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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1920.
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standing. Job-' 32:8.
-MORE THAN HANDCLAPPING
nPHERE is in Portland a motion
1 picture theatre whose attendants
. placed a Christmas tree on either
side of the stage. - They hung it with
crystals that reflected the j hues of
the rainbow. They scattered over it
a profusion of white flakes that sug
gested, the beauty of snow without its
chill. They scattered about it cords
of shining silver and gold arid adorn
ments of fantastic f orm. ' j ,
When the footlights and the spot
lights were turned upon the trees
they were pleased with the results
Of their efforts, for they had given
the, work more interest than would
be acorded the ordinary task.
cur. wnen me curtain, rwent up
on the scene. in the presence of a
large audience they were dlsap
pointed. Not a sound of applause
came from any person there.
T'What's the use of fixing things up
for people who have only learned to
appfaud a dog fight" was the com
plaint of one.
Until they, perchance, read this
ithey will not; know what triumph
itheir work was. Tw thirds of the
jway back in the dim light of the
.theatre sat a faded woman. She
;wore a black dress of that stuff
;whlch,, when it is new, and never
again, seems to be silk. She had
i neglected to remove a bonnet of
frosty black "straw, surmounted by
Hrimmlng of equally rusty ribbons
4and a scanty three inches of mangled
(plume. But .she was leaning for
ward with awe upon her face and
happiness In her eyes. Her son had
returned to a tiny home in the hills.
He had brought her to the city for
a Christmas celebration to jan experi
ence she had never had before. It
was her first motion picture show.
Suddenly she grasped the strap
ping young fellow with a work
roughened hand. "Son she said.
'"Do you suppose it'll be half r as
. uoauuiui in neavenT i used to
; dream ' about the- mansions of the
-blest and Just think we got into one
'.of them right here on earth. You've
' certainly been good toj your old
mother, boy," I
VANCOUVER'S SHARE
ANCOUVER has not'. It appears,
j V brought her sprightly campaign
for a place in commerce and ship
i ping to the status of'reductum ad
absurdum. A committee composed
. of some of the representative citizens
' of Portland's sister community has
informed The, Journal that Instead
of asking for a rate preferential over
Portland, as was recently; announced,
Vancouver seeks only those distrib
; utive grain export and local coal
1 rates which Portland already enjoys.
Since the recognition iof Vancou-
ver's merits in the recent decision
' of the Columbia basin rate case, they
explain Vancouver wishes to follow
up the advantage in respect to other
; conditions which are precedent to
the genuine establishment of Op
' portunity for trade.
With t this spirit, Vancouver is
j pressing her campaign for" the ap
V proval of a 30-foot channel project
: In the Columbia above the mouth of
the Willamette. Her rate experts
haia obtained not only the approval
'of Portland in this entirely -.com
mendable enterprise but have se-
" J ; ;
cured ' favorable action on the part
of the commercial Interests In Se
attle and Tacoma. With the ship
caygo, present and prospective, and
with the tangible cooperation with
the government which are being
demonstrated by both public : and
private Investment in water terminal
facilities, It is difficult to understand
hew a board of army engineers or
congress could find any honest rea
Bon for not approving the improve
ment of the mere four miles of chan
nel involved in the Vancouver
project.
- Vancouver was entitled to the rec
ognition accorded her In the Colum
bia basin decision, and The Journal
foresaw her merit when this news
paper successfully urged Vancouver's
intervention In the action before the
Interstate Commerce commission.
Vancouver Js equally entitled to
other rate adjustments and channel
Improvements which will Identify
her in fact with the general com
munity of trade and commerce at the
head of navigation on the Columbia
and Willamette.
A little girl In Kansas wrote
Santa Claus, asking for a doll for
Christmas and a job for her daddy.
Santa will provide the doll, and the
Elks (pund a job for daddy the day
after her letter was published.
EVEN CLUBS PLAY SANTA
THE desire1 to make some less
favored one's lot happier at the
season of good cheer imbues not in
dividuals alone, but whole organiza
tions also.
This year in Portland and in other;
cities of Oregon unusual generosity
has been shown. The Elks had their
Christmas tree for the children of
need. The Ad club carried its truck-
load of gifts to the South Portland
children's home. Tommy Swivel,
whose Christmas dinner for children
began as an individual expression of
exceptional kindliness, was Joined by
others unnamed in special organiza
tion for contribution to the happi
ness of youthful life.
There Is not an institution nor a
child whom full handed generosity
did not lovingly endeavor to find.
And while the unfortunate in
hospitals, ' institutions and chilly
shelters have been remembered at
home, the out-reaching spirit of the
season has extended to the' little
folks in the desolated countries of
Europe and those to whom a csust
of bread is a gift that brings life
with it will receive the share which
Herbert Hoover has asked in their
behalf.
Oregon's Christinas has furnished
a new opportunity for business to
make a prosperity statement. Ac
cording to the merchants, trade
everywhere has been better than last
year. When they wish a customer
"Jlerry Christmas it is partly De-
cause a greater number of custom'
era have already made their Christ
mas merry. . -
THE MILE HIGH HOSTELRY
HAVING by personal visit and sus- ;
tained inquiry Investigated the
merits of 26 criticisms directed
against the administration of Crater
Lake Lodge, chiefly by Stephen T.
Mather, director of the national park
service, & committee appointed by
the governor reaches one general
conclusion:
Most of the criticisms directed against
Mr, Parkhurst might be attributed to the
fact . that he has not been properly
financed and that were he afforded the
necessary financial assistance,. Crater
Lake lodge , would become one of the
noted resorts of the country, Mr. Park
hurst has almost impoverished himself
to keep Crater Lake lodge going from
year to year making " such . improve
ments as his financial capacity would
permit He has invested a targe sum
of money and should he be retired as
lessee, we believe he should be ade
quately reimbursed for his expenditures
of time and money.
This is a finding that states in
new words an old conclusion.
Crater lake is one of the wonder
spots of the world. Crater National
park is the one national park within
the boundaries of Oregon. It is such
a place that to be heard of renders
every listener no matter what his
residence, a potential tourist treking
toward Oregon.
The marvelous lake is, however,
far from settled communities. Hotel
accommodation is essential to all but
the intrepid few who find their sus
tenance in a' pack and their couch
upon the f arth. - A. L. Parkhurst put
his private fortune, his time and his
faith for the future into a tourist
hotel project there. He took up the
load which Portland, which Medford,
which Grants Pass and Ashland
should, by reason of their direct in
terest, have helped him share. -
Then came the director of national
park ' service, the vice president . of
the Southern Pacific, and by their
criticisms, without, at least, corres
ponding contribution,, increased the
embarrassment ' of slender finance
and depressed the enthusiasm which
had inspired the pioneer tourist hotel
effort, s
One of the criticisms was just.
Portland business and hotel interests
have failed to give their countenance
and their cash to a well organized
tourist hotel scheme at Creter lake.
Since .the governor's committee so
emphatically confirms previous state
ments that financial organization is
the first necessity, why doesn't ; it
continue its efforts until the sugges
tions are acted upon?
There is a way of saying "Merry
Christmas, without uttering a word.
An Eastern Oregon rancher demon
strated it. Asked for a, contribution
to the 1 European children's relief
drive and lacking the cash, he gave
Instead three' of his sheep. The of
fering of another was 10 sacks of
wheat in lieu of money. , Each gave
the most valuable of Christmas gifts,
a life. -
THE TEAR'S BALANCE SHEET
"pHE material achievements of
1 , Portland and Oregon during
1920 are the earned reward of an in
dustrious community whose efforts
are dedicated to the advancement of
the common welfare through labor
and production. ,
Elsewhere in today's Sunday Jour
nal, notably in The Sunday Journal
Magazine, the accomplishments of
the passing year are set forth in pic
ture and text. ,
-
We read of what has been done in
port affairs and are warranted in
the large expectations of what the
future will bring in the development
of maritime commerce.
Twelve million dollars has been
invested in Portland in new build
ings during 1920. Of this great sum
a large proportion has gone into in
dustrial plants that mean more and
larger payrolls and greater manu
factured output -In the years to come.
Oregon continues to hold her lead
in highway construction. During
the past two years she has invested
twenty millions in Improved high
ways, thereby facilitating the move
ment of crops from farm to market
and bringing in closer touch all parts
of the state arfa rendering outstate
points easier of access.
Oregon's farm wealth produced
during 1950 totals the enormous sum
of $428,000,000, her grain yield alone
being worth more than $125,000,000.
The state's 284 banks report ag
gregate resources of more than $350,
000,000, of which Portland's 26 banks
show resources of more than $184,
000,000. . - ,
During" the year the federal cen
sus has been taken which credits
Oregon with a population of 783,285,
an Increase of 16.4 over the figures
of 1910.
There are, according to the census,
50,188 farms. in Oregon, an Increase
of 4686, or 10.3 per cent over the
number in 1910. This figure is
gratifying in view of the contrary
condition in other parts of the coun
try.
The census gives Portland a popu
lation of 258,288, an increase of 24.6
per cent over 1910. During the de
cade Portland has advanced from
the rank, of twenty-eighth - city in
size in the United States to that of
twenty-fourth.
These few paragraphs picked at
random from the mass of things ac
complished Justify Portland and Or
egon In anticipating a happy and
prosperous New Year. '
AN EXPOSITION. SUPPLEMENT
nORTLAND has a varietv of rea-
A sons for holding an exposition in
f ...
1925, but none more distinctive or
historic than Vancouver's centenary
as a Hudson Bay company post. The
suggestion which comes from across,
the Columbia that the two cities
make common cause in exposition
plans warrants not only acceptance
but support by Portland.
Los Angeles might steal the idea
of celebrating the completion of the
Lincoln and Pacific highways. The
centenary of the electro-magnet,
basis of power transmission, might
be selected by almost any city which
had exposition ambitions. The
restoration of normal trade, provided
by 1925 it has been restored, would
be seized upon as a genuine cause of
ubilation by any port.
But Vancouver's settlement was
not alone as a fur trading post. It
became an outpost in the westward
course of empire. Around it cluster
historic "fact, picturesque anecdote,
romance' and legend. Associated
with it are such luminous names as
McLoughlin, Grant and Sheridan.
The addition pf Vancouver posts
centenary to the Portland exposition
would provide a gracious and charm
ing supplement to be welcomed and
not denied. '
JAPANESE IN OREGON
THERE are, according to the re
port of the Oregon labor bureau.
but 4547 Japanese In Oregon. Some
2021j of this number are in Mult
nomah county, but the ' remainder
are scattered with considerable uni
formity among the various counties
of the state. ;
Idleness and pauperism are almost
unknown among them if, the labor
commissioner's figures may be be
lieved, for of 2666 male Japanese
in Oregon he credits 2387 with being
employed, 202 In 'commercial under
takings, 1595 in industry and 690 in
agriculture. The . Japanese women.
on the other hand, appear to be
home bodies, for of the 833 in the
state but 64 are listed - as working
for wages, 63 In commercial pursuits
and one in agriculture. -. ,
That the Japanese in this state
work for less than the whites is in
dicated in a table which shows that
the highest average daily wage of
$5 is paid in but two counties Co
lumbia and Coos, and the .- lowest
average daily wage of $3.40 in Linn
and Malheur counties.
The home making proclivities of
the Japanese in Oregon seem to be
far ; below their Industry. . In but
10 of the 35 counties of the state
are they listed as paying rent, the
labor commissioner explaining that
in other counties the buildings oc
cupied are of nominal value or are
used also for .business purposes.
The labor commissioner suggests
but one possible evasion of the law
6ui uiieunu vwuuuiiv i yi uu-
erty in ihe state. t It appears to him
that Japanese are stockholders in
several - corporations owning large
tracts of land, and he advises the
enactment of & law which, will com
pel all corporations to file state
ments with the several assessors giv
ing a list of their stockholders and
the amount of stock held by each. .
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
SENATOR MILES POIND EXTER
of Washington state has become
a staunch brother among that group
of congresmen whom we, were wont
to call the old guard. As such his ,
name was prominently mentioned as
a presidential possibility. Wheji the
campaign did get under way, with
Warren G. Harding as the Repub-j
lican standard bearer, ; Po in dexter
forged to the front as one of the
big advisory chiefs.
Today, with his party safely in
power and assured of undisputed
reign for two years or nroTe, Po in
dexter has hopped on the national
band wagon as the would-be father
of an anti-strike proposal which is
declared to be one of the most In
cisive and deadly weapons ever
aimed at organized labor.
These facts are cited merely to
picture Polndexter as he has grad
ually come to be during the later
years of his public career. His con
servatism conservatism of the most
unadulterated brand is now unques
tioned and unquestionable.
Letvour thoughts next turn to 1910
when Polndexter was ' a senatorial
candidate in the primaries of Wash
ington. His opponents were John
L. Wilson, a former United States
senator and owner of a big daily
paper .at Seattle, and Judge Thomas
Burke, a corporation lawyer and dis
tinguished scholar, who then had,
as now, both brains and money, Wil
son withdrew from the campaign,
and the decision was left with
Polndexter and Burke. Judge Burke
spent, it is declared, more than a
small fortune - in his effort to get
the nomination, but was unsuccess
ful. He had behind him an almost
perfect organization. Every paper
In the state, with very few except
tions, threw Its support to him un
grudgingly. Burke -was a known
conservative, an embryonic member
of the old guard, and Polndexter was
a radical and avowed Progressive.
That wave of Progressive Republi
canism, one of the firBt to hit the
Northwest, swept Polndexter into
office overwhelmingly. It is to be
doubted if Judge Burke carried a
single precinct in the state. In that
campaign organized labor was one
of the factors behind Polndexter to
a man.
What is the answer which -will
clarify the question of Poindexter's
change of political front during the
flast 10 years? Were his earlier
j - ,
views those of an immature mirjd
grasping at gewgaws which blinded
his true sense of moral and political
values, or were they the outpourings
of a calloused and Insincere opportu
nist, who saw a tidal wave of public
upheaval " coming and at- once
grasped a lifebelt and plunged on the
breaker of Progresslvlsm ?
The query is not put in any vitu
perative or calumniating spirit, but
merely in a desire to bring forth
some light on an incident of political
psychology, surely a man has a
right to change his mind,' but Just
as, surely has the. public a right to
ask and know the cause of such a
change, especially when it has been
such a : marked right-about face as
that which characterizes Poindex
ter's present attitude. WHat irresis
tible quality in his later association
and environment at the national cap
ital has provided the attrition which
has worn and washed away all traces
of the Polndexter who emerged from
his cocoon a decade ago ?
The senator undoubtedly . could
write an enlightening and interesting
symposium on the mental processes
which have led to his utter abandon
ment of the rebel cause and his
pledging of allegiance to the powers
that be.
Will he?
STILL AT THEIR MOORINGS
ALARMED parents who fear, that
the trend of modern education
is, away from religion, should, take
comfort from" a survey recently
made, by the Baptist denomination
In the University of Chicago, the re
sults of which have been announced
in the Baptist Observer. ':
Among more than 2000 students
interviewed, there were only two
avowed agnostics and one atheist,
while 88 per. cent of the students
claimed membership in some or
ganized ; religious , group. More
women than men were without, any
religious connection. Two thirds
the entire student body recorded It
self as Protestant.
The figures showed that during
the school year 93 per cent of the
students attended' some, religious
service at least once a month, and
that 45 , per cent go once a Sunday.
One eighth of the etu dents engage
in some form of religious work, such
ai teaching Sunday school, etc . An
even larger per cent engage In social
service worst of one kind or another.
This social and religious work is
carried on in addition not only to
heavy university .work, "but to house
hold and remunerative-work done by
the students. Of the men, it was
learned that 216 engage in some,form
of household work, and 819 of the
women. Besides these, 409 men and
144 women spend at least 10 hours
j a week in remunerative work to help
j defray their expenses,
NATIONALISM AND
"WILSONISM"
Mercure de France, a Leading Journal
of Opinion, Rebukes Shallow Critics
and Yields to President Wilson
Credit for Superb Purpose and
Achievement in the Cause of .
Universal . Peace.
-Foreign Editorial Digest-
(Consolidated Prone Association)
"France, England, Germany these
proper names are in such common use
that one is led to -think of them as cor
responding to something exact and pre
cise. Yet republican Ireland, chaotic
Germany and ambiguous Poland are
there to remind us that national enti
ties are abstractions, and that one must
taka rj&ina to inaulre from time to time
lust what their concrete significance is.
before emolovine them in evanescent
syllogisms. But people -are generally
satisfied with the few , vague ideas and
sentiments that names of countries con
note." ' .
. .
.AUliS Dlguiuvii, . r
ctlseion of the League of Nations in tne
Mercure de France a -publication that
deserves its international reputation in
literature, politics, economics and art.
The article continues:
"And yet necessity and convenience do
not allow us outside of scientific works
to be as accurate in our choice or ex
pressions as we might like. We have
to gat along with approximations. There
is no grave danger in it provided senti
mentality and partisanship do not ut
terly blind us.
"The fact that makes It most CifXl-
cult to define a nation is the fact of
internationalism. Socialism Is only one
of its aspects. . This word, if it once
might have been compared to a note or
music, now corresponds to a scale or a
whole keyboard. . Within national enti
ties. Socialists , of every hue frankly
overstep the bounds of legality In fight
ing the existing government.
"In Great. Britain and Italy commit
tees of action, which are a sort of soviet,
deal as equals with, the constituted au
thority. The syndicalists qf Europe de
clare that the occupation of the Ruhr
would be a crime against the working
class. What then becomes of national
sovereignty? . : 1 .
"Such sovereignty is threatened from
yet another side, the so-called bourgeois
side. The Brussels conference, follow
ing the conference of Washington and
Geneva, showed how far the road to pro
gressive limitation of the right of gov
ernments had been traveled. It Is not
haDDenlnsr without strong resistance, un
til an equilibrium is reached. The tri
umph of "reaction" is the sign of this
resistance. Authority Is break
ing up.
'In this condition of .anarchy, now
comes the Leatrue of Nations. It is a
Parthenon of hopes, or a cathedral on
which -several generations are collabor
ating. On its Romanic bases may arise
heaven knows what choir, what naves
and what rococo ornamentation. Though
for the moment it is even more difficult
to define than a nation, many people
talk of the league as if they had created
it, as of a, thing that can be touched,
seen, measured ; while really it is only
tending, and without haste, towards a
form.
"And now comes the question : What is
Wilsonlsm? The opponents of the league
are going about everywhere repeating
that America has repudiated 'Wilsonism,
that Wilsonlsm is dead, 1 Yet the corpse,
like so many others, is doing -pretty
we4L:- - -
"A "large number of cities, towns and
villages have given President Wilson's
name to streets, squares and avenues.
This somewhat silly infatuation has been
followed by .unreasonable animosity.
During the war and up to the signing
of the peace, it was forbidden to take
the name of Wilson in vain. " Those
who ventured on criticism or even resr
ervations felt the scissors of the cen
sorship. Now that the first assembly
of theJeagoe is meeting at Geneva and
President Wilson is coldly deserted by
so many formerly zealous supporters
we must try .to give the president his
due. '
"If Wilsonism is the 14 points, Wilson
ism does not belong to Mr. Wilson.. To
mention only .the authors of the treaty
and the covenant. Clemenceau had the
name of the league constantly on the
tip of his tongue and of his pen before
he was recalled to the prime ministry.
At thajt time Mr. Wilson was writing
notes of infinite- good will and patience
to the German government. . ' But what
belongs to Mr. Wilson, what Is entirely
his, cannot be taken away from him,
is. his stubborn, obstinate and superb
perseverance.
"An article In the Semalne Lltterarie a
year ago, though it contains some inac
curacies, contains also these worm, the
truth of which has been confirmed day
after day r There Is one thing to Presi
dent Wilson's credit that cannot be de
nied him, that he showed prof ound ,and
statesmanlike foresjght In Insisting that
the League of Nations should be cre
ated by the peace treaty Itself and not
by ' a separate pact. If the covenant
had not been written Into' the treaty,
it is certain that it could not be con
cluded now and that the idea of which
the president had made , himself the
champion would now be lost forever.'
."This Idea, which was the Idea or all.
or at least of many, he made his own. It
was no more his than anyone else's, but
he made It his property by making it
his obsession. It little matters what
psychological reasons of political mo
tives prompted him, the result is there.
-www . .- -
"The partisans of the old systems of
alliances, the opportunist politicians, who
think It clever . to change their speech
very week, the malcontents everywhere.
and even Mr. Harding ntmseir, cannot
change that result, wilsonlsm Is the re
peated affirmation or a principle, toward
and against all, against reality Itself, if
heed be, against wind ana tide, con
cessions and adjustments are subordin
ate. There Is no danger that they will
not come. But there must first be an
Impulse and some guidance.
"Since It Is plain that agreement is
impossible on a, thousand matters, let
the pact be revised, even In vague terms,
and ratified. That is the first thing to
do. President Wilson can now give
way to others. His work is done. How
many of his opponents will leave behind
anything so lasting f" ; ,:-.
Letters From the People
f Coin ill urdoaOona sent to The Journal for
publication in this department ahoaM be. written
on only one side of the paper; should not exceed
BOO worda in length, and moat be aicned tr the
writer, whose mail address ia full must accom
pany the eontrihotion. 1 .
I LIBERTY BONDS AND FARMERS. '
Incoming Administration's Attitude Tow
. ard Both Is CrlUcised. - ',
Freewater, Dec 22. To the Editor of
The Journal It Is easy to read between
the - lines what our future government
means when it tells the people it In
tends to stabilize the war bonds at par.
It's a gentle bint to the wise financier to
load op, buy all the bonds available of
the poor people who, during the war
bought " 'till it hurt," to save humanity ;
and now that the country is saved these
poor , people - are forced to ' sell their
bonds at a big discount In order to save
themselves. - So the government is plan
ning to stabilise the war bonds. There
is rood money in it for the rich ; besides
their blfe- discount the poor people will
pay the Interest and in this way the
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
If s getting so an employer can't fire
ven his furnace without permission of
a union. El Paso Herald.
.
As Cncle Sam would not go to Europe,
Europe is preparing to come to the
United States. Seattle Times.
e. e
In spite of her predilection for bliz
zards, Canada doesn't want to be snowed
under 'at Geneva. Boston Transcript.
iDpn't be oversensitive. President
elect Harding can't confer with every
Great Mind. SlWoseph News-Press.
In ten years from now there may be
no Irish problem because there may be
nT,, ,.Bh' th ,way things are now going.
Richmond (Ind.) Item. .
.
Compasses are smashed to get alco
holic contents, says a headline. After a
man is drunk he doesn't care what di
rection he goes anyhow. El Paso Her
ald. Not only is it awfully Wd for an ord
inary chap to look as well in his union
suit as the fellow in the advertisement
looks in his, but it also isn't necessary.
Kansas City Star. ,
One rather gets the view, from the
postmaster general's report, that he is
not wholly at one with the public on the
standard of service rendered by his de-
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Twenty years ago Fred Caples. a i
former student at Oregon Agricultural
college and a resident of Columbia City,
joined the great stampede from Dawson
to Nome, Alaska. He had gone to the
Yukon when the news of the first strike
was announced. For 20 years this na
tive son of Columbia county mushed
all over Alaska, being one of the first
to get under. way with-his dogs and
sled whenever a new strike was re
ported. After 20 years In a vain search
for rich diggings in Alaska he came
home to his birthplace at Columbia City,
where he owns a considerable body of
land and recently has discovered on his
own place - extensive deposits of iron
ore which bid fair to make him more
money than all the placer gold he ever
struck in Alaska. Probably there are
more people than Fred Caples that over
look the opportunities at their very door
and travel afar' in search pf wealth or
fame when they could find both in their
own home town.
"What am I doing?" said the literary
bellhop at the Imperial. "Can't you
see I am writing. I am composing a
poem about the ever-genial host of this
hotel. Read it to you? All right. It
is In the rough yet, but here is about
how It will go :
Phil was told that ha needed a tonic
Ilia illness at once became chronic
He said: "Doctor dear.
Won't you pleaM make it beer?"
But the Doo aaid: "No, no. That's Teutonic"
A. W. Stone of the Apple Growers
association of Hood River is spending
the holidays in Portland with his daugh
ter and putting In his spare time on the
golf links. " . ,
Mr. and Mrs. F, W. Bond of Pendle
ton are in Portland and are guests at
the Portland.
Walter Brown, pioneer sheepman from
Montana, formerly of Box Elder but now
of Butte, is a Portland visitor.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Mathews of Med
ford are registered at the Benson.
a
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hudson of Bend are
Portland visitors. .
-
Leland Gott of The Dalles is a guest
at the Portland.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
An interpreter of an interpreter of nature la
Mr. Liockleya eon Lawrence, wno wniee 01 Joon
Minefield as a poet of nature, and whose critique
Mr. Lockley generously aharea with Journal
readers.)
My son Lawrerce is at Berkeley. He
has been writing some most excellent
verse and sending it to me for criticism.
As a matter of fact, he knows more
about versification than I ever expect to
learn, but I imagine he thinks it pleases
me to seem to defer to my judgment. I
asked hira recently what he thought of
Masefield as a . lover of nature. His
answer to my query contains some bits
of Masefield's verse that have In them
so much of beauty that I am going to
quote most of his letter. Here it is :
"Masefield writes of his fellow men
with a virility that can betoken naught
but a fellow feeling, a knowledge of
them, bullded on close association, on
the hard, rough life that men live. His
life has not been one of retirement, or
close association with nature. He has
lived as a man, among men. And yet
his every poem is permeated with a
realization of the omnipotence of nature,
and her forces, and bubbles over with a
deep, silent love for the earth that bore
him. With the instinct of an artist, he
has made this love the warp upon which
his woof has woven the fantastic tales
of the sea, or the deep seeing dramas of
life. It reinforces his theme. It relieves
his tragic passages, and In the most
horrible parts of life, one feels that the
beauty of nature, rand of life with na
ture, makes it all worth living.
"In ;The Everlasting Mercy,' after a
night's orgy at the Lion, Saul sees the
dawn come
. . trj on Bndlow KnoZU
The Dawn with flitterinc on the snaeea,
' The Dawn which pass and oarer panel
- In The Widow on' the Bye Street,'
just after the murder trial, Anna Is
going to another place to spin a new
web. She boards the train.
'Into the vale, and halts, and starts t climb
To where the apple-bearing country ends
and pleasant-pastured hills rise sweet with thyme,
Where clinking- aheepbells make a broken chime.
And sunwarm corses rich the air with scent,
.And kestrels poise foe mice; there Anns went.
It is like a breath" of pure, fresh air.
this glimpse of nature, after a period in
a dank, musty cellar. Here it is again.
when the Dauber hides his precious
painting, and stands on the quarter deck :
. . .- . silent, inaninf on the boat
Watching the constellations rise and bum.
Until the beauty took him by the throat.'
"What a relief to ' take, with the
Dauber, that breath of pure air, after
the fetid stuffiness of the fo'c'sle, to
drink in the beauty of the sea and sky,
after the cruel mirth of his shipmates.
"Still a more noticeable Instance Is
found In 'Daffodil Fields, where the ac
tion is rushing to the climax in a fight
in which both central figures are hilled.
Yet Masefield pauses long entMgh to
admire the surroundings:
The ground was toel there; the daffodils ' . '
Glimmered and danced beneath their cautious
- feet, - v-
Quartering for opening for the blow that kills.
Beyond the bubbling brook a thrush was
high financiers of the -country will soon
get back the $3,500,000 or more that they
spent In the last campaign for a change
of the administration.
The new admlnlgtratlon-to-be Is cast
ing the shadows before, for already the
farmers are sadly feeling the change.
Why this silence In regard to the farm
loan? Why has the government always
ready money to lend the railroads?
Why plenty to loan to foreign countries?
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
The peak of. high taxes does not ap
pear to have been scaled yet. But who
cares for the taxpayer, anyway? Eu
gene Guard.
j
If the papers keep on printing; those
stories about the shipping board, ievery
body will be wanting to work for it.
La Grande Observer. '
Oregon's revised population is 783,
389; we could double that during the
next ten years and not be ja bit
crowded. Pendleton Kast Oregoman.
i
- Herbert Hoover should have a nlace
In Harding's cabinet. The orly ob
jections we have seen, are in j reality
hia strongest recommendation&J Med
ford Mail-Tribune. i ,
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Testimony in the shipping board In
vestigation indicates that 10 per cent of
ait tn snipping repair duis was graru
That's a new construction of the cost
plus 10 per cent system. Eugene Regis
ter.
i
The people of America are being asked
for donations to help the poor children of
Germany. Just as a little suggestion w
submit the fact- that the amount of
money the people of Germany are hand
ing over to the kaiser would be suffi
cient to keep all of the needy children of
all the" central powers. Benton j County
jourier. v
An examination of the registers of
our leading hotels will disclose the fact
that more and more globe trotters and
world wanderers are "making" Port
land. Dr. Lum Ling, late of Peking,
China, la a guest at the Hotel; Benson
A number of distinguished travelers
came over on the last trip of the Si
beria Maru, of the Toyo Klsen Kaisha
line. Among the number were'; Dr. and
Mrs. Charles D. Tenney. Dr.! Tenney
went to Shansi, China, in 1SS6 as
missionary. He It was who founded the
Anglo-Chinese school at Tientsin. Later
he founded Peiyang university.; In 1900
he became secretary of the Tientsin
provisional government. Bight years
later he joined the staff of the United
States legation at Peking as Chinese sec
retary. He acted as charge d'affaires
until the confirmation of William R.
Crane. - Upon his retirement land just
before- his departure for his home in
America he was the guest of! Dr. Wu
Ting Fang and Dn C. L. Wing at a
farewell dinner.
tL
H. L Gage, a student at the school
of mines of Oregon Agricultural college,
is a guest at the Imperial. '!We have
about 2000 young men students at the
college," said Mr. Gage. "Overt a thous
and are exempted from drill and mill
tary service oh account of having seen
service In the naval or military forces
during the world war. Yes, I am ex
empL I was in the intelligence depart
ment, and my job was running down
alien enemies."
' .
H. J. Vaughn of Coos BayJ with his
family, Is spending a few days in Port
land. '
A. R Tohl, one of the men who have
helped make Nehalem a prosperous com
m unity, is visiting hi Portland-
I
C J. Pugh ot- Falls Cityand C F.
Stone of Klamath Falls are at the Im
perial.
. -
Glenn Dudley, well known wheat raiser
of Athena, is a guest at the Benson.
Ida Tress Benson of Bend
at the Benson. -
C. C Hunt of -Enterprise
Oregon.
guest
is at the
Lockley
"Perhaps there is no betted example
than the passage of Jim's hanging In
The Widow in the Bye Stjj-eef The
gloom of a hanging, the awe Of death is
over all. And yet: J
'A broken ringing like s beaten pea.
It sent the sparrows wavering to the trees.
The- wall-top graues whickered ire the breeae.
The broken ringing clanged, clattered, and
clanged. e-
As though men's bees were (wanning, not men
hanged.' i
' j
"All through the longer poems are
interspersed bits of beauty, like lilies In
the mire. But one might expect them
there, in works that he had planned qut
so carefully, and whose balanced quali
ties he iuA probably studied over so
closely. And yet in his Sa4t Water Bal
lads and in his 'Round House Tales'
one finds even more often the beauty of
the sea, a' glory that floods his work
spontaneously. Many of his shorter
poems are extemporaneous apostrophes
to the grandeur, the beauty and the
glory of the sea. 'Sea Fever,' whose
refrain 'I must down to the seas again'
brings an exultant joy in the) wonder of
the ocean, is typical of these. 1
"Spanish waters, Spatueh waters, yoa are ringing
in my ears, r
Uke a alow sweet pieoe of Busts irons the grey
forgotten years.
e e .
"It Is not the Intellectual or aesthetic
enjoyment of a poet,, but the joy of a
pagan, a physical pleasure, j One finds
much the same physical enjjoyment In
his little three stanza poetr. 'Cargoes.
We can, with him, go-
Dipping through the tropica, by the palm arses
shores.'
e e
Tf for nothing else, Masefield's two
stanza bit, "Beauty,' Is wortky of being
read for its sensuous enjoyment of
beauty. A part will serve foa an exam
ple: , i
'I hare aem dawn sad ran set on mn and windy
hill t
Coming in solemn beauty like, (low old tunes
of Spain: i
I hare seen the lady April bringing the daffodils.
Bringing the springing grass and - the soft
",- . warn April Tain.' I
"One finds still another type of na
ture worship in "Spanish Waters. A
voluptuous, sensuous enjoyraent of the
sounds and forms of nature pervades
the verse much as the heavy scent of
musk pervades, the rooms
house. '
of an old
"To refer to the longer jpoems, one
sees with Masefield. in spite Of the bitter
scorn, the misunderstanding ! and drudg
ery. Dauber's surroundings :
The Dauber sighed there, looking at the sails.
Wind steadied archies leaning on the night.
The high trucks traced on beaten and left no
trails;
The moonlight made the topsails I almost white.
The panting side lights seemed (to drip green
light. , - t
And on the clipper rushed with fire-light bows.
"It is one of the joys of Masefield
that, whatever he may be telling, how
ever climatic may be bis movement, or
how ultra-realistic be the passage, he
always helps his reader toj enjoy with
him the pleasures of nature,"
, . - ' - T : r
And why, in the name of all that Is Ameri
can, are the farmers' requests turned
down? Are they of so little) importance
that the nation can do without them? By
all that Is right and just, by all that is
deserving and helpful, the farmer is en
titled to be considered and safeguarded.
It is he who feeds the world. Should he
refuse to sow and reap the World would
starve, bonds or no bond a
Mary Harris! Simmons.
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happening In Brief t'ono fof the
dui7 jiaauer i
OREGON NOTES j
pany has begun operations at its well
in Clatsop county. j "
John Smith, who crossed the 'plains to
Oregon in 1852. died near Cottage Grove
or u eu, me, age oi vo years. .
Marnhfield. wna rinA fnn v..
pleaded guilty to conducting a still on
VAr a IriMlaDftil l.eaA. A
lrAtAff hv hA A oUUr. aA. I
elation in November, the price; being 78
vcn to per uuzen.
TWrt hf nrilr'swl rifilrvman ntViA T)r,nt,.
n .v men vi Ll IC -li r 9
fllSttrtft hflva BtiKsffiKal ftlttfifllk
. . ' b wovi iwvir I 1.119
erection of a creamery land cheese fac-
trtrv In ni
At a recent meeting of the Tillamook
County Creamery association a plan was
indorsed to ask the legislature for an
appropriation of $15,000 for dairy in-
Sparks generated by friction whrlo"
cleaning a silk dress in a Bend laundry
fired the gasoline, set the building on
fire and burned the clothing i of U. E.
Olsen, proprietor. .
- ... v. miii v. u i.. t in i ui 1 1 1 1 ina
Oregon and Washington legislatures at
wieir sessions looKing to me con
struction of an interstate bridge between
Wauna and CathlamoL i
All Bravnl rn IV.. .1 :1
utai v ' i 11 1 , x att
between Pendleton and Echo has been
laid and the road is completed except
for a bridge near Echo, which will have
to be built in the sprirrg.
Plans have been announced bv the
Association of Pacific Fisheries for a
nation-wide campaign of education as to
tnA Knnmv ami f.- . K & ........
plentiful varieties of canned salmon. ,f
. For the second time within the pHst
few weeks Gervais is without water.
The pumping station is ample to supply
Ik. A .. J i . ,, . V. . ... . . .
.no uciiia.uu, uui me wens un wun a line
sand and put the pumps out of com
mission. WASHINGTON
Pasco has subscribed $55;000 for the
proposed intercounty highway bridge be
tween that city and Kerinewick.
The Puyallup public library has re
opened after being closed six weeks on
account of the diphtheria epidemic
vTjxiicrii j. ccreis prominent, lumoer
man and member of the Aberdeen city
council, is dead In that' city from pto
maine poisoning.
Despondent over family troubles and
his inability to obtain work, John Huff,
29 years old. killed himself with a shot
gun at Seattle Tuesday. "'";
For the purpose of getting medlcal'cara
at the expense of the county. Charles
Morris allowed himself to be arrested at
Aberdeen for shoplifting.
Word is received at Tacoma of the
sudden death aboard a Milwaukee trans
continental train of S. C. Riley, a former
prominent lumberman of that city.
Farmers of Adams county met at Rltz
ville Saturday and formed a wheat pool.
The association has over a million bush
els to sell. . ' .
For the 11 months ending November
30, the net earnings ' of the Aberdeen
water department were $25,486 ; Chehalls,
111,340, and Puyallup, $3777.!
With only one vote opposing, Prosser
precinct of the Yakima Benton irriga
tion district has approved an assessment
to complete the survey of the highline
extension of the Sunnyside canal.
It ia Ktatd that triors Are now 27(18
members in Washington and Idaho af
filiated with the Wheat Growera' asso
ciation, with a total of 9,000,000 bushels
of wheat in prospect for thej 1921 crop. ,
Charles IX Hlnton, deputy1 state treas
urer, brokp his leer and I E. riwartz of
Seattle suffered fractured ribs when the
car in which they were riding left the
pavement and turned turtle near Olyra
pla. - t
At a meeting- of the Washington Hotel
Men's association at Seattle ft was de
cided tot abide by the resent supreme
court ruling upholding: the new $18 min
imum wage for women employed In res
taurants ana note) a
IDAHO
The Cassia county commissioners have
appropriated $6000 for the continuance
of farm bureau work in that county.
Approximately $425,000 has been paid
out for beets this season by the Lincoln
branch of the Utah-Idaho Sugar com
pany. .
A proposition to divide Bannock county
is creating much discussion at Pocatello
its coming session.
Fred Taylor died at Welser a few
days ago from a- stroke of apoplexy
brought on during a fire in the upper
story of his house.
Roy Klmmel. a boy student from Boise,
has been elected editor-in-chief of the
Gem of the Mountains, the year book of
the University of Idaho. . , . -.
Jobs were found for 40 of the 102 per
sons registered at the Boise employment
office from Monday to Saturday in
clusive. . Of -the 102 cases, 10 were des
titute Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the office of the secretary, of?
state by the Abbott Gardner Sheep com-
rany of Nampa, with a capital stock of
100,000.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
A feller was a-tell In' us at the Cor
ners that the days of gasoline is num
bered and what's a-omJn' downT the
pike of time is lectrio juic stored in
a tin can and hitched to the gearin
direct 'thout no engine whatsoever.
When that day starts to light up ths
shk of the U. S. A. poor old Rockefel
lerTl be dead and wont worry none
a-talL Meanwhile we must . have gas
even if we got to let the old roof leak
another year and Ma turns her Sunday
dress fer the fifth time, i
kiNow youR
PORTLAND
Portland streetcar lines are said
to cover a wider area In proportion
to the population served than in any
other city; of . similar else in -the
Untied States. ?
In response to the request of The
Journal, Franklin T. Griffith, presi
dent of the. Portland Railway, Light
Sc Power company, has prepared some
figures that show in a ! most inter
esting way the extent of the system.
Five hundred and fourteen cars are
operated on city linen and 93 cars on
lnterurban lines, a total of 609.
There are 170,477 miles of track in
the city lines and 78,414 miles of
track in, interurban lines, a -total of
248.891 miles. These figures do not
Include the tracks used in connec
tion with the sidings, car houses and
yards.
; The 25,00-mlle circuit of the earth
st' its equator, does not seem very
impressive when one - thinks that to
and near Portland the trolley tracks
of one concern would belt the globe
nearly 10 times, or reach from Port
land to the moon. j
. The streetcars may hot seem to
travel very rapidly under the retarda
tion of frequent stops, and a epeed
limit of 20 miles an hour, but it 's
found that cars on the city lines,
during 1919, traveled an aggregate
of 1S.66S.C70 miles, which is a sixth
of. the distance to the sun. During
the month, of October the cars on the
city lines ; recorded : a1 mileage of.
1,255.841 in distance traversed, ( and
the dally average on the city lines
last October was 40,511 miles, the
equivalent of five round trips across
the American continent. ' .
The interurban lines during ,1919
covered 1,587,704 miles; during Octo
ber. ,127,65a miles, and 4118 miles'
dally average for October.
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