THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,; PORTLAND; : SUNDAY V MORNING. SEPTEMBER 5. 1820. 'ir 5 i AX' WDEPEXDINT NEWBFAPEB C . JACiSO Publiaher IB ej.ibe eoefldntt, ' ke tbMrfnl s4 do lata Umi m see would af Uwia do unto jam. 1 Published rr wwk day1 ssd lands? Bomlni, at Tbe Joemal Balldinfl. 0roa4waJ end hUI Mrat, Portland, UnioL-.. i . Entared at tb postoffkw at Portland, Orasoa. for traawailaaioa Uirouxh tb null m ond claas matte. . - t TELEPHONE Mala 711. Automata) 60-il. all feniumu waaa r te number. rbuKBix : AuvEBTmi.va hepkkskntati vk R.nt.mla A Kentnaf Co.. Dnmiwtorir Building. "32ft riltk Itvbim THK OHEOOS JOLRNAU wnM Jo right to r)e tTrtlin copy ie m mmu w Jeotionabl,. -It Also will not Mat r copr that in inf wy imnUU retilot matter or that cannot mdUy b roofnld m sdw tktns. 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America. .For convenience and enjoyment, no modern invention has done more to enrich human life. The rapidrty with which the number of cars increased and the automobile industry leaped Into third plage as one of America's great industries, attests 'public ap proval of the new vehicle. The public speedily saw in the new machine a facility almost incomparable, and 1 !. seized upon It with an alacrity and appreciation rarely If ever paralleled; M Even the introduction of the steam engine was attended with no adoption and use so phenomenal. Of course, ! the world at that time was not so tremendous. The resources of man were not so colossal. But even if they ' , had been, the steam engine, with its tardier process of perfection, could l scarcely have leaped into public favor , with the appreciation that has char- aeterlzed the gasoline motor as ap ' piled to vehicles 'of pleasure and utility. The popularity of the motor car is attributable to the tremendously In creased enjoyment and utility that it carries into the social order. The trooping' caravans of -tourists-who 1. Journey from border to border of America are example. J Nothing has I done so, muVjfi, automobile for i this policy of seeing America first. Nothing has done so much to give impetus to the cause of better hlgh j ways, and better highways alone are I an extraordinary agency for broaden , ing and brightening human existence. I , The automobile give9 its owner a ; new sense of freedom. He is no longer I rooted to a single spot bounded by a limited radius. From his home In j Portland, he can be in the heart of I the mountains within an hour or two. J Friends in distant parts of the city I are no longer far away, but almost at j b9 door. The process of reaching ; them is Itself alluring and exhilarat ing. Or if it is desired to do business or be with friends a huiidred or a thousands miles from home. It is the same. And there Is nature with her solitudes and her treasures of beauty alwnvo within easy reach of the city man, and the bright lights and the white ways of the city brought to the door m uio i arm nmii. Rur.i iir L stripped of its isolation. The products at the farm are brought by the better road and' the new, nower vahuia Stations v ' -f ? . f;?i'1';'Y i. The whole pascfWunJan life Vis transformed iy thev automobile and power ;trtickintoaf -higher ,st4ge of civilization. Tfie Automobile age Is indeed a ncv iaiidt greatly Advanced epoch In social development.vit fs no surprise that every family looka for ward with agreeable anticipation and hope for the day when one. of the Conveniences' of the home will be a motor car. Some think it a luxury. Perhaps It Is. Some look upon It as an ex .travagance. Perhaps It Is. But for that matter, the bath and the tele r i phone and JhOTtetrlo'jStove'.and the nhnnrtarrerjh tvnnld have hnt InnirlM I and extravagances to'our' grandfathers. And after, all, why should a. life al - ways b pounded by the nerve-racking ' nojses of the city when Just out there ' .-are the Joys and, the quiet of the . f country?: Why should existence be 'narrowed to the exacting 'routine of I the day's toilT C;v : J ' incidentally,' the mostv that we hear . I about, the "automobile - is Its 'abuses, 1 ' k " We read of Its u In banditry, in Joy rides and by the reckless who rip their way through crowded thorough fares regardless of the havoc they work on life and limb. It Is always the abuses and the frailties of the social arrangement that are most heralded. We are told all about the clergyman who goes wrong but never about, the high endeavors and Infi nite sacrifices of the thousands of ministers who violate no convention alities. ( And so with the motor car. When the rich enjoyments and countless facili ties that it brings into the lives of toiling men and women are balanced up against the abuses for which the thoughtless employ It, the case is be yond cavil or controversy. ' An airship equipped with comfor table sleeping accommodations, shower bath and a diner, and car rying 1500 pounds of freight and 26 passengers, is proposed for a route between Chicago and New York. Still, there will be a few timid souls who will manage to get along on a palatial train. PORTLAND'S GOOD SCHOOLS A MOTHER has Just brought her two children to Portland from an Eastern city that is famous for its publio schools. She called upon a business man who gives some attention to educational affairs, with -this question: "Shall I have my children attend school in Portland or send them back to the schools at home? I want them to have the democracy of public school training buf I also am very eager for them to receive the very best educa tion." . What the Portlander told this woman should be of value to other newcomers. It may add to the Infor mation of established Portland resi dents. Portland possesses 74 public schools. Eight of them are high schools. Sixty six, are elementary or special schools. The buildings and grounds represent an investment of many millions of dol lars and the people recently author ized a tax which will provide fi.000,000 for additional buildings aside from construction possible from the pro ceeds of the normal school tax. Some 1300 teachers and principals preside over the public school educa tion of Portland's boys and girls. One of the policies established by an able superintendent Is democracy of teach ing as well as of subjects taught. In other words, the Judgment and ex perience of the teachers as tfo texts and methods are sought and valued. The schools themselves rank in quality and standards with the first dozen cities of America. The schools of no clt are better. The progress Of other schools Is carefully watched and their genuine Improvements are adopted .wlthi -decisive . discretion. . Teachers divide training under three headings: Tool subjects, content sub jects and expression subjects. The first includes the fundamentals reading, , writing, arithmetic and lan guage. At one stage in the evolution of public school education these were considered sufficient. Now we add, under content subjects, literature, ge ography, history, civics, physiology and hygiene. And, not content with these, Portland schools also offer un der expression subjects, music, art, dramatics, manual art, domestic art, physical education and games and school gardening. The boy who wishes to prepare for industry or a technical career finds in the Portland schools oppor tunity to learn printing, carpentry, electrical work and a dozen allied sub jects that when mastered Increase his productive capacity and earning power. The girl learns. If she desires, the practical and scientific phases of cookery, sewing and home making. Both may take business and commer cial courses, such as typewriting, bookkeeping and stenography. Or they may prepare themselves by closer attention to what are known as the classical subjects for university training. Yet when they have gradu ated from one of Portland's high schools they will have an education surpassing the training of the uni versity of another day. One reason why Portland has grown is because the publio schools are of the best. Ten years ago tho school population was registered as 25,000. This year the registration will reach a total of 45.000. The growth Of the city during the same census period h been from 07.214 to 258.288. Portiand's schools are . preparing boys and girls to become Informed, Intelligent and publio spirited citi zens, of Portland and of Oregon- or any omer state. One of the subjects to which 'especial attention will be given auring tne coming year will be the important and picturesque history of uregon, ,noi oniy of the dates and events but .of the. splendid men and women,' pioneers, who made history ana . suppuea .; unceasing lnspfr&tloh for those who "follow thenv' The businessman told the newcomer other details about the Ideals and am bitions that govern the substantial and admirable ; achievements of Port land's schools,' And the mother has decided, toi her turn, that, when her two children start to school lo Portland next Tuesday their opportunity will be greater and more attractive " than' If they had re mained in the East ; 4 The assurance afforded by County Commissioner IHolman that the Hose Blocha of the warrant'.ahavtng, fra ternity are not, necessarily, to profit by the recent , deciaioh of the coun ty commission to - pay Its bills by warrant but that the banks of the city will cash the warrants at their face value. Justifies praise both, for the officials and the banks. Yet. In the latter case, the financial institu tions are but following the precepts of good business. County warrants are an excellent security. And the banks have on deposit, In various funds not available for payroll pur poses, the sum of more than $700. 000 of county money upon which they pay the slight amount of 2 per cent on dally balances. THE COMMUNITY CHEST PORTLAND is about to try the ex- a periment or tne uommunity unest. All the budgets of approved local organizations dependent for support upon public solicitation will be lumped into one. All the drives and campaigns for cash that previously have been inde pendently organized, dinning their ap peals and demands upon the ears and hearts of givers throughout the year, are to be merged into one. The benevolence of a year will be financed In a week, according to the plan of the Community Chest The business man will then be permitted to turn undisturbed to his desk and his business. The social worker will have full time for the relief of need for which he or she was particularly trained and will not be asked to give major effort to the begging of funds All this is ideal. For the sake of the community and of benevolence, the Community Chest ought to suc ceed. Its proposals are only radical in that they suggest the direct application of the coordinated drive method, which the war discovered, to the haphazard enterprise of charity and civic serv ice. Under the Community Chest, as proposed, the subject of a city's giv ing Is viewed as a whole rather than In Its disconnected parts. The ad ministrative intelligence of those who give rather than ffrose who receive and spend is brought into the plaee of organizing control. Individual giv ers who desire to contribute special effort and interest to favored organi zations in addition to their money have no less opportunity to do so under the Community Chest than un der conditions as they have obtained in the past. The money thus directly received needs only to be subtracted from the total amount which a given organization asks of the Community Chest. The Community Chest will only be a failure if its organization is incom plete or inefficient or if the substan tial contributing Interests of Port land fail in giving It support. The or ganization should command the serv ices of the best and ablest men In Portland. It should have the cordial support of1 contributors. It should have the cooperation of beneficiary organizations. No doubt it will have all three. The two hunting accidents' in Al sea, Benton county, are . distressing as well as extraordinary. They hap pened within a few hours of each other. In one, young Tom, member of a well known Alsea .family, fell from a bullet aimed at a deer by his brother. In the other Lytle Fol lett was seriously if not fatally wounded when his cousin shot at a deer. OUR INDIVIDUALIST SOLDIERS T HE outsider little realizes the ex tent of the world within a world that is being created by men who fought in the woria war. Of 4,000,000 who served overseas or were sta tioned in cantonments within the boundaries of the United States, about half have been organized in the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. General organization is constantly broadening in scope and number. More and more of the ener- gies and interests of the men are being claimed. Activities of veteran organization pass beyond the men themselves and extend to their wives and ' families. Social affairs are arranged and In their repetition tend to draw the line of demarkation between the families of military and non-military experi ence. It is in the social and civio affilia tion, for that matter, that the chief strength of veteran organization will be found. No body, of returned sol diers has ever been a large factor politically. The ideals that send men to war are out of line with cheap and sordid political manipulation.' As the soldiers of the great war meet, their talk turns naturally to the American army of the future. And their Influence and experience will be large factors in shaping it From the .purely militaristic point of view it will be said that the army must be built strongly, designedly and solely to meet military emergency, High thoughts are well enough for the folks that stayed at home, the discussion will run, but what plunged America into the late conflict, these materialists , will say. was not to "make the world .safe for democracy," nut me facts that our rluhts had been violated Upon the seas. New York was inreaiened and th inv.sinn f -nmerica was plotted. It was well enough . to stimulate ...- funds by telling how the flower of "...enca cngagea . In earrvin. k-v across the seas the liberty sought and found on these shore, br hV-Si'-S? settlers who tad fled Europe', op- . T v ' '""V 1 SU1C militarist IU1I speaks-was that by carrying the war to Germany the Teoton. were kept too busy at home -to send their submarines - and - giant dirigibles dangerously near ; the American At lantic; coast. . The argument, of course, proceeds from the experience of those who at tended tO'-tbe-routlne duty of war. From that viewpoint it Is not incor rect. But the conviction in American consciousness is -today what it was when our boys were marching away and Liberty loan drives were. being conducted. America foughVthe war and won the war not for military necessity but for a high ideal. There wasn't enough militarism in the country to under stand military necessity. Our soldiers were enlisted not at the impulse of militarism but of patriotism. When they reached the battlefields of Europe they fought with a display of individual initiative and resource fulness that amazed the older nations. Military leaders, indeed, shook their heads over America's military indi vidualism. They said that a good army could not be constituted from men each of whom was his own, gen eral. They said, subconsciously ac cepting the German viewpoint, that men in uniform must be merely fight ing machines. They must leave think ing to their commanders. But the Americans went through the forest of Verdun and won victories that were, perhaps, Incnnoclastic from the mili tary standpoint, but that, neverthe less, got more than the results aimed at, while the German army, with one part of Its . machinery smashed, lost Its morale and became futile as a whole. The American army of the future will possess In higher degree than in the past the quality of individualism. Such a result is inevitable in view of the training, along nearly every line calculated to quicken and increase in telligence, that the new army is of fering its soldiers. Such individualism will never adapt itself to militarism. It will not fight to make war but to end war. It will not go to war as a machine but to serve anjdeal. But one thing will make an army of our individualistic soldiers a safe army subordinate 'to command. That one thing is patriotism, which for defense of country and faith In a causepre parcs men for the greatest of sacrifices in order that peace and safety may be established. SCRAP THE LEAGUE? SENATOR HARDING has at last come out squarely in favor of scrap ping the League of Nations. In his front porch speech to a delegation from Indiana, he says: "Governor Cox is in favor of going into the league on the basis an nounced bx President Wilson. I am not. That is the whole difference be tween us, but it is a most vital one, because it involves the disparity be tween a world court of justice sup plemented by a world association for conference on the one hand, and the council of the league on the other." Here he ignores the fact that the League of Nations as constituted is a world association for conference and that it expressly provides for an in ternational court of justice. Again, referring to the war between Russia and Poland, he says : "We know now that the league constituted at Ver sailles is utterly impotent as a preven tive of war. It is so obviously im potent that it has not even tried. It could not survive a single test" Here, again, he ignores the fact that failure of the United States to enter the league so delayed its organization. the selection of the members of the assembly and council, their meeting and organization into efficient work ing bodies, and the establishment of an international court pf justice, that the league was not in position to ef fectively and efficiently handle the situation, call the parties to the dis pute before the assembly and council and settle and adjust matters and pre vent war. If the "world court of Justice, sup plemented by a world association for conference," advocated by' Senator Harding, would have prevented this Polish war, then the League of Na tions with the . United States as a party thereto, fully functioning, would have been fully as potent, and the assembly and council of the league would-have settled the dispute and prevented the war. War or the use of military force is not contemplated by Us league except as a last resort to stop an outlaw nation from prose cuting war. ' The great moral force of the civilized world backing up the settlements and recommendations of the assembly and council of the league in matters of disputes between nations will gener ally prevent wars, and as a last resort the economic pressure provided for will prevent practically all wars with out the burning of a grain of powder or the loss of a single life. The league is already an existing. organized world association f ok con ference to prevent wars, and to re move all causes of war, the members of which comprise some 29 pf the most civilized nations of the world. It will soon be functioning in all of its parts. The International court Of jus tice provided for by the league! is be ing organized and will soon be in full force and effect . It's a dlsgrace, an International crime, for the United States to Remain out of this league By going in we vfould not sacrifice 'one? iota (of our nationality." The league cannot (put us Into a war. Congress alone ?an do that. This Senator Harding admjlts. He says if ihe league called upon us te go to war there would be a moral ob ligation resting upon us to. do so, and that "no congress would ever 'dare make this 'nation appear to &e a welcher."'.; j " But the senate of the United states has made us already appear be a welcher by falling to ratify the treaty with- the League of Nations covenant. Governor Cox Is m favor of iolnc in. Senator Harding is to favor of staying out w. -r;-. .-i. . . . PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR PLACE An Appeal to the American People, Against Senator Harding, in Be half of Armenia and Humanity. By Herbert Powell Lee Senator Harding boasts that he and the Republican party squarely oppose a mandate for Armenia, and he defies Governor Cox to favor it. Inasmuch as our failure to protect Armenia means the loss of thousands of precious lives, I beg of you, my1 fellow citizens, to weigh carefully the full import of Sena tor Harding's challenge. What terrible fact demands the Ar menian mandate? It is the fact that America is the only hope for Armenia. Hun a reds of thousands of Uvea have been lost simply because we have failed to act It matters not that others ought to have eaved them. We could have saved them, with reasonable effort, and we did not save them. Moreover, we have the poorest excuse of any nation for inaction in this crisis. Who oppose the Armenian mandate? Those ,,ho have spumed every appeal for relief. They refused to equip a volunteer army ; they even refused to vote a dollar of government money for famine relief when they well knew that their refusal was a death warrant to thousands.- Nor have they offered a ingle constructive substitute for the plans they defeated. What reasons are there against the Armenian mandate? The opposition has plenty of excuses but not a single reason. They say we must not offend a friendly nation; yet, during the m-ar, they berated the president for remain ing friendly with Turkey. They say we must not sacrifice our boys : yet they would not hesitate to conscript those same boys in defense of American investments in Mexico or In defense of our foreign commerce. They say we must not accept responsibility so far from home ; yet they approve our con quest and retention of the Philippines, still farther from home. They say our form of government is not suited to such a task ; yet we have succeeded gloriously in Cuba and in the Philip pines. They say we cannot bear the burden ; yet they have not been in terested in protecting us from the far greater burdens of profiteering. A small fraction of what these objectors could have saved us in the cost of liv ing would have paid all of the -cost of the Armenian mandate. They say we must attend to the needy ones at home ; yet they have been as Indifferent to these as to the Armenians. They say the mandate means militarism ; yet they denounce pacificism. They fought Spain to end in Cuba far less Cruelties than they overlook in Armenia. Now senator Harding makes a re fusal of world leadership the supreme issue of hta campaign. He opposes the only League of Nations that ever ex isted and he offers no substitute for it. His view and his sympathies are no broader than the purely commercial in terests of hla own country. His "Anwr lea first" seems to mean "Let the rest of the world go by, or go to James M. Cox, the world is looking to you for such readership of America aa shall make America -the natural leader of the world. James M. Cox, the world is looking as never before for a man! Listen, my fellow citisens ! Pot yourself In their place! If you were an Armenian : If you had seen your father skinned alive and his head crushed by the slowest possible degrees ; if you - had seen your mother leaned as she staggered along on ber weary marcji, . and . when she fell you had seen her tm bom child ripped from her womb ; if you had seen your older sister ravished . to death, and your younger sister sold . as a slave, to be sent from harem to barem ; If you bad seen .your younger brother's stomach burst from . disease . broueht on bx starvation;: If, - fighting manfully., tn their defense, you had been kicked and beaten until you were a cripple ror,nre: and if. you knew that the friendly arm of Uncle Sam.' that could' have pro tected you from these experiences and kept you and your Joved ones in peace able.' self-respecting self-support,' thst that friendly arm had been withheld because Senator Harding . and others had decided to make a political Issue of the request of President Wilson for a few troops to police Armenia j and if you knew that Senator Harding was WHERE HE STANDS AW AJ ?Hm?& sS Copyright. 1820, bj Tb MORE OR LESS PERSONAL' Random Observations About Town J. W. Jones, commander, and J. C. Walsh, past commander, of Over the Top Post No. 81, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will leave Tuesday morning for Washington, D. C, to attend the national convention of the organization, which begins the following week. -After the meeting Is concluded they will go to New York for a few days, before return ing to the coast. Both men are con nected with the city health office. Thomas EL Connelley of Maupln, who is director of the Shanlko bank and one of the leading stockgrowers in Eastern Oregon, is In the city for a few days. He says he has never seen range conditions any better than they are at present. Along with Connelley is Alev Mcintosh, a noted stockman, recently Interested in a large Alaskan feeding enterprise, who haa just re turned from Idaho, where he met an other livestock man named Sam Bal lantyne of Boise and brought him to Portland. W. C. Brown, another stock man, from Condon, is with the group, and they expect J. D. McAndle, who lives at Antelope, to join them in the city. The group is domiciled at the Im OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley (While it doe not appear Uiat Mr. Lockley has eer drien a itare ennch himielf, yet he ha tt on time tnd another rtddrn quite fast as the tige-coachit of them all could drire, and in thi ahort article. nd in hi" ruo-it trophic atyle. he tell Journal reader what rach- ridinc la like. Some years ago I was going by stage from Pilot Rock to Uklah. The regular driver, at the last moment, was unable to make the trip, so a substitute was put on. I was the only passenger. The stage coach was the old fashioned, deep bodied kind, with the driver's seat high over the horses. Before we had gone far I discovered that the driver didn't know whether he was afoot or on horseback. Stopping at the top of Yellow Jacket hill, he confided to me that he had punished one pint, but had another in reserve, which he offered to share with me. I suggested that he had better save It for the end of the trip, but he said, "Plenty more at Uklah. I'll lap this up between here and Alba," He lapped it up, all right, and on the long grade down into Camas valley he sent the horses down the hill at break neck speed. The near leader stumbled and fell, drarging down the other leader. The two whejelers were unable to stop, and in a second one wheeler was down and the stage lurched upon the strug gling horses. I was Inside the stage, but as it lurched over I was neatly catapulted through the open window, alighting 10 or 12 feet away, on my hands and knees. The driver went over the box among the horses. I ran to asking the American people to elect him president because he intervened to save your savage enemies: in that case, how strongly would you favor Senator Harding for president? The Armenians have been taught to regard America aa the embodiment of justice and mercy. Do you think that because of Senator Harding's policy the American flag looks brighter and our country's, history and character more glorious to the Armenians? And does the Armenian viewpoint shed no light on our daty aa a nation and our duty at the polla next November? Can America afford to accept such leadership as Senator Harding offers? ' The great need of the world today Is leadership. The great problems are world wide. If the forces' of evil pre vail In other nations, our own nation wUl suffer and perhape JalL Bolshev ism has a world-wide organisation, with a brilliant, masterful leadership, and an ambition for world conquest, Moreover, the forces of autocracy are also well organized and aggressive. He who. counsels the forces of democracy to remain provincial, distrustful, and disunited plays into the hands of the enemies of democracy, and threatens the world with frightful disaster. U not with the overthrow of civilization in favor of such conditions as existed In conquered France, in revolutionary Rus sia, and In Armenia, Pre pnblUhinf Co. (Th Nw York World) perial. Ballantyne says the stock situa tion is bad in Idaho and that, the stock men cannot sell their wool. The only bright spot in the business is the big hay crop, which is expected to Improve the feeding situation later on. There is a great deal of wool throughout the entire country, says Ballantyne, which will have to be fed, but at the present time it Is hard to get capital to buy the sheep. In Idaho crops were never better fruit, hay and grain and the banking situation throughout the state is very good, due to the fact that the farmers have had three very prosperous years. --, . . Miss Helen Cowglll, assistant state club leader of the Oregon Agricultural college, is taking the state champion canning team to Spokane Monday to compete for the interstate champion ship. The team is composed of Etta Anderson, LUlie Nelson and Amy Gus tafson, all of Powell valley. The three girls have practiced together S3 . Umea within the last two months and have canned 540 quarts of fruit and vege tables at a total value of nearly $300. Miss Cowglll has been staying at the Seward for several days. the horses and helped drag the driver out of harm's way. Together we freed the animals. One horse was so badly hurt we had to cut him out and go on with a spike team. At another time I was a passenger on the stage coming from the coast to Koseburg. An old stage driver aboard taunted the driver with cowardice for being careful in making the hairpin curves. Finally the driver said. "You want to see some real driving, do you? All right Here goes." Wo were at the head of a long, steep and twisting grade. He released the brake, ,fit the surprised leaders a smart clip fh the whip, and started them down tfcigrade at a run. In a moment one of the tups of the off leader came loose and, swinging back and forth, lashed the leaders into a panic of fear, and the way we lurched and swaged around the curves on that long hill, sometimes poised on two wheels over the Tluff, was a caution. The children of today will take their thrills riding in airplanes, for the old CoKcord coaches, so familiar up to a score or so of years ago, are seen only at round-ups and carnivals of the old West, In these prosaic days. In Beek man's bank at Jacksonville you may still see oh the wall the old time sched ules of the California and Oregon Staee company and the price list paid by Wells. Fargo & Co. for gold dust, but the stage coach, with Its driver, Is today but a memory. ! Letters From the People- (Comnrunieattont sent to TK Jrninul for pnbliraiion m thi department thmild be riitteri on dnlr on aid ef U paper. loull not exceed (00 eord in length nd mart be uned or t writer, whoa mail ddrn in full muat accom pany th eoatribation. I A HAY GROWER'S TROUBLES Hermlston. Aug. 31 To the Editor of The Journal I have noticed recently several articles on the need of Increasing the production of hay so that sheep and cattle may be Ted at a profit and sold at a low figure to the consumer. I am a hay grower in one of the best alfalfa swtlons of the state and I can not sell my hay at the present msrket nrlc and make wages, to say nothing of profit. Where, then. Is the incentive to Increased production: is me larmer expected lo sacrifice himself for the common good? Is he not entitled to at least as high a wage as hla city brother, who works shorter hours? Undoubtedly prices must corns down, but why pick on the farmer, when every thing ke buys or uses, including labor, is either remaining at Its high level or going still higher? A Hay Grower. NO. Portland, Aug. 27. To the Editor of The Journal Please tell me If there Is any: such office in the United- States army or navy as "vicar general and chancellor of the, army and navy." ; James T. Bingham. The Oregon Country North kt llwnlng in Brlet Form tor tht Duty ader. - OREGON' NOTES " V A three days' session of th Klamath ' county teachers was attended by over 100 teachers. aardens at DAllax have been damaged by froaC It was Hie earliest frost In many seasons. Governor Olcott win take a 10 daysC vacation, spending the time with his family at Cannon Beach. Fire haa desiroyed the homo of Fre-d "1 Wallace at Mulinn. The cause of the ' t fire waa a defective flue. : 1 Whether the state has a clear till- A to old river beds which are now dry"- f has been referred to the utate land board. The Deschutes county court has . lowed the petition of settlers In tho vl- cinlty of Sisters to organise an irriga tion district. O. A. Martin has been-, requested by a number of Marshfield citisens to he- come a candidate for mayor at the com ing city election. In the opinion of Congressman Haw ley the federal government could save ,600,000.000 annually througll tne auop tlon of a budget system. Six barrels of rve mash, containing nearly 30) gallons of brew ready for distilling, have been found In a vacant house near the city limits of Bend. ; A strona suareKtkn that the growth I of weeds on the leohute rlv-r at ! Bend be cleaned out will be made to ' the Bend council by Fire -Chief Carlon. The county school superintendent of ; Lane county says there will be no short-, sge of teachers. There are enough In sight to supply all the schools of the ; county. ' The Gravenateln apple crop in Tjihe county Is much shorter than -In former years. Not more than a carload will ! be shipped from the county, according I to the county fruit inspector. Ir. Harry J. Anderson was slightly Injured, and Mrs. ISheedy, his mother-in-law, seriously hurt, when the auto mobile In which they were riding over turned at the foot of Alsea mountain. Mrs. Sfreedy sustained a fractured shoulder blade. WASHINGTON Decorators have begun dolling up the pavliloin at the Walla. Walla county fair grounds. Deputy Sheriff Lon E. Nordyke of Wenatchee haa resigned. He will re- ( move to Berkeley, CaL Wenatchee post of the American Le gion has leased the1 south half of the World building for headquarters and club rooms. The Great Northern railroad has paid -O. M. H. Wagner Sons of Wenatchee. (200,000 for damages Incurred In the shipment of applea last December, The contract for the construction of a new state armory at Walla Walla has been let to the firm of Taylor Mac leod of Walla Walla, whoee bid:-was 189,000. Under the auspices of the Lincoln County Livestock association the stock breeders .will hold a combination show and sale of pure breed stock ai Harring ton, October i. Application has been filed with the federal power commission by the Priest Rapids Irrigation district for a permit to develop power at rnest rapias on the Columbia river. The end of a hollow tile warehouse built this summer by the Walla Walla Fruit Growers' association west of Bla- lock, collapsed during a high wind. The damage is estimated at 8500. The sale of registered Shorthorns at Creston was railed off because -of slow bidding. Onlv a few head of the 69 of fered were sold to buyers, some of whom had come from other countries. IDAHO The fish and game resources of the state are being shown In numerous pho tographs taken by Slate Game Warden Jones. The secretary of the Interior has di rected that patents In fee be issued liy the general land office to 276 Nes Perce Indians. , The Moscow city council will be asked to pass an ordinance requiring the tent ing of l.atah county dairy cows, espe cially those that furnish inllk for Moscow. Moscow high school has obtained the services of C. F. Baker as athletic coach. Professor W. E. Wiley, former roach, ha become nrlnrlpal of the high school at The Dalles, Or. When the Morrow Mercantile com pany's store at Coeur d'Alene was opened recently It waa foond that thlrves had opened a bar-k window and stolon about $600 worth of f Ilk shirts. k rain storm followed by a high wind , delayed harvest operations In the vicinity of Oenesee Tor several da.vn. The harvert . season Is three or four weeks late thla year, but the yield is equal to the nor mal crop. w The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has filed an application with the public utili ties commlKsion to foree the Malad I.lunt & Tower company to furnish a HO horse power electrical energy for the fom panv's limestone quarry at Arco within lb aays. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Eldra Melhelmer was braggln' t'other day how he'd sold 10 acres of land lo a Iowa feller at 60 per cent profit I told Eldra he didn't know what he paid fer his land in the first place. . He thought he paid $50 a acre, but by tho time him and me had calkerlated th compound Interest and then struck off what he had got from it in crop, wood and pasture the last 10 year. why. Eldra quit braggin' short off. cause that land had cost him r1Kh W $1S acr. That's the way with a whole lot or farmers that thinks ihrjrri land apee'lators. They apile a good farm anT a good farmer and don't turn out much as a spectator numer. The Rainbow of the Santiam; or. Wliv the I'-iKRest One Did NOT Get Away. After studying the crystal clarity of th stream and the foaming swish of the "skirt" of the riffle Just above the pool, the angler went In . search of a crawfish. He found a big,, red fellow whose wide-spread armored claws defied the world. Of It hs demanded the sacrifice of its tall. Then, from a protected pocket of his flybook, he selected a "spinner." The particular eplrmer had a small hook with a long shank. It had a curved and oval nickel-plated "spoon." or blade, about the size of a man's thumb nail. The angler cracked, but did not re move, the Shell of the crawfish tall. He slipped It on the long shanked hook. He fastened the spinner to a slightly green leader that waa almost invisible in the clear water. : Then he gave the lure a cast fairly Into the undertow of the riffle, just where' the stream had busily burrowed for a hundred years deeply Into . the foundation of a great boulder. Almost Immediately he felt small tuge upon his line, but of these h waa Impatient. Ie knew that, . usual, all the small trout of the pool were taking their impetuous turn at tackle entirely, too big for them. Rix-irtch trout are all very well for the pan, and they provide half of an excuse for going f lulling when the main reason is to get away 'from Lthe narrow ' canyon walls of city streets to mountains. and the streams that In their bigness in beauty bear with them the very Ufa breath of freedom. i ' What the angler had prepared for was game of another sort, and pres ently a tremendous tug and a sing ing reel told him he had found it (To Be ' Continued) I