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THE . OREGON DAILY JOU HNAU PORTL.AN D, OREGON. SATURDAY. SnPTEUBER 25. lti. CJE3 . .. .. . I. ... anil do Its csiss, a eonnorm, w m i uitto oth;r as yon would bate thcss do snt yon. I Published rwry wok day and U "f'J" t Tb. Journal Building. Broadw.y ' bin atraet, Portland, Oregon. ' - ! l ibo poatoffim t Portland. Orf', for traawmiados through tb. M clia luiur. TELEPHOX ES Mats 1171, Atomtio B01. AU i-tpon-wBU reaches by J?!i FORKION AMKBTISINO rSIJ?2 25 rMfh arena. N.w Yoras WOO jaau-rs Building, Chicago. THB OHEOM JOtJBXAL lhi.1ht0. jeetionablsu It also .111 oo print " ?J tb.t to an. wT slmiilstea reeding "V ttat cannot readily b. reeogo- "' tiuoc ' BUBBCBIPTION HATES By Carri.r. City tnd Country DAILY ASH BUN DAY o-. .$ .11 OM month MILT BUNDAY DAILY SUNDAY (Without Sunday) On y..r J Sis month.. . . . S.2S Three month... 1.75 On month WBEKI.T (leery Wednesday) Oh ft 11.00 Mi Month 00 (Only) On ye r .... Sis month . . . Three month.. $3.00 1 TS 1.00 WEKKLY AND ItKDAY . nM .ear tS.50 Th" -to mptij only In th. Wert. Ratea to Eastern polnu furnished on nwe Hon. link remtttancs by Money Order Order or Draft If your po.tfJo.ta not Uoo-r Order offlcw. I or 2 cent t,m.p . .(- Make .11 remittances paysbt. to Th. Joornsl, Pi.rttaBd. Or.fo Th. br.in m.y detis. Uwi for th. blood, bat hot tamper l.p o'er cold dKitt. obak e spear. OFFER AN ALTERNATE BILL THERE is probably not one person in Poctlaml but will agree that the most vital thing to the port is a deep, wide and unchanging channel to the sea. Unless all kinds of ships can reach Portland at all times wc can never he completely successful In ocean commerce. This is so funda mental that it cannot be disputed. The Swan Island project under prop er safeguards would be a good auxiliary to a completed and perma nent channel to the sea. No kind of reasoning can make it equal in im portance to the ship channel. Espe cially Is this true when, as proposed In the bill, the Oregon legislature Is to continue to be the ultimate power, through appointment of the commis sion. In regulating the affairs of the port Willi the Swan island project repre sented by a measure-of very question able provisions, it Is not sound policy to make It the main thing and the channel to the sea entirely casual and subsidiary in tl proposal to be made to the vcters in the November election. That, however, is the present pro gram. The Swan island measure is on the ballot. There Is no alternate measure by which ample funds may be voted for channel work, if the Swan Island measure fails, the port commission will be left witli but funds enough to keep one dredge at work on the channel three months of next year. The proposition to the people then seems to be about this: You can take the Swan Island project, or you may get nothing. It is not a good attitude. It is not a good position to assume toward the public. There should be an alternate measure on the ballot, giving the peo ple a chance to provide funds for the rhannel without swallowing the whole Swan Island scheme. The Los Angeles Express, a Re publican newspaper, says: "Repub licans cannot but be apprehensive when they see their party's presi dential candidate commit himself to views opposed to what they thor oughly believe to be essential to the welfare of America and the peace and safety of the world." What hope of that new era that American boys fought and died for can any League of Nations Republican have through a canoioate who says the league is "a failure," and that it is "visionary"? BONDS AND THE BONDED TWENTY -SEVEN millon dollars will A constitute the bonded debt for Tort purposes of Portland as city and ; port should two measures which will appear on the November ballot carry. One of these measures will be -on he state ballot. It Is the "port bill . proposed by the Committee of 15. Tho '-measure will be voted on by the people of the state as a whole but it contains authority to Issue $16,- 500,000 In bonds which will be the debt of the Port of Portland district 1 only, and not of the state as a whole. ,i Should the people of the Port of Portland district cast a majority vote - against the port bill and the people of the rest, of the . state cast a suf ficient majority to overcame the nega the vote in the port district, then he bonds could still be Issued, overrid Ing the disinclination of the people In ' the port district ( assume the debt. Tb is fact Is clearly, established in the - Port- of Portland -commission's sup , plemenUl statement to the answer fc i .-- made by. the Committee of.' 13 to certain Inquiries made' by the city j council. - I The commission said: The state-voter who fully understands or studies the situation will undoubtedly analyze the measure from the peraonal and local standpoint, which will involve three principal considerations. First, fi nancial cost : second, local interest, and third, personal benefit Answering the first, there is no financial obligation on the state or any part of the state out side of the corporate limits of the Port of Portland. The bonded obligation falls solely on the property within that ter ritory. Therefore, it Is evident that it is to the decided interest of the state to have adequate port facilities provided by Portland AND PARTICU LARLY DESIRABLE WHEN THE COST OK THESE WILL BE BORNE BY THB LOCAL COMMUNITY. The principle which negates taxa tion without representation has been established since the Boston tea party. The principle which forbids bond ing against the will of the bonded may yet have to be established. Ln addition to 116,500,000 in bonds which the port commission without further vote would be authorized to issue against the property of the port district should the port measure carry Portland has already voted $10,500,000 in dock bonds, a direct obligation of the city. A charter amendment which the city will offer at the November election will propose: that the city transfer to the port commission its title to public docks' in return for refunding bonds equal in amount to the dock bonds of the city. This will mean in effect changing the money from one pocket to another, but it will also mean transferring public dock administration from the dock commission, which Is answerable to the city, to the port commissiOTi, which is answerable to the legisla ture. If the port measure carries, the present port commission will have the power to bond the port for flC.500, 000. If the city's charter amendment carries the port and dock commis sions will be merged and the 110,500, 000 already authorized in municipal dock, bonds will be added to the fi nancial trust conferred upon the merged commission. BORROWING OK AMERICA i'T'HE whole world is pressing its X demands upon American money markets for new capital, for funds with which to finance new construc tion work," says a financial writer. French borrowers, Canadian bor rowers and borrowers everywhere are turning to America, and in America they get the money. The 1100,000,000 issue of French bonds, paying 8 per cent, was oversubscribed in less than a day. The statement is that under present American prosperity "the in vestment inquiry is likely to increase wilh the quarterly dividend disburse ment period, in which probably $150, 000,000 of new money will be made available for reinvestment." Our new financial system ias lib crated business and industry. It opened the way for every enterprise to develop to tfie utmost, and to oper ate without the fear that overnight a panic with its demoralization of business might grip the country. There was knowledge at he banks aYid among business and industrial heads that the control of credits was in the hands of the government in stead of in the hands of a small group of private individuals, and these heads knew that the government would never use that control of credits for private or personal ends. The result has been an expansion of business, an employment of labor and an increase of prosperity to the high est point known in American history. Even our enormous expenditures in the war and the debts we incurred in the struggle have failed to prevent financial and industrial. America from forging far ahead. As the financial writer said, the whole world acknowl edges our financial standing and "is pressing its demands upon American money markets for new capital for funds with which to finance new construction work." Our first great experiment in pro gressive government through adop tion of the federal reserve system has proven Itself to have been a godsend to the American people. HYMNS OF HATE CV. HODSON, Portland, writes The Journal as fellows: I read with amazement your editorial wherein you bewailed the fate of an honest farmer, who, by reason of the reprehensible action of Senator Harding (and others), found it Impossible to se cure a loan from the United States land tank to take up a matured mortgage he had been carrying on his farm. You stated he finally got the money else where, but had to pay 12 per cent for it. all because of the innate wickedness of Harding et al. You enumerated one or two item en tering into the expense, but cut it short by simply saying th h. f. had to pay 13 per cent or lose his farm. I want to ask you to publish the detail, of ts.r loan, so it can be seen Just how he was fleeced. Farm loans are almost uni versally made on the five year basis. Unless an outrageously usurious interest rale was charged by the lender (against and for which Ihe h. f. has adequate legal remedy) I would b warranted in challenging th accuracy of your state ment, unless me loan waa mad for one year or less. If it was a reeular farm loan, there could be no possibility of your h. f. being charged IS per cent or anywher near that amount of interest including brokerage and other legltl rnale chartes. even though Senator tiardinar. who, according; to your tell Is so vitally interested in "having Mr. h' !h.CCK?.?letejL,kinned- dld VOt K-t the bill which you say would hav al lowed th loan to ba, mado b ernment bank. Mr. Hodson should curb the hate that is so apparent In his letter. There. la no occasion for malice and bitterness in these campaign discus sions. There Is not the slightest" oc casion for display of passion with the country divided Into two camps of I hostile partisans. The records of men and the issues of the hour can beanalyzed dispas sionately and temperatetyi The coun try .will not go to ruin; no matter who is elected. It Is oo big a coun try and Its foundations are laid too deep for It to be brought to smash by a president Then there is no need for malice and bitterness. Mr. Hodsons letter is based on a conclusion that Senator Harding, by opposing the farm loan system, caused the Clackamas county farmer to have to pay 8 per cent interest, a 2 per cent bonus and other charges that made his total Interest rate 12 per cent. That Is a wrong conclusion by Mr. Hodson. The JournaJ did not make that charge at all. It related thaf the farmer paid the charges stated. Then it recounted the fact that in the senate Mr. Harding op posed the farm loan system, which he did, and which he had a perfect right to do. Here Is what he said, speaking against the bill to establish federal rural credits for the farmers of America : I can state an absolute truth when I say that there is no more need for a measure Of this kind for the arg-lcultur-lsts of the state of Ohio than for the government to step In and take charge of all our industrial .and productive af fairs In that state. Senator Harding, in making his re marks, presented the argument of a farm mortgage banker who, speaking of the bill, said: Its general plan is rendered utterly vicious by two monstrous objects, WHICH ARE AN UNJUSTIFIABLE USE OF THE CASH AND CREDIT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT FOR A SPECIAL CLASS OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS. To oppose the bill was the farm mortgage banker's privilege. It was also Senator Harding's privilege. He undoubtedly thought it the right course. Rut that he did so is now a matter of perfectly proper discussion "as dis closing the bent of his mind. It is of especial importance to farmers and others who have a right to know, and ought to know in advance, whether a candidate for president has broad views in which he visions the farm welfare and the welfare of all the other great groups of the country or limits his concern to the narrower group whom it is customary to refer to as "the Interests." Nor was the printing of the facts any reason for Mr. Hodson to burst forth into a hymn of hate, which in cidentally seems to be the wretched plan adopted by the Harding leaders in this campaign. As to the rate of interest paid by the Clackamas county farmer, it was 8 per cent. He paid in addition a 2 per cent bonus, and other costs and charges, making the total 12 per cent. Nor is it an isolated case. Thou sands of farmers have paid a great deal higher rates of interest. John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, in a report, declared that farmers in the United States were paying interest rates, with bonuses and other charges included, gunning as high as 20 and 30 and 50 and an even larger per cent. It is notorious and common knowledge that before the farm loan system was established farmers were unable to withstand the interest extortions and that their farms went ander the mortgage until, under the 1910 census, no less than 38 per cent, more than one-third, of the farms of America were tilled by renters. The farmers who owned and tilled their own farms were a vanishing race. Many a farmer has seen the old homestead go under the mortgage and become a renter on the land that his fathers had owned. The farm loan system, which Sena tor Harding opposed, is one of the most wholesome and valuable meas ures ever enacted into law in America. It is saving the farms of America from going under the mortgage. It is helping the farmers to stay on and own their farms instead of being driven into tenantry and from ten atry into radicalism. The way to save the country from Bolshevism is to give all the people a chance to get on in the world. The fact that Sena tor Harding was unwilling to give the farmers a chance to have low interest rates and long term loans raises a question as to his availability for the presidency. With one man out and three men on the bases. Mails, the Pacific coast southpaw, yesterday struck out Weaver and Eddie Collins, both heavy and sure batters, and thereby delivered the 'Cleveland team from an ugly situation in the closely con tested pennant race. Even base ball fans scarcely realize the strain on a pitcher asone, two, three and so on until six deliveries of the ball brought from the umpire in return the call of strikes that laid the two batters low. A good. Imagination can almost hear the roars of the Cleveland fans, see the grandstand on its feet as the last strike was called and the last of the -two bat ters dropped his stick and went to the field for the next inning. MAKE THEM SHORT IX THE Journal office are more "let ters from the people" than can be printed. Tho news print shortage limits tee size of the paper. It is physically impossible for space to -be spared for all these letters. The Journal wants every ons of its patrons to express his opinion in the "Letters From the People" column. But thert is one way only in which It can be done correspondents must cut their letters short. Brief letters are better. More oeo- ple read them. Let every correspond ent cut away all preliminaries and go at once to the heart of the subject. That catches the reader's attention. If you wouldjiold that attention through to the end of the article. Bay the thing that is to be said and then quit. Three hundred wordfc' te enough. If under the present demands for space you write rrtore the chances are that your letter will not be printed Your letter is wanted, but you must help make it possible for The Journal to give it space. Make it brief. GREAT FIGI4T FOR U. S. SENATE By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal. Washington, Sept. 25. Both gret parties recognize that the control of the next United States senate Is a prize sec ond in importance only tj the presidency In itself. The Republicans now hold a majority of two. including the disputed seat of Newberry of Michigan, who has been keeping away from the senate pending a final decision as to whether he belongs ln the senate or the penitentiary- Thirty-two senators are to be elected. Nineteen of the outgoing sena tors are Democrats and 13 are Repub cans, yet under the doctrine of proba bilities the chances favor Democratic control. This is because 12 of the Demo crats are from Southern states, and. with one possible exception, there Is no doubt that all will be returned. On the other hand there are only four Republican senators who feel assured of another term, and two of these even are not entirely free from dispute. Subtracting 12 Democrats who are aure and four Republicans of like classification, there remain seven Democratic seats and nine Republican in a greater or less degree of peril. A still further classification is pos sible. The signs now point to the return of four other Democrats and of seven other Republicans, the probable gain of two seats by the Democrats and of on. seat by the Republicans, which would give a net result of 18 Democrats and 12 Republican , with four states rather too doubtful to predict. Thus, under the rule of probabilities, the Democrats will control, for they would need only one of the four to give them an absolute ma jority. The 12 seats counted as Democratic at the start are Alabama, where two senators are to be elected, because of the death of Senator Bankhead ; Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana. North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia. Kentucky is the only state in this list where any real doubt exists, and recent reports do not indicate that Senator Beckham is in serious danger. The four Republican seats which seem beyond much dispute are Iowa. Kansas. Pennsylvania and Vermant. although the Democrats 'do not concede Iowa and Kansas, where revolts are seen against Cummins and Curtis, but not strong enough, in the judgment- of most ob servers, to bring about their defeat. Democrat counted as more than prob able to retain their seats are Phelan of California, Smith of Maryland. Hender son of Nevada and Chamberlain of Ore gon. Seven states awarded to the Re publicans under a similar scheme of probabilities, though not free from seri ous doubt in some cases, are Illinois, New York, North Dakota, Utah. Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin. Disinterested observers believe that the Republicans are rather more likely to lose from this list of seven than the Democrats are to lose from the list of four. The sipns today are that the Demo crats will elect Thomas Taggart over Senator Watson in Indiana, and Breck inridge Long over Senator Spencer in Missouri. The Democrats are thought likely to lose the South Dakota seat to Governor Peter Norbeck, although a sec ond Republican candidate is in the field and the Democrat there may win. This leaves Colorado. Connecticut, Idaho and New Hampshire, where no prediction is ventured. The Democrats now hold two senators from Colorado and Idaho and the Republicans the other two. Local elements are at work which make it difficult to say how these con tests will turn, and both parties claim them vigorously. Letters From the People Communications sent to The Journal for publication in this department should be written on only on. rids of the piper, should not exceed 300 words ln length and must be Bgnea py ue writer, whose mail address in lull must accom pany th. contribution. J AMERICA FIRST Portland. Sept. 23. To the Editor of The Journal According to the press dis patches, William Boyce Thompson of New York, chairman of the ways and means committee of the Republican na tional committee, was a witness on Wed nesday before the senatorial committee investigating campaign funds. Mr. Thompson, who is one of the most prom inent and influential members of his party, testified that he has an interest In the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers. the object of which he admitted "was to control ad vertising patronage of these papers so as to control their editorial policy." Governor Cox has been charging that the Harding managers were engaged in raising an immense fund for the pur pose of improperly controlling the elec tion so that certain interests may se cure an underhold on the government. He does not charge, nor does any sane person believe, that the voters of this country can be bought. But they can be influenced, and when a great political party, for the sole, purpose of gaining control of the government, uses an in sidious influence it is guilty of the vilest form of political, corruption. In his afternoon speech at The Auditorium ln Portland. Governor Cox charged that the Harding campaign committee has employed many paid workers for service In influencing voters of foreign birth. These voters are grouped according to their nationality. The Italians are told that If it had not been for American influence Fiume would have been awarded to Italy at the peace confer ence ; the Germans are told that if it had not been for President Wilson, the peace terms would have been less se vere : to the Irish Is held out the sop that Ireland's claims for Independence would have received more considera tion it it had not been for Wilson, and a similar racial or national appeal is made to nearly every group of foreign born voters. The result is that the term "hyphenated American" is one more with us, and Mr. Harding ia appa rently the beneficiary. The .Literary Digest of last week showed how the pro-Germans, under the leadership of George Viereck, have or ganized to carry the doirbtful wlstricts for Harding and how practically, every German-American publication in the country is backing Harding. And now, Mr, Thompson, under oath, admits his connection with an association having for its purpose the influencing of the editorial policy of foreign language newspapers through their business offices. This admission is In itself, enough to condemn the entire Harding cam paign and to make right minded Ameri cans refuse to support a ticket which would use such underhanded methods to carry an election. Senator Harding says he is. for "America first."" His managers are apparently for votes first, and are entirely unscrupulous In -he method they employ to effect that, result. In appealing to class and race prejudices, In arraying one group of foreign born cltisena against another, they are un- dsrtninin; uvat solidarity so essential In a country made up . of such a mixed citizenship, and instead of aiding in bringing about a situation where Amer ica shall truly be first in the moral and spiritual leadership of the world, they, are doing everything possible to promote chaos In this . country and throughout the world. L. I. H. SWAN ISLAND FIGURES Portland, Sept. 21 To the Editor of The Journal In today's Journal you re port that the Swan Island appraisement commutes has appraised the land to be purchased at J3.675.S45, and say this is a reduction of a million dollars from the estimate originally submitted by the Committee of 15. The original report of the Committee of- 15 appraised the land at its assessment. $1,744,925. and at that made the cost of the land purchase and the dredging alone amount to $4,805,000. Now the appraise ment committee, instead of valuing the land at $1,744,925. values it at $J,675 945. or $1,931,020 more than the original estimate of the Committee of 15, besides taking off the assessment rolls $1,744, 925 and a consequent yearly tax reve nue of $75,000 or $100,000. This will make the account ' stand about as fol lows : Original Mtimat total Added by .ppr.fc.1 commmea. Taken off of aaoenment roll . . . I'robabl. bond discount $4. SOS. OOO 1.9SI.020 1.744.923 600.000 Total (B.080.949 j Even if the estimates for dredging are not exceeded, this property will not be fully improved and will bring no revenue for a period estimated at sev eral years, and tha Interest during this time will be not far from S450.000 yearly. Remember that all this expenditure gives us nothing but the land and th dredging and will leave, out of the $16, 500,000 asked for, not even enough for channel dredging to the sea desired by the Port of Portland. Where, then, is the money to come from to build the elaborate system of piers and docks called for in the plans?t Where will any money come from for improvements asked by the people of North Pottland? And where will the 15.000.000 for tho Burnside bridge and more for the Mor rison bridge and various other Improve ments that are certain to be called for soon, come from? We are getting into deep-water, and on port improvements alone are preparing to spend twice as much as either Seattle or San Fran cisco, if reports are true. We will soon be assessed 75 or 80 mills, like Astoria and Seattle. Why not cut out the Swan Island and Guilds Lake scheme and give enough to the Port of Portland to do the needed dredging from the lower harbor to the sea? Inquirer. i If the arriter of the abore letter will refer to the initial report of the Committee of 15. h. will find tbat the committee did not then .ttempt any apprLal of the lands inrolred in the Swan Island project, bot that it appended the report of its consultinc engineer. ;. VV. Roachke. which report included a Matement of tha lands involred at their assessed ralue. If he will farther refer to subsequent Matementi by the Committee of 15, he will find reference to the probability that land would coat aom. $4,500,000. A member of the Committee of 15, Kr.nk M. Warren, chairman of the port commis sion, also stated before ciric calubs that probably three times the asseased ralue would be paid for the land. Doubtless the lUUment that the ap praisal of the appraisal board was $1,000,000 under the Committee of 15"s estimates arise, frran the .bore f.cts. Thii explanation does not. how erer. lewen the f.ct that to the fieures of the cost of the project as originally ftutanltted must now be added the difference between the as sessed and the appraised raluation tf the lands. J FARMERS INTEREST RATES Metolius, Sept. 23. To the readers of The Journal The bankers of the state i are sending out speakers and literature to the farmers In an effort to forestall the Non-partisan league and other ultra radicalism. One of the measures they are opposing is the initiative measure providing for a lower legal rate of inter est. Many of us will agree that this proposed law is too extreme; but it must be remembered that it , is designed to meet a desperate situation. We do not want to see capital driven out of the state, but we do insist upon petting capi tal at the same rate as others get It when we put up the best security. The rural credits law enabled us to do this. Who was it that opposed this law at the time of its passage? Who are they who are congratulating themselves now that they have put it out of business at the present time, and, perhaps, for ever? Does this look as if they are will ing we should get capital at a reason able rate? They say they want to work hand-in-hand with us ; but the trouble is. they keep one hand free to strike a death blow at the most beneficent law that was ever enacted for the farmer. They say they are willing to consider our needs, and are offering us a cooperative marketing law. That is all right as far as it goes, but it does not touch the point at issue in this interest rate law. which they are asking us to defeat, what do they propose to offer us in place of the federal loan which they are trying to knife 8 and 10 per cent money? Let them show their colors on this point. Let them approach the Oregon farmer with clean hands and he will meet them more than half way. An Oregon Farmer. COMPARES FARM BUREAU WITH LEAGU E White Salmon. Wash., Sept. 20. To the Editor of The Journal The con structive and intelligent attitude of The Journal toward the alarming con dition of agriculture certainly must be of real benefit to the Northwest, But an editorial appearing September S arouses a member of the Non-partisan league to thepoint of taking exception. This editorial espoused the Farm Bureau movement as opposed to the Non-partisan league. Kindly allow me to make a few comparisons : It takes no persuasion to bring farm ers to tha realisation that the profits of agriculture now ,go largely to an army of non-producers, who have crowded themselves in between producers and consumers. These middlemen have or ear,lzed a movement among farmers in hopes of heading off the real farmer's awakening, which bids fair So right many defects in our economic -system. The Non-partisan league was organised by farmers: it is composed of farmers: its officers are all real farmers, and it is financed and vacked only by produc ers ; but it Is fought and reviled by all the middlemen from brokers to bankers, from politicians to boards of trade. The Farm Bureau idea was hatched as a sop by politicians in hopes of divert ing ha attention of farmers from the real source of their oppression. Its of ficials are editors, bankers and politici ans, some of whom own a piece of land somewnere, thereupon calling themselves farmers. It has the support of the big corporate Interests, of the very associa tion of banks which has so viciously at tacked the fa) met a by filing the suit that has nullified the benefits of the federal farm lean act. The Non-partisan leaarue believes ln cooperation, but it is composed of farm ers wilh the intelligence to realize that cooperation is a waste of effort so long as those great interests which prey upon tho farmers are allowed to continue to nullify such efforts by adverse legisla tion. From its Inception until .the present moment the Farm Bureau movement has been loudly hailed and applauded by the Wall Street Journal, by the Boston Commercial, by hankers' associations and chambers of commerce, by the associated industries and by the political machines composing both the old parties. Naturally entfUgh. fanners suspect that these organizations, which are con stantly fighting the farmers" interests, feel satisfied that the Farm Bureau movement la quite harmless in its pos sibilities to remedy conditions, else they COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE dJeTioTl1 ..V? Price slashing. let the re auctions fall where they will. in KMlW T5?ueht Ulanc Is meeting think." Clty- wnder what they ertTdurtn?K' 68 fir n Columbia for est aurl ns; the summer. Thus adding one more to ne well known "67 varieties" . a of ?Kl're.?,fr at Pendleton. And many lL T?lUf M much oU a on dur ing the big Bhow. it-s part of the game, fJSi?-1".0. enera! revival of inr r,,?L They mu8t n amended the e. fffLif. to 't more of the bloodi ness back into ths pme. ?ne.if the "ucceasful business men says the man mt u . ... Jl? 1 learns how to get others tc- rX. ".i. T" ' we a to meet some Poet who became famous In. that way. MORE OR LfcSS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town H. t . Wortmjlo wiU leave tonight for New Vork, where he will spend About two months ln th Interest of his firm. J. F. Kummel, forest examiner In charge of planting, has gone for a two weeks' trip into the Rainier and Olympic national forests to examine areas burned over, with the idea of undertaking plant ing operations next spring. a a a Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith of New Tork arrived Friday at the Hotel Portland, having motored across the continent. They will remain several weeks in the Northwest. Mr. and Mrs. A. R Wheeler of En deavor, Pa., who are spending some time at the Hotel Portland, left by mo tor Thursday for Pendleton to attend the Kound-L'p. . Mrs. O. F. Cady. who has been ap pointed postmaster of Fatrview, is an experienced .teacher and since arriving at Fairvlew has made many friends be OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred I An addiUonal installment of his sketch of Dr. Eathrr Pohl Lcfejoy ia Mr. Lockley'a con tribution for tha day. Tho auruscleo of hi subject, when a young girl, to qualify for a career are recounted, with hit later tragic experiences in Alaska. ) "Who's Who" doesn't ask how much money you have, but what you have done. It recognizes an aristocracy of intellect rather than of mere money. If you will look in the 1920 edition of "W'ho's Who" you- will find a brief record of the accomplishments of Dr. Kstherrohl Love joy of Portland. Dr. Lovejoy is anxious to have in the next edition an added paragraph to the effect that she is the first woman ever sent to Washington to represent Oregon in congress. No one has ever accused Dr. Lovejoy of lack of ambition or of loaf ing on the job. We were speaking of her girlhood recently. "I left my birthplace at Se ibeck, Wash., . when I was 11 years old." said Dr. Love- j 3y- vv e came lo Oregon, moving to a ' ran:h near Jennings Lodge, in Clack- amas county, tather was no farmer so most of the work fell on mother and us girls. We worked long and hard. When I was 15 I got a job as cash girl in a Portland store. At 17 J was a sales woman at Llpman & Wolfe's. Making beds, waiting on the table and doing dishes at 6ur hotel at Sea beck, and later working on our Oregon farm, had prevented me from attending school, so my book knowledge was very sketchy. When I came to town to work, I began to study in earnest. 1 put in my eve nings supplementing the instruction one of our boarders, a scholarly man, ha,d given me when I was a girl. I wanted to become a physician. After a year or so of hard preparatory work I passed the entrance examination for the medical department of the University of Oregon and woiked my way through college. I stayed out one year, working at Olds & King's, to earn money to continue my college work. For months I never rode on a street car to or from my work. 1 needed every nickel. would not support it. And realizing that the Non-partisan league gets at the roots of the matter, exposes the real prof iteers, takes away assumed power from corrupt hands, and puts government back into the people' hands, where it should be, these big Interests are show ering every state where the league is working, with a deluge of trash, calling Die farmers Socialists, free lovers, trai tors and all such amusing vilification. On of the first resolutions passed by the Oregon Bankers' association at its annual meeting in Eugene reads: "We pledge ourselves to aid in driving the organizers of the Non-partisan league out of the state of Oregon." Then they gave three hollow cheers for the Farm Bureau movement. And farmers are asking, "Why do the bankers fear to have us organize In self-defense, and why do they prefer we Jbin the Farm Bureau movement? If they are not se curing privileges through political means which work to their advantage at our expense, why do they excite un-American mobs to defeat democracy by using hired thugs to beat up farmers pesceably as sembling, as has been done ln Kansas and Montana, and as they threaten to do in Oregon when we organiser' The Saturday Evening Post, always the upholder of corporate interests above people's welfare, recently came out with an article predicting for America the fate of Rome then boosted for the FartJ Bureau as the salvation of our coun try. It continued : "A half million dol lars have been raised for this year's ex penditures. The president of the bureau receives a salary of $15,000 per year, the secretasy $12,000, the head of the livestock division $15,000, and state secretaries from $5000 to $10,000." Add that up for it states and tell me how such a movement is going to take control of grain prices from the .pecu lators or meat prices from the big five packers. , "Class legislation." accuse the bank ers while they at the same time nullify the farm loans, and squeeze credit. "Class legislation." yU the society of railway security holders, while congress withdraws $12,000,000 from ths usual agricultural appropriation and hands th speculators in railway stocks a billion and a half of the people's money. When the United States Steel company buys and shuts down the iron producing plant at Oswego so as to keep up prices by forcing Oregon to Import Iron from across tlie continent, that's business. When the O-W. R. N.. the Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific hold in idleness half of Portland's waterfront so a to hamper water transportation and charge freight rates based upon C per cent dividends on th capital thus tied up to maintain monopoly, that ia tousi ,. when Standard Oil instructs the Oregon administration to suspend the laws of . the state Rr its benefit, at the people's loss, that Isn't class legislation ; that's business. J3ut when the farmers, preyed upon like a lone traveler sur rounded by wolves, legislated against, lobbied against, ruled against, prof iteered upon and robbed, finally realise that they must organize or perish, what NEWS IN BRIEF -SIDELIGHTS Cox's voice Is troubling him'. At that, it Isn't troubling him half as much as it Is Senator Harding Albany Democrat . v Th old time slogan used In the days of our forefathers was, "Trust W od, but keep your powder dry." But the leaders of th Renuhliran oarty have changed It to "In none, w trust. Buys, get the money." Reedsport Courier. Th patrol planes are heading back to Mather field and the fire lookouts have been called in. When Old Man Pluviua gets on th Job th other fir fighters are merely so much superfluous equipment Eugene Register. Those Italian communists won't feel so chipper about their Industrial revolu tion after a couple of pay days have com and gone. What' the use of Own ing the factories and being your own boss If you can't pay yourself wages? La Grande Observer. cause of her active interest in public affairs. She Is well known in Portland, Mrs. Bertha Kessler. who has made a remarkable success In raising canary birds at Gresham, is proving tha claim that the climate and surroundings are more favorable to their rearing than in Switzerland, and the mountain of Ger many. . Dr. and Mrs. G. Earl Henton hive returned to their horn In Portland after an absence of more than seven weeks, during which tlm they tourad by auto mobile from the Rose City to the Mexl, can border and return. After reaching Los Angeles on their way south, they went to Nebraska by train tor a three weeks' vialL L. A. Treen Jr., supervisor of the Sno- qualmie national forest, passed through Portland Friday on his way to Eugene, whence he will take a truck to Darrl me lon for use on the Snoqualmie national forest. Lockley "A month after I was graduated I was married to Dr. Emll Pohl. a classmate and fellow graduate. Just about then news came of the discovery of gold ln the Klondike. My husband and my brother, Fred Clayson. went north at once, being passengers on the George W. Elder on hr first trip to the gold fields. Two months later I joined them at Skagway. You know all about ihe chaotic conditions in Skagway, where thousands of adventurers from all over the world were waiting to go over the trail to Dawsog and the Yukon country. a "I had not been there long till word came that men were dying on the trail of some mysterious malady that killed them a few hours after they were stricken. A meeting was held and a committee was appointed to raise money to operate a hospital. There were four of us on the committee and the money poured In. "Soapy" "Smith gave $800. We bought a huge mule barn, and, two days later we had our hospital in opera tion. I was in charge of It. We called it the Union hospital. It is now called the Bishop Rowe hospital. At first we lost every case, but soon we were pav ing about half of them. Frank Russell, now a big prune raiser of Washougal but then in his early twenties, was the first case we saved. It was spinal men ingitis. We gave them morphine from the first to make -them unconscious of their suffering and it further served to dry up the secretions which, causing pressure on the brain, had hastened death. . "While I was left ln charge of the hospital at Skagway. my husband and brother took the trail for Dawson. Word came to me that my husband had died of meningitis and that my brother had been held up on the Dawson trail on Christmas day and killed by a high wayman. He was the first of a number of miners to be killed on the trail. O'Brien, the highwayman who killed my brother, waa later hanged for this and other murders." a howl goes up of "class legislation, socialism." All right ; so be ft. But the Non-partl"-san league is rapidly enlarging its in fluence through the fog of vilification, enlightening the darkness of misunder standing, and bringing the bright dawn of a new day, when Justice shall sup plant greed, when the reward of indus try shall go to those who earn it. In stead of to the craftiest grafters,, and when . American ideals shall become American practices. Paul McKercher. Olden Oregon Anti-Chinese Legislation. With Special Reference to Mining Licenses. Chinese not residents of Oregon at the tlm of the adoption of the state con stitution were forever prohibited from holding real estate or mining claims therein. By several previous acts Chi nese had been taxed In mining, the tax growing more oppressive with each en actment. The legislature of 1 868 passed a law to the effect that no Chinese not born in the United States should mine ln Oregon except by paying $4 per quar ter. Any person employing Chinese to work ln the mines was liable for the tax. In 1861 the revenue to the state from Chinese mining licenses was . $339.25, or 20 per cent of the gross col- j lected. For the most part ihe licenses were issued in Jackson and Josephine counties. Curious Bits of Information j for the Curious , Gleaned From Curious Places The recent death of Count Lyof Tol stoy's w Mow recalls the romance of the great Russian writer's life. Before his marriage to Sophie Bebre, the daughter of a Moscow physician, Tolstoy had commanded a battery in the Crimean war and had been present at the storm ing of SebastopoL He had lived the Ordinary life of a Russian officer and his habits had been anything but as cetic In order that the woman he wanted to marry might know the truth about him. Tolstoy placed ln her hands a diary in which his peraonsl history was faithfully recorded, leaving her free, after she had read it. to become his wife or not. Th perusal of the diary did not alter her love for him. and their marriag took place ln UP'i. A CITT WHICH THANK8 THE WAR Charles pbelpi Cashing in Leslie's Instead f constant bellyaching (the word is perhaps Inelegant, but it says whas we mean) about the world war as something upon which to blame sll the subsequent ills of creation, St. Louis actually thanks the war for helping tu stimulate community spirit In a town formerly torn by dissession. In under going thorough Americanization. Ihe town learned how to us team work for good causes, and half a dosen business men assure me that St. Louis dales a new lease of life from war days. The Oregon Country NorOlweat Happenlnc tat Brief Farm tar Um Buiy Reader OREGON ' ;', Wheat Is being loaded at Huntington for market. T Sllverton community Is planning a gen eral welfare day. Hood River I. ..II - v. Pendleton Hound-Up. tJ,IalirTVlew K"001 ""-iot has voted to Join Union high nchool No. 2. Marshfield Democrats have opened headquarters for the campilVn - on th O-W. R. & N. al Huntington. New buildings of modern type are be Ing erected on the Benson Pheant farm ' Members nf the wnm...'. the American Legion post at Hood R,v.r oeiore t nrlstmaa. Residents of upper Hood River valley plan a vote on the nrnt.c.iM J ,7 crease the district's special road ta-x. D. H. Morgan of Morgan HrntherV grocery and feed tA . sold his interest to W. II. KandVl 7r ustacaaa. Communication hi, h.. i . r?J5aV A"letllt.irl college. Corval. lis. rrom Mornlnirniue .ollcce. Sioux tMtv i","- n ttn-t that the collrge will' c.lT? '.'ex.t "Pring. snd a.sklng a con- WAS1MNOTON' .tVle "rho' no"!" t M.dinn, near Se. attle. was destroyed bv fire. iumif? i?.T W;1U jumped to 836 a ton aftir a .lump to $ll. . Fifty per cent of n,. . Walla valley remains UMll ui rain. fer2h0ryhrLaV'?,i r Walln 'a ,uf r.'r,a brokpn '-K whf . horse fell vii nun. M O. Clinton. Kennewlrk tmnkor In proving" ftUto"lob"' -ident. ,s &l sens attended a pun e reception rfi. trlct officers snd 1 school fa'ully -1,ITi;Jr5i"'"''a""J."tnt Physical direct, or in the Tacoma Y M C A will head the phys.cal department at the Yakima deir'trr1";. 'i"".' '"-Ities rompanv. to securmes ' nrKl oil lands and securities, has been orKanized at Prog- he!l.,!:'i,', S . ""y "f Snoksne has .far.' """""H ' hair-man of tho jdsters division of ho Service Star IDAHO Prune packing Is under way al Kaj-le. The uKar factory at Shelley has r.tarted Its annual run. l owner Kepuhlicans of Caldwell forming rt etmpnlgn dub. are Grangevllle school district is on a cash basis for the first time In a number of years. A local branch of the Skooktim Pack ers nsKociatlon tins been formed at Lew 1st on. Charles Nelson of Khm Krnnclsco has opened a dining room In ihe Washington hotel at Welser. The Idaho lntermountain Institute t ' Weier has organiy.e, ,, V. W.U A. with a membership of 6H Kirl Hailev water iiwr. lire considering the building of storagq reservoirs at th headwaters of Wood mer. Men of Anicri ca By Rose Trumbull - - (A bit of Terse nnt rnly escrllent intuelf and on general principle.. but particularly timely as well, in iew of the special effort now being made in I'ortlsnil to fill, and eiiend. ih. line i.f .contm.ttera to meet the crnw.ng da m.nd for their services in directing riisung lloy Scout councils and organizing nrw ones.) You can talk of your breed of srattJe, And flan for a higher strain; You double the food of flip j..ture: You heap up til. measurs of grsini You draw on Ihe ita nf the nation To better tha barn and tha rn; But what .re you dning my brothers. To better th. breed of men? Tou boast of your Morgans and Hereford). Ot the worth of a calf or a enlt. And scoff at th. scrub nd th. mongrel As worthy . fool or a doll : Ton mention the poinla of your road.ter . With many a "wherefore" and "when,'' But. all, .re you rontilng, my brothers. The worth of the children of men Toil talk of your riwn colored filly. Your heifer so shapely and sleek -No place shall be filled in sour stanchions, lljr stock thst unworiliy or weak Dot wlut of the stork nf iur houvlmldf Hare they wjmlered beyond nur haaf Ob. what is revealed in the round up That brands tb. daughters of mrn' And whst of your hi.y I late vni messtiro His needs lor a growin. year? Doesyour mark, as hu .irr. in his features Mean less than your brand on s iterrf Thoioughbred ' lhai i your aL h.ord. Tor stable and tiasturr anil pen. Uut what Is your word tor 1 tie homestead f Answer, ycu breedns of men! Scottsdalr. Anona Uncle Jeff Snow Say : Pore men and pioneer farmers Jlst loves to pay taxes on everthlng they do and everthing they git. That's where they git beat out by the big land rptc 'lators and millionaire tax dodrcrs. I knowed a feller In Merced rounty. ("al -forny, 'fore Teddy Roosevelt was presi dent, that went and beefed somethin terrible to the county 'sensor 'cause he'd knocked down the Vessmenl on Ins four mules from $50 a head to IIS. He told that dumbstruck official them mules was worth $75 apiece of any msnfa money and he wasn't a-Kuin' to stand any skh trsjucln' of m. And thats what's the matter with the farmer lo some -extent. ' I New Attestation of I 'rime l'osition of ( Ircm -i Wonder! ul I 'runes There Is an uninieniionnl coinci dence in the fact thut the New Ore gon" prune has be ri announced Just after the grower of ur'cm prunes had made an advertising appropria tion of .50,000 with hnh to Identify Oregon as the center "t production of the world's finst prunes. The "New Oregon" Is said to be larger, .sweeter. n her and mor easily presenahie than the Italian or the Frcn.h prune, as these varie ties are produced to their maximum quality i" this Ktate. The advent of ihe new fruit 1s an everst. It i testimony to th patience, the skill, the ambition and the en ergy ''" nl t0 Ihe intelligence) , of the line vrrnni tiuscus wuu una I j, in the prune tne visiDie reward of lonx study and effort. It furnishes mstenal to be used In making known the fad that It Is not Call fornia but Oregon which grows th wholesome fruit In highest quality and quantity. California's advertli- ing methods have too long been over acquisltiv of Oregon's merited pres tige in fruit growing. It has been estimated that Ore gon's -prune yield this year may reach (0,000,000 pounds,, with a value of $(.000,000, Unseasonable rains may reduce the volume and the value of the crop. But the growers find one crumb of comfort ln the fact that If the yield is less, the demand will be greater and the price per pound more. Oregon's natural resources of soil and climate are so exceptional that this state need not fall short In pro ducing the finest products from the oil and th finest men and women on the soil.