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BENSON'S RESIGNATION WHETHER general or local con siderations shall control in' state highway work is the main issue raised by the resignation of Commissioner .Benson." Thefe are other differences of , opinion in mat ters of general policy set forth, but the most important one involves the question of the use of state funds in the improvement of roads which now are and will continue to be for Borne years of purely local service. The Importance of the controversy is added to in view of the fact that there are hot enough, jgtate funds In prospect or resources enough to improves the many miles of inter county roads already incorporated in the state system. It should also be considered that the chief source of revenue for state roads is the motor vehicle owner, whose operations are state wide. Justice to him demands that the money should be expended o.i those roads which serve the greater popu lation before being diverted to local projects. By his resignation Commissioner Benson has brought to a head a tendency in the state highway com mission to-drift "away from the safe moorage of state wide interest to the shoals of local influence which will in the end lead to wreck. He has forcibly called to public atten tion a condition which should be corrected. Among men who are o" sufficient .capacity to be on- the state high way commission it is natural there should be differences of opinion, but these differences should not extend ' to the fundamental differentiation of state from local interest. The details of construction furnish a field ia which there may rightly be a divergence of view point but there should bo no compromise when it comes to distinguishing between what will serve the greatest num ber of people. In his opposition to giving prlr orlty to the construction of the Eu- gene-Florence road over the Pacific highway and other main trunk lines : Commissioner Benson is in the right, ''lie could not do otherwise than re sign and thus preserve the consist ency of his record. " . As a njember of the commission from its' organization, Mr. Benson has rendered a valuable service to the state. He was in an ideal posi tion to do so by reason'of his free dom from business Interest and the influences which follow In its wake. To a sound Judgment and broad vision he added the power of being impersonal.. - While the commission ; has made mistakes no one will admit these more quickly than Jilr. Benson -it has accomplished much. Its work? has been placed on sub stantial foundation and has ad vanced beyond the creative period. It has become largely a matter of detail and routine. The only danger ""to be feared henceforth is a yield ing to the constant ' solicitation of local interests which attends all pub- ; He bodies.,. : ,- ," S ' When the Oregon "mist," falls without , audible patter on the wet asphalt, when' the touch of the air from outdoors is like a cares--, when windows are. opened to equalize the temperatures within and without and when .the grass is still green and the rosea are still opening, Port land Is enjoying- typical winter weather." THREE OPINIONS HERE are three opinions ex pressed' after the labor confer ence at Washington Tuesday: Herbert Hoover; "The industrial depression is largely due to the de cline in the export trade." . Samuel Gompers: "Unemploy ment is largely on the increase, due, in part, to the closing- of .factories by employers, who hope, by creating a shortage of Jobs, to ' Induce the workers to return for lower wages." The National Industrial Board, representing, the big employers: 'There are plenty of Jobs to be had by working at a reduced wage." Smaller exports, as Mr. Hoover in dicates, mean fewer articles to be made and less for workers to do. Larger exports mean more articles to be made and more things for work ers to do. Europe, which is too near bankruptcy tb buy much, too pov erty stricken to pay for much and too politically demoralized to go seriously about rebuilding on the site of her war ruins, is not taking our manufactured and farm products to the extent that she would were conditions different. If America were in the League of Nations the settlement of Europe would be enor mously advanced, our exports would increase and our workers have more Jobs. To Mr. Gompers charge that un employment is in part due to the closing down of factories in order to force workers to accept lower wages, . the National Industrial Board, representing big employers, practically pleads guilty by saying there are plenty of. Jobs if workers will take lower wages. By closing their mills the owners create both a scarcity of Jobs and a scarcity of manufactured products. One scarcity will tend to beat down wages and the other tend to hold up prices of factory output. By mak ing this winter one of unemployment ana privation, manufacturers may intend to strike a heavy blow in the effort to cut wages. The forces now at play in this country in the economic adjustment are very determined and very pow erful. The mistake is that many big em ployers will fail to see that living wages' and a fair chance for workers is the true policy, the sane policy and the safe policy. The nation's business will be bigger and in vol ume, the merchant's sales be in creased totals, and the whole busi ness structure be on sounder foun dation only when the working masses receive wage enough to have something to buy with. It may be that Mr. Benson in his fixity of purpose and intense per sonal conviction as to the best state highway policy has not used the necessary diplomacy and tact to h-monize his associates with his views. But he has done a work for which Oregon need build him no other monument. HARNEY'S VOTE THE vote in Harney county on the bird reserve bill was 137tfor and 1314 against. The principle of home rulp is sound. Those who cast their lot in Harney county, .Oregon, or any other county, have a right to live out their lives in their own way except as to me mniiauons necessary in the xr ganization of the state. h There was a wide division of sen timent over the reserve bill. There were claims and counter claims re specting the proposal and its effect in Harney county in case of adop tion. -; : Harney county at present is han dicapped as to communication with the rest of the state. The railroad map has to a large extent cut that district off from trfe rest of Ore gon. Communication between Burns and Boise is a great deal closer than communication between Burns and Portland. Every added square foot of pro ducing land Increases Harney coun ty's ' chances' of securing a trans portation line that will enable its people to reach, or communicate with, points in Oregon. The power to produce and market their prod ucts is a very precious thing to the, people out there, and that fact makes it very easy to understand why voters there were overwhelm ing in their desire to beat a bill which they felt deprived them to a certain extent of their producing resources. -The defeat of the bill was an ob servance of the sane policy of the freest and fullest possible exercise of home rule. The people of Har ney county have a very deep appre ciation of the action ' of the . rest of the state. ' The nearest approach in human form to the slinking, sneaking, cow ardly and repulsive nature of the hyena is the motorist who runs down a pedestrian, and, leaving his vic tim prostrate, hurries on without of fer of assistance.. . ', HOW ABOUT THE DREAMERS? vvtlAT is all this cheap talk ... irym cynics and politicians aoout . our having had too much ueiore me war. during the war ana since the war?t' Really. have we had too much or have "we had too little? Ask the question sincerely,; and let the answer come sincerely, j Recall a few of the things that have gone on in the world, that are still going on, and think on which side of these Issues idealism is al ways found. Does Idealism favor war, greed, immorality, suffering, selfishness? Scarcely. Isn't it rather the people who are not idealists who favor these things, or at least are ; non resistant or receptive to them ? Are our charitable organizations, churches, Sunday schools; and rescue societies outgrowths of too much idealism? Scarcely. Isn't it rather the lack of idealisrn which makes more organizations of this kind necessary?. Idealism is a pure quality in Itself. We cannot mix it with something else and call it practical Idealism. The latter; is a mere hollow: term which self-serving men employ as a subterfuge. 1 The Sermon on the Mount was the vision of a magnificent idealist put in words. The Ten Command ments came from the soul of a great dreamer. Make no mistake about our dreamers and idealists. T They have been found in the vanguard of every age which has come - out of the darkness. Always it has been the dreamers and idealists who have climbed the mountains and relit the lamps of faith. Max Gutt,. of Perth Amboy, mo tored with three invited guests and ended up in collision with another automobile in which all were in jured. Max is now being sued for damages of $25,000 each by his guests. If the practice becomes prev alent, hosts will be fewer and some what more . careful - in driving. A HOME LOAN BANK pHE proposal by Senator Kenyon a or a federal nome loan DanK to relieve the housing "shortage preva lent throiiirhmi t-hft States. is worthy of deep consideration. H.J proposes that the bank be estab- lished to work along the same lines as the farm loan system to pro vide the capital for home building and purchase through long time low interest loans by the government. The senator announces that there is a shortage of 1,000,000 houses in the UniteoT"States and that 20,000, 000 people are living under condi tions that do not provide sanitary safeguards. The marriage rate far exceeds the rate of home building. The country Is becoming a nation of tenants. The stagnation of building opera tions is, of course, due in part to the cost of labor and materials. But on the other hajnd, thousands of people do not own homes because they haven't at hand the capital to purchase or erect them. Marriages of young men of small income are frequent, and they turn to apart ments, flats and rooms for shelter. The. home idea is abandoned or looked to as a future eventuality. The result is a demand for rooms and apartments and a stagnation of building. Were the capital at hand on long time at low Interest, un questionably there would be tens of thousands to take advantage, of the opportunity to own a home, and to become a substantial part of the citizenry of our cities. MR. BENSON SIMON BENSON has been an in defatigable worker for the ad vancement of the Oregon road sys tem. His enthusiasm was an inspiration to men throughout the state, and undoubtedly was a powerful' influ ence in leading the people 'to ex penditures far beyond anything deemed possible a few years ago. Men will agree that his purpose was to serve accordingly, as he saw the light. None will believe that he had other Interest than to create a road system that would be the best and, In the making, ' to provide roads that would be most enduring and best located. His was a service without per sonal interest. He was constantly beyond the reach of private and lo cal influence. His . whole thought was all the state and not a mere part of the state. ' It was a service in spired by love- of his state and by hope to give it distinction for its highway map. Movements must have leaders. Great undertakings must have men of strong; will and extended vision- There will be few if any to dispute that it was an excellent thing for Oregon tha'. Mr. Benson answered the call and served his state so long as a highway commissioner. British legal lights have ruled that "damn" is not swearing, and that it is Just a! 'Vocal sigh." Still, when the neighbors' cats hold high revelry on the backyard fence ' at about 2 o'clock in the morning, the usual resort to that word seems more than a mere "vocal sigh." ; . ; COMING TO OREQON IT WD1L be a privilege for. Oregon I to entertain the National Grange next year. ' : j V ' It is assumed! that Portland will be the Oregon city chosen by the Grange executive committee for the national j meeting, Whether Port land or . not, there will be a hos pitable welcome for the visitors. . Half our exports last year came from American farms. ; This year's corn crop is the largest in the his tory of the country.-and the quality good. Wheat and other products from the 'farm are in large volume. The hope of business and. the basis of permanent prosperity is annually projected, into American life by the farmers of the country. No people who can come to Oregon for, a great convention reflect more per fectly the stability and the enduring spirit of the republic. Tbe Grange is one of the progres sive organizations of farmers. It has "led numerous movements, in cluding the farm loan system and the parcel post, for the improve ment of farm life. The delegations that may come to the national meet ing will have for credentials a long and useful endeavor In behalf of agriculture, the basic industry and the 'fundamental hope 'of America. Oregon will honor herself in enter taining the National Grange, and the National Grange'will honor-Oregon in holding oneof its great gather ings in this state. WHO LEADER OF DEMOCRATS? By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal Washlngton, Nov. 18. How does the election leave the leadershin of th nem. ocratic party? That is a question being uioturaea wun more or , less interest in view of the defeat of Cox. the retire ment of Wilson from the White House ana me recent silence of Bryan. . Officially the party will have no lead er, except in the halls of congress. What is meant is. Who will be most relied upon by the Democratic massen for ro.ir,. sel and for critical comment on the xiraing- administration as its policies develon? ii t-resiaent Wilson, werev in frill WM . . . strength there would be no serious ques tion of anyone else, but it is not ex pected that hewill be in position to par ticipate actively in political affairs or that he will be disposed to do so. He will be in a sense a detached figure, standing above the turmoil; who will be looked to with interest and confidence by a large part of the citizenship at the tense stage of any situation that may arise. ... In the judgment of Bryan is out of it because of the course li" prohibition to the exclusion f practically everything else, and mani fested no interest in the success or de feat of his party. He Still ha a rui. sonal following and what he says al ways arouses Interest, hpt he hardly will ub in position to speak as a party The position of Governor Cox still lies in the future. He has also gained a personal following which may or may not be steadfast in defeat, and which will depend in, strength upon the future. He may be able to impress himself upon the public above anyone else, and some think he will, to such an extent that he will remain as the logical leader for another campaign when the lines may be drawn very differently from those of 1920. Others think Cox will fade as the campaign recedes from memory. Another fipure in the major group is William G. McAdoo, not only because Of the large support he received for the nomination last July, but because of his intimate knowledge of governmental problems. No one within the party not even the president has more in stant attention when he speaks on financial questions and related prob lems of taxation and . railroads, and these are questions in which the pub lic is likely to be keenly Interested in the next few years. When thesje ques tions bob up, the opinion of McAdoo is likely to be sought first of all. . . In congress the outstanding spokes man will be Senator Oscar W. Under wood, minority leader in the senate, whose name is impressed upon the ex isting revenue law, whose abiHty and taci are DOtn Deyond question. A Jartre part of the battlefield in shaping is sues under the new administration will be in the senate, where legislation goes inrougn me process of deliberate de bate and final molding. Events are" shaping themselves' to give Underwood a heavy share in the public attention. with Glass, Hitchcock and Robinson as ms cniet aio.es. Balnbridge Colby, who will soon re tire as secretary of state : John W. Davis, who is preparing to resume law practice in new xorn when he quits as ambassador to ureat Britain, and Homer fc. cummings, former chairman of the national committee, whose speech as temporary cnairman at the San Francisco convention is historic, are others whose counsel wiJI doubtless be regarded and considered. Whether any one leader will stand out at the end of one or two years cannot with certainty be foretold ; but if so. he will surely be one of those here mentioned. Letters From the People I communications sent to Th Journal for publication in this department should be written or only one side or the paper; should not exceed 800 wards in length, and must be signed' by the writer, whose mail address in full must accom pany ma contnDuuon. j VICTIMS OF PROPAGANDA Cherryville, Nov. 15. To the Editor of The Journal It is written that when the heavenly messengers announced the com ing of Christ on the plain of Judea triey sang the glad refrain, -Peace on earth and good will to men," meaning, doubt less, an men or all nations. At. this sublime moment, it is written, "the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for Joy. In tlie fullness of time Christ began to teach this sublime doctrine, and at one time was given a great ovation upon entering Jerusalem, by the Jewish people. After wards, when he rebuked the scribes and Pharisees, the holy men of that day, and overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple, a Dronairanda was started by the priests, and the "peo ple's minds were poisoned until they nounaea nun to aeatn, although he had done them nothing but good all his blameless lire. This cruel death elevated tnriBi in uie minus 01 an manitlnd sine then; but alas! we have never practised his sublime precepts. Coming down to recent times, our president realized that the awful war that was destroying millions of lives and billions of money was the opportune time to once more bring abojjt peace on eaxtn ana gooa win toward all men. Ably assisted by master minds In Amer ica and Europe he laid the foundations for a league of nations. For a time all went well and good people everywhere rejoiced at the sentiment. But alas for the imperfections of human material! An element of envy and partisanship began to develop and President Wilson, who had been lauded, was furiously at tacked by a poisonous propaganda, and the unthinking multitude, who read lit tle and think less, were poisoned by de- ceitful statements and absurd lies until hatred was engendered,, as if he were the greatest criminal of the age. J. P. AverilL SINGLE TAX EXPENSES Portland, Nov. 15. To the Editor of the Journal The lion of privilege is still emitting indignation toward the hapless single tax idealists. It is very careful to inform us that we fell below our percentage over the last vote and then to further inform us that the re turns are not all in yet. It should tell us what last vote it is referring to. enormous sum to submit the measure. submitted four years ago ; for that was not the pure and simple single tax. Our opponents have been telling us all along that measures on taxation in tne past have been camouflage measures look ing toward the single tax. and were de signed to deceive the poor, helpless peo ple, but that this time there was no camouflage. Just the pure George doc trine. And of course that was an tne argument needed to defeat it, since the voters were quite as ill. informed on what George taught as some of the "Jazz" penny-a-liners on groundhog sheets. Arguments were unnecessary iust bluff, and 6neers. But now at last we are told that it costs the state an I enormous sum to Bubmit the measure. How much? The setting up the type is about an hour's work for a printer. The idealists pay for the argument and all the rest. Then, where is the cost to h state? Ah! we have it the ground hog is the state and it costs him mil lions in unrealized Dunco games in. he expects to pull, on on tne ui- heartened. who was willing to mortgage his soul for eternity to save his chil dren. Inasmuch as the possessor of the land of the state dominates everytning if. th otate. we are in possession of the correct psychology. It is costing land monopolists who own the state minions in camDaisrn dope to hypnotize tne peo ple into the belief that to make them tenants ol tne state wouio onus moo ter. To whom tne iana nog or m people? J. K. Hermann. AND THE HORRID MEN LAUGHED From the Kansas City Star How many Missouri-born women walked Into the trap, when they regis tered at the polls Tuesday, into which, Mrs. Gelatine Travers fell so suddenly? Mrs. Travers gave her name and then the registrar asked. "Age?" "Over 21," replied Mrs. Travers cautiously. "Born?" "In Missouri." "How long have you lived in the precinct T' . "One. year.". "In the city?" "Ten years." "In the state?" "Thirty-one years." Olden Oregon History of a Pioneer Newspaper, the Oregon Free Press.. Among the early publications was the Oregon Free Press, a small weekly con ducted by George L. Curry, subsequently governor of the territory. Curry, who had been the first editor of the Oregon Spectator, had run counter to the policy of the Spectator management. After his dismissal as editor of the Spectator, Curry started the Free Press,' in which he could print his personal sentiments. The life of his publication was short from April to December, 1848. It was printed on a home-made press. The display type wats' carved out of wood by hand. Curious Bits of Information i i . 1 1 i i Gleaned From Curious Places The mystery of how rats carry eggs has never been answered, says ' the Scientific American. The famous Amer ican naturalist, John Burroughs, ad mitted that he ' didn't know, . save for stofies he had heard. The fact that rats do get away with many hens' eggs is proved by the finding of whole, un cracked eggs under bam floors, in par titions and other hiding places. Various theories have been advanced. Some say that rats carry the eggs between their chin and forefeet. Others "say they carry the eggs between folds of the skin under the chin. The general theory is that rats work in gangs when carry ing eggs. Uncle Jeff Snow Says : Down in Californy for more'n a year a bunch of scare-throwers has been workin to hamstring the nishative with a contraption to have 25 per cent of the voters sign fer any measure "bout taxes. The way them fellers worked theirselves and other people tryin' to sneak up on the blind side of the nishative would of prevented the world war. It must of cost the patriots of Californy who don't like the nishative hone more'n half a million dollars. But the people of Cal iforny Wasn't so trustful and sleepy as you might of supposed, and they swatted that there scheme by 100,000 majority or sich a matter. The nishative is like a camel and has a sweepin' kick both for 'ards and back'arda LAN P ? Copyright. 13JO. by th COMMENT AND . SMALL CHANGE The police must really make Portland safe for burglars. We know several alleged opera singers we wish could be deported. Whether debt is a blessing or burden depends upon the indebtedness. When you get to your . goal stick around ; It's a wonderful place to be. Now if the League of Nations will de clare internal peace we'll get down to business. ' "President-elect on last lap of his va cation." a newspaper advises. Thought Mrs. Harding was along ! If the price of cereals gets higher than the cost of meat maybe we'll get some of the latter in our breakfast sausage. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town J. C. Cooper of McMinnville, president of the Western Walnut association, is busy these days. "Portland has its share of "nuts' ," said Mr. Copper, ."and they do not all grow on trees ; but that is the kind I am interested in. We have growers from all over the valley on hand. Among the out-of-town men who are in Portland to talk at our meeting aire Professor C. L Lewis of Salem, Charley Trunk of Dundee, John Spurgeon of Clarke county, Washington, Knight Pearcy of Salem, Professor D. F. Fisher of the United States department of agri culture, H. C. Atwell of Forest Grove. W. Ti Brixy of McMinnville, Ferd Groner of Hillsboro, R. A. Booth -of Eu gene and Ben F. Don-is of Eugene. Did you know that the Willamette valley is the only place in the United States where filberts can be grown commer cially?" Roy Ritner, late of the Red Cross in France and bonanza wheat rancher of Umatilla county, is here, to see the fine OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL-MAN By Fred Visitors in- Portland, particularly thoa who Lay come to tne sicca mow, axe m.r. ctief concern today, lis is interested, as always, in bringing together pecpl who ought to know tne another. Two men who will go down into his tory as great men as a result of their work in the world war are Herbert Hoover and ' General Jan . Christian Smuts. General Smuts is premier of South Africa, but In the old days he was the daring, courageous and re sourceful leader of the Boer forces. He said something recently that we should all take to heart. It was this: "Doubt it not that we are at the be ginning of a new century. The old world is dying around us. Let it also die in us. Once more in the history of the hu man raee we hear the Great Creative Snlrit utter there tremendous words. 'Be hold. I make all things new.' Old Ideas of wealth, of property, of class and social relations, of international relations, of moral and spiritual values, are rapidly changing.' The old political formulas sound hollow ; the old landmarks by which we used to steer are disappearing beneath a great flood. The furnace through which -we have passed has melted he hard crust of pur life, and the old fixities and certainties are fluid once more." .,;'' ! . ' Every hotel in Portland Is full and running over. Hallways and sample rooms and even old-time barrooms are fixed up with cots and rented this week. If a monument Is ever erected in Oregon j to O. M. Plummer, the railroad, hotel and restaurant men should certainly dig up liberally, for In making the stock show the great success it has proved O. M. Plummer has certainly added to the bank reU of the railroad men and hotel proprietors, and in an indirect way to that of everyone else in Portland. Best of all. the stock show has encouraged the breeding of better .stock and it lias brought a lot of stockmen from all over the state to PortUnd to get acquainted with one another and with the people of Portland. ... Louis L. Knapp, whose father for more than 50 years has owned the Knapp hotel at Port Orford, in Curry county, ia spending the week in Portland. Fish and deer meat, trout and huckleberries, are parts ef the daily menu down In Curry county, for. Curry has . not as yet a mile of -railroad and -Is' still a country of trails and wagon roads. . . . Dean A. B. Cordley, who since the late '80s has been devoting his life to learn Press IMblishing Co.. (The New York World) NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS . If there isn't an" old-fashioned hell, what becomes of the loafers who take up a busy man's time? Salem Capital Journal. . The beaneries have been out of raisin pies for six months. The' masses are either making their own raisin pies or ooiling down the raisins for cold cure. Medford Mail-Tribune. -. Freight may now be shipped from Port Orford and also brought in much easier, owing to the completion of the new $40,000 wharf on the waterfront. Coquille Valley Sentinel. If there is nothing else exciting Port land can still fight with Seattle, and Pendleton people can always listen to thnxA travelers who tell U8 this Is a much better town than Walla Walla. Pendleton East Oregonlan. stock and to see if there are any gaps in his political fences. W. -S. Ferguson, wheat rancher from Athena, is at the Imperial. H. H. Huron, who came from a coun try where the trout i.re fairly begging to be caught, registers at the Imperial from Imbler, a station on the-La Grande- Joseph branch of the O-W. R. & N. . Mr. and Mrs.1 C. A. Galloway are in town from Elerin. the town that served the delegates of the Portland trade ex cursion with fried chicken and baked apples for breakfast. . Fajfnem Orearon is represented at the Hotel Oreeon bv Walter A. Govet of Halfway Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whitemore of Joseph and Norman Elliott of Baker. .Robert W. Sawyer, publisher, poet and philosopher of Bend, is at the Benson, as are also Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hudson, also of Bend. Lockley ing the life history of bugs, is In Port land. He knows their good habits and their' bad habits. He knows every kind of bug by its first name and many of them by their nicknames, and he knows all their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. For many years he has had- charge of the department of ento mology at O. A. C. 1 ... A. E..Todd of Vancouver. B. C, for merly' mayor of that prosperous, and beautiful city, is in Portland investi gating Oregon's road program and its tourist possibilities. Ten years ago Mr. and Mrs. Todd made a; trip by auto from British Columbia to San Diego and from that day to this he has been one of the most consistent boosters of the sister on the north for -good roads, for telling the tourists of the scenic assets of the West and for cooperation between British Columbia and the Pa cific Northwestern states in exploiting their resources. ' " C. C. Berkely graduated from civil en gineer at Pendleton to manager of the Baldwin Sheep' & Laid company's ranch at Hay Creek in Crook county. That he has qualified as a good stock man is proved by the fact that, though he brought but nine head of cattle from his ranch, he landed, three ribbons. Mrs Berkely is here with her husband, visit ing old-tlftie friends, j, " 3. C. Wooley of Harriburg is in Port land. "I came to Eugene In 1863," said Mr. Wooley. "It was a village in those days. In 1877 I went . up to Eastern Oregon, settling in what was then Grant county, but Is now Harney county. I was there when Pete Stinger started our graveyard by furnishing the first corpse Pete always was handy- with .bis . six-: shooter," ' . ". . . . , Professor C. ',. I. Lewis, formerly of Oregon Agricultural college but now of Salem, js in , Portland for a brief- visits Mr. Lewis is a-firm believer in capital izing Oregon's glorious ' climate, and thinks 'everybody should brag of the soft and frequent rains that make Ore gon a state of such rich and varied re sources. Professor Lewis knows the history of every apple that " grows and can trace it back on its genealogical tree. He is not a believer in the present type of women's dress. He says it. was eating an arp!e In the Garden of Eden that made Eve realise the need of more clothes, and he thinks itis about time to pass tbe apples again. The Oregon Country . Northwest Happenlnes in Brief Form for tb .Busy . Header , ' OREGON NOTES ' ' ' Eleven mills will be the nrobable citv tax levy in Pendleton,for 1921; as against 13 mill for 192Q. . t T. The First National Rink nt ilhintf has been purchased byj Senator Cham- -berlain, S. K. Young and Judge Flynn. Henry Welman was almost Instantly killed at Astoria-when I an oil truck of me union Oil company (struck thd man. Astoria runs next to Portland for -total -of money orders issued in the stale, ac- coramg io omciai recoraa just an nounced. . i Eufirenes new f im ' f terhtinir innaratut for which- the oeoole voted . 125.00 bonds, has arrived from th fact or v in the East. . i . When W. W. Care rrklren from off lea on the first of Jaiuary. he will hava completed 18 years' service as sheriff of Coos county. ; MoodV St Wrltrht WhilA nVIUIno- a wall for the city of Coburg, found piece of fir limbs and hark nun rwr Mnm ih surface of the ground. .News that. his brother, Claude Poscv. a former lieutenant in the royal air i""-. iiau ueen iouna aeaa in ljonaon, was received in a cablegram by E. B. Posey of Eugene, A fine monument pptM in th Union cemetery last week bv the rut. zens of the city .in honor of Frederick iouine, ognor of the cemetery. -. Feellnfr is runninsr hlc-h In tha roe-Inn of .Crawfordsvllle over the result of the election of October 30, when voters de- ciaea to do away with the CraWfords ville district and school. The total vote of Washington county shows the election to the next legisla ture of two candidates living in Beaver ton, Earl Fisher, a school teacher, and A. B. Flint, a farmer. . Although plans have not yet taken ' form, it is practically assured that A. Sternberg will rebuild the Albany tan nery which was destroyed by fire re cently at'a loss of 140,000. , i TaPayers of the 40 districts compris ing Milton and Freewater have voted to bond the Union high school district in the sum of 200.000 for the construction of a new Union high school building. . WASHINGTON e,???116 county will have more than $1,000,000 for road construction In J921. Opium worth $20,000 was found In .the hollow legs of a table shipped to Seattle from Shanghai.' Yakima valley's grain crop this year "in iuisi imu cars, wnicn is about 2 per cent more than last season. According to tii IV ( ra f t r n a ninnass hop man, Yakima valley's 192t) hop crop is worth about 11,900.01 to the growers. noin Mr. and Mrs: IW. ,1. Miller of Sunnyside were badlv iSiurnd In an sntit smashup when their car was run into by a speed fiend. Over 1000 boxes nf 'annles nnrt m nnyV. shed belonging to Wilr Hanks of Iaches were destmved hv flr u.hloh broke out in the shed. An unidentified man wo. Vi!1t nA.e Vader when the auto in which he waa riding skidded in the mud and rolled down a 200-foot embankment. Farmers alone th Knnksn lnlan,k. Empire railway near Palouse are nov obtaining electric lighting and power service from the railway company. . Two Big sawmill plants at Chchalia are running full blast and their longing camps are going with full crews. Th capacity oX- the two mills is 140,000 feet daily. . Elimination of overtime rather than reduction in the number of workers will care for the seasonal slump In the North ern Pacific railway shops at Wash- ington. A lone robber held up J. A. Cole, car rying the day's receipts of a theatre) at Aberdeen, and escaped with $700 of the theatre's money and 75 of Coles personal money. Many flour mills in Washington ar running half capacity, other are closed - -entirely and others are considering closing. Reduction of export ' demand is ascribed as the cause: Placement of men in Jobs has fallen off in tho state at the rate of 45 per cent a week for the last two weeks, according- to W. C. Carpenter, federal employment -director at Spokane. According to the biennial budget sub mitted by the board of control, it will re. quire $6,301,765 to operate tha charitable, reform -nd penal institutions of th state during the next two years. Secretary of State J. Grant II inkle Is now -acting governor of the state, Gov ernor Hrt having left far' parts un known in order to get some .uninter rupted rest prior to the meeting of the legislature. , IDAHO -Offers of $10 for hay are being turned down at Castle Creek, $12. SO being paid in a number of cases. , While attempting to drive out of a' rut in Nampa. Quinter Harris, aged 20, was shot in the rlirht temple by the accidental discharge of a rifle. , A hot lunch will be served, to" all school children at Jerome who remam during the noon hour, sbeginning this week and continuing all winter. The powder house of the state high way co.nmission near Coeur d'Alcne was broken into a few nights ago and about 200 pounds of TNT removed. - . 'starting with only $8000, the Iewia ton Livestock show paid out $40,000 in award, in addition to $40,000 for run ning eKpenoee, and had money left. Andrew Fogarty, a half breed Indian, suffer d a broken -neck, two broken ribs ar d other injuries in an automobile accidtjt near Genesee, and is still liv ing. S. C. Cochran, a Spanish war veteran of Rpert,'hs been granted a pension under tha Sells bill, probably Uts first In th state. The pension calls for ViO fer n onth. ';,-. Seventy-five per cent of the wheat" crop of Latah county is being held by the farmers, who refuse to sell on a de clining market, only $1.46 being offered for sacked Club. ' List of Tracts Valuable for Park Purposes Recently Bought for. the City About a year ago the people of. Portland voted $500,000 i'n bonds with which to acquire additional park areas.. . ' ' ' V During the past year the city has bought 65 acres in St. Johns-suburb, located at St Johns avenue and James street. It is a beautiful spot, similar in contour to Laurelhurst, covered with maples, giant firs and dogwood. It will eventually, become one of ' the most beautiful parks in the city. ! Other purchases Include 7.8 acres at. the foot of Fremont street In Overlook ; the Spencer tract of IS acres at East Seventh and Fremor.t ; the Vers tee g tract of 14.89 acres be tween East Thirty-third and East Thirty-seventh streets near Thomp son ; the Country Club tract of 90 acres adjacent to Rose City Park at East Sixty-second and Tillamook 1 -blocks 16, 18 and 20 in Corvallis addiUon to' the Mount Scott district; about eight acres. betweenEaat Seventy-third - and East Seventy-fourth streets and Fifty-sixth and Fifty ninth avenues southeast : 15 aor-'s in Woodstock at East Forty-sever.th street and Flfty-thlrd avenue south? east; 10 f acres adjoining Creston school on the Powell Valley road : the Buckman tract of 10 area at East , Twelfth and Everett streets ; the Goldsmith tract of two acres at Twenty-sixth and Raleigh etreets. , Tracts which have come into the possession of the" city an will some day be considered are Fulton, at the end of the Terwilllger boulevard; Gammons, at Buffalo and Burrg streets ; Lincoln, at Vancouver and Beach streets. - There -are still other park areas which will be considered tomorrow.