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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1920.
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for, and tliat is to put principles on and off
at the distation of a party, as a lackey
jehangea his lirery at his master's com
mand. IlorscS Mann.
WHY BACKBITE?
IT IS not good business or good
policy for the newspapers of Port
land to condemn or disparage the
port of Astoria or Astoria papers to
condemn or disparage the port of
Portland.
Newspapers do not make ports.
Trade and ships and cargoes and
land transportation do that. 1 1
Newspaper talk does not unmake
ports or undermine ports or .Inter
fere with ports. Hostile newspaper
talk merely arrays one locality
against another and prevents the
mutual cooperation by which ports
situated as Astoria and Portland are
can forward the interests of both,
t Porta are not a theory but a tre
mendous practical fact. Ships come
! and go according to the cargoes they
can get and the money they can
earn from transporting those car
goes. The men who own those ships
ar not in the slightest , concerned
with the nasty things a newspaper
in Portland says about the port of
Astoria or what a newspaper In As
toria says about the port of Port
land. : Few of the owners ever see
such newspapers, and if they did,
they would be more amused than
Impressed by the unsociable and un
generous animadversions.
Ships are not run on newspaper
opinions, - but on information from
the charts and the channel sound
ings taken by competent engineers
and on the demonstrated fact that
great ships go to and from certain
ports and get cargo and make
money.
. Poets are poets and shipmasters
are shipmasters, and each in general
la an expert at his game. When
poets run ships and ship captains
go to writing spring poetry, then,
perhaps, the angryj disputations of
newspapers . over 'their respective
ports will be of some value.
Meanwhile, Atorla is a. splendid
port. So fs Portland. And they have
" a common interest and that interest
lies in working together and pull
ing together for that greater1 thing
than either the mighty and all em
bracing port of the Columbia.
Lemon Ice of Sistersville, West
Virginia, got the court to change his
name to Lee Ice. He should be able
to cut some ice now after ceasing to
be a lemon. ,
IN HARDING'S CABINET
THEY all deny that Judge'Hughes
1 has consented to be secretary of
state in the: Harding cabinet. It is
the usual course.
The probabilities are that the
place has been offered, ; that Sen
ator Knox urged 'Judge Hughes to
accept and that the appointment was
programmed very much as an
nounced. ,
It would toe an excellent selection.
It would do much, to increase public
confidence in the Harding adminis
tration. As governor of New York,
Mr, Hughes was a mild progressive.
He was the father of the primary
system in that state, and while it is
not so radical a reform as the Ore
gon primary system, it is probably
best suited to the conglomerate pop
ulation of the Empire State.'
It would be a point gained to have
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IN THE DAY'S NEWS v
LONDON, Dec 22. Premier Lloyd George, speaking today at a luncheon
to the dominion representatives, virtually served notice on the world
that no progress can be made toward universal disarmament until the
United States beoomea a member of the League of Nations.
"No League of Nations could be complete until the great republic in the
West is included in it," said Premier Lloyd George. "We look forward
hopefully to the entrance of the United States into the league." .
The premier sounded warning that unless the race in armaments is
arrested another war may follow.
The premier characterized the League of Nations meeting at Geneva
as "one of the great events in the history of the' world."
He expressed the belief that if there had been a League of Nations in
1914 the world war would have been averted. .
' The league, said Lloyd George, is a considerable measure 'in achieve
ment, but he deplored the fact that no progress was made at Geneva to
ward world disarmament. J!
"There can be no real peace between nations so long as there is compe
tition in armaments," said the premier, "But at the same time nations
cannot risk disarmament until every country is Included.
"It was the terrible race in armaments that had more to do with the
late war -.than any other force. All nations must come to an agreement
that they-will not renew this race. Unless it is arrested the result will be
another clash."
one man of progressive tendencies
In the cabinet. The.president-elect
needs 'that influence to counterbal
ance his pronounced reactionary
bent of mind.. If he would select
other jnen of the Hughes tendencies,
it would be of value to the country
and a future asset for the. Republi
can party.
"Women are easy to fool ,if a man
knows how to feed their vanity,"
says a Texan, who successfully
fooled four of them into marriage.
But for attempting to fool Number
5 he got into Jail.
GUILTY MONEY
THE troubles with the soft drink
places are example of difficul
ties authorities must encounter in
enforcing prohibition. Before we
inaugurate the blue Sunday or pro
hibit use of tobacco we may well
make sure that we are making pro
hibition prohibit.
. it is just as well to face the booze
business as it is. The wholesale
revocation of soft drink licenses is
but a glimpse. . In spite of prohi
bition statutes and officers galore
and courts and punishments, boozeJ
is regularly in the market. Lately
tho supply is so increased that the
price is much reduced.
Where does it come from and how
does it get into Oregon? The cap
tain of a ship is. authority for the
statement that revenue officers made
repeated visits to his vessel and car
ried away quantities of booze on
each trip, but that it was his opin
ion that they did not get more than
one third of what the sailors had
hidden away in secret places in the
vessel. He had no hand in the traf
fic and his estimate was only a guess,
but it was probably a good guess.
A returned army aviator bought
an airplane. He operated between
Canada and various parts of the state
of Washington in connection with
an organized crew in. the latter state
and at the end of a few months piled
up earnings of $75,000. ' .
When Oregon went bone dry, a
telephone employe in Portland re
signed and went .to bootlegging. The
man who told the story to the writer
saw the bootlegger's certificate of
deposit for $15,000, amassed in a
period of about eight months.
An attache on a transcontinental
train relates that every time his
train reached a Pacific coast city,
not Portland, it carried from 100 to
1000 quarts of booze,' hidden away
in secret places. That it was dis
posed of in perfect safety through
a secret arrangement with the moral
squad at the terminal city was a
part of his illuminating information,
confidentially given.
A colored porter on a California
train is declared by a man who
knows, to be worth $20,000, all
earned since Oregon went bo.ie dry.
Forty thousand in the bank and sev
eral automobiles used in bootlegging
as the earnings of a Portlarider
who carried on a daring traffic be
fore California went dry, is another
case vouched for by creditable au
thority. .
Prohibition is a splendid substi
tute, for the saloon, but the fact may
Just as well be faced that" it thrusts
a super problem upon the authori
ties. It opens a field for crooks and
offers temptations to men with soft
consciences. If to the enforcement
prohibition we . add-prohibition of
tobacco and the regulation by law
of people's lives on Sunday, enforc
ing officers will have to be armies
instead of squads.
A young woman presented a small
check at a bank teller's window. She
was without acquaintance in the
bank, and had no letters or other
means of identification. She was
asked if she had a handkerchief or
some article of jewelry marked with
her name or initials. For a moment
she was puzled, and then her face
brightened. "Would an Initial gar
ter buckle do?" she queried.N She
go the money.
THE HIGH MOUNTAIN
MOUNT HOOD, the Wiyeast of
Indian legend, is a peak of in
scrutable mystery and uncertain con-
auct. so It has been since the eyes
of a white man first looked upon
its titan's tent of snow white splen
dor uplifted in the sky.
Lieutenant Broughton of the Brit
ishvnavy, on October 20, 179 2, is
recorded by the Mazamas' delight
ful recent book on Oregon's great
mountain, as having been the peak's
discoverer. He looked upon it from
that point in the Columbia river" Just
above Vancouver where the mighty
stream Itself by optical Illusion
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seems to Issue forth from beneath
the wide spread snow fields.
His log speaks of it . as "rising
beautifully conspicuous," and so im
pressed was he by the mountain's
mass and altitude that he set down
its height as 25,000 feet! Then he
proceeded to name it in honor of
another Britisher, Rear Admiral Sir
Samuel Hood.
When an attempt was made in
1854 both to make the first ascent
of Mount Mood and to measure its
altitude, the double impression of its
sky-piercing upward reach persisted
and the mountain was credited with,
13,361 feet. The next would-be,
but defeated, conqueror of its
heights, had an even more intense
Impression, for he found Mount
Hood to.be 19,400 feet high.
Not until 1867 was the altitude
of Mouril Hood correctly measured
and then by Colonel R. S. William
son, but the first accomplished as
cent was made in 1857, under the
leadership of the late H. L. Pittock.
As. to the eruptiveness of Mount
Hcod, the Mazama volume makes it
clear that the subject was as much
in dispute m olden times as It has
been more recently when the Dlume
above its massive head was defined
by one observer as an outthrust of
smoke from the fires beneath and
by another as a banner of loose
snow waved by the unceasing winds
of that rarefied altitude.
But aside from questions as to
name, height or heat, the Mazamas,
in their book, have contributed
much' to the growing place which
the "Mountain of Personality" has in
the lives of Oregonians and their
visitors. Their quotation of John
Muir is peculiarly apt:
Climb the mountains and get their
good tidings. Nature's peace will flow
into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own fresh
ness into you, and the . storms their
energy, while cares will drop off like
autumn leaves.
In New Zealand government oper
ation and ownership of the railroads
netted $8,017,169 in profits. Rail
roads thjre are not weighed down
with watered stock and bogus se
curities: AS YE WOULD
AT ONE of the 17,000 feeding sta
tions maintained hv A
in the war ravaged countries of East
ern and .Central Europe, a visitor
watched the children who were
waiting for their daily allowance of
food. ' '
m
Among them all was not one
chubby face. Their smiles had a pe
culiar quality, for they made the
visitor weep. The children were
pinched and thin. Their legs were
bent and their knees were 'knobbv
with rickets, which is a 'disease of
under nourishment. A child of 10
would be about the same size as your
5-year-old. Rags were their gar
ments.
One can stand about so much of
such a scene. The visitor turned
away. But down the street she met
a little girl bitterly sobbing. "My
brother," she mourned, "he lies there
and he will not move and he will
not get to the feeding station in
time for our share." i-"
The boy lay half sheltered in a
dugout of earth, a' tiny figure. He
did not answer when the visitor
spoke to him. There was no move
ment of the rags that partly cov
ered him. One claw-like little hand
still tightly clutched the small
bucket In which he was accustomed
to receive his daily portion.
But he was dead.
Let th scene shift. Only a few
thousand miles intervene between a
dead boy lying on the earth with
his empty bucket tightly clutched
in a claw-like hand and an Oregon
home where seme red-cheeked young
scamp with rumpled curly hair begs
"daddy" for bites at a breakfast
table.
Suppose by a quirk of fate the
positions were reversed. Suppose
the insistent little voice begged bites
in vain from a father or a -mother in
tho bitter region where meals are not
served any more except through the
generosity of America.
- Some small boy, some tiny irirl.
across the sea wall not have the red
cheeks and round body of complete
nourishment unless someone in Or
egon gives to the European child
ren's relief workers this week. It
isn't possible so to transfer our as
sured comfort and abundance. But
the tiny girl or the small boy. If
Oregon gives "as ye would that
others should do unto yours" will
at least' keep life In a frail body
and the bucket tightly clutched in
a claw-like hand will not be empty.
WHO -WILL HELP
THE FARMER?
Nobody Will. If the Counsel Given by
Most Newspapers Should Prevail
They Mill Around Among Plans
. Offered, Generally' Decry Them, m
And Offer Nothing, in Place
of Them.
Daily Editorial Digest
. (Consolidated Press' Association)
Federal loans for farmers, resurrec
tion of the war finance board and cred
its for foreign countries which are po
tential buyers of foodstuffs have not
proved popular demands among most ed
itorial writers who comment upon' them,
despite the pressure that is being
brought to bear in the West and South
to secure protection for the agricultur
ists against the depredations of defla
tion. Although nearly all the newspa
pers demand that congress rush through
legislation now pending, few are able to
offer concrete suggestions and fewer
still place much faith in what has al
ready been outlined.
"The United States government has
neither money nor credit," says the Wall
Street. Journal (Ind.). which, while it
may be far from the fields and furrows,
is at least close to the nation's purse,
"to extend to farmers, combining to in
fluence unfairly a world "market which
is, and ought to be, beyond this nation's
control." Seventeen banks in North Da
kota failed, it adds, because they at
tempted this very thing:. Nor does the
Journal believe in the war finance board
as a friend in need for the farmer; it is
not a peace time "necessity." Indeed, to
call back this organization into exist
ence, the Chicago Daily News (Ind.) de
clares, would be "the least reasonable"
of all the plans brought forth, "while the
best one would be extension of credits
in Europe. The trouble with dealing with
foreign customers who haven't the price
to pay their bills, the Springfield Repub
lican (Ind.) points out, is that the new
tariff policies would conflict, and if
America is to expect iiSpney from abroad
the Europeans must lie' allowed to sell
their goods here and "the Republican
West and the Democratic "South must
oppose the movement for a higher
tariff."
e
The St. Louis Star (Ind,) ' does and
doesn't believe in credits to the farmer,
for, though it admits he may be suffer
ing from price reductions, the public is
still suffering from high prices. The
essential need is "to pass the farmers'
price reductions on to the consumer."
In sum : "The farmers ought to have
credit enough so that they will not have
to sell their goods when speculators
or a glutted market have depressed
prices. They should not have credit to
enable them to defy natural conditions
or create an artificial shortage. But
that is what' they are asking for."
What they are asking for, if the Non
partisan league organ, the Fargo
Courier-News, can be taken as their
spokesman, is a credit for Germany,
based, for instance, on the "$400,000,000
realized from the sale of German prop
erty in the United States," permission
"to federal reserve banks to extend
credit on agricultural paper," and
farmer representation on the federal re
serve board.
Credits to farmers will mean tem
porary relief only, says the El Paso
Times (Dem.), but granting European
credits is the real solution. . This plan
meets the approval' of the Richmond
Times-Dispatch (Dem.), which, how
ever, also supports the idea of farm
credits with qualifications. It says :
"In addition to the organization sug
gested to finance foreign trade in farm
products, what seems the most favor
able plan under consideration is the
overhauling of the land bank system to
enable it to provide credit to the farmer
upon his produce and perhaps his ma
chinery. This would make it possible
for him to withhold hia, crops from the
market for a reasonable period. Such
loans as have been suggested might be
limited to four or six months, to the
end that hoarding of farm products on
the part of the farmer would be pro
hibited, in the sense that hoarding on
the part of the middleman is barred."
The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer (Ind.
Dem.) pleads for the immediate revival
of the war finance corporation and for
establishment of foreign credits. It
says : "The war finance corporation has
at its hand the machinery for putting
this credit at the service of Europe and
starting the outflow of cotton, wheat
and manufactured products, with a re
sultant rise in prices and the breaking
of the jam. The discussion about ways
and means for bringing relief to the
country need go no further than the
two propositions just set forth."
Distribution is at the bottom of the
farmers' trouble, the Topeka Capital
(Rep.) asserts, and in this respect the
farmer is at a great disadvantage as
compared with the merchant. For thi3
reason, the Capital explains the desire
for the war finance corporation : "In
this situation, which is almost without
parallel In this Section, and which, with
out the federal reserve system, would
have before now resulted in panic and
chaotic condition, congress is asked by
the farm organizations to revive the
war finance boaYd for the purpose of
affording loans by, the government to
the agricultural part of the country."
The Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.),
while it does not express much enthu
siasm over the idea, grants that "it
may be necessary" to revive the board,
for it considers that there is "no ques
tion about the seriousness of the crisis
In the country's agriculture" and "the
intervention of the national authorities
seems to be due somewhere." Another
Boston paper, the Post (Ind. Dem.),
despite its geographical distance from
the centers where the situation is the
worst, names as possibilities the meas
ures called for by the West and South.
It concludes : "As Senator . Harrison of
Mississippi has said, the government
encouraged the farmers to make the
great crop of which so much remains on
their hands, representing a very high
cost of production, and now ought to
apply exceptional treatment to aid
them."
But from Ohio and Alabama come
two voices of protest against the theory
of federal assistance. The Birmingham
NewsiDem.) believes: "We have be
come too accustomed to looking to the
federal government to do things for
us -from telling us how to raise babies
to singing songs and 'entertaining the
proletariat. ' It has got to stop some
time. And we must get back to self
help, self-reliance and take our losses
manfully."
Self-help is also the keynote sounded
by the Columbus (Ohio) State Journal
(Rep.), which admits that the govern
ment may be able to give some help
to the farmer, but thinks that la the
last analysis he must 'Tight his own
battles."
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
Tibet is peopled by a branch of the
Mongolian race. The 2,000,000 or S.000,
000 population are a mixture of Chinese
and Tibetans, a the races intermarried.
They believe in both polyandry and
polygamy. It is the most extensive
elevated country in the world, contain
ing 750,000 square miles, with an ele
vation varying from 1 8,000 to 14.000
feet. Its climate is principally bleak
and cold, although the summers In the
southern part are mild and pleasant.
The first white man to enter Lhasa,
the capital, was Sir Francis Young
husband, who fought his way there in
1904. Dalai .Lama, religious head of the
Buddhist faith, which is the national
religion, was so overcome-by the fact
that infidels had trodden the streets of
the forbidden city,, that he fled the I
country, and was for- many years a
wanderer In North China.
Letters From the People
Communications sent to Tba Journal for
publication in hia department sbonld be written
on only one aide of the paper: should not exceed
800 word in length, and most ba signed by the
writer,' whose mail address in full must accom
pany the contribution.
' PUTS IT UP TO CONGRESS
To Lead Off in Reconstruction. That
Local Units May Follow.
Portland, Dec. .16. To the Editor of
The Journal The unemployment prob
lem in Portland seems to be an an
nual situation, and at present there
are differences of opinion as to the
number of unemployed and the
cause of unemployment. There are
about 10,000 unemployed men in Port
land at any time of the year, and
twice that during the winter months.
About 20 per cent are professional
vagrants, both local and floaters. These
do not seek work at any time.
Unemployment is more noticeable in
winter on account of their congregating
in , north end districts, where shelter
and warmth 'can be obtained for little
or no consideration. For a city of its
size Portland has few industries. Not
enough work is obtainable for local
Portlanders the year ' round. Portland
has always been a hangout' for travel
ing laborers in winter. . Therefore there
is a crime wave every winter on ac
c6unt of poverty among the unem
ployed. Plenty of industries in Port
land will as a natural consequence
lessen crime to a greater extent than
any other factor devised by public of
ficials. Local- capital has failed in past years
to invest in local industries for the fol
lowing reasons : Freak laws controlling
industrial pursuits with regard to li
censes and taxes ; inadequate transpor
tation facilities; poor markets; lack of
cars and ships; inflated prices of
swamp lands that are fit only for fac
tories and millsites ; lack of coopera
tion between employer and employe ; no
special effort to adjust economic con
ditions with regard to production and
consumption of all commodities, con
gress having failed to even attempt to
adjust the economic situation with re
gard to profits on goods and the prices
of production. A curb on foreign im
migration is a start in the right direc
tion, but is only one of the many reme
dies necessary of enactment to bring
about , the settlement of conditions
which never were so unsettled as now.
The people are waiting, and watching
congress, as the problem is up to it.
Upon the enactment of federal laws,
local officials will find jurisidiction to
cope with local economic conditions.
This is surely the only feasible means
of readjustment and reconstruction. It
was advocated throughout the nation
directly after the war ended but abso
lutely nothing was done by congress,
which is the servant of good but mis
guided people. Otto D. Drain.
REAPERS OF THE WHIRLWIND
Austria and Germany Deserve Their
Fate, This Writer Believes.
Wolf Creek, Dec. 20. To the Editor
of The Journal I have read your edi
torial about the ex-kaiser's sorrows. In
The Journal. Let us waste no sympathy
on the (ex-kaiser. He is only getting
what he deserves. He ought to have
been turned over to the allies for pun
ishment, and in particular to France.
He could have stopped the war had he
been so minded.
Austria has sown to the wind, and
now she is reaping the whirlwind. It
was Austria that started the world cat
aclysm. We have no sympathy to waste
on Austria. She is only getting what is
coming to her. Hungary. Poland and
Russia will likely next follow Austria's
lead to bankruptcy.
It is my opinion that Germany is vir-J
iuauy oanxrupi ana is likely to declare
herself so at almost any Jime. Her
credit Is gone, her factories are going
to decay, her money is worthless and
her merchant marine is gone. What a
contrast in her affairs between the years
1913 and 1920! But, like Austria, she
will have to take her medicine. She
alone is responsible for her present con
dition and is not deserving of any sym
pathy. A. W. Zoellner.
DENOUNCES PRIZEFIGHTING
Calling It "Boxing" and "the Manly
Art" Doesn't Help Any.
Portland, Dec. 18. To the Editor of
The Journal Your esteemed paper is
commenting considerably of late on box
ing. It used to be called "prizefighting."
Many will be glad to see Portland line
up with San Francisco and Seattle and
condemn it. I have my opinion of peo
ple who admire such "sport" and call it
'the manly art." Two brutal, barbar
ous performances by men have I seen
one a "boxing" exhibition by the re-:
nowned John L. Sullivan and the Maori
of New Zealand (he was renowned too),
Pete McCoy, lightweight, and others of
the "famous." I saw them in a popular
theatre at St. Louis. There was a nice
play first, by fine talent, as was regu
lar, usually, at the place. Then the
"boxing" was announced. The ladies left
the hall, every one, and soon there en
tered "sports." And they seemed to
me pretty rough. They smoked, swore,
etc. The whole affair was what my
mother, would call, with burning scorn,
"low down."
The other was the hanging of a man.
This I witnessed at Barboursville, Ky.
Only onc have I seen such things, and
I do not care to see them again. They
are surely the most "low down" human
performances I've seen. E. M. IC
, TARIFF AND COMMERCE
Portland, Dec. 16. To the Editor of
The Journal Our exports being largely
in excess of our imports, how can the
European governments pay us for our
products if we bar out theirs by a high
tariff? Their money is almost worth
less. How would protection affect com
merce? J. B. Wright.
Olden Oregon
First
Grist Mill Was Set Up
Champoeg in the '.30s.
St
Webley J. Hauxhurst, who came to
Oregon with Ewing Young from Cali
fornia in 1834, erected a grist mill at
Champoeg, which added greatly to the
convenience of the Inhabitants of French
prairie, including the Methodist mission,
who had .previously pounded their bar
ley in a large wooden .mortar and
ground their' wheat in a .small castiron
mill called a corn cracker. Hauxhurst,
who was a native of Long Island, joined
the Methodist church, being among the
first converts of the mission among the
American settlers.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Andy Melheimer, who's somewhat great
around the waist, has been practicin fer
the part of Santy Clause at the school'
house, and that's why the door has had
to be cut open a bit wider. It's all Andy
can do to git past it now 'thout no out
landish costume and a pack of stuff
bigger'n a bale of hay, and nej ain't
agoin to take no chances, and neither
is the committee on program.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE -
The Irish question ought to demand
an eight-hour day. Detroit Journal. . 1
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We confess this agitation for a farm
ers' strike goes against the grain. Chi
cago Post,
As a rule when affections are alien
ated they were never thoroughly natural
ized to begin with. El Paso Herald.
Some men never get a chance to tell
the truth, now that there is no wine to
bring it out. Columbia (S. C.) Record.
While we are at it we might also try
something to bring matrimonial bonds
up to . Uielr race value. Minneapolis
Tribune.
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Perhaps It will not be long after his
retirement that Mr. Wilson will decide
that he would rather write than be president-
Houston Post.
a a
Jaywalker : . A term applied to the
unfortunate who guessed which way
the driver would turn and guessed
wrong. Baltimore Sun.
If Philander C. Knox isn't invited Into
the cabinet Senator Johnson will regard
it as cruel and unusual punishment, and
therefore unconstitutional. Anaconda
bianaara.
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A good many wives, in ruminating
these days oyer what to buy friend hus
band for a Christmas gift, are in a
quandary as to just what kind of a
vacuum sweeper he might like best.
Tulsa Tribune.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
E. J. Wilson- of Prineville is at the
Imperial. Mr. Wilson has Charge of the
"Home Made" railroad, which runs from
Prineville Junction to Prineville. When
the railroads decided they were too poor
to extend the road to Prineville the peo
ple of thaf enterprising community dug
down In their jeans and produced some
thing over $100,000 and built the road.
When a commercial traveler comes to
Prineville to book a bill of goods the mer
chant says, "By the way, how ar the
roads?" If the drummer says, "Pine,
you folks have great roads out your
way," the merchant gets very busy pull
ing nails out of empty boxes, and says:
"I am too busy to see you this trip,"
and the drummer might as well pack
his sample case and beat it, for he won't
sell any gpods in Prineville. If the
drummer says, "I came in on the train,"
then the merchant tells his customer to
drop around later, as he wants to look
at tl.is gentleman's line of samples. The
explanation is simple. The merchant is
a stockholder in the railroad, and he
believes in reciprocity. If the drummer
can't ride on Prineville's railroad, then
the Prineville people don't care to buy
his goods.
Bill Hanley of Burns is at the Mult
nomah. Bill Hanley wanted to be Unit
ed States senator some years ago, but
he is rather ' glad the voters decided
against him, for he has decided that the
lucky man in an election is the man
who Isn't elected.
"
Cary Ball, importer and exporter,
from Japan, is at the Perkins. He is
here looking up the lumber market
W, B. Alderman, pioneer resident of
Tillamook county, is doing some Christ
mas shopping in Portland.
Ira Mclsaacs of Granddalles, across
the Columbia from The Dalles, Is a
PQtland visitor. r
Dr. Carrie L. Norvalle of Elgin is
In Portland to spend the Christmas holi
days. L. Parker of Garibaldi on the Tilla
mook shore Is transacting business in
Portland.
It C. Cooper of Salem is at the Im
perial. Edna Miller of La Grande is spending
the holidays in Portland. .
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
A strong; plea for the development of Alaska
is hers presented by Mr. Lockley, quoting a
buxineas man of Juneau who knowa the re
sources of that country and what is needed to
daTelop them.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Jacobs of Juneau
are guests at the Hotel sPortland. Mr.
Jacobs is a business man of Juneau and
has been there eight years. Juneau,
with its 5000 population, Is not only ,, the
capital of Alaska, but also the me
tropolis of . that vast and rich territory.
It is situated on Gastineau channel and
is at the head of navigation for ocean
going vessels.
"Juneau has more than one string to
her bow," said Mr. Jacobs. "The min
ing industry probably ranks first, then
comes fishing, and then, though possibly
not in the order I mention them, come
the tourist business, timber, waterpower
and agricultural resources. The Alaska
Gastineau mines, located at Thane, three
miles from Juneau ; the Alaska Juneau
mine.; within the city limits, and the
Alaska Treadwell mine, just . across
Gastineau channel and about four miles
from Juneau, are our big producers and
have given us the name of the Gold
Belt City. These mines are said to be
the lowest grade gold mines in the
.world. The first two have capacity for
crushing 15,000 tons of rock daily; The
ore runs from 1 to $1.75 in gold values
per ton.
'With the Increased cost of produc
tion due to labor scarcity during the
war every manufacturing plant passed
the increased cost on to the consumer
by raising the price of its product to take
care of the increased cost of labor and
ma!,ia, i1!! 1 FfJl1 ?"1lTl1i'f
gold had to remain at the same value
as before the war, so that the cost of
production had to come from the profits
previously secured by the stockholders
of the mining companies. The govern
ment did not raise the price of gold,
so the mining industry hasbeen hard hit
by the higher cost of production. These
mines employ approximately 2000 men,
so our lunch bucket brigade is a large
one and we rank high as a payroll city.
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"The Alaska Gastineau and the Alaska
Juneau mines represent an Investment
of over $8,000,000, while the Alaska
Treadwell mine cost around $3,060,000.
The old Treadwell mine consisted of
three workings, or mines the original
Treadwell, the Mexican and the Ready
Bullion. In the tunnels of the Tread
well and the Mexican mines, which ran
under Gastineau channel and at right
angles from the main shaft, at a depth
of about 2500 feet, the engineers had
blocked out over $10,000,000 of ore values
Almost without warning the roofs of the
tunnels collapsed and the sea rushed
into the workings. As Gastineau chan
nel at the point of submergence is over
1000 feet deep it can readily be seen
that the $10,000,000 worth of blocked
out ore has been written off the books
and transferred to Neptune, or Davy
Jones, or whomsoever owns the depths
of the sea. - While we have gold mines
with very low grade ore, we also have
gold mines where the ore runs very
high in value. The Chichagof gold
mines, on Chichagof Island, which is
about 40 miles to the northward of
Sitka, has ore that, runs $40 to $280 per
J ton. It produces about $1,000,000 a year,
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
. Repealing the excess profits tax will
not swell the bank account of the aver
age taxpayer. Eugene Guard.
.The most dangerous combination in
peace times is an autolst with a bottle
of hootch in his hip pocket and half of
it in his Interiors. Crane American?
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Washington is going to have a lu
sky law like Oregon's. - But Washington
cannot have a blue sky like - Oregon's.
It rains so much up there. Corvallis
Gazette-Times. -
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If Mayor Baker can do away with the
unsightly North Bank depot and succeed
in getting a union station for Portland,
his name will go down In history. It
should be arranged now whlle the time
4s ripe. Banks Heratd.
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Rents in New Sfork are so high that
tenants can't stay in the houses, and
moving expenses are so high that they
can't move. That's a case of the Ir
resistible force mee&ing the " Immovable
body. Eugene Register.
President Wilson has been awarded
the Nobel peace prize for 1920. This car
ries with it a grant of about $10,000, but,
aside from that, is considered about the
greatest honor that can be accorded a
citizen of the world. Salem Statesman.
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Bonanza aspires to be ,the county seat
of a newTrounty to be formed by divid
ing Klamath. It is presumed that the
dividing line will be in Klamath Falls
so as to include one of the numerous
courthouses which Klamath county now
possesses. Lake County Examiner.
Condon, in the wheat growing belt of
Eastern Oregon, was well represented in
Portland this week. Among others from
that live and progressive community
were : Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bishop, George
Campbell, J. B. Sparks. Andy Erwin,
Miss Mary O'Rourke, G. W. Hawes, Mrs.
E. R, Hutchison, Mrs. Frank Maddock
with her two children and her mother,
Mrs. Kate Russell ; Elmer Hamrick, and
K. E. Fry.
.
L. L. Paget, banker and stockholder
In Seaside's new hotel, is in Portland to
interest Portland capitalists in Oregon's
biggest seaside resort hotel. Seaside is
spending $100,000 to put down a concrete
sea wall and sidewalk along the ocean
front. It will be a mile and a half long
and will extend directly in front of the
new hotel.
Rev. Frank James and P. J. Voth of
Dallas were recent Portland visitors,
They were here consulting about plans
for the new Methodist Episcopal church
edifice at Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. John IL Putnam of
Fossil have decided to become Port
landers. They have - just moved here
and have bought a home.
C C Chapman and Mrs. Chapman of
Pendleton are in town. They want C.
C. Chapman of the Voter to know that
he has no exclusive monopoly of the
name or initials.
.
Mrs. Ed Seufert, whose husband has an
Interest in most of the salmon that swim
up the Columbia river from the sea.
is a guest at the Imperial.
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Mrs. Lewis T. Griffith, Mia Margaret
Griffith and Miss Jeanette Meredith of
Salem are domiciled at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brockman of this
city are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Price of Clark Wrood's town Weston.
Mrs. C. W. Woodruff of Prineville is
spending the Christmas holidays with
friends in Portland.
Curtis Bailey of Prineville Is seeing
the sights in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Starr of Olex art
at the Oregon.
Frank Foster of Prineville is a visitor
In Portland.
Lockley
"We have 20 salmon canneries within
a 40-mile radius of Juneau. These use
Juneau as their base of operations and
source of supplies. During the canning
season many thousands of men come
from Oregon, and Washington to work
in our salmon canneries. In the past
we used Chinese labor to a much
greater extent than at present. As the
wages paid jun from $5.50 to $7 a day,
and as board and lodging can be had
for $1 a day, the work attracts many
college students who put in the sum
mer vacation profitably.
' "Lying about 50 miles from Juneau
ar the famous halibut banks of which
you have read and heard so much.
These banks are fished by independent
fishermen. Let ys say a man ownsa
fishing boat. He leases it to a group
of fishermen. Suppose' three fishermen
go out on the banks. In dividing the
catch one fifth is given to the boat
and one fifth to the owner of the boat,
and one fifth is taken by each of the
three fishermen. In other words, the
boat is always given the share of one
man and the owner is also counted one
man. About 6,000,000 pounds of halibut,
black cod, king salmon and sable fish
is caught by the independent fishermen,
boxed in Ice and shipped to Seattle, the
prices realized by the fishermen run
ning from 4 to 14 cents.
"Twenty miles from Juneau local
capital has erecfed on the Speel river
the pioneer pulp mill of Alaska. It Is
located in an immense body of spruce
and hemlock and unlimited waterpower
. is rcady available. The pulp milt is
90 per cent completed and will begin
grinding up spruce trees to convert into
pulp for the making of newsprint some
time next month. Plans are being dis
cussed which may result in the Gas
tineau Mining .company also putting in
a pulp mill on its holdings which will
cost around half a milion. Alaska, with
its vast fonests of spruce and Its unlim
ited waterpower, can settle the pulp
and paper shortage If capital can be
interested in the erection of paper mills
there.
"The mild climate of Southeastern
Alaska, with its wonderful scenic at
tractions, resulted last summer In only
a small part of the tourists being able
to make the Alaska trip who would
have gone had accommodations been
available. The Alaska Steamship com
pany and the Pacific Steamship com
pany are , planning to increase their
fleets to take care of the increased
tourist business, I understand. When
you think of Juneau, remember it" is a
modern and up-to-date Western com
munity, -pot a red light, wide open, fron
tier or mining town. We have good
schools and churches and live newspa
pers. John Troy is .editor of the Dally
Empire and Charles E. Herron is editor
of tut Daily Capital. Herron also owns
a paper at Anchorage and is a live wire.
"The best way4o learn Alaska's pos
sibilities and needs, and also to ' learn
that she would like to maintain closer
commercial relations with' Oregon is to
make a trip up there and see for your
self what we are doing and what we
I hope to accomplish "
The' Oregon Country .
Northwest Happenings In Brief Form for tba
: Buijr Header
OREGON NOTES -The
state tax for Columbia county for
the coming year is $139,900. Last year it
was $64,0110. .
The Bend Commercial club has elected -L.
Antles of Denver, Col., to the position
of secretary.
Graveling of the state highway from "
Bend to Jtedmond has been completed by
the contractors. , ,
The total tax rate for Marshfield prop
erty owners next year will be 62 mills,
the highest ever levied. v;
With about 80" ranchers present, the
Hood River Valley Poultry association
was organised at Hood River last Sat
urday, Searchers are combing the hills near
Klamath Falls for Fletcher Decker, who
went hantlng Sunday morning and failed
to return.
The school board at Bend has In
augurated a move for the construction
of a modern 40-room high school build
ing to cost $150,000.
The Coos and Curry Telephone com
pany is erecting a new building and -making
other improvements at Coqullle
that will cost $.000., - t'
Several carloads 'of sulphur have
reached Kedmond. in Deschutes county,,
for fertiliser purposes. It Is being sold
to farmers at $60 per ton.
Following retrenchment orders issued
h V thA ntharn I n ... f ff.lt..,..,
I'? n ' 1 employes of the oar shops at
nave oeen .aiscnarged.
Plans ? have been completed for the
reorganization nt tho riohnt.. i.
Cow Testing association. The organiza-
-'"' uis iu eiirow owners or, 3uu
cows.
Approximately 2,000,000 strawberry
plants destined for California growers
have been held up by an embargo placed
on Oregon grown plants by the Califor
nia state board of horticulture. ,
There are from 125,000 to 150,000 tons
of hay raised in Malheur county, and an
attempt I being made i to organise the ,
farmers into an association for selling
the entire output. The price is now '
per ton. .
Orchardlsts of Malheur county are suf
fering great losses from the too numer
ous beavers which are cutting their trees
near the river". Many fine orchards are
almost entirely destroyed.
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WASHINGTON'.
Ten cent streetcar fares in Vancouver,
ordered by the pnbllc I service commis
sion, went into effect last Monday.
.- The Chehalis school board is prepar
ing plans for a new grade school build
ing to cost from $70,000 to $100,000.
The body of Don S.' Ounder, son of
W. R. Ounder, who died in Frame
while serving the colors, has arrived at
Puyallup. i
Three meat dealers of Walla Walla
have been arrested and fined, for using
preservatives in , the manufacture vl
hamburger steak. "
Jim Hill mustard is costing the farm
ers of Columbia county $100,000 a year
and the farmers are planning a deter
mined fight agairst it
Another gas well has been produced in
Benton county's oil field, making the
fourth gas well, all of which are located
witnin a radius of one mile.
The Chehalis Box, Basket & Veneer I
company has filed articles of lncorpora- i
tion with the Lewis county clerk, the i
capital Mtock being fixed at $100,000.
Two masked robbers entered a pool
hall at Rainier, forced a dozen patrons
of the place to line up against the wall, f
while they robbed the cash register of ;
$75 and escaped. j
A movement among churches of East- !
ern Washington for revision of divorce1
and marriage laws, strict state censor-
ship of moving pictures and registration !
of the clergy has been announced. I
The Infant son of Mr. and MrsMr- i
tin Anderson, who live near Vardar. wan I
probably fatally burned Monday when !
their house was destroyed by fires Mrs. i
Anderson risked her life to save the I
child. ' ,-:'.!:
As a result of a formal pow-wow held
on the Yakima reservation. Chief Louis
Mann will leave in a few days for I
Washington to meet President-elect !
Harding and explain to him the grlev- I
ances of the Indians on the reservation, i
IDAHO
State revenue from motor vehicles
during 1920 amounted to $1,611,969.80,
while In 1919 it was only $988,251.19.
The cannery at Lewlston closed ' its
work fpr the season last week with a
final run of apples to the amount of
1037 tons. '
Freight rates on Idaho hay to Mis
souri river points have been reduced
from $15 to $10 per- ton, according to
word received at Boise.
Sergeant Louis Woods of the Thirty
second infantry, Vancouver; has been
appointed drill master In the University
of Idaho military department.
A bill calling for the creation of a
welfare commission to atd disabled and
destitute ex-service men and women will
be presented to the next state legisla
ture. . Governor Davis announces that he
will appoint Frank R Gooding, senator
elect, to succeed Senator Nugent In the
event Senator Nugent i accepts the posi
tion on the federal trade commission.
Extension of t time on the first and
second Owsley projects for the purpose
of allowing entrymenla longer time tn
which to file proof of claims has been
granted by the commissioner of recla
mation. " I
know youRj.
PORTLAND
Mount Hood is the outstanding peak
in the colony of snow covered moun
tains visible from Portland. It is
-also the overtopping scenic feature of
this community. . i '
Information about Mount Hood con
tained in the -booklet recently issued
by the Mazamas warrants reproduc
tion in condensed form.
The first white man to discover
Mount Hood was Lieutenant Brough
ton of the British navy, October 20,
1792.
He named the peak for Rear Ad
miral Sir Samuel Hood, also of the
British navy.
He estimated the height of the
mountain at 25,000 feet.
The first accurate measurement of
the peak was made in 1867 by then
Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, and his
Is the figure accepted today, 11,225
feet above sea level. J
The first successful! attempt of rec
ord to scale the peak was accom
plished in July, 185T, by a party com
posed of 11. L. Pittock, W. Lyman
Chittenden, James Q. Deardorf, Wil
liam Buckley and professor L.I J.
Powell. Two, previous attempts were
made but are not credited with suc
cess the Dryer-Barlow attempt in
1864, and the Belden (attempt in Oc
tober of the same year. The first
of these latter parties estimated the
height of Mount Hood at 18,361 feet
and the second at 19,400. . r - j
Volcanic activity in the crater of
Mount Hood has not. been, officially
"knowi within the memory of white
men. although Joe! Palmer reported
In 1845 a plain filled with mud and
boulders so recently! deposited that
tops of buried trees were stiU visible.
Smdke plumes have been reported
from time to time, even within the
last year, and have usually been either
credited to the imagination of the
observer or defined a snow plumes.
Hydrogen sulphide gas still Issues
from the crater, and there Is con
siderable beat but without -sign of
eruptive tendency. .';:
As the crow flies Mount Hood is
a little less than 60 miles from Port
land. , Government Camp, on the
south side, and Cloud Cap Inn, on
the north slope, are the usual start
ing points for ascents.