THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,; PORTLAND; : SUNDAY V MORNING. SEPTEMBER 5. 1820.
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SEVEN MILLION
THERE are 7.000,000 automobiles in
. 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
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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.
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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