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Next In lm)orUnre to freedom and justice i popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can ' be per mauantly maintained. J me A. Garfield, j SUPERIOR OREGON THERE is glory for Oregon stock men in the awards at' last week's stock shew. Though pitited against the best livestock producers in seven other states. ! British Columbia, in eluded, they took nearly half ! the prftea. ' . Of the 446 blue ribbons awarded in air classes, Oregon exhibits took 226, or more than half. The seven other states captured only 220, six fewer than Oregon. In the awards, of which there were 107, 52 went to Oregon and 55 to the other states. Oregon won 13 grand championships against the 14 taken by outsiders. This test accurately fixes the su periority of Oregon as a producer of fancy livestock. It is a high' tes timonial to the progressiveness of Oregon men out on the ranches and farms. It is even a better record than, men versed In the livestock lore of the commonwealth supposed the state could make. It is a line of progress that car ries the most glowing promise. As scrub animals disappear before the thoroughbred which, on the same feed, will yield 30 to 60 per cent additional weight, there is profit where there was loss. The old scrub cow that gave 200 pounds of butter fat in a year ate as much or more than the thoroughbred that doubles the butterfat product. In the last 10 or 15 years, Ore gon's progress in the improvement of its livestock has been phenome nal And it will be the same in the coming similar period, for the .start has been made, the stockmen are in action, and the psychology is here. In California, of 235 college stu dents, 37 did not know the name of ,the governor of the state, six thought Hiram Johnson was still governor, land 29 couldn't name either senator i from California. Asked to name members of the president's cabinet, , the answers Included Gompers, Bry an, Roosevelt, McAdoo, Reed : and Blaine. Newspaper reading is a good course for all the outfit to add to their studies. It is a course that naves many from such humiliation .as these students, experienced. BEEN DUCK SHOOTING? THE surface spectacle of duck shooting is not one 'to attract the amateur who is more accurate with a cue and a billiard ball than with a shotgun, ad who is more accus tomed to the footing of asphalt streets than the yielding muck which margins a slough lake near the "Columbia river. " Usually the departure from town comes as the hurried climax of a busy Saturday. When the hard sur face road ends the traction of fear wheels must be strengthened with chains' -which have an unpleasant . habit, of coming off where the mud ' Is deepest and clings most closely to hands and clothing as readjust ments are made. ' i , The shooting shack, reached oftenest after night when one must feel a cautious way among puddles, stumps and every, known incentive to stumbling Is no, palace. Nor are its bunks couches of luxury. If V i ' ;4 1 the decoys are yarded for safety and shelter beneath the building and among its stilt-like -supports, their ceaseless quacking adds little to the repose of the three or four hours allotted for sleep. ; Nor is the abrupt sleepy-eyed awakening long before dawn, just when the full-rigged .ship of dreams is sailing softly over the summer sea of slumber, a particularly zestful moment. If preference, were consistent with good sportsmanship, well rested menials thoroughly accustomed to struggling, elusive .creatures and guano, would have the task of gunny-sacking the decoys preparatory to anchoring them- between the blinds. Eut presently the experience. which classifies the mud and muck and lost rest in the despised cate gory of trifles, begins. The rain thrums softly on the half inch boards that roof the blind. Far across the glimmering water lift the silhouetted trees of a mysterious shore. Im perceptibly at first, day suffuses the shadows of night. The decoys chat ter contentedly as they dive: for the wheat thrown to them, then sud denly break into raucous outcry as they catch the distant note of wild fowl, answering their calls. Before it is light enough to shoot with the aid ''of vision or the per mission of ihe law, the tidbits of the skies dart by on swift wings, or, like airplanes, bank against the wind preparatory to alighting among their false brethren' When the whole scene ,has be come animated with the swinging of the mallards, the darting of the teal and the long-necked approach of widgeon, the whole countryside breaks out into reverberant bom bardment like a before-breakfast sortie of American, dpughboys. Everybody gets from two to ten shots for every cuck that "Nig" later re trieves. The coloneL the Judge, the self-admitted expert and the novice who hasn't shot a gun for 15 years, "acquire an excitement which shows their host that the day is a complete success. After even the industrious little mud hens have taken themselves to safer shores and the party low-gears again through the sticky mud, there is but one .verdict. Duck shooting is the real autumn sport of the tired business man. And so say their families when the mallards and teal, roasted with . old fashioned sage dressing, appear all . savory and brown on the evening dinner table. From a former nine per million of population, automobile killings have increased to 100 per million in 1919 and .an estimated 110 in 1920. It is one death every 31 min utes of the 16 hours people are not asleep. In five years at the present rate of increase, what is to be the answer? Certainly this is true: We cannot long continue 'at such rates of increase. There must be a slack ening of fatalities, or there will be serious trouble later. THAT THIRTEEN THOUSAND THERE were millions of thrills at Corvallis Saturday than ; 13,000 people watched the elevens from the two big state insti tutions grapple in their annual grid iron classic. The gay colors, the seas of young humanity, the college yells and songs and the spectacular shifts of the play as the game went on were ani mated life in its most eruptive mood. The spirit and the enthusiasm, the tense moments when hush is over the great assembly, followed usu ally by storms of yells, and those other times of excitement when the huge gathering rises en masse to its feet all these are parts of scenes cherished in memory by every old college man and woman. Recollection of them is a lure that draws the old grad back to the cam pus. And if he isn't back on the bleachers on the notable day, his ears, at about the right time, are close to the telepjioneand his inter est agog with thie old time college jazz. 1 Some say that football ought not to be played. But they are not of the more than 13,000 who journeyed from all oyer Oregon to be at Cor vallis Saturday. Nor have, many of the objectors been comrades in that college life and heard the call first hand of intercollegiate contests. And, above all, why take out of the lives of those young folks who will have trials enough later on, some of the brightest experiences that the world affords? Football elevens never cheat the fans. They never throw a game. They play to win, and in these mod ern days of corrupted sport, the gridiron gladiators stand four square as a conspicuous example of honest sport. A noted nerve specialist prescribes the punching bag as a better remedy for bad temper than kicking the family cat or beating up the fe. But how about the wife and the cat with all of life's exciting times gone? THE CHILDREN'S SAFETY CITIZEN representatives of the V- local public safety council seek through, addresses at the schools the appointment of a safety committee to serve each student group. . It is: notable that when the chil dren get the public safety idea s into their heads fewer distressing acci dents are reported from the streets They see beyond the beginning of tlie roller coaster ride on the street to the frequent fatal termination of such, adventures. They siop to look before they dash across a thorough fare congested ' with ' automobile travel. Older children gain a new sense of responsibility for the smaller ones. Each time they think twice about doing reckless things they diminish the menace of the city's streets. "I want you to start a movement for a law to prohibit women from driving automobiles,", writes an irate husband, one' year married, to the Chicago Herald. He adds: "With all respect due the feminine sex, driv ing an automobile is one undertak ing they will never acoomplish. They are dumbbells in that line, especially my wife, .When she gets in a pinch she either kills the engine' or steps on the gas when she wants the car to stop. Ninety-nine per cent of ourt-family battles are over the car." If her eye ever alighted on that con tribution, all his former battles were as sounding brass. A RECEIPT FOR GOOD TIMES A UTAH paper quotes A. G. Clark, manager of Associated Indus tries of Oregon, as saying in Salt Lake City that entirely too much of the promotion' energy of the West is used in effort to market raw products. The assertion ought to be applied in Oregon. Population gathers and prosperity abides in centers of manufacture. Oregon's wheat is worth much more to Oregon if ground into flour be fore it is exported to England or the Orient. Men are employed, pay rolls are maintained and the by product feed becomes 'an important sustaining element of the dairy in dustry. A few people, comparatively, are necessary in cutting the giant trees of Oregon's forests, but the sawmill more than doubles the value of the timber, while furniture factories, be sides giving many more people em ployment, multiply by several times the value of the rough lumber. Every manufacturing operation applied to lumber, grain, fruit, fish and meats widens the defensive cir cle which keeps good times at home and hardship at a distance. Table d' hote dinners in New York hotels having been reduced from $4.50 to $2.50, there is a seeming prospect that by and by one can get a small, sardine and a soda cracker for $1 in almost any Gotham hostelry. THE NEW PORT BILL. PORTLAND " should have- a port plan and a port policy. The plan should allow for the city's port needs in the immediate present. But it should also consider definitely the requirements of 50 and 100 years hence. The policy should be the expres sion of determined, aggressive and resultful purpose to get commerce. The whole community' should be thinking in the terms of ships and cargoes. As a prominent Portlander puts it, "It ought to be a public event whenever a ship is launched, a terminal is completed or a new line brought into permanent service here." - Just now the thought of Portland should be given, honestly, broadly and without prejudice or pettiness, to the legislation affecting the Port of Portland which will be submitted to the next legislative session. There was a port bill oh the ballot of the last election. But it was a bill on a crutch. Its terms violated the home rule. It proposed the im position of huge bonded debt on the property of the port district by gen eral vote without direct vote by the people of the port district. The port officials named in the bill became signatories to a pledge that they would not issue any of the bonds without a direct vote of the people affected. This satisfied the ma jority in Multnomah county. But it was not satisfactory to the peo ple in the state outside. The votes of the latter defeated the measure. The affirmative votes of Multnomah county furnish the reason and the encouragement for the proposal to submit a generally satisfactory measure to the legislature. A first step has been taken to make certain that the new bill will go to the legislature backed by the sentiment of Multnomah county. The Chamber of Commerce has ap pointed a committee. "It is to be hoped that fill differences and ar guments cafi be ironed out prior to the meeting of the legislature so that the community can show a united front at -Salem and secure the constructive legislation so badly needed," says President Van Duser of the chamber in words that voice the sentiment of all who are genu ine supporters of port development. The committee appointed repre sents in considerable degree the bus iness, organized labor and woman's club life of the city. It has in its membership more of a leaning to ward conservatism than over-rapid progressiveness. As such . a com mittee seeks to knit together he work of the Committee of Fifteen, the .port bodies and citizens who are interested in port legislation, it should have unanimous cooperation. In 1890 there were only 9120 high school teachers in the United States. Now there are 81,000. Though it is an increase of nearly 900 per cent in a generation, there is still a scarcity of such teachers. There is no stronger index to the progress of our educational system. WTe now have fewur of the old fashioned THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND."OREGON" fathers who, while idly whittling on a dry goods box, were fond of say ing "What was good enough for me is good enough for my children." HARDING AND THE I. C. C. By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor-respondent-of The Journal Washington, Nov. 23. President-elect Harding has conceived a strong dislike of the way the interstate commerce commission has handled the distribution of coal cars. The commission has nulli fied the law made by congress, he de clares, and be ihtends to change the reg ulations it has made. Some of tl5e traffic journals are in clined to poke fun at Harding because of his 'seeming ignorance concerning the functions of the interstate commerce commission and the presidency. Under the law the commission is an independ ent body, part judicial in character, and it reports to congress, not to the presi dent. The president appoints -the com missioners, but the law i gives him no control over its acts, and it is safe to Say that the commission would unani mously fight back if any president should try to tell it what to ' do. Getting back to the question of car distribution, it may be noted that the commissioner primarily : in charge is Commissioner Clyde B. Aitchison of Oregon, who is a Republican. The com mission as a whole assumes responsi bility for its orders and. regulations, of course, and so far as known it is unani mous, but Commissioner Aitchison is the one directly in chargo and the one with whom the contending interests usually deal. The question now being asked is whether Mr. Harding will carry his coal car grudge to the point of refusing, re appointment to Commissioner Aitctnson, whose term will expir.e at the end of next year. He has used rather strong language in denouncing the commission and has even intimated that "the ad ministration" was . responsible for hav ing the c-ommistiion issue the regulations it did. This charge has been expressly denied by J. P. Tumulty, secretary to the president, and those- who are In touch with the commission's affairs know that it is entirely unfounded. Senator Harding voiced hig critieism n a speech at Terre Haute, Ind., where ie praised the Esoh-Cummins transpor- he praised the Esoh-Cummins transpor-! tation act. but alleged that parts of it were set aside bv the administration. which "refused to enforce the specific provisions of the law." He continued : "The interstate commerce commission. Charged with administration of the law, assumed to set aside and nullify the clear and specific provision we had made for equitable car distribution and to continue the old system of favoritism to those mines holding contracts for railroad coal. There was absolutely no justification for this, for the commis sion had nJ authority whatever to thrust aside the specific mandate of the law and substitute its own conflicting regu lations. "I want to say to you that when I become president and a Republican ad ministration assumes the duty of en forcing the laws, this law is going to be enforced in the spirit in which it ws written." Those . conversant with the situation say that Mr. Harding will ultimately have facts laid before him which will convince him : First, that the administration has neither influenced nor attempted to in fluence the interstate commerce com mission in the performancf of its duties. Second, that the commission, acting for itself and as required by law, reached a conclusion as to the meaning of the law which does hot agree with what Mr. Harding calls its "clear mean ing," and that the commrssion's con struction has so far been upheld by the courts. Third, Mr. Harding and the Republican administration has no authority to tell the commission what regulations it shall make, and that if he attempts the role of dictator there will be a lot of fur flying between the capitol and the White House. If Mr. Harding is convinced on these points, as he likely will be, will he be inclined to wipe out the ,slate, or will his indignation against the commission ers who adopted a construction of the law different from his own lead him to make new selections when the terms of the present commissioners expire, es pecially in the case of Aitchison, who is most prominently identified with the coal car distribution orders? The term of Commissioner Robert W. Woolley of Virginia expires this year. He has been heretofore active in Demo cratic politics and favored extension of government railroad control. Not long ago in a speech in Chicago he declared that since the roads were returned -to private control they have been more ex pensive to the people than under gov ernment control. It is freely predicted that if President Wyson appoints him he will not be confirmed, and doubt is expressed that he will be reappointed. Letters From the People Communications eenjt to The Journal for THibliration in thia department should be written on only one side of the paper; should not exceed 300 words in Jeneth, and must be signed by the writer, whose mail address in full must accom pany the contribution. DEFENDS SOVIET RUSSIA Portland, Nov. 17. To the Editor of The Journal In The Journal of last Saturday appeared an article that makes interesting reading for one who keeps in touch with Soviet Russia through one of its own organs. I quote from The Journal's article this significant pas sage : - In London the terrific battle for the Crimea is being watched with compara tive equanimity, but Paris dispatches have reflected grave alarm, for Wrangel is the particular protege of the French. Upon him the French have pinned their hopes for recovery of the millions bor rowed from France by the czarist regime." This correspondent should be incon tinently silenced for his frank acknowl edgment that the entente, perhaps especially France, wars on Russia in order to make the Russians stand for the bad debts of a government they have repudiated, and that not for the French people, but for international stock gamblers. This much truth goes far. not only to explain but to compensate" somewhat for the campaign of foolish, baseless reports with which the Amer ican press has fed its readers regarding Soviet Russia. It shames and angers any decent American believer in fair play tht the only government in Europe which has consistently stuck to the principle of' "self-determination -of small peoples," and which fights not the peo ple of Poland or of any other country, but only their corrupt, avaricious gov ernments, should be the target of such end o much vile mudslinging by the gr at American press. Against tremendous Odds within and without, Soviet Russia has entered upon its third year. This from the Military Review by Lieutenant Colonel B. Rous tam Bek r "The Red army of the work ers and peasants is led by the wqrkers, by the most crass-conscious revolution ary Communists, and there, is a close connection between the men and their comrade-commanders. Quite the con trary can be said of our enemies. Their armies are led by officers who are, most conscious representatives of bour geois interests, therefore the progress of the struggle unites and . temper J the Red army, "while in the capitalistic armies it results in disorganization and collapse, a truth revealed during three years of armed intervention and civil war in Russia. Three years passed for Soviet Russia in uninterrupted fightmg on several fronts. At one time, during 1919, there were in Soviet Russia 13 battlefronts. One after another the enemies, of the Russian proletariat ap peared and vanished before' the Red army. ' The former 13 fronts are now reduced to one, the Crimean front, where the last act of the bloody drama is drawing to a close." The above was written long before this Wrangel defeat. With a record like this, nations that are fighting, not for hu manity but for interest-bearing bonds, may as well give up. They have the same chance to win that England had in our Revolution of 1778. E. F. Baldwin. GUM . Portland, Nov. 16. To the Editor of The Journal Now that we have, the election off our minds and the pressure .upon your space has somewhat eased up perhaps we may be permitted, through your kindness, to again call public at tention to an intolerably disgusting and potentially unsanitary condition in our public dining rooms and restaurants that arises from the many patrons' habit of expropriating their wads of gum. into which they have assiduously incorpor ated any possible disease germs lurking in their mouths, by sticking them to the legs and on the undersides of the tables before beginning their meals, whence they are appropriated by children, be come attached to the clothing of others, or remain indefinitely a menace or a revolting suggestion to those eating aft erward at the same table : or if not that, then by ejecting them on the sidewalks and streets to be picked up by the shoes of others, carried home and transferred to carpets and floors where children play. We who are "compelled to eat evey day in restaurants are paying a good price for what we get, and it is a shame that the proprietors have so little regard for their patrons that they will permit such rotten conditions to exist condi tions from which there seems to be no escape, for we have tried the high and the low, and they have been .found to be all alike in this respect. On the sidewalks and streets anyone may notice hundreds of black spots an , nctl or so ln diameter, which, if e ! lne?. .w5.u Prove to bediscarded xam- lnea- J"1 Prove lo bediscarded gum ! wads beln& s'owly worn out and carried I awa' nurrying reel, ana eacn one a testimonial to someone's thoughtless ness, or indifference. When it is con sidered that the substance from which gum is made is practically the same whereby the wealthier Egyptians pre served their dead imperishable for thou sands of years, the fact that the danger from communicating diseases from the mouth is so great that even the kissing of the baby, little or big, is under a ban, and that into .this imperishable medium there is every opportunity for the lodgment of any possible disease germs in the mouth, one may be per mitted to question the superior import ance of placing exposed food under pro tection, covering sugar bowls and the like, to peeing to it that the law re specting keeping furniture clean and sanitary in eating places is enforced. O. G. Hughson. WOODROW WILSON'S IDEALISM Eugene, Nov. 20.' To the Editor of The Journal. American history has produced to date five preeminantly great men : Washington, the father of his country : Lincoln, vilified, abused and finally assassinated, now recognized as the savior of the union and abolisher of slavery ; Walt Whitman, Lincoln's co-worker, the poet of democracy, who was. able to express in words the. mean ing of democracy and inspire the Ameri can people "to tiphold its principles with their lives and their fortunes ; Roosevelt, whose vision saw the necessity for pro gressive legislation and who had the courage to risk the disruption of his party for the good of his country : Woodrow Wilson, who kept us out of war until danger of democracy was threatened, then led the world to its rescue. . Woodrow Wilson stands today with his feet on the rock of ages the truth with vision to see what the world needs and' in time must have. He went to Europe to get facts first hand, and re turned with a treaty so. near perfection that it stirred the jealousies of his po litical enemies and united them in his opposition,, with the result that he was betrayed and vilified, even as all other reformers have been betrayed and vili fied. One of the handicaps of popular government is the fact that when knaves and fools unite they constitute the ma jority, and in this, the best government on earth, majorities must rule.. President Wilson may fail to get America into the. League of Nations, where we belong, but his patriotism, his loyalty to the human race, his fidelity to principles of world democracy, will place his name among the world's great est men. Four years from now the name of Woodrow Wilson will be the rallying cry of democracy. The League of Na- tions, as prepared by the "best minds," including those of our own country, is functioning for the good of the world, including ourselves, and President Wil son will receive due credit for, his share In its formation. George Melvin Miller.. ( Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious P"lace Niagara Falls is not the greatest cata ract in the world. The greatest cataract is said to be on the Ignazu river, which partly separates Brazil and Argentina. The precipice over which, the river plunges Is 210 feet high, that of Niagara being 167 feet The cataract is 13.123 feet wide, or about two and a half times as wide as Niagara. It is estimated that 100,000.000 tons of water pass over Ni agara in one hour. A like estimate gives the falls of Ignazu 140,000,000 tons. Olden Oregon Flood of 1861 on the Entire Coast Never Since .Equaled. In the latter part of November, 1861. heavy rains fell, extending along the coast from, what Is now British Colum bia to Southern California. A flood fol lowed that has never been approached since. In the Willamette and Sacra mento "valleys the accumulations of in dustry were wiped out. Houses and barns with their contents were washed away and livestock was drowned. A number of human lives were lost and many were endangered. At Salem the river ran through the town to a depth of 4 feet. Many buildings at Oregon City were carried away. Linn City was swept clean of houses, as were Ca nemah and Champoeg. The Umpqua river carried away the lower portion of Scottsburg. From October to March the rainfall was 71.60 inches. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The Corners Community club is much interested in these here .back to normalcy price sales of cloze, but as Bob Delancy told 'em-at the last meetln', there's a ff r hundred per cent more drops due "ure we arrive plum back. He bought him a Sunday suit in 1914 fer $12.97 of a Portland dealer that wasn't ruined in business, nuther, by sellln' of 'em at that figger, and Bob don't calklate to buy him nary nuther Sunday suit till nor malcy hits that there same spot. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE . "Somewhere the sun Is shining." Speeding automobile racing street car the funeral dirge. 'Twas a sorry day for Erin when bul lets replaced bricks. . , If complete justice were available Would you seek or shun it? Five ex-service men at Kelso have re enlisted. They've been married. '. y Certain thieves have never heJkd that talk about "poorasa churcji mouse." There isn't nearly so much "mental" as temper" in temperamental people. "Senator Harding seasick, but won't give up," a news report says. Shucks, he s not seasick ! .- Who wouldn't delight in life on a po tato farm when the darn things are worth their weight in gold ! If we could -tie our dreams to the en erK'?5 3l a dav'8 wasted words, there would be no need to hitch our wagons to the stars. .i a "Fo,r God8 ake, take us back to America '." Km ma CJoldinan cries. Emma, thou hast taken the name of the Lord in vain. x "There is such a thing as being-too proud that much sounds familiar to accept the unearned bequest of a fond father s will which makes the .action of the Buzzards Bay man most unfamiliar. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL' : ; 4 1 Random Observations About Town "If every housewife in Portland and Oregon would insist on brooms made here in Oregon," said Roy Heath, "there would never be any question of our fac tories going elsewhere. Suppose our factory should burn down, what real reason could we give for rebuilding it here, when we sell fewer brooms to Portland dealers than we sell in Seattle; San Francisco or Lop Angeles? If the brooms made here were more 'expensive or of poorer quality than those shipped In, I could understand it, but there i is no complaint as to either price or qual ity on Oregon-made goods. The Port land dealers like to carry exclusive lines, and the buyers for the department stores fail to heed the instructions of the department store owners, and buy else where. We are using here in Portland large quantities of brooms made by con victs in the Middle Western peniten tiaries, which, of course, is one reason why we do not have, larger pay rolls here in Oregon. If Oregon (people would give the preference to Oregon-made goods of every description, we need have no anxiety as to the continuance of good times, for the pay roll dollar stays here, to be spent over and over, bringing prosperity to all of us." - Captain E. G. , Barker of the Royal air force, whose home is in London, is a guest at the Seward. The men who made good at cricket and football, at boxing and riding after the hounds, took to the air shortly after August 4, 1914, and were soon as- expert in the fascinating and dangerous game of scouting, bombing and combat work as they had been at the sports of school and college. The lives of thousands of our boys were saved because of the splendid protection from the air afforded by the British airmen Kinney Warner. welI-known sheep man of i'ilot Rock, is a Portland vis itor. In Great Britain a man cannot qualify for the forestry service without having won a degree at a university and hav ing majored in some science.- Then he Is given two years' additional training in forestry work, the result being 'that I the men of the forestry service in In dia, Bur malj and the other British pos sessions are men of high type. A group of young men from England are now in Portland studying American methods of logging and lumbering. Plans are on foot to adopt many of the methods used in Oregon and Washington, to get out the feak and other timber of India for shipment, eliminating as far as pos sible the needlessly wasteful methods practiced In the past here in Oregon and Washington. T. K. Jones, G. W. Hould ing, E. C. Williams, all British forestry men, are at the Seward, and E. S- Daw son and P. R, Duncan will join them here. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Rogers of India are, also at the Seward. For many years Mr, Rogers was chief of the for estry service in Burmah and later was one of the administrative officials: in the forestry service ln India, Miss Avis Lobdell has returned from Seattle, where she superintended Re cently the installation of a rest room OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley In Portland an nundry men of alien birth who know the world's bet country when they see it. In peice and under protection they are prospering, nd they show their satisticUon with their lot in a new land by tendine for their , wiT, children and othe( near relatiyea. Tha Journal Travel Bureau ia an instrumentality which these residtmU appreciate and of whifch they are makins good use. ai appears from lr. Uockley't report of what Manager Smith ay of recent transportation transactions. 1 Bias Balich works for the Northern Pacific Terminal company. "It will cost me an even thousand dollars to bring my wife and my two girls, Stella and Eva, from Jugo-Slavia," said Mr. Bilich. "I hoped to bring my father anu mother, but my father died during the war and my mother is quite old and would rather die among her old friends and acquain tances in the old country. Many of my friends -are prepaying the fare of the'ir people from Europe to Portland, and, of course, th same thing is true, all over the country. Tou people wno were born in this country have many complaints to make of It, but we like it so well that we are sending for our people to come, for we have foimd it the land of oppor tunity." The gates -at Ellis Island swing wide and a vast number of prospective citi zens are pouring Into "the Land of Promise America," "Yes," said Dorsey B. Smith, manager of The Journal Travel Bureau, "they are keeping me busy' with their prepaying of the passages of their relatives to America. Here look at my book. There is a good story in every name on that list.-. , Tarpko Todeff, 194 Fourteenth street, works for the North ern Pacific Terminal company. He is a Serbian. He has Just brought Kit his wife and daughter from Tetova, Sebia, and his father, Todor Mishkov, is now in Paris on tiis way. here from Serbia. "I. J". Buneff, a merchant at 115 North Fourteenth street, has prepaid the; fare of his cousin, Bunevich. who also lives at Tetova, Serbia. Mrs. George Babich of 459 Putriam street has sent for ner jsisier- ana ner brother. Katrine and Mecel Slavich. from Jugo-Slavia. From the same neighborhood I am bring ing Miss Ahica Belik, Mies Manda Jela vie. Miss A. TolJ. Joseph Visticia and Marion Beros Matin.- From Prizren, Serbia, I am bringing members of three families to join their people, here in Portland Mrs. Yevra Dushan and daughter, Srpka ; Krsta Tovanovich, and Mrs. Gota Mllosh and her daughter. Slobodka. Joseph A. Goldsmith of A USUt X ," NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS - Highrr phone rates are to be asked, but they can hardlv be justified by scarcity of talk. Eugene Register, Now the city of Albany has a lawsuit on its hands. Somebody is always tak ing the joy out of life, or putting it In. according as you view the matter. Albany Democrat. - Here in Coos county a lot of us are bemoaning -the fact the levies are bo high, but what is happening to us is reflected- in the. newspapers published elsewhere. Marshfield News. . ... Some people used to argu that the terminal at Rieth would be moved. The big permanent improvements being made there shows what the railroad company thinks about such reports. Pendleton East Oregonian. The way the . strawberry industry of the Salem district is growing, we will soon be able to jjive a dish of strawber ries and cream to every living man and woman in the world. Salem Statesman. The public market todav -was .'a Jim dandy, as the high school freshmen say, with all kinds of meat and fine vege tables, especially cauliflower and celory, a ton of oabbape and plenty of ripe and green tomatoes. Medford Mail-Tribune. A former craduate-of the University of Oregon came all thiway from .the Philippines to attend the annual home coming exercises. And, best of ' all. he felt that he had Fot his money's worth by the end of yie week. Eugene Guard. at the depot for the employes of the O-W. R. & N. "The time has come when employers and employes alike re alise that their interests are mutual," said Miss Lobdell. "Workers are no longer regarded as machinery to bo scrapped when they have slowed down. The new policy is to make them part ners and co-workers in the job of serv ing the public." m m P. H. Peters, of Spray is" at the Hotel Oregon. Spray is one of the smaller trading centers of Wheeler county and is on the John Day river. It is on a gofrd auto and wagon road and is about 00 miles southeast from Condon. . J. J. Kenny of Lpona, Douglas coun ty, p at the Oregon. B, Wilkinson, whose home is at Shan iko, is transacting business in Portland. Shaniko is the terminus of one of the crookedest railroads in the West. 1 In places the engineer and the rear brake man can almost shake hands with each other, and a good deal of the time the lassengers don't know whether they ars coming or going. - Mr. and Mrs. Jack McAfee of Dia mond are registered at the Oregon. The following well known residents of Eastern Oregon are registered at the Benson: Glen C. DudU-y of Athena, Fred Stiewer of Pendleton, and Dr. J. C. Shields of Baker. William Pollman, banker and stock man of Baker, is at tve Imperial. Mrs. G. II. Skinner of Anchorage". Alaska, is a guest at the Hotel Port land. David II. .Nelson, prosperous wheat rancher from Umatilla county, is at the Portland, le registers from the Itound Up city. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bedell Hervey are at the Multnomah. "A month or so ago 1 sold my hotel, the San Carlos, at Pensacola, FJa,," said Mr. Hervey, "and 1 am looking over the. West for a new location. My father was also a hotel man and was the dean of the profession in the South. I ran a hotel for some years at Mobile. Mobile sent 150 Shrlners to Portland and most of them are coming back to see more of the Oregon country. They fell in love with Portland." Harney county rancher and all aroun good fellow. Bill Hanley, who . is con stantly being asked his views on prohi bition under the Impression that he is William Jennings Bryan, that ardent apostle of prohibition and reform, is at the Multnomah. . Ralph Howland, Ions time resident ol Pendleton, now in the grocery business but formerly In the Pendleton post office, is at tb Imimrial. Eric V. Ilauser, proprietor of the Multnomah hotel, returned Sunday night from St. Paul, wh.ere he attended the wedding of his son Eric junior to Miss Marjorie Davison. The bride and 'groom were schoolmates in St. Paul. Klamath Falls has sent me the money to bring over hi3mot:ier and sitter and a cousin from, Czecho-SIovakia. . "Many of Portland's Polish residents are sending for their relatives. Mrs. Rosa Isenstein is prepaying the fares of her sister and her three children. Mrs. Adolph Berg is bringing her sister' from Danzig. Moris and Abraham Iiosenfeld of this city are bringing their father, mother and sister from Poland, and Mor ris Chused is bringing his wife and daughter from the same neighborhood. .LJBrot has sent for his brother, C M. A. Brot, and his wife, in Poland. Max Dreall has sent for his wife's sister. Sura Kogot, and her daughters, Chena and Raijan. Here is a list of over 40 peo ple hailing from Bulgaria. Koumania, Italy. Poland, Germany, Serbia, France, Switzerland, Australia ' and Syria, who have come to Portland in the last few months. ,. . ' ' What's ihat? Yes, we bring people to Portland from as far away as Syria. Here is an order on my books right now from Jacob Jwayad of Portland for the bringing of his two children from Syria. They come to us from all points of the compass. Here is the order for Mrs. Bertha Tengatinle and son anfl daugh ter to come from France. Here, as you can see, Mrs. Sam Weston Is bringing her sister, Kttel Kuzminas. from Lithu ania. Not long ago I sold a -ticket to James Dlmitere of r05 Bostwick street for Serbia. He went there to brlndr to Portland five families, three of them be ing relatives of members of the firm op erating the White Palace bakery. He will bring back with him Mrs. John Sykes and son, Mrs. Bojinoff and son and Mrs. Stafanoff and son, and two other families. " "'One of the citizens of Oregon who will mark this Thanksgiving day aa a red letter , day in his calendar is Jlohert Volkman of Milwaukie. WTd has come that his family are In New York' on their way from Vienna and will be In Portland on Thanksgiving day or shortly thereafter. , : , , e I wonder if we do all wecan to show newcomers from foreign lands that the ideals of our country are high ideals and that they have duties and responsibilities as citizens as well, as benefits. It in largely up to us whether they become assets to our citizenship, or liabilities.: IHJ V L,iVi.Iii TU 7wv. The Oregoh CouAtry Northwest Happenings ih Brief If'crm for the Reader. , OREGON NOTES The Hood River nchool joarA, is con sidering the opening) of a winter night school, beginning December 1. The, Jackson couhty creamery has., leased a building fo a long period and will establish a cteamery at- Grant Pass. . I The Superior Dredge company has de cided to construct at 1150,000 dredge on their holdings on Burnt river in Baker county. , Baby Ruth Smith, 2-year-old daughter of Russell Smith of Burns, was m aided to death when Bhe walked backward into a boiler of hot w terL The hobo traffic cjn the Southern Pa cific Is on the increase. lCvery' train that leaves Med ford) has from three to a dozen wanderers board.- A petition asking division of Klamath county and the formation of . "Equity" county in the eastern section is asked in a petition being circulated in Kla math county. . ' Mrs. Lucretia Jam- McKennon, one of. the oldest women In the state, died at La Grande last we ;k. She often said she was 100 years fid. but best records available fix her Hue at S8. The Shaw-Kertratn company of Port land is construi-ting a mill on lower. Klamath Inke. It will have a capacity, of 40,000 feet and tvill employ a crev of 100 men at the njll and camps. Receipts at the oflfice of State Treas urer Hoff for the btennttim now cloHlnir . total more thnn J3S.ft00,000, an excess of about fl8,000,0il0 oftT ,whnt wsh esti mated would be thjs receipts when the budget was made up two years ano. Properties owned by the Aimed " Mines company, near Grants Pas, which have been Inactive since 1!M8, will soon start operations. The company has been testing : ofe in the past 18 months and is prepared to open up fur ther ore bodies. ' WASH I IN G TON high si'liooi bulldinff i The now $50,000 at Omak will soon pancy. Tri-weekly sorvlo be reuuy for. occu on the Milwaukee railroad between II anford and Beverly has heen resumed Kelso and vicinity will vote on the or ganization of the Port of Kelso on 'fur uay. lHcemlier 14. Columbia A. 11) koff ,1ms hoen Ho of Toppenitih by pointed postrnasteij fresident Wilson. The Vancouver fl down., owing to t nr mills have olored le coiiiht inn of thrt flour market. Fiftt nifii were etmiloved at me mills. The tunnel at thl mines :U l.inrlhorg. north of Morton, is hw In To feet, show - mg an eight foot bituminmirt coal. tain" yf high grada The Farmer-Labdr party of Washlng- ton has filed an liiitiativc measure in Olympla to authorise establishment and operulion of puhliii markets by cities. The Mi-Lane " Liuiiber t Shingle com- pany of Kels tan re(ii!neil operutionn. following a sbutdo on account of poor Wn of several weeks market conditions. Records in the county uuditoi's office" at Yakima show that 1081 returned service men have filed their discharga I for record and arte eligible, to receiya bonuses. State Treasurer Sherman ha issued a statement of th s ale's finances, show- lug that at the prf'sent time there is a balance of l,0Si,B36. j, in the alatt treasury. The corporation r oiinsel of Seattle has sent to the public safety committee t an ordinance putiiriK t tie same category the city the text ofl Jamaica ginger in as whiskey. Victor Anderson anpd 60. a rancher. was found dead ih his cabin north of Ellensburg, with ttwo bullet wounds in his body, and S. M. SwHiison.' aged 36. is under arrest, charged with the crime; -- William C. Wheiler, president of t.h Wheeler-Osgood company and one of the prominent flgitres In the Industrlnl and civic life of '(aroma' for 31 ,yearp. passed away at Tileson. Ariz., whera bt i had gone in search of health. ID HO Approximately 801 bushels of apples have been sent to Ithe Nazarene college at Nampa to be d Ivided among the 313 students. A thousand dolla rs' worth of mlsoella- neous equipment fd r the cavalry unit St Boise has arrivea. are on the way. " A marriage licen J torses and uniform I ic has been granted at Lewiston Jo Wliliij Fung, t'binuse. and eirl 18 years of age. Vlda Olson, a wnit the first lifeuse of Perce county. its kind issued in Ne The llecla Miriirj g company win ots- burse its regular uarlerly diviuenu or 1150.000 on 1 ifffm ber 1!8. This will, in-. crease the disburse hients for the year t" $650,000, and the gri nd total to $S,.iOa,000. Further Apportionment , of f Duties bl Portland's. ' 7 Admit istrators The following continues the statn nent of distrlbut on of duties in the official administration of Portland. The first installment, covering the mayor and coiruTtissioncrs, appeared yesterday. City Auditor - George It. Funk. Divisions of aufliting, accounting, claims and docuhients. special as sessments, open aid bonded lien, spe cial tax, purchasing. licensing, elec tions, clprk of couricil, secretary fire men's relief and enslon board, sec retary policemen' relief and pension board. ' . Civil Service Bpard John V. Lo gan, It. H. ThomaS. George C. Mason. Kxaminations. efficiency records, ap peals. Dock Commission C. B. Moores. A. H. Averlll, Charles C. Hindmart, F. C. Knapp, John H. Burgard. ' Board of Appeal. Building Code Dean Vincent, II. A. Whitney, J. S. Seed. Board of Apjwall, Klectrlcal Code F. II. Murphy," HI C. Jaggar. . It. Havbarker. Board of Appeatf. Plumbing Code Hobert Gille 1. S. Williams, It. IL Strong. Plumbers' Kxa mining Board W. H. Chambers. Dt S. Williams, M. Kelly, Bobcrt GU- ners, Klectrical Pi Claussenius, C. J let). Board! of Kxam vision K. W. Pi erce, w. n. nruni. S. I. Weber. Board of Motion-Picture Cenno C, S. Jensen, Mrs Alexander Thomp-- son, Kabbi Jonaii B. Wise,' Mrs. E. C. Colwell secretary. 5 City Planning k'ommission A. K. Plecel. J- C. A in worth, K. B. Mac- Naughton, Kills K. Lawrence, Ira F, Powers A. K. DoVIe; B. W. Sleeman, C. II. Cheney consultant, B.' Kimbrell secretary. Portland Municipal Boxing Com mission Frank K. Wstkins. K. plowden Stott, Kdgar S. HlgKins, Dr. Sam Gellert, W. . Honeyman. Waterfront Committee G. B. Ile4 gardt, H. K. Plurrimer, O. Laurgaard, W. A. Katchel,, H. P. Boardman, Kd- war Orenfel!,; IJ E. Latourette. - Housing Code Advisory Board- Will Claussen, Jaimes 1. Quinn, Dr. Jonah B. Wise. Presidents' Council C. F. Berg. J. L. Wright. A. c Newill, Percy W. Smith. K. K. W ggins.. II. B. Van Duzer. Fred W. d erman, A. G. Flnd- fay, O.'C, Leitef, , Wilson Benefiel, ' t. H. Rankin,, Oljto Hartwig, W.. A. Montgomery. Industrial Committee Kmery 01m stead, John H. Burgard. George H. Kelly,. C. C. Himdriian, Ira- F. Powers, K." J. Jaeger, J. R. Bowles. K. C. Knapp, William rornf;ot, Frank M. Warren, F. S, rtoernbec.her, bV V. llauarr, Nathan Strauss, Wheeler. J. B. K err.