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I V THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9j 1920. if WDEPEXHEST SEWSPiPER a JACK MOV i j.. , . . . . .pBbliaher I H celin, boonriaent, gtraeenui uu era aa yo would fcaee tbem do unto you-1 otln luhlihed eery week day and Sunday mornina. at Tbe Journal Ituildins. Broadway '"d a tiiU lreV Portland.- Oregon. - f fcmered at the poetotfice at P"rtl1',-..01! for traniuniaetoB throub ha tnaua aa aeond i clasa matter, TEXKfHON E8 Mala i , Aumatic&60-6 1 All department reached by tliaaa number. .NATIONAL ! AWKhTlSiNU "FBromwW Ilntlding. 25 Fifth areoue. "wu MslUra Building. Chicago. .. PACIFIC ; COAST HEPWJ8KSTA WB-j-W. tt. Barana-r Co.. Examiner Brnkl'M J" J," Lo Anaeli rtire: Title Imuraaea miu. 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Make all remittance, payable; to Tbe Journal, Portland, Oregon. II see nothing worth liring for bat the dieina f Irtne which endure and aurren- Iaera ail uiins iur uuui, uu uu kind. Clianning. i ROOT'S FAMOUS CABLEGRAM K A NEW deal, fromthe beginning by abandoning Ihc Versailles treaty is! impossible. To attempt it would bring chaos and an entire loss of the resuils of the war and general disaster involving the United States." " These vj arni. g words were cabled to Senator jllardii.g from London by Elihu Root late j last, August. It was an efforlj to prevent Harding from adopting jthe cxiremeposition on the tor Johnson, and Senator r.orati. That to abandon the Versailles treaty and league "would br!ng chaos" and "an entire loss of the results of the war and bring "general disaster Ihvolvlnfif.thc United States" was ex actly the. contention made by. The Journal in the late campaign. Even while The Jot.rhal was saying these things, Mr. Root's cablegram . was qui.eiiy rtposios m j piguuuuuic . Marlon, j Root's contention is still sound. Having:: recently, returned from a long sojourn in Europe," Mr. Root is in position to absolutely know that it is sound. It is unfortunate that Mr. Root did not take the people into his confidence by making tfn facts fully kn- ,n during the cam paign inl order that voters might be able to make up an intelligent opin ion.. . j -Unhappily, Mr. Harding paid no heed to the Root cablegram. He pre ferred to listen! to Hiram 'and: Borah. He found it popular among the cam-; palgn crowds to denounce the Ver saiUes treaty Mid league. . He insists nnuf thai .' thA olfirt.inrv . returns. were a repudiation of the treaty and league. Hiram, and Borah claim the Kanie thing, and they have a powerful influence in the American .senate. 'If ptissible, the. president-elect should be-rescued by patriotic citi zens of his "own and otlier political parties from a proposed policy which Mr. Root ' says would "bring: chaos" and "general disaster involving the United j States." Sentiment should crystallize that would tend to deliver hl-m fcftni lh hani'lar nf Ihn irrnnnn- cilables. ' ;": t '' - ! ' ' ! ' .' Oregon wheat is descending in price In, part hurt to becausj European countries, lite quick by denunciations of them; and the league by anti-league senators spellbinders and newspapers, are buying their wheat elsewhere. American lumber prices will, for the same reason, continue to 'toboggan and sawmills continue to close, so far ji sales of lumber in Europe are con cerned. .j.' '': :'' The campaign; is over now and by gones should be! bygones. There is no longer need to fight the league ln'or ! der to make c , campaign issue. , Mil lions of uninformed voters were rounded up on that issue and with iheir votes safely in the ballot box there is no linger need to make a partisan fight , on the league. The thing to do is to look the situation squarely in the face, salvage It from all . partisan ; considerations and do everything possible to yet deliver the world from threatened chaos by giving the league the authority and influ ence of American leadership. If that .is n.l done, walch for a new army of unemployed. From Astoria to Hood Rh or is a long stretch cf; paved pike.' -When to it there is added the loop around - Mount Hood, the tourist will have a route net equalled by any other spot in America. If to this is added Bend with its myriad nature freaks and 'wonder spots and Crater ' Lake and intervening placea, Oregon will be the richest state in the Union in point of allurement for the throngs seeking: diversion, recreation anid a new baptism hi nature. It is a final accomplishment that should be constantly kept In view. THE WAR ON GOMPERS ANNOUXCEMENT is made from Washington that, as a result of the election, war is to be made on Samuel Gompers and the ideals for which he stands.- Is it wise? Two million votes were cast for Debs, end Debs was in prison. This was the expression of. a mis gr'ded radical group. , If war is to be mado on the things for which the lab r movement stands, and if that War succeeds, how' many others will b? added to the radical group? Undoubtedly big interests want,' the coming administration .. to make the onslaught. All the forces of reaction undoubtedly combined ; to make the election a deluge, which it was. Un doubtedly, these forces will demand the spoils of war. But in the long run it will better serve the interests of the Republican party and the wel fare of the nation to take the broader view and mak no -reprisals on the working masses o.' the country. : Business '.canuot afford to particf pate in a plan to crush labor. Busi ness fares belter when the working man and his family are amply paid and in financial position to have the necessaries and some of the comforts of life. Every unmortgaged cottage in which the owner is able to buy ample clothing and food and give to the wife and chilcren some of the recreation and diversions of life is a good customer for the store, a wel come patient for the doctor and den tist, a solid pillar of the republic. There is no occasion for Ihis war on Mr. Gompers. He has been a solid rock that cxT.ed more than any other influence in damming up the flood of radicalism. The wise course is for the new administration to re sist the clamor of the greedy inter ests and pursue a friendly course toward the working masses of the country. When Lincoln was assassinated, many a Southerner at once declared that the South had lost its most powerful friend, and so it had. If Samuel Gompers is politically as sassinated, those who put out his eyes will feel the crash of the ruined palace asit falls about them. "Lend a Hand," even thowgh pub lished in a prison by a prisoner, was a wholesome and creditable publi cation. We ought not to condemn all in a prison unti.1 all who ought to be inside its walls are locked up. "Lend a Hand" ceased to exist be cause of Jack of financial backing. There are good people in Oregon who might well afford to assist in its restoration. A DOCUMENT IMMORTAL THE "14'poi'its" Were quoted In the German reichstag Saturday as a justificat'on for changes in the Versailles treat-. " Have you ever thought of the fig ure the "li" points" are to cut in history? The very nation against which they were directed by Presi dent Wilson is now pleading them as a basii of international ethics. They were 'accepted, by thc'allied govern ments as the objects for which1 they were prosecuting the war. They were made the basis in writing the terms of the armistice. They were the doc trine -on which the ersailles treaty was constructed. The tremendous figure which the written paragraphs have already ex erted are omen of the part they arc to play in the future government of the world. As time goe9 on 'and gen erations pass, the immortality of this new Declaration of Independence will stand revealed , It; is to become' the international creed of the races: It, is to be the beacon by which the course of politi cal progress is to be charted. It is to be the .foundation -on 'which a mounting civilization is to be feared. Now that there is no longer need to deride: the "14 points" in order to make a 1920 campaign .issue, that so emn pronouncement will begin to be rccognizeu ior a measurame part 01 -h. xL-.v, t ii-a ,h. nJ- " , Independence, the message in the 14 points had its critics and its oppo- nents. But its expressions of cardinal and fundamental doctrines will, like the former, go down through the ages, gathering confidence and au thority with each new, generation. It Is better to have written the 14 points than to have been president Of the United States. The Portland Rotary club bulle tin says, "It's a mighty good old world after all. We just had the extreme pleasure and satisfaction of purchasing a $5 pair of shoes marked rfovrn from $25 to the un heard of low prices of $14.98." COLUMBIA SCENIC HIGHWAY Ar MAKER of ; automobiles, Edward f- S. Jordan, recently. traversedthe Columblf. river highway. , j -, .Thrilled -with the charm of , the great thoroughfare, be suggested that its name falls -.hort of its merits. 'Columbia : iceaic Highway," he proposes as an appellation more fit ting and a name more descriptive. The motion is seconded. Enough. of the suggestion of the West's mag- nificent river is contained in the. first j: word. Let it be hoped that no !iht; of a nickel a throw scenic railway is contained in the second, because to be true it must be associated With stately, spectacular ' grandeur of! natural conformation. In the minds of those who live. on the shores of the Ohio or the Poto mac a "river highway" brings tuc picture of u winding road w 1th view of water In a placid valley where na ture has-walked with gentle foot steps. " What Ohioans or Penn3ylvanians must be led to expect in the "Colum bia Scenic Highway" is the penetra tion at sea level of an abyss three fifths of a mile deep where the river rollicks or- r;sts after uncounted ages of ceaseless sculpture forming the crags and battlements, the monoliths and minarets; where a score of water falls are flung from the shoulders ofj the mountains like lacy scarfs and where in shadow and sunlight the colors of meditation and joy glow and beckon, soothe and txalt. But as long us the change of thei name is thought of, has anyone a bet ter suggestion to make than that1 which Mr. Jordan has offered? ANCHORED SHIPS N' 0V is the time for the salesmeii among ports to show the stuff they are made of. Even oefore predictions could bv made the' pendulum of commerce hasi swung back from the congested con ditions during the war when cargoes wildly and often unsuccessful sought for ships. Now there arc more ships than car goes. Disturbance in credit is largely accountable. Yet the normal balanct of trade has not been restored and the demand for goods to repair th ravages of war is far from beinj; satisfied. It is a time v hen the Port of Portj land as .a port of origin should and doubtless will profit from the ag gressive trade getting traffic burcaji formed by Us port bodies. This ijs the only organization of the kind known to have been created by of ficial port administration, but its worth is testified to by results al ready obtained in cargo movement. All conditions point to the desirabil ity of going after trade and getting its lines tied to thu port. The inf- tensive use of port facilities provided, during the pas'. 10 years should be 1 part of the effort. The conservation of resources so that public sentiment will not be depressed by resultless outlay is necessary. No. better exposition of the dis turbed conditions on t'ae Atlantip coast has been had than that brought back as a result of personal investi gation by Manager Dawson of the Columbia-Pacific company. He "ound that the trans-Atlanltc rate on coal has fallen to $9 a" te n for 60OO miles steaming distance, dike to the fact that the ships must re turn in ballast. Some- $12,000,000 worth of cargo was said to be on hand in South American ports und; livered because of market declines. A third of the Cuban sugar crop is stll in that country, the warehouses aife congested wit", partially rejected cargo and vessels loaded for Havara have deferred sailing because of in ability, to discharge cargo. Many shipa were found to be tif d up in Atlantic porUs. The Orient il berth on the ."tlantic had fallen off. Freight rates had reached a poiht where they could not go lower atd permit operation. ( This is obviously the best of oppor tunities for the port of Portland be thrifty and 'ndustrious. being first of all careful to keep the ships comiing for waiting cargo, maintaining he channel lor them and putting back of the commerce the full advantage the 810.500.000 worth of facilities which this port has provided. The Pacific Mail Steamship com pany publishes in its house orgjan what purports to be a world trade map which shows ro Pacific cost port north of San Francisco. The f Pacific Mail is hereby notified that the one port on -the Pacific coast which Is , showing -commerce gains is on the - Columbia river and name is Portland. its A CRUEL POLICY OOMEBODY at Washington ought to O find a way to effect a sattlement . " 1. .J ... of the claims of the men wW built vv?od sh,ps ,dl!r,n lhe War' It Is nearly two years since the ar mistice was signed. The? unsatis ied, claims for wood ship building agg re gate millions of dollars. The buile ers are kept in a state of uncertainty as to whether they will ever be paid even a part -of the sums which they insist the government owes th 'm. What is more, the common under standing i$ that no explanation is erer given the claimant; as to why no f et tlement is afforded. Because they can get no adjustment many of the builders are seriously affected financially. Some )f tliem are able to avoid bankruptcy onlj by the narrowest margin. Under such circumstances, to hold them indefi nitelv.in a state of uncertainty is both a rank injustice and a very un businesslike proceeding. . .In general, ittwas no fault of these hnilders that the wood ships did not do all that was expected of them qur ins, the war. That was ' more the fault of 'Me designers or the ships, who failed to plan a strictly practical vessel. Nor was it any fault of ithe builders that the war ended much sooner than was expected, whereby it turned out .that the service of all the wood ships was not required. v ' Yet all the brunt cf the wood ship situation by re.'usal of the Washing ton., authorities -to'' grant any kind of settlement to them, has tt be borne by the builders.; It is a cruel attitude on the part of tlie government. These men deserve an adjustment. If their claims are excessive, they should be told so and a basis of agreement be .reached and immediate payment fol low. Government should not be an op pressor, but a deliverer. HARDING'S ELECTION An Karnest Adjuration to the President elect by a Great .Newspaper Which Opposed Him, but Which Points Out to Him a Path of Safety and Service. From tf New York World The: American people wanted a change, and they have voted for a change. They did not know what kind of change they wanted, and they do not know today what kind of change they have voted , for. All of the restlessness and discontent bred of the war has finally found expression at .the ballot box, and the result is Warren G. Hard ing. Mr. Harding is a well-meaning, ami able man, who has shown during the campaign no understanding whatever of any of the real problems of peace and reconstruction. His political career has been without distinction of any kind whatsoever. He has been simply a Re publican politician of unswerving regu larity who has taken up any policy agreed to by the party leaders and sup-, ported it with fidelity and such ability as he could command. Whenever there has been a division in the party councils he has followed the line of least resist ance, with a marked preference for ex treme conservatism. . The day he was nominated for presi dent he was the choice of the Repub licans of no state in the Union. Even in Ohio the Republican voters had divid ed at the primaries and he was UnabfS to obtain, a united delegation from his own state. Had the question of his nomination been submitted to the. rank and file of the party throughout the country it. may be doubted if he would have received 300,000 votes of the 13,000, 000. Yet, in spite of this pitiful lack of popular support, he was named for pres ident by the Republican bosses , and he has been elected president because he was the Republican candidate. Nominally, therefore, Mr. Harding is to be president of the United States. Who the actual president is to be and what the policies of the new administra tion are to be nobody knows. Mr, Hard himself does not know, nor does he pre tend to know. He -will do what the strongest faction of the Republican party tells him to do. If Mr. Root and Mr, Taft and their friends gain the ascend ancy, they will control the foreign pol icy of the administration. If Senator Johnson and Senator Borah and the Battalion of Death gain control, they will dominate the foreign policy. A similar game of chance will determine the domestic policies as well. What is certain Is that the country has returned for a. time to reaction. In the naieve belief that Republican policies can cure all the economic evils that were produced by a war in which 10,000, 000 lives have beeri lost and 300,000,- 000,000 in property destroyed. No president of the United States at the time of his election ever showed fewer qualifications for the task that confronted him than Mr. Harding has displayed in this campaign. Apparently his mind ias solidified and retains no political Impressions that were made since the days of McKinley and Hanna. He has shown no capacity for leader ship since his nomination. Whether he will stiow any capacity for leadership after his inauguration remains to be seen. The American people have displayed the same kind of political intelligence that the people of New York displayed in 1917. when they threw-out the Mitchell administration and made John F. Hylan mayor. Those exploits in political prej udice are always expensive, and four years from now the country will be in a better position to estimate the cost of this latest manifestation of its worst qualities. As to Mr. Harding himself, the World can only wish him well. He is confront ed at best with a task that is im possible In its entirety. ' since no presi dent that ever lived could redeem the campaign pledges that have been made in his behalf, some of them by himself. It is easy to abuse Woodrow Wilson, but to succeed -Woodrow Wilson in the White House is a man's job. and Mr. Harding will not have the aid either of a united party or of those dominant qualities that can batter down opposi tion. He will have to go with a tide that runs erratically and treacherously, and the very voters that have put him Into the presidency to do the impossible will be ready to destroy him at the first sign of failure. The World, quite apart from any issue of political principle, cannot regard Mr. Harding as the type of man .who ought to be president at this time. But, recog nizing the seriousness of his task, we shall try to help him rather than hinder him, and in no case shall we ever sub ject him to the kind of malicious obstruc tion that Republican 'newspapers and Republican senators have thrown in the pathway of President Wilson. The World would much rather have Mr. Harding succeed than "fail. It Is willing to do what it can to . aid him if the policies of his administration permit such assistance, and the first advice it would give him is to forget all the non sense he has uttered in the campaign to wipe off the slate to start clean to realize that the very safety of civiliza tion may depend upon the prudence and intelligence of his administration, and to trample all petty partisan considera tions under foot while he faces the in exorable facts of a most serious situa tion. To begin otherwise is to invite disaster. m As for the League of National, hone of its true supporters will falter on account of Mr. Harding's majorities. Appealing from Philip drunk to Philip sober, they wllUkeep their faith steadfast! and un swerving. Every reason that existed yesterday in favor of the ratification of the, covenant exists today. None of the elementary facts have been changed by tbe-ballots that were cast for Mr. Hard in?. , . The time has now come when Repub licans like Mr. .Taft and Mr. Root and Mr. Hoover and Mr. Straus must redeem their own pledges. They have said to the voters that Mr. Harding's speeches against the league could be Ignored and that" his election would mean that the United States would join the other na tions in guaranteeing the peace of tbe world, ';. The duty of fulfilment rests with them. Hundreds of thousands of the friends of the league voted for Mr. Harding in the belief that Mr. Taft and his 'associates had told them the truth. The record ia made and the obligation must be redeemed, or they, too, will have been conviated of defrauding both the living and the dead. Letters From the People f Communication aent to The Journal tor publication in tbu department should ba written on ooiy one aide of the paper; abookl not exceed 300 vorda ia length, and niuat be eisned by tbe writer, whose mail addresa in full muat accom pany, the contribution.) TO PRESERVE TIMBER AND BIG " ': ! .. , ' GAME .-.-! Seaside, Nov. 5. To the Editor of The Journal I notice in the columns of your valuable paper there is a movement on foot; to - preserve the timber along the Clatsop; and "fillamook highway. How long win -imsi timber stano in a sirip along a highway in this country, where we have wind storms of high velocity, sometimes 60 land 70 miles an hour? I have talked with a number of timber men and theyj agree with me that this timber will not stand very long in this country where it stands In narrow strips along a highway. What .are we going to do about our band of wild elk that were so jfast disappearing some 10 years ago? 1 acted as a guide for some hunting parties in the mountains south of Seaside. The open season then was 30 days, to kill one bull elk. ' I think it was in the "month of September. We fig ured there were then in these mountains approximately 250 wild elk, all told. Today there is not a sign of more than" 50 or 60 head. What has become of all 'these noble animals? They have been slaughtered unmercifully, and "gut shot," when, they run oft to die tn the woods. The 'common talk here in this country is. "If we don't get them someone else will The law is made for the rich man. Some years 'ago the government had to put ia stop to the wholesale slaughter of the ! elk in Yellowstone park. Curio i seekers were trying to steaJ that coun try blind. .We are up against the same proposition here in these mountains. The most natural situation on the Pa cific is near the mouth of the Columbia. I suggest that we take steps to preserve parts of townships 4 and 5 north of range 10 West, and 4 and S north of range 9 west, in Clatsop and Tillamook counties, to protect our game and make a national park out of the same. ; James T. Burke. QUESTIONS TO THE W. C. T. U. Portland, Nov. 6. To the Editor Of The; Journal i-With reference to the pro posed orphanage for which the-W. C. T. U. a.Ats $125,000, the undersigned, and doubtfess many other citizeos of our city and state, would like a. few ques tions answered by that organization in order that we may be satisfied that there is a real need for an institution of the type they propose. What percentage of the dependent children now' being cared for by our child-caring institutions are orphans? Is "dependency on the increase since prohibition went Into effect, or is it not rather on the decrease? If the former is the case, would It hot be more economical to enlarge one of our present institutions for dependents than to duplicate what we already have? The following organizations are, if I am not mistaken, now caring for depend ent children by placing them In family homes or giving them institutional care: Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Oregon, Children's home. Pacific Coast Rescue andi Protective society, Waverly Baby home, the Jewish Shelter and the Cath olic homes at Beaverton and Oswego and Parkplace for boys, girls and babies, respectively. I If there is any type of children at the present time :who are not receiving ade quate care is it not the delinquent and defective rather than the dependent? ' j John G. Kilpack. f A RECVRRIXG PROBLEM Oswego Ndv. 4. To the Editor of The Journal" While returns show Harding as our next president and Republicans are loudly crowing over the people who have been courageous enough to stand by the ritrht and vote for Cox," it will perhaps be well to remember that a period of four .years Is ample for some people to suddenly discover they have made a mistake. Undeniably a man and the party whose I tool he is can get them selves into power with money, despitp the I fact that they have raised false scares with regard to Article X. have maliciously tried, to assassinate the fin est president we have ever had (and the mystery ts, the people have blindly joined in the vicious attack), and have waged a campaign full of reaction. To be sure, in the next four years we shall progress backwards! Yet not many years hence the people who have elected Harding will; be glad to pay tribute to Woodrow Wilson, Sometimes I think if I were in: his position I would rise from my grave, if I might, and forbid them to say one word in tribute it would be .so , detestable to me. Meanwhile,; among the first changes weJmay look for is an increase in the tariff. Republicans claim a high tariff "protects" home t industries. Yet the question of tariffs most undeniably pre sents more 'than a" business problem. As opposed to hlgb tariffs, free trade Is a natural law, and the opposite Is arti ficial and the product of greed and na tionalism. Also, it is to be expected that a high tariff in this country dis criminating against other countries, will produce the same discrimination in other countries, or, in other words, a trade war. Getting to the motive, what is It but nationalism as against interna tionalism, and natlbnal selfishness as acuinst a common; brotherhood and common interest? ; i Mrs. Margaret Perrego. HOUSES TO LET Arthur II. FolwHl in Ixftiie'n Newspaper; advertisements indicative of the acute: home shortage : "To let to small family,. Chicken House, almost new. One large, airy living room with loft. Outdoor sleeping perch. Will j redecorate to suit tenant. Rent $100. ; Address Leghorn." "To let for light housekeeping, spa cious dog-kennel, newly painted, for merly the home of a St. Bernard. High ceiling. Pleasant., sunny location. Ten ant; may have use of backyard. Rent $123. Call backdoor 123 Whoof street" Curious! Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious- Places "One of the daintiest packages that has: ever been wrapped by nature's hand," is the way Robert S. Walker, writing -in the Guide to Nature, char acterizes the fruit of the Lichti chinesis, an ! evergreen tree native to Southern China, but which planters are attempting to grow in Southern California. So far the; lichti fruit has been received In America in j a dry state, and in that condition in ithe markets it is improperly called the lichti nut. It is not a nut In any sense of the word, because the seed is not jedible. The plant is grown only for the fruit.. The Lichti chinesis ripens its globular, reddish fruit in mid summer. Each individual fruit measures from one and oOe-half to two 'Inches In diameter. i securely. The flesh, white and Juicy, and snugly enclosed in a rough, brittle hull. When dry it rattles in Ithe hull. Each has a large single seed in the center. The Chinese eat the; fruit raw, dried or canned. It is different from any fruit raised, in the United States, or from any imported from any other foreign country. - Uncle Jeff Snow Says'.y - Ike Helderfern wants, the , Corners Community cjub to build a sidewalk up to his place acrost the holler, but he don't see why the neighbors furder up the creek and the bill can't git aJong'th . COMMENT AND - j SMALL CHANGE God we trust." is still 6n the "In dollar. Let's nip the threatened epidemic in the germ. . '--r Now t if the price of turkeys would only start to skid: - Is there anything in the world John sou and Borah do like? "Lambs advance." the headlines say. To the slaughter, no doubt. a w The new pipe of peace probably will be a package of cigarettes. ; Once in a while the old corkscrew is recalled to open a catsup bottle. It has been a long time since the young hopeful wished that he . were king. i ;i We have forgotten the lessons of the war. Butchers again call it Ham burger, i i i Somehow, "Crimea" sounds unpleas antly like one, of the forbidden "swear words" -of our youth. Co-education with the meals at Reed college i will not prove half so satis factory as good beefsteak and sweet potatoes. . Since the price of flour has dropped and wheat is held for all the traffic will bear, bread is between the devil and the deep sea. , Surely it's about time for the women Jolk to discard the fur scarfs of summer and don the georgette stocks of the winter reason. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town "We didn't even get started ; it was a grand rush all the way through, and when the final quarter came,; entirely too soon, we were just beginning to go." That is the explanation of Washington State's terrific loss to the University of California football squad as attributable to J. F. Baker, a member of the team. He arrived -in Portland Monday on his way home and registered at the Im perial hotel. "Somehow or other we didn't get our breath until too late," he sai. "That was why the score stood 40 to 0. It was a slaughter." J. W, Tixley of Eugene, one of the leading insurance men of the state, is at the Multnomah hotel, where he ar rived Monday. Building and buying new boats for the Grand Banks fisheries off Boston har bor is receiving an impetus in anticipa tion of an extra heavy season this next year, according to Wallace B. Fenmore of Boston, who was registered Monday at the Multnomah hotel. "The past summer was heavy on cod and weather conditions were splendid. Our fleet of 40 boats went through the season with out an accident." J. E. Poulson of Coquille and O. C. Sithers of Glendale were registered Monday at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Cheatham of Olym pia. Wash., are at the Imperial. Mr. OBSERVATIONS AND; IMPRESS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred f A ritdzen of Oregon who expire to be first a iarty founder and then president of. the U. S. A. fhrouBh that party is discovered by Mr. Lockley, who auotes him on the question of party found ing and also on the history of .esa of, O rf sou's early newspaper enterprises. 1 "Some folks say I have bats in my belfry,'? said N. F. Nelson of Oak Grove, Clackamas county, to me recently. "As far as; that goes, every "man who has been a little ahead of his time has been laughed at and pointed out as a queer duck and thought by the ignorant and unthinking mob to have a screw loose. The more you study history the more sure you will be that the majority is generally wrong. "People say I am crazy on one sub ject, and that Is the need for the formation of a new party. ; The two old parties have gone to seed. I am going to found a new party. It will be called the Progressive-democratic-Republlcan party, and I don't mind telling you .right now that I intend to announce myself as a candidate for the office of president of the new party, to be elected four years from now-. People tap their fore heads when I tell them this, but. In confidence, I'll tell you I ain't as crazy as they think I am. You see. I call my new party Progressive-democratic-Re-publican. Does that sound crazy to you? Well, It isn't, for by giving it this name I shall get the votes of the pro gressive voters who are sick of the standpat. policies of the two old parties, by calling it democratic 'I get the votes (of all factions of the Democratic party. lllciuuiiiK ir)tui Ef iwiuwnjg, auu uy in cluding the name Republican in the way I have, the voters of that party will think the Republican party has captured the other two parties ; so you see I shall get their votes. I'll get the voters Vom ing abd going. Whether I am crazy or not, 1 have lots of company, for you can always find plenty of candidates every four years, who believe they can land the job of president. Don't dweil on my presidential aspirations too strongly, or all the other candidates might combine against me. : "Who am I? Well, I have lived In Oregon 70 years, so I ought to know something of the needs of Oregon and the West. My full name is Napoleon Franklin Nelson. I was born In Spring field, 111., a little over four score years ago. My father, George II. Nelson, was born in Georgia and was reared in Vir ginia. My mother, Thetis None, was of French and Irish blood and was born in North Carolina. We crossed the plains in 1851. Father spent the winter of 1851-&2 in Portland, working at odd jobs. I went to Oregon City in February, 1852, and got a Job as printer's devil for Asahel Bush. Bush was born in Massa chusetts and came to Portland in the fall of 1850. He had been a printer's devil on the Sentinel at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He put in four years learning the trade on the Saratoga Sen tinel, i Many's the time I have Been him standing at the case setting type with out any copy. He set up his editorials without committing them to writing. He was a good typesetter, being speedy as well as accurate. K "The first issue of Bush's paper, the Oregon Statesman, came out at Oregon City in March, 18SL- In th-se days Ore gon City was the capital of Oregon Ter ritory., When Salem became the capital he moved f o Salem. Then Corvallis be came the capital and he moved his paper way they alius done, 'thout makin' him lay a sidewalk he won't never use and'll be obleeged to pay fer acrost the front of his place Jest to 'commodate 'em. And a good many of us is built like Ike, only we ain't quite ao simple-minded. ! Olden Oregon Eminent Persons Contributed to Blan chet Mission Fund ' Oregon waa erected into an apostolic vicariate by Pooe Gregory XVL who ap NEWS IN BRIEF ; SIDELIGHTS The ultimate consumer is to under stand that sight and sound travel a great deal faster than price reductions. Salem Capital Journal. . i Once in a while a small-town police man accidentally gets hold of a crook who is not involved in one way or an other with hootch. Medford Mall-Tri-bune. ' There is monev tn filberts here big money. $200 to $1500 nn acre net and hundreds of thousands of acres of cheap lands suitable for filberts. Salem Statesman. - . Many the fond parent In Crane who can't solve the sixth grade problems the kidsbring home at night':, but In th barber : shop fce is regarded as quite a vise,nian.-Crane American. Frank Gloss has - shipped two car loads of four-foot fir wood the past few days. He . loads the car and then follows to Portland with his truck, where he unloads the fuel at the door of his customer. Aurora Observer. ' W. it,. Rayborn will easily be potato king this yean He haa less than a third o his ground dug and has considerably more than. 1000 sacks out. On less than half an acre he dug 119 sewed sacks of spuds. Pendleton East Oregonian. e Redmond has the right to feel now that-she has been justified in her re quests for the" location of the Deschutes county 'fair. resohutes is the strongest county in Central Oregon, and is en titled, too. to have the greatest fair. The first fair held In Redmond is a promise that this is and shall be the fact. Redmond Spokesman. Cheatham is head of the firm of Cheatham & Son, road builders, which Is now doing considerable, work in the northern state. Wilfiam Ferguson; . business man of Oneida, N. Y.t is stopping at the Mult nomah hotel while making a tour of the Pacific coast. Marlon Jack, member of the state fish and game commission, reRisterod Monday at tbe Imperial from Pendleton. John W. Tother of San Francisco ar rived In Portland and registered at the Portland hotel Monday. He is associ ated with the United Railways of San Francisco. He is . another who says : "Now that the election is over, busi ness will be better." Mr. and -Mrs. E. V. Carter of Ashland registered at the Imperial Monday., Mr. Carter is a newly-elect-d member of the state legislature from Jackson county. . R. M. Martin of Honolulu reg istered Monday at the Oregon. -a W. E. Moore of Imbler is at the Mult nomah hotel. ' e ! W. F. Ram8dell. forest supervisor of the Umpqua national forest, arrived at the forest service Monday from Roseburg to consult department heads regarding the Working plans on the forest to be car ried out next year. ONS Lockley there, and when the capital went back to Salem he followed with his paper. He ran the paper 10 years. He sold It in 1861 and its name was changed to the Union. " Later it was changed back to the Oregon Statesman. I "As I told you, I was his first devil. When I went to wprk for him he was about 27 or 28 years old. He was mighty shrewd and smart. I went with him to Salem. The paper moved there in 1853. He began courting Eugenia Zieber, the daughter of John -S. Zieber, surveyor general of Oregon, not long after we went to Salem. She was a mighty bright and lovable girl, and good looking, too. One day Mr. Bush told me to stop work and wash my hands and face, as he wanted me to deliver a very important letter ; for him. It was to Miss Zieber. I found out afterwards It-was his pro posal of marriage. Later he said to me, 'Here ia a letter I want you to deliver to the Rev. F. S. Hoyt at the college.' Mr. Hoyt was president of Willamette uni versity. It was Mr. Bush's letter to Mr. Hoyt asking him to perform the mar riage .ceremony. Bush and Miss Zieber were married in October; 1854. ' "I worked for Mr. Bush three years. Then, because I didn't like, the foreman, I quit and went to work for Charles Matoon, a Baptist preacher, who was running a religious paper at Eoia, across the Willamette river from Salem, on the Polk county side. His papr" was called the Expositor. Mr. Matoon was a hard headed, hard-fisted, hard-workingV good hearted, ignorant man. ; He was a nat ural mathematician. He was the author of Matoon's Arithmetic, which was used in the country schools of Oregon In the early '50s. i "you ..can't tell how good the meat is in a black walnut by looking at its rough shell. Because I look like a nut' ''is no sign that I am one. My hands are calloused and bent with hard work, and I dress roughly, but I have had a good education.: - Some people' think I am suffering' from the 'illusion of greatness,' but so dW Emperor William, and as far as thaJL goes, you won't have to go out of this country to find plenty of men affected In the same way. Every body is a little off some on one thing and some on another. . "When the Expositor at Eola failed I was out of a job, so I went to school at Pleasant Hill, In Polk county. Later I went to school at Dallas. In 1858 I came to, Portland and attended the Port land academy and female seminary, run by Professor C. 8. Klngsley and wife. Later I attended Bethel academy in Polk county, w-hich was in charge of Dr. L. I Rowland and Professor Nathaniel Hudson. I studied French. Latin, geom etry, surveying and trigonometry there. Dave Holmes was a classmate of mine. William Galloway, later circuit Judge,, was also a schoolmate. ; ''.. "How. am I fixed? I can get along. I ain't aiming to be president for the salary. I believe I canj do better work as president than a lot we have had. I believe in woman suffrage and in prohi bition and am againstwar, I will have two or three women Ini my cabinet. 1 don't figure I am smart enoush to run the whole country, but I am smart enough to get wise men in my cabinet to help run the country." - pointed Vicar GeneralBlanchet as arch bishop. Soon afterward Blanchet -went to Europe to gather resources for his mission. He met with success tn raising funds and returned to Oregon in August. 1847, accompanied by 2,1 recruits,. Among the subscribers to his fund was Louis Phillipe of France, who gave 8000 francs and ordered tbe ministers of the In terior and marine to pay each 7200 francs. The Leopoldine society of Vienna gave 4000 florins. Other societies and corporations contributed various sums. The Oregon Country Northweat Ilappeninaa In Brief Form for tbe j - Uoajf Header. OREGON NOTES Pendleton may raise Its I92t budget 3 ,nllU lowe"! than -for its ft'etj - vuuT-V Ho'mv.6 rt,Ml'by ma" from n!lVntire Bdmlnistitation Of Yon Bur! Is ma!ed ; WniT- Mr8' Wary EnnntV h K'Ilinf Precinrt. Clackamas r.njJ; 8 under arrest charged wltai operating an illicit Btiil. ixs,twnlhan lJons.ot during the month of October. The exact figures were im.m pounds; roThrLPn0it rford Tribune, conducted has beennldH V'1? f- T. Stewart. mT 1 ' il Wxl'caU and will be edited hereafter by Waltei- Sutton. ,2 J'tn'' county Pomona RranBe ham fhPI.nn.UrrH?lu,lon -"ron-Rly opposing HoodTinlih0' th? PrbpoHed Mount Jiooa scenic highway by tine state. (. Th"ow n the mountains has driven winter quarters in the, valley where pastures are fine at the priesent time Burns In Harney -county h a y or. Mrs. Cr.-,,-. i L. mo as a woman nipHhlre was .C....: U . election last week. though not a candidate for' the position .Tr!1.e.C,t' of Cotlee Grbve Is taking steps to have set aside thel entire Lavrii creek watershed for the purpose of y?' curmg supply of water for' municipal Farmers In the M ed ford section are experiencing much difficulty in curlnr haerv.i.? twUm"'B 2 ,''f whteh TiSS for Z'iaZ. mAke the fUrth cuU,n h " 1,Jne Orhoco project ?hi5...lh.L ea?on :Jt Closed, deanlte! shorat ,n seara'"e-n ihaa be6" th ex-LrviP,. ym d i ross haa necured for forsAbled mLbrnUHCS' 1 -'Pensatlon extent" f.y7l!S&r.VllUra,,f- l lh6 breaktntt hi P making sn(, Hudvmn8,! ce"rt,on- y Owen S' -an'1 Jforce Ktoki. of tho Bend Z1'?!1"-. .- Meved to be ,,..i..v.nl. , Htle. probably become totally blSnd.' WASHINGTON Twenty-one births and 12 death wer kx';: Aberdern durf-"!; The board of Garfield couirtv commis sioners has .reduced the pay of common laborers from $4 to $3 nil, day. LOmmon T,H Washington state fair, fund faces f,it" T 71"0"- Itx aets W6G.J8 and us liabilities ; $15,836.83. The city of Yakima has! purchased It, first park, buying for $12,000 ike blm'k formerly .owned by the Sisters' hosptui. While shooting at a dor at Kelso g' Hageman accidentally hat and sertous-' Creek.0 Cd IUlph SU?,,ey ot Coll Resisting arrest at Seateie on a charge of burglarizing a , gasoline service sta- ww., , Miwam Lox.iaged 20, was shot by a policeman. - j . ; """.. A charter has "been IpRued for the fruitgrowers State bank !of Greenacres. izedPajrS,?oonty- ba"k Capltal" William. Bliss, aged 63. was instantly killed when he was struck by a train us "living Hcross uia Morthern Pa- ""- initio at jjuena. Durinir the morith nf ftr.tr.Kor a rests were made at Aberdeen on drunk and disorderly charges. (Total amount of fines collected amounted to $2475. First Washington apples ever trans ported direct from Puget Sound by 'in, urtinj. icri j acoma recently. iiu iuuuuou k,uuu ooxea or a p- The -Union Securities company haa purchased control of th bank, making the twenty-fourth of iha i rem on Htaie string trols. of country banka which it con- C. A. Russell, bj brakeman of Cen-, tralia, was instantly killed when he was crushed beneath a freight car which plunged down a high embankment after being derailed. j j Eleven thousand veterans living In Se attle will share to the extent of $2,200,000 in the state bonus appropriation, accord ing to estimates by officials of the American Legion, j B. Ff Nelson, 22-year-old youth who confessed to having attempted to rob the Ortlng State bank last July, has been fftVAn a maTlrruim mat-i tonoa Ilk lua aaa in" the slate penitentiary at Walla Walla.! IDAHO One case of anthrax, a icontaslo.ua dis ease of the skin, haa developed in Boise. A troop of Boy Scouts haa been or ganized at Harrison, with an enrollment of 23. i j T. J. Armbruster and tl. H. Simpson of Moscow are preparing to ship a herd of 696 iiogs to market. j - The Boise-Payette Lumber company's yards at Eagle wwe destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $35,000. x- Mis Margaret Knowlton. for county superintendent of choolsi was the only Democrat elected in Canyon county at the recent election. The body of Chris Juston was found In a cabin near Hailey a few. days ago. He waa years old and had been a resident ol Hailey for 20 years. At Twin Falls. Peter Weidermari, 63 rears old, shot and killed his son-in-law. rvin N. Kelsey, during what la said to have been a fit of extreme mental de pression. ; i Home Industrie lof Oregon Carried On by Vorkers , , Best Housed of All Do the people of Portland clearly understand that the products of home industry are manufactured by work men who live more comfortably in better homes with a -more inspiring environment than a specialist in the promotion of home Industry has been uble to fit.d in a transcontinental tour? The witness la A. Q. Clark, manager of thr Associated Industries of Oregon. He - writes from Wash ingfbri, l. : 1 "In all of these Eastern manufac turing cities I am impressed with the vast, difference In the home life and conditions of tbe workers in fac tories with those of ouriPortland and Ore k on. I ' ( - "It the Oregon publjc'could only see the miserable home llfs of the labor that I have witnessed, they could not pretend thatl goods made elsewhere than ; In Oregon must be better : :-."!)' ; - i' , .j- .- "No one can tell me (that workers living a thousands upon thousands do live in Baltimore, (Philadelphia. Boston, New York, antl nearly all other manufacturing centers do not carry into their work!' of finishing products the atmosphere of the mis- H erabie tenements and flats they oc cupy as homes. ; . .-.;-,: "Some of the factories are very fine, and the employes are taken care of while at work in a splendid way, but tftey go to (places called homes ; that surely must take the spirit out of them, ) ."When I think of the majority of Oregon men and women living In clean,! detached cottages, with air. sunshine and a yard to play In, and compare it with these poor tollers. It makes me want to support our home institutions In a much! more enthu siastic and effective way than I ever have before. If the latter are able, to expand they can offer more jobs td more people, and thusj more-peopls will be better off." ncine, will