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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1920, THE OREGON DAILY JOURNALS PORTLAND. OREGON. i 10 it AS IXDEPEND..vr NEWSPAPER C 8. JACaUHlN ..... -v. .. .Publisher " ! Be cxlm. b confident, be cheerful wd dp unto other aa yon would hare- them do unto yon-2 P-blihed aeery day-and Sunday oroinf. t Tho Journal Building. Broadway and Xam bill trt, Portland, Oregon. - Juaterad at tho pcatoffk-e at Portland, Oregon, for tramniiMloo through taa mail " tecona riaie natter. . TEIEfHUNEA Main 7178, Automatic M'"" All department rearhed by tneae iinaber. NATIONAL ADVERTISING RK!"i?J TIVK Benjamin Kantnor Co, -S?S Building, 225 Fifth arena, rw York. ' Waller Building. Chicago. - : , PAriFIO COAST K K I'll KS T A T IV E W -Jlaranger Co.. Examiner Building. s" . ueo; Titia Inaurance Building. 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If your postoffic i not a Honey Order office, J- or 2-eent tamp will be accepted. Make all remittance payabla UfcTn Journal. Portland, Oregon. God fir. as men Who nerer shame their mother; Who nerer fail their brothers. Anonymoua. BUT FOR AMERICA TP HE elalm of Great Britain is . 1 that America has no right to participate in the oil development ' of Mesopotamia because, the British I note says, we did not send soldiers s or spend money in the pacification ; of Mesopotamia. : This is a subterfuge. America 'loaned tne antes aDout ten Diinon dollars for war uses. She sent near ; ,ly two million men to France. These . acts turned a lost war into a won ; war. : ' . . It is affair assumption that if i . America had not done these things,. Great Britain would not now have a mandate over Mesopotamia as a v partV of" the future kingdom of .Arabia. The early days of July, 1918, were the gloomiest period of ' the war. Ilaig and his splendid troops bad been fearfully, pressed at , Picardy. The victorious Germans, reinforced by fresh legions from the Russian front, were driving the French on the Marne. With bated breath, civilization watched with f gloomy apprehension each new shift in the tide of battle. Paris seemed " doomed. '. ; And we know now that one to three days more of the overwhelm lng German tide" would have split the French armies asunder, stopped .'the movement of American soldiers and munitions into France via Brest and chanced the whole map of the war. . Was it not American Eoldiers that ! became the famous Rock of the ' Marne? Was It not an American contingent that- stood like, a stone wall on ' the banks of the Marne after : the Frenclryhad fallen back ? ' Was .It not American fire and steel that cut to pieces the German ad vance ah4 started the great retreat? , It was, and by that token the mil , Hons ; and the dead that . America threw Into, the war made it possible . for Great Britain to exercise a man date, over Mesopotamia and its oil resources. ' - But for , America, Germany, not ; Great Britain, would ' in all likeli- hood be in control of the Mesopota- mlan oil fields. " m ' ' Life is Just one occasion for cele l b ration after another. Before the t Thanksgiving dinner bill for 60- cent turkey has even been presented for " payment,-: father confronts the raiyzlng question, "What are you to get me for Christmas?" rst of it is that he knows if get it he will "get It." lRSH AMERICA no reason why the voice Ameitcan people said Edward Ab- should be ner Thompson ston " In The 3, aay' added:, J, . " l"U4rer.?evei0P"Snt the average I ... 9ftsvM.itijit voice i become as t - beautiful as voirwn sr. ! though our. mode of livi even X?Sr52i JT m?.?ot bVuctve .'to softness of tone. Life can. nnM with its i elated, enriched and mad ' ahle if people can only expresshVm- - ..... -..r...w.. ,o a, usure in ne of America's' greatest institution's 5 interpretive expression. He is besf j known at the colleges of the country : through his efforts to soften and en- rich the ; American speaking , voice j, lie do and to promote the' art of expressive reading. Saturday night, at Couch school, he is to render "'Disraeli, a thrilling'; drama of modern life', which Introduces the magnetic char acter of the famous Earl of Bea consfleld of England. A master of his profession, pos sessor of an organ-like voice, a ma gician who, ' once on the platform. wholly effaces himself in the per fection of his art, Mr. Thompson is accounted One of the most finished and powerful readers on the Ameri can platform. - - It is from such an authority that there comes the appeal for better reading and for Improvement of the American speaking voice. Both are arts that the American schools have largely lost sight of. The ability to read aIoud and, by the reading, to interpret and communicate to lis teners the author's meaning, is now so rare in high school and college graduates as to have become a lost art. It is one of the penalties of a hurly-burly age In which 'the ma terial overwhelms the spiritual and the false idols of Mammon submerge so much that is good and true. The earth is ordinarily well be haved, but many a devout Christian as well as others less religious was doubtless rudely shocked when Ola Mother Earth did the shimmy in the Northwest Sunday morning. WHAT SHIPS PAY PORTLAND SH1PS pay. Six shipping board vessels have recently left in Portland a total of $638,946.15 in purchase of supplies and employ ment of labor. The Abercos spent $111,254.01, in cluding $18,090 for fuel. The Pawlet's local bill of expense was $99,705.41. The Waban's expense account In Portland was $88,202.41 plus $8000 for repairs. . The West Nivaria left here $116, 743.06; the West Nomentum, $106, 073.49, and the WeSt Keats, $108, 967.77. f- 'f"r These figures are entirely apart from the value of the cargo brought into or taken from the, port by the vessels named. - The average amount spent in Portland by each vessel for food stores was $13,000. Labor's interest in each vessel was about' $15,000. The mere presence of almost any ship is worth $60,000 or more to the port. Many of the officers and crews of the vessels in regular service to Portland have their families here. They help to put the salt of the sea into the life of Portland. Pride and business interests both are expanded by maintaining the traffic of ships. Port investment is only profitable when, port facilities are fully used by ships. The condition precedent to the at tracting of ships is cargo. To keep ships going ana coming, fully laden, is worth the strenuous, united, busi ness pulling effort of . the entire community. Ships pay. Their size does not give heavy trucks right of way at intersections. The law provides that the machine to the right is entitled to the way whether it be the heaviest truck or the lightest car. COLD BLOODED BUSINESS IN 1 h THE past two years, Oregon has invested $20,000,000 in good roads. Another $10,000,000, voted by the people, will be expended next year. The Interest is running night and day against these investments. To offset at least a part of these invested millions, the state is bid ding for tourist business. It is spending legislative appropriationa to carry on a, publicity campaign to lure sightseers to Oregon. It is then Oregon's business to see that the tourists whom we lure to Oregon, have accommodations at such wonder spots as we advertise, There, for instance, is Crater Lake, It is one of our great lures, We advertise it as a premier attrac tion. People journey across the continent to. see it. What if there is no place for them- to eat and sleep when, tired and worn, tourists reach Crater Lake? Tourists do not come to Oregon merely to ride over the roads. They come to eee tne wonder places. Having advertised' these places and spent millions on the roads, having profited handsomely from tourist travel,' are we to permit the work to remain unfinished by failure to provide at suh places as Crater Lake ample living accommodations? Maintaining a resort hotel at Crater Lake' is attended with great difficulties. - Because- of the handi caps, it s almost impossible to en list the interest of men acustomed to make such investments on sum mer resorts. The national director of parks has tried for years to en list capital In. the East and West and everywhere in the Crater Lake hotel The man who went into the wll derness and gradually built up there a hotel where tourists can be comfortably housed and adequately fed, has proven that the business can' be made to pay. It returned a profit : of $1000 .in 1919, and more than $9000 In 1920. -. s'But the growing , number at ' peo pie ' who " gx to Crater Lake have made; his resources inadequate.':'. x xxere s me poini, ; jmneiner ine Business pays or " doesn't pay, it should be financed. All tourists wh j go there should be housed and. fed. Those who are profiting directly or indirectly from tourist travel owe it to themselves to see that the Crater Lake hotel Is adequately financed. If they do not, they will help cripple the tourist activity in Oregon. Jt is a matter of cold blood ed business. The revolver is mostly used these days to send an .innocent victim to the grave and the slayer to the pen for life or to the electric chair. IN A CELL A BANK messenger was mur dered in Camden, New Jer sey, late in September. ... Early In October. Frank James and another man were arrested and charged with the crime. James confessed the killing. Last week a smartly dressed woman came to the Camden county jail. She was led up the stairway to the sixth floor of the building. There she was told by the turnkey to wait a moment. She was to wait for the turnkey to go to "murderer's row" for her husband. The wife'was later taken to the cell to see her slayer-spouse for the first time since his arrest. She em braced him and sobbed softly on his shoulder. They sat quietly In the grim suroundings for five minutes, the time allowed the wife for the visit. She held his hand in hers. He asked about his son. The faith ful wife embraced her husband again before she was led from murderer's row." 'I feel better, now that I have seen him," the little woman sobbed as she was aided down the long stairway. ' i It was the end ofHhe seen?. The murderer, the wife, the dreary cell, and it was all over. It was a pitiful meeting. Tears were- shed and hearts broken. Lives, cemented to gether, .-were torn apart. ' The crime of it all is the suffer ing, not the suffering of the slayer. but the suffering of the faithful wife who committed no murder, who perpetrated no crime, who in jured no one, but who is left to fight her way through a cold world alone, harboring a pang of the heart of which there can be no surcease. The Council Bluffs mail car rob bers didn't get much money for their efforts. But they will face a lot of trouble before they are through. No one ever heard of wealthy rob bers, but there are many of them in the penitentiaries. THE PRICE OF SUCCESS D ORTLAND won shipping board vessels that otherwise would have been allocated to competitive ports. A Portland man was selected for one of the. two shipping board com- misslonerships allotted to the Pa cific coast. Portland was released from the Seattle division of shipping board operation. These achievements are the first fruits of dogged, determined, united battling for Portland by Portland. Their significance was ably pre sented by Manager Dodson of the Chamber .of Commerce at the forum of that body last Monday. But none has better reason to know the full importance of his additianal asser tion that these things are but a be ginning. Eternally keeping on the Job and fighting for Portland's rights knd recognition are the price of Portland's continued successes. Com petition is keen and strong. Jeal ousies to the north and the south, particularly to the north, are intensi fied by every gain in commerce, in dustry and distributive capacity. To hold what Portland has gained means the constant gaining of more. Portland, busy fighting for Port land, will have no time, inclination or energy for fighting within Port land. By such a course Portland can lead the communities of the Colum bia basin toward that definite goal in commerce, industry and agricul ture which men of vision know to be within the possibilities of this re gion. IS IT A FAILURE? T f OW long will the present system 11 of regulating public utilities endure?' Will we always regulate utilities is now, or will we presently decide that regulation as we apply it is a failure? If so. what will be the next step? . ' The utilities demand that we pay a fair return on the Investment. But they manage tho property. They determine the expenditures except such taxes and tolls as we exact. All we do is to attempt to require good service and fix the rates. Nobody will say that it la a really intelli gent or very businesslike process. Some of the utilities go further. They say the public- through satis factory rates must provide for ex tensions of plant and development of the business facilities. It is in effect a demand that the public supply the capital for the business, which, as a matter of fact, makes the managers of the utility mere trustees with nothing to do but run the business and pocket the profits which - the public must guarantee. When, as, they will, later, the utili ties demand that all the capital shall! be supplied them and profits be guaranteed, It will be public own ership under private management of properties run for private profit. Nothing like this is done in pri- vate business. Nobody insures a private business against loss or fail ure. Nobody undertakes to assure a mercantile house or a manufac turing industry or any other private enterprise against loss or to guaran tee that the public shall pay it enough to enlarge its plant. Perhaps such things properly go with public regulation. But cer tainly they are debatable. They are a twilight zone in which nobody can know much of anything about any thing. Decisions . regarding .it are in the hands in most states of three public officials, and it is a tremen dous power for them to exercise. They are pretty largely without guiding precedents and operating in a field very little trailed or trodden. Generally speaking the benefici aries of. these guarantees of profits to utilities are men of very large means. The thought inevitably ob trudes itself, why should they be guaranteed a profit while the over all armies go hanged? The best observers doubt if public regulation can be made successful. Under public regulation . railroad rates have almost constantly risen. Many lnsjst that we are in a forma tive period, that so far regulation is a doubtful experiment and that the complications and increasing problems must have a better pro cess. ... ABOUT WASTE YET TO COME War Investigators Busy Smirching an Administration Instead of Assail ing the System That Is Waste Personified. From the New Tork World. Those who have followed the proceed ings of the congressional committee in vestigating the shipping board must have noticed that names are rarely men tioned. Witnesses have dwelt at great length upon extravagance and downright' waste. They have dealt mostly in mil lions and billions. On the face of things, it always appears that when govern ment was a purchaser it yielded readily to extortion and when a seller that it was easily and systematically tricked. Of course. That is war, and it is one reason why we have war. Men who make these disclosures are wise after the event, and yet they and their inquisitors forget or conceal knowl edge that ought to be in everybody's mind and without which committees of congress investigate in vain. War means prodigality. There is no aspect of it that does not involve -useless expendi ture. In life, in health, in money, in labor, war results in woful waste all along the line. Few battles have been fought that were not criticised after ward for the ' bootless expenditure of blood and treasure. Although it is vastly more important to fix this fact in the public mind than to rave atwut millions and billions squandered, congress Is at the old game of smirching a war administration in stead of indicting a system which never can be anything but lavish and -Is al most habitually corrupt. The inquiry now in progress has developed what was well known before that war is costly, that war appeals to the worst as well as the best in mankind and that if victory is to be gained the price in everything that we value is to be prodigious and often regrettable Nations that go to war are familiar with all this. They simply put it out of their minds for the time being. They are well aware that whole armies, whole estates, are to be offered up, perhaps without appreciable gain, and that debts are to be incurred which will burden generations unborn. They know, too, that in most cases near and remote it is not nations but individuals that profit. and that where dishonesty is apparent. punishment is as rare as suitable re wards for the actual heroes of the strife. Which brings us again face to face with the fact that the house committee is not exposing individual guilt. It Is doing nothing but establishing a case long ago proved against war, the devouring mon ster, and attempting meanly to make po litical capital out of it Barring thievery, not yet specifically alleged, what we paid and are still to pay for the great war, whether we got our money's worth or not,, is a matter for which the American people are col lectively responsible. If they regret their Investment, as their recent voting would seem., to indicate, they will do well to remember that the policy of peace that they rejected offered the one hope of deliverance from wars and wastes to come more terrible and more inexcus able. - For a Greater Portland Pencil Factory in Portland to Use an Oregon Wood ; County Commis sioners Place a Large Order at Home New Milling Corn-5 pany. The Morningstar-Pacific Pencil com pany proposes to erect a plant in Port land and begin the manufacture of lead pencils early in 1921. The chief pur pose of the company in locating here is to be near the source of Its supply of raw materlaL Juniper wood, found In abundance in Eastern ' and Central Oregon, Is In great demand py pencil manufacturers ana is being cut into pen cil slats at Bend lumber mills and shipped east in carload lots. Increased freight rates make it more economical to locate the factory here and dis tribute the finished product from this city. ( Graphite and clay used by the plant will be obtained from western mines. Encouragement of home industry- was the avowed purpose of the Multnomah county commissioners In placing a re cent order for $10,000 worth of new fix tures for the tax department of the sheriff's office with the Albatross Metal Furniture company of Portland. Strong Eastern competition has stood In the way of placing previous orders for this class of equipment with the local firm, according to the commissioners. The plant of the Albatross company Is lo-' cated at 715 Thurman street. Articles of incorporation were filed at Salem last week by the Oregon Fir Mill company, capitalized at $5000. The new corporation proposes " to operate lumber mills and logging camps. In corporators are . W. O. Van Scirayver, G. R. Bleecker and N. D. Simon, all of Portland. Letters From the People Con-munication sent to The Journal for pabucaoon in tnia department enouia Da wmian en only ona aide of the paper; abould not exceed BOO worda in length, and mxut be aicned by the writer, whosa mail addrea in tali canst accom pany the contribution. I . . . PRIMAL QUESTIONS l Vancouver. Wash., Nov. 2. To the Editor of The Journal. Professor Mal- loch's recently published letters suggest thought of "creation" and its a priori. Is if not so that prior to creation there was neither time, space nor eternity? Nothing (what' is "nothingtxisted. No time, no space, no place, no matter, no void, no abyss, no vacua, no spirit this for the reason that place and time are absolute necessities to any manner, form or thought of existence Now comes "creation." Infinite space (there was no space) within a given time (there was no time) must be filled with matter (there was no matter). Here was an overtaking rather than an undertaking. There was no time through which to work; no place In which to work ; no matter on which to work ; nobody . to work on nothing and nothing to work on anything. Who did it? There was no "who to do it When was it done? There was no "when" time did not exist. . Where was it done? There was no "where" place was non-existent. Why was it done? Go ask Echo. ...... J. Harold. RECONSTRUCTION' DATS Soldiers Home, Orting. Wash.. Nov. 26 To the Editor of The Journal Now that the election is ever and the extent and the effect of the landslide are more fully realized, the victors rind they have fallen heir to a reconstruction problem that makes the one Andrew Johnson faced after the Civil war look like 30 cents. Just where to commence to re trench and meet the obligations of the government and reduce taxes and make good their promises to the farmers and laboring men, and all those new senators and congressmen wanting something ' It will be worth a dollar gate fee to see them play ball, now they have their In nings. But the real fun is over here in the good old G. O. Pi stata of Washington. In order to beat Bridges they called on the Democrats to help defeat him, and thereby indorsed the Hart administra tion with all the waste of public funds on- a- building' program that has tied hundreds of thousands of dollars in buildings erected when materials and labor were at the highest In years, some of which were not needed at all. But now they have a free hand and from the demands being made for appropri ations the whole state will soon be in debt as badly as Pierce county, with a per capita debt . of aW $40 to pay taxes on. Well, it is tough those who tried to elect men who would to get out of debt, but those kickers have roared about high taxes and then voted for the same men who have piled up the indebtedness on them, don't deserve any sympathy and will not get any. Some people are mean enough to say they hope the G. O. P. will bankrupt the State then maybe the peep' will come to their senses. Truly, the people of Wash ington are easy marks. If their political wisdom is any criterion. They like to be robbed by the men they choose to spend their money. Well. I. and thousands more, know what it means to get back to a peace basis from a war basis, and a few mil lions more of Americans are going to get a taste of what it means, who con tracted debts on cheap money and will try to pay with 100-cent dollars. Wheat farmers and stockmen who are Dorrow ers are finding that out. Well, let the G. O. P. go to it. It claims to have a corner on all the wisdom and construc tive ability; now let it demonstrate it. The rascals are all turned out. S. Van Scoyac. HIGH DEBTS AND LOW DOLLARS Portland. Nov. 27. To the Editor of The Journal Now that the people have voted to turn the government over to the reactionaries, let us see just what we may expect from their policies. One of the measures they advocate is defla tion, or reducing wages and, to some extent prices. Many persons think If wages and prices were reduced to the old ' standards we would be as well off as at present, but that is a fallacy, be cause we must consider not only present expenses but also the debts we owe. Our national debt is near $200 per capita. That is, the man with an aver age family must pay near J1000, or, at $5 a day, he must work 200 days. But If wages and prices go back to pre-war standards he must w ork 400 days to nav the same debt. But the huge national debt is only part of the total. Every bond, note and mortgage, and every dollar of money represents a debt which must be paid by the labor of someone, and with wages and prices cut In half It will take twice as many days' work to produce the wealth necessary. Is not the burden heavy enough now? The avowed policy of the victorious party Is. higher tariff; yet the rate of exchange is so heavy against European countries that trade with them is great ly hampered. If we make the tariff rates higher those countries win to curtail even the present small pur chases from us. When, then,-will we sell our surplus goods? . Notwithstanding the cry of under nroduction. there is in this country a glut of goods unsalable, and employers are everywhere reducing wages and dis charging workers and thus adding to business stagnation, for the man with out a job cannot long conUnue a pur- There is a widespread fallacy that workers' are now getting very hfgh wages. The only fair way to measure wages is with what they will buy. and by that standard there has never been a time in the last 30 years when wages were as low as a few months ago when prices were at their peak. Thirty years ago in Portland one could buy two loaves of bread for 5 cents, and a meal, good enough for anyone and all that a longshoreman could eat, cost ' but 15 cents. Comparison of prices then and now of 11 articles of food and clothing, such as workers need, shows their prices have been multiplied by four. The average daily wage then for common labor was about $2, carpenters $3,. brick layers $6. Multiply these figures by four, and we find that laborers should now have $8. carpenters $12. bricklayers $24. Tet the average wage is about half those figures. J. m. wnne. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places The fountain pen is an American in- vention, being the idea patented in by the Rev. N. A Prince. The pen dif fered Is no essential rrom tne iouniam pen of the present. It was even a self filler, having a plunger which when pulled sucked the barrel full of Ink. The Inventor mentions, in his description .of the penaithe cap which prevents the ink from drying up and Also permits of the pen being carried in the pocket The pen was made of gold and the reservoir and other parts of protean, or -prepared gutta percha, thus being lncorrodable. Inasmuch as protean, the forerunner of hard rubber, had just then been Invented, it is hardly possible that a commercially usable fountain pen could have been pro duced at ' an earlier date. However, Miss Charlotte J. Hawkes of Jersey City says that her great-grandfather, George F. Hawkes. who kept a store in New York, patented a fountain pen in 1845. Prince advertised his pen exten sively, quoting the opinions of the press as well as of reporters and authors. His retail price ranged from $3 to $4.50. j Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The reason why certain and sundry candidates didn't make it in the 'lection waav set forth at the Corners Com munity club t'other day by Sol Hep burn, who accounted fer the misses by Bayin' their friends didn't git to votin' early enough and cominc; back often enough. Accordin. to the returns, it wouldn't of done a lot of favorite sons over the country no good even If their friends had begun votin' at milk in' COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Four paydays , before Christmas 1 And then an empty sock on the mantle. . Would we refuse a million? Just try us. Women's clubs are - Institutions, not implements. ... . " . .Let's have the channel and be done with talking about it Can't say we'd enjoy this Paris busi ness of being mobbed by spinsters. "Get box of apples at lower prices." a headline suggests. Wish we could. . . Somehow the children never show off their cute tricks when they're out visit ing. Harding's gone to Jamaica probably to put a little ginger into a slow vaca tion. Prices will have been, restored to nor mal when we can buy coffee-and for a 'nickel. a a . Everyman Is willing to divide his for tune with his friends as long as every tnan has no fortune. "Shingles shipped by parcel post." Next thing we'll be sending bprtsble feky scrapers in registered letters.' - Since bandits with artistic souls are working In duos and trios, history may develop another famous sextette -outside the opera. ' MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town For. 15 years A Frank was superin tendent of the Fred Harvey dining car service on the Santa Ke syBtem. He had not been with the Harvey sys tem long when he employed : a bright young lad In his stockroom who did hot know it all and who was anxious to learn. The young man's name was Haren J. Titus. Later Titus went to the Northern Pacific, and within a few years was in charge of the dining car service of this syBtem. He it was who introduced the "big baked potato" to the traveling public, i Two years ago he bought an interest ln; the Chauncy Wright chain of restaurants in Seattle, consisting of four small restaurants. Today the Chauncy Wright chain con sists of eight restaurants and four bak eries, which spend over $1,100,000 a ar in Seattle for supplies, and ' their annual payroll amounts to $511,000. Mr. Titus has taken in A Frank, nib one time boss, as his partner, and the new firm will erect a bakery costing $300, 000, and when this is under way they plan to build a modern, homelike hotel in Seattle. Men like Hazen ?J. Titus, R. W. Child and Phil Metschan Jr. have capitalized capacity, character and cheerfulness and; made service to the public . their pleasure, not their duty, and service cheerfully rendered has a way of showing up on the right side of the ledger, for the traveling public likes sunshine: and good cheer and will go out of the way to get them. Calvin Cobb and daughter Margaret of Boise and W. J. Putnam of the same place are seeing the sights of Portland. Mr. Cobb Is one of Idaho's best known newspaper men, publishing the Idaho Statesman at Boise. Robert J. S. Searce, a former Univer sity of Oregon man and an overseas veteran. Is down from his home at Mosler to attend a meeting of the Greek fraternity to which he belongs. The following well known Westerners are registered at the Benson : C. C. Clark of Eugene, Dr. J. E. Biidgewater of Albany and Charles Hall of Coos Bay. Eastern Oregon guests registered at the Cornelius are J. A. Rooper of Ante lope, F. M. Driver of Wamlc and James Murtha of Condon. Western restaurants are planning to make greater, use of caribou and rein deer shipped from Alaska. The home economics department of the United States department of agriculture is OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN f By Fred Lockley ( The pioneer achoolmaater of the Grande ! Rondo Talley recount to Mr. Lockley hi ei periences in that line aa well aa in the mora uraal if more atrennous line of proapecunx, Infighting. Indian fightint and the like. Today the Grande Ronde valley Is thickly settled. We think of it as one of the older settled parts of the state. Vet, a day oi so ago I ran across the man who taught the first school in the Grande Ronde valley. His name is N. F. Nelson, and he came to Oregon in 1851 from Springfield, 111. As a boy he went to school at Pleasant Hill, in Polk county, in the early 50s. Later he at tended school at Dallas, and in 1858-59 he was a student at the Portland Acade my and Female Seminary in Portland. Still iater he took advanced studies at Bethe academy, in Polk county, under Dr. far L. Rowland, who was later state superintendent of public instruction. -. "I worked as a boy for A. Bush on the Oregon Statesman," he said, "After that I set type on the Expositor, at Eola, for the Rev. Charles Matoon, a Baptist minister. Then I went to school for a few years, and between whiles taught school. The first school I taught was at Oak Grove in Polk county, not far ef rom McCoy, In the Bethel hills. In 1860, when I had just come of age, I got a Job as teacher In the Fred Way mire schoolhouse on the Luckiamute. I taught there six months. I could talk to you for hours and tell yon. of the rnrlni'M I had thir. Fred Wavmire , duck i hd no bonk du- l8-rwcation but he was endowed with plenty of horse sense. Uncle Fred, as his neighbors called him. was absolutely honest and was unsparing In his denun ciation of crookedness. He believed in simplicity in all things and had no use for frills, in legislation or elsewhere. He was 'agin high taxes,' and he had It in for corporaUons of every sort for he said all they did was to skfo the public His neighbors always sent him to the legislature to watch the. 'rascals' there and see they didn't plunder the taxpayers. ' "Teaching didn't seem to get me ahead much, so I bought up a lot of cows and drove them east of the mountains. This was in the spring of 186L I ran them on Rock creek, about 30 miles east of The Dalles. Tom Scott and I put in the winter of 1861-6! together on Rock creek. lime in the mornin' and kep' It up oncet ever three hours till after supper. Olden Oregon Federal Appointees In Early Times Aroused Popular Wrath. During territorial days federal ap pointees as a rule were not very popular. Governor Gaines was made the object of bitter partisan attack. A writer calUng himself 'A Kentucklan," In a communi cation to the Salem Statesman criticised the governor's exercise or the pardoning power in the case of Enoch Smith.' 'He reminded Governor . Gaines that Ken- NEWS IN "BRIEF SIDELIGHTS Recent court rulings suggest that while a man's home may be his castia, it may not be his brewery. Bend Bulle tin. It would be easier for wheat to make yardage if it were not for that monu mental corn crop. Pendleton iJiat. -re-gonian. If hard work will get that state high way between Portland and the Nehalem. via Cedar Mill. North Plains. Banks and Buxton, it is as good as aasurea Hillsboro Argus. ' The incoming administration will first "patch up the differences n Mexico, but If things keep up it wilt be necessary to do a little patching at bonra. Med ford Mall-Tribune. . - The campaign for a Chamber ot Commerce development fund of $lu,wo a year is a sign that Eugene - Is back again In the ranks of ths up and com ing. Eugene Register. ; , Cooneration of Its citizens i the one thing essential in making city prog ress. Indifference to one's ; surround ings and a don't-care policy never get a city anywhere except to lose us prestige. Baker Democrat t A I.a Grande butcher has become a millionaire by the death of a rtcn uncle. This incident is worthy of spe cial mention only because most butch ers become millionaires by the simple process of raising the retail price of meats every time the livestock market slumps to a lower leveL Eugene Guard. urging the use of hair seal, rabbit kid and horse meat, all of which are said to be nutritious and palatable if properly prepared. Please pass the horse meat and a little horse radish! Fred L. Wallace, a traveling man from Philadelphia, is at the Multnomah and had an unusual piece of luck Fri day. Coming in at the Union . station, he stopped near the baggage room to get out his irunk checks and left his wal let on a ledge near by. He did not miss It until several hours later attho hotel, and Immediately rushed back to the station, where he found it exactly where he had left it although there were dozens of people all around "It and orobablv several hundred nau passed it by since he had put It there. Th nurse contained 1230 In bills, a-i mileaKe book, a Liberty bond ana two firm checks for $100 each. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Gorman of Edmon ton are at the Portland. They are tour ing the beauty spots or the racinc coast, . ' Mr. and Mrs. Sigurd W. Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Tennant of Cor vallls are at the Imperial. Charles E. Herron, newspaper pub lisher of Anchorage,- Alaska, is a Port land visitor. General Liggett has reserved rooms at the Portland and will spenasome time in Portland, a a a Fred S. Fisher, the flour mill man, with Mrs. Fisher, Is here from his' home at CorvalllsN " a a a F. S. Barlow, who calls the county seat of Morrow county his home, is a Portland visitor. , - f H, Holgate, welt known citizen of Cor- vallls, is registered at. the Multnomah. Miss Angle McCullough of Salem is in Portland to visit'frlends. a Mr. and Mrs. IL E. H111 of Astoria are at the Oregon. . C. A. Carson of Buxton Is at the Oregon. a - a 3. P. Jones of Bend is spending a day or so in Portland. . C. A. Adams of Redmond is at the Imperial. x Mr. and Mrs. .T. A. Jameson 'of Bend are Portland visitors. Like everyone else that winter, we lost most of our stock. That was the "hard winter that all old settlers dated every thing from for years thereafter The next spring I went to Walla Walla, where I fell In with Tom Brents, later congressman from the state of Washing ton for three terms.. - With, Brents and the Hall boys. Johnson and one or two other young chaps, I struck out for the mines. We tried our luck for awMle at Auburn and later at Union Flat, rrom there we started prospecting and wound up on the John Day. 'N We called our party of (nine the Trenton party. We put up teie first cabin at what is now Canyon City. a ; a a "I started carryjng letters and gold dust from the diggings there to The Dalles. Later I sold out to Wells-Fargo. Still later C. H. Miller ran an express from Canyon City to The Dalles. When he started to write poetry he took the name of Joaquin Miller. Cayuse George succeeded me as express rider. He was working in those days for the WeHs eFargo people. With the money I re ceived from the Wells-Fargo company for my express route I started a pack train. I had 19 packhorses. I hired two men to help me, a man named Ashley. and John Espey. On our second trip to canyon City the Indians swooped down on us. They shot Espey in the back Just under the shoulder blade, but the bullet hit a rib, followed It around and came out in rront. we lost IS of our 19 horses. We followed the Indians and found where they had dumped the flour by the side of the trail and- thrown out the stuff they didn't want I never recovered my horses. I returned to The Dalles, bought 12 more horses, got goods on credit from Hoboing, who had the principal store there In those days, and went back to Canyon City. . ' . a e ' . "ftje next trip I made Was to Powder River, where I sold my pack outfit for $700. I wintered at Powder River, help ing William M. Ward on his ranch. Early that spring I went to the Grande Roride valley. Hearing they were planning to start a school at the Cove, I applied for the place as teacher. - Minor, Bloom and Mitchell were the achool directors. They offered me $245 to teach a three months' term, so I accepted and taught the first school at Cove and In the Grande Ronde valley." tucky. which was the native state of Gaines, produced also nearly all the Oregon murderers. "Common sense, sir,"' said the communication, "should teach you that the prestige of Kentucky origin will not sustain you in your mental Imbecility and that Kentucky aristocracy devoid of sense and virtue will not pass current in this Intelligent market." ; - - A MYSTERY . , From the Dallas New . ' One of the hardest things in this world for a woman to understand Is what her husband does with his moAey after he quits smoking. The Oregon Country NorthWMt nappenintj In Brief Form tor tbe k -.... , Busy Header .' " . OREGON NOTES . ' : ' The Altoona Packing company has be gun construction on a large modern cold storage plant at Astoria. , I The bridge spanning Rock creek, east of Koseburg,' collapsed last week under the weight of a drove of cattle. . I Island City has a new factory, the , main output of which Is sewer pipes, drain pipes and buildiii'g blocks. I With a capitalization of $500,000, t)M Smith Timber company has been organ- . ised, with Marshfield as the location of . the main offices. -. I- An .addition 75 feet long will be built to the freight depot of the Oregon Elec tric railway at Eugene, making the total length of the building 290 feet, 4 ' -' More than 60.000 Oregon children are enrolled in the Modern Health Crusade, a-system of teaching children hygiene that imparts good health habits. Representatives of the Centralla Ftriquetting company are looking: over the Coos Bay coal fields with a view of locating a plant at Marshfield. j Hood River county is the first In the state lo reach the completion of lis . quota In the $125,000 campaign drive f or -the Oregon W, C. T. V- farm home, ! L E. Arnold, a poultry fancier - of Lebanon, has found bv the trap-nestlnT, method that one of his hens laid 2t)8 " and another 298 eggs during the year,. A i contract for the Immediate con struction of a gravel highway between Vale and Brogan was let the past week. The 25 mlles'of road Will cost $62,000. I A Jersey cow belonging to C. O. Deveres, which he Imported from i Eng land and paid $260. for as a calf, was killed by a train near Cottage ' Grove last week. ' t Sorghum, peanuts, broom corn and filberis, not to mention a host of others, are crops upon which farmers of in )n iuirlng mind are experimenting in the tviuameite valley. , v j -..- - A tie' factory has just started opera tions at Albany for the purpose of manufacturing washing powder, polish ing and cleansing preparations and con centrated food flavoring. A liquid air plant, the output of which -would be used largely in 'research work. Is Included in the equipment .to be added . to the laboratory Tot the . physics de- I partment, of the University of Oregon., -i' Ex-Governor Bass of New" HampshlreT has arrived in Eugene. He has accepted ' a position on the Ktaff of the Untveralty of Oregon and will teach industrial' re lations. Industrial arbitration and ther subjects having to do with labor. v WASHINGTON pi. The city of Seattle has announced lla determination to fight the increased gas -rates In the state supreme court i a new city hall, complete in every rla ail and costinir 145.000. will h th itvla Christmas gift to residents of Bremer- ' Machinery for the Christ eYVson saw mill, near White Salmon la being in stalled and the mill will soon be in operation. The Balcuna Coal & Coke company, capitalized at Raymond for $150,000, Is opening; a coal mine on the north fork of the Newaukum river. r -j The body of George Ridings, a ploneor of the Aberdeen section, .was found lit the road near Fords Prairie, lis bad evidently dted of apoplexy. , J. M. Curtis, late of Seattle and Everett, is under arrest charged with securing $50,000 within two years from credulous victims In a land swindle; Called to discuss all angles -of s the shingle and allied industries, the fourlh -annual Red Cedar Shingle congress will be held at Seattle December 7 and-!.. The state highway department de mands $50,000 from Yakima county as a condition of resuming work on the river road between Yakima and Ellena burg. An unidentified man ended his life ' Saturday by leaning from the top deck of the steamer Washington Into I'uget Sound while the boat was approaching Seattle. Development work' in oroerreaalnar ran- Idly at the Columbia Colliers -company's mine cast ot centralla. and the-company expects to begin taking out coal , about January 15. It Is 'estimated that 65 per cent cha 1320 wheat crop in the vicinity of Pull man Is still In the hands of the farmers. Forty-five per cent has been sold at from $1.25 to $2.16 per. bushel. The Wills pa Lumber company Is In stalling Improvements, the cost of which will be upwards of $160,000. and which will make the Raymond plant the larg est and most efficient In the Northwest, IDAHO ' The new Gardens. bridge, near Idaho City, which cost 29,035.80, has been thrown open to traffic , 'Many hundreds "of acres of sugar beets are said to be still in the ground in some districts of Idaho. Bounties for 83 coyote pelts have been issued at Rupert since the first of the month, representing a valuation e $705.50. William Frazee, 21 years old, a brake man on a freight train, was killed at Mcfammon while switching l the yards there. All clocks In Boise will be set ahead one hour at midnight of December 4, and the city will thereafter operate oa. mountain ttm t- , c-T. W. Hartley of Moscow has sold to Edwin Johnson Bessie's Fernwood Bios- ' som, claimed to be Htaho' champion Jersey cow. The consideration was $1000. 1 j An effort to secure the return of the state quarantine on districts in Idaho where alfalfa hay is infected with' weevil will be made by the Twin Falls Chamber of Commerce. A contract has lust been closed for the construction of three miles of the A natone-Asotin highway, the consider atlon being $19,000. This will bring the road to within one mile of Asotin. - . That vgood substitute for linen can be produced in nearly all farming re gions of the Northwest Is the belief of A. E. Neighbor of Moscow, who has been making tests with the ordinary sweet clover. rCNow youRi. PO RTION Portland has 1277.8 miles of streets,' (97.05 miles of trunk sewers, 763 miles of water mains. 859 miles of gas mains and 251 miles of electric conduits, according to figures com piled by City Engineer O. Laurgaard. . The city's ! investment in streets, ewers and water mains represents an aggregate investment of $46, 884,000. ; - ' The city engineer's, figures ire as follows : H ----- . ' '-' I ST E EFTS Kind.; Miles. . Cost. Graded with id-. - walk only. i $00.07 Macadam ........ ' 89.9 ' Hard urfe. . . , 4 1 3.0 -Unisuprored ...,, S04.13 Total; .1.277.80 $33,945,000 ' flEWKRH Trnnk rer 24 Ina. 115.78 Under 24 ina. .... 681.3 Total All alze Total "" aoV ar 'i a 1 "no nun ioo.uu a .(i.vuii i 'j S4S.884.00O GAS MAINS ... , j . . BSD. Of " ELECTMC CO.VDLTT5 . AH aizes All Ixea - ' P. It. L. a P. Co. ,4 114.00 , N. W. Elee. o... . 7I.0O-, Pac. Tel. A Tel. Co. 62.00 Waatern Union.,.. . 4.09 , . Total ......... 251.00 r- . Because of having street Inter sections at "intervals of 200 'feet, Portland- probably exceed-, almost any, other city in the United States for street area in proportion to the general area of the city, which Is 66.6 square miles. .