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1820.
WHAT . IT MEANS
THEY may not realize it, but all peo
ple in Oregon have a direct: in
' terest in the market commission bill
vvhich is to be on thfc November bal-
lo:.
The bill Is not a fad or a folly or
a dream. It reflect a big idea, It is
v a plan for working out a better mar
keting system for farmers.
The 1D20 census reveals that for the
first time in' our history, more than
- half the people of America are living
In cities. Fifty-one and nlne-tentt.s
per cent of our people are living In
Incorporated places of 2j00 or more.
In the 0 years' period between 1910
and 192n that portion living in Incor
' ; porated' places of less than 2o00 in?
habitants Increased 21.5 per cent.
while In purely country districts
r there was a decrease of six-tenths of
one per cent. It means that the drift
Of population from the farms to the
' .Cities has become greatly accentuated
since 1910.
This Is a disturbing condition. It
-Is antagonistic to what all observers
" know to be for the best interest of
America. There are three things that
. the community wants. They are:
- . First, the community wants the
. farmer to keep on producing. It
wants the farmer to Increase the pro
, duction of foodstuffs.
i Second, It wants the farmer to stay
On the farm. It does not want all
the farmers to move Into the cities.
I It wants enough of them to remain
'on the farm to keep up a full pro
duclton of foodstuffs.
- Third, the community wants the
.. farmer, somehow or other, to become
the owner of a small farm, and wants
the United States to become literally
- dotted with millions of small farms,
'. occupied bV their owners and worked
, by their owners.
The community wants iho fanner
to keep on. producing so everybody
; may have enough to eat. H wants Ihe
.' farmer to stay on the firm so foil
production will be assured. It wents
the country dotted with millions of
. t .small landowners as a gui-antee
against revolution and a guarantee
t stable government.
In short, there is a whole lit that
Iho community expects of the farm-
f rs. , l,t expects the farmers to feed
t..e people, expects the farmers to
keep down Iho revolution that would
wipe out the banks and the commer
cial prosperity of the community. -
The farmer Is agreeable to all these
things. lie wants the people to have
' enough to eat, wants the farms lo
'.; remain In the hands of their ownura
and kept 'under full production, wants
. a stable government guaranteed and
revolution averted.'
; But the farmer cannot do all theso
' things unless his farm pays.' lie wants
enough out of the fruits of his toil
to permit his wife to keep out of the
field and to confine her work to the
" house, enough to enable him to send
' his boys and girls to high school,
nough to keep up his life Insurance
policy and take a little recreation as
?ther Cl-rllized folks do.
' J The farmer's position, then, is this:
i If. you expect me to keep on produc-
Ing. Jf you expect me to stay on the
farm and keep the boys and girls on
the farm. If you expect . me to own
i my farm, you must not only enable
me to have a substantial profit, but
" a stabilized profit, so that I do not
. : make, a profit Jn 1917 and then lose it
nd more during 1918 and 1919.
But there is a fundamental disad
FROM fFIIANDERSlHIEED
y By Teasdale Randolph
How are you going to vote. Mother
What are you coins to do?-
With the League of Peace and Brotherhood
Whemthe whole world looks ,at you?
When you mark your ballot November two,
Mother o' Mine, I ask of you?
Are you groin; to stand with me. Mother,
As I have stood strong; for you?
When I gave my life for all mankind
In the wood of grim Belleau?
When, you mark you ballot November two,
Mother o' Mine, what will you do?
I fought for America yes. Mother,
That Is exactly true:
But I fought to make the whole world free
In the wood of grim Belleau.
Do you want it fought over? well, I'm for you
But, Mother, pray hard on November two! .
Pray for the world that God loves. Mother,
Just as I know you will do;
Pray for my gallant chief. Mother
lie was my president, tool
Pray for the peace which he signed for you.
Mother o' Mine, on November two!
Oh, I know you'll vote right, Mother,
In the booth on November two;
You'll vote as I fought, for the world. Mother,
That's what I know you'll do.
Vote that my flag shall never retreat
Vote for the league where the nations meet!
Heed not the party hordes, Mother ,
They are so deaf and blind;
Hark to the voice of God, Mother,
Pleading for all mankind!
Mother o' Mine, beloved and true,
Vote with your boy on November two!
vantage under which the farmer has
labored. His production is individual.
His capital is Individual. His market
ii z Is individual. He has worked
alone. He has been helpless be
cause as an individual he had
no power or opportunity to exercise
the slightest influence in fixing the
price of his product, or to stabilize
his Industry.
On the other hand, manufacturing
and other industry and commerce was
given the corporation for organizing
into group production and group capi
tal and group marketing. And cor
porations could have understandings
on marketing and distribution, and it
has been against these closely knit
organizations that the farmer has had
to contend, and against which he was
powerless.
Realization of this has brought for
ward 1 ic great idea of cooperative
marketing. It is a joining of the
farmers together for marketing pur
poses In order that those on the
farms may have the benefit of syste
matic group marketing and that their
markets and production may be sta
bilized. The market commission bill pro
poses that the state by research, pub
licity and suggestion may stimulate
and bring to success the cooperative
marketing Idea. It is a movement to
help the farmers keep on producing,
to help them stay on the farms, and
help the United' States i to become
literally dotted with millions of small
farms owned, occupied arrd worked
by their owners.
As Owen Johnson was rehearsing
the ceremony In a Chicago church
with his proposed bride for their
wedding, his divorced wife appeared.
He was locked up in jail on a charge
of wife and child abandonment.
HE HATES IT
P.
HIS newspaper, the Marion Star,
on September 25. 1912. Warren G.
Harding wrote as follows:
We are opposed to T. It. (Theodore
Roosevelt) because we believe him to be
unsuited in character and temperament
to be chief executive ; because he is an
unsafe and dangerous leader, because he
Is lawless, insincere, selfish AND UN
SCRUPULOUS ; because his first admin
istration was unsuccessful in maintain
ing the prosperity he Inherited ; because
he Is a bully by nature and a lover of
war, and is, therefore, not to be trusted
with control of the army and navy and
our relations with our neighbors.
Harding's hatred was not so much
for Roosevelt as for the cause
Roosevelt was leading. Roosevelt was
then the candidate of the Progressive
party. As a cast iron reactionary,
Harding hated and hates progrcssiv
ism with an intensity not easily un
derstood. He said of the Progressives
of 1912 that they were "a combination
of all the forces of failure and dis
content." He applied to them the
phrase by which I. W. W.-ism and
Bolshevism are usually described.
Harding is so bitter in his hatred
of progressivism that when Governor
Cox secured adoption of a progres
slve, up-to-date, constitution as a sub
stitute for the reactionary constitu
tion under which Ohio had worked
for 100 years, Harding said, "We are
now under socialism ; the revolution
jg
on."
I This h.itrfvl
! u ba X " v U VUI 1 l.U u J laiui
i into the senate, where he voted
againsi every progressive measure,
and where he spoke for and voted
for what he calls our "great corpora
tions" and opposed almost every war
tax that It was proposed to make
them pay.
In -hfs denunciation of Roosevelt as
"unscrupulous" and "lawless" It was
not so much Roosevelt as it was
progressivism for which he was
showing his hate.
Senator Harding declared in a
speech in the senate thai; the taxes
on the great corporations of the
country were unfair and unjust. He
protested against them. If the big
corporations do not pay taxes, who
will pay them?
ROSEWAY
THE plan of the Portland Ad club
to plant roses In the parking along
both sides of Sandy boulevard from
Sixteenth to Eighty-second streets ;s
commendable.
All of the city clubs have become
Interested and will cooperate in the
program. Experts will determine the
choice of varieties and the whole ar
rangement will be directed to such
a beautiflcation of the district with
rose production as will be an object
lesson to the thousands of strangers
who annually make a pilgrimage over
the Columbia highway.
The words of surprise with which
delegates to the Shrincrs and other
conventions the past summer greeted
thi roses showered upon them are'
still a green memory with Portlanders
who witnessed their delight Their
offers to buy the flowers were met
with free gifts of the flower's, not
merely gifts of single roses but of
armfuls of roses. Cases happened In
which visitors, so provided with
flowers, insisted on being photo
graphed with their arms full of the
blooms for the purpose of sending
the p cturet to distant relatives and
friends.
Supplemental to the plan of adorn
ing the parkings on Sandy boulevard
with roses is a proposal to change
the name of the stretch to Roseway.
It is a name worthy of the plan, and
is far better suited to the beautified
boulevard t.an "Sandy," which Is
sometimes the nicknam; of individ
uals of doubtful as well as of unique
repute.
Portland can well afford to make
man's part in the building of the
city match up with the excellent job
which nature has done.
Pershing said, "Lafayette,
have come." Harding says,
we
La-
fayette, we have quit."
THIRD DEGREES
JUDGE PHELPS of Pendleton pur
sues an intelligent course in order
ing a grand jury investigation into
the charges that vicious third degree
methods were employed to wring con
fessions from the men who were con
victed of the murder of Til Taylor.
The action comes from statements
on the w itness stand that the men
were beaten and that ammonia was
used to force statements from the
murderers. Perhaps Iho testimony
was perjured, conjured up to pro
vide semblance of a defense. Perhaps
it is true.
If true, those who maltreated the
prisoners are entitled to little con
sideration from the people of Pendic- j
ton or of Oregon. Laws, prohibiting
such practices, have been passed in
various communities. They have
been passed because such methods are
not condoned by the people of Amer
ica. The people of: this country, be
lieve that a man is still a human
being, even if he be confined In prison
for the protection of society.
Men arc arrested because they have
infringed on the rights of others in
the social order. Even though pris
oners they still ha-e rights. And
they are entitled lo protection from
anyone, police officers included, who
attempts to beat them or use other
vicious methods to force confessions.
And when prisoners are assaulted in
jail, where they themselves are held
for assaults on the rights of others,
law becomes a mockery.
We send men to jail for confine
ment and reform, not for persecution.
All too frequently' reports are heard
that third degree methods are em
ployed "by police. ,
There is no sympathy for the mur
derers of Til Taylor. Their fates are
scaled. But whether men be mur
derers or princes they are entitled
lo humane treatment whether in or
out of jail.
In 1895 Henvy ford lacked car
fare to see in Chicago the first auto
mobile race ever hell in America
says Forbe's magazine. Is that the
reason he Invented a car which runa
for less than carfare?
SOME CURIOUS PHASES
I I ERE Is a strange fact:
Portlanders buy roses from flor
ists in a larger percentage than is
true of the Easterners, where pro
duction of roses is far more difficult.
The per capita purchases af com
mercial roses "in Portland Is 7.6 per
cent; In New York, It Is 5.4 per cent.
Yet almost every Portland dooryard
Is a rose garden. '
Here is another bit of Information
lhont rem: Bfifore lh war America
imported ' about 1100,000 rose plants
a year from Europe, principally from
Holland and Belgium, t The plants
went into Eastern ' states," where the
life of a rose bush is but two or three
seasons against a round. 10 seasons
in Oregon. ,
The war stopped the importations.
The East turned to Oregon and Cali
fornia for new plants, and these states
have been unable to provide them.
California has made a strong effort
lo supply the stocks, but its climate
is not nearly so well suited to rose
production as Is Oregon. . Oregon, so
far, in spite of ' her fame in rose
production, uas paid little attention
lo this commercial feature . of the
rose. A Portland lot, 50 by 100, will
produce 0000 plants, marketable at
about $55 a thousand. The retail price
of a rose plant Is now 75 cents. A cut
ting from a rose bush put In the
groufid at any time up to January
1, will prodace such a plant. It is
almost Impossible now to get such
plants in this city, as the stocks are
exhausted.
Portland growers are overwhelmed
with orders for 'rose plants. Some
of the orders are from Australia, some
from South Africa, some from Hong
Kong and almost countless orders
from the East.
The commercial rose business of
the United States is 75,000,000 to
$100,000,000 annually.
We call ourselves the city of roses,
and justly so. But we have scarcely
scratched the surface of our possibili
ties. All lljese facts were brought
out by experts at the weekly lunchcen
of the Portland Ad club yesterday.
CANDIDATES AND
THEIR RECORDS
Two for Reelection as Supreme Court
Justice Three for Public
Service Commissioner.
Henry j; Bean of Umatilla county,
candidate for justice of the supreme
court, was born at Bethel, Mairte, No
vember 13, 1853. He
was educated in the
schools and a cade
mies of Maine,
where he studied
law and was admit
ted to practice in
that state March 9,
1881. He was ad
mitted to practice in
Oregon in 1882. He
came to Oregon in
1881 and pracUced
law at Pendleton
from that time until
e.tcicu juute. ne servea as city attor
ney as recorder of Pendleton five
years, as a representative in the Orfgon
legislature in 1889. as county Judge of
Umatilla ounty, as district attorney.
Sixth Judicial district, two terms, as cir
cuit judge of the same district, and was
elected supreme judge in 1910.
Henry L. Benson of Salem, candidate
for Justice of the supreme court, was
born at Stockton, Cal., July 6, 1854. He
is a graduate of the
University of the
Pacific at Santa
Clara, Cal. He was
admitted to thjbar
in 1878 in California
) and came to South
ern Oregon in 1880,
where he first prac
ticed law at Grants
Pass. He served
fs two terms as district
WA'- i', -
Knvi ur,T, a- it m ju
dicial district, one
sessiori as represen
tative and 15 years as circuit judge in
the First dstrict, and was elected to his
present position in 1914.
H. H. Corey of. Salem, candidate for
public service commissioner. Eastern
Oregon district, was born at Burlington,
Wis., June 1. 1876.
His earlier educa
tion was acquired in
the public schools of
Baker, and he is a
graduate of Baker
high school. After
completing high
school he followed
various vocations,
including teaching.
clerking in a store, j
lumber manufactur- i
Inpr. contracting and j
building, ranch'ng
ana Block raising. He was formerly
chief clerk and acting secretary of state
under the late Frank W. Benson, and
prior to his election as public service
commissioner in 1916, served four years
as secretary of the Oregon railroad com
mission. s
Fred fj. Buchtel of Portland is a' can
didate for public service commissioner
for a second term, for the Western dis
trict, composed of
the counties lying
west of the Cascade
mountains. He was
born in Portland in
1878 and was edu
cated In the Port
land schools. H 1 s
first positions were
of a clerical nature.
Later he was a
salesman for a short
period ' and then
spent several years
on engineering work
in connection with railroad location and
construction. He was a candidate four
years ago1 for public service commission
er, preceding which time he was deputy
ptate sealer of weights and measures, in
charge of the state office under Thomas
B. Kay. Before that he was city sealer
of weights and measures for the city of
Portland.
William D. Bennett of Portland, Demo
cratic candidate for public service com
missioner. Western district, was born in
Henry county, In
diana, August 13,
1879. He has been a
practicing attorney
13 years, eight of
which were In Ore
gon, and was super
visor of the census
for the Oregon dis
trict In the 1920 cen-
sus. Mr. Bennett
is conducting an ac
tive campaign for
votes throughout the
Western district, a major premise of
his candidacy being his contention that
franchise agreements entered into be
tween cities and public service corpo
rations constitute binding contracts over
which the public service commission has
no jurisdiction for the purpose of arbi
trarily chancing rates of fare fixed by
franchise.
- CANT! GET OVER IT
From tbe IToreno (Kan.) Bulletin
In the dear old kid days we longed to
be a man and - carry money in our
j trousers pocket We still do.
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Letters From the People
f Communications aent to The Journal for
publication in this department ahoutd he written
or only one aide or the paper: should not excetd
700 word la iencth and must be signed by tha
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pany th contribution.
MR. M'ARTHCR IS ASKED FOR A
CORRECTION
Portland. Oct. 12. To the Editor of
The Journal Herewith a letter which
deals with the attack made upon the
Oregon Popular Government league by
C. N. McArthur at the Highland Scaoo!
Saturday night, October 9, together wftbl
affidavit signed by J. C. Hannan, secre
tary and treasurer of the local Plumb
Plan league. Will you kindly prtnt this
letter, together with the affidavit?
Oregon Popular Government League.
By B. A. Green, Secretary.
The documents submitted are repro
duced in full as follows: ,
AFFIDAVIT
Stat of Orefon,
BS.
Connty of Multnomah. '
I. J. ('. Hannan. bein( first dnly sworn, do
depoa and say that I am a resident and inhabi
tant of the Stat of Oregon. Oity of Portland.
County of Multnomah: that I am a citizen of
the United States of America; that I enlisted in
the t'nited Ptatea Army and aerred overseas with
the Allied Forces: for thirteea montba.
That T am now secretary, and treasurer of
the. Portland Local of the Pramb Plan Iaan:
that all mosey paid in to the Plumb Plan
I -came x and all money expended must paaa
throuch my hands : that .to my own personal
knowledge the Plumb Plan League has not con
tributed one cent toward the campaign and the
attempt to elect to Congresa Esther Pohl Lore
joy, and baa not contributed one cent to assist
in the defeat of C, N. McArthur, and that all
statements to the contrary are false and with
out foundation in fact to my own personal
knowledge, and further I say not.
J. C. HANNAN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 12th
day of October. 1920.
B. A. OREEN.
Notary Public for Orefon.
My commission expires IVc. 4, 1920.
Portland. Or Oct. 12. 1920. Hon. C. N.
McArthur, Portland. Or. Dear sir: In yonr
speech at the Highland achonl Saturday night,
October 9, yon made the charge tliat the Ore
gon Popular Government leasue was being fi
nanced ny the local l'lumb plan league and that
the local Thumb Plan league had raised enorm
ous sums of money to defray the expenses of
lr. IxjTejoy's campaign. For your Information
1 enclose herewith the original affidant
signed by J. C. Hannan, secretary and treasurer
of the Portland local of the Pramb Plan league.
This affidavit speaks for itsea. I presuro that
at yonr next, puottc appearance you wut be Kxna
enough to correct thia unintentional error.
w are n tauy interested in tn prohibition
issue and desire to know whether or not you
consider this question wholly unmoral and that
you are reliered from any obligation of advising
your constituents as to what ther should do.
You state that you were ordered in 1918 to
vote wet by your constituent. Will you please
tell us when your constituents cancelled this
order? I noted with much concern that the
Oregonian failed to give yon ardent support unUl
after yon bad made public your elerentb-bour
conversion. Is it possible that th Oregonian
refused to rive yon proper publicity until they
were advised of this convection? Did you ever
discus this matter with them?
In Snnday a Oregonian appeared a cartoon t-
which I direct your attention. It ahowed a
tvpical political boss holding a sign which said,
"Everybody who doesn't Tote for me is an
idiot." A newspaper editor is shown close by
writing political matter which consist of charge
of "traitorism. radicalism, Bolshevism, pro-Germanism,
etc." A campaign orator is shown a
repeating the old song, "Vote it straight." Would
it not b in order to rail your attention to this
cartoon and suggest, if th sign be changed
to read. All who do not Tote tor me are idiots.
radicals and traitors,' that tha cartoon would
be very applicable to the speech which you made
aa referred to above.
Finally, would it not be pvswibl that you
meet us upon the platform for the purpose of
discussing your own personal record. You surely
apprecaite that your constituent are intretd
in fact and that votes are not won by ealllna
names. Bchoolbors may aettle argument in thi
manner, but we won id sturtest that in this
campaign w appear before the public a full
Siuwu-wi,.
Tours truly.
Oregon Popular Government League,
By B. A. GREEN. Secretary.
Curious Bits, of Information
for the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
In 1812, when the British surprised the
Americans by swooping down on the
capitol at Washington, setting fire to it,
Dolly Madison, wife of President Jamea
Madison, proved herself a heroine.
Friends of the president persuaded him
to leave Washington hurriedly, and they
got him safely across the Potomac. Mrs.
Madison was to follow Immediately, but
she hesitated until she had gathered up
many valuable papers and all the port
able valuables, including the silver plate.
While she was doing thia the British had
entered tbe eity, and the admiral of the
British fleet had taken the speaker's
chair in the bouse and was holding a
mocic session or the Yankee congress.
SUU Mrs. Madison remained until a val
uable painting of George Washington,
by Stuart, in tbe state dining room,
was placed in. the bands of two men.
safe from the vandals. She left just a
few minutes before the British arrived
at the White House,- which they also
Duxnea. , .
ON' FOR, THE TIME
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Where's
Babe" Ruth?
Butterfat is down 3 cents today.
"Pretty slick."
"Egg Market Soff Headline. Funny,
too. We had those market fellows sised
up as a bunch of hard-boiled guys.
Drivers who drive so carefully that
they will be safe as long as the other
fellow drives as carefully as they do,
are on tha safe sale. .
The mercury is reported two degrees
above zero at Tanana, Alaska, and the
cold wavu is reported on Its way down
the coast We hope it stops at Seattle.
A man in Colorado set a pall of gaso
line on the stove, thinking It water.
and his home sailed away. One would
think that bia nose would have known
better.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Mrs. W. R. Scott of Albany is a guest
at the Imperial while spending a few
days in the big city. Mrs. Scott's, husband
la at home, very busy. It is reported,
carrying on the business of the cannery
of which he Is manager and carrying
on the business of being president of
the Albany- Chamber of Commerce.
C. D. Mack, who registers from Cooley,
Ariz., is at the Multnomah following his
return from British Columbia, where he
has attended the loggers' congress. He
there exhibited an unloading attachment
which he expects will revolutionize
problems of unloading. Cooley plans to
visit large lumber camps in Oregon and
Washington before he returns to Ari
zona.
One thing Frank W. Settleftieir of
Wood burn, where he Is a nurseryman.
knows about his home section better
than anything else, perhaps. jThat thing
Is, where the China pheasants hide dur
ing the open season. Settletnelr is a
guest at the Hotel Portland Just now.
The Imperial botel is host again to
Mr. and Mrs. R. Alexander of Pendleton,
where Alexander was a pioneer merchant
and where for many years he was
prominent In business. He is still
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
(Her is th story of a nan woo ha been
on wheels ever sine b was a youth and peopl
got wildly excited over btcycl racing. H ha
not only been on wheels, but ba lived on them.
aa on might put it- Th flavor of a day that
already see ma distant ana mm is pnwnwo "J
air. Lockley in his record of this former track
k lag's recollection.
Millard J. Lee was born and reared at
Canby. and still lives there. "Most folks
call me Ell." he said. "They gave me
that name when I had charge of the
Rambler racing team. I rode under the
colors of the Capital City Bicycle club
of Salem. Those were the days when
Watt Shipp. Chester u. Murpny ana
Perry Card were the crack track riders
of the Willamette valley. If you have
ever seen me in a bicycle race you will
remember how the crowd used to urge
me on with cries of "Get there. Eli.' 1
rode In amateur races all over the West.
I still hold tbe track record for one mile
on the state fair track. In 1895 I estab
lished a new mile record on that track,
at 21,14. I' lowered this to 2:05 at Sac
ramento. When I made the mile In
1 -60 I became the Pacific coast cham
pion. In 1894 I won the 18-hour endur
ance race in Portland, with a record of
355 miles. I won scores of silver cups,
medals and first prirea. Being an ama
teur, I could riot compete In races where
money was offered as a prize. I took
up track riding when I was 19.
"In 1896 I went from the amateur to
the professional class. In July, 1895,
I won over $600 in cash prizes. The
Rambler Bicycle company hired me to
ride. It paid roe $150 a month, and all
expenses and allowed me to . keep all
prizes I won. -I rode for the company
four years. Many of the huge 'solid
silver' cups I won turned out to be sil
ver plated. Tbe 100-doUar gold watches
given as first prizes were bought whole
sale at $17 each. ,
"I took a bad spill in a race at Spo
kane and fractured my skufL I had to
drop out of the game for a while, so
I went to work for Mitchell, Lewis
8taver. la the engine and hydraulic da
BEING
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
When a man marries a girl that looks
like a dream in the evening and a night
mare in the morning, it is a horw on
him. Cottage Grove Sentinel.
Somebody Is always taking the Joy
out of life. Sow It's the king of the
gypsies who wants the gypsies to settle
down and establish a cofnmunal life.
Then there wouldn't be any more gyp
sies. Roseburg fs'ews-Review.
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Old timers who nave made a study of
conditions in the Powder valley are of
the opinion that! the coming winter will
be a mild one. j Beavers have not built
their dams and other animals that make
preparations for "the winter months have
been very Improvident thus far this
fall. These and several other Indica
tions are pointed to as never failing
signs of continued fair fall and a mild,
cpen winter. North Powder News.
prominent, of course, but he has retired
from active business. The visitors ex
pect to make their winter home at the
Imperial, as thejy did last year.
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Charles B. Hrvey, whose fame as
a hotel man Is Widespread, is registered
at the Multnomah for a few days
while he enjoys one unit in the long
rest he hopes to take. He has Just
come from California, after a visit
that followed sejveral busy years at nla
Hotel San Carlos at Pensacola, Fla..
which he has recently sold -t6 a large
hotel interests. It la said that the Hervey
family, from one generation to another,
has been in the hotel business In tre
United States for more than a century.
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J. L. Wilkin and family, residents
of Stevenson, Wash., where Wllklns'has
been managing! the Evergreen Hot
Springs hotel, afe at the Imperial. The
springs are not cooled, but the weathei
Is, and consequently the resort is
practically closed for the winter. "
Dr. W. M. leare, secretary of the
state board of Optometry, Is registered
at the Imperial hotel from La Grande.
He Is avere to take official part in the
state board's examinations of embryo
oculists.
Lockley
partment. In 1S)8 that company brought
out the first motorcycle ever shipped
to the Pacific Northwest. It was a 4
horsepower Mitchell, belt-driven. I rode
this pioneer motorcycle. Within a few
months we had sold quite a number of
motorcycles. The following year the
conductors held :a picnic at Salem and
1 motorcycles jentered the race. The
first prize was a case of 12 quart bot
tles of O. I. C. Whiskey. I won th first
Drlze. but bv the time the alartera mnA
race officials had sampled the prize
every drop was gone and all I got was
to smeu the corks.
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"I won the first six motorcycle races
ever run In Oregon. They thought I
was a speed demon when I made the
mile in 1 :40. Now they make the mile
in less than half that time, or. to put
It another way, (the motorcycle racer of
today makes two laps. to our one. The
first 6-mlle race I ran I won In 10 min
utes flat. .i
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"Yes. I am sOll in the same line of
business. ' When! Clackamas county got
its hard surfaCf road two years ago
I put on an auto stage line from Canby
to Oregon -City. I started on a shoe
string, and everybody prophesied I
would fail, but (I have been extending
my run and adding cars ever since I
started. I started on the Canby-Oregon
City run with one. machine. Now I have
four on that run, and carry capacity
loads. I put onj an auto stage on the
22-mile run between Oregon City and
Wood bum. I had $300 available cash.
ax I boaght a second hand Locomobile
for flsOO. paying $300 down. I had a
lC-passenger body built, and arranged
to pay for the jwork by monthly pay
ments. It sooni pa-id for Itself, so I
bought a 1H tori truck, on which I put
a body that heftd-30 passengers. This
cost me $5000. I landed a contract at
$75 a month to faui tbe school children
from Riverside
jto Canby high school.
which is helping
it earn Its own way.
All you need to
get there. 11' is faith.
audacity and th determination to suc
ceed,'
The Or egori Country '
NoJrthwaat Happening in Brief Form fof th
uy iieaaer ,
'OREGON NOTES " .
The Snautdinir i umK .
Salem has announced reductions In the
price of lumber from Vi to i per thou
sand. Fifty candidates from Hallas, Mc
MlnnvUle and Falls City were initiated
DokWea. l Ke"S City by the
Work on the Orerana h v.l ivi.
versity of Oregon student year book and
annual, started last week, with W.
McKlnley as editor.
A chapter of Beta ;
t tonal commerce chai
has been granted 1 prominent Univer
sity of. Oregon commerce msjorsr'
The Medford Bov Si-nm. v. u
been very busy recently in ilnhiin -
mnt. will render their next HKHixtance
w iuv vcu viuas mcmuercnip urive.
George Prather and Howard r-io-u -
two Eugene boys aged 11 and' 12 years
respectively, have been rommiitM i
lhe state industrial school for theft.
Charles Thompson of Astoria whs
nil ucn oy a BKianing auto trucK nnrl
inrown against a woodpile. He received
a fracture at the bane of the ekuli and
was otnerwise injured.
The Falls City Lumber X Loprinr-
company has reopened lis mill, which
was snut aown six weeks ago on account
of the car shortage. For the present it
v in uo run lour aay a weH.
A large prune dryer belonRlnj; lo Clyde
Burkhart near Lebanon h.an br, n de
stroyed by fire. Cured pruim m a
building nesr the dryer Verc nnvr,i by
volunteer fire fighters from I,et..uion.
A number of business men of The
Dalles will Install a modern nireet llghl
Ing system covering nine blocks In tlie
main business district and prcnenl Iho
same to the city. The cost will bo ap
proximately $9000.
WASHINGTON
So far aa known, the first Mnnr
vatem is being installed In the Grays -
naroor country at mo Alona Lrtimler
company's kilns.
The Presbyterian church of Kelan has
Fiurchased a motion picture machine
or use In religious, educational and
social activities.
Pheasants in the vlcinltv of rmsssr
have become so numerous that they are
doing much damage to crops, especially
corn In its early stages.
A five-Inch siege gun has arrived at
Stevenson. It was donated to- the.'dtv
by congress. It will be placed orf the
courthouse lawn on a concrete base.
Railroads have withdrawn their ap
plication to the public service commis
sion for an Increase In freight rates to
apply in Western Washington and Ore
gon. William M. Wilson Is dear) at hie
home in Vancouver at the age of 90
years. In 1873 he took up the first
land claim In the John Day country
In Eastern Oregon.
Arrangements for the statewide ob
servance of the anniversary of th
birth of Theodore Itoosevelt. October
27, are helng made by the Republican
state central committee.
Wheat growers of Idaho and Wash
ington, members of the Washington
Wheat Growers', association, are hold
ing 400,000 bushels of wheat for 2.60
a bushel or more.
In spite of difficulty in obtaining
materials, the new high school building
at I'rosser 4s making headway. Enough.
runna are available to complete tn
building with the exception ( of the
basement.
IDAHO
Construction will begin November 1"
on the drainage work in the Boise val-
ley. It Is expected to complete the
work by March 1, 1922.
A commtttee has been appointed by
the mayor of Burley to find out the
exact level of the ground water In
order to work out a plan for drainage.
A campaign has been- launched lo
raise $83,000 in Southern Idaho to
finance the construction of the pro
posed Haivatlon Army rescue home In
Boise. The quota set for Ada county
Is 115.000.
Prospects for modifying the quaran
tine on .-lfalfa mill product In the
near future by Oregon, Montana nml
California are verv favorable, accord
ing to W. 11. Winks, director of the
state bureau of plant Industry.
Old cp. Oregon
Jacksonville Once Southern Oregon's
Most Important Town.
The suggestion to remove the sent of
county government In Jackson cnunly
from Jacksonville retails that Jackson
ville wan at one time the most Importiint
town in Soullicrn Oregon. Jymtlre was
first r.dministered there by alcaldes,
after the Spanish wytem. The American
pystem came in 1853, when a regular
court was set up by M. P. Dcady, one of
the three territorial Judges under fed
eral appointment. By this time Jackson
ville waa the trading center and dis
tributing point for a large mining and
agricultural district. Before the rail
road across the Sisklyous wns con
structed it was an impcrtant tagn Hta
tion. With the railroad began lln decline.
The railroad company wanted a subsidy
to build to the town, but the citizens
would not give one. As a result Jack
sonville w:m left to one lde and the
town of Medford sprang into existence.
j Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The way Senator Borah keeps puttln'
on the screws to the O. O. I', and makln'
Harding swear ever day or two that
he's a-goin' to be true and faithful and
not 'low no whlnperln' over the bark
fence to no Ieague of Nations, reminds
me of Seth Barlow on the Brazos, that
married a Spanish gal from Galventon
'bout the time Jeff Davis quit bein' presi
dent. The lady waa awful Jealous and
a'plclous of Seth and made lilm nwear
he loved her. twlcet a day. Then an
up and eloped one night v.'ih a theatr
feller that come alonsr. Jtnrt Seth he
wouldn't accept the loan of a nous to
chase em.
Figures, That Show Amazing
Returns From Northwest's
Irrigation Project.
Someone answers the assert im that
the Irrigation projects of th" Colum
bia basin will consume mucli "f the
hydro-electric energy to be produced
from the stresms of the Columbia
basin, with a question :
"How do you know the Irrigation
projects pay enough to permit uxe
of so. high grade fuel, light and en
ergy a electricity?"
The latest government report,
available on the returns from Irri
gation projects are for the year
1916. These figures show that the
Yakima project of 144.4 )0 acres. -oi-lng
$9,226,400, produced $5,4'4,400
worth of food in a year, or G per
cent of Its cost. The Yakima valley
people are talking of harventing thl8
year $45,000,000 worth of food, ap
proximately five times the cost of
reclaiming the land. Anyone who
has recently loured the Yakima val
ley know that its towns are all
elecrically energized, and this mean
of light, beat and power will be more
largely used as 4he new theory con
trols ; that is, to improve the Co
lumbia and Snake for navigation,
irrigation and electrification Instead
of for navigation alone.
The Okanogan project of 10.100
acres. costing $841,240, produced
$328,400 worth of food in 1916. or 39
per cent of Its coat. The L'matilla
project ,-of 38.300 acre, coating
$2,348,006. produced 1140,000 worth
of food In the aame year and Is pro
ducing probably: five times that
amount now. ,
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