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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 192U. t THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON OHfitm C 8. JACKSO?. .... i ........ i , . ?J1bluh?! I Be calm, be eonildetit. b eheerf al and do unto ethers ii ,,o would bin them do onto yoa-l lobliahwj tiny week day and Snruiaj mornine. - at Th Jaumal Buildinc. Broadway Bd ! f' biU street, Portland, Orecon. - Entered at the poatofflee t Portland. Orecon. , lor tran.mi.eion through th miU a ana rvt ictpunvrk u.i 7 its Automatic 800-1 -61. '. All department! reached by thea number. VATIONAl. advurtikino BEPKK8ICNTA- 7IVE Benjamin Kcntnor V 7P-Buildinc, 225 Fifth a'enu. Kiw Tort J u Bruiurwica fACIITIC COA8T REPRESENTATIVE VT K , Rarancer Co., Examiner Building, 8 rtreo; Tit to Inrarance Buildin,j Loa Angeiea. - I'est-Intellicencer Building. Seattle. . TUB OHEOON JOURNAL reserve th right to - . reject dvrtiato eoi which ' It deeina oo ' Actionable. 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Thn thai will not be . counseled cannot be helped.- If you do not hear Keamn. all will rap you on to knuckle. franklin. i DEADLOCKED BUSINESS THE business of America is on the verge of becoming deadlocked.; ' jit happens this way: A. heavy per centage of the annual output of American harvests remains unsold. More than half . the wheat, for in stance, is still in the farmers' hands. Many are holding it in the hope of el recovery from the downward trend qf wheat prices..'-:. . , , i 4 : 1 An effect is that country banks have, in many cases, loaned up to the: limit. Country merchants like-i Wise are carrying accounts with the farmers. The banks and merchants are in particular strained by carry- ln tYiA imitmisl tinniinta sif vrAnl o n livestock men. . ' -'j'- i Then there 4s this situation: Out on the farms they are waiting for farm products to advance; in the cities - consumers are waiting for prices to come: down. Tha,. country merchant is buying less of, the city Jabber. The city, jobber is buying less of the factories. The factories, ia view of the decreased demand. are running on shorter time. Some operate enough only to hold their organizations of Important workers together. Some mills have Bhut uown aiiogeiner. xnis means iaie- ness for employes. Employes, in turn, buy less. . j Arid in the uncertainty, the mills buy sparingly of raw materials. Here Is one and a principal secret of the low wool prices, j,- r- : j Thus, all. along the line there is aa ucai umuiiFviv in asuoiucaa. l la an inevitable incident in. the pro cess of the economic adjustment after the war. It is not a whole some situation. I -i Men who ought to know, say price levels in the late upheaval have re turned to within. 10 to 40 per cent nt tha TtrA-Wftr IpvaI What l mnnnt - - . - ?- - ts that some articles are down to within 10 per cent, and some to within 40 per cent of the pre-war prices. , ': j The public will probably wait in vain for a complete drop to prices " In vogue before the war. Wages are much higher now than theh, nn tr will rwo nottai rrr ina rmmtm If wages do not go back to the old levels. That country is soundest and safest whose working population :itaa ca v iu ; naQ iv a, utrceiJl jliving, and enough of, the comforts Ind of education and recreatlor tn jrake them hopeful, happy and coa- . tended. . , .-' . - ., : j The sooner this deadlock is broken Ihe better for all. The farmers have i mar nAjiviiv dv no ninir rnnir wnAan r, Ihe buying public will not profit much now by; waiting for lower nrlcps. The readjustment is on.- and the price break cannot go on for liver witnout disaster 10 tne country; ft : Despite the fall In prices, the moist Intensive.-according to authorities, Jince 1873, there has been no sign of j tanic. In all the' discussion credit b given the new federal reserye j lystem .' for . sustaining public con i fidence without even a tremor In the I business ". world. while ' the change Has taking. place. That system, has ftot only kept the . financial world i t this nation on an' even keel and In a steady coorse straight ahead. but it was the means by which the most stupendous financial opera tions in all. history were executed in our" preparations for the late war. If the Wilson administration had done nothing else, its work in es tablishing, the new banking and cur rency system, if its provisions are allowed to - stand intact and its' ad ministrators are faithful to their responsibilities, will stand as an en during; monument , to the capacity of that administration. ELIMINATE THE DELAY THE announcement by Presiding fudge Tazwell that all appeal cases from the municipal court will be brought to trial and disposed "of in circuit court, "is as welcome as an oasis in the desert. For five months these cases have been pil ing up. ! Appeals to the circuit court are a favored defense among ; attorneys who appear in police court. If con victed there, notice of appeal is served. The case drags along. Per heps it comes to trial in circuit court, perhaps it is settled out of court by defense attorneys pleading guilty on the promise of a lighter punishment, or perhaps the wit nesses disappear as the months roll by and the case doesn't even come to trial. The delay between the two ccurts is a haven for the guilty and a mockery, -often, of Justice meted but in the lower court. Such de lay breeds disrespect, of law and courts. ' If it is eliminated, as Judge Tax well proposes, the transgressors in this county will look upon the law With renewed ; fear, and the public generally with stimulated confi dence. . r In all history, the world has not beheld a greater slaughter of inno cents than , that which t befell the Children of Europe as a result of (he late war. , To say nothing of literal millions of children who perished during the conflict and tolnce, no fewer than 3,500,000 little ones are now on the border line of peath by-starvation in the famine btrlcken countries of Europe, and it Is now more than two years 'since the armistice was signed. While men debate over what kind of a league of nations to have for ending war the children continue to perish. THE SHIPYARD PROBE THAT, payrolls were padded in i 1 ! scores of cases was the' allega tion before the congressional com mittee, by Deputy Meehan, an in spector for the shipping board;' yes terday. Evidently, in the strenuoalty of war, the shipbuilding authorities had much to ' contend with in pro tecting the interests of the govern ment. - j Investigator Meehan testified that In tracing out charges no fewer than i 24,000 V accounts 'were investigated and that in all of them the Inquiry was made because of accusations of disloyalty or graft. The trail of charges, as all know, extends even to Portland., There has been' pending in the United States supreme court since last May - the case of the government against two local shipbuilding corporations. The case has not' yet been argued, and it is not known when the hearing will take place. 1 In the case of the two Portland yards, the government specifically accuses each company with Irregu larity and fraud in accepting bonuses from the . Emergency Fleet corpora tion, in the time extensions granted on contracts, and in the acceptance of construction extras. The government charges the Co lumbia River company with; fraud In the payment of cost plus construc tion. Claims made by the North west Steel and paid by the govern ment in construction extras in excess of $1,000,000 are alleged to be fraud ulent. The government ' agent charges that . $596,400 was unlaw fully obtained on bonuses by the Columbia River company. The demand of the government for the books of the two companies was resisted, and it is on this issue that the cases are carried to the highest court. ' ; The finding of the American flag which Peary planted at the North Pole 10 years ago has awakened new discussion by the geographers about currents and cross currents in the Arctic. The flag was foundH" calls in the name floating on an ice floe 400 miles from, its criginal location, having been carried there by the ice drift.r8- . x:eF, l Inesft mi881 were in ..... . pdirect behalf of ex-service men and do Save the inevitable curiosity that is in mankind, it Is the scientists who are mainly concerned in what is going on . in the land of eternal silence and the midnight sun, I VISITORS AT HOOD RIVER included Minnesota, Ohio andj Oregon in its representation, rolled into the city of Hood ' River on Ar mistice fay,1 coming from the east and crossing the bridge which spans the stream of the same name. I The first object that greeted tliehj eyes as they If ft the bridge was not1 the sign "Welcome" which many! Western communities, affect, but a large accumulation of tin cans- and other rubbish , on tlje' slope at the; left of the highwaf. 1 : They had ,.h sard much of Hood River's - famous apples; in fact, it was their desire to obtain a few ex cellent specimens In order tc send them via parcel post to fHnds in the East. But the only apples they could discover were part of a wit,-, dow exhibit by merchant, and these were locked safely otit of reach. ' ' , ' ' ' " ' They left with the feeling that Hood River 'could make excellent use of-a city beautifying committee composed of public spirited women who would dec'are war on unsightly tin can dumps at the city's, front door. They also felt that Hood River overlooks an opportunity - to , capi talize the value of the tourist by furnishing him (at current . prices) apples which go far to advertise the wonderful valley f rem which they come. To make the statement complete, the visitors did feel that Hood River valley, even on a freezing day, merits al! that has been said of it in prose and poem, but they could not under stand the, perhaps, civic somnolence O- the city that 1 plays gateway and distributing center for the valley. Does Hood River feel that the comment of the. visitors is just or unjust t i FOR THE SCHOOL CHILDREN TO THOSE who cherish the com mon school fund there was much satisfaction over the payment into the state treasury Wednesday of $53, 000 by the Pacific Livestock com pany. It was the second payment on the $125,000 which the company is to pay into the irreducible school fund of Oregon under compromise of the suit prosecuted by Attorney General Brown for recovery of school lands alleged to have been ' fraudulently obtained. In addition to the $125. 000 to be turned back to the 'state, the company is to throw open for settlement 10,000 acres of tillable land in Harney county, the area being a part of the lands irregu larly obtained in the days when the great theft of lands of all kinds was rampant in Oregon. There were prominent men in Ore gon who openly opposed the effort of the state to recover any part of these lands. There were other men who secretly opposed the move ment. The opposition of these men was discredited when the company made the equivalent of a plea of gHiilty. by consenting to pay back to the state a part of the value of the land. Even after 30 years or more, there was still in existence evidence of the operations of Todhuhter and Devlne that the company did not desire to face in court. " The only newspaper that fought the open and subterreanean efforts to prevent Attorney General Brown Mrom pressing the case, was The Journal, j In the return to the irre ducible school fund of the sums which the corporation Is now pay ing into the state treasury, there is a distinct satisfaction for this news paper in that the money willcon tlnue to be through all time an in vestment returning dividends for the benefit of the school children of this state. And there is much more land that belonged to these children but which was taken away from them by fraud and that' can be and should be re stored to them by action in the courts. It is now averred that an Italian at ftome, has discovered a means of using atmospheric electricity for power and other purposes. It is doubtful if the announcement will be confirmed. But the feverish en ergy with which the restless minds of men are seeking in the, atmosphere and in the sun the sources- of some new form of power seems to fore shadow that a day will come when the seemingly impossible will become the possible, and that the passing of one form of power will be to give way to another and. better one. THE RED CROSS AT HOME AN N IMPRESSION that the local chapter of the American Red Cross is like the carpenter who re paired other people's houses but not his own, or like the 'painter who brightened the dwellings of others but not his own, is dissipated by a single paragraph . which appears In connection with the fourth Red. Cross membership roll of the ; Portland chapter.:. The American Red Cross has been mother and nurse to the helpless and afflicted of the- world. But in Portland: It has saved 36 lives. It has handled 2900 cases concerning- ex-service men. of humanity. It has cared for 158 pa tients tn .hospitals. It has imade 3240 visits to patients in homes land hospl- not include- the thousands of kindly er rands undertaken for their families. And - the summary of these activities does not afford more than j a glimpse of the effort behind the purpose. Uncoupled with its world-wide work and dissociated from, the value of having such an organisation in stantly ready for - emergency call, the local record -gives to the dollar spent for and branded by the Red Cross A double value. I : Now; that 'a Chicago grand , jury has 'functioned on the baseball scandals, why not turn its attention to some of the gamblers in the wheat pit , Why should the toll and in vestment and hopes and purposes of the fanner and his family be staked annually on the biggest; gambling game in America? , A SNEAKING BILL i THAT experience in its use has removed many objections to the initiative and referendum was ex am pled in California in the recent election. , On the ballot in that stata was an f initiative measuro requiring that 25 per cent of the voters must sign in itiative petitions on tills proposed for changea in the tax laws. The organization supporting the measure was very strong and' ex tended all over the state. 'It carried on a campaign of ! propaganda for more than a year. The proposal was Indorsed by many Influential citizens and civic . organizations. Among the arguments advanced in its favor was the "contention that : it would be a bar against single tax. Opponents of the measuVe made their campaign on the claim that the proposal was a sneaking attack on the initiative, which, in fact, it was. The people of the state took no chances on any schere' that savored of scuttio of their right to initiate legislation, and ft'Oted the bill down by a majority if mere than loo.ooo. v Whatever weaknesses there may be in the initiative sj(8tem, there is this, virtue in it: -It is the people's instrument for getting what corrupt or wrong-headed legislatures will not give them, and it is a right that they would be very foolish ever to surrender. It is their only defense against mlsrepresentatlve govern ment, and if they are wise they will cling to it. BIG G. O. P. VOTE ANALYZED By Carl Smith, Washington SUff Cor respondent of The Journal. -. Washington, Nov. 13. Political leaders will soon be through with the Job of telling how it happened and why so' much of It happened. They do not .re flect unanimous views. Anti-league Re publicans, headed by Borah and John son, for example, are anxious to inter pret the result as a repudiation of the League of Nations, while the Taft-Root cro 4 Coes not see it In that J light at all. While some exulting Republicans are hailing the Immense majorities for Harding as a sign of a new Republi can era that is to last for many years, men experienced in the great national wheel -of! fortune do not draw such conclusions. They recall that Grover Cleveland's great victory In 1892 was followed In four years by party dis ruption and defeat and that, while Roosevelt in 1904 and Taft in' 1908 rolled up great majorities, both in the popular 'vote and. the electoral college, the party fell Into factions arid went to defeat in two elections following. In 1908 Taft scored 321 votes and Bryan had only 162. Roosevelt had picked his successor and the sky seemed serene for TafL But Taft forgot the progressives, was soon snared on con servation, burned his fingers on Cana dian reciprocity and helped to tilt, the tariff upward. The reactionaries gloat ed Jn their power and rode to a fatal fall in 1912. In 1920 the same crowd is back, with a president more reactionary, if sis public record is a guide, than Taft ever was, and ' more inclined to .play ball with the reactionaries. This crowd knows exactly what it is after and expects the new president to "make B-ood." Thev will exnect. for example. a new tariff written by Penrose and Fordney, the killing off of the packer bill and other "unfriendly" legislation, curtailment of the federal trade com mission and modification" of the fed eral reserve and farm loan acts. Nobody will be more surprised than Borah and Johnson If Harding resists the reactionaries. They do not expect him to turn againt his cronies, and they expect to fight. They expect Harding to be a one-termer, and John son has his eye on 1924. The situation in more ways than one parallels 1908. when a rift soon, became a chasm. Turning again to the immense Hard ing majorities this year, they lose much of their supposedly staggering effect when closely examined. The rea sons may be set down definitely in this way: Pennsylvania. Ohio, New Tork, Mas sachusetts, Illinois, Iowa and the other states with a "scandalous" Harding vote are normally Republican.. Only when the country becomes aroused to some unusual Issue is this majority reversed The League of Nations Issue became badly confused, and while many itepuD licans favoring the league left the party, the greater number were beguiled by Taft, Root .and Hoover. Only in spots did the election become a real referen dum on the league. The granting of the vote to women nearly' doubled the total vote. A nor mal majority of 50,000 In a state became 100,000, other factors omitted. The negro vote at the North has in creased unusually In the last four years by reason of migration from the South. This is solidly Republican, and no argu ment changes it The negro vote in Ohio alone is placed at 100,000, and in Indiana at 75.000. s The pro-German vote moved to the polls this year in a practically solid line for Harding. Not all of those born, in Germany or born of German parents are swayed by tender consideration for Ger many, but when it Is remembered that, according to the census report of 1910, there were 8,282,618 persons in this coun try borrt in Germany, or children of at least one German parent, the influence of this vote thrown to one party in states like Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Wiscon sin is apparent. The same is true in a large degree of the Italian vote, for in the large Italian centers of New York and New Jersey their leaders were quoted as saying that their people were all going to Harding because of Fiume. Using again the cen sus figures, there were 2,098,360 persons in this country either born in Italy or of Italian parents. j- Count also the Austrians, over 2.000,000 of them, and other foreign elements. In cluding those of Irish birth or parentage, 4,500.000, who were in considerable meas ure stirred by the, same sort of appeal, and it is apparent where a part of the Harding vote came from. - ..- . Measured in the light of these facts, the lasting quality of the Harding vote becomes doubtful as soon as the country settles back to a calmer consideration of what Harding as president Is likely to' bring forth, v Unless the new presi dent watches his Step, the big majorities may soon melt and the demand for a change will count in the other direction. : 1 Communications sent to Tbe Jonmal tot publication in this department should b written oa only one side of the paper; should not exceed 300 words in length, and must be signed by the writer, whose mail address in full must accom pany the contribution. 1 THE BATTLE OF. THE ARTICLES Portland. Nov. 10. To the Editor of The Journal Tear after year the little words "a." "an" and "the" have been attending to their .duty in the English language almost unregarded. Unob trusively they have performed the great task of sorting Ideas ana tnings into two distinct classes, the definite and the 1 - , . i Letters' From the People I indefinite. In the "who is who" f lan-1 Lguage they-have been accounted as mere drudges In comparison- with longer words, the kings and captains of thought. f But lo! by a trick of fate in this de mocracy of ours, these commonplace folk.? "a" and the," have been exalted, and stand forth in battle array at the head of the contending forces of our two great political parties. At present the indefinite seems to have won over the definite "a league, over "the league." But we shall see. . Arid now comes W. J. Bryanr approv ing the "a" doctrine and the "at meth ods ;' and, indeed, would hasten the con summation of the benign (anti-Wilson) association, sagaciously suggesting that President Wilson resign, and that Mr. Harding be "Wiggled" into the presi dency. V No, Mr. Bryan ; you have carried your part well, and,, bravely recovering your heart from the coldness of its, recent in humation, you have come in promptly and j boldly, as one of dramatic instinct might be expected to do; but, with all respect , for your' years and histrionic ability, let Mr. Harding have time to get his cue before he takes up the great role- for which he has been selected. Let i him find out "where he is at' The spirit of "change" that is moving the (American people needs no accelera tions The scenes jnay be shifted all too rapidly. The White House may well be tenanted , yet a little longer by the broken body and brooding soul of the great , champion of world democracy. The aDOStle of "America first" will be due1 at the executive mansion March 4, 1921. He will then be duly recognized and. installed. In the meantime there may be a "meet ing tof minds" to discuss "a." "an" and "the." Mr. Bryan and others will be interested in the verdict of this meet ing.; Bertha Slater Smith. i ' ;"SOBER SECOND THOUGHT" Portland. Nov. 10. To the Editor of The; Journal An editorial in the opposi tion! press explains how Mr. Taft and the i country at large have given the League of Nations sober analysis since a year ago and fin j it wanting, and says "the result of that sober second mougnt was revealed at the election a week ago. It mav seem egotistical for me to put my opinion up against editors' opinions, but in one way I have an advantage over them, for 1, being one of the com mon folk, living among . the common people whose votes count so largely in this country, am in a position to see first hand how the opinion of these peo ple is swayed. I have seen those who a year ago leaned strongly toward the league, turned bitterly against it, and I know it was not "sober second thought" after knowing what the league covenant really says, that has changed them. I have, in my possession a folder entitled "The Cox-Wilson League Is a League of War." ' This was scattered broadcast over our state just before the election. Among other statements which are very misleading, this little pamphlet says the "League of Nations is a league of war, in which this country would be a voting cipher." I suppose the old alibi about England's having, more votes than the United States has been so well shot to pieces that the aaithor 'thought a bare faced, lie would be more effective In moving the voters. This latter propa ganda Is the thing that has changed the minds of the people of my acquaint ance. I know this is true, for they will say themselves that they believe these things, while I cannot find 'one out of 20 who opposes the league who has ever read the league covenant or a:iy sec tion of it. ?ome things are a matter of opinion. I grant the other, fellow his 'right to think for himself, but' I wish before God that he would please think for himself. As for Mr. Taft, when he was here in Portland something over a year ago, he . convinced me beyond a doubt that the League of Nations is one of the grandest things on which the nations pf the world have gotten together ; also that-there was nothing the matter with Article X. He really spoke as if he had given It "sober second thought." As late as August of this year Mr. Taft still agreed with himself. Reader. I HIS VINDICATION CERTAIN Portland, Nov. 7. To the Editor of The Journal Only .the careful, analyti cal student of history., is cognizant of the tragedy that was enacted in this na tion on November 2. To the sophist it was a sweeping R . ublican victory ; to the analyst it was a world tragedy. Nineteeen centuries ago another great tragedy "occurred. The similarity be tween these two deserves comment. "Then cried they all again, saying. Re lease not this man. but release Bar abbas. Now Barabbas was a - robber, i When the chief ' priests saw him, they cried out. Crucify him, crucify him." The crucifixion of our great and noble president is . now accomplished, but fu ture generations will ' hang their heads and blush with shame when they hear that, their forebears assisted in this shameful crucifixion. Years hence, when the names of Mr. Wilson's traducers have been sunk in oblivion, the luster of his great name will not be tarnished. Wilson's cruclfjxlon was inevitable. The great, exemplars of truth must suffer that truth may survive. Yet, withal, "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," and the next four years will vindicate our beloved president. A. J. Martin. CHANTICLEER Wolf Creek, Nov. 9.-To the Editor of The Journal After the Judas Iscariots had left the stage and the American people had played the role of Peter denying that he had ever known or followed a man named Jesus, ' it was left for Mr. Bryan to act the part of the cock crowing. "And Peter said, Man, I kirow not what thou sayest And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew." Luke 22. Poor Mr. Bryan ! ! Mrs. T. M. Lam on d. Olden Oregon Legislature Very Early Got Busy With j , the Columbia Bar. i The United States schooner Shark was wrecked, at the mouth of the Columbia river October 10, , 1846. Her loss was especially regretted by the American settlers, as it was damaging to the char acter of the entrance of the river and would have a tendency to keep commerce away. As a result the legislature of 1846 passed a pilotage law, authorizing the governor to appoint commissioners- to examine and license pilots for the bar and river and regulate hipping. Under this act S. C. Reeves was appointed the following April ?the first pilot for the Columbia river bar. He served until the gold discovery lh California. ' f j Curious Bits of Information I Gleaned From Curious Places - .(Liquid shoe polish! was placed. on the market through the accidental meeting in London1 of a tired, footsore soldier, who was down on bis luck, and a man hamed Day; " who gave the - tramp a night's losQlng. Desirous of showing his thanks for-the hospitality, the soldier handed Day a much-folded and dirty scrap of paper, on which was written, in a scrawling hand, a recipe for shoe blacking. Some time , later Day made up the recipe, and discovered It was a good thing. He bought the soldier, whose name was Martin, out of the army, and the two started business on. a small scale. That was the beginning of the famous Engjish firm of Day & Martin, in 1770. Their product sold.: so fast that they COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE ! Home rule doesn't legalize home brew. e , Most of life's tragedies are behind the scenes.. j- --, -. , n Indian . summer has certainly been on i the warpath. . The naval affairs committee Is en gaged in a base undertaking. - . . .. : Which reminds us that Tongue Point is in the mouth of the river. . . Idle workmen "may now set about un dermining the high cost of living. How perfectly fitting that the wed ding anniversary should come on Armis tice day! . - . . . . : ' The, sheep-killing coyote has .its 'hu man ounterpart in the modern school of burglars. " i - - e e i Probably .Europe will have another full dinner pail since Herb. Hoover has resumed command. - - Turkey and Armenia have agreed upon an armistice, but the old axe threatens to continue its annual assault. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations Abovrt Town That he Idaho Agricultural college at Moscow is interested In stock judg ing is proved by the team sent from that Institution. The following from Moscow are registered at the Multnomah : Wal ter Schwlnd, William L. Hamilton. George N. Tucker, Carl L. Patch, H. P. Davis and Lee Wahlschlegel. "Red always was a favorite color of mine," said George Tremblay, assistant manager of the Multnomah. "I was attracted greatly by Miss Josephine Paddock when I first saw her, but it was her wonderful red' hair that really made me capituTate.' Be sure to call it Titian hair when you speak of It. Tes, we were married Armistice day, at Vancouver." ' . v. - Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Stimson and Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Stimson of Holly wood, Wash., here to attend the stock show, are registered at the Portland. Louis Simpson of Coos Bay is a guest at the Portland. . Carl Engdahl, a prosperous wheat farmer of Helix, in Umatilla county. Is at the Portland. , R. R. Grundy of Australia, C. A. Blank of Kobe, Japan, and N. B. Doodha of Shanghai, China, are guests at the Port land. e Charles E. Newton, dean of the school of mines at Oregon Agricultural college, is at the Imperial. Utah Agricultural college has five students and a coach at the Imperial. They are here to take part in the stock judging contests at the stock show. I Philip Metschan Jr., proprietor of the Imperial, left last night, for Santa Bar bara to attend a meeting of the Western Hotel Men's Scenic association. The G. M. Standifer oil tanker John Worthlngton is to be lauhched next Monday. Mrs. Terrell Johnson of Pitts burg, Pa., Is to be sponsor at the launching. The following guests, here to attend the launching, are at the Ben son : Mr. and Mrs. Terrell Johnson and Mrs. Johnson's mother, Mrs. John Worthington, of Pittsburg; Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Ebbert, Mr. and Mrs. Corwin, Dr. Neggette, Mrs. Schleeter, Mrs. Mc- Feeley, Mr. and Mrs, C. J, Hicks and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Black of New York city, and Mr. and Mrs. Conry of Tulsa, Okla. K. If. . French, pioneer Wasco county banker, is here. from his home tit The Dalles, at the Imperial. ! L. L. Rogers, who owns a wheat ranch near Pendleton, "is at the Benson,' with his family. G. P. Lilly and R. E. Gurney of Baker are registered at the Benson. - . ' Judges of the stock show who - are registered at the Imperial are: A. W. Oliver, Instructor In animal husbandry at Oregon Agricultural college ; . Pro- OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley r (That pioneer of the auto atage line, Fred Vogler. continues today his narrative of adven ture. speaXing particularly of operations over the dry and sandy wastes of Nevada. Th aeries is closed with thia number, endinc in an appeal to make scenic Orecon acceaaibl and "salable." , , "When I was running the stage be tween Red Rock, Mont., and Salmon City, Idaho," said Fred Vogler. pioneer auto dealer of Portland, "I bought an automobile to try out on' my stage line. This was in 1903. It was not a success. This was when the automobile Industry was pretty much of fan experiment. Our stage line crossed i the summit of the main divide of the Rocky mountains at an elevation of . 8000 feet. There was not a month in 'the year" when we did not have frosts, and the snow came early and stayedjate. From early fall, till the following June we used sleighs' on this run. I planned to use the auto to the foot of the range and horses from there over the divide, but none of my drivers savvied an auto, and it was in trouble most of the time ; so I didn't get much good out of It. "The Tonopah gold excitement in Ne vada broke out shortly after I had sold this stage line. I had 1 125,000 cash In the bank and was looking for new worlds to conquer. The stages were go ing in by way of Reno, which didn't throw any business to the Oregon Short Line. Mr. Burley asked me if I could run a stage line in from Salt Lake City. I went down there and sized up the stage . possibilities. - The most feasible route was by .way of Las Vegas to Tonopah, 175 miles. The roads were too heavy with sand toV make horse drawn stages pay, but I believed I could make an auto stage line pay.' This had never been done. Everyone told me It was not practical,' but I determined to try It out., . -. "I Iftiew wagons would, soon cut a road to pieces, so I decided to build a road of our own. I put 20 teams on a drag and made a - road, dragging the sagebrush out of the road and bridging the deeper hollows.- We charged exor soon had hundreds of boys working for them filling bottles. They jealously guarded their recipe, making the mix tures themselves. The, recipe is still in use. "i Dickens made mention of the blacking in "Pickwick Papers," and is said to have worked for the firm when he was a boy. .a'.--,' ". .i.'"-'.. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: . Nate Hander of Rancho. Texas, uster serve on juries and act as a witness In a pinch, and kinder kep a eye on the nominations fer office fer his friends and managed to git by one year after another 'thout no hard work.. He uster say. he had a thousand head of cattle- NEWS . IN BRIEF? SIDELIGHTS , Every now and then the conviction Is forced unon us that there are too many Republicans in the country. Athena 'Press. -.!.'-. :'-'; The voting of bonds for the new bridge caused more rejoicing than any other one local result of the eWnstlon-Oregon City Banner-Courier. , ' , The defeated candidate has one con solation. . He can reflect that a country with that little sense didn't deserve sav ing anyway. Salem Capital Journal. ...-.. A ' The usual scarcity of turkeys prevails, due, plnheaded people surmise, to the ap proach of Thanksgiving, but the dealers always have enough left over for the Christmas traffic Medford Mall-Trlb- une- ; v.. ; .Y. . . Pussyfoot Johnson was hustled out through the back door of a hall in Eng land in which he was holding a prohibi tion meeting and sneaked through a graveyard to a place of safety when attacked by an angry mob. The same mob will some day be congregated in the graveyard attendlifg John Barley corn's funeral. Corvallls Gazette Times. fessor J. T. Thompson of Woodland. Cal. ; Chbrles M. Talmadge of Salem, A. L. Wilson of Creston, Iowa; E. A. Trowbridge of Columbia, M. ; 6. M. Nelson of Oregon Agricultural Cqllege, superintendent of the sheep division,, and J. 1L Longwill. superintendent of the hog division. 1 -' .- ' ( ! - . Mrs. A. N. Gilbert of Salem Is at the Imperial. In the old days A. N. Gilbert was a partner of I. L. Patterson at Salem. Later he was superintendent of the -penitentiary, and during the time that John Wanamaker was postmaster general he was postmaster at Salem. . J. ' H. Garrett of Klamath Falls Is meeting old-time acquaintances at the Imperial. ,. L'O. Schench registers at the Im perial from Tampico, Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Boise of Salem are at the Imperial. Mr. Boise's father. Judge R. P. Boise, was one of Oregon's most useful and constructive citizens from the early '60s till his death a few years ago. -. D. F. Stewart, banker and flour mill magnate of Prineville, is at , the Im perial W. II. Howard, hailing from Silver Lake, is in the city to attend the stock show. C. A. Hale of Tarrytown, N. Y.. a directytiescendant of Nathan Hale, was registered at the Multnomah hotel Wed nesday. Hale Is president of the Hale Memorial association and has been in strumental in preserving relics of his ancestor. . e e W. E. Wann. a Wasco' county stock man, is registered from The Dalles at the Hotel Perkins. - C. S. Trullinger, with his son. Is down from Yamhill to take in the stock show. They are at the Perkins. . e S. R. Norgren, a timberman , from Clatskanie, and Mr. and Mrs. Al Dartt of Mosier are at the Perkins. F. S. Ivanhoe and wife of La Grande and Judge R. R. Butler of The Dalles are registered at the Imperial. e . e C. W. Shurte, an old-time Morrow county merchant of Heppner, is in town for a few days to look up the machinery business. ' ' e a e B. F. Hailey of Camas Is at the Perkins. Among those registered at the Mult fiomah are; ,C. C. . Llndon . of Astoria and Mr. and Mrs. Bessalton of Salem. Washington State college, at Pullman, is well represented -at the stock show. Registered at the Multnomah are the following: H. Morgan. H. A. Anderson, 1 C. Leonard, J. A. Dobbin. E. Cooke, J. T. Roberts, C. C. Gray,.H. A. Sittin, IL Hackedorn, Donald L. Saunders, W, T. Putnam Jr., R. W. Altman andA J, , Leonard. . bitant toll rates on our road, so that no one would patronize it. We did not wantj our road cut up by the narrow wagon wheels. On our auto stage line we charged 30 cents a mile for passen gers. I put on 18 autos. Many wealthy men who came down to look over the field would rent a car. I charged 810 an hour, or $100 a day. I paid one tire company $25,000 for tires the first year. Tires In- those days were very inferior. I got only 200 to 400 miles out of a tire. Gasoline was 50 cents and water 5 cents a gollon. We made from 15 to 20 miles an hour, which -as considered remarkable speed, and compared with the horse-drawn stage it was. I used the one-cylinder St. Louis car, but gave that up in favor of Peerless and Thomas cars. We developed some 're markable drivers on that pioneer auto stage line. 1 taught Teddie Tetzlaff to drive. Later he became nationally known as a speed demon In the auto racing game. , . "In 1908 I gave up my "stage line on account of the building of the railroad. I came to Portland and started selling automobiles. Covey and I are the two pioneer auto dealers of Portland. One of my early-day customers was Henry Wemme, who owned and drove the first automobile ever brought, to Portland. Henry was also the first man in Port land to own 'an airplane. . e . - "Did you ever stop to think of the vast number of automobile owners in Southern California who have seen their own country and who, If We secure good roads, will drive up to see the beauty spots of Oregon? The Columbia river highway, the' Columbia river. Crater lake. Mount Hood, the Willam ette valley, our fishing, hunting and camping, end the beauty of Oregon In spring. ; summer and fall will be lures to brlSg thousands . of tourists from Southern California,' All we need are good roads and publicity to cash tn on this vast reservoir of tourist travel. We must sell our scenery arid start the stream of wealth-bringing auto tour ists our way." there be in' that many, voters in Gonsa les county. lie stood In with the county ring and the moonshiners and acted like a political bora. But fer the blind party ticket superstition he might of been forced to work. There's a lot of profi teers In this country that's mightily shore the people can. be fooled often enough to keep 'era proflteefin a few billion ever year. ' ': LINCOLN IN POLITICS b : j . Arthur H. Sorwell in Lr lie's More and more of Abraham Lincoln Is going into American drama. Some day, perhaps, someone will hit upon the novel Idea of putting a little of him into American politics. j The Oregon Country Sorlliwejat Happening 1 Drier form tot Um Busy Header. : OREGON SOTKS JfannnaVa maw. tirwinnA ... be opeutoth holier noicl WI "oon Harney county at the recent election passed-an Initiative bill placing a Wer bounty on rahhit. aw.iiie. -ce' -- nnu tor toos ooutitv hava atonnoCf5SS,fi?,,,15n. 8how a total,yvaVuir thmonth1 orf 'cStobr wTs81' W"'' breaking all "previous records! U U,c,u Jate. y lown tn th ,The 1920 tax roll shows a total J:r... lion til 117 17i OCA . . ' wa7.S&0: h. Nation torhjl F0AAv,i,bson' ''rbprt Brown and Dr. thr k ? ?lu- found wltl 'r carcass While the train was runninc 40 mil aliWhi sleeping car nar Kurne and alighted on the ground uninjured. Six new home nursing classes have lust' McKensie rlvercountry. Throe of thrnl are at Springfield ana on4 each ut mJ Vernon. Thurston and Waltervllle George Hayes of Coos Bay. who r..l I1w" th occupation of tapping free fjr makV,he rt A refinery. T tf-,1?.a-davtor 84 a month. JIa sells the pitch at0 cents a gallon. rlilVl? Woodin, a sophomore in the ?heaeVfJtSo.hiK,r hml- "ead front with - . . f .fa 1 from roof wht1(. remnnmjmb'r.0 -'a88Tat- hs at tempting to paint the class numerals. coverhi f!78 00,0.w111 bft required to fabn rll .eed8 of th "tat bureau of labor for the next two years, accordlnir of "fate8tbvai6 (ub,mittl he secreUr? missioned ', m' 8tale bor com- whth Fruitgrowers' association, rnue.r h.a,.V'on?. , .fruit for table use. l "PT Byrup nlirfA' ': Tav,or S'nWhas B,K. S hearty approval of" the pro- EnhLain ut0 a modern Protestant Episcopal hospital at Marshfleld. Th iif, 1 . tn Proposed hospital will cost approximately J65.000. .; WASHINGTON. Seattle also has an epidemic of b1"rhlariea' , 28 being reported in one IMirht rhlMr.n at ih. O . . ,, arens home are now under care for The rllv f irnd,in. . or scarlet fever, and all the Thft IVInllr AlMurk .1... wins yiL vviuoer. .nHef1 ?e.ol w"" arr"ted at Yakima ana rlnri tuo i j . , ....... ' 'u, imu fimiu worm of morphine on his person. Four fatalities have occurred In Spo kane Within n mnntii r .... I .and 28 DerorS have been serl- ,h-'wSn by h!8 cl0,hinf I" a shaft at fhejspokane city asphalt plant. M. U. Prpduction of member mills of the Western Pine Manufacturers' assooia tion In September, 1920. exceeded that of September last year by 9,746.645 feet. Fred Gruenberg and Claude Mover are reported to be lost In the Cascade mountains near the head of Lake hrl ."' fPrching party Js attempt ing to find them. .Vrectors of the Washington and Idaho Wheat Growers', association are planning to place on the market r.00,000 -Sr'S of .wh?at KoId hn(a, security for Wnioli will ia xa-u ws., . . Wheat hvdtj m;eiuW iur J IDAHO .Concrete work Is now being pushed on the new high school building at Albion. The corner-atone of h dormitory at Gooding college was laid '"' cunaay oy UlsAop c W. Burns of Helena. , The Idaho Irrigation company reports twice as much water coming into Magic reservoir aa there was at this season last year. ' The cannery at Lewlston Is putting up about 35 tons of apples a da v. It handled 1000 tons of tomatoes during the season. .On account of Increasing cot. of Raper, labor and material, the Tlmen-fews-Miner of Hailey has discontinued Its daily issue. A yield of 8r,i bushels Dlclow wheat per acre Is rep 1 from the farm of Lee Greenwell, 1 i Paul. The average for his entire wheat acreage is 74 bushels 'per acre. , The body of Johh C, Robison. who lost his life when the Tuncania was sunk, In February, 1918, arrived from Scotland a few days ago and was bur ied at Potlatch. Alleged to have confessed to holding up and robbing 30 men near liovill, Joe Dillon is in the Latah county Jail. He had $225 and a burglar's kit on his person when arrested. How "Rose City" Came to Be ;i Portland's Other Name, and How JDeserved ii Whence Portland's nickname, "Rose City"? - a The St. Louis Globe-Democrat In an editorial, October 22, says the sobriquet was originated at the time Of a general Presbyterian assembly In Portland a quarter of a century ago, and that It was confirmed and Widely disseminated at the time of the Lewis and Clark exposition, in 1905.- j . ' ii As a matter of fact, the name "Rose City" was originated and pro posed by Frederick V. Holman, well known Portland lawyer and rose cul turiat, in an article published Decem ber 8, 1901. j; At that time. It seems, the exposi tion was being discussed, for- Mr., Holman's article discussed the de sirability of giving an exposition city a distinctive n lf:knamer and he sug gested "Rose City." The sobriquet was Immediately popular and proved a great stimulus to the planting and care of roses, with which It was In tended the great exposition should be graced. ... I It is doubtless true that khe Lewis and Clark exposition gave wider cir bulatlon and fame to the nickname. It is likewise doubtless true that the floral showing Incident to the expo sition brought about the organization of the Rose Festival as a permanent Portland feature. i With the authorship-of the name Rose City" established. It should be said that, whoever fashioned the words, the Ides was unquestionably atmospheric . W. B. Sibson, a grain dealer of possibly four decades gone, found that the most beautiful roses could be grown here and his ex perl menu finally resulted in bis going into the business of growing and sell ing roses. Easterners ! who found roses growing here outdoors more exquisitely beautiful than any con servatory ever produced, and 'who made the further discovery that In a mild season the blooming continued until November and even January, were the ones who did the early ex claiming. ' . ' ; Mr. Holman. author of the name "Rose City." has been giving Satur days and Sundays to his rose gar den, where he has 600 varieties, for the past 25 years. There Is some thing about the culture t roses that Is more than exercise and more than a hobby.