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Newspaper Page Text. .. r- : THE t OREGON ?-DAILY JOURNAL;, PORTLAND. - OREGON. 'MONDAY. OCTOBER 11. ,1820. 1 ) . AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C. . JACKSON .PubUfSw I Be calm, be confident, b cheerful and do , ui.U otbera aa iron woo Id hare them do ssto yoa. 1 . ' Fubliehed eeery wees day nd Hnnday mernin. t Tb Journal Buiklinc, Broadway and Iim- i .'- bill street. Portland. Omoa. . Entered at the postoffieo at Portland, Oreon. for trinamlasion tbrouib the mail M aacoDd claw mitten . TELEPHONES Main 717. Automatic 860-5 1. - All department reached' by these namtn. FOREIGN ADVEItTWlNO KPKE8TATIVE: Benjamin Kentnor Co.. rajLB,u!: 228 Fifth I'tnw, New Tort; J00 Millm Buildinc. Cbloao. . THE OBEOON JOCKNAL, ranwi the rtsht to reject advertising copy which it drerae ob Jectlonabla. It iUo will not print any copy ; that in any way almulatea readme matter or that cannot readily be reeocnized aa adrer tisinc HLBSCIUITfON KATES Br farrier. City and Country DAILY AND 8UNDAT One week I 15 On month I .63 SEN DAT One week .OS DAILY One week $ 10 One month 45 ... M MAIL, ALL RATES PATABLE IN ADVANCE 1IAIM AiM' SU""1 fine year IH.00 bit month. .... -25 DAILY (Without Sunday) Cne year 8 00 fix month 3 25 TLree month. . . K75 One month 00 WKEKLY (Erery Wednesday) fine year $1.00 Si I month 50 Three month. . .$2.28 On month 'a SUNDAY (Only) One year 3.00 HI months 1.75 Three months... LOU WEEKLY AND SUNDAY One year. S3.60 Thete rate apply only in the Wert. ' Katn to Eastern pointa furnished on applica tion. Make remittance by Money Order, Expreae Order or Draft. If your pxtoffice ia not a Honey Order Office. 1 or 2-cent stamp will' be atrepted. Make all remittance payable to Tba Journal, Portland, Orrayin. Moderation in tiroper i always a rirtue. but moderation in principle ia aiways , l-e. Thomas I'ajne. . ARE WE TO KIDDLE THERE Is ;i fin the t!nitf(i St ire every nuntite in States. . That record holds good every day In the week, cvcrV week in the month, and every month In the year. Twenty thousand cnarred bodies are dragged from the burning embers every 'year. That is the life toll from fires. Three hundred million dollars in property, money enough to have run the United States government for a ,year a few years ago, is burned every 12 months. That jncludes productive Industries, places of employment for the men and women of America, busi ness houses, mills and other establish ments where food, clothing, and other necessaries of life are turned out for - the happiness of the people of this country. It includes homes, homes in which mothers and children are burned, or from whicli they are driven by the flames. It includes apartment houses and hotels, whero people are either burned or driven into the streets, leaving behind, perhaps, every thing they owned In the world. Six billion dollars, because of the fires, arc tied up in fire loss Invest ments. That money is kept from productive, enterprise because it must be held o pay Uic fire loss. There are five school fires a day for every day In the year. Our pal aces of education are converted into ruins, the unrecognizable bodies of little children are burled In debris and our educational Institutions are para lyzed hy the unrelenting flames. In 191 y, says the Nation's Business, there were 20,000 new houses buijt. - There were 211,000' dwelling house fires. We were burning" faster than we were building more than 10 times faster. . This nation cannot afford to burn ten to one faster than it builds. It cannot afford to sacrifice to careless ness, the homes, the lives and the ' money of its population. It cannot arford t(j sacrifice $300,000,000 and 20, 000 lives a year to the God of Flame. - - The panacea is Individual caution. Fire departments can put out fires, . but they cannot stop the careless ... deposit of matches and cigarettes and rubbish and debris. That can only be stopped through thu efforts at fire prevention of every individual in the - nation. " Shall we halt the flames or are we t fiddle while America burns? ; Can it be that Senator Harding's memory has failed him? He says ; wo would be forced to fight in Eu rope with -the League o-' Nations. - There are still a few of us that re t .ember a little tussle we had over "there without it. And we fought .there that time so we would not have to. fight again. And the only thing so far offered to prevent another battle there is the League of Nations. : Mr. Harding Is against that. Mr. '.; Cox Is for it. ,; a THE YAQUINA HARBOR SENATOR CHAMBERLAINS conten . lion in his address at Newport that products contiguous to harbors along the Oregon coast should go to . sea through those harbors and thence to market, Is sound policy. , AVater delivery Is. the cheapest of ell transportation. Ttiere Is an empire of timber, arpund Yaquina bay. The natural route for Its delivery into in dustrial uses is by sea, with Yaquina ,i)ay as he port of departure. ' -t v ' , To that end the. federal government SAYS FARMERS til VENTURE to say that if the corporations of this country were holding 1 back food products for advanced prices as does the American farmer there would be an outcry from one end of this country to the other." These words are from a speech made oh the floor of the senate In war time. It was In 1917, and the measure before the Senate was the revenue bill.. The speaker said the bill placed $226,000,000 of "uncalled for and classjtax upon the great corporations of the land." After thus trying to save the cor potations from paying their part of the tax the speaker made a direct attack upon-the "American -farmer," saying: I venture) to say that If the corporations of this country were HOLDING BACK FOOD PRODUCTS FOR ADVANCED PRICES AS DOES THE AMER ICAN FARMER there would be an outcry from one end of the country to the other. This speech was made by Senator Harding. It was a direct charge that in war tim the "American farmer" was "Holding back fcod products for advanced prices." it was a direct appeal to the senate not to lay the pending tax upon what he called "the great corporations of the land." It was an attack on the farmers exactly like that which he made on July 20, 1917, when he said on the floor of the senate In opposing the guarantee of $256 for wheat : I share the anxiety to strike at greed. I should like to strike at the greed for power. I would be agreeable to strike at the MANIFEST GHKEl) IN SOME OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTIONS Ittiink it ($2.26 guarantee for wheat) will, bring- about the desired result, but I fventure to say. Mr. President, that IF THE QUALITIES OF AMERICAN PA- TIUUT18M ARE SUCH THAT WE MUST GUARANTEE THE AMERICAN FARMER A PRICE FOR HIS WHEAT IN A WORLD FAMINE THEN THERE IS NOT PATRIOTISM ENOUGH IN THE Senator Harding thus declared that he "the. manifest greed" of American farmers, whom he declared to be "holding back" food products in War time for advanced prices, and. he did It while pleading with the senate to be more lenient with what he termed "the great corporations of the land." He said if the he said the American farmer, was doing of the country to the other." Holding these innate grudges against farmers, accusing them of profiteering on foodstuffs in time of war, having an affection. ate regard for what he calls our "great n elected president, be fair to the farmers of America? Especially, how could he be fair, since he advocated lowering the income tax exemption so as to collect a large kthe tax on the GREAT CORPORATIONS?" should keep its promise made to the Yaquina port district of sharing 50-50 in the extension of the Yaquina jet ties. On that pledge the port district went the limit in the use of its taxing power to provide $418,000 for jetty work. The people have carried out their part of the contract in good faith. But there-Is now insistence that they shall put up more money, and as Senator Chamberlain says, it inputting a burden on the district that the peo ple can ill afford to assume. It is not for the federal government to be a Shylock in the matter of har bor Improvements. The opening of harbors is not for the sole benefit of the people in the vicinity. It is In part, as Senator Chamberlain says, for the benefit of the nation itself, which; in other parts of Its territory, needs the products as a sustaining power in making the wheels of national life go round. The people of the United States drank 16,0(10.000,000 mora cups, of coffee from June, 1919, to June, 1920, than in the previous fiscal year. A total of 1,358,000,000 pounds was consumed. Residents of the United States are becoming as de voted to their coffee as the Japanese and English are to their tea. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY CARELESSNESS of pedestrians does much to keep th toll of auto mobile accidents mounting. Although far below the record for last year the death list from accidents increases month by month. The injuries, also fewer than in 1919, nevertheless con tinue on as the weeks roll by. At least half of those injured arc .pedestrians and a great majority of those who lose their liives are pedestrians. Indeed, the automobile driver Is often at fault. But on the other hand, even in accidents in which the driver is held guilty, the initial care lessness of the pedestrjan is often partly to blame for the accident. To say the least, the decrease In injuries and killings for the year can be charged largely to increasing care ex ercised by drivers. A few days ago a machine was proceeding down Alder street. It is a narrow street. Automobiles were parked along both sides. Suddenly, from behind one machine, a woman with a baby In her arms, stepped out and walked straight across the street. She didn't see, either before she walked out or afterward, the auto mobile that was brought to an emerg ency stop. She deliberately stepped across the thoroughfare without a glance, exercising little caution to save the baby's life or her own. .Pedestrians .cannot step out on any street in Portland without a glance and be assured of safety. There are thousands of automobiles in the city. They travel all the streets. It is sel dom one ran glance down any thor oughfare near the heart of the east or west sides of the river without seeing an automobile. But in spite of the ever menacing machine, pedes trians continue to walk blindly into streets. , , They could, by a glance, perhaps, avoid the collision. Even ordlqary catrtion would avoid many of the ac cidents that occur dally. It is easy Iio looK, dui qunc'iit to escape when in the path of a machine. And after -1 1 : i i . u . . i . i . . , an, it is uriKT to ue saie man to oe sorry. Governor Cox favors a reduction of armaments. Do the people of this country want to spend their money for battleships or bread? It LEWISTON STANDING in the lobby of the prin cipal hotel at Lewiston a few evenings ago, a stranger geologist con fidentially informed a group of by standers that the Idaho city at the head of navigation on the Snake will have 50,000 people within 18 months. He had been making mysterious mineral examinations, and unon the development of some undefined dis covery he basetThis prediction. Lewiston may or may not make a growth so rapid, but that Lewiston is destined to become an important city PROFITEERED OF THE UNITED STATES. I do not COUNTRY TO WIN THE WAR. wanted to strike at what he called great corporations were to do what "there would be an outcfy from one end corporations," could Senator. Harding, amount from small incomes and lessen is borne in upon the mind even of a casual visitor. In the Clearwater basin tributary to Lewiston is a stand of forty billion feot of white pine owned chiefly by the government and the Weyerhaeuser interests. When this vast tract is logged the industry it creates must flow through Lewiston More than fifty million bushels of wheat, barley and oats are now pro duced in the territory tributary to Lewiston and Ciarkston. The produc tion of hay exceeds annually half a million teXis. In the vicinity of Lewiston are great, but as yet unmeasured, deposits of nearly pure lime. The common, hill side gravel will produce $7 or $8 worth of gold to the ton. There are great aeras of mineral rocks which will grow in value as development intensi fies the demand for phosphates and the like. Just outside Lewiston is an orchard tract more than five miles long and 6000 acres in extent which compares favorably with the better advertised orchards of Hood River and We natchce. During the last census period Lewis ton made substantial growth. Civic spirit is active. A road has beerTcon structed on a 5 per cent grade eight miles long on hairpin turns, 2000 feet up the precipitous slope of Lewiston hill. This road deserves to take ranjt with the great scenic highways of America. The view it affords of Jhe confluence of Snake and Clearw"er and of the cities held in their mighty embrace, with massive mountains ris ing on every hand, is of thrilling grandeur. A $500,000 hotel, to be modeled after the Davenport of Spokane, has just been completely financed by the sub scriptions of citizens and will be com pleted by next spring. Lewiston will grow with the devel opment of the splendid surrounding country. And as Lewiston grows sub stantial argument will also grow for utilization Of the Columbia and Snake ! rivers a$ arteries of transportation. If the Snake river should fail to receive approval as the subject of a canalization project to provide navigation, power and irrigation, it could be preserved in its present state for magnified "shoot the chutes" adventures by tourists to the very considerable profit f whoever had the nerve to navigate the boat. BREAD ON THE WATERS AST,C t pic STORY is told of an elderly cou- e on the upper Snake river who lived childless and alone. In their solitude they talked among themselves of . adopting a child, but they doubted if their means would be adequate for his . support or their strength sufficient for his care. At last they decided on what was to them a daring experiment. They took a little boy from an orphan asy lum. They agreed to keep him until they were sure whether their home could receive a third, member and abide. While he was with them the little fellow fell , ill of spinal meningitis. The old man and woman watched over him and nursed him'. They saved his life, but the chiM was left with with ered and useless legs. His pitiable condition crystallized their decision. The elderly couple de cided to keep1 the boy. With hearts filled with love and pity, they adopted him as their own. Yet they had noth ing to look forward to except greater toil and more arduous privation. Any one who has witnessed the struggle for existence in Hie dry lands which border the Snake will appreciate the heroism of their decision. What was the result? The adopted child was imbued with a sentiment of gratitude which overcame the handi cap of his useless legs.- He learned to get around on crutches. As he grew the lad. who could not take a step without the a!d of artificial means, learned to drive a team. He could plow and harrow. He could rake hay and maneuver a wagon. His mind reached up to broader concepts. He rented a farm. From seed time to harvest he was cheerfully busy. He MnvMad hli honefartor a homo , oolra' .-snioroi pian aoes notnmg .P"I"?i5? ''fWltort JiBSrtli.: Dakota pay her such comfort ts they b.ad never known before." -' V "' ' ' . The old man was stricken, with par tial blindness, but the son of his adop tion guided his steps, j - The boy repaid their sacrifice' with devotion. He returned their care with comfort. He being helpless became strong that he might lend strength to their advancing years. There Is opposition To the measure on the November1 ballot providing for a. divided .session of the Oregon legislature. If cornea mostly from those who have for years bossed the Oregon legislature. CANDIDATES AND THEIR RECORDS Two Third District and Two Second District Candidates for Congress Secretary of State Dairy and Food Commissioner. Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy of Portland, Democratic-Prohibition candidate for THirrt fliutriot Mult- nnmoh rriiintv ia A native of the state of Washington. She was educated in the common schools, was graduated in medicine and has taken postgraduate work In Europe. She served as city health Officer of Portland and took a leading part in the pure inUk crusade which re sulted In the pres ent high standard of Portland milk. She was in active practice at the be ginning of the war and was then sent to France by the American Red Cross. She is now president of the' Medical Women's National association and of the Medical Women's International as sociation. In addition to having won the Democratic nomination. Dr. Love joy was also nominated by the Prohi bition party of Oregon, which was re organized for the purpose of according her that honor. C. N. McArthur of Portland. Repub lican candidate for congress from the Third district, was born at The Dalles, vf j.-srvj. Wv f June 10, 1879. He schools at The I Dalles and Bishop i Scott academy, and t was graduated at 5 "the University of Oregon. He was admitted to the bar : in 1906 and prac ticed in Portland until he was elected to congress, in 1914. He was reading Clerk of the house in uvo. representative from Clackamas and Multnomah in 1909, and from, Mult nomah in 1913, being speaker of the house at both sessions. He served as secretary to the governor from 1909 to 1911. He has been reelected to congress in 1916 and 1918, and is now a candidate for a fourth term. N. J. Sinnott, Republican candidate for congress from the Second district, is a native of Oregon, having been born at The Dalles, De cember 6, 1870. He attended the public schools of The Dalles and the Wasco In dependent ac&demy and was graduated, at Notre Dame. He Js an attorney by profession and served as state sen ator for Hood River and Wasco counties during the sessions of 1909 and 1911. He was elected to congress at the November election of 1912 and has served continu ously since that date. James Harvey Graham of Baker, Dem cratic candidate for congress from the Second district, was born in Kansas, April 12. 1868. He attended the public schools of that state and, after his high school course, studied law. seven years. He adandoned the law in 1892 and went into the mining business at Cripple Creek. Cole. He came to Baker in 1899, where he has been since engaged In the real estate, mining , and loan business He is now secretary of the Baker Na tional Farm Loan association. He has never held public office but has been the Democratic candidate for congress from the Eastern rOregon district in the campaigns of 1906, 1912 and 1918. Sam A. -Kozer,- Riepubhcan candidate for secretary of state, was born in Penn sylvania. October 19, 1871. He attended ',TVfF tye common VTi'lhigh schools o and of that J state, graduating in 1S88. He was en gaged in clerical work in the offices of Clatsop county Knm ISO! In 1M7 Tn 1899 he vii ADnoint- efrt a. dpnilt V in the i-A office of Secretary of U"" Si 1 State Frank I. Dun y bar and, with the ex it 4 IclepUon of a short u,";,"vji111Jterm as insurance commissioner, servea continuously In that Department, mpst of the time as chief deputy and as deputy secretary of state.: until his appointment as secretary of state by Governor Olcott, following the primary election in May. C. L. Hawley of McCoy. Republican Democratic candidate for state dairy and food commissioner, .was born at Bethel, Iih Polk county, Ore gon, June 10, 1869. He attended the com- U mon schools and ia a , graduate of the Mon. .r'A mouth Normal school. I He served as repre sentative from Polk lepunty in 1909 and as senator lor folic ana Benton counties dur- the sessions Of 1911 to 1917 Inclusive. J I He has been a mem 'mA ber of the board of regents ot Oregon Agricultural college since 1909, having beeh appointed to that position by Governor Chamberlain. He is president of th'e Oregon Pure Bred Livestock association and has been for eight years, and isi a member of the State Dairy association, the Oregon Dairy council, and the Oregon Dairy men's league. Letters" From the People , rommarueatioiM aent to The Journal for publication ia tola department ahonM be written or. only one aide of the paper; ahooid not ezeetd ZOO teorda in lenctli and moat be aifned by the writer, whose mail address in fall moat accom pany the contribution. NORTH DAKOTA VS. CALIFORNIA Portland. Oct 5. To the Editor of The Journal You uphold California's mar ket commission plan -as superior to North Dakota's Non-partisan league plan. I can't agree with you. North Dakota's plan makes for less landlord ism and allows the farmer cheaper money and the workers a chance to fret 2 , oe" ei S 8 tV-v J soldiers a bonus. California has done nothing for hers. You say the market commission plan works harmoniously with big business. It does nothing to pinch them. They squeal only when they are pinched. California is often called the rich man's state. The man without money has no business there. In Cali fornia almost every banker and big business man also has his big fruit ranch, tended by serfs, and the products raised thereon are his. He has no rea son to fight the market commission plan. Most cf, our troubles 'come from land lordism and' our banking system. I have always felt the injustice of our banking system, which allows those with the money to lend It to Uncle Sam at a fair Interest. Then by issuing bank notes every dollar of thai loan is restored to them and they can lend the bank notes to the rest of us at better interest. No wonder our bankers are super-patriots! Speaking of the league and 'class hatred, big business was responsible at Homestead ; for the several massacres of workmen in West Virginia ; for the setting aside of justice, civil, law and decency in order to send the labor leader, Tom Mooney, to prison to get him out of their way ; for the massacre of helpless women and children ani the burning of their bodies by Standard OH. at Ludlow. The league s plan will cur tail the power of such criminals and their allies. If the league fails. I feel sure a day of reckoning for these crimes is fast approaching. When that time comes the pleadings of the league for a just but humane settlement will be lost in the turmoil. Sylvia Cool Kopcho. WHYS FOR HARDING SUPPORTERS Colfax, Wash., Oct. 0. To the Editor of The Journal There are some men who are supporting- Harding because they are Republicans. There are some men who are supporting Harding be cause of some special interest. There are others who are supporting Harding because they are office seekers. Every pro-German and every German sympa thizer is an avowed Harding supporter. Everyone who bought Liberty bonds against his will or was forced to con tribute to the Red Cross and other similar organizations, is for Harding. Every person who was disloyal during the war and who sympathized with the enemy openly or secretly is for Harding. Every man who resisted the draft, every man whose son was forced into the war against his wilt, and most of his rela tives, are for Harding. I would like to ask these people : Why are you supporting Harding? Is It because you are a Republican? Is it because you have some special interest? Is it because you are an office Seeker? Is it because you were and are disloyal to your country? Is it because you op posed the war with Germany? Ia it because you are a pro-German? Or is it because you are disloyal? Why are you supporting Harding? Charles R. Hill. Olden Oregon What Oron Republicans Thought of Slavery in 1856. Southern1 Oregon was the first section of the state in which the formation of the Republican party developed. A meet ing was held at the Llndley ncliool house in Jackson county In May, 1856. for the purpose of choosing candidates to be voted for at the coming June election. The meeting declared against slavery in new states. The following resolutions were adopted : That freedom was na tional and slavery sectional ; that con gress had no power over slavery in the states where it already existed, but that outside of state jurisdiction the power of the federal government should be exert ed to prevent the introduction of slavery. Curious Bits of Information for the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places The first "martyrs to trade unionism" were thrown into jail at TolpiddIe, Dorsetshire, England, . 77 years ago. They were James and George Lovelace, Thomas Stanfleld. James Hammett, John Stanfield and James Bryne. The first three men were Wesleyan preachers, who worked as farm laborers on week days and preached the gospel on Sun days. Their imprisonment was due to their attempt to form a union of farm laborers to protest against a proposed reduction in wages from seven shillings to six shlUlngs less than $1.50 a week. The landlords were all-powerful In Dor setshire, and the "conspirators" were ar rested, stripped, shorn f their hair and cast into jail and eventually sentenced to seven years Imprisonment; "not," said the Judge, "for anything you have dene, or -as I can prove you intended to do, bat as an example to others." A monument at Tolpuddle commemorates the name of the "first mt-xtyr tS trade lutonism.' ; - . ' . . - OFF FOR-RENO Copyright, 1920, by Th P COMMENT AND SMALL CHANG? 1 The woods are glorious in their new fall gowns. eve Better be on the dry side and carry your umbrella. e If you can't be cheerful, be aa cheer ful as you can. e A prize fighter's eighth wife is suing him for divorce. 'Nuf said. Portland's new vegetable oil factory may be expected to run smoothly. e e e "Hawaiian Still Found," says a head line. He probably forgot his ukulele. - The League of Nations may be the big issue in the campaign, Jut you'll notice that another big league affair is demanding a goodly share of first page headlines. w MORE OR LESS PERSONAL' Random Observations About Town Twin Rocks, Or., is brought into the limelight with the registration at the Imperial hotel of B. J. Cooper of that place. Heck Church, who is general manager of the Federal, Dudley, JCeystone and Cornell hotels at Sa.n Francisco, spent a couple of days this week at the Hotel Multnomah, where he renewed acquaint ance with old friends and friends of his father, A. D. Church, one of Cali fornia's pioneer hotel men. . A. C. Martin, assistant general passen ger agent of the O-W. R. & N.. left Thursday for Omaha, where he will at tend a meeting of the traffic officials of the Union Pacific Arrangements of new time cards wirTbe the principal busi ness of the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bernie are reg istered at the Hotel Multnomah from Kobe. Japan, where the former Is a member of the company operating the Grand hotel at Yokohama and others. Bernie brought with him a letter of greeting from C. Y. Wilmarth, man OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley (Here ia a sketch of e-ttraordinary inweat to all Orezaniana. inasmuch as it oiieni the aiib- jeet of flax raising and iinen wearing in Oreejon. i ne notable woman who is the subject of this ketch Hires Mr. Ixx-kley also pome interestinc bioa-raphy, vtili reninisrensee of the remarka ble career of ber busband, once gorcrnur of Oregon, j If Oregon's soil and climate are Ideal ly adapted to the raising of flax, why is it that Oregon does not become a flax ralsing and a linen-manufacturing state? I doubt if there is anyone in Oregon better qualified to discuss the flax in dustry than Mrs. W. P. Lord. A few days ago Mrs. Lord told me of the vicis situdes through which this industry has passed here in Oregon. "My ancestors were raising flax in America as early as 1640," said Mrs. Lord, "so it is not strange that I have worked hard and long to establish the industry here. Away back in pre-Revo-lutkonary days, long before Major Mon tague was commissioned an officer by General Washington, his linen was fa mous. Yes, I am a Montague. My mother was a Blodgett. My maiden name was Montague. I met my hus band while he was a major on General Lew Wallace's staff. e "My husband. William Paine Lord, was born in Delaware, July 1. 1839. He was graduated from Fairfield col lege in I860 and took up the study of law. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in a cavalry troop, of which he later became captain. He was later commissioned a major and served with' the Army of the Potomac. After two years he was appointed judge advocate and served on the staff of General Lew Wallace. - "I was born In Massachusetts. While visiting with my uncle. Judge Henry Stockbndge. at Baltimore, I was taken by him to Washington. D. C. where I was Introduced to his long-time friend. President Lincoln. The, last time I saw President Lincoln was at a ball at Balti more. President Lincoln, did me the honor to ask roe to help receive the guests. ' He said to everyone who came up to ask me to dance. This young lady has promised me her first dance so you win have to wait Chase, Seward and Stanton all asked me to-dance, but President Lincoln ; good naturedly told -v't r.rv iv : : km Pnbliihing Co. (The New TorkWorld.) NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS Even the Bible admonishes one to advertise. Note Jeremlth 60 :2. which reads. "Publish and conceal not." Polk County Itemizer. e e e The American dollar may be worth only 40 cents, to Vpend. but it is worth 100 cents to save. Ho many of us fall to note the distinction. Salem States man. a e e Cheaper sugar should taste sweeter accompanied by the knowledge that a good many speculating profiteers have gone broke trying to make it dearer. Eugene Guard. e All the diamond darlintrs who con fessed to accepting gamblers' gold are sorry. It is a fixed rule that regrets set In immediately after being caught. The state prisons are full of gents af flicted with, remorse. Mearora Man Tribune. ager of the Grand, who for 20 years was active in hotel management on the coast and as chief steward of the Pacific Mall company ships. Cannonading from the direction of Howell s farm, down Sauvies island way, was caused Saturday and Sun day by Phil Metschan, manager, and Harry Hamilton of the Imperial hotel The pair departed amid showers of greet ing from folks in the lobby Saturday afternoon. They got lots of ducks, ac cording to confidential reports. e e e Omaha's annual carnival of "Ak Sar Ben." which Is the reverse English of Nebraska, probably kept Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Smith from attending the Port land Rose Festival last summer. Their belated trip is none the less pleasant, however, according to the testimony they give at the Multnomah, where they are guests. e e T. O. Bligh, magnate of motion pic tures at Salem and proprietor of the Bligh hotel in the same city, is at the Imperial hotel. them to come back later, as he had the first dance. President Lincoln was kept so Dusy taming that he had no oppor tunity to dance; so I did not get to ance during me entire evening. Six weens later the whole country was mourning our martyred president, "Major Lord resumed the study of law at Aioany, jm. X., after the war ana was admitted In 1866. He accented a lieutenancy in the regular army and was stationed first at San Francisco and later at Stellacoom, Wash. When Secretary Seward arranged the purchase or Alaska, Lieutenant Lord was trans ferred to Alaska. He resigned from me army in laos and moved to Salem where he became city attorney. In 1878 he was elected to the state senate. In 1880 he was elected to the supreme bench and became chief justice. He was reelected In 1882 an In 1888. He waa elected governor in 1894. After the ex piration of his term he was appointed United States minister to Argentina, and we spent four years in South America. e "We had three children. W. P. Iord Jr. Is practicing law here In Portland. My other son. Montague, has charge of extensive sugar Interests in Manila and receives a salary of $10,000 a year. My daughter Elizabeth lives with me. e "In 1893 a Mr. Miller, a farmer living near Turner, just south ff Salem, sent to tne woriu s lair samples oi nax raised on his place. Milter had come from Kentucky and was familiar with the growing and preparing of flax for weav ing into linen. He was awarded the blue ribbon and the eyes of the flax growing world were turned toward Ore gon. Belgium and Ireland, with their wonderful . displays of flax, had to be content with secondary honors. One of tne judges wno award ea Oregon the first prise was an Irish flax grower. He said he had never. In all his long ex perience, seen a better quality than the flax from Oregon. From that day have worked without ceasing to make flax growing and the manufacture of linen leading industries of Oregon. Go out to St. Joseph's ' school In Portland and see samples of hand-woven linen made from Oregon-grown flax.. You wilt see nothing finer anywhere. I hope to see the day-when the Industry .hall be firmly established ia Oregon." The Oregon" Country North weat Happenlnta In Brltf form for iht Buay Reader OREGON The First National bank of Ashland has passed the million dollar mark in deposits. The recent wet weather has Improved pasturage conditions but caused severe looses to berries and late hay crops. The Kimball school of theology. In cooperation with Willamette) university, has opened Its doors for the 1920-1921 term. The Baker County Chamber or Com merce has started a campaign for the passage and enforcement of i...hi- fir protection ordlnanoes. The grand champion Junior bull at "the state fair has been purchased by F. J. Meindil of Portland and placed on the Laielle farm at Twilight. A diaeaae commonly known as sour brood threatens the bee Industry In Ma rlon county. In some instances whole apiaries have been destroyed. The debates on the League of Nations between O. D. Eby and W. M. Stone of Oregon City are attracting considerable attention throughouMackamH county. The Ashland school budu.t for next year calls for $81,700. Of this amount, $54,000 is to be raised by UxhUou. The amount of the budget hint year was $52,795. Miss Ornha Dunning of Ntunfleld. sophomore In home economics, has been elected president or Lawmurn nail, women's dormitory at Oregon Agricul tural college. The state board of healtk has notified the health officer of Douglas county that it will not consent to the con- truction of a tuberculosis sanitarium at Winchester. To replenish the ranges of Montana and Idaho, lambs are being purchased In Central Oregon. Seven train loads or about 80,000 head have already been hipped from Bend. The first hand' printing press In Ore gon, whieh is kept as a relic tv the) journalism department of the University of Oregon, waa given to the university by the late Harrison R. Ktncaid. The expense of the Clackamas county exhibit at the state fair was 1130. It won a $114 prise. The $4 balance after deducting expenses - has lieeff turned into the Clackamas county treasury. The Deschutes county equalisation board has fixed the valuation of the assessable property of the county at $8,767,162. The greatest Mingle Item la timber, which la placed at $5,234,175. WASHINGTON A levy of 8 cents an acre has been made by the Horse Heaven Irrigation district for upkeep .expense. Stray shot from the guns of uniden tified pheasant hunters in the Yakima valley wounded three persons last Tues day. The city council of Kelso has cut the 1920 budget approximately i600 in order to bring the levy within a 15 mill levy. which will raise 113,600. Picking of WinenaD apples In the Yakima valley will start In a few days. Indications are that the crop is about 65 per cent of normal. A fund has been started to erect a memorial at Ontralla to the four mem bers of the American legion who were killed last Armistice 6y. According to the Aberdeen health of fice, births during September were more than double deaths reorted. Blrtlm recorded were 33, deaths lb. Grinding of sugar beets hHS begun at the Toppenish factory of the Utah- Idaho Sugar company. nigging has been in progress for two weeks. The Yakima board of county com missioners has decided not to Miitimit at this time a proposal to lnnue $3.r0,000 in bonds for bridge construction. Monthly social affairs In conjunction with the woman's auxiliary sre planned by Grant Hodge post. American legion, for the winter months at Centralis. Friends of the Carlyon road bond bill, which is to be voted on in November, claim that It will receive almost a unanimous vote In Grays Harbor county. IDAHO At Its session last Wednesday the board of pardons granted pardons to 20 convicts out of the 75 applications. The Twin Falls legislative body bus changed the date of the proposed liond election from October 29 to November 9. The Boise chamber of commerce has sent out 2000 invitations to attend the first annual buyers" week to be held at Boise from October 19 to 22. About 40,000 perch and bass rescued from the Deer flat reservoir are being planted in the Julia Davis park and Tourist park bayous of the Boise river. The annual convention of regional and county Sunday school superintend ents and representatives ,wlll be held at Pocatello. October 19, and- at Idaho Falls. October 21. Ernest Carpenter, a carpenter, was Instantly killed when a scaffolding on which he stood while working on a silo near Twin Falls gave way. He fell -j feet, striking on his head. Uncle Jeff Snow Says : Old Man Schlagmeler has a Idee that mebby the low cost of llvln is comin' back. He told us at the Corners Com munity club Saturday that he seen a suit of clothes In a winder of a regis. r store down to Portland last week marked" $12.50. With butter sell In' at the price it does Ma bieves them dealers glvln 14 ounces fer a pound to them city folks is proflteerin' offen the farmers with one hand and offen the city ctiaps with t'other and had orter be tuck up and jailed. Huge Project irf the Linking of Many Power Units in One Vast .System. It is the fate of dreamtrs to be laughed at twice once by their con temporaries, because they dream so large, and ever after by pobterity. because they dreamed so small. Every ( great Inventor, every great designer of either material or moral better ments, is an illustration of this state ment, Jlydro-electrlc engineers are now realizing the dreams of men who. If they are living to see, are amazed at what they themselves have started. One of these vast realisations is thus suggested By The Nation's Busi ness, official organ of the United States Chamber of Commerce, pub lished at Washington, D. C. : "Picture a great power transmis sion line stretctied on steel towers from Boston to Washington. Into It flows current from the stations at tidewater, at the mouth of tne mines and from hydroselectrlc plants wher ever water power warrants. From it run feeder lines supplying Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and the hundreds of smaller Industrial renters that lie between. "There you have the backbone and ribs of the super power system which is the vision of engineers and gov ernment scientists who are at work on the survey of the North Atlantic Industrial region lying between Bos ton and Washington and running in- J a. a . . swaa1 r n rPif w tana iuv to xeu miles, l nese ou.ovv square miles form the nation's busi est industrial section, the finishing shop of our Industry. "The accomplishment of this gi gantic project will mean a yearly saving of $800,000,000 and 30,000.000 tons, of coal, ajccording to i govern ment engineers who are making f survey of power and needs In East ern states." v Some project, truly ! But compare It with what. the Northwest could negotiate, in that line. ifT! f.