x'HURSDAY. AUGUST Zf5, 8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON AS IS DEPEX PEST SEWSPAPEtt, : r R iirEtuiS Pubtuner B etlmTtHk coVfid.n. eb-erfui and do cato other, aa yoo wooid teaf theiadottaU Jm.l rabushed aeerT week U and "'."5' : at The Journal Boildiat. Broadwair sad i bill tunb Portland. Oresva. .. ; Catered at the poetoffice at Portland. Oregon, for UmiumiMioo Urou-a the stalls a aecood cum natter. TIUEl'HOS Eg Mala Til. Automatic SSO- I . All department reached taeaa number. rORlClGN ADVERTISIMO BKPRESKJiTATlVIS Benjamin Keotaor Co.. 'fl'.,BaJkl111n 22S "ft aenue. New or; v Mailer - BuUdinc. Chicago. - ' TUB OREtiUM JOURNAL reeere tM ncnt U reject edertMn wnieb K deems oo- jectioMable. It atao win aot print any eopr that mi ear war eunulates readtci matter or that cannot readily be recognised aa adfr- tuiuav - ' - ' ' ' '" ' j i subscription rates , .-.-.! B Carrier. 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I belier that a mas ret what b toe after, that on deed don today to wo.rth two dead tomorrow, and that no man ia down and oat until h baa lost faith in hinieelf. Elbert Hubbard. , , j ' THE CAR RIDERS Tf HE federal electric, railway com-- mission, after a year of study of; the problems of the electric railways: of the country, has reported to Presi-j i dent Wilson. In lis report the com i mission says: . . j The elimination of special assessments for sprinkling, pawing-, bridges, etc. is recommended by the commission, on the ground that the entire community, and ' particularly the automobile owner, gets more benefit from thes things than the '-streetcar rider. " L j . i The commission holds that the bur- dens of the community should not be shifted to the car rider and jthe commission "deems It equally WTong that their operation (railways) should . be -for the profit of the public In the sense that funds collected from' the; car ' rider in excess of ordinary taxes upon , ;the railway properties shall be turned - into the municipal treasury. j V 'This commission, composed of rail- wy, economic, and financial experts ' of the United States, has laid down a principle in street railway operation that The Journal has recommended for years. This paper has repeatedly ; pointed out the gross Injustice of 'evy- ing fixed charges, such as bridge tolls, - cost1 of pavement franchise and! li cense taxes, and the cost of free rides, on the car rider. They are burdens : that rightfully belong, to the commu inity as a whole, not to a class that can, ill afford to pay them and to whom under no rule of reason orj rfgttteousncss can they be justly charged. , J The commission also laid down other fundamental principles that must be taken Into account in the , maintenance and operation of the street railways of the country, i Sime of those principles are: . Street railways everywhere : should r serve the public at cost t ! : The valuation should be fixed by agreement . " T ; The companies -should be allowed ,a fjxed return on the Investment; ; Managements, employes and public hae a solemn duty to perform, ' each toward the others. Transporta tion service should not be paralysed by strikes or lockouts. Disputes shohld be settled by arbitration bind- Ing on ioth parties. ' -: : When lines are extended into but lying territory In a way. to benefit '-'private property the costs should be borne by the private interests to the extent of tho benefit acquired. Such extensions should not "be Included in - the valuation. conditions 6hould govern franchises '.'and: fares. i The essentials ' to continued opera tion of the railways on a wholesome . basis are restored credit to the com ' panies, and cooperation between com ; panies, employes and the public! ' The report gets at the basis of the "railway problem. Most of he princi ples enunciated are sound. Those that are sound should be written Into the . pages of railway operation throughout .he' country. , In his letter In The Journal Tues . day, the former state market com ; missioner of California took, the i exact view, that The Journal baa presented . on the milk 'Controversy In - Tnrtljrl.T' Cftlftn! Wklmtnolr argues' for cooperative organization among the dairymen as a means of obtaining such a price as will keep them In the business and keep them producing." if not they will go out of business. th milk supply will be shortened, and prices to corvsuraers no f higher. Colonel a Wemocn a knowledge of the Bubject waa jrained from a. lone and successful experi ence to helplniT form the wonderfully effective . cooperaUye orranlxatlcnB among the farmers of Calirornia. ; A BILL. OF FOLLY T" VERY 35 .nJnuleg : somebody i TLa killed by an automobile. That is the toll the year around. And It is Increaslmr, r That is what figures com plied by the National Safety 'Council show.' ' Three Himds as many people are killed by automobiles as by all the railroads and in all the mines and in all factories of i Ihe country. Tfie number 'ot automobiles Is increasing, and with the Increase the toll grows. It is greater in New York this year than last, 'greater In Detroit, and 25 per cent creater in , Chicago, with the increase- in automobiles and the increase in pedestrians, space for their travel does not keep pace. Streets are not "wider. They are not longer. It means more ' automobiles ' and more pedestrians to tye square foot, and therefore more congestion. It is, con; geslion, along wltli recklessness and carelessness, that causes accidents, In juries and killings. In Portland one of every two collisions Is in the con gested district , ; The public suffers. Included In the public are the safe and sane drivers Also included lo the public : are the careful pedestrians. The reckless drivers and negligent : pedestrians are at .fault, I Frequently a careless pedes trian Is responsible for an accident in which he plays no part He forces a driver or another pedestrian into position for a collision. ' !. - -The erring drivers will be : weeded but in Oregon by the license law and severe and firm application -of the statutes, j The negligent pedestrian will in time pay his bill of folly with life or limb, . J : . The Republican state convention of Idaho yesterday formally Indorsed Senator Borah's stand against the League of Nations. Senator Borah said he wouldn't accept the league If it were proposed by the Savior of mankind. - He and Hiram threat ened I to bolt the national ticket if the Chicago platform in any way favored the league. Borah is against a league of any : kind, and Indorse ment: of his position by the Idaho Republicans makes It hopeless for any ; I Republican ? , who ; favors the league to expect help towards per manent world peace from his own party. t 1 - A LUMBERING CENTER IN ASTORIA many men have risen from poverty to affluence, and be come bank presidents, factors In com merce, logging and lumber magnates and taken other positions of promi nence and trust in the financial and industrial world. , It is a city of very great opportu ity. .'. . - . , The lumber Industry has given many of them their chance to rise. 'It is a chance that will long stand wide open. Government figures place the standing timber of Clatsop county at 15,097,285, 000 feet. Immediately tributary to As toria on the Oregon and Washington side is 60 billion feet The Columbia river gives Astoria an emphasized ad vantage in the business because of the economy with which logs can be floated from distant points to the mills. It costs, for example, but 30 cents a thousand to float logs from the Washington side to the Astoria saw mills.1 The river currents land ocean tides make it a matter! Of extraordi nary economy to move logs from long distances up the river on both sides to the place of . manufacture. This advantage ! is very certain to have a telling effect ia developing the lum ber Industry at the mouth of the river. ; There is 1.361,648,000 feet of standing spruce in Clatsop county. There Is raw material in large supply in the region for a paper mill for the manu facture of, news print When a rail road down the coast is finally built as it will be some time, an inexhaust ible supply of such material 4wlll be within reach of Astoria, i A hundred million feet of spruce lumber was supplied by Clatsop coun ty for manufacture of airplanes dur ing the war. Six spruce camps Avere maintained,, ami in some cases log ging railroads were built to them. The county, in supplying "spruce for airplanes and other forms of lum ber for ship building, was a scene of busy war activity. In peace, the lumber operations are not less active. At least a, dozen big logging companies, whose camps "are provided with every : known form of modern equipment are in constant op eration. ;: All have a heavy working capital and all are conducting a suc cessful business. There are 187 miles of logging railroads In the county. Headed by the Hammond mill with a dally capacity of 450,000 feet, there are 11 big aawmillsin the county. The combined daily output of these mills is 1,100,000 feet. Few, ; even in As toria, realise the proportions to which the lumber industry in that section will mount The ocean, with its dis tant markets' clamoring for timber products. Is almost-within a stone's throw. ; The port Sas provided dock facilities with modern equipment that are Dot exceeded in any port anywhere. The harbor; and entrance are as good as any to be found" in the world. What is more, the people rc alive and i alert to the situation. Tlir havf 1 spirit of maritime progiee. Tcy ira i ; " . ? t .: i . ...... - i - ' - - 1 .:, .. " i- . :: talking the language ot the sea and thinking in terms or me sea. i Astoria is only at the beginning of its growth. i They are to have a three-cornered state caVn paign In Idaho. I Three en- ventlons ih thai state yesterday put three state tickets in the field Re publican. Democratic sshd Non-partisan league. Th Non-partisans have barrels of " money, : and the aggres siveness of their canapaig-n iwlllj.go far in making the state campaign overshadow the national drive in that state. At the same time it la quite possible that the mix-up may exer cise a determining influence in de cidlng where the electoral vote of Idaho will go. : . MILLIONS IN LEAKAGE 'X'HE hazard of debt Is repeatedly 1 - exemplified in the conduct: of public affairs The state highway cSmmission' of Oregon let contracts for construction months ago. The actual cash-for pay ment for the work was not in ' hajpd The credit of the state: was employed. The commonwealth went Into debt to lay the highways. Time or" payment came. Bonds were sold. They brought less than 90 cents on the dollar be cause interest rates had soared to tin- usual heights. . j f Another ..'issue wasi . disposed.' of Tuesday. It brought a. trifle above 90 cents .on the dollar, t Ah Issue ! of 11,500,000 was sold fori $1,351 ,000. The loss to the state is f 149,000 because ihe bonds,! when redeemed, will bring $1,500,000 out of the state treasury! ; r : Here is a case of credit under ihe most able public" administration, ! re sulting in a considerable leakage, i No man can tell, when he goes in debt what the interest rate will be if ihe must borrow to get out i . I -1 The debtor maintains ! the I loan agencies of the United States.' ! He pays the salaries of huge staffs of employes. He pays rent in costly lo cations. He pays a profit to the man agers. He pays for the business, pays debts Incurred by the institutions, and on top pays a return on the Busi ness. 1 " ''jv.H-V-;. j (if There are thousands and thousands of loan agencies throughout the Coun try, i Their rent runs j into millions. The cost of the business and the : re turn thereon run Into more millions. That is what the borrowers of the United States pay in leakage. A .great commission which has been studying street railways makes recommendations relative to !dar riders wnicn me journal Has ad vocated for years. Many things pro posed and ' pushed by The ' Journal are often opposed by people : who find out later that The Journal was right. , . - ,; MUST TAKE SHORT CUTS EVEN If they carried traffic over the most direct routes! the railroads are utterly unable to haul all the traf fic of the country. Applying the greatest economy in the use of ears and motive power they Would still be unable to move the whole volume j pf business. i.: t-'; j' ' The ; railroad situation is. not new. It is not merely a result of the w tr and the war disOrganlxatlQn. f , ; i Years ago James J. Hill said the rail roads must have $5,000,000,000 in bet terments to meet traffic demands. The railroads did not get the sum or aiy considerable part of It f They cannot get what they need now, and nevjsr will get it, because the country Is ih ereasing in growth and that increases the, demand on the carriers. The coun try is outgrowing the capacity of the roads. The roads can never catch tip, even under the most efficient opera tion and the most effective use of equipment and ; facilities. I t i - I Their : financial -problem i is. bigger than the' roads. Even Ithe Pennsyl vania has borrowed money on a 9 per cent oasis. iNeany a billion dol lars has leen assumed 'by the roads in increased wages. Rates are in creased an average of 3i I per cent and even with that the roads have maturing obligations that give them great anxiety. Maturing 3 per cent bonds must be refunded with bonds at an Interest rate that is! staggering; As to the power of Ithe! roads to happened move traffic, we know what in war time. They collapsed railroad president publicly! . A great confessed that 15 to 30 per cent of the traf flo could not be handled by the lines. In order to get service the government was Compelled to take over (the roadls, harmonize them into a single system and take all the short cuts in routing traffic. By applying shorf cuts and di rect routes and using every possible means i of economy through 1 limited service, the government (succeeded Ijn getting traffic to its destinations. II One factor that helDed the arovern- ment was its use to the full of all waterways. To wait for) the roads to handle ; the; traffic, without employing the waterways as auxiliary and inte gral part of A great systeiki will be like waltng for the day iof Judgment The great lakes and the) great rivers must become : factors. The ' railroads cannot do the business alone. . ij What, in this impotency of the roads, is the spectacle of 150 ears of soya bean oil jrouted from Seattle via Portland, San Francisco and New Or leans to Cincinnati, 4176! miles; when by direct route, Cincinnati could have been reached in only 2483 miles sav ing an unnecessary haul of 1693 miles? : What of the spectacle of a train load of gasoline routed : from Tulsd, Oklahoma, via San Antonio! and Sah Francitsro to Portland, i 3177 miles'. m lu-n i ju!d have" readied, Portland via the Union Pacific In-only 2048 miles, with a saving in train haul of U89 miles? What of the constant haulage Of trains over the .mountains to Puget sound rom territory reached by a shorter! w ater,' grade route to Port land?? . : The railroads are no longer a private snap; they are a public agency." As such the publio authority over them should require them to appl every detail of economy' in operation and every lac tor, that will give service. If that Is not. dene, they will ' sink to lowier and lower levels : of in competency and inefficiency. HARDING'S PONZI POLITICS A. "Mystery Administration" Presented lor contemplation by tne feopio . of America, jrrom the New Tork World Senator Harding has informed the newspaper correspondents at Marion that "there -will be a complete reversal of our I foreign policy if there is a change of administration." When asked for something more specific the -candidate replied : "You will have to excuse roe from going into deta-ils at present, but I think the Republican party will expect - a . Republican administration to make ,sj sweeping change of foreign policy If we win." Just What this means, nobody knows, least Off all, perhaps. Senator Harding. But what does a. "complete reversal" of the foreign policy of the United States Imply T war with Mexico? Recogni tion : of the Bolshevist government in Russia? Continued massacres of Ar menians by ., the Turks? The United States encouraging Europe ' to return to the imperialistic system which pro duced the world" war? : Senator Harding does not say. There must be! - Complete reversal - of our foreign policy" because, the Republican party will expect "a sweeping change," and the! Republican party In ; this in stance is the senatorial oligarchy that defeated the treaty of peace and voted for a separate peace with Germany. The foreign ; policy of the United States ia now "directed towaTd preserv ing the peace of the world. In guaran teeing the rights of small nations, in in surlng the freedom of oppressed peoples and - in preventing another great war. That is the policy which Senator Hard ing Intends to reverse, and reverse com pletely ; yet : the American, people are not to be consulted about it. -The issue Is-' not to be submitted to them in any definite Jrorm. . The senate leaders are to decide after election and the coun try is to trust the senate leaders. If more war comes out of it the American people will, still, retain the privilege .of paying the taxei and doing the dying. s Senator Harding is playing Pons! politics t Ith practically . all the issues of the campaign. He has shown him self ready : to promise anything that might attract votes, and is not- at all concerned . about the manner or the methods by which his promises are re deemed. It Is enough for him that the gullible ure always gullible. When he is asked for details of his program he Is again like Ponzi, who would explain nothing because the "mystery" was the basis ot his operations. '..-v .1- ' In any other country in the world a political leader of the status of a candi date for president, who announced his in tention to make a complete reversal in the foreign policy of his government would bej compelled forthwith to file a bill of particulars. He would be forced to submit his policy to a popular vote. But Senator Harding submits nothing, and the country does not take him seri ously enough to demand a statement of his ' program. - Nobody regards him tn any sense as the leader of his party, but merely as the office boy of a com mittee of senators. There have been many strange situations in the history of American politics,' but nothing else so strange as this. . Letters From the People Comttniitcatioai aeat to The Journal for publication in tbnv departaaant ahouki be written oa only onal side of the paper, abould not exceed 100 word In Jenstb aad must be aiaaed by the writer, whoa aaail address ia lull uiut acooaa pan the eqnUibuuoa.1 : FOR REVOLVERS EVERYWHERE PorUanfl, Aug. 23. To the Editor of - The Journal .During the past few years I have read many editorials in your paper dealing with the revolver and urg ing that their manufacture be prohibited. Recent articles of this ntaure have pro voked me to reply. I am-in no way con nected with or interested in the manu facture or sale of revolvers. In an article of date July 28 In commenting on automobile and pistol ; murders a writer aaks that the manufacture of revolvers be prohibited.- To be consist ent with the line of reasoning he used in the article he. should also ask that the manufacture of automobiles be pro hibited. ; In another article, August 2, the presence of a revolver Is given as the excuse, for the murder of Til Taylor. No mention was made of the factithat were it nojt for revolvers in the hands of Taylor and his party, capture of the prisoners would not have been made. Til Taylor's death was due to the fact that he did not use his revolver when the prisoners iflrst put in an appearance. In my opinion, to say that doing away with the revolver would reduce the num ber of murders is childish. It certainly snows lack of Understanding of human nature. One might as well say that to do away with one brand of whisky would make the country dry.. I wonder if the writer would prefer a. nice, leng knife In the hahds of future holdup men to the "murderous" revolver. The posses sion of a revolver now is almost to the same clasfc aa the moonshine stilt The recent war showed the effect of revolver restriction laws pot Into effect by long haired seajlots. During the war officers were armed with the pistol aa their only defensive weapon. Because of lack Of practice and their Ignorance of the arm not 10 per cent of them could hit a man at JO yards. If It is really your desire to do rood for humanity, and not a theory of your own. my idea would be to do everything possible to get a revolver Into every home and teach every boy or high school age the proper use of same. If a burglar know you have a revolver in your home and know how to use it he wiU think twice before entering. . Auto drivers would havje more respect for the pedes trian if they , thought there was a run in hia clothes. U. F. McDonald. "THAT i MAKES ME THINK" 5 Hood River. Aur. 20. To the Editor of The Journal Some- writer tn the Sat urday Evening Post took it upon him self to wlte an article entitled The Old Fashioned - Man." He goes on to say, or leads you to believe, this old gentleman from 15 to 60 years has grown rusty, umid ana modest, and believes tn the privacy of purity, honest labor, sub stantial pep and sanity. - Or. gosh ! - he wears four buttons on his coat lnatteaui of three. This la easy the good wife has patched and darned year before last's suit to down the high cost of new style toggery.:;-'. 'i.;''-.. This old) fashioned man believes also In modesty. He thinks bare backs and low cut fronts belong to the African oa- "WITH VA Uvea Nearly right, is he not? Trim ankles? Why not? Nothing out of the way about this; only, when so much Is exposed to the light it may become old and tarnished. Cold is found resting in its beauty, beneath the earth, snugly covered with sand and earth in the gravel at bedrock without its purity tar nished. Did you ever meet this fellow in your ' town? ' Have you ever wished you had? Look " around. He's there. He's fair and square. Though white has streaked his hair. Why, we need him in our land. This old fashioned man., j Sure, he's - modest in his ways, And has helped in bygone days. -He believes in keeping step i With an honest, forward pep. Better keep him near at hand. This old fashioned man. . There's his wife ; she's modest, too. Now I hear you say, "Ah. pooh !" But she thinks lie's mighty grand. This old fashioned man. NO. he's not behind the times For hating favored crimes. Four buttons on his coat, . Get's WiUiam's fashion goat. So. you say, he' not the fad.. This old; fashioned lad. t Edward H. Dreske. CUT OUT EXTRAVAGANCE Portland, Aug. 20. When the produc ers leagues get' together and sell direct through their own community stores and agents, to the consumer, cutting out the profiteers, middlemen, then the. consum er will reap the benefit and compel the schemers to go to work and produce. Then a true level will be found and profits will be equalized. But to regulate both the consumer must cut I out "ex travagance." In "aping" the wealthy the wage earner acts the part of i the "foot and his money soon parted ; for did they but notice it. they will find that it is the wealthy who are practicing economy to the very letter. Labor doe not know the value of money, only when they re ceive a moderate and fair wage, and they never will learn. Thaua what brought the downfall of the Roman empire, wealth and wanton extravagance in dress, or undress, and doing, homage to licentiousness instead of homage to the giver of all good things God. The Creator, ia almost forgotten, j churches empty, movies filled. No more Sunday observance, nothing but pleasure. Load of meat going te the. Incinerator -rather than be sold even at cost. That In itself should be amenable to the lawj equal to robbery, as It Is robbing the poor and needy and those of small mean with their right to live Independent iof help charity or otherwise in this prosperous country of plenty. Osborne Yates. i MODESTY OF THE GREAT Prom the Beaton Transcript "It's a good thing we can't ! see our selves as others see us," someone re marked to-Whistler. f "Isn't It, though." replied the ; artist. "I kn5w in my own case I should grow intolerably conceited." ; . - i : . Curious Bits of Information J ' for the Curious f Gleaned From Curious Places Crocodiles which were in the swamps of the West Indies when the first ex plorer set foot on the islands are bask ing there yet, and in the ocesm still are whales that frequented : the . coast of France when Joan of Arc; was a child and when In 1415 Henry V. of England landed in Normandy with a great army and seized Honfleur. . These whales. If they could talk and cared to, could tell us that In those day there were large whaJe fisheries along the Basque coast; in' fact.' pretty generally In the Gulf of Gascony. ; For whales live several cen turies, while elephants rarely pass 100 years; but carp, parrots and swan oft en become centenarians. Olden Oregon Progress of Improvement of Navigable ; Streams in the 50a. i Early navigation of the Willamette river was much Impeded by rock and rapids. In 1852, on the Clackamas rapids below Oregon City. $ SO, 000 was expended in ; removing - obstruuctlons, and the channel . was . also cleared to Salem. Through private interest the Tualatin river was. made navigable for some dis tance. A canal was dug to connect the RickreaU with the , WUlamette. At Ltv fayette a bridge was erected across the YamhilL It was the first structure of it 'kind in the territory In 1853 the Hock villa Canal Ac Transportation com pany waa organized to construct av basin above the Willamette falls on the west side of the river to eliminate the portage of roodri mile or more.: i - . ' . V ! IT : i 1 1 MY COMPLIMENTS, MADAM" ft. -! : !t i f CosrHa.hr, 1020. by Tha COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE' j Following the Olympic games a Fin lander predicts that the American teams will be defeated in 1924. He' looking a long way ahead for consolaUon. - e . 1 General WrangeL is in command of the antl-Bolshevikl forces In Southern Russia. As a matter of fact it looks as though the whole country is in a gen eral wrangle. . -. Even the Chinese, who asks no more than - a pittance of rice for existence, ha occasion to deplore the high cost of living because the price of his staple commodity has doubled within the last few months. i Jpm:j '-MWi MORE OR LESS-PERSONAL Random Observations About Town B. F. Jones, who is a member of the Port of Newport commission and also a member of the Oregon legislature. , is among the recent arrival at the Im perial. Other politician staying at Metsch&n's place are Denton G. Burdick, former member of the legislature, from Redmond, and Robert N. Stanfleld. who la the candidate for United States sena tor on the Republican ticket. ,- -.' ? Mr. and Mr. E. C. Sheehan and two daughters, from Tacoma, are at the Oregon, where . they- are staying, en route to- California by automobile. Mrs." D. P. Ketchin of The Dalles, whose husband Is one of the big sheep growers of thai region, arrived Tuesday at the Imperial. She ' waa -joined Wednesday by her sister. Mrs. I C. Schanno. -j VI '- r Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Reed of Reeds port which was named after them, are visiting at the Imperial. The Reeds are old-time residents 'of the Umpqua har bor district and formerly lived at Gardi ner. Reed ia interested In lumbering. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL-MAN 1 ...... i . - -i By Fred Lookley By today's mall I received a letter from William G. MeAdoo which reads a follows: "My dear Mr. Lockley : I have Just re ceived the copy of The Oregon Journal of July 27 containing your sketch of Til Taylor, and I must say that nothing has happened In many day to shock and grieve me so much as the death of this splendid fellow. "The paper you sent-me contains the first information I have had on the sub ject. I cannot teU you how grieved I am to learn of . the death of-this valu able citizen and brave and splendid American. I know nothing of the de tails of the crime, and I wish very much you would send me newspaper containing the full account of just how it happened. - ' i "The Pendleton Round-Up will never be the same without Til Taylor. He was a rare man and one could not help being impressed with his fine qualities. "With my kind regards and best wishes. I am ; . . "Cordially your. W. G. MeAdoo." r . . . : Is it not strange that, meeUng hun dreds of thousands of people, as W. G. MeAdoo has during the past few years, he should have been so Impressed by the sterling qualities of Til Taylor? . It shows that TU had that rarest of qual ities, personal magnetism. The reason he impressed all with whom he came in contact in this way was because he was a man of character. Like a bit of radium, he gave off friendliness aad good fellowship without ever suffering, any loss of it. I have talked with men whom TU ha arrested and they are more firmly attached to him even than those with whom he came in contact in a social way. Big in body, in heart and in understanding of the temptations that come to men. Til. by hi fearlessness, his friendliness aad his squareness, won all. - ' , , .- , i - - I shall never forget my first meeting with TU. It was about IS year ago. I had gone up to Pendleton to do some missionary ; work for The Oregon Journal,- which had just been taken ever by C S. Jackson. While there X be came Interested in the East Oregon ian and purchased a quarter Interest In it. The first day : I. struck Pendleton I dropped into The People Warehouse and bought i a broad brimmed gray Stetson hat. An hour later I" went Into the French- restaurant, hung my hat on a nail - on the wall near, my table and ordered supper. At e. table nearby was a small man with a nointed white beard who X eubseauenUr learned was Jimmy i 1 1 : Preaa Poblfthinr, Co. (The New Tork World) NEWS IN BRIEF j SIDELIGHTS The brand of c6urteay dispensed at the city water office Is not much belter than tne water itself. Astoria .Budget. I . ... . The person who hss not yet had his summer vacation, or pians made for one, is about as rare as a destitute farmer In the Coqullle valley. CoqulUe Senti nel, i - And still some of that grass along the walks remains uncut. It is surprising how i little some people think of their surroundings. They ought to move Into the backwoods, where the surroundings would be more In keeping- Amity Standard. t fishing and farming and is a member of the Port of Umpqua commission. Smaller Lincoln county fairs such as the famous fair of the Stletz Indians will be combined with the main Lincoln county fair. September 21. 22 and 23 this year, according to a statement made by K Li Lister, secretary of the Lincoln Fair association, who arrived in Port land Monday to complete arrangement for (amusement features. Lincoln took firs : place In 1119 for quality of ex hibit. Public sale of livestock. Includ ing! a herd of prise Ho Is te ins, will be made Frank Shepherd, who teaches one of the branches of farming down at Oregon Agricultural college. Is spending a few days at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. ' George M. Foot mo tored from Del Mar, Cel.. and are stop ping at the Nortonla. . y ... '. . - - ' '-"'''.'.'-- Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Sinclair, who run one cf the banks at Ilwaco, Wash., are among the visitors at the Portland Hackett. At the cashier' deuk was Gus LaFontaine, the proprietor. At the table facing me waa a broad shouldered bronze-faced man of about my own age. I slaed him up and decided be was a ranchman, probably one who had a good deal to do with horses. He had attrac tive eyes with heavy lashes, and I Uked his looks. a e I finished my supper before he was through and, taking my hat from the nail where I had hung It, I started for the door. He looked up and said, "Hold on la I minute." I stopped and turned toward him with a smile, which he an swered in kind. I said. "What' up?" He said, "If I were you I wouldn't wear that hat." I kept my temper-and aald. "Wouldn't you? Well. I would." . And I started on. Again he 'balled me in a quiet voice, saying, "I would rather you wouldn't wear that hat." I took the hat off. looked at it carefully, tried it on. and aald, "I am sorry you don't ap prove of my hat, but It suits me. I bought it a few hours ago and I think I shall wear It." He smiled apologeti cally, land said. Your hat at least the hat yiou wore when you came In is hanging on tho wall there. The hat you have on your head Is my hat, and I am partial to it, so if 1 were you I wouldn't wear it. You see, I am the sheriff, and it doesn't look, good for a stranger to come in -and get away with the sheriffs ht" I sised up the other hat and said. "I guess, being a you are the sheriff. I don't mind leaving you your hat and wearing the other, one." A day or so later I was formally intro duced to him and as we shook hands I saw a twinkle in his eye as he said. "Olad to meet you. That's a mighty good bat you have. It's a dead ringer for mine." I ; e e . v. I knew Til's folks at Athena very well Indeed. Dave Taylor, his tafher. and I became great cronies and from him I learned many interesting incidents about TU's -boyhood. Til never raised his voice, never became excited, never broke hs word, and was respected and feared more than any other Sheriff In th West by. the forces that prey He was of the old regime of sheriffs not the bookkeeping type, but the outdoor type, who believed in doing their duty to the juttermost, without fear or favor. It is te be hoped that Proctor will cast him life size in bronze on a bronze tiara so that every visitor to- future Round up shall see his stern yet kindly face looking down in friendly approval on the sport of the old West The Oregon Country Nortltweat tlapiienlng in Itrlef Form (or the x iBuigr Header. OREGON NOTES An agricultural department will be established in the Rainier schools -this year. The annual county fair of Columbia county will open September 22 at St. Helens. : Nellie Bpdortha ot Tillamook. asd 20 years, was drowned In the Nestuoca river at Blaine while in bathing. The Columbia county court has em ployed a policeman to enforce the traf. fic laws and arrest speedrrx. Three small sons of C. K. Lambert o Klamath Fallai were Injured by the ex- r'lonlon of dynamite caps with whiih hey were playing. The forest fire situation In Linn county Is under control. Nine flrea are burning In the Rantlam national forest, but none Is serious. Work has bearun on the last of the Linn countv fair buildings. It Is ex acted to have all the structures com pleted by September 20. v Work on the' Wlllamlna-Orande Ronde railroad construction tins been resumed atier a two cfk' sUHnennion caused by the walkout of 200 workmen. Members of the Hood River fair board, accompanied by a number of citiaens. have completed a vhtt to the orchards and stock ranches of the valley. Tlje railroad crnnsitiRS between Albany and Corvatlls will he eliminated by a change In tlie; location of the highway which Involves the construction of one mile of new road. Owing to last winter's freeie the crop of evergreen berries In the Mount AnjrH district will be much llnhter thBn ta.st year. Canneries are faltering 6 cent a pound for them. Extensive Improvement Is In pmgress on the road from Srio to (ireen's bridge on the Hantlam river, where connection Is made with a Marlon county road lead ing to Jefferson. Union labor of Baker has protested against the action of flhe city authorities in hiring experts from outside cities to take charge of tha construction of tho municipal natatorium. The city council of Motmt" Aneel has rejected the eight-Inch water pipe re cently Installed to connect the reservoir with the old water system. A caat Iron pipe of the same sise has been ordered. It Is estimated that the coming legis lature will - be asked to appropriate $2,223,094 for the maintenance of state institutions for the next hlennlum. Two years ago theapproprtatlon was $1,933, 128. . i . , Practically every packing plant on the Columbia has closed for the year. Owing to unfavorable market conditions but few fish caught outside tho mouth of the. river will be canned during Uie closed season. WASHINGTON The roads leading Into Walla Walla will be strawed where needed before the fair and frontier days show. Nearly 400 persons attended a field mass observed at the old Ahtanum fciu Joseph's nit.sslon in the Yakima valley. In attempting to swim her horse acroan the Spokane river Tearl -Romelly, agrd 17, was swept from the horse's back and drowned. The $250,000 Ice plant being erected at Wallula Is about half completed" and will be ready i for the refrigerating of fruit cars this falL . Indications are that Yakima valley will produce a bumper hop. yield. Twine Is now 60 cents per pound and the cost of picking has Increased 20 per cent. w nue worajt'S on a runnmin vester near La Crosse Uay. Kiuharty's right leg was caurht in the revolving cylinder and cut off close to the thigh. Two persons were killed and three Injured In a collision between a Seattle Tacnma Interurban train and an auto mobile on a grade crossing, near Tacoma. After numerous delays owlntr to labor trouble, work on the Walla Walla-Huro-ker section of the Inland Empire high way has been resumed with a full force. The Grays Harbor fair sssoclatlon of fers a series of prizes for the best appli cations of conservation to the making of clothing to be exhibited at the county fair. ; "A combine harvester operating on th Fred Hungate farm near Ab-nota blew up and was destroyed by the resultant fire, which also destroyed 15 acres of gffain. ; .The prune harvest has begun in the Walla Walla valley. The crop Is much lighter than last year. The price of fered Is around $50 per ton as compared with $100 at the beginning of Inst season. The moving picture and speaking tour of Stevens county was such a success that new schedules are being made out to visit other parts of the county. The object of the tour is to instruct in better agriculture. : .! .! IDAHO The Non-partisan league has filed no ticket in Idaho. Lewis and Nez Perce counties thisrS'ear. An automobile show on a large scale will be one of the main features of the Nampa harvest; festival. The sheep firm of Kemp At Kemp Is bringing out of the mountains 16 car loads of lambs for shipment east. The postofflce at Mt. Idaho, which was discontinued by he postofflce depart ment. has been reopened on the petiUon of the residents. : . - old time spirit, according to C. II. Tur ner, of Caldwell, and will continue to keen alive the need of raising horses and mules. -.. . TKe state tax levy baS been fixed by the state board of equalization at six and one eighth mills, i nis win rio mji-j nr X2 tta&.izfi. l nis is a rcuutnuii w 81.(r?5 for 1919. Out of a total of 13 pieces or lnman heirship land disposed of by Superlntend- - w i - . . i. t ...... i Bff.no-v. nine cm ipjs i ' - . ' . pieces were sold for $7.3S. or a frac tion over si per acre. , For tha first time since the construc tion of the railroad Into OranBevllle the total assessed valuation of all real anrt personal property shows an increase of neany one rnnutm ui Uncle Jeff Snow Says: We can't imagine what we'd of said if the British had of pulled outer the world war and made peace with Ger- many right arter we "t but a whole lot of what would of been said couldn't be "printed and go through the mails. So if the U. S. A. quits the allies cold and makes a separate pea with Oermany I reckon them people we go back on will makeremarks likewise, only in more languages, and first thing we know we'll have the league of nation to Tight. Uncle Sam could stand off the whole darned rest of the world, any time, of course, but there's a million things a feller can do that he'd be a blame fool for glttln' hlsself In slob a fix that he'd have to do 'em. Oregon Country. Editions of The"Journa. Dedicated to Service. In order to ; better serve readers in certain upstate communities whose mail is dispatched the more quickly by night trains. The Journal some year ago established Its Oregon Country Editions, which 'are pub lished each weekday night. , These edition serve their readers with all of the news of the preceding 24 hours. A separate staff takes up the work where the day staff leaves off, and, with the additional news fa cilities of two night leased wire re port, ia able to produce a complete down-to-tbe-mlnute newspaper. Through these two night editions, no reader of The Journal, no matter where located in the Oregon Country, is penalised because of his location, and he la assured a newspaper that comes to him 'a soon after time of publication as means of transporta tion permit.