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SATURDAY. NOVEMBER j 27, 1820. 6, THE OREGON DAILY- JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. 1 AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - C..8. JACKSOS.. .Publisher in. t . . ; j . k. ,1. ..rfitl Afld Aa tints I e calm. 9m swiiwnw iw . . others aa yea would hare them da unto you-J Published ererr week day and Sand 1OTiinJ!' t Tn Journal Building. Broadway and Tam i hill ttmt, Portland, Oregon. Entered at the poet office at Portland, Oregon. alot traamiasioo throus the nulla aaatcooa elaas .matter. 1 ' " - f UiXEFHONES -Main 7178. Automatic 880-81. ! All departments reached by thena Hampers, NATIONAL- ADVERTISING KEPBK8ENTA T1VE Benlamln Kentnor Co., J" Building. 228 Wh avenue, K 9m Mailers Building. Chicago. , - . - rA-IF!C COAST REPRESENTATIVE W.K. Baranter Co.. Examiner Building. San Fran- - etwo; Tttla Insurance Buildine. Loe Angelae. PeU-Intaligncer Building. Seattle. IHB OBEOOM JOURNAL reserreB the right to rejerl adrartislng copy which H deemi ob jectionable. It also will not print any copy ' lhat in any way simulates reading matter or that cannot readily be recognised a adrer- ' tiling. " SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Carrier. City and Country DAILY A'I SCNDAT Ona week ,;... .15 LOne month. . . . DAILI r 8tJftAT Ona weer.....t .1" I Ona week $ .55 5 .08 One month.... .45 hX MAIU ALL FATES PATABLK TN ADVANCE DAILT AND SUNDAY fma year ...... 58.00 I Three montha. . .53.25 feu month.'. . . 4.25 Ooa mocuh. . . DAILY (Without Sunday) Ona year. ... ..16.00 fix month.... 5 25 Three month.. 1.75 Cue month 50 WEEKLY' (Beery Wednesday) One year. . . . . .51.00 I it tnnnthe.... .50 BUN DAT (Only) One year. . . . . ..8.0 Rix monthe .... 1-78 Three montha. .. -1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY One year 53 60 Theaa ntn awl only In the Watt. Re tew to Eastern pointa furnished on appllea t.an. Make remittances by Money Order, Kxprese Order or Draft. If your postoffiee it not a ktoney Order office. K or 2-oent stamps will be .accepted. Make all remittance payable to The Journal. Portland, Oregon. 'In the vast and the minute we see , 1 The unambiguous footsteps of the God j j Who fires it hitter to ah Insect'a wing And wheel hi throne upon the rolling world. l ' ! Cowper. j WHAT YOU PAT A ays: 6 ' The question of disarmament was passed over virtually without action, be cause Japan, Great Britain and France prlvately refuse to consider reductions unless the Its arma- In- their armies and navies t-Enited States also reduces merit. Nor could other nations be ex pected to disarm while America re mains heavily armed. . - The Union club at New York was stoned Thanksgiving day because the British flag, along with the Ameri can, and French flags, waived from ilts flag staff. It was only an inci- 'dent. but it was naturally interpreted fin Great Britain with misgivings. The' late campaign bristled with rav ingsagainst Great Britain'py Borah, Johnson and . others of their kind, and these were an appeal to the hatred of big groups in America for Great Britain. The debate in the senate on the League of . Nations thundered with like fulminations against England. This sort of thing makes Great Britain afraid to dis arm while we remain armed. Japan is in ai-similar situation. The embers of friction between "the two countries are constantly smoldering in the American attitude. A news story recently carried the statement i that the Japanese government had decided that its naval program of eight dreadnoughts and eight battle cruisers was insufficient because of the refusal of the United States to enter the League of Nations. So long as we remain In isolated aloofness the splendid conception of gradual disarmament of the nations will continue unrealized. We are the nation that is obstructing that sublime step in human progress. ' If we were in the league, disarmament would immediately begin. So. long as we remain out reduction of armies and navies will never begin. . . The bill we paid last year for our army and : navy was more than $1,000,000,000, and we are to pay this year $876,490,80. Because nations have armies and huge navies and make War $9?. 23 out of every $ ID 0 which our governtnent expends goes for war bills. . Oregon has spent in two years on her great road system $20,000,000. In war taxes to pay war bills, Oregon pays out this year $39,164,250, nearly double in this single year on war bills all she has paid out ; in two years on road building. And you help pay it. You pay it in taxes on your movie tickets, on your Ice cream, on your amusements, In your income tax and in hundreds of other forms that you never 'notice. ; ';. . - . " ,The whole cost of the city govern ment of Portland is a little over $4, 000,000 this year. And we wail and complain and howl about it. But tha city of Portland this year pays out $12,9)4,400 to the government of the United States for war bills. Formerly 48 Vs per cent of all the outgoing mail reached the Portland postoffica between 5 and 8 pi m a period of only three hours. At tention was recently called t6 the fact by , The Journal with the sug gestion that matter be mailed earlier as a means of facilitating service, and a reduction to 38 pet cent from 48 has resulted. The public can greatly aid by not holding outgoing mail 'until the late afternoon hours. LIFE GASTON CHEVROLET Is dead Los Angeles. So is Eddie O'Donnell. So is his mechanician. Chevrolet and O'Donnell were fa mous race drivers. They have for years dashed around the speedways of America for the amusement 1 of the - thrill-seeltlng public Their engines sputtering, their machines whirling around the course at blind ing speed, they have raced on most of the big tracks of the country. They have, time and again, had narrow escapes. . They have come perilously near death i on scores of occasions. They have thrilled many a sport enthusiast. They have re peatedly defied and defeated Fate. But they ran their last great race Thursday. Careening around the Los Angeles track, fighting for the lead, the O'Donnell car smashed Into Chevrolet's, .was catapulted - In a semi-circle, hit again, and rolled on. One driver was picked up dead. The second died a few hours later in the hospital. The race enthusiasts had been en tertained. They had been thrilled. And the race was over. There will be other races. Other marvelous drivers will succeed O'Donnell and Chevrolet. Other pilots will take their places at the starting line. The races will be run. Other drivers will sacrifice their lives. Other crowds will -leave the stands, entertained and thrilled. It is life. it the Shriners of the nation con tinue to find the suggested meeting places of the 1921 convention, such as Atlantjc City, far below the stand' ards of hospitality . and entertain ment in this city last summer, it might be a good idea to telegraph the imperial potentate that we would be delighted to have them back next year. HUMAN BUZZARDS IN COLORADO Thursday, two girls were taken for an automobile ride, attacked, severely injured, and left on the road' miles from home. In San Francisco, two girls were taken to" the hospital after being brutally befouled by two jnen. Another girl was found, bound, gagged and drugged on the street in a California city. She had been criminally attacked. The arm of one woman was broken and her sister was thrown down a stairway when attacked by a man in an Oakland rooming house. An injured girl was found in the nude, lying on a beach near Los Angeles following assault by a man with whom she had gone riding. These are stories constantly car ried in the day's news. The in stances mentioned all occurred on the same day. They are happening every day. Are we to stand by while our young women are brutally attacked and. wounded ? Are we to allow human wreckaee to nrev unon de fenseless girls, overpower 'them, and give, vent to their unspeakable in clinations ? Penalties cannot be too strong for the" vulture's who attempt to prey on the womanhood of America. Laws cannot be . too efficiently enforced. or too sternly J applied. There is no place in Mhls country for the human buzzards who are without respect for woman. Our girls are not legitimate prey. Though Gaston Chevrolet's life was shortened by the fatal accident which eventually befalls every per slstent automobile racer, he elected a short life and a merry one, and it may be that he died happy. PROTECT YOUR FAMILY A UTOMOBILE drivers of Portland should avail themselves of the opportunity to attend the lectures on mechanism and accident prevention given by experts under the auspices of the National Safety Council Weekly talks will be given by the best mechanical and accident experts of the city, beginning Monday night at the library. , The addresses will be educational They will be- so free from technical terms that all can understand.. The speakers will deal with facts with which every driver should be famil iar. The facts will be given by men who know. Many a driver ruins an engine by operating under conditions that shorten' the life of the motor. Many a costly part is made necessary by faulty operation. Many a car re fuses to work .at. the most inoppor tune time because of lack of knowl edge by the operator. Many an ac cident is caused by faulty mechanism that those thoroughly grounded in mechanics could avoid. Many a vic tim is sent to his death through a defective part Many a mutilation results from failure of a driver to recognize accident prevention axioms and rules of the road. I J r The lectures are instituted to re duce accidents. They are to be given to save lives and limbs. When an unknown is mutilatecfor killed, busy people read the story and pass on without serious concern. But when the dying is done by an immediate relative or dear friend, the news im presses, impresses in a way that is never torgotten. ; ' The drivers who attend the lec tures will attend to prevent - acci dents to those who ride in their cars. They will attend to safeguard those dear to them, s Are there driver who do' not care to take every means at hand to' protect those who depend upon-them for their safety? The front page of a single paper tells of a man shot to death by a woman, of several people injured when a boulder knocked a mail car into the river, of a woman badly in jured in an automobile accident and a! man killed by an. elevator. It would seem that he who lives to be 80 years old is entitled to some honors as a genius. FROM THE GARBAGE THERE are hundreds of men in Portland who drink moonshine whiskey. Part of it is made from decayed fruits and vegetables gathered from commission houses and garbage pails. Some comes from potato peeK ings that have been rescued from swill containers. One bootlegger freely admitted that his whiskey was made from decayed perishables that he had gathered from garbage cans. In making the liquor various con trivances are used. One still opera tor, recently caught, used old oyster cans. Another - used a galvanized coffee can, a dish pan, and a tin cup. Another used a five gallon soup can, and inside were nine oyster cans and a wash basin. Others used lead and zinc pipes, all throwing off deadly poisons. Copper is the only metal that can be used in manufacturing liquor that does not throw off fhe poisons. It is used, officers say, in only a very small percentage of cases. When Portland men Imbibe the moonshine, it is fluid springing from decayed substances picked from gar bage receptacles and run through oyster, soup and coffee cans, and lead and zinc pipes, that they are drinking. Many of them thereafter, go to the hospitals for treatment, or to the grave. A Portland mijl is making the only worsted yarn manufactured Vest of the Mississippi river. The wool in the yarn comes from the backs of Oregon sheep. The money paid for manufacture goes into the pockets of local wbrkers. Much of the money paid for the yarn comes from other states. PRODUCTIVE A3UAM INCIDENT to his 1920 census,UnCle Sam has found that our ' island possession, Guam, produces from its 225 square miles with its population of 13,275 natives, 1,140,924 pounds of copra for export to the United States and 851,680 pounds to Japan. The livestock on the island In cludes 6149 water buffalo, 4367 horses, 1160 goats, 543 hogs and 73 cattle. Corn, sweet potatoes, taro, yams, tobacco, cassava, rice, arrow root and sugar are included among the field crops. Cocoanuts, bananas, pineapples, coffee, breadfruit, oran ges, lemons, papaya, c'acao, limes. mangoes, grapefruit and even alliga tor pears constitute the food produc ing trees and plants. Whereas there arte 106.2 males to 100 females in the United States, there are 95.7 males to 100 females in Guam. Some 41.7 per cent of the men are single. The climate is said to be tropical but healthful and pleasant. The Island of Guam is almost a neigh bor, being only about 5600 miles southwest of Portland. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis has been employed as arbiter of disputes in baseball at approximately six times the sum he receives as fed eral judge. He gives only part "of his time. Will we ever pay our public officials what they are worth? FROM SHEER NEGLECT THE same congress which asserted, "It is -hereby declared to be the policy of congress to promote, en courage and develop water transpor tation, service and 'facilities in con nection with the commerce of the United States, and to foster and pre serve in full vigor both rail and water transportation," cut the rivers and harbors appropriation to just one hair what army engineers de clare to be "the least possible amount required for absolutely' necessary work." 1 The National Rivers and Harbors Congress, the militant national rep resentative of public interest in waterway utilization, naturally asks, "How long can the waterways be preserved 'in full vigor on appropri ations which are cut to one half of the least possible amount re quired'?" The waterway organization then draws a comparison between the support this government gives the railroads and what it does for the rivers, which are the public high ways of travel provided by nature. The government's gifts to the rail roads aggregate in land area the equivalent of the 13 original states, and additional federal offerings in cash and bonds bring the total of value to $2,500,000,000. Since the passage of the federal control act In March, 1918, definite and indefi nite appropriations by congress for the railroads amount to $2,700,000. 000, including loans which will be repaid. The Interstate commerce commission haa granted the "billion dollar rate rhcrease" to the rail roads. Thus, directly and indirectly, the aid to the railroads from the government, apart from its huge land grants, totals more than $6,000,-' 000,000. .The total appropriation for rivers and harbors slightly exceeds. $1,000, POO.OOO of which $450,000,000 was for : inland waterways. Little has ever been done either by the gov ernment or private organization to put inland water transportation actually on. a business basis. The channel improvement of the upper Columbia, for instance, has been des ultory outside the Celilo canal and Cascade locks. Communities have made no practice of organizing port districts and providing terminals J Boats have heen run t without sta tions, warehouses or solicitors. Yet the railroads today are taxed beyond their ' powers. They could not handle all the business offered, no matter what rates they might be allowed to charge. They sorely need the supplemental use of waterways for bulky, slow moving commodities. Isn't the National Rivers and Har bors Congress in point when t avers: A government that can order Its peo ple .to pay an additional 5133,000,000 a month to the railways could well afford to invest -$100,000,000 a year In the im provement of Its waterways. TARIFF REVISION FORECAST By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal Washington, Nov. 2f. Tariff revision at an early date is promised by the Re publican platform, the president-elect. and the party leaders' generally. Re vision of the revenue laws was recom mended by the president a year ago, and looms large in the thought of lead ers of both parties. With this situation just ahead, both parties are confronted by crippled leadership, for the Republi can tarirr war-horse, Senator Boies Pen rose, Is not able physically to shoulder the usual responsibilities of his position at the head of the finance committee. and the Democrats in the house were weakened by the election and by the ill ness of Claude KItchin, who ranks at the head of the minority of the ways and means committee of the house. Senator Penrose, it will be remem bered, was "unable to attend the Chicago convention, but played a large part by direct telephone connection with his lieu tenants. Apparently he will direct mat ters in much the same way in the com ing tariff fight, except that he will be close at hand in Washington and has recovered sufficiently to consult directly with his assistants, chief among whom will be Smoot of Utah and Watson of Indiana. It Is not expected that the bulky Pennsylvanian will be able to at tend the sessions of the senate for some time, but will direct operations from his rooms at a lotal hotel. The senate Democrats will look to Senators Simmons and Underwood for leadership in tariff and revenue and will be assured of competent and forcible direction. On the house side, : however, the Democratic line is badly dented. Out of four -men most capable' for this work, three have been defeated, and Repre sentative KItchin, the lone survivor, has been slowed down by the attack of par tial paralysis which took him out of the halls of congress' for a considerable; time during the last session. KItchin has recovered sufficiently to assume the leadership of his party, and will no doubt be chosen, but it is realized that he lacks the robust strength needed to withstand the long sessions and con centrated work of a lone tariff battle. It Is predicted that he will perforce divide the labor with the man next in rank. Representative Garner .of Texas. The three defeated leaders, former Speaker Clark. Henry T. Rainey of Il linois and Cordell Hull. of Tennessee, are the ones who would have shared the honors with Kitchin had they not been swept down In the election tide. Rainey and Hull are especially well qualified by experience in tariff and revenue, Hull being considered one of the best author! ties in me country on compucaiea in come tax problems. The house Demo crats will have to do without them, how ever. The Republican tariff makers In the house remain with ranks intact, headed by Fordney of Michigan, Green of Iowa and Longworth of Ohio. This trio hardly . . . I . . T-v 1 measures up to me aays oi j-uiiKiey, Payne and Dalzell, but the party has such a Jarge majority that skill in leader ship is not a prime requirement. For a Greater Portlarfd New Projects That Mean New Payrolls Include a Household Invention, a Mall Order House and an Im porting and Exporting Concern. The Call Manufacturing company, re oently organized In -Portland with capital stock of $100,000, proposes to minimize the loss and breakage of phonograph records through the manu facture and sale pf a newly patented container. The Call record container was In vented by F. H. Call of Portland. It can be fitted to any cabinet phonograph and Is so designed that only one record can be removed at a time, the container being automatically locked with each removal and released with the replace ment of the record. A factory for the manufacture of the Call container is being fitted up East Fifty-eighth street and Foster road, Officers of the company are F. H. Call, president and manager ; W, L. Fries, treasurer ; William I. Harrison, secre tary, and R. H. Call, director. "The farmer should eat more fish, avers J. A. Thompson, head of the-J-J Packing company. To supply this toothsome morsel to the rural bill of fare the J-J company has established a maU order business and proposes to send its products into every household in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The plant of the J-J Packing com pany is located . at , 485 Marion street, Sellwood. The firm, haa been doing business here for about a year and has built up a substantial trad In salt and smoked . fish, specializing on kippered salmon and smoked black cod. The Asiatic Petroleum Company of Oregon, Ltd., with Portland as its prin cipal place of business and a capitaliza tion of $1000. has filed, articles of in corporation with the Multnomah county clerk. Incorporators are John C. Storey, Joseph D. Gough and N. D. Simon. The company's charter provides a wide field of operations, but according to officials of the concern It Is- proposed to engage in a general importing and exporting business en petroleum products. The new company is said to be closely associated with a strong eastern , cor poration... ; FARM LIFE IN MISSOURI From tha Jarkaon Examiner Farming isn't what it used to be. At farmer's wife, who lives 10 miles from Independence, put ; on - her silk stockings -and party dress, hitched up the Ford and drove to Independence after she had fed the farmer and his hands the noonday meal. She played bridge - all afternoon, won the prize, stayed in town for dinner with a friend and met her husband at 8 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer drove to Kansas City for a dance ,at a hotel. danced until midnight and returned home in time to get a few hours' sleep before breakfast time. . . . . , ' Letters From the'People r Communication aent to The Journal - for publication in this department ahonld be written on only one aide or tee paper: inouia not exceeu BOO words in lenctb, and muat be aunea or ue writer, whaee mail addreaa la full muat accom pany the contribution. A LETTER TO PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON CorvaUis, Nov. 23. To President Wood row Wilson, Washington. D. C. My Dear President Wilson : A few days aeo someone Bald to me : . "The Democratic party is defeated. The League, of Nations Is dead. , What does President Wilson or anyone who cares for the -destiny of the nation and the world have reason to be thankful for?" My reply was that the nation and the world have reason to be thankful for President Wilson, and that it falls to the lot of few men to have so many reasons for gratitude as has President Wilson. Who In all the world's history has been privileged to occupy the commanding position that you have occupied, and to offer to the world the greatest thing that has been offered to it for .almost 2000 years? When the very civilization of the world, civilization that has come up through trial and bloodshed of the centuries, was threatened with destruc tion, there arose the voices of ambitious men seeking preferment voices of ene mies abroad and of enemies and traitors at home, but above the din and clamor of those discordant notes you heard. clear and strong, the call of civilization in distress. It was you who issued' the call to arms ; and millions responded to that call and the flower of American youth drew sword at your command. And for what? To vindicate our right to send our ships anywhere on the high seas? Yes. To save Belgium and Po land and Serbia and all the "little peo ples" from the tyrant and the oppressor? Yes. To skve the magnificent civiliza tion of Britain from the fate that seemed inevitable? To jsave France, splendid France, whose heroism and for titude for four loner, awful years has made her a Thermopylae multiplied a thousandfold?. Yes, all this and more. It was not alone to save the small na tions, Important as that was ; nor alone t save the Briton as he was falling back from Flanders, with his face to the foe,-stubbornly contesting every inch of ground as he reluctantly retreated toward the channel ; not alone to save France from her historic enemy ; not alone to save existing civilizations ; but to save the world from despotism through the centuries yet to be. When you sat at the green table in historic Versailles with Lloyd George, Clemenceau, venlzelos, Orlando and all those greatest statesmen of their time. not only the peer but the leader of them all, you offered to the world, the great est gift and greatest boon that has been offered it by men in all the ages. You offered the world the thing that our brave boys fought for, and what you had promised them "a world safe for democracy." You offered the world freedom from despotism. To the shame of our country that priceless gift has not been accepted. When a deed is done for Freedom, throngh the broad earth's achina breaAt Rons a thrill of ioy prophetic, trembling on from eaat to west Whether eonacioua or unconacioua, yet Human ity' Tut frame Xfcroueh ita ocean-snndertd fiben feels the gusn oi joy or aname; In the gain or loaa of one race, all the rest una equal claim. Is the League of Nations dead? Prin ciples are immortal ; they cannot die. What you and your co-workers did will live. America may- for a time turn to trifling mid petty things, but she will be ashamed of her choice and will yet take the proud place in the sisterhood of nations to which she is justly entitled. And now methlnks I hear, wafted across a thousand leagues of ocean from the brave lads who sleep beneath the blood-red poppies of Flanders fields, be neath the mounds of St. Mihiel, beneath the wooded slopes of the Argonne and Chateau-Thierry, a Thanksgiving, greet ing to you, their chief: "Willingly we gare all for the great "principles of libearty and peace. The promise that you made the world we sealed with our blood. That sacrifice and your toil for humanity have not been in vain. The world accepts with gratitude that which America offered it, and a day is near at hand when America will take her place and proudly do her share. Our chief, it is reward enough to look forward to that day when the League of Nations shall be triumphant, and to. realize that we were permitted to be co-workers with you in the greatest achievement of men in all the centuries since time began." My dear president, rest assured that what I have written voices the sentiment of a vast majority of your fellow-men, and that as time passes you and your inestimable services to mankind will be more and more appreciated. The world honors you as few men have ever been honored, and at no dis tant day yours will be the most loved name In history, for which millions of your friends throughout -the world are devoutly thankful to the God of nations. J. A Gilkey. TO CLEAR STUMP LANDS Vancouver, Wash., Nov. 19. To the Editor of The Journal I notice In your columns occasionally the logged-off land Question comes up, but no one seems to have a solution for it. Might I make a suggestion? Let the state form dis tricts, similar to diking districts, and bond them for, say, 125,000 for each unit, then the state purchase a donkey en gine and. equipment and hire one prac tical logger or man that a familiar with land clearing for each unit. Let the farmers that are getting tie work done do the work on a community basis I help you, and you help me.' The state will charge so much per day for the equipment, and the farmer pays It off on a long term basis, the trouble with the average fanner being the lack of proper equipment. Start with 10 units, and you should realize at least BOO acres per year, depending on how hard the land Is to clear. L would like to hear from someone else on this sub ject, as I have been 20 years at the game myself. Old Time Logger. Olden Oregon Territorial Officials En Route in 1850 Bereft by Yellow. Jack. The second territorial governor of Oregon, John P. Gaines, who was ap pointed by President Taylor, arrived from San- Francisco on the United States sloop of war Falmouth. August 15. 1850.- He was accompanied by hia familv and two other new officials with their f amllles. These officials were Ed ward Hamilton of Ohio, territorial secre tary, and Territorial Judge, Strong. The party left New York in Isovember, is. In the United States store ship Supply, arriving at San Francisco In July, 1850, where they were transferred to the at mouth. On the Journey Governor Gaines lost two daughters, of yellow fever, at st. Catherines, and Judge Strong a 6-year-old on. '., Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places A- cow's horn is susceptible of being transformed into many objects of beauty when properly manipulated. First, the core is taken out of it and sent to the glue factory, after which the horn is sawed into pieces. These are boiled in oil. which makes the material so soft 1 t ' a COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEg ; SMALL CHANGE . J SIDELIGHTS By golly, they're even talking about regulating the trees. - . - Now we have the battleship Oregon and now we haven't it. - . "Portland swept by a high wind." Se attle's been taUdng aain. Chief Fitzmorrls is giving 'em fits in Chicago's criminal strata. . e a a Somebody is now trying to take all the rosiness out of the Roseway. Announcement of the closing of 13 North Dakota banks was made on Fri day. If Patrolman C4sh were true to his name he'd be a favorite mark for bur glars. . "Retailers are stung in turkey mar ket," Bays the market editor. So were the consumers. . a Reduction In the price of steel Is in teresting, but a nice slice off the cost of pork chops would get more attention in our nouse. . e Discovered at last ! There's a captain In the Mexican army, and here we'd believed for years that all the officers were generals. f a . 1 w Let's hope that Griffith and McNeil won't start another hunger strike in Ireland. We'd like to reserve that front pag-e fpace for news of a fine white Christmas. MORE GR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Mr. and Mrs. ,R. V. Miller are guests of the Imperial. They come from Brookings, a prosperous sawmill town on the Oregon coast In Curry county not far north of the California line and a port of call for steamers from San Francisco on their way north. Brook ings Is at the mouth of the Chetco river, and the harbor there Is one of the big assets of the town, as it permits water transportation by sea-going craft for the timber of Southern Curry county. e Dr.' W. J. Kerr, president of the O. A. c. and president of the Interstate executive committee of the Y. M. C. A., is In town to attend a meeting of the Interstate committee. Other members of the committee from out of town who are here to attend the meeting are Dr. P. L. Campbell, president of the Uni versity of Oregon ; Leslie Butler of Hood River, A. C. Schmltt of Albany and Dr. H. L. Bates, president of Pacific Uni versity of Forest Grove. A. K. Parker, whose home Is at En terprise, the county seat of Wallowa county, is in Portland. Wallowa county had the misfortune to have an, early and heavy fall of snow, which caught much of the wheat still in the shock, so that Wallowa county's famous hard wheat, through being moistened by the melting snow. Is graded as soft wheat this year; aee Eric Hauser made nearly S00 newsboys happy with turkey and chanberry sauce and all the trimmings on Thanksgiving. Eric Hauser has a warm spot In his heart for the newsboys, for he was one himself. a S. A. Hutchison, native son of Union county, is at the M.ultnomah from Union. Mr. Hutchison is one of the larger stock holders in the rfew hotel at Union and is a raiser of purebred cattle. e Hugh'R. Kirkpa trick is at the Seward from Lebanon, the town whose hotel Is famous for its fried spring' chicken, strawberries and cream and home made Jams and jellies. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Raymond of Baker are at the Multnomah, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Longpre are in town from Seaside. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred From rettiona stranee and remote cornea one who tells Mr. Lockley about a group of tropical ielandi and their convict inhabitanU, and of tha remarkable rujtoma of dwellera upon the nearest mainland. If Mr. Lockley should not -chance to extend hia remark upon the Andaman hlanda. It would profit Journal reader to aeek further in standard works of reference or otherwise, con cerning the aborigines of that insula r group. who can euily qualify aa undisputed lineal descend ants of a people who were among earth' earliest pioneers. What do you know about the Anda man islands? If you had asked me about them a week ago I couldn't have told you anything about them, or, for that matter, made a guess at their lo cation. A day or so ago at the Seward hotel I met almost charming woman, Mrs. L. M. Rogers. ... In the course of our conversation I happened to ask where she met her husband. "I met my husband, Gilbert Rogers," see answered, "in the Andaman islands. I was visiting friends there who were connected with the administration of the islands. . My husband fsas In the forestry department. Gilbert "time back to England to claim me, and we were married and spent our honeymoon In Cornwall. Yes, -I enjoyed living in the Andaman islands, though, for that matter, I have discovered one can enjoy life anywhere if with con genial companions and if a man aiia wife are comrades and helpmates." I . am going to boll down the many things 1 learned about the Andaman Islands into a paragraph or two. The Andaman Islands, of which there are more than 200, ar in the Bay of Ben gal. They are about 600 miles from the mouth of the Hugli, and the nearest mainland is Cape Negraia, on the Burma shore, 130 miles distant. The larger is lands consist of rugged hills and nar row valleys. With the Jungle-like growth, the coral beds offshore and the green-blue sea. breaking in filmy surf on the glistening sand, the Islands are singularly beautiful. The heavy rains during the southwest monsoon, ranging from 9$ to 135 inches of precip itation annually, make a tangled growth of tropical luxuriance and make the mangrove swamps scenes of rare beauty In 1883 the British government set aside 150 square miles near Pprt Blair for forest operations and" preservation. This tract is worked by convict labor, the Andaman Islands being the penal settlement for India. The convicts are all life-termers or prisoners on long sen tences.' They live In a score or more of villages and are allowed to bring their families to the islands. The cost per that It can be rolled out into a sheet, like putty. The sheet thus prepared Is stamped, colored and put through a variety of processes until ft comes out In the shape of a most exquisite comb or other object . In elaborate carved "tortotseshelL" Cups and other vessels, so thin as to be translucent, and most elegant and ornamental," are made from cows' horns; likewise cane and um brella heads, and handles ,for knives and spoons. In the national museum at Washington is exhibited a real "gTeat horn spoon,- made by an Indian artificer from the born of a Rocky mountain goat properly speaking. It Is a ladle, with bowl big enough to hold a. quart. .. - ' '- The harvesting of the potatoes Is un der way. Owing to the high cost of stovepipes there are fewer smaller spuds in the middle of the sack than usual.- Medford Mail-Tribune. - - If men talked as pleasantly to their wives- as they do to other men's wives when they occasionally meet, thia world would indeed be a pleasant home life world. rCrane American, A third rural mail routs' may be estab llithri nut nf ruilu in tha near future. providing. certain roads over which it is to pass are put In condition for travel the year round. Polk County ltemizer, The best duck grounds In the county, it fs said, are within -the government reserve at Fort Stevens but a man must be a soldier to get a permit to shoot there. Moral : Join the army. Astoria Budget. . - ' Wr Pjnnn rartnnt Vw blamed for re signing as a member of the state high way commission. Nearly every cltlsen wants a paved road around nis prop erty, and many a cement walk to the front door. An angel from heaven couldn't get by. Polk County Post. A few years, ago getting drunk was considered a weakness: now it is con sidered an art. Not that the rise in the world's opinion has hsd any down ward effect on the law. For the weak ness a man was usually fined $a ana costs. Now for the name thing tne artist Is fined $100 and the judge never bats an eye. Benton County Courier. E. C McCoy, manager of the Wasco Warehous Milline company or .tne Dalles, and W. C. Tiffany of Seattle have been busy taking eare of matters that have come before the meeting of the North Pacific Millers' association. which met In Portland this week. Mr. McCoy is president of the association and Mr. Tiffany is secretary. Matters affecting freight rates, differentials be tween wheat and flour, prepayment" of freight and the raising of a defense fund, car mlnlmums and state and Inter state trade were discussed. Representa tives from the local mills as well as from many outside points were In at tendance at the""meetlng. e " Judge H. H. Belt of Dallas Is spending a week or so In Portland, helping clear up the docket. Harry Hackleman Belt is a native sen of Salem. He Is a rela live of Supreme Judge George H. Bur nett, Mrs. Burnett's maiden name hav ing been Belt. He takes his middle name from his mother's maiden name. Her father, Abe Hackleman, was one of the early settlers of Linn county Judge Belt has served six years as cir cuit judge and has just been reeiectea for six yearamore of judicial dyty. J. M. Damon of Mount Vernon Is spending a few days in Portland. Mount Vernon is a very small dot on the map having less than TOO inhabitants, but it is the trading center for a rich ter ritory. It is on the John Day river and an hour's drive by auto over a won derfully picturesque road takes fyou to Prairie City, Its nearest railway point. - e e a Thomas Fitsgerald of Mitchell is at the Imperial., Mitchell is on Bridge creek and is in the southern part of Wheeler county. Its altitude is easily remembered, a it Is exactly one-half mile above the sea. .e e Mr. and Mrs. John Crow Jr. of Pen dleton are registered at the Imperial Mr. Crow's father is one of the bonanza wheat farmers on the Umatilla reserva tion. . e e O. Z. Randall,, hailing from the home of the ., Round-up, is transacting business in Portland and reports Tendleton as peaceful and prosperous. C.'W. Barr, dentist from Astoria, is at the Imperial. Lockley year to the government Is about 130 for each prisoner. There are from 10, 000 to 12,000 prisoners on the Islands. The next time you ride in one of the old-style Pullman cars, notice the rich red - wood used In Its construction and for Its interior decoration. It lSsPadouk wood, and comes from the Andaman Is lands. Padouk is the principal forest growth of these islands. It Is a deep, rich red In color and takes a fine pol ish and looks like a very superior grade of mahogany. In addition to its padouk the principal woods exported from the Andaman islands are 'koko, white chug Ian, black chuglan, zebra wood, satin wood, dldu and Assam or iron wood. From the Andaman Islands Mr. and Mrs. Rogers moved to Burma, where Mr. Rogers was in charge of the forestry service. In talking with Mr. Rogers I was surprised to find how densely ig norant I was as to India and Burma. For example, I" had no idea that you could travel more than 1200 miles from the northern boundary of Burma before you came to its southern boundary, and that from east to west It extends for nearly 600" miles. Nor did I know that Burma has a, population of more than 12,000,000, over 80 per cent of whom are Buddhists. I knew something of its great diversity of products And of Its wonderful scenery, but I did not know of its various peoples, with their contrast ing tongues, religions and customs, such, for example, as tha Arakenese, Karens, Shans, Chins, Kachins and Talainga. The larger part of the population, of course, consists of the Burmese, who are merry and light hearted. The Burmese do not have equality of the sexes. Man, poor man. is considered very much infe rior to what we term the gentler sex. The woman Js the head of the house thebargalner the business and execu tive part of the firm. She "tells herj husband in a kindly and pleasant way where to head In, and gives him what money she thinks he. should spend. The Burmese people are friendly and hos pitable and think it more or less of a disgrace to hoard money. They believe In acquiring merit by deeds of charity and the building of rest houses for trav elers, the entertainment of strangers, and the construction of pagodas or the founding 'of monasteries. The women wear silk of home manufacture because It is more beautiful and more lasting than other fabrics. . They weave It and dye it In their homes, and Burmese silk -la considered one of the best grades of silk on the market ' Uncle Jeff Snow Says: We've a plenty of offices In "Oregon most enough to run half a dosen states like It. But we hain't nowhere nigh enough yiV to go around. At ever 'lec-' tion we make a lot more, and then the legislature takes a hand and rolls in a few on top of that By'n by we'll have a office apiece fer everbuddy and a commission In each county drawin' per diem and mileage to inspect our mush kittles and doghouses. The poli ticians'U fix it all up so they'll charge us a license or a fee or somethln' like that and we'll b'lieve they don't cost us nuthin' in taxea The Oregon Country Northweet Happening in Brief Form for tha Bui Header OREGON NOTES f ecKm'Ia aunty's budget for 1921 Is 537.6u5, an Increase of $4987 over the current year. ! ' For paying the expenses of Salem dur- Ln?,tna.c1r4n!F J'1" the ciW council is asking $167,463. . , La Grande's budget for city expenses for the coming year Is $106,460, while Pendleton Is satisfied with $73,112.80. Ever school In UnktHla county whi.-h has made application to the school nu perintendent for teacher now Is sup plied. ; i An experienced miller has arrived at Burns and the flour -mill at that place will soon be turning home grown wheat Into flour. A division of Polk county is now pro posed cutting off the south part ami .uuring a recent hish w ind in Coos Bay, the Mcl onal iwT i. i 11 v augnan tog- 1.00MO0rofeet releaSi"8 lK' l JUSt 1700 lalli.. - j... nows rrom the dealer to the consumer, in cfntsaiio lh rSent prWa Pl Isaac Hia-cina. an .&rl ..in.. - t.-. em Oregon and a veteran of' the t'lvil war. Hied In a llrnnnw hnuhiiui ihi. week at the age of 79. i. aeta.x,a'.r!'l noting this week a levy pf $18,401.92 wa voted on and passed for n:wratlnr 11.. nun..n schools for the coming year. Two carloads of hon ral c2iLntry ttdjcent to. Grants Tass were snipped to London this week. The ship- ,i ment weighed 74.800 pounds. ! The first carlend of grain ever uhlnnirt over the Strahorn I railroad was went out from Dairy Thursday, consigned to Martin Brothers of Klamath Falls. The Salem Homing Mills company has Died with -the state corporation depart-, ment resolutions showing a decrease in ' capitalization from ;$200.000 to $5000. Joshua Judd, aged 82 years, an in mate ' the county home, was found dead Saturday night in Dod son's can yon, about three nulea east of Uoseburg. The Hood RiveWhjte Salmon Ferry company is building a large sidewhe! nj wi wnicn w in na U runupllv et iu automobiles. 000. It will cost about 110,- A company has been nrc-aninoii Vn. gene with the plan- of building houses and selling them, to people on caav terms, ine first residence is just be ing completed. j WASHINGTON The Washington Union Coal company st Tono is running its mines on full time ' in order to supply an unusual demand " for its product. James H. Law. aged 78, living north or White Salmon, was crushed by a fall ing roof, sustaining two broken ribs and Internal injuries. A total of 5800 cars of apples have been shipped out of Weriatchee to date and shipments are going forward at the rate of about 50 cars daily. Puget Sound Power &. Ltijht company will offer to its patrons and the Invest ing public another million of its 8 per cent, five yt-ar, goli;l coupon notes Several thousand vacancies ntlll exist atvt'amp Lewis despite tha fact that re cruits are arriving i daily from almost every section of the United Slates. t - The continued unseasonable rains irs causing apprehenKion to potato growers In the vicinity of La .Center, as late; po tatoes are beginning to rot in the fiehla. The body of the man murdered at Reitmeir station last week has been identified as that of J. V. Olson, who disappeared after going to Spokane from Elk. j The federal employment office at Yak ima reports that the demand for work is steadily increasing and that shout 100. persons are turhed away Jobless daily. . -k , Detective J. II. Fox of the Kvereft police department was shot and killed by an unknown man for whom Snoho mish -and King county officers are searching. Approximately 70 persons have taken advantage of home nursing classes'. just organized In Centralis by Miss Lou Blanche-lte, graduate instructor end overseas nurse. As the result of a contrart recently signed with W. It. Wells, owner of a poultry ranch near Troswer, 15.000 baby chicks are to be delivered to a Spo kane, firm in ypril and May of next spring. I IDAHO There will be eight Temorrts In the next Idaho legislature out of a total of 98 members. j An antl-anen lawl surh as exists In California, will probably be passed by the coming Idaho legislature. Mountain time Is designated the stand ard time for Boise by the unanimous 'passage of an ordinance by the city council. Saving of $37,000 worth of crops- is estimated to have! resulted from the ISliO campaign against rodents in Bon ner county. i A civil service- examination Is fo be held at Cottonwood December 15 to fill a postmaster vacancy. The office pays $1800 a year. i Word is received from Wlnthester that the Craig Mountain Lumber com pany hd shut down. About ISO men were employed. . . . Three hundred forty-three acres of land was cleared and put into crops during the past year In Bonner county -as a result of the use of 4a tons of dynamite. ! - Governor Davis has decided to ap point Albert H. Featherstone JudKe of the First judicial district for Shoshone county, to succeed Judge W. W, Woods, deceased. . The Idaho experiment station will dis tribute to farmers of the state about 10,000 pounds of R"stlP,rIwhlt!,I,)f"i seed corn, which yielded at the station this season 84 bushels to the acre. I Know Your Portland Portland a dry town? Not so you could notice it ! We are connoisseurs and extravagant users of the best beverage in the world, We go SO miles from Portland to find a water supply equal to our needs and tastes. We drain 222 square miles of Bull Run reserve into Bull Run river and at times drink-up the. whole river. We bring the purest water supply pos sessed by' any city in the country, through a pair of conduits which rep resent an aggregate length of miles and are capable of carrying 65.000.000 gallons a day. Wo store the water in reservoirs which hold the immense total of 192,999,000 gal lons, and we distribute It through 770 miles of mains to approximately 315,000 water users, through 62J71 aervices. . j ; ' Municipal - Commissioner John M. Mann is authority for the statement that : - - 'The Bull Run ! reserve contains 223 -square miles, about one-half of which is the watershed. Our water originates at Bull Run lake, which is about five miles west of Mount Hood, the two being divided by a deep valley, so that no snow water from Mount Hood I drains into Bull Run lake. The water In the lake, after passing through, two natural filters, flows 23 miles In .Bull Run river , to the headworks, where It enters .the conduits. - "We have completed 31 miles or trail inside the reserve and two miles of fire line Just north and east of the lake. The i present develop ment will enable us to arrive quick ly at any point within the reserve should it become necessary to pro tect the waterthedl from -fire. The fire line will be continued clear around the lake and will perhaps be 90 per cent proof against fire in that immediate vicinity.' ' , fTo Be Contlnuel)