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Not into etil wrought;
lord, for the "wicked will
Betrayed and baffled still:
For the heart from itself kept.
Our thanksgiving accept.
-William Dean Howella,
TODAY
DUBLIN is ah armed camp. Ire
land Is torn by passion such as
rarely rends a people. The hatreds
and the violence there are- incidents
in a feud freighted - with coming
bloodshed and agony.'
Three and one half million chil
dren In Europe are near starvation.
They are the remnant of 10,0007000
dead who, were starved by the mur
derous war. There is no power In
Kurope that can feed them, because
the war left Europe bankrupt and
prostrate. Nations there owe Amer
ica ten billion dollars and are so
poverty, stricken that they can
scarcely pay the interest.
, Eastern Europe is still a slaughter
pen with ra'ces still in the deadly
grapple of conflict, j Hands that
ought to be tilling the soil and tend
ing the looms are wielding the bay
onet, plying the machine guns and
garnering, not a harvest of wheat,
but a harvest of death". Economic
heresies are surging in millions of
minds through those vast reaches of
territory. Theories are abroad in
which men believe shotted guns can
force the world into a millennium
in which little work will be necessary
and Human existence-can be a season
of mere idle enchantment. ' A flood
tide of : hallucinations has followed
centuries of oppression by overlords
who kep peoples in illiteracy and
used men as pawns in the miserable
heresy . that a few. superior persons
are ordained by God to rule over the
many.' The chaos Incident to war has
overthrown most of the 'reason on
the continent of Europe and left mil
lions gibbering in the perilous lan
guage of unreason.
The confiscation of property is not
only advocated but actually practiced
on a wide scale in Europe. ' It is a
: doctrine that the Injustices of cen
turies., has, , when power suddenly
came to them, forced itself Into the
benighted minds of those whom
rulers; backed by military force, held
In subjection and governed without
their consent. Wrongs long prac
ticed upon peoples inevitably end In
counter . movements in which the
. pendulum invariably swings to ex
tremes in the other direction, and
the unjust Europe that sowed the
wind Is now reaping the whirlwind
in proposals to abolish property
'rights. . ' '
Peoples massacred and murdered
and butchered by 51 months of war
and 24 added months of aftermath
. are left in a mood for any adventure.
They have counted their dead. They
have catalogued their cripples. They
' have reasoned it out that their sor
1 rows were not their making but the
. making of aso-called superior men
who ruled over themr. The jungle
. and the bloody, maw are in their
minds as they shudder over the late
past and contemplate the almost
hopeless future. -
' They are borne down by war taxes
and military tolls. They are doomed
for generations to extortions for pay
ment : of war debts. ; : Thelr sky. is
Fombre and their world drab " and
? cold. Most of them are hungry and
many almost shelterless. . It" has
' been so long since they knew life in
its gay and happy modd that their
mental anchorage is precarious and
the moorings of their reason shifting
and unsteady.
Famine i sweeping over China.
The deep interior of that rude land
has never learned the providence of
civilization. Men there study how
to live by plunder of their f ellowmen
rather than by producing the neces
saries of life. It Is a land of mid
night so far as distributed intelli
gence and knowledge are concerned,
and the blight of famine and fre
quent harvests of pestilence are its
portion. . " .
Beyond the zone of these scenes of
sorrow and human wretchedness is
a fair country where institutions are
free, where reason has full ; play,
where Christian civilization' is at its
pinnacle,, where the citizen is a sov
ereign and law just, where there is
a legal remedy for every wrong, and
an open road from every home td a
ffee school where the ballot is the
ruler,' and where the sunlight of op
portunity and freedom and happi
ness streams and gleams from bor
der to border and from Thanksgiving
to Thanksgiving.
I Each in his own' little wotjd may
feel the touch of trouble, the slings
of misfortune or the pangs of disap
pointment. Each may feel that his
-Jp wn personal lot might have been
better. f ' ;
. But when we all look out on the
big world .s it is; when we compare
the 'situation in our own matchless
America with the poverty and blight
and .bankruptcy othervjhero have
we not abounding, reason for a fer
vent Thanksgiving?
The man who picks the bones of
6 0-cent turkey today 'will doubtless
have a feeling of Thanksgiving that
the purse of a prosperous year was
equal to the -strain of buying the
bird.
TOMORROW
"THKRE is disquiet among some
business men. Some have fore
bodings. Some wonder if there is
to be an oldtime panic.
It Is true that there is a price
slump. It is true that there is an
economic shift, due to readjustment
after the .war. It is true that men
who have bought stocks and must
sell them will have to pocket losses.
It is true that the banks have been
called upon and are now called upon
to carry heavy credits.
But all this is a natural process.
Every intelligent man knew it had
to come some time. The men who
buy and sell had their several years
of heavy profits. Most of them took
the precaution of being prepared for
inevitable economic change.
The tumble in prices was a gulf
that had to be crossed. Commodi
ties gould not always remain, at ab
normal levels.. When they have re
ceded things will be normal, and
when things are normal, it is better
for all.
We are to pass through days more
strained than those other days of
cbllossal - gains and boundless pros
perity. It Lb like the change of sea
sons. Like the seasons, it is a part
of the natural order of life. Like
the change of seasons, the transition
is a process .in the preparation of
the land for new harvests of profit
and prosperity.
Just ahead of the temporary
straits there is the normal and usual
commerce and industry and finance
and 'production. There will be no
oldtime panic if men of great finan
cial experience know whereof they
speak. This nation now has the most
intelligent banking and currency
system in he world. The credit
system that withstood the tremen
dous shock of these perilous days
early in the war can unquestionably
withstand the disturbances incident
to readjustment...
Beyond all Is the fact that Ameri
can farms are all producing. That
great bulwark of American prosper
ity is in full function. Many of our
farmers seem to have made the mis
take of holding their crops too long,
but the wheat Is here and is a tre
mendous asset To it there will
presently be added the colossal prod
ucts of another bountiful harvest and
the great surplus will play its part
In national enrichment and pros
perity. ' .
And every day and all the time,
the dairies, the mines, the fisheries,
the orchards and all the various
phases of American production are
pouring out their golden streams of
wealth. - .
The lumber mills will not long be
in inaction. A destroyed continent
must be rebuilt. A million homes
have to be built in America, because
construction was at a near standstill
during the war. .Millions of railroad
ties must be replaced.
Back of every dark cloud the sun
sneds its glorious beams, j Every
winter has its spring and every
spring its summer. A drab winter
day is not .he loveliest dav. but it
rts'the harbinger of brighter days to
come. lAfter midnight come the gray
streaks, of dawi. and then the trium
phant sun breaks forth in its golden
splendor.
In Portland, let us not build up
a psychology of fear and f orebod
ings. Let us not dream of a gloomy
tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care
of itself if we take cafe of today.
We stand on "the banks of a great
river and out there In the hinterland
are matchless farms and forests and
people and all the varied forms of
a Chrlstian nd intelligent civiliza
tion. .We are environed and: bul
warked with everything heeded to
supply our wants and provide for
our comforts. We are without pesti
lence or famine or threat of inva-
Blon from without.
J We are the most blest of all peo-
pie and on this day of thankfulness
we have everything to fill us with
hope and expectation and happiness.
No one has yet found a better
grace for Thanksgiving dinner than
"this, born of the West, "Some hae
m.,t onj. carina oat srimA would AAt
... . . . . . '
but hae not. But we hae meat and i
we can eat, so the good Lord be
thankit." I
ARE TOU NOT RICH?
TO THOSE who believe they have
little to be thankful for, the
story of E. Delevan McLean, a New
York world war veteran, should be
of Interest. .
He was a motor truck driver In
France. Shortly after the armistice
a rear wheel whirled from his high
speed truck. McLean was thrown
out and his back broken. He was
brought to Philadelphia In a con
crete cast. Two days and one night
were required to chip the stolid cast
from his suffering body.
McLean is now lying in a Phila
delphia hospital patiently smiling as
he looks forward to the day when
a delicate operation may or may not
t estore the use of his limbs.
Have those who have eyes and
ears, free use of their faculties and
health nothing to be thankful for?
Or are they indeed rich in their
heritage ?
From day to day we read of the
murders by the pistol. But the sale
goes on.
FOR OUR HAPPINESS
TWO patients in the Trenton state
hospital for the insane were re
cently cured of insanity by extract
ing infected teeth. .
One was a woman, discharged
from the asylum as cured. She de
veloped hallucinations soon and was
returned. An examination of the
mouth brought to light 27 infected
teeth. They were removed and the
patient has since shown no signs of
her former disease.
- Another, after spending three
years in the hospital, was released.
She suffered a breakdown and was
returned. Infected teeth were exr
traded and her mind has returned
to normal.
Every day research men, doctors
and scientists are at work testing,
experimenting, searching for means
by which the ills and troubles of the
human race may be cured. ' It is all
for the happiness , of mankind.
The only two individuals for
whom we can imagine no cause of
thankfulness are a Bolshevist and
a turkey.
HIS THANKSGIVING
ONE of the beautiful things of life
is compensation. It so appealed
to Emerson that his essay on it is
almost a prose poem,, an ecstasy
painted in unfailing words.
No doors were closed for Emer
son. His philosophy went through
stone walls. No eclipses were
preached in his text. He had no
sunrises or sunsets. A full-orbed
sun shone for him during all seasons
and at all hours. His writings are
a perpetual Thanksgiving feast. His
doctrine wa so simple that he be
lieved a man who built a mousetrap
better than his neighbor beckoned
to the world.
It is' well to recall Emerson's essay
on 'compensation at this particular
period. No matter how soured we
may seem with life, we may each
and all read and reread it. In every
line there is a new beauty unfolding
itself, a transcendent truth bowing
its head for a human caress.
That is why Emerson is a better
theme for Thanksgiving than
Thanksgiving itself. He was .grate
ful to the earth, the sea, the sky.
the forest, to the men and women
who dwell under them and in them.
We all are grateful for these things
because they make life the penitent
thing that It is.
1621-1920
THE first Thanksgiving day was
. observed by the colonists at Ply
mouth in 1621. Families were re
united and the little community
joined in gratitude to God for the
first harvest and for their, escape
from the perils of sea and land.
The pilgrim pioneers prayed for
peace and kept their powder dry.
They gave thanks for the bodily well
being of the moment and with broth
erly grasp of hand and supplication
to God stiffened their endurance for
the ordeals of the future.
In more than one sense the
Thanksgiving of 1920 is like the
Thanksgiving of 1621. The colon
ists had come by their own supreme
feat away from represions and en
forced dependence to confront the
revolutionizing hazards of a new
life entirely dedicated to equal lib
erty. The world has just now come
through a ; cataclysmic adventure.
seeking the establishment of that
equal liberty for which the colonists
crossed the Atlantic, but, with the
victories of battle won. is still grop
ing an uncertain and blundering
course toward the spiritual enlight
enment by which alone equal liberty
for .all men may be fully understood
and applied.
This Thanksgiving day, when f 4m
ilies reunite and nations should, is
not for the eating of meat alone. Jt
Is devoid of explanation if men fail
to address their prayers and sur
render their purposes to the direct
ing Providence of all human wel
fare.. This is not a bright hour in
international experience. It will not
be lightened. if men remain irrever-
ent. It is a time of test, i As Jchn
Brown wrote in the middle of the
eighteenth century: .
Now let us thank the Eternal Power,
convinced .
That Heaven but tries, our virtue by af-
fliction, . . i .
That oft the cloud which wraps- the pres
ent hour
serves out to orignien u our tuiure
,,
days.
Only acknowledgment j of and
gratitude for the divine guidance
which has .brought this , country
through the perils of war and peace
since the first Thanksgiving in 1621
can, on this Thanksgiving of 1920,
and Jn the future keep the uneasy
nations of earth faced toward the
light. - ..
a One added cause of Portland's
thankfulness today is that no needy
family known to generosity is today
without a well filled Thanksgiving
dinner basket.
A BIT OF HOME IN IT
WITHOUT a bit of home In it.
Thanksgiving would be a day
darker than bright, its loneliness
deepened by the yearning which only
the renewed associations ; of home
can satisfy.
The thing that makes the simple
words of "Home Sweet Home" live
is because the music of the song is
made in the heart. Its strains
whether from stately pipe organ,
softly touched violin or warm, human
voice, never fail to find a sweetened
echo In the emotions.
Many a family circle around an
old-fashioned Instrument today will
draw the cords of reunion closer by
repeating:
"Mid pleasures and palaces though we
may roam.
Be it ever so humble there's no place
like home ;
A charm from the skies seems to hallow
V'us there,
Which sought through the world is ne'er
met with etsewhere.
If you have today an open fire
whose brightness and warmth is
enough for your family, it may be
that it would also warm another. If
you have a bountifully spread table
it may be that its viands would also
satisfy another. If you have good
measure of the love that explains
the happiness of home it may be that
you could also, without loss, pass
Its cordiality along to some one who
is lonely. If you do the pleasure
of your Thanksgiving will be doubled
his dded to yours.
GOD AND
AMERICA
A Fervid Appeal for Renewed Devo
tion to Those Ideals by Which the .
Republic's Course Has Thus
Far, Despite All Aber
rances, Been Directed.
"From the Chicago Poet.
John Drinkwater " has been criticized
because there is a scene in his play
in which Abraham Lincoln, shoulder
ing the burden of a nation's life, kneels
in prayer. '
'The cynic regards this as a weak con
cession to pious sentiment, but the aynic
is wrong, as he usually is. The por
trayal of Lincoln in prayer Is true to
the character and spirit of Lincoln and
true to the traditions and history of
America. You cannot leave God out of
Lincoln's life and explain Lincoln; no
more can you leave God out of Amer
ican history and explain America.
From the days when the pilgrims knelt
in prayer, on the shore of the new
world to the days when America's sons
went bravely to the old world to fight
for liberty, in every time of crisis we
have had leaders who believed Hn God.
There has never been an hour of dan
ger or of solemn duty when we have
lacked a man to remind us that God
reigns, or when that note has failed
to strike response from the hearts of
the American people.
It is no arrogance of national pride
to believe that God has a purpose for
the American nation. In all humility.
we make that profession of our faith.
It is simply the recognition that there
is a divine plan for the race, and that
in that plan we have our part to play.
We who believe this can trace in our
history the hand of God. He has used
America, and if the heart of America
remains humble, he will continue to use
it. The ideals of justice, of freedom, of
equal opportunity, of human welfare
which we have cherished as a, -nation,
and of which, with many failures and
inadequacies, we have become expo
nents in the view of the world, are in
accord with those ideals proclaimed by
the prophets of old and given fullest
expression in the teachings of Jesus.
Because the vision of these ideals real
ized in human society has never wholly
failed from before our eyes, God has
been able to use us.
Follow the growth of America,- from
the . first small beginnings, nurtured
with prayers and tears and the blood
of sacrifice, to the dark hour when the
nation passed through the pangs of civil
strife. That sharp surgery cut the cank
er of slavery from its bosom and saved
it " for a larger work. Then came the
cry of Cuba, groaning under oppres
sion, and the answer of America, setting
her free and bearing like freedom to
the'far isles of the Pacific.
So we were tried and proved ; and
our faith in the great ideals held. The
impulse toward imperialism, which
many feared, was resisted. In the hour,
of victory America . was magnanimous.
The spirit of service prevailed over the
spirit of conquest "hat spirit was born
of a national conscience informed by the
thought of responsibility to God.
Thus we were brought to Good Friday,
1917. Let no man tell you that America
entered the world war with thought only
for herself. It is not true. Halted be
tween two opinions as to duty, whatever
the pretext that was formulated in our
ultimate decision, it is fact that when
decision ' came it answered the soul cry
of those who cherished the ideals of
America, because it carried us to the
comradeship of men who were fighting
for them.
. It is our jiumble faith that in the
providence of God we were destined to
serve the world in that crisis when de
feat threatened for the hopes of men.
And it was possible for God to use us
because, in spite of all blunderings and
temporary forgettings. we had not lost
our vision of the goal, nor our belief
that he has for us a purpose.
We will miss the meaning of all this
if we find in it occasion for pride. Rath
er, let us note that the. times When
America has been greatest in spirit
and achievement are the times when
she has given herself most fully to the
service of mankind ; when, under the
consciousness of her responsibility to
God, she has poured out treasure and
life for a high cause and a holy. God
cari use America. Let us tune our na
tional life to that thought. ' Let us carry
it into the business and politics and so
cial activities of every community, to
the end that we may make America
worthier of his use, fitter for his purpose.
and that the day may never come when,
having need of us, he will find us deaf
to his ceil or unready for bis task...
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i PORTLAND'S WATER SUPPLY
Portland. Nov. 23. To the Editor of
The Journal At the council meeting last
Wednesday to consider granting a per
mit for the building of a new sanitarium i
or hospital, it was amusing to listen to
those who were in favor of-the new large
building. The Smiths rented their two
story and three-story rooms to nurses.
The Joneses sold their milk and vege
tables to the sanitarium. The Browns
rented their whole house to the doctors
in charge. Others had been patients in
the institution and wanted it handy in
case, they were taken sick again. These
reasons are all personal and natural.
They do not want to lose the money.
Then a kindly man of the cloth told us
all what we Jill knew, and admitted,
that is, that for the last fcwr ore five
years the Portland sanitarium was. run
in a first class mannr - every par
ticular. Now here are a few col facts. The
city - got this commercial institution
when Mount-Tabor was .taken Into the
city, and since the city has by necessity
increased its storage capacity from two
reservoirs to four, it is not wise to
grant a permit for such an institution
so cKse to Portland's water supply. The
heating of such a large building or
buildings as these folks intend to erect
must be by wood, oil (which they now
use) or compressed coal. In firing up
it is almost impossible to feed just the
exact amount of oil, and if you don't you
get gobs of the black soot, and with
four large reservoirs just south, the
good people will drink a large share of
this soot.
Our water board, which brought the
great Bull Run water, the best water
of any city in jthe United States. 47
miles into town, bought the 51 acres to
store it in and built four big reservoirs
at an outlay of $3,000,000. will not favor
commercializing Mount Tabor by group
ing hospitals, sanitariums and business
enterprises around this very important
element of human life.
Fresh air and pure water .the taxpayer
has a right to expect, and as our mayor
and present commissioners are big men
they will see that nothing is done that
will in any way pollute this water, I
feel sure. They can see selfish Interests,
and they will also stand for the rights
of all the people of Portland, and I
don't believe they will favor any Michi
gan commercial institution in this mat
ter.
Let the city give these good people
another piece of ground and take this
"piece in exchange then add this to
Mount Tabor park. Observer.
FOR HONEST WOOL FABRICS
Chicago. ' Nov. 19. To the Editor of
The Journal The Oregon Journal and
its market editor, Mr. Cohen, personally,
have rendered the people of the United
States, the entire woolgrowlng indus
try of this country, and the woolgrowers
of , Portland, Or., a service of highest
importance by their courageous and vig
orous support of the French - Capper
Truth In Fabric bill. The sale of any
substitute as the genuine is a pernicious
practise that is unethical, uneconomic
and that outrages common honesty. The
sale of shoddy as virgin wool is even
more unpardonable and destructive than
the sale ot other substitutes as the gen
uine, for the reason that It takes .ad
vantage of the people's misunderstand
ing of the term "all wool." So long as
shoddy is- permitted to be palmed off
as virgin wool, and usurp the place of
virgin wool, it will be, not the people's
demand, but the price of rags and shod
dy, that will be the great factor in de
terminlng the price that a woolgrower
receives for his wool. It is perfectly
obvious, therefore, that sheep husban
dry" cannot long continue, and it would
be Pthe part of wisdom for the wool-
growers to rapidly get out of the bus!
ness, unless shoddy is identified and is
no longer permitted to be sold as virgin
wool.
Inasmuch as sheep husbandry is one
of Oregon's most important industries.
it is of the greatest importance that
Oregon should send to Washington to
testify in hehalf of the French-Capper
Truth in fabric bill when coneress re.
convenes and the hearings are held in
the senate, her ablest man a man who
knows the subject and who is best quali
fied to,? give powerful and irrefutable
testimony. ,
The Oregon Journal, and Mr. Cohen
personally, will be rendering the people
of your state, by endeavoring to bring
this about, a great service. It is by
tne cooperation of such fearless and
public spirited papers and individuals
as you have proved yourselves to be
that the National Sheep and Wool bu
reau has been fcble to accomplish so
much in behalf of the sheep industry
and .of the people in urging the pas
sage of the French - Capper Truth in
Fabric bill.
National Sheep and Wool Bureau
of America,
By Alex Walker, President,
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YOU CAN SING THIS ONE
From the Colombia (S. C.) Record
Every little bit added to what you've
got makes just a little more taxes. -
Olden Oregon
In the MOsr There Was Displayed a
Vast Variety in Winters.
Daniel Lee tells of plucking a straw
berry blossom in the Willamette valley
on Christmas day, 1840. The weather
continued warm throughout that winter.
In 1842 the Columbia river was frozen
over early in December and at The
Dalles there was ice in the river, until
the middle of March. The cold was also
severe in that winter in the Willamette
valley. In contrast, the winter of 1843
was a rainy one, and in February there
was a freshet. The two succeeding win
ters were mild and rainy. Fruit formed
on the trees in April. The winters of
1846-7 and 1848-9 were cold, witjt Ice
in the Columbia.
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
The Bermuda Islands suggest the ad
ventures of Robinson Crusoe in their
colonization, .because they were discov
ered, and later settled, as the direct re
sult of shipwrecks. The settlers had to
build - themselves a i bark to . set sail
again. Juan Bermudas, Bailing from
Spain to Cuba in 1515, with a cargo of
hogs, discovered ' the Islands when a
storm blew him to their shores. Appar
enUy he: left some of the hogs there,
for later; visitors found the animals on
the island. From him the islands were
named, and thus originated the "hog
money" coins stamped With a hog on
one side and a ship on the other, which
still are preserved in various collections.
The islands were settled through the ef
forts of Sir George Somers, who became
impressed with their fertility and beauty
during a sojourn enforced by the wreck
ing of the ship which was carrying him
,to Virginia.
A THANKSGIVING HYMN
By Everett Earle Stanard
IT is not hard to pour out our thanksgiving ,
For meat and drink and largess , of the soil;
But unto the great giver, ever-living;
Who like a father loveth them that toil,'
Our praises for the greater gifts of love.
Light of the sun, rest of the night, and quiet sleep,
Ascend not often to the throne above,
Nor often make, our languid pulses leap.
The earth is good: j '
The babble of the stream deep In the wood,
The song of birds far on the rolling hills.
The tinkle of the tiny singing rills, .
The common Joys of every 'passing- da,
And when the shadows fall
About us "all, v . v
The time, of prayer when we look up and say, '
As we do now: -"O
Lord, wilt Thou
Hear our thanksgiving for the gifts that we
Receive each day and somehow cannot see."
COMMENT. AND
SMALL CHANGE
in i 1 1 !
Who put the thanks irf Thanksgiving?
One could certainly well afford to
work for Ford.
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The gas hearing at Salem promises to
be a gassy affair. ,
e
That little nlar had turkev for dinner
and this little pig had none.
One oddity about Thankscrivine is that
It is mostly thanks and little giving.
The kaiserln Is weaker, the nanera Sav.
She never was very strong in our esti
mation. , ,
Petroerad is without water. Maybe
that accounts for a lot of the dirty
work going on over there.
King Constantino of Greece exnects to
take his throne before Christmas If the
Lord's willing and the monkey doesn't
interfere.
"A kiss weichinc 2 millirrams planted
on the forehead- excites the same emo
tions as a kiss on the lips," Trofessor
Malesplne . proclaims. He's a French
man I V ' '
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MORE i OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Louis Scholl. who registers Wasco as his
home. Is in town to eat .Thanksgiving
dinner with his daughter, Mrs. R. C.
Chamberlain of Portland. Mra Scholl
will also be here, as well as their
daughter, Mrs. George Knebel of The
Dalles. Mr. Scholl was a former res
ident of Echo,, where he still owns prop
erty. "When my two daughters were
married." said Mr. Scholl, ,"my wife
and I were footloose, so we locked our
house and started by auto to find where
the road running past our ' place' ran to.
We followed the road all winter, through
Southern ' California and Arizona, . and
saw a lot of interesting things, but we
didn't come to the end of the road. We
took our tent along, and though they
describe us as auto tourists, we were
virtually gypsies. I have "just returned
from a month's trip to the Seven Devils
country. Settlement there is veryscarce.
I never missed a meal and I never paid
for one during the month I was there,
for the cattlemen have the old-time spirit
of hospitality. That is the country -of
our contemporaneous ancestors, for they
live as the early settlers in Oregon lived.
You go- by high power motor boat from
Lewiston to Pittsburg Landing. The
boat goes up with mail 6nce a week. It
takes 13 hours to make the, up trlpand
but five hours to make the return trip.
The boat negotiates a succession of rap
ids. It is a wonderfully, picturesque
trip. The canon , of the Snake river is.
In a lesser - way,- as wonderful as the
Grand canyon. , " Some placer mining is
being done on the bars of Snake river,
and here and there a rancher on the silt
land along the Snake or on some river
bar is . raising peaches, melons and to
matoes. Seven miles away the ragged
peaks of the Seven Devils rise 7000 to
10,000 feet When the railroad is buiU
from Huntington to Lewiston it will
give the O-W. R. Jt N. a water grade
from Pocatello to Portland and It will
open up the mining country of the Seven
Devils range " "
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Professor . Henry E. Rekeman of the
University, of Montana at Missoula is
registered at the Portland. He Is here
to attend a three-day get-together meet
ing of one of the Greek. letter societies,
which Is holding, its conference in Port
land this week. Albert E. Workmer of
Missoula is also at the Portland.
e ,.
i. F. Smith of Waldport is in Port
land for a few days. Waldport is on
Alsea bay and is about 15 miles down the
coast from Newport, on .Yaquina bay.
Old-time visitors to Waldport will 're
member Captain Wakefield,- who for
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
(Billy Panile reappear today. Hie pe mo rial
career, bere additionally sketched br Mr.. Lockley,
baa been one of Ticueitndea, but also one of
constant advancement, aa becomea the resourceful
American who is wUlin to start at the foot of
tlie ladder; without the slifhteat intenUoa of Uy
iijf there- ' ' - . '
The Bard of Avon must have bad
Billy Pangle in mind ; when he wrote
that one man In his time plays many
parts. Billy Pangle has been manager
of the Heillg theatre for the past 20
years. - ;:-- ; v .
"I arrived In Portland 33 years ago,"
said Mr. Pangle. "I was 19 years old.
For three years I bad been on the road
with different show and I planned to
take a position with one of the leading
theatres here that Is, if 1 could secure
a position worthy of my talents. What
I took was a job shoveling refuse off
the Morrison street bridge. The first
few days I was here I sised up the the
atrical situation. John Cort bad a the
atre called the Standard, at First and
Madison. Clinton & McCoy were run
ning the Royal, at the southeast corner
of Third and Alder. The high class the
atre of the town was the Park, located
at Park and Washington, and run by
J. P. Howe.
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I was living with Jerome Campbell,
my brother-in-law, Campbell A Swlg
gert had built the Morrison street
bridge and were operating the Willam
ette Bridge Railway company. This
system operated street cars cross the
Morrison street bridge, the first cars In
East .Portland. , I reached Portland on
November 5. On November 15 my
brother-in-law came in to supper and
casually said. The man on the Morri
son street bridge has quit You are to
take his place. You go on duty tonight'
I reported to William E. Clark, now an
employe at the custom house. He was
tolltaker on the bridge. He aald. Tour
job is to swefep the bridge. - The man
who just quit the job hasn't done a lick
of work on it for six weeks. If I were
you X would take the job and make
a try at It Maybe It will lead to some
thing better ''; ,, ,
"There was one 16 candlepower elec
tric - light in the -center of each span,
which only served to make the darkness
visible. r Mr. Clark showed me where
NEWS IN BRIEF'
1JS1DEL1GHTS v
A good many articles of dally need
are short In supply but no shorter than
we are of the supply of stuff to buy
them with. Cottage Grove Sentinel.
Portland markets can be flooded If
they will let this vast territory get there.
We have no road for 2000 country people
right near Portland too. Banks Herald.
Portland and Astoria both claim to
have had an earthquare: we have had
nothing of that sort up here but we get
a lot of grief out of the swing towards
normalcy in the wheat pit. Pendleton
East Oregonian.
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Since s& much rain has fallen since
early fall, and It still continues, the
prophecy is now heard that this is to be
an open winter. Well, perhaps 1 We
have had such, and again we haven t.
We can tell better later t on. Baker
Democrat. ,
The election results, important as they
may appear, do not have the significance
for Myrtle Point and Coos county as
does the announcement from the state
highway commission that th road from
Myrtle Point to Remote is on the coming
year's calendar. Powers Patriot.- -
many years kept the hotel' there. He ,
was an old-time British sailor, had been
an illicit diamond buyer in the Kimberly
diamond ficjds, personal attendant to
wealthy British big game hunters in
India on tiger hunts, buyer of
ivory in 'Africa, saloonkeeper on the
Rand, and had sailed the seven seas and
knew every port of call. He finally
drifted Into port at the mouth of the
Yachats, where he caught sea fish with
his net from the rocks and trout from
the nearby Yachats with his pole and
line, killed deer in sight of his cabin
when he needed meat, and gathered
driftwood from his front yard after a
hard storm. . From there lie went to
Waldport. where for years he tan the
Waldport hotel.
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Viggers. who
have been residents of Portland for the
past 33 years,' will leave November 30
for Liverpool. On their way to New
York city they will stop at Des Moines
for a few days to visit their daughter.
"We lost our youngest boy from the
after effects of flu recently, and we
are all broken up over it," said Mr. Vig
gers. f'For years I have been with the
Portland city water works as an engi-.
neer. . I as born 76 years ago in Staf
fordshire si Engand. My wife and. I are
going back to end our days in the land
of our birth. We will live with our
daughter, whose home is at Dover. Her
husband,. Captain Donald Mansfield, was
an officer in the navy during the war.
My son, W. A. Viggers, is president of
the Viggers Iron works at Astoria. It
will seem strange Jto Itve in England
sifter having lived in this country for
more than 40 years."
W. H. Erwln, who hails from the
town named for General Philip Sheridan,
who, when a lieutenant, was stationed
not far from the present town of Sheri
dan. i spending a day or so in the
metropolis. Sheridan is fogging steadily
ahead. It is on the Yamhill river and
Is in the heart of a fertile farming
country. More and more acreage is
being set out to walnuts in the vicinity
of Sheridan and Wlllamina. '
.
Jay Brooks Is In town from Lafayette.
In the old days Lafayette was the
county seat of Tualatin county, now
Washington county. With the coming of
railroads to Oregon 'It lost Its Importance
as a shipping point on the Willamette
river. -1 " -
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J. A. Peterson of, Cordova, Alaska, Ms
at the St. Charles.
Lockley
my wheelbarrow, shovel and broom were,
and I got busy. A car came along every
half hour, and whenever it hove In
sight I hid, for fear someone might
recognize me. A steam motor met the
horsecar at Grand avenue, and went
out to Sunnyslde, which in those days
was a wildcat real estate addition way
out In the woods. . There were only
two houses out there. Ben Speak, the
engineer on the Sunnyslde dummy, lived
in the one at Thirty-fifth and Belmont.
"On December 15 I received my
month's wages two 20-dollar. gold
pieces and a ten. the first gold money I
had ever owned. Just about then we
had a spell of fine dry weather, followed
by a heavy windstorm that blew all the
dirt off the' bridge, leaving it slick and
clean. The officials made an inspection
of the bridge a day or two later, com
plimented me on keeping It in sueh fine
shape,' and on the strength of its Im
maculate, appearance promoted me to
toll collector. I sure had a busy Job on
baseball days collecting toll. The base
ball grounds were on the east side, at
Third and Morrison, and when the home
team was playing In good form they
drew a big crowd. When the Steel
bridge was completed T was made su
perintendent of the then, recently com
pleted Albina car line. I held this Job
three years. Tom Monahan, at present
postmaster at St Johns, was one of the
men to whom I,, gave Jobs. The line to
St Johns ran through heavy timber most
of the way.
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1 had lota of outside interests, for
I had joined company, I, of which Cap
tain Coffey wm commander, and Ralph
Hoyt who waa leader of the Portland
Marine band, had got me to Join that
organization. I played several nights
each week In George Parsons' orchestra
at dances. - It must have been about
1895 that Calvin Heillg and- Mr. Lester
took over the Marquam theatre. XL A.
Webber of the Marine band took charge
of- the Marquam . orchestra. 1 played
in the orchestra for the next five years
George Baker, now our mayor, was fly
man. Under Calvin Heillg he broke In
aa assistant manager and later became
manager. I followed George as man
ager atad have been manasrar ever sinoa."
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The Oregon Country
North wt Happening In Brief Tona .for the
Busy Reader .
OREGON NOTES
ITe l,Jlt"s"-,nv have accepted" a reduction
of 60 cents a day In wages.
A total of 11,000 persons of school age' '
enumerated in the annual school
census of Lane county last week.
;filfre? S ,er'ruon- K4 78. an early
resident of Wasco county, dropped dead
tiJif Khu ago at hi" ruiu-A near
bight Mil.
Tr1 ,arm, home of 3 H- Edge, south
or independence, was destroyed by fire
we with all its contents. There
was no insurance.
L5kv,w it ; this time raising a .
-JYV ... tne Purchase of a location
wnicjt will guarantee the erection of a
box factory to cost no less than $300,000.
-E. M. Smith, a prominent pioneer,
botanist, who established a state-wide
reputation for his agrStultural work. Is
dead at Gold Hill, at the age of 80
years.
Searchers for the body of Joseph
Rohrer. lost in the timbered district of
the North Umpqua river last September.
mit rriurnea, because of the great
amount of snow falling.
A sudden rise of the Willamette ha
washed away a portion of the bridge of
the Lugene-Sprtngfield electric railway
and cars have ceased to run into Spring
field until further orders.
The city council of Cottage Grove has
adopted a resolution whlh will be pre
sented to congress asking the setting
biub oi ine enure Layug creek water
shed for the benefit of the city la secur
ing a supply of water.
The Spaulding'-Mlaml Lumber com
pany has been organised and will build
a mill at Sheridan. The capitalization
is loOO.OOO. and the company has ac
quired about 2,000.000.0(10 feet of timber
In the vicinity of Sheridan.
WASHINGTON V
Drilling of Standard Oil well No. 1
t Moclips was resumed last week at
the 3300 foot level.
More than BO Armenian orphans havs
been financially provided for bv stu
dents of Lincoln high school in Ta.- .
coma.
Grays Harbor salmon fishermen have
enjoyed a very good season, although
none of the canneries there has operated.
More than 400 tons of fish have been .
shipped east.
Confessing partielr.iti n in the "rot-1
bety of H logs-tri near, Ulieuxburir In
which one man wss Mvr, .lames Stntz.
an Austrian. 26 years oi.l. Is htld lit tho
Kittitaa county jail.
The body of a man found In p aban
doned chicken house neur Spofcjtne h
oeen laenunea as tnat of James K.
Peterson. Authorities believe, he was .
murdered for his money. .
Because of excexaive overcrowding.
Tacoma school authorities will submit
to the electors a proposition for the
bonding of the school dimrict for $2,450.
000 for new school buildings.
Leonard W. Stauddv. veleran of the
Spanlxh and World warn, died at Ta.-'.
coma this week from the effects of gas
received in one of the three big battles
in whieh"ie fought In Krance.
Owing to coal shortage at the usual ,'
Eastern sources of supply, the North
ern Pacific is operating its ItoMyn
mines to capacity. The mines are pro
ducing more than 27,000 -tons a week.
The highway fund Is exhausted, and
the next legislature will he asked for at
least 16,000,000 to continue the work. A
Columbia river highway from Vancouver
to Walla Walla will be puahed, to com
pletion. f
The Zellerbach Paper c6mpany and
associated Interests of San Krancisco
have invested $1,500,000 in the Wash
ington Pulp it Paper corporation ot
Port Angeles.
In a divorce suit In Tacoma last week
testimony was given that Mrs. Urace
May Sohllbreff was drawing allotments
from the ' government during the war
for thlfee different huabamls.
IDAHO
W. T. Booth has prewented 'to the city
of Boise 30 seres of land south of-the
river for park purposes. ' . -
Steel trans are being used to 'exter
minate pocket gophers in Canyon county
that escaped the recent poisoning method.
The Homedale postof flee has been
notified by the postal department that ,
the office has been raised to thirds class.
Quarantine on Idaho hay prevf-nts its
shipment to other states, but it Is .beltitf
sold to farmers in the state at 110 a, ton
in the stack.
The executive comrrtittee-of the Kon
neyille county farm bureau1 at a recent
meeting fixed the membership fee at -a
year per family.
The registration at the night school
at the Idaho technical Institute si Poca
tello Is growing so rapidly that five new
instructors have been added. '
Efforts on the -part of the office of
the State treasurer to dispose of all or
any part of the $1,950,000 wprth of treas
ury notes of bodh the highway and gen
eral fund have thus far been futile.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Talkin' of T -nksgivin', the best one
I ever seen was held down in New
Mexico when Elder Maclea of the Mor
moruchurch. he was found a down and
out fam'ly on the lower Membrea in
1877 with their team nigh about starved
and the children sick In a old wagon.
He trundled 'em Into town, put 'cm Into -
a house and set em up the best turkey
dinner they ever et. No. they wasn't
Mormons, and he 'never ast .'em nut h in
about religion. The fellers at Silver City .
tuck, up a collection for m and .the elder
made a prayer at the dinner that was
as Christian as any I ever heerd anywheres.
- Know Your Portland
Pa Portland is paying today, for
his Thanksgiving dinner, $30,000 for
turkeys. $9000 for chickens and ap
proximately $4800 for durks and
geese, a total of $4,3,800 for the poul
try meats of the meal, without taking
Into consideration the very large In
vestment In beef, mutton and pork
by those who decline to pay the ugh
poultry prices of the Thanksgiving
feSAffon
On some 5000 Portland tables to
day appears the noble bird of the
season One would like to know how
many sweet and Irish potatoes, how
much cranberry sauce and how many
pumpkin snd mince pies are required
In addition. "
Chickens, geese and ducks sre not
spoken, of In any large way; In con
nection with Thanksgiving, but they
'losely compete with the tBrkey in
actual popularity. Portland's Thanks
giving menu calls for 30.000 po-inds
of chickens, ducks and geese, and the
chickens alone weigh in 20,000 pounds
ot this amount (
Because of the high Vice of tur
keys there was a larger demand than
usual for the substitute birds, 3ot a
few Portlanders even look a Jaunt
out along the sloughs and lakes which
border the Columbia river, seeking
those epicurean prises, the mallard,
the widgeon, the sprig and the teal
which, in their flight from the north
ern regions to the south, stop to feed
and, involuntarily, to be fed upon In
fhis -vicinity.
It is interespng to know that Se
attle was so short of turkey this
year that some 20,000 pounds of the
70,000 pounds delivered in this City
were sent on to the-Puget sound me
tropolis and to its .adjacent logging-'
Tomorrow there wlirbe addeC In
formation In this comer to to where
Pa Portland's turkeys, geese, ducks
and chickens come from and now
many are , required to supply the
weekly demand throughout the year.