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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND OREGON. FRIDAY, : DECEMBER 24,'. 1920. 1 JV txnRPfcSWvt SEWBPAPER C. S, JACK BOM . ... i .......... ..mo"" t ealm. b Confident, b cheerful and do unto emr a jitm mHl Has mem oo wnm l'utiUhnt cmy dr .l nndar morning, t The Journal Building. Broadwajr " - : hln tret. Portland, Oregon. . -- - f Knitml t h. on.fr.tfl. it lortlnd. (aregon, fur trarwmrtulon through the mil cond clss matter. TKI.KI"HONK Main 7173. Automatic BSO-51. AB department resc-h-d by the nmbera. NAT'OSAl. AIiVKHTl.SlNU HKPKKSKNTA' TlVB-s-Benjamin Av Kent nor Cv. Brnntwkfc rluilding, 225 fifth avenue. New Tork; l00 Ms lie Building, Chicago. 1'JHIFK' I1HAT HErttESENTATIVE W. B. . B ranger Co, Kiiminer Hulluinf, Ban fran- nut: Tltl Insurance Building, uem angtira. . r'-IntH)ifrncer Building. Seattle. 'lilK Utih;o.N JUl'H.NAL, reserTe the right Jo reject aureftMng copy which it deem on jerttonable. It-abo witl not print any copy that in any my emulate readme matter or that cannot readily be recognised as adter- tintnt. St'BSf'IlII'TlOX HATK8 1 ! Bjr Carrier, Cily and Country ! i UAlt.V AXI St-SDAT - mm On ek . .) .14 I One month t .65 ! DAILY J 8LNDAI One veek ....... t .10 I On week ...... t .05 me month.... .4 I BY MAIL. Al.I. HATER PAYABLE IN ABTAXCE it "IAII.Y AU One ! yaar .8.0 Three months.. .$2.25 On month, 76 BC.VOAY ; (Only) One year. . . . . .fS.O Six montha.... 1.73 Tbre months... 1.00 . Hit montha. ... . 4..'9 I DAILY . (Without Sunday) On year. . . . , .. ' Hi month'. , , . 3.25 -'I hrt- montha... 1.75 On month ..... .60 ' WEEKI.T CKrary Wednendur) On year...... $1.00 ' Six month .... .50 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY On yaar., ... .13.50 Then ratea apply only in the West, : Hates to Eastern point furnished ' nn anpHc , Hon.. Make remittance by Money Order. Expreaa rder or ltratt. . If your postoffic i not ; Money Order office, 1 or 2-cent ataoip will b , areepted. Make all remittance payable to The - Journal, Portland,' Oregon. - The mot sacred work it to teach people not to better themselves, but to satisfy them wlici, -and nothing but justice and righteousness will ever satisfy people. . -ituskln. WHEN WE CONDEMN I 'HERE has been to much loose 1 talk relative to largo sums of money spent that many well mean ing persons have been led to believe that this money of the government was spent without thought of return and without1 aa effort to control," said Admiral Benson, in an address in Brook lVn,f. concerning criticisms of the shipping board. '.'- The' need of citizens is for bigger outlook. Demagogues and politi cians mostly find fault to fool peo ple. Unhappily many people fail t see the big thing and are easily fooled by the little things. The shipping board made blun ders: It was working In a new- field on at gigantic enterprise, the first of its kind, and blunders were inevit able. Its operations were so vast tha' jgreat undertakings had to be 'entrusted to' subordinates at a time of war, when men on all sides thojght it proper to; plunder, and t'if' plunder, the government. Opera tions! were necessarily hurried, even frailc, to build ships for a bridge to rshing, and hast always means blijnders, glaring land costly blunders. In any broad view, the won ler is that even more blunders wt-r not made. I fetit back of it all is this tremend ow fact: . . , : . " rst America has physical pos esjoh of the largest single ileet o'f merchantmen in the history of the -world. . ',' , ISecondr-The fact that we had this fleet stabilize'd ocean freight rates atj ir time when those rates were soaHng to a height almost: unbeliev able. - ' -: I -' " jllhlrd For the first time in 60 seajrs, America has a delivery sys trri over all seas and it is a system noer the American flag.; . 1 ourth This fleet ; has earned !rf ;gross revenue more than a bil lipt dolif.rs, and all that money re iiiained in this country, i Fifth This fleet came into being Just at the time when the great Ger man merchant fleet went out of existence and America by that token took up the vantage place Germany lsest. When we condemn, let us also , commend! , Portland's plans for a highways exposition in 1925 .will be incomplete as long as the ML; Hood loop road ft unfinished. The exposition build ings will be insufficient iri'number until adequate tourist hotel facilities . n re, provided. FOR THEIR LIVES THE JOURNAL thoroughly sub scribes to .the logic and expres sion : of "Reader" contained in an article appearing in another-column on this page. ' - lie says pedestrians ae responsi ble for- hundreds of automobile ac cidents, that many appear to be ir i csjumsible in their antics ' ; on the streets, that their carelessness should VP curbed, and that they are sadly need of education as to how to .it best protect their own lives. It is all true. In numerous ar tic es The Journal has uttered iden- t cal expressions. . feighty per cent of the accidents i . .. 1 ' in which' pedestrians are . Involved are directly chargeable to the negli gence of the pedestrians themselves. They pay no heed to, semaphores. They step off curbs without a glance In either direction. Or. perhaps, they look only one way, trusting to luck that nothing is approaching' from the blind side. They walk out from behind obstructions, from b hind parked cars, and into the cen ter of a stream of traffic. Fre quently they are caught between streetcars and, automobiles without a way to turn, without a chance fr escape unless the line of traffic stops. They think of other matters than their own safety while crossing strVets, and as a result of the stray ing thoughts they place themselves in innumerable death traps. ;There are, too, as "Reader" says, scores of pedestrians who have the "hit me if you dare" spirit. . They deliberately force lines of traffic to come to a halt because of a traffic bolshevism. Some day some driver will not be able, to stop hU' car In time. And there is not a coroner's jury or a grand jury in the, world that would charge a driver with manslaughter if the victim had de liberately invited a collision. ' . Just as the police cannot possibly catch every driver for every viola tion of the city ordinance, they can not chesk every pedestrian. But most assuredly the men at semk phores should do their duty in edu cating pedestrians to obey traffic regulations. They should halt pe destrians who Jaywalk, and force them to use , precautions toward saving their own lives. ., The maximum of accident preven tion cannot be attained through the efforts of drivers alone. Before in juries and deaths are brought down to the minimum the pedestrian must necessarily learn to act On the public streets as he would expect a sane automobile driver to act. . A STOCKMAN'S GRIEVANCE -A: ' HERE is what J. T. Houston, an Oregon cattleman, writes The Journal: . ' ; I ask space in your paper ;to talk to my , fellow stockmen on the marketing conditions at the present time. I came from Prineville with two loads of -cattle one as fine a load as you generally pee in the Portland yards, that cost me TA ,ents 10 weeks ago and have been on feed ever since. On Monday morning a buyer came along and offered, 'me 84. cents for pick ht one steer out of that herd. He then went to tbe junk pens and bought his cattle that were not more than fit for dog meat. He wanted that good steer to hang up for his customers to look at while he cut the dog nieut. We will admit it 13 good for the eyes to have something good to look at, but what is the stomach doing while the eyes aire feasting? ; . If the people could only see the old, poor cows before they were butchered they would never eat any more sau sage. Mr. Houston appeals to his fellow stockmen to organize and fight the present system of stock selling. He is shipping one carload of his cattle back to Prineville, because he is caught by the market. He goes on to say: ( ' -' Now, to "my fellow stockmen, I would say : What we have got to ii3o is to get organized a'nd not too many of us come here at a time. We should have, a man here whose business would be 10 keep In touch with eery feeder or ship per and bring them in In order, not more than 50 or 60 loads a week. Or not ship here at all. Let them come o the ranches to buy. That would save the needless expense I am put to now, as I have to ship my best load back home- The best offer Is 7tt centB. Don't ship anything good to his market for at least 20 days. They are not buying it now. . , If the feeders only knew their strength and worked collectively the thing i is won in one month ' Mr. Houston's plan is much the same as that jyoposed at the big meeting of stockmen at Burns last summer. There a committee was named to study the subject with? a possibility , 6f an organization that would ship to the market by con cert of. action in which too many head would not be offered, at one time. : .One thing is true: When a stodk man is forced to ship back to Prine ville a carload of cattle which Jie has recently shipped from Priiie vflle to Portland to sell, a point, is being reached in which remedies wilt have to be applied. Tfhe meat trust is pressing down too strongly a crown of thorns upen the trow of the American stockman. Get out the federal trade commission report and read it. .TO WHAT LENGTHS? HOW far can the great human mass admit the principle that a sufficient return must be guaranteed the utility to provide for extensions of the plant? ,. ' , If the public must, through profits for the businessprovide for extensions, the Idgio is that it must in the ultimate supply the whole plant. Because the public by regu lation protects itself against extor ticnate rates for service, does it thereby, as the utility In effect con tends, agree to supply the corpora tion with a plant, assume all the hazards of the business and guaran tee the. company a "fair return"! ip profits t If, for the sake of regulation, the public thus provides the plant, as sumes all the risks of the business and guarantees fair profits, to what lengths is regulation carrying us? What kind of a special "and privi leged class of investors is the pro cess creating? What kind of a pro tected and safeguarded group .of -.financiers are we setting up to whom we must pay tribute? How far can the great common herd afford to ad mit Jthe principle? : - lt is usual in organizing corpora tions . to issue common . stock and preferred etock. The preferred stock . is cash actually paid in. The common stock is' almost universally a paper security which becomes valuable only if the business is successful. In the securities of all the utilities, there is .common stock worth nothing at all .until the business takes care of the preferred stock and shows a surplus. In every claim for a guarantee of a fair re turn, every utility corporation is sparring for a return of sufficient profits to make valuabfe a common stock that never had any value, that represents no cash outlay, that is not investment at all, and that is parasitical on the business. Of- course it is pleaded that rates are N fixed on physical valuations. Just how much faith can the public have in physical valuations when back of these valuations is a corpo ration , contending , that the public provide the capital for the invest ment, provide for all extensions, as sume all the hazards of the enter prise and pay profits to men whose usual investment is paper, common stock that cost them nothing? ' On the whole, where is the great body of people being led to by the utility financiers in our clumsy at tempts at Tegulation? STILL. LOOTING THE burglaries and holdups have :not yet stopped in Portland. A day or two ago there was a $1000 burglary. A few days before that we had the "gentleman burglar!" A policeman was beaten and robbed. A train was held up in this vicinity. Minor crimes happen every night. Not long ago a cleanup of the city was promised. Something like 10 men were Investigated. It was a fine thing as far as it Went. But it was apparently a two days' clean up. , A crime wave is not a two days' wave. It is not stopped in 48 hours. It is usually winter long lasting for months. . The criminals in Portland will not bediscovered in two days. . They will not all be located in one week. To police a city and hold crime to a minimum, cleanups must be going on'every minute, every day, every, week. The practice of publicly an nouncing cleanups following a dis astrous outbreak of crime, arresting men wildly for a few days and again returning to slothfulness is not ef fective "police administration.- It does not protect the citizens of a municipality. And that is what police depart ments are for. THE WARNING OF WALTERS WHEN shown the bloody gar ments of his victim, young Walters, who killed a Portland po liceman, could not control his emo tion. How could, he? Back of those garments, ' in, -the prisoner's mental vision, was the figure of a man, and by his side a dependent mother. In the picture was that night when Walters, in the bold role of bandit, terrorized- mei, deprived them of their valuables and made his loaded revolver the law of the land. And ' in that mental picture there was the smoking pistol, the dead man at his feet, the capture, the law, the courtroom, the Judge on the bench, the Jury to pass upon his act, and Out beyond it all, grim and terrible, the prison or the gallows. These were things for Walters to have thought of before he loaded his revolver and went out to rob and steal, and, if necesary, to slay. They are the lot awaiting more than' one of Walters kind, who are, from night to night, plundering Portland homes, terrorizing Portland citizens and living by the power of the pistol instead of by honest work. Their time will come, and then, like Walters, they will be unable to control their emotion. As Clara Smith Hamon journeys back to Ardmore to be tried, the thought projects itself that when a lady shoots a gentleman the gentle man has not played the game four square. PORTLAND GANGSTERS IN THE absence of details It is dif ficult to understand how two men, accused with a third of luring three young women to a local hotel at different times and thereupon at tempting to assault' them, escaped punishment. The third was wisely given the maximum sentence under the law. : The other two, It seems, were pres ent at the time the attacks w.ere attempted or at least had knowledge that they were to take place... Re ports of the trial indicate that they connived to betray the young women, and that they may have wilfully aided the scoundrel who received the maximum sentence. V. Perhaps the evidence against the two was Insufficient. But as a gen eral policy, and in connection with this case," it may be said that this is no time for gangsters in Portland. . The whole of the recent episode smacks of the gangster activities in San Francisco. It was an echo of the Howard street shack. Unquestionably the young women in the case were entirely void of dis cretion. They had no business at any,, hotel with any men. But the indiscreet are protected by Jaw as Well .as the discreet, and they are in much greater "need of that protec tloni Let every measure be taken by judges, juries and police to protect Portland men and Portland women from gangs and gangsters. AMERICA "OKEHS"i ' NOBEL AWARD Comment in Editorial Columns Indi cates General . Satisfaction With the Choice, Even Opponents for the Most Part Conceding So "Much Predictions of Future Honors as Crown of Wil son's Great Work." "Daily Editorial Digest" 4 nnklMat w4 fd a am.tn n hen the Nobel peace prize-came to America for the third time, with Wood row Wilsonlas the recipient, the coun try's newspapers, regardless of how they cast their votes in the "solemn referendum," were almost unanimous in their opinion that . the honor was deserved. Despite differences ever his methods and doubts over his success, there is general agreement with the comment of the New York World (Democrat) that it was the president's "distinctfon that- he made the general question of a guaranteed peace, the dominant issue of his day," or at least, as the Jersey City Journal (Independ ent) puts it, "made it a world wide issue." Although there is some tendency on the part of the president's more enthus iastic supporters to predict an outburst of contemptuous comment from those who opposed his policies, this charge is scarcely justified. . The New York Tri buns (Republican) is the exception, however, and its remarks are called "typical of the bitter haters" by the Des Moines Register (Independent Re publican.) The Tribune, suggesting Marshal Foch as a more worthy sub ject for just reward, ironically gives these directions to others who may aspire to the honor accorded Presi dent Wilson: "If they keep from their minds poisonous knowledge of .what war is, or what has caused a particular war. and, above all, defeat the estab lishment of a just peace, they may hope to be decorated with the insignia Of the Order of the Dove." To this the New York Evening World (Democrat) responds in kind: '"The mouthings of the Tribune are a fair example of how partisanship may blind. From the Tribune it is doubly aston ishing because of the fact that the Nobel prize committee continues to operate under the same rules under which the peace prize was awarded to Theodore Roosevelt, the particular idol of the Tribune." ' But while some of the Xther Repub lican papers may be silent on the sub ject by no means all of them with hold their satisfaction with the course taken by the committee. "America can lay aside partisan bitterness," says the Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, In dependent Republican), "to recognize the fitness of the award," and thp Providenee Tribune (Independent Re publican), granting that the president did not accomplish all he undertook, thinks that "beyond all cavil and dis pute he has done more than any other man" during the last few years, per haps more than any one man did be fore, to turn the world's face and foot steps to the "inauguration of a reign of justice and law among all nations." A similar statement comes from the Sioux City (la.) Journal (Republican), which says "the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to President Wilson is a fitting recognition of his work in be half, of world peace, irrespective of final accomplishment f his efforts." The Pittsburg Gazette Times (Repub lican) adds : "However people may dis?. agree with him as to the practicability of the measures proposed or supported by him, none question the sincerity of President Wilson's advocacy of uni versal peace. No other man of his time has been more earnest and persistent in pressing the adoption by all nations of the scheme which he believes will prove efficacious in doing away with war." The Chicago Dully News (Independ ent) enumerates the acts which it b?i lieves made Wilson the logical winner, namely, "The repeated appeals to the German people over the heads of their autocratic and militaristic chiefs dur ing the period when 'peace without vic tory' was still deemed possible ; for his famous 14 points, which helped to bring about Germany's application for 1.n armistice ; for his work at Paris 'in modifying the harsh terms origin ally insisted on by Clemenceau and Foch, and for his efforts to establish world peace." The 14 points, in the opinion of the Louisville Courier Journal (Democrat), were reasons enough in themselves, and the fourteenth point the greatest of all. It. says: "Whatever may be said of those great principles and ir respective of whether some of them were relinquished in the subsequent peace negotiations, the important thing fs that they formed a basis by which cannon were silenced and men were released from momentary danger of death." . Pointing out how, even before the war, the president was working for the association of nations embodied in the fourteenth , point, how he continued his effort-s during the war itself and through the negotiations, the Indian apolis News (Independent) , shows that "his record has ' been con sistent and continuous" and "he has, therefore, distinctly merited the prize." It is because "the League of Nations, is the fruit of his efforts more than any other man's" that the Wichita Eagle (Independent) believes the prize was won, and' the Milwaukee Journal (Independent) adds:. "And though the gathering at Geneva should break up to morrow this would still mark further service to the cause of peace than any for which the Nobel prize has yet been awarded. For a higher point has been reached than any heretofore in human history. The word of many mentis that all this has been a failure. The faith and the determination of millions; is that it shall not fail. These millions of the earth will not ask why the Nobel prize has gone to Woodrow Wilson." . The signal difference in the contribu tion which the president has added to the cause of ending war, is, to the New York Evening Post (Independent), the fact that "he set out to realize the Ideal of peace in the world we live in" rather than doing as plenty of others have, merely grant a "willingness for " inter national peace in their own kind of a world and utxm their own conditions." rWilson "worked for a habit of peace," it explains, and "as that habit grows his vindication will grow." It is, indeed,, the future that will yield him the great est praise, many agree. "The Nobel prize," predicts the Lynchburg News Democrat), "is -but a precursor, but h preliminary indication, of what awaits the president and his memory," The Denver Rocky .Mountain News (Inde dependent) asks: "Is it not likely that a new generation will commend the selec- t tion by the Norwegian committee of Mr. Wilson as one of the best entitled to the reward for his services for $ie cause which the donor' of the" prize had in his heart when he Bigned his will? We of today may be too close to the scene to be final In our; judgments. In his writ ings, fully as much as by his acts at the peace table, Mr. Wilson . prepared the world for a new order that poets and internationalists have been dreaming of so many years. He set the ' world to .thinking - in international terms ; his idealisms nave taken root; the old godq are vanishing. The words of the cove nant may be changed but the principle will remain." " And thus the great majority, putting aside their partisan differences and their honest doubts, seem to scree with the San Antonio Express (Independent Dem ocrat) that "the Nobel prize is Wood row Wilson's right." , . Letters From the People Communications ent to Th Journal for publication in tbb department should be written on only one side of tbe paper; should not esceed 800 words in length, and miut be signed bj the writer, whose mail addreaa in full aiuat accom pany th contribution. LAWLESSNESS AND DANGER Review of the Cases of Reckless Driver aftd Foolish Pedestrian. Portland, Dec. Ti.- To the Editor of The Journal I have followed your arti cles on automobile accidents, and think you are doing a wonderful work by try ing to curb the reckless automobile driv ers. Now, why not go after the reckless pedestrian for a change? Stand on any street corner in the city, at any hour of the day, and count the people who deliberately' step in front of an automo bile, in the middle of the block or at intersections, and wh look up at the driver as much as to say, "Hit me if you dare." Some drivers, take the dare. Count the people who run between auto mobiles when, the semaphore is against them. Pedestrians are to obey the semaphore as well as the automobile driver, ac cording to my Interpretation of the city ordinance. The city has traffic officers to watch and govern traffic, and I have never seen one yet try to regulate the pedestrians' traffic Portland is no longer a jay town or burg, but one would think so sometimes, to see how people flirt with death. " Hpw many people take chances crossing the railroad tracks that they do in crossing the streets? Not many ; for they know the railroad track is a dangerous place, and they ought to know the streets are just as bad if not worse, with traffic going and coming all the time. The old ox cart days are gone. The automobiles and streetcars are here to stay, and the sooner people are edu cated to look after themselves more, the sooner there will be fewer accidents. I don't mean that all drivers are blameless ; far from it. I can't see how some get by, unless they carry horse shoes in their pockets. They have no respect for anyone but themselves. They take chancey'-because they are in a hurry, and because they are captains of their little boats it enables then to cut corners, cut in, and "step on 'er." There is an ordinance prohibiting glaring headlights. How many obey It, and how many accidents have the bright lights caused? How many drivers can see against 4 glaring headlight or spot light on a wet windshield? None. Still, they" do it, and trust, to the horseshoe. The state has made a good start by requiring one to have a permit to drive ; only it isn't stringent enough. It takes a railroad engineer almost a life time before he is allowed to take a train over a road. Still, any person after five days practice (no hours stipulated) can drive an . automobile through any congested street in the state. If you have expressed -yourself on these lines, I have missed the article. A Journal Reader. AMENDING . MR BLACK'S PLAN Mr. McLemore Would Bar the Landlord I From That Million Corvallis. Dec 20k To the Editor of The Journal W. IL Black, in The Jour nal a few days ago, referring to the rejection by an Eastern man of $1,000,- 000 left to him, tells us what he would do if he were the beneficiary. Mr. Black's motive is indeed commendable, but his foresight is blurred in at least one particular. Perhaps I can best re veal it if I may tell what I would do. 1 would first create a large part of my sinking fund out of it at the begin ning by not paying some land value speculator a fancy or unearned sum for a glace to put my philanthropic insti tution, but -would first put the people In the way of ridding themselves of the biggest industrial retarder we have by putting within easy reach of every voter at a trivial, if any, cost to them a copy each of "Progress and Pov erty" and "A Perplexed Philosopher,"' by Henry George, as well as circulating libraries of periodicals showing the ac complishment that single tax has made and is currently doing to emancipate the states, provinces and municipalities that have adopted it, from the injustice they suffered and tolerated through misap prehension of what it was. When the majority of Oregon's voters had read these works it is as inevitable that single tax would be adopted in lieu of the present unjust system as was the abol ishment of slavery and of the saloon. When the people are fully informed they can be trusted to do the right thing. They cannot be fully informed when they only read the daily newspapers or what the Chamber of Commerce or realty brokers give them on the subject. The landlords are doifig all they can to keep the people s attention diverted from giving it a .full hearing, for they know their days are short for getting away with the kernel and leaving capital and labor the shell. C. A. McLemore. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Place Ambergris, which forms a basis ,for nearly all the best quality perfumes and scents, Is found in an unattractive looking mass floating on the sea or lodged upon the shore. It Is not known how such an unlikely substance sug gested itself as a perfume, but It has been In use for centuries. Its origin, however, has only been discovered com paratively recently. It is a morbid se cretion of the liver of a sick perm whale,, ahd ashen-colored and waxy in appearance. Although unpleasant to the sight and touch, it gives off a frag rant, musky odor when warmed, even in its raw and unprepared state. In this crude form it is subjected to chem ical action to extract the active prin ciple, called amberine, from which the perfume Is actually derived. This pe culiar substance is also used as a rem edy for catarrh -and nervous diseases, and is very valuable, the largest piece on record, weighing 130 pounds, being sold for 2,600. Olden Oregon Oregon 1 City Was ". the Territory's Business Center in 1848. With a population of 600 or 700, Ore gon City was the metropolis of the Ore gon country. In 1848. It had a Methodist church and a Catholic church, a day BchooU a private boarding school foi young ladies, conducted by Mrs. Thorn ton, a printing press, and a public li brary of 300 volumes. There were five general merchandise stores, and three ferries across' the Willamette river. One of these was pjilied by a horse and the other two by hand power. All did a good business, as -the trade of the terri tory was centered at Oregon City. There were two grist mills, two sawmills and two hotels. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The reason our brainy congressmen won't put no tax on retail sales is 'cause it'd make ever man. woman and child so mad three times a day that the Rooshan Bolshevicks'd look like Sunday school teachrs to us. ' REALLY?. ; From the Little Roek Gazette - : There, little nickel, don't you cry ; you'll buy a Tigar by and Y;y. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE If you want to totally destroy the memory of a man, do him a favor. Corder (Mo.) Journal. a Time la not money, but some people mrvnil ft 00 fiMluv.l . 1 1 . Sioux City Journal. r Paris savant has found that a kiss weighs two milligrams. A pleasant way to reduce. Wichita Beacon. , Every now and then an old-fashioned woman is found who has never tried to kill a man. El, Paso Herald. Lot o simps never miss their Liberty bonds till they try to raise Christmas money on their oil stock certificates. Buffalo Express. . So park, if possible, that when your Car's stolen the neighbor women won't wonder what you were doing there any way. Ohio State Journal. You've noticed, perhaps, when visiting the too, that many of the interesting animals are outside the cages. Knox vllle Journal and Tribune. . - "Wilson, using cane, receives congressmen,"- says a headline, which perhaps more nearly describes what he would like to have done. Memphis- News Scimitar. Jusfas you are thanking a friend for sending you a five-gallon demijohn . of old brandy as a Christmas nresent. it's too bad for the alarm clock to go off and wake you up. Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. ; - MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town George C7 Walker of Scotland, who has been a guest at the Multnomah for two months, comes from what is known as the kingdom of Fife in Scotland. Mr. Walker will soon leave for Australia, New Zealand and Java and later will go on to the United Kingdom. "The king dom of Fife," says Mr. Walker, "is about the size of a small county in Oregon and rich in minerals, farm lands and shipping. Several hundred years ago it was made a kingdom of itself by the. Scottish government In return for its being the most progressive in hand ling the shipping to points 'on the con tinent ajid thus disposing of the products of all of Scotland. It was not a kingdom in name only in the old days, as it is today, and was governed by the 'thane of Pife,' who was monarch of all he surveyed and who took orders from no government He was as supreme in his own bailiwick as the queen in England or the emperor in France. This died out in the course of time and the county drifted back into the government of Scotland for many reasons, but many of us old timers like to think of it as' the 'kingdom' of our fathers. St. An drews college, the oldest in Scotland, is in Fife and was established about the year 1400 and is still in operation. Near St. Andrews is where Alexander Selkirk, of Robinson Crusoe fame, was born and spent his young manhood. Some of the oldest castles in Scotland are in Fife and each has an interesting history. One in particular has a dungeon shaped like a bottle, from which a prisoner has hever been known to escape, and all of them have the customary under ground tunnels and dens." C. W. Beale. a well known attoriiey of Wallace, Idaho, is registered at the Portland. Mr. Beale has been a- resident of Wallace 28 years. "Did you know," said Mr. Beale, "that Shoshone county. In which the Coeur d'AIene mines are lo cated, produces one third of all the lead mined in the United States? Our largest producing mines are the Bunker Hill and Sullivan, the Hercules, fhe Hecla. the Tamarack-Custer and the Interstate-Cal-lahan. All but the latter, which is doing development work, are in active oper ation in spite of the depressed price of lead." , . . John F. Forbis, whose beautiful home near. Forest Grove is one of the show places of Washington county, is a guest at the Portland. Back in the early '80s the Forbis family lived at Butte. Mont., and in the shaping of Montana's des tiny they ha no small part i T. G. Bligh, hotel man and moving picture magnate of Salem, is registered at the Multnomah and is doing a little Christmas shopping. John P. Gray, a mining man from the Coeur d'AIene district, is at the Portland. , . Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Edmunds of Til lamook are registered at the Portland. , Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Macrum of Mosler are Portland visitors. F. R. Clayton and R. M. Jennings of Roseburg are Portland visitors. . J. C. Blackwood of Pendleton is trans acting business in Portland. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN ; . By Fred Lockley (After introducing Charles. Garland as a competent witness in his own behalf to testify as to his rejection of 1,000.000 yrrfectiy round American dollars. Sir. Locklejr proceeds to frame up a little encyclopedia, of information that hits a lot of the high and other spots in tbe world's current news. J . ' Charles Garland recently refused to accept a bequest of $1,000,000. Strangely enough, there has been an almost uni versal protest raised, and he has been abused and accused of lack of sense, of having some ulterior design, and of be ing both fool and knave. - He has seen so much care and unhappiness come from the possession of huge sums of money that he has decided that he .and his wife will be happier earning a good salary and working for a living He be lieves his children will be more apt to become useful and productive citizens if they are bro.ught up to earn money and thus appreciate its value. Answering the attacks upon his character for re fusing to be burdened with ; the 'care of $1,000,000, he says : "A system which starves thousands while hundreds are stuffed condemns Itself. A system which leaves a sick woman helpless and offers its services to a healthy man condemns itself. It is such a system that offers me a million dollars. I have -had to choose between the loss of private property and the law which is written in every human heart I choose the one which I believe to be true." a Here are a few pregnant facts pub lished by th papers during the past few days: Disturbed industrial conditions in Eng land are resulting in heavy immigration to Canada. More than 10,000 steerage passengers are sailing each month from Naples to America. More than 70.000 passengers are gathered at Palermo, Italy, awaiting an opportunity to sail to the United States. . German residents of Milwaukee since the armistice have sent more than 80, 000,000 marks to relatives in Germany and Austria In France a decree has been issued forbidding the use of fresh milk or cream in hotels, so that the milk short age may be relieved and children now going without milk can secure it NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS The home builder, not the flat dweller, constitutes the foundation stones of the nation. Bend Press. The ' wire netting over the Salvation Army Christmas kettles is u end com mentary on human nature, but probably a truthful one. Eugene Register. It is just possible that after the 100 "best minds" in the nation have advised him. Senator Harding will ask Bole Penrose to slip him the!- official order of business. Eugene Guard. During the growth of "our infant In dustries" to gianthood. the politician was a power to be reckoned with in molding the ship of state. But what a sad plight he is in now. Drewsey Pioneer Sun. . Purchasers of turkeys, chickens and geese for the Christmas dinner are view ing with alarm the amount of-buckshot gravel a barnyard fowl devours when being fatted for the festive board at &0 cents per pound. Med ford Sun. . Drives are growing wearisome, but the babies in the Near East are starv ing. And after all It is what we give, rather than what we save, that will count when we face the good saint at the pearly gate. Eugene Register. Experts from Ireland and .Belgium have pronounced the Willamette valley flax fiber the best they have ever seen. Soil and -climate alike are especially adapted to this crop, and once it is produced in sufficient quantities, linen factories will naturally follow. Eugene Guard. W. H. Lockett of Knoxvllle. Tenn., is at the Multnomah and is in the gum and mint business. "While one thinks of the South and mint juleps when mint is mentioned, mint growing is not con fined to any particular locality and as good mint grows in Northern Michigan as in -Tennessee or Alabama. Appar ently worthless only a few years ago, thousands of tons are now used every year in the manufacture of gum. Guests at the Benson from the capital city include the following men who are on the state's payrolls R. E. Lee Stelner, tiuperintendent of the Oregon hospital for the Insane ; L. H. Compton, super intendent of the Oregon state peniten tiary; O. H. Upjohn, ecretary to Gov ernor B. W. Olcott, and Percy M. Varney, state parole officer. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Moore, formerly of the Dan Moore hotel at Seaside, are in Portland . and are casting longing eyes at the attractions of their old home Dan Moore thinks, and makes other pe, pie think, that Seaside is the front door to the ocean, and he can't under stand why the Pilgrims didn't land at Seaside instead of Plymouth Rock.' A. G. Harbet of New York is an old time ball jlayer who Is stopping at the Multnomah. "I was with the Bostons in the late '80s"' and early '90s," said Mr. Harbet. "Those were the daysof Arlie Latham, Mike Kelly and the un beatable Clarkson, when we ball players wore beards and mustaches and looked older than we really were." Frank W. Ratchford of the Multnomah hotel was sorting mail when one of the guests said, "Are you going to the fight tonight?" "Who won?" asked Mr. Ratchford. The guest looked dazed and said, "Why, I didn't know it was decided till the fighters met" Eastern Oregon guests at the Imperial include W. H. Strayer of Baker, C. C. Carter of Ontario, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Williams of Burns, F. B. Smith of Drew sey and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Kiddle of lone. Among Portland visitors this week from Condon were James Burns and his mother, Mrs. F. W. Burns, who came to await the body of Frank Burns, who died In the East, and who was buried in Portland. ' a H. H. Lewis of the C. H. Wheeler Engineering company of Seattle is at the Multnomah and is here to open Port land offices of the concern, which covers the entire Northwest . Ed Slayton and his sister, Mrs. Anna Adams, of Prineville are in Portland visiting their mother, .ho has not been in good health of late. Albany folks who.are visiting in Port land include Ted Young, Mrs. Owen Beam and her daughters and Mrs. Agnes Fisher. a l . S. A. Kendall and Mrs. Kendall of Washington, .D. C, are ac the Benson. They are Interested In lands in Western Oregon. - John J. Barry of Seattle, of the Fed eral system of bakeries, is at the Ben son. More than one half of the 60,000 babies born in France in 1919 have died. Statistics show that of every 1000 babies born in China 773 die before they are 2 years old. . Naval officers in Germany are social outcasts and business pariahs because the German people think the German navy failed to do its part in securing victory for the German arms. Pas the tobacco. Tobacco smokers during the past year paid $295,809,000 in taxes. ' The Osage Indians were placed on a, barren and unproductive reservation. Oil was found there. Today there are 2228 Indians in the Osage tribe, and each of them will receive $10,000 oil royalties for the past year. The United States mints struck during the past fiscal year 809.000,000 coins. How much has Portland's trade with South America increased during the past year? The trade of Los Angeles with South America has increased 40 ver Lcent in the past 13 months. . ' Officials at Ellis Island say that more than 10.060,000 people, from Europe are awaiting an opportunity to secure tickets to America.' Immigrants arer coming through -the gates at Kills Island at tha rate of more than 3000 a day. Ifaly is establishing 2 00 new schools. The government has engaged 80,000 new teachers and will employ 20,000 more. The directors of the Lou vain library, looted during the war, are purchasing many rare volumes in Germany from the private libraries of professors. The French Academy is about to adopt into the French language many Ameri can terms, including "flush," "full house" and "straight" Have you a Pilgrim half-dollar? .The Unired States mint has Just coined 800, 000 of them to commemorate the landing of the 'Pilgrims. The University of Berlin has put In a course of study on 'the British empire. Alaska, in spite of 'its vast resources, has tost . 15 per cent of its population. The recent census shows there are but 54,718 people in Alaska. Do you know why your wife or sweet heart, wears French heels? Does she herself know 7 The wearing of high heels originated In Persia, where high heels were attached to sandals to keep the wearer's feet above the burning and blistering sands In midsummer.- ' The Oregon ;Guntry ' Northwest Happening In Brlii Form lor U . . . I Busy Header I- ; I 'I OREGON i : ! Brooding over family troubles. Rich ard Moss, aged 45. committed suicide at Ontario last Friday byj shooting himself. More than 25 sawmills in Klamath . county have closed down for the win ter. Only three are still running and they may suspend this wek. , i Federal game authorities refuse to consider the suggestion Of Eastern Ore gon sportsmen that the Open season for shooting migratory bird be changed. Among the various amounts asked of Congress for Imnrovement hi: Orornn is an appropriation of $125,000 for mak- -1 Ing a survey : of the Coos Bay Wagon- I jiMtu liram lanaa. j i j . i Two citations from tbe French gov ernment for bravery In notion have boen received by relatives of Sheldon Ulrlch of Pendleton, who was killed in France during the late war. - . i Harry Silver, manager of the ' Pom padour mineral springs near AshUud. haa a crew of men engaged In putting J7n ttst wells-for -carbonic acid Ktm, which the company expects to develop; F. M. This, itfl imHrprniint niriir fm." ployed at the E. E. mine at Bolirne. in Baker county, was instantly! killed w'ipn a small rock became dislodged, striking him on, the back of the neck, What is stated to be an aiiithr-nf In case of infantile paralysis was drag- iiubuu m ttooa Kiver thla week, the vjc- -Urn, who succumbed to the dread dis ease, being Hal tie Van Arsdale.i aged 17." fifteen bushels i-.r mi,in uh ii boxes of apples have been donated by mo in-oinB or iMigpne tor the Christmas tree to be given by-the students of tha high school for the needy families of uun city. j ; : 1 I . Skiddiag on a turn, 'the -automobile of U. .Sturr;of Portland went over a sharn curve on; an embankment of thn Colum- oia river Highway near Wyelhj. tv eral of JSturr's ribs w ere broken and the machine! was wrecked. " i-i i During1 tho- past w eek the Bridal Veil Lumber company has announced a fur ther drop in the price of lumber by from 10 to 15 per cent. Compared with quotations that prevailed last spring, a drop of, Hully 33 per cent is shown, j Two hundred phonographs ar r now! in process of manufacture at the (L'remjna Phonograph 'company's ijlant atiAIbsny. ,te,rlals are on Ule way l Albany that will keep the plant or-erating at the rate. oi ij nnisnea caDinets a day. i WASHINGTON Eight hundred bottles of be.nr and 155 gallons of whiskey, ;valued at $7000. were emftled Into the sewer, at Yakima a few days ago. ;. ; i . i A 70-foot addition In th nmnt noA. ing plant at Vancouver operated by the Washington Growers' corporation will bo constructed at once. : . i ; i Gladys Pfldider, 6-year-old daughter Of Karl Pfleider. WAh ; run inVpr ami killed at Tacoma by an automobile dri ven by R. W. Sutherland. j ; The county commissioners by resolu- iiou nave oeciarea cowiita a county of the sixth class and will der the state laws governing the classic HVtlllUll. ! i i - 1 Adams countv is th wealthier nt th state in the per capita of its aggregate- vaiue or property. The population is 9263, value of property $H,337A02,' and per capita wealth $14&0. ' Charles. H. Wilfong, aged 62. mt death at Yakima by being thrown from a truck and then rv:n over by an. un known man who did not stop to see what damage he had done. j i Mrs. Charles Lambert was killed and her husband internally injured when an automobile driven by Lambert broke through a street ratling and turned over onto the tide flati at Port Angeles. In 1913 the shingle cut in Washington was 6,133,004,000 pieces: in Oregon it was 381,945,000. The output of the two states was 44 per cent greater than 1&18, but much smaller than J919. The Apple way, now paved with con crete to the Idaho state line, is expected to be extended by grading arid paving the coming season into the city of Coeur d'AIene. The cost will be $400,000. Opium, morphine and' cocaine valued ' at $50,000 was seized recently, at the King street station in Seattle, evidence that a narcotic smuggling ring is oper ating between SeattHsj and Victoria. . According to a report niadp bv l-'.l-bert M. Chandler, chief engiawer for tha' reclamation ; board,, there arc 2,730,000 acres of undeveloped, arid land resources in tbe state susceptible of irrigation. A Japanese swindler going by thn name of George !ato spent several days in Spokane last week and departed sud- " denly, leaving behind him a trail of worthless checks varying from $au to $350, cashed: by Spokana merchants. ! I IDAHO About a quarter of a million dollars In rash was paid out to the beet growers -of the- Idaho Falls section Wednesday at the Idaho r ails factory of the L tah Idaho Sugar; company. . .- The Botee naval recruiting station 'has received notification that Its jurisdiction has been extended over a new territory, which Includes part of .the state, of Ore gon. aA'hich was formerly taken care of by the Pendleton station. Drspondent because his house was quarantined on account of several mem bers of his family being afflicted with scarlet fever. J. P. Barrett,. agVd fiO, committed suicide at Lewlston by blow- : ing the top of his ,heabaway by a shot ' from a rifle, j ..' The depth i of snow at Hallfy .Mor?i day morning was 16 inches, the same at Ketchum. and 28 on Soldier creek.. For the first time in the history of the Boise chamber of commerce a woman. Miss S. Li. Boellert, has been elected to the position of director.; V Earl Wetttherford, 3-year-old son of Archie Weatherford of Rockland, died Wednesday as the result of tipping a kettle of boiling water over his neck, head and, shoulders. The shock of th tragedy so affected Mrs. . Weatherford'. that she died two hours later. KNOW' you pl POUTLAN D If there -were a Santa Claus and let it be understood that His no I sug gested to any boy or girl who has been differently iinformed that there isn't big ships and roomy railroad cars would have- to reinforce the strained fastenings of his overworked pack merely to handle the toys that have been set aside for the boys and girls of -Portland. One of Portland's department store heads estimates that the Santa Claus bill for, Christmas toys In this' city alone- exceed '$300.0. And the toys, literally, come from everywhere. They are brought from across the sea. They are manufac tured in large cities and small towns. Some of- the best are made - right here in Portland. "For Instance. . a Portlander and hi wife have invented a doll so lifelike and so beautiful that it has found not. only a prominent 1 place on ithe toy counters of leading P L .... 1 .In.,. 1.1.- ...Ill V. V. 1 1. . . J proudly at the New York toy fair. Experts say it is one of the finest dolls ever made." In Portland also J are maoi xne nitie tnree-wheeled cars that kiddles straddle and learn to ride before they reach the tricycle age A ready-cut house-concern . has devised sd placed on the market for the first time a baseball toy game that holds older oik as well as the youngsters by its retlism. '. This is the first; real "Made in America"; Christmas. In the past, so far aa toys were concerned, : the Chrlstmase of American youth were made in , Germany, s and, to a lesser extent,' In Japan. Almpst no toys of German manufacture are (being of fered this year, and while the supply from Japan has increased It is small compared with the total number In Santa Claus' pac-k. - j j J f !