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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.