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A $40,000,000 PROJECT
, . D ELAT1VE to the Swan island port
:, IV project, the industrial dcvelop
f : ment bureau of the City club has
. after long and scientific analysis, rc
: : ported to that body :
S 1 The proposed bond issue of Jl 6.500,000
' contemplates only a step in the com-
plated project. The complete project
1; will cost at least 140,000,000, or four
'''r timet the amount of money which the
: Committee of IS has recommended to be
Used for that purpose.
Based upon its own investigation,
. The Journal said some time agb, "The
; Swan Island port project Is a 20.000,
000 project, or a $40,000,000 project."
t ''The City club's investirators have
." reached the same conclusion. Any
J Inquirer who gets the facts will reach
i the ?ume conclusion.
. Thu estimates upon which the City
club's bureau bases its conclusions ln
j elude fl0,000,000 for real estate and
dredging ;t $5,000,000 for the prepara
tion of industrial sites, $13,500,000 for
I the construction of 43.000 lineal feet
of bulkheads, $12,000,000 for docks,
total of $!0,r00,000.
' The bureau has accepted the initial
- estimate of $5,000,000 as the cost of
; l real estate, whereas the appraisal
board has since valued the i.rj2 acres
'embodied In the project at about
i $3,600,000. But whore a reduction
should be maoc on this account, very
good estimates have placed the cost
of dredging at $8,000,000, so that modi
fications of the bureau's figures would j
be more apt to increase than de
crease the estimated cost of the
v project.
The voters of Portland should
elearly undrrstand that the expendi
v lures recommend by the Committee
' of 15 have not at any time in-
' eluded any building of docks or
- preparation of industrial sites beyonei
. :.' actual filling, but have been restricted
; to buying landsand dredging,
i The City club burrau finds that Port
land now has 6000 to 7000 acres of
factory sites, 700 acres of which are
ready for use, without adding the
; area proposed In the Swan Island
project.
' It finds that at a cost of $1,000,000
the dredging necessary to open the
V West channel and improve the present
East channel around Swan island
could be accomplished, and that the
channel thus improved would furnish
Already escape for the flood waters of
lithe Willamette.
j.4,';; H criticises as bad munfclpal finance
I the plan to use part of the proceeds
Of the bond Issue proposed for curr
rent dredging expense.
:' "The City club as an organized body
"of business and professional men is
: entitled to commendation for its in
. . teres t In the port measure. Other
, i organizations and all citizens have
. (opportunity to similarly inform them-
- selves upon the real facts of the Swan
island port plan.
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The 5 . per cent bonding limita
.." tion proposed In the Swan island
". 't ; port measure on the November bal-
lot Is already a part of the port law
T5 1 'which' governs the Port of Port-
' land district, says a critic of those
, who analyse the bill. To suggest
otherwise is to discJose dark ignor
ante, furthe. opines this critic. As
a, matter of fact no 5 per cent bond-
ing authority !ia granted the pprt
y- "commission to dredge channels, to
build docks, to buy . and lease , in
!" dustrial sites or to Increase railroad
& terminal , yards. ,AU these powers
; are proposed In the pending port
. measure.' The port commission some
AMERICA I
By Senator Charles L.
THE statement most generally made Is that this article (Article X) collides
with our constitution and runs across the path of oursaered traditions.
This statement" may well be challenged.! Repeatedly the argument has been
advanced that Article X casts upon this government an absolute obligation
to go to;war under any conditions, however bereft of justice. This indict
ment,, in my opinion, is untenable. : .. I
Jn cam of aar uch r;gTealon. or In case of any threat, or danrer of atich
ag-g-ression, the councU shall advise upon the meana by which this obligation aaau
be fulfilled.
In this sentence (from the covenant) no obligation, moral or legal, presses
upon any country to adopt the method to repel aggression advised by the
council. The adoption of the means is left to the election of the various nations,
though in all human probability, if a situation would arise whereby concert
of action was sought, the advice of the council as to the means would be
followed if believed (o be practicable and just. By the force of another article
in the covenant the council, in arriving at a decision, will be governed by
unanimous vote, the power of veto 'standing between this country and an
unwJse remedy. That part of the article
is as follows:
. The. member. of the league undertake- to respect and preserve, as against
external aggrension, the territorial Integrity and existing political independence
of all members of the league.
Indisputably this provision casts upon this country and every other nation
a member of the league a Joint and several undertaking to go to war to pro
tect an associate of the league from invasion through external force, but this
obligation is in no proper sense a legal one, but purely a moral obligation,
entirely dependent upon the condition that the cause of the war and the war
itself is violative of the moral conscience of the American people.
Having stated my premises I shall
for my deductions:
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the penate, to
make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur. (Art. 2, sec 2.)
This constitution and the laws of the United States wnicn snail do maas in
oursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under ths
luthority of the United States shall be the
Thus It will appear that the architects of the constitution were very
generous in the quantity and the power
senate in the matter of treaty making.
thougl conferred In general terms.
this subject and the decisions or the
the constitution positively forbids may
by any different means. .
The treaty making powr can nt legally usurp any prerogative of the legis
lative branch of the government conferred by the fundamental law, conse
quently when the supreme law of the land provides how and by whil
agency war shall be declared, that agency then works in an exclusive field
and its right to function in this particular field cannot be abrogated, lessened,
or mlarged by the treaty making power
The congress ahall have power to lay
the common defense and general welfare
:lare war to raise and support armies . to. provide and
rialntain a navy, and make rules for the government and regulation of the land
ind naval forces. (Art. 1, sec. 8.)
In no sense, therefore, can the executive branch of the gosernment. aided
by the senate, cast any legal obligation upon this or any future congress to
pass a declaration of war upon any nation, however unjustly offending. Tlie
wisdom of our forefathers was never employed to better advantage than when
this limitation by intendment was placed upon the power vested with the
treaty making body.
Viewing this subject as I do it is ;not consistent with reason to argue that
Article X of the covenant lays a legal duty upon some future congress to
declare war against any nation that attempts by the use of force the Invasion
of the territory of a member of the league, nor the more, unpleasant duty of
requiring the government to send our splendid soldiers to some foreign land
to suppress "external aggression" defined in the covenant.
Over and above that, it must not be said that this interpretation would
mislead any other member of the League of Nations to its injury or operate
to our dishonor, for the very solid reason that international law recognizes
the constitutional limitations under which a nation makes its treaty. It Is
legally obligatory upon the signatories to the covenant of the league to observe
and to respect these limitations (From a speech in the senate July 22, 1919.)
years ago was given authority to
lHsue bonds up to 5 per cent of the
assessed valuation of property in the
port district for the purpose of buy
ing and operating boat and ship lines
if It so desired. The possibility that
the port commission might want to
go Into the real estate business and
build docks was not then even con
sidered. ABOUT LIES AND LIARS
H'
UMANITY is least perfect in its
oldest art, that of telling lies. In
literature, in sculpture, in painting, a
man may attain to 99 per cent of per
fect. There he stops, his labors welll
done. But in lying it is different. A
liar will go along, satisfied with his
own mendacity, until he reaches 50 or
60 per cent of perfection. Then he
becomes too sure, attempts major
league stuff and forthwl.h his batting
average begins to slump until it drops
below zer. Too late he has discov
ered that he is not a liar at all, but a
hypocritical failure.
It would be interesting if we couid
trace lying to its native lair and see
how it looked in Infancv. it is so old
that it is reasonable to believe It never
had a childhood. We have antholo
gies on everything except lyin-. Con
sequently, nobody knows where lying
began and God only knows where it
will end.
We know that Lucifer's fall from
heaven was preceded by a lie, proba
bly the first known lie. Lucifer took
the art with him through space,
gilded hades with it. then began reach
ing out for more territory. He made
one successful sortie In the Garden of
Eden, found the climate too warm and
ceased operations. However, he left
enough knowledge of the art behind
to assure its preservation.
For-years following( the Edenic ban
isnment. lying was In disrepute, ail-
though doubtless practiced privately
Cain rehabilitated the art, but found
it so unprofitable that he gave it up
It remained for Ananias to become the
first liar of everlasting and interna
tional prominence. It was he who
lifted the art from its long period of
dormancy and gave It permanency
Since then it has been the chief stock
in trade ftf politicians, historians,
novelists, friends, poets, wives, hua
bands and sweethearts. But like An
anias, they all fail sooner or later.
Contemplate it as one will, lying lis
the only art In which much success
ultimately spells ruin.
A horse-drawn truck moved into
Division from a side street last week
i ne ariver was reading a book. He
failed to even glance up as his truck
was drawn Into tho busy thorough
fare. He got safely into Division on
that oceaslon. But sometime he will
not. The place for a driver's yes
is on the road ahead, not on a book.
INDUSTRIAL GOSPEL
IN the words of Ida M. Tarbell:
There la a new industrial philosophy
aoroaa wnicn Dreaica with this idea. :
Nothing la so valuable economically iss
the man. To Injure or to kill him Is ito
destroy the one essential element la the
scheme of world-wide civilisation and
prosperity. Injury and death sr.
fruits of ignorance, ; recklessness . and
CAN VETOs
McNsry of Oregon
abput which the controversy wages
proceed briefly to assign the reasons
supreme law of the land. (Art. S.)
conferred upon the executive and the
However, the power is not unlimited.
The text writers, discussing
supreme court, declare mat wnaiever
not be done by a treaty any more than
and collect taxes
provide for 1
of the United States to de-
Kreed. . A death toll is no part ,of a prop
erly managed industry. It is wasteful,
wantonly wasteful. The saving of life
thus becomes an industrial Issue, The
new workshop is a safe shop.
The National Safety Council gtves
Miss Tarbell's thougntfnl assertion
support by publishing it on the. cover
page of its magazine. The statement
might also be posted In large letters
In every; shop and manufactory.
It is good industrial gospel.
THEIR LACK OF HOME LIFE
NOT so long ago folk of the stage
who gave excuses for lack of mar
ital tranquillities among members of
the profession pointed as a cause to
lack of home life, This, it seems, now is
accepted doubtfully by critics. Movie
stars with their much advertised bun
galows fail to steer clear or the shoals.
Wrecks are increasing, in number. Do
these folk fail to return to their matri
monial roles when the day's work Is
done ?
It rather may be summed up in that
thespians are better qualified for di
vorce. Many the wife of a merchant
or candlestick maker thinks of divorce
after the honeymoon wanes. But she
does not get it. Results would be dire.
But an actress may have an ample
income of her own earning. Her work
on the stage or the movies may take
away the bitterness of the dregs 6he
has tasted.
This is made all the more apparent
by the somewhat trivial causes on
which their divorces are sought.
John Barrymore's wife divorced
him. not on a complaint that he was
an unfaithful sort or that he caroused,
but because the emrnent John sat up
all night reading.
Charlie Chaplin is charged with
cruel language In family spats and
with associating with highbrow pro
fessors and students his wife could
not comprehend: . .
What broke the prices? Cauld the
mere cut in the price of a Henry In
fluence the entire economic struc
ture? If so many could reduce so
abruptly and so generally, why did
not s6me of them reduce before?
Evidently, the high prices were psy
chological, which, interpreted, means
that they were artificial and un
necessary, but were held on high
levels by common consent and com
mon action. If not, what is there
in the. mere cut on a flivver to make
all this economic change?
WHY?
THE Monarch lumber mill in North
Portland closed last Wednesday.
Two hundred people were thrown out
of employment. A productive indus
try was temporarily, at least, sus
pended. On Saturday, the Columbia
River Loggers' association asked why
the mill should close.
The only answer available-is that
the Monarch mill cannot in its posi
tion operate successfully served only
by rail transportation. It needs water
transportation for exportation of its
product. Water transportation is de
nied it. Water transportation is de
nied all the industries in North Port-
! The Nortii Portland harbor if a part
ot the Port Jbt Portland district .aM
has been for threa years.v. It la the
duty or the port of Portland eommia
$Ion to" deepen" the North Portland
harbor. But the port commission is
neglectinj its duty. It is ignoring the
Industries which exist and whose con
tinuance depends in greater or less
extent upon water transportation.
Not long ago it was announced that
negotiations had practically been
closed for the purchase of the Mon
arch mills by the Robert Dollar com
pany. The further announcement was
that Dollar operation of the mills
would bring a new ship line to Port
land and that the vesselsaof the Dol
lar line would serve other exporting
industries outbound and bring Orien
tal cargo Inbound. With water trans
Lportation for the exportation of its
product the Monarch mills alone culd
employ COO people, it was said.
NVhere Is the port of Portland com
mission that it neglects the industries
that need the deepening of North
Portland harbor? Where is the Cham
ber of Commerce that it permits with
out protest the closing of a produc
tive industry for lack of water trans
portation rather than the expansion
of that Industry by providing it and
others like it with water transpor
tation? Where are the forces endeav
oring to build industrial Portland?
Are they all pursuing the rainbows
of chimerical schemes aimed at the
service of industries which do not
exist?
G. O. P. TEXTBOOK
AND THE LEAGUE
By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor
respondent of The Journal
Washington, Oct. 4. The Republican
campaign textbook, issued by the Re
publican national committee, elves the
official stamp of approval to Senators
Hiram W. Johnson and William K. Bo
rah as interpreters df the Republican po
sition on the League of Nations. Their
names, flanked by others of the "no
league" faction, are prominent in a list
of 10 speeches which are commended to
Republican speakers and voters "for
study and interpretation of the League
of Nations plank in our platform." These
were speeches delivered during the treaty
fight in the senate. The others in the
list of approved oracles are Lodge, Len
root, Knox, Kellogg, Harding, Brapde
gee, Norris and Spencer. Five of the 10
are bitter-enders. Harding and Lodge
were only one degree removed. Lenroot,
Kellogg and Sperfcer fell in with the
Lodge game, and the speeches they made
which are commended to the voters are
selected from the latter stages of the
contr6versy, after Kellogg and Spencer
who had been liberally inclined at first,
had been disciplined by the Lodge com
bination, e
Another feature of the Republican text
boo'k Is its failure to include the cove
nant of the league. This is in contrast
with the Democratic text book, which In
cludes the full text of the covenant. In
the Republican document it is said that
"the text has been read by few, and
fewer have been able to digest-its con
tents." The Republican managers seem
ingly did not care to extend the circula-.
tion of the text, for they did not find
room for It in a book of nearly 500 pages.
The advocates of the league have al
ways contended that one reason it has
been misunderstood was because It was
not enough read. Many of the things
paid about it are answered by reading
the covenant itself. The idea that it
creates a superstate, that it gives au
thority to a council of foreigners to
"order our boyp overseas." that It im
pairs American freedom of action or im
perils the Monroe doctrine, are all in the
class of things that the covenant of the
league itself will answer if given the
opportunity.
e e e
In its suggestions for speakers the Re
publican national committee says to
"avoid Governor Cox's fallacious con
tention that the chief desideratum is def
initeness in the obligations to be as
sumed by the United States. If the obli
gations in their nature are undesirable
the greater the definiteness the greater
the risk." But in the campaign book
there is praise for Republican senators
for trying to make the, league more
definite, and it is said that "later events
abundantly prove the wisdom of caution
and a clearer definition and'understand
lng of any commitments on the part of
America."
. The Republican campaign book thus
becomes a kind of wilderness on the
league. "It omits the covenant; it prints
the reservations without comment ; it
refers to Lodge and the bitter-enders for
interpretation of the platform, and it
contains a contribution assailing the
president for declining to accept reser
vations dictated by Lodge, Borah. John
son, Harding. Knox and the others of
like disposition who framed them.
Letters From the People
Communications aent to The Journal for
publication in this department ahonM be written
ot. only one side of the paper; should not exceed
800 wonh in lent th and must be signed by the
writer, wboee mail addreaa in full must accom
pany the contribution. )
THE ANTI-COMPULSORY VACCINA
TION AMENDMENT
Portland. Sept. 30. To the Editor of
The Journal The public Is entitled to
know the actual facts concerning Uie
1 anti-compulsory vaccination amendment
now before the people. This amendment
seeks only to stop arbitrary compulsory
vaccination and other medical allopathic
treatment and in no way interferes to
prevent the person who wants it from
having it The Cedars was established
ostensibly as a war measure, and Is an
ulcer that should be eradicated!. Women
are thrown into that place in violation
of their rights and are compelled to sub
mit to forcible allopathic medical treat
ment There Is not a case of venereal
disease on record that has ever been
cured by this mercurial, or "606" treat
ment as the disease is driven in, only
to appear again, and later generations
suffer from scrofula and other diseases
as the result.
Dr. Parrlsh's actions for the past four
years in creating one "scare" after
another, and his methods employed in
our school without authority of law,
should be the strongest argument for
ths defeat of Mayor Baker, for four
years more of Baker means four years
mors of Parrish.
This amendment In no way interferes
with ths legitimate work of health
boards, but it does stop arbitrary com
pulsion, which Is Illegal and un-American.
Whenever ths medical trust goes
before ths people for its amendment it
has always been defeated. It sees rich
money pickings about to disappear rf
this amendment carrieat and it Is at the
old ' gams of getting some misguided
parsons ta pull its chestnuts out of the
fire. This amendment means ths right
of every person in Oregon to have some
thing to say about his own body and
gives him ths right to go to school or
work" without being compelled to sub
mit to some medical superstition as. the
prioe of his freedom. And every -voter
should work or vota for It. for It simply
means a confirmation of his rights guar
anteed by Uie state sad. federal consU
tutlons. ' ' "
The Health Defense. League of Oregon.
By W. A. Turner, secretary.
THE MINISTERIAL INDORSEMENT
Portland. Oct 2. To the Editor or
The Journal Evidently ths Rev. . C
Cline is agitated lest, the indorsement
of Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy. the Pro
hibition candidate for congress from the
Third district, by ths Ministerial asso
ciation last Monday will Injure the
chances of the wet candidate of his
party for election. Mr. CUne is quite
correct in saying that ths ministers did
not indorse the Democratic candidate
for congress, but they most certainly
did indorse Dr. Lovejoy, the Prohibi
tion, or dry, candidate, which i es
sentially a different matter. The min
isters of the Portland churches are di
vided as .to partisan ideas, as are
other people ; but they seem, not only
from that vote, but from messages
coming into this office, to bo a unit
in the matter of electing one to con
gress who can be depended upon to
keep Intact the Volstead law for en
forcement of the eighteenth amendment
to the federal constitution.
If Mr. Cline wishes to vote foj and
support Pat McArthur, who has with
one exception,' and that not touching
prohibition in the United States, voted
against every prohibition measure which
has been considered in congress since
he has been a member of that body, he
has a perfect right lo do so, and I
certainly shall xtot Insist on his doing
otherwise.
But that he has the right to criticise
ministers who are Prohibitionists first,
and Republicans, Democrats, etc.. later,
I do question, and I am sure the Port
land ministers will question that right
and support for congress one who really
represents their moral standards, espe
cially in regard to the saloon and pro
hibition. A growing hurriber of pulpit and pew
are adjourning politics when a clear-
cut issue of this sort is to be met.
Ada Wallace, Uuruh.
Secretary Multnomah Dry congres
sional Committee.
"PULPIT AND PEW"
Oswego, Sept 28. To the Editor ot
The Journal I noted with interest your
editorial in The Sunday i Journal of
September 26 entitled "Pulpit and Pew.
Yoi say the paramount question of life
is. Whence am I, and whither bound?
Almost every one, whether a follower ot
Christ or not, believes in a supremw
being God. Likewise universal is the
belief in God as creator, and in some
form of heaven. Each belief may be
said to be beneficial in so far as lv
satisfies the spiritual needs of the be
liever. Certain it is that we have such
a need, which human sympathy cannoi
fill.
Time passes. The world is constantly
changing. Some say it is better and
some say it is worse. Reflecting fupon
life, the thought arises that the view
point of the individual is determined by
age, experience, environment and od
servation. Some learn of God from life.
Some never learn. Yet the wisdom or
God is apparent in everything.
We do not serve our children's best
interests when we give them unearned
weslth and neglect to instill in them in
childhood th.e noblest of principles and
ideals. Hence the tragedy. Natural
laws with humans, as well as In the
realm of Nature, are always fulfilled.
If we would only learn to obey natural
laws we would not go far astray. Mean
while we would be "serving God" by
living harmoniously and the world
would know fewer failures. '
Evil perishes good endures. Who
knows of a better way to attain the
eternal life, we covet than by seeking
after things immortal, truths 'that havu
always heen, no matter whether mar.
has recognised them or not, and will still
endure long ages after you and I sre
dust?
Truly, all the Christians are not In
t'-e churcnts. Neither are th.-y all t'Ut
o" them. We beet serve GoJ lot ly
talking but by living. To live for Hln
is to live for your fellowman
Margaret Perrego.
REPUBLICAN. AND CHRISTIAN
Portland, Sept. 28. To the Editor of
The Journal Answering T. J. McKean
of Hood River. I will say if Christ were
to speak at Hood River, I would "crawl
on hands and knees to hear him. I
would not walk across the street to
l.ear Billy Sunday. No party, Billy Sun
day, nor anyone, has the right to say
what a man must be to be a Christian.
All Christians will vcte to end war. The
platform on which Christ stood was,
"Peace on earth, good will toward men."
H. D. Northrop.
COLONEL HARVEY'S PRAISE
From the Chicago Fost
Colonel George Harvey could hardly
be called prejudiced in favor of the Dem
ocratic ticket in the present campaign.
Nor could the charge be brought that he
Is unduly inclined to praise members of
the Wilson administration. Yet Colonel
Harvey, in his weekly, says this of
Frankiln D. Roosevelt:
"The Democratic bosses permitted a
fine selection to be made for a vice presi
dential candidate. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt comes from a collateral branch
of the same distinguished stock from
which Theodore Roosevelt sprang. Born
only 38 years ago in Dutchess county.
New York, and educated at Harvard
and the Columbia law, school, he made
bis appearance in politics as a Demo
cratic tar senator in a Rennhlirflri dis
trict at the age of 28. and in three yearl
hv
waging several successful battles against
Tammany Hall, on one occasion actually
assuming the leadership of the Repub-
licans in the senate.
"Mr. Roosevelt is a clean-cut clear
thinking, progressive, practical and pa
triotic American. Of course. It is of
minimal Importance, but incidentally,
he is also a gentleman. Mr. Roosevelt
deserves to go far in public life, and
will, even though he does have to suffer
defeat next fall."
The attempt to help the Republican
ticket by blackguarding Franklin Roose
velt was a mistake in strategy. We are
glad to see it dying down.
CURE FOR WRINKLES
From Erie Dispatch F
Teddy hated to wash his face more
than once a day. Just as vehemently
he liked to use the hose to sprinkle the
flowers. Father had to remonstrate
with him for oversprinkling his flowers
"You'll make them wilt if you sprinkle
them at any time except in the morn
ing." he told him. . .
A few days' later mother was trying
to persuade him to wash his face for
lunch. Then grandmother tried to use
her influence. "Why, I always wash my
face before lunch," she told him.
Then Teddy looked at grandma's
wrinkles snd remembered the flowers.
"Yea snd just see how wilted it is," he
retorted. 1
PUZZLING
From toe Dee lloteea Recteter
One of ths pussies of ths year is what
keeps Villa out of ths movies now that
he has' abandoned his regular business.
WHO GOES TO JAIL?
From the Northman
The fruit grower sprays his trees snd
raises clean, luscious spples that take
the blue ribbon at ths apple show snd
the highest price of - the market " The
"rejected" go to ths cider manufacturer,
who produces a beverage, as Innocent
as a playful lambkin or a cooing dove.
He aells to the wholesaler, wbo sells to
COMMENT: AND
SMALL CHANGE
, 'Ray for ths new "Rosewsy." ...
Student advertises for a human skull,
wonder what he wants with a bone
head. .
Which party is going to appropriate
the reduced-prices campaign for politi
cal thunder,
,
Speeders sentenced, to jail have oppor
tunity to ponder on the folly of going
ths pace that kills.
Hope Senator Harding doesn't forget
to turn out the porch light when he geU
through for the day.
We don t know Just what bank clear
ings mean and Indicate, but we're glad
Portland leads Seattle, anyway.
Now the first prises and the blue rib
bons have been carried home from the.
state fair to be exhibited proudly to the
Judging from the personnel of the
"big league,' we would Judge that they
represent somewhat of a "league of na
tions' in themselves.
We believe the "meanest man" laurels
should go to the landlord who causert a
cry of "fire" to be raised in his apart
ment house, and then, when the tenants
had rushed out in alarm, locked the
doors on them and advanced the rent
some more.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL'
Random Observations About Town
Traveling from North Chicago, HI., in
a small truck, 3. E. Barto and family
arrived in the city Saturday morning
on their way to Lane county, where
Barto has secured 160 acres of Oregon
California grant lands. Barto visited
George Quayle, secretary of the Oregon
State Chamber of Commerce, and told
him he was the advance guard of a
colony of farmers who art coming west
and that a considerable number of North
Chicago people are contemplating lo
cating in Oregon. Barto is an ex
service man and an experienced farmer,
although he has been living several
years in the city.
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Perhaps a "subconscious" similarity
between Portland and Minneapolis,
whose intermingled twin. St. Paul, used
to be his home, accounts for the presence
and residence in Portland of Eric V.
Hauser. president of the Multnomah
hotel company. A. R- SusHtnan of Min
neapolis, a guest at the Multnomah,
brings the news In any event, that Port
land and his home town are so much
alike that there really isn't murh choice
between them. When the visitor said
the scenic assets of the two cities are
alike a bystander. In more polite words,
is said to have questioned : "Where do
ya get that stuff V
Robert L. Task was registered Satur
day at the Multnomah from Wilmington
Del., where he is in the ship supplies
business. Task retired from the navy
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAW
By Fred
At the Waahincton state fair at Yakima
Mc , Lockley la delighted to bear baspipe and
druoj. Later he find the piper and drnrameri
are old arquaintanres the day in Picardjr.
He talks with one of them, who tells him aorae
rerj interesting things about Scots who fought
in the world war.
The throbbing clamor of the drums
merged with the' skirling of the pipes
made me look up from my writing. I
was at my desk in the educational and
Industrial building at the Washington
slate fair at Yaklma. Through the open
doorway I saw. the floating, fluttering
fibbons of the bagpipes, the gay plaid
kilts of the pipers, the scarlet tunics
of the drummers, the dull shine of well
oiled leather and the gleam of metal
as the Highland band passed. I saw
more than the living figures of the pipers
and drummers. I saw in fancy a count
less host marching with them to the
martial strains of the skirling, droning
pipes. I saw action, adventure and ro
mance marching by. I saw the im
mortal dead who have fallen on a hun
ored hard fought flelds Seaforths and
Sutherlands. Royal Scots and Gordon
Highlanders, Black Watch and Scots
Grays and all the other granite-hard
sons of the Covenant from lowland and
highland of the Land of Heather.
A man must be a very clod who can
hear the weird and eerie music of the
pipes unmoved. A thousand years of
glorious history as well as stirring
memories and traditions of brave men
going bravely to death are in their sob
bing, haunting melodies.
An hour later I was eating lunch in
the restaurant run by the ladies of the
Christian church. Soon the seat across
the table from me was taken by one
of the drummers of the Highland band.
"What became of the tall, slender
young lad In your band the one who
was such an artist With the drumsticks?"
I asked. "Where did you hear us play
before?" he asked. "I heard you first
in Abbeville Just back of the British
front in Picardy." I answered. "The
last time I heard you was in a narrow
Ill-paved street In Vipniacourt as you
were going up into the trenches. That
was in July. 1918." "Yes. we marched
into the trenches from Vlgnacourt to
tnkn rart in the big push of August 8.
It s odd we should run across each other
here, when you heard us play under
such different circumstances two years
ago.
"You must meet the other men In the
band. My fellow drummer, captain
Jamie McNeil, wears the Mons ribbon.
He went over with the first troops sent
the retailer, who sells to the consumer,
who finds that the sweet cider has de
veloped the kick of a cross-eyed sorrel
mule.
Who should go to Jail the producer,
the consumer, or one or all of the mid
dlemen? a -
DRILLING FOR WATER
From the Toungstown Telegram
A crowd about a rigging attracted the
attention of a sad-eyed individual who
seemed to be still visibly affected by
the succession of hangovers that had
marked his life before the long dry spell
began.
"Whatsa matter?" he Inquired.
"Oh, we're Just watching the work"
"What work?"
"This is a drilling machine."
"What sre they drilling for?
"Water."
As the shaky individual turned to move
away he muttered with fervor most in
tense :
"And to think we'd ever come to this."
. EXCELLENT !
From the gnoxrille Journal and Tribune
Mexico Has Eight Hour Strike Head
line. There's an idea. Let's start a
strikers union snd charge overtime for
strikes lasting over eight hours.
Olden Oregon
Unpleasant Experience Wltn Convict
Labor In the '60 s
. Coal was first shipped from ths New
port mine la Coos county In 1855. En
gaged fa carrying coal to San "rancisco
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS .
Women are in politics, all right but
politicians know full well that there Is
no use arguing with them. Crane Amer
ican. What has become of those cowboy
hats every Albanylte had a few years
back, at Round-Up tune? Albany Dem
ocrat 4
. The removal of the courthouse from
Jacksonville has not reached the stage
wbere poets write poems about It
Medford Mail Tribune.
"U. S. Ships Now Carry Bulk of Na
tion's Trade." says a headline in the
anti-Democratic New York Tribune, and
the same paper tells us editorially that
the Democrats have ruined the country.
Astoria Budget.
It would take a great deal longer
than a' year to exhaust the really Im
portant Industries and interests of Salem
and the Salem district, in a campaign
of one day in each week. There are
more than 62. Salem Statesman.
The action of the federal reserve banks
in restricting credits to essential loans
has been largely responsible for bring
ing autos and other manufactured prod
ucts down from the skies. The reserve
vittiii la worktne well and should not
be tampered with by politicians catering
to Wall street. renaieion .cusi uicgu
nlan. eight years ago after many years' serv
Ice. during which he saw excitement and
action. He was with Captain Bob fcv
ans some years ago when he called the
bluff of Chile and cleared his decks for
action, and later with Dewey in Manila
bay, where he served under Gridley.
Task was. a chief petty officer.
Miss Belle Williams is at the Multno
mah from Los Angeles to make Portland
her home. Miss Williams has been an
instructor of children In dramatics and
has had her own company, "the Junior
Follies." Miss Williams will start a
similar organisation here, called the
"Coming Generation Dramatic Club," for
children only.
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Mr. and Mrs Dan Madden, Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Howard and R. O. Jordan,
of Prineville, are a party whose names
appeared on the Imperial hotel register
Saturday, together with a half hundred
other Eastern Oregonians who were in
the big city for the week-end.
At the Oregon hotel Mr. and Mrs
George ' L Hawkins and Mr. and Mrs
Charles E. Haines, residents of Grand
view, Wash., were guests over the week
end. Grandvlew is said to have a grand
view unless some of the rapidly growing
town is in the line of vision from the
parlor window to obstruct the view.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Holts and Mcrriman
H. Holti of Cleveland, Ohio, were guests
at the Portland hotel over the week-end.
Lockley
t j France. He was a sergeant in the
Cameron Highlanders. They were
pretty well cut to pieces in the first few
weeks of fighting. A month from the
Ume he landed in France he had his
commission as captain, 'and was as
signed to the Gordon Highlanders He
w as badly wounded in November, 1S16,
Geordle Ross went over with the Six
teenth Canadian Scottish. He was with
the Canadians at Ypres when they had
their first baptism of gas. He dropped
his pipes snd. taking up the rifle of a
fallen comrade, gave the Jerries the
best he had in him. He' was piping
the lads across No Man's land once
when thy went over the top, when a
bit of shell took the pipes from under
bis arm. Willie Webster, another of our
pipers here, served with the Seventy
second Seaforths of Vsncouver, B. C.
He served through the war. At Pasch-
aendaele he abandoned his pipes for a
rifle, and what he did with his bayonet
when he got Into the enemy's trench
was plenty. No, they didn't like us.
That's why they called ' us 'the Ladles
from Hell.'
"Our pipe major. John Gillies, could
tell you some Interesting stories if. he
would. He was a piper fer years In
the Scots Guards He was given the
honor of being In command of the
massed pipe bands at the funeral of
King Edward. He served for 21 years
in the British army in India and South
Africa and in the world war. He went
overseas with the Seventy-second Sea
forths. Tflper Ross was also a member
of the Seventy-second Seaforths.
"My name? My name is Willie
Strachan. Yes, I was lucky ; I was
wounden only once, and that was of no
great consequence."
Later In the day I hunted up -Pipe
Major Gillies and the other members of
the band. Talk about action and ad
venture! Pipe Major Gillies has six
medals he has won in serving his coun
try, and tfe can tell fascinating stories
of service in India, in the Boer war and
in France and Flanders.
No man of Scottish blood can heer a
kiltie band without his heart beating s
little quicker, particularly if he hums
the words of their marching song to the
music of the pipes :
Who's for the athrln, who's for the fair?
I rimy coes tbe Gordon to a fight.)
The bravest of the brare are in deadlock there.
(Highlanders! March! Br the right.)
There bullets in hundreds are bnising in Uie air;
There our bonoie Uds are lying on the hillside
bare;
flnt Uie Cordons know what the Oerdona dare
When they bear the pipers playing. '
In 1856 was the small steamer Newport
On one of her trips to San Francisco
went an order from the mine- to the own
er of the vessel to send a few laborers
north to work in the mine. The owner, J
Estell. was in chacga of ths California I
state prison. When the Newpoi t re- I
turned to Coos Bay she had on board 40 j
hard-boiled passengers. Some went to
the mine snd others dropped off at Em
pire City. In a little while things of a
Valuable nature began to disappear. Hen
roosts were reported, despoiled and j
clothes lines lost their garments In s .
mysterious rway. Finally the hard-boiled
citizens took the hint and emigrated.
They were afterwards spoken of as "ths
40 thieves."
Curious Bits of Information
for the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
Ths little bsw which will Invariably
be found in' the leather band inside a
man's hat is s survival of the Ume when
a hat was made, by taking a piece of
leather, boring two holes through it and
drawing it together with a piece of
string. Handkerchiefs were not always
square. At one 'Ume they were shaped
to the user's fancy. It chanced that this
irregularity displeased Queen , Msrls
Antoinette, who suggested one winter
evening st Versailles that a uniform
shape would be an indlcaUon of good
taste. - The result was a decree by Louis
XVI. issued In ths early days of ,1715.
enaoUng that all pocket handkerchiefs
should have right-angle edges thence
forward, u.;' - ; -.'.'i'-H:-
:. The Oregon Country
North weat Rappeninta in IMef Farm for Uw
Buiy Reader
. OREGON NOTES-
George A. Gore of St Helens has ac
ceptad a commission as captain In the
regular army.
Direct steamship service between As
.". C"fo"iia points will be es
tablished November 1.
Ths community school of religious
education has been organised at Salem
by Sunday school workers and edu
cators Four carloads of npp, wl
hipped by the Eugene . Fruitgrowers'
association as soon as they can be
packed.
The public schools of Tinker will ob
serve fire-prevention week, according
to an announcement made by Suncrln--tendent
Brown.
At a citlcena mass meeting at Esta
cada a ticket for city offfclHls was
drawn up. H. J. Stephen was nomi
nated for mayor.
Fire has destroyed the Tosler harness
shop, together with much of the con
tents of the building, at Corvallls, caus
ing a loss of fSOOO.
The twin tunnel on the Columbia
river highway between Hood Rjver-and
Mosier is being made safe for travel
by lining it with timbers.
The road between Myrtle Creek and
Riddle. In Douglas county. hn been
temporarily cloned while repairs are
being made on the Pruner bridge.
The committee appointed bv Governor
Oicott to recommend a betterment of
conditions at Crater Lake hotel will
make a personal inspection this week.
A movement has hen launched &t
Marshfleld for a munlclnal nvliMnn
field. A tract of land for this pur
pose was recently acquired by the city.
Klamath county taxnsvers have been
unusually slow In making payments
this year. There remains to be paid
Into the county treasury approximately
$225,000.
Two more Industries are. tn be et ti
ll shed In Columbia county. One Is a
tie and timber mill on Kaiivlea inland
and the other a shingle, mill on Scap-
poose bay.
J. O. Hannum has nled his netltlon
as an Independent candidate for com-
missioner of Hood Itlver county. He
was defeated In the Republican primary
election by H. L Haabrouck.
WASHINGTON
The apple harvest has commenced 1n
the vlcinltv of Kettle Falls. The yield
will be fully up to the average.
Spokane policemen are to have one
day off In every seven or eight In
stead of two days off a month.
The King County Humnnt society It
planning to erect a $10,000 home for
stray cats, vagrant dogs and other ani
mals. The proposed water reservoir for
Walla Walla will have to be made of
lighter construction, owing to increas
ing COStil.
Hannes Papio. a bucker fortbe Clem
ong Logging company at a camp near
Melbourne, was killed when a log
rolled over him
Fall grain sown before the recent
rains near Chattaroy In looking fine
and will be well rooted before freeskng
weather arrives.
Over 1000 employes' of the I'uget
Sound Power Light mmpany have
subscribed to the $1,000,000 bond Issue
of the corporation.
Ieo Murphy of Kingston was acci
dentally shot and killed while hunting
In tbe woods near Olympla by K. (J.
Preston of the same hunting party.
The public service commission has
refused to grant a blankest raise in
electrical rates asked by the I'aciflo
Power ac Light company at Yakima
Assets, of the building and loan as
sociations of the state have increased
50 per cent over last year, which was
30 per cent above the prwreding year."
The receipts of the streetcar lines of
the Washington Water Power company
at Spokane for August were $S.000.
as compared with $78,000 for August.
1919.
Tacoma firemen and policemen are
to receive a flat wage Increase of $10
per month. The council has also de
cided to purchase from the government
a submarine chaser for conversion into
a flreboat.
IDAHO
Moscow merchants will send men -from
their stores to the harvest fields
to help save the grain crop.
The Sandpolnt Chamber of Commerce
will back the farm bureau's seed potato
show, to be held late In October.
The Coeur d'Alen hatchery made Its
last shipment of trout for the season,,
when It sent out 6000 fry for Fernan
creek.
Wild rice seed is being gathered at
Black lake to be planted along the
shores of near-by takes to facilitate
propagation of wild ducks
The prlxe for the best county exhibit
at the state fair has been won by
Twin Falls county. Second prise wan
awarded Ada county. Canyon county
took third place. -
Bank Commissioner Fratlck announces
that the affairs of the Commercial Sav
ings bank of Mountain Home will soon
be adjusted without loss lo depositors,
and business resumed.
Dr. A. H. Upham. vice president of ,
Miami university, Ohio, has been elect- .
ed president of the University of Idaho -
to succeed Dr. E. H. Lindley, who re- x
signed some months ago.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Mebby old H. C. L. has begun to git
paralysis, but the merchant princes at
the Corners emporium sttll has a way
of markln' figgers on their stuff and
things in the winders that makes a man
gasp and a woman wanter swear. I
reckon hen fruit will come outer cold
storage mighty sassy 'tween now and
Christmas, and Ma's chkkenH'II go on a
strike about the same time.
Mr. Clark Views Milwaukee
and Reveals How the Old
Town .Missed It
Many things go Into the making of
a city. Resources and natural ad
vantHKCs are necessary. Close rela
tion between the community and its
hinlerland by Improved forms of
transportation is essential. Indus
trial development Is requisite along
lines related to the raw materials of
producing territory and the demand
of accessible markets for the finished
products. A seaport must plan to
provide channel and facilities that
will enable It to handle ships snd car
goes with the maximum of dispatch
and the minimum of cost ; otherwise
It will not be able to meet the very
keen competition which increasingly
exists between porta
But with every advantage which
nature can provide and every facility
which the genius of man can devise
snd money csn buy, a city Is incom
plete unless It possesses men of vision
who can foresee the needs of ths fu
ture and take the steps necessary to
provide for It
An IllustraUon brought by the
morning's mall suggests the discus
sion. A. G. Clark, manager of Asso
ciated Industries of Oregon, la visit
ing the cities of the Jtatlon studying
their industrial sltuatlbns snd plans.
He writes from Milwaukee :
"Detrot was once very much small
er than Milwaukee, and had Mil
waukee made any effort st all It
must hsve been the 'Auto city.' Now
none is msde here."
The business of making automo
biles hss made Detroit a city of mors
than 1,000000 people. It has lifted It
into the dlstlncUon of being one of
the first half dosen cities of, the
'American continent
Milwaukee t could have ,been - the
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