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THE ' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, "OREGON WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1920. rracir AX "IMlEPE.VUk.NT NEWSPAPER C. S. JACKSON IMbliaber ( Be dim, b confident. be cheerful and do unto mb aa yon would hee tbera do, unto you. j Published mrtrr week- d ind Sunday nomine, at The Journal Building-. Broadway and Vaaa- hin etreet, Portland, Oresoa. .; Entered at tha noatoffir-a at Portland. Oregon, for trrrroiioD through tba asaiii u iccoad ' -eieae matter. .. . .---- TELEPHONES Main 1TS. Automatic S80-61 ' AU decartmenta reached br theaa number. NATIONAL ADVEHT1SINO HEPBESENTA TIVE Benjamin Kentnor o.r Bra n wick uidin, S2 Fifth aemia. Saw lorn; sou Malleri BuUdlni. Ckicaa-o: PAflFlO COAST REPRESENTATIVE W. H. Bra near Co., Eiamlnar Buildinf, Ban Fran, etvo; Title Imuranea Building. Los Angela; Poat-Intellisencer Building, Seattle. THE OKEUON JOURNAL reaerrea the right to refect adiertixing copy which it derma od Jwttionabl. 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Make all rrmittancea payable to The Journal, Portland. Oregon. He that ha light within his own clear breast, . May lit in the center and enjoy bright day; But he that hide a dark, aoul andSfoul . thoughts, , Benighted walk under the midday ann, Himself in bia own dungeon . Milton. THE ONCOMING TIDE TO PROHIBIT foreign immigra tion for two years is the purpose of a bill introduced the opening day of the new session of congress by Representative Johnson of the state of . Washington. More than 8", 5 00,0 00 persons over 10 years of age in America cannot read or write. In -the coal industry of America, the safety signs required by law have to "printed in a. dozen languages in-order to be intelligible .to the various non-English -speaking groups in he mines. - After Its sur vey of the Pittsburg steel strike, the Kenyon senate committee called na tional attention to the condition of il literacy and the babel of tongues of workers in the "industry and de scribed the situation as ominous., -People of confirmed Illiteracy and wholly deficient in the power to un derstand English can have no ade quate conception of our form, of gov ernment. : Their knowledge of our free institutions must come through Interpreters, and Interpreters may or may not have a love for this coUn-' try.' Herein lies the demoralizing effect of unrestricted and whole sale Immigration. . The personnel 6f I. W. W-Ism is TO to 80 per cent alien'. The names that come to light in the bomb plots and other displays of ultra violence are almost universally foreign.' - The "faces of men condemned for radical crimes are rarely Anglo-Saxon faces. f Some; of ; pur ; most eminent- and most patriotic citizens are of for eign birth or, extraction, But it is no disparagement of them to say that most of the wild hallucinations and dreamy illusions about"; govern ment are also importations from Eu rope. . It is not- sound , policy to permit alien illiterates to continue flooding America. Bringing with them in most cases wild ideas of government resultant from generations' of op pression, their presence in this coun try is a demoralizing influence that injects a lot of trouble into our home . affairs. : After our experiences In the late war, it would seem to be good policy for. this country to accept immi grants so fast only as the arriving tide can be thoroughly absorbed and Americanized. . - ; ... The growing trade of th Pacific ,Coast with the Orient is one of the factors byrwhrch home prosperity is to be stimulated." During, the first nine months of 4 the. current year, lo,o b,3S4 y ieei or. , lumoer was Bhlpped from two northern ports to China, . Seattle sent 41,418,432 and Portland 6?,6S9.02. Trans-Pacific trade is on the threshold of an ex traordinary expansion. THE TOURIST. AT EAGLE CREEK "VN THE Columbia river highway V- where .Eagle creek . laughs its way Into the greater stream, may be found free wood and an object-les son. ; i V ; Uncle Sam there plays mine host He has ' placed the tables for the feasting .of hundreds beneath the snug cover of firs and vine maples. He has built fireplaces in spots most .iSonFiml REPEL THE CHIEF OF POLICE JENKINS says he can stop the crime wave In Port land with SO additional men. the extra patrolmen to serve during the period of emergency. ;: He is the man to whom is delegated the task of repelling the armed crooks who have invaded Portland. As head of the police department, he is the man responsible for safety In the home and on the street. He says 50 more men will enable him to rout the bandits. ' .Without the additional men, protection has been largely a myth. Con ditions' are going from bad to worse. Crimes are more numerous and criminals bolder. - People have been held up right and left. Their homes have been looted. They have lost clothing, money, jewelry and automobiles. Murder has been' committed. The police are nearly, if not completely, helpless. Gangs of tin horn bandits have taken control of Portland. The pistol is in command. ; ,Ther are 68 square miles in the city of Portland. To patrol that ter ritory there are 37 men on beats on one relief. That is one patrolman for a litle less than two square miles. On another relief there are 52 men on beats. On another there are 59. In addition there are plain clothes men and a few emergency men. That may be enough,. But Chief Jenkins says it is not.- He is the man the city government placed in charge of the police. He is there because he is supposed to know. What is to prevent the allotment of additional patrolmen- during the emergency? If it is lack of money, it would be interesting to know what better use the extra three mill tax could be put to than "to protect the people who authorized it. One reason they voted for the extra funds was to have police protection. . If there is another way to curb the bandits without the employment of the additional men, put it into force. But if added patrolmen is the only remedy, the cost certainly should not bar the residents of this city from the protection that the municipal government was established to afford. convenient for the many who travel in ; automobiles. Water is piped from the : constant flow Of cold springs. Comfort facilities are at handr Camping grounds may be had for a day or a week with no ob trusive landlordism demanding a price. Even the firewood is cut and piled to save long carrying of it and abundance at Eagle Creek substitutes for the fuel problem of town. -A , The invitation of such a welcome has called touring- parties of many states to linger longer , at. Eagle Creek. ' -, . The casting of accounts which has just been made for the season shows that 30,000 people of all ages and kinds and places enjoyed the hospi tality there. - Often it has been suggested ; in these columns that tourist accom modations supplementing the scen ic spell of Oregon's mountains, val leys and seashore could have but one result. ;. . Uncle Sam's generosity at Eagle Creek proves it. Who owns Portland its people or the mere boys who take away valu ables from decent people on the street, or- break into Portland homes and carry off whatever they want? THE CURSE OF, KAISERISM ONE of the most tragic facts in history Is that 3,000,000 chil dren in war devastated Europe are starving. ' Their dire hunger is the penalty the innocent must pay for the crime of war. y y It is the sacrifice the growing generation must pay for the inabil ity of nations to live together in peace. It is the carrying of the penalty of war to the place) where it strikes last and hardest, drying up the breasts of mothers, robbing the cup boards, chilling the fire on the hearth and opening the doors of homes to disease and death. ,. The children of war i plagued Europe are still under the curse of kaiserdom though the kaiser is de throned. America helped free her allies from the menace of militarism. By giving the meana to buy; food until the next harvest, America' helps lift the curse of kaiserism from the children.' There could be no stronger appeal. Herbert Hoover administers the fund. There could be no stronger guarantee of good administration. Oregon has been asked to give $240,000 between December 19 and Christmas. . .Of course, Oregon will do it. ' ' ' - Fourteen cases of banditry in Portland in a(single night is crime broken loose. A climax was reached Monday in an attempted hold-up in broad daylight; :.v THE REPUBLIC TOMORROW THAT Oregon requires 1500 new teachers a year, that the supply of trained teachers is so limited that 50 per cent of the students at the Oregon State Normal are comman deered as teachers before their train ing is completed, that- the profes sion of teaching is so un stabilized that the most effective minds are not drawn into that calling. and that rural communities in particular suf fer for lack of sufficient supply of teachers, these were the main issues around which revolved the discus sions at the educational conference in Portland Saturday, called and pre sided over by P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education. There-is a world of splendid, pa tient, painstaking teachers. Their lives, their strength and their talents are dedicated enthusiastically to the work. The example they set, the In fluence they ; exert, the:' instruction they convey In the school room are a great salvaging agency for the children. .. . ' . - . The conference made it clear that more such teachers are required. Other callings to which so much of future welfare is committed can be counted on the fingers of one hand " The public has never risen to a full, realization of the highly im portant part the teachers play, for better or for worse, in human af fairs." If it had, there would not be INVADERS a shortage of teachers, for the short age of teachers is directly and em phatically d,ue to the comparative non-importance which the people in general ascribe to the teaching pro fession. The- most precious thing in the world is a human career. Every child is the beginning of a career. Aside from heredity and home, the teacher is the most important fac tor in determining whether it shall be a useful and valuable career or be a fiction, a blank, a nothing, whether it shall be a blessing or a tragedy. . As Commissioner Claxton said, th'ere is but a short span left in which the grown-ups may work. It is the Children who will be the re public tomorrow, and they should be given the best that there is in train ing and traingrs. NO SCUTTLE IT IS rumored about Portland that an attempt will be made at the coming legislative session to effect certain alterations ' in. the driver's license law. Among other changes is a proposal to do away with the age limit for drivers, and thereby permit anyone of any age to operate an automobile. ' ; The change should not be made. Children under 16 years of age should not be placed in charge of a powerful machine that, improperly handled, becomes a menace to all in its path. An ' automobile has the power of dealing death and only those competent, physically and mentally, are capable of safe opera tion of a heavy motor vehicle. A child of immature years Is not competent. Children do not sense the dangerous possibilities of a mo tor car. They do not realize the po tential power of an automobile. Un der 16 they have not reached the age of caution. The driver's license law is the most effective weapon which the au thorities have in dealing with reck less driving. It has already be come a strong influence in reducing smashups. To hamstring It, muti late it, or weaken it at the moment when its effectiveness is being dem onstrated would be folly. - .Since sugar nas descended to ten pounds for- a dollar," "cash and carry," some optimistic folk predict that by and by movie tickets will be hack to the good old price of ten cents. BATTERING AT THE DOOR FIVE San Francisco gangsters were barely saved from lynching after their capture at Santa Rosa, California, Sunday. With other members of the gang, those arrested had for months per petrated heinous crimes on young girls in San Francisco. They main tained a shack to which young women were lured and held in bond age by the vicious gangsters. Finally two girls who had been criminally assaulted reported to the police. The gang was rounded up. During the arrest of five at Santa Rosa, three officers Were murdered. A crowd of 3000 gathered outside the jail. Telephone pole and steel rails were employed in an unsuccess ful attempt to reach the gangsters.' Automobiles bearing arm.jd men and ropes came to the California jail from all over the community. The people were rising to protect their daughters.' They were there to protest against gangs and gang sters, to eliminate them from, the body' politic. They were there be cause the law enforcement bodies Of San Francisco had failed to rid the city of the fiendish criminals though a dozen girls had fallen prey to their. lust. ;. ,.. America, wants no mob rule. This country is not a country of barbari ans f to live under the reign of nhe mob. Laws are established to regu late the daily intercourse of peoples, but , when those laws are not effici ently applied, the populace rises. The way' to- defeat mob demon strations Is to rid cities of vicious elements by law. That Is the busi ness of the police. WTien the police department protects the public, there is no occasion for armed men with ropes to " be battering at " the jail doors. . -. - NEUTRALITY AS TO IRELAND Press Comment In- America In Part Candid Condemnation of Ktther Party to the Troubles, in Part Mere Impartial Deploration, in Part Warm Sympathy for Ireland, , but None Crying ' for In - tervention. Daily Editorial 1 Digest : (Consolidated Preea Aaaociatioo) ' Despite the whispered warnings of a "British, controlled press" and ''Sinn Fein propaganda," the bloody tales of murSer and reprisal in Ireland have waked very little partisan comment in the American newspapers. Although it is only fair to say that, for the most 1 part, sympathy is frankly with the "most distressful country" - American writers : refrain from urging any kind Of official intervention in John Bull's domestic af fairs, and small -praise is given the so called American "commission" to investi- gate Irish "atrocities." Even the at tempt to transfer the revolution to Fifth avenue by tearing down the Union Jack and breaking the windows and the heads of -some of the members of one of New York's most dignified clubs, seems to arouse resentment chiefly against the individuals who perpetrated rowdyism. For the most part, however, wide sym pathy for Ireland Is expressed in her bloody struggle for freedom. Two newspapers, the Chicago Tribune find. Rep.) and' the Knox ville Sentinel (Ind. Dem.), suggest that a movement actually exists to "embroil this oountry with Great Britain," as the Tribune put it, "and even tiring about a war between the two countries," , but both organs scout the idea of such an eventuality. rxo delusion is . greater," says the Springfield Union (Rep.), "than that other nations are going to send Armed forces to rescue Ireland In a war on England," and gradually even sympathy for Erin will disappear if conditions con tinue, for "the merits of- the question of Irish freedom are lost in this era of murder and reprisals." While the Roch ester Herald (Ind.) admits that the situation "is the most distressful in his tory," it declares: "The blame for the in tolerable conditions attaches itself about equally to the passionate and extreme men on both Sides of the controversy. So long as leadership 'in the' two camps remains where it is now, settlement of the quarrel is hopeless and the future of both Irelafcd and England is a dark one." The New York Tribune (Rep.) believes that "not one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the Irish people can be in sym pathy with the practices of either the Red Feiners or their Black and Tan op ponents, which degrade Ireland," and thinks that America should send a mes sage to both sides to "stop it." "Con tempt" for the British policy and "loathing" for the Sinn Fein .methods, are the reactions which the Boston Her ald (Ind. Rep.) thinks the American public feels and the New York Mail (Ind.), while it carefully avoids casting America in the role of Judge or deputy, says : "It is becoming apparent that such a state of affairs, revolting to humanity, cannot continue indefinitely in Ireland any more than it could have continued indefinitely in Belgium or could continue indefinitely in the Balkans or any other center of discontent and disturbance." This sentiment finds an echo in the columns f .the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal-Gazette (Dem.) which, likewise, with no suggestion of compromising America, remarks : "It becomes ' more and more evident that the organized forces of hu manity will have to ultimately serve notice on England that this is not the thirteenth century." Without condoning the murders of British officers the Syracuse Herald (Ind.) points out that "there are de grees in .such crimes" and asserts that "the reprisal ; was far: more atrocious' This view is shared by a number of newspapers which, like the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (Ind. Dem.). feel that the reprisals "have Shocked the thought of the world." The Hartford Times (Dem.) calls this "rule by murder" and suggests that the methods reflect the theory of "Schrecklichkeit." It says: "There can be no Tutlliatinn fne tha miF der of the British officers, but the at- iacK Dy me police upon the defenseless men and women pf Croke park was more horrible. It was like the massacre of the Indian natives at Amritsar, for which General Dyer was disciplined a few months ago, and its purpose was the same to strike terror Into the hearts of the people." The Buffalo Express (Ind. Rep.) also considers that "Dublin's bloody Sunday" was the worst offense, for "the Black and Tans Crofess to be raisins- hell in the name of law and order." To the To ledo Blade find. Rep.) there is "little choice," though "the Sinn Feiners are at least staying tneir avowed enemies, and the Black and Tans are killing indis criminately." England, the Evansvllle (Ind.) Courier (Dem.) says. Is pursuing a shameful course. "The proud mistress of the seas," it declares, "has stooped to become the harlot of savagery." ? - . . . But there are those who plead Eng land's cause as well. The Norfnllr Vir ginian Pilot -(Ind. Dem.), for instance, considers tnat "the world s sympathy for the Irish cause"" Is fast becoming alien ated and the belief growing- that "Eng land is today trying in good faith to reconcile Ireland's aspirations with irre ducible conditions necessary to the safety of the realm." The Fargo Courier-News (Non-partisan league) puts the conduct of each side down to the horrors of war and declares that "Americans have no call to "he shocked at British brutality" when they read over the history of American Intervention in Haiti. "We need to get together and study out some way by which wars can be ended." it concludes. 4 . This feeling that America should keeo to her knitting in the Irish trouble is reflected by many writers. Says the Memphis . News-Scimitar ( Ind.) : "How ever much we may sympathize with Ireland in her unfortunate situation, it Is no part of this country's business to regulate or adjust the situation, deplor able as jt may be.", i The work of the American commission on Ireland receives scant Draise from most of the press. Says the Grand Rap ids Press (Ind.) : "Regardless of one's views on the Irish situation lt'is hard to see what can be accomplished by an in vestigation held 3000 miles from the scene of its inquiries. It Is very much as if. at the instigation' of one of the blatant anti-American English editors. London should have a British commls sioni xm -the ; Philippines, ror Porto Rico and at that distance pass upon the ques tion or their independence." i This same argument, appeals to the loronto tatar (Canadian), Which, speak ing, of course, from the British view point, asks, if such a court as the Press suggests would investigate7 our insular possessions.'! or, perhaps, our; lynchinga in the South, .;TVliat - reply ' would be made ana now would the American peo- al7 ft g,C. Uftba. Letters From the People ( Commimicationa sent to The 'Journal for publication in thia department ahould be written on only one aide of the paper; ahould not exceed 800 words tn lenfth, and mast be ncned J the amber, vaoee mail aaareae in tuu Boat acoom- cany the contribution. J , , ' WHAT ONE WRITER SEES Portland. Dec 1. To the Editor of The Journal I see In the paper where a United States judge has granted an In junction on miners restraining them from using their only weapon of offense and defense the strike. I hava seen nothing lately about anybody being re strained from shutting down, any fac tory, mill or steel plant. . ' I see where tills United States govern ment gave, the poor railroad companies millions of dollars for the use of their roads and equipment while we were at war. I have not seen our soldiers, sail ors and marines getting any million. - I see where Ponzl got five whole years for stealing some millions of poor folks' money. A guy over . In Klamath Falls got two years for stealing a shirt. If he had swiped an overcoat or a pair of shoes I suppose he would have got life. I see, too, where the Reds drove Gen eral Wrangel into the sea. It seems the Red movement is getting popular across the pond.-'-, . , , I see where some cities already .have bread lines thousands out of work, and factories closing down all over. I am wondering -what all this means. I am not an I. W. W. nor a Socialist- nothing but a shoemaker, and nothing fancy at that ; but I'll bet my last and awl that this little old U. S. A. will be redder than a beet .if some folks don't change their ways and some other things don't take place muy pronto. I have put in two hitches in this man's, army, and am ready to go again, if needed but I'm going to be sure it's my class that going to be helped. If you Bee fit to print this, do It; if you don't, don't. ' I'm a shoemaker not a writer or journalist. P. J. McGrail. UNEMPLOYMENT Portland,, Nov. 30. To the Editor of The Journal If . unemployment is riot the cause ofthe wave of crime, why does the wave of crime always occur during the period . of , unemployment? Our criminal records show that four- fifths of crime is committed during the winter months of unemployment. I have always held that it was society's duty to find a remedy for this great . evil. Many ask how this could be done. The state, county and city employ many men the - year around. Most of their work should be done during the winter months when so many are idle. While the weather is not so favorable in win ter as it is in summer, there are many good days in the winter, enough to tide the Idle over until spring. Our unem ployed problem is the greatest that con fronts us. It is the' most serious and profound in the history of the world. It Is the unthinking selfishness of one- half of mankind that causes the other half to suffer unemployment. In conclusion, I don t 'think our busi ness depression will last long;. It is caused, by . falling . prices. No one branches out In business under falling prices. As soon as prices reach a level there will be great industrial activity. . . . ' E. A. Llnscott. A" POINT IN POKER. Timber, Dec.'L To .the Editor of The Journal please answer in The Journal: Is a club royal flush higher than a heart royal flush with ace high ; or is there any difference? ., E. S. In the came of poker a club royal flush is not higher than, a heart royal fhuh. Suit takes no . precedence, according to authorities of the game, although ' Uoyle doea not comment on uua pout. j , HABITj AND WORLD-CURE Vancouver, Wash.,- 'Nov. 26. To the Editor of The Journal Under the cap tion "Courage Is the Thing" today's Journal contains a brief but highly com mendable letter. Truly the "noble truths" sown by the immortal philoso pher of Benares, some 700 years B. G, did not fall on stony ground. . Your correspondent writes: "Build yourself a strong box and put all your troubles there, it can be done." Truly, It can be done," but in order to do it one must form a habit of doinc it. The Illustrious Siddhartha admonished,-. "Within your selves deliverance must be sought each man his prison makes." In this case, the seeking- of deliverance from- evil habits must become habitual. Psychol ogy Is now being studied as never before. This is well. Salvation of , the world- soul depends on sane sense of the indi vidual soul, and the word "psychology" signifies soul science." Yet, much time is wasted by the laity in studying psychology and few there are who con tinue the study to a profitable conclu sion. Most students stray into it. wallow around, become, lost, lose courage, and quit in disgust They fall, and their failure is an abiding calamity to civiliza tion. The hope of the world lies In man's understanding the true nature of his natural soul. There is reason for this failure. Text books on psychology would mystify even' Minerva. Imagine a be ginner-attempting to- conceive that-his mind is conscious, co-conscious, subcon scious, superconscious, subjective and ob jective all at one time, and that through apperception" the subjective becomes transposed with the objective and vice versa. This is. no' less mystifying to the yro than was the "hypothenuse" to the Dublin fishwife. The bedrock, arch and keystone of. psychology rest on the one simple, yet all-inclusive word, "habit" a word which might signify heaven, but more frequently implies hell. Regarding this ominous and fateful word. Professor William James writes: "The hell to be endured .hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves by habitually fashioning our ' character in the wrong way.- Could the young realize how soon they will become mere walk ing bundles of habits they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We spin our; own fates, good or evil, and never can they be un- spun. Every smallest stroke of virtue or vice leaves behind an ineffaceable scar." "Principles of Psychology." by William James, Vol. 1, page 127. J. Harold. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places There is nothing new in Bolshevism excepting the name, writes Gustavus Myers in the Review. The essentials of it, he says, were spread broadcast in the United . States 90 years ago. Industrial communism, free and easy marriage and divorce, children the property of the state, abolition of religious instruction, etc., were all proposed here during the years 1826-34. The Bolshevism of that time, like that of today, became an acute public question with astonishing sudden ness, but the approaches were gradual and could be traced to the French Revo lution and the anti-religious campaign headed by Thomas Paine. Then came Robert. Dale Owen, with his gospel of perfect social and industrial equity. ' Olden Oregon Fremont Had a Charming Fancy tn ' the Naming of Places " In the latter part of November, 1843, the Fremont ' exploring expedition left The Dalles for Southern Oregon. On De cember 16 Fremont came in sight of Summer lake, which was so named by Fremont from the fact that it was green and had the air of spring while on the rlmrock, where Fremont was camped, it was winter. He called this place Winter ridge. Uncle Jeff Snow Says : . NIte Handiffer was tellln the Cor ners Statesmen's club last week how his grandad bought him a pair of weddin shoes in "43 fer $1.67 and a swell hat fer $1.13 back in Injianny. Our chairman, Daddy Humphreys, reminded him, how ever, that Grandad Handiffer worked all day 12 long hours in the hay field fer 76 cents a day to git that $1.67 fer a pair of shoes, and that butterf at sold then around 8 to 11. cents. Whereupon Nite got mad and wanted to know how in Sam .Hill Daddy Humphreys knowed so Jmuch about his fam'ly affairs, anyhow. COMMENT AND ' SMALL CyNGE Every once in a while it is a long time between mail robberies Chicago iNewa. , e - V , " ' Still pending is the case of uncorked scruples -vs. eork-screwples Norfolk Virginia Pilot, The trouble with Ireland, England seems to think. Is that It is overrun with Irish. El Paso Herald. v Another tie of r sympathy between Washington and the proletariat. The Western Union has put the government on a cash-in-advance basis. Richmond Times Dispatch. I e. . - . A subscriber suggests that Miss 'Alice Robertson, cafe proprietor. Instead I of being elected to congress ahould have been made secretary of the interior. Nashville Banner. i i ; A Baltimore man put a popular song on his phonograph and then committed suicide. - It's an easy way to persuade yourself that life isn't worth living. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Couple married at the top of the Washington monument" They orobablv wanted to start life together on the same level with living coats just' a little be low the peak. Providence Journal. We submit that tha moat remarkabla istream in these United States is the oavannan river. It is announced that no more funds, will be needed for work ing on it after next August Greensboro (N. C.) News. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Horace N. A Id rich, pastor of the Leslie Methodist church at Salem and chaplain of the Oregon state penitentiary- and alBO of the Oregon boys' training school, is visiting friends in Portland. "The brutal methods pracUced in the boys' training school some years ago are no longer practiced,"- said Mr. Aldrich. "In fact when Will Hale became superin tendent the straps with copper rivets In them with which the boys had been pun ished were done away with. The rule of silence at mealtime and the signals for the various things on the table were also discarded. The present superin tendent L. M. Gilbert like -Mr. Hale, has a real interest' In the boys.. Comp ton, the recently appointed superintendent-of the penitentiary, was put in be cause of his proved efficiency snd hu manity, ' and not for political expedi ency, and as a consequence he is making good. The m.ost regrettable thing about the situation is that boys who are de pendent and not delinquent are often committed to the boys' training school because there seems no other place to send them. If you died and your wife was unable to take care of your boys, how would you like them sent to ' the boys' training school, which often proves a School for crime to susceptible boys?" Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Childs of White Salmon are registered at the Imperial. . IL S. Gile, hailing from Canada but for 30 years or more a resident of th i capital city, is transacting business 'in Portland. Mr. Gile transformed the humble prune from a boarding house joke to a, much prized and costly luxury. He has also helped make the name "Phez" a household word. ' i i W. S. Bassinger. of Omaha, F. W. Reeves of Salt Lake City and Frank W. Robinson, now of Omaha, but formerly a resident of Portland, are all at the Portland. They are here sizing up the railroad situation. . Rex Hopper, who halls from the pvos Irous wheat town of Athena, in Uma tilla county. Is a PSrUand visitor. A. G. Prill, from Scio, near the foot of .the Cascades, and on the banks of Thomas creek, is a Portland visitor. George E. Keelerr the well-known dealer in bonds, is here from Denver, registered at the Portland. ' '- '., S. B. Crouch of Roseburg is transact ing business in Portland. John Van Orsdale of Baker is a guest at the Hotel Portland. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley Uncle Sam'a commtisioner of education telle Mr. Lockley the story of his life, which baa been a life of yaat usefulness ai well aa one that for the ten-millionth time in .American hirtory demonstrates that- in America, the land of op portunity. eerythinT i up to the American. lie can succeed if he really want to. bo mutter how bard bis early lot. Philander P. Claxton was born on the firing line. He was born September 28. 1862, in Middle Tennessee. His father, Joshua Cajvln Claxton, was a Union man. His mother, whose maiden name was Anne Elizabeth Jones and - who came from Georgia, sympathized with the South. One of his mother's brothers was wearing the blue of the Union army and another the gray of the Con federates. His father hailed from North Carolina and, in spite of his Presbyte rian name, was a .Methodist. "My father was a pioneer in that part of Bedford county," said, Dr. Claxton. "He was one of a family 'of eight sons and four, daughters. His father, with most of the family, moved on to Missouri, but my father married and settled in Tennessee. When my parents moved to their land it was still in heavy timber. They put up a log cabin. In which I was born. Forrest's cavalry bad made their camp on our place, and 35 battles and skirmishes had been fought within sight of It Mother said she could hear the cannons and even the musketry from most of these battles. First one army and then the other would sweep over the district ' ,....'' e - ' ' e ' "We barely got along after the close of the war We grew all we consumed and we consumed pretty much of all we grew. .When I was 7 years old I was put into the cornfield, driving a span of mules, plowing. When I was 14 I was considered a full hand at most kinds of farm work. My mother taught school. I started to school when I was 4 years old. I was safer in school than running around the place in my mother's absence at school I studied Webster's ,'Blue Back speller and I had' spelled all through the one syllable words and clear up to 'Baker,' the first word of two syl lables, before I had been in school three weeks. Wehad'one term a year.' It lasted ten weeks. "A boy can have lots of fun in Middle Tennessee. " There were pawpaws and persimmons to be picked after the first frost hickory nuts and black walnuts to gather, as well as fox grapes and berries. There were redhorse, trout and catfish In the rivers and 'possums, raccoons and partridges to be hunted. ' ' - "I remember. Very distinctly my first days In school, for the benches were of slabs, with the rounded bark side down. They were nailed to blocks sawed from a tree, and they had no backs : so we could face either direction, and if the teacher wasn't looking we could sit astride. But this was dangerous, for the teacher had a way of turning quickly and catching us ; and then we caught it That old blue-back speller has done more to make Americans speak the same lan guage than almost anything else.- .. .... . "' "Our public school system was not es NEWS IN BRIEF ' SIDELIGHTS . In moments of arrogance we should re member that it -was immigration, and not the stork that made us a great people. Salem Capital Journal. ' .. - ;-'.-'. It is a curious fact that the high cost of living began to come down at tht ex act moment when people bea;an to count the cost of high living. Eugene Register. - i e e v - ' :-" The football coach of Washington uni versity will. receive ,10.000 a year. Any professor on the faculty would be glad to trade salaries with him. Eugene Guard. e . Most every speculator has a new way to relieve the wheat farmer of his diffi culties. But the only real solution Is to take' wheat out of the pit Hood River News. e.ee.-. "Kansas City Man Robbed- While Asleep In a Running Ford," says a news Item. We don't believe it. Nebody could sleep in a running Ford. Roseburg News-Review.' e A big New York apartment house col lapsed - Tuesday. The walls probably couldn't stand the strain of the enqr mously heavy rent charges. Corvallis Gazette-Times. . . . v. -. Gabrlelle d'Annunaio has declared war on Italy and his riflemen have opened fire on the Italian warships. It would probably be more effective if Gube would bombard them with some of his poetry. Astoria Budget - .- Rev. James E. Condor of Roseburg is at the Seward. "Until recently I have been pastor of the Methodist church South at Roseburg," said Mr. Condor. "Two years ago the Methodist churches of the North and South came very near to uniting as they hart been up to 184. We all feel that to Vet I up the Jeud en gendered by the difjrences aVising in the years before a I during the Civil war, when those wh5 are not Christians have forgotten and have" forgiven each other, is a reflection upon our church and is a matter which is difficult to explain when a non-church" member asks us if we forgive those who tres pass against us aa we ourselves hope to be forgfven. The great body of church members are anxious to have the union if the Methodist churches, North and South, take place, but a few of the bishops and church dignitaries have stood in the way of this much to be desired end. It will come, though, in time. At present, I am serving as field secretary of the Anti-Saloon League of America. Our headquarter are at West erville, Ohio. I am acting as advance agent for Lewis A. Banks, formerly of Philomath, in Benton county, not far from Corvallis. He is the; author of 58 books and is a brilliant speaker." - ..' -. Romeo M. Gilbert artist from Salem, Is at the Imperial. While in the Philip pines during the Spanish-American war be made a number of sketches that were published in book form. The success of this his first book determined his life work. His paintings .and carvings are greaUy prized by art, lo vers.. a e e . Pat Foley of The Dalles, who doesn't have to stand twice in the sama place to make a good sized Bhadow. ia getting some free eats with his friend Phil Mclschan. .'- -. , Sam R. Thompson, wheat raiser, buckaroo and pioneer Pendletjnian, is at the Imperial. Chris Wend and Elizabeth Wend of Castlerock are guests at the Imperial. e-. ' Mrs. J. K. Partello and Mrs. W. F. Sharp of Salem are ajt the Portland. ' ' - ' - "... - -.. Mr. and Mrs. T. II. Rothwell of To ronto are at the Multnomah. . Alfred Marshall, who hails from Pendleton, is at the Imperial. , e . . 4 W. II. Bagsdale of Moro is seeing the sights in Portland. ;" R. IL MUls. Salemlte, is a Portland visitor. . - tablished until 1873. Prior to that our teaching had been very much of a hit or miss affair, and our teachers were like wise. I .walked three miles to go to school in an old abandoned church that had been fitted up as a school houne. My education up to the time. I went to the University of Tennessee was a patch work affair. At the university I finished the four years course in two and a half years by taking 32 hours a week in place of 18. I started at the university with a capital of $37.60; so you may know I was not very extravagant.., "I graduated when I was 19. I was offered a scholarship, but I preferred to strike out for i yaelf, so I secured ai job as a teacher in Goldsboro. N. at $500 for a ten-months' term. This $30 a month looked like a lot of money, so I decided to stay at the best place in town. I paid $16 a month for room and board, and the board was fine. The fol lowing year I was elected superintendent of schools at Kinston, N. G, at a salary of $1000 a year. After a year there I went to Johns Hopkins to study, electrical engineering. I found the love of teach ing had got into my blood, so I took his tory and pedagogy instead. I was married the next year to Verina Stanton Moore of Wilson, N. C, the boyhood home of Josephus Daniels. We went to Europe on our honeymoon, where I put In a year or so studying in Germany and investigating European methods of instruction. We came back to Wilson and boarded with Mrs. Daniels, mother oi Joseph. us Daniels, present secretary of the navy. I had been elected superin tendent of schools at Wilson. At Kinston I had boarded with Charley Daniels, Joe's brother.' I told him one night I had been reading the Book of EzekleL Next day he said, 'Who Is this chap Ezeklel, Phil? I looked all through a list of recent books and couldn't find any menUon of him or what he wrote. Guess he isn't very well known.' . : l -' ;-' "After a year at Wilson I went to Ash vllle, N. C. where I was superintendent six years, then to the Industrial college at Greensboro, a. state supported college, where for nine years I taught pedagogy and German. It would take too long to teU you of my work , for the next few years. . I look up conference work, be came editor of an educational journal and made addresses all over the. South. Finally President Taft asked me to be come commissioner of education. I threw up an $8000 a year Job to tab this place, -which paid but $5000, but I saw wonderful possibilities of usefulness there. ShorUy after I took the place I went to, one of the larger cities of Penn sylvania to address a citizens' conference. The chairman said,. The distingulahed gentleman we hayVe with us : tonight comes from the South. Let's make him feel at home. Will the audience rise and sing "Marching Through Georgla'T They sang it and they sang it with a' wllL Later, to even the score. I told them of a colored woman who, being examined for a certificate to teach, when asked to give two causes of the Civil war said: 'The two principal causei for the Civil war were the Yankees and the white folks. - - ' - " ' - - ' The Oregon Country Nortbareet Uappenlnn tn Brief Form ' tor tlie v - Buy header i - OREGON NOTES The clly of Pendleton has sold 1U 111, POO 6 per cent bond issue to a Portland firm for fl001.ll per $1000. i Two hundred members of the craft gathered at North Powder last week aud -organised a new Masonic lodge Wireless telephony and wireless teleg raphy will be offered as a course by 6. A. C. the third term of this year. Klamath Falls budget for the coming year calls for an ; expenditure of 1108, 680. The tax levy will be 27 mills. More than 6S00 sacks of mountain po tatoes have been shipped from Westott in car lots during the past two weeks. P. B. Holland, who owns a poultry ranch near Bandon, is marketing 120 dosen eggs every week from 476 laying pullets. . - ;. - j - The state fish and game commission has closed all fish hatcheries and egg taking stations in Klamath j county for the. winter. . " - j i . - j Seventy bobcats and one wolf were killed in Lane county during November by hunters who claimed bounty on them at the county clerk's office, -j- The highway between Tillamook- snd Portland Is more than half paved and the unpavna stretcnes are in lair condition . and passable at all times. ; . t The Umatilla -county farm! bureau will join the state federation and recommends that the stats organisation join the Na tional Federation of Farm Bureaus. A home building corporation with a capitalization of ) 100.0(H) has been or ganized at Klamath Fails. ; James Hol land of Eugene la manager of the con cern. - e - ' - j . j - j. . The budget for 1921 for I Jackson county calls for an expenditure of $660,-" 000 on a valuation of $47,000,000 of prop-, erty. The tax levy for all purposes is 14 mills.-: - - i Charles Trael,! aged 13. ! an Astoria youth, has ben selected by Hoy Ritner as one of the latter's ' pages i to serve during the coming session of the state legislature. . ..-..) .. . ! ..j ,-- The Crooked creek hatchery distrib uted 1.700.000 trout fry among Klamath county streams and lakes this year, the largest numner oi nsh ever liberated in uie county in one season, ";' WASHINGTON I ' Centralla will erect a $300,000 memo rial to the victims of the Armistice day ; tragedy of 1919. i , Spokane county,' which had $6,000,000 pn the tax rolls to collect this year, has now only $136,000 delinquent The city council or Seattle has rejected I an ordinance providing for an Increase of street car fares to 8 1-S cents, y Lewis Phillips, age 31, lsdead at his home in Rockford from the effects of be ing kicked in the head by a. horse. - Records of the county clerk's office at Spokane show that for the month of November 75 divorce complaints were filed. ; .':'' Growers who are looking for an In crease in price are holding more than $5,000,000 worth of apples in tha Yakima valley. .. '' , . , . -; The Pacific county game commission! is planning to place a number of pairs of wild turkeys in the Olympic foothill regions. Old age pensions are proposed In amendment to the state constitution Vt be submitted at the coming session of the legislature, i I ! Records for bold thievery were brokej st Hoquiam this week when a womat stole the clothes off a child's back on a business street J. W. Thompson, for 18 years superlf tendent of. the Seattle-park department has handed in his resignation, to take effect January 1. ; f ' . A ; TJoseph E. Maggert Jr. Is dead at a Seattle hospital Irom the effects of acci dentally shooting himself In 'the abdo men while cleaning a rifle. About one half the mills in the Cen tralla district are closed on account of market conditions, and those that are operating are doing so at a loss. Mrs. Ida Myers, aged 84, died In a Se attle hospital from burns received when, a mixture of gasoline and floor was ah, was heating pn a stove exploded. The body of Clarence Cecil, who lost his life in France during the great war. was buried at Chewelah this week. Ex service men attended in a body in uni form. 1 . ' IDAHO j . ! The ' department of public works" has furnished Nampa with four motor trucks for street and road work. ; i A sale of state, lands was held in Grangeville last week, resulting in the sale of 1240. acres for $13,800. ! R. P. Coon, Just west of Paul, re cently threshed 100 bushels of Trebt barley per acre from a four-acre field.: ! The first car of Sugar beets produced at Mackay passed through. Pocatello . Saturday on its way to Utah refineries. The citv. county and state will each ve aid in completing the road from erome to the depot, a distance of about one mile. .- Boise valley experienced this year one of the 'wetteit Novembers of record, A total of 1.82 inches of rain fell during the" month. Th water report at' Maaic ' (lam, near Richfield, this year is favorable. There is now 9270 acre feet in storage against 1874 acre feet at-the same dale last yeax. 'The annual farmers' tractor course) at the 'University of Idaho will begin January 17, The school will be taught by expertsln tractor driving and up keep... V, 7 -I. ';) - According- to announcement at Moa cow, minors are not to be allowetd to smoke cigarettes In. Latah county, and dealers who sell cigarettes are to be arrested.....:. ... t know youn. PORTLAND The industries department of ths Chamber of Commerce under the di rection of William H. Crawford has succeeded in stating the agricultural strength of Oregon in terms of pro duction. This department reports : ' Of the total of 61.188,480 acres of land in the state of Oregon, about 7,600,000 acres are now held as farms. There is being developed a system of highways leading from the interior to the Columbia riven to 'transport 'wheat by automobile to the river, and by river transportation to Portland and vicinity, where extensive milling operations are conducted. The flour is then available for ocean shipment abroad and the by-product of milling operation Is used as cattle feed ' in the dairy business west of the Cas cade mountains. I ' There is an average of 247 growing day! a year In the vicinity of Port land. : - - - I - ) : The livestock and dairy Industries are conducted on a big scale In Ore-, gon. Extensive sheep - raising In the Northwestern group of states has led to a concentration of wool clip at Portland " for storage and manu facturing. ',' Eight woolen mills are already es tablished in this vicinity, with pros pect of this becoming a textile center. Oregon has great areas of arid land and plenty of waer for irrigation ; also Immense areas of cut-over tim ber lands, good for agriculture and for pasture. These lands rs located where Irrigation Is not needed . Furthermore, there are several hun dred thousand acres of rich overflow and marsh lands subject to reclama tion by drainage. . Lands in crop. 1919, about 1,000,000 acres, , - 5, -. .Area reclatmabls by i drainage, ap proximately 500,000 acres. ' : -Area Irrigable, about 2,000,000 acres. Area reclaimable by land clearing, approximately 830,000 acres. '