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' And the chief prieMa and serines sought
how they might kill him; for they feared
the people. Luke 22-2. v
THE BENSON PROTEST
THE resignation of Mr'. Benson
from the state highway commis
sion was a protest. ,
The main proposition to which he
objects is the use of state funds on
roads that are not state, roads. He
calls them "political roads."-.
This protest Is well worth general
consideration. Oregon ought hot to
build "political roads," or permit
them to be built.. Washington tried-
.:that plan and a sorry situation came
of it. The . people there are . now
.j paying heavily for the mistake.
: The road program of Oregon is a
gigantic undertaking. It is the
; state's supreme expenditure." The
millions going into the system are
far beyond any enterprise which the
Estate has ever undertaken, and the
men to whom la committed the ex-
penditure of "these millions will be
'tray every principle of honor and be
untrue to every obligation of re
sponsibility if they allowf themselvea
on any account to be drajwn into the
building of "political roads."
; Local communities ought not to
ask for local roads to be" built with
. state funds. Local men ought not
to do highway commissioners the in
justice of bringing local pressure
upon them to induce them to swerve
from their duty of using state funds
clor state highways. When they
drag or drive commissioners through
. ' pressure into schemes of local road
: building, they help to bring the com
mission into 'scandal.
There is another features The
(federal government is one source
from which highway funds are de-
..riyed. Under certain conditions, .a
; 60-50 arrangement between the fed
jeral government and the state is ap
f plied In bearing the cost. The fed
'ral government will not bear any
share on local roads or "political
roads." Whenever the state high
!way commissioners enter upon con--truction
of a road in which 'the
'federal government refuses to par-
' iticipate, it betrays the people of Or
' egon by piling; upon them an un
necessary expense.
( It was the apprehension that
these things would arise in state
road building that Mr. Benson says
caused him to resign. If the possi
bility of tha sort of thing caused
'Mr. Benson to resign, it is certainly
trongly suggestive to all highway
commissioners, present or prospec
tive, to keep -free from such entan
glements. . - -:'''.'.' .
Mri Benson's objections to cement
pavingare Jess consequential. Mr.
Benson is undoubtedly honest in his
belief on that point. , But there are
other men - who hold that ' in ? the
right" locations and' under proper
construction,' cement ia equayy duf-
able. 'J,'4,-r,';QUF(I-':' ."' " ' '
A total of 15S; miles of Pacific
highway remain" to be built. Mis
takes have doubtless been made by
the commission,, but In general, that
"body i has ; met , its responsibilities
worthily, and, as the recent authori
sation of an additional expenditure-of
$10,000,000 shows, has retained the
confidence of . the ; people. .
. It 4a highly" important' that noth
ing, t! done to. forfeit -that, confi
dence! When the great road pro
gram is finally completed, it i hoped
that all the people will be able to
say of the great work, "it is well."
i Returning : from a brilliant re
ception in honor of his election, a
congressman at Long Beach," Cali
fornia, was instantly killed in an au
tomobile accident. ; Blinded by glar-1
ing headlights,' he drove his ma
chine into a heavy , truck standing at
the roadside. When you don't dim
you may cause a killing.
OREGON EGGS
A FEW days ago, a carload of Ore
gon eggs was marketed in New
York at $1-08 a dozen wholesale. It
was the highest price for eggs paid
in the metropolitan market,' and it
was a dollars and ' cents recognition
of the frequently repeated statement
that Oregon's eggs are the best in
the world. ' , "
Add to the evidence of quality
the fact that Oregon's hens produce
on the average about 50 per cent
niore eggs than in any other part
of the country and it can be readily
understood why the
eggs produced
in this state last year were valued
at $58,800,000 morejthan the value
placed on all the vegetables, fruit
or dairy products' produced in the
commonwealth.
The eggs marketed in New Tork
from - Oregon were, jof course, se
lected with great care. The market
ing exploit was performed by the
Oregon Poultry Producers' associa
tion, a recently formed cooperative
marketing organization of actual
poultrymen. ' j
It might be expected that the pay
ment of such unusual ' prices for
Oregon eggs in New York would
stimulate local ambitions and prices.
As a .matter of fact) the same co
operative marketing organization
has announced that I prices will be
lowered 2 cents a dozen wholesale
on Saturday, and that, if necessary,
there will be further decline to pre
vent speculative manipulation of
the "egg market and to avert the
usual December slump also credited
to speculative influence.
. A statement from Manager Upson
of the association furnishes the ex
planation: j
'As an organization of producers it is
to our interest to see that, the commodity
which we produce is j in constant and
consistent demand. t Progressive
cooperative organizations have realized
that their duty is not only to the pro
ducer but to the consumer as well, and
that no organization can continue to
exist which ignores the rights of the con
sumer. We lare lowering the
price and will continue to lower
the price gradually, j in order that
we may rebuild the demand for eggs
and thus prevent the serious slump
which usually takes place in December.
These slumps profit no one except the
speculator. They simply result in. his
acquiring a stock of eggs at the lowest
figures obtainable and the market re
bounds, 5, 6 or 10 cents. We feel
that we. are entitled to the cooperation
of the consuming public in carrying out
this policy. j'
As an evidence of sincerity it is
testified that at the time the usual
"gentlemen's agreement"' was being
entered into relative1 to the price of
eggs, the Producers' Cooperative
association announced firmly that
their maximum; regardless of prices
made by others, would be T8 cents
a dozen. Portland consumers are
the beneficiaries forj as a result, the
price of . eggs here has' not -been
so high as in many other cities.
W. T. Myers, lawyer at Atlanta,
stabbedi one reporter and pointed a
pistol at another bfecause they ap
peared in his office! and asked him
to Join the Red Cross. Wht could
have been his mental attitude? Did
he think there is too much "ideal
ism" in the Red Cross?
THE RAILROADS' S. O. S.
IN PREPARING jfor the annual
1 convention of thej National Rivers
and Harbors congress in iWashing
ton, D. C, December 8, 9 and 10,
SecretaryS. A. Thompson calls at
tention to an admission printed in
the time table of the New York
Central railroad.
Railroads today are the bottle-neck of
the Industrial world. Once they were de
veloped beyond the demands on them.
New industry is being retarded because
the roads cannot meet the demands. It
is unthinkable that Industrial expansion
should be checked at a time when in
tensive production Is so urgently needed.
The bottle-neck must be widened or the
pressure on it be reduced.
The railroads alone cannot handle
the traffic of the nation. Inability
to furnish cars and service ade
quately and high rates help account
for the checking of the nation's busi
ness. For years the railroads "tried to
monopolize the transportation of the
United States. They ambushed
water transportation and choked the
life out of it. When the war emerg
ency came, inland jwaterways were
idle. The boats of the ante-railroad
day were rotting at their docks or
bleaching on the jsands. -Federal
administration at once recognized
the need of supplemental facilities
for transportation, j Out of .the war
experience came-the renewed plans
for the New York lake-to-port canal,
the organization ' of the Mississippi
barge line, the campaign for water
transportation ttonj the Mississippi
to Chicago, and thence by way of
the Great Lakes, and the St. Law
rence to the Atlantic and Europe.,
There was also incorporated in the
transportation act, under the same
inspiration, the ' clause ; which de
clares that it is, the policy of con
gress to aid and sustain water trans
portation in every possible way.
The time has come to take the
opportunity for the development of
water transportation seriouslv. Whv
wait until the development of the
"est has proven Its; railroads un-
equal to their task before providing
the facilities on the Columbia and
its tributaries for the moving of the
heavy and bulk commodities which
constitute the greater part of the
commerce of the ports of the Co
lumbia? j
Water ; transportation should be
developed as the Columbia basin
and the ports of the Columbia fire
developed Or development will lag.
Oregon's minimum quota j of
Christmas seals to furnish funds for
the fight against . tuberculosis is
$39,164. This is said to be only 6
cents " for each man, woman and
child in the state and less than 6
per cent of the $6,000,000 prevent
able -loss ; which annually the state
suffers through deaths from tuber
culosis.
THE RISING TIDE
THE full effect of the warning
contained in Lothrop Stoddard's
recent book, ."The Rising Tide of
Color," may be rejected. His fore
bodings of the fall of white suprem
acy may j be ridiculed. But those
who reject or ridicule cannot faii to
take from his thoughtful, if pessi
mistlc, discussion a new valuation of
the effort to utilize more fully
jthe
the
white man's heritage between
Rockies and the Pacific in
United States.
This great, sparsely populated
the
re-
gion is the expansion area reserved
to the people of the nation. When
the overcrowding of the East shall
force the stream of settlement west
ward, here are waiting vast spaces
which must be prepared for homes
and production, not by Individual
istic, but by communal plaa, Em
ploying all the machinery of devel
opment which modern science jhas
produced.
It is little wonder if other pna
tions in need of expansion area jfor
their congested peoples look with
envious eyes to spots like Oregon,
where there are but seven people
to the square mile. If the plans of
such nations for colonization by
"peaceful penetration" should be
defeated, and if their necessity for
room grows more acute, it is not
difficult i to understand Stoddard's
fear that the white man will be
asked to give an accounting for his
failure to improve his opportunity to
occupy the land".
Sooner or later the law of the
survival of the fittest operates.
Although the white man's resi
dence is limited by climatic, and
other reasons to a limited portion of
the earth's surface, he has actually
obtained political control, at least,
of the greater part of the area, j Of
the S3, 060,000 square miles of land
area, exclusive of the polar regions,
there are but 6,000,000 square miles
under the exclusive control ,of non
white governments. In some coun
tries, as the British in Ind'ia or
Egypt, the white man has.however,
a control about as secure as that of
a man who attempts to block j the
eruption of a volcano by holding a
stove lid m the throat of its crater.
governing instead of being gov
erned, it: is Stoddard's apprehension
that their sheer numbers may be! the
conclusive element in any struggle
that may ensue. ' j
The world's estimated population
is 1,700,000,000, and of these l,i50,
000,000 belong to the colored races,
550,000,000 to the white races.
Among the colored races, more ihan
500,000,000 are yellow, 450,000,000
are brown, 150,000,000 are black
and 40,000,000 are red. The whites
double in 80 years, the yellows and
browns in 60 years and the blacks
in 40 years. "Wherever the white
man goes," says Stoddard, "he at
tempts o Impose the bases of his
orderedrciyilization." He eliminates
tribal war, fights disease, sets up
processes that increase, food produc
tion and improves the facilities of
communication. Thus the incrjease
of "the dominated races is facilitated
and their need of expansion area
rendered more acute.
It is difficult to conceive that the
yellows, the browns, the blacks land
the reds would ever cohere with suf
ficient intelligence, purpose and or
ganization to defeat the white man,
unless he carries' on more intra
white wars that reduce to the minus
point his numbers and resistance.
It is equally difficult to believe that,
while the mind growth of the col
ored races is approaching the point
where they might overcome the
white man' as he is today, the vrhite
man would not be also progressing
and keeping the relative balance of
today.
But, to recur to the first sugges
tion, the discussion does give weight
to the ethnical and economic Irea
sons for moving in upon our own
western land and making such j em
ployment of its resources as will' for
ever silence any outside challenge of
our right to its possession and
use.
Within less than six . years the
sesqucentennial of American -nde
pendence will be celebrated. There
is just about time to learn hoW to
pronounce the word.
TIRES SLIP
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SINCE a pun Is the lowest form
of wit, it will not be more than
suggested that Akron, tire citjy of
the Union, is tired by abnormal
growth and- will use a temporary
slump in the demand for ' automo
bile overshoes to rest and plan more
permanent growth. , :
In 1910, Akron's population! was
69,000 and In 1920, 208.000. In the
same period Akron reached a posi
tion where her people could truth
fully boast they were producing 60
per cent of the . world's supplies of
motor car tires.
s Rubber factories were operated
three shifts a day and so were lodg
ing houses." Tiref companies devel
oped home builditig departments in
order to care for their employes.
Hotel accommodation was at a pre
mium. The announcement on a recent
morning that tires have slumped in
price from 7 to 15 per cent, means
that Akron will slow up and take
stock while surplus tires are being
consumed. Then the "tire oity" will
come back into her own again on a
more substantial and permanent
basis.
To be a patron of the bootleggers'
syndicate may be funny when the
flask 'is passing around, but it will
seem a bootless business, something
like the cold gray dawn of the morn
ing after, to the Portlanders whose
names appear in the police investi
gation. SAVING FIVE THOUSAND
HF I COULD regulate the sleep
1 ing . habits of Chicago I could
save 5000 lives a year," says Health
Commissioner Robinson of the
Windy City. He added:
A curfew, law that would keep chil
dren off the street after 9 at night
would be an excellent thing, not alone
for their health but for their morals.
Most adults would feel better if they
had more sleep.
Napoleon took but five hours for
sleep opt of the 24. If he had slept
more, perhaps, his career would not
have ended at a St. Helena.
Edison drives ahead anywhere
from 16 to 20 hours out of the 24.
He takes an average of only about
five hours for sleep. But Edison is
a superman. The 'rule' for him is
not necessarily a good rule for all.
It is probable that Commissioner
Robinson could save 5000 lives a
year if he could regulate th sleep
ing habits of Chicagoans. Loss. of
sleep is the beginning of shattered
nerves. Loss of sleep makes you
start or be startled when the door
creaks a curtain falls or the woman
next door tunes up her piano in a
burst of jazz. It means that your
nerves are demoralized and that you
are on the way and accelerating your
speed toward six feet of earth or. the
bughouse.
Mothers now put their babes to
bed very early. They have learned
from experience and from science
that with the long sleep the child
fares better, is stronger and more
docile. A curfew law to drive the
older children indoors and to bed
at nine is, as Commissioner Robin
son says, a wonderful measure for
good health and good morals.
It must have been the thought of
the Creator that, in the general
scheme of things, darkness was for
slumber, to which man has added
darkness for criminals.
Official Washington has ruled that
laborers in the state, war and navy
departments, will be penalized if
they discuss other than official busi
ness during working hours. Now let
the rule be widened to include the
holdiers of the ornamental positions
an it will be unnecessary longer to
wear spurs in order to keep the
feet from sliding off the desks.
THE SPORTSMAN'S DAY
EVEN at this early hour there are
comforting assurances in the air
that the next legislative session will
not be a "fish and game legisla
ture." .
There will, indeed, be a fish and
game bill. But the present indica
tion is that it will be brought to
the legislature by the sportsmen
rather than by the politicians. Since
the division of the administration of
commercial fish propagation and the
propagation and protection of game
and game fish, a gratifying relaxa
tion, of attempted political control
of the game department has been
apparent.
Now the rod and gun enthusiasts
are finding it possible to agree on
a shortening of the fishing season,
in order to destroy fewer trout dur
ing the spring spawning season in
the mountain streams and the
autumn spawning in the coast
streams. They agree that small
trout hatcheries should be located
on the streams where the troqt are
released and that the present plan
of hatching the fish in a great cen
tral establishment and attempting to
carry them from 10 to 300 miles is
wasteful and against nature. .
They are willing for a reduction
in the bag limit from 50 to, say, 30
fish a day and might, with a rather
startling realization that a fascinat
ing outdoor sport is threatened with
destruction, consent to increase from
six to height inches in the minimum
length of trout which may be taken.
It has been borne in upon the
anglers that during the years they
have been politically exploited and
sundered by squabbles, the streamsi
have gradually been depopulated of
their finny denizens and the .occa
sional trip for trout has become
more and more disappointing. '
They also know that if mountain
streams are stocked persistently
with trout produced in hatcheries at
headwaters, if the fry are protected
even by measures so extreme as
closing the stream for a year or two,
if the bag limit is lessened and, the
legal length of fish which may be
taken Increased, streams which had
seemed barren of sport "come back"
with marvelous rapidity.
PART-TIME
PEOPLE. .
A Stern but Just Appraisement of
Those Who Flinch at Steady,
Humdrum, Day-ln-and-Day-
, Out Production. v i
' From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Taking the crowd in tne street as
we find them one by one, we see on
every side people who are partly use
ful and partly useless. They start
something with enthusiasm and do not
put it through. They are great at be
ginning. , They beat a drum and sum
mon an army sind postpone the action
until the fortunate moment has gone
by: You can depend on them here and
there. They may be satisfactory per
formers when all conditions favor and
they have things their own way. But
you cannot be quite sure of them. They
may fall you in a pinch. Their elo
quence captivates, their brilliancy in
spires, but when it comes down to
sober, humdrum, day-after-day pro
duction they disappoint They cannot
keep office hours. They cannot ener
gize consecutively. They function by
fits and starts. Do not look to them
for regularity in action or a definite
and punctual delivery.
The able and the Justly distinguished
among the sons of men are those whose
productive labor is not fitful and
casual, but incessant. They do not
wait to go to their work until they
feel like it. If. those who carry the
burden of the world's toil consulted
their moods, things would be at a
standstill. The engineer may not feel
like climbing into his cab: the good
wife may not feel like cooking a meal ;
a man may feel too ill to write books
or paint pictures or build bridges or set
type or sail a ship. A thousand disin
clinations spring up in us to pull us
away from exercise that is not fun.
But the real man says to them all :
"This is something I have to do. Duty
is the overlord of inclination. I cannot
quell my conscience as if it were a
troublesome insect. Some unsubduable
voice within me will not let me rest- I
must be about . my business."
This is a time when honest labor in
some quarters is not in vogue, and pre
texts for sloth are sought and offered
unashamedly. The work is still to be
done, ,and, if some refuse to do tt,
the rest must be all the busier for their
refusal. The places of trust will not
go to the demoralized ; they will go to
those who have shown themselves fit
to be trusted. They will go to . the
ones whose minds and bodies, disci
plined to steady industry, overcome
mountainous obstacles with a minimum
Of waste and friction. Blessed is the
toiler who puts in a full day's work
for a full day's pay ; whose thought
and hand are given undistraoted to the
immediate task ; who is able to con
centrate utterly and say, "This one
thing I do." Such a one is worth sev
era! of those who give but one lobe of
the brain to what they are doing ;
who bestow two fingers where they
should take hold with all the hand.
Their wits and their affections are afar
off. They move as in a dream. Amus
ing they may be in an interlude of so
cial entertainment, but they cannot
stand and hold their own against those
stalwart, valiant souls who give all of
themselves all of the time (with rea
sonable spaces left for play) to the
serious occupation for which they were
set on earth.
Letters From the People
fmblication in thi department ihould be written
on only one side of the paper; should not exceed
800 words in lenirth. and must be signed by the
writer. wboe mail address in full must accom
paoy the contribution.
A STATEMENT BY DR. BILDERBACK
Portland, Nov. 19. To the Bditor of
The Journal In relation to the status
of the Waverly Baby home, I beg to
submit the. following :
It is true that we have sickness at
tha Waverly Baby home. Until Satur
day, November 13, there was no cause
for alarm.
Some of the smaller children for a.
period of a inth gave evidence of a'
slight digestive disturbance, but they
were not critically or dangerously ill.
They were simply not digesting their
food properly. A condition of this kind
is not supposed to be reported to the
city health authorities.
On Saturday, November 13, one of the
smaller children, without any warning,
suddenly became extremely 111, having
a temperature of 106, and died in less
tl.an 24 hours. There was such an ab
sence of physical findings that Dr.
Patrick, the attending physician, asked
Drs. Benson and Menne of the Medical
school to perform an . autopsy. They
did so, and their findings were that
the child died of broncho-pneumonia.
The reason the autopsy was performed
was to ascertain exactly the cause of
death,, and for the protection of the
other children.
In order to know if we were dealing
with the beginning of a feypentery in
fection, Dr. II. J. Sears of the Medical
school kindly gave his services and
made cultures of 19 of the children's
bowel movements. His report was that
all were negative for dysentery. Having
had dysentery at the Waberly baby home
In May, 1913, the medical staff is nat
urally apprehensive of a reoccurrence
and has idone everything that Is possible
to ascertain the cause or origin of the
present illness.
Today j several - physicians, Drs. Ed
mond Labbe. William Knox, and L.
1 toward I Smith, made an investigation
of the baby home and they are all in
accord that the babies are being cared
for efficiently.
It is the opinion of Dr. Robert Benson
that we are probably dealing with a
streptococcus infection, which was the
organism that was responsible for the
high death rate throughout the United
States during the influenza epidemic.
Jt is impossible to say, at the present
time, what the outcome will be at the
home. We may unfortunately lose some
children, but if this , Bhould occur the
board of directors was no more responsi
ble for the infection than the mayor
was for the influenza epidemic
A group of public spirited men and
women; for 25 years, have kept the baby
home alive. During this time they have
accepted unfortunate babies, cared for
them, and in several hundred instances
have had them adopted into good homes.
The doors of the Waverly baby home
have always been open to any child
regardless of creed or color, and, while
an institution is not an Ideal place for
babies, the care and the attention that
they have received at the home have
been infinitely better than they have
ever received before.
The board of : directors, during all
these 5'ears, has raised a large part of
the money for the maintenance of the
home by Belling tags, lead pencils, beg
ging and giving a large part of their
time and energy to the care and better-"
ment of the helpless and unfortunate
children of this state ; and their payment
has been malicious criticism.
: J. B. Bilderbaek, visiting physician,
. Waverly Baby Home.
MR. EDISON'S QUEST
Portland, Nov. 16. To the Editor of
The Journal Many persons are inter
ested in Edison's experiment to deter
mine if it is possible to communicate
with the so-called "unseen world." Edi
son is not a spiritist.' On the contrary.
SCARRED
BGeorge
FAR nobler the sword that is nicked and worn,
Far fairer the flag that is grimy and torn,
Than when, to the battle, fresh they were borne.
He was tried and found true; he stood the test
'Neath whirlwinds of doubt; when all the rest
Crouched down and .submitted, he fought best. 4
'
There 'are wounds on his breast that can never be healed.
There are gashes that bleed and may not be sealed,
But wounded and gashed he won. the field.
And others may dream in their easy chairs,
And point their white hands to the scars he bears,
But the palm arid the, laurel are his not theirs.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
George W. Hayes, well known attorney
of Vale, is a Portland visitor. f "Three
months ago," said Mr. Hayes, "the dairy
men of Washington Wanted to place an
order with the alfalfa growers of Vale
for 1000 tons of baled hay at $30 a ton
laid down, which, deducting; $18 for
ireignt, meant in a ton to me vaie nay
grower. They turned it down. Today ,
they are trying to find a market for
their hay at 8 a ton. The bottom of
the hay market has simply dropped out
of sight." -z
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Herbert Chandler, native son of Baker
county and owner of a 2500 acre ranch
midway between Baker and Haines, is
at the Imperial. 'He raises Herefords,
as did his father before him. His father,
George Chandler, settled near the pres--entjtown
of Baker in 1862, and was one
of Oregon's best known stockmen in the
early days.
.
Ed Coles of Haines, who was awarded
the grand championship on a carload of
steers at the stock Bhow, is visiting Port
land friends.
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Tom Jay of Fossil is a guest at the
Hotel Oregon.
E. V". Mahaffey, well known banker of
Bend, is in Portland for a brief visit,
. .
R. B. Hailey ofJVasco, L. U Ray of
Eugene and C. W. Conroy of Condon
are guests of the Oregon.
R. W. Child, manager of Hotel Port
land, and Li. Q. Swetland of the Per
kins are in Santa Barbara at the Hotel
Men's convention.
Prank Curl, who has been voting the
straight Republican ticket and seeing
that all his friends do likewise since
Pendleton was a stage station on John
Halley's stage line, is spending- a few
days in Portland talking politics.
.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. McComas of Pen
dleton are Portland visitors.
O. P. Hoff, at one time transient farm
hand, later railway employe, merchant
and labor commissioner, now state treas
urer of Oregon, is in the city on business
for the state.
-
E. L. DeLashmutt of Willamina, which
Is the terminus of a Southern Pacific
branch road, is at the Perkins.
A. A. Roberts of Pendleton, where
for the past four years he has been
chief of police, is at the Perkins. ,Mr.
Roberts was a deputy under Zoe Houser
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
("Know a man by the company he keeps" ia
an ancient and moat true adage. Mr. Lockley
today applies it in the nutter of literary com
radeship, edifying books being lauded as friends
that are in some tropecta b.-yoni all others, while
the daily -newspaper ia given ita joat place in
any self -educational scheme.
"Who's your friend?" I heard a young
chap say to his comrade a day or eo
ago. Did you ever stop to think how
much Is involved In that question? The
something in us that survives the muta
tions of time is made or marred by what
we think. Our thoughts are termed and
influenced by those with whom we as
sociate, as well as by what we see and
hear and read. Our character Is formed
by our mental and spiritual food as
much as is our body by our physical
food. We are judged by the company
we keep. Propinquity is the greatest
factor in the choosing of a lifemate ;
hence our associations and friendships
reach beyond the grave 1 and are re
flected in the character ) of- our pos
terity. We cannot choose our relatives,
but we are .free moral agents in the
choice of our friends. We can choose
for our friends the best minds of all
ages. Plato and Socrates, Shakespeare
and Milton, Victor Hugo and Mark
Twain, Stevenson and Homer, and all
the countless host of the illustrious dead,
will talk to us through their books and
become a very part or us.
.No one, Irrespective of age or sex,
need lament the lack of a collegia educa
tion so long as a public library or a
bookstore is accessible. Lincoln's Get
tysburg speech will live as -long as our
race survives, yet his early library con
sisted of the. Bible and Shakespeare. He
read them till they becamea very part
of him. If you will keep Chack of the
time you waste each day you will find
that this spare time properly utilized
will enable you to secure an education.
Tou say books are not always access
ible? All right; you can always get
hold of a magazine or a newspaper. If
you are a discriminating reader you can
learn something of value from every
person you meet and from every pub
lication you get hold of.
For example, during the past two days
I jotted down Just a few of the interest
ing things I ran across in my browsing
in the newspapers. Here are a few of
the Items I find in my notebook : Obregon
will be inaugurated president of Mexico
December L The laws of Japan
allow the policemen to grant divorces.
During the summer of 1900
when I was at Nome it had a population
of over 20,000 ; today its winter popula
tion lis less than 200. In the
early '80s Knut Hamsun was a conductor
on the horse cars on the Halstead street
he, like the majority, of scientists, is
skeptical in regard to theories that are
not substantiated. However, he may
succeed in proving that the nature of
the human mind cannot.be discovered
with scientific instruments.
For thousands of years people have
regarded the mind as being 'if not super
natural at least something that tran
scends nature. - But since science has
proved that the universe is endless in.
time and space, and that no energy is
lost nor matter destroyed there is no
place for a supernatural, so we are
forced to take another tack.
This mind of ours is a natural force
that manifests itself only in connection
with the ehuman brain, which Is inseper
ably connected with the nervous sys
tem, and that, with the body. The body
requires food, clothing and shelter,
which man obtains- from the earth by
social labor. The earth ia part of the
solar system,, which, great as it is, U
Houghton
when Houser was United States mar
shal, and -also served two years under
Jack Mathews. '"The election of Zoe
Houser as sheriff of Umatilla county
at - the recent election was a great
surprise to many, though it did not
surprise me greatly, for there were
three causes that led to the de
feat of Jenks Taylor, brother of Til
Taylor," said Mr. Roberts. "It was a
Republican landslide, for one thing.
Secondly, the bootleggers and moonshine
peddlers had it in for Jenks Taylor be
cause he insisted on enforcing the law
and they got in trouble every time they
broke the law. They worked hard
against him. Thirdly, the prohibitionists
claimed he was not severe enough with
the bootleggers and lawbreakers, so they
also worked against him, and between
them they managed to defeat him."
fee
J. S. Sparks, proprietor of the opera
house at Condon, is in the city to take
in a few shows.
Dr. William T. Phy, native son of
Union county. Is down from Hot. Lake.
Dr., Phy is superintendent of the Hot
Lake sanatorium, which is becoming the
surgical center of the Pacific Northwest,
e
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Llvesley are in
the metropolis from the capital city.
Robert H. Barton of Hood River is
registered at the Benson.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bell, who for many
years have been giving the glad hand
to the traveling public at their hotel, the
Mount Hood at Hood River, are reg
lstered at the Benson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ackerman are
niMti at th Seward. Professor Acker
n ' -
man has worked up from teacher of a
country school to a teacher of teachers
at the Monmouth normal school, of
which he is president, j
Mr. and Mrs. II. F. McCormick of
St. Helens are at the Benson. Mr. Mc
Cormick contriwes to keetf busy manag
ing a few logging camps, a sawmill or
so, and a shipyard which has turned
out scores of well built and seaworthy
ships.
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E. E. Paddock, who endeared himself
to the members of the A. E. F. in France
as a real man and a bully talker, is
down from Hood River.' His job at home
is being a bishop, but overseas he was
a chaplain, willing to work at any old
thing that would bring pleasure or com
fort -to the doughboys. .
Lockley
l line in Chicago. He won the Nobel
priie this year for literature, in com-i
petition with the world. Hog
Island j shipyard cost the government
and that means you and me over $70,
000,000 It is to be closed February 1,
1921. The government is considering a
bid of $4,000,000 foj- it There
were approximately 8.750.000 registered
motor vehicles In use in the world dur
ing 1920; 7,3S8,848 of -them were in use
In the United States. Napoleon
Bonaparte died May 5, 1821. The hun
dredth anniversary of his death will be
celebrated In . Paris. General Pershing,
General feir Douglas Halg, General Diaz
of Italy' and Field Marshal Foch have
been appointed a committee to arrange
for the ceremonies. A watch
has about 17.7 separate parts and 2200
operations are' required to assemble
these parts. Guatamala has
gone dry. New Jersey, will pay
all prisoners for work done in jails or
prison. A. W. Brabham has
succeeded in growing tan colored and
tiark brown cotton. Luther Burbunk
says it Is quite possible to produce coal
black cotton in place of white, thus pro
ducing a natural fast black without
German or other dye. The
United SJatcs government used the
Choctaw language as a secret cipher
on various occasions during the war,
and' the Germans were unable to figure
it out. Boston is the Jargest
wool tenter in the United States: Port
land is second. Portland Is the
largest lumber manufacturing city in
the world. Portland circulates
more books per capita and of a higher :
type than any other city in the United
States.
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Who is your friend? Think 1t over.
And to help you think, read here what
the poet Southey says of books-:
My day tmonf the .dead an paued ;
Aronnd me i behold.
Where'er these casual eyes are east.
The mighty minds of old;
My nerer-failin friends are they
With whom I conreis night and day.-
With tbem I take delight in weal
And seek relief in woe. ...
And while t understand and feel'
How murh to them t owe.
My cheeks hare often been bedewed
With tears of thoughtul graUtude.
My thoughts are with the dead. With thera
I lire in long-past years.
Their virtues loe. their fault condemn.
Partake their griefa aad fears.
And frora'Tff'ir sober lessons find
Instruction with a bumble mind.
My hopes are with the dead. Anon
With them my place will be,
And I wittl them shall trayel on
Through ' all futurity.
Yet learing here a name, I trust.
Which will not pariah in tit dust.
but a finite part of the infinite universe.
Reverse this no , and we find that
things are what they are, only because
of their inter-relations with other things.
Torn away from those they cannot exist.
But and here is the key to the riddle
for the purpose of understanding we
may mentally separate the universe Into
as many parts as we wish and consider
each part as being distinct from and
independent of the others. The trouble
.is that we go on regarding 1 them as
such, and forget that the separation was
a mental formality. Because it does not
follow that, if separated mentally, they
must be so, in fact.
Digestion is a function of the stomach ;
breathing.' of the lungs ; and thinking.
Is a function of the brain. 'We cannot
digest without a stomach, breath with
out lungs, nor think without brains be
cause we cannot conceive of a function
going forward regardless of the organ
that makes 'that hinction possible.
. P. J. McCarty.
The Orcg-on Country
Northwest Happening hi Brief form - for the
Buay Header
OREGON NOTES
"" ".uiii, B enure or uie mantel
roads fund will be $55,000.
Grants Pass has 1330 children of
school aee. an incremin nt mn iur
year. ' T
Til a arhnnl Mti. i t ' . .
3048 children of school ase. Just 200
wi ia yetur s count.
Thft HtAtll Knnrrt rt I I i. .
budget to be presented to the legiKlature.
...-v.. ii. jummiai ueeug lor tn
next biennium at $1000.
Tha It a If p r Tmnm,.Amj.n ,
?k !?n op!.5on " a tract of land it?
v ' na" rormulateu plans for
a park and playground. i
Elbert Dver nt n
give 200 acre of land in 10-acre plots, to
' agree to plant and
raise berries on the tracts.
More than 4.000.000 eBgs have been V
taken from eastern brook trout at Elk K
lake. The egs will he taken to the 1 i
hatchery on Tumalo creek.
Th Doinrlna mM.ni r i .1
viji vuu,"7 'ini uurrau IS
holding mass meetings throughout the
mnntv In . i ...... . . . . r -
n.ir-iiijji. m increase Uie
membership from 135 to 1000.
While hunting ducks last eek Al
fred Johnson of South Inlet in Coos
county, was Bhot in the back by a i-om-
" uou tx ia-ja cancer line.
levied $20,000 for the conduct of the city
government next year, about JBOuo of
which will be used to retire warrants.
- Twn fatal Acrlrianta mtt ryt u t r. f t n
263 Industrial casualties were reported
Biaie inuusirmi accident commis
sion for the week ending November 1 1.
Ten carloads of fine brick have been
sent by the Forest Grove Clay Prod
ucts company to Eugene to be used 'In
the new buildings being put up on the
University of Oregon campus.
A bill will be presented to the next lejt
lslature authorising the state hoard to
become a party in the organUation of a
drainage district covering - about iimm
acre of land within the limits of Salem.
WASHINGTON'
The sum of $175,000 has been voted hr
the city council of Seattle for the Skagit
river power project. . ,
, A black bear weighing 450 pounds w -killed
a few days ago on the N. C.'liall
ranch near Rldgefleld. -i
More than $5,000,000 was paid out to
labor during the few months It took to
harvest the. five main crops of Yakima
valley.
Ernest B. Hegbert is dead at Taooma
rrom injuries received when lie drove
his motorcycle into a team of horses In
a-heavy rain.
Sugar "beet growers and workers of
Yakima valley received $358,000 for beets
delivered at the Toppctush factory dur
ing the past month. t .
Dr. F. A. LaVlolette of Bremerton has
been elected to succeed A. J. Rhodes of '
Seattle as president of the Washington
State Chamber of Commerce..
The Walla Walla county agricultural
and stock fair lacked $468 of paying
its debts following the fair this year.
Last year the fair cleared $0000,
Lumber shipments from I Washington
for the first nine months of the rvreKent
year represent a gain of. 144. 9.(4, r.H4 teet
over the corresponding period in 1919.
Although shot at by the man. Mrs. Guy
C. Williams routed a bandit 'at her1
home' in Seattle and spread the alarm
that resulted in his capture a half -hour
later.
At an enthusiastic meeting at Mwtsop
the Grays Harbor County (Berry Grow
ers' association adopted a coiiMtitution
and by-laws. All present paid initiation
fees of $5.
Louis Glutzman, who had worked 11
years for the Day Lumber company, was
instantly killed- near Sedro-Woolley
when a snag fell from a tree and struck
him on the head.
' Victor Anderson, a 60-year-old farmer.
20 miles from Ellensburg, was murdered
at his home by unknown parties. Thrrw
were evidences that lie had put" up a
heroic battle for his life. 1
IDAHO
Receints for this year from the
bou national forest totalled $4ii.440.'U.
Two carloads of Bonner county, tid
potatoes were sold at Sandpoint at 10t
per cent above the market quotations.
Reports from Moscow "and Mi Cara
mon, where umallpox has rnBfcd fur sev
eral weeks, indicate that the disease l.t
on the wane.
' Rudolph Smith, 17-year-old son of Wil
liam Smith of Potlatcb. went tlnouKh
the ice while-'skatiiiK un the I'uiuu.sa
river and was drowned.
While trying to remove a wheel frnm
the beet elevator at Kexburx, Walter W.
Barney was thrown against a cenent
curb and his back broken, dying shortly
afterward.
During the 1920 grazing season on the
Sawtooth national forest reserve, per
mits were granted to 304 owners for 10.
603 head of cattle and 246814 sheep. Fees
were 12 cents for Bheep and 60 cents
for cattle.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
There is no doubt that folks ian
speak the truth and yit bo 'most awfully
mistook about it There's the new mln-
inter's wife, f'r Instance She told the
Ladies' Aid last week that she heerd
Hannibal Moredell prayln' on his knees
alongside his auto, and while she was too
fur off to understand what ho .iald, she
k no wed he was wrastlln' with the Lord
in fervid prayer. Now- Han hain't bent
nary knee in prayer since he first come
to the Corners in '83. His new second
hand auto, however, has got him on his
knees more'n onct lately, and I reckon
if the new preacher's wife had come a
little cloater she would have not mistook '
his remarks for prayln'.
Figures That Show; Portland
, Is Still Very Much on
the' Church Map.
11 Just for good Sunday reading, de
you happen, to know how many
churches there are in Portland?
Do you have any Idea how many
members the churches have?
Would you believe that there are
243 churches and communions, snd
about 150,000 of the city's people
affiliated with them?
Would you believe, further, that
according to a survey made some
time ago by The Journal ome
60,000 . people go to church In Port
viand -every Sunday?
The Information about the churches
Is furnished The Journal today by
the Rev. Ralph McAfee, executive
secretary of the Portland FedWatlon
of Churches. He gives the church
strength in ISortland as follows:
IVoUetant i ... , 100,000
Catholic .... . ... , 25,000
Jewish ..,.,.,.,.,,. 15,000
Miscellaneoua ................ 10.000
Total . . 1 80.000
In numerical strength tit Protestant
(roups rank as follows:
1. Methodist Episcopal.
2. Presbyterian.
8. Banfiat. .
4,. 1 -others ii.
O. Kpiscapal.
. Congregational.
T. IHsriDles.
s. tinned Brethren,
i The eburche of each denomination are
Christian Scientist, f; Congress tioml, 15:
tHsciplea of Christ, : Imnkard, 1: Epis
copal, 14; ETsngelical Association, 6; Eran-
gelical i Synod. 2 ; Kree Meihodist, S ;
friends, 3; Jewish. 7; Latter Ir Hainur
: IHormon), 1; letter List Saints (Ke
organised), 1 ; Lutheran lix dirisionul,
.18; Methodist pieorl. SO; Methodist
KpIscotmI South, 1 ; Methodirt . Episcopal
W'ealyan. -1: Jiassrene, 5; Irebyterian,
21; Reformed ETangelical. 8; Reformed
Presbyterian, I; Keren th Iay ,AdenUt, 7;
Swedenborgian, i; rnitarisn, 1; United
Brethren, 14; United Evangelical, 8;
United Presbyterian, t ; miscellaneous (roups,
2. ' -
Two hundred and fourteen churches, it
miscellaneous; S43 total.