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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1920.
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TO MEKT thr; immediate financial
need of llu: government the treas
ury tffpurl merit ut frequent intervals
floats short time loans in (he shape
of "Treasury certificates of Indebted
ness." Like Liberty bonds, these cer
tificates are offered to all the pesple,
nod like Liberty bond Issues subscrip
tion must come through a bank. Hut
when individuals apply they find ttiat
because of high rates of interest which
they bear and their short maturities
In many localities the banks have sub
scribed to the full issue for their dwrj
account and decline to accept subscrip
tion from Individuals.
This is unfair to the individual and
is a short sighted policy for such
banks. The public bought Liberty
bonds till it hurt, even when it knew
they would decline in price, and now
that a more attractive issue is being
floated by the government the public
bhould be permitted to participate
along with the bHiiks. By excluding
the public from such participation in
government issues the. bankers create
prejudice against , their Institutions
which can only be Inimical to their
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j. The Journal has no quarrel with the
j' banks. It has been unstinted in its
I praise of the patriotic manner in
t' which they supported the goverment
during the dark days of the war and
n cungi Hiuiuit' iiiem upon iiieir reauy
wV assent to suggestions and regulations
."of the treasury department which have
' for their purpose the deflation of the
I currency and credit and a return' to
' normal conditions, but It wishes to
point out to the bankers the danger
of arousing prejudice against them
' oclvcs.
It was a mistake for the banks to
' make a charge for the safe keeping of
Liberty bonds after they had prom
. Ised the public that they would per
i form this service gratuitously.
In any event the rvftnks should be
first to sec that those who bought
f. Liberty bonds until it hurt may now
m have a chance to buy the more at
1 tractive government securities.
The Northwest rivers and harbors
convention In Portland. October 4
and 5. should take a resolute rtost-
" tlon In support of the preparation of
the Columbia and Snake rivers for
; practicable navigation between Celilo
( and Lewlston. Idaho. A distinguished
t board of army engineers will hold
j a hearing In Lewlston on October 6
to canvass public sentiment on the
r- proposed canalization of the two
' T, streams. Portland should be repre-
scnted there.
BRIDGE TRAFFIC
IT HAS been pretty well decided that
Portland, for the present, at least,
will not Increase the efficiency of the
Bumside bridge by replacing it with a
span costing 16,000,000.
'. But Portland may well take up, from
' a traffic viewpoint, the question of in-
creasing the efficiency of the bridges
the city possesses, -' i :
Time is money and every condition
and regulation affscting the bridges
across tho Willamette. 'is calculated to
consume time
The rules of bridge use classify Auto
mobiles with street cars, require the
swift and flexible velilclcs to form. In
deviable lines with cars that average
only five to eight miles ah hour of
speed across" the bridges, leave about
hair fie bridge area exclusively for
Uructs and prescribe; police court pen-
4 alties for infractions. Traffic wquld
mte on me Drwgcs ,wnn less ieay
and even greater safety if motor trucks
were classified with street cars and
automobiles permitted to pass all other
vehicles within the center line of the
bridge roadway.
But traffic regulation is only one
delaying factor in bridge use. Travel
on water front streets intersects and
conflicts with bridge traffic. Confu
sion that falls just short of inextric
able tangle results. Most of the bridges
are congested at their approaches for
lack of distributive thoroughfares.
AH of this means loss of time. Time
is money. Let the city planning com
mission and the police traffic bureau
cooperate in a plan for handling the
traffic that uses the bridges and
borders the river that will reduce the
delays and make Portland's bridges
efficient.
When asked how he lubricated his
wagon an old farmer replied, "I puts
the grease on the squeak. Then I
gets to where I wants to go." Port
land has authorized bonded debt of
J10.500.000 for public docks and
deep sea terminals. Portland's vital
need now U a deep, constantly, main
tained chanet to the sea. Organiza
tion of the port's resources should be
directed to this end. Any port meas
ure proposed should be rejected if it
does not clearly and assurlngly pro
vide for a deep and wide channel.
BREAD AND SCENERY
IN A bulletin published at Washlng
1 ton, D. C, the National Parks as
sociation says:
The bill to authorize the use of the
Palls river basin In the Yellowstone-National
park for Irrigation purposes was
stopped at the end of the session, but it
was not defeated. It will appear again
at the next session. It must be defeated.
The explanation for this arbitrary
assertion appears in a subsequent
paragraph. The water powers and ir
rigation water supplies of the national
parks must remain unused to main
tain "untouched nature; their status
as museums of the original American
wilderness stands in great danger of
destruction."
The executive secretary of the Yel
lowstone Irrigation association stated
to the recent Irrigation convention of
Nfontana, Idaho, Oregon. Washington
and Wyoming that uninformed propa
ganda is preventing the reclamation Of
lands, which, if nfade productive,
would help solve the food problem of
the 1'nited States.
The convention placed itself ou rec
ord in a resolution reading:
Whereas : In the agricultural develop
ment of considerable areas of the West
it Is found necessary to conserve cer
tain waters in our national parks;
therefore,
Be it resolved, that the honorable sec
retary of the interior is earnestly re
quested to permit the necessary surveys
and studies in the case of any such pro
posed development, and where he shall
find such works can be constructed and
maintained without interfering with the
public use or marring the scenic beauty
of such parks, the right be granted
therefor.
Now'Emerson Hough appears in the
current number of the Saturday Even
ing Post, espousing the view of the
association, and saying that impound
ing dams might be erected outside
Yellowstone National park to perform
an equal service at greater cost.
The people on the ground declare
that success in their plans would store
the waters of spring freshets for later,
dryer periods, prevent destructive
floods, maintain Yellowstone falls in
uniform beauty and serve a great
economic purpose.
An Important principle is involved in
the discussion., Us decision will set a
precedent which sooner or later will
affect the utilizing of water and water
power in Rainier, Crater and other na
tional parks.
How will the public interest be best
served?
Roseburg residents thank the wind
for helping to blow down the high
coBt rt living. The apples that were
blown from the trees by high wind
sold by the sack at a nominal price
Instead of in boxes at high and
fancy figures. The Umpqua valley,
by the way, ordinarily has no wind
exceeding four miles an hour.
SEATTLE SHIPS
SAN FRANCISCO Is chuckling over
the prospect of regained commerce
leadership on the Pacific coast. In July
the Imports at Seattle, or, more ac
curately, the district of Washington,
amounted to $9,343,153; of the San
Francisco district, f27,673.74. Seattle's
July exports were fl6,078,!)90; San
Francisco's t20,2S4,731. Seattle's total
of export and import commerce for
July was f23.422.143; that of San Fran
cisco. $47,9o8,480.
Seattlc'9 meteor like experience in
commerce grow th arose from war con
ditions. There were great movements
of material and munitions to Siberia.
There was a displacing of normal trade
lanes and unusual quantities of cot
ton, vegetable oil, rubber and even tin
moved through Seattle. While speed
and not freight rates was the first
consideration while the water and
rail route took precedence over the
all-water route, Seattle's sun shone
warmly.
Seattle, against the warnings of some
of her own largest traders, chose to
accept the temporary intensity of busi
ness as . a permanent condition and
began to build accordingly. Now the
visitor to Seattle finds behind the
glossy front.door of optimism a secret
but very real . worry as to how the
Interest is going to be met on multi
form municipal debt. : .
- Reforms for their . own - success
should come from clthlnv When the
Multnomah .Anglers; ..club ' argues for
a shorter t lahlngj. season."' a reduced
limit on the number of rth that may
be caught, a prohibition against tak-
lnsr trout less than B 1ft IWV. 1m
j length-and an Increase In the amount
Jof the angler's license fee. it signi-
fles a direct turning toy-the mem
bers of the club against the game
hogism that destroys one of the
greatest attractions of Oregon's
matchless outdoor country. Unless
the severest restrictions are applied
and the utmost means of propaga
tion are employed, trout fishing in
Oregon will soon become a thins of
yesterday.
A trip through Oregon in any di
rection startles the traveler with a
revelation of progress in the out
State districts. During the week of
October 17-24, the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce will conduct a
business men's excursion to the
flourishing' towns of Eastern Oregon.
The opportunity of the excursion will
be to learn the surprising business
opportunities, the town building and
the land reclamation of a great re
gion. The business man who can go
and does not confesses that such
trade as he can secure within the
city limits satisfies his ambitions.
LOWER PRICES SANER LIVING
IT IS less important to say that prices
are going down than that the pur
chaslng power of a dollar is growing
greater.
Price reductions all over the country
mean in most instances merely the
changing of figures on cost tags. The
dollar which has been buying 48 cents'
worth is buying more than during the
hectic days of war and the abnormal
period that followed conflict.
From appearances the lowered prices
on merchandise and automobiles will
give the dollar in many lines an im
mediate buying power in the neighbor
hood of GO cents. Little by little, and
probably through a long process, the
normal will be regained. The profiteer
who has held his accumulation over
long will be compelled to accept what
many hope may be a loss. Both neces
saries and entertainment will gradu
ally be priced' within comfortable
reach of the majority.
As supplies for producers, manufac
turers and merchants become lower in
price, less disturbance will be felt from
the effect of the first sharp reduc
tions. There will be no panic and no gen
eral financial stringency. The national
credit situation will be maintained by
the federal reserve system.
A period of saner living is in pros
pect. Those who have practiced thrift
will profit now.
In appointing Mrs. Sblomon Hirsch
of Portland on the advisory commit
tee of the Republican party, National
Chairman Hays has placed honor in
gracious, kindly and able hands.
PLATE WORK
SCENE : Room Just off the front
porch, conferees in intensive con
versation. Nominee But I declared against the
league.
O. 0. P. Advisors The people want
a league instead of a next war.
Nominee Yes. 1 suppose so, but
Jefferson and Washington never spoke
of a league.
Advisors It isn't necessary to go
in for the league. We can frame one
of our own.
Nominee We must be conservative.
Remember, I am a reactionary.
Advisors If we frame our own
league we can take full credit.
Nominee I have no precedent to
guide me. I feel that I am groping
in the dark.
Advisors You can say that you
never were opposed to a permanent
machinery of nations to perpetuate
peace, but that you were only against
the League of Nations.
Nominee Ah, gentlemen, I believe I
now see more clearly. There is a
precedent the Hague Tribunal.
Advisors But the old Hague court
failed. You forget the world war.
Nominee You are expecting too
much of me, gentlemen. I am the least
progressive of our standpat clan. As
I said in my speech to the people, a
leader is found for every emergency.
uch calm reasoning I believe Is cred
itable in view of the mess we seem
to be in. But as you say, I must take
this league thing by the teeth.
Advisors Eureka! You have coined
it the teeth! the teeth!
And the Advisors depart joyously in
search of false teeth for the Hague
Tribunal.
All is not gold that glitters and all
eggs are not fresh even when so
placarded, says the dairy and food
commissioner. The way to make the
sign good, the official suggests, is to
have the grocer write' on the bill,
"Freshness Guaranteed." Then the
bad eggs you find in the dozen are
his loss, not yours.
THE INEVITABLE
THE Family.
The C!an.
The Tribe.
The City.
The Nation.
What next in the path of progress?
The League of Nations. It is in
evitable. The League of Nations is the out
growth of man's and woman's evolu
tion. They have been tendine inward
It all through the ages.
Mankind and , womankind began
primitively, barbarously, savagely. It
was dog eat dog in that dar. The
weaker fell prey to the stronger.
xne nret unit In government was
the family; Men and women allied
themselves for their protection. Sol
idarity was their best defense against
aggression, so families formed clans,
then tribes, -t And then- the city be
came the supreme unit Rome con
quered the world and Rome felL Then
these homogeneous units-coun tries
began to disagree and there were wars,
the most bloody. of . all. between
nations.
Thus has been the evolution of hu
manity toward the league of all
peoples.
OCTOBER 9
ELTON court in Portland became a
torch and human bodies helped
feed the flames. The Houston hotel
in Klamath Falls, evn less defended
against fire, became a funeral pyre for
15. The governor had these prevent
able tragedies in mind when he pro
claimed October 3 as "i'ire Prevention
day."
Let it be a day when fire marshals,
aided by citizens, can report that in
spections have been completed and
that fire traps have been officially
marked and corrected. The utmost
value Hes in the educational effort
that will teach people to abhor the
causes of destruction by fire.
But there will alwaya be many cal
lous building owners and careless
tenants who, without the prod of
official admonition, will fail in the
precautions necessary to save their
lives.
COMING CHANGES
IN THE HOUSE
By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor
respondent The Journal
Washington, Sept. 27. Notable changes
will be seen in the house of represen
tatives when the next congress as
sembles early next year, it being taken
for granted that, whoever is elected
president, an extra : session will be
called by the new president. Some of
the veterans are going out, and a few
others, after a season elsewhere, are
coming back. Two former members of
the first rank, one a Democrat and
one a Republican, are believed certain
of election, and they will give ener
gizing force to a house that id In need
of it
One is William Bourke Cockran ;of
New York, Democrat, nationally known
orator and a man of unusual attain
ments, who served several terms many
years ago and was even then a match
for the keenest debaters in the house.
Cockran will be a tower of strength
for the wets, and likewise for the ad
vocates of the recognition of Ireland.
At the San Francisco convention he
was the champion of the Ill-fated wet
plank, and last winter he filled the
corridors in the senate office building
when he came to Washington to argue
for the Irish resolution. Cockran is
coming to congress in place of Thomas
F. Smith, the secretary of Tammany
Hall, who after two terms has resolved
to return to the practice of law. Cock
ran was for a long time in the dis
favor of the Tammany powers, but he
apparently has been restored in their
opinion by his recent activities. Every
one concedes trlat the house will be a
merrier place with Cockran back.
The most noted Republican addition,
it is expected, will be Theodore K.
Burton of Ohio, who retired from the
house many years ago to become United
States senator, then became a candidate
for president, and more recently a
banker in New York. Now he is re
turning to the house from his old dis
trict in Cleveland. He has been one of
the leading Republican advocates of
the League of Nations and Is recoga.
nized as an authority on banking and
waterways. He led several historic
fights on "pork" in river and harbor
bills, and at the close of one session
in the senate filibustered a $45,000,000
bill down to $20,000,000.
Another veteran Republican renomi
nated and presumed to be fairly certain
of another term is Henry Allen Cooper
of Wisconsin, who was defeated two
years ago because of his attitude toward
war measures. He is a former chairman
of the foreign affairs committee. He
had served 26 years continuously when
defeated, a service exceeded only by
Speaker Gillett and former Speakers
Cannon and Clark ; but Cannon and
Clark have not served contiguously.
Two sitting members who jhave been
most prominent ip railroad and water
power legislation have been defeated for
renomlnation. John J. Esch eT Wiscon
sin. Republican, principal autiior of the
Esch-Cummins bill, under whlcli the rail
roads were returned to their owners, and
chairman of the committee on Inter
state and foreign commerce, has lost
out. and the same fate has fallen to
Thetus W. Sims of Tennessee. Demo
crat, former chairman of the same com
mittee. Sims has been a member 24
years and Esch 22 years.
S. Hubert Dent of Alabama, chairman
of the military affairs committee dur
ing the war has been defeated, and J.
Thomas Heflin. another prominent mem
ber from Alabama, will leave his seat
in the house for one in the senate. Thad
deus H. Caraway of Arkansas will also
move over to the senate, and Scott Fer
ris of Oklahoma, well known to the
West as former chairman of the public
lands committee, will doubtless follow
suit, as it is generally .believed he will
easily defeat his Republican opponent.
,
A Ivan T. Fuller, a Massachusetts Re
publican of marked independent and
progressive tendency, has been nomi
nated for lieutenant governor of h'is
Btate and will retire from the house.
Charles F. Booher of Missouri, one of
the old timers, will retire voluntarily,
and so will William Kettner of Califor
nia, Democrat, who has been unbeatable
in a district for many years overwhelm
ingly Republican.
Letters From, the People
(Communication! aent to Tha Journal 'for
publication in thi department should be written
on only ona d of the paper, should not exceed
00 words in IvncUl aml-siaac ba aianad by tha
writer, wnosa mail addraaa in full mint accom
pany tha contribution. 1
THE SENATE CABAL.
Portland, Sept. 24. To the Kditor of
The Journal There is no doubt that the
best element of the American people
want a League of Nations, to prevent
war. What I mean by the best element
is the moral and religious. The anar
chist and Bolshevik are not an element
of our country ; they are interlopers.
The issue is clear enough, but evil
passions arise in some very good ' men
that befog the issue. It Is always so.
Sure, the Republican party has some
high ideals, but they are usually for
high people. The others are fooled, as
they are trying to fool them now. That
party has -pointed with pride" to Elihu
Root as the great international lawyer
of America. His late authoritative re
port that the league Is practically all
right, is a stunning blow to the autoc
racy of the senate. But will the people
find it out? Wilson's 14 points, enunci
ated during the war, and the League
of Nations growing out of it, constitute
the greatest scheme of liberty, peace
and prosperity ever devised since the
declaration of independence and the
adoption of the constitution growing: out
of U. The Republican party can't fool
all the people all the time, but they
sometimes fool the majority of them.
The opposition to tha league would be
inexplicable were Jt not for the well
known fact that- ysalousy la- the most
Implacable trait of the humaa soul. Once
aroused, reaaon no longer sits enthroned.
Wilson wu getting; too popular. The
civilized world was rejoicing with hope
that his ideals would be consummated.
They embraced the most liberal thought
of both America and Europe. Wilson
was rapidly acquiring a place )n history
that would rival the fame of Washing
ton and Lincoln. The senate cabal was
terribly aroused, and something must
be done. Wilson must be sacrificed,
though the world pays the penalty.
J. B. Wright
A NEW TICKET
Hood River, Sept. 25. To the Editor
of The Journal I suppose the subject
of "high cost of living" has been talked
about more than anything else before
the American peejple today. The people
have been made the victims of a gigan
tic system of robbery by organized capi
tal ever since the war. The distress and
suffering causes by this thievery Is
widespread. Cries have gone up to our
lawmakers time and again all to no
purpose. Every kind of plan has been
resorted to, only to fall. The people
have found that the so-called 'shortage"
of everything is a hoax. President Wil
son said. "There is no shortage of sugar,
but there is a shortage of honest men
to handle it." I suppose the same might
be said of almost everything else. When
a business man. a senator or a dealer
was asked to do something he would
confess thai, was beyond his power.
But, listen : There came a "still small
voice" from the Northeast. If la the
"Tin Lizzie man" speaking. lie pro
poses to cut deeply the prices on his
automobiles. All lines of trade, from
collarmaker to mail order house, begin
to have the shivers. The great wall
around the city of Jericho withstood
all the forces that could be brought
against It for ages, but when old Joshua
took up the ram's horn and sounded the
honk honk, down went the great wall.
Now wasn't that easy? Mr. Ford comes
along, after all efforts have failed, and
sounds the honk honk, and down come
the prices. Ford turned the trick. I
hereby nominate Henry Ford for presi
dent and Arthur Capper for vice presi
dent of the United States.
John B. Polk.
A DISCUSSION OF ISSUES
Tortland. Sept. 2h--To the Editor of
The Journal I consider this "League of
Nations" and "wet and dry" stuTf merely
camouflage. There seems no question
about the desire of the American people
to be part of the world ; even the Repub
licans admit this, so this cannot be a
very serious Issue. So far as "wet and
dry" goes, it Is quite probable that those
people who have raised it are well sup
plied with private stock, so this is not
only not important, but funny.
But it is important to this great North
west that farmers be able to cet money
as cheaply as po-ible : therefore, it is
important that the rural credits bill be
retained. It never will be. If the "old
guard" can knock it out. It is important
that the federal reserve act be kept in
working order and without control of
the bankers. Our past experience with
the "old guard" is too impressive to give
any of us thought that it will if they get
half a chance to knock it. It Is Important
that we be allowed to purchase Ameri
can made goods as cheaply as they can
be purchased in Canada. China or South
Africa, something we shall not be able
to do if the old protective tariff gentle
men get a fair chance.
It is an old political game to shake
the red flag in one end of the field, then
occupy the other end. Isn't that what
is being done right now? Think it
over. William Hewitt.
WHO'LL HALT HENRY?
Aurora, Sept. 23. To the Editor of
The Journal Judging from recent dis
patches, Henry Ford is carrying on
again with Intention, no doubt, of de
stroying the government. Is there no
way to stop him before it be too late?
Surely, it was enough when this man
had the temerity to stand for election
to the august United States senate, in
directly causing certain leaders of the
O. O. P. to spend vast sums of money
corruptly, to save the credit of the coun
try in general and of the United States
senate in particular. But now comes
something- infinitely worse and. if un
checked, liable to spread far and wide
with disastrous effects to the trusts.
Should Mr. Ford put the price of auto
mobiles and tractors on a pre-war basis,
thus making a reduction of about 1160
per machine, with 146,500 orders om
hand, he is in the way to lose about
$2,344,000. And, what is far worse, Mr.
Ford says he will not reduce present
wages.
He has said he will do these things.
Now, you and all other educators in
your line Have had fair warning, and
the question is. "What are you going
to do to stop this man in his effort to
subvert the liberty of the people?"
Napoleon Davis.
WANTS HOME BREW
Redmond, Sept. 19. To the Editor of
The Jurnal At last a Judge has got
up courage enough to say what is right
in regard to searching homes, or. in
fact, searching anything or any place,
for liquor. I have maintained that the
manner in which searching has been
carried on for the last four years was
wrong. A man's home Is certainly his
castle, and so long as he does not make
a nuisance of it it is no one's business
If he does have, a wee bit to drive away
dull care. I see that the prohibition fa
natics are to ask the legislature for a
large sum to fight the little home brew
and the little .bit left over from four
years back. If they wish to reduce boot
legging, why do they not work to let
people have their home brew and light
wines and' thus destroy the demand for
moonshine to a large extent? If we
could have this and not have to steal
It there would not be nearly the demand
for the stronger kind. When you take
away one's personal liberty there is
going to be a scrap. We believe In the
golden rule aa Christ laid it down.
Sam Brown.
CAR RIDER WANTS A SEAT
Portland, Sept. 20. To the Editor of
The Journal I have read your editorials
for some time? and can't say too much
for them. What I would like to say is
this: Regarding Mt Scott car riders,
it seems funny that every afternoon be
tween 4 and 5 o'clock the women will
stay down town window shopping, which
most of them do instead. of trying to get
home a little earlier so working men and
women might have a seat on the car
after working all day. I would like to
see the Portland Railway. Light & Power
company make no stop cars out of the
Mount Scott cars after they leave Second
street and until they reach Fiftieth
street. This is for the Hawthorne bunch
getting on the Mount Scott cars. also.
A Car Rider.
"REPUBLICAN AND CHRISTIAN T'
Hood River. Sept. 19. To the Editor
of "The Journal Can a man be a Repub
lican and a Christian? Since hearing
Billy Sunday's speech on Labor - day I
have decided that it is a pretty hard
matter for a person to be a Republican
and be a Christian. If you can answer
satisfactorily It will be a great relief to
quite a number of Christian people in
Hood River county, and may cause them
to vote for the League of Nations with
out reservations. T. J. McKean.
WHAT THE FARMER NEEDS
Charles Aubrey Eaton, In Laalie'a
Put la short and simple form the
farmer needs and must have the follow
ing readjustments In order to do his
work for the nation :
1. A federal farm loan bank that will
not be knocked to pieces by the politi
cians and Interests just when It becomes
of some real service to the farmer.
2. A great nation-wide development of
cooperative buying and selling agencies
for - farm products . and . raw .materials
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
A bad memory is' the skeleton In the
liar s closet.
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A little flour by any other name would
nrhtiKrlAMa - -i i .
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If a bass drum doesn't make good
music it drowns a lot of bad.
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When a w orjran can't get a servant
to do her work there Is no help for it
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It is useless to w-orry and useless to
tell a man that it is useless to worry,
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If a man never has anybody to lell him
what he would do in his place: he is
friendless. p
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It Is said that rating onions will pre
vent a mustache from coming on a
woman's Up.
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A poet tells us that babies are new
waves on life's ocean. Wrong! They
are fresh squalls.
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Riches will not buy happiness, but
some folks would be happy if they only
had money enough to make the experiment.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
E. J. Sullivan, erstwhile manager of
the Hotel Osburn at Eugene, has arrived
at the Multnomah. Sullivan Is succeed
ed by Theodore Morris, erstwhile clerk
at the Multnomah, as manager of the
Osburn.
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Flint of Los
Angeles are guests at the Seward. Flint
is a retired banker of the California
metropolis and he has seen the city
from its earliest days through the period
of its boom and its later depression fol
lowed by the slow and continued growth
ever since. It was In 18S6 that Flint
first united his destinies with those of
Los Angeles, at a time when, the town
had 60,000 persons. In 1890. the bubble
burst and property wasn't even worth
the taxes. But Flint stayed with It
through the years that it passed before
regaining its 'prestige and prosperity.
and fortune smiled on him. He now
spends most of his time traveling. The
Flints have spent the summer on Van
couver island, riding over the beautiful
roads and reveling in the beautiful Bcen
ery. They re now on their way to
San Francisco, where they will be met
by Flint's brother from Los Angeles,
who will go with them the rest of the
way home. Flint was disappointed to
find Portland stormy, but he knows the
city so well that he appreciates the beau
tiful days that do occur.
A reunion of classmates of the Uni
versity of Oregon In the days when the
institution was not so large ss it is
how occurred at the Imperial Saturday
when Mr. and Mrs. A. F. McClalne of
Spokane, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Keene of
Silverton and Mrs. Balm Hodgson of
Yonkers, N. Y., met after a parting of
many years. Keene was a famous ath-
I lete at the Oregon university in those
days, playing halfback on the football
team, and McClaine was also Interested
In athletics. At the time the party
w pe at Eugene, Phil Metschan, manager
of the Imperial, was engaged in his
studies at Willamette university and
much rivalry existed between the two
schools. Mrs. Hodgson Is accompanied
by her daughter Daphne.
Mrs. . A. G. Barker, who is house
mother for one of the sorority houses
at Eugene, accompanied by her daugh
ter. Mrs. Fielding Kelly of Hood River,
is spending a few daVs at the Seward.
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Judge Charles A. Johns of the state
supreme court arrived Saturday at the
Oregon hotel from Palem.
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Mrs. Ben Shucking of Salem drove
her automobile Into Portland from, Cul
ver, near Bend, in one day, alone, dem
onstrating beyond a doubt that the roads
in Oregon are very good, or that she
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
In thu article Mr. IxKkler prrianta Dr.
Esther I'ohl LoTejoy'a rariew of her work in
tlM aurceaaful campateo In ' TnrtWnd for pur
milk, and L of ber work ia France durin Uia
creat war. J
Probably no city in the United States
has cleaner or better milk than Portland,
and thereby hangs a tale.
"When I lost .ny husband. Dr. Emll
Pohl. from meningitis in Alaska, and
my brother Fred was murdered by a
highwayman on the Davson trail. 1
came back to Poatland. All I had left
was my baby, named Fred for my
brother. When he was six and a half
years old he died of septic peritonitis.
The post-mortem showed a tubercular
growth had formed In his Intestine, which.
j breaking, had caused his death. For
years I had taken milk of a dairy whose
cows were supposed to be healthy. Of
ficial Investigation of the herd showed
that 78 of the HO cows In the herd were
tubercular. I shall never know for a
certainty, but I shall always feel, that
it was this tubercular milk that was
responsible for my little boy's death. I
resolved that no other mother. If I could
help It. should have to suffer as I did,
from a condition that could be pre
vented. I wrote and helped to create
the public sentiment that secured the
passage of the milk irapectlon ordinance.
...
"The Oregon Journal was largely In
strumental in winning the pure milk
battle, and the public owes It a debt of
gratitude for its splendid and successful
fight. I served on the health board for
four years, being at the head of the
department for the last two years of
my connection with It, It Is rather in
teresting to know that no other woman
has been at the head of a health board
in a city of the siae of Portland. We
employed Dr. Mack while I was In
charge of the bureau, and that his ap
pointment was a good one is proved by
the fact that be is still rendering highly
efficient service In that department.
such as seed, fertiliser, stock and ma
chinery. 3. Extension of the present valuable
work of the federal department of agri
culture in cooperation with state govern
ments. '
4. Federal control of those agencies
which stand between the fanner and the
ultimate consumer of food, so that the
farmer will get a fair return upon his
Investment of capital, management and
labor, without making the consumer pay
famine prices.
5. Proper railroad facilities so that
crops can be moved when and where
they are needed.
C. Federal aid In organizing farm In
terests so that the individual farmer may
be financed from time to time In his
production of crops just as the individual
manufacturer fs financed by the banks.
7. Federal and state sid in stabilising
the labor supply so that the city man
who would do better on the farm can be
sought out and sent where he wants to
go and Is so badly needed.
IN THE Ll'L OLE TOWN
From tha St. Ixmia Cloba-DroMrrat
In the New York telephone book. In
prominent type, you read:
"I want an ambulance!
"I want a policeman!
"I want to report a fire!"
&uch i life to New York, a-
NEWS I&KJ3RIEF
SIDELIGHTS
It is almost Ume to think of something
&a tni-m ),, n.iUii. nt th twentieth
amendment to the constitution. Sahara
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Restaurant prices are coming down.
Pretty soon a person may be able to
get a good dinner in a public eating
house for what a week's board used tu
cost. La Grande Observer.
The Socialist party Is attacking the
Leaerue of Nations issue. What has be
come of the local committee's charge
that the league is the child of the
Socialists' Astoria Budget.
Incoming people have almost beaeiged
the Democrat office the past week seek
ing relief from the extreme house, short
, . . Kn nine to liva la a bar to in
creased population and school enroll
mentBaker Democrat.
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There being no county fair this year,
the prize apples of the valley are being
presented to schoolmarms. by very youni;
men, going to school for the first time,
and their ma's are taking the aliena
tion of affection as well as could be
rxpected. Medford Mall-Tribune.
Is an excellent drivers Mrs. Shucking
Is staying at the Imperial while In
the City.
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Charles Hall of Coos Bay, who is pres-1
Ident of the Oregon State Chamber of
Commerce and one of the prominent
bankers and most influential business
men of his home town. Is among the re
cent arrivals at the Benson.
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M. Z. Connell, who owns a big drug
store at The Dalles. Is spending a few
days at the Portland.
Herbert Cuthbert, secretary of the
Northwest Tourist association, Is down
from Seattle attending to some of the
business details of the association. He
Is staying at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Tool, and two
daughters and Mr. and Mrs. J. Wood
and daughter of Reasnor, .Iowa, have
arrived in Portland with the idea of
locating somewhere In Oregon. They
are staying at the Seward and expect
to look over the Willamette valley as a
probable home site.
Mark Blakeley, one of the biggest
stockmen of Condon, is in the city
visiting his two children who are at
tending Washington high school. Blake
ley has found the educational institu
tions of Portland much to his liking, so
ihe kids come here, and Blakeley comes
down every week or so to see them.
With him is II. A. Cohn of Heppner.
who Is likewise Interested in stock but
who lives to get away from It at
times. While the market conditions are
bad, range conditions were never better,
they say. and It looks like a favorable
winter ahead. The Eastern Oregon stock
men are staying at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Tliornburpn of For
est Grove are guests at the Oregon.
Thornburgh is one of the bankers at
Forest Grove.
Frank C. HesSe, attorney from As
toria, motored up Saturday from the
mouth of the Columbia and is registered
at the Imperial.
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"If this is the home town of Frank
Branch Riley, who delivered a lecture
about your country at Aeolian hall In
New York last winter. I want to thank
you all- for bringing me here," asserted
Daisy Cynthia Wood, a guest at the
Portland. "I think hundreds in that
audience made the same resolution I
did, to see the reality of the wonders he
described. 1 am refreshed and Impressed
by this tour, and I am going to qarry
back the word that all of Riley's eulogy
of the scenes and activity of your
Northwest Is richly merited."
"After four years of service for the
city I went to Vienna to take special
work along medical lines. My first trip
to Europe was made in 1904. In 1910
I again visited Europe, and while there
saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau.
This play is given every 10 yearw. This
year, for the first time in more than
300 years, it will not be given at its
regular 10-year period.
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"In 1917 I went to France, paying my
own way and going on my own responsi
bility. I volunteered to serve without
pay with the American organisation for
the French wounded, but I had been in
France but three days when the Amerl
can Red Cross requisitioned my services
and I went with Mile. Marie-Jeanne
Bassot to work with and for children at
The House of the Good Neighbor.'
Sympathy and faith In humanity were
the keynotes of the service there. We
were in the outskirts of Paris, midway
between Neuilly and Clinchy. Before
the war it was a factory district, given
over to a large extent to the manufacture
of perfumes, but with the coming of the
war the factories were set to work mak
ing cyanide and other poison gases.
...
"My work there during the winter of
1917-is was a revelation of the magnifi
cent spirit of service to humanity of
the French women. If you are interested
in that phase of my work I telieve Vou
will enjoy reading my book entitled The
House of the Good Neighbor,' and espe
cially my chapter on 'Democrsey lrf Re
construction. I was one of two dele
gates sent from France to the United
States aa a special representative of the
Woman's National Organizations of the
United States which functioned with the
National Council of Defense. I was sent
all over the East and South on a speak
ing tour. From February, 1918. until the
signing of the armistice I was busy with
war work activities connected with
women's work In France and In the
United States."
Olden Oregon
Poll Tax Law Passed In 1862 Aimed
at Dark Races.
The legislature of 1862 parsed an act
requiring that each and every negro.
Chinaman, Hawaiian and mulatto resid
ing Within the limits -of the state should
pay an annual poll tax of S3. Falling
to do so they were subject to arrest
and sentenced to work upon the public
highways at the rate of 60 cents a day
until the tax and the expenses of ar
rest and collection were discharged.
Curious Bits of ' Information
for the Curious
Gleaned .From Curious Places
The clay pipe is a noted American
product, and the largest clay pipe manu
facturing plant Jn the world Is located
at Appomattox, Va. Over 60 years , ago
It was known that clay found In that
Vicinity was especially adapted for pip
making. The first sent north found a
ready sale and a northern capitalist
traced a shipment to the source and,
after buying up the clay deposits there
about, established the big pipe making
Industry. .- : - .. .
The Oregon Country
Northwest !iirwntnra in Rriaf Form fof U
Uuur Itaadrr
OREOON
exte srvKMr biB
Sunday school workers of Salem have
organised a community training schooU
iJ? ,v'rBlde lmon are reported In ron.
Iderable number, as far sVuth as TlU.
Ground has been broken for the ereo
Beaverton Andern t M'St
.Jrln.cSuPty '""-hors will meet oc.
ober i a Salem to plan their work for
PrU growers at Forest Grove sland
to suffer loss because (he fruit Is rot
ting for want of pickers.
Kiigene during the ww experienced
the heaviest rainfall In Its history when
1 11 inches fell In 4H hours.
Hlph schools of Jefferson, Doa-
hut.-s and Crook counties plan a foot
ball league for the fall season.
SU dozen Chinese pheasants, males
f'tn.ilos have been released on
UntBvi Plains and In the Nehalem val-
Ira Ilsrrlncion of Pioneer, nesr Dsl
hs. nn his foot with, an ax while split
ting wood and almost bled to. death be
fore help airlve.l.
Only three e,-Ks remain In which
nominal in,. -...
""" "iy iw iura ior
penred " camU(la,p" ve p-
n"""r, V,H" n the cannery
-,oi i. C Unrnea when searched by
authorlUes at Abiorla uponer arrival
frotn Wrangel.
Willis C Potter or Portland has I
boueU th, niaU,v & watem sawmill at
Mlverton and will move It u near Stay
ton, where he owns a tract of timber
Silverton orchardtstn report thnt rain
hk as vet done little H r, i, ...,
rune crop, though It is delaying U
mrl ''' mresning and hnp-pii-klng.
A special election will be held at
age Grove in October" to vote -on the
iroOOKttlno of Hr,t,nrllnff O,. .... n1
ter to increase the limit of taxation-for
an'ng rare or interest on bonds anil
warrants and for taking up suh bonds
Hid warrants.
WASHINGTON'
Wuhkiaknm county plana a big fair
early in October.
The Standard Oil trt well at Morltpa
Is down over 300 feet and is in shale
formation.
Dairymen who supply Seattle with
milk threntrn to strike unless distrib
utors pay more.
Four hundred pintB of home brew
were seized by sheriffs agents in a
home nt Ynklnia.
I'uyallup valley lumber operatorssay
iticy are hard hit by the recent increase
n freight rates.
Urn Klok, fur two years president of
the irlef; Singing society at lioquinm.
has ben reebftrd.
No tuition will be charged ex-service
men in niht schools to he conducted at
Spokane high nchools.
Kelso Presbyterian (hutch has pur
chased a motion picture machine and Is
Installing It In the church.
The llulo club of tjrayn Harbor county
Is getting into the political campaign by
indorsing its favorites fur office.
Preliminary mirveA or'a lines have
been laid for the projected rond .from
the Clearwaler river to the CI a lock dis
trict. Burglars at Ilnqulam blew open a
safe in n. laundry but were frightened
away before getting the valuables they
sought.
IDAHO
Twin Lakes have been enriched hy
20,000 baby trout.
A new Latter Day Saints tabernacle
Is to be built at Shelley.
It. O. Bills was killed In an automo
bile accident at Ulackfoot.
Jerome county's first fair was held
at Jerome and was a success.
Klghteen candidates for the football
team reported at Gooding college.
Gerald A. Gibson has been appointed
director of physical education at Po
Catello high school.
W. H. Wickman. alleped in be a man
wauled for escaping from San' Quentm
prison, was arrested at Idaho Kails.
A petition has been presented to the
city council at lewlston asking repeal
of the ordinance licensing real estate
brokers.
Coeur d'Alene branch of the Spokane
Fruit (growers' association has about
completed Us new warehouse at Dalton
Gardens.
'Pocatello K'wsnls club was repre
Vi'ted Ht a session of Ihe Kiwan s at
lo.se by Joseph H. Peterson, president
of the club.
Uncle left Snow Says:
If you're a big corporation you can
hold timber or ioal land outer Uee.
and the war atid Ihe whole people'll
make you tidier ever day, but you
can't git gypufd 1V l;nlc Samuel fer
no Income taV You can show you
hain't nary Income whatsoever, even If
your property's up m value two or three
times what it vya" 'fore the war. You
can prove that your porn corporation
is a-livin' on borreyed mnney and whst
your wife's relations brlnn or nend In.
That is, of course, provided you don t
use the land and don't 'low nobody
else to ue It. The minute you use
It or rent it. why. then you havt an
Income and- you help pay fer the war.
The more you don't use It the richer you
git. Somethln' to do with the hixh cost
of llvln ? Mebby.
What the Lifcht Truck Mcnns
in Food Distribution in
Metropolitan Areas.
i Continued from Yesterday)
There are tremendous posslhllities
In the swift distribution of good by
Portland merchants and manufactur
ers by light trucks operating on the
extending network of paved hlgh-w-ays
reaching out from Portland.
Around the big bakeries of Port
land shortly "after midnight the
trucks begin gathering. By 1 o'clock
when most people are sleeping sound
est. the servants of the public's neexta
have their loads aboard and are
ready to start. The truck service
enables Uiem to serve the grocers
on their routes more quickly and
satisfactorily than if the local mer
chants depended mC local sources for
bread. In fact. It Is extremely prob
able that were It not for the truck
delivery, country housewives would
still have the laborious breadmaklng
as a thrice-a-week duty.
Because of the paved highways,
Portland bread reaches Hlllaboro,
Forest Grove. Fairvlew, Troutdale,'
Cirraham. St. Helena, ScappooM, Ore
gon City. Canby and Vancouver
while It is still hot.
Hy means of supplemental-express
service, the bread baked In Portland
is sent. to other points within a radius
of 300 miles of the city.
The dlstrlbuUon of bread Is but.
one Illustration. Other vendors of
foods that mast be delivered speedily
after preparation find the same value
In the Columbia river highway, the
Capitol highway, the Pacific high
way, the Tualatin highway and the
Powell Valley. Foster, Canyon and
Base Line roads.
In return, the suburban gardeners,
dairymen and farmers within a ra
olus of a ecore or more miles find
It easier to bring ihe people of Port
land mflk and vegetables.
The paved highway and tha swift,
light truck have become a contribu
tlve factor of tremendous value to
the dally economy of Portland and
Its Immediately conUgueus trade ter
ritory, , ., . ' . ' !