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10 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920. ' if" A!4 Bf DEPEN DK! T NEWSPAPER C. . JA0K8OX ., i .PuMUIiT " B calm, be confident, be cheerful ind do unto ctners you woulJ naie uiera aa ' ' I ohlihl wy week day and Sunday morning. . ,i . . .1 i..it i! u .ilm. anil . Ysm l 1 e j m rri i n u uuuis , nFvsu- - mu street, ronwu, uiriuu Untersd it th postoffiee at Portlsnd, Otmi. for transmission through tbs mail .as eecoavi v elaae matter". - - . TELEPHONES Main T1T1. Automatic 0."- AU departments reached by tb numbers. j ATIONAL ADVEHTIHINli KEI'B,I'I?J . TIVE Benjamin A Kentncf Co.. H" Itnildifif . 22 -Fifth reniw.iNcw lork. Wallers Building, fhlcega " I PAC'lriO COAST KKPKKBEXTATTVE W-H. lUtinrr Co., Examiner Building, " reo rieo; Tit), Insurance Building, Los. Angeles. .Tost-Intelligencer KnlMUic. acame.- TlE OREOOM JOUBNAL reserves the right to reject advertising copy which 1dmJ jectlonable. 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Make all remittances payable to The Journal, Portland, Oregon. i judge ourselvet by what w feel capable of doing: while other judge us by what we hare already done. Longfellow. TODAY D0 WE hold Armistice day seri ously? How much of the patriotism of the day Is lip patriotism? Who are those who get the full meaning of the day, and how many watch the ceremonials of observance perfunctorily as part, of the passing show ? , r , It Is a day of triumph and thanks Rivin'g.. Yet it, is a day of tremendous recollection. We sorrow at the pass ing of a single citizen. But what of the passing of a hundred thousand young citizens,' the best blood and best physical life of the nation? v We overthrew autocracy; We put $2000,000.000 and mai.y priceless lives into the effort. For 19 awful months we threw, our lives and our united energies Jnto '.ue struggle to win. But is autocracy to remain pros .trate? - Was the irrepressible struggle Of the ages ended when the kaisers fled and the gray lines of troops laid down their arms? t They aiso laidclown their arms to Napoleor. But they took them up again. Napoleon's peace was always based on the military decision and never accompanied with the construc tive ideals of a new and d-ifferent or der. , ' Is our daily citizensiiip ail that our dead over there thought it to be? Did they give all- tl.ey had to give merely to make Amer'ca sa-fe for the politician and the profiteers and the buzzards, of society? Did they give up ay they held dear, even 'life itself, jn the thought that many they were " dying for might go c.n in insincerity. dealing with their fellow men on the formula if the beak and talons and the bloody maw? I There is constant agreement by those who camd back that the brave lads who died went down with a . smile on their ;:ps. When volunteers vere called for to undertake particu larly hazardous missions, whole, com panies with faces aglow with enthusi asm offered themselves en masse.. It was the smile of faith- in a cause. It was the spirit of thought that the mission was an enterprise in a great service that made that sublime mor ale. None knows better than those ' who bent down to hear ; the last whispered message what " were the actualities and the aspirations of those who Tell, and hese are all re , hearsals of heroic and satisfying sac rifice in a precious cause. 'We owe a debt of honor and sin ferity in our . citizenship to ' those boys. We ought to mak.e Armistice day more tban a mere day of victory. . We ought to make it a day of renewed purpose to improve our .citizenship, . cleanse ur civic iife. purify our in- elitutions and ennoble our country. It is the way to make Armistice ' day a worth while Armistice day. ' Portland haft local civil war. It is the war of the criminals on or gan ised society. The most . drastic measures that the authorities .can apply are not . too much 'to throw into the conflict. , RILEY SHOULD GO EAST Wrril all respect to the Pacific - Northwest vourist association. Its arrangement with Frank Branch Riley should have placed him ere this tin the East and Middle West there to deliver the message of the Nbrth- west's scenic, Industrial and agricul tural resourcies. ; It appear (that Mr: Riley even at this late day; when his lecture tour should have j been booked and well under way, has not been obligated to serve the association. . Therassocia tion, moreover, has failed -to provide out of the appropriations by Oregon. Washington and British. Columbia enough to finance this winter's tour. If he Is to go at all the money must be subscribed out of poskttbooks whose owners recognize the surpassing- value of Mr? Riley's work as an attracter of travel of .the most de sirable kind i 'o. the KortLwest. Explaining- '-he overflowing insane arylum of modern timec a Paris authority Bays it 1b due to the preva lence of degeneracy, the ultimate product ol ancestral alchohollsm. It Is a doctor's; way of asserting . that the saloon and drunken fathers must take the blame. Prohibition, after ill, is tlhe best friend of those who hate it worst. TURN ON THE LIGHT THE charges by. the Walsh com mittee relative to certain alleged operations of -ubordinate officials of the shipping board are serious.. Enorxnous profits alleged to have been made by sale of materials by persons who,, as former officials of the board, purchased those materials, are among the specifications,. Waste ful sales of materials and equipment at scandalously low prices and alle gations of graft are contained In the accusations. There is enbjigh in the charges to warrant a full and starching investi gation. Unlike many of the former "smelling committee" reports this one is not made: In the campaign for political purposes, because the elec tion is over. ' . Unlike .tlte waste and extravagance complained of during the war these transactions were all in time of peace when there' was no particular need of haste In disposing of materials, other than the desire to get rid of the overhead i which shipping board officials plead in explanation. , While young men were fighting at the front the' waste of haste was natural and excusable. War is itself waste and nothing but waste. It is the drear waste of war that has brought innumerable Ills into the world. If allegations? set forth; in the report are true, the American people are en titled to know the facts. If they are not true, the men charged with ii regularities are entitled to vindica tion, that vindication which can be secured only by turning on the light. The state of Washington voted an $11,000,000 bonus to her ex-service men on a basts of $15 per month for the full period of service. The state of New Yorlt voted to bond itself for the samtj' purpose for $46,000, 000, the bonus to go to the men who served three 1 months and more at $10 a month for the service period, the total surhj to each not to exceed $250. Nortn Dakotu, with a bonus of $25 per month for the time served, was the first tate and is still the most generous state in rewarding veterans of the world conflict. A STATE CLEARING HOUSE PltOVIDIMi the Oregon State Cham ber of Commerce can keep its clearing house committee for state wide civic isaaes free, of the animad versions, prejudices and imbroglios of politics, ! undoubted good can result to Oregon from the functioning of such a hoard as was proposed at the Tuesday; morning conference in Port land. We have long known it at home it is, after all,j not surprising that the fact is known at Washington that many of the! costly telegrams sent from here to i Washington urging en actment of this or that measure rep resent no real conviction, investiga tion or clear thinking. On the con trary, the propagandist or special pleader only too frequently has res olutions adoi tied as a perfunctory ac commOdatiorijtG his wishes by some organization' which with the same readiness pays the telegraph tolls out of its general) fund. The clearing house committee sug gested on -Tuesday will clear the ap peals and repori for further consider ation and action on essential issues a? contrasted with small and non essential matters. I', will identify projects of joiate-widc importance which need i legislative enactment either from congress or the state leg islature.! It may also clear the air of much misunderstanding, duplica tion and waste of effort. One result, iul least, would be un derstanding as to which of Oregon's senators! or congressmen should be. because j of his committee appoint ments, the proper recipient of a given appeal or statement. The best intelligence of the present generation is concentrated on . cen tralized organization. The multiplied civic and business organizations , of Portland found a clearing house of civio duty necessary and valuable. Why shouldn't the plan, broadened to include the state, prove equally ef fective if its purposes are kept high? In a telegram to the New York L World, 1 Senator-elect Stanfield of Oregon , said, after his-'" election : interpret the election to mean that the people o the United States re pudiate the league as proposed by President Wilson. My own state re pudiated the league by overwhelm ing majority. T What about the thou sands Ot Republicans, who voted for Harding on the Taft-Root promise that : he was the only means by which American entrance Into the league could be assured? It is highly probable that' more than halt of Mr. Stan fie Id's support came from Republicans ' who want this coun try tor Join the present league,, some with, some unconcerned about, res ervations. BURGLARS AND THE POLICE THE oldest detective and the young est, patrolman know equally well that Portland has an annual "crime wave." Its coming is nearly synchro nous with the arrival of Indian sum mer. At about the time the wild geese fly overhead winging their way to the south other "birds" of ill omen also take their sneaking course south ward following the route of the rail way. . . The chief of Police and all his meif know that these prowlers arc to be prepared for. They know that itiner ant yeggs and vicious minded hoboes deliberately intend to live on the country, to steal whatever tl.ey can carry away and to transform other than articles of food and clothing into cash through the ! medium of "fences." The guardians of public safety find every year a most difficult problem, and it if a problem for which they should always make careful prepara tion. If advanced preparations wero thus- made ihe depredations would be fewer. V The "crime wave" is inothingAbe yond th power of a well prepared police bureau to handle It should not be necessary -notheryear for the mayor to intervene uid 'for citizens' committee: to furnish unusval co operation. Neifur . it peculiar to Portland. The same situation obtains in all other Pacific coast cities, and systemat.c cooperation between the police of these cities would'do much to send the burglars hunting less dan gerous preserves in which to do their poach inr. A French aviator recently broke the world's speed record by flying ai the rate of 192 miles per hour. Two weeks before another French flyer raised the record to 185 miles. To what lengths is man to go in iis conquest of the air? THE CRIME WAVE CONTEMPORANEOUS with tLe order of Mayor Baker for .action in guarding Portland against the crime wave, are the drastic steps pro posed on a sirr'lar account in Phila delphia. There, as high as 50 hold-ups have occurred in a single day. Auto ban dits and house burglars were never so active and never so homicidal when resistance is offered. The director of public safety in Philadelphia has asked for ,$1,500,000 in af proposal to inaugurate a most elaborate system of defense. High powered automobiles carrying police men armed with rifles are to be sta tioned at important street intersec tions for Immediate response to re ported activities by auto bandits. Side car motorcycles carry ng riflemen are to be added to the regular motor cycle force, and various other expedi ents are to he applied in dealing with the burglris and bandits, includ ing a heavy increase in the uniformed police. It is the seasonal period for tlie criminally Inclined. They, hold life and hold property more lightly be cause they recently beheld the world as a vast slaughter pen. One price mankind pays for rivers of blood and the untold agonies of war is the reaction on th. criminally inclined, whose hand is always raised against organized society, We have a more serious problem In dealing with our criminals than we have had in a generation. .We have a long train of all Sim s of iljs as a legacy and aftermath of international massacre. 'The best bred and most fashion able women" of London are ad miringly described by a society maiden as having graduated from cigarettes and taken to meer schaums, briers and dudeens." She says the "soothing pipe habit is grradually displacing the afternoon tea at the Thursday afternoon club." The advanced smolters, she says, "display their love for the beauti ful by using pipes, of artistic crea tions, with delicately fashioned and daintily curved sterns and bowls." She has it , bad. But she cannct claim that when they have become confirmed pipe users the breaths of those women will be as the per fume of the morning. THE RED CROSS WHEN world war sounded the long roll of its drum beat down the highways of human travel and among the dwellings of . men, there was one organization, at least, with adherents in every community as ready to combat the pestilential ills as America's young men were eager to fight for liberty. , ' The Red. Cross did not need to be called into service. It was in action before America declared war. '. Its nurses were laying the hand of com fort and healing upon the wounded and . the sick. Its physicians were giving new hope , of usefulness to broken bodies. -Its ships and trains were carrying food and clothing , to the distressed and destitute. Soldiers ' of - the world war those who returned came jack with a grateful.' almost reverent, admiration of the Red Cross. It had mobilized the kindness of the nation. It had softened the" harshness of war. Many a boy is at home again who would ave been left In France had it not been for the ministry of the Red Cross. . , r With the ending of the war the Red Cross came nome to help" the govern ment rehabilitate wounded soldiers, to continue Its aid of sold.ers' families, tp give instruction to the handicapped and to put its organization on a peace time basis ready for the next emer gency. ; .' . Consistent with its present service and plans, tile Red Cross comes to the people1 of Portland now seeking 50,000 member... The quota Is less than 20 per cent of : the city's popula tion. To wear the Red Cross badge is a decoration of "honor. Is there any one in Portland who, having worn the decoration, wishes it withdrawn? LIST OF CABINET POSSIBILITIES By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal Washington. Nov. 11.- It is a fair guess that Henry Cabot Lodge will have the acceptance or refusal of the secre taryship of state in the Harding cabinet. This will be the tribute of the Ohioan to the "master mind" from Massachusetts who engineered the way for rejection of the treaty of peace. It is the general be lief that Lodge will decline the honor, and will nrpfVr to remain aa the direct- i ing head of affairs in the senate, ancf'is not likely to be tempted to round out his career aa secretary of state. If' he were to accept, that would, not mean that the Lodge reservations would be part of his baggage. Lodge himself threw over the pet reservations when he appeared before the resolutions committee at the national convention, and it is known that he has no tender solicitude for the wreckage. If Lodge declines, as he probably will, another good guess is Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, who was sec retary of state once before and knows the ropes. The leadership of Knox was accepted in the peace resolution fight at the last session, he is a member of the foreign relations committee and . it is thought likely that Harding will want someone who knows that struggle inti mately. irora the political side Knox would be Acceptable to Hiram Johnson, he and Johnson being close personal friends. Knox ranks with thei irreconcilables, and at the same time has nice words about some sort of international agreement, or court, talking in the same vague and general way that Harding talks. Knox would also be a good connecting link with the senate, the senate considering htm merely on detached duty to help keep the administration in gear. Kiihu Root is aiso mentioned for sec retary of state, but the knowing ones leave him out, for apparent reasons. By his work last summer he is commit ted to a specific "plan for an interna tional court, and that under the existing League of Nations, the hated "Wilson league." The Root plan cannot well be disentangled from the present league, and it goes farther than Wilson dared go, because it includes the plan of com pulsory arbitration of all questions of legal dispute. These is also mention or former Sena tor Ueorge Sutherland of Utah for sec retary of state, and Sutherland is not an unlikely choice should Lodge and Knox both decline. Sutherland was not in the treaty fight as a participant, but he was listening at the door and has it all down. He is a confidant of the president-elect, is in full harmony with the dominant group in the senate, from which he retired only three years ago, and would be in some respects a strong choice if it should be decided to pick someone who was not identified with the treaty fight. It is freely predicted that if Sutherland does not appear as secretary of state he will be 'attorney general. Next in rank to the secretary of state, and certain at the present stage to be an important figure. Is the secretary of the treasury. Governor Frank O. Low den of .Illinois,- who will retire as gov ernor in January, is expected to be offered a cabinet place, and his friends believe it will be the treasury. He has been especially a champion of the budget system, which it is expected to apply soon to government finances, and this wonld Tit Lowden, who is also a man of large affairs. The political side would also be .favorable, since Lowden bad such & large following of the disappoint ed at Chicago. If Lowden goes to some other posi tion, such as secretary of commerce or the interior, former Senator John W. Weeks might have the call for secretary of the treasury. He has actual banking experience, and made a specialty in the campaign of advising .Harding on finan cial and tax questions, along with the navy, which is his hobby, he having served as a midshipman in the navy. George M. Reynolds, Chicago banker, is another who figures in the treasury gos sip sh6uld Lowden be eliminated. Weeks -is considered certain 'of the offer of a cabinet place, and it is gen erally thought it will be as secretary of the navy- Admiral William S. Sims is also in the gossip for the navy, but the traditions of the department are against an admiral. Weens seems .cut for the job, as everyone believes that Harding will want Weeks close at hand while he is in the White House. The war department does not figure largely in cabinet talk as yet. General Leonard Wood is mentioned. - largely from the political' standpoint of the strength he displayed at Chicago. But it would be an unusual thing to place the war department in charge of a pro fessional soldier, and Harding has de clared against' universal training. " which Wood favors. Charles B. Warren of Michigan is a more likely choice. Beyond tills point the forecasting of the cabinet takes on increasing diffi culty. Some think Herbert Hoover will be invited, either as secretary of the interior or of commerce, while others are of the opinion that Hoover will be passed over, because of Hiram Johnson's dislike for him, if for no other reason, and that Hoover would not go into the cabinet anyway. If Sutherland of Utah enters the Harding official family, as it is general ly believed he will, not more than one other place could be expected to go to me iar west. Hoover is from California, and if he consented to go-in. other ap pointments from that section would be unlikely. Those who know Hoover i best think he will not be in the cabinet, and they look for the interior department to go!; to the West, Senator McNary being one or those mentioned in that connec tion. It is assumed, that McXary would be pleasing to Johnsonites and to the progressives generally, though doubt is expressed about his acceptance. German Comment on the Election From the New York World. Press comment in Germany on the result of the American elections bears a remarkable resemblance to the utter ances of our own Republican newspapers before and since the event. Everywhere there is hatred of President Wilson. It is the defeat of "Wilsonism" that is celebrated. ' "WTe have got rid of Wilson," says the Lokal-Anzeiger. "It is the complete dis avowal of Wilson," says the Vossische V iiS9? i wii mil. m WMms mMMmWsJi Wi iiiiiiii!! &r i JKk- vm&mWJfM Zeltung. "We shake hands in spirit with President-elect Harding," says the Tase- blatt. "We are pleased with a United States president who is against the League of Nations, an anti-German in strument," says the Kreurzeitung. Ger mania and the Boersen Courier upbraid Cox for his hostility to Germans, and Count von; Bernstorff rejoices because Senator Harding "adopts what was largely the attitude of the recent Ger man pacifists' congress at Brunswick, which wished to place a reformed league in place of that proposed at Versailles." Considering the fact that we are still technically at war with the nation whose spokesmen are thus free in expressing their sentiments as to our domestic af fairs, the question naturally arises : Has Germany gone Republican, or has the United States repented of the recent un pleasantness and. gone German? Letters From the -People i ACCOUNTING FOR IT Portland, Nov. 8. Jo the Editor of The Journal- Now that .ve ueiuded Democrats have managed to wiggle to the sufface afteiVeing snowed under by an avalanche of mud and cinders, we are wondering how it all happened. There are plenty of wise ones, who are over-anxious to tell us "I told you so." There is one thing all people can aeree upon as to why it happened. This is, that the people desired a change. If there is method in that thought, is it possible the -people desire war instead of. peace, hard times for good, booze instead of temperance, and many other things that are not for -the best Interest of human ity? People surely wanted a change, but the best interest of humanity was nqt taken into consideration. Kach nation ality wanted, to put a crimp into its brother of a different race. The "melt ing pot" ran over on election day, with the voting for individual interests. The German wanted the defeat of the Demo-J cratlc party, tnat tiermany mignt es cape her war obligations; the Irish, be cause Woodrow Wilson refused to under take the Irish question ; narrow minded Americans, because the party stands for the "League of Nations, and this type of American does not care to assume any obligations in maintaining world peace and they believe the league was made ffor the sole benefit of the capitalists. Never having read it, they do not know anything about it. ' Mr. Bryan was sore because he could not get the convention to adopt his bone dry plank, so he did his share to defeat Cox by conveying the impression among the women that there would be a saloon on every, corner if Cox was elected. ' Democracy will carry on. When the League of Nations covenant goes into effect, with or without our cooperation as a nation, then Democracy will win again, and by. that time the women might learn the political game, Germany will be square with the world, X"d the Irish settled down. Many things will happen, and then we Shall come into power again and carry on for the ake of humanity and a downtrodden world. ! Otto D. Drain. NO FARM LOANS AT PRESENT Hillsboro, Nov. 5. To the Editor of The Journal Can a farmer at the pres ent time .obtain a farm loan? If so, to whom should he apply? Farmer. Operations under the federal farm loan set hiT bern impended pending decision of a .case now before the United States rupreina court te test the constitutionality of the act in repect of th provision exempting farm loan bond from taxation. By "farm loan bonds" is meant bonds sold to provide the funds that (ball be lent to rarmen. The object of those who nire eroucm the suit is to make- the act ineffectual and throw the business back into the hands of the mortcsee bankers and other professional tenders ot money '4 tush interest rates. 1 - CONFLICTING EMOTIONS IN RURAL i . KANSAS Prom the Hnncn Headiicht-Commercial A man who Uvea in the country is un happy. He has the hay fever badly and he ! has a kt of corn. Physically ie longs for an early frost and financially he hopes there will be no frost for a couple of months. WHAT THEY FOUGHT COMMENT AND " SMALL CHANGE Genius is too often only as deep as the figures on its pay. check. i Since war-time enthusiasm has waned the drive has become a pull. 1 -,.. No-, doubt it will be -arranged to have New Year's fall on the usual date. If China! ever gets America's "baby doll" craze maybe they won't drown 'em, One " oy about being "grown up" is that we can do as we please about tak ing castor joil. I . If Portland were San" Francisco, the recent earthquake would lead to censure of the fire prevention bureau. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN . By Fred tHere, again, is the man . who has come up through ert tribulations for which he didn't care a hoot-j hence hii conync up. In sue ceeding installments Mr. lK-kley will further follow the career of this subject. 1 They teli me that on' a signboard in Eastern Oregon some enthusiastic com munity booster has painted a sign direct ing travelers to his infinitesimal dot on the mab, and under the arrow which points the way he has drawn a crude sketch of n coyote lying down and a jackrabbit running at full speed. Under the drawing are these words:, "Our motto is, ton"t set down and sit, but get up and git" Fred W. Vogler must have takefy that motto for hj own. Do you remember the speedy racing boat. The Vogler Boy, that used to show her Iteels to everything on the Columbia br Willamette river?- Her successor. Vogler II, also used to "get up and git," while his present racing boat, Vogler III, is the. Pacific coast rhafnnion Fred Vogler had to "get up and git" to be able boats. He way, with Last year past three take-in of a year on he was a to build - cup taking racing started life; in a financial a little less ' than nothing. lie sold 1700 cars. For the years he has averaged a a little more titan $2,000,000 (ales of automobiles. When boy he was as poor as a church mouse. He -was born in .Ontario, August 17, 1862. - His father was born on an Indian reservation. . "You see, my folks are all Moravians. When the Delaware Indians were treach erously assa iled, a number of them mas sacred and the remnant driven out of Ohio, they fled to Canada," he said. "My grandfather, who was a Moravian mis sionary to (the Delaware Indians, went with them. Iy grandfather was born in North Carolina, so I am of old-tinie American stjockvthough born in Canada. When I was 17 I decided to go back to our old home in Ohio. I worked on the canal Summers and taught school winters. j "My mother's uncle, Joseph Blickens derfer, was jchlef engineer of the Union Pacific railroad at that time. lie told me or the West, and what he said fired my imagination and determined me to go west and grow up with the country. I tackled -him for a Job, and he sent me out wltiji a surveying crew. . I was back flagman and ivas paid $35 a month. We ran a ! preliminary line 300 miles long from Fremont, Neb., out beyond Hastings. I next worked on a survey from Pocatello to Huntington. My next Qlden Oregon Poor Lo Usually Got the Worst of It in a Bargain. Serious trouble with the Willamette valley Indians was threatened in 1844 when Cockstock, a Molalla Indian, was killed at Oregon City. The relatives of Cockstock wert finally pacified by the FOR NEWS ifl BRIEF SIDELIGHTS The lowered price of wheat seems to affect all commodities except flour and bread. -Salem Capital Journals -, ' " Wool prices are low enough to assure something like 5- per cent of wool in next year's woolen goods. Crane Amer ican. i ' e. We are doing only $1,000,000 worth of building in Eugene this year. Naturally a little money like that doesn't make a very impressive showing. Eugene Guard. . e a - Two country editors were candidates in the election Tuesday. One was elected president of the United States; the other was defeated for justice of thej peace. 4'olk County Itemizer. Lockley job was on the Ketchum branch. In 1883 we put in the grade from Caldwell to Boise, but the rails were never laid. We were all laid off and, .like most of the ,rest of the crew, I was "broke. . "As I' stood en the -platform at Cald well, wondering if railroading was all lit was cracked up to be, I saw a train pull in, on the rear end of which was a private car. As I looked at It I saw Robert Blickensdcrfer come out on the rear platform: I introduced myself and told him I had been working for his dad and was broke and wanted a Job. He turned me down hard. As I turned away lie said. 'It you want, to go to Pocatello and take a job as janitor, jump on, for we are going to pull right out. I asked him if he could wait three minutes while I got my things. I rushed to where I had. my things, tied them up in a blanket, and was on board in less than three minutes. This was the winter of 1883-81, and it was a cold one. I swept the offices and made the fires. One of the men there, now high in the service of1 the Union Pacifie, then holding: down his first job as a dispatcher,. -was E. E. Calvin. I always liked him, because he was mighty kind to me and ne never got the swell head. He is like Carl Cray in that reBpect. . - - - - - . . ' "One day lytckensderfer sent'-for me and said. 'You are$ getting $35 a month. I can send you to Blackfoot at the same wages. Blackfoot is the Jumping off place. You will see npthnlg but sage brush, and you. will eat sand, for they have lots of sandstorms there. It is so desolate that no one wants to go there, and for that reason It is your opportunity. Take myJ hunch and go, for that countryha a wonderful future. The day will come when you will be glad I advised' you to go. I took, his hunch and went as a, freight handler. It was hard work and small pay." I hadn't been there long till I was offered the job as , stage . agent and express agent for the stage lines running to Mackay. Chailis and Bonanza.. The line was 210 miles long. After three years Gilmer i. Salisbury, the owners, offered to sell the line to me for $12,000. Aa they did not require any cash payment I bought -it and in a year or so the line had paid for itself and I was an employer Instead of an employe, andt believe me, if you have the 'get up and git spirit you should work for yourself aa soon as you can make it, for there is satisfaction and money in paddling yotir own canoe." gift of some blankets and other goods to his widow. About 70 Indians from The Dalles presented themselves as rel atives of Cockstock and demanded in demnity. When it was shown them that the Americans had lost two men and would be entitled by the rule to receive twice as much as the Indians claimed, the affair "was. compromised with the present to the .widow of Cockstock. The Oregon Country Northwest Ilappentnos In Brief Form for the OREGON NOTES ' ' Since) September 1. 18 inches of rain . has fallen at Coeuille. A summarv nf th ion -n . --. - -- V V C A I IN i in Marlon county shows a lona of 26i).l!0 oeiow the total of last year. 4 Sixty-eight chiropractors were admit-, ted to -practice .in Oregon during the blerinium ending October 1, 1S20 Total value-of all property In Hood River countv In ntal n It tt; nr. .. increase over the 1919 tax roll of'Kais.TO. Benton county's farm property valua tlon, as given out by the federal census uureau, m iia.f.50,773. an increase of per cent since 1910. Gill Tomnkins. Bro... mill at Ida math ITnlla flrnnnAil dead of heart failure while attempting iu man a rra tractor. Business men of Klumnth vn. hove, decided to push the proposal for a local . home -building association to deal with tne ciijs Housing problem. During October working under the biological survey cap tured 327 predatory animals, mostly coy otes, but bobcats and on bear ere in-' eluded.; . i Kenneth Vivian. 16-months-old baby of C. C Garrison of Merrill, was instant ly killed when a Kord truck In which the family was riding turned over an embankment. The Tillamook Heaiflight. pioneer newspaper of Tillamook countv. has changed hands, Fred O. Baker being suc ceeded by Leslie Harrison and Harold uamstreet. The First eomnanv. O. N. Or., at Ash land has received a lot of equipment trom the government, in the way of uni forms, rifles, shoes, etc.. lit th valua of I2U.000 or over. . An extension Of four vnr In trrnntod the Walker Basin Irrigation company, successors to the Morson Land company, for the reclamation of 27.000 acres of land iir Deschutes and Klamath counties. WASHINGTON - ; The Inland paper mills at Millwood are now employing 275 men.. The cornerstone of the new E0 000 Methodist church at Aberdeen was laid tuis week. - Warehouses at Yakima are being filled to capacity on account of the shartaira of refrigerator cars. Postal receipts tn the Walla Walla office were $84 higher In October than a year ago. The total this-year, was 7109. . Coyotes are increasing ini number in the vicinity of Aberdeen and poultry raisers are having much trouble with the animals. Men at the Finch quarry at Cbewelah who went on a "grub" strike and quit the first of the week have been replaced, and tiie quarry is again in full opera tion, j For the last month no wheat has moved out of Walla Walla county, and farmers are apparently determined to hold theirs until price conditions are better. Women of the Yakima federated clubs have decided to plant an avenue of hard maple trees from the city limits to the state fair grounds and provide for care" of them. i - Net profits from farm crops raised at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla to--taled $16,332 in 1920, while he net prof its derived from garden produce raised amounted to $7062. ' . Order of suspension for 90 days from December I has been entered by the pub lic service commission in the applica tion of the railroads for an Inrreaso in demurrage rates on freight cars. IDAHO j Howard Shriver, a farmer living near Moscow, has sold 145 spring lambs for $U75. I Vi A drive was started at Caldwell this week to wipe away the College of Idaho debt of $28,000. Complete returns from all Idaho coun ties show only seven Democrats elcted to the state legislature. Idaho ranks third in the percentage of increase in the number of farms dur ing the period trbm' 1910 to 1920. Figures compiled by , the Lewiston normal School show, that there are 14311, schools in Idaho. Ot this number lOtiJ are rural schools. Meridian business' men have sub scribed one half of the $35,000 quota of the needed $75,000 to construct the pro posed powdered milk factory. Brave Mothers By June MacMlllan Ordway Dedicated to the Mothers of Otrtou Hldiet) The mothers of men inarch tjr today; They're hung with Old Ulorjr the great hichwajr, And gar is the way like a royal track 'fhey inarch on fcrarely nor e'er turn back. Atl honor 4o" thenWaa they march by With no heart-sadness nor tear-dimmed eye Tu he seen by Uioae Who' atanilintt wait lot the mothera to pass in regal state. No army and nary need lead the way for these 'staunch, brare mothers who march today. CVrer our city and oer the world None will be found brarsr where our flag is unfurled. They are the mother! of men who bare ton Into the jaws of death with rails and with suns. Could you trsmple. brave tnotbem, the world a great unrest "V And find for all peace, tweet peacs, tb world's i greatest quest! ' Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Little Tad Schlagmeier 'lows tha story of Dan '1 in the lion's den must be so. 'cause he seen it all pictured out in a movie show , in , Portland, j Otherwise he never would of b'leved it, even if to Sunday school teachers did tell the iuim story to him, corroboratin' each other nri ever mint. ; jGood - Reason" for Portland's Being the Northwest's Livestock" Center. There is a. reason why Portland is . the livestock center of the West, It 'is on the Columbia water grade. The advantage is statable in figures. Be tween shipping to Portland and -Kansas City, Mrf., from an Interior point like Ontario, Or., there Is a savins; of $231.40 on a carload of livestock. . There Is less shrinkage in the weight of the animals shipped i to Portland than In that of those shipped to Mldt die West points. The car that goes to Portland caj) carry 2000 pounds more weight than the car loaded for Kansas City from Columbia, basin points. The water trade and the re sultant speed and ease of transporta tion furnish the explanation for these two points. Since less time Is re quired in transportation, less feeding; is necessai-y en route." j O. A. Peirson, president of the Portland Union Stockyards company, has compiled, on the basis of actual shipments, the figures which show the advantage In shipping livestock to Portland. He used, as a ship; ping unit two carloads of cattle, this number being necessary to secure the service of an attendant en route. The shipping point selected was On tario, although many shipments of cattle go from points west of On tario to Kansas City. i " The weight per car was placed at 26, p00 - pounds, Ontario : to Kansas City, and 58,000 pounds, Ontario to Portland. , Tfhe allowance for freight rates was 84 cents per 100 pounds to Kan sas City, and &V& cents per ' 100 pounds to .Portland. r (Continued Tomorrow.) jPV'