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THE -OREGON DAILY JOU RNAU PORTLAND. OREGON.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, v 1820.
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TAKE NO CHANCES
IN ANOTHER part of The Journal to
day appears an opinion by ex-Senator
Frederick ,VV.; Mulkcy, which
reads: ." . '.
If !' fort of PortlAna. lb deolroua of
increaBln; , iU Uxm Tor fenorai pur
poses It can ubmlt th question of an
Increftwa of tix Uvr to the voters of the
port. at the election to be held on the
econd of November under the terms
i and provisions of Chapter 319 of the
general laws of Crenon for 1919.
The port commission would have, to
act at once, however, as the resolution
of the commission submtttlnr lh,tiues
Uon must be passed not lesstruyV 35
day- "before the election. The twenty
seventh, of September would "btr thel,t
day thai, the commission cfcuNl pass such
a resolution. r ' '
This Is legal opinion from a former
chairman of. the dock commission to
support the assertion that the Port
commission need, not Jeopardize funds
for next Scar's channel worjt by the
'possible- failure of the Swan isTatndi,
measure, t .
The port commission can offer an
alternate measure if "H acts at once.
Those who opposed the port bill with
Its 1 10,000,000 bond issue but want
theport to have all funds necessary
for' channel work will gladly give
their votes to an alternate measure,
even ir II -propose $1,000,000 in current
'funds as contrasted with a gigantic
bond Issue and the assumption of
strange duties' by the port commis-'
alon.
', The port commission says that if
the present port bill fails it can keep
but one dredge working part of the
time' next year.
'f.'ie commission !m no r'ght and
no need to leave vital channel work
to the doubtful success of a measure
that may be defeated because of other
provisions which it contains.
The commission should, submit the
alternate. If it does not do so, and
if the Swan island measure should fail
what would be the port commission's
explanation to the people?
QENATOR HARDING favor a separate peace with Germany
J the hnox resolution lor a separate peace wjth Germany.
A separate peace with Germany is exactly what former Kaiser Wilhelm
wants America to make. It is what the Prussian war lords want. It is
exactly the- thing wanted by fho;je who brought on the. world war.
They are against the peace negotiated at Versailles because the treaty
framed t'.ere creates an organization of nations to see that the terms of the
treaty are carried out. It is the only treaty of the kind ever framed. Ail
other treaties of peace could at any time be reduced to "scraps of paper" by
any nation. All other treaties relied merely on the pledged word of signatory
nations to carry out the terms agreed upon.
Am a result, all former peace treaties have been broken, wars have come
again an-1 again, and the world has remained crimsoned with t!t riood '-f men.
The Versailles treaty is different. For the first time in history the treaty
Itself creates an organized body of nations to' see that the agreements at
Paris shall be kept inviolate and to provide a means by which nations that
would break the treaty can be brought into ull compliance with its terms.
Naturally enough, such an arrangement is disliked by the former kaiser.
It is hated by the Prussian war lords. 1 1 is loathed by all those who brought
on tho world war. They want to be free to break tfle treaty, just as they
broke the Beigiun treaty. Their idea of the Prussian superman is not dead.
A great war, the most horrible war, is needed, wrote Nietzsche, in order to
make nations and men more virile. And all the war lords applauded.
The colleges in Germany taught that doclrine. It was encouraged in the
schools for 40 years. The masses of the people were misled. That Idea was
not shot out of Germany at Sedan and the Argonne. The cherished thought
In Germany is to secure a separate peace with America and thereby keep
America out of the organization formed by the nations to see that the peace
treaty Is faithfully complied with.
If that body of nations oan be broken up the way will be opened wide for
the Prussian war lords to renew their enterprise of military glory anJ terri
torial conquest. They are only biding their time. The German masses are
virile "and aggressive. Their power was demonstrated when, almost single
handed, they fought the combined civilized world for 51 months, and were
on the threshold of victory when America stepped In. Cut out of the Paris
treaty the body' of nations organized to enforce its terms, and a new military
Germany will begin to arise.
Nothing could do more to aid and encourage the great war group in
Onlral Kurope. Every pro-German in America knows that, and every pro
German In America is for a separate peace with Germany. Every pro-German
knows that a separate peace with Germany would take from the Paris peace
treaty the nation whose moral influence would be the most powerful of all
agencies for enforcing the terms of that treaty. Each knows that it would
be a body blow to the organization of nations formed to prevent signatory
nations from -iolatlng the treaty.
The Literary Digest says that a German-American Citizens' league has
been formed to organize German-American voters to prevent the election of
Governor Cox. In August the German-American National conference was held
in Chicago by the GVrman-Arncrican Citizens' league "whose purposes," ac
cording to a correspondent of the Milwaukee Journal (Independent), "are
identical with those of the defunct German-American alliance the Committee
of Ninety-Six and other German-American organizations." At the head of the
resolutions committee at this conference was a pro-German editor named
Vlcrick, who protably gave the government more trouble during the war than
any other pro-German in America. Here is a part of the resolution framed by
Mr. Viprlck and adopted by the conference:
In view of certain enlightened statements In Senator Warren CJ. Harding's
speech of acceptance and in his subsequent utterances, expressing his unalterable
opposition to the Lcatrue of Nations and THE PKRKIDIOUS FOREIGN POLICY
OK THR PHESKNT ADMINISTRATION. WK SHALL. U.NLKSS UNKXPKCTKD
KVK.NT8 TKAN8PIKE. KEUAHU IT AS OUR DUTY TO SUPPORT THE KK-
PL'BLICA.N CANDIDATE, WE TRUST, HOWEVER, THAT MK. HARDING
WILL EXPRESS HIMSELF IN UNEQUIVOCAL TERMS ON OTHER SUBJECTS
INVOLVING THE HONOR OP OUR COUNTRY. SUCH AS THK PERNICIOUS
PEACE PACT AT VERSAILLES AND ST. GERMAIN. WHICH TURNED THE
1PS5:!:1?.,AMNLY ENUNCIATED BV THE PRESIDENT OK THE
UNITED STATES INTO 14 SCRAPS OF PAPER.
There is no way to misunderstand what this resolution means. It means
that the men who opposed American participation in the war anH wh iiiri
all they could-to obstruct American endeavors in the war are openlv and
flKgTqssivery for Senator Harding. It means that the men who were against
Americar when she was in the throos and agonies of the conflict and who
did all they could to embarrass and harass America In that supreme crisis
are trying now lo undo the great things that American boys and the American
people won In that conflict.
All these anti-war and pro-German forces are now publicly and openly
organizing a political movement to free Germany, through a separate peace
won America, rrom the consequences of the war she brought on, and are
tryinf'io break up the organization of nations, which is the' only "means by
wnicu me terms or trie Pans peace treaty can be enforced.
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former naiser wuneim aoesn t want those terms enforced. The Prussian
war lords do not want those terms enforced. Those who brought on the war
which cost America more than 100,000 dead, cost America multiplied thousands
of crippled, cost America f2G,OO0,000.OCO in gold, and that piled upon us a
war debt that it will take a generation to pay they do not want the Paris
peace terms enforced. And, in their own words, the pro-Germans In America
.who in war time were in league with the kaiser and his war lord, in peace
time "regard it as our duty to support the Republican candidate," Senator
Warren G, Harding. .
It Is a movement that is unfortunate, because these pro-German leaders
misrepresent thousands of German people in America that were for America
and against Germany during the war, and whose loyalty to their adopted
country was never brought into question.
home production to assure the suc
cess of the experiment and to render
Oregonians confident that Oregon
cranberry sauce shall deliciously flank
noble Thanksgiving turkeys.
Cannot a carload of cranberry pick
ers be sent from Portland to save the
Clatsop county crop?
AT THE STEERING WHEEL
A
NEW brand of public sentiment
is- necessary in the campaign for
accident prevention.
It is the bentiment that f'ts in the
seat of the automobile and holds the
steering wheel.
It is Ihc sentiment that gn'-s ahead
of the accident to .prevent it rather
than lament over it.
It is the sentiment that sets the
seal of condemnation on reckless dis
regard of personal safety and the
safety of others.
Put sentiment for public safety at
the steering wheel, and accidents will
be one where they are now 100.
I FEDERAL RESERVE
ACT AND HARDING
and dellverlnr them. Besides. In that
war he would advertise hla fruit and
have in future always a market for it
I am a firm believer In advertising.
I ralae poultry, and through advertising
I am enabled to sell all and could sell
much more that I raise, and at a
greater profit by far than If I shipped
to market ; though I shall always speak
a good word for a number of commis
sion houses in Portland that have dealt
very fairly with me.
Mra, S. J. Ritchey.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
3y Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor
respondent of The Journal
News from the scene is to the
effect that Poland and Lithuania
- have violated their agreement,
, reached through the League of Na
tions, and resumed hostilities. Just
the same, their quarrel will very
" likely be settled through the league
by holding them to their agreement
,n td territorial boundaries and other
.questions. And just the same, the
league, with the moral leadership of
America, would have lta decisions
better respected, and the, world
would the sooner pass Into the era
of peace on earth.
signs, and the songs heard in the
vicinity would fall far short of buy
ing so murh as a square foot.
The parks of main highways would
be properly adaptable to motor tour
ist camping. They would be places
where the public which p-xys for the
roads could pause and rtst without
fear of irate, abutting owners whose
impression of the value of their hold
ings comes almost entirely from the
improvement at public txpense.
Best of all, let generous
follow Chairman Benson's own ex
ample and give the public parks that
will keep their memories green in
public gratitude long after they are
gone and forgotten, if they do not
thus serve the welfare of the present
and the future.
A railroad which will connect the
Pacific with the Amazon river Is to
penetrate the South American re
publics of Kcuador, Colombia, Vene
zuela, ' Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
Much petroleum underlies the lands
to be made accessible. What has
Oregon to exchange 'for South
American gasoline and fuel oil?
much In conflict as our divorce laws.
There must be uniform methods of
financing. Oregon's irrigation district
law, which provides the, underwriting
by the slate of Interest on irrigation
district securities, after the district's
organization and feasibility 'has been
fully determined by competent state
authority, is a desirable ;aw fur every
state which would reclaim lands.
With uniform laws and uniform
methods, the states of the West can
citizens j stand as a unit in their arneal for the
help of the government. If the nation
permits the use of its credit in sup
port of irrigation . securities which
have met the approval both of state
and federal authority, the actual use
of a great fund of the national treas
ury will doubtless prove unnecessary.
lltn.:i.i ,
ik is aiu mere is io De a campaign
to get the federal government finan
cially bark of Western reclamation
as a national food production meas
uic. me him siep m sucri a cam
paign is not to call upon the govern
ment but upon the states, that they
may agree upon method and' stand
without conflicting. voice together.
Washington, Sept. 24. Warren G.
Harding was not a member of the sen
ate when the federal reserve act was
passed in 1913, but the men with whom
Harding now serves and promises to
give heed if elected president were there,
and it is interesting to note the atti
tude they took. This is especially im
portant in view of the activity of some
of Harding's banker supporter?, who
are quietly agitating for changes that
will weaken the control of the govern
ment agencies on the country's credit.
Boies Penrose was there, and he was
opposed to the bill establishing the fed
eral reserve, and was paired against it.
Henry Cabot Lodge was there, and he
took the same course. Ellbu Root was
then in the senate, and took a leading
part in assailing the measure. Reed
Smoot was on hand, and before voting
against it declared that a "central
bank would solve financial problems for
a hundred years to come." Brandegee.
Warren and other disciples of normalcy
were there and voted against it
Tbe measure passed the senate by a
vote of 43 to 25, all fhe Democrats and
four Republicans favoring it. In the1
house it passed by 208 to 60, all but two
Democrats supporting it, together with
34 Republicans, 11 Progressives and one
independent. President Wilson, in an
address made upon the occasion of the
signing of the bill, made mention of the
substantial support given by Republican
members and said that it could not be
called partisan, although it had been
made an administration measure. He
pronounced it the first of a series of
constructive measures by which the
party would prove its capacity to serve
the country.
Trie present Harding crowd, with a
few exceptions, stood solidly against
the bill, however. They had already
started opposing things the president
favored, a policy which finds its high
est development in the senate, because
the senate is farther renpoved from the
people than the house, and its method
of organization lends itself easily to
manipulation.
Their system of control was worked
out to perfection when the Republicans
organized the senate in 1919, and a Re
publican senatorial caucus authorized
Senator Lodge to appoint a committee
'on committees to handle the committee
assignments. By this effectWe method
the committee on foreign relations waa
stacked against the League of Nations,
Penrose was given the chairmanship of
the committee on finance, and all the
loopholes against interference by the
progressives were stopped up.
The Lodge, Penrose, Smoot. Warren
and Brandegee combination has not dis
closed its hand as to just what it means
to do with the federal reserve system
if it comes into control. It is certain.
however, that they hold the machinery
for doing their will if they win and
Harding becomes president, and their
record of opposition is indelibly inscribed.
CHALLENGES GOV. HARDING
Portland, Sept 20. To the Editor of
The Journal. I heard Governor Hard
ing of Iowa Saturday night and I cer
tainly should, like a few things explained
that took place at the meeting. There
are too many of these points to be cov
ered in this letter. 1 content myself
with one or two.
Governor Harding stated positively
that if we elected Senator Harding.
Liberty bonds would go to par over!
night with strong emphasis on the
"over night" Now. if that is not true.
It is a lie, with the emphasis on the
"lie." If it is true, who holds the power
to place the "Liberties" at par? Could
they not exercise This power regardless
of who is president? If this be true,
then could we not construe that they
are the ones responsible for the dis
counting of the Liberty bonds? The
government did not place the discount
on them, and no one doubts that Uncle
Sam will pay bis obligations at 100 per
cent with interest, regardless of who is
elected- this year or any other year.
I'm enough of an American to believe
that, and there are a hundred million
others -just like me. "Elect Senator
Harding, and we will give you par fo
your bonds," is the same as, "Elect
Major McKinley. and we will give you a
full dinner pail." I say that only those
who have the power to five have the
power to withhold.
Now, it happened. I held a few Lib
erties. all or more, in fact, than I
coulu hold, and 1 was compelled to sac
rifice them, and the parties who ac
cepted the sacrifice are today wearing
Harding buttons.
Who, I ask. Is it, that discounts the
promises of our glorious country? If
those bonds were not worth more than
what I received for them It would have
been no sacrifice to part with them.
There are thousands who have made the
same sacrifice, and I never heard any
one whine over it. as Governor Harding
did Saturday night, September 18, 1920.
I have heard no mother or father, "who
lost more than all the bonds. Liberty or
otherwise," whine as did Governor
Harding over a few dollars. Personal
ly, la don't believe he did lose a single
dollar byUncle Sam, and 1 think I
could prove that.
Edgar E. Coursen says he is a good
Republican, in his letter published Sep
tember 20. I believe him, and also that
lie is a good American citizen. As a
good Republican, he says Harding will
be elected. As a good American citizen.
SMALL CHANGE ,
The Swan Island project la somewhat
of a bird.
a e e
"Unloaded runs" are dally exacting
their toll of the careless.
Golf players often get Into a hole, so
to speak, and they teem rather to glory
In the circumstance.
Clataop county is in need of men.
omen and children to ro down there.
once and get busy as cranberry
merchants.
Seven thousand barrels of whiskey
was destroyed when a warehouse at
Lawrenceburg. Ky.. burned. The ftames
made real good firewater of it.
"O. O. P. Planka Split In Two States."
Headline. With the result, probably,
that someone is going to get sliver in
his fingers.
A New York couple seeking divorce
have stipulated a division of their store
of linuor as part of the suit. Probably
he they been able to agrae on this ques
tion before, there would have been no
suit.
SIDELIGHTS
Tbe ladles wilt discover that In the
school of politic tuition is more Men
tial than Intuition. Baker Democrat.
Speaking of rw names for
alcohol, w hat e the matter with. d!y VL
The dryad waa a spirit found in tne
wood. Albany Democrat
Henry Ford leads off in restoring pre
war Srfcea. and the Overland people Col-
I Zr. Vwtiia theSkurnan 1.
RMMt lnurtd In. &iem oi.iw.-
Times. ...
If the merchants had any gumption
..." u w l an an autoist colld
LUCY w viuiu a -w a a, - . . L.
VIr- iv,. ntn the. store, and shop
without letting loose of the wheel. O
. a.. ihi svstem a hired han-l
ni.ht trmt run over occHsional .
business is business
Tribune.
The Orerjon Country
Northwest Happrnlnga In Brief Form "lor U
lilUJ Ittidrr
OREGON NOTES
dist?ictBl0PPed hrvc8lmK ln tn Condon
prurie."VUle expects bumper crop of
PonilghT'cn.tche.he l0'8r Colurnbl
rS: ofesuK at!
buTnh.r:a;rf7e'i t Rose
Torn train mer? ' f te11" suitcase.
irTrmoVoVrYtk rN ". l2-,n'h
menu, planned t Baker. '"H'ruve-
Ladies of
the guild of St.
pal church ft "A..- "' H"?-
dahlia shoW , -the ne.V 'ur,
Med ford
but
Mall
MORE OR LhSS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
H. S. August, vice-president of the
Mays Department Stores company of
New York, is at the Multnomah. Aalde
from his important mercantile connec
tion, it is said August is a director in the
Commercial Trust Investment com
pany and In the Goldwyn Pictures
corporation. The visitor Is a nephew of
Colonel Louis D. Beaumont, who is en
route home from France Just now after
presenting to that nation a memorial
statue of his close friend the late Wilbur
Wright.
... i
W. E. Meacham, secretary of the
Baker Commercial club, Irrigator and
general Eastern Oregon enthusiast, is
stopping at the Imperial while spending
a few busy days in Portland.
a a a
Robert McSworley. superintendent of
service and trainmaster for the Glacier
National park hotels, is at the Multno
mah for a brief rest following the clos
ing of the summer park season on Sep-
I tember 13. During the winter McSwor
ley. who has held forth at Glacier park
through five summers, is employed at
the Hotel Oakland of Oakland, Cal.
e . e
The Imperial hotel ts entertaining Mr.
and Mrs. M. Lafollette. residents of the
town of Cornelius, Or.
.
The man from Iquique is in town ! He
is William Black, guest at the Multno
mah from Iquique. a merry little burg
Black is a mining
man and. on the side, engaged in a
general shipping business.
Iln to
ki.i.i... . " ' ,"'"
i he
bny on
September S
crew nf ii, . ""c" recove
" r 'ne steamer Lurline.
of Charles Mundy, mej
steamer Undine, drowned
' neen recovered by the
rhanihe ofPV'mmv!' the Medford
luslre.ss me., oHF. "k'n "mo,1
K.r r i ? ;-aVJlof
unanimous . ; r" were
s acnliiMt ilia
"iriur,
.-.in-m Mtatesmar,
ne says x.ioerty Donos win not go to par , on ,ne coa8t of ChnL
over nignt. ne is nonest. l am
neither Republican nor Democrat, but
will own I am leaning toward Cox, and
believe he will be elected, and Edgar E.
Coursen will respect me as much &b I do
him and hio Kind. I love an honest
Republican equally with an honest
Democrat or plain, honest citizen.
More people will accept the "par over
night" statement as a promise, rather
than a prediction, as was intended. The
governor said. "Elect Senator Harding
with a congress ard senate to hack
him, and your Liberty bonds will go to
par over night." He did not use the
word "predict." H. D. Northrop.
RECLAIMING RECLAMATION
THE thing that longest deferred the
good roads Drogram was every
HIQlfcvAY PARKS
GHA.RMA BENSON-of the high-!
way commission supports a sug
gestion ' toiad6v months ago by The
JourntL Mn'a letter to Oregon's gov
ernor he proposes' the acquisition of
bark areas along main highways.
The suggestion merits immediate
action. It should. become an estab
lished policy of the state to secure
these park ' reas: , The counties of
Oregon and the cfUcs ought , to co
operate, r Zr j - -JfH. V
. - The time to; act' is either before the
routca-'Xif jnew ; roads ",f-ave j become
' publtclrl known' or at least,"; before
traftlc fully developsvThe bottom. Jand
of Sandy rlvcj? between the; Troutdale
and'Automoblle club bridges, tor in-
. stance, ould dpubtless7iyc. Been ck
"cured lor a ong, before tne construe
-ttoa" or the . Columbia. -Rlter highway
; TIi" spot was, Inaccessible .except 'to
th0ee;who went afoot.-;- Now.4t la oc-.
cupietJ Dy-reorldvand - "no trespass
mans demand for highway improve
ment in front of his door only. Then
they proceeded to wrangle, and ln
their heat-overlooked the fact that a
general plan for. road building would
arrive at the result sought by each.
The. thing that has deferred the
reclamation of the West's arid lands
has been, and Is.: the same short
sighted localism. (There must be as
clear an Impression is now obtains
in the publia science of road improve
ment, that program of reclamation
big enough- to cover, the whole sub
ject will Justly and adequately meet
UJe needa or eparateTH'ojects.
The, .wbrfc before e'jsteertogNeom
xnlttee 'which the Northwestern Reo-
lamatloaMeagTiflr asked , the, Western
States Reclamation leagae to appoint.
is, nrs oi an,: to Bet-, western '.states
into a position where they, can accept
federal aid. ' : " ' . .
?flfher9 must vbd,i uniform ' Irrigation
district Taws.-Laws now affectiocr Ir
rlgation are as diverse and "often : as
With .the debate on lumber rates
set for October 6 ln Chicago, im
mediately following the general con
ference to standardize the sizes of
soft woods, one wonders if this, isn't
one instance where soft woods will
inspire hard words.
CLATSOP CRANBERRIES
'X'WEXTY thousand boxes of cran
1 berries ln Clatsop county will sell
for $100(000 if they do not rot on the
ground for lack of pickers.
If the cranberries are picked all will
have a share In them, the pickers, the
growers, the railroads and the mer
chants. The PUbliC Will o-laHI r
- - . . )WU1 J aQ J
the bill in exchange for a fruit n
wholesome, so delicious and so closely
owwtiawcuoviin. lne idea of thanksgiv
ing lor me growtn 0f home industry.
The consumer among all profits most
rri.. - ' -
county have produced bountifuiiv Th.
rich yield is conclusive affirmation of
tne experiment which was conducted
to prove whether cranberries could
or could not be grown in Oregon.
Cranberries can be grown in Oregon
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vu. iuwuu . loiivr js . as- essenziai as
Letters From the People
I t'ommuniraUuni irnt to The Journal for
publication in tbiH department elionld be written
on on:y one ade of tbe paper, ftbould not exceed
300 words in length and must be turned by tbe
urttrr, whose mail nldms in (ull uiuit accom
pany tbe contribution. J
THE JUNKERS SPONSOR
Vancouver, Wash., Sept. 20. To the
Editor of The Journal. Those who at
tribute the existence of plutocrats and
junkers to either or both of our political
parties are not well informed. Pluto
cratic propagation results from national
ignorance. Our government exists be
cause we create it. It ts a junker gov
ernment because our highest ambition
is to elect junkers ("successful" busi
ness men) to both houses of congress.
We have no use for scholars. We esteem
greasy pork packers and odoriferous
beef embalmers, who have the coin,
more than we do the philosophers,
logicians, historians and economists who
have been graduated from our halls of
learning.
Junkers result from national ignor
ance,' as vermin result from personal
filth.
If Carnegie, Gould, Rockefeller and
Weyerhaeuser own our iron, copper, oil
and timber. It was because our congress
donated this national wealth to them,
and if congress w-as in position to make
such donations it was because it was
placed in power by a fool people. Truly,
"God must love fools ; otherwise he
would not have made so many."
.1. Harold.
Mrand Mrs. S. I. Walters of Forest
Grove are guests at the Hotel Portland,
while enjoying the delights of a shopping
and business visit between showers.
.
II. F. Stone, assistant in charge of
birds and mammals of the Lntted States
biological survey at Washington. D. C.
has arrived to confer with survey offi
cials in Portland and inspect the work
of the bureau. He will remain until
after October 1.
Captain Leroy Hewlett of Salem and
Captain Leo .1. A. Pironi of Portland.
National Guard of Oregon, have been de
tailed to receive a course of special in
struction at Camp Bennlng. Ga., begin
ning October 25 and continuing several
weeks. Both ofneers are wiueiy
to veterans of the national guard of the
state.
Daniel K. Fetttbone of St. Paul, Minn.,
is registered at the Multnomah. The old
rivalry between 8t- Paul and her twin.
Minneapolis, Is fast dying out and the
cities are working together. The stretch
of land between the two cities known as
the Midway Is now so built up that it is
almost impossible to tell when you have
passed the line from one city to the
other.
.
Robert L. Farrell of New York, who
travels for a living, carries his samples
in his overcoat pocket. He sells tooth
picks. Farrell. for 12 years, traveled ror
one of the largest crockery houses In the
East and carried 15 trunks with him.
With his present line. Faarell says he
feels like he is touring the country at
the expense of the firm. But he takes
thousands of dollars' worth of orders for
the humble little toothpick. He Is at the
Multnomah.
...
O. W. Munsic, second vice president
and field supervisor ; T. W. Tasney. third
vice president: F. A. Boyle, vice presi
dent and treasurer : J. H. Blrkett. as
sistant secretary ; C. B. Speer. assistant
secretary ; Dr. J. A. Patton. medical di
rector, and M. J. Johnson, division man
ager, all officials of the Prudential In
surance . company, wtll visit Portland
next Tuesday. The home office party Is
visiting the Western states district of
fices. D. E. Wllsoh. state superintendent
for the company, will entertain the party
during its visit in Portland.
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James A. Hendershott of Zanesville.
Ohio. Is visiting his brother. W. M. Hen
dershott. and family. 395 Larrabee street.
This Is Henderahott's first visit to the
great Northwest, and Portland "far sur
passes expectations," he says.
...
Theodore Morris, assistant manager at
the Multnomah, has resigned that posi
tion to assume the management of the
Osburn hotel at Eugene.
The
Industrial
slopun'
Of tho
Issued a "weak.
especially n,nde for thJ .... r. 0"D-P'
new T. . '" 'was on hv th
Oregon Pulp
new Malem iv,.u
Paper company.
WASHINGTON
Thirty Dalmatian i ; .
rived t iir . 'Vn KMve.ar-
on ",M ,u in
-"-jo .lAiuor,
HV1"JHm Bpan- engineer
Fortv-e irht n.,. ,. ..
kev . ui7'in " "naaisn h
Adams and t tiorikl
i iKKima police.
elr home
at A her-
"i iwo moM H.rru
;1". are In the hands
If ..m ., i.. .
Ifworke
The Winters .business block at Hn
teoPor?. ton,y hv W -
(' r ofrortand. has been l,Klt u-
Ci, - Sanson. Hoqulam for a co ,.
slderation reported as :iu ooo
IDAHO
h.JL1 L,1e county la harvesting
bumper crops.
A harvest of 67.600 tons of sugnr beets
C.rKff.'n'r r,ti& an
average of 68 bushels i the acre.
Our ng the week at from 1 90 t(1 y 0:,
rferade" e'"s due malnl- o variation
The Gentle Caadidatr
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley T . . - .
THE GERMAN-AMERICAN VOTE
Portland, Sept. 22 To the Editor of
The Journal Light is being shed upon a
matter of deep and grave concern to the
American people. liy a page advertise
ment in the Sunday Oregonlon the Lit
erary Ulgest announces the publication
In Its next issue of the observations of
men' and newspapers of the country con
cerning the organization of the German-
American vote for Harding ln this elec
tion. It has been patent for some time
that the German-American voter was in
sympathy with the Fatherland in its ef
forts to escape the penalties of the ver
sailles treaty. Immediately following
the primary elections of the past sum
mer and spring, Mark Sullivan, the po
litical writer for the Oregonian and
other newspapers, in discussing the vote
being secured at these primary elections
by Senator Hiram Johnson referred In
one of his articles to tbe vote of Bis
marck, Neb., where previously to this
year the registration of voters showed
registered Democrats to the number or
100 and Republicans two. This year the
registration showed J02 Republicans reg
istered and no Democrats. Bismarck
voted almost unanimously for Senator
Johnson. And this from a Republican
source.
Senator Spencer in 1918 was elected to
the senate by the vote of St Louis in the
state of Missouri, and Senator McCor
mlck was elected to the senate from Illi
nois bv the vote of Chicago, both cities
being hotbeds of pro-German sentiment
during the war. The vacillating position
of Mr. Hanging upon the Lecgue of Na
tions' issue may be reaalty accTjuntea tor
by the attitude of the German-American
voter The German-American, in sym
pathy with the Fatherland, desires to
"bust" the treaty and disrupt the League
of Nations in order that Germany may
escape T the penalties of the war imposed
brthe Versailles treaty. What do the
Americans who fought Germany In
FncVa.nd Belgium and ro-Q e's"J
in this country durmg 1917 and. ISIS
propose vw u r- v Wilson.
..Senator Harding
Senator Lodge
... .Cool-something
A Senate
A DOPE SHEET
St. Johns, Sept. 22. To the Editor of
The Journal You cannot understand
the Republican game without the score
card :
President
Associate President.
1st Vice President..
Board of Directors.
Political Observers
House of Representatives
Grand Stand for Members in Good
Standing. Bleachers Free to the
Public. All Welcome. Side En
trance Open to European Cheap
Labor.
NOTICE
. The players don't like a league. No
league no promises no obligations. The
tariff fence will be repaired as rapidly
as possible except along the Mexican
line
Draw for Innings November 2.
(Note : We never select presidents
from school teachers. Selection more
property made from honest lawyers ;
sometimes editors. We always adhere
to rules, even if we do change the rela
tion of the branches of the government
when it seems best.)
Spencer M. Brown.
B. F,
"WASTE" AND .ADVERTISING
of
. Kjrt If 1 0 ine riMH
The Journal Your editorial Septem
ber 14, entttled, ;:Waate." cam to iny
notice yesterday. . U strike, mo the
owner of that-pear orchard Is . not-a,
very resourceful perstm. else he would
have Inserted a prominent, "ad" In one,
or alt" of the Portland newspapers, tell
ing about his trutt, putting a reasonable
price thereon, - and naming th - date
when people could go out with, their
own boxes and pick the peara them
selves. I venture to say that in one
or two days he could have sold all his
pears, and more If he had them, and
cleared more money, than by hiring
pickers and packers and buying boxes
THE GERMAN LANGUAGE VOTE
' Portland, Sept 20. To the Editor of
The Journal Will you please publish a
list of our state senators who voted in
the last legislature to . have German
taught in our schools of Oregon? Are
any of those men asking the people of
Oregon to reelect them to office ln No
vember? I had sons who suffered the
hardships of war In France, so I don't
care to vote for any of those men.
To what party did those men belong?
Mrs. Mary Brown.
(The bill referred to was senate bill 77. of
the 1919 aeaeion, by Senator Dimick. entitled
' To prohibit the tea chin of the German lan
guage in the public achoob of the etata." It
pasted the senate and was in definitely postponed
in tne home. The nesatire vote in the senate,
wtieh waa ataJnat the ream of the bill, waa:
Senators Gill, HoweU. Uirten, Jcnea, LiFollett.
Ifoser. Kicxeleu. Ortrm, Norblad. Porter. J. C.
Smith, and Strajrer. all Beisablieane wot 8trjer.
Iwaaocrat. The botr journal doae not record
the Tote 00 indefinite postponement by which
tbe bUl wa killed, it ha Tin beeotife voce. The
bill -waa adremely reported by tbe boox com
mittee on education, the adoption of tbe reixxt
carrying with it, under tho fvlea, the motion to
indenfULeu postpone, woica motion i a I wars de-
carrviiriea wuaotrc roucau. unices mat bo de
ismnded. . ,
(Opening with a nhort BkeU-h of an aced Tort
lander who h had much to do with one of the
-it- great institutions, Mr. lyorklejr paaaea on
to quote certain authorities who prescribe for the
ills of these present tjmes. 1
Of a sunny afternoon you can -usually
find Martin Riley silting out on the
north pop-h of the men's ward at St
Vincents hospital. His hair and beard
are white.
"No. I am not feeling very old." he
paid to me when I chatted with him re
cently, "though I have a right to, for
I was born in 1839. and that's upwards
of 80 years ago. When I was of age I
came over from Ireland, landing at Cas
tle Garden on the longest day of the year
in 1860. I got work at 90 cents a day
on the railroad grade. When President
Lincoln issued the stond call for troops
I enlisted in Company G. Fourteenth
New Hampshire infantry. ' We saw some
pood fighting at Winchester and Cedar
Creek. I was mustered out on June 8,
1 S65.
...
"They used to think I was a queer
Irishman, for I never took a drink In my
life. I wouldn't even take liquor for
medicine. I have seen too much of what
it does. No, I never smoked nor chewed.
I never seemed to take to it.
"I came to Portland in 1867.- An effort
to raise money to build St. Vincents hos
pital was started the following year. I
am the only charter member of the orig
inal committee of the hospital now liv
ing. ...
"When I came to Portland 5.1 years
ago, there was only a handful of houses
In what is now East Portland. I got IS
a day for myself and team grading. Lat
er I ran a shoe shop on First street be
tween Taylor and Yamhill. Some years
later 1 had a phoe stdre in Hast Port
land, at Union avenue and Pine street.
.
"I was one of 14 children 10 boys and
4 girls so you can understand how It
comes that I have 117 nieces and neph
ews and grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
Sure. I belong to the G. A. It
Adjutant General George White comes
up to pass toe time or aay wun me -ery
once In a while. Yes. I started my
work here in Portland working for St.
Vincents, and here I am after 50 years
to stay here at St. Vincents until I get
my promotion."
Qurious Bits of Information
for the Curious
''Gleaned From Curious Places
Henry. Ford uses his head for more
purposes than a place -n Which to wear
his hat Recently he said; "There are.
two types of exploiters that need to be
watched the exploiters of the products
of labor, the men who do not themselves
produce but take toll on production, giv
ing the producer less than his service is
worth and taking from .the consumer
much more than the product has cost
This breeds dissatisfaction, and the other
type of exploiter, equally a menace to
the stability of our Institutions, Is on
hand to exploit this dissatisfaction. There
are those in our country who trade on
Industrial unrest, profit by disorder and
exploit the trouble of the producers.
Their business is to keep men divid
ed by suspicion and distrust Use your
eyes. Use your common sense. Don't
be misled. Spot the men who are al
ways shouting about difficulties with
out sharing them.' We must see to It
that we rid our country of both types
of exploiters." ,
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We have tried out force and it has
failed. Look at the history and pres
ent condition of Germany If you believe
force is the remedy for our present ills.
We may have to throw many of our old
beliefs and traditions on the scrap heap,
but if we will pin our faith to principles,
to high ideals and to character we shall
not go far wrong. America, freed from
the shackles of racial hatreds, religious
animosities and war-breeding prejudices
and traditions, can lead the world up out
of the dismal morass In which we are
now struggling. What is Americanism?
Here Is how one of our forward-looking
Americans, who will go down. Into his
tory as a great man. describes it :
"The true Americanism, the only true
Americanism, j Is that which puts Amer
ic at the front of free nations and re
deems the great r 'e which we i.iade
the world whe,n we entered the war,
which was fought not for the advantage
of any single nation' or croup of nations.
but for the salvation of all. It la ln this 1
way we shall redeem the sacred blood j
that was shed and make America the '
force ahe should be In the counsels of
mankind. H.ie cannot afford to aink
into the plane that nations have usually
occupied and become merely one of
those who scramble and look about for
selfish advantage."
rrom the New York World
The Ktatrnman Hood uiin liii porch
And (hit Is whit lr mhI
"Now, when I am tht i.rrsnlent
1 promise to be Ird
"I will not do the hea1ntmna thing
That Wood row Wilmii did;
I'll listen to the semlurn
And do just as they bid
"The good sdrire of lde, m take.
Penrose's word obej.
Ami from the path the senate marks
I'll nctcr. neter atrsy."
The rotrr listened to the pledge
Uide by the candidate;
The Totcr sighed ; the yoter ssid
' Now, to 11, mind, that's great.
"I like to think of Washington
An waiting to receive
Word from II, a ernate what to do.
To ssy and to believe.
"I like to think of Jrffaraoa
As halting at a loss
For plan or method until he
Could get word from his boss.
"I like to think of Jackson, too.
That man obedient;
Of Lincoln, who for guidance wi,
t'nto his aenate went.
"I want a gentle president
Like CIcTcland or T. H
Who will due rircutnspecuon ne.
No aenate boas to jarr.
"I want no man who will presums
On hia own thought or rliotce,
Gi" me a safe roner?atre
Who knows his maater'a oioe."
listening to breath sounds in examining
a patient's lungs. He went home, fash
ioned a tube by rolling Op some glued
paper, and then experimented with tbis
In his ward at the Neckar hospital.
From this Incident in the garden dates
the modern stethoscope. Laennec gave
hU invention the name by which the
device is still known, deriving the word
stethoscope from the two Oreek roots,
one meaning the "chest" and the other
"to observe" or "regard."
Dr. Laennec was born at Qulmper. in
Brittany, February 17, I'll, growing
to manhood during some' of tha most
troublous years ln the history of Franoe.
He studied medicine at Paris, receiving
hla degree of doctor in 1804. He died
A. gust IS. 1826. at the early age of 45.
Olden Oregon
Oregon Legislature's Two Votes
the Fourteenth Amendment
on
One hundred -years ago Rene'Theopriile
Hyacinthe Laennec. one of the pioneers
of modern medicine, observing some
children playing in the gardens of the
Louvre, listening to the transmission of
sounds along pieces of wood, conceived
the idea of utilizing this method for
After 17 states had ratified the federal
amendment abolishing slavery. Gover
nor Glbbs called an extra session of the
Oregon legislature. It met at Salem,
December 5. 18C5. It was impossible
to pass the resolution of ratification
unanimously, , The amendment waa, how
ever, adopted with only seven dissent
ing votes in -both . Mouses by a joint
resolution, XHscember 1L and the deci
sion telegraphed to Washington. When
the fourteen Ih amendment waa present
ed to another legislature In the following
year it was adopted with less debate.
HOW IS IT PONE?. -;;
From tba Albany Democrat
Do the people around your dinner table
know how a president is elected?
An ordinarily representative group was
seated around one such table. Among
the group was a school teacher, a Leodge
ical editorial writer, an insurance man,
a college girl and two elderly women of
education and refinement. The teacher,
being an honest soul and unashamed,
asked how the president wss actually
elected, w hmt were tbe duties of the
electoral college, how .its personnel was
chosen, ad so on; and echo answered.
How? Nobody'answered anything. Each
had a vague idea, and had read some
thing on the subject sometime and some
where ; but with one of the livest cam
paigns in memory confronting them, not
a soul could answer.'.
It is probably safe to say that in 75
per cent of tho comfortable homes of
America a similar situation would be
found.
Fewer representative families would
be representative of national Ignorance
if the ordinary United States historic a
were thumbed a lltUe more. Histories
make first class paperweights, but their
original -purpose was, along -as different
line. ' Now, aa to the topic in hand, we
wilt ourselves explain' how It is done
when we have studied, up on it
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
All this loud sniffHn' over the pore
farmer gypped outer JI8 In two year
by the Non-partisan league bunch Is
foolishness. Any sasslety that delivers
any goods whatever charges six bits a
month to keep a-goln'. Even our little
M. J-:. church down to the Corners ex
pects tliat much from the congregation
members and nome collections on the
side. In case the farmer that jlnes the
Non-p;irtliaris don't git his money's
worth in two year, he don't have to put
It up ugin. And they wouldn't have to
do so t'-ry much to keep liim from belli'
gypped by one combine and another
outer that murh ever month. The worry
and excitement it gives to the politicians
and the grafter., big and little, respect
able and otherwise. Is worth six bits a
month to keep it goin' a while, even if
nuthln' don't come of It.
I
Idling How to Can Fall
Salmon so It Will Be
As (iood as Chinook,
The Columbia and Its tributaries
are the present highways of a great
run of fall salmon. 'By some people
they are called fall chlnooks. By
others they are known as "dog" sal
mon. It is a salmon that possesses
almost as great nutritive value as
the spring chlnooks. But it lucks cer
tain essential appeals to the eye and
the taste. It has not the attractive
red color of the earlier salmon. Jt
has not tbe flavor of the spring
chlnooks.
People consume only about half the
food they eat to meet the demands of
the body. Much eating Is done be
cause the eye, and the tongue have
convinced the stomach that it should
partake.
But there is a way to make the fall
salmon palatable and pleasant In,
jars. If it Is placed ln them employ
ing the seme, method by which spring
Chinook salmon Is canned that Is,
placing the lids on loosely and cook
ing the salmon in the jars for a period
of three or four hours the result is
apt to be pale and sometimes
"mushy," One Intervening process
is necessary to command success.
Smoke the salmon first. A home
smokehouse. Is easily provided. A
bai.cl or a hogshead In the back
yard will do. '7 A gunnywtc will do.
A bit J heavy canvas wrappeJ
around a tripod - of sticks six feel
long will do. Vine i. aple. dogwood
or green alder freshly cut will con
stitute the fuel -Before smoking,
rub salt on the salmon, or place it
tor a effort Urns in a solution of salt
water. When it is smoked, cut Into
sixes convenient. tr the Jars, add a
little olive. oiL and cook as you would
tha spring chlnooks. Then fasten
the lids on tightly. When you open
the Jars neat-winter you will find
that you have transformed the hum
ble fall salmon that la so freely of
fered now for 10 cents a pound into
u dish for an epicure. Try It