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aioiiday, October; , . u j. 8 THE OIUIGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, c OIlLGOir - C . JaCKsO . . Pnbltabjr (Be calm, be eenfioVnt, be cheerful "! do , M. tkm u yon would hare thrsp do unto 7- 1 " rsblished ery week day and Sunday nKXWne. t Tba Journal Building. Broadway and Xam : : hitt street, Portland. Oregon. , - Catered t the poetofflce at Portland Ores on, for trermaissien tbrouf b tb. snails as Dd claw matter. VW-WHONESMaln T178. Automatic S60-51. Alt departments reached by tfcesa nompera, "rORUICN aDVEKTPHNO BKPKK8KNTA1 IVE i 225 FUU unu, New lorkj 00 Mailers a: t BuiMlnff, Chieaga. TUK OBWWN JOURNAL. rewrtes tb; right to reject sdetislng copy which it deems 06 Jeetiomble. It also will not print any copy tbat In any way simulates reading matter or that cannot readily be recognized aa adref tiainc SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Carrier, Cily and Country DAILT AMI BUNUAT CM week -IS I One month .03 DAILY" I SUNDAY On. week I .10 One wee $ 03 Una month 4S Bl llAlL. ALL KATKH PAYABLE IN ADVANCE One year 8 0 big ;tonth.. . . . 25 DAILY (Without Sunday) On year $8.00 ftii month 3 2n Three montha. . . 1." Ore month. .... . -o0 WKEKI.T (Ery Wcdnesdsy) On year $100 ' euw Biuiihi . .AO Three months. . Una month. . . . .I2.2S BUNDAY Only) One year. 8.oo Six montiha 1..70 Three montha... 1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY One yeas 13.60 Theaa rate apply only m me ". Bate to Eastern polnU furnished on appllca tien. Make remittance! by Money Order. Express Older or Draft. If your noetotflre la not a Money Order Office, l or 2-cent stsmpe will be accepted. Make all remittance payable to Tbe Jrrwrnel, Portland, Orrgon. Ability InToliea responsibility. Power U -tta last particle la duty. Marlaren. COX AND RESERVATIONS I AM WILLl.NKl TO ACCEPT ANY RESERVATION STATING EX PLICITLY THAT THE UNITED STATES ASSUMES NO OBLIGATIONS TO USB ITS MILITARY OR NAVAL. FORCES TO THE END OF ASSISTING ANY OTHER MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE UNLESS IT IS APPROVED OR AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS. This Is Governor ox' proposed res ervation to Article X. He announced it at the close of a great meeting in Madison Square Garden in New York Saturday nignt. Of it he said, "I want this, to be my formal expression "as to a reservation for Article X." There you have it. There you have the guarantee that "if Cox is elected, congress and congress only will de ckle whether American military forces can be used anywhere on any errand. Let no man now say that .Governor Cox demands the ratification pf the treaty without the dotting of an "i" or the crossing of a "t." Any po litician, big or little, who hereafter makes that statement will deliberately lie?: The language is so clear and ex plicit that it cannot be misunderstood. "I am witling to accent any reserva tion stating explicitly that the United States assumes no obligations to use lis military or naval forces to the end "of assisting any other member of the league unless it is approved or auth orized by congress." Here, then, is the situation: Hard ing is for "rejection"" of the treaty. "I will not go in; let there be no mis take about that," he said at Des Moines. Cox is for going in with res ervations that wiU safeguard Ameri can sovereignty and rights. It is the first chance you have ever had to vote directly against war. It maybe the last chance you will ever have to vote directly to end war. Take your choice: Harding and war; Cox and permanent peace. The pessimist has new reason to tear that since the war the world's all wrong. In addition to the base ball scandals, it was found that 116 Cornell students were guilty of ex amination frauds. They sneaked in and got an advance look at the ex amination parers. Then answering the questions was easier than the subsequent examination as to- why they resorted to trickery and fraud. OUR SCENIC. HIGHWAYS satisfaction is found In the 1V1 decision of the state highway commission to proceed with the con struction of what is designated as the Mount Hood loop highway. This project has been under discussion for , the past five years. It was the first - one in the state to,be broached after the federal government had adopted "'' the policy of cooperating with coun ties and states in the improvement , t of forest and post roads. . v From the standpoint of the federal ' government the highway is very im '. portant for the reason that it will : open up a vast forest area. It will make more accessibJe a great' timber supply and provide for ; the protection of the same against , forest fires. It will also help to bring about , & realization of the govern - mental policy to make the national forests public recreation grounds. "The value of the highway from the f state point of view is that it will 1 capitalize Mount Hood and its sur roundings. Locally the highway is ' spoken of as a scenic road in distinc tion from a commercial highway which runs through an agricultural country. In the assessment of the value of the highways the first suggestion Is to place the commercial road first. Whether this rule should govern in all cases Is a debatable question. There are certain roads whose primary pur pose is to attract and gratify Ihe tourist, which in some Instances yield a greater return than roads which serve mainly to transport the prod ucts of a country. The Mount Hood loop highway Is such a road. Besides opening up a vast playground for the local popu lation, it will draw the tourist from ahroad and lead hip to spend much longer time in' the state than he would otherwise. What this means can be realized through the fact that the average daily expenditure of the tourist . is at least ten dollars for necessary things. A highway around Mount. Hood will not only hold the tourist one day but several days when from it as a base radiate spur roads to the magnificent glades and com manding vjew points with which the region abounds. With the improvement of the high ways which open the way into the state in immediate prospect, it is time to begin the development of such in terior highways as the Crater lake road and the Mount Hood loop highway. San Franciscans must be getting old and slow. A proposed amend ment to the Bay City's street car ordinance forbids one street car to stop within six feet of another if loading or unloading passengers on a parallel track. Hitherto the street cars have rubbed noses arud of the scurrying people, .tho fender got the BEHOIjD! B EHOLD these frantic screams wheat and Australian butter! Nothing has been heard of these floods of products since the presiden tial campaign of 1016. Every four years the Oregonian goes into its cold storage plant and brings out its Chi nese eggs and Australian butter, to feed to Oregon farmers. At all other times the door to its ice house is kept locked and its butter and egg crop allowed the sweet solace of ob livion. This time the whole scheme is cam paign slush brought out to divert at tention from the close relation be tween Swift & Co. and Candidate Stan- field. The amusing feature is that New Zealand butter and Chinese eggs only become dangerous every four years. Nobody ever hears of them between elections. There is about as much peril from either of them as from importatl-on of June bugs from Ice land or watermelons from the North Pole-. Anyway, the average city newspa per is a marvelous authority on farm ing. Some of them have farmed the farmer for 40 years by fighting those things for which farmers asked and urging those things the farmers did not want. They have faj-med the farmers with the tariff until some thing like 50 per cent of the farmers of America have lost their homesteads under foreclosure of mortgage and are now tenants on the land their fathers and grandfathers owned. There is no more sincere concern in the wel fare of the farmers in the present outcry about New Zealand butter and Chinese eggs than sincere concern by a coyote in the welfare of the rabbit he is trying to capture for a meal. Take the prices of butter, eggs, wool and wheat before and since the Under wood tariff went into effect, and then see what a farce the yell about the tariff is. Here they are: 1912. 1913. Wheat, club $ .78 $ .78 Bluestem 82 .88 Wool. Eastern Ore. .18 .16 Willamette Val. .22 .18 Butter 37 .34 Eggs 40 .42 Beef 6.75 7.50 1914. S1.02U 1.0S .18 .20 .35 .34 7.50 Such is the record. Looking at that record, it is difficult to see just how farmers' prices could be helped by electing an intimate friend and busi ness associate of Swift & Co. (to the senate. For instance, how much would it help the price of beef to the Oregon stockman? A Philadelphia jurist told a group of women In his home town that sufficient ground for divprce would be a woman's failure to' read the newspapers. Upon which the Phila delphia Public Ledger wisely clinches the point by saying, "The newspaper and the ballot are all that nations need to be entirely free." DUST IN THE VOTERS' EYES IT IS clear that the port legislation on the November ballot depends for Passage on confusion of the public mind. It is equally clear that if the voters understand them, both the Swan island or port consolidation bill and the city's charter amendment will be overwhelmingly defeated. Hence, the backers of the two meas ures throw the dust of misleading ar gument into the eyes of the voters In order to win votes under a misappre hension. The following is absolutely true: The title. "Port of Portland Dock Commission Consolidation Bill" on the state ballot is a misnomer. Con solidation of the two commissions is purely Incidental. It will not occur unless the city, by adoption of the port charter fmendment, rgrees to transfer its public dock properties to the legislature-controlled port com mission. ; The big grants of power in the j ort bill are a bond Issue. of 116,500,000 'and a provision thai, tbe port commission may go intp the real estate business, provide rairoad yards and industrial sites as well as build docks and other ocean terminal structures. If con solidation does not occur Portland will have. In effect, two dock commis sions, one answerable to the 3tate legislature, one to the city, but the former will also have control of the channel. The huge bond issue proposed can be authorized by the people outside Portland even if Portland opposes it, but Portland would be compelled to pay the bill; the bonds would be a lien against the homes and other property of the port district. The proposal is the same as if a man were to charge a bi'l of drygoods against his neighbor and be in a position to compel jjis neighbor to pay the bill. Even the commonly used name, "Swan island rt measure," is a mis nomer. The bill commits the port commission to no project by name. The Committee of Fifteen which formulated ' the port legislation rec ommended the Swan Island project with piers, railroad yards and indus trial sites, but as soon ao it was shown that such a project would cost not 10,000,000 but $40,000,000, ttie backers of the pl&n swung clear around and advanced a new proposal Involving only dredging around Swan island and land filling. There is noth ing in the bill to prevent the port commission changing front a dozen times more and in the end executing a project now not thought of. Portland citizens who understand the port bill will vote against it for protection Against a huge bonded debt which, with port debt previously authorized, would aggregate a bond ing authority of nearly $50,000,000. Oregon citizens outside Portland will very probably vote against the port bill because it is a purely local subject and because it is against an American's idea of a square deal for one to vote a debt which another must pay. A Portlander passed a Portland fruit stand a few days ago upon which some middle size apples were offered for sale at 50 cents a dozen. He had not long before come from the country, where many bushels of apples as good were rotting on the ground for lack of users. H. C. L. must live on the road between coun try and town. AIDING FARMERS' ENEMIES mook Creamery association, is making a fight on the market com mission bill on his claim that the measure would put the marketing control of Tillamook cheese into the hands of a political appointee. He is mistaken. He reads into the bill things that are not thepe. Charles E. Spence, many times and now master of the state grange of Oregon, says of the bill: The bill provides that the market di rector shall act as adviser and pro mote, foster and encourage cooperative associations. The only case In which even supervision is authorized is in re quiring reports of the business of such organizations to be made to the di rector. THIS WAS PUT IN FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATIONS. AND NOT, AS MR. HABERLACH SATS, TO TAKE CONTROL OUT OF THE HANDS OF THEIR MANAGERS. We think it is a sufficient answer to the attacks upon the bill to say that the undersigned farmers and representatives of farm ers' organizations were present when the bill was drafted C. E. Spence, mas ter of the State Grange : A. R. Shum way, president of the Farmers' union : Hector McPherson, director of mar kets at O. A. C. ; Senator Walter M. Pierce, stockman and wheatgrower; Senator J. A. Westerlund, fruitgrower. Mr. Spence charges that Mr. Haber- lach is associating himself wth those 1913. S .95 1916. 11.39 1.45 .32 .:i2 .39 .39 6.75 1917. $2.03 2.05 .60 .60 .46 .53 10.25 1918. $2.07 2.12 .71 .73 .64 .67 13.00 1919. $2.16 2.20 .55 .55 .62 .68 10.50 1920. 2.00 1.1)5 .98 .29 .28 .31,2 .36 7.00 .53 .72 S.75 who recently attempted to break up the Oregon Dairyme n's league. Whether or not that be true, the fact is, as Mr. Spence says, the market commission bill will not interfere in the slightest with the operations of the Tillamook Creamery association, will not take away from its members the slightest control in the sale of their products, but will, instead, be a source of aid and strength to them in their operations. In fighting the bill, Mr. Haberlach' is fighting the aspirations and en deavors of dairymen, farmers and others in country life to reach the same organized endeavor that has been attained by the association with which he holds his position. A closing paragraph in Mr. Spence's statement is as follows: This bill was drawn for the purpose of putting the farmer in a position to protect himself from speculative middle men. Mr. Haberlach says, "Why not let the legislature give the farmers a market bill?" We call the attention of Mr. Haber lach to the fact that a bill practically the same was introduced at the last session of the legislature by the farm ers' representatives and that it was killed by the same self-interested prof iteers that are fighting the present market bill. NOT MOSSBACKS P VERYBODY who was against the 1 Columbia river highway, against the Interstate bridge, against the Broadway bridge, against road bonds, is, of course, against the fiO, 000,000 port project, though doubtless they do not include all the opposi tion," says the Oregonian. What about Ihe Journal? It printed the first editorial ever written advo cating the Columbia river highway. It fought for all the public enterprises mentioned by tbe Oregonian. It has fought for all port projects.. It Is op posed to tbe so-called -flO.00000 port project," because It is a HO ,000,000 port project, because it is proposed to vote to a small group of men, legis latively appointed, a grant of finan cial and other power that no small body of men should ever be given, and because from the first the public statements of the purposes of the pro posed project avc been evasive and more or less secret. Max HouseV resigned as president of the port commission because he could not stand for the project. Mr. Houser is not a mossback, but a man who has done more through his own busi ness than any other private citizen to put Portland on the maritime map. C. E. Dant is another man who brings many aips tu this port, and knows Its needs. He opposes the Swan island project. What names are more identified with Portland's progress and growth in a material way than these: Ben Selling, W. B. Aycr, C. B. Moores, K. V, .Mul key, A. II. Averill, L. Allen Lewis, A. L. Mills, Commissioners Bigelow and Pier, J. C. Alnsworth, Captain Patter son, J. N. Teal and Captain E. W. Spencer? If the "110,000.000 port project" is a $40,000,000 project, wiry do its hack ers not say so? 1 Why do they advertise in the up state papers saying Portland will have to pay, but that the project will in crease the profits of the people out side, thus trying to bribe outside, peo ple to saddle a $40,000 ,000 debt on Portland? COX A GAME FIGHTER What That Shrewd Old Veteran. Sam Blythe. Trained Estimator of Men, Pronounces ol the Demo cratic Candidate. From the Salrm Capital Journal. An entertaining article by Samuel G. Blythe in the Saturday Evening Post of October 2 entitled "Jimmy," contains some interesting sidelights on the per sonality and character of James Middle ton Cox, Democratic candidate for presi dent. Information gathered about Cox in Dayton, the candidate's home, is epi tomized thus : "When he goes fishing he wants to catch all the fish in the creek. "When he goes hunting he never quijs until he has his legal limit. "When he starts to make money he wants to make every nickel the enter prise affords. "WTien he gets into a fight he fights all the time. "When he works he works like a steam engine. "When he plays he plays the same way. "When he goes after a man he never quits until he gets him. "When a man goes after him he runs out to meet him. "He is a good citizen, a good fellow, a good friend and a most annoying enemy. "When he has a thing to do he does it and provides the reasons after it is done. "Everybody In Dayton calls him Jimmy." Governor Cox, when asked what, in his opinion, was the outstanding fea ture of the presidency from the view point of the man who held the office, maue the following characteristic reply : "The power to take a situation Ly the nape of the neck and the seat of the ti-ousers and snake a result out of it." Many incidents are given bearing cut the characterization pictured. "Cox is a. harl hater, and his method of dealing with an enemy is to hit him .n the eye as cften as the eye comes within range of whatever is har.dy to hit it with." In brief. Cox is a vigorous, two-fi3ted fighter, a loyal friend and a resourceful enemy, whose motto appears to be "Don't tread on me." Mr. Blythe depicts pertinently as the outstanding characterization of Cox, the ability to hang 6n, to get x.ut of a corner by craft or assault, and if Dearen in one phare, to find another and still another a man of "serious mini and serious occupation," who gje3 into a fight with cold eyes and collected thought, a man who goes .n to win. He isn't looking for a fight, but he isn't avoiding one, and if apparently de feated, is back at it, if he thinks he is right. "If Cox is elected president," says Mr. Blythe, "the gentlemen who com pose the congress of the United States will do well to know exactly where they are going in his direction before they 8ta-t on their way. Furthirmore, tf they decide to put him in his plr.ee, to eluculate the well-known obsession of our rrtiora: lawmakers th;it con gress is an institution, while the piesi dent is merely an incident, notwith standing the three coordinate branch stipulation of the Constitution, they will find this five-foot-eight president will need a lot of place-putting before he admits the contention. Furthermore, they will discover that when they think they have him put in his place he will be on the - flank of them, 'ambasting them in a serious, non-imaginative, whol ly effective and quite merciless manner." From a poor boy Cox, who possesses both editorial and business ability, has become well-to-do, but never lost th; viewpoint of the poor. "His sympathies and comprehension of poor men have not changed, nor his political attitude to ward them" and he has always been called "Jimmy." Cox Is proving himself a gallant fight er, and is making a strenuous battle, for the presidency,, with what seems lit tle assistance from party leaders, little organization and little money. Against him are arrayed the organized wealth of the country, three-quarters of the newspapers, the disloyal hypPtiated vote, and the foreign elements opposing the peace treaty, the conservatives and the radicals and all those who, for what ever cause or excuse, are disgruntled with the Wilson administration or with social or economic conditions. Facing what seemed unsurmountable odds, he has made steady progress, growing stronger as election day neared, with his prospects constantly improving. Letters From the People ( Communications sent to The Journal for publication in this department should be written cr only on side of the paper; should not exoeed 800 words in iencth and mat be sisned by the writer, wboa mail address in fall most aeeoa pany the contribution. 1 BANKING ACTS IN DANGER Portland. Oct. 22. To the Editor of The Journal It is time the voter real ized that there is a very large-sized nlgrger In the present political woodpile. The Wall street money pirates, better known as the bank trust, have never forgiven Woodrow Wilson for the estab lishment of the federal reserve banking system, or for the enactment of the farm loan act. That the money power in this country is back of a huce conspiracy to upset these splendid systems now in force is' an absolute certainty. While the people are discussing the league of Nations and other vital questions. Wall street is not idle. It is a foregone con clusion that these financial pirates have swelled Republican campaign funds in the hands of Chairman Hays of the Republican national committee. The bank trust, with headquarters in Wall street, could well afford to spend a couple of hundred millions to defeat Cox and elect Harding. That they will spend such a sum in this campaign the writer verily believes. Governor Cox is un questionably aware of the stupendous campaign fund that is at the disposal of Mr. Hays. When it comes to captur ing this election for Harding, money is practically not a matter of serious con sideration. It is time to strip the mask off the face of organized greed. The forces be hind Harding, if he shall be elected, ex pect to take over the financial affairs of the nation much as they had control prior to the election .' of Woodrow Wit son. They expect to remodel the present banking system to better suit their selfish purposes. It is an open secret .that the bank trust of Wall street had deeply resented the action of the Wil son administration in "interfering with their business" of controlling the finances of the nation. When McAdoo became secretary of the treasury he found the government funds largely diverted to the private use of bankers and big trust companies. The American people recall with pride the rplendid service rendeed by McAdoo in the treasury department how he stood between the people and the financial plunderbund of Wall street. how he defied these enemies of the peo ple and drove them to cover. The voter should not sleep on his rights. The enemy is not dead. Remember that the forces in this country who are behind Harding and who have deliberately hung civilization up by the heels In their scuttling policy regarding our entrance into the League of Nations would. If they succeed, undo the splendid work of Woodrow WMlson and hurl the people back into the abyss of reaction. Re member that a vote for Cox and the League of Nations is also a vote to de feat the conspiracy of the Wall street pirates to regain their grip on the fi nances of the nation. McNair Jones.. A TRAVELER'S QUESTION Portland, Oct. 19. To the Editor of The Journal Which are the cheapest fares from Portland to New York city, and from there to Hamburg. Germany? A Subscriber. (The inquirer hould call on or tddrets Dcrery H. Smith of The Journ4 Trmrel Btimu. Joarnl uuildinc. Portland, who will, without chrie. faU information. A more explicit rUtement thin is contained in the present inquiry should be made, however. J An Old Soldier's Lament By Jimmy Vaughn Goodness gracious! Teh uie, prsy, Jot where Uardme is today. I don't know just where I stand ; 1 can't trll where I will land. I don't know uliere we are at, Haren't Rot the iwues pat. In Des Moines one thing ha says; Changes that on olhrr days. I hare stood by U. O. P. Sixty years, yes, sixty-three. Other years I always knew It was always right and true. But this year I cannot tell Just exactly what is well For the people of this land. Or just where I ought to stand. Slipping, sliding all around. Nerer firm upon the ground I'm too old and too infirm To wiggle round like an angleworm. In the sixties fought like sin Thst old Ciril war to win. When we won it then we knew That for time the war was th roach. Now we're ;u-t got through a fight That makes ours seem mighty light. And I'd surely like to sare. That for which we billions fays- Fix it- so the world will gain. Heroes' deaths be not In vain. Make tbe league a thing of power. Banish wars from this good hoar. But I want my candidate To be stable, not gyrate. I can't stand the wiggle-wobble Or the constant duck and bobble. So I'm going to stand for Cox lor he standi as firm as rocks. Without any wild grrauooa. For the good of ALL the nations. Portland, October 20. - m CAMPAIGN HUMOR From the Ohio Stat Journal While we're for the ticket all right and will never deeert Warren, we cannot bring ourself to be quite so partisan as our kind employer and other prominent and Influential Republicans would like us to be, and it always amuses us to receive an impassioned document under Senator Lodge's frank protesting in the most vigorous and scandalized terms against the abuse of tbe franking prlr- "SHE'S DEAD" COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Add indoor sports : pie ballots." "Marking the cam- The "port" bill has difficulty in find ing a friendly port. "British Arms Crisis." Headline, maybe. Sought in Strike "Strong arm" stuff, They've found a camel fossil down at Wheeler, Or., which may be taken to indicate that this "dry" condition isn't anything new, after all. Oregon's cranberry crop is estimated at 25.000 boxes. Let's nee reduced to terms of Thanksgiving feasts, how many dishes of sauce will that make? "Camel Fossil Shows Desert Beast Roamed Oregon Field." a headline says. That's either "wet" propaganda or an indictment for aridity that the present generation will not admit. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Glacier national park, due not only to the extensive advertising of its attrac tions by the government and the rail roads, but to the fact that the "See America First" preachments have hit home, has just closed a wonderfully prosperous season, according to reports of authorities. Automobile tourists dur ing July and August came so fast that they threatened sometimes to tax the splendid facilities of the park. H. A. Noble, in charge of the Northern Pacific hotels and the like in the park, is spread ing stories of the wonders of -the national monument at the Multnomah, where he is a guest for a brief season. Klamath Falls will continue to grow and prosper as long as the woodsmen leave a giant pine tree standing and as long as plows and harrows are made as Implements for the farmer. With a vast unscratched area still capable of in tensive cultivation and apparently enough water storage to insure its pro ductivity for many years, that great country will qontinue to double and re double its population, residents thereof declare. Among the aforementioned residents Is P. C. Wilson, who Is stop ping at the Portland hotel while visiting in Portland. Browning. Mont., is the home of Jason Devereaux and William Henderson, who registered at the Hotel Oregon for a weekend sojourn In Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Minard, who claim residence at Medford, are stopping at the Imperial hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Murray collabo rate in the operation of the hotel and railroad eating place at Huntington, Oregon's "first and last chance" in the matter of food. The Murrays are Just now at the Multnomah, spending a few AWAKE! By Lillian Awake I America! Awake! And for tbe oppresaed's sake Lift again your flaming torch. Liberty for ail in the world to make. You sent your sons across th sea. To fight and die that men be free. And though they sleep in foreign soil. They listened to thy bugle call. America! Wirt thou forget Tbe weak, tbe poor, the maimed, the bund. The arenging fliers of the battling sky. Who deemed it glorious thus to die? America! Thy proud and noble roica Hhail sound again the clarion, tall ; The North, tbe South, the Kast, the West, Will join in friendship, hands so strong There'U be a league on earth for all. America shall not be crucified! Her gallant sons who spilt their blood. On the muddy plain of Argonne wood. And allied millions who so nobly died. Their cause, O God I shall be Justified. (Dedicated to my nephew, the late Lee Logan Wallace, who died to make the world saf e. ilege in this campaign by conscienceless friends and supporters of the present ad ministration. A TIME FOR THRIFT From th Halifax Chronic) One thing Is certain, the urgent neces sity is suggested of taking in both per sonal and public sail. The strictest pos sible economy, both personal and public Is indicated as the only safe course, and. with it. Industry to the utmost on every hand. The Individual can only secure himself and his family through standing faithfully by the community. The com munity's hope lies in individual sobriety, work and thrift. And the greatest of these, at present. Is thrift.' - f NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS It is all right to reproduce political ppeeche in a phonograph, but the trou ble is that the. pesky tninpK never stop for the cheering Salem Statesman. One more link was added to the long chain of assets belonging to our city when the steamer Northwestern started her maiden voyage Tuesday morning. Albany Democrat. When a Harney county stockman sees what his product sells for over the big town restaurant tables he naturally has a hunch that he is In the wrong busi ness to get rich quick. Crane American. The Portland business men's excursion came and went. Their visit was an en joyable one notwithstanding the weather and erhaps that had much to do with the webfooters' pleasure, since it was just what they are accustomed to. How ever, Baker did not especially bill It and wished it otherwise. Baker Democrat. days in Tortland. They own Willamette valley farm property and come down occasionally to give It a careful Inspec tion. Huntington is on the edge of Baker county and sits on the banks of the Snake river. e e Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Trlnce, who live in Bend. Oregon's fastest growing city, are guests at the Portland. And the same-'city, where lumhe"r and logging operations are only second, to a great crop production, is represented at the Multnomah hotel by Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Davis. At the Hotel Oregon is W. L. Camp bell, a resident of Tillamook, where scores of dairymen are ready to testify to Willamette valley dairymen on the benefits of cooperative marketing. The cheese industry of Tillamook county has been built up orfthe cooperative plan until there is no organization In the na tion that can equal it for results, Tilla mook folks say. A. J. Keelan of Silverton Is at the Multnomah. Silverton proudly admits. If pressed, that its happy homes have pro duced more than one genius, among whom was the late Homer Davenport, and, although the town isn't boastful i about it, there are any number in the city to affirm that the local high school I contains material for many more, Snows are now deep in the Olympics says E. C. Erickson, check scaler for the forest service, who has returned from inspecting a timber sale of the Kay Smith Lumber company near Brinnon, in the Olympic national forest. The snows now extend down nearly te the edge of the forest, says Erickson. Hunt ers are having splendid luck with deer and have been getting their limit short ly after entering the forest M. Hackelman Curious Bits of Information for the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places Josephus, the Jewish historian, tells of a Jew who was over 10 feet nigh, and Pliny of an Arabian giant of 9 feet 9 Inches, while John Middleton. born at Hale In the time of James I, Is re puted to have stood 9 feet 3 Inches. The Chinese claim that only a century ago there were men In their country meas uring 15 feet, but the claim lacks nroof. The tallest skeleton in the world is be' lleved to be one in the museum of Trin ity college, Dublin, and that is only t feet f inches. "lite Oregon Country " North t llapprnlnc In Brier form -far th Bui; Readrr OREGON Umatilla county In 1920 has I46.5,MS worth of taxable property, exclusive Of public utilities. A postofflce has been established at the new town of Valsetz, on the Valley & Silets railroad. The total value of all lands In Linn county, exclusive of public utility hold ings, is $27,323,870. y The Umatilla Indian agencv announces the next sale of Indian land for Friday. December 10. 1920. " C. A. McLaughlin of Independence ha sold his 1920 hop crop to an KiurlMi syn dicate for $183,728.60. Two new Industries, a tip nnd tiinber mill and a shingle mill, are noon to ha opened at St. Helens. The cornerstone of a new Methodist church to cost J40.000 was In id thin wr-clc at Bend- by Bishop W. O. Shumi-d. The election held for the par nose of bondlng'the Keedsport fchool district for $18,000 was carried by a large maturity. While attempting to move a fork der rick under a b'fch power line on the" Oehoco project. Jack Custer was electro cuted. - Three thousand barrels of Maraschino cherries were put up this year from Ore gon fruit by the Llbby plant at Ths Dalles. William Lewis, a Lane county farmer, has suffered the amputation of n leg between the knee and hip, having been mistaken for a deer and shot by J. B. Embry. Jack Watson, a cook In a construction cfimn near Oakland, lost $180 when some llilcf cut a hole in the tent Ht the sleep er's head and removed a roll of bills from under Ills pillow. I'rojioHed purchase of a site for the naval base Hiid Issuance of $100,0(10 bonds to meet the county's share of th"r cost of the Youngs bay drawbridge will be on the t'lalsop county ballot. WASHINGTON Yakima high sclmni ntidentn during the summer months earned $:i1.9l(. The ll'L'O tu levy for Kelso ill he liS 74 nulln, compart u with 77 mills last year. A new Methodist church costinc $3.r.000 has Just been dedicated at LaC'rosse. Water has been turned off In Ihe Yakima canal to permit work on recon struction of the canal. It Is estimated thiit the Seattle munici pal railroad is running behind at the rale of JH0.O0O h month. Luis A. Suntander. consul for Chill In the slate of Washington, died Ht Se attle after :v few hours' Illness. 'Clarence Hector, while hunting north east of Centralis- a few days nun. i-hot a brown bear weighing 300 pounds. There are hundreds of acres of pota toes under water In the valleys of Grays Harbor, Lewis and Mason coun ties. Yakima city commissioners have pur chased for a purk the entire Mock on which St. Kllzalwtli hospital formerly stood. Population statistics thnw that though Ihe state mad a gain of 'J14,.1-B since 1 5 1 0. (here was a falling off In the rural communities. In a report Just Issued It Is Hhown that 4965 inspections of pupils have been made in the Centraliu schools during the past year. During the nast year 462.000 tons of timber products and farm produce hav been handled on the Cowlitz river by boat, barg or in rafts. IDAHO A. R. Kunkle was fined $inn nnd coHts at Boise for killing deer out of season. Twenty-four prominent prowers have, completed a frult-marketlng organiz ation at Lewiston. While firing at a target at Boise C. C Moon accidentally nhot snd seriously wounded Julius P. Nauerth. Matthew Pheljw Klfleld, one of the first men to discover gold in Cali fornia, is dead at Rockland, aged VO. years. i Three masked men held up a logging camp near Saudpolnt and got awsy with V'00 In cash and a number of time checks. Articles of Incorporation have been filed for the Webb Mountain Telephone company with the county auditor at Lewiston. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: To put party collars In the closet and vote fer world peati and no more war Is a leetle too much to ak of some good neiRhlors and good Ameri cans. Hollerin' fer Is and wavln' flags fer it, and iiiiiklo' big speeches fer it. is easy enough ffr 'em. The vote counts most and means most. The fellers that fought fer It, they meant it. they did : but If they don't vote fer It, too, why didn't they turn the V. S. A. over lo the Hun and his Trlends In the first place, and save a whole lot of trouble? Olden Oregon Eastern Oregon Was Very Ambitious for Higher Education. The pioneer academy of Eastern Ore gon was Baker City academy, which was opened in 1868. F. II. Urubbe was principal. He was assisted by his wife. a daughter or Jason lyee. in nil tne cornerstone of the Blue Mountain uni versity at La Grande was laid. The school was non-sectarian. In 1878 it was In operation and there waa a prom ise of colleges of law, medicine and theology in connection with It. At The Dalles was the Independent academy. It fell heir to the stone building which was partially erected as a mint in 1889 by the federal government. After plans for the mint were abandoned the build ing was presented to the state and ty it transferred to the academy. Here Are Portland Facts for Portlander to Ponder More 10 Follow It is to be wondered If many resi dents of Portland realize that the mere operation of their city has got into the ikyss of "Big Business." The population has grown from 207. 2H In 1810 to 238,288 in 1920. The total assessment on property has increased from 274,266,035 in 1910 to J3U.671.75 In 1920. The city has authorised a bonded debt of $10,SOO,000 for the construc tion of public docks, piers, a l.OOO.OCO bushel bulk grain elevator and other elements of an ocean terminal system during the -0 years just past. In 1910 there were 1225 city em ployes. In J920, 1913. Portland supports School Histriet No. 1, and :ald 81,7.48,892 for the sup port of the schools in 1910 and $2, 715,736 in 1920. In 1910 the bonded debt of Mult nomah county aggregated lli.20O.4J9 and In 1920 it had Increased to $29 -$09,838. Of this amount the bonded debt of the city was $13,799,489 In 1910 and $29,809,888 in-1120. In other words, the city's bonded debt was 66.(9 per capita In 1910 and 115.41 In 1920. It will be of Interest to consider the financial situation of the city. In this comer, for several days, not only because of the fact that authority Is being asked at the November election for a repetition of last year's In creased levy of 3 mills, but because every citizen should have a part in the administration of his city, and he cannot have unless he knows the facts. . . . . -i I 4