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Newspaper Page Textf to THE OREGON.: DAILY, : JOURNAL PORTLAND. OREGON v TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 192a. 1 . &, JACKiM frubtur .,IB aim. be toofxJritt, k ehettfol ad Oo an I a 6thn a yog would h thm do you. 1 tub it hTfi7 nk day Jiu4ay aioraJna. t Ths JovruJ Buildiaf. Broadway 4 Xm- hill ttrt, Portland, Urtios. ' Eaterad'at th poatotftc at Portland. Oft, ' (or tnawauaataa taroosS tct aaul aaeoa 1m natter, t ' frtu;pHo.vfcs-ki 7tt$.Autoue ieo-si. All depart wrtrf to tbe anaiwer. Benjamin Kealnor Uo.. BronswVIt vmnt. aa fifth imwi, Hr xoraj 00 Miliar yiiaiiu. cn-o. fBir5BIT551"0l'B.Al. wmi tb. nM to rJet lrtJUii toot bleh a- J Jeciioawbl. It lo will not print any copy . thai In any alainlaU redin oaiur or that eaaeut ttsdily bo wcoinuwd l-4.a 1 aiiitVii.W li it r !- By Carrier. Ctiy" and Country Hi DAILI AND SUNDAY. DAILI I' BUNDAI One Week I .10 One w $ Bm!TiLALL KATES PAT A BI.E M ADVANC'K DAILT AND SUNDAY Ona yaar $00 rThrt. month! ..3 Bis month. 4.ZJ lOno aiontfe .. .. . rAn.T . "V-iPAT ! (Without Sunday! (Only) One year $00 I" mr Mil month 8 8li month I 7 Tare Bontha ... l.Te ITurto Bontha .. 1.00 ' Una month 00 Ewy Wednesday) flUNDAl Ona rr ......11.00 ton ytr .0 In month. 60 . The rate, apply only to fh Vint, RaM. to tern txrlnt fnrnl.hed on apnJoo tioa. Mas remittance, by Money order. Kxpm Order or Drift It our poatoffice to not a lion Ord.r Offlet. I or 2-nt ataoipa will be KtrpUl, Mak all nmltUncaa parabl to Tb Journal. Portland. Orion. To ain by .tleneo wbon w abonld pro taat moaoa coward out of men. The hu man; ractj hJ eUmbrd on protcat. The few who dara muat apeak and apeak Main to right the wrong of many. Ell Wheeler Wilcox. NORTH DAKOTA OR CALIFORNIA IT 15 true that the Non-partisan league bears the brand of origin of North Dakota, it is cgually true that "cooperative marketing as at present defined comes with the authorship of California. Doubtless it was accurate as well as picturesque for Mr. Sapiro, counsel for the cooperative marketing organizations of California, to say, as he. did before the Chamber of Com merce on Monday, that the present farmer organization contest Is a con test between North Dakota and Cali fornia. Which, then, will win, North Dakota or; California? , Xorth Dakota has made class appeal and established class consciousness. California has employed, as Mr. Sapiro points out, specialists in marketing, i advertising, law, 'and finance to help i the farmer, merchandise his products. North Dakota has proposed that the farmers control production and mar jkcting, by political action. California ilias furnished, in last year's coopera jtive marketing of $300,000,000 worth Of farm products, an actual demon jStration that the economic method of solving the farmer's economic problem is sound. Thenttltude which the banker and the business man should primarily take Is that the farmer Is entitled to a fair price, and a stabilized market foe his products-.- He does not merit being exploited by speculators, and he nhould be protected from them by every related line of business that find 9 success In solid, conservative and fair dealing. Thus, having recognized the -right of the farmer to live and prosper, it. becomes the opportunity of jthe banker and the business man to. see how they can best aid the farmer. Can they do It through the Non partisan league? The North Dakota plan-, calls for class organization and class appeal. It excludes them. Can they do it through cooperative marketing? The California method calls for their aid and excludes the exploiter. But recent events make it clear that Oregon will have in control from the. farmer point of view either the Non partisan league or cooperative mar keting. One or the other is inevitable. The attitude of the banker and the business man will decide. Which docs Oregon want? ..,'4 , Povernor Cox said to hlsMonday afternoon audience that women with suffrage are. more progressive than men because they more quickly un derstand great humanitarian issues. That Is Oregon's experience with woman suffrage. , A BULWARK AGAINST CHAOS A MEHICA withhold1 mpmhprlhln Iri the League of Nations and the political, influences that keep this na tion from meeting , her Juty to the - world point the finger of attempted indictment at the small wars waged since the league was formed. But th avoidance of respopslbllity lessens whit th ; world's imperative need ' the ' league ' If ; one may accept thi Judgment o Herbert Houston, chair man of the. committee on information of, the L-ague to Enforce Pcace.Ie , turning from .Europe. Mr. Houston bet , gins a report with these words: 't r " The - feeling , that one brings back f rem. fturone rt tho summer of 1120 Is that the League of Nations Is . sheer , necessity. In . the Versailles . treaty It . stood as a promlao of International co- eoeratlon, but in, in cays that; nave followed It hM steadily tf ken form u the one bulwark acalnat chwos. Suppose enemies in America of the League of Rations succeed In their at tempt to Isolate America. Suppose America's defection as ;to member ship i the League of Nations is suf ficient ' to prevent the league from serving its purpose of substituting peaceful ' adjustment 'for military strife. ' Suppose chaos does ensiw. What will the enemies of the league have profited? The Oregon lan is tremendously in terested in Governor Cox and liquor. The eyes of the reactionary always fail to keep pace with progress. They always look toward the setting sun. They usually discover an Is sue after it is dead. But maybe, while the white lily is digging around, it will discover the atti tude of Congressman McArthur to ward liquor, the congressman whose cause it so devotedly espouses. And maybe It will discover that out of 82 votes on the liquor question Senator Harding cast 30 with the wets and two with the drys, the two dry votes coming after Ohio adopted prohi bition and Jlrnmy Cox had been elected governor to enforce "It. And. after awhile, perhaps, it will find what became of the amiable Ohio senator's brewery stock. SIGNS' A MISSOURI motorist who thought he had all the directions clearly and could negotiate all the roads oi the South Willamette valley Without an Instant's delay, pulled up ihort at a conrnsmg crossroad, wnicn. was the right direction, left or right?' He saw an obtrusive sign and consulted it eagerly. It said, "Jenk's ; Straw berry Sundaes Are Best." Disappointed, he turned to another. H declared, with equal .cogency, "Brown Beats the World for Wool ens." But on no one of the four cor ners was there a sign giving the loca tion and direction of Salem,, Albany, Lebanon or Jefferson. Portlanders think, in most cases, that anyone who knows anything has in mind the location of Portland. But the motorist from Missouri needs to be shown. So does the motorist from Mississippi and from New York. Two policies of road marking are needed in Oregon. The first is the accurate marking of all intersections uniformly, whether the signs are placed at the expense of the several counties or of the state as a whole. The second desirable policy is the elimination of all commercial signs at crossroads. Such signs are confus ing. They awaken resentment in the minds of motorists who arc seeking direction. They have a purely nega tive advertising value. The merchant in every instance, ex cept where he has cleverly combined a road sign with advertising, has sim ply wasteU his money. Oregon's paved highways are being well marked. But there are thousands of miles of roads that are not paved. Press and pulpit In Great Britain are described in a cablegram as send ing up a heartrending roar over the drastic increase in gasoline prices, and they say the American oil trust is chiefly to blame. Some newspa- ; pers are using the Increase to urge the government to break "the oil ring." Others demand the develop ment of independent oil resources as soon as possible. The Daily Ex press declares that the "petrol sup ply is in the hands of a gigantic trust which originated in America and which gradually spread its ten tacles over the whole world." All the newspapers declare that tho price on all oil Is fixed in New York; MAKING MOTIONS WHEN father and mother and the youngsters went visiting or to town iq the days when those who read this were the youngsters, 13 or 20 miles was considered a good day's drive. Oftener the distance was less. But the time available for visit or stopover was about in proportion to the slowness of the transportation. A Journey was an event. A visit was valued.. There was little hurry about either. Relationships were cultivated. Relatives found pleasure In the clan nish custom of breaking bread with each other, in killing the fatted chicken for each other and in grandly climaxing the meal with "floating Island," which was fluid, golden custard, with the whipped- white t)f the egg upon it, and nobody ever had enough of it. ' Behold how in .this age of gasoline he times have changed I When peo pie speak of "a little drive" they hav in mind 6o to 100 miles. There is some urgency of spirit that keeps the foot pressed hard on the ga$ feed pedal regardless of the condition or the road or the fortune' of the motor. The rate of travel is three or lour times as fast as in the davt when the family surrey creaked along w mruy course, Dut it happens sur prisingly often that the relatives or friends who are the object of the visit must come out to the machine to welcome and speak briefly with guests "who haven't time to come in The never ceasing hurry infects every other phase of life. Business men get so mixed up with organizer Hons, committees and meetings that they hasten business Jo meet cutsrlde demands ? and then :ciil ; one "subject shprt preroturflyn oTrJcf 'to plunge Into' anpthtJr. " The man "who evinces any coupling of chic Interest knd tf- uviicucy i -.nag cans jot service so muli- tipjtea and urgent -that he thinks of the old Ohio itory. "a " four-horse team was' floundering.' In the mud. Methods ,'of; -extricating horses and wagon were under discussion.- iFlnally the boy of the family epoke wisely, Whip Sal. She's the only one that will pull anyway." The rush of doubtfully essential Af fairs leaves scant attention for home life; father and the children have a tendency to ; become acquaintances merely. The day ends late. The new day comes before rest is sufficient. And the feet result is what? j Motion making. Duties are superfi cially done. Subjects are superficially learned. Pleasures are superficially en Joyed. Life becomes so much k thing of surfaces that it is not to be won dered if veneer comes to be accepted for the solid oak. j Wouldn't it be more worth; while, physically, mentally and spiritually, to make fewer motions and do a limited number of things exceptionally well? Wouldn't life be healthier, happier, longer and moire productive? As In touring, what is gained by the journey if its plan leaves no time to gaze upon the objects yoi came to see? ' Hurry breeds confusion of mind and Inefficiency. It renders life like, a tree that grows over-rapidly, blooms over- fully, and bears no fruit WHY? TVHAT is the interest of William W M. Wood in the success of the Harding campaign for the presidency? Mr. Wood 'is president of the Amer ican Woolen mills, the gentleman who recently closed his mills while re tailers of woolen garments were her alding a shortage of woolen products. He is the gentleman who told the woolgrowers that he didn't want their crop, that an oversupply of manufac tured goods existed. He is the gentle man who threw thousands of workers out of employment while his mills re mained idle. j There wasn't both a shortage of manufactured goods and an oversup ply. But the retailers held the price up because they could not obtain the manufactured goods. In the meantime the woolgrowers were threatened with ruin because they could not sell their crops. And about that time Mr, Wood was indicted for profiteering. He was later released because a federal judge ruled that only retailers coyld be prosecuted for profiteering under the Lever act. j Mr. Wood is one of the gehtlemen lhat contributed to the Harding cam paign. His name is found on the offi cial document bearing' on campaign contributions. Along with it are the two Mr. Rockefellers' names and Mr. Teagle, all of Standard Oil. Why are these gentlemen interested in the Harding campaign,? Why? X Minnesota car drove by with license dated 1918, 1919 and 1920. Why isn't the idea a good one for Oregon and for the motorist willing to pay his license fee three I years in advance. It would at least re duce the license tag, poatage and clerical bills one third. AUTUMN AND POETRY ERRONEOUS is our belief that spring alone inspires the pots. That opinion has become, a habit of thought and as such has crowded out autumn and the fall poets. The latter season, if our literature is to be credited as a true chronicler, has made as much appeal to the sweet warbles as have tlic days of violets, buttercups and the like. In fact, if we look far enough we might find as many tributes to the harbinger pf wintry days as we find odes to April's tlossomy smile. Shakespeare .immortalized himself with one line when he looked at the gaunt trees, and wrote of them "as cold, bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." One of Keats' most maimifirpnt nrioa is to autumn. With all tht austere majesty of the season itself, his open ing line reads, "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." Hasn't Bryant sung himself through every little schiooliiouse in tho coun try with the line, "The melancholy days are come"? Tennyson gazes on the autumn fields and forthwith the sight tinges his heart with a pensiveness that finds surcease only n pouring out one of the finest lyrics lh the language. "Tears, idle tekrs, I know not what thry mean," hi sings and he goes on to draw some of the most superb simi les and metaphsors in all literature. Longfellow's, "The day is cold and dark and dreapy," has found an echo in a thousand souls whose spirits were In keeping with the season. Poe's "Ravenl' was born on a dreary December night. j Instances of everlasting tributes to autumn might1 be multiplied at will. Poets are inherently sad individuals and autumn and its gloom are of hatural appeal to them, more so; prob ably, than spring with rollicking, boisterous, loudly-bedecked joyous- ness. L . It is interesting to note that' there is a possibility that Lodge. Penrose. Smoot and Barnes may O. K., a trip of Senator Harding to the Pacific coast. They may. news disDatches say. untie hlmi from his front, porch. At last, the f$ne dd senator ! is to va Kiveii h iittije ireetiom. WASTE . 1 . . " THIS is scarcely believnhin k1t rue. Barllett pears on the Port land market htave been selling I for a bow ruuua ijgure. The housewife buying them has been - - oai.-LA 11 1 TJ oy oi ine tenaciousness of H it i. xne.peaen errJp. it was nmi:i . short this year! Pears wll have! to fill tne cans ordinarily dedicated to other juicy and luscious varieties of j fruit. But on a far-m on Sandy houJevard eight miles from Portland, a few, eve nings ago. a Portlander found a Bart let t pear orchard with the delicious fruit either rotting on the ground or over-ripenic- on the trees. The owner explained that he had been. able to sell from the , orchard, one ton of pears for fGO, the limited number be ing the especially large fruit desired by a certain cannery.' He added that nothing but loss would confront him if he undertook to hire men to pick the pears, sort them, box them, carry them to Portland and sell them here. It was cheaper to let the fruit waste. Isn't, such a condition evidence of wasted opportunity on the part of the city dwellers Vho" should gladly become their own fruit pickers and delivery agents, via the automobile? How many more thousands of dollars' worth of fruit are going to waste near Portland for the same reason?' LAMPOONS tROVE A BOOMERANG By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal. Washington, Sept. It Senator Hard ing In speech ea and Interviews fre quently speaks praise of Theodore Roosevelt, and the candidate's managers are making particular effort to induce men who were Identified with Roosevelt in the Progressive movement to visit Marion and give ,out statements in Harding's support. ' This is believed to be- good strategy. In view of Harding's reactionary record and the way in which he has been unhesitatingly branded as reactionary by Senators Borah. Kenyon, Lenroot and others prominent in' the Progressive .ranks. Since he was nom inated. As a counterbalance the Hard ing managers have been laboring to per suade former Bull Moosers to call on trie candidate at Marion. Another rea son for apprehension is the lingering remembrance of harsh things with which Progressive leaders were assailed in Harding's paper. Harding was espe cially bitter toward Roosevelt and Johnson. His friends explain that he afterwards "made up" with Roosevelt, as shown by the fact that Harding in the senate championed the measure to permit Roosevelt to take a volunteer division overseas. So far as it was a personal quarrel, the reconciliation stands as a fairly good case. What many may regard as a more significant thing, however, is the revelation of Harding's frame of mind, showing how he' slathered the Progressives with mud because they were. Progressives. He has never re canted his opposition to Progressive measures and the question now asked is whether he will give ear to the Pro gressives if his present campaign suc ceeds. "Imagine a man of plain decency tied up with a man like Hi Johnson," was one of the gems of the Harding sheet. "He has convicted himself of insin cerity, inconsistency, inconstancy, in gratitude and untruthfulness. He has shamed his past and discounted his fu ture," was one of the shots aimed at Roosevelt. Then, again, of Hiram Johijson : "Vi tuperation is his highest accomplish ment. But the blackguard in politics does not last long, especially when he is only a blackguard, and this one will not be heard of if he leaves his present office." Some of the lesser lights of the Pro gressives were appropriately panned In an editorial which said: -"The Bull Moose aaya 4v.men behind him. have been the backbone of the Republican party. Imagine if you can the grand old Republican party struggling along with such vertebrae as Jimmle Garfield. Oiff Pinchot. Bill Flynn. Dan Hanna. 'Sure Shot' Heney. Young Quay, Ormsby Mc- Harg and George Perkins." . . The Harding managers say this is all a page from the past, and all forgiven. What they fear is that while the party leaders may forgive the epithets, the progressive masses may remember the attitude Harding has taken toward progressive measures and his disposi tion to assail those who advance pro gressive ideas. His cronies in the senate are the re actionaries and when he talks of his desire to consult the senate leaders if he is elected, no one would be foolish enough to suppose that he has Johnson, Borah. Kenyon or Capper in mind. He has never Indicated that he would lake any pleasure in changing his spots. Letters From the People f Communications -cnt to Tha Journal tor publication in this dVpirtmrnt nhould be writtrn on only one tide of Uie paper, should not exceed 3l'o word. in length .and must be nisoed by the writer, who mail addreaa in fall must accom pany tba contribution. J THOSE WHO OUGHT TO KNOW Pendleton, Sept. 11. To the Kditor of The Journal Some years ago. during the temporary absence from this judi cial district of the late Thomas G. Hailey, who was at that time district attorney of this district, I acted as such district attorney in his absence. While o acting I prosecuted, and incidentally tconvictd, a man for having taken. sioien ana carried away one riding bridle, the probable value of which I have forgotten. After all the testimony had been introduced, my worthy legal opponent said to the Jury : "Gentlemen of the jury, my client has stated to you that he did not steal the bridle he is charged with having stolen, and I would like to know who knows any better than he whether or not he did i, steal such bridle?" I cinched him. .Now, Mr. Harding and Mr. Hava av there is no ,15,000.000 slush fund, nor any other slush fund, and I would like to know who knows better than those ruya whether there is such fund or not. Well cinch them. By the way, when Tom Hailey quit cowpunching and horse wrangling and took to the law I bought his outfit, but was never, one half the rider and roper that Tom was. I remember he was giving m some pointers as to "fry-pan bread." His recipe was, "Put on bak ing powder till you can't see the flour.2 My idea as to how to make a good American is to pile on the American eagle tUl you can't see the partisan, and next November the Democratic Cox will crow to the tun. "You can't make a quitter -of the American eagle," N. Berkeley. TON TONSON AND SrNQLE TAX Oregon City, Sept. 10. To the Editor of The Journal I-suppose Mr.,Yonson has seen -Mr. Hermann's reply to the same letter of mine that he read, in The Journal of September 4; and I will try to reply to both him and Mr. Her mann In this letter. I wni say tb Mr. Yonson right now that if he and I both go to hell, t don't think w shall ever find Mr. Hermann.' there, for he is not made of the right material for. paving. If this alnglo tax U1 should be put tn force, ail. those -wealthy- men who are holding hrge bodies of land Would sell off . ever-1 bit of land that was not bringing i them in anything, forf lust whatever they " could get for :."1L They could live -without tha land, and if they had any .they could, not dispose of for something,, that was not taxable they would Met the state take it back for DRAGGING r',v 1 1 1 J i I " I 1 " 1 taxes. Then the state would get no revenue from that which it had taken back, and that would cause the levy to be increased on tho land held by the poor farmers ; and this system would be carried on to such an extent that a great many poor men would have to give up their homes because they could not pay the taxes on them. What a graduated land tax law assumes, ail depends on the way it is drawn. It will not affect anybody but the large land holder, and will bring immigrants to the state instead of driving them away as the single "tax would do. It is to the interest of every man that wants a home in Oregon to vote against the single tax bill. It will double the cost of all farm products to the consumer and triple the tax of the farmer. George Hicinbotham. THE BRUISED BABY snt. 7 To the Editor of The Journal Referring to an article in the Telegram of last saiuraay. ana quot ing the same verbatim : "Ignorance of the way in which to handle a baby and n.lrrhhn. u.-f m . n " pte. Now. nicuuiiug jicinuui - , - - Is "ignorance," sorcailed, an excuse for fracturing a baDys no or closing us mouth forcibly, leaving black and blue i.-oiitncr. nn the wee face? Also, the I administration of spankings that could j be heard across the corridor was part oi .v. .Ti-.iu!i The wife told the land lady that the little hands were tied down to tire the baby orr to sleep. Would it be considered an "interfer fnr a man to rush to the aid of another should that other meet with an assault of like nature? A man wouia oe sent to the hospital Immediately, and the, "calisthenic" one who assaulted would hardly be chosen to do the nursing. Those "mfUdle-aged women" are good mothers, and they never resorted to "calisthenics" of like nature. Also, said women left their business and went be fore the court, not because they enjoyed ho doing but because they were told "if they shielded a wrong they were party to it." Therefore they went, though one had been spoken harshly to by the "calisthenic" father, Kacker. when he suspected her of putting in a report, when the baby was only two weeks old, to the Oregan Humane so ciety. Toward the close of the Telegram's article -It is stated : "A happy couple departed from the court room together with their baby." Was the morsel of humanity in their charge, and still in a cast, so happy? Could It talk It would be interesting to note what it would say. The state is for capital punishment, going according to the Old Testament : "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Then why not be consistent and say "A Tib for a rib," eh? But, Baby cannot hold his own. It is not permitted the inviolable right of exercising Its lungs, for, according to evidence, the cries are smothered in a blanket. Even the mother sent a note to Cynthia Grey in which she asked advice about leaving the cruel father and husband. Witness. Olden Oregon General Harney, a Noted Indian Fight er and Settlers' Friend. In'September, 1858, the military depart ment of the Pacific was divided by an order of the secretary of war into the de partments' of California and Oregon. Genera W. S. Harney was put in charge of the department of Oregon, with head quarters at Vancouver. The appoint ment of Harney was a popular one be cause of his reputation as an Indian fighter. It was hoped through him to end the Indian wars, which were handi capping the development of tha territory. Two days after he took command at Vancouver. Harney issued an order open ing the Walla Walla valley, which had been closed to settlement since 1S55. This opening of the upper Columbia region to settlement made Harney a till more pop ular. Curious Bits of Information' for the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places A new race of pigmies baa been dis covered by the British ornithologists' expedition along the upper course of the Mimlki river. In New Guinea. The pig mies, says the Philadelphia Record, lived at an elevation of about 2000 feet. They averaged 4 feet 3 inches In height, the tallest individuals attaining about 4 feet f inches. They were very wild, and not much, appears to have been learned con cerning their ways of life. They are be lieved to belong to the Negrito race. The discovery was made in. the Dutch, or western, part of tiie Island. A pigmy tribe was already- known In German, or Eastern, New Guinea, and the two are assumed to be racially allied. MAUD MULLER'S SLOGAN OUTDONE Proa tb Manila Bulletin "The saddest words of tongup or pen are- these: Will things come down ausaln'r HIM OFF ; THE FRONT PORCH Copyright. 1050. hi Th COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Kvery genius needs a manager, and It is seldom that one finds a wife who is fitted for the job. Woman has emancipated herself from nearly everything except the gauxy four inch square handkerchief. . One trouble with a lot of the boys wno go through college is that they think an education is something that will make it unnecessary to work. . " . .!- Charles Kingsley. 1 you happen to re member him, said : "Alen must .-work and women must weep." Charles lived a good many years ago. when men worked away sometimes for a week or two at ar stretch before voting for an other walkout. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Dr. Haven Mtcvlf in -charge. of the office of forest paxhology of the United States department tof agrtcuitare J; at Washington, D. C will arrive in Port land Tuesday to confer with - Dr. John Boyce - of the forest pathology . office here. Dr. Metcalf is on an Inspection tour of all . the Western offices. He will spend several days here and will take a field trip with Boyce through the Columbia national forest. . M. A. Graham of San Diego. Cal., ar rived Sunday on an automobile trip over the Pacific highway and is regis tered with Mrs. Graham at the Portland hotel. Graham is' a member of the San Diego harbor commission, which Is spending several million dollars on a new jetty, docks and other improve ments. He, Is interested In various lumber manufacturing enterprises In Oregon and will remain here this week, looking after his properties. A. Helms, official representative of the forest service of New South Wales, has arrived at the forest service offices . In Portland to ascertain whethec any of our native specleB of forest trees are OBSERVATIONS 'AND IMPRESSIONS ' OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred (Here i one of thoj.e t.ntaliin- Morlea Mr. I.M-kiey lorn tn tell atone of early Portland Ott raaka yount men WLkh they had been bom a couple of dreades earlier and make old men wih they had been born with coupl more ounce of reiuc J William Beck used to own a farm on the East Side between Mount Tabor and what la now Sunnyslde. In 1875 he and Joseph.' Buchtel. a pioneer photographer and baseball player of Portland, decided the time had come to have a bridge across the Willamette between Portland and the farming coun try east of the river,- They drafted a petition to the county court, asking that a free bridge be built. Although the petition was numerously signed, the court decided that as there was no county road in the city limits of Tort land on the west side of the river. :it would involve the purchase of private land on which the west approach pf the bridge snould rest, and they did r-ot feel this expense waa justified. For the next 15 years every attempt to build a bridge . between Portland and East Portland was defeated by the owners Of steamboat lines, the ferry owners and real estate interest. J At Tillamopk recently ! met George Elliott, who was born on the Clackamas river not far from Oregon City in 1847, and who in the late '60s and early '70s worked on the old Stark street ferry, j "Jim Stephens owned the ferry In those days." he said. "Ha was one f the finest men I ever worked for." f - Stephens, it may be explained. lnU4G bought of A. 1 Lovejoy the claim on which East Portland stands. Lovejoy was administrator of the' estate of Over ton, the former owner. J. W. Kesmlth had planned to buy it. but did not bid against Stephens when he learned that Stephens was going to make his home op the claim and operate a canoe ferry across the river. Stephens, who was a cooper, waa SS years old when ho came to Oregon, In 1844. Overton, the owner of the half -section of land on the east bank of the Willamette opposite Port land, offered it to Stephens for $200. Not being able to get that figure or It he left for Texas- and abandoned the claim. Word came of the death of Overton, so J. W. Nemith. probate judge, ordered th Halm sold, and Stephens was able to buy it for much less than iSOO. In the lata '40s Stephens, or "Unci Jimmy," as most oldtlmera rre Ilibll hing Co. (The New York world) NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS Kvery enterprising farmer should at tend the county fair. If not enterpris ing he should be there all the time that he may absorb enterprise and progress. Oregon City Banner-Courier. It cbts you a cent a day to maintain the rats of the country. Besides, they start a plague epidemic every now and then. Here's a new slogan to use In the campaign against them : "Bat the Rat." Bend Bulletin. Two separators tipped over a few days ago in the Touchet hUls. Some places up there remind one of the late Bill Nye's North Carolina farm. whe"re he could look up the chimney and see the cows come home. Weston Leader. suitable for Introduction, into New South Wsles, where the chief native tree is the eucalyptos and( where there are no conifers whatsoever. Helms has been In California pome time and will spend two or; three weeks In Oregon. He is staying at the Multnomah. C. 3. Millis of San Francisco, head of the pass bureau of the Southern Pacific company. Is spending a brief vacation period here. Mlllia wis formerly gen eral manager of the. Coo Bay line of the Southern Pacific and just prior to the war was assistant to President Sproule of the Southern Pacific com pany. ' i M. L. Boyd, publisher of the Polk County Itemiser at Dallas, was one of several out-of-town newspaper men who were In Portland Monday to hear Gov. ernor James M. "Cox. Boyd does not openly declare' that Cox will carry Polk county, where, as the governor might say, "the forces of reaction are firmly Intrenched," but he will say that Cox will make a great awath through the ripe field of Republican votes. Lockley called him, operated a canoe as a ferry. This was followed by a skiff and later by a flatboat. The old Barlow trail across the Cascades came through East Portland, through the claim of Etlennt Lucler. the first settler. on the site of East Portland, whose cabin was near what is now the corner of East Mort rison street and Union avenue. He cut a trail through the woods from his cabin down to what Is now the east approach of the Morrison bridge. When 8tephens began to operate his canoe ferry hfs ferry rights were Jumped by a man who tried unsuccessfully 'to stand him Off with a shotgun. With the increase of settlement. Stephens put In a ferry at Stark street, operated by a treadmill whose motive power was . a span of mules. Eventually the mules were supers Beded by a steam engine. "-' "I worked for Stephens seven years and seven months," said Mr. Kliiott. "and if I had taken his advice I wouldn't be working at odd Jobs today. He was always preaching thrift and saving. He would hold my wages for me till I had $50 or $100, and then get me to take property on the East Side tor It. -They never sold lots In those days. The sold blocks. I got a block m either side of Dr. Lorlot'a place on Hawthorne v avenue. He bought them from me later at an advance in price. Stephens got roe to take a block of land near Tom Fitch's livery strfble at ISO. It was covered with big stumps. A fine Old Irishman, a shoemaker, BUI Daley by . name, wanted It. so I sold It to him for $150 50 in cash and all the time he wanted to pay the bal ance. Stephens said, 'George, my boy. all this land will be built on some day ; hang on to It. It will make you more money than wages. Portland will be a city of 20,000 people some day, and these blocks of ours will be cut up Into lots and bring, more than the whole block. i worth now.' He was- right. Daley sold a lot at a time from the block I sold him, and when his widow was old she got $14,000 for the last couple of lots. This block Is in tha. heart of the East Side business district, j "Finally Knott Bros, bought the Stark street ferry. Some years later ' the Willamette Iron Bridge company put the ferries out of business y connecting Portland and East Portland , with the Morrison street bridge. -1 The Oregon Country Kortbwtit Haptwnlnci in Brief Korl f pt th ,! , . .Bus. JtMdatV , . t V i QRKOOX NOTES n . j Congressman liawler la visiting' every section of tha Hrst Congressional dis trict. Major Walter C. Baker, coant artillery. has been ordered to Fort Stevens for assignment to duty. A considerable amount of hay m inMng damaged by rain In Hood fmer valley but orciiarfc are being benetiuri. District Attorney PiaseckV of "Polk county - has gone deer hunting in the Cascade mountains above Oak Hlilf. Owing to a shortage of cam ilio I-'mIIs City Lumber t Lagging roinin mill has shut down for an indef im;r ihtioiI. Congressman McArthur wns the leak er at the regular weekly luncheon f the Salem Commercial ciub. 11 in ujihlrrss was non-political. The work of grading tbePaci,i htch way between Myrtle Creek and t'liityvn vttle In Douglas county will begi in a few days and continue during the wlmrr. Invitations have been extended hy the Linn county fair board to Governor Olcott and Senator ChambrrlHlti and McXary to visit the fair and , make addresses. The congestion of freight on the Mrs- f:on lines of the Routheru Pa-'ifn- in he ng gradually cleared up by the bringing In of empty freight cars, a-i--rdlng to the claim of the railroad t fTu inn. The first airplane to land on the new Kedmqnd landing field Whs a m.-hme driven by Ptlot T. W. Baker. The iiih chlne belongs to the La Uramle Aircraft company. Radical changes In the prenont .into, mobile tax laws will be brought before the next legislature, Hccordini; m tc,iert K. Wagner of the Oregon Automti . Dealers' association. Superintendent Hall announcer the opening ftl the Chemswa Indian . ho.l Monday. It Is expected that ovfr. soo pupils will be enrolled,' Including. num. ber from Alaska and other diHtant xint Dlstrart Xo. J. Loyal Legion of Uoggers and Lumbermen, will hold their animal convention at Salem Tuesday. Tlie d! trict Includes the territory from Kugene to Portland and along the Tilbmook coast. WASHINGTON Students to the numlxr of iS3 regis tered at the Aberdeen high school upon the opening of classes. The Northern Pacific rail han imtd the treasurer of Lewis r-ouniv j,.g.Wo and $700 Interest, back taxes. Furnishings for Central!' nrv Ii:;. -000 Elk temple have been I'urrhurd ai . a cost of approximately lii.tt. Cato Hells. Indian cotiimlwiorifr. is visiting the Fort Simcoe Indian reer -vatlon with officials of the Indian wn- loe. The KMemed valuation of real and personal property in Yakima count v shows a gain of ;o jer tent over that of last year. Construction ha started on the lirr unit of the Sanford Friction Threnhrr company's new factory on Ford's prairie, west of Centralis. State department hedgiiner of the American Legion will be dinned at 5t kane this week by Her.ry A. Wi, de partment adjutant. According to the aseeament toJl jut-t completed. Chelan county hi lnereied Its total valuation from a little over $7,000,000 to 22.0O0.0O. Both the Great Northern and Milwau kee railroads and cement m.-nufacturera have agreed to see that Moqulam K-U sufficient cement for paving. Dewey Howard, leader for the Conatla Lumber company at Carlisle, was drowned when he fell from the top of piles on which he was walking. . Lewis county members of the Farmer Labor prrty will hold a convention t Forest Tuesday to nominate a county ticket for the Novemler election. Taooma's school census how at. in crease of 106 or 7 per cent over lust year. The total enrollment of high anil grammar Kchools as well as kindergar tens is 15,231 pupils. IDAHO A bond Issue of l.".0,(i00 for extending the park system will be asked of the city council of Boise. rr. Francis B. Laney hns been named Frofessor of geology at the University of daho to succeed D. C. Livingston, re signed. A shipment of 160.000 fish to (Irungi' vllle from the Sanilpoint hatchery win distributed throughout the Klk City uml Kooskia regions. The Republican mate central commit-1 tee announces the appointment of Colo nel E. G. Davis to the vice chalinian hlp oVthe committee. Secretary . I'. llendert-hott has an nounced that the b.md ' in -u,1 Industrial school at .M Anthony will be brought to the state fair thist fall. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: To raise watermelons in a cornfield 1 a Law, 4b munV .iv In the neich- ! borhood is a scler.ee and a gamble. Old Turkey creek In the d ru ... . . . .- - - Ozarks about the time Confederate money went down to 1 cent on the $1000 cussed a whole passel "f that had swiped most all the melons he had. We told him to produce more melons next year and not holler and cavort around in the woods so much waatln' his strength huntln' fer us when he could of been hoeln and lnyln' by hi crap. But Old Jed didn't see It that away. He planted hia melons the next year close up by the houae and got htm a brlndle bulldog that knouert tl liaod that fed Mm ana noomiy - Oregon Beats the W orld in Moles, Which Have Cood as Well as Had Points: A Sunday afternoon walk on a garden path -may I" productive of unexpected Information.- The gur dener leaned over a bit of disturbed earth He drew therefrom u metal Contrivance. To it hung the Uinp and kfplettn body of a mole. "Now." he Mild. "I have just de stroyed tho destroyer of many dol lars' worth of flowri-H and vegeta bles Von would !' surirised to know how much food and how much l.eauty one industrious mole can grt away with. , 6 But the mole will pay me.' I will take the head, along with those of other? that I catch, to ths county clerk and he will pay me a bounty of 10 rtnta for each of them, J "My wife w.ll take the skin and from it reproduce th beauty i: the mole destroyed In Mapping the life of my flower. Just as the body Is now. the furrier will pay 40 cents for it. -but my wife multiplies Its value. She dries the skin, fur In ward, on a board. Then site soaks It for a day to several days in a volution composed of half an oUnce of sulphuric acid o one quart of water. The fur. Is not at all Injured. The skin Is made permanently soft." The wife took up the story, 4 -"Here." said she, "is a hat made from moleskins that -would have cost me probably $30. Here I a neckpiece that would have sold In the store of one of Portland's fur riers for $0, They coat us noth ing but' the alight bother of prepar ing the- furs. "And every mole we caught added just that much to the profits of our. gardening. "You might be -ant-prised to know that the mole of Oregon -Is the largeft and haa the finest fur among all the- moles known." And there you go again! The Ore gon soil and climate produce not only the finest ' flowerr, vegetables and fruits. "but also the finest moles ! What nut? . f .