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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,, PORTLAND, 1 OREGON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1820 6 XV INDEPENDENT KEWSPAPEB C. 8. JACKSON. PnblibT ( B calm. b confident, ka ehaarrol and do unto aUicn u yon would hata thm da nolo you.) .J rnblwh4 rrery nxt 'day Sunday morn". at Tha Journal Budding. Broadway ad Xa , hili street, Port land. fcron. .Intered t th peetrftfc r PortUsd, Orecoo. for trarnmixixio through th nuuJa a XB1 claas matter. I TELEPHONES Main 7IT, Atttom.tlc 6aO-l. Alt department reached by ta numbara. i KAf IONAI. ADVtBTWINO K'CPBKSBNTA- TIVK Benjamin Kentnor -. JiI?Tf1 Building, 225 Fifth annua. Jew Tort. Mailers BuJWing, Chicag a. ' .PACinO COAST RLTEESp-TATTYB WK- Itarwr Co.. Eiaminer Bnildlng. J"! yvrwee; TiUa I Murine BoiUlnf, Loa Angawa, ' 'fit-InL.Uiiier Building. Seattle. I reject adT.rtl.inf copy which tt " iecttooabl..; -It alao wiU not print anr copy ! that in any way simulates reading tnaitei or . that cannot readily ba reoognixed a adT.r- i' tiaing. 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LET THEM RAVE AT ONE time, agreement was fully reached ' with Senator Lodge tis a party to it, under which, with League reservations acceptable to the .Democrats, the peace treaty was to have been ratified. Now that . the election is over and no further need for making a 1920 campaign issue, why; cannot the treaty ba re-submitted to the senate, the same reser vations be agreed to,' the treaty be ratified, rod .the way be opened tor a speedy return of all nations to settled peace and prosperity? When, under the agreement, the treaty and league were on the point of being ratified, Johnson and Borah hastened from their stumping tours to Washington. - They assailed Lodge with threats of bolting the party, frightened him out of his purpose and defeated ratification. It was their threat of bolt that wrecked the treaty. Why should not the sane Republican senators and the Tafts and Roots and the Democratic senators join in a movement now to return to the old agreement, quietly communicate with the president, have the treaty re-sub mitted and. end the matter by ratif id eation? j -. : - ' Let Hiram and Borah bolt if they want to. With the election over, all they can do is to rave, and their rav ing now will be nothing byt empty sounds. They can do the Republican party no harm--the ballots 'are in the boxes and counted. Settlement of the treaty. Issue by the present congress would relieve Republican leaders of one cf their most embarrassing problems. . It would deliver ; the Republican party and the Harding administration from tt question, that threatens to destroy! th power of either to serve the coun- j try, during the next immediate years. It would deliver, both from the pow er -of ' senatorial bandits who have bludgeoned a whole nation out of its true . course and bulldozed a whole people, inio abandonment of the fruits of victory in the war. -The One hopi of ratification lies in the present congress". The one chance for Root and ; Taft and Lowell and their associates to make good in their ; campaign promises is to secure' rati fication before Harding comes Into power. ; ' V'v . In the next congress, Hiram and Borah, at the head of new recruits of - treaty rippers, will stand with leveled guns ready to shoot down all meas ures, all programs and all proposals yntil the Versailles treaty is definitely and absolutely ' abandoned. They are Pledged to the hyphenates to beat the treaty and the league. Their support of Harding and the support of the fol lowers of Harding were based on the definite understanding that the treaty should be scrapped. " They will make V good in their determination to 1eat the treaty, for, being in the senate with 25 or 30 votes behind them, they can dictate- terms to the White House. , v . If the, treaty is not ratified, watch a new army of unemployed grow. A' student at the University of Il linois haa established three apple stands ' on the campus'; with - signs 'readmg: "Jonathan apples, five cents each: take your choice. Bold - by the honor system;, Drop coin in box. - Thank you." It. takes five . barrels per day to keep the stands applied, and the dimes and nickel! tally with the apples. It's a (rood story but' it sounds fishy IN WESTS TIME STATE TREASURER HOFF proposes a board of control to . supervise the investment of state bonds. It is a .sound proposal It is simi lar to a recommendation to Uje legis lature by Oswald West in his time as ; governor J; was defeated at the time ! by 'the political machinations which always "run riot In legislatures In Oregon. Had it been then adopted, Treasurer! Hoff would have been spared the embarrassment to which he was subjected in the purchase'of bonds early in his administration. The new recommendation examples the scrupulous honesty which his friends always knew to be a part of thej make-up of Mr. Hoff, and evinces his' desire to put the treasurer's office beyond the reach of future embarrass ment. , After what has happened, It seems that this renewal of the West proposal of some years ', ago will not meet the same fate at the hands of the legislature that befell the original recommendatior. A stylishly dressed Nev York young woman, after shooting a gentleman friend five times, reached into her gold mesh bag, withdrew a lace handkerchief, wiped the power stains from her fingers, and said: 2 "Thank goodness,' that's done." But was she so calm and collected in what came after? TO SAVE $4,998,240 ONE of the great livestock exposi tions iof the world will be, held in Portland, November 13 to 20. It win bring here in' competitive display the finest I horses, cattle, sheep and swine which the science of breeding has been able to - produce. World champions, so classed in the prize awards of, other distinguished live stock expositions, will be included in the exhibit lists. Aside from Portland's pride and natural gratification in being identi fied as the livestock ' center f of the West comes the Inevitable discussion of the valoo attaching to the move ment of meat animals in this direc tion. 1 r ' .The Portland ear has become ac customed "to hearing that the trans actions Incident to the assembling and marketing of beef, mutton and pork In Portland aggregate $2,000,000 a month,. But does anyone in Port land understand how small the busi ness Is compared with its possibili ties? ' A resolution adopted by the" recent Northwest Rivers and Harbors con gress asserted that three fourths of the livestock of the Northwest, which means the Columbia River basin, must be shipped i acrossvthe Rocky moun tains to the Mississippi valley be cause adequate outlet , here is lack ing. r Seventy-two hundred carloads of livestock are snipped annually to Portland. Twenty-one thousand six hundred carloads are shipped from the Columbia basin to the Mississippi valley. According to figures by G. A. Pelr- son; president of the Portland Union Stockyards company, the average shipping charge is fl.92. (covering freight, feed en route, shrinkage and expense of attendants) a hundred weight from a point like Ontario, Oregon, to Kansas City, Missouri. " On the other hand the similar cost of transportation from Ontario to Port land i3 81.03 a hundred weight. A saving of 89 cents on each 100 pounds is a saving of S2C1.40 on a carload of 26,000 pounds. On 21,600 carloads the saving would be the astonishing sum of $4,998,240. . i Why isn't this saving made? First, because Northwest markets will not consume all the. livestock produced in the Northwest. Second, because water transportation would be neces sary and the four large meat pack ing organizations in' Portland are not equipped to ,handle so large a volume of meat for movement by water to the Atlantio coast ana other markets. Third because the costs "imposed by the present harbor arrangement would nullify the ;railroad freight savings. Fourth, because an improvement of the North Portland harbor, upon the shores of which the greater part of the local meat packing is done, has not been made during the three years that it has been the responsibility of the Port of Portland. Tentative est! mate of the post is (250,000. It might be suggeskd that th meat packing institutions with such a sav ing in prospect , ought to move over on the Willamette river. But one reminder Is needed here.- Certain classes of business such as stockyards and meat packing must for obvious fceasonn he more or less detached. North Portland , is the place where the stockyard and meat packing busi ness is carried on. The horth Port land harbori is the . place where - it should be possible to bring-and load refrigerator ships with an . efficiency that would icontinue the economies possible In 'moving livestock here by rail. ' t: : . . : jWhy isn't 5250,000 (or less sum, possibly) spent to save 14,998,200? Why isn't four times as much live stock brought to Portland as at pres ent? Why isn't the livestock and meat packing business here $8,000,000 a I month rather than $2,000,000? Let the Port of Portland commission answe. ; i Annoyed by its heat a woman pa tient in a Utica. New Tork, hospital threw 118,000-worth of radium Into the Wash bowL For several days workmen searched pipes, sew- con nections and the sewer itself in the attempt to find it. The radium was finally located in the sewer. It was in three .particles, each about the size of a small bird shot. A VICTORY IN DEFEAT SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN leaves to night 'tt a circuitous Journey to Washington for the closing session of his senatorial term. Tho wind up of his senatorial career is not as one defeated, but as a victor. ' - Many of , those who voted against him regret it now, anl are saying so. '.'hey ere buncoed by false arguments and they fcnow it after it is too late. They were, in effe,ct, told, that Stanfield could give them $3 wheat, and high prices for wool,- and in crease the prices of butter and eggs. They swallowed that silly slush only to realize now that Stanfield can no more do those things than he can dam up the ocea.v tides or stop the sun in its coirse. There is a wonderful word in the English language and that word is "think." It is a tremendous word in Its power to advance human welfare. When all learn to "think" before they act and 1o act ts they "think" a great step will be made In human progress, la that time when all "think" here will be better days for all. If those who now regret that they were bamboozled into voting against Chamberlain had only . stopped to think they would be without occasion for regret There were mothers whose sons in hospitals and else where were rescued and served by Chamberlain who failed to be think ing when they walked up to the polls and voted for Chamberlain's oppo nent The roll call of the women who did that sort of thing is not a short one. , The victory of Chamberlain is that there is a long record of useful serv ice to thousands of soldiers and sail ors and their parents In the war, that there is" a long record of useful and valuable service to ''private individu als who wanted things done at Wash ington, that there is a long and hon orable distinction for Oregon in Cham berlain's work In the senate. ; Back of that is six years of splen did work as governor of Oregon. He was the governor who began the work of recovering valuable school lands to the state. He was the governor in whose time there was begun In Ore-; gon the movement that ended in elec- i tion of United States senator by direct J vote with its delivery of the state from j senatorial hold-ups and senatorial brigandage that were the scandal of Oregon. The preset;; freedom of Oregon from bribery, corruption and public scandals is very largely the fruit of a movement begun under the governorship if Chamberlain. A state is classified by its public men. The senate of the United States measures up a new member within a few days, and j.angs him on a peg. It is seldom that he gets off that peg. By that test Oregon, as all the, great eastern newspapers are saying now, stood in the front rank of states. That is why chamberlin goes back to Washington a victor, and vyhy he is the subject of highest congratula tion. The libelous lie of a newSDaDer story that pretended to reflect on the integrity of Senator Chamberlain during , the war must daily prick the guilty consciences of those who con spired to have it published. The outstanding feature in Chamberlain's public ard private career is his prob ity. The mendacity of the crew that procured the circulation of that slander will ultimately reap its, bitter fruit , In the end, truth is always tri umphant The good will of the thou sands and the confidence of , those thousands who know ! George Earle Chamberlain for what he is and what he has done are the truth that makes Chamberlain's loss of the election a victory and a declaration of freedom. It is related that Russell Sage, the late millionaire money lender, never paid more than $20 for a suit of clothes. It might be added that a few years ago a kind Providence so fixed things that $20 was enough. IN ANOTHER CITT r A BETTER from Cleveland, o., says V Cleveland has never failed in one of these community campaigns to reach the objective originally set, and. in fact, has overrun tens of thousands of dollars on each occasion. But the amount of money is not the most signifl cant test. The community in these cam paims is not driven to give. There is a willingness on the part of all concerned to respond with work as well as money. and the city is proud to feel that itis trying to do its duty in a collective way. As Portland perfects plans ? for a Comnvmity Chest an occasional doubter throws into question the willingness of this city to centralize its giving into one fund gathered at one time with representatives iOf the contributors both conducting the cam paign and becoming trustees for the equitable distribution of the amounts collected. ? Cleveland's direct testimony quoted above discloses the attitude of . a city which has had experience with a Community Chest In the Cleveland budget for 1919 was a total amount of 13,425,000.1 After the campaign It was found that the pledges and cash represented a total of a little more than f 4,000,000, in addition -to which $826,000 was transferred from the Cleveland war chest Cleveland's "debt to the needy" was more than paid. Nor was that more vital element, the human Interest of the well endowed in the welfare of those who had need of their help, in any -wise lost diminished. ; If Portland has but a part of Cleve land's experience this city's social duty will be equally met when the Community Chest campaign is con ducted here. A PRE-ELECTION PROPHECY What Seemed Likely to Happen In the Event of Harding's Success, as Viewed by a Champion of. Human Progress. From Better Firming. When this issue of Better Farmlnc reaches its readers, the great referendum of 1920 will have been registered. It Beems certain to impartial observers that Senator Harding will be known as president-elect after November 2. Then he will become our president on March ' 4. Every good American will wish him well and do all In his power to uphold the new president in every effort to regain the prestige of America which has been lost during the last year of ignoble squabble among her low-browed politi cians. "America first!" ; That has been the cry too often heard in the .throat of spurious patriotism.' First in what? First In self-interest? First In ag grandizement of power and riches? First in self-will and insistence in using our power to drive a hard bargain with the prostrate world which owes us money, but needs part of our strength to re cover from "its own exhaustion? The better heart of America will an swer "No!" It will say, rather, "America first in faith in the ancient faith that a na tion, -like a man. gets most by giving; that a nation, like a man, saves its life by seeming to lose it in service. Amer ica will not be first by repudiating Its pledge to civilization, by undoing the sublime : deeds its own men did in France. , For this reason, good men and women of every party must dare to hope and persist, for a while at least, in hoping, that the better . elements in the Repub lican party were better readers of the mind of the new president (if it is to be Harding), better readers than these baser elements who have claimed that he has turned Ms back' to the light, turned his back to logic, the logic of experience, the logic of history. We must believe that men like Root and1 Taft and Hughes and Hoover will weigh more in the new administration than men like Johnson, Borah and Lodge. The former represent the party's soul. its heart, its conscience. A party with out a soul, without a heart, without a conscience, may win an election once ; it will not win twice; it will never win again. If our hope in Harding fails, it will be but four r-hort years when there will be a new alignment. There will stUl be two major parties, but whatever their names, there will be a deeper, more severe and perpendicular division, not of views, but of convictions; convictions that will cleave the nethermost roots of our being. On one side will stand Cow ardice and Opportunism and False Pru dence and National Egotism. On the other side will" stand Courage and Clear Sight and Sacrifice and Service and the Spirits of Jamestown and Ply mouth Rock. ' . ... Here is a prophecy: Not for fulfil ment in 1924, but in 1921, IX not in 1920. It assumes that the better elements of the Republican party are still regnant in the party councils; that they really desire, as . they profess, that America help reorganize the world, for the in surance of progress and peace. They must know that for President Harding it will be a task all but impossible, since, at his first attempt to fulfill our hopes, that pack of determined irrecon- cllables would be on his back-like rav ening wolves. They are not all Repub licans. There will be Democrats like Reed and Tom Watson, and Ishmaelites like La Follette, to . abet them. What can Harding do as ringmaster with such a menagerie uncaged? Root and Taft and Hughes and similar loyal friends of the covenant will begin to ask that question soon. They will wish to spare their party -and their country and the aching world another long siege and a stalemate which might wreck Hope itself. These men are patriots and Christiana. They wUl begin soon to think- of what has happened. They will remember how near the treaty was, once, to ratifica tion. It was when- the so-called Taft reservaUons were proposed , as a com promise. The Democrats accepted them. The liberal Republicans gave them en thusiasUc approval. Even the BUff- necked Lodge seemed to have yielded grudging consent until the bandit band raised their runs and cried, "Haiti" My prophecy Is that a compromise like this will again be offered before March 4. After that day it will be too late. It wiU be accepted. Harding wiU have won the election. Wilson will have won the league. America again will have won- first place in the glad heart of humanity. Letters From the People t Communications sent to The Jonrnal (or nublication in thii department should b written an only one side of tb paper; should not exoaed 800 word in length, and molt be sisned by tha writer, whose mail addresa in full must accom pany the contnDuuon. j SINGLE TAX DEFEAT Umatilla, Or.. Nov. 6. To the Editor of The Journal. The election is over. The people have spoken. We still count ballots instead of bullets, for which we re truly thankful. I believe the elec tion was the unqualified expression of the wishes of the people. One measure. with the rest, met defeat, which was an evidence of the distrust of the people in their own initiative in legislation. But that, too, wUl change and a reaction will soon follow this election. The people will not remain continually in ignorance of their own interests. When the tariff mounts up and up, making millionaire manufacturers and high priced goods to the consumer, and when a man builds fine house paying a high tax for doing so and enriching his slacker neighbor, who toils not. but holds a vacant lot waiting : for someone to build a fine house next door and increase the value of his lot getUng rich at his neighbor's expense, as under our system ; when the present 90 per cent of tenants in creases to 100 per cent, and the ever crowding cities. Increasing ' at the rate of 6ft per cent in 10 years, are all filled with people clamoring for one another's Jobs, and we are a nation oi landlord and servants, then the high school chil dren, who are now studying the present gambling system, comparing it with the single tax economic system which ob tains in New Zealand, will become suf ficienUy imbued with their own natural rights and opportunities to vote for the greatest remedy ever prepared for the progress of .Oregon. C - Mock. THEIR OWN MEDICINE PorUand. Nov. 8. To the Editor, of The Journal Since the election and the great landslide to the Republican party. I note an editorial In the Evening Tele gram of November S, suggesting that President Wilson accept the Lodge amendments or their' equivalent during the next session of congress, and ad vising all ' senators who opposed the Lodge amendments to do the same, and at once enter the League of Nations. This absolutely proves one thing, ' that there are many Republicans that favor a League of Nations but who are too party-prejudiced to vote for a man who favored the same, knowing that the main issue between the parties was league or no league. The statements of the candidates made this Issue plain. Mr. Harding stating that he was op posed to the league in any form, and since his election he has said the league is dead. Knowing . this to be a fact, the Republicans now realize they have spilled the milk and the only honorable way they can now enter the league is through President Wilson. As Mr. Harding strictly opposed the league in any form, and the poisoned minds of the voters approved his stand, the only thing President Wilson can now do in order to obey the mandate of the Amer ican people is to oppose the . league in any form and advise his followers to do the same and to cast their vote with Johnson, .Borah and others. I This Is what the people voted for. This is what they should have. H. F. Bailey. i URGING A HELPFUL SPIRIT Portland. Nov. 9. To the Editor of The Journal It is manifest that the great majority of the electorate are not In harmony with the president's policy as regards foreign relational While the party will be alow to give up Its position : in general, yet it has now! come to a decision on this question and all it can do Is to try to help in the solution of it, if it can, rather than attempt any policy of obstruction, as has been some times attempted in the history of Amer ican politics. It is manifest that some policy or -measure of International co operation will have to be proposed or worked out that will at the same time safeguard the independent; or rather local, position of the country and per haps the continent (western) included, as regards, or as it may j be affected by, the Monroe doctrine. Whom have we that can suggest something or put a practical plan in operation or at least in sight? I believe that, after all, the Democratic party has statesmen suf ficient for the task. The old South, especially, has had able statesmen in the past, and I believe there are some there yet if they could only be found or brought to . light Our j trouble has been the hampering conditions which have surrounded the South, including the disgusting race question, from slavery days. If anyone has a suggestion of any kind, let him speak forth. I Ell Anderson. VON BERNSTORFF? i Vancouver, Wash., Nov.! 6. To the EMI tor of The Journal Last Tuesday the people of the United States stated emphatically that they would not be party to a League of Nations. Now we hear that the German government is ready to send our erstwhile friend Von Bernstorff to Washington in ordrr to negotiate a Hun-Harding league. When- our people turned down the Smuts-Wilson pact it would indeed be poor sense on their part to accept a proposition framed by a Hun and an American who owes his election, In great part, to pro-German votes. A Progressive. Olden Oregon Measles Epidemic of 1847-8 Specially Disastrous to Indians. : In the winter of 1847-48 there was an epidemic; of measles. It was of a malig nant type and the Indians i suffered se verely owing to their method of treat ment. Many tried to allay their fover by plunging into cold water or, after; coming out of their sweat houses, bath ing in therlver. The remedy was more fatal than the disease. , Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places : The mysteries of rain are not yet cleared away. The forces of electricity, of magnetism, of radio activity, of ultra violet light and all the other agencies which may collaborate to the' production of a downpour of rain are very obscure. Wind and rain come together, and the changes of temperatures make what we call weather. . In the South Sea islands the natives have no word which means weather, as the atmosphere conditions change so little. . Uncle Jeff Snow Says : Some people a while back thought tjhe country was plum bound to destruction 'less Sammy TUden was president of the U. S. A., and after while it sorter soaked in that tt was a purty big, prosperous and glorious country even if he wasn't. and corn plan tin' went on jest the same. J Then when Cleveland went in there was lots of people mourned fer Blaine slf he was the only man that could possibly lead the country. Some folks kinder had a idee the country couldn't run a year 'thout Taft. and yet it done that very thing. And there ain't no tramps, and price and wages is good 'thout Jedge Hughes and so it'll go. I READY FOR HEAP BIG-FIGHT! ' Copyright. 1920, by the Pre Pa i.Uhlng Co, (The Xew Yorlt Etyning World) COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Who let in that earthquake "Clothing reduced 10 to 15 per cent" Materials, or prices? ,-' Cooking "gas to advance 46 cents a thousand feet 1 Someone is always tak ing the joy out of life. . If some of the churches would "let a little sunshine in" maybe they'd attract more Sunday morning motorists. Some folks work harder to revive traces of a lost civilization than they do to build one for themselves. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town i A. H. McDonald of Eugene, who has "built the most beautiful moving picture house outside, of Portland," arrived at the Imperial hotel for an indefinite stay, Tuesday afternoon. He Is here to pur chase some first run films for his house in Eugene. v-:--r. . iv Touring the Pacific Northwest, Mrs. W. R. Kennich of Clark Mills, N. Y' and Mrs. J. G. Hilliam of Bradford, Eng land, are guests at the Multnomah hotel. Lieutenant Commander W. "J. Hine, U. S. K.. senior member of the board of survey, appraisal and sale of the Thirteenth naval district, registered Tuesday at the Multnomah hotel. With OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Here, introduced by Mr. Ixckley, i s man who is known, personally or through his work, as well as any other citizen of Portland. Ita is a very busy nan, always aiming to please, yet making no fuss about It, and always suc ceeding in this most Unliable endeavor. LedU) and gentlemen, meet Billy Pangle.) His friends, of whom he has a legion, call him "Billy" Pangle, but his mother had him christened William Thrift Pan gle. He was born October 28. 1869, at Lima, Ohio. You can set a duck egg under a'hen, but as soon as the duckling can waddle it will make for the first pool of water. Billy Pangle took to the show game as a duck takes to water. "My father owned a truck and dray business and had the contract to haul the scenery of all the traveling shows to the opersr house," said Billy Pangle, as we sat in his office at the Heilig. "From the time I could toddle, the smelly, mysterious semi-darkness of the stage was a . land of romance and charm to me. I organized an orches tra before I was 4 years old. my musi cal instruments being Baltimore oyster cans, square and of one quart capacity. I gathered them from neighbors' back yards, and used kindling for drumsticks. When I was 4 years old I was given a -real drum, which was the joy of my life and the despair, of my relatives and helghobrs. "My father went to the Centennial exposition, at Philadelphia, in 1876, and upon his return horrified my mother and our friends by telling them about seeing women who acted In public In tights. He had taken in Keralfy's 'Black , Crook, which in those days played d crowded houses. At that time women in tights always aroused a storm nt nrntest from press and sulpit Today if they appeared " in tights the only Btorm aroused would be to nave iaera leave the tights off. When Lydla Thompson's "Busy Blonds' toured the country shortly afterwards in a musi cal show they were barred from many theatres because of their tights. "In 1877 De Wolfe Hopper came to our town, starring in a drama entitled 'A Hundred Wives.' the Bcene being laid irf palt Lake City. I appeared in his show, my first time behind the foot lights. I was a 'regular actor,' and it wm th nroudest day of my life. I was drummer boy for a squad of soldiersj who appeared in one act. i snan never forget the glare of the kerosene lamps in the footlights and how I swelled out my chest and walked proudly across the stage, i .That winter a crowd of schoolboys put on a series of shows In the city hall. I was picked as one of the actors. We gave 'Torn? Sawyer,' Huckleberry Finn and other kid plays. The next summer we organized a real circus, which traveled under the modest title of the "Great Golden Circus. W. W. Cole's circus had come to our town and exhibited, as a great curiosity, an electric light- They carried the dynamo with them. It looked like a fire engine and sounded like a wood saw. We emu lated Cole's- example and also exhibited a "genuine electric light. Ours was composed of a Bullseye lantern with a boy outside to imitate the motor. ..;. ..- ! . - i "I think I got my first desire to be a cornet,soloist from being In the audience at a local show and hearing a cornet solo. I shUI never forget tha laugh that went up over that solo. The most NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS The decision of the civic center com mission . to purchase several tracts as soon as possible will be welcomed by the people jyho are eagerly awaiting the day when, Sfctorla will be provided with an auditorium and public playgrounds. Astoria Budget. . What have you done with those big wages you have been receiving the past four years? Are you prepared for a turn to stable conditions, or are you to find yourself short on ! resources? These questions are suggestive and come home to almost everyone. Baker Democrat him is Percy E. Wright, sales manager of the board. 'They are here to call on those to whom tha navy has made sales and to "scout new prospects." Lieutenant Commander HJna will ad dress the Chamber of Commerce while in the city, telling of the navy's work in disposing of surplus material and Ships. Some registrants at the Imperial hqtel Tuesday included the following: George E. Davis of Vale, where he is circuit judge; F. ,C. Oxman of Baker, a high way contractor ; K. P. Leinenweber, at tached to the county clerk's office at Astoria ; Robert C. Lee of Haynes, a cattleman and rancher. Lockley skillful cornet player In town was scrawny little runt who had no stage presence whatever. The man who came out to play the solo was a big six-footer, as handsome as a Greek god. In the midst of his solo the scenery hannened to be shifted, and the audience discov ered that the scrawny little chap was hidden back of the scenery and was playing the solo, while the handsome chap was only going- through the mo- lions, j . . "I never missed a show or a circus. I watered the elephant, distributed hand bills, ran errands and hung around till I obtained a pass. Later I landed a job as program boy, and still later as usher; .so I saw all the shows that came to town. Frank Griffin, now In the orchestra ar the Benson hotel, was a fellow-townsman of mine. He was in those days known as The Boy Wonder.' He played the violin. He hailed from Ada, Ohio. When I was 13 lie was leader of the orchestra and gave me my first job in the orchestra. I "played the drums. Frank taught me to play the xylophone, which at! that time was a great novelty. When Lawrence Bar- rett, of Booth and Barrett, came to Lima, I played my first solo on the xylophone. Being ' a local boy I was applauded so vigorously that I had to respond with an encore. I hoped the audience would like Barrett's work as much as mine, for I was afraid he would be jealous if he did npt receive as much applause as I did. F " ' ' "When I "was 16 I was offered the--at that time princely salary of 118 a week, with board and traveling expenses. to go out on the road with the Rogers Koyai joun uomeajr ,. company, i I played the drums and gave a xylophone solo at each performance. W played a week in each town and each noon we gave a parade. At 16 X was about as fat as a toothpick. I must have looked odd. with my long Prince Albert coat end my tall and shiny plug hat. We put In the summer touring Ohio. Michi gan,. Wisconsin and i Western Indiana. On my way home at the end of the sea son I stopped at Chicago, where I was offered al placet with McNish, Arno & Ramxa's minstrels, but 1 wanted to go home, so I turned it down. . "Just about then Findley. Ohio, bed discovered natural gas. To attract at tention to the .place as a .good manu facturing site the town organised a municipal band of 44 pieces. I landed a job with them at 20 a week, and we toured the state. The famous Karg well had just come la. Ton could hear Its roar three miles. The flame could not come within 15 feet of the exit of the pipe, on account of the terrific pressure of gas. The charge for gas was $1.25 a month for eight illuminating jets and two stoves. You could burn them 14 hours a day If you cared to do so. . "My sister Myra had -married Jerome Campbell! They lived in Portland, -Or. My mother took sick and the children were sent for. Myra came and was there when mother died.- I had two of fers to go on the road, but when my sister and her husband Invited me to come with them to Portland the lure of the West laid hold of me and I ac cepted their invitation. I arrived in Portland November 6, 1888." . The Oregon Country' Northwest Eappantnn la Brief Fan tot th !. Busy Bedi. f OREGON NOTES -' , .'f The navlnr loh iwhnM nriMmiii nd Rickreall w& week. , , Ted Cameron, a n.MiuM under arrest at Dallas, charged with Passing forged checks. Registration at Willamette university this week passed the 450 mark set for wiw enure year OI 1S30. At the district anad mtln In vertan a 10-mlll tax was , voted for needed road improvements. As finallv niilliil hT l)i t.l equalisation, the total assessed value of Baker county is $20,876,425. The steamer Steelmaker of the Isth mian line is loading 600 tons of freight at Astoria for shipment to the Atlan- With a material drop In lumber and -: a keen demand for new homes. Hood Klver Is fvnwtii. o K.iiiAin, this winter. " " Frank Cunnington shot himself at Baker with suicidal Intent He said he was drunk at the time and disgusted with his automobile, ; A roundup program was given at the Pialnvlew schoolhouse near Bend this week to secure money for the build ing of a community hall. Considerable' snow has fallen In the mountains above Ashland the past few . days, and many ponds in the parks have been frozen over. ; The taxpayers of Clatsdp county, ' outside the incorporated towns, have ' adopted their budget for next year and eet aside 2O5.00 for road work. Henry Schndler Kdwln Smith, an undesirable Unglish alien, was placed aboard a train t Pendleton and will be sent to Kills Island for deportation. Constables to serve the next two years in two Linn county Justice dis tricts will be selected by lot This con dition results from tie votes cast In the election. : With the closing of the prune pool November 1, after being opened two weeks, the Oregon Growers Cooperative association announces a total member- -ship of 1554. Loganberries are becoming one of ther big erops of the Willamette valley. The total sales of the Oregon Growers' Co operative association the past season amounted to 127.230.09. . WASHINGTON The state treasurer reports a cash bal nce on hand in the general fund of 5.657,578. A newlv finished sawmill, owned by 1 the Olson Brothers, has started opera- tions at Oakville. A Kittitas Valley apple show has been arranged and will be held at Ellensburg November 15 and 16. The Sedro-Woollev and Burllnrton schools have jointly acquired the serv ices of a school nurse. ( The bdy of George Waterhouse, a (soldier of the world waiylias arrived at Centralia from Franca Lawrence Hutchinson is dead at Yaki ma from injuries received in an automo bile accident atSunnyslde. Frank Beebe. one of the best known of the old pioneers, passed away at his home in Kelso this week, aged SI years. ' . It is stated that 837,000,000 of Seattle money has been expended in public Im provements to develop the commerce of the port , ; Holsteln breeders of Cowlits county met this week at Kelso and organized the Cowlitz County Holsteln-Fresian as sociation. , The Spokane County .Farm bureau has named the week of November. 15 for a membership campaign to increase the roll to 2000. Fire In the apple packing plant at Four Lakes completely destroyed the building with 2000 boxes of fancy apples and .8000 gallons of cider. I Colville now has direct highway con nection with Grand Forks. B. .., by romnletlon of n ferry across the CO-, lumbia at Kettle Falls. . Struck by a giant '"timber when it fell bff a. railway car on which he was working. George Beetle was latauv crushed at Cedar Valley. ' i .T. C. Johnson, aged S9, a farmer re siding at Kdmonds. was fatally Injured when he was run over by en automobile driven by John Woodeman. . ! IDAHO Blackfoot was visited by another heavy rr.owffill this week, ftve inches being i recorded. In the vicinity of Moscow continued bard freeaing at night Is interfering with fall seeding, much of which re mains to be done. Idaho' will soon start in on a. road building program, the bond issue of 82,000,000 for good roads having carried at the recent election. The budget of the state technical Insti tute at Pocatello calls for ' a $260,000 fireproof building, a $60,000 central heat ing plant and a $25,000 shop building. Word is received at: Boise that the Chicago Northwestern Railroad com pany is putting Into effect a rar parka ge service direct from Chicago to Boise. With an average production of 28.90 pounds of butterfat. Twin Falls County Cow Testing association ranks first In the state, with Canyon county second. The Idaho Wheat Growers' association has completed arrangements with the federal reserve bank, for a loan of $1 per bushel on wheat shipped for storage at Ogden. The Parma fruit packing house has closed Its doors for the season. One hundred persons were employed and thousands of boxes, of apples were shipped to London ' and , other foreign cities. Business of Budget Pruning Makes the Pruner's Lot . , Not a Happy One.; The city expects to realise for gen eral fund purposes in 1921 Jhe sum of $J,775,220. The .budget estimates which are now being subjected to the pruning knife at the city hall aggre gate the sum of $4,076,408. . Somewhere from the thousands of Items involved must be taken the tidy sum of $301,188. With every bureau . and department . convinced that its expenses cannot possibly be met unless it has appropriated to it the full amount of. Us estimates, the task of budget making, in which the mayor and city commissioners are now involved can be faintly under stood. ' - - - Those who are interested in such things will gain information from the following table of estimated expense for 1921 which the city officials are operating upon : Personal , ' Operating Berrn-e Maintenanf. 10. (ISO 00 $ 1.89R.0O Mayor's offir $ Police bur. . Police court. nty atty Movie censors Kafety com . . Com. public ntiliUM . . Motor boa ins Wta, 4s mas. Street light. Women's deb hem . . . Health bnreaa. Uontm. pubUo affair ... Pub. market. St. elaaning. Oarbag diap. Mun. shop . , Vif bureau. Km p. bureau, (torn, finance Mua. ret lib. City ball bu. License bm . PurchaiM btt, Man. stores. , Man garage. Vity treasurer Park bureau , Public works. Auditing . . (71 servic , City plsn com SiL aoproprta 1,SU.HI) 9.87S.5II 1.200.00" 1,972.50 7S.7uft.00 eeo.iA a.ooo.oo 240 00 B2&.0U . 600.00 l.ROO.OO - 4,020.00 - e a.490.80 ' s.svo.oo 6.820 00 8.730 5 23T.1 69.00 i S2.727.60 sii.Vs's'.oo B.S12.S0 e.Bsu.oo 2o.VoY.io . 4.S20.O0 ! 101,40.00 : . A.T0O.0O 4.407 00 : 27,810.00 i 82s.5T4.40 i 4.12,31 IMS : 6. 820.0O 6.000.00 1 6,480.00 400.00 ' r ISO. Oil 1.700.00 240,000.00 18.1 16.00 41.22S.00 - i 70.00 6.400.OO 7S.01I.00 4.210.00 ,s7.00 1IO.1T11.UO 4,60.00 i 125.00 125.00 . 12.841.00 S.OSO.OO S.niO.OO a. sit. oo 2,460.00 T.S20.00 IST.TMO.OO 100.A2S.60 S.240.OU 1,000. OO 1.120.00 14I.Sej.02 Total .6S.053.4S1.50 $1,022.97T.T