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FIREWORKS IN IDAHO
1
N ATTEMPT tq' circumvent the
Non-partisan 'league Idaho repealed
. its direct primary system.
The leaaUers have a habit jof enter
ing Republican primaries in North
Dakota and capturing; the nominees.
They did - that with some success in
Minrisota. They usually geizv the
noniVtations in the dominant! party in
a stafe By abandonment of its prl
.. wry gystem, ' Idaho . supposed the
pp-ress Ot IVon-partisan league move
ment In that state had been success
f oily-blocked. , , " - i
; Witti the state -featyc to the con
vention system a pouiity convention at
Boise thij week gavo the stai a taste
i.-: of fireworks'os well as a glimpse at
the old convention .methodsj
It was a county Republican conven
s tiori.. A headline la the Boise States-
man runs like this? "Patch-Davis. Ma
fchineTakes Full Control." This is
i the way the story of the convention
!in that paper begins:
Trampling' over t.H obstacles, clinging
sto every parliamentary advantage and
! detarmined by fair means , or foul to
; achieve victory, . thft Patch-f or-senator
' machine, strengthened by the Davis-for-'t
governor faction, carried by storm Tuea
day, the Ada county Republican conven
tion. The convention became a
f battleground at the outset. i ;
1 The narrative g&es on to say that
ia'tcr one speech there were "catcalls
and yells from the service men." We
are) then told that "after a chairman
waa named, every motion tjecame . a
battleground." There were many calls
for, divisions and roll calls, many of
which.; thd account, continues, were
ignored by the chairman." The story
goes on: :. ...
Enraged at thla defeat the Ooodirg
Eagleson forces bent every effort to pre-
v veiix eiecuon or in pre-arrangea siate
ft the "Patch-Davis group. When Mc
- x : een F. Morrow, chairman of jthe noml-
ltions committee, which Chairman
rthwlne had appointed, resorted this
:' pre-arranged elate,- h: moved the adop-
tioit of the committee report, At this
j, the etorm broke in all Its fury; Members
. ji ins tacugns oppgsea 10 iQe i'aicn
f j Davis combination . charged Iiul play.
; -itee report was intended to - act as
3osing of nominations.! They declared
"Vrti had n promised the privilege of
Ing additional nominations; from the
wfcY .-;,
I tler that, Redlam broke lose. Mo
ti'ons were made to amend thi Morrow
1 motion. The Patch-Davis chairman
A H'hAV HMlftPMl that OdAntlrtn Aff V. n
f ruicu wiem oui oi Qraer. noDeris
Rules of Order was producedjto prove
thait the decision of the chairiman was
Unwarranted., The quoted language
Trom thejbook-showed that the chair
man was dearly wrong. But he stood
'- by ' hjs decision, and a . delegate .ap
, pealed from the finding of, the chair.
The chair was not sustained,, but in
tpite of that he adhered to his
original Plan of not calling for moni
- nations. from the floor. The account
' goes on; -r - ; - . j . , .;
r -Uproar followed the vvote.i Colonel
Marstere. In an impassioned speech, said
that - wounds had -been made upon the
; convention floor v which - would . not - be
-healed In years.; He went further and
5 charged the chairman with ; deliberate
unfairness. - But the disorder of the con
i ventioTk could not be quelled, and the
motion to; adjourn was lost in the tur
. motL;.vTb-' delegates .. departed in. dis
f order. - . -.-.. ,
These Avere scenes like those in the
. f old convention days in Oregon. When
politicians get1 a " chance, to combine
add put up elates and pack a conven-i
j tion they. will. do it: If a convention
i could be held from "which " political
-j tricksters-could ba harred, a cohven-"-
tion might be made representative,
' The same thinff is tru& of legislatures.
The direct primary has defects but
' bo has the convention Bystem. The
result; of th packed and elated con
vention in - Idaho; even though only
a county contention, is a probable split
in the Republican party in lhe state
just as the. Republican party in Ore
gon was rent' asunder and kept divided
by rump conventions and Mitchell con
ventions and Simon conventions in the
eld days. ''.
i More - than 5000 Immigrants are
arriving dally atl Ellis Island. 'About
800,000 arrived in the 12 months
ending. June 30 1 as' compared -with.
141.000' the year- before and 1,285
S89 in 1907. "Foreign going steam
ships 'report, all accommodations
booked for a year in advance.' Does
not the warning: of the war indicate
to us that immigrants should be al
lowed to enter only bo fast as they
can be assimilated and American
lzed ? Is everything we learned and
gained in the war to be forgotten?
JURY OR WOLVES
A BAILIFF in a San Francisco jpourt
thought he sent a, Jury to dinner
during a recent trial. The city! now
contends that he sent a pack of
wolves. , I '
Sixteen persons, it seems, consumed
the . dinner; and since air American
Jury is composed of only 12 members.
the auditor is holding up the bill
pendirig further light -, i r
It appears that the bailiff, when be
ushered the veniremen into the res
taurant, told officials of the estab
lishment to: "give: them anything they
want," Here are some of the things
they got: 5 . ; ; .
'j Three waiters at $2.50 per. !.
Twenty cigars and two packages of
cigarettes. - -
Coffee for 18, tea for one. white
rock for two and Reis special for- 14.
Three chickens, two ducks, four ten
dcrlbin steaks, two T-bones, two sir
loins, two chicken liver enbrochette
and one half broiled lobster. I
In addition they had appetizers,
60up, .vegetables and side vegetables
as well as desserts. 1
The city .may or may not pay the
bill. It is a little above 950. !
Cochrane county, Texas, gained
only two in-population in . the ' past
10 years. In 1910 that county had
85 people, in 1920, 67. It has an
area . larger than Clatsop county,
Oregon, and has only one Inhabitant
to every 12 square miles. No other
county in America has so small a
population J It is one spot in which
county politicians could do but little
harm..., . it 4 -." , j-:-. - '
Government by ukase
IS THE city commission the consti
tuted authority for making laws in
Portland, or Is Acting Municipal Judge
Dcich? V:Uv J " ,: H.";;-
There is a city law prohibiting (more
th an two persons from occupying the
front seat ort ' a j motor bus or sight
seeing automobile. ; Throughout his
late career on 'thai municipal 'bench,
Mr.,Deich has been repealing this law
in all cases -in 1 which it was violated.
All1 offenders brought before him un
der this law looked good to Mr. Deich,
for he refused to apply penalties.
Thursday nine? such offenders were
brought into his court. The first two
presentecLwjere prdmptly 'let offwith
out penalty, Mr. Deich remarking that
before he would convict them he
would have to see . the driver's seat
himself and observe Whether there
was room for more than two persons.
.'inai is tot say. tnen and there. Act
ing Judge ;Peich assumed legislative
authority and himself .made a; law,
existing city ordinances to the! con
trary notwithstanding, that ' if there
was sufficient room ; on the driver's
seat for more than two,, the city 6r-
dinance was suspended by Mr. Deich's
ukase. - ,
That is to say, the acting Judge in
the municipal court 'of Portland set
this example- in law violation, all in
spite of his oath of off ice :' That if
there is room enough on the driver's
seat for three persons, then let three
ride there, and let the mayor of IPort
landi the city commission ; of Port
land go hang. ; : . ; .
When an, acting , municipal Judge
thus takes the law into his own hands
and seta It "aside, what can you ex
pect of drivers? ,-!
And this" man Deich is a candidate,
without an opponent, for the, office of
district Judge. '',?--..':"
SO long as; the; administration of the
traffic laws is demoralized, more and
more parents will have to mourn for
their slain children., ' i
President' Wood of the Woolen
trust has shut i down . his strirnr of
mills for reasons that nobody can
understand.' But what if the sheep
should follow, his arbitrary example
and decide to produce no more wool ?
"What would Mr. Wood do with- his
mills? .'- ,, i ' U VJV',- v.'".i:: ! '"J 'f - ::
SO ; VTILJL MONEY
I F A worker could get only f 2 in
1 Portland and was wanted in Van
couver at M a day, he would quit the
Portland Job and take the Vancouver
job. If money is allowed but 4 per
cent interest ia Oregon, as is proposed
by ; an j initiative .bill, and can get 7
or S or 10 per Vent outside' of Oregon,
the owne? will send it outside of Ore
gon to.be loaned. ,
Some people think, the bill to make
the legal interest rate 4 per cent with
a per. cent under contract will chiefly
aueca oausers ana nnanciers; It will
pot be so. The bankers and financiers
can j take care of themselves. They
can get all kinds of high interest rates
outside, of Oregon and they know how
to do so and where to do so. ? "
The Pennsylvania railroad recpriflv
borrowed money on a basis of 9 per
cent Seven and a half and 8 per cent
are very common transactions In the
East now, with : millions in money
loaned at such figures. . j ; :
The people vlould be bard bit by
the interest bill. The big fblow, would
fall not on the bankers and financiers,
but on. the ' irrigationistp.i Hie dike
builders and the drainage districts and
the municipalities,'" and thp businesses
that borrow money, and1 the small
home owners who cairyj; mortgages,
and the men who want to; buy, homes
and farms, paying part dofwn, and giv
ing a note for the rest, and all others
who : owe small or large amounts
which they are not now In position
to pay. '' v j' I-
Until within a few weks, the city
of Portland, one of thjC ; stropgest
cities nnanciaHy in America, couia noi
sell its improvement jbonds which
draw 6 . per cent . Men ,vUh. money
could get a higher interest rate else
where and they Vould ncjt buy Port
land ionds. . f ' . . . j . I.,, I
How, then. Would drainige districts
and dyking districts and irrigation dis
tricts and cities and towilis sell their
bonds if the proposed interest bill In
this state should pass? j - j
And how could the statq road: bonds
be sold?' And how could cities and
towns go forward with water) works
improvements and school house build
ing and the many other, public activi
ties based on credits? " j
a Jf a worker gets but $2 a day In
Portland and is wanted Vancouver
at 4, he will leave Portlahd and take
the Vancouver job. ' . j ; j:
So will money. j j
A prominent Americajn railroad
man confesses that he : lhas played
poker for 27 years, arid says he
never won but once. Anid the night
he; did win a1 footpad held him up
on his way home and relieved him
of his winnings. I '
.1 OUR GREAT SUFFRAGIST !
;: ; , . .. j i: - i
tt A LL along I have wished for the
a completion of ratilication, arid
have said so, and I am gllad to hear
nil; the citizens of the Ufilted States
will take part in the presidential elec
tion," said Candidate Hardikig when he
heard of the suffrage vote in Ten
nessee. ' ' ; - .:.:; ! I .v j : - i
Just how long, Senator larding? j
y The senator ; really had! a I terrible
time making up his mindi as to how
he stood on suffrage. Thus, in reply
to the suffragists who ' interviewed
him on June 24, 1915, Senator Harding
gave this illuminating answer:) j
Believing as I do In political parties
and . government by political parties. ! I
had much rather that the party to
Which I belong; should in' its i confer
ences make a declaration than to as
sume a leadership or take an individual
position on the question. i
That is to say, in June, 1915, Senator
Harding did not know how he stood
on) suffrage. But the effect of his
decision was that he stood; out against
the; women. A -vr.:V"livi)i- :
A few months later the suffragists
tried to smoke him out, and he told
them it would be presumptuous for
hirh to (Jctafe to his party, j : j
During 1916 he had still failed to
make up his mind, In 19171 he said : liI
shall do the thing, when the final test
comes, which best : answers my con
victions of righteous attitude. While
Lother great Republicans ; and great
Democrats were thundering ' for suf
frage, the senator was still dodging
the Issue. " ' : i
f In April, 1918, Senator j Harding in
reply to a delegation of women who
were pleading with him for the ballot.
said that ; he had given his pledge
to vote as Ohio decided, and that, as
Ohio had voted twice against suffrage;
he felt that he should also oppose suf
frage, but he qualified the statement
by adding these words: i- ' !
I feel that many things have changed
since the vote of Ohio was cast. - I;
At this time the national house of
representatives had already passed the
suffrage amendment A short timle,
later Mr. Harding climbed on the
band wagon and voted yes for- sub
mission of the amendment. The se-
ate never could find out from hira
self Just how he stood on suffrage
until he discovered thai! everybody
else was for it That is ow he was
for suffrage "all along" and how '1
always have said so." The senator's
managing committee ought to tell him
that the women of the country' know
all j about ; his suffrage record, know
that he never gave them ne Word of
encouragement until they had won
their, fight, and that the less he says
now; on suffrage and the women, the
oetter ior ms candidacy, r . , .
In pondering over the American
victory In the yacht races the painful
fact protrudes Itself that the Reso
lute was manned by a crew of 22
Norwegians, seven Swedes and one
Xane. ' . j
BEHOLD HIS REMEDY
EUROPE Is aflame. The red terror
of , Russian Bolshevism is robed
in armor, and its hordes are storming
the walls of Warsaw. Incredible condii
tions are daily described 6a the press
as existing in the Slavic states. Fam
ine, and pestilence ' are feverywher
abroad in these . lands. Populations
are dying like flies amidst horrible
surroundings from starvation and ty
phus. .
The summer is gone and an Arctio
winter menaces the millions of women
and children in this forsaken region.:
England herself is menaced. A soviet
"Council of Action"? sits vulture-like
judging the moves made by the gov
ernment in international affairsJ Mobs
are dispersed, with the open blade by
the military in France. Italy is in
turmoil and in common with the heads
of all European governments, even
King George of England, they protect
their ; lives with r an armor of steel
chains belted about their bodies.
And yet while civilization itself
hangs in the balance. Candidate Hard
ing expresses jserious coocerBi over
a demoralized lemon market in Cali
fornia and schedules himself to make
the tariff the' subject of a forthcom
ing speech." .i ' . ' I .
, Forest Smithson's record as a
hurdler in the Olympic games stood
unlowered from 1908 J until 1920, a
period of 1 2 years. ' Smithson - was
an O. A- C. and a Multnomah club
athlete. After 12 years, his, record
was lowered from 15 seconds flat in
the 110-meter hurdles to 14 4-5.
Smithson " was : a great sprinter a
great broad jumper and 'a greater
hurdler. I
OPPORTUNITY
OF AMERICA'
Excerpts From Franklin D. Roose
velt's : Speech of Acceptance,
August 9.: 1 .
Two great problems will confront the;
next administration our relations with
the world and the pressing need of or
ganized progress at home. The latter
includes a systematized land intensified
development of our resources and a
progressive betterment of our citiien
ship. , These matters - wiU requite the
guiding hand of a president who can
see his country above his . party, and
who, having; a clear- vision of things
as they are, has also the independence,
courage and skill to guide us along the
road to things as they should be with
out swerving; one footstep at the dic
tation . of . narrow partisans who whis
per "party," or of selfish Interests that
murmur "profits." j
In ' our , world - problems, ' we : must
either shut - our eyes, sell our newly
built merchant marine j to more far
seeing foreign powers, crush utterly by
embargo and harassing i legislation our
foreign trade, close . our ports, build
an impregnable wall of costly arma
ments and : live as the Orient used to
to live, a hermit nation, dreaming of
the past; or we must, .open our eyes
and see that modern civilization has
become so complex and the lives of
civilised men so interwoven with the
lives of other men In other countries
as to make , it Impossible to be in this
world , and not of it. We must see that
it is 1 impossible to avoid, except by
monastic seclusion, those! honorable and
intimate foreign relations Iwhich the
fearful-hearted shudderingly miscall by
that r devil's catchword
complications."
"international
Much has been said
of ' late about
good Americanism. It is right that t
should . nave been said, and it is right
that every chance should be seised to
repeat the basic truths underlying our
prosperity and our national existence
Itself. But it would be an unusual:
and much-to-be-wished-for thing if in!
the coming - presentation of the Issues
a new note of fairness and generosity
could be struck. Littleness, meanness,
falsehood," ; extreme partisanship thesa
are not in according with the American)
spirit. I like to think that in this re
spect also we are moving forward.
Let us be definite. We have passed
through a great, war, an armed con
flict which called forth every effort on
the part of the whole population. The
war was won by Republicans as well as
by. Democrats. Men of all parties
served .in our armed forces. Men and
women of all parties served the govs
ernment at home. They j strived honest
ly as Americans, not . as mere partif
sans. Republicans and ' Democrats alike
worked tn administrative r positions,
raised. Liberty loans, administered food
control, toiled in munition plants, built
ships. , The war was .brought to a
successful conclusion by a glorious com-
mon effort one which in the years to
come will be a national: pride.
Even as the nation entered, the war
for an ideal, so it has ' emerged from
the war with the determination , that
the ideal shall not die.) It is idle to
pretend that the war 'declaration of
April 6. 1917. was a mere act of . self
defense, or that the object of our par
ticipation was solely to. defeat the
military power of the . central nations
of . Europe, We knew then as a na
tion, even 'as .we know today, that suc
cess on land and sea could be but half
a victory; - The other half is not won
yet. ' To the cry of the French at Ver
dun. They shall, not pass"; the cheer
of our own men in the; Argonne, We
shall sro throueh" we must add this :
"It shall not occur again." This is
the -: positive declaration of . our own
wills -that the world shall be saved
from a repetition of this crimey I
To this end the Democratic party of
fers a treaty of peace. Which, to make
it real treaty for a real peace must
include : a League of Nations ; because
this peace treaty, if our best and brav
est are not to have died in vain, must
be no thinly disguised armistice devised
by cynical statesmen to mask their
preparations for a renewal of greed
inspired conquests later on. "Peace"
must mean peace that will last. "A prac
tical, workable, permanent, - enforcible
kind or a peace tnat wiu noia as tigntiy
as the business contracts of the individ
ual. ' We must- indeed-1 be, above all
things, business-like and practical In this
peace, treaty making business of ours.
The League of Nations is a practical so
lution of a practical situation. It Is no
more perfect than our original constitu
tion, which haa been amended IS times
and - will soon, we hope, ' be amended
the 19th, was perfect. It is not anti
national, it . is anti-war. . .-No superna-tion,-binding
us to the decisions of its
tribunals, is suggested, but the method
and machinery by which the- opinion of
civilization may become effective against
those who seek war is at last within
the reach of humanity. Through It we
may, with nearly every other duly con
stituted government - in the whole world,
throw our moral force and , our - potential-power
into the scale of peace. That
such an object should be contrary to
American policy, is unthinkable ; but if
there be " any citizen who has honest
fears that it may be perverted from its
plain intent so as to conflict with our
established form of government, it will
be simple to declare to him and to the
other nations' that the constitution of
the United States is in every way supreme.'-
There must be no' equivocation,
no vagueness, no double dealing ' With
the ' people on this issue.' The league
will not die. An idea does not die which
meets the call of the hearts of our
mothers. '' ':
. .-. i.-il.v' -r-: - I '. . '-i --j
Some people have been; saying of late;
"We .are tired of progress, we want to
go back to where we .were before ; to ga
about our own business; to restore 'nor
mal conditions." . They are wrong. This
Is not - the wish of America.-.' We cai
never 4 go back. The '"good - old days'
are gone past forever ; we have no re
grets. For our eyes are trained ahead
forward ; to - better new - days. , In , this
faith I am strengthened by the firm ber
lief that the women of this nation, now
about to receive the. national franchise,
wUl thrown their weight Into the , scale
of progress and will be unbound by par
tisan prejudices and a too narrow out
look on national problems. We cannot
anchor our ship of state in this world
tempest, nor can we return to the placid
harbor of long years agoJ We must gp
forward or founder. - 1 k
America's opportunity is at band. We
can lead the world by a great example.
We can prove this nation a living,
growing . thing, with policies that are
adequate to new oonditWia. Jm m tjiou.
sand ways this Is our hour of test.
The Democratic program offers a larg
er life for our country, a richer destiny
for our ' people. It is a plan of hope
In this, ' chiefly, let it be our , aim to
build up, not to tear down. Our oppo
sition; Is to the things which once ex
isted. in orjder' that they -may never
return, "We oppose money in politics,
we ; oppose the private control of na
tional finance, we oppose the treating of
human beings as commodities, we op
pose the saloon-boesed city, we oppose
starvation wages, we oppose , rule by
groupsor cliques. In the same way we
oppose a mere period of coma in our
national life. ,
tCommunicationa aen to The Journal for
pnblieation in Uti department ahonld b written
on only one aide of the paper, ahonld not exceed
800 words in length and mn-t be aigned by the
writer, wboae mail addraaa in full saust accom
pany the contribution. ) v "-
;' REPUBLICAN PANICS,
Portland. Aug. 12. To the Editor of
the Journal I noted a letter in the Free
Lance colunm of the Telegram entitled
"More Production and Prosperity.' In
part it is right. ? But the Telegram takes
exception to it in a long editorial and is
misinforming Us readers. L as one of
Its readers, wilt prove different, jl am
opposed to a government of . the few, for
the few, and by the few.. I must say that
past history of 11 Republican termsj 1869,
Grant, to 1909, Taft, has proven that the
Republican party has been a party of
the big interests. And a failure in i serv
ing the interests of the common people
as well. As proof every financial panic
has been under a Republican rule. When
some sap headed spouter comes along
and tells you that panics come tinder
Democratic rule, ask hfm how so? When
there were only the two terms of GrOver
Cleveland. But we find the first fin
ancial panic was under Grant, 1873, and
all others, up to Roosevelt, 1907. But all
the Telegram can say is to speak about
the Cleveland panic of 1893. and j soup
houses. This is correct. And it is 'more
than Republicans did toTiave soup houses
during their periodical panics from 1873
to 1907. Unless some philanthropic Re
publican opened a mulligan stew 1 joint
for profit, as was seen on South Front
street, Portland. , I '
If the panic, of 1893 is to be charged
fup to either party, it was a Republican
legacy to the Cleveland administration.
Again the Telegram's editorial claims
that business depression results from un
wise tariff legislation. j '
The above panic occurred under a Re
publican high tariff up to that jtime,
which was supposed to make such; pros
perous times for the poor wage earners,
with a full dinner pail thrown in. ) And
yet some Republican spouters claim that
a high tariff causes prosperity. Yes, only
its uiq uinuuinuiuici auiat e
competition, and who works under the
open shop. This enables him to j form
trusts and run less, factories to supply
the demand which will be greater) than
the supply, and to boost prices so 'high
that the people will not buy. Probably
these are the defective laws the Tele
gram wishes to brush aside for a mo
ment, this eternal bogey of capitalistic
aggression. And the same can be said
of the cold storage houses, where food is
held indefinitely and if not sold then it
rots, and is sent to the erarbage burner
and up goes the price. The excuse -is a
shortage of production. One who lis- not
asleep. , Chas. D'Heirry.
A RAIN Tf AUGUST )
Albany. Aug. 16. (Tp . the Editor 1 of
The Journal) What a contrast between
the "heated term" prevailing at present
to that of the rainy weather beginning
the night of August 13, 1899, when a
heavy rain fell, and for fully two weeks
continued rains damaged the unthreshed
grain so that it could not be sold as first
class. During my life time I can recall
but two other like rainy harvests. The
early season of 1899 Was quite open and
warm, , causing the sap to rise in 'some
kinds of fruit trees, newly set orchards
of prune trees, especially, and resulted
in the loss of trees. About February 1
came a light 'fall of snow and then a
north wind and freezing weather so that
on the morning of February 4 the mer
cury was down to zero at Albany a
most unusual record. But to my main
story : t
The morning of August 14, 1899, Mrs.
Walker, myself and little 1-year-old
daughter Vernal started for Tillamook
by team and covered hack. Owing to
the rain above mentioned it made rather
heavy traveling all dayw especially in
the "red hills" beyond Dallas. We were
sent on this trip to Tillamook by the of
ficers of the Oregon State Prohibition
party to campaign Tillamook county.
It rained about all the time we were In
Tillamook. . Coming home the road
through the timber in the upper i end of
Grand Ronde valley was a loblol nearly
hub deep. On the way through Polk
county we could see the shocks of grain
that had time and again been re shocked
In order to dry out. j
We felt that our trip was welt worth
the making. . Cyrus H. Walker.
IN ALL FAIRNESS i
Portland, Aug. 19. To the Editor of
The Journal There have' been! many
articles of criticism regarding the Cra
ter Lake Lodge management. I was
with Mr. Parkhurst when . he opened
the - lodge this season. It was about
the first of July. . A government crew
had ; been working a week shoveling
snow when- we arrived, and there was
still about two miles to shovel. So our
crew got In and shoveled, our truck of
supplies following close on " our' heels.
Tourists were already crowding behind
our ' truck. They left their cars and
walked, over the snow to the lodge and
were taken care of. None or those
present at that time made any com
plaints. They realized the difficulties
Mr. i Parkhurst had to contend; with.
From my observation I can say Mr.
Parkhurst worked the hardest of any
of us in order to get through and
have the lodge in shape to accommo
date' ' the tourist. It would have been
impossible for anyone to have done
better without an unlimited capital.
In one article a government official
complained that they didn't even have
fresh milk, with a milk ? supply only
four hours away. To haul milk or
cream for four hours over thosei roads
would enable you - to . deliver only but
ter and buttermilk at the lodge. No
doubt this problem will be solved, as
Mr. Parkhurst has solved many others
more difficult than that. So it ! would
seem that the only fair thing for the
people - of i Oregon - to do would J be to
assist Mr. Parkhurst. He bas earned
that much by 'what he has already ac
complished. I have no Interest in this
matter except a desire to see fairness.
H. D. Northrop.
. FACTS I . ..
Portland, Aug. 19. To the Editor of
The Journalr-A , weman voter In the
Oregonian complained of the Ignorance
of those who expressed anything unfav
orable to Harding and asked the Ore
gonian to print "facts." I would like
to- ask on' what "facts"' does she base
her opinion that Mr." Harding, who rep
resents the old guard of Wall street.
should ' be supported next November?
What possible "facts" can she have ex
cept ! what someone else 'has said or
written?. i
If you have read it in the Oregonjan
does that, make it a "fact?" ; Is it a
"fact" that Cox and cocktails is the
Democratic, slogan? Is it a "fact that
Cox dependa on booxe and booxe alone
for support? Is It a ; "tact" that Mc-
Adoo is a crown prince?- Is it a ffact"
that the "hatred" of Wilson is predom
inant to the "respect" of a nation?
I could ask a thousand like questions
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Letters From the People j
COMMENT" AND
SMALL CHANGE .
, Corn is ripening In the garden lots.
Don't disturb the . moth balls In the
winter woolens. Friend sun is still on
the job.
' Further steps have been taken looking
to a reduction in local streetcar fares.
WMle there's life there's hope.
. A merchant speaking at a convention
in San Francisco reported that the price
of clothing would decrease slowly. Get
what consolation you can from it.
i. New York thieves operating In day
light got away with 18.000 in vcash.
They probably wouldn't have done much
better had they waited until night...
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Americans ( have proved themselves
such experts at pole vaulting in the
Olympic games, that we wonder if the
Russians wouldn't like lo mobilise a
few of them.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Refusal to allow increased passenger
rates on Jntra-state movement has been
made by the Ohio public service commis
sion, but plans will likely be worked
out shortly to amend this difficulty, says
W. H, Benham, general agent of the
Union Pacific system at Cleveland, who
is a Portland visitor for a few days. Ben
ham - is making- a general educational
tour of the Union Pacific lines. About
20 general agents and general freight
and passenger agents have preceded him
to Portland on. similar tours. K. H. Haw
ley, general agent of the Union raclfie
at Minneapolis, and E. J. Hanson; gen
eral agent of the system at Salt Lake,
are also Portland visitors.
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Anah Jennings; who assists in the
management of the ...Jennings hotel at
Joseph, is a visitor in Portland at the
home of his sister, at 1085 East Grant
street. .
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J. J. Macrodt has returned to Portland,
after having spent two weeks in Brit
ish Columbia. He reports that quite a
number of Portlanders were in Victoria
and Vancouver during the "hot spell"
here. - .
Joseph Wood and his son, Frederick,
are on a fishing trip near Lost Lake. Be
fore flivvering" back to Portland a dip
in the ocean will be taken at Cannon
Beach. x
Portland Is getting ; her share of the
attention of the Elks who are assemhlnrl
at Vancouver. Wash., for the annual
state convention of the lodge In that
i State
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note" lobbies are bright with
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
While traveling along the Oregon coast
I stopped overnight at the home of a
pioneer of the early fifties. After sup
per we sat in front of the large stone
fireplace with its blaring logs and the
talk drifted to the .early days when
travel waa by canoe or - on horseback
over the mountain trail "We lived a
very uneventful - life in those days,"
said my 'hostess. "We were ' hid
away in the hiUs where nothing
ever happened. I sure . would like
to give' you a story about soma ex
citing events but .we lived here from
year's end to year's end without any
thing ever happening. No, I can't tell
you about my schooling when I . was a
girl because the ' school broke up 'on. us
before we got out. of the words of one
syllable and before another school start
ed I was married so I never went any
more. . -
"
, "Yes, sir, it was sort of curious about
that school cjuitting on us the way it
did. Being 'way off out of civilization
the way we were my father sent out to
the vaUey for a teacher to come' in and
learn us for a spell. Three or four of
the neighbors in this neck of the woods
chipped in together to pay his salary.
I was a big husky girl going' on 15 and
it wasn't long before Scotty, the new
teacher, took a shine lo me. Hank, the
young fellow who had been going with
me off and on for a' year or more,
didn't like It a little bit,, so'he blew me
up about it and gave me notice not to
let the teacher walk home from school,
with me. Naturally I wasn't going to
let Hank teU me what I could or couidn't
do, so I sort of primped , up a little more
than common when 1 went to school and
had the teacher help me "more than I
really needed with my lessons. Hank
went to my father i and told him that
Scotty was just fooling with nje and
getting me discontented ! and unsettled.
To tell the truth, the teacher was a lot
nicer to me than Hank. Hanlc was one
of the domineering Sort. Hank got Dad
wrought up about It till he consented
to fire the teacher. Hank suggested
running him out of the country to show
him up as a coward so I. would lose my
interest in him. Dad was wiUing, so4
they both went to Scotty's cabin next
morning. Scotty was baching. They
got there as he was cooking breakfast.
He was frying some bacon and was -turning
it with his butcher knife. Hank
told him he had to quit going with me.
What if I don't quit? What will hap
pen then? said Scotty. Hank told him
they would give him just five minutes
to hit the trail or they would turn him
adrift naked with a coat of tar and
feathers. "Well, why. don't you start
right now," Scotty said. Hank was
quick tempered, so he jumped for Scotty.
Scotty lowered his butcher knife and it
ran Into Hank's stomach about six or
seven inches. Then he stabbed Dad, but
but why more? I will give my vote to
any person who . answers any- of my
questions so as to prove the assertions
made to be "facts." On the bther hand
I could give "A Woman Voter" facts
till she couldn't rest, on why she should
not support the "old guard" this fall, or
any other time. That Is what she wm
do if she votes for Mr. Harding.
I will bet a dish of Ice cream she does
not s read The Journal.. How can any
one judge a question without knowing
both sides? Another dish, that there are
just as many facts in The Journal as
are in the Oregonian. '
i I will say one thing, and while it
may not bring consolation to "A Woman
Voter" it is however fc "fact." Not all
of the Ignorant vote will be for Cox and
the League of : Nations. Mr. Harding
will get his share. - H. D. Northrop.
THROUGH WITH HENS
Dayton. Or., Aug. 14. To the Editor
a letter from a Journal reader on "Prices
and Prices." There surely must be
something wrong. June 23 I sent to
Portland (Hazlewood Co.) ' 82 broUers ;
not what you would call big broilers, but
plump and fat. I received $18.73 for the
lot. ' On July 16 I sent to the same place
41 White Leghorn hens, all in good con
dition, but in two coops. One coop was
apparently received the same day, 16
hens, and they paid 22 cents per pound.
The express company did not deliver, the
other coop of 25 hens until the 17th, and
the Hazlewood allowed me just 60 cents
more for the .25. hens.' I wrote the com
pany, but they never answered me. '
- Soon lots of hens will be sold to give
room for the young stock. Chicken rais
NEWS IN BRIEF
I SIDELIGHTS
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- Allen Banks' new store can be banked
upon to help Albany, Albany Democrat.
It's a good thing so imany people have
been "seeing America first" before the
new pasHenger rates go into effect. La
Grande Observer.
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There Is more money in seeds than
youi ever thought possible, and Salem
ought to be a great seed growing center.
Salem Statesman. I
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Increased freight rates will add to the
expense oT mining gold and the gcld do!
lar Is shrinking iri value each day as the I
ruei vi living invrHaei uue 01 me can- i c? ...m v. .... A ,! i,n,i,. ,
dldates for vicn nrvsldent In rrcnl i Salem will have a half liollrlay Mon
?t8..?r. X... .rf'l-h-i1.- STT"1 day to celebrate a baseball came between
told his hearers
rertf t&at law should be
passed to assist in the development of
our- natural resources.; Thin line of rea
soning sounds good to! the Wentern min
ing man who is struggling to make both
ends meet. Baker Democrat.
the festive headgear of the Bills. Among
those present is Charles D. Davis, for-
murely-exalted ruler of the Seattle lodge
of Elks. Davis is in town now and
then, observing its growth.
Dr. W. T. Phv the chtof f affaira at
Hot Lake, Or., where, if other natural
phenomena did not heat the water that
bubbles from invigorating Bprings, the
sun! would turn the trSck, is at the Ben
aonl while 'he njoys ihe persiective lo
cally. The doctor reports things on
thai upgrade in Union county. ..
jj L. Barr was born and reared with
in Sight of the once famous Columbia
river bar at the mouth of the Colum
bia. But, just like the bar, the present
Portland visitor departed. : The bar dis
appeared entirely and Barr moved to
Yakima, Wash., wherej he owns a leading
drug store. Mrs. Barr came down with
heri husband. J
If must be G. II. Gallagher to -whom
many Portland motorist owe a debt of i elation has filed with the public service.
gratitude for relief from the torments im!'"'0j;iapJ:Mf,'on alnB-.fo': PhyH'
th. 1..ii...illwta n.aah- . !caJ. Connection between the Southern I'a-
of the gasoline shortage. Gallagher is
at the Portland from San Francisco,
where he is an official of the Shell Oil
company. He declares that the shortage
is a thing of the past and probably never
will recur. To prove he statement Shell
stations about an hovf after the visitor's
arrival announced, they had lifted all
restrictions on the s4le of motor fluid,
i 1
Chester li. Phillips assistant -cashier
of the Federal Reserve bank at San
Francisco, is i guett at the Benson
hotel. S - ,
Lockley
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the knife hit his breastbone so it didn't
kill him. Dad ran home and Scotty fin
ished frying his bacon. After he had
eaten his breakfast he pulled Hank in
and laid him on the! be'd and then he
went to the justice of the peace to give
himself up. The justice didn't know the
law in the case and he couldn't find any
case like it . iri his lawbook si he told
Scotty if he was him jhe would start for
the valley and keep going. Scotty knew
what he had done might create prejudice
against him in the neighborhood so he
lit out like the justice advised him to.
People from, all over j that section came
toy Hank's funeral. Dad's wound soon
healed up. but the school waa broke up
for the rest of the year. Next year they
got a girl teacher from Portland. I got
married that summer
anything of interest about the early day
schools. '
' Once in a while a fitness manages to
get the best of a lawyer. Here is a case
that happened in orie of the larger
cities of the Willanjjette valley , some
years ago. ) . :
!"Tou are an African, are you not?"
asked the attorney, who was trying to
impeach the credibility of the witness,
"What ; me?" said Auntie Jackson as
she rolled her . eyes; in ' astonishment.
"Me an African? Lawsie'no, Judge, l'se
just a common everyday colored
woman." "Were you born in a state of
servitude?" "No, sir,-1 was born In Mis
souri, but my folks came from ' Vir
ginia." "Now listen, said the lawyer
threateningly. "In wpat condition were
ybu born? Was It not a condition of in
voluntary servitude?"! "Me? What con
dition was I born In? ; Well, Judge, to
the best of my recollection I was born
in what they most geherally call a con
dition of - poverty. Same as yourself.
Judge." A smile flitted over the faces
of those in the courtroom. "Answer my
questions without evasion or equivo
cation," said the lawyer angrily. "What
you all mean by that?" asked Auntie
Jackson. "Why,, whenj I ask you a ques
tion, say. yes. or no" jand nothing else,"
explained the attorney. "Was your
mother a slave ?" "You want me to
answer the way you1 said to?" - a.xked
Auntie Jackson. "Certainly I do." "AH
right. Judge, "yes ori.no and nothing
became a titter. "Isn't it a fact that
your father was a white man?" asked
the attorney savagely.) "He shorely was.
Judge." "I thought as j much. I suppose
you don't even know who he was," con
tinued the attorney. 'IWell, Judge, your
folks and my folks were neighbors back
Iri Missouri, and for jail I know your
father might have been my father. Folks
say I favor you som in looks." The
gale of laughter that jswept the court
room prevented the Jiry from hearing
what the attorney wasj saying, but from
hia actions It seemed
to be something
of a violent nature.
ers should keep clear of such a market
as this. I am throughlwith hens Irv big
flocks. . , (Marie Fulham.
I
Olden Oregon
.Controversy Between j the Territorial
I Legislature and Governor Gains.
. The territorial legislature of 1850 was
not a harmonious one. There was squab
bling over the expenditure of the appro
priations . for public buildings and the
location of the capital J In the contest
over the capital location Governor Cains
took a hand and ' was rebuked by the
legislature, which made It a personal
matter. When the assembly "provided
for the printing; of the public documents
It voted to print neither the governor'
annual nor his special imessage.'
Curious Bits of information
i for the Curious
!.--
Gleamed From Curious Places
Edible bamboo snoots
speak of Japan, when
in China, not to
they are of a
rood variety, are a vegetable dish that
has no rival, Americana i who have eaten
them say. Their vcrispness and their
freshness of flavor F appeal to nearly
every one the first time he ats them.
Foreigners in the Orient become as
partial to bamboo sprouts as Americans
are to avsparagun. The varieties that are
cultivated for their shoots are generally
grown . in - gardens close to the house,
and are heavily manured. In order to in
sure a maximum of sprouts and the
greatest tenderness of texture.
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happening in Brief Form for the
! . j . Uuay Keaotr.
' A OREGON NOTES
Clyde Flsk fend K. Ooodohlld of Kupene
have been fined $50 each for having deer
meat out of season.
Construction has bosun at Oregon Ag
ricultural collece of the first unit of the
women's dormitory.
'Governor Olcott has returned to Salem
from Seaside and CHiinon Ht-ach In ait
automobile, via Tillamook'.
"' Bend' Kardens suffered severely from
j frost Tuesday morniiiK. The mercury
dropped two degrees below freezing
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The reserve on Huckleherrv mountain.
west of Lost lake, has been opened by
Hie national forest service to huckleberry
pickers, -
J. G.i Adelhart, a 17-year-old youth of.
Snlem. has been paroled to his pnrents
after, bavins been arrested on the charge
of pausing worthless checks.
Duririq; the first 15 days of August the
forest firp palrnl rerorted 22! fires In
0i district of which Kugene i the base."
Jii. fires ranged from a single snag to
300 acres. j ,
Jack jTtathie, one of thn men under in-
d'etment at Pendleton for the mir
! n"ritf; Taylor, has been- irientifl
fiAil - mm
John laffenhean by the sheriff of I'ower
i At attempt Is helnir made nt Tendleton
j to '""ect th murder of K. D. JennlnKS
' JSPVi Ti ,w ; r?nr .Bancroft. Idaho, t-
. shiJff w V.!!l wen,,, the rnurrterer"
" . ' "
According 16 old settlers of Whorlor
county; the hot weather oT last week
' -mo- exr-.-lve than for yearn.
Stock suffered from the heat. The ther
mometer reached 107.
! Educators from al) parts of the state
are expected at Hood Kivrr- AuKust 2.'..
when the second annual conferenc'-e of
vocational agriculture will be held at the
Hood River high school.
' The Circuit court of Marion county has
been asked by j reen Mountain lode, I.
p O. F.. to restrsln Gerald Woolf mid
Wilbur Smith from attending dances
given by the organization.
S Tli Oreffon Orowers' 'oonrftf lv ansn.
ciru? and Oregon Electric at,
Forest
Groye.
j ! WASHINGTON,
fire in the warehnuan nf th Trr11v.
Masoni Hardware comnanv at SDokann
caused a loss of 150,000.
( Jfihm Bagley, the founder of the Ta
comft Kastern railroad, and well known
in lumberj and financial circles. Is dead.
The j Daughters of Democracy and'
others eligible are forming an auxiliary
to the American Legion at Walla Walla.
A Alhlgh wind in the Yakima valley has
done considerable damaKe to the fruit
crop. Pears just ready for picking were
badly injured.
Niewland Bros, are harvesting their
lOOQ-acre crop near Kltxville. The yield
is about j lo bushels to the -acre and
testing No. 1.
The I Whitman county commissioners
have appointed Beatrice Short of Spok
anei as public health nurse to succeed
Mrs. May Cameron King.
Jlhn Johnston. employed at the
Thompson Ford lumber mill at Kelso,
was! severely injured when struck by a
timber thrown back from the edger.
While the census shows that St. Helens
precinct in Skamania county lias a popu
lation of three, it is a gain of 300 per
cent over 1910 when the population was
a single person.
Jacob Harder, who owns over 32.000
acres! of wheat and farm land on Cow
creek reports pasturage the poorest In
40 years, i A I large number of springs
on his ranch have gone dry. -
About 10 automobile loads of Colfax
flre-flphters responded to an njarm of a
grain fire four mllesi south of town on
the Floyd Hickman place. The only
damage was i the burning of a straw
stack.-' ). . j i -
Klgh't drug stores of the slate sold
1144 gallons of essence of ginger in two
months this year Recording to President
jtobertson or me mate uruiit;i.',! --"-"-elation.
The' legitimate call, he saltf,
did not exceed four gallons.
Thomas P. Clarke, superintendent nf
the. state-school for the deaf at Van
couver for the past 15 years has re
signed. He will be succeeded by Oeorce
R. Lloyd of Trenton, N. J.. who was
formerly connected with the school.
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It is proposed hy residents of '"halli
school district to Issue bonds for IjO.OOO
for a new school building.
The bond election at Coeur d'Alena
resulted in a vote of 155 in favor of
the bonds and 23 against.
Th city of Boise has let a contract
for 17 miles of sewer extension. i no
estimated icost is 1208,000.
The 1' delegates to the state conven
tion chosen by the Ada county Demo
cratic convention will go uninstructed.
JyOtteriea ana gamming oevices i
Boise street carniva have been ordered
to cease operations by the city council.
Durlnir a storm at Kandpoint lightning
struck a barn on the Zastrow ranch near
Colburn and killed one cow besides dam
aging the; barn, j
B. O. T Valentine has been appointed
a potato Inspector of the bureau of mar
kets, t He will be stationed at Melba and
later at Burley. ,
State superintendent of public In
struction has gone to Rupert in con
nection with the back to school drive in
Southeastern Idaho.
Threshing Is in progress in the vicin
ity of Rathdrum. Wheat yields are re
ported at 20 and SS-bushels per acre.
Some oats are light.
Uncle Jeff - Snow Says :
Cal Meldiver is of the notion that it
don't pay to read a newspaper and cross
the street ' in even so quiet a place ei
the Corners ,'lhout lookln' and llstenln'
mighty keerful. A Portland sightseer,
come ! around the corner about the time
Cal was readin' intent about the League
o Nations and he didn't resume readin'
for several hours after that, and then
his head was all bandaged up and one
arm ! ditto. I
Oregon Pears Unequaled and
the Bigger They Are the
i Better They Are.
Pears are. now coming into the
market. The Oregon pear reveals
the ! marvelous soil fertility and un
equaled growing conditions of this
state in a way perhaps that no other
product docs.
There are specimens of Bartlett
pears every year that no one man
would try to consume without as
sistance. He would divide it. Klse
where big pears would sacrifice,
flavor and lusctousness to size. But
the soil, the sun, the rain, the cli
mate and that something which
makes every Oregon product dis
tinctively Oregon give to the pear
grown In! this state delicacy en
hanced by : size.
Down in Rogue river valley Cornice
and I d'An Jou pears possess wonder
ful shipping qualities in addition to
their flavor and quality. The larg
est of the Bartletts come from" the
Willamette valley but they do not
ship so well as the Bartletts from
The Dalles and Hood River. In
many sections Winter Nellis rsnd
Fall Butter pears, not to mention
many other varieties, are popular. .
Oregon's pear production in 1918
amounted to 1.720,000 boxes valued
at Jl.300.000 but In 1319 It Increased
to 2.100,000 boxes worth 4,200.OO0.
Oregon pears dehydrate, dry and can
"beautifully.
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