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MONDAY, DKCEMBLR 20, 190. 8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; . PORTLAND, OREGCfjM. ? f AS' IXDKI'ESKfcNT NEWSPAPER C. S. .JACKHOS .......... . .PabUaber ! IV earn, be ernifidrni. be cheerful and do onto oLhan' u rw would hare thewi dr. unto you. 1 luMihed 'ry week da end Sunday morning, -( The Joornal Building. Broadway and lani- . hill street. I"urtland, Oregon. "" . "- ; Entered t the pontoffice t Portland. Oregon, - for tnnmtKieD throusb the maila COIUI cl matter. TELEPHONE Main 7178, Automatic 660-81. All departments reached bi tbe pnmtxry NATIONAL ADVERTISING BEI'KESENTA TIVE Benjamin at Kentnor Co.. H08"? Kuilding, 223. fifth avenue. New Tort; 900 Maiiera Building, Chicago. TACIFIO COAST HKPBESEXTATTVB W. R. Kranger Co., Examiner Building. Baa Fren i co; Title Insurance Building.. lK Angeles; . I'ml-Intelligencer Building. Seattle. Ulfc, UliBWX JOL'IINAJ, reeem the right to - reject iueertising topy which it deems ob ieetiofiable. It also will not print any copy the in any way emulate reading matter or that cannot readily b reeognited as adrer 'twg " BIBSi.'KIPTlON BATES . r By Carrier, City and Country DAILY AND SUN DAT . One week .15 One month.. ... - DAILY I SUNDAY One week f .10 I One week...... .05 ne month .4jP i Bt MAIL, ALL RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE DAILY A?iV OU.lai One ear $8.00 Bu months. .... 4.25 DAILY (Without Sunday) One year $6.00 Kix month..,. 8.25 Three months, .... 1.75 One month 60 WEEKLY (Krery Wednesday) One year 1.00 KlV IHMltht . - .50 Three month. .$2.25 . .75 One month . -. . - . SUNDAY (Only) , On year. .13 .00 Hix months.... 1.75 Three months. . . 1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY One year.. ... .$5.80 These rate apply only m toe meat Ilatet to Eastern points famished on applies- ' tinn. Make remittances by Money Order, Espreea Order or Draft. If your poatoffice is not a Money Order office. 1 or 2-cent etatnps wiil he ercrpted. Make all remittance payable to The Journal, rortland. Oregon. - - . " . Tlie charities of life are scattered erery where. enamelii.g (he t1b of human' beings as Die flowers paint the meadows. They are not tie fruit of ttudy. nor the pririlege of refinement, but a natural instinct. Bancroft. WHY A WHEAT FIT? TO ESTABLISH their own grain, elevators and1 dispose of their grain cooperatively is the proposal in a resolution considered by farmers . at a meeting of the National -Board of Farm Organizations just held at St. Louis. . '"'..' , "'. '" " ' " " . The delegates to the meeting were from all over the United States. The proposal is a sweeping plan. It is the original course employed by the Non-partisan league in the resist ance of the North Dakota farmers to the extortions practiced upon them by Minneapolis grain 'buyers. The buyers cheated the farmers in grading 'their wheat. As investiga tion showed, after buying the farm ers' wheat,' they marketed ten times as much number one wheat as they bought, a fact clearly showing how they juggled the grading. : That was one of the disclosures that put the North Dakota farmers on the ram page and led to the organization of the Non-partisan leagtle. " The ; St. Louis movement is, of course, directed at the Chicago wheat pit. Incidentally, why should' there be ft Chicago wheat pit? Farmers grow wheat. Most of them have their all invested in their fields. They produce the' nation's crop of wheat. It is the greatest of all food staples. ' In the wheat pit are men who want to get possession of the wheat. They are powerful. They are cun ning. It Is to their interest to buy that wheat at ; the lowest possible price. for they make it their busi ness to buy it "for speculative pur poses. t As soon as the crop is harvested a. great battle ensues between the .farmers and the powerful figures in the wheat pit,." The gamblers use every strategem to beat dcvn the ; price. They start rumors of all kinds by ' which to depress the- market. -They combine to get the wheat away from the farmers at a prices far lower than the world supply justi flcs. t ;V ; There is talk about supply and de mand fixing theprice. How much can supply and demand have !to do with wheat in America when e. pow erful group of sagacious men, using all the power of money and all the tricks of combination and' guile conr spire together to stop thte regular currents- of supply and demand? What chance have farmers iacting Individually against- this sinister . combination in a battle of wits and money .nd rnarkets? - ' ' It is not sound policy. It is wieked for a great food staple like wheat to be made the" prey of men . who are in the business solely for speculative and gambling purposes. - It is a moral crime and an economic crime. ; V" "". . " Year afterj year ' in the past, the farmers, after meeting all the risks and labor and outlay, in growing wheat, have sold it at harvest time, almost Invariably to see the price go up after, the crop is out of their hands. That tells the story, , f The farmers of America ought to be emancipated from a wicked sys tem' of marketing under which the fruits of their toil go to men who : l " are parasites, on the" production of the country. A LONELY HOME THE home of two young married people In North Portland Is lonely.; LaSt week they followed to the grave the body of theL- only child. For weeks they . had despair lngjy watched his life ebb slowly out before the onslaught of tuberculosis. The child would be alive today, glad dening the lives of his parents, had they known how to shield him from infection. . , President Wilson has said of the campaign against tuberculoma, which at this season of the year is sym bolized by the sale of Christmas sealaiy "The development of the antl-tubercu-losls movement, under the leadership of the National Association for the-Study and Prevention ot Tuberculosis, has long been a source of satisfaction to me. 1 cannot too Btrongiy urge upon all the people of the United States the increasing necessity far pressing: still further the progress which has been made in the preven tion of tuberculosis and other diseases. In Oregon the campaign takes the form of thoroughly devoted work in public education, open Air school maintenance, public health nursing, the modern health crusade among children teaching courses for nurses and very definite help of sol dier's who became infected with the destructive disease. But there is a way of bringing closer; to the ' heart the importance of organized, skilfully directed ef fort to stamp, out the plague. The Oregon Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis , has helped save many by prevention and by treatment given 'before it was top late. Its workers want to do more. That is why the Christmas sje als are sold. . ' THE ANTIrSTRIKE BILL THE strike is usually a bad policy. In almost every case there is a better way. But if the right to strike is taken( away .from workers by law, what is left them? Employers can quietly agree among themselves to close their mills for the secret purpose, for in stance, of reducing wages. A hund red mills can. agree among them selves to lock out their employes, and the law "cannot reach them. While Senator Poindexter must ad mit this, he is pushing in the sen ate a bill denying the right to strike to -workers on railroads engaged in interstate commerce. ; There igi,a very general assent to the principle of collective bargain ing. It is the best plan yet devised for ' industrial settlements and in dustrial peace. But of what value is collective bargaining when em-i plovers " are privileged to act con certedly.and employes are not? "Recently, Senator Poindexter has been very vocal in talking about "one-man government" and "auto cratic government." What kind of an "autocracy" would it be if the congress of the United States as sumes the right to declare to a body of men that they may act individu ally, but cannot act collectively? In how many other ways does Senator Poindexter think the freedom of ac tion of men who work majr be abridged by law in the name of in terstate commerce? And are these encroachments upon the rights of people not all steps in "autocratic government"? It is the Poindexters who, by their autocratic ideals, do most to en courage radicalism In America, more even than all the Lenins and Trots ky in Russia -could do. - BUILT ON THE ROCK IF I ja A 'group of men. were swapping ackknives or trading town lots and somebody got the idea that. hard times were coming and dropped out and others did the same, someone presently would be left holding the sack and there, actually would be hard times. If with the reports of growing un employment in the eastern portion of the United States and repetition of the statements about Europe's chaos, there were no other avenues of trade to which the West,, the ports of the Pacific, and, particularly, the commercial centers of the Columbia basin might turn, fears of serious trouble ahead might be well founded. But the Columbia basin can prosper,- Oregon can progress and Portland can pile up nejv commerce records without the help of Eastern United States or Europe!; ; We confront on the s Pacific a population1 df , 1,000,000)00 people, who have need of the graftft4umber. fruit, livestock, fish, hay, d4ry products and minerals of the Colum bia basin, and to which an estimate for this year by the industries de partment of the Chamber of" Com merce assigns an aggregate value of more, than $1,000,000,000. v -. , The Orient is a $700,000,000 buyer of commodities such as we have to sell. Alaska, nearer at home, would buy -hundreds of thousands of dol lars worth of fpod and other prod ucts from us, immediately upon the establishment ' of - a longt desired steamship service. . . , ' " The South American and Mexi can trade fields are hardly touched For instance, Great Britain last year Imported $35,000,000 worth of canned ' fruit, : Mexico $35,000 and South America $140,000. . - Our own, Philippine islands Im ported $32, 000. 000 worth of goods in 1919 and $139,200,000 of this bus! ness was enjoyed by the United States and handled largely throttgh the Pacific 'coast. In 1919. the Japanese, - whose steamship lines serve this port, had a total trade of 3,700,000,000 yen. of which 1.160,000,000 yen was with the United States and handled largely through the ports or the Pacific. ; " - China has 100,000 miles of rail roads and 100,000 miles of telephone and telegraph lines to build in the not distant future. , China has now for her 400,000,000 people only about 17,000 miles of railroad and '40,000 miles of telephone and telegraph lines as compared with 265,000 miles of railroads and 40,000,000 miles of telephone -and telegraph lines for the 100,000,000 people of this coun try. China has no roads as we understand them, and a - first unit of a modern highway system must comprehend at least 100,000 miles. The Straits Settlements have need of our pine for box shooks. The countries of the Orient demand ma chinery and industrial supplies, which, may well be handled through this port. , From nearly every potential cen ter of Pacific trade come the com modities that constitute return cargo and help energize our. industries. Portland and Vancouver recently have been made the beneficiaries in the order of the interstate com merce - commission which adds a richly productive area, of 4200 square miles to our non-competitive tribu tary territory. , It is said that one of our competi tor cities is losing population faster than people were gained in. boom days, when artificial conditions forced an excess of trade their way. But this community and its hinter land are not going backward. They are going ahead. Their house is built not on the sand but on the rock. : TOMORROW IN HISTORY f NE of the most significant scenes in human affairs was enacted on board a little bark lying at sea off the Massachusetts coast on No vember 11, 1620. Forty-one adult males were pres ent. With grave faces and solemn mien, they affixed their signatures to. what history has styled the May flower Compact. The agreement bound the 41 men In the,ship's com pany into a civil body politic for the better ordering, preserving and fur thering of their mutual ends, and it provided for such Just and equaj laws and offices, as should be neces sary for the general good of the colony. "This body politic, established and maintained on this bleak and barren edge of a vast wilderness, a state without a king or a noble, a church without a bishop or a priest. a : democratic commonwealth, the members of which were straitly tied to all care of each other's good and the whole by everyone. 'With, ling suffering devotion and sober resolu tion they illustrated for the first time in history the principles . of civil and .religious liberty and the practice of a genuine democracy." These were the Pilgrim Fathers, and their little craft was the May flower which came to a landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 21, 1620.' The tercentenary anniver sary of the landing, because of the mighty meaning and subsequent fruits of that event, is to be cele brated throughout America tomor row, Portland included. It is vital to hold Imperishable and to forever cherish and spread to the ends of the earth the princi ples signed and sealed in the May flower Compact. . It was a part of the beginning of America. FREAKS N' OBODY can make out a case' against Oregon on a charge of so-called "freak legislation." There has been- no- freak '-law making by the people of Oregon. The "freak legislation" in Oregon has been such monstrosities as the midnight resolution" and similar freaks foisted upon the people by the legislature. There are groups of people in America who 109k upon anything that savors of progress as "freak legislation-'.' In the beginning, the initiative and referendum was stig matized by them as a "freak." But many of the states have adopted the plan, and not one of them will ever give it up. Statement One in Ore gon was called a "freak." But t was the measure that started .the movement and secured the consti tutional amendment for direct elec tion of United States senator. That amerroment removed from the Ore gon legislature the most corrupting of all influences, very largely put an. end- to the trail of boodle, eman cipated legislation in the state from a demoralizing process that cruci fied' men, disrupted legislatures and filled -the state with public scandal. In the Oregon land fraud trials the testimony regarding the big land steals often involved deals In the election of United States senators by the legislatut-e. The Blue Mountain forest reserve was created at the in stance of henchmen of legislatively elected' senators, and lt. became the medium of one of the biggest land steals fn the history of any civilized country. Yet the very measure that abolished that wicked system was harped upon by certain groups " as "freak legislation." . Attempts at use of the Initiative for "freak legislation", in Oregon are Invariably defeated ; by the people. and newspapers in or out of Oregon that harp about "freak legislation" in Oregon, libel the state and insult the intelligence of the Oregon elec torate. ' ' , ' BOTH WAYS FROM ELLIS ISLAND Editors of Foreign Language News papers Are Quoted to Show the 1 . Attitude of That Section on the Question of Restricting - . ' or Otherwise Regulat ing Immigration. J "Daily Editorial Digest" (Consolidated Free Association 1 "There are actuallv no non-immierants In America." says the Rusky Golos, 'a Russian independent radical newspaper printed in New York. "Alt are immi grants, but those who count , even one generation bf ancestors on American soil do not consider themselves newcomers. They are the "white bone' the aristo crats." With this viewpoint In mind, it is interesting to note that the foreign language press of this country still feels that there is room enough here for all those worthy of passing its portals. Ldmlted restriction is their plea and to those who enter, a good start and a fair chance. Among those who flatly ODDoee any legislation that will keen the foreigner out of America is the Polish paper Pitts- ourczanin (Ind. Mod.). Though it states In detail the arguments bf the American J-ederation of Labor asrainst the grow ing Influx of Europeans without attempt ing to answer the arguments -of unem ployment, such as disorganization of unions, and the like, which Mr. Gora pers sets forth, it states In conclusion: For the present, we feel It proper to state that if immigrants, are causing this country any trouble, it to chiefly due to the government officials who have so far not given sufficient attention to im migrants. Upon then arriving at Ellis island they are given strict examination and permitted to land. After, that no one takes any interest in them, unless they have done something against the law. Yet, with the system well arranged there would be plenty of work for tens of millions. The farms of the United States are not-used. Because of a lack of workers, millions of acres of fertile land lie idle without hands to work them, while the masses are crowding into the already over-populated cities. What this country needs most is not the checking of immigration, but rather a proper distribution of the able and healthy people coming from Europe, over the farming district, and then giving them a chance to start." . A similar expression comes from L'ltalia (Rep. Mod.1) in San Francisco, which strongly resents the allusion to the "hordes of immigrants" now at Ellis island, declaring that there is no differ ence between these "hordes" and the peo ple who W-ere herded together there on "the justly named 'island of Hell' " some years ago when no one thought of urg ing .restriction. Then "there was the same overcrowding of Immigrants, the same inconveniences, the same unsani tary conditions, the same masses of hu man flesh heaped together with baggage and rags." It is neglect of duty that partly causes these conditions. L'ltalia believes, for distribution and better in spection at points of debarkation would do much to alleviate them. Meanwhile if the industrial situation is the reason for urging restriction, "let us not hide the fact under the cloak of a moral question.' It concludes : "If the United States were functioning as it should, how much room and how much need there would be in this country for the for eigners who at present are not desired?" e Two Jewish papers, the Philadelohia World (Ind. Prog.) and the New York Day (Ind. Prog.), oppose any further restrictions. The former declares that the "enemies 6T immigration do not see the facts."; "According to the statis tic of the department of labor," it de clares, "for the four months between July and October, 239,857 people have come to the United States. It is obvious that this number is small in comparison with the number of immigrants for the sarhe four months during the cre-war years. Add to this the fact that in those four months 214,705 persons have left this country and we find a gain of only laa.lo new immigrants. ; In the last 12 months ending with June there have arrived 246,295. persons, while 255,004 have left this country, making the num ber of those that return to Europe al most 10.000 more than those wJio came in. Where, then, do these antl-immigra tion leaders get the basis for their fear of an immigration flood, when the statis tics of immigration for the past 14 months, prove just the contrary ?" The Day feels that it is an absurdity to permit "only certain groups of immi grants to enter," thus leaving "a little opening in the Chinese wall" which is to be built abbut America. This, it be lieves, makes for "endless graft," which will prove an incentive to materially in terested groups to keep up the legisla tion, a sort of bootlegjobby for prohibi tion, as it were. It "continues ; "One can distinctly see the many roads of grart and corruption that these bills would bring along with them. The fu ture or every immigrant will depend upon so many officials and workers that, if only 1 in 10 should be found to abuse his power, not even one immigrant would be able to get into the country through any other means than graft and corrup tion ; ana when once the doors of graft and corruption are thrown open It will become a Bystem the result of whu-h will be just the contrary to wishes of the anti-immigrationlsts' expectation." The New York Bolletino Delia Sera (Italian. Rep.), while it is heartily in favor of passing laws to keen the un employment situation . from growin more acute by adding to Its ranks from abroad, considers that merely attempt ing to solve this situation does not jus tify a refusal to consider the question of labor shortage on the farms': It ber lieves : "Instead of checkintr immigration and seeking to end it, the government should seek to encourage good European peasants to come over, and thus obtain by means of Immigration the farmers who- are needed for the nation. Of course, all innovations have their diffi culties, but in the same way that con gress can vote )-to suspend immigration entirely' for a given time, congress can aiso Dneny say: 'From such a time to such a time, only farmers will be al lowed to enter the United States.' Then American consuls should inform immi grants as to which states need them, and passports should be issued to farm ers' only." ' Another Italian paper, L'Opinione (Rep.), of Philadelphia, also makes a plea for restriction, but such as will not exclude the unskilled laborer. It says: The United States has need of immi grants, but it is neceqsary to distinguish and select carefully among the differ ent classes of Immigrants. The kind of immigrant who is used to hard work, who is not ashamed of the, callouses on his hands,, whose face is burned from the sun and the wind, is the kind of man who win always make a useful American, and America should receive this man with outstretched arms, even if he does not know how to read or write. Let the United States refuse ad mission to and deport all schemers and incitors and instigators of trouble, and tne country will be safe enough." - .... . - " One paper at least, the Polish Dxien nik Zwiazkowy (Ind.; of Chicago, -believes In a policy close to that support ed by congress. Restriction during in dustrial crise entirely, and ;'ln normal times regulating immigration in propor tion to the needs of industry." THE WINNING NUMBER During the war people took vast de light In juggling mystic numbers, hoping to discover a prophecy of the war s dura tion. - The Parts Figaro now reminds Its readers that in 1915 it called their attention to the fact that by adding the dates of the former war with Ger many, 1376 and 1871. the number 3741 resulted. This number, divided into two groups,- gives 37 and 41. Adding the digits of each group you have 10 and 5. Xhe treaty of peace in that war was signed at Frankfort on the 10th day of May (fifth ' month). The Figaro then suggested that by adding 1914 and 1915, and treating the total, 3829, in the same way, the result is 11, 11. and that, therefore, the war was destined to end on , November 11. Unfortunately the Figaro did . not predict the year, and that, after ' all, was what the people were most anxious to know. Letters From the People f Communication) aent to The Journal for publication in this department aboeM be written on only one aide of the paper; should not exceed BOO words in length, and must be signed by the writer, whose mail addresa in full must accom pany toe contnbuuoo. J i A DISCUSSION OF VAGRANCY PisgaH Mother Pleads for the Victim of Adverse Conditions Portland, Dec 18. In our city jail are many men brought in from the streets. Many of them come in to get shelter from the storm. In the average mind the word "vagrancy" is classed with deg radation and dirt, the common hobo, the Weary Willie and the thug. It would seem impossible to find among thosef i"" onwan l1spf? men a boy or young man that is on f?"Pt" eeP rf8hw. S2 parallel with yoUr boy, or that underproof leaked anri r.Hn. similar circumstances your boy mighthow the doors in the linen closet always nave ueen nuuuieu in mere wiui luBin.s Our good Judge Rossman says, ' I don'tij. tuts to put mem into jaiL. inty ar 1 young boys who have left good . homesjy' and got stranded -didn't find the oppor-" tunity they were looking for. vagrancy" covers a multitude oc .t.1 XT. 1 A .. 1 1 . . . .4 . nJ,.aH AnmiTT ditions. and vour stood boy. awav from home, out of work, out of money. wltW? the nerve not to let the tolas at nomepi know." might be cold on' the street and be glad to creep into Jail even, for arl shelter, and thus become a "vagrant'H Someone says they ought to have moneyH "after such wages." f ive dollars a oayri now doesn't goany farther than 2.5(1 J before, the war. Two dollars and a haltJ was a small wage; $3 was the nvlnggl minimum. And. then, when you don fj get the work, what then? Vagrancy, if Pisgah Home colony is waiting for the unemployed manfor the homeless onei No one that leaves the colony leaves hi4 self-respect Demnd. Tney go in inert 1 and work on what there Is to do, whefl weather conditions permit. They havj a good library, clean surroundings' an sen-respect- oenino. iney go in mvt clean Deas, gooa, wnoiesome 100a v build up a man, with plenty of botl warmth and fuel. The place is conducts ed bv Christian workers who endeaVoli to build up the spiritual as well as tnu physical man, and, every man going ou feels that it has been good to be ther instead of humiliated by the recollection, of it. Shall we not be our broVher brother! nsgan Moiner. SKEPTICAL OF "STABILIZATION Critic Has No Doubt About Bondholder!! Nor About Farmers, Either. M Portland, Dec. 14. To the Editor i The Journal I have rea in the Sunday. journal extracts tanen irom tne wa Street Journal proposing certain plang which, it may. be presumed, - are to l taken in connection with the preseifj plan of getting "back to normalcy." W quote : "The second plan for helping the situation originates in Washlngtj and is understood to have the indorsft ment of President-elect Harding, who Sji ambitious to bring Liberty and Victory bonds back to par. ' Republican leaded and financial experts are trying to wQijjji out a plan for consolidating the nation debt with some refunding scheme tfrM will 'stabilize' (my . emphasis) : gover ment bonds at par, thus restoring tl$ savings of thet people put into the wa and distributing the burden of the couri try's debt over a period of years." No doubt the very first work of tl next administration will be to' take it the? proposition of so arranging, refuntl ine and re-ratine all government bond including Liberty and Victory bon4 as to "stabilize their value at r Without doubt this will be a good thiir for the holders of government bono J. But what will be done to "stabilize" tUe price of wheat, of cotton, wool, corn' i$r meat products? It would be criminal o permit any bondholder to suffer a lofx but how about the farmer, the wo- grower, the stockman? The politicians and financial experts had better devene their energies first to the "stabiiizatiofef' of the values of farm products, uph which bonds and everything else ane based. But no the ' bondholder wjl come first, and in the meantime the ag riculturists of the country will be handfd a gold brick in the form of a "protective tariff." B. F. Wilson CURRENT FICTION. fc From the Cincinnati Enquirer. ft "Excuse me!" f ' f "I beg your pardonr" "Be sure and come to see us !" M "I've had a lovely time." t! "We've never; had a cross word sirfee we've been married." 4 "I'll pay you this tomorrow, sun "I'd rather have my Ford than yeir bier car. . Ti "I'd trust my husband anywherejs "Oh. it's no trouble at all!" -ti "It isn't the money ;a-it's the princiti&e or tne tnmg I just finished the last quart I hi id, man!" W old man ! It; Olden Oregon ' Land Law of the Provisional Gove4 ment With a Joker in It. The land law of the provisional' Eiv- ernment wnen nrsi proposea rorDaae..u persons to hold claims upon city or tolk'n sites, extensive water privileges or otner situations necessary for the transact of mercantile or manufacturing o tions. This law was designed to away from Dr. John McLouehlin rtla claim at Oregon! City. On the final arjip-. tion of the law . there was considerable argument, for the reason that the Mkh- odist mission had also laid claim tm portion ui laiiu at. vregim tity. an ua,-er to satisfy objections a proviso was &o- posed- This proviso was that notlJigJ in the land laws should be construed ias to, affect any claim of any nlssionj-jof a religious character, made previous to that time, of an extent not more tsjan six miles square. M Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From . Curious Place j j The great temple at Borobodoer, t in pie of the many Buddhas, was unearned in Java some years ago. It is knowy to have been built in the fifth century. Jffisar it is the lesser' temple of Mendoet. Far ther north, in the-Caroline islands, jfire the ruins of an ancient city whose stiets were waterways like those of Venice today. Off the coast , of Queensland, Australia, are the New Hebrides islaKds, which some scientists believe were Mftce inhabited by the Spaniards judging by evidences dug up there. TtSj Uncle Jeff Snow Says : M Lem Hidecker got him a new-fanfJed razor last ween, xer mqaain iiot of contraptions to. go with, it. He jlk lates he saves hlsself 25 cents ever :S jme he shaves, and his big sister, Nellie Jne. she told it on him at the dance uj to Parker's place that Lem shaves higself twicet a day so's to git the valu in vested back in as short a time as' -possible. . . -.. . . . ' '" ;'.'... ty . I COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF The Oregon Country a . " . . ; ' Xortliweit Happening- in Brief Form for the SMALL CHANGE SIDELIGHTS Bu" Ked T Alas, the neak of the coal cile has Seen passed. too ! SL Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. f: The allies seem to think that the Greeks are trying to play a knave fbr a Iflng. Norfolk Vtrglnian-Pllot. ' wiison gets tne xobel peace prize. Jbut, the world 6till waits anxiously for he prize of peace. Chicago Post. - Sji Let Venizelos come to America. He flan nave any restaurant he wants. Kinona (Minn.) Republican-Herald. ; l it seems likely that Germany and a'Annunzio will be two of the countries f Excluded from the League. Nashville Kl'ennessean. a. A Offlceseekers are busily nnnrtprinv where and how and for what salary mey can Desi serve 1 uieir country. Birmingham Age-Herald. 1 ; Possibly it never occurred to the Rus ian soviet rovernment to mer that ait. Luation over there by , abolishing appe tfltes by. legal enactment Marion Star. if Most of us are nervously awaiting the .outcome or mat Toklo student debate ion the subject, "Shall Jaoan Fieht America?" Denver Rocky Mountain News. . . . I Mrs. Wilson took . Mrs. Harding leK il WL la - 1 ' . a aiuca, 1 uieoo ciaoe). MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Ellison B. Trowbridge of Boston is at mo aiuiinomin. e was one 01 me ursi to start the "personally conducted tours, which tn late years have become eo popular, being responsible for the present flourishing condition . of Thomas cook ft Son, Raymond & wmtoomD ana hundreds of' other concerns which do nothing but direct travelers around .the world. "I was working In the passenger department of the Boston & Maine rail road in the early '80s," said Trowbridge, "getting S15 a week telling people where to go for tlie summer and furnishing - generai information. I then noticed how helpless the traveling public was in seek lng pleasure and I conceived the idea ot getting up little parties and taking them on week trips through the White moun tains. I took the first two during my two weeks' vacation, securing the people by an advertisement in a daily paper. 1 had two weeks' good time, satisfied my customers and made .a hundred 'dollars for myself over all expenses. I made up a number of parties after that for the same summer, but did not go along. - The next year I quit my Job and devoted my entire time to It and made good money, In the winter I took parties to Florida. For 10 years I kept this up, but finally wandered into. another line of business, manufacturing shoes. Sometimes I am sorry I didn't stay with the tourist business, but have always been Inter ested." , I Sergeant H. F. West, late of the A. E. F., now a" student! of engineering' at Oregon Agricultural college, is home for the holidays. He went from Bordeaux to Gondrecourt to the school for bayonet work and also took a course in sniping, and if the war hadn't busted up on him, he would have received his commission as second looie. . John McGill&ery, a native son of In verness, capital oii tne t-tignianas 01 Scotland, but during the last 3Q years a resident of Shaniko, where he has raised sheep. Is in Portland for a few days. ,;. i". Dick Price of Tillamook, R. Begg of John Day, Arthur W. Campbell of Hepp- tier and George Wick of Condon are meeting old-time friends in the obby or the Imperial. Judge Thomas K. Crawford, football fan, haling from La Grande, is in Port land on his way to Los Angeles to visit his son and play with his grandsons. Mrs. James Carty and daughter of HeDoner are at the Imperial. Carty Is one of the pioneer Bheepmen of Morrow county. 1 Charles E. Herroii of Anchorage, Alas ka, is a Portland visitor. J. L. Beckley, Klamath Falls cattle man, Js here to spend Christmas with his brother. i . Mrs. Martha Webb of Portland will leave Shortly for j Southern California for the winter. I OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN ' By Fred Just as an additional reminder of the fleeting Quality of fame, Mr. Lockley present another list of names of persona' all of whom were of note in their time, bnt not all of whom are noted at this dajr. The third decade of the nineteenth century is credited as hartng produced the personages named in this sketch, j . In a recent Issue of The Journal I spoke f the Lethean flood of the years which so quickly effaces from the shores of -time the names and deeds of those who In their generation were accounted famous. So short a time ago as 25 years all of the men of : whom I am going to write today were alive and their pames and deeds were known of all men, but today many of these names mean noth ing to . the generation now coming of age. I shall mention only some of the men born during the decade from 1830 to 1840. i , , Like President Benjamin Harrison, I believe that "If jwe would strengthen our country, we should cultivate a love for It in our hearts and In the hearts of our children. Thus" love for our land and for our flag, if they are worthy ana- great and have a glorious history, is widened and deepened by a fuller knowledge of them." Among those Who helped make history as quarter of a century ago who were born in the '30s were Generol O. O. How ard, gallant soldier and author, and Adolph Heinrich i Joseph Sutwy builder of the Sutro tunnel to the rich ore of the Comstock lode, which made him a millionaire, and who donated to the city of San Francisco the Sutro art gallery and library. j John W. Mackay, Irish Immigrant, ship carpenter. '49er, banker and bonan za . mining king j George M. Pullman, housemover and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and Ignatius Donnelly, author of '.'Caesar's Column? and of th Baconian cryptogram theory, were born in .1831.- ; ,V . : Thomas De Witt Talmage, editor, au thor, eloquent pulpit orato and lecturer; Philip D. Armour, California argonaut, millionaire meat packer and founder of the Armour institute of Chicago; Roger q. Mills, Confederate officer and united States senator from Texas, and Julius) Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture in Cleveland's cabinet, were born in 1832. ! " -" ""'" ' Among the famous men born in 1833 were : Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, born in Maine ; Benjamin Harrison, who rose from second lieutenant to brigadier i general in the Union army. United States It is probably too- much to hope that the desire of congress for more pay will lead it jo strike. Salem Capital Journal. The vision Is short indeed that sees nothing but extreme chaos in a slight spell of readjustment. . It is not time, to rock the boat, but to paddle steadily. Albany Democrat. . The last- of the "conscientious objec tors" have now been set free. It Is held that their punishment is sufficient. The law has been vindicated.- They haven't Roseburg News-Review. Emma Goldman continues to pine for the home of the free and the brave. Evidently she does not like Trotzkying around Russia as much as she thought he would. Condon Globe-Times. . V The Rev. J. T. Anderson has severed actjve connection with the Daily News. His conscience wouldn't permit him to preach the gospel and run a newspaper at the same time. Marshfield News. You bet your life our grandchildren will' never refer to "grandpa" as a "cheap skate" when they . pay off the billions that we are now issuing in bonds. They will think that "grandpa" was a great spender. Blue Mountain Eagle. Some of "the farmers in this vicinity are lamenting the fact that their pota toes are still in the- ground, and lots of fall plowing not done. But why worry about the spuds. Those who hae sold received only 31 per hundred, while they paid their hands at the rate of 35 a day to dig them. Canby News. F. W. Lampkin Is at the Benson. Mr. Lampkln is business manager of the East Oregonian, and. is also one of the owners of the Astoria Budget. It is no fault of his that the day clerk at the Benson is not gray-haired. Mr. Lamp kin registered during the forenoon and was assigned to a double room tin an other room could be prepared for him. When the maid knocked at his door 15 minutes later to inform him his room was ready there was no response. She tried her pass key, but the door was locked and the key was in the lock on the inside. After knocking for five minutes In vain she rang up the office. The office rang the telephone in his room fOr five minutes steadily without eiiect, so xne pprter was sent up to see if it was a case for the coroner. Mr. Lampkin was found to be unconscious, but it was the sweet unconsciousness of slumber most profound. . When the porter had finally -aroused him, Mr. Lampkin, who radiates good nature and smiles, said, "You people down here have a wonderfully soporific climate. Just lay down for a momentt and think I must have fallen asleep. Did you have to knock twice?" a a W. E. Hauser, brother of Eric Hauser of the Multnomah hotel, is enjoying free eats with his brother over the Christmas season. Eric Hauser started life as newsboy; became a printer's devil on the Minneapolis Tribune; drifted into rail road work and ran his first hotel In a boxcar. He took a contract with the Great . Northern to board men in the construction gangs alone the risht-of way. He soon had a chain of boxcar hotels along the line. His china dishes couldn't stand the wear and tear o travel and of beiner switched Into other cars full tilt, 60 thtf were replaced with iron dishes, which not only did not get broken, but came in handy to subdue turbulent boarders when they started a rough house. The chain of boxcar ho tels was the humble forerunner of the splendidly appointed Multnomah hotel of today. Judge T. II. McBride and Mrs. Mc Bride are down from Salem" to do some Christmas shopping. James A. Shaw, lumberman of Van couver, B. C, is sizing up the lumber situation in Portland. -e.ee Frederick Warde, Portland's old-time favorite Shakes perean actor. Is regis tered at the Portland. T., A. McCann. lumberman of Bend, is a-guest at the Portland. G. Ayre Carr of London Is making a brief visit in Portland. ' . A. W. Miles of Pendleton tered at the Portland. Is regts- W. B. Blackaby of Ontario is at the Imperial on his way home from college. . Ed Finley, citizen of Condon, Js seeing the sights in Portland. -. - . " Lockley senator from Ohio and president of the United States; Edmund Clarence Sted man, editor, poet, ' banker and Wall street operator; John J. Ingalls of ivansas, who by his keen "logic, armor piercing sarcasm, unmatched audacjr and brilliant pen wen a national reputa tion and a seat in the United States senate; Colonel John S. Mosby, daunt less leader of daring cavalry raids against McClellan and Hooker and later United States . consul at Hongkong John P. St. John, one time governor of Kansas, militant leader of the Prohibi tion party and later Prohibition can didate for the presidency ; General James B. Weaver of Iowa, candidate for the presidency of the United States on the Greenback . ticket in 1880 and 12 years later candidate for the same office on the .People's party ticket and receiving over 1.000,000 votes. Matt S. Quay, Jus tice Harlan of the United States supreme court, Thomas C. Piatt and Wayne Mac Veagh were also bom in 1833. Among the well known men born in 1834 are: President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard ; Chauncey it. De pew ; Hilary- A. Herbert, secretary of the navy under Cleveland; J. Wr Powell, organizer of tlie United States geological survey ; Frank R. Stockton, author of "The Lady or the Tiger" and .other charming stories ; Cardinal James Gib bons, who was born in Baltimore, and James Abbott McNeil Whistler, West Point cadet, iconoclast, etcher and world famous painter. The year 1835 gave birth to Mark Twain, Lyman Abbott, Andrew Carne gie and Marshall Field. In 1836 P A. Alger. Lyman J. Gage. Thomas Bailey Aldrlch and General Wesley Merritt were born. Amoag the famous men born In 1837 are Grover Cleveland, John Burroughs, William . Dean . Ho wells, . Edward Eg gleston apd Whitelaw Held. The yar 1838 saw the birth of John Wanamaker. the merchant prince of Philadelphia; Archbishop John Ireland, Francis Hopklnson Smith, engineer, ar tist and author, and. Joseph Cook, au thor and lecturer. . Among the Americans who have in- fluenced the thought of the world who were born -in 1 839 are; -Henry George, autnor ot., , progress ana Poverty ; Francis Bret Harte, the author; Fran ces E. Willard, the apostle of temperance reform; John D. Rockefeller; Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine, speaker of the house of representatives, and' General Nelson A. Miles. . - OREGON NOTES A London apple Importing -concern ba shipped from Hood River this year 335 : carloads of apples. All grading work on the McKensle highway between Blue river and Belk nap Springs has been completed. . Under authorization of Adjutant Gen eral Whito. a machine gun company has been organised at Albany with 73 men. . The Mountain States Power company of Polk county has overhauled its plant nr.d added new equipment at a cost ot i0.000. The Deer Creek sawmill In Wallowa county has a large tie contract from the Southern Pacific which will kevp tne mm Dusy an winter. A rerxirt on the recent winter fair made by the directors of the Ashland chamber of commerce shows that the fair was a financtaPsuccess. j A big. modern hotel to cost In the. neighborhood of half a million dollirs is to be erected In Eugene soon by Guy Davis, backed by Eastern capital. The Pacific highway over the Siskl- - yous is clear of Bnow and i open for travel, and the state highway depart ment experts to keep It open all wiincr. Dr. C. W. Hays of Portland has been chosen to manage a five-year campaign of Albany college, in which it is hoped to double the resources of the institu tion. ; 1 Taken suddenly with convulsions while ttendine a theatre at Corvallis. Solo mon Fine, a prominent business man of that city, died ' before physicians could render aid. ; j A Red Cross nurslnr c'asa: under the direction of Miss Mary Siach of Salem has been organized at Dallas. .Prac tically every housewife In Dallas regis tered to take the lessons. ... ; " Th right of a county turt to use county funds in the construction of a higiiway under, the supervision or the state highway commission Is upheld by the circuit court of Klamath county. Alonzo M. Woodford, well known nlo- neer who crossed the plains In 1852. is dead at Medford. : Mr. Woodford y as a Civil war veteran apd had been post master at Medford for eight years. Seven thousand five hundred and thirty-four volumes was the total No vember circulation of the . Umatilla county library, a 35 per cent gain over tne largest previous November report. WASHINGTON S It is now probable that a hosoitAl for ex-service men will be established at Fort Walla Walla. Japanese workmen at Pasco have taken I120Q of the $50,000 worth of Pasco- tvennewick bridge stock. : 1 The forest service is attempting -to Interest Spokane .capital In the-building of a first class hotel at Lake Chelan. . There is no apparent Increase In the number of unemployed at Tacoma. but demand for workmen is decidedly lack ing.. It is announced that an airplane will be added to the fire fighting equipment of Stevens county, beginning next sea-' son. George Achet, county; attorney, has been commissioned captain of soaat ar tillery to recruit a company at Aber deen. Battery A. N. O. W., at Walla Walla, has arranged to open an employment office this winter to keep its members at work. j - At Davenport Saturday morning offi cials arrested J. W. Miller and Paul Jones with an auto truck load of Cana dian whiskey. A group of farmers met at Spokane last week and indorsed the project f forming . a 23,000-acre irrigation district in Spokane valley. George L. Chisholm, aged 22, acci dentally shot by his 19-yearold nephew, Eldle Adams, is dead in a Yakima hos pital from lockjaw.' j , . Bert Burg Is dead in at' hospital at Sequira as the result of burns he re ceived while attempting to light a fire with a can of gasoline. ! Very little grumbling Is heard among the sheepherders of Eastern Wanning ton whose monthly wage has oeen re duced from $100 to $75. j . Under a rule "adopted by I the Taconia civil service commission, employes not living in the city and paying no city taxes will lose their jobs. The Yakima Central Labor council has given official credentials to J. : U. Williams, who is going to investigate conditions in soviet Russia. IDAHO Cattle to the extent of 8213.OC0 and $120,000 worth of sheep 1 have bct-n shipped this season fromv Mackay. Frank Rosso. 'an Italian, was nr.-esled and 500 gallons of mash and tw) Mill confiscated by the Ada county sheriff's office. . i ' : - Jerome county farmers ' are pooling their interests in alfalfa seed an-1 -re waiting for a market of ; 17 c;nia a pound. I i According to Adjutant General Patch' of the war department. Idaho stands sec ond in enlisted strength in the national guard. j Benewah county farmers; received but 65 per cent of the price they dl 1 a year ago for their community shlytnn i.s of . livestock. j Money Is tight enough at Buhl to com mand a usurious price, as 25 per cmt a year has been offered for in certain Instances. ; .; - The seven-room residence of Harry Moenlng. at Harrison, with all Its con tents, was destroyed by fire, causi'ig loss of $4000. ; j The 1920 session of the Idaho County Commissioners' association adopted reso lutions condemning "general extrava gance" of various state departments. : ' It la learned In Boise that fnator John F. Nugent, who retires from office on March 4, has received 'an offer of a ?lace on the federal trade commission rom President Wilson. i t During the past season $25,00 has been paid to the beet growers in the vicinity of Paul. Twelve dollars per ton is the basis upon which sugar bee's are being figured at present. know l you iv. PORTLAND Portland ia the only city tn Amer? lea from whose water mains, with out purification, distillation or modi fication of anyi sort, a ratlroad. has, taken the supply for Its diners to be advertised under a label as distinc tive as that of; Shasta or other min eral waters. i t Not long, a 2 the 8.. p. tc S. rail? road began serving Bull Run water in half gallon bottles on the tables of ita diners. The labet, attractively lithographed, shows beautiful Mount Hood in the background, j The legend is, 'Pure Bull Run Water Portland'! Famous Supply." i L. K. Owen, dining car superin tendent of the Spokane, Portland k. Seattle,Ainaugurated the unique idea. Each bottle is sealed as soon as it is filled and it is not again ' opened until served to patrons of the line. Passengers are assured 'of water tn which there ia no slightest tincture jot Impurity, drawn by gravity flow and two great aqueducts from a re gion in which no man ever sets foot except 'those employed in the neces-. sary service of the water bureau, and they but rarely. . i Portland's water supply does not, aa many suppose, coma directly from Mount Hood. The Bull Run reserve is separated from Mount Hood by a deep canyon.: The water Is that of the rain, as pure as when it fell, or from the storehouse of the winter's snows that fell, untainted by arty, deleterious touch. The ' water from the mountain direct would be par tially composed of melted glacial ice, and to that extent less. pure. ft--