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Newspaper Page TextAS , WDI PEXDKKT 1 TCEWRrAFKK C . JACK BOW ; ... . . . . ii-vP""1?! (Be nlm, be eoarldettt. be tWrfal d do to etbere aev yon would have theaa do "to I rvbllihwl erery wiH dar snd Sunday mornim. I The Journal BaUdlnf. "roadway and -1 hUl alreet, Portland. Onto. Inl.fad at tho pootofftM at Port la nd. Ocacon, , ; lor traaaatiaetes throuh tb mail aa ewo4 t ' Class sutter. - TELETHON! Main 17. Aatosaatla SSO-tl. . , U aeserteaaats reached theaa number. rPKBtOM AfiYKRTlAIMO BRPBESENTATIVI Benjamin A gestae Co., JniMWtr Balldln -SSS rutk aeeme. Naw Teeks 00 Mellere - BtiikHn, Ctatcafo. -. ' TUB OMCttON JOURNAL reaereea the risht to ...rejeet aarertwne: copy wnicn n oeeme w Uoabka. It alao wUl not print any oopt - that in any way Manistee raiding sutter or that cannot readily be recosnlxed aa dfe- tieine. . . . ; Bi'BscRirrio rates By. Carrier, City and Country ftaa ak -. I .1 (One month t .65 DAX I BCXDAT On Mk . ... $ .100b. weak I .03 Om aaontb ... . I BY MAIL, ill. HATB PAYABLE IN ADVANCE IMIl.l ami nt.iAi Om year .... . 1 00 Six aaaatha 4.25 DATf.T (Without Bundar) On yatr .... .100 Six month 8.2 Thraa moatha. . 1.79 One month.... .00 Thrta months. ...I2 2 Ona asonth 7B Sl'.VDAT (Onlrl On year 88.00 lltf month , .... I TS Three month... 1.00 WKKKI.T I WEEKt.T AND . v txtA.. RUN DAT Ona rear ...... 83.00 On year 88.80 Bte month M I a MfM annl nnlv in the Weat. ' ' Rataa to Kaetem pwlnte fwraUhed on pplk-a-Mnn. Mat reralttaneee by Money Order, fcipreae Order or Draft' If yoor poatotftee I not Ihaff Order Off Ira. 1 or 3 -east aUmni will be accepted. Make all remlttaneee payable to The Jeoniat, Pan land, ureson. For tho eaato that Itekn aaaiatance. Aexinet the wrong that needa reaiatance, For the future In the dlaUnc Aa& the cood that wa can do. 4ore Unnaeua Banxa. IT SAVED US PROGRESSIVE government has - brought nothing but good to America. JThe federal reserve system has saved us from panics. Our last panic was in 1907. We had bank holidays in' that panic. They were called bank' holidays because the banks for sev eral weeks were not required to pay backUo. depositors, the money those depositors had put in the banks for safe keeping. It was a most extra ordinary spectacle, but under our then financial banking system it had to be' done to save the banks from financial crash that would have brought ruin to many. , Other panics were tlue long before now. t Nothing but the federal re serve system saved us from a finan cial crash early in the war. This is the statement many times made by i some of the best known economists in America. - The new banking system not only averted a panic, but .it carried the country safely through Uie war under the most" stupendous financial opera tions known to history. It kept finan cial confidence alive in the dark est hours of the war. Therewas general faith in our financial opera tions because everybody knew that the control of money and credit was in the hands of the government In- stead of in the control of a few big bankers on Manhattan Island. Ontrol of so vital a thing as the credits and money of America should not be in private hands, as it was for two generations before the federal reserve system was adopted. It ., should only be in the' hands, of trusted agents of the people the government itself. Those great New York bank ers may be perfectly honest'but they . hive their own viewpoint. They want to make all the money they can. ' And to hold the power to exercise control over the credits and money of the country is to have power over Uie financial - destiny of tho nation and ' the ' financial status : of almost everything in the nation. Holding that power a small group of great bankers was able to dictate . interest rates and make money cheap or dear. Controlling huge resources, they could interfere with the natural course of markets and of distribu tion, could manipulate bank reserves, could establish confidence or destroy it,, eould encourage new enterprises Or blast them, and by vicious assaults on credit could create panic among ,'. the people and menace the govern , meat Itself. Good times or hard times, prosperity otruin, inflation or . contraction for many people, all were . ohce in the .hollow of a very few hands before the federal reserve sys ' tern was adopted.' We know what our blstoryvvvM; know it in the bank failures, the bankruptcies; know it in the - blasted fortunes, ruined hopes beggared thousands and armies of un ' employed that., periodically overtook our country; .z -,' , i i WW ixcrc system is one example of . progresslvft government Its ' adoption was . bitterly fought ;Thcre was prediction by great bank ers that It would harm business" and utuill, UIU itvuiiu. .. UCJ BCUt UU Propaganda against it;. They: had newspapers that fought it They ap peared., before eongressjotiali commit tees , and . argued :- against it: They sneered at it is av'form of SocJallyn, I' which to always a favorite term with i reactionaries. r;; . V But; the . federal reserve system has been to effect since September, 1914. It was almost as If providential that it wsjs ready for use immediately after the opening of the world war. Without a .tremor It withstood the terrible strain of financial upheavals incident to the conflict. Instead of a weakness, it was the financial strength of the nation through the darkest hours of the struggle. Under the system there were but four national bank failures in 1915, but three lo 1916, but two in 1917, but one In 1918," and none in 1919. Since 1919, "the total bank deposits of America have increased 11,701,129, 000. More than 20,000.000 people have bank accounts. There never wfs such a period of prosperity In AmerV lea. Progressive government in the case of the federal reserve system dis tributed the control of credits and money throughout 12 federal reserve districts instead of permitting it to rcmaU in a few hands on Manhat tan Island. But it is well known that some of the big interests intend to modify it. They want ' a secretary of the treasury whom they can con trol. They want bankers only on the federal reserve board. They want through that means to secure control of the reserve system, and thereby return to their former power to control money and credit They are, with their money and all their In fluence, supporting Senator Harding, who is a bitter opponent of progres sive government. The tales of bloodshed and vio lence in the primaries In, Chicago yesterday sound like the old days in Oregon. But, under progressive government., Oregon now has a cor rupt practices law, and the polling places on election day are aa quiet as a Quaker Sunday. NOT FOR THE "WIVES A COMMUNAL ownership of prop erty plan practiced by a Ne braska family was wrecked recently through the acquisition oy sons of four city wives. The father is a Socialist. He has eight sons and four daughters. He is the owner of a farm. When the eldest son became of age, in 1900, the father purchased an ad Joining property. The performance has been repeated every time a son has reached his twenty-first birth day. All the land was owned in common and tilled by all the children All supplies, all machinery, all tools were purchased out ' of the common fund. When a house was erected on each new farm and furnished and the place was populated with cows, pigs and chickens, the bill was paid out of the family finances. From iVe fund came the means for education of all the children. A property worth 1230,000 was amassed by the family enterprise. But it has all gone by the board. The boys began frequenting the cities. Finally four returned with wives. And the wives didn't like the communal undertaking. As a result the prop erty is to be divided equally among all members of the family. Even though attempted in an in tensely practical way the little experi ment in communism failed. It will always be so. The remarkable address of Mr. Sapiro before the Portland Ad club yesterday followed the exact lines of a aeries of 21 editorials printed in The Journal several months ago under the caption, "When Leaguers Come." The stormy applause that greeted the speaker's presentation of the case is evidence that those who have been brought face to face tith the subject know that he ad vocates a sound plan. HOME PORT USE rT,HE port' of Portland possesses a 1 traffic department. Its duty is to aid in. building the commerce of the port In this connection the traffic department could render a direct and Substantial service y the port of roruana commission. Let it canvass the industries of North Portland. Let it learn from each- to "just what extent the con sumption of raw materials, the manu facture Of finished articles, the im portation of commodities, the load ing of ships, the employment of labor, and the payroll, would be increased through the improvement of ' the North Portland harbor. If the traffic department or tne port of Portland finds that the $125,- 000.000 that represents the annual business transactions of the industries now located in the North Portland district would not be increased by making use of improved harbor fa cilities, the traffic department's report ought to silence all the advocates of North Portland harbor Improvement If the traffic department finds that business would be increased by Im proving Pvorth Portland harbor, if more lumber would be exported, if more ready-built houses would be constructed, if a wider market would bi found for the meats produced in the district tributary to Portland, if I ui ore snips mm more ireignt i trains would be attracted to Portland, more people .employed and larger payrolls established," then the. port of Portland commfsraiOiv jsvill have but one clear course." . ' .' . . . It wilt- proceed without 'Camouflage, without loss, of'tlme and with'-lde-' quale appropriation, to deepen North Portland harbor and keep the harbor deep.;Tr"'V y.-ii ,.;; It is believed that the port of port : tand fommissiod ' il) learn : from a canvass by its traffic department that more business can be. won by deepen ing North: Portland harbor than; by mere iteration of a far cry to "use our" port. Let home use of Port land's port .be the first convincing evidence presented before outside in terests that they, too, would find it to their advantage to use - this port for water and rail interchange. When the port of Portland com mission demonstrates its capacity to meet its responsibilities in , channel improvement so that ships-may reach industries without fear of shoals, the public will praise the commission and perhaps feci more like delegating to it broader duties. I It is asserted that a rat campaign inaugurated on June 6 in Texas has resulted inline extinction of 100,000 of . the rodents. JACK'S SOB SQUAD TOMORROW, Jack Day's sob sing ers warble. Their souls will be sad and their voices tremolo. Amid showers of crocodile tears they are to chant out their sorrows over the' devilment they say the League of Nations would do to 4he American constitution. Of course they know that no-treaty can change one syllable of the con stitution. They know what trouble the womerr have just had in changing the suffrage provisions in the con stitution. They know that the change could not be made until the thirty sixth state legislature had ratified the nineteenth amendment, and know the difficulty met with in securing ratification by Tennessee. As to the constitution, they know, as the Oregonian says. "NEITHER WILSON, NOR CONGRESS, NOR BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER, CAN, THROUGH ANY LEAGUE OR TREATY, OR IN. ANY WAY CHANGE A SINGLE SYLLABLE OF THAT SU PREME DOCUMENT WlTHtfUT THE CONSENT OF THREE-FOURTHS OP THE STATES." But just the same, Jack's little sob chorus is goinc out to sing its ditty. Without batting an eye and with full knowledge of the deception, they are I going to attempt to deceive their neighbors. Not one of them, in making his phony and hypocritical defense of the constitution, will dare read to hjs audience Article V of the constitution, which declares that ini tiation by two thirds of the state legislatures' or by a two thirds vote of both houses of congress, and rati fication by two thirds of the states must be had in order to change even one word of the American constitu tion. Not' one of the speakers dares read that section, because it would then and there convict him of wilful and deliberate deception of his own friends and acquaintances. AHEAD OF THE GAME JEPOSlTS in the national banks of J' the United States have increased oy 11.701,129,000 since 1919. The total last year amounted to (13,533, 908,000. More than 20,000,000 people have bank accounts, or one in every five In the United States. The number of depositors has been increased in the last 12 months. The increase in depositors and ac counts is full of pronnisgfor America and Americans. It if sicn that the future of thft.fuutffry and the future of individuals is to be undenvritten. It is not to be mortgaged. The in crease is sign that a foundation is being laid in these United States for a substantial and happy population. There is no Bolshevism in a nation of bank accounts. There is no an archism, no revolution. Unrest is not prevalent when a tidy sum is in the vaults and growing. It is encouraging that the people of this country have adopted the habit of thrift during the time of easy money. It is testimony as to the fore sight of the rank and file of the peo ple that they save when the tide Is high to stay out of debt when it recedes. A bank account is one of the best friends of the Individual In times of stress. It avoids debt, with its inter est, interest, interest, merciless in terest. And the increased number of bank accounts and huge .advance in total deposits tell the story of America in the greatest period of prosperity in its history. In a battftto the death at Pough keepsie, Nw York, a kitten, half grown, fought a blacksnake five feet long which, was .declared to have been one of the largest ever seen in the region. When the fight began, the reptile colled and attempted to entangle the kitten in its folds. But the cat was wary and jumped about with open mouth and outstretched claws and kept slashing at his an tagonist. The battle lasted 20 mio- utes, the snake bleeding profusely from long, deep scratches inflicted by . the kitten's claws. It ended when the cat sank its claws into the reptile's head and pierced Its brain Through Instinct did the kitten know that the brain was the vital spot? BISHOP LOCKE THERE is a discussion going on in the religious press and among rnjMsiers as to wnat accounts for the power or uiaries Edward Locke, the recently elected Bishop i the Meth odist Episcopal church in the Philip bine Islands, it'-" - -, .. r Portland, from a layman's point of view, might add a Jittle convincing testimony. Bishop Locke was ; once pastor of the First Methodist church of this city. His congregation learned --anr. many, others learned that his faith is as real to him "as" he en deavors to make It seem real to others. He has as Utile Question in his own heart of the truth of the doctrines he pretches as he voices in his preaching.' He gains chore good and more happiness from helping his fel low men than from being helped by them.' ; His genuine" love of humanity is reinforced and warmed with sym pathy for misfortune and affliction. Bishop Locke has been honored in and by his denomination, but honor came seeking him. He is to be a visitor in Portland next Sunday and Monday on his way to Manila, ins power will be felt there lis' it has been felt in Portland, San Francisco, Buffalo and Los Angeles. LAWS MAY BAN MONEY-DIGGING By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal. Washington, Sept 1. Republican de nials of efforts to raise a monster cam paign fund to ''put Harding over" have been so well shot to pieces by the senats investigating committee that interest is turning from the proof of the charges to the effect What, is the country going to do about it? Republican leaders here admit that the showing is damag ing, and may be a strong element in the result. It Is felt that millions of voters are Inclined to. condemn a money orgy with their votes, and the effect is es pecially feared among the new women voters, who are not likely to be indiffer ent to it. It is not illegal to raise a campaign fund that touches the sky. but. Chairman Hays and his associates have agreed that a fund exceeding four or five millions is wrong and morally In defensible. Since It has developed that they have actually been trying to raise many, times that sum they have been placed on the defensive tin a way that is disheartening to the Harding fortunes. It seems certain that progressive law makers will go to work promptly in the next session to frame a law to stop what they regard as. a naUonal disgrace. If Cox Is 'elected, there Is no doubt that the administration will be back of the movement1 to purify future elections, so far as it can be done by law. If Hard ing is elected the effort to pass such a law will go forward just the same, but whether it will have presidential support cannot with certainty be stated. Hard ing is the beneficiary of what the merry money-diggers do. and he cannot con demn them without .condemning his own political flesh and blood. Among the laws suggested is one that all private campaign contributions be prohibited. and an appropriation be made from the treasury,' to be distributed to the -parties In proportion to the votes cast in the last preceding election. There Is a con stitutional question involved in this, as to whether this is a public purpose for which public money could be used. An other suggestion is for strict government regulation, with a government auditing board and full publicity. This would be coupled with a limitation on - the total amount, limitations upon the sum that could be . spent In Any one state or dis trict, and limitations .upon .the. amount that any one person 'could contribute. The Republican presidential primary contest showed that there is also need of a curb that will apply in the primary elections, and this presents another con stitutional question. The supreme court has held that electors for president and vice president are state officials, and the jurisdiction of federal law over their election is -questioned. Some believe a constitutional amendment is needed to make effectual reform, and if that be true. It will be up to congress to sub mit. an amendment to the states. That will bring to the front another question as to whether it will not be best to sub stitute a plan of direct election of presi dent and vice president and do away with the ornamental electors, whose original functions have long ago been discarded. The election of Cox, it is felt, wjlt contribute to the early enact ment of the needed legislaUon. but with a reactionary president the matter will be in doubt Letters From the People I Communication! sent to The Journal for publication in this department ahould be written ob oaly one aide of the paper, ahoald not exceed 300 words in length and mu-.t be Mined bj tne wnur, whom man addreai in lull must iccom pany tba contribution. ) HARDING AND ROLL CALLS CherryvUle, Sept 14. To the Editor of The Journal I desire to call atten tion to the absurd dodging of roll calls by Senator Harding in .the United States senate, as the record shows be dodged over 1000 out of some 1500. At one time . I .was . connected with the interior department, and while in the gallery of the senate heard roll calls, and when the name of Allen G. Thurman, 'the noblest Roman of them all." was called he would rise and say, if Judge Kd- munds was not In the chamber, "I am paired with my honored friend from Vermont, and if he were present he would vote aye and I should vote no." And it was vice versa if J ade Edmunds name was called and Thurman was ab sent. Edmunds, would, rise and say, "I am paired with my honored friend from Ohio. If he were present he would vote no. I should vote aye." One was a Republican and the other a Democrat. When Tom Reed was speaker he ruled that if any member was present and not voting he would be counted for a quorum, and to prevent any member from dodging roU calls, he ordered the serjeant-at-arms and his assistants to close the doors to prevent doda-lng. One memoer. "uuck KUgore of Texas, af tempjed to batter down a door, but was overpowered. If these rules had been followed Harding would have been put on record. , Another thoinrht occurs, and that la that the American people have never turned down at the polls aa administra tion that concluded a successful war. and they will not do this next Novem ber. ' J. P. AverilL WHERE TAXATIOX STRIKES Vancouw. Waslu Sept." 12. To the Editor of The Journal The Wall Street Vanderlip's assertion was Gsd's honest truth. He stated that ignorance of the laws of economics was the curse of the United. States. Aneat taxation, a cor respondent, through your issue of to day asks, "Why should . tba tax burden of the borne owner be increased while the franchise owning corporations that one rata on subUe or leased ' ways are . en- rtireJy- relieved T" , Mow this contributor, If Hot overly conservative is at least un sophisticated, in degree. Nothing other than wealth Is subject to taxation, and all .wealth comes; from the earth,, there forav taxes -levied,. no matter. how, find their way back to the original source of wealth the soLL- Mines, forests, fields and rivers are the sole sources of wealth and. all .taxation falls on tbes.. Hence all manner of; taxation Is and must be Tslaaie tax.. , Taxing, a- Vanderbilt or a franchise owning -corporation is a Joks which economists of the eighteenth cen turr exploded, .We . taxed distuierie. breweries, liquor stores and saloons, and taxed them to a finish. Did our nation wax .and grow, fat through such action? By-whom were taae taxes- paid, and : ROUND AND ROUND . - f -i iiittmf ' i iir- from whence derived? The veriest tyro in scientific economics realises fully that non-producers of any class cannot be taxed, any more than could the liquor interests. Jugglers, speculators, fakirs and middlemen constitute the eternal tax burden under which we are strug gling, and until we clear our craniums of conservatism and cobwebs and herd these .parasites out to pasture along with the erstwhile booze venders we shall be burdened with taxation, which we must "grin and bear." . I am not a single-taxer. but rattier a utilitarian of the J. 8Mill school. J. Harold. WOOD FOR FUEL . Portland Sent. 10. To the Editor of The Journal Much has been written about fuels' and their several values coal, briquettes and coke but nothing about charcoal, which is the best and cleanest for stoves and fireplaces, and. like briquettes, it is clean in burning, and. moreover, odorless. That, is Is not used more seems a wonder, and there is' no ne cessity for a scarcity tf tne great iir stumps and roots were convened into charcoal for the market. The Japanese will take land to clear in their own coun try and make money out of the stumps and roots by burning tnem into cnarcoai for their fuel. If they can-be used in making wood alcohol, why not r.'-rf char coal as wn? The-only use to wmcn i have e. seen charcoal put in America is by blacksmiths. If they use it for heat ing metals, why is it not used for fuel? And why won't It- make briquettes as well? The Japanese make the stump and roots into fuel without digging out the stump. Osborne Yates. THE FULL RENTAL VALUE Albany. Or.. Sept 19 To the Editor of The Journal J. R. Hermann writes as though the single tax is infallible. I thought I was a single taxer until I read the single tax measure. The first part of the measure I like, but the last part I think is wrong. The measure doesn't say what the full rental value is. but It must mean the current local rate St or $5 per acre or more, according to locality. If that is not high' enough to confiscate the land, what is? I would like for Mr. Hermann to explain this part of the measure. We are aware of the fact that the present tax system favors speculators In land. Douglas Hilderbrand. QUESTIONS MR. M'ARTHUR Portland. Sept. 12.To the Editor of The Journal Candidate McArthur tells the people he Is going to ask Candidate Cox some questions. The same privilege is mine to ask Candidate McArthur: Should you be reelected to congress and a wet measure came up, will you vote, as you have voted wet In the past, or will you vote dry next time? We-know where Dr. Esther Lovejoy stands. Where do you stand? Ernest Barton. Curious Bits, of Information for th'h Curious Gleaned Krom Curious Places Okolehao. the drink manufactured in violation of the dry laws of Hawaii, con tains poisonous elements and is very harmful, according to M. B. Barlos. ana lyst of the Honolulu board of health, the first to analyse the drink. Three sam ples of the stuff, made at first in a sine sUll. then a copper -still, and finally in a still made of the combination of the two metals, showed acidity amounting to .It oer cent. New whiskey used to contain .029 per cent. What "moon shine" is to Kentucky, "rawgut" to the loerver and "40-rod" t- Missouri, okole hao is to Hawaii. It Is pronounced "o-kol-lay-how." Dr. Barlos says that it contains substances that render it harsh and unfit for use. Okoleoao goes through but one process, and is sold immediately upon manufacture. It cbmea rnidrr the classification of a distilled beverage. A fermented Infusion is dis tilled and the result is a combination of ordinary alcohol and other high-belling alcohols, such as amy 1, butyl, pro pi. with their esters or fusel ou. Olden Oregon Many Short-Lived Express Companies in' the Early '50s, The first express company operating in Oregon was Todd Co., In 1I5L Gregory Ce. soon followed. Todd Jt Co. sold oat to reweii at wo. tn isz. During this same year Dugan Co.. a branch of Adams & Co. began running in, Oregon; also TVauH's Oregon and Shasta express and McClana ft Ca'l Oreron and Shasta express. Adams Co. began business in the latter part Of mm M IONS smlmm 1SS2, but in tbs early -part or the fol lowing year retired with the other com' panies and left the field to Wells-Fargo Co. : ...,v -. . .;. Coprnsnt, 1920. bjr t u COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Of course It's just a little early to men tion it yet, but Christmas ia coming. Our only hope is that wheat drops so low that the little old 6-cent loaf of bread will come back. ' e Better have your antomoblle driver's license in a handy pocket. You may have to show it tome day soon. The news' dispatches tell of a 400 pound safe being carried awav hv h"r glars. Which would seem to indicate that some- burglars anyway- are not too proud to work. e e Carpentier, the French pugilist, has returned to America. " Ostensibly he is looking for a fight, but it seems more reasonable to believe that It's more American dollars he wants and he won't 'fight for them unless he has to. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL ? Random Observations About Town Dr. A. M. Webster, former president of the East Side Business Men's club and well-known physician, left Wednesday for an extended eastern tour In which he will take post-graduate surgical work at the Mayo sanitarium, Rochester, Minn., and other hospitals. He expects to attend the international convention at Montreal of the American College of Surgeons. He is accompanied by Kirs. Webster. a a a A. E.' Yount has recently, arrived in Portland to become Interstate boys' sec retary for the Y. M. C. A. in Oregon and Idaho. He came here from Great Falls. Mont.. Where he was general sec retary of the Y. M. C. A. Before that he had charge of the boys' work at Au rora, 111. a Miss Alice Verlet. sweet singer who appeared at the White Temple Wednes day night, and who Mas recently caroled throughout Western Oregon, was a guest at the Multnomah while in Portland. Walter O. Gleason of Marshfleld was In town Wednesday. He held conference with John M. Scott, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, and Wil liam McMurray, general passenger agent of the O-W. R. N.. relative to special rates to the Knights of Pythias stats convention to be. held at Marshfield. October IX. Arrangements were com pleted fur a special train to carry 300 OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred t The melting pot' prodwt are chaara aa thrise by Mr. Lwkk-7 today. lie cites two extraordinary inaUneee of race fusion, incidental to wturh te the citation of a family tree that makes race suicide loof like the aorrieat aort of a kser J Across the aisle from me, on the train. (6 a woman with two little children. The little folks have come over to visit me and watch me hammering out an article on my Corona, we nave just passed Timber, on our way to the Tilla mook Beach- district. The mother . of the children has been telling me about the little fotks. Haiel Is Just past 3, and Oordaline. the other little girl, is just past 2. I have oeen tewing ner oi Robbls Murray, a Kttle chap 5 years old. at Unity, grandson of J. H. Murray. In whose veins flows the mingled blood of many races. His grandfather, J, H. Murray, was born In Canada. His grandfather's father was born in Scot land and his mother In Vermont but her people bailed from France. Robbie's grandmother, Mrs. J. H. Murray, was born in Australia and her father was bom In England and her mother ,ln Ireland? Robbie's father was born in Oregon and his mother's mother was born in Germany. To quote J. H. Mur ray, about the only pure-blooded Amer icans ara the American Indiana a "My little daughters also are products of the melting pot." said tth woman across the aisle. "My husband. Alfred Acheson, was born In Salem. His father, Le W. Acheson. Is Scotch-Irish and bis mother is German. I was born is this country, but my parents came from Vorwar. 'My husband Is an electrician: We' live at Mount Scott. My maiden. nam was Enneberg. My father and mother have a ranch near Timber. My father's mother and father are .. both alive, and both over 80 years id. My mother's grandmother, who was, of course, my great-grandmother , and my littls girls' great-great- gra ad mother. . . . aJ1 L. "-fi!Ui;Vftaa rttm PubTt.Mn Ocv (Tba New Tort World) NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS Somebody In Albany Is running a third clans newspaper entered as second class matter in a first class town. Albany Democrat. Through the Vight sort of work by the accommodations bureau and full cooper ation bv the nubile most of the profiteer ing during the Round-Up can be elimi nated. Let's try it. Pendleton East Ore gonian. 1 Tourists camping here over night state that the Aurora camp grounds for autoists afford m-r-? of the conveniences appreciated by tourists than any other camping p'ace from . Tacoma to San Francisco. They appreciate especially the fine water And the toilet facilities, and the location In town. ' In mo t places the grounds.-. If any. are placed In the woods on the outskirts of town. Aurora Observer. ' , Pythlans " from here to the convention. The delegation will leave on the evening of October 10. If one is vitally interested he cannot get too much of Governor Cort oratory. and'T. W. Crawford. La Grande attor ney, took the full measure. Hastening from his Union county stronghold, Craw ford went to Salem to hear the next president speak Monday morning, and came back .to Portland In time to get in on the big meeting here. James M. Kyle, the very large man from Stanfield, did not rush back home after he had deliberated with the execu tive committee of the Oregon Irrigation congress at its meeting here Tuesday. He was about town Wednesday greeting the many friends ha had not seen for nearly two weeks. J. H. reare, chairman of the Repub lican county central committee of Union county, is a Portland visitor. Peare lives at La Grande and has been taking n active part in the organisation of Republican clubs in his jurisdiction. a- P. W. Campbell of Chicago, represent ing the Moody Bible Institute, is at the 1'ortland Hotel. - Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Carter of War renton. were Wednesday guests at the Hotel Portland. Lockley died of pneumonia December 18, last. She took cold while superintending the work on her ranch. She had a beautiful ranch of 600 acres and employed six men. She would have been 106 had she lived one week longer. Her 101th birth day, would have been on Christmas day, but the cold on. her lungs turned to pneumonia and she died a week before her birthday. They called In the doctor a day or so before rhe died. That was the first time she ever had a doctor in 'the more than 105 years of her life. She had IZ children. home neighbor woman -always came when her chil dren were born. She could tell them what to do. She was born In Norway and her name was Martha Slubruten. e I rMy "mother was named Martha, after her. My mother was one of twins. Khe was married when 14 years old. She was one of 22 children, but she had only H. Eleven of us ars still alive fivs boys and six girts. The girls are all tall, ranging from. 5 feet 7 to S feet . The boys also are tall. My brother Ed weighs 265 pounds and stands 6 feet 4 Inches in his stocking feet. He Is very strong. My mother, with her 14 children, bad fewer' than any- of her sisters. On sister had 16 and on 18. but this last slrr had three pajrs of twins. .' "My huband's mothers father and mother, Decatur Col and Mary Col, live at Mount Scott. He Is 84 and she is 85. 'So you See, my littla girls have great-grandparents on both sides of tb family. . Neither of the littl girls has ever been sick. Haul as you sec. Is very . large for her age,, but ah has always been, large. She weighed 15 pounds at birth. Her sister at' bttth weighed only nine and a half pounds. It seems that if our family has any dis tinguishing traits they arc long life, remarkable health and bodily size and vigor." .. . v . The Oregon Country Nortbweet Happenlnca 4n Brief form for the Bua Header. OREOOX NOTES , ,.nKL'mnt of the Kucene high achool. is 898. as compared with 470 laat ; n5nt rI" fc"v already reduced the) iZ iv.ki -. JrSn and Clarke eoun- oob totooWpPoruU.crop frQm -' Henry W. Kramer of Newborn avm e,'V'C.ute1 by lo"" electric wire with Of. fifth and Blaine streets. from Itaker to Portland. Klght (.Hrioads were from Grant county. The remainder wera from Powder river valley. t.Wr$ker" hllv bgun rasing the old Wau-Ouin-iiuIn hotel near Hood llher The ste was recently purchased 1V Si hoicl " tor fn Xi;lulve tourist I Pier of Oak Ridge. Una county, has died rrpma gunshot wound Inflicted by a rifle Hoelrtenialiy discharged by. his 4-year-old The.fnited Slates Spruce Produ.-tlon corporal ion has applied to the public wmice comminylon for rTmlHlon to lity lis railroad trarka over certain streets and roads In Lin. oln vounly. . Contractors who have tho contrCt ror graveling tho John Dv hlshwav eaat of rAmll have established . camus three miles from Kll. It Is expected to complete the work by January 1. A bill will h presetted to the coming legislature providing for the distribution or gasoline and operation of auto Iruoks engaged in !ntrKtate imnmorrr under the Juriudiction of the public s.-rvico com mission. The city council of Cove )wi made a reservation of the apm-e xurroiiinlliiu Tour large trees on the main atrcet fur the purpose of mnklnit It u memorial lo three Cove soldiers who died durlnjr the world war. A tentative alliance has been formed between the Shasta Valley (mention project and the American Legion of Klamath Kails regarding the control of the waters of the upper Klamalh lake. It Is proDooed to.irricat 120 nnn .r. Of land In glHklyou county. California. The following reserve officers have been commisxioned 1 n the regular army ; Henry N. Orln. Independence, captain, cavalry ; Charles W. Latimer. 1'ortland. and O. S. Peabody, Portland, lieuten ants. caValry, and William ! Coney. Medford, second lieutenant, air service. WASHINGTON During the last year the Ynkima Red Cross has collected about :fi,r.00 for service men of the valley. Military police will be detailed to duty at Tacoma shortly, it Is an nounced. In order to better conditions for soldiers on leave. Seattle voters will decide November 2 whether Jitney busses shall bo oper ated in th down-town district In op position to the municipal street railway lines. Steel has been delivered for the new tirldge being built by Iewls county arro the Kkookumchuck river on th Bucoda road two miles north of Cen tralis The total number of dead aa a re sult of the explosion of a gasoline lamp at the home of A. J (lalsell at Gate has reached three. Three otfiers are reported to be In a critical condi tion. Where to obtain labor for the re mainder of the harvest la worrying Pa- louse, country farmers. lurlng the sus pension or threshing during the recent rains all transient laborers left the dis trict. Soft fruit shipments from the Yak ima valley have reachfd their p-ak with 450 cars shipped last week. ToIhI fruit shipments this season total 1S07 carloads, as compared with 0385 lant year. Leroy Fleming, fosrner mull clerk at the f'uget Sound iihvhI station, hm pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of postal funds mid been sentenred to serve 15 months In the Iowa state re formatory. At a siwcial election the proposition to consolidate Ihe llucpdrt school dis trict with the Skookumchnck, Stony Point, Colvin and Gibson districts to erect a central high school at Uucoda has been defeated IDAHO f Boise residents will be naked Ini throw open their homes to out-of-town vlml ors during fair week. Stockmen are worried oxer the up- gearance of arables amonc f-)i'e in the aw tooth national forest. Approximately 2000 students r- en rolled at the Nampa schools, exceeding the total'Of last year by mor llinn 300. Petitions tothe war depiirtm. iit urg ing thitt a rovernment remount autlon be established at Boise are,beinn circu lated. The White Bird link of the north-snd-south IdahoshlKhway will be on.pletstl nnd turned over to the stale hy October 15. The state board of equalization has re duced the assessed valuation "f ''"1 ,n Idaho county 10 per cent, making a re ducUon of $129,792. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: All that's 'the matter mi the Ten nessee legislature is that It's too slow. Pass in a amendment to the IT. S. con stitution on day and back-flrin' the next ain't tactly a sign of good sense, but passln It on month and repealln It the next la most likely proof to the supreme court of the United Htates of feeble-minded ness. The women has got away with 'em. It makes me remember Nance Hamblln. on Turkey creek In Arkansaw, that stole a set t in of alggs from a neighbor and mixed 'em into a Sunday cake. The constable gabbed her Jlst as she got It baked, but the Jestlc decided that the consta h Is was too slow and nobody could Intelligently swear to and Identify a alga when It was all mixed up in a mighty good cake which Nance had lowed the JesUc to sample. A Tale of Pioneer I-ife in Oregon Under Conditions of These Later Days The people talk a"ut Pioneer families ns though they had retired from all but memory half a century one But the pioneers still llvs-. l a world of their own far up th narrow valleys of mountain "rivera Meadows were cupped In th mountains as th rivers in freshet through ages past did their carving of the earth and swept away ths debris. Here plain folk have sought to establish a foothold and gain a living. They, today, reside In houses mad of logs or of boards whlpsawed from logs. Ths roofs are mads of clapboards split from sections of cedar. The window frames were literally cut by band. The glass was brought In from distant trading cen ters. , perhaps on horseback, ofteoer by means of a light wagon drawn by two strong, compactly ' ballt horses of ths mountain type. On the middle fork . of the South gantlam. for Instance, there were at one time SO families. They had "homes teaded." They t expected to farm . th narrow -' and infrequent bottom lands and to grass their stock on the higher, open slopes and tb marshy spots' of small, retarded streams. They expected to sell the over growth of timber to pay for Im provements.'. One by on they were crowded out, soma by the very rigors of th Isolated life, some by ths manipulation of large timber in terests, -V. : (To h continued)