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KA ; WEF.KT.T ANI -i 8UNDAT ' DU IDOBUW. .... " I Ttie rt appiy ""7 " . .n Rata p Kaalem point (jrnwhjd on tlon. Ml remittance by Money Order. Order or Dr.ft. If your ptof f r is not a Uoaey Ord.r of fie. 1- or 2-cent tmp. willb ptd. Mk ll remitUno oayabl to IM Journal. Portland, Own. - Truth cra.ihl to rarth thall rise ataln; Tb eternal yeais of God ar hr. .-Bryant. -THE LANDSLIDE HISTORY, repeals. Heaction follows In the wake of war. The resurg ence of yesterd'ay. was inevitable. The thought of change ,was in the high.i Profiteering bS been wide spread. ' Man groups ot interests were, not -allowed '-.to salt down their war profits in full. The government took a part, to help pay for the war. The greedy interests were in ugly- mood at ' the ?overtment. They called it interference" jvith private business. . ! Other great groups did not like the federal rcserve 8ystcm, th,e farm loan system and ' the proposal through a tariff commission for duties lo be as sessed on a- scientific basis. Other great gro'ips'dtd 'not 'like the Wilson legislation which declared that "labor is not a commodity." They-thought, and s from their viewpoint naturally thoight, that ' government , has no right to. legislate on such matters. ' ThfM-was the war with its misun derstandings and complexities.; Most of the Italians forgot American serv ice to Italy In the war an1 remem bered and relented Flume. Many Irishmen, incdrrcctly ihougiit, the Leagiio of Nations stood in the way of Irisih freedom, and .voted against , it, Ge jrgc Sylvester Viereck and his followers resented tf.e terms ifnposed on Germany al Paris, and struci at it at the palls. , The whole country was disgusted with ihe long and bitter controversy over tha peace treaty. The results 'show that in that quarrel Senator Lodge and his associates got the bet ter of the argument in that they manag-d ta make a great many peo ple believe that the president was too unyielding and that therefore failure - of ratification was mostly his -fault It isn't true, but it was so defiJy pre sented that it carried hundreds of thousands of Qeople ' into the voting booths in a determination to vote for a change. ;:: ".:v ; A.V? . . Looked upon , as ar strictly moral issue, the emancipation proclamation would have, been long postponed. It, was. not until dismemberment of the Union was ( threatened that slavery aa W JahaJ .tlU..t .it aV viiiii if is-1 hi itir SHLiiPiimni , ' 11 inn a i rT until the business wi. rid sensed pro- hibition as a business issue that pro ' hibition was adopted.' ; It will not be until the League of .Nations becomes v fully, understood as not only; a moral Issue but as a' business Issue, that it will ba an appeal to very large groups of American voters. It may . become "this within a yely 6hort time after Mr. ' Harding's inauguration, if the treaty ' WTeckcrs have iheir way ; v In the'very thick of the campaign, fam- products showed great weakness In .price It has always been'believed that a sharp, advance, in the price of wheat, beat Bryan in 1836. Undoubt edly the-market situation ia agricul tural districts told heavily against tie Democrats during the past few weeks. In the business, world there have ' been a great many; cancellations' of . orders. ' This has probabljt3een due to the unsettled co'nditions of peace, - to the state- of chaor in the world, and to the natural, recession from the Intensified activity of the past four years.: But the situation: disturbed business men and In many an instance caused them to vott for a change.' AD these and other; grievances are reflected in the election returns. The psychology of the time is 'such." that anyone representing opposition to the present administratioa would have been" elected. 'r ' ' " It is a temporary mood of the peo ple. Presently it wilt pass, and the true achievements of Woodrow Wilson will be more accurately measured and more generously acknowledged. In time, the pendulum will swing back. : The United States is aald to lead th world in flnMingr and applying means to bait juvenile crime and de linquency. England, roused by this leadership and realizing its own fail ure in this department of correction, looked about and came to the con clusion that woman's work in be half of the children of the United States was and is the big factor underlying our comparative success. As an - unacknowledged tribute to Yankee initiative, England has now sent forth a cry for -women magis trates in Juvenile courts and for women .helpers on the outside. It is safe to predict that British pertin acity will apply the American rules and remedies with '; marked success. OUR MERCHANT MARINE ADMIRAL W. S. BENSON, chair man of the shipping board, in an article contributed to Leslie's, calls attention to the fact that America, with the ships built by the shipping board under the -stimulus of war, pos sesses the second ' largest merchant marine, among the nations of crth.r Great Britain, including all its do minions, possesses 10.831 merchant vesseli ; .of 100 gross tons rad over, a total of 20.582,652 gross tons. On June 30 "of this year the United States owned 3404 ocean vessels of 500 gross tons and over, a total of 16,918,212 dead weight tons. This is a larger total than that possessed by the Ger man empire 8,188,344 deadweight tons before the war, when ,.ae Teutons were striving for' commercial maitery of the peas. - .' During the six months ending June 30 last, Admiral Benson adds, 61.4. per cent of all the vessels which .entered and, cleared, the ports of this nation were under American registry. These vessels represented 3,3 per cent of the total tonnage, of the period named and handled '60.8 per. cent of all the export and Import business of the UniteUStates during that period. It is little to bewondered that Great Britain Is worried by tie increasing merchant ship power of, the United States. ' . , ' An admirable recommendation of the Pacific Northwest Tourltt asso- elation at its annuel, meeting : in Tacoma. was that closer . cooperation between local communities and the association be obtained. , JFor . ins tance, it would be cooperation with the larger tourist enterprise for Portland to establish permanent and well equipped motor tourist : camp grounds and for Portland "business and hotel ran to see that tourist hostelries are placed convenient i to points of exceptional scenic interest CONSIDER THE MAIL BOX I AS everyone, including shoppers and the people from offices, stores and shops, tr'es 16 go. home at the same time in the evening, so it seems from the appeal of Postmaster Jones that everyone makes the getting of mail into Jhe postoff ice. ths last act of a hectio day. j , The electric cancelling machines handle letters at the rate o 72,000 an hourJ The' postoffice clerks are mob ilized for speed.. But if most of the 200,000 letters arid 15,000 rarcel post packages which are sent daily from the oUy,. not to- mantion local mail, are received ail at once it Is esylto understand why that important letter? dropped into the box, fails to make the. train on which it was intended it should be dispatched. Cooperation appears to be an ex ceedingly comprehensive word. ' Co operation between; the public and the postoffice might J solve the mailing Drohlem ami end - fhi rHIIrlcmi i ef slow delivery. j ; 1 i Do your mailing early. . i If Mose Christensen, back there in tho hearse, heard the melody from the instruments o! his fellow musi cians as his funeral cortege passed through: Portland streets yesterday, his soul must have , been full ; of peace. Together, the dead musician and his fellow, players joined in many ;a symphon:- ;and together eft drank of the wine of music. , Few there were who watched the passing funeral train that did not have the thought of how meet J It was that in a baptism; of music by his comrades Mose Christensen passed on and out. " 7 t ; WHO'S SANE? WHEN Lieo.enant Charles Wan derer was" put on trial for the murder of his wife and unborn child. psychologists tesUiied that he had the mind of a ten-year-old child. Yet lie' :jiad pa'ssec "the tests im posed by the army. Us had deliber ately planned and cold bloodcdly exe cuted an atrocious crime., before his horrible act he had been classified with normal persons of fair intelli gence.' :. k . - , . ' ( Do the psychoiogj tests need re vision?' ; Or should a multitude of apparently normal p ople .be subjected to tests before they have a chance either to do harm or to escape punishment . on a specious plea? This is the .!mo of the year when slips may best be cut for the sum mer's growth of rose ' bushes and placed in mcist sand preliminary to being planted as' rooted plants next fall. To do so is to curb rank growth and distribute' the beauty of the roses. : ' i r----;. , ' V ' ;;;' DWINDUMO COUNTRT LIFE APPROXIMATELY ' e tenth of the population of the United Stated lives in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.- 'i , -. . ; The propo-tion Is 9.8 per. cent. In 1910, it was 9.1. It is a gain in 10 years of seveni tenths, of i per cent over the rest of the country, c j It is not a wholesome condition. It is extraordinary that an approximate one tenth of r !I the people should be crowded into three great centers. Nor is it in these mighty munici palities alone that the condition ap pears. More tban half the people of the country art now for the first time living in Inaorporated places of 2500 population and i over. The number of people living in incorporated cities of less-than 5O0 population increased 215 per cent between 1910 and 192Q, That portion of the American popula tion living In ourely country districts decreased six enths of 1 per cent, cr one tenth of 1 ,ier cent less than the population of the cities of New York, Chicago and Pbiladelphia increased. The increase jti the number of farms from 1910 to 19'40 was 98,496 against an increase of j 620,000 from 1900 to 1910. The drop n the increase ; of farms through- reclamation of wild land and the subdivision of large farms is a mosE'' significant indication of the drift to. tha cities. AV'e cannot afford to let this tide of humanity continue to flow from the country to the town. To check it is one of the greatest problems In Amer can life. j . There Is. no way to misunderstand what it means.) It means that the legislation and iprescnt economic ad justments. In. the country; are such that farms ! and j farming are not suf ficiently profitable to' make ' country life attractive. There can be no other explanation.! j. . At the polling places yesterday many vdters did not know the names of candidates ij be written j'in for supreme judge mnd attorney general. It is a weak place In the system. The law should; provide" that the names of those who are candidates for va cancies should T be posted in polling places. At some places th judges and clerks took the position they could not tell i voters who were can didates for- the two offices, and at others, no one present knew who these candidates were. FROM HOVEL TO PALACE MRS. JOSEPH STONE, 27. is dead at Riverhead, Long Island. Investigation showed that she. died from the effects of lemon extract poisoning. Police say that during the past few months" the sale of the ex tract in tli a I section increased rapidly. The army was the first l recognize the deleterious effects of lemon ex tract arid forbade its use. Chemical analysis shows that the alcohol con tent is 60 to 80 per cent. . The "-symptoms;, of victims poisoned by its use do aot iresemble those in wood alcohol poisoning.. A herd of cows at Winsted, Conn., got "jagged" oni cider apples and one died from the effects of the debauch. Their owner played the role of nurse. fastening burlap bags soaked in hot water about the heaas of the cows. Th Volstead act has its' place in history. Prohibition has worked ,a revolution that ! saved thousands. But. King ;Alcoholi.Ics hard. Booze .starts at the hovel, takes in the stable on its rounds, and winds jup at the palace. It tak-T the widow and the hopeless inebriate firsts Then it spreads . Its claws for , the , ragged street urchin, and the toiling mother at the washtub' ; " ; Gavin McNab of San Francisco is the second Pacific Coast appointee by President Wilson to membership on the shipping board. Joseph N. Teal is the first. ..Both are excep tionally able in matters pertaining to rates, traffic and shipping. . WHEN POLLS OPEN 17 AILURE of judge v clerks of elec- 1 tion to be' at polling places and fully organized for work at the hour appointed for receiving ballots is all too frequent, in Portland. - ";.. Yesterday there vas such a failure in a dozen j Portland precincts. At every election there is simiiar remiss ness.'' ',"-' V j: : : : ' There is no higher , trust than the solemn responsibility committed to election clerks, ani 'judges.' There is no more sacred 1 function in the re- Public 'than receivray and .counting the balloU of the? citizenry on election day. Those ; whot in advance, accept the responsibility should either be present or signify beforehand their" In ability to -carry out their trust One , claim is that the pay is too small. The pay is no smaller on-elec tion day than it was when the per sons named for Judges and clerks ac cepted the. appointment If the pay was too small at the time of accept ance, that was the time to make lis facts known. ! . ' Delay jn organizing and opening, the polling places 'lag a bad effect on the public mind.- It! creates iistrust.- It gives the waiting voter the Impression that: the whole election business is slipshod, that frauds are possible, and that: the election is anything "but a solemn function.; ' H is not 'a whole some or an intelligent condition. ; Perhaps we try by law too much and too often to "compel people to do their duty.; But would .It be out of the way to lay a penally upon judges or clerks who accept appoint ment and then, without noticeor ex cuse, fall to be; on hand for duty when the polls open? Before Wilson went Into the presi dency, 10 per :ert cr ess of Amer ican foreign commerce was . carried in American bottoms under the Stars and Stripes. W even, had to . hire foreign bottoms to carr, fuel for the American fleet which Roosevelt sent around the world. The tremendous change from that status to the pres ent high place in which the Amer ican merchant marine stands Is one of , the; achievements of the Wilson administration. . COAL-WASTING . RAILROADS Enormous Consumption in Transporta tion la a Knife That Cuts in Marty Directions at Once "White Coal" As the Way Out. -From the Detroit Sew Just before the opening ot winter, coal is always an interesting topic, and par ticularly of late years when the ques tion is whether there will be enough coal to keep fthe homes of the people warm and the public utilities running. If then It can be discovered that a single in dustry Is wasting millions) of tons, of coal every year- the fact should elicit more than passing notice; . . 1 The railroads of the country-get about a quarter of the total output Cl the coal mines. v They - require approximatejy ISO. 000.000 tonu of coal everv vear. Ob viously they can consume very little bf this at the mines, so there -follows the necessity of burning a lot of coal in loco-, motives which are employed' hauling the railroad coal to distant: points where it is to be burned in other locomotives. And as the question of !car shortage is important, it may also be mentioned that all transportation t is continially cluttered up with cars of coal which can serve no other purpose than to keep the railroads going. 1 Costs also enter intimately into the discussion. The railroads (constantly, de mand increasing rates and a very con siderable 5 part of their expense is for fuel. The price of steam-making coal is always on the up graded. How rapidly this increase has developed in the past few years is shown by the report of the Detroit Edison company. Reviewing the past 10 years, that company shows that between 1910 and. 1915 the cost of its coal was $2.21 per ton. During 1916 and 1917 the price of, coal rose steadily until by the end of the latter year it was sell ing' at about $4.50 per ton. By June. 1920, coal had gone up to $7.37 per ton, an increase in the 10 years of 233 per cent. How much so marked an increase of costs must have adaed to he "ex pense of the country's transportation is easy-to understand. And now: come the electrical experts and declare that, the railroads have an easy and logical means of - eicape and the public -should force them- to avail themselves of 1C- Charles P. Steinmets. a recognized authority in electrical mat ters, told, the Chicago Electric club .; the other day? that "by the electrification-of the railroads and the installation of elec tric locomotives, a saving of fuel of 66 per cent would be accomplished. He. said he was not guessing at the figures but that they were summaries-of j results carefully worked out by railroads for merly using coal- but now electrified. And he pointed out, also, that thousands of cars now used for hauling railroad coal would be released for handling other commodities. i An electrical expert connected with transportation work has also , recently testified upon the subject. Edward Wanamaker, electrical engineer for the Chicago, Rock Island., and Pacific rail road, speaking before the American Railway Electrical Engineers' associa tion, said : "The prices of coal and fuel oil have been constantly on the' increase, and while the present rate of wages is being paid there will be no decrease in the -price of transportation. Consequent ly, the only alternative is to utilize our vast water power resources and electrify our railroads. i The question is of vast public interest and should be kept in the public mind so- as to develop an intelligent public opinion. For because of the intimate relations which exist between the rail roads and the coal mining-interests, the present system of waste and inefficiency may not correct itself. A strong pres sure from without may be necessary to bring the transportation interests to a sense of their obligation to make the best use of ; the country's natural re sources. . . I - ( Communication sent to Th Journal for publication in tbis department ahould be written on only on side of the paper: should not exceed 300 words in length, and must be (ifned by th writer, whose mail address in full most accom pany th contribution. FOR AMERICANIZATION .. Portland, Oct- 16. To the Editor of The Journal Whoever may be elected as our next president. I hope he will some way try to stop so many immigrants from - coming- over here. My reasons are that they come over for only one thing, and that's the American dollar. Ninety pep cent do not intend to become American citizens. ' Then, again, we laboring men, cannot under stand their speech. They will not talk United . States. But you talk about revolution, then they can talk, j ' I was born In this country. My father was a soldier, under .General Sherman. Therefore I will not work alongside any man who cannot talk United States. Roy Bennett. HAS HAD THE THIRD DEGREE Portland. Oct 22. To the Editor of The Journal I wish you would publfsh this, as it is from one who has been through the mill. I know all about the third ' degree. It bas burned -murder right into myj heart. I am an ex convict spent -two years in Salem, served time and. am now free, but .the torture that I had to endure while taking the third degree did not help, me any, but down deep in .my heart there , is that " hatred, that I can never: exter minate, for those who took part In that brutal work. People don't dare mistreat dumb animals, but they can almost kill their fellow man and - nothing is said. When I read about the brutal way in which Owens, Hart and the others" were treated it brings hack to me the things I had to go through and makes my blood boil, and I wonder if this world Is still inhabited by cannibals, j - " Nothing can" be accomplished by the severe methods used in the third- degree, and it only makes criminals ; for who wouldn't have murder In his heart after being beaten and ' every other method of cruelty applied by those .who wish to show their authority?. "CS i : v.r. One Who Knows. HEReIs A GOOD OLD SCOUT Portland,! Oct 29. To the Editor of The Journal John Walrod, through the Oregonian,: boasts rof blsi longevity. He says he voted for Abraham Lincoln for president, and has been "voting er straight" ever since. .He is 81 years old Letters From the People and still a kid and ready to put on the gloves with the winner of the champion ship. :; j'-.';v,'i ' I can go him one better. I voted for James Buchanan for president in' 1856. Buchanan proved a little wobbly, like Harding is now, tnd X voted for Stephen A. . Douglas in 186a t have n-: been voting er straight except for -pres;dent, ever since.' Sometimes, though rarely, I have found a better man f or a minor office In the Republican party than -his Democratic opponent, and have voted for him sccordinrlv. " . My independence arid seal for the good k of the country may have lengthened my years to near 86, according to Mr. Wal rod's logic, and. though active and Jolly. I am not ready to put on the mitts for the prize ring, as I think I am more skilful with the ballot than with the gloves. " J. B. Wright. ; EDISON'S LATEST QUEST Vancouver.' Wash., ' Oct.' 26 To ' the Editor of The Journal The great Edison is now working on his mi.sterpece- This he refers to as an "apparatus" and de scribes it as "an unusually delicate in strument capable of magnifying the most minute presences thousands of times."' From his brief description of this futurity one infers that In nature it will be an apparition apparatus a psy chometerK a psycho-camera, or. in plain English, a soul finder. Now it appears evident that, ' through experience, Mr. Edison has learned that souls, like birds, cannot be captured by sprinkling salt on their tails. He stated: "If we are to make any real progress in the field of psychic investigations we must do it with scientific apparatus and in a scien tific , manner," This "is sound sense. Chasing black cats In dark garrets in which cats have never been has ever proved discouraging. If spirits are things even any manner of things then Mr. Edison's experiment will unquestionably prove successful. Now no intelligent spiritist can doubt that . a spirit is a thing, and a very material thing at that. Prominent scientists inform us that thesis things can live, move and have their being on earth and in earth's atmo sphere -that they can be seen, heard and felt. . Thin proves that a spirit while at earth's level must be materially heavier than air. To be seen, it must have the'power to reflect light and thus initiate sight waves. This, matter alone can do. To be. heard, it must crea'e at mospheric convulsion in order to start sound waves into motion. And in order to be felt it must be a thing that can induce feeling. Mr. Edison is suffici ently pane to be trusted. He won't waste his highly valuable time chasing spooks, wraiths and banshees. J, Harold. "CHICAGO'S ROMAN HOLIDAY" "Weiser, Idaho. Oct, 30. To the Editor of The Journal--In coimplete accord with your sentiments uolitically as expressed editorially, I must give vent. to. my ab solute objection to your, sentiments in your recent editorial entitled "Chicago's Roman Holiday.! How can you express such sentiments on this just retribution? Haven't the people of Oregon, expressed their conviction Strongly enough on the death penalty for murderers? Did the Incidents of the Boston police strike make so little impression on you? Have you ever had personal experience as a police reporter, and yet still fail to understand that only fear of punish ment deters most of us from crime? . - Different crimes justly call for dif ferent punishments. A man that takes life must in turn expiate his erime with bis own life. It is absolutely just ; in addition, it probably deters many others from committing similar crimes, i Do you know that every one of these men murdered in cold blood, for gain, and that over some of them all but sufficient legal evidence was at hand that they were mixed in other murders before the crime ait they were sentenced on? ' ft B. Dougherty. OREGON CAME TO MK. WALKER ; Albany. Oct. 28. To the Editor of The Journal I thank you most heartily for the fine send-off you gave some of us Oregon Prohibition party presidential electors, in which I am included, on your editorial .page in The Journal of October 7.. However, the writer of same does not give me-the full measure of my status as a pioneer by saying "hav ing come to the state during the early 40s. Really, I did not "come to the state." ' The state came to me ; for I was born in the then unsettled territor called Oregon, at the Whitman mission, near the present Walla Walla. December 7, 1838, and so will soon be 82. Oregon has always been my home, : This is not written , as a criticism. Cyrus H. Walker. FRIVOLOUS JOURNALISM i Alrlie, Oct. 20. To the Editor of The Journal In the Oregonlan of October-13 appeared a lot of balderdash about a Morrow, county rhymester, and some of his verse, s Yes, J read It because I happen to' know the "poet." But it was too cheap stuff to occupy the col umns of a great dally newspaper. It was not even good humor, but was ani example of the decadent journalism .of the present day. I say "decadent" ad visedly, for-where at the present day are. the Danas, the Greeleys, the Hal steads, Ulnong the editors, or the Nas bys, M.;QOads and Josh Billingses among our "humorous" contributors? The poor old Oregoniah must be hard up for something to fill space. .' ' Herbert W. Copeland. THE LAND; ALSO THE AIR : Vancouver. Wash., Nov. 1. To the Ed itor of The Journal A umatilla con tributor writes: '-'The land Question is the root . question ' of Russia." Yes, it is the "root question" of the world. But why is this question so in tensely recondite? . Why is the question of air not perplexing? One could exist for days Independent of the earth, but shut off his air supply and his mundane stay would be limited to minutes. Thus tbe air is of more immediate importance to us than ia the land. Still it is free to all, while the land is free only to ex ploiters. . A' word to the wise is sufficient, and a sermon will pot benefit a fool. J. Harold. A, PRESIDENTIAL NAMESAKE : Portland. Oct 27. To the Editor of The Journal At my boyhood home, Jacksonville, ' III., there was . a sheriff, of Morgan' county, by the name of both Democratic and Republican candidates now running . for president His name was Harding Cox; for verification of this statement, ask Dick Yates, governor of Illinois, or W. J. Bryan. These men were both ; acquainted with him, no doubt as Yates was born - there and Bryan attended college there. S. T. S.' I IN ANSWER TO R. L. WOODS Portland. Oct 24. To the. Editor, of The Journal I write this in View of R. L. Woods' recent letter entitled "Victory Medals": fv ?-'""'. ;!'V Don't you know the war is all over? Didn't you get $60 and a discharge? Didn't you get free writing material and good advice from the- Y. M. C-A.T r So what ' are you kicking : about ? . Get - a pick and shovel and go to work. That is a' good trade that I am told the sol diers all learned while in the service. I -;:V-' , A W. Ftnlin. 4 ON THE AMENITIES OF PUBLIC DISCUSSION -f Portland, Oct 31. To the Editor of The - Journal Your "Letters From the People" column is both interesting and amusing. . It gives the people & chance to exchange views on political, religious and economic questions. - When one's ideas begin to boil over be writes a let COMMENT- AND SMALL CHANGE . Now let's hear the swan songs, r Glad we didn't have to vote In North western Wyoming's - snow-covered polls. 'I ' -' ' ' .' ' .."' - -v f: :; :'- 1 france needs small change. ' But wherein does France -differ from the general rule? .! in any, event Esther Tohl Lovejoy ponied a lot of votes. ' . -The market page says : "Hogs show excellent demand." 'Twas ever thus. - - ..,:-.--, . "i1" to look like Portland might be hit by a little more Oregon mist. There really should be ! enough lus cious Oregon apples of enough varieties to satisfy every appetite. v J:1' fiver Is ue world's one stream In tion? r r no ob8tacle to navlga ' . v ' . - : ' .Times have changed. The barbers used I.-,- i1.1?1 of business after every national defeat1 of the party In power, rrom those funny old chaps who were accustomed- to vow, they would never nave their hair cut until a Republican -"-or Democratic, as the case might be president was elected. OBSERVATIONS lAND IMPRESSIONS 1. ' OF THE JOURNAL MAN : , . -. .... By Fred Lockley , , TA personal tribute to mn .who tin be come pottmutef ot Portland on hi record and not rU politic: is paid by Mr. Lockley. who also tn rributa to the excellence of th merit principle in fenerat a applied to all manner cf erne and all cues ot promotion (or food emc. . ,.. I . Portland has a new' postmaster, t His name is John M. Jones. For the first time In Portland's history . a postmaster has been selected on account of experi ence and demonstrated' efficiency. John M, Jones Is not a poet in someone's po litical fen.ee ; neither was be made post master as a reward for past political services. No politician is paying a pri vate debt with public ; funds by having him made postmaster. - John M Jones went to work In the' Portland postoffice just 30 years ago, as a carrier. Recently itlwas my pleasant task in behalf of the Portland public to congratulate him on his selection as postmaster and to wish him well In his coming administration.) More than 200 of his, fellow workers piet at the Port land hotel at a banquet in his honor. Postmaster Jones in a inost happy man ner asked for the cooperation of these fellow workers in giving Portland the best service we have' ever had. ' ' Sometimes the letter carriers think they are the foundation stone of .the postal service. Talk to a postal , clerk and you will find lie thinks it is the clerks who are the ! most important branch of the service. But after all, it is ydu and 1 the public, who are the foundation stone of tbe postal depart ment, for if we quit writing letters and patronizing the postal department it would crumble.-' ; ' "When John M. Jones entered the serv ice as a carrier in June, 18310, Portland had 16 carriers. Today we have 214 and need more. In the past the fatal defect of government service, particularly in the postal department, has been that it was a blind alley job. No matter how intelligent, industrious and zealous a ter to The Journal for relief and believes It will lift his fellow man to a higher standard of living. , Many times his op ponent shows the weakness of his argu ment and brings his idea -down to a level. -The fundamental principle of pub lic discussion Is educating, but there is one bad feature about it: Many indulge in personal attacks, and attacK the char acter of an opponent This should be avoided, because it never gains a point on the question involved, and stirs up strife and hatred. Many times we get brilliant ideas from bad cnaracter?'. l have written, many letters to The Journal condemning our drastic prohibition law. For so. doing I have' been cailea : vue names. One writer wenr so far as to say if a. man like met went to heaven. hell should be taken out or the tsipie oy God's own .hand. I am not simf)le enough to believe anyone will go to hell for not believinr as 1 do. jseitner no think I shall go to hell for not thinking as others do. I -have not defended social evils from the 'point Of view that they are right but from the point of view that it is beyond the power of man.to destroy Chem, and this J is being demon strated by -our drastic! prohibition- law, When we enact laws against nature there Is no foundation for them to rest on.' , E. A. Linscott v i CARRYING REVOLVERS Portland, Oct 30. To" the Editor of The Journal A fundamental law. of psychology tells us that, "every thought entertained tends to express Itself in terms of action, unless! counteracted by a contrary thought of equal power." This law applies to all suggestions either from without, or within. Those which are entertained - tend to' result in action. For instance, the carrying of a revolver suggests the right to kill at your dis cretion, and the temptation tO do so is continually present, only waiting the opportunity for expression. The practice of ' carrying revolvers cannot , be too strongly condemned. I much appreciate the attitude of The Journal on this sub ject . ', ... .Harry St. Opp. - ' t: - THE DESERTS IDEA Lowell Thomas In VAsi." . , f "History Is against the probability of the creation of an Arabian empire. ) The Semitic mind deos not lean toward: sys tem or organization." said Colonel Thorn as E. Lawrence recently, ? "The Semites are represented by little art architecture; i philosophy. very But we find an amazing, fertility among the Semites in the creation of creeds? and religions.. Three of these creeds Juda ism. Christifenity and Mohamedanfami have,, become . great world movements. Th broken fragments of countless other religions which have failed are found today on the fringes of the desert "The desert seems to produce only one' Idea the universality of God. We. who have gone out to discover the meaning-of the desert, have found only emp tiness nothing but sand. wind, soil and empty -space. The Bedouins leave be hind them every extraneous comfort and go to live in the desert, in the very arms of starvation, that they may be free, The desert exacts a price for Its secret It makes the Bedouins entirely useless to , their fellowmen. There has never been a Bedouin prophet On the other hand," there has never been a Se mitic prophet who has not before preaching his message, gone into the desert and caught from the desert dwel lers a reflection of their belief. The idea of the absolute worthlessness of ths present world is a pure desert concep tion, at the root of every i Semitic re ligion, which must ber filtered through the screen of a non-nomad prophet be fore it can be accepted by a settled people." . . -i i THE CRY FROM THE SOIL ' ' 'lYoni the Philadelphia Public tedrer ; The t cry from the soil which gave such tenseness, and even bitterness, to the meeting of the farmers with the federal reserve board in Washington is a real one. In all this issue of high prices for foods and the products of tbe farm the farmer has been Lha under NEWS IN BRIEF S1DEL1GH o - The dog licenses issued to date In Polk county number 837. which has cost ma taxpayers the sum of $951.50 Folk County Popt, -. i .' ' The early rains have made excellent fall pasturage for stock., so that somj benefit is derived -along with the losses. I'owers Patriot. Heating stoves are being set up this week as a result of the cold weather. This is no time for the minister to call. Crane American. , The editor of the Sentinel had an en forced three-day lay-off the first of the Meek, paying the penalty by ieye trouble of too much night: work. Carlton Sen tinel. : . -.-'.'--' . - -' - - .1 " "There is no manipulation of prices lor gambling on the board of trade." Pres ident Gates of the Chicago board testi fied. We would believe that about as quickly as We would believe a statement that there areno sinners in hell. As toria Budget. No one has been placed in Jail here since September 13, though there is no doibt .some', would have been if I hey had got what was coming to them. Cer tainly the man who attempted to dyna mite Cameron's office at North Bend is letter carrier was, there was. no chance for advancement or recognition of tys ability. He was in a rut from which there was ijo escape except by resigna tion., dismissal or death. The same thing held true of the clerks. To secure permission to "take the examination for postal inspector one had to have . por lifical pull. Government clerks, as a result of the system..-soon lost their initiative and were afraid to strike out for. themselves. They lost pride In the service and considered their jobs wholly In the light of meal tickets. Let us hope that time has gone by forever, and let. us also hope the time will soon come when. froiSt postmaster general down to special delivery messenger, the only test will; be ability and pride in doing the job we'll. The public should strive to" cooperate with the postal employes, and the clerks and carriers should never for get that the public pays their salaries and is entitled to courteous and effi cient service.; If a carrier or clerk is harsh, , brusque or sarcastic to a for eigner, the foreigner iudces the govern ment by the; acts of- the government employe, and damns the government, for the acts of &; thoughtless or inefficient public servant A courteous, intelligent and obliging postal employe can make friends for our government and help make good citizens. . - Yes, a new and better day has dawned for'government employes and in seeing a former letter carrier rewarded for long and efficient service by being appointed postmaster, they can all take heart and buckle down to their work with new courage. ' V ..""'', It is said there are no microbes on the money- paid postal employes, be cause a' microbe couldn't live on the salary "of a postal employe.' . Let us hope that they will sdon be paid salaries, suf ficient 1 to live on in comfort and on which they can educate their ' children and lay by for old age.: -4 a tic do e. His credit has been, restricted artd his labor costs have gone bp. All this does prophesy "general bankruptcy and ruin" unless the farmer, by some; mirac ulous act of his own and Incredible thrift, plus the most self -sacrificing methods, manages to keep-things 'going and secure bumper crops. ! In the face of this. the farmer has teen met everywhere with abuse or with fine words. That he has taken to pro test and to politics is but natural. In the meantime, H is ; a condition that ; confronts the firmer which no promised future panacea .can cure. As President McSparren of the Pennsyl vania state grange said in Washington, the whole issue is one of- credits. Art enlightened public opinion should sup port the farmers-in their demand for a reasonable reform on the part of ' the federal reserve board and for a change in the attitude of "Tie secretary of the treasury toward farVi collateral. The farmers ;have; been misrepresented too. long..- They face the .paradoxical position of getting low nricesVfor farm products, below the cost-of prjSeBuction in , many" cases, while the costs ot the same products -to the ultimate consumer are so pyramided as to reach unbelievable levels. Of allthe factors in this final cost, the farmer plays the smallest part and yet gets the maximum share of the blame while-denied .the kind of easy credit that would be " granted to the smallest manufacturer or business man In any center of the country. ' ' j Strange - From' tliNew York Post. ' , 'There's one thing I can't understand about these spirit communications."- re marked Mr. Brown as he .finished read ing the account of a highly successful seance. - "What's that John, dear?" asked his wife. ' : "Why, you never her of - ar departed soul having gone any other place ex cept straight to heaven." Curious Bits of information Gleaned From Curious riaces Trial by taste is the rule on the mar ket in'Aleppoj, Syria7 where the dealers In the ! market stalls of Jer' loaves i of bread, bowls of soured rnilk, basins of stew, cooked potatoes, ' roasted meats, boiled vegetables, cakes, nuts, etc, writes Captain .Alan Bott, R. A. F., In Harper's Magazine. 1 An Intending buyer digs finger and thumb into some steam ing dish. fisl s out s piece of meat and eats It. Then he either buys i it or passes on to another stalls following the same process.; After tasting the various offerings, th;; taster 'can sometimes eat a full meal. I ; The merchants, however, have a keen sense . of perception and differentiate between legitimate buyers and those seeking free feeds, "handing out kicks promiscuously to those of the latter type, ; - j Olden -Oregon How Daniel .Lee Moved a Bunch of ' Cattle to The Dalles. The Methodist mission af The Dalles was established m March, 1838. ! Sup plies were taken up the river by boat Cattle were ' driven ovtr the Cascade mountains uy Daniel Lee, who was as sisted onlr by Indians. Lieer8 descrip tion of his helpers is interesting. Tr-re were an old Chinook, w ith only one .good eye; a stout young Walla -Walla 'jear ing a name which signified 'destltute," because be bad gambled away his pat rimony ; another Chinook with a. flat tened head :and "big mouth ; another Walla Walla, a gamester and a rogue. The fifth was a cripple who carried a long crutch j oa which he rested and swung his body forwanl by-leaps, l With this company Lee arrlvid at The Dalles with 14 head of cattle eight days after leaving the Willamette valley. The Oregon Country North t Hippmlnri 1n Brief Form for th OREGON NOTES Columbia county's loss of clover see4 on account of he rains U estimated at 5-0t0. ::. - , ''."" On account of 111 health. Le BettK son of J. Ou Bettls of Coburp, borrowed, a( reyoU-cr and killed himself. Vandals broke Into the Cat hollo church at Marshflekl. smashed noma of the statues and did considerable damage to the seats and furniture. Threshing Is lnv progress' again In Crook county, the ruins buying held It up for a while. Yiel.la'are reiorteii of 35 to 40 bushels to the acre. Y v Five sides will be oiierated In Ihe lo? i glng 'camjt of the Buehner Lumber com-; nany at Allegheny, and alKiut 025 mn will be employed in the wockIh. r The Portland. Astoria & Ii lfic Hall way company will have trao laid from Banks clear over the dlvhte Into ths Nehalem A-ia Button and Beaver Creok by Jiext June. i. Louis W. SegTRel. who served in France as a ileajtenant durinc the world war, but who is no;v farming near Iiidepnd- ' ence, -has been elected captain of .Com pany K, O. N. G. i WASHINGTON A wingl that. will cost $262,000 Is being added to St Lukes hospital at .Spokane. : Isaac Benjamin Huntington, a resident : of Cowlitz county for 69 years, Is dead i at Castlerock. ! On .account' of early storms the QuU nault salmon cannery has closed opera tions for the.souHon. . Two ferninine footpads held up TC Ohira, a Japanese farmer,, near Wapato, and relieved html of $263. V. v The Spokane bounty farm hureaM Yinn started a campaign that it Is hoped will I .uyu m us int'inuernnip roil. John' Mapner Jr.. a 14-year-old boy or Seattle.-has nrHher been absent, nor r tardy-rom m-hool 'for eight years. . '.The Bucoda council has passed an i ordinance prohibiting stork from run ning at large within, the limits of the town, i - . A bond Issup calling for $2. 000,000' will ' be, presented to the votpra at'thn nnniiul srhool election in Tacoma on Decem ber 2. ' , - - ' Joseph Tt. Johnston was fatally In jured at Yakima when he nllpped under th wheels of a truck he was attempting to board. Because be was despondent. i(3utav Klir.gliell, aged 38, who owned a frfrnt near Manor, borrowed a shotgun and killed himself. Matt Gilmoro of Rook Creek, s sheep man. Is reported to have lost ftOO sheep in . the country between Mount Adams and Lewis river. ' Contracts " have been awarded for graveling one mile ofth North Bank nignway at tjnderwood and anoSher mile near -Beacon Rock. club In Walla Walla have been awarded i r i urrs ni i lie unvs: sarin i iiris' i ir prizes or in gold. Henry Delaney s winnings totaled $140. r Ij. t. E. Morso of Bellinghsm was trapped while asleep and burned to death when fire destroyed the OBtorman building at Mount Vernon. Mrs. Adelia Coolidca Is dead at Everett from irj'iries received when she was knocked down by an automobile driven by Miss ltarhl Seiber. ' A memorial costing $15,ri00 will be erected in Seattle to honor former Wash ington National - (fuardsmea who lost their lives during the World war. A touring car belonging to Attorney A. -R- Venable of Yakima overturned and burned on th Benton Citv road. The occupants escaped with a few bruises. Since the Mount Carmel hospital Was poet of $18,600. the institution has cared for 248 surgical cases and 131 medical cases. - -s, vitiuijicr infretiifj in i-no pner or nin- mond is predicted during April or May in a cablegram received by Seattle jewelers. The price prevailing In that city is $350 ;a karat. Bankers of the Palouse country have extended all possible credit to the farm ers to aid -them In -hnlrlitiir thtlr alint The crops are 4he best that the PsIoumo country has ever seen. ,' . ; While attempting to steal a" ride ort a freight train at Wenatchee. MJkfe Amler son aiubNick Coseridge, Austrian labor ers, were each shot throuRh the thigh by Special Officer It A. Brockman. . IDAHO The North' racifir- has bppwi cmist ruc tion of a 2i-roo;n hotel at Kootenai. ' Pocatello Is now In the firKt claws lint, having a population, according to.cchrfUs returnB. of 15.001. " Dried prunes sre not being uhipped from. Idaho, as thet i said to bo no demand for the -fruit'. . Sy the end of t rVia week over 300 ear-, loads pf apples will have been thipe! out of LewbUon valley. . During seven month's' hultiein from the tinie of opening, a Caldwell produce bouse reports more than $100,000 worth' of. trade.. ' ' ' "Potiy" Young, who opened the first' racetrack. In Idaho at Boise lnv-J(i4, and well; known throtiehout the. state. Is dead Bt Vttrrtni. u vt 90 ' f "- Growers on the bottom lands along the "Boise river from Boise to Star are getting "a net profit of $625 per acre from ianu piaiiicu iu i cai sun ceiery, - Uncle Jef-f Snow Sas ! Not sich a awful sight of the things Uie poliUcians threatens ys wltb is as tad as they re Jald out to be. we air llKe jra iorenian in ijio s'juiii nanu; country in. Texas. Ue was alius skeert of the dark and of bobcats and fallln' ifvpa-arirl Ml.h. nrt hnrdtv ever sUrrel but of nights. . But one night corain" home a little late a bunch of vigilantles ketched him and by mistake they strunc him up for a hossthlef. They cut him Hnu-n rlirhf atenv' hnwevrr. and hruriff. him to- and apologized. After that Jed wasn't skeert of nuthin' whatsoever at night v and .run around vitiitln snd dancin' somethln' scandtus.- lie low-ea nuthin' couldn't be no worse "n-what he- had got clear from. . , ; Census Shows a Dwindling in Increase of Oregon Farms - in the Past Decade. , " The United States census tells us that Increase In the number of Ore gon farms; was about 10.000 between 1900 aiid 1510 and only about half that number between 1310 and 1920. The figures may or may not have significance In Indicating the area farmed, but they do suggest a slowing up in the attack by sheer numbers upon the raw lands of the state. In 1300 Oregon had 35.837 farms; inlSio, 43.502: in 1920. 60, US.. The census bureau explains: "A TarmV for census , purpose Is all the land which is directly farmed by one person, either by his own labor alone or;wlth the assistance of members of his household or hired employes. When a .landowner has one or more tenants, "rentcrB. crop pers or managers, the -land opernisd by each ia considered a farm." Puring the two census periods the number of far.ns has sfiown greater Increase-In Washington thsn in Ore gon. During the period' from 1900 to 1910, the number of farms In Owgoi? increased 27 "per cent, in Washing ton, 69.2 per cent Similarly. Jie in crease between 1910 and 1920 was 10.3 per cent In Oregon and 18 per cent in Washington. , " , In J900 Washington had 33.203 farms; in 1910. 66,162: in 1920. 66. 2S8. . . ... V There will be printed in this-corner tomorrow the table furnished by the census -bureau showing by. counties the number of farms In Oregon. - -