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THE OREGOk DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1920. I- : I AS INDEPENDENT NEW8PAPER 1' u JATKMOM . i,.... i..PnbIlh" C B. cilm J K b. Mat fto ethers as yon would base them do onto you-) 1-ubli.hed rrery week r w t The Journal Building. Broadwsjr and hill street, Portland, Owum. i Entered .t tha pfl.toffte.h.t Portland . f for traiunuMion through th mails x rim matter. 1JCI.EWIO.NES Mall . 'fc ??ti: All depertmenta reached bj the mimon- ATIONAI ' iiier ocnimni - f fifth avenue. New TortJ " - Til K-Hnniiniiri iieun"i r . .a Millrn Building. Chicago. . i r-. jnc coast bepbimita-- B.ranger OoA EsaminerBu ld.ngn rtco: Titla Insurance Building, if angci . l'ost-lnteligencer Building. 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Order or Draft It jour postoff o la not Money Order office. 1- or 2-cent stamps will be .eerpted Make all remittances payable to The I journal. Portland. Oregon. - ' - Ceremonies are different In every coun try; but true politeness ia ererrwhers the same. Olirer Goldsmith. IN SESSION fORTY-ONE nations of the earth j,. eP are represented at the " great session of the League of Nations at' j Geneva. ; - Millions in every part of the world j are watching the? deliberations with ' a fervent hope.: For once, there Is ; a prayer throughout the world that 1 warmay be ended. And why? it. ft t ' War means vast destruction of f human life. 1 i! c 1 Vast loss of youth. Sacrifice of the careers of the I strongest -young men on the barren i altar of Moloch. ; rain, misery and death. . Hardships in : the trenches. Torture by poisoned gas. Despair in countless homes. Death, debt and devastation Massacre, rapine, fire. ' Wounds, cripples and agony. Hornelcss an I starving children. B'atherless families. The poor .house and pauper asy r lums. Cities in ruins and countryside devastated. As a writer In the New York World further enumerates, war means: Millions for munitions. Many new millionaires. Vast accumulations of personal : wealth almost over night. Public debts that approximate na tional bankruptcy. Awful increase of taxation. ' Portland, Oregon, this year pays In taxes for war $12,914,400. j Corvallls, Oregon, pays out this 9 year in war taxes $287,600, enough i to build a $100,000 federal building, a $100,000 hospital and an $87,600 high chool building, i War means: Mi ' Profiteering, j Waste. . j High cost Of living. . Depreciation of currency. ' Extravagance, public and private. ' War contract frauds. Costly war experiments. , .Graft in public contracts. Robbery of i the government by profiteers as now seen in the ship ping board investigation. Arsenals for: war materials. Camps for great armies. Millions of soldiers. - Battleships at $20,000,000 each. . j Public and "private depravity. Immense navy yards. Local crimes and increased crimi nality. I i j ; -. Bayonets, bullets and blood. In the end, complete absolutism and brutality of military power throughout a country. . Big money is to be made out of all these factors in war, and there fore we know j that profiteers, rent gougers, munition makers, powder producers.' all the ghastly fbrces of 1 conscienceless j plunder favor war l and are against the great meeting now deliberating at Geneva in the hope of bringing to man a peaceful, t-sDerous and happy world. ...:. fiterica.., to long remain aloof from the movement to banish war? When, in 1789, the first copper : ents ware minted by the United ? States, there was stamped on each r the motto, aMInd your own busi ' n ess.'! It was at; Fran kiln's sugges i tion,, and its purpose was to-t teach the gospel of thrift. : If Franklin's idea had been more -widely applied in these late past silk shirt days, the future would look rosier to many a pilgrim Journeying through this vale of tears. THEIRS AND OURS IT OUGHT not to be difficult for America and Japan to peacefully compose an future ' differences. ; Civilization in Japan is swiftly advancing..! Education is universal and compulsory. The public schools are free. Suffrage is extending. It is nOw confined to those who pay a, tax of $1.50, which means that 4.000,000 people take part in the quadrennial' elections. The house , of deputies, elective by the people, is a necessary factor in all legislation. There are many high schools and more than 300 colleges and universities, all agencies for an advancing and liberal education. The Japanese mind is intelligent and keen. In general terms, it seems to be a kindly mind, capable of correct reasoning and ready to go a long way in compromise with peoples of equal intelligence. ! The trend of Japanese thought is j toward adoption of progressive ideas j and a larger acceptance of Western civilization. The courts are much like American courts in organization and jurisdiction, the judges being appointive and serving for life. Newspapers are widely circulated and much read, two Tokio news papers having a circulation each of around 350,000. Labor unions are making their appearance with demands for . an 8-hour day and higher wages. The average wage for unskilled labor now throughout the empire is 3 yen ($1.50 a day). The same high wage and the same high prices' that prevailed in the United States, were the rule in Japan during the war. The economic ad justment In Japan came last March with. a quick and general collapse of high prices, .which have, however, not yet reached the pre-war level. Affected by the same events, cherishing the same aspirations for advancement, passing through much the same .national processes, Japan "and America should be able to walk forward toward a common and pa cific destiny. . ' With what will professors next experiment? One at the University of Illinois is studying white rats kept for months in rotating cages. After being whirled round and round in the cages for long periods, the rats, when taken out, walk round and round in .circles.- Wherefore the query, is, if the old earth were to suddenly stop rotating on its axis, would all human beings walk in cir cles?' - . '. THE. PLANNING COMMISSION CITY planning is an attempt to apply intelligence to the future building and growth of a city. For the city council ' to eliminate the budget item for the city planning commission is. whether the commis sioners realize it or not, dquiva lent to saying that a city which, like Topsy, "just growed," is good enough. The trouble is that a city left to grow unguided will, like New York, sooner or later experience such congestion in transportation. industry, rail and water terminals as will add many millions of dollars to the cost of doing business and slow up to the point of inefficiency every municipal operation. : City planning was once confused with the term "city beautiful." Peo ple thought of it as a scheme to plant flowers, erect statues and en hance the charm of parks. No one who has any appreciation of beauty could quarrel with such an objec tive. But city planning is very much more practical. It deals with the orderly arrangement of the city for efficiency, much as an industrial plant is organized. Conditions pro duced by unguided growth, which past experience has shown are dis astrous to any city, can be obviated by city planning the arrangement of streets, the routing of traffic, the location st bridges, the development of industry, the interrelating of port- railroads and manufactories. City planning on a practical basis calls upon citizens to cooperate and to extend the grasp of their minds beyond their: personal businesses to the point ot seeing the relation of tneir affairs to the city as a whole Such grasp - results in building more yvaluable and permanent city Coupled with the assertion that there should be a. revival of book reading is the pleasant information cropping out of the Portland li Drarys annual report that 250,000 more books were taken from the li brary for Portland reading this year than in any previous year. Perhaps tne revival of book reading is start ing in Portland. WAITING I -T HAS been a - favorite publicity statement ; about Oregon for number of years that the potential Hydroelectric energy in the state ag gregates 3.000,000 horsepower. The General Electric company is now sponsor for a statement that within Oregon are 6,,852,000 horse power of potential hydroelectric en iaie standing; next to Washington and California and be Ing third in the Union in potential power development. There are many other resources in Oregon which likewise need to be but hflf stated In order to seem great. - ' - There are 2,000,000 acres of logged off land waiting for constructive leg islation by which a large portion can be brought under, production. There are arid acres on the plains of East ern Oregon lying idle now because we are putting into dreadnoughts the money that would make produc ing fields and iiomes for families where now the jackrabbit and the coyote hold revelry- ' A woman of 70 was killed in Eu gene, Sunday, by , an' automobile driven by another woman. Did the driver of the luckless car have a driver's license? Do the authorities take pains to ascertain in every ac cident whether the person driving the car has a right to do so? " ONE PLEDGE IT "V in WAS a letter from his brother Germany. . A picture of ' the brother and his family was inclosed, and it revealed the head of the household in a German uniform. The letter said to the brother in America, who is a resident of Port land, that next spring the Bolshevists of Russia are going to overrun Poland, that they will then sweep into Germany, that there they will be joined by hosts of German sol diers and then the cry will go up. 'On to France." France, the letter declares, will be quickly beaten, and then the vic torious Bolshevists will move on to England, where, as in France, native Bolshevists will be waiting to join the victorious advance and fight to install soviet rule on the British Isles. This is, of course, the talk of a soldier in Germany. For weeks, German workmen have been moving to confiscate and sovietize various German industries. Ever since the war, the Spartacans, in their efforts to gain ascendancy, have .kept Ger- many in tumult. Even if it is only a German sol dier's talk, it may be, probably .is. expression of the thought uppermost in Bolshevist minds all over Europe. Only the other day, Lenin was quot ed as being confident of the ulti mate supremacy of sovietism. That he is to send 25,000 speelers of chaos to the United States is the statement of a late article in the Chicago Post. In the late election, 2,000,000 Amer ican citizens voted for Debs, with Debs in jail for -disloyalty to the republic during the war. The dream expressed in the letter of the German soldier to a Portland brother may never come true. It would be a dead dream, were Amer ica formally and officially at Geneva today, to give guidance and leader ship to the League of Nations. Even as it is, the league is some barrier against the advance of Bol shevism and some pledge for the re demption of Europe from chaos. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman have also, involuntarily. shaken the war dust of Russia from their feet. Are we to have a new book called "A Man and a Woman Without a Country" ? CANAL TOLLS AGAIN NEXT to the Versailles treaty, the great impending national issue under the new administration will be, it. appears, the reopened ques tion of Panama canal tolls. When the debate on canal tolls was inflaming the country away back in 1912 and 1913, the public mind was not so clear upon the ex act elements of the situation as it, at least, can be now. America wants a toll-free canal. It would be immensely to the com mercial advantage of America to be able to sertd its coastwise vessels through the canal without payment of tolls. Such a concession and it would be, in effect, a subsidy would help solve the pressing problem of establishing the great, new American merchant marine on a Drofitahlft basis and thereby give America a new leadership in the commerce of the seven seas. A toll-free canal, more locally, would very largely benefit the Pa cific coast by assuring lower rates by w-ater between- the Pacific and Atlantic coasts as an offset to the heavy increases in transcontinental rail rates. But in November, 1901, what is known as the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was ratified and it contains the clause that The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all rations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions . or charges of traffic or otherwise. Ex-President Taff signed the bill of August, 1912. explaining that he had profoundly examined the treaty relations of Great Britain and the United States and that the remis sion of tolls upon coastwise vessels of the United States in passing through the Panama canal was In nowise a violation of the treaty. Great Britain indignantly repudi ated this assertion and spoke of "treaty breakers." Britain's states men made it clear that they had ex pected under the Hay - Pauncefbte treaty to use the canal on exactly the same terms as the United States. An interviewer of John Hay re called that the late American states man, in 1902, had said the treaty was framed with the clear intent' of giving to the United States no con cession in the use of the canal not enjoyed by other nations. Woodrow Wilson, before 2500 farmers' at Washington Park, New Jersey, in August, i 1912, uttered words .which were construed to convey his favor for free tails. - But reading of r this ad dress reveals no direct ' assertion which would embarrass 'his later successful appeal . as president for the repeal of the canal tolls act on the ground that it violated , our treaty with Great Britain.' The . general sentiment of the United States will support now, it is believed, a new act remitting tolls on American coastwise i shipping through the Panama canal, always provided such a measure, neither in letter nor spirit, violates the con tractual relations between this and other nations. " . - At the tinfte of the former dispute over the issue, The Journal was for free tolls for American ships, and it has not changed its opinion. RESPONSIBILITY OF THE G O: P. By Hook and by Crook It Has Achieved a Huge Popular Triumph, and Thus Is Kstopped From Shirking and Evading ; Now It Must Act, From the New York World ' Now that the Republicans have their victory, what do they intend to do about it? At present they seem to be far more bewildered than the Democrats who have been overwhelmed. They have elected a president by unprecedented popular ma jorities. They have' a huge majorityIn the house and complete control of the sen ate. All the responsibilities of govern ment, both In foreign and domestic pol icies, will rest with them. Nothing Can be shirked and nothing can be evaded. But they themselves are no longer sure as to what it all implies. During the last two years they have been building rup the myth that the Wilson administration was to blame for everything that the public grumbled about, and that to Cure all the evils of the country it was necessary only to throw the Democrats out and put the Republicans in. That would make an end to "Wilsonism." Then the cost of living would be automatically reduced, but wages would be higher than ever. The farmers would get more money for their crops, but the consumer would pay less for his food. Taxes would be low ered by the simple process of extending tne activities of the government and made more just by shifting them from the rich to the poor. The peace of the world would be stabilized by refusing to assume any obligations to help stabilize the peace of the world, and everything would be for the best in the best possi ble of universes. Ever since the armistice the Repub lican politicians, led by the Old Guard of the senate, have been engaged in manufacturing discontent throughout the United States. They went about it sys tematically, and when they found that the people were not discontented they Stirred them to discontent. No anarchis tic agitator ever set out more deliberate ly to invent wrongs or to incite popular passion without regard to consequence. Their opportunities, of courie. were very great, because of the inevitable economic results of the war, and they did their work with remarkable skill, assuming that neither morality nor decency nor honesty nor patriotism has any place in party politics. The election returns are the final proof of that skill. J ... "v But they themselves will have to deal with the passions they have inflamed, and they will not be able to do it by abusing Woodrow Wilson. The Amer ican people still have a childlike faith that deep-seated economic troubles can be remedied by , politics and politicians, and -the Republican party has been elo quent in its advocacy of that doctrine. Now it is about to be put to the test. Mr. Harding will have to get off the front porch and begin to deal with the stern realities of a problem in which the United States itself is only one of the factors. All his blissful theories about "America First" will count for nothing in the face of the overwhelming fact that the prosperity and the welfare of the United States are inextricably in volved with the prosperity and welfare of all the other great nations, and that they will go forward or backward to gether. The Republicans are now in a position in which they must do something more than talk and obstruct and denounce and view with alarm and manifest their hatred against President Wiiscn. They must subdue the forces of idiscontent that they have inflamed, lihev must find a way of making and; ktabilizing ine peace mat tney nave so (cunningly and systematically bedeviled. They have torn the very heavens with their boasts that they alone were the great party of constructive government Very well. let them prove it From yesterday on, their words became worthless. Deeds alone wm count. Letters From the People Communications sent to The Journal for publics tion in this department should be written or only one aide of the paper; should not exceed 300 words in length, and must be signed by the writer, whose mail address in full must accom- ui, cvainouuDO, j IN HONOR OF WOODROW WILSON New York, Nov. 10. To the Editor of me Journal There must be many thou sands of devoted adherents of President Wilson who regretted that they were not able to join in the demonstration of loyalty to him made at Washington, isovemoer . We read of how he was brought in his wheeled chair to the east portico of the White House and sat in silence, watching the throng that gath ered on tne lawn to testify to their faith in the League of Nations and the great leader who for it has , fought the good fight even down to the gates of death. Many other men and women the coun try over must long to find expression for their devotion to Mr. Wilson and his Ideals. Would it not be a fitting and acceptable tribute if they would write brief letters to the president assurances of fidelity to what he stands for and the ultimate triumph of his aims? These are dark and disheartening days when he must crave sympathy and affection and loyalty as never before. He is broken in health, cut off from com pan ionship, lonely, uncomplaining, uncon quered and unconquerable) a noble but a tragic figure. Will not the readers of The Journal who revere and honor him, pay him their" personal tribute, write to him ' what is in their hearts, let him know the affection and admiration Which he has Inspired in them? i To give the proposal more definite shape, I would suggest that the letters be sent as a Thanksgiving day message. An Undaunted Idealist NORTH DAKOTA BONDS Emmett Idaho, Nov. 10. To the Editor of -The Journal You state that J. M. Eaer was elected as a Republican in 1916 and 1918 from North Dakota, which iii true. But why, not tell the whole truth that he was elected aa a Repub lican by the Non-partisan league? You gave Judge Staple ton's crazy statement that the state of North Dakota naa soia so many bonds that they could never pay out in fulL Let me state that many of the bonds voted have never been sold, and never will be. The $2,000,000 state bank rbonds are mostly in the bank's vaults., They reduced the interest irom S and 9 per cent to 6. and after paying all running expenses cleared $500 a day and will soon retire all bonds that have been sold, and then further reduce the interest to perhaps SV or 4 per cent Oregon can do likewise, and then there will be no use for any ?4 per cent law." which will put some of their parasites and bloodsuckers to work." , George A. Sprague. ALTERNATIVES FOR HARDING Vancouver, Wash.. Nov. 12. To the Editor of The Journal If scrutiny of Mr. Harding's innermost soul were pos sible it is probable that in its -secret and secluded recesses doubts and - un certainties would be discernible. If our president-elect is an American "In spirit and In truth." then truly his future course must lie between Charybdis and Scylla,i The mantle of Mark Manna bM fallen on the shoulders of Harding. Hanna's soul idol has at last been achieved. Our ballot box is free to Americans and non-Americans i. e., free to Re oubllcans. Democrats, exploiters and foreigners. Numerically, the American political parties are about equally bal anced, i This leaves the balance of power in the hands of non-Americans, and they are not slow in using it Mr. Harding was supported by Americans, yet the force which rendered his election pos sible is pronouncedly non-American. Therefore, if Harding is thoroughly American he must realize that he now stands between the horns of a dilemma. There are three courses open to him he can . serve God. or he may serve Mammon, or he can carry water on both shoulders and pray "Good Lord, rood devil." Which will he do?' Time will telt J. Harold. ALLEGES CIVIL SERVICH INEQUITIES Portland. Nov. 7. To the Editor of The Journal The supposition seems about general among city employes that civil service in Portland is not what it should be,, and that it must be rem edied in some respects. There, is cause for suspicion that there is much par tiality Bhown certain individuals when taking promotion examinations. For instance, in the recent ; examination for battalion chief and captains in- the fire bureau:- This examination is supposed to consist or an actual experience lest. eueh test based on experience obtained in the service. Five years as captain qualifies the candidate to take the bat talion chief examination. In the outcome of " the examination, captains with 20 to 25 years' experience were given low ratings, while captains with . five to seven years service receivea nign rat ings. In the captains' examination, men who have had two to four years' ex perience received passing grades, while men of 10 to 15 years' experience re ceived just a point and in some cases a fraction of a point below 75 per cent which is a passing grade. All ex-service men were given 10 points above their general average. All ; these ex-service men were new in the fire service, with no actual experience in fire fighting. If it i patriotism to give ex-service men 10 points, why is it not justice to give an old head in the service. 10 points for experience? . Of late years examinations for pro motion positions have not been conduct ed within the boundaries of the civil service rules and regulations as desig nated in the city charter. Many -old-time captains and lieutenants never took an examination of any! kind for promo tion, but being the oldest men in their respective stations, were given the posi tions automatically, on the principle of senior service, while today a competitive examination is held and old and ex perienced men are deprived of sufficient points for experience to enable them to obtain a passing grade, and in an ex perience test which we held recently for battalion chiefs and captains they did not receive the points they were entitled to based on actual experience. Written or competitive examinations are little more than . a joke, as tne questions are not of a practical nature and are not based on or pertaining to the duties ot a fire officer or to the duties of a hoseman or any member connected with the bureau. Civil service will be of no use to Portland if allowed to be undermined by political favoritism, such as recom mendations from those of political in fluence such as required of members taking the so-called experience tests In the battalion chief and captains exam ination, held recently. It was not based on experience, but on recommendations of high officials. Men have been ad vanced in the fire bureau for fraternal reasons. Being a brother lodge member has helped many, men to obtain special favors ; also, advance information, spe cial recommendations and other things not sanctioned, by the true principles of civil service rules and I regulations. O. D. D. Olden Oregon Items in Oregon Territory's First Congressional Appropriation. When Oregon was established as a territory by congress, besides providing for the salaries of the territorial offi cials an appropriation of $26,500 was made.': This was apportioned as follows: For public buildings, $5000; for terri torial library, $5000 ; : far lighthouses, $15,000; for contingent expenses, $1500. The salary of the governor, who was also made Indian agent was $3000. Three United States Judges were al lowed $2000 each, territorial secretary, $1500 ; legislators $3 a day and mileage, chief clerk, $5 a day; other officers. $3. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Down on the Membres river In New Mexico in early days Doc Nidespach was appinted jestice of the peace, and then he couldn't be got rid of nohow the po liticians of Silver City maneuvered. He horrified the lawyers, from Santy Fee by settin alongside of the jurymen and argufyin' with 'em till they brung in verdicks accordin' to his idees of things, and bein's-Doc could talk Mexican, In jun. American and some other lingoes he most glnerly brung 'em around to his way of thinkin'. While he busted the statutes made and pervided and- all the rules of Mr. Greehleaf and t'other au thorities, lie most ginerly alius dealt out jestice fully up to what folks got in Santy Fee. ' Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places Ismail Pasha, who was khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879, was responsible for. the composing of "Alda, the great masterpiece of Verdi, according to a New York musical critic. He writes that the khedive, a spendthrift who had heard of Verdi's success with "Rigo-letto,"- "R Trovatore" and "La 1x818,' anxious to secure fame from getting Verdi to compose another masterpiece, paid him $10,000 for the work. When Verdi paused about accepting the offer the khedive directed Marietta Bey, a -Frenchman Bent to Egypt by the British museum to study Egyptology, to outline the plot for "Aida;" The plot prepared by this writer, who bad Egypt's history at his finger tips, was a. marvel,. It COMMENT AID SMALL CHANGE . "It's all here, and it's all true." e e. Rebellion at Budapest is just another Pest Trotsky is airain trotting into public attention. - Crooked oolicemen should wear striped uniforms. j-. I An eight-hour lob too often makes an eight-hour man. "Water sold at $1 a ton." See. now. what prohibition has done! "Pancake shoals." Many a good man has foundered there of-a morning. :,. -...,.- We'd like to enter our pedal pet in the annual Polk counter corn show. " Do you read the market pace? Let tuce have less of this gambling in let tuce. . I ,- "Gale sweeping up from California." That state's forever trying to start something. ! The best-laid clans for a chicken din ner are often shattered by the butcher's price list There's still a saving . grace. The profiteer can't get blood from an empty pOCKetDOOK. j lit will take more than a few Bud dhists to halt the conquests of the Sal vation army. - ! Rtefannson ativa w a can live in the Arctic without buffering from the cold. rtuT, reauy, oiei. n b a uicbswb don't have to experience. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random1 Observations About Town A. J. Bale, manager of te Pacific Coast Biscuit company, willispeak to night on "Citizens of : the Future ; or Problems Our Boys Must Solve," before the Tigard Community club. Mr. Bale will be followed by Frederic Greenwood, manager of the Portland branch of the federal reserve bank, who will speak on the functions of the federal reserve bank and its relation t,o rural life. ! Square shouldered, thick cnested, gray haired, white mustached and as massive and substantial as the granite of his native hills of Scotland, George C. Walker, who with Mrs. Walker has spent the past several months in Port land, making his home at the Multno mah, will spend Christmas and New Years in mid-ocean. Though he hails from Scotland, he calls Australia, Java, Formosa, China and the Straits Settle ments his home, as he has business in terests in all of those places. He and Mrs. Walker will sail from Vancouver, B. C, early in December. Among the guests at the Perkins today are C. E. Walker of Roseburg, J. C. Ingle of Lakeview, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Lisle of Echo, Guy Raymond of FossiL Harley Cheney and Otto Hilke of Con don, R. B. CroBS of Prinevllle, Mr. and Mr. G. B. Smith of Bend, and W. Mc Mananan of Ontario, j J. C. Lowe and Walter K. Taylor, both former mayors of Corvallls and a strong team, are at the Multnomah. . George R. Hyslop and O. D. Chappell, both of Corvallis. are at the Multnomah. W. E. Coman, one of Portland's best known and best loved citizens, is at the Multnomah from Spokane. - Olex. In Gilliam county, is credited with having an even hundred citizens. It has only 98 today, for Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Farr of Olex are at the Perkins. D. L. Hartshorn, who lives on the shore of Wallowa lake, registers from Joseph at the Imperial. 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wegner from the turkey capital of ; the West Oak land, Or. are guests at the Imperial. I Paul Wallace, owner of the Salem waterworks and late of the A. E. F., where he worked up from doughboy to commissioned officer and was wounded while traveling toward the Hun trenches, is a guest at the Imperial. : Ben C. Sheldon of Medford, who can be silent in seven languages when he Wants to, is at the Portland. His friends say he never wants toJ 4 I F. L. Washburn of San Francisco and OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF! THE JOURNAL MAN j By Fred Lockley j i I Additional reminiscences of A. C. Newill while a atudent a Balliol college, Oxford, are recorded by Mr. Locklejr today. In issues of The Journal a little later there will be presented ether articles with Mr. Newill aa subject. ! A. C. Newill, long a resident of Port land and a member of the school board, was born- .at Madras, i India, and was educated in Englantf. j" "i 'When I was at BlundeU's school at Tiverton in Devonshire," said Mr. Newill, "the' famous Benjamin Jowett was master. 'He it is whose translations of Plato and Thucydides are so highly es teemed. Jowett was a: brilliant, lovable but odd character. He talked very little, and when he did he had a squeaky little voice. JV rather presumptuous freshman joined him in his walk after chapel one day. This freshman knew that Jowett was not considered orthodox and. thinking to curry favor with the master, he said. 'In all my reading and Investigation I can find no evidence of a living God.r Jowett seemed absorbed in a brown study. Finally he turned to the. freshman and in an angiy squeak said, 'You will have to find God by 5 o'clock this afternoon or leave school.' The freshman was there next day, so I presume he found evidence of a liv ing God that afternoon. i 'When I was a boy the feeling In England for the French was still one of bitter hostility. Each week we had to write each an essay. A few of the best essays were read aloud.. One of the students in his essay- said that not Withstanding popular opinion to the Contrary the French had some excellent traits of character. Dr. Jowett held up his hand and stopped! the reading and said to the student. "Sir, what is written over the gates of hell? The student was much embarrassed, and stammered. Inspired Verdi to compose the master piece, which was first 1 presented in the Egyptian capital in 1869, incidental to the celebration of the opening of the !j5ue canal, Mariette Bey did not base the plot on any single event In EgypUan history, but., a number of historical scenes were combined.; VAUDEVILLE" TRACED From the New Tors; Bun The Fairest Lady turned to her es cort at the, variety show the other night during the intermission and asked him Where- the word ""vaudeville came irom anyway. ' I ' - " - "Movies' is simple, she ald. Any one can trace the origin .of the word coined by Young America and now gen erally used. The British "cinema" ap plied to cinematograph pictures is also easily traced. It wasn't until next day that the- es- r -'" ' ' ' ; .-' - - '. NEVS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS According to a mile of press reports. Senator Harding has made good. He caught a fish. Tualatin Valley News. The state tax levy will be so high next year that it will make our highest war taxes seem like smaU change by com parison. Eugene Guard. The idea of world peace not even sleeping. It will long as there is danger Of! Is not dead ; not sleep aa the wholesale assassination called war. jSalem States man, j .. . ' . r There Is no lonrer any doubt that President-elect Harding is a typical home with a tale of the big one that got away. Eugene Keglster. i -J.: Salmon are reported to! be dying by the thousands from 'a strange malady. The legislature is not in I session, so it cannot be charged they are being talked to death. Medford Mail-Tribune. i j Dispatches from Salem say it will re quire over $6,000,000 to operate the state for the next two years. Don't the Salem department heads know that prices are coming down? La tlrande Observer. Before the next election comes along it would be a good ida to start a school course on. "The Ballot : 1 Its Use and Abuse." Some of the local voters last week regarded it as a puszle; others as a joke. Hood River News. In all probability we have had the hast Prohi presidential candidate, for the vote was smaller than usual, and prohibition appears to be a disease with Uncle Sam just now. a malady that needs no doctor. Hillsboro Argus. F. M. Rothrock of Spokane, who know the cattle game from alfalfa sandwiches to beef on the block, are at . the Port land. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dixon of Eugene ate making the Portland their tempor ary home. Mr. Dixon Is associaiea with R. A. Booth in the timber business and is also dne of Eugene' well known capitalists and bankers. , :- . To help act as judges of the fine stock gathered here at Portland. Wil liam Hartnett of Chicago, Albert Hill of South Dakota, J. F. Gormly of Chi cago; C. H. Hindman of Denver and Stanley R. Price of Creston, Iowa, are spending the week here. They are at the Portland. E. H. Dewey, owner of thq Dewey Palace hotel at Nampa, is visiting his oldtime Boise friend. R. W. Child, man ager of the Hotel Portland. H. J. Overturf. hailing from Bend, Is at the Portland. "e R, Alexander, a long-time resident of Pendleton, is spending a lay or two in Portland. : C. H. Underwood, druggist at Klamath Falls, with: his wife, is at the imperial David H. Looney. with his wife and k friend. Mrs- Sam Adolph, Is at the Imperial. Looney's Jerseys have long hem famous and he is down here to size up the progress of the other Jer sey men. e Dr. J. W. Cook of Brownsville is here to feel the pulses of the cattle and look at the sheep's tongues at tne siock show. . Mr. and Mrs. Fred Entermfller, from Baker, are at the Imperial. . Clyde E. Nils, a stockman from near Grants Pass, is here to see the stock show. . e .Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hilbert now of Ukiah but formerly of Pendleton, are here to meet old friends and make new M. C. Metz. who calls Pendleton home, Is sojourning at the Imperial. e e D. W. Noble, who when at home In Chehalls helps guide the destiny of the First National bank. Is at the Imperial. W. M. Underwood of the State College of Washington and B. W. Rodenwold of the Oregon Agricultural college are at tli Imperial. j i . . ; H. E. Haslet, county agricultural agent of Douglas, is registered at the Imperial from Roseburg. j 'I really don't know, sir.f ; Jowett said, 'Think, -man, think !' The student's face cleared, and he said, 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here.' 'Not at all. Sir. Nothing of the sort,' said Dr. Jowett. 'Over the gates of hell iis written, "Ici on parle Francaia" (French is spoken here). 1 ' j While I was a student at BlundeU's I attended, one Palm Sun4ay, service at an Episcopal church that was very high church.' They were 'having a procession in which the worshippers were carrying palms, and at the head of the procession was aj moue-colored donkey. I slipped, into tfie' church and took a vacant chair. A; moment later a young woman who had been kneeling sat down and nearly sat In my lap. I laughed aloud. I was asked to remain after the service. My name was taken and I was reported to Dr. Jowett He called me before him and said, 'Do you mean to tell me that you were seized with uncontrollable laughter because a young lady nearly eat In your lap? Childish, sir; very childish conduct.' The memory of it set me to laughing again. Dr. Jowett said, 'I will give you something to laugh : about I will g.-.te you, sir, for six months.' This meant that 1 must be in the gate before 9 o'clock each night I gave the gate porter 5 pounds to be -nearsighted, and all went well. One night I went to a dinner to ijax Muller, who was a great friend of our family. To my horror I was seated near Dr. Jowett We walked back to BlundeU's together, getting in at 11:30. I i-apposed, of course, I should hear from it, but Dr. Jowett was a good sport, and never mentioned it though for a week I was in a state of fear and trembling." " cort who pretended not : to hear the Fairest Lady's question ;about vaude ville, got a chance to look it up. Then he found that the word came from the French "Val de VIre" a valley in Nor mandy where originated many humor ous and satirical drinking songs that became popular alt over France known by the name of the place of their origin. Eventually the word became corrupted to -vaudeville" and was applied to a certain kind of popular song. Its ap plication was limited to such songs until the end of the eighteenth century, when It began to refer also to an entertain ment that included singing and dialogue as well as dancing and variety acting. 'I-'-. ' " ' in i u ! ii in ,.;V A KANSAS THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - : . From the Uulrsne Se - After she got a little used to it how would 'your wife enjoy being a widow? It's sobering question, isn't it, fellows? The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for the . ousy ueaaer OREGON NOTES A bounty of $50 for coyotes Is asked by the ranchers of the Coquille valley. More unemployed men are arriving dally in Salem this fall than at anf other time in the history of the city. Members of the printing trades have organized a Typographical union at Klamath Falls with a membership of 15. , A spur track to facilitate rail ship ments is being constructed at Milling ton by the Oregon Export Lumber com" pany. . n , A fall from the tramway at the Rtllta. Hamilton box factory at Corning proved fatal to Jim Moore, aged 68. of Klamath holla j s. Box shooks for the fruit rllalrterr. around Hood River are to be turned out by a box factory to be established soon at Odell. j In a tastefully decorated window at Woodburn rests a huge pie squasl) weighing 155 pounds, raised by Homef Settlemier. . The Lane county court has issued an order restricting the weight of loads to be hauled over the Mohawk valley road to 2000 pounds. . . The resources of the Klamath State bank, organized and opened 27 montha ?.:at Khunath Falls, hav passed the million-dollar mark. i 'The assessment: roll for Hood Rivef county shows a total value of all prop erty of $8,165,245. a substantial increase over the figures of last year. .KFr.0n1the oW16' cemetery in France, the bodies of the late Sergeant Newma In. rnia,nd r,y IV Chase have ar rlver in Dallas for interment KeIomT 30 acres of ground near New nf,nn",i. l'an!!au harvested 27.66$ pounds of hops. His crop has been con tracted for three years at 40 cents. Hood River citizens are agltatinir a lakyeneirrrd f,?m iiooA "verto Criatf? ensv iLLmidta roa(1 can be bullt with roVoVo cost of less than v i u Or"fron penitentiary minstrels, which closed an engagement of three r.urmance,8 in the auditorium of the mately $?00 "eUed PProxi- The rhamhpr rtf rnm-n-Ma 9 T .1.. view has voted to purchase a 60-acre tract of land adjoining the city limits R 8lte for the construction of a $300.- vvvj uvx iacLory. As an immediate result nf fh t.a er.S nuking Astoria a port of call, mills v vuiin nave Deen enabled to com pete succesnfully in the box trade of the Hawaiian islands. A professional ; tranner will sent by the tate game department to "evemj jocauiies in Lane county to trap beaver that have been damaging prop erty near their habitat. Authority to Increase rates on gas to its patrons at MarsUfield, North Bend, Eugene and Springfield, is asked of the public service commission by the Moun tain States Power company. A man named Hughes, aged about 41 years, working for Mrs. Mary Gregolrt. west of Woodburn, received Internal in juries which resulted in his death when a team ran away and dragged him. WASHINGTON . Between November 1 and 13 liquor fines in Lewis county amounted to $1:500. Nearly 400 horses were taken "In ' a round-up this week in East Selah valley by Lee Taylor) and associates. According to! County Auditor Garrett the primary election and the general election cost Clarke county $9600. . A cooperative Farmer-Labor bank, with a capital of $250,000, will be opened at Yakima January 1. Rev. W. S. Turner, pioneer minister and the oldest living graduate of De Pauw university, is dead at Spokane; aged 94. Three young boys are In jail at Se attle and valuables have been returned valued at 13500, as the result of a police capture. A bill will be Introduced In the next Washington legislature to pension every man 65 years old who has lived in the state 20 years. - An .outbreak of scabies in three bands of sheep In Benton county has been re ported to the office of the bureau of animal industry. While trying to board a moving freight train at Spokane, J. Collins slipped and was crushed to death be neath the wheels. -Appropriations necessary for state In stitutions for the next biennlum total $6,301,765, an Increase of $1,351,782 over the last biennlum. Rev. D. L. McGowan, a Catholio priest was killed at Spokane when his auto plunged over a 200-foot Hangman creek embankment. A Jewelry manufacturing business , is one of the newest industries at Ceri tralia. It will be opened In a few days by S. J. Arneaon. The Toledo telephone system has been sold to C. B. Weatherwax, who Intends to Improve the system and give the patrons continuous service. IDAHO Electors of Pocateilo will vote upon the question of a commission form of government for that city. Idaho county has 1667 farms, accord ing to the 1920 census, as against 1684 in tSlO, a loss of 17 farms. Friends of Governor Davis are boom ing that official for secretary of the in terior in Harding's cabinet Seventy-five per cent of the wheat crop of Latah county is still held by the farmers, who refuse to sell on a de clining market The DoverLumber company of Dover. Idaho, announces its Intention of going out of business. The president says the I. W. W. has cost the corporation $100, 000. . Despondent, over the financial condi tion of the family, Mre. Calvin H. Bert wife of a farmer and mother of elx children, committed suicide near Twin Falls by drinking poison. Secretary Of the Interior Payne has formally) approved contracts for the American Falls storage, in conformity with the plan worked out by the United States reclamation department Portland's People Well Fed Ilcrc Read the Figures -on Meat Consumption. The first startling announcement today is that Pa Portland is some meat eater. It takes some 65.000,000 pounds of meat a year to satisfy his appetite. His annual meat bill is the tidy sum of $18,000,000. No wonder it is (estimated that yt meat animals must be killed every minute of every 10-hour work ing day, year In and year out, in order to supply this city's demands. When Ta Portland, sits down to dinner in the evening, his gener ously ' proportioned table must, be laden with about 100,000 pounds of meat Who :. were those famous trenchermen. Thor and Odin? Well. Pa Portland leaves all such In the shade of their legendary antiquity. The daily consumption of meat' in Portland is 150,000 pounds, which leaves 50,000 pounds the consump tion at breakfast and lunch. The greater proportion of meat is eaten by people of this country at the dinner hour. Portland's dally meat bill Is ap proximately $50,000. This means that for a population , of 258,28$ (which Is the credit extended to us by the last census) we eat on the average slightly more than half as pound per day per capita, or near ly 200 pounds a year Of course, if one deducts the babies and others who do not eat meat the average meat, eater's daily allowance . would be raised to about one pound. The meat dealers say that If se lection of cuts is an index of pros perity, Portland is flourishing. The finer cuts of meat are In the larger "demand.