THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. - l FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1920. 13 ! i- AN IXDEl'EN tt-T NEWBIJAPEK C. 8. JACKSON . : ....... Pobltttwr Be nlm. b. confident. b ebrcrful and do unto otbm u jrou would har llwn do unto you. J lublnhl tiery rk dy nd Sunday morning, t Th Journal Huildini, Broadway and Yam bill atrect. Portland. Oregon ntred at tba poaoffie: at 1'urtltnd. Orejon. - lor trammi-wion throuib tba mail aa accood rtm matter. - . ' TKI.El'HOXES Main T173. Automatic 56i-61. Ail d'partrornta reached by thtre bodpot. viTtivii . mTuTioivn itvi'If RHENTA -mvi, Benjamin Kentnor Co.. Krumwiok Building.- 225 Piftb aenue. Nw York; WOO - Mailer Building, Chicago. 'rACIMC COAST REPHKSFNTATIVE W. B. Baranser Co.. Examiner Building, Ban Fra uo; Title Insurance Building, Lot Angel; Post-lntellgencer Wilding, peauie. THE OKEOON JOUKNAL, rerea th right to . reject advertising copy winch it tteem cD---' jrctiontble. It alo will not print any copy that in any way aimulatea reading matter or - that cannot readily be recomd as U w tning. SCBHCKIPTION KATES By Carrier, City and Country 1MILY AMI 8LNDAY in- I .15 1 Ona monlhL t . . - .05 IA1LY J- BUXAAT rw.. uk a in I On week. ...... ne month.... .45 BX MAIL, AI L HATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE DAILY AM Sl.NDAY Ona-year. . . . ..if.00 I Three montha. . . f J.2 U month.... 4.25 I One month. ..... .75 DAILY I BUN PAY (Without Sunday) (Only) Ooe year. .-...'.18 00 , One year..... fia month.... 8.25 8ii month .. Three months. . 1.75 Three month. $3.00 1.75 1.0U tine month .... .00 WEEKLY (Ery Wedneday) One year $1.00 WEEKLY AND 8LNDAI One year $3.B iti mnntht. .50 I These rate apply only in. the Wet. -Hate to Eastern point furnished on application.- Make remittances by Money Order, Expres Order "-or Draft. If your poatoffice not a Money Order office, 1- or 2-cent itampt will be avcepted. Make all remittaneea payable to The Journal, Portland, Oregon. Autbcrs, like coins, , oid; jgrow dear as they grow I . - iue, not the fold. It ii Ue rust we : I'ope.- WRITTEN IN BLOOD T?OXr LOTISSO was bold. Kerve ; A was the essence of his every, act on the night he poured four bullets into the breast of his pretty wife. He .was bold when he told his friends, as testimony at the coro ner's inquest Indicated, that he would kill his wife. lie was bold ; . when friends interfered in behalf f the garl. - lie was bold wherever j he was. He was bold beca.use he had a deadly pistol in his pocket. The revolver was there, ready for the madman's grasp. With the pro tection it afforded him, Lotisso was ruthless In his orders and his acts. If one dared interfere, there was the gun. , Jt would silence him. With that thought irt mind, Lotisso marched into a restaurant, dragged his , wifi out,' hustled her into an automobile,. pulled her out, and with a stimulated nerve, poured four steel bullets into her cringing form. People dared not Interfere. They too might receive bullets from the man's gun. They dared not attempt to . save the girl's life. They were helpless before the threatening re volver. The 8um total of the presence of the gun is, a dead girl, a man faced with first, degree murder, and a 1 coterie of sorrowing - relatjyes and friends. Down in Mexico is. a woman for whom a warrant has been issued, charging assault with intent to kill. She has fled from the law. A vic tim of a revelyer, said to be hers, "has been burled. He was shot to death with a pistol. As the woman fled from the scene, she carried in her .bag. two loaded automatics. . Up' in , the county j jail is Husted Walters. In the grave is Jerome Palmer, policeman. He" was the Victim of the ready revolver in the : ; hand of Walters. The slayer had : committed robberies. He ha4 done it with his gun. Hd too was bold And when the policeman, attempt ing to stay the -crimes, accosted him. out came the gun, it flashed, ! and the patrolman fell dead. .The story of the revolver is writ ten in the blood of i its' victims. Its monument' i the broken lives de . caying in the penitentiary; its : residue, heart-broken parents' and relatives strewn throughout the world. ' ? If the number of representatives in congress is to be continually in crease, it will hardly be necessary, after the next census, to keep a standing army. When trouble is in th air, just mobilize congress. We ar rapidly getting an army in the house of representatives. NEARING THE GOAL BUT 153,000-of the stock of the Portland Vegetable Oil corji- pany remains to be subscribed. ,:; When the plant goes . Into full . operation, it will require three 1000 ton ships a month to supply it with raw material from the Orients It . will mean return cargo three times t a month for vessels carrying lum ber across the Pacific- It will mean ; $12,000 freight money for each of . the carriers. - . In f ive years the demand for vegetable oil and its by-products has increased 1000 per cent. The i top VICTORY THE rate victory won before the-Interstate Commerce commission in yesterday's cfrder is sufficient occasion for a day of public rejoicing in Portland, Vancouver and the Inland Empire. It is a result for which The Journal, In season and out, has striven, for a long time, without sympathy or support, through an extended period of - years. From its own funds The; Journal contributed several thousand, dollars for legal and other services in organizing and preparing the case. There were hints and insinuations by. lawyers for the defense at the Seattle hearing to the effect that the case might be an enterprise of TheJournal rather than the spontaneous action of the formal complainants. - The new decision means the emancipation of Inland Empire farmers from payment of-grain rates based on the higher cost of haul over the Cascade mountains to ?uget sound and gives to them rates 10, per cent lower than the rates over the mountains. It means a formal finding by the rate-making body that the route through the Columbia gorge is a lower-cost route, and therefore a better, because a cheaper, line for the transportation of products. "It holds that cost of haul and distance are taken into the account in fixing rates and for that, reason Vancouver and Portland will have 10 per cent lower commodity and class rates to-and from the Inland Empire than Puget Sound and Astoria. Its effect will be to route to tidewater through Vancouver and Port land around 10,000f000 bushels of grain that haa been going to Puget Sound. ' ' It removes the rate discrimination which was created when a rate structure was built up based on rate making by the public service com mission for the state of Washington. It will be, in its practical effect, one of the greatest single achievements In building up the port of Portland and in establishing closer relations between Portland and the Inland Empire. The findings of the commission are a complete vindication of The Journal's contentions. Through all these years this paper insisted that the cost of haul and distance should be fundamental', factors in rate making. , The "overrmountain haul" as contrasted with the "water level grades" through the Columbia gorge, the "lift over the Cascades" of heavy trains of wheat instead of along "the down hill route to Portland," the higher cost of dragging cars of wheat" over mountain passea "half a mile high" and then letting them down again to tidewater rather than allowing them to run of "their own momentum" down the water level grade to Portland these are phrases in the long time discussion of which The journal readers must at times have become heartily 'wearied. But they were sound contentions. In the great test before the rate making'body they could not be successfully denied or discredited. They are now formally written into the rate-making policy, doubtless to be applied in other districts throughout the nation where discriminations similar to those practiced against Portland are in vogue. . Congratulations are extended by The Journal to the farmers and shippersof the Inland Empire, to the people of Vancouver and Portland, to J. N. Teal, whose indefatigable purpose was a great factor in the long struggle, the Oregon public service commission, to the Portland Traffic and Transportation association, to the Port of Portland and to all others who bore a part in attaining the grand Rockefellers own six plants. Three of -them have been recently doubled In capacity and the company is "now buying five times as much vegetable oil as it manufactures. - Establishment in Portland of the new 'enterprise will undoubtedly i mean the coming here of allied in dustries. The output goes into the manufacture of candies, confections, soap, pastries, bread and many other things of vhich there is heavy con sumption. The supply of raw ma terial Is inexhaustible, and the de mand is enormous. The steady progress of the plans of , this ; enterprise toward fruition at a time when some of the timid are seeing things, gives tone to the local industrial situation.. Snarls . and sneers greeted The Journal's earlier agitation in the fight for justice in freight rates through the Columbia gateway. The Journal was called a "railroad baiter." . It was said that The Journal's attitude wjould lose the "friendship of the railroads"- and cause them to work against Port land. It was said that The Journal was "'sensational" and that .it was a curse" to the community. It was said that The Journal was "ar raying class against class." But The Journal's contentions of those days of years ago were yesterday pro nounced sound by the highest rate making body in the world. ' , TONIGHT'S OP TN 1 ni THE home-produced opera to- ight and tomorrow evening at The Auditorium there will b stage settings of fepain and Italy, which have been painted by Portland ar tists.- In the cast will be some new singers, lured to Portland because they found here a community con cerned in tlie advancement of the musical art. - The, .text will be sung in English in order that not only the beauty of the music but the romance, love. mirth and tragedy painted by the Italian master may be plain to all. The ballet will be danced by Port land women, trained in Spanish folk dances, and Tarantella By a premiere danseuse who is also a Portland girl. x . Portland is one of the first cities outside of the great centers to main tain its own symphony orchestra and opera association, and the suc cess of both, has attracted wide at tention. It is expensive to produce opera on the high plane of that set by the Portland association, and yet, by wise management, the organization Is self supporting and gradually building upon a solid foundation a home musical activity of great bene fit. Its object is to give opera in English for the masses The lone dollar bill that was found to be the temporary residence of tubercle bacilli and lockjaw germs was probably carying more doctor's bills than it could ever pay. . But who Would have rejeted the bill on that account? STILL-UVES 01 HER own petition, Austria League of Nations. - Behold the change!. Alopg with Prussia, Austria has been the heart and hope of the doctrine of divine right. , There kingcraft was in Its essence. There through the centuries the right of one man to rule over the many was defended and main tamed as resolutely as when it AT LAST victory that has been won. gained ascendency in the rulership oi uie muai miti over ine irioea men. There, until democracy for the world triumphed on the borders of Germany in November, 1918. the right of one nation to subjugate an other an.d to hold that nation's peo pie in subjugation by force of arms was an accepted formula. Twelve million people in Austria held more than 30 millions under dominion against their consent. Conquest, an nexation, subjugation and rule by blood and ifon was the order handed down from dynasty to dynasty and from throne to throne. It was a formula that bred war, nursed war and reared one great war after another. But it has toppled, and on its ruins is a new Austria which ac cepts Article X of the league cove nant under-, which "members of the league agree to respect and pre serve 'as against external aggres sion the territorial integrity and ex isting politipal independence of all members of the league." All that the old Austria stood for as to conquest is rejected by the new. As a member of, the league thenew Austria covenants to .allow- weak neighbor peoples to live out their own lives in their own way unmolested by the superior military power of more powerful nations. 1 this step by Vienna, what a changa from that winter in 1814 when the czars and kaisers and em perors and all the princes and unl formed potentates and brass but toned military chieftains met irt the Congress of Vienna and covenanted to push back the rising demand for constitutional government set in motion by the French revolution. Woodrow Wilson's idea at Paris still lives and exercises influence in Eu rope, whatever America may think of it. "Wednesday afternoon 6000 Port land high school pupils and mem bers of the grade school orchestras heard Verdi's "Force of Destiny" as it will be produced tonight and to morrow evening by the Portland Qpera association. It was a great service rendered by the association to the young folks. LUNCHEONS k PORTLAND business women's organization sets an example for the luncheon clubs of business men. At a Thursday meeting the women were served with a nourishing soup, of which beef broth and rice were the chief constituents. They fin ished with a fruit salad made both delicious and nutritious by the ad dition of Whipped cream and raisins. There were no heavy orders of meat and potatoes to demand for their digestion the major energy of a retarded afternoon. The luncheon did not require an hour for service and mastjeation. The speaker of the day was introduced earlier, finished sooner and let the members of the organization return without delay to their desks and duties. Most business men eat too much, exercise too little, fall short of accomplish ment, and die too soon and too suddenly. A good way to help feed the mil lions of children starving in Europe would be for American families to rnew the vow of the clean plate. Save the waste and use the savings to feed the hungry. Let Europe's hollow cheeked childhood condemn and banish America's fat garbage pail IS YOUR JOB CINCHED? Unemployment Situation- Engages At tention of Editors. Who, Admitting Inevitable Post-War Depression, , Yet Bee Little Ground for Gloom if Good Sense . Prevails. r Daily Editorial Digest (Consolidated Freaa. Asociatioo) Between two and three million men out of work in America today marks the beginning of a period of industrial de pression, in the opinion of a large sec tion of the American press. Most writ ers, however, accepting the situation as a natural reaction against post-war prosperity, feel that the crisis will pass without danger of great suffering if cap ital and labor show a willingness .to cooperate. v "They are polishing up the bowls in the free soup kitchens," says the Sioux City (Iowa) Tribune (Ind.), for wages must drop with prices; however, "if the employers meet labor half way, by also sacrificing In profits, there is no reason why solid ground should not be reached without a bump." The Tribune com mends the action of the Baltimore car penters in releasing the employers from their contract for a winter raise as an example of the kind of "level-headed- ness" that will carry the workman throueh without disaster. The Knoxville Sentinel (Ind. Dem.) urges that employer and employe make mutual concessions rather than encourage industrial war fare by agitating the "closed shop" or other inflammatory issues. Two factors are pointed out by the New York Evening World (Dem.) as "encouraging features to offset tne darker spots" in the labor situa' on. Against a reported 3000 out of work in Omaha, the World sets 10,000 "who are refusing lobs in the Nebraska harvest." The refusal of the Baltimore union to demand Its raise is also mentioned. The World concludes that wise employers . . . . , . i . n are approacning me situation wuu me same frankness, for they Know tnai fair treatment of employes now win beget fair treatment of employers when the labor market turns again, bnarp practice and tyranny will beget re prisals." Effort should be made, the Raleigh News and Observer (Dem.) believes, to arrange for any "surplus labor" that may develop in one line by directing it toward other lines rather than permit ting total unemployment which Ms a waste" that must be paid for by the em ployed. It says : "It may not be the easiest task in the world to keep all workers busy at their accustomed places, for production varies according to needs. But if we manage to get as many shoes as we need during the year that does not mean that we could not use,, .per haps, some more coats, or sugar or rail roads or flying machines." The Boston Post (Ind. Dem.) finds a ray or two of optimism In the unemploy ment figures despite of what it calls a "very serious situation,"for "As a base it is estimated that we have about 1,000,000 unemployed nor mally, and by far the greater part of these simply will not work under any circumstances. It takes such radical action as the 'work or fight' law to make some of these people work It is stated by the National Industrial Con ference board at Washington that there is plenty of work for everybody, but that the unemployed workers refuse to accept the wages offered."; This situation the Post compares with that "pertaining to the wholesale move ment of goods" where "there is plenty of demand for the" goods, but buyer and seller have not been able to come to an agreement on price." . . In the opinion of a number of writers the majority of the men laid off are those unskilled laborers who during the war were taken on or advanced to fill vacancies and kept to supply Increased demands on production. Many of these, the Syracuse Herald (Ind.) suggests, were retained to meet "the abnormal public demand for all kinds of com modities, aggravated by the wave of post-war extravagance." Meanwhile the veteran workers' increased efficiency as well as the curb on reckless buying made the less competent workman super fluous. The "we,eding out" in the rail road shops is an example of this, the Providence Journal (Ind.) declares. Here, the managements are getting rid of untrained w;orkmen encouraged under government ownership. Applying this explanation to industries in general the Springfield Union (Rep.) feels that the "seriousness of the situation is much less acute than is supposed," for there has merely been a "selection of the best material for steady employment- from the over-abundant working force," and though the rest are "thrown out of their present employment" they are not re moved entirely from their "natural em ployment." ... There is no doubt in the mind of the Quincy "Whig Journal (Rep.), speaking from Illinois, that a period of "economic adjustment is coming and it believes suffering' can be avoided if the men, most of whom are "young farmer boys who have gone to the cities to jobs that require no more intelligence than fitting one nut to a particular bolt," go back to the more "profitable labor" on the farm where they are still much needed. In the opinion of the Oregon Journal, Port land (Ind.) danger lies chiefly in "dead locked business" and too rapid defla tion. . Farmers are holding their prod ucts, consumers are putting off their purchases, and merchants are delaying factory orders. The Journal believes that prices cannot drop further with wages up where they are . and where, it believes, they should stay, for "that country is safest and soundest whose working population has a sufficient: wage for a decent living and enough for the comforts and education and recrea tion. ... . "The dread of unemployment which now- weighs down the workers," says the New York Evening Post (Ind.) "is another reason for the establishment of permanent relations in industry:" It continues: "Unemployment to the ex tent that it can be prevented, can be prevented only through an organization of Industry on basic principles, on fore sight and on mutuality between employ ers and workers." The New, -York Globe (Ind.) finds the cause of the threatened hard times deep in the social and economic structure of the country. In the first place, it shows how labor, urged to "speed up" to in crease production, obeyed, due chiefly, perhaps, "to fear of losing Its job." Meanwhile it became harder to dispose of products at what employers consid ered reasonable prices. Then "overpro duction" was given as a reason for cut ting down forces. 'The ; economic fal lacy, of course, the Globe concludes, "is that overproduction is not really a condition in which all human wants are satisfied, but one in which prices have outrun consumers' Income. - But this does not hide the fact that strong: and useful men, who are anxious to produce socially valuable goods are forbidden in times of depression to do so.' , Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places : Scientists admit they are baffled in their efforts to ascertain how great stone monuments were built in some of the small islands of the Pacific ocean, which are now very sparsely settled, but which must have at one time been the center of great activities. One of these Islands is Easter island, belonging to Chile, al- though 2000 miles from the Chilean coast. The nearest island to it is 1000 miles away. Yet aomt statues, ranging in height from 13 to 20 feet, and one SO feet high, are found there. One statue, 68 feet high. Is uncompleted. For a Greater Portland New Hot Water Heating System Re duces Fuel Cost Nut Lock Made by Local Inventor Works for Economy Stradivar Co. Plans Enlarge ment of Plant and Sends In struments to Export Markets. - J. Landigan, inventor of a new hot water heating system, has established a plant at 4V Vancouver avenue for the manufacture of essential portions of the system and has t dozen men employed constructing and Installing the new heaters. Cias is the fuel used by the Landigan heater and the newly invented burner and hot water coll are contained in a case eight inches in diameter and 56 inches in length. A One of these heaters now in operation heats an eight room house at an expense of 3 cents per hour, running time, and an apartment house containing 35 rooms is being heated at an expense of 15 cents per hour. The new device has been favorably passed upon by the fire mar shal for uae in garages and other places where extra precaution against fire is necessary. According to Landigan his system is especially adapted to heating hotels. apartment houses, restaurants and green houses, and he pians enlarging his pres ent factory to take care of business of this class in the Pacific Northwest. The United States Automatic Nut Lock company, capitalized at J250.000, proposes to start a factory here for the manufacture of a drop forge nut, which, it is claimed, will do away with the use of washers, cotterpins, etc., and may be used on any thread. Incorporators are John A. Stubblefield, inventor, Leo P. Lunke and Dr. William Krassig. Plans are under way for the enlarge ment of the plant of the Stradivara Phonograph company -!at East Thirty third street and Bt-oadway. Pro posed additions to the equipment and working force will increase the output of the factory to 100 instruments per eight-'hour day. The Stradivara com pany recently sent representatives to Australia and New Zealand to intro duce its phonographs to the markets of those countries. Letters From the People Communications sent to The Journal for publication in this department ahouM be written on, only one side of the paper; should not exceed uo word' m length, and must be sisned by tne writer, whose mail address in. full must accom pany the contribution. ' THE RACE FACTOR. Union, Dec. 1. To the Editor of The Journal Ij seems strange to me that some Demprats of national standing in post-election interviews attribute the overwhelming defeat of the Democratic j ticket in the late election to "one man rule" and a desire on the part of the j people "for a change." This, in the face of the fact that the G erman - and Irish sympathizers of the country gave practically a unanimous vote for Hard ing. Immediately after the election Vierick, who during the campaign stood sponsor for the German vote, in high glee claimed that "the 6,000.000 voters, men and women, of German ancestry have kept the faith and voted for Mr. Harding." It must be admitted that the Irish vote io America is as strong as the German. But. figuring that Vierick's estimate of German voters is 30 per, cent too much and that the Irish vote would correspond" to that of the German, there would till be a vote of 8,400,000 of Irish "and German voters voting for Hardirig. These voters or dinarily would be about equally divided between the parties. Biit in this elec tion these voters chose to vote for Hard ing and by doing so gave him his 6,000, 000 plurality. And why did this vpte go to Harding? The German reason was that Germany desired a separate peace with the United. States and did not want the United States to . become a. member of the League of Nations ; and further, because President "Wilson, a Democrat, asked congress to declare war- against Ger many. .The Irish were influenced to vote against a Democrat because Presi dent Wilson had the honesty to declare that a "peace delegate" from the al leged republic of Ireland could not be admitted to- the peace conference. Here is the truth about the "slump" to Harding. The voters of German and Irish birth or ancestry did the job. The results wiere brought about,, not because of any real faults of Wilson or his ad ministration, nor shortcomings of the Democratic party, but solely through race prejudice. B. , F. 'Wilson. FOR DELIVERANCE FROM EVILS Vancouyer, "Wash., Nov. 29. To the Editor Of The Journal Articles in The Sunday Journal yesterday were certainly meritorious and should be far-reaching. Especially is this true of "Religion in the Home" and the editorial relating to pool rooms. Anyone who cannot find in terest In things of this kind at this time is certainly out of tune with the trend of the times and fails to appreciate the great truth that a new day has dawned upon the world a day in which vice of every character, with its accompanying train of delusions, is giving way to the forces of good that are silently yet swiftly bearing the American people on ward toward higher and nobler planes of life. This statement probably miglt- be applied to the whole world. Thfiffl flrp. Tin. rinnht. m a n v xrhrt will say, "It doesn't look that way now, with all the world in confusion." But we must not judge harshly, since the truth of the statement eventually will tri umph. The world has undoubtedly passed into a new and greater day, that will continue , to grow brighter and brighter even unto the perfect day. The action in regard to the pool rooms of Chicago taken by Chief of Police Fitzmorris is but a straw showing the direction of the wind. Other actions of this nature will follow in other cities and other vices will fall under the ban of the -law, one bjr one. Fitzmorris saw in the air of the pool room only what others have seen for 10 these many years and failed to give voice to the discoveries because the times were not yet ripe to do SO. He is correct in the view he takes, and The Journal- has done a favor to Oregon and Washing ton and all the West by repeating his views while substantiating them with others as straight out from the shoulder as are those of his own. . , There is a great responsibility resting upon the shoulders of leading publica tions in matters of this kind. The press and the pulpit are the strongholds of the world's final deliverance from the evils that have blighted and hindered its prog ress for so long a time. It is through their efforts that the people must be educated, enlightened and led to God and thus to the higher planes of life. 1. It. Whitney. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The Lord never intended people to fly. Deacon Embree told us down to camp meetin'. last fall, and these here dronin' flyers overhead he called invention of the devil. However, Bud Embree, his oldest boy, tuck $20 he'd got ' pickin' Lrunes and rode one of 'em all over Portland. , Bud is plum possessed of the idee of glttln' to run one of them invenUons of the devil all by hisself, and the deacon can't git It outer him, by prayer nor admonitions. - COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF The! Oregon Country" SMALL CHANGE i! - SIDELIGHTS xar ij,rw i'.,Wib. : ' i ; Th moon is the only moonshine. if e source of There is no law against hoarding Christmas seals. . j , - ' "I Let's rig up a belated Christmas pres ent for the kaiser, t . Life's not just what it seem it's a whole lot better. sometimes Would it be too much to auk the court for a verdict that will require makers of rancid butterUo eat it? . s ... - j The mouth of the Columbia river wa early placed In the prohibition column when the bar was removed. I ' 1 If the "payers" in "taxpavers" took as much interest as the taxers the bur den of taxation might be lighter. A new president has held power in Mexico for 48 hours, and there's been no new revolution. Cheer no: todav is young ! . . - ' i "Giants graveyard." Sounds like that might be the burial place of the sports manship of late unlamcnted baseball crooks. i . . . The interstate commerce commissiotn has at last admitted that it is easier to roll a railroad- train down grade than iu vu.ii ii over a mountain range. Considering the Volstead law. It is probable that the conversation between the governors of the Carolina will not be repeated when President Wilson and Senator Harding-meet. i MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Mr. and Mrs. Al J. Martineau are registered at the Imperial. Martineau is on his way to attend the hotel men's convention at The Dalles December 4. He feels very much at home at the inh perial, for he served as head bellboy there 12 years. He is now. owner of the Hotel Josephine at Grants Pass. ... tiotei men are looking forward to I a heavy tourist traffic next year. At present there Is comparatively littlle travel. Last year 79,777 tourists reg istered at Yellowstone park. Portland's problem is to see that all these park-tjo-park tourists view the beauty spots pf Portland and. vicinity. j Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Leland of Drewsey are at the Imperial. Their home town is in Malheur county and is about 22 nles from Juntura, which is their near est railroad and shipping point Stock and timber are the principal assets iof the district. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Stover are visitors from Olex. which is in the wheat district of Wheeler county. Mikkalo, which lis their nearest railroad point, lies about five miles distant on the Condon branch of the O-W. R. & N. Portland is not alone in having! a home-building problem. In New Jersey all residence buildings erected between now and October 1, 1922, will be exempt from all taxes for a period of five years. . I F. Hughes of Cochrane is at the Ore gon. Cochrane is on the line of the Tillamook branch of the Southern Pa cific railroad and is near the sumrbit of the Coast range not far from- Tim ber, j ... W. C. Birdsell, manager of Pilot Butte Inn at Bend, is a guest at the Benson. He is sampling Portland's famous Bull Run cocktails and comparing them with the drinkables of his own town. j ... F. L. Owens is in Portland from his home at Cloverdale on the Big Ns- tucca river about 2o miles from Tilila- mook. ... E. Hermann from Anchorage is here' and incidentally ascertaining why Port land is not more interested in the trade of Alaska. . J , . . . L. Parker, whose home is at Gara- baldl, Tillamook County, is at the Ore gon. , j OBSERVATIONS f AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN -i i By Fred Lockiey I One who knew nd retirterrd Taluable rTiee to the.-fmoua Rob'rt Louia SteTenaon i inter Tiewed by Mr. Ivocklcy. This man had bad an adrenturoux career on hia own account, which furnished materials cood enough for the jus of the creat K. L himself. Alec Innes is a freight checker on the Portland docks. He is a Scotchman ho happened to be born outside his native land. He was born in India. j "Like myself, my mother was bornl In India," said Mr. Innes. "Her father was an East India- merchant. My father John Innes,' was born at Nairn, Scotland, in 1810. He came of a good family and secured a commission as sec ond lieutenant In the Bengal artillery. I was born in 1849. My father at the time of my birth was a major in the Bengal artillery. When I was nearly 5 years old my father retired and iwe moved to his old home in Scotland. After a year "we moved to Belgium. Father was comfortably fixed, so we spent five years in Belgium and Germany, after which we moved to the Channel islands, settling on the Isle of Jersey. When I was 17 I went to Australia. I livetl In Australia 15 years. I rented crown lands and went into the sheep business. Out in the bush you could rent government land at the rate of one pound per year for each square mile. I rented 10 square miles, paying an annual rental of a little less than $00 in Americah money for the entire tract. . . . "I did well in Australia, so I sold but when I was 32 and went to EnglaJid, where I took it easy for seven years, itil! I had Used up my money. I went back to Australia, but I didn't seem to get on so well, so, after a few years, I wjent to Samoa, where I received the appoint ment of clerk of the court and sheriff in the British consulate'. Three years later, the treaty of Berlin was framed by which the Germans were given large authority in Samoa, This meantj a change in the system of government and threw me out of my berth. Robert Louis Stevenson, hearing that I Was available, offered me a position, which I 'accepted. He had me hire a gang; of Kanakas to build a road to his place, which was a most sightly and beautiful one on the side of the mountain in -Ine jungle, about two and a half miles from Apia.. He had about 400 acres, and; he hired natives to clear the land sol he could set out.a grove of naval oranges. 1 don't think they did very well. He imported some fine horses from !vew Olden Oregon Earliest Legislation Bore Hard Upon Unnaturalized Foreigners. The first territorial legislature In pro viding for general elections and prescrib ing the qualifications of voters declared that a foreign4tr must be duly natural ized before he I could vote. This provi sion was takerfrom the Iowa law. The missionary element of the papulation in sisted upon a strict construction of this i. . ' ". ' " ' The chief obstacle to making the world safe for. democracy is the birth rate of suckers. Salem Capital Journal. .. The law of supply and demand means that those with the supply generally get wnat mey aemana. Aioany Democrat. It isn't how hard- you work, but how you work that makes the boss and man ager friendly. Roseburg News-Heview. '. II the war.tPi scneaule gives you a headache, it will be noted there is no tax on bromo-seltxer. Corvallis Uazette Times. . .... It la just as amusing: to watch the Re publicans scrambling for "pie" as it was eight years ago to see the Democrats do the same. Polk County Itemiser. There are times when the average man who is trying to do something for the benefit of the community concludes that he is enlisting ih the wrong cause. Bend Press. ... - First we have the government and many organizations urging the people to save, and then when they save, and business tightens, they are. advised to loosen up and blow in their money. It's a funny woVld. Ion't take it too seri ously.: Blue Mountain Kagle. Flour is selling as low at $8.40 a bar rel at Minneapolis now. There is.no Question that the high cost of living is rbeing fast reduced now.. Indeed, there is danger that prices will falT so fast and so far as to restrict production and cause a reaction. Coquille Valley Senti nel. " Phil Metschan Jr., genial host of the Imperial, is at home from a visit at Santa Barbara and San Francisco, where he got pointers on fiow to cap ture the tourist trade for Portland and Oregon. .... E. B. Tongue which, -by the way, is. a most appropriate name for an attorney is taking a brief vacation from his legal duties in Hilltiboro, and is visiting in Portland. ... C. E. Crowell. from the prosperous and progressive farming and stock rais ing district in Josephine county of which Waldo is the trading center, is at the Imperial. Robert E. Smith, president of the Title & Trut company, left Wednesday night for Roseburg to look after his Douglas county business interests. W. M. Brerter of Coos county's saw mill town of Powers Is "a Portland vis itor. - A. G. Golding of Elgin, one of Union county's prosperous communities, is at the Imperial. .... Mr. and Mrs, L. B. Smith of Taker are sojourning in the metropolis for a while. y ' C. Grant and N. M. Grant of I-eth- bridge. Alberta; are guests at the Ben son. . .... Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Short, from the county seat of Union county, are at the Benson. . '..' W. M. Briggs, from Ashland, where they grow both varieties of penches,ia spending a few days in Portland. M. M. Glavey of Dufur is a Portland visitor, a guest at the Imperial. , 'L. L. Paget, banker and promoter, of Seaside, is at the Multnomah. i T. D. Barcleay of Pendleton is regis tered at the Multnomah. . La Grande is represented at the Mult nomah by F. B. Maxwell. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Boyce of Madras are Portland visitors. 12. P. Mahaffey, banker and best booster, is at the Oregon. Bend's D. E. Larson, of Medford is transact ing business in- Portland. . Zealand. The natives could not handle them, so I, loving stock of all kinds, was put in charge of his horsen. I soon had stnem gentle as kittens. ' I did all the hauling of goods and supplies from Apia up the steep mountain road to the ranch. "Robert Louis Stevenson was. one of the few men I have met-who was never ill-tempered. He seemed to have a per petually sunny nature. I don't know Just how to express' It, - but his . smile always seemed genuine, as though he had a friendy interest in you. As a matter of fact, he had. He ctfuld al ways get some good from everyone he met, just as a bee can get honey from every blossom it visits. For many months I saw him daily under all sorts of conditions, and he was unfailingly cheerful and sunny tempered. One day he said tcKme. 'You have been about a good , bit and have had' all sorts of ex periences with' all sorts and conditions of men. Tell me about yourself." He asked me questions, and' I told him all I thought would be of Interest to him. Some years later I was astonished, when j I picked tip one of his books, to see l that he had written a story about me J not mentioning my name, of course. If i you will read his 'Vailima Letters' through you will see he mentions me a ' good many times. His wife and his! step-son, Lloyd Osbourne, and Mrs. I Strong, his step-daughter, and her hus- ! band composed the family when I first went to work for him, but before I left for Honolulu his mother came out from Scotland to be with him. . "When I left his employ he gave me a letter to a friend of his in the Ha waiian islands. I have lrwith me. Here it is. Yes, it is getting a bit worn on the edges. Can you copy the letter? Of course you can. It simply goes to show how kindly he was, for he was always more than anxious to drr a good turn for anyone he could." The letter writ ten in Stevenson's easy yet precise handwriting? reads as follows:. Vailima. June 17, 1831. My Dear Henry: . The bearer, Mr. Innes, has worked Tor me for some months In a position of trust. I can honemtly say he was invaluable to me-during the time. He will give you news of us. And if you can help him to employment I am sure you will do a good turn to a very good fellow. He has; Just received a public appointment but prefers to leave. Mr. Innes will tell you of our bonne, of our horses and of our tribulations. Yours ever, Robert Louis Stevenson. clause, as its measures were not sup 1 ported by the foreign born voterp. Through the legislature of 1850 M. P. Deady procured the passage of an amendment giving foreigners who had resided in the country five years prior to the enactment of the law and who had declared their Intention to become citizens, the right to vote. The amend ment was to restore to British subjects who had long resided in the territory, the elective franchise. OREGON Reports of the Eugene banks show that the deposits of the three institutions In creasedmore than a million dollars dur Ing the past year. Th Oregon. Humane society entimatc. In figures filed with the secretary of state, that its needs from the state for the next biennium will be about JbOO-i. During the week ending November ;0 the Pacific Northwest lumber Industry irtanufactured 17 per cent more lumber than it shipped and 37 per cent mors than it sold. A convention will h haM t t,.ii,. December 18 to nominate a' Candidas for county Judge, after which petitions will be circulated for the recall of Judge A. B. Robinson. As Tillufnook county does not have common point rates similar to Astoria and other Oregon cities, a movement is on foot to apply to the Interstate com- ' merce commission at Washington. L. A'. Cates. former owner of the Co quille Sentinel and for manv years a"' successful newspaper man, has HKKunied the editorial and business mtiHgrment or iue iuuy Aews or Marshfi.lii. , H. L. BartJIng. graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon and veteran' of the world war, has been appointed ,lav clerk and assistant divorce . proctor" in the prosecuting attorney's office at Seattle. The trustees of Albanv college have ' been notified of a beqiit-Ht left the col lege by the late Ellen K. Ueury of Pint land. Miss Geary whs a daughter of one Of the early presidt nts f the insti- ' tution. . Purebred Cattle valued at $2Ti.Oon were unloaded at the Oregon Electric stktiou in Eugene this week for various farm ers, who purchased them at the Pacific International Livestock exposition In Portland. j ualnuts from the Willamette and Umptiua valleys. 45,395 pounds lir all. are being assembled at the Salem. Yam hill and Sheridan plants of the Oregon Cooperative I (J rowers' ussoclutton, ready fcfT delivery! Air. and Mrs. .1. E. Lucas, who had been attending camp nit-ling at fan by. returned the latter part of lnt week to find their home near HuehiLLVIsta a." mass of ruins. It is not , know n how the fire originated. Crossing accidents on the linos, of th Southern Pacific In Oregon, during the period frotnj January 1, 1IS; to Scptem- per j, v)z), resulted In a to l-of 126 vos. f38 injured and J616 automobiles dam aged or deiitroyfd. A 'thorough survey of HO repreHenla tive wheat ranches in Wasco , county, with the vi4w of determining the m-t. cost for the crowing and harvest lnit of .a bushel of wheat, will be made in tli near tuture by the counly agricultural agent. !WAS1I1.UTG.' The new I highway hrijlge over th Cowlitz river at Toledo lias ben ac cepted by the tate engineers. While Andrew Leknes was attending' church near Stanwood, tils house, iwas entered by robbers and fZtttO in l.iltcriy uonas eioien. A wage rpdiiction of r,0! cents ,a (lay, of workmen. affecting the entire force is announced by. the gener the Tacoma smelter. il manajfi-t of Citizens of Cowlits counl y will vol on issuing $7S0,j000 bonds Dim ember Hi for constructing a comprehensive road sys tem over the county. Rapid progress is being made on (two miles of bitiilithic pavotne it In Prosser. Drinking fountains will b installed at the. principal street intersections. Ridgefield now has a isjlasonlc lodge, which was instituted recently as - Um result of nevernl months' i ef foils o.t members residing in and urouud Ridge field. . The Central Washington? G pany Is still operating ijt a lo.ss of'VlU'). per month, in spite of the advanced rates for gus put into effect last spring. William Fonda, age "0, known'' all over thq coast as "The Whistling Kvih : gelist," killed himself by Jumping from a window in a Seattle'.' hospital wliil delirious. , i The Tacoma linht and water depart ments niadn large net earnings during -the year Jut closing, but the municipal railwavj system shows a deficit of $137,944.94. '. j Word Is received of the' death of", Captain! Winfield Scott Mann, pioneer Puget I Sound steamship owner arid resident of the state of Washington for 45 years'. - Thrown: J.over the handlebars- of his motorcycle into the wheel of an auto, mobile.! Re Thomas, uged 34, was so badly hurt that he died an hourTlalcr In an Everett hospital. , The Satop fishery in Grays Harbor county j will not only break nil records this year for salmon eggs, but will be made the greatest narcnery on tne ra 'Ciflc coast. Between $20,000 snd $30,000 will- be spent on the plant next year. ; . IDAHO Plans' are on foot In Buhl to establish an alfalfa meal mill to cost $23,000. Efforts are being mads to taise a bonus of $125,000 for the buildlrtg of a railroad from Rogerson, Idaho, Uf Wells, V. - ' ' An average of 14 tons of sugnr bf-ei's to the acre Is reported for Twin Kails county for 1920. Many of the crops netted $245 to the acre. The coming legislature will W asked to deprive the state land, hoard of som of its powers and vest them in a . t or estry advisory board to be created.- The state land commissioner conducted a sain of slate lands in Idaho' Kails las( week. Nine th6usand acres were'fcold a( prices ranging from $10 to $20 an H'-re. At a "meeting of-Jhe Lewis'ton Com mercial club it was decided to incorpo rate the Northwest livestock axHoc.a tion and to proceed with efforts to ob tain a sufficient appropriation from the 1921 legislature to finance the shows during the next biennium. know you a. PORTLANb Just as a strategist marshals his force.s and plans his campaign, no it is necessary -for . the executives " of Portland's street cleaning bureau to wage their war on the dirt thxt comes from nowhere and is scarcely removed until it returns. The district in the center of the west side hounded by .Front and Tweirtieth, Mill and Hoyt streets is the scene of a nightly assault' on the accumulations of the day, as are the streets leading to the bridges and surrounding the Union depot. Wednesdays are hoiiBccleanfng days for the west bridge approaches. The areas which lie Just outside the. busi ness center are cleaned- every ?thre to four days.- On the east side all the central downtown streets, such as Broadway, Union, Weidler and Grand avenue, are brought back to respectable cleanliness evry night, aryl other close-in east side streets have the attention of -brooms and flushers three tiroes a week. The macadam streets are "nested up" once a ye-i. and streets tend ing to become dusty are subdued by generous applications' of oil. Is it becaufM the wind does the sweeping, or that the neighborhood is excessively clean, that paved streets oiii Portland Heights are cleaned less than any others, the schedule calling for brooming once every thre months? The second . district In assumed cleanliness, or at least. : infrequent visit, is Eastmoreland and Westmore land, the pavements of which are cleaned every two months. ' By and j. large, tPorUarTd' street cleaning bureau is 'credited with be ing one of I the most efficient in the sountry. .