wear ing apparel" was hit upon as something which would include everything people wear, from head to foot. Apparently no one considered the point now seized-upon by the court, that cloth before it is made into clothing is not 'wearing, apparel, upon which the big woolen company seems1 able to slip through. l Roads - approved for . expenditure' of money under the federal ; road act will add 7000 miles of bard surface roads to 14,400 miles which existed when the leg islation was enacted, according to a statement of the bureau of public roads. Sixty per. cent of the federal funds are going into roads of bituminous concrete, cement concrete and vitrified brick. - It is declared that thei government's road undertaking is greater than the cst of the Panama canal. . There has been apportionment so far, of $266,750, 000 of federal funds, in no case more than 60 per cent of the cost of the roads constructed: The complete highway bill tor the federal, state and local govern ments this year is estimated to run up to S633.O00.0OO. It is pointed out that in 1915, before the national government en tered: the field, only 30 per cent of the money spent for roads and bridges was controlled by the state highway depart ments. Now over 80 per cent of the money that Is going into roads is being spent: under : supervision of state high way departments, following a definite plan, Ahd with better construction and greater safeguards. 4" . i If representation in congress were based on the payment of direct taxes to the national government, Oregon would be on practically the -same basis as the combined states of Alabama and Missis sippi, i which, together have 18 represent atives, while Oregon has three. Oregon in the, last; fiscal year subscribed 127,- 254,123 in income, excess profits and in ternal revenue taxes against $29,560,235 by the two Southern states. Oregon ex ceeded the combined payments of Mon tana, Idaho and Utah by over $6,000,000, was $2,000,000 in advance of Nebraska and $1,500,000 ahead -of Oklahoma, the oil-gusher state, which is reputed to have produced many new millionaires. Representation on the basis of tax pay ment would hardly do. however, when it is shown that the wall street district ol New York alone paid in $1,135,097,403. A minimum age of 16 years for chil dren in industry is recommended by the preliminary report of the permanent committee on standards of physical fit ness, appointed by the chUdren's bureau of the department of labor. It is suggested that no child should be permitted to enter employment until after a physical examination, with peri odical reexaminations and " a new in quiry if a- change of occupation is pro pesed. This Is declared to call for spe cial study by local administrative and medical officials. The report is beimr sent for critical comment to state labor departments, specialists and others in terested in the general subject before it is put in type for general circulation. Letters From -the People f Communication MM ta ' Th )nnm,l tnr publication in thia department' ahnulri h written on only one aide of the paper, abould not exceed oou woras in lenctB and must be aJened by the Writer, whoa mail addres in full mint mnm. paay the eoairibution. . Mirablle Visu Jersey Ranch. Sandy. Aug. 11. To the Editor of The Journal hiBtherto the "hayseeds' have counted for- naught, hut the recent rains (of slight and Indifference) on the part of the business men of Portland In regard t the location of the Mount Hood loop road have caused the hayseeds to sprout and. take root, and when the harvest time comes around the result will be seen.; ; ; , ,v. fWhy the indifference on ih nsirtnr Portland's business men? We would like to know. On Tuesday last a number of the most prominent business men were interviewed as to. what their stand was in regard : to the location of the- loop road,, and aU. except one. expressed themselves as knowing: nethlnar about It had never .been over either route . and aid not Know that the highway com mission were meeting that day to de cide;, the . location of this stupendous project. "- ';-'-;.? Julius Meier of Meier & Frank -earn- pany when questioned in regard to it made the statement that they could not ariora to take sides either way. If such men ' think they cannot . afford to take sides with us in working for the development Of. the agricultural country lying adjacent to Portland, it would be a very easy matter for us to prove to them that they can afford to do some thing. . The businessmen of the city of Boston take more pride and interest In preserving and showing to tourists their discarded graveyards than the business men of Portland seem to in the develop ment , or agricultural interests in the way of making the loop road serve a dual purpose and develop a most pros perous farming and dairying country as well as scenic, which lacks for noth ing but good roads and what will nat urally follow., at is. appalling to think of tne wonaeriut- advantages, ens win let slip by because of following the example of. Rip Van Winkle, -but Rip did finally waice up- City Commissioner .Mann had the au dacity to tell us, at the close of the meeting of the highway!, commission. that Clackamas county would not have any roads in SO years, that they never did do -anything, that they voted down every road tax, etc, that ever came Up. This statement was refuted then and there, as we have voted a 10-mlU special road tax (all that the law allows) for years. He also denied having any prop erty in the Bull Bun district. On in quiry in the vicinity of the property we learned that the property was still owned by- Mr. - Mann unless it had changed hands on the iuiet ' " Commissioner Mann and Attorney Gus Moser' posed as' representing the city of Portland and Multnomah county in favoring the north side route, which, as everyone who has taken the trouble to inform themselves, knows, cannot epen up agricultural country, as it runs along tha forest reserve and - the Portland water reserve, which consists of thou sands , of acres of the finest fishing creeks and camping grounds, which no one is allowed to set a foot upon, jao one except attendants. - If Clackamas county has. never done anything we should like to ask where did Portlaiid get her water supply from? - If 1 these r men are - representing the sentiment of the city; of Portland to ward her "hayseed" neighbors, the sooner we know it the better. As one member of our party remarked to Gus Moser and Commissioner Mann : "If you fellows will Just build a high board fence around your city and keep us (the farmers) out for six months . we will see who comes out ahead." ' C Mrs. Ida M. Hart. . CAN PREVENT ACCIDENTS Portland. Aug. 16. To the . Editor of The Journal In regard to last sight's accident on the. trestle to Vancouver, it Could havs been avoided if the company would put naeit their real headlights with shutter attached, to use when in city limits ; also use markers on rear ends of trains said to contain Oil instead of com Ing from overhead ' current .which puts a trainin a bad place when the pole comes off as It did last night If Mo torman Flynn had had a real headlight instead of a one-horse- light, as I un derstand be had, he -would have been able to see the other car before he struck it The car company claims that the city will not allow them to use them. as they blind, folks coming down through Union avenue.- All right how many au to s blind you- and "X when we come along Union avenue at - any , time of night? Still' the car company can get a headlight with a shutter, as I said be fore, and so stop these near death acci dents and also -use oil markers on rear of all trains, A. W, Hartman. JURY FIXES PUNISHMENT " Portland; Aug. 15.-To . the Editor of The Journal To settle a. controversy, please - answer through the "columns - of your valuable paper the following: If a person Is found guilty by a jury of murder in the first degree, does the law require of said jury to Insert in their verdict the word Hanging,' or Is It left to the judge to impose the penalty." Jr. Henry Thiar. Curious Bits of Information for ' the Curions Gleaned From Curious Places - The ; custom f wearing a wig, as a recognised part of the costume, dates from the early days of the seventeenth century. It started in France, when Louis XIII. being greatly struck with the "long, fair locks'? Of the Abbe ia ki vere, attained by the simple means of a peYiwia; ..adopted the style himself and so set the fashion.; By the time of Charles II. the wearing of the periwig, or peruke, or perruque, had become general. Pepys records the fact that he paid 3 for one : but it was not until the time tf Queen Anne that periwigs, or wigs for short, really cam into their own. . Then did they appear in the full glory of an ever changing though fast stabilising fashion. Olden Oregon Legal Distinctions Not So Finely . Drawn in the) Past ., By act of June, 1859, the official term Of the governor began on th second Monday in 1863. ahd every four years thereafter. As this was tha same day on which the : legislature should convene there waa not sufficient time for grace ful retirement of the outgoing governor and the succession of the incoming one. The second Monday In September; 1863, fell ' on the -eighth ' day of the month. The. organization of the legislature was Sot accomplished until -the ninth,-: ' The Inauguration of the governor occurred On tha tenth. While there was some doubt as to . the legality of the proceed ings the question was not raised, .. . SHORTAGE OF FREIGHT CARS ; - From tha Cohunboa Dispatch ' Travelers by rail very naturally get the notion that the principal us that is being made of freight cars now , is : to hold down the sidings. : . PLOWING AROUND THE STUMPS Copyria-ht,-1920. by The COMMENT AND , SMALL CHANGE , Time - to begin thinking about next summer's vacation. . . i - . "!,-.: - ;o :, -. 4 : "Streetcar skids into auto!" Head line. Reverse English, as it were. e Naturally enough, dashing Americans won the dashes at the Olympic games. -" Burglars are : reported at ' work in Portland hotels, Noj not the proprietors. There is an easy remedy at hand for increased costs for barber chair lux uries. Just refuse to take them. -k, . i . .. . ,. ' Judging by indicated changes in the weather due soon, . the ice ' shortage, if there is one,- won't give much concern after: all. - . MORE OR LESS. PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Mr, and Mrs. E. H. Toden, proprietors of the Pasco hotel in Pasco, Wash., are spending, their vacation , in . Portland, staying at the Imperial. . , ' e .... Jj M. Bentley; one of the pioneers of Pendleton, stopped at the . New Perkins Saturday on his way home from Seaside, where he has been spending the last' two weeks. ':-' -. i. " . ' e. . ' e ; J - C. S. Funk, . vice president of the Miami corporation- of Chicago, " who cams to Portland to attend the meeting of civil engineers is remaining over at tending to several business matters. He is registered at the Multnomah. Mrs. E. It. Howe, who has a big apple orchard at Mosler. but who will never talk about it, is visiting at the Mult nomah on her way home from Seaside, where she has been spending the sum mer. . . ! - - . .- -,, -- .. . '. MK and Mrs. Clarence A. Steele, for merly of Portland, but for the last eight years of Bangkok,. Slam, left Monday night for New York city, having spent a few days here visiting relatives and friends. Steele went to Bangkok sight OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN - By Fred Surprising as It may seem, man who a short time ago were in the' German army fighting us are now enlisting in the United .States army to fight with and! for usT - - Not only, that , but they seem to like the olive drab better than the, field gray. The American Legion Weekly, in speaking of the plans for the Americanzation of the men : Who . enlist In the army, says: -s i "One hears everywhere, nowadays, the term Americanization, which often is taken to mean only the . education of the foreign element , in America,. But the army school at "Camp t Upton has demonstrated that Americanism Uon re fers: quite as well to the illiterate man who la of strictly American blood. The hops of the . recruit educational -center is not so much that It wigl train a few thousand illiterates to read and write, but rather- that it . will use 'these - men as missionaries,, to - infuse among the adults of the horns communities the wish to learn at least to read and write, and the impulse to provide decent educa tional opportunities for coming genera tions. ' - -.' ' "Aside from disseminating a broader mastery of English, a wider familiarity with the ideals and traditions of Amer ica, th army hopes to eliminate Bol shevism and hyphenated Americanism, for each student who enters its schools leaves with a more genuine and' effec tual feeling of devotion for the land of his new freedom. And. the Joy h takes in if; is pathetic but wonderful to be hold." is', ' - : ' i;:i'--' 1 - e e . Oage Christiansen, first sergeant of Company C at Camp Upton,' was till re cently a Boche. He hails from Schles-wig-Hokrtein and was drafted into the German army in 1914., He was a ser geant - in v the - Twenty-fifth -., Prussian Guards. 'That he saw plenty of active service is proved by the fact that hs was wounded four times - during the four years hs served in the German' army. He came to the United States from Hol land In May, 1919. One month later, he had enlisted in the United States army. He is a crack-a-Jack non com. is 100 per cent American and is greaUy loved by, the menjinder him. There are 1500 students at Camp Upton, of whom about SO pee cent are native born Americans, most of whom, when accepted, were il literates. It is a veritable meting pot. Frees Publiahlna- Co. (The New !York World) NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS i.; '",'''::':;" 'H-. v-1 '' ' ' ;""'! . '" Baker has a payroll of $200,000 per month. Baker Herald. -' r . . ' e ..-.'! - It may be just as easyi after all, to pay higher railroad rates as to keep on paying federal taxes to meet! railroad deficits. La Grande Observer. .- ( - Bend and .other sections of the Des chutes valley where Norman Jacobson has done his -work as national forest supervisor, will see him leave the job with real regret Bend Bulletin. 7 , 4,-:- . e.o ; We read that Walter Pierce and Bruce Dennis, rival candidates for the state senate, nave agreea to 'stump, union county tna-ether. . We know Walter, and we think we know, whose name is Dennis; Weston Leader, j years ago to take charge! of the Boon Itt Memorial, a local Y. M. C. A., for Siamese young men, operated under the Presbyterian board of foreign mis sions. Owing to the ill health of Mrs. Steele, the family was compelled to" re turn to America, arriving iat San Fran cisco several months agoi Mrs. Steele has made steady progress land will soon be fully recovered. Sines returning from Slam, Steele has been connected with the Y; M. C. Ai at Sacramento. In New York' ha will b irf tha trea lnirpr'n of. flee . of the board under which tti has served abroad. Before her .marriage Mrs. Steels was Miss Florence William son. Steele's lather, R. Ri Steele, is the principal of the Richmond school. - . . - Stanfield McDonald is devoting himself entirely to poIlUcs Just now and a political mission has taken him to San Francisco. McDonald r left for the South Monday night and will confer with Senator Hi ram Johnson - regarding Johnson's pro posed tour of the Northwest In behalf of the Harding-Coolidge campaign. The Portland man also will visit Republican western headquarters and talk over the organization of , political iclubs. AND IMPRESSIONS Lockley as 48 nations are represented. "Men who, if they were In Europe today, would ne lighting each Other, sleep peacefully side by side," says the legf on Weekly "In . the jex-Prussianj Guardsman's company the cook is ljucien ' Auguste Zanardi, made chevalier (of the Legion of Honor by Marshal Foch. lie received the : Medaille Militaire. ifrom Marshal Joffre, and wears the Croix de Guerre with palm and stars, - the British D. S. OV and the Belgian Wjir Cross. He served throughout the war with the French Chasseurs." ' Portland has been passing through the throes of a milk war of late. The buck has been passed back and, forth until the public is very much bewildered as to the real -situation. When you pay IS cents a quart for your milk and learn that the producer receives but 7 cents for his output, you wonder If the pro ducer is not enUtled to as much sym pathy as the consumer. In writing of one of the reasons for the high price of milk the labor; shortage Charles M. Sheldon says : i . .. t "The president of the! National Milk Producers' association, in a recent ad dress, said that the reason why the farmers who are still at work do not go on a strike is because they, as well as the tenants, have 'an interest lo the crop to be raised. ; The farmer is not more patriotic than any other Worker that is, the wags ? worker but jhir refusal fto strike - is deep seated "in the principle that must bo adopted In pther Industries his Interest in the product of his labor. -.-1 "Ths owner of a farm receives the en tire output of the laborjhe expends on it The tenant j-eceives i a certain well j defined percentage of the product. t In most states that is one half of a growing crop, r This fact according to the speak er, makes the -farmer a different worker from the wage worker. And. he goes on to say j frankly that the shortage of labor-will never be met until men in all kinds! of labor are In some way as sured, of a share in the product of their - 3Tbere is a caltfor the most "Intense and self-sacrificing patriotism for all able-bodied men to work iat some honest toil, with a spirit that has as much loy alty aid patriotism as that which sent men to France." - j The Oregon Country Korthweit Happeninta in Brief Form fof the ? . Buay Ittaaer. OREGON NOTES - Roneburg Is facing an ice famine. Th two local plants are- unable to secure ammonia. - . . Theodore Frederick long, a retired buaineaa man of Roaeburg. has died after a lingering illness of several months. The port of Coos Bay has closed a deal for 1600 feet of water frontage at Marsh field as a sit for new terminal docks. . Steps are being taken by George Jeni son of Twilight to organize the beekeep ers of Clackamas county for mutual benefit. . , -1 -. It has cost Irving A. Debois a $300 fine and a three-day term In the county jail for making moonshine on his Dutch Hat ranch. The ' Atco Wood Products company. whose plant at Albany was destroyed by nr. nun purchased a planing mm at opnngueia. The store of Mays & Carver at Donald. Marlon county, has been entered by burglars Snd robbed of knives and shoes. a quantity 01 It Is reported that the state fair board will select C. B. Clancy of Salem secre tary to succeed -A. 1L Lea, resigned. Clancy is a florist. - - A grass fire at the John Culver ranch, south of DilUrd in Douglas county, spread over 400 acres and destroyed three miles of fence... 4 K, H.boomU of Waterloo. XJnn coun ty, aged 84 years, has secured a license to marry Mrs. Phoebe yturtevant of Lebanon, who is 67 years. p. C. Ingram of the United Slates for est service is arranging to pasture sev eral herds of goats in the Siskiyou rc- , serve to reduce the heavy growth of brush. The body f Miller Glavan. the purs seiner who was drowned off, the mouth of the Columbia, was picked up in a purse seine ; operated by the launch Aberdeen. The 'charter of TteedHpoml has been amended at a special election m a r i permit the issue and disposal of 25 year general ODiigauon oonas In an amount, not to exceed ; $50,000. Ifhas been learned that the true nam of Jack Raithle, one of the five prlnoners Implicated in the murder of Sheriff Tay lor at Pendleton, Is John Laffenbean, who has a criminal record. The Medford chamber of commerce has decided to name the Medford aviation field in honor of Newell Barber, who lout his life during the war in a bombing raid over the German lines. Warden Compton will erect the new execution chamber at the state peniten tiary in what Is now known as the bull pen. The scaffold will be of a perma nent nature and equipped with two drops, o .Tn2 complaint of Pacific grange No." 418 of Carnahan station, in Clatsop coun ty, demanding that the Pacific Power and Light j company extend Its service, will be heard by Uie public service com mission August 27. Washington The numbeif of voters registered at Vancouver fori the. September primaries is 8700. j- A small tract in the Ralkum distrlct. Lewls county, has yielded 75 bushels of wheat per acre. Robert P. Oldham, a Seattle lawyer, has caused the arrest of his lfl-vear-oM son. alleging that he threatened him with a sun. i A temporary sugar nhortage at Walla Walla has been ended with the arrival of a carload which will be sold at $23.43 a sack. i - Eleven applicants have taken the teachers' examinations at Kalama con ducted by the county school superin tendent t Sunday schools in the vicinity of To ledo held an all-day picnic there under the auspices of the American Sunday School union.-1 Varde Stlegllta of Aberdeen has filed his candidacy on the Republican ticket for nomination as state representative from the Twenty-ninth district. The Seattle city council has refused to renew the licenses of six Japanese who conducted poolrooms, employment agen cies and pawnbroker establishments. The streets i at j Pomeroy are almost deserted during the rush of harvest work. Men come in from the farms on errands, but get back to work as soon as pos sible. .-.I; Shipments of cantaloupes by the Res ervation Melon Growers association of the Yakima valley have begun. It 1s estimated this year's crop will brine $55,000. i ; Final plans ! have been made for the Grays Harbor Elks' Kpecial train, which will take Aberdeen, Hoquiam.Klma and Montesano Klks to the state convention at Vancouver. i . , . t IDAHO The resignation 'i of C. B. Walker as" state commissioner of finance Is the sec ond since the governor's cabinet waa formed. . i Edgar A.'Runyan. a Twin Kalis boy who served In the world war, has been awarded a distinguished service cros for herolo action. ' It Is estimated that the hay crop of Idaho this year will be the Urgent In the history of the state. It probably will reach 2,237,000 tons. The Idaho congressional delegation will attend tha meetlnir of the execu tive committee of the Western Slaics Reclamation association at Boise. According to the department -of.au- tomoblle registration, there are motor vehicles In ub in Idaho. Kisen from January 1 to July 1 amounted to $801,964. . . ! , -:. - Vnilt o-mwera and buyers have been advised by Director I.yon of the bureau of markets that no diseased apples -w be sold in Idaho and that ths law win be rigidly enforced. Tn tha nnlnion of members of tne. state board of equalisation there are at least two classes of property which can vimnA hirhr aMMimriiL They am su gar factories and merchandise stocks. Uncle j Jeff Snow Says : t nncet accented a mandate to hold the Jail at Berne. Texas, agin all comers wh mlirht "want to tall on a Greaser there that'd been arrested on Strong sus picion that he'd robbed and murdered a Sheep camp chum, lit was a hair-raisln' experience, 'cause a lot of them Joshua Creek cowboys was pium mvi nu uc termlned not to let the law take Its course.- we rarnto . i,in.. - tinguisher onto 'em and bluffed 'em off. Bwt no more ' mandates fer me. The mandate ain't never grateful and the folks that would of done up the said mandates but fer your faithfulness looks oni you with reproach. Still, that ain't a-savin' but what somebody or nuther's got to took out. fer them as can't nohow look .out I or meirseives. . Portland i Is a Larger City J Than Many of Its Resi le, dents Even Realize. ' The Portland cltizan loves to boast about his beautiful Rose City. Very few, however, really know how big the city is.! PorUand is the largest lumber manufacturing city in. the world. : It is the largest livestock cen ter on, the Pacific coast It is the second most Important wool center in ths United States. It is the clearing house for 250,000 square miles of hinterland. It has 400 miles of paved - streets. It has 720 miles of water mains. There are 66,000 gas meters In use. There are over 6I.000 telephones in service. It has 27 miles of harbor front. Its public -library circulates more books per capita than any other city 4n the United States. It has 62 grade schools, five high schools and 86 private schools. . Port land street cars carried over 1 00,000, 000 passengers In 1919. Portland bank .clearings in 1919 wer7ver $1,600, 000,000. . - ... f
