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THE COX DISCLOSURES "T'HE people arc entitled to know just such things as were disclosed by Governor Cox In his Pittsburg ad dress on campaign funds. They are entitled to know, not only all about slush funds raised by the Republican party, but by the Democratic party or any other party. j i, i : There Is no use denying; that cor rupt money has bccnavishlyi used in. .American elections." 'Take '.New berry: ' He bought The Michigan scna torship. A federal court and Jury in Michigan found him ' guilty and he, is headed from the senate to the ' peni--tcntiary. "'"'-"-!" 'IV- I' ;j His campaign committee confessed tovan expenditure of nearly 5200,000. I Yi Think :of spending $200,000 fri a cam paign for senator. Vhy was worth o j much ? ' , The salary la onl y 437500 a year. 'The-total salaryfor the en tire, six-year term is 1 only 1145,000, about one -fourth ,of the, amount that his'campaign committee admitted that it fcpent. ; How 1 were those who paid out that money; to get it back?1 j ' ' Rut as everybody knows, tlie whole at the. sum spent in buying the Michi gan; senatorship waj never j admitted. The best authorities 'id Michigan iin slst that ; not 'Igbs than $500,000 to a tnillioa.i'xvas expended. If the men -spent so much on a mere senaiors.hip, what are lliey not likely to do! In an. effort to purchase, the "presidency 1 K they spent 1500,000 to a million la buying one senator in one state,' what colossal sums would they not Ipay out In buying !a-senator in each of Ihq 48; states and fiow much ' in Igayilog control of. the presidency? Governor Cox's disclosures are so mild by com4 parison thai his final figure of ?13,- 000,000 is probably too. low. I J j Take the recent corrupt use i of money In the presidential primaries ; A': - Republican senate committee brought out that about ?100,000 Was expended by i backers of General Wood, and that other great sums were spent in behalf of Governor Lowdenj It was actually shown that two Mis4 souri delegates! were bought for Low den at' 12500 each. It was widely ash serted at Che time that I if the vi-hole truth, as to th-- Vood expenditure w-tre"" known, i a total 1 of; probably IOOOvOoo "would have been revealed. And this merely to buy a nomination for the presidency! If lhere;were men willing , to -'thu$ back a single candi date for the nomination to the tune oft. ?3,000,000, to what' colossal length of expenditure would they not be wil ling 'jo go In the final election? i , !ln spite of all denials by those he has exposed and they naturally deny It and, ahvays deny Itit Is very, Very s.' probable that tha i f 15,000,000 n"amed by - Governor Cox is below the actual figure that it was proposed to rajse. . How are the men who are pouring out their, xnoney $0 layJshly expected' to' Tet.. It back? -. What is Senator Harding, If elected, going to Jo for them? AVe knoy what Truman Newberry ,did after he and his friends, Inelud '. Ing those from Wall street; bought Tthe Michigan senatorshlp.!' Ills' vote gave Lodge and the battalion of death a majority., of. one in ' the senate. Without his vote, the Lodge oligarchy could , not have organized the senate. Lodge could not have become chair-y man 01 me commmee on roreign re lations. The committee Could not have been packed 'and the ' treaty s would ret have beea wTccked. , Thus New x ' '' 'j ' I' MP berry, under conviction and sentence to ithe penitentiary for- purchase of the Michigan senatorshipv-changed the whole course of our national "policy, gave the treaty assassins cot. trot-of the legislative branch-of the govern ment, blocked our progress: toward peace, kept the . country In a; state in which the high cost of living has steadily1 mounted instead of, receding, demoralized plans of reconstruction after a mighty .ar and indefinitely postponed the, return of tranquillity and settled peace. .' i - . If the people could have known be forehand i the far ; reaching . conse quences that were to follow the pur chase of i a senatorshlp In Michigan, tney .would have interfered .with the safe of that great office. . If they had known in advance what sums were being spent in the election, their, sus picions would have been aroused. From what has since happened, we know now that it was a crime that the information about campaign funds was' kept , from them. -- : - - J For the same reason,-we ought to know in i advance how: much money is being spent in the presidential elec tion and f know who is spending it, whether within the Republican party or the Democratic, party or any other party. ; 1 , . t Here is a statement in a news dls patch; J "Harding planned to see newspaper men as . soon 'as he had read Cox's Pittsburg? speech , care fully, and : was expected to make some kind of an' answer, although a detailed reply may have to wait un til he can confer with officials of the national committee." :' Why do the newspaper correspondents insist on picturing Senator Harding al ways as about to confer with some body? ' Presently they will' have the country believing 4. that . before be can take any kind of a step the sen ator must- always' "confer." - " ' NOT THE STKEEtS . -. THE rainy season in Portland Is near at hand.-1 Streets Will -be slippery. Skidding will be widespread and automobile - accidents will - In crease. Motorists will plead wet pave ment as the cause of collisions.' They will insist that; their accident was unavoidable, because of the condition of the thoroughfare. - ' " , -It is a fallacious plea. It is not the wet pavement that causes the col lision. It is the failure of the driver to make allowance for the wel pave mcnt. He knows w hen the "street is slippery, j He realizes that his car will skid if brakes are applied at high speed, ; He "knows ; that a turn , may result in ia long slide if the speed la not temperate. . He is given streets that are wet on which: to; operate and the control of his car should be reg ulated thereby. The - pavement can not remain dry in rainy weather, but a, driver jof a motor yehiclecanf and must handle his car wilhj regard to safety"! tinder ' the? conditions placed before him by Providence. f - If he fails to so operate, police and courts should not only not listen with willing cars to the tales of wet streets after an! accident, but - they should consider' collisions, following : long slides, as direct results of ' reckless driving. 1 " , " THE SWAN ISLAND. PROJECT ' M i GIUVK statements have "recently been made , by The Journal re specting I the Swan Island port projects (But it is a project that de mands ; the gravest consideration, fit calls or larger use . of public credit and greater assumption of bonded ! debt i than have been oreVi- ously proposcid for any municipal pur pose im Portland and it may. be doubted jlfany i other Pacific coast city has ever considered a DroJect involving an j investment so great. ' . It proposes to vest a small body of men 1 with the responsibility of spending; a sum f of money; which In mo aggregate is greater by several times than lhe whole amount rccruired annually for 1 all state and municipal purposes, in Oregon. 7 - f i i It also: proposes to "vest; the same small fxouD 1 with -the exercise nf powers; greater than are now enjoyed by any state, mudicipal ;or -port " officials.- powers - which can be dele gated to any body of men . only by an affirmative majority vote of . the people of Oregon. . . .-.! The bill which, without designat ing the 1 Swan . island or any other project, byt name, embodies authority for such a nroiect. la a hilt. It shnntri be remembered, 1. which relates only to the Port of Portland district. But it ia also a bill upon which, all Jh e people of Oregon .will vote :at the November election, ' even . those- so ,de lached from property interest or con-, tact as the voters of Waljowa. Mal heur. Curry j or other ""counties.-. This bill Drovidos for the Immedi ate personnel of the Port of .Port land commission " by naming those who arc; noy? members of. the com mission, j u provides for a j merger of ihe , port and dock commissions, !in the event that- the city cedes to ; the port commls&Ion its title to public docks, by adding the names of the present members of the dock commission. But It; provides that fu ture vacancies . on ' the commission, whether merged or not, shall be filled by the legislature.- Again,-legislators so detached from property Interest or contact with: the Port of Portland as t. 1 : L . . .. . . luose. vwiu : represent, wailowa, Mal heur, Curry s and other" counties Mill possess ;an authority denied to .the people. - of Portland in namimr- iho men who will spend Ihe port's money. ,An examination r the bill leaves ihe reader startled by the magnitude of- the -powers it proposes shall be exercised - by the Port of Portland commission.1 These may. be briefly listed as follows,' the quotations ' in every instance being exact , excetrpts from the blU: f .'- ,r - To enter the real estate, business-r "The Port of Portland' 9 herein and hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, hold, use, enjoy' and dispose of and convey real and personal property and to make any and all contracts.- . 1 .1 To become the Luilder and operator of railroads ' to maintain, within the boundaries ."of said port, such line or lines of railroad with necessary and convenient sidetracks, turnouts, switches. ; and connections with other lines of railroad as, in the Judgment of the commissioners of the Port of Portland, mar facilitate ; or promote water commerce -i and the Port of Portland shall have power to carry and transport freight ! arid passengers; thereon and thereover rcjr hire and : to perform lighterage: for hire." : ; j -To issue bonds aggregating more than 16,000,00O-"r The Port of Portland shall have the 'power tP borrow ' money and toi sell and: dis pose ' of bonds; : whichi: bonds shall. however, never exceed id the aggre gate five (5) per centum of the as sessed valuation for state and county purposes of all property? within thft limits of the said he Pprt of Port land . ; - l : "t -. I : fi To Issue refunding hondi ' In : addi tion to the bonds indicated next above in computing the tota of bonds at any' time outstanding, bonds issued for the purpose of j providing funds to meet such obligations of the city of Portland as may be assumed by the said the Port of Portland in the purchase from the city of Port land of docks, wharves, elevators, dry docks, or other properties i as above authorized, shall not be included, but the said limitation of: five (5); per centum of such assessed j valuation shall apply only to bonds 'issued by the said the Port of Portland for other, purposes." j. r - . - To impose a greater tax: levy and to derive from it a greater ' sum than the Port of Portland has in the past had available for maintenance and operation"' the' amount of taxes .levied by" the sakl the Port of Portland in any one year for purposes other than the payment: of the princi pal . and interest , of its outstanding bonds .shall not exceed three tenths of one per centum of the assessed valuation for state and county pur poses of all property within the limits of the port." , ' (Three tenths of one per cent in taxes will produce about JI.OOO.OCO.) j 1 To exercise the rights of . eminent domain": . , the Port of Portland shall have and there is hereby granted to it. the right o take any and all private property under the : right of eminent domain which shall be found necessary or. convenient in carrying on any work or in exercising, carry ing on ', or executing? any i'pQwe'r;'3 in this act W -- ' '1. - - ! To appoint an executive: committee which shall not be subject to the same rules as to public: meetings!, and so . forth,, as the , commission Itself "The saidi board on commissoncrs may,' In - its discretion create 4n executive comrnittee,-of which leach and every commissioner shall be a member, of which such, number less than a majority,; as the board may determine, may constitute : ia quorum for the transactlon'bf business . : I . but such 'executive committee shall have nc other or ' further. ; power than as a committee and as. may be expressly .: conferred-, .upon :if. as such ' ' J ' . . Should the people of Oregon in -November adopt the port bill ;affecting exclusively the people of the' Port Of Portland district - the ' latter, 'would carry to the full. the. burdenTof debt and . responsibility involved. The people of the Port of Portland district and of. the state, at large should be fully,, advised! as to the exact terms bf the unusual proposal; submitted to them. - ; 'i i BOYS. GET THE MONEY T JARDING and Coolidge have the : I confidence of the people, but boys, get the money," reads the of ficial bulletin issued - front . the off ice of the Republican national commit tee's treasurer in his quest for Cam paign funds. And this call for the? sinews of war goes on' to: say ; ' 1 1 The platform is sound enoujrh to hold the weight of the nation, BUT, BOYS. GET THE MONEY, - It takes time to organ lie. We haven't any more time left ; BUT. BOYS. GET THE MONEY.-.., c The weather 1 hot. The men are on vacations. - Meetinars are hard to Bret: BUT. BOYS GET THE MONEY. h ? There',; are hills to -climb.1 but if you want to make a hill at the same speed you have been running where the road was level, you have to sjlve it more power. . GIVE HER THE GAS. STEP U.N IT, . . , " . . -1 ' ! 1 1 It Is a political classic. It i so jaunty, so unique, and so realistic; What a pity that the, writer did not rour out his soul at greater length I lie' might have gone on like this: What's home . without a ' mother? BUT. BOYS. GET-THE MONET; - I , We've rot , Hiram where the wool f. Is tie-ht;BUT. BOYS, GET THE MONEY. Cox and Roosevelt are boob gazabos ; BUT, .BOYS, GET THE. MONEY. I ' , .Our front porch Is a humdinger and a lallaralo&sa ; BUT, BOYS. 1 GET, THE monct. ' . - ; Will Hays aays that Cox is a liar and that we sre not raising a! huge slush fund ; BUT, BOYS. GET THE MONEY. Onward. -Christian .soldier, and God bless 01; r home; BUT, BOYS, GET THE MONEY. . "V' - - ' -v , i , ' The lit forbids corrupt use of money in elections, and the ballot nought to :be pure; 1 UT, BOYS, GET THE MONEY J GIVE HER THE GAS; STEP ON IT.. What would a campaign be without some blunderer to let the cat out of MILLIONS FOR "UNDERHOLD" By Carl Smith. Washington Staff C'or : respondent of ,Tbe Jourual. ?: Washington, Aug. 28. Curiosity is sus tained over - the - statements ; made by Governor Cox at Wheeling. JW. Vs., that big corporate interests are) raising an immense campaign fund to buy an un derhold on the government. Governor Cox has been demanding that there be full publicity; of campaign contributions and has promised that Democratic cam paign finances shall be made the subject of frequent report. 1 f - :' - r- - '.M f v. v-; tiU "Hundreds of thousands yea, millions have gone into the Republican treasury to buy an underhold en the government." said Governor Cox at Wheeling. "And why? In order that profiteering may go on. And they give their checks for another-purpose In order that their will and desire shall , have behind them In industrial controversy the : bayonets of their puppets, in government." ; r ' It was'ior L the purpose I of ' shedding light on. campaign cash - when light . is needed- that Senator Pomererte made his fight in the closing hours of the last' ses sion , to continue the senate investigat ing committee through " the . campaign, with power to sit anywhere and at any time. Senator Smoot started to kill It with an objection, but was persuaded not to do so by Senator Borah. The committee Is headed by Senator Kenyon of ' Iowa, ' who ia a Republican - and a strong advocate of Johnson in the pre convention campaign, 'jp . . ' ; .'Kenyon's good purposes are generally admitted, but the Iowa senator alone cannot control the committee.: and doubt is expressed in some : quarters as to whether tbe ' committee will " prove as active asthe conditions may .- warrant during the campaign. 11 Since the con ventions, it has held some meetings on primary ' expenses, : but has - scratched around feebly "and 1 nothing has been heard of it for some time. One of the last things, heard from It was a state ment by Senater Reed pf Missouri, Dem ocrat, that he 'doubted whether it would do much, as It seemed : it might be bet ter to let the'4iatibnU- committees of the two. parties take charge and supervise the expenditures. li'--.-'.,-1 -; Before the conventions, when the com mittee was .most active ini its "reveal ments," ' it proved damaging to" General Wood and Lowden, most of all." and the friends of Hiram Johnson chortled with glee. On the Democratic side there was a persistent effort to discredit Attorney General Palmer and William O. McAdoo, in,; which Senator Reed took a leading part encouraged by the) Republican members, who hoped to see a3 much bad feeling aroused as already . existed in their own party. ; The committee actually found that only a trifling sum had, been spent by friends bf McAdoo, and that Palmer's fund was a modest one. Reed's course since the conventions had led to the suspicion that he may act with Re publicans on the committee to keep the committee from being too inquisitive during the : presidential r contest. This may soon become a keen issue, with lit tle doubti that Governor -iCox will ' be found demanding that the investigation be active and continuous. " ' Governor Cox has had experience in going up. against big 'campaign funds. In ISIS, when Wilson carried the state for president and Cox for governor, the Ohio Republican state committee spent $272, 351.98. . according to the statement filed by its chairman after the election. The Democratic state committee in the same campaign spent 15753. ) Letters From the People fComiaanlcaUoaa sent to - The Journal for publication hi this department eboald be written on only one side of the paper, ehoold not excecit 800 word ia length and musf be tinned by tba writer, whose 'mail addreaa in full must accom pany the contribution.) THE PAYER OF THE TAX Portland,: Aug. , 25. To the Editor of The Journal The last cloud lingering in the mind of the skeptic, that the con sumer pays the taxes, should be forever dissipated by the flpod of light generated on that subject by the Retail Merchants' association In going on record against the single, tax. unless we take .the posi tion that the retail merchants are a purely patriotic institution designed wholly and exdurively to "serve the pub lic and pay its titxes. If! they are so generous ah institution-they should no longer designate themselves as business men who assume the moral right to di rect the economic relations lof commerce. But there is a more human explana tion! of their seeming generous act, and that is that the retail merchant does' not pay the tax levied against t the goods he handles, hut that tax is not only shifted to the consumer but. the merchant .must have- a 1 profit on handling the tax he collects from the ' public ( Besides, the tax helps rum to create a monopoly and he adds a profit on that; all of which adds to the H. C. L. and the cost mounts and mounts and mounts, and just to the extent that the merchant is a consumer he must feel the burdetfof the tax. sys tem he seeks to impose on others. ,: -s- Taxing goods in a store makes them dear and hard to get. r Taxing anything produced by labor makes i it dear ' and hard to get. But tax land,' and it makes It cheaper and -easier to get, -JPor land is ' not made , by man, and when it is taxed we drive : the monopoly out of . Unused land. That gives labor access to the raw material out of which- evervthlne Is produced and also cheapens the produet 01 labor by removing the taxes. - This policy, and this alone, will . save the world.' . - , ;v J. R. Hermann. .. OPPOSES SINGLE TAX -; Dufur Aug. 23.-To the Editor or-The Journal It is to be hoped that the single tax theory and it la only a theory will be studied thoroughly by the farm ers individually and by ' the organized farmers collectively. : If . it is a good thing they should know it and should help get it if possible. But If it is such a panacea for the financial condition of the country In general, and especially for the farmer himself, why. la it that the farmer has always : foSght-i shy of it? for it is no new' theory. It has been partially tried out;" but never anywhere fully, : Nowhert has tf proved a success In the -least degree. ";-: It carries on its face its own definition : ' 'A single tax on land for all purposes for which taxes are required." Bui Its fondest advocates hope to veil r confuse its purpose or result, which is to bankrupt the. farmer and require all land titles to revert to the state,5 requiring- the farmer to rent the land from the state, for which he shall be compelled to pay to the state "the full rental value. Is that the fine thing . farmers are looking for? The single' taxers deny any right or title to land whatever, ' not even -the Land , in which we are to be buried. ' There are -but three just ways to ob tain title to any possession buy it. work for it or get it as a gift. Land. like any other of nature s productions. is absolutely worthless to man until his labor Is applied to it. directly or indi rectly. : , It was for this labor' applied that he received titiei- from the state in the beginning, , and ""ihls - title- to his labor. Is Inseparable from the land. . This title was first established by divine law and secondly by civil law. Under the former, the title was perpetual and could be incumbered- iuy temporarily. -There was no reversion to the state so long as there was an heir living. - Now for two other-"knockdown": ar guments, . namely, the "unearned. Value 1 " - - - or- increment of' the land,: and the "crime of holding it out of use or-cultt-vation.'. In order to "remedy" this con dition, the single taxer proposes to tax every honest farmer to death in order to reach "the land hog." That is, he pro poses to. burn do'o the building in order to kill the rats. ;A;J; 'N.-. 'Let bs epeak plainly!' This Is only another blind to take title to the land in the state to be held in -common for all thei people. "Then" take the full rental Value of tlie land from the ten ants.: use part of it: to run the state government,, and give the rest I of it to a soap box orator to enable him. to be gin farming on his own hook." Fine ! And all at the expense of the poor farm tenant, who first earned I this' full "rental .value." . . j No one wants or advocates landlord ism and if our single tax brethren are as sincere as the farmers are to elim inate . it, there; are other remedies- for this ev&T A graduated land tax accord Ing to holdings or acreage will: cure the "land hog." But to. force all tillable land into cultivation without obtaining first a profitable market and proper dis tribution would bankrupt the entire .agri cultural ihdustry.7 The farmer can, and will, double the production of this land within the - next five years if he is as sured a profitable return for his labor adt investment. M. - M. Burtner.... .'tf 1 1 l , , ' a ' 1 ' . . " UNDER NO PLEDGES - . V "' the Athens Preaa, ; I ; James M. Cox is under no pledges to Tammany nor to any other Demo cratic state bosses. s He is ander no pledges to the wet element.' nor to any body. He was and is a free agent. That he was chosen to follow the ideal of the League of Nations the greatest ideal that has ever. Inspired . the Democratic party or any party shows a breadth of vision, a grasp of world statesmanship, that should be part of the qualifications of the president of the United States. Whether it wants to or not, the United States can never pursue an Isolated coursei It is involved - in world com merce,; in world industry . and in 'world politics, and will some day be again in volved in world war unless some effect ive insurance measure, as Intended by the -League of Nations, is successful In preventing war. The league my not do so, but Is at all eyents worth the. test of honest trial. Co has taken j the right course iri .his i strong and unequivocal speech of acceptance. He has' nailed the right colors to the Democratic - mast. With his party he stands for world progress, world, hope and altruism. If he is beaten it will be defeat in a glori fied cause a defeat-without discredit. : .. . , KttIT A LITTLE PAINT WOULD ft From tha Rowburi Newe Bejiew It is a very easy, matter for the tourist to get into Roseburg but to find his way out is an entirely different question. Some try to make their exit put Main street, which is still closed tb traffic, others i try East Cass street, 1 while a goodly1 number Tilt her up" for the Oak street bridge, and, a few guess it right and get. away from the city through the regular, but unidentified course. : With no signs to direct them it IsJ simply a case of shutting your eyes and) going. at it like a. blind man. An arrow painted on the street monuments, with the proper wording, directing strangers! in the proper direction to find the Pacific high way leading-both north and south would be a mighty big convenience and satis-' faction to - tourists. A little paint and a; man handy with a truth (would do the Job. WILL ENFORCE THE w From the Weston Leader.) Certain G. O. P. scribblers have picked a phrase out of tbe Cox speech- of ac ceptance and, setting it entirely apart from its context, declare that it betrays his "wet" proclivities. It is j "Morals cannot easily be produced by statute." To say that this phrase, which Cox used in connection with a matter entirely foreign to prohibition, is a bid for-the wet vote, , is insufferably asinine. One could as well answer that another phrase, "This Is no time for wobbling.f" is a bid for the dry vote for. the obvious reason that the boozar often wobbles -When "half seas over,". The subject wearies 11s, how ever. It is sufficient for-us tolrely with fuli .- confidence , on the belief thatT If elected Cox ill lend the power, of his grcatdffieef; to the enforcement of the laws the dry law included. He will be true to his commendable record as gov ern of Ohio. :':.. I .' - IMPORTANT TO KNOW f. Front tha Coot Coiinty American. The statement . that Cool-nom- idge,. Republican vice presidential inee, selects his wife's gowns species of political advertisi a new Just to de- where it is to be effective is hard termine. Whether it will women's .votes or cause the n attract the to cheer themselves ; hoarse, it 13 mains to be determined. presumed , re it is Perhaps a quality that will materially assist him in filling the vice president's office. ; If so, it is important that-the people know it, of course. NEVER -CARES TO WANDER . From the Cottage CJrore SentineL . Ray : VanVlade, who recently came home from Washington to help the home folk with the harvest, has ordered his paper- sent here regularly. He says : "They got me away from Cottage Grove once, but they'll never do it again. I'm here to stick. I know a good thing' when I see It the second time."-"-- - SHORTAGES DESIRED From tbe Albany Journal There . are some shortages that we rould welcomes shortage of - radicalism, shortage of hot air. shortage of strikes, shortage of - excuses, for high prices, shortage of unrest and discontent. " Curious-Bits of Information - for the Curious I -- Gleaned From Curious Places' A venerable institution of iLondon' legal quarter the moot which during the war was suffered Aa fall into abey ance, has now .been . reinstated, at the Inns of. Court , The moot belonea to quite another age,- but it is still - useful as providing a means of testing the abil ities of candidates for the bar. Even should it have been suflerea to . disap pear definitely from the Inns tit. Court in stitutions the moot - would have left . a reminder in the language of (tS former presence, says - the i Christia " Science Monitor. The expression "a moot point," springs from Che practice of holding dis cussions for the solution of points which 110 amount, of discussion can settle ; the very raison d'etre eof the moot. Olden Oregon Amazing . Stories of Soil's Were Told in the? Early Fertility 50s. The fpr,oductlvity of Oregon'f soli was shown in the early '50s in many waya There : is a : record that : one J bunch of 257 stalks of wheat' from Geer's farm In Marlon - county averaged 1 60 grains to the head. On the 'Hubbard farm In Yamhill a, head f timothy measured 14 inches. Oats in ; McVickets 1 farm In Clackamas stood over eight -ifeet high. In the CjowIHs valley a hill of potatoes weighed 63 pounds, c Another illl of po tatoes ' weighed 40 pounds.:: Two ' turnips filled v half-bushei measure At Nls qually . ah onion weighing a pound and ten ounces was raised. At Steilacoom 5000 tMishels" of - potatoes were produced on 12 - acres. -. Some of the potatoes weighed as much as two pounds. ; " COMMENT AND " " SMALL CHANGE X The wise man' and 'the fool's money are soon uniiea. . LMore- women, would go for vocal When it comes to ; making a swift touch, the glad hand is ivery much in evidence., . ... I- ' - - After a man has passed the chloro form age he begins to lean toward the simple life.-',, -r . ' An average man would soon attain perfection if he followed I the advice he hands out to his neighbors. .'Before asking a favor of a man a wise woman gives him a pood dinner with a little flattery on the side. I It is a criminal offense to stuff a ballot box. but there is no law pro hibiting the stuffing of ia contribution .- . . :f--:V,.: -V v A Morton. Wash., boyi was severely hurt during an altercation , over, jan apple.' Isn't the first time the fruit has caused trouble, at that? I t . . . . MORE OR C.ESS PERSONAL Random I Observations About Town "When I - arrived in Portland ' Toes- day morning; after" an absence of . five years, it seemed, natural, because It rained," said P. ; Meisensahl. who is staying at the Portland. Melsensahl. who Is a native of Centralis, Wash., went, to Hawaii five years ago to be come connected with the board of health of that place, but when political chaiges necessitated his leaving. he became as- oociated with a i music Angeles, whose - music : nouse of Los be is , selling. Meisensahl insists that it was as hot in Portland when he arrived as he ever knew it in .Hawaii in the -entire five years, claiming that the temperature always hovered . St about 75 degrees, with delightful ocean breezes forever. Rev. George Buckley of Battle Creek, Mich., is the guest of j his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and 1 Mrs.' George Buckley, in the Wheeldoft Annex apart ments. Rev. Mr. Buckley made Ws first visit to Portland In 1875.1 'At that time he was fresh from his college studies and spent a period In the West before taking up his life work. I Among his acUvitles in the Pacific Northwest was the editing of a semi-weeklyl newsdaper at Walla WaUa which he believes to have been the ' first newspaper in this district to receive telegraphic new dispatches. ' R. -i H. HibbardJ Pacific coast ' district manager of the Regal Shoe company, is In Portland visiting J. 3. Cheevers. local manager for thei company. : Hlbbard's stay in Portland will.be very brief, as he is on the way, east to headquarters. Hibbard is well pleaseed with the won derful progress of the Regal Shoe com pany in .Portland! ' . - '''-'. . . 1 .' . ' :- , : - ! -' ' - - E. S. Lister, secretary of the Lincoln County Fair association, is in Portland for a few days, making arrangements for the amusement end of the fair pro gram. The event) is to be held Septem ber 21-22-23 at Toledo and will.be com- blned with the Sitets Indian fair. A feature of the exhibits will be a- fish display by the Western State bank. Lin coln county' claims more variety In the fish line than any other j section of Ore gon, and the, display will be entirely frorrf local waters. A Holsteln cattle sale will be a feature oh . the last - day. Herman J. Gler and Mi s. Gier have re turned" from a week's outing in the mountains southeast of Wilhoit Springs. Herman reports the fishing fine, and as' there was no game warden around he kept the most of them. . Alva Stevens, formerly of - the Pa cific Coal company, and - now rancher, Hood River, is spending a short-period at North Beach. Eleven ' years Sgo Ki' K. ("Patsy") Clark opened the Cornelius hotel. Ten years ago he opened the Seward hotel. About a year' ago W. C. Culbertson pur chased the Cornelius. Recently he pur chased the Seward. " Now "Patsy" : is back on his . old . job, managing " the Seward. Thus are coincidences. Clark is one of the veterans of the hotel pro fession, having worked. - all-- over the country, besides being employed at vari ous times in most of the Portland hostel ries. He has one, of the widest acquaint ances bf anyone in the country. Clark OBSERVATIONS AND; IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred In the old days of the West the stage drivers were, the kings of the road. Most of these have taken the one-way trail. Here and. there . you may sttll meet old time pony express riders, like Colonel Henry E. Doschi of Portland, or old time stage drivers. like Dave Horn of Pendleton. I have known Dave Horn many a year, v Dave was born ' in Prince Edward Island, December ' S." 1839. "His father Henry Horn, and his mother both hailed from the state of New York, f'ln the spring of 1848 we moved to Janesvtlle Wis., where I attended my first school," said Mr. Horn to. me the last time we met. "The following - year, word came about the discovery of gold in , Califor nia. My father went by wagon In the spring of '49. Mother heard from him regularly-till he went to the Frasec river mines. We never heard whether he got there or not.- - He elmpjy . dropped out of sight. . " ' , -r ..-':- "-' a:-. ..v ;-..: :"-" fin- the winter of 1859, when I :was 20,' I went to work for the Wisconsin Stage company. I -drove from St. Paul to Sparta, Wis. Later 1 drove 'from St. Paul across the ice to St. Croix. Our line ran from St. Paul fb Hudson. Menom inee, Chippewa Falls Xnow Eau Claire), and on Jo .Black River. Falls' and to Sparta. 180 mlleaj. where '; connected with the Milwaukee J& St. Paul rail road, which was the yt irst to cross the sUte. Ourv regular ttm was 110, but an opposition line was put on. In a rate war the other company; cut the rate to $1.50 for the trip. :. Wei came down to 81" and-, put on a -street runner to see that We got ' all the passengers if we had to steal them ory bribe them to go on our line. , Whisky was Z cents a glass and brandy 6 cehtsj.:Onpr of our favorite stunts was to Invest four bits in getting a, soldier from Fort, Ripllsy or Fort Aber cromble drunk and then get him to make the trip, - paying : the full fare of 810. During the -summer the boats carried the through malls,;, so -we cut, the time and put the horses through on the run. My wage waa. 812 a month and found. ' e;- --. . y-f' .."f- 9 ... j " '- j -.-1 . "The summer of I860 found me at Hannibal, ,Mo, the . birthplace of Mark Twain. Later I ! met Mark in Nevada, where he was serving I as secretary to Governor Nye, 1. ;-.-' -', - : - !'-''"; "While I, was at St, Joseph. Mo., there was a stage line running, from there to Pikes Peak.' It j was : called the Pikes Peak express. .' St. 'Joe (was the starting point for the jony express. The first pony express rider left St, Joe. April 28, I860, for Sacrsnsentcv From St. Joe I went to Wlnthrop, Jest across i from Atchison. Kan. I landed a t job at ili a month ss stage driver for LajCompton. . There I met a young fellow jwho told me he NEWS IN BRIEF j SIDELIGHTS 17 ! - Lost." straved r stolen Thei ; Salem Home-builders' association. Salem Cap- ital Journal s..:. y .j : Billy EaganrpTi1rTner friend down below Salem, says it is not. the high cost of living that is troubling this country It is the high cost of loaf ing Salem Statesman.':. Crane may be in the limelight with full-fledged movie pictures: thrown on the screen. The b first snw is to oe weeks. Crane Araer- given within a fevt lean. . :.,-... i : ';-:,-. 1 C -:: . a tponsl has me tlely been profiteering In a new . way. Many a more eminent citizen than Pent! has saaeai bu cents turned over,! in less to every dollar than 80 days.: hie Roseburg NewsRevlew." 1 The News learns from a reliable source 1 many 'as 12 or 14 drilled In the valley. that 'there are deep wells being all for the purpbse of irrigation next . If carried out. will year- This bring into produi btlon a large area of excellent sou. Burns News. left the Multnorhahf. two ' months ago. where he was floor manager, intending game, and started to sen iceless refrigerators, but a few weeks of It convinced him that he was more of a hotelman than a salesman, so he entered the game again. . H. O. Edwards whom he succeec s at the Seward, has gone to. Calif or n a. ' ! H 2 Mrs. W. M. Seward will leave Tues day, morning for an extended trip that will eventually ti ke her almost around the world and ' ? ill last two or three years. In Colors io Springs she will be joined by Mrs. R. D.,Inman and daugh ter, who .will be her -traveling: compan ions. They will Visit Chicago. New Yosk and other Eastern cities, then: will sail for Honolulu, Ciina and Japan, and next. summer will go to Europe. ' . -...-...! j, ; ., . . . . j : :: : "t Jack Fayhe, rrt mager of the Fambldo brothers, prizefighters, rambled ' into Portland Thursday on his return from Seattle to his rarch out at Murphy sta tion near Welch! . , Here Fayhe ;ls build ing a log cabin that when complete will be one of the f infest in the country. All his summer - spare time Fayhe spends at his : mountain resort. After; a visit at the Imperial he left In hie car for the ranch. - j '' I' ' ' '-' . ;-."': , 'Jf a a j ; ; The Rev. C. T. Chapman pastor of St. Johns Episcopal church at Butte, Mont., arrived Thursday at the Benson with his family trom Southern; Califor nia,: where thej have been ( spending their summer va:atlon. The Chapmans will spend two ays in the city before returning home. i . i . .' :' Portland prow ers are even i stealing ink bottles full! f ink. W. C; Culbert son. manager of the Seward hotel, can vouch for this, 'he writing room of the Seward opens upon a side street and ink bottles have I been disappearing like magic at the rate of about six a day. The enterprising owner' scratched his head and bought some morel inkwells. They likewise vahished. Then the driver of the hotel bus, who is stationed at the side door when 1 lot meeting trains, was questioned. He grinned. "People in these ,- here roon ing houses 'are taking them," be said. ,"Theystick them, ink and all. into their ' pocTcets." 1 1 Culbert son decided to ?o- some sleuthing him self. : He was sdoa rewarded by seeing a man writing at one of the desk a, not a guest at the hotel, who finished the letter and Jtfien rjammed the inkwell into his pocket. Cuniertson stepped up. "Do you like that tyde of Inkwell?"! he asked. "We have all styles and varieties, . you know, and if you will let me know when you want one, possibly I cam give you a bigger selection to choose irom. : ' .5 ' , ... '1'-:. ia a : .' If. . ' Albert Aaroll. recent business mana ger and editor if the Northwest Hotel Journal, of Mlnreapolis, will become as sociated with the Multnomah hotel, be ginning Septemb ?r 1, in capacity of pub licity manager and editor or the muii nomah Review, to fill the vacancy creat ed by the resignation of Ray Clark, who left several weeks ago to become dining room manager of the UmpqusJ hotel at Roseburg. Aaroll, before is connection with the Hotel I Journal, -was assistant manager of the Hotel Dyckman io Min neapolis. N ; j ' : Lockley was going to Salt Iike City as a team ster for Jim tyalker of the firm of Walker Bros, iofj Salt Lake -Ciity. There were 25 wagons, with eight oxen to each. My friend Introduced me to Frank Gilbert,, the wagon master. He sized me up and said, 'You are only a boy. ?; You can't handle four I yoke of bulls. Try me land see. I have driven five yoke breaking prairie sod and tlx yoke breaking bushy white isrrub oak ground where ojie man has to hold the plow and one rrjan handles the bulls,' I said. : He said. "Report at our Camp near the ferry. ? ' Help the men pitch camp. We begin loading tomorrow 'morning early. I'll pay you 830 a mon(th.'4 : . ' - a a a , - - : :f-i There were 24 wagons, I 'each of which we loade with two toss of gen- era! merchandise There was one mess wagon. We ha 20 men in the . wagon crew, 25 being rivers, one wagon mas ter. one assistant and two night herders. It took us a week to load. We had to load very care 'ully. ,- We packed 1 the goods in prairi -hay to keep; the high priced stuff from chafing onJtltae long trip across the plains. -.We were divided into three crews, each man taking his turn: at cooking We cooked with buf falo chips. Our regular diet jwas camp bread, bacon arid coffee. - The weather was noi am our raoon oegain running grease, so we had to unload it each night to let it cool. On the Nerth Platte we overtook some emigrants vho had a 2-year-old heif el- that had gone lame. Our wagonmasteV bought R and we had fresh bef for a time. 1 ;. Frank Gilbert was about 301 years old. He took , a tra It Lake each sprir of goods out to Salt g. : His father had a store there. Gil rt 4k otarlsiij was the firm name. 11 ll faiher paidl Utile to the Mormon chijrch, though he was not a - Mormon. Frank wouldnrt let us swear, for he said we would I get him In bad at Salt Lake City with the Mor mons, if ' you Swore In tne streets or. Salt Lake City the Mormons fined you IS Th nnlv nueir words VOU Could use were Mormon cusswords, such I as 'Hell and Twenty,' ahd substitute oaths like that, which didn t have any kick to them and didn'l seem to relieve your feelings like regular cusswords.- He wouldn't let us fight, either. W hen we started be would wade in snd clean up both the scrappers. :' He said he couldn't afford to , lose any . men through fights or feuds. a ' a .V :: ' , ' '' - "It was 1200 Salt Lake City. miles ' from Atchison to We started on May 28 and reached the City of the Saints 77 days later. It was a city ; of adobe houses. I had an experience there but I win tell you all about it some other time." .v .'. : The Oregon Country Kortbweit Happenlnaa In Brief Form fot tbe huj Header. OREGON NOTES No one at Orecroh Citv hn rnmm ward as a candidate for mayor to be voted on In November. No such rain has ever fnlin K.rn i Morrow county durlna- Auru.t r.u during the recent storm. An examination to fill nuim.... vacancy at Vale has been ordered by the: civil service commission.- The phenomenally high score of P8 per cent was made in the mibmarlne mine target practice at Fort Stevens. The body of an unidentified man has been found floating on the Waahincton fide of, the Columbia rler near The Dalles. : F. W. ; Haines, who escaped from the hospital last May, has returned to Halem voluntarily, his mental condition materially improved. - Official of the Sumpter Valley Rail road company. In a letter to the publio service commission, claim to have elim inated all fire hazards. -.The potato and wheat crops In the pechutes valley will be unusually heavy, according to ' Asrent Hardy of the Oregon Trunk railroad. ;Two horses owned by I. Condron of Marshfleld were burned to death In a Jire which destroyed the barn of Tay lor Dement at Myrtle Point. .wWh!!a th raln caused costly delay In threshing, Umatilla county farmers fey . no material damage win be done to wheat unless, the rain continues: According, te- Congressman Hawlur, the building of the Columbia River high way has brought more favorable atten tion to Oregon than any other thing. Owing to the drying up of rprlngs ' the , water supply of Myrtle Point has failed. The city has installed pumps on the north, fork of the Coqullle river. - A 50-acre tract two miles east of Roseburg, formerly used, as county fair grounds, has been transferred to the state for the establishment of a model -farm. - The gnawing of sage rats is thought to have been responsible for the ex plosion of 60 pounds of dynamite near the, Shevlin-liixon lumber yards at Bend. The.Brooks-Scanion Lumber company at Bend is planning to lay 13 miles, of railroad in its yards at a cost of 100, 000. Either gasoline or electricity will be-used for power. -- County Judge Adkisson of Wmtwn county has appointed 12 delegates to -the Reclamation and Development Con gress of the Northwest, which intcts at Seattle September 16. t Because of tha Inrrngalni, hikll laborers of taklner a vacation durinir th summer, Labor Commissioner Oram pre-- ; diets a shortage of workers when the pca . or me harvest Is reached. WASIIINQTON A branch of the National league of Woman Voters has been organized at Aberdeen. The census report gives Tort Town send a population of 2817. This is a Iobs of 1334 in 10 years, Deepening of the channel of the Cow litz river between Kelno and the mouth of the river has been begun. The new American Legion club rooms In the Elma city hall will be officially opened to the public September 1. The Bucoda council has passed a reso- -lution requiring all buildings erected on Main street to be fireproof. According to the census, the Kelno school district has more than one-fourth of the total school population of Cowllts county. ' . Samuel Lee Richardson, one of the oldest printers of the Pacific Northwest, recently died in a Chehalis hospital. He was 89 years of age, , Increased freight rates will add 25 ' cents a ton to the price of Washington coal delivered In Seattle and Jl.iO a ton to Utah and Wyoming coal. t, Indians of the Qulnlault reservation are protesting ngainst the building of a shingle mill at Lake Qulnlault, for fear it wilt spoil the fishing. The principal speaker at the Hoqulam . Aberdeen . Labor day celebration will be 1. C. Coats of Seattle, chairman of the farmer-labor party of Washington. When the Walla Walla public schools open, September 7, they will have the largest number of new teachers In their history. Of the 40 members of the high -school faculty 14 will be new. The Cowlits county-board of equaliza tion has fixed the ' average valuation oft timber In the county at 91 tents per 1000 per township. The total as sessed valuation of Cowlitz county for the coming year will approximate 118, 000,000. . U - IDAHO The class room and" laboratory building., of the Boise high school farm is. being finished. .'Non-partisan leaguers have filed- a complete , state ..ticket in the secretary of ; state's of lice. " A conservative estimate of the potato acreage at Burley is 601o acres. Seventy per cent Is in Idaho Rurals. Coal will be scarce in Boise this win ter, say coal dealers, unless cars are released soon to relieve tho present shortage. s "Improvement work on the Cenesew streets has begun. It is planned to pave three blocks of the - main ktrect and gravel five cross streets. . Farm 'bureaus of WaHhlnglon and I'ayette counties In Idaho unn juaineur county in . Oregon are idannlng a live stock excursion September 2. Congressman Smith has presented th library of the University of Idaho with . a complete set of the congressional Globe and Congressional Record. The Twin Falls chamber of commerce has opened a campaign for contributions to raise a 1500.000 bonus to be given the company building a railroad -from Wells, Nev., to Twin Falls. Demoralized mutton and wool markets were probably responsible for the low prices received for registered stock st the first annual Idaho rain ai at the fair grounds. A 2-year-old J'.am boulllet ram brought only t'JZ. ''Human Nature's Foulest Clot" Mr ear I reiI. XT annl is lyk wl-ll ,ITT rfl' rrDOrt it vtoni and oiitraoa. "Hh which earth ia filled. There it no fleah in man a obdurate heart. It doea not feel for tnn: tbe natural bond Of brotherhood ia lerered aa the fiax That fail aaundrr at th touch of fira. He find hi fellow uiitr of a akin Not rnlorad like lii own: and hirtna power To enforce, tba wrong, for uch a worthy cauae Uooma and dcrotra liim aa hie lawful ytr. Thui mas derotea bii brother, and clestrojras 'Ti human tiiture brosdobt, fuult blot. ! -Cowjr. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: There's a whole lot of talk ever now snd sgln about the brave and noble pio neers that fit, bled and most died to git Oregon saved fer .democracy,, but I no tice passin along" by some .of the old time cemeteries that we ain't cuttln the- grass and weeds out from around the graves and fam'ly lots very much. Looks like folks nowadays is too busy livin' to keep the thistles outer some of the old buryln" grounds.. -I The Automotive Section There are approximately- 100.000 motor vehicles in Oregon, which has an accredited population of 783,285. The number of applicants for licenses to drive them of course far exceeds that number, e In no other state does the out of doors have greater appeal. In no other state is there greater apprecia tion of the value of improved high ways nor greater proportionate effort made to attain them.. . These factors are among the compelling-reasons for the' tremendous appeal of The Sunday Journal Auto motive section.
