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MONDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1920.
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Wood row Wilson.
THE BIRDrOT "'THE ROOST
TTHE police department has , in
augurated -a clean-up campaign
in Portland. Fifty stragglers Were
arrested Saturday, the first day of
the crusade. Police are going into
idling places, into poolrooms, and
patrolling streets for those who are
there in the dark hours.
That is comprehensive police
work. .It is an attempt to get at
criminals before they terrorize the
city. If. is an endeavor to keep
young men from the paths of crime
It is an effort to round up those who
have come here from other cities for
refuge from similar campaigns there.
The Intelligent way to. fight any
evil, criminal included, is to getat
the root. It is not often that a
burglar steps out of a good home
with a mask and gun. Strong arm
criminals are not bred there. They j
come from the dives and dens, from
the idling places, from the habitats
of the hangers on. To go there foa
them is. the practice ' of common
sense. The bird is most easily
caught on the roost.
Portland needs cleaning. The low
grade poolrooms and joints are
flourishing. The idlers are there in
afternoon and evening.
Gangsters will come here from
San Francisco, where a crusade is
onj against them. They will come here
from Seattle and' from Spokane.
They migrate frequently when crime
is I in the ascendant.; They work a
City and leave. ? .
j. Winter months are crime j months.
They are dark and dreary. Men get
cold and hungry. ; Jobs are not so
plentiful as, in summer, j j
! J By cleaning up, Portland is putting
her house in order. She is sweeping
out the rubbish and tabulating her
..- stock. She is. warning those here to
'stay within the law, and warning
the crooks of other cities they will
have no shelter here.
, The public that has been harassed
'and held up by criminals in Portland
recently will approve the activity of
the police. Portland citizens will be
solidly behind the department in all
: efforts to rid the city of armed in
vaders, " . j.-. ' '. ..
The cool Judgment and super skill
f the United States, mail -airman
who met a hurricane and after
traveling at the rate of 3S5 miles an
hour, managed to land in safety
form a marvelous tale of exploits in
. ine BK.y. : a nougn an oeiow were
terror-stricken, his wonderful ma
neuvering of his machine won the
struggle and everted a tragedy. He
literally, rode the storm.
THE DAMP CLIMATE
A . STORM lashed the Pacific coast
aI a day or two ago. Eddying
gusts of wind and rain strayed in
from the ocean and beat upon, the
streets. A shade tree fell athwart
the inevitable electric wire. . A few
umbrellas were turned inside out.
But there was no freezing.. There
was no 1 10 . inches of snow such as
Ohio has already had. There was
no Bhortage of fuel. There was no
paralysis of business such as oc
curred a year ago. There was no
famine (from crop shortage such as
afflicts' 45,000,000 Chinese. There
was no menace of starvation such -as
hangs over 3,500,000 children in the
great' areas of Europe thaV have
been swept by the storm of war.
Where is the f man who : com
plained, "Oh, this damp climate!;
with an emphasis on the third word
that ejounded like profanity?
A bit of finger Js worth a lot to
Frank McEntee, actor. He lost the
end of one when a ' car window
crashed down on it, and is now suing
the Pullman company ' for $25,000
damages.1 In addition to great suf
fering and pain that he has under
gone, McEntee claims the symmetry
of the hand has been broken. Sym
metry, he says, is essential in the
parts he has been playing. The Jury
will decide whether or not he can
dramatically point a-finger when
there "is only half a finger there.
LET PORTLAND FIGHT
CORPORATION control of Amer
ica jegan to crumble when a
transportation baron uttered the pic
turesquely stupid slogan, "The pub
lic be damned."
The spirit of that self-destructive
phrase was revived last week in the
action of the railroads which control
the local! terminal company.
The Eastern interests in control of
the Union Pacific and the Southern
Pacific Ignored the voice of Port
land. They ignored the experience
of the war. They ignored the pro
test of the Northern Pacific, 40 per
cent owner of the terminal company.
They Ignored, it is little to be
doubted, the judgment and advice of
their local representatives who are
also loyal Portlanders.
Their rflouting of this city war
rants the intervention of the state
public service commission. 1 It war
rants direct appeal to the interstate
commerce commission, j It warrants
steps which' will defer the effective
date of j the ouster order (directed
'against the Great Northern; and the
S., P. & S. until the public's case
can be heard by a tribunal which
will not! treat the local appeal with
the disrespect shown by the powers
In control of the Union Pacific and
the Southern Pacific. -
Portland has a right to a union
terminal for passenger and freight
uses. - S ' ' - - :
. This city is a. transcontinental and
international ' center . of travel and
traffic, j It is not a wayside suburb
to be given a shed for a depot or a
slap in the face as answer to an
appeal.
A League of Nations commission
has advised the calling of an inter
national conference to formulate
measures to "crush the white slave
and opium trade." Where is, Mrs
Raymond Robins, who professed.
when in Portland, to believe that
the league covenant indorsed white
slave and opium traffic? -l
EUROPE'S STARVING BABIES
"THINK of it!
,1 Ten dollars buys the life of a
child Jn war-ravaged Europe until
next harvest.
' Herbert Hoover says so. !
Three million five hundred thou
sand little children, a bread and
soup line long enough to reach frorn.
Oregon ;to Chicago, will starve to
death if America's heart is hard ;
will live if America gives money for
food. !
In Poland, Lithuania,' Roumania,
Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Germany,
the baby victims of war crowd
round the soup kitchens i America
provides under direction of Hoover.
So scarce is the food that a child
before being fed must be physically
examined. "If the little one can live
another day, he or she is .turned,
sobbing,! away.
Suppose your children, ; defense
less against entrenched famine, thus
confronted death on the battlefields
of the war. :
The appeal of the American relief
council through its Oregon division
to the people of Oregon, is:
"Entertain at Christmas dinner as
many children of Europe as you can
afford as your little invisible guests."
Oregon's total " quota of i $250,000
equally I divided between Portland
and the state outside, for subscrip
tion ' during December 19-25, the
dates of the drive, is startlingly lit
tle when one thinks of the appalling
nature pf the food emergency this
moment' afflicting Europe's innocent
millions: of tiny folk. . i
.Five i hundred employes of a
manufacturing company In Cincin
nati have announced that they will
suit ender their" jobs to unemployed
workers for one month this winter.
The Golden Rule is proclaimed as
the basis of business of the company.
More Golden Rule in this world and
there would be far less crime.
BOXING MERELY ON .TRIAL
ARMY training put boxing back
among the legitimate sports and
gave It J widespread popularity. That
impetus has died down somewhat.
however, and boxing must now look
to Itself for its own motion arid sus
tenance. And If it does not go about
making ; its livelihood in a clean
manner, boxing will suffer one of
its owiJ knockout blows. .1 ,
The I deplorable happenings in
California, revolving about a gang
of brutes and ruffians that drew
their strength from a few so-called
pugilists, have served to , put the
spotlight of public attention on the
game. We cannot lay responsibility
for these things on all boxers, many
of whom are lawabiding, gentle
manly youths, but a certain amount
of indirect guilt will besmirch them
as long as they allow these practices
to go unchallenged.
It has become the undisputed
province of the recognized .boxer to
set about a process of ' purification
of the game which giveis him a liv
ing. He can do so, if he Will, and
if he does not do so the public will
function for him. Let the boxer,
the matchmaker and the promoter
ally themselves for the purpose of
sifting from the game the parasites
and hangers-on that corrupt and
contaminate it Fortunes are being
made by the glovemen,. and it is to
their benefit to save the sport. .
The boxer must not hoodwink
himself into the belief that boxing
has come for an Indefinite popular
stay; it is merely, on trial, and if it
does not emerge from the ordeal
unscathed and untainted the public's
verdict will be one of guilt and con
demnation. . i; "
Let followers of the-sport remem
ber how and why the saloon went. .
ALONE IN, THE ATLANTIC
ON THl
1917.
THE night of ; November 5,
the American vessel Al
ee do was steaming across the At
lantic ocean. The night was dark.
On .watch on the Alcedo was Daniel
J. Coleman,' American and seaman.
Under the surface of those seas
were German 'submarines. Twice
transports convoyed by the Alcedo
had been sent to watery graves.
Some said what happens twice hap
pens three times. ' .,
Suddenly a streak of white. foam
lined out toward the ship.. The tor
pedo found Its mark.
There was no time to launch the
boats'.- They i were cut away with
the rafts and those on board Jumped
after them. At "1:43 a. m., four
minutes after the explosion, the Al
cedo was no more.
Coleman found a raft. Man after
man, swimming front nowhere out
of the dark, dragged himself to
Coleman's refuge. Soon it was chok
ing with its load. Another man
came, and as he touched the raft
it dipped under the water.
An officer who had taken com
mand of the floating refuge said
that somebody would ; have to get
off, there was one too. many. There
,was no reasonable hope that the
man who left could survive. . To
llave the only floating object in
sight was, to all intents, surrender
ing 'the chance to live. It was dark
and cold, and midnight; the only
sound was the lash of the waves as
they leaped and leaped and leaped.
There were a few stars visible.
"I can swim pretty well, came
Coleman's voice. He knelt and
slipped off the raft i into the great
Atlantic. "Goodbye and good luck,
he shouted, and again to those oh
board the raft the sound of the
waves and the light of a few stars
were- their only companions.
Two hours and a half later -the
occupants of a' boat from the Alcedo
sighted wreckage. They hove to.
and from it they picked the clinging
Coleman. On shore, , he spent the
following 10 days in the hospital.
Armistice day, Coleman, a porter
in a New .York hotel, was presented
with the navy ' cross. '. Today 3ie . is
presented to the American 'people
as one with a character that only
the gravest crisis could reveal In all
its beauty.
J. N. Teal is given highly import
ant committee assignments on the
shipping board. It is warranted ac
tion he Is capable. '
OREGON'S BEAUTY SHOW
A
BEAUTY expert of the Middle
West has gotten her name on
press association wires , by saying
that women of the East and West
coasts have dried up ; skins which
demand excessive application of
paint and powder.
The fairest women ; of America,
she adds, live in St, Louis.
Where, in the name of all the
rouge pots and lip sticks, doe's she
get such stuff?
The indictment may be true of
the East coast. It- may be true of
the Imperial valley in Southern Cal
ifornia.
But it Isn't true of Oregon. It
isn't true of; Portland. Any town
from the Columbia river to the Cali
fornia line could fade St. Louis into
dim obscurity with ,the Impromptu
beauty show of a busy: hour on any
important thoroughfare. It's only
a little while,; for that matter, since
the candidates for honors in pul
chritude in St. Louis were seml-of-
flclally credited with having the
most generously proportioned feet in
the United States. j
Beauty expert or no beauty expert,
there is only one other place in the
world, and that is the South of Eng
land, where moist, mild and kindly
climatic conditions produce complex'
ions that compare with those pos
sessed by the women of Oregon.
, This is the one place In the realm
of Uncle Sam where, thanks to the
contributions to health of climate
and other favoring conditions,, the
roses of June and the June of youth
may blush in January unailed by
any artifice. , r
Some women, It is true, come here
from regions where f nature abhors
complexions, and a natural envy of
natural color may cause , them to
haunt local beauty shops.
But any girl who belongs to Ore
gon by birth or early adoption, and
who lets the outdoor climate work
its kindly way with her, may rival
in her cheeks and lips the, roses that
give us fame. ,
Here .American Beauty's name is
legion.' : ' :
SHALL AMERICA !
BAR -THE GATE?
Apprehension Widespread - Concerning
the Inflow of Aliens, as Reflected in
. the American Press Recommenda-
tlons . Vary i Widely, However
.. Some View With Great
Alarm : Others With Little,
or is one at - AIL ' ;
"Daily Editorial Digest
(CoiuoUdated Press AwocUtioo)
The "Welcome" to the immigrant in
the American doormat . is rapidly be
coming obliterated, if we ' may judge
by the comments of the press. "Pro
tection of American labor" and "ex
clusion of radicals" are set forth by th
Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) as
two good reasons, either one of which
ih sufficient for drastic legislation lor
the better regulation of immigration."
A temporary "complete stoppage bf im
migration," as suggested in a proposed
bill, is advocated by the Toledo Blade
lnd. Rep.), a viewpoint, however, which
finds less popularity than the -idea of
handpicking" the newcomers, to quote
Ole Hanson. , "Then,"; suys the Utica
Observer (Dem:), voicing a widely ex
pressed sentiment, "introduce and en
force a careful distribution scheme ifiat
shall Bend the "new arrivals to the points
where they are needed and not turn them
loose to congregate in large cities."
The fact that the commissioner general
of Immigration i has made a special , trip
to Kurope suggests to some writers that
the process of ; elimination of undesira
bles should be carried out on the other
side of the Atlantic. It would prevent
injustices, the Tacoma Ledger (Ind.)
points out, if we could "bar disqualified
immigrants in I their own ' home towns
or at the ports of debarkation." The
Yakima Republic (Rep.) believes that
the regulation "at the source" is most
effective and thinks the "vigilance of
American consuls in war and post-war
periods" should be continued. "The
Europeans should be filtered through
slowly and handpicked," declares the
Detroit Free Press (Ind.), "because, re
gardless of everything else, there is not
much room for them here at present."
The Salt Lake Telegram (Ind.) feels
that "if America is to become the asylum
for the broken nations of the world,
certainly the government should have
the. power to complete the. distribution
of the newcomers," and the Portland
Oregonian" (Ind. Rep.) regrets that such
a system was not devised .and enforced
long ago. j
: -
Many who think- that the iflood must
be stopped, by one means Or ' another,
emphasize the! reasons rather 'than the
methods ; fear in both cases seems to be
the motive. In one case it is fear lest
the immigrant drive the American out
of his job by offering cheaper labor,
and in another, fear lest the -"Reds"
will arrive in sufficient numbers to
threaten the government The South
Bend (Ind.) Tribune (Ind. Rep.) calls
for a sure middle course in whatever
action congress takes, for, it believes,
we are threatened first by another
'labor shortage" when "industry gets
under way for the real post-war re
sumption" and second, by "communists."
The New York Herald (Ind.) also feels
that, we need the foreign labor, but
declares we must keep out the "breeders
of unrest."
Some fear the Reds more than they
desire the laborer and cite the European
"plot" spoken of by Commissioner Wal-
lis, "to .unload criminals and dangerous
Reds upon the United States." Among
those who hold this , view is the' Sioux
Falls (S. D.) Argus Leader (Rep.); "We
don't want them here," it declares, "the
anarchist, , the; bomb-thrower,, the h .W.
W. and the professional; disturber,
w;hether he be a high-brow- or a low
brow. The report, that "millions
are coming will disturb others besides
labor leaders."
This report of the commissioner mav
be exaggerated, the New Bedford
Standard (Rep.) admits, but "even so,
the prospects are unfavorable," and the
Minneapolis Journal (Ind. Rep.) believes
that if America keeps her "gates open
as they are now," in "five years' time
the finger will be writing on the wall
the doom of the America we know. The
America mneriteo oy us , from our
fathers will have been handed to the
Btranger, and America will know Amer
icanism no more." Quite the opposite
stand is taken by the Indianapolis Star
(Ind. Rep.), which, after showing statis
tics concerning the predominance of
"the old American stock of British
origin," adds: "This element is so much
stronger than any other single group,
and likely to continue so, that the prin
ciples and ideas and energies that made
and characterize America are likely to
prevail 'indefinitely. The other races
Impress their qualities on America often
no doubt to its betterment, but after
a generation or two they are themselves
Americans with the rest and all helping,
with the older elements, to absorb new
comers into our civilization,"
The Trenton Times (Ind.) insists upon
"restriction," arguing: "It will be much
better and cheaper to keep Out the un
desirables than to permit them to land
and then spend great sums of money
and much greater effort in the attempt
to Americanize them, or convict and
deport the Berkmans, Goldmahs and
others of their kind. We have all that
work that we can attend to for many
years and the process of assimilating
is SIOW."
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Of those who oppose "drastic" inter
ference win. immigration,, some make
strong oDjection to the plea of the
American Federation of Labor on the
grounds that it creates damaging: com
petition for the American laborer. The
Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.) says
"There Is ground for the charge that
organized labor cares but little about
the country's interests and is mainly
concerned with keeping up the cost of
production regardless of. the effect upon
the consumer. The consuming class has
something to say, and ought to say
It with emphasis, concerning any pro
posal aesigna to bar out immigration
ior any period whatsoever."
Indeed, the New York Times (Ind.
Dem.) states that the plan for a two-
year stoppage "smacks too obviously of
tne seir-lnterest of the trade unions
What is needed, it adds, is enforcement
of present laws. This sentiment is shared
by the New York World (Dem.) and the
Jacksonville (Fla.) Metropolis (Dem.).
The latter thinks the matter of strict
enforcement should be one of the first
things on the "America first" program
of 'congress.
The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Ind.
Dem.) believes that . "America has more
to fear from a deficit than from an
excess of industrious immigrants" and
that organized labor has no- right to
demand "the nation to deny Just con
sideration" to other elements "in the
interests, or supposed interests, of the
unions themselves." 1 . i
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned1 From Curious Places
. Jokes have made history and have
caused wars, declares a. writer, in Tit
Bit The British habeas corpus act
had its origin in a joke. Lord Grey
and Lord . Norris were, tellers when the
vote on the act was taken. Lord Grey
jokingly counted, a very fat peer as 10.
and when Lord 'Norris didn't notice it
he allowed it to pass. The bill passed
by a majority of less than .10. -, The
ratification " of a treaty between the
Turks and Venetians was under dis
cussion. The Turkish grand vlsier
asked the Venetian ambassador to
swear in Moslem fashion upon his-
beard and, the beard of, the - prophet.
The ambassador would not "Venetians
wear' no beards," he said. ,. "Neither do
monkeys," replied the Turk, and that
interchange of compliments cost 150,000
Uvea.
Cofnmunieatioui sent to The Journal, for
publknuon in tins 'dpuartmeut ehoulrt be written
on only one aide of the paper; should not exceed
300 words in letxth. and must be signed by the
writer, whose mail address in full BUjt accom
pany the" contribution. ': s
LOGGED-OFF LANDS
Portland, Dec 10.-t-To the Editor of The
Journal I have seen in the papers the
advertisements of stump lands held at
$30 to 50 an acre. I wish to tell the
real estate dealers that if they want
people to come to this s Ate to make
their homes on those lands they will
have to cut those prices. Having had
j
"Letters From the People
th tM.rience I wish to state that there ' -c?gniuon py uie allies nas 1
Jit ' ;.ZJt f,ZlZittAl'to eery Russian leader so far
never was any cut-over timber land that
was ever worth, such prices. Ten dollars
an acre is as much as any of it is worth,
for it costs $75 to $100 to get it in shape
for cultivation. I have seen many ' a
stump that coat 50 cents to $1 to get out,
let alone the-burning of it afterwards.
Besides, wherever the stumps are piled
to burn that land is ruined for years,
or for. always, as t is burned to brick.
All the humus is burned out of it. I
have seen acres of such spots on cleared
land. We may be sure no one will pay
such prices ad burn up money , to try
to make homes, especially when Cana
dian and other lands can be got cheaper
and ready for the plow.
Many of these timber tracts cost a
dollar or two an acre, and even if they
cost $10 the timber on them has made
fortunes for the purchasers. And then
to value it in the rough,' as it is, at $30
to $50 is nothing but sheer extortion. If
the owners had it cleared ready for home
building it would be a very different
thing. Even then in very - many cases
it would not be worth $30 as a whole,
besides being away from easy markets
and mills or without roads.
Old Timer.
A SUGGESTION FOR SLEUTHS
Portland. Dec. 9. To the Editor of The
Journal Did it ever occur to you that
very little money is taken at the numer
ous robberies of houses in this city? In
nearly all cases jewelry and clothing
make up the booty 'secured by the burg
lars. Such being the case, do you sup
pose the burglars eat the jewelry, etc.f
In my opinion, they do not, and if I am
right, I would ask. What do they do
with it? I will answer the question for
you. They sell it,, and sell it to a "fence,"
or "fences." . , ,
Now, I would like to ask another ques
tion: Why don't our noble detectives
discover these fences and nab some of
these burglars when -they are disposing
of the goods? It looks to me as if this
should be an easy task. I had considera
ble experience in detective work myself,
in my younger days, and have cracked
nuts harder than this one, and- do not
claim any more brains than what our de
tective force should have. They certainly
ought to have some -imagination as to
where jewelry is sold, and ought to get
busy.
I am glad to see you have started to
go after our officials, and they should
do something to earn their salaries. I
suppose the next thing Mayor Baker
and the rest will want is more money
First they ought to show what they are
doing with what has been given them,
Let the police and detective forces get
busy and do something.
J. E. Brewster.
PROTESTS PHONE RATE RAISE
Portland. Dec. 10. To the Editor of
The Journal After reading the petition
of our local telephone company to the
public service commission of Oregon for
permission to increase the rentals they
are now charging . their subscribers to
the extent of 30 per cent for additional
funds to buy and install more telephones
to meet the demands for them, and after
reading their flaring advertisements in
the paperfj, "educating" the people up to
a happy compliance therewith ("blocking
their nerves," as It were), I am wonder
ing if it is possible that they really
expect to "get by" with such a bald-
faced proposition. I am quite sure if I
were to file such a petition the commis
sioners, and you-yourself would say
I was the most presuming ass since
Baalam's time, because it is certainly an
asinine proposition.
: Now I am only the manager of a mod
est little apartment house up on Fland
ers street, at the front' of which for
years past has been the sign, "No Va
cancies," and yet daily, and some days
almost hourly, I have calls in person
and by phone from people looking for
living accommodations, only to be met
with personal denials The disappoint
ments are always keen and sometimes
almost tragic always pitiful. Now If
the commissioners, could only see their
way clear to raise money to build apart
ment houses, cottages, etc., to shelter
these homeless people, and ,would do it,
they would be "laying up treasures in
heaven" instead , of curses here upon
earth; for such they willv surely get if
they grant the phone companys peti
tion. Civilized people .lived in comfort
long before telephones were invented,
and can do it again, but they cannot live
without housing accommodations of some
kind, nor ever will. Let the commis
sioners send the phone company offi
cials to their rich relatives in the East
and South, who are both able - and
eager to buy stocks and bonds for the
purpose indicated and no let them
gouge our people any more.
With taxeaters in the city hall, the
county court house, the state house, the
licensing bureaus and commissions of
one sort and another, even the govern
ment at: Washington, besides the coal
barons, the wood barons, the gas com
pany and everybody else running a neck
and neck race with the apartment houses
in profiteering, there is no room or call
for -any raise in telephone rates.
J. E. Hunt.
Olden Oregon
Treasurer Under Provisional (jovern
ment Paid on. Percentage Baals.
In the proyisional government the
office of treasurer was made elective
and the treasurer was require'd to give
a bond of $1500 to the executive com
mittee for a .faithful performance of
duty. As compensation for his services
it was provided that he- should receive
the sum of 5 per cent on all moneys
received and paid out according to law,
S per cent of all- moneys in the treasury
when he went out of office and 2 per
cent upon the disbursement of money in
the treasury when he came into office.
Uncle jef f Snow. Says :
We may try in these here U. S. A. to
go back to normalcy, but you might as
well try to squeeze a chicken a hour old
back into its shell. If the league Is
scrapped we must have a big etandin
army ,and a bigger Boakin navy, and
more money to keep the one In trainin'
and t'other keel down. There won't be
no normalcy In that, 'cause they'll cost
more'n a War. Then some day we may
git the idee, what with see in' and hearin'
about our big army and navy, that we
can lick all cteaUon, and start in a-doin'
of it. And there won't be no normalcy
in that, nuther.
'A POET OF DISCRETION .
From the New Orleans Times- Pica ran
When John Howard Payne wrote
"Home. Sweet Home" he did not spoil
the sentiment of his theme by bringing
the landlord into the picture.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
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SMALL CHANGE
The help problem is 'mainly one of
helping yourself. Pittsburg Gazette
Times. . i - .
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A lot of folks now regard Grinn and
Bearitt as .successors to Tom and Jerry.
Des Moines Register.
.The Anti-Saloon league choir will now
sing, "Oh, Blue-Law Land! 'Sweet Blue
Law LandS" New York Tribune.
Most of us keep at least one eye on
the temptation we pray not to be led
Into. Greenville (S. XX) Piedmont-
A Paducah, Ky., man married his
mother-in-law. That - is carrying the
desire for revenge to an extreme.
South Bend Tribune. i
Maybe - the reason why the sale of
baby buggies is decreasing is that the
babies are demanding motor cars now.
Sioux City Journal.
Recognition by theV allies has been
itulJo every Russian leader so fur. It
miKht b. worth while to try it on
Lenin.Wall Street Journal.-
Personally, . we hate to be a knocker.
but our observation is that women are
not as proud of -their wedding rings as
the f ti itn ufit.ru .Kauu It, 11,. K" ...
Many of the sermons of Henrv Ward
Beecher were destroyed by fire, and
from, now on it may be necessary, un
fortunately, for some young ' ministers
to write their own. Sioux City Tribune.
If you haven't vet been a victim of
holdup men, you'd better hurry. The year
ih urawmg to a ciose ana you can t get
in on our remarkable statistics unless
something happens to you .very soon.
Cleveland Plain Dealer. '
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Lowell Patton. a native son of Port
land, who has spent the past four years
In the East studying music, is greeting
his boyhood friends. His father also
was born In Portland something over
50 years ago. His grandfather was one
of the pioneers of Portland, and th
Patton home, the Patton road and
many other places here take their name
fronv him. Lowell Patton leaves next
Wednesday night for Vancouver to sail
for New Zealand, where he will spend
the winter. His friends say that in ad
dition to being a skilled pianist he is a
regular teuow. .
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Dorsey Smith, manager of The Journal
Travel and Information Bur.eau, is at
his desk, again after, a brief visit, at
Pendleton. . While there he arranged
the details for a trip to and through the
Orient for Mrs. George Perringer and
Miss Vera Temple Mrs. Perringer is
the widow of George Perringer, once
wheat king of Umatilla county, who.
with Newt Burgess,r a wealthy sheep
man of Pilot Rock, was killed by high
waymen ; at the Claremont Tavern. ;
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Miss Lulu A. Root of New York city
reached Portland in time to enjoy the
recent severe wind and rain storm. "The
East and the South I know quite well,
but this is my first trip to Portland,"
said Miss Root, "and if this is a sample
ofyour regular weather I am going to
unlock my trunk and get out my um
brella and rubbers."
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G. C. Robinson of Lebanon, on ;the
south fork of the Santiam river in Linn
county, is in town. Lebanon is best
know-n for its annual strawberry festi
val and because it is the starting point
of the road across the Cascades. Water
loo, Sodaville and Cascadis, well known
summer resorts, are in its vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hudson and
daughter of the Hub of America are
registered at the Sew?ard. Boston is
becoming one of the largest Irish cities
outside of Ireland. .
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B. M. Douglas of Bay City is at the
Seward. Bay City is one of the older
communities of Tillamook county. Lum
ber and salmon are its reasons for ex
istence. e e
Mrs. Dan Curne and maid. Miss J. D.
Gilkerson, and Miss Flora G. Campbell,
daughter of Dugold Campbell of Eu
gene, have reserved rooms at the
Seward. '
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R. K. Montgomery of Sheridan is
transacting business in Portland.
J. H. Briker of Grass Valley Is trans
acting business in Portland. .
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C. H. Burnett of Timber is taking in
the sights of Portland, l -
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Dr. and Mrs. W. J.- Kerr of Corvallis
are Portland visitors.
'W. H. Boddy of Hood River is a guest
at the Cornelius.
.,
L. P. Brush of Hay" Creek Is a guest
at the Imperial. ..
T. G. Lawrence of Astoria is registered
at the Cornelius. 1
L. R. Fletcher of London Is a
at the Seward.
guest
C: H. Swezey' of Honolulu is at the
Benson. 1
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C. D. Sellwood of Wheeler is at the
Oregon. f
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN 1
By Fred
A prominent Portland official, once an alien,
who -took moat kindly to America anil, adapted
himself very nicely to irarioua American Tieissi
tud , diacuwea with Mr. Lockley the topic of
Amerizanization, incidentally girinc apme inter
eating personal reminiac encea. ,
"If this country is good enough to live
In and make your money in, it la good
enough to be a citizen of." That is all
I heard of the conversation, but it set
me thinking about the problems we have
to face here in America in making the
most of the raw human material we
get from older countries. The American
Legion has started a movement to see
that newly arrived citizens are met, pro
tected from extortion, given a square
deal and taught the duties and respon
sibilities as well as the benefits of citi
zenship. These newcomer from foreign
shores -can be made valuable assets to
American citizenship, or they can be
come liabilities. - iv - -
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: . A few days ago A. C. Newill, a' mem
ber of the PorUand school board .and
president of the Civic league, was dis
cussing with erne the problems of Amer
icanization, when Mr.. New ill said, "I
am proud of the -fact that I was natural
ized on the very first day upon which I
could be legally naturalized. That was
at Butte, Mont. When I registered as a
voter I stated that I was a naturalized
citizen and gave my birthplace a Ma
dras. "Where in hell is Madraer asked
the official. Before I could tell him that
Madras was in India, another official
said,, "Sail right, he's entitled to vote.
I've been in Madras, It in Missouri.'
If yOu will examine the records of Silver
Bow county, Montana, forSthe early '80s
you will find I am duly registered as a
naturalized citizen, born in Madras, Mo,
though till then I never knew that the
citizens of Missouri had to be natural
ized .'
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"Shortly after graduating frfm Oxford
SIDELIGHTS
- We. the neonle. are gradually putting
an end to the days of getting rich
quick. But we still have the cusses
with us. PrineviUe Call.
Of all the economic classes, the farm
ers are hit hardest in the readjustment
nf values. Thev are thoroughly Justi
fied in kicking, if anybody Is, La
Grande Observer.
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The attempt of the woolgrowers of
the country to force cloth manufactur
ers to produce honest wool fabrics will
have the support of people everywhere.
Powers Patriot.
There Is not a ' federal appointment
In the state which is not being eyed by
some Republican who is ambitious to
succeed , the Democratic incumbeat.
Lake County Examiner.
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The American public will get up an
Interest in those Mesopotamian oil fields
if it is shown precisely how their owner
ship will affect the price, of gasoline.
Hose burg News-Review. '
4
Our ' pastor Bay it Is more blessed to
give than to receive, and he straightway
gave us a" Piece of his mind as to
what newspapers ought to print to
enable editors to get to heaven. Crane
American. '
Hundreds of straw stacks are burned
annually throughout the country. If
every- farmer would consider the value
of his straw as so much hay,- the loss
would - be greatly reduced. Benton
County Courier.
. ,.
The' death of the 78-year-old marshal
at Sweet Home at the hands of thugs
should result in an age limit being
nlaced among the Qualifications or one
who aspires to be a city marshal.
Corv&llis Gazette-Times. ,
The executive committee of the Yohng
Friends movement of Oregon met Sat
urday in 'Portland. They were guests
of Rev. H. L Cox, pastor of the Friends
church of Portland, at a luncheon Out
of town delegates present at the meeting
were C. A. Hadley of Salem, Kev. F. G.
Carter of Newberg, Rev. D. Bronner of
Marion, Miss Hazel Keeler of Salem and
Miss Esther Terrell of Newberg.
Sherwood Eddy, originally of Kansas
but during the past 10 years of India
and China, will be in PorUand shortly.
It is expected that upon his arrival he
may be present at the Civic club lunch
eon to tell something of the conditions
in Egypt, Greece, Roumania . and the
other Balkan states, in which districts
he spent the fast summer and fall.
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Captain and Mrs. William Matthews,
pioneer residents of Newport, are at the
Imperial. Captain Matthews is a long
time newspaperman, his paper, the
Yaquina Bay News, having outlived
every other sheet started at Newport. ,
.
H. Hart is at the Seward on his way
to India, where he goes as a representa
tive of the World Outlook league. His
work is supported by the secretaries of
the boys' work division of the Y. M.- C
A. of America.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. 3. Ruckman of Alicel
are registered at the Oregon. Alicel has
a population of about 100. and is in
Union county. Wheat and spuds are the
principal crops of the surrounding coun
try. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Bender of Kings
Valley are at the Cornelius. Kings Val
ley is in Benton county and is about 30
minutes by auto from Wren, which is
on the railroads
G. M. Spence, who Is trying to teach
the Japanese to eat more Portland made
flour, is registe ed at the Benson from
Kobe, Japan. '
.
U. L Mason of Parkdale'. is at the
Cornelius. Parkdale is near the foot of
Mount Hood and is the terminus of the
Mount Hood railroad,
see
Will E..Purdy. whose long drawn and
hard fought litigation brought him to
public notice, is a visrtor from Salem.
H. H. DeArmond, ex-mayor of Bend
and well known attorney of Eastern
Oregon, is a guest at the Imperial.
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Archie McLean is at the Imperial.
His father was one of Astoria's early
blacksmiths and wagonmakers.
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C. C. Clark, merchant of Arlington, is
shaking hands with old-time legislative
colleagues In Portland.
.-'--Mrs!
Henry G.' Hart and her two chil
dren are at the Seward. They register
from Calcutta, India.
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C. L. Lewis of Pendleton with Mrs.
Lewis, is spending a few days in Port
land.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Low of Deer
Island are guests at the Imperial.
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C. E. Wood of Cascade Locks is
transacting business in Portland.
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Mrs. A D. Bernards of Milton is a
PorUand visitor.- '
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H? W. Talbot of White Salmon is at
the Imperial.
E. L. Massey of Amity Is a Portland
visitor. c : :
Lockley
I came to America as a private tutor
in the family of a well-to-do English
man who was sent to the United States
to take charge of a mine near Salt Lake
City. He had not been in Utah long
befor he was instructed to go to Butte
to fake charge of the Lexington mine.
To help protect the Lexington property
I was sworn In as a deputy sheriff. I
was assigned to work with John Rowan,
nephew of Sir John McDonald. Rowan
was a typical hardboiled Western deputy
sheriff, a hard riding, hard drinking,
good ' hearted roughaeck. , The night I
was sworn in he. had me go with him
after some horse thieves. We rode horse
back than night 70 miles. My horse was
all in and I -was In pretty much the
same condition as my mount. Rowan
told me to stay at Helena and he would
get a change of horses and go on.
Rowan followed the horse thieves to the
Canadian border, where he nabbed them.
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"My employer looked upon the wine
when it was red, and while In that con
dition he got Into a poker game. The
morning after the night before, finding
he had been stripped clean, he was so
humiliated that he beat it. leaving me
high and dry. I" was jobless. I be
thought myself of my sheepskin and de
cided to secure a position as teacher in
the Butte (Schools. It is rather odd that
the first certificate to teach I ever re
ceived was given me by your fatera
Frederic Lockley, who in 1883 was
county school superintendent of Silver
Bow county. On my showing , as an
Oxford man I was made city school su
perintendent. By the way, you were a
pupil at that time in the Butte schools,
and I later helped your teacher. Miss
Layton, , secure the position of county
school superintendent of Silver Bow
county. I liked the work so much that
I accepted the 'position as principal of
the high school and spent several happy
and useful yeara there." -
The Oregon Country
Northwest lUppenlnes ln Brief .form for the
Busy Header
OREGON NOTES
A thousand rnhlilto ..J i,m.i -
Sf".aiLm a rabbit driv12 miles south .
G. S. Wild w anted at Tyntlall, R. TV, on
under amg at Albany. I j .
twenty-five sections of land sltutaed
In utefeiusiaw national IforeMf will be
open for entry January mi.
One hundred five persons, the majority
of them Indians, are Suffering Irotu
tuberculosis in Umatilla jcounty.
, Jamb RittifrmA- Kin ... oil .
' ..,.. , . v. r ... i ncn'Ruunn
Oregon pipneer, la, dead at his home -m
axiciu, wuere ne naa uvea to years. - .
A club house that will coitt approxi
mately 13IH1I it. il,inii..l fn, thm 1 1- '
ton Rod and Gun club early next spring :
By a vote of 475 to 317, Salem tax
Payers adopted a school budget bill pro- )
viding for a tax levy sufficient to raise-
$166,062.70.'- I t.
According to the school census just
completed. Marion county liaa 13, Sit
children of school age, an Increase of
7S8 over last year. j
During the last few werks the Silver- .
ton cannery has put up SOU tons of ap- f
pies, aggregating something like 1$00
dozen gallon iani. ..-
There'-are 62 rural telephone com
panies in Lane county whose lines are
owned in most cases by the farmers and
ciUzens using them.- V
KsUmates place the -product Ion of the
mills In the Klamath Falls i dlntrict for
120 at 400,000,000 feet, or a gain of 70,
000,000 feet over 1319. j . C
Miss Stasia B. Walsh,! Pendleton
nurse who is doing Red; Cross nursing
abroad, writes to friends that she Is now
In Poland, with headquarters in Kracow.
To aid itit emnlnvea (! iuiirin l,.l .
gated farm laml tha Rrnnin.Uiuiniu.
Lumber company has completed the plat-
hub ul.juuu acres oi loggea-oil lands
near Bend. : - -I i '
The Great Northern Finance corpora
tion, with a capital stock of $1,000,000,
lias filed articles with the state cor
poraUon department. Headquarters will
be in Portland. j .
UmaUlla ranks eighth highest among
Oregon counties in the number of stu
dents attending the University of Ore-
gon, S3 young men and women from that r
county being enrolled, l .
WASHINGTON
The Sumner schools have started a
drive for $4000 to equip the new gym
naHiuni. Nineteen births and It deaths Is the
record of vital statistics for November
at Aberdeen, j j .
The Donoven-Dubols cimpanv at Cas
cade has closed Its mill and logging op
erations for the winter months. j
Fourteen of the graduates who i
ceived certificate!! at the State Normal
school in Cheney last week have ob
tained schools in the state.
One million bushels of 1 1921 wheat
have been signed -by farmers o' Waila
Walla county with the ( A"ush'ii,loit
Wheat Growers' association.
Burglars broke into the barber shop
of M. H. Callaghan at Tacoma anil
carted away the entire I shop, Including
furniture and all accessories. ,
For -the-first time In! the history of
Everett a 'woman occupies a place ot
the school board, Mrs. IClle Mathewson
being chosen at the election last week.
The second well of the Standard Oil.
company .in Grays Harbor county is
now down ' 53 feet ' at Pacific bench.
The well at Moclips ia down 34 J5 feet.
Shot through the body! during a iuar
rel,; Oscar Bolen, aged 64, Is in a Ta
coma hospital at the point of death,
and Thomas Gerand, 63, Is in the county
Jail. - . - . ;. - . j .
Governor Hart has given notice that
the "bulldogging" of steers or ' other
animals at fairs on W
Id West shows
in the state will not be
future. - i
tolerated in. the
election at Ste-
Results of last week's
venson show " that Airs.
Ermn I'aimer
and Mrs. Conntance Kmlth were elected
to the council, and Mrs.. Nellie Wachter X
town treasurer
Bv a vote of 701 to 662.! the taxpay
ers. of the Yakima school district have
voted a 5-m'ill levy, the : proceeds ot
which will be used mainly to Increase
teachers' salaries. I )
The keel for hult 13 was laid at the
Standifer Shipyards in Vancouver ut
week. Hull lit will be a 12,000-toij steel
tanker and la being ount tor tne im
perial Oil company..
IDAHO
Jesse A. Edefaen, ex-postmaster at
Driggs, fined $?.&62 and sentenced to
one 'year in Jail on a; charge of em
bezzlement, has been paroled by Presi
dent Wilson. i l l
Two new orchard, pewtsj the Indian
peach aphis and the impoMed orchard
mite, have made their appearance in
Idaho and threaten to become of seri
ous consequence.- ' I
A romance of 48 years culminated this
week In the marriage of James Weed
, nM.t.ltn anil Mr .TatTiM CampB
of Houston. Texas, i The groom is 72
and the bride vo.
A man giving the name of Heeox was
arrested in Payette county
a few days
ago on the charge of trapping without
a license, j-iriy-two irapo
were' confiscated. r
tr.t rtnait fnMna, w a! 1 Jit nnrwit T .e W-
IHAlt , v. ... - - " "
Iston business man,' who forfeited $ii09
bonds and disappeared two years ago,
has been recaptured In Ran Francisco.
He is wanted on a statutory charge.
Idaho stood first In : the quality of
alfalfa and clover seed, and took sec
ond, third and fourth prizes in seed
wheat, at the international seed and
grain show in Chicago.
As a result of the crusade started a
few weeks ago In -Pocate4lo. 20 pro
prietors of- billiard halls, cigar stores
and shoe-shining renortu have been ar
rested for selling cigarettes- minors, i
The market on furs having fallen
off 75 per cent, trappers in Idaho have
been advised by the game warden to
lav their traps away this season ana
allow the animals to propagate. . i
KNOW YOU RJ
PORTLANDS
There have been hot a few burg
laries recently, and the question has
been raised, "What Is the matter with
the police bureau?".
Few people know that the number
of policemen In Portland haa been
increased from 192 in 1910 to 418 in
1920, a growth in personnel amount
ing to 110.5 per cent. '- '
During the same period the cost
of the police bureau has advanced
from $260,964.24 a year to $841,
728.41, the latter figure being 224.54
per cent more than 10 years ago.
Prohibition and other causes have
lowered the receipts of the city from
other sources than taxation from
$637,751.20 In 1910 to $18.2,425.75 In 191$.
Bootleggers pay all their "license
fees" in fines and these are of un
certain amount S
The greatest cause of increase In
the police bureau is multiplication
of motor vehicles and the growing
necessity for many officers to curb
the appalling number of , traffic ac
cidents and violation!. '
There are said to haveJ1een 7000
traffic accidents in Portland last
- year."- r,-
Licensing of automobile drivers,
stringent regulations, stiff fines and
surveillance are all being employed,
but the cost of accidents and the
damage they do still far outbalance
any revenues received from fining
the reckless- and the careless.
. Forethought implanted in the minds
of automobile drivers would save,
Portland, apart from lives and in
juries, many thousands of dollars a
year. - - j -' ' ; - 5