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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON -f DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1S21. 10 as . ncDrrKx'DtNT newspaper other as yon ml4 hare them do onto you-i Foblwhed eeery wek day nd Sunday mo1 t Th Journal Huildin. Broadway and Xu- ; hiU itreet, Portland, Orfon. Entered tt th. poetoffie at Portland. Orrton. . for transmiaeloa throuah th mail cooa TELEPHONKB Main 1113. Automatic oe-6t. All depaSments reached bjr then number. VATIONAl. -ADVEBTWIXO BEFBMVr -- TIVK Benjamin Kentnor to-. BM!T!7n Building. 225 Fifth idu, Kew lorti Matter Building, Chteaco. PACIFIC COAST RKPRESENTATITE Baranser Co., Examiner Building, 8a n Frn--.-. rtaeo; Title Jnmraixw Bulldinr. I-o Angela. Poat-Intellifencer Building Seattle. THE OIUWOX JOUBNAt, reserr th right to ,jeiect adrefUaing copf Which tt deems i j';icjble. It aUo will not print an? copy that an err war simulate wading matter or " that cannot readily be recognUed der- tiin-. J ' i SIBSCR1PTION BATES 'I 'Br Carrier. City and Country. DAILY ANI SUNDAY ' . On wcek..i. ... .1 J On month.... . .03 DAILX j S'NDAY Ono week t 10 J Ono woe -05 On month...:. .43 -f . - BT MAIL, AIJ. BATES PAYABLE IS ADVANCE ....... . r& A W Ono year. . .SS-00 Big. month,.':.. 4 -3 - DAILY (Without Sunday) -On year. . ... . .fU.OO ftii month,. ... 3.25 Thre month... l.TS Ob month.. ... . .60 WEKKIJT (Erery Wednesday) On year. ; . ; ... Mi tnmnths - - - . -.50 Three month.. 12.25 .14 Ono month . , Bl'NDAY tOuly) On year. .$3. OO Six month. .... 1.75 Thre month. . . 1.00 WEEKLY AND SUNDAY Om year. .....8.80 Tnea rtea apply only rn TO worn. Raten to Eastern point furniehed on applica tion. Make remittance by Money, Order. Express Order or Draft, lf your r"c i- not A Money Order office. 1 or 2 -cent aUmp will be ceepteft Make all remittances payable to Tb Journal. Portland. Oregon. A politician thinks of the seit election; statesman of th next generation. Jama Fresman Clarke. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE GOVERNOR OLCOTT made many excellent suggestions to the leg islature. He said this: While the people rejected the state market commiaslon bill I do not. con sider that as a repudiation of the" idea that there should be a more direct means of disposing of the products of the farm, and legislation tending to curb excessive profits in between the pro ducer and consumer will be a decided boon to mankind. It is as sound a truth as any gov ernor ever uttered. In 1910 six billions worth of Btuf f produced by farmers went to the consumer at 13 billions. Legitimate middlemen " arfd legitimate transportation did not take all the difference. The gam- (b!ers and speculators got a lot of it. ."I shall deem it my constitutional duty, as executive, to disapprove any item; that may tfe in excess of the 6 per cent limitation, says the gov- ernor. The governoi is under of ficial oath to do so. Taxes are high and tare increasing in every state, while the vast profits of the war period must decline as a result of the economic adjustment. It will mean that,' for some time among many people, taxes will be, difficult to payl All this seems to be sensed by the legislative mem bers, : and, with Governor Olcott's advanced warning, there is little likelihood that j the 6 . per' cent limi tation will be exceeded in the ap proprlation. j The. governor recommends that the state board of control be given authority to consider and prune the estimates of all state institutions It . Is a proposal for a complete bud get system, intelligently admin istered, which is a part of the ad ministration of every private bus! hess and should be made a part of every public business. : Calling attention to an Inadequate "plant of th : Industrial Training school the message says that there can be nof segregation of the vicious from the jbettt r class of inmates and that there is ground for Inference that "rather , than reforming, these schools breed criminals. He suggests. Instead of spend Ing money on the state capitol build ing thatjthe money, If any Is to be -appropriated, should go to Improve ment of the plant of the training school and kindred institutions. It is-sound advice.1 A recommendation that the legis lature act in close cooperation with the: state highway commission in dealing with road'building and road geography is among the many sound suggestions in the message. caDineis last anout as long in atsance as a dollar bii In America. FIRES AND FORESTS " ....... T TNCLE SAM'S receipts from his forests in the fiscal year 1920 reached, the sum of $4,793,482, this amount being $435,087 more than the forest revenues of 1919. But the loss from fires in the national forests in 1919 reached the Startling sum of $4,919,769, and the cost f fighting the fires, exclusive of the time of forest officials, was $3,039,615. The 1920 loss was. not , so great and the cost of fighting fires was only $800,000. It will only be necessary to pro r. : '- 1 FOR ALL HERE ia something to Interest memberi of the Oregon legislature: t ... The establishment of a big. independent packing plant in Portland was programed and largely financed several months ago. All the arrange ments were perfected, even to the selection of an architect. It was ex pected thai the plant would be the most modern that present development of devices and methods could provide.; A slip interfered at the last moment with the program. -'But the enterprise Is still in mind. Thmen, behind it are greatly interested in the deepening of the channel to North Port land harbor. "That development would greatly facilitate the disposition of surplus meat products of the-Northwest, by opening up new markets on the Atlantic seaboard and elsewhere in the wort d through use of re frigerator ships," said one of the men behind the proposed packing plant, yesterday, f. - .' : ' ' ; - '. ; More 'packing plants by which to prepare surplus livestock for export to the best world markets on ships that land almost at the gates of Oregon farms and ranches is one great thing needed to better the livestock in dustry" in Oregon. More than 21,000 carloads of livestock had to be shipped to Mississippi packing plants last year at an excess cost of $231 a car because' the Northwest could consume but 7000 carloads. It cost the, livestock men nearly $5,000,000 to pay the extra freight alone." and now the freight rates have been Increased 25 per cent. One great reason , why the livestock business in Oregon is In bad condK tion and many stockmen on the verge of bankruptcy is the restricted mar ket and the refusal of the Port of Portland commission to provide facilities for reaching the biggest and best markets in the world. If the Oregon legislature will enact legislation to compel tha Portland port commission to make a ship channel to North Portland harbor, it will render a distinct service to every Oregon farmer who grows and sells food animals. This is not a Portland issue but an all Oregon Issue. . tect public and private forest lands J through do not change the memory against the greatest destroyer of thelof the December snow a year ago. trees, to double the period during which the present i timber supply will serve and to make government sale of forest products an important public asset. j Hurrying down jBroadway, ; an automobile sped past another yester day in a perilous flight. Three traf fic regulations were shattered when the driver drove his car past another on the wrong side of the street, at the intersection, and without sound ing a warning. No accident resulted and no one! was injured, but one of these days both will occur with such driving. ' ' I " I THE . RED FLAME EIGHT hundred- and eighty-nine homes are burned ia the United States every working day in the year, xnirty- tjVvii are Durnea every night at midnight, every day at noon and every . other hour during j the day. Every home ( burnejj, means that from two to 10 people are mad homeless.' j i ''."' Fifteen thousand people were burned to death In 1919. One thou sand two hundred and fifty persons were burned every month, 41 every day. -"' The loss from the fires mounted to $269,000,000, to ' say nothing of the cost of fire service maintenance or water supply. The whole- cost would total $2,000,000 a day. I ': I Eight hundred i and eighty-nine homes, 41 lives and a $2,000,000 loss is the daily cost to the pedple of this country of fires. It is a huge J toll, and one that can be reduced alone by the caution of individual citizens. " I It is inconceivable that men will store their valuables in a safety dox and house their families in a tinder vault to become victims of the red flame. Mrs. Kitty Bailey, just buried at Brownsville, was a member of a prominent pioneer ! family of Linn county. Her father was Georg C. Cooley, who founded a mercantile business at Brownsville about Ithe year 1860. He died six years ago, leaving an honored name and a goodly competence ! to members of his family. Mrs. Cooley.i who was a member of the well known Blakely family, Is hale and hearty at! 78. Surviving members of Mrs. Bailey's family are the husband, W. j W. Bailey, a daughter, Ruth, and a son. Woodburn, who served through the late war. FROM OVER THE , OCEAN . ' . - I - FROM out of the clouds hanging over the Atlantic a giant airship will come this spring and light on the New York coast. Thereafter the Roma will be at home in Amer ica. i She is a giant flyer, planned and built in Italy, and sold to the Amer lean government.; She is - to come to this country, it is planned, in a no-stop flight across the ocean. The Roma can fly 3125 miles without a stop, she is capable of transporting 100 passengers, carries 34,000 cubic yards of gas and has a speed of 50 to 60 miles an hour. This huge ship of the air is 125 yards long and de velops 2500 horsepower which' op erates six mammoth propellers. three on each side of the machine. Her passengers are carried in' her cabin, which, unlike those now in use, is built in as a part of the ship. me noma is tne most improved aircraft of her type yet constructed. It is fitting that America should be her home. . -. ; - n - .. A Brooklyn undertaker was re cently convicted of selling wood al cohol for liquor. Many New Yorkers paid the price of being too healthy. DOESN'T LIKE OUR RAINS PORTLAND'S comfort In her cll- mate is rudely jostled by Mr, Harshman, whose criticisms may be read in the "Letters From "the Peo ple" column on this page today. ; i.ne correspondent '-takes issue, apparently, with the fact that The Journal published the picture of an attractive young woman in juxtaposi tion with roses of December and Jan uary bloom. He reminds of the fact that roses which bloom the winter ----- : - - r - :. i- j --- j-. ." OREGON As long as we have any rain at a"l and we do, most persistently it seems to be Mr. Harshman's belief that Portland should be "discreetly silent." ' , It is true that there are few days of sunshine in a Portland and West ern Oregon winter. Much of the time the rain comes up from the south and the southwest. It falls sometimes for the length of a day. and occasionally for a week, but gently, and never with the violence of a South Sea Island typhoon. The sunshine is no more caressing than the air of such days, and frequently when. New York is snowbound and Boston is blizzard torn, Portland has weather that calls for limited em ployment of umbrellas and over shoe. Meanwhile, a distinguished scient ist, who has studied agriculture and horticulture in Oregon for 15 years or more, said recently in a Portland address, that "her rains are one of Oregon's greatest assets." The soft rains of Oregon make it possible to grow here in profusion products less effectively grown or not grown at all otherwhere. Be ginning with flax, prunes, loganber ries, hops, filberts, walnuts and run ning to great length, the list of such products is" too well known to be repeated here, and it is the Oregon climate, with its gentle rains, that fructifies this region -."of luxuriant verdure and unusual production. Captain Lewis, in his annual re port, recommends that automohllea be compelled to come to a complete stop when entering main thorough fares from side streets. His recom mendation is based on statistics showing that most collisions occur on the heavy traffic arteries, many' of them the result of machines coming into the streets without regard to approaehingveh"cles. Undoubtedly the proposed regulation would re duce the number of accidents. It is therefore worthy of careful consid eration at the hands of the city 'com mission. CANT MEN TpHERE are too many men A around here who say 'can't'," explained an employer. Dont say "can't." - Don't confess defeat before you try. If Newton had been a "can't" man when he ;saw the apple fall, somebody else jwould have discov ered the law of 1 gravitation.. When your employer wants some thing done and you say offhand that it "can't" be done, he wonders. May be it can be done. Perhaps he will later ascertain that it can be done. What then la your position? "Can't" is a dangerous Word for an employe. It is dangerous for an employer. Don't risk use of it. In ordinary things, and some ex traordinary things, there la no way to tell what may, be done until you try. And if you fail 100 times you may succeed ; in the one hundred and first attempt. While a refugee. Robert Bruce learned that from the spider. , .' I t- - "Can't" may ) be a sign of timid ity. It may mean that you are lazy, Worse still, it Is admission that you are a weakling, and the weaklings in the social order are the failures. the derelicts, and the backwash of progress.. -l .- - . What if Abraham Lincoln in his boyhood of poverty had been one of the "cant's"? He would have lived a rail splitter and died a rail, split ter. What if the American colonists had said "can't"? ; Everybody "for thousands of years said' "can't" to the thought that men might fly through the sky," But Lang ley and the Wright brothers came along and ; men ; are outflying the birds. .Marconi was born with no word "can't" iii his vocabulary, and we have wireliss. . r And. so runs the story of man.' No great Inventor, j no great discoverer. no great statesman, no great philos opher,' no great" reformer, began life with "can'ts." 1 ;,. . l. ;-.; "Can'l is the shibboleth that made America, " that ;' raises men ; to - the heights and that carries civilization forward. , . I; -. Three men drank moonshine in Seattle a few days ago. They are dear, now. : - - WHAT'S A WILSON ARTICLE WORTH? President's Rejection. Editors . Gener ally Consider,' Showed Kxcellent Taste, but Matter Requested Would Have Been Highly Valuable Either for Re sale or Intrinsically. , -Daily (CAsolic ; Editorial Diuest- isolidated Hm AaaoRiatinn) When President Wilson turned down the $150,000 offer for his first manu script after he leaves the White 'House most of the newspapers seemed to think he showed excellent taste, but when he gave for his reason that he didn't think any article of his would be worth what he was offered the writers found little praise for his judgment. - r The Milwaukee Journal (Ind.) believes that the president was entirely right in his move. It declares that "the .syndi cate which made him the offer thought prices should be determined by 'what the traffic would bear"," and by jhis atti tude Mr. Wilson "refuses to become a war profiteer." . In so, acting, the Raleigh News -and Observer (Dera.) considers that he has done "a big thing. The virtue in the president's' renuncia tion lies, in the opinion of the Spring field Republican (Ind.) in that "he de clined to capitalize his office,") and thus no doubt won "the approval of the liter ary guild." The Nashville Banner (Ind.), too, finds Mr. Wilson's act "wholly com mendable" and is refreshed to know that a public man upholds the old stand ards in these days of crass commercial ism." The Knoxvllle Sentinel (Ind. Dem.) supports the New York World's (Dem.) approval; of i the president's judgment and sentiment in refusing to "capitalize his office," and the St. Louis Post Dispatch (Ind.) praises his sense of propriety and good taste. which was "to be expected." Most writers, however, who consider worthy of comment the "high-minded" attitude baclc of the refusal, as " the Hartford -Times (Dem.) describes It, still feel that the publishers hardly overesti- j mated the value of articles they attempt- I ed to buy. The Times continues : "If Charley Chaplin gets a sum expressed In six figures for performing his asinine stunts before the camera, it seems, as if the man who aroused a new sense of justice among the people of the world should be worth as much." Among those who share this belief Is the Adrian (Mich.)' Telegram (Ind.), which says: "As a matter of fact, "the article would be worth $150,000 as a purely commercial proposition. It would easily be worth that and more; other wise the syndicate would not have made the offer. Such an article could be sola to newspapers all over the country and in foreign countries, at almost any price. As a speculation it ought to have paid at least 100 per cent to the syndicate. But the whole . transaction appears In -a different light when' viewed from the standpoint of the president himself. He wants to write upon the great events of the last six years not!: a pot-boiler nor a speculation, but a literary and political will and testament for posterity. . et - While the Indianapolis News- (Ind.) doubts that President Wilson or any other man "could write an article that was really worth $150,000," it goes on to say that an article, like everything else, from the merely commercial point of view, "is worth exactly what some one else is willing to pay for it," and "the name of the author and the posi tion he holds, or has held, are also ele ments in the determination of its value." It says further: The situation is thus one from whieh Mr.i Wilson cannot es cape except by refusing altogether to enter the literary market. He will -be as able to get $150,000 for the article after it is written and has passed the test of his own criticism, as he was before it was written.". The ; fact remains. : as the News also points out, that thei publishrars believe there is a , powerful f public demand for his works.- This the Augusta Chronicle (Dem.) also believes, though it agrees with .. the president that the offer was too great despite the fact that it would have doubtless been a good in vestment for- the publisher. Not only Mr. Wilson's articles; it thinks, but, those that may be written by - Mr. Tumulty will have a distinct value to the Ameri can people. , . The ISew Haven Journal Courier (Ind.) sees noreason for Wilson's refusal ; "The offer' is a fair one and can be recon ciled with intelligent publication. It is just as fair for Mr. Wilson to accept it as it is fair for Mr. Taft to sell his talent and repute as a writer and lec turer, or as it was for Mr. Roosevelt to sell his. We suspect finally ttoat if Mr. Wilson does devote his life to writ ing he will find it impossible to escape large profits, no matter what the meth ods are by which he reaches his public." "All the people will not agree" with the president's valuation or undervalu ation of his product, in the opinion of the Ohio State Journal (Columbus, Rep.). Considering the experience through which he has gone; the Journal con-, ceives that he might indeed write an article worth considerably more than his offer stipulated: "The story he would write," it declares, "the story he is expected to write some time, would be a million dollar; story, not a mere tlao.ooo production.: it may be his choice to write no story now, but if he should choose to do so the syndicate that would pay him $150,000 for it would make more money J out of it than he would receive. I The. Pittsburg -1 Chronicle Telegraph (Rep.), making plain that, in Its opin ion, the - value of the article Is - based upon the position the author has held. thinks that "writing folk In general will regret the suggestion that no arti cle could be worth ;the amount offered. "If a pugilist." it argues, "can gain $300. 000 for possibly a few minutes' physical exertion, it would seem that an article requiring hours of ; Intense Intellectual application should be worth at least half that amount. : N The Cleveland News (Rep.) treats the question somewhat facetiously : ''If he could remember and tell everything that Oemenceau and Lloyd George said to him privately, everything that the Eng lish king and queen said to him when he was stopping with them, the govern ment could well afford to spend 10 times $150,000 for- the article, just to put it away and make each new president read it on Inauguration day. To know in a& vance, and thus be able to avoid, the things that Europe almost 'put over on this country would be worth ten times one hundred and fifty million dollars." -A good case for the commercial sound ness Of the publishers offer Is made by the Brooklyn Eagle; (Ind. Dem.), which shows how "newspaper competition" might easily, boost the price of any of Mr. Wilson's works indefinitely, but the paper concludes that the president's ac tion has ' "conserved both his personal aigmty ana mat or ms country" by re- fusing to have his wares put' on "the auction block.1 Curidus Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places i Captain Alfred Johnson, a Gloucester fisherman of Danish birth, was the first man to cross the ocean unaccompanied even by a dog. His dory, -the" Centen nial, built at Gloucester, was is feet long, 29 feet over all. 64 feet wide and 2V4 feet deep. Captain Johnson sailed from Gloucester June 15, T576, and ar rived at ; Liverpool : August 21. 67 days from Gloucester. aptain Howard Black- burn. another Gloucester fisherman, known as the flngerless navigator, be cause of the loss of all bis fingers, made rhis first lone-voyage across the Atlan tic in his 30-foot boat, the Great West ern, leaving Gloucester. Mass., on June 18. 1899, and- reaching Gloucester. Eng.. in 62 days. Two years later he sailed in the 25-foot boat Great Republic from Gloucester to Lisbon, Portugal, in S9 days. Captain Joshua Slocum sailed from. Boston in April, 1895, in the 40-foot sloop Spray; in which he made a voyage around the world, occupying three years. Letters From the People 1 Communication sent to Tb Journal for publication in thia department should bo written on only on side of tb ddct: ahould not exceed 800 words ia lentth. and rnunt bo sixned by tb writer, wnoae mail address id lull must accom pany th contribution. J j i . " IF THE NAME IS CHANGED, Men's Club Members Prefer the Name "Rose Boulevard" to . "Rose way."! Portland,! Jan. 11. To the Editon of The Journal The Portland Ad club has suggested that the name of Sandy boule vard be changed to "Roseway," jj.nd City Commissioner Barbur has shewn his democracy by suggesting that the name be left to the residents' along this popular thoroughfare. This seems ithe proper thing to do, since the people own ing property for several hundred feet? on either side of this street were 'as sessed to increase the width and thus make it a "boulevard." ; ! The Men's Community club of Seventy second street and Sandy boulevard,, after extensive discussions, has gone on rec ord as. being In favor : of changing the name to "Rose boulevard,"; We have become accustomed to jthe'name '"boule vard," and we like it 1 We already have in this section the Boulevard garage, the Boulevard grocery.; etc.! The name is thus intimately connected with this part of the city and should ' not be changed, without the very, best of rea sons. When all the roses, trees and shrubs, that have been arranged forf get to growing along its border it will be a real "boulevard," and surely entitled to that dignified name. j The name "boulevard" means a broad avenue, planted with trees and shrubs. for pleasure driving. People returning from Europe and Eastern cities tell of the mangificent "boulevards" over which the have driven. . The dictionary says that "way" means room for ' passage," "opportunity to pass." it carries the idea ol being nar row. Synonyms- are, "lane," -."path." 'alley," a "passage," etc The Men's club believes that the. people along the 'boulevard will vote for "Rose boulevard" instead of "Roseway. if they will but give a moment's thought to the subject, - C. E. Ferguson, . Secretary, Men's Community club. ROSES AND RAIN IN PORTLAND Dissatisfaction With Weather and .With . Local Attitude Registered s Portland, Jan. 6. To the Editor of The Journal. Every few days I j read some article concerning Portland s ell mate and her roses. On January -5 there, appeared a cut of a young1' lady "plucking roses," and an article beneath which disgruntled me. "Let tia recall what our eastern friends are enduring in the way of weather, and be h&ppyj was the closing sentence. On the same day the official weather report, published in The Journal,,' was in part as follows: . TEMP. 5 3 S o u.2 STATIONS 2 u "42" Stt. 40 44 86' 18 42 i 87 ; Boston, Mass. . . . Buffalo, N.,i T. . . New York ...... Uittabure, Pa. St. Louis, Mo. . . . St. Paul. Minn. . Washington, D. C ' Portland . 04 48 50 60 68 32 CO 57 o o 9 0 o o o 185 Not such terrible weather in the I East, and it is dry occasionally. Perhaps it is because I was out in the rain most of the day that it makes me bitter to read such stuff. You state that on only six Christ- masea has: there been snow, and then not over two Inches at the most. Literally true, perhaps, but the article makes no mention of last winter's snow that came along the: first week in December, and lasted nearly two weeks, nor of a few years ago when the temperature havered about zero, when traffic was tied up, when warehouses closed their doors, when streetcars failed to run on many lines, and when people "holed up" in general and waited for the weather to chan are. Also, a few years ago the Ad club, I believe it , was, .held a "shirtsleeve and Dalm leaf fan" parade amidst rain and sleet, and several of them nearly cashed in as a result. Was that misrepreseata tion? Oh,-no! Just a joke on Port land. The Ad club deserves honorary membership with Roosevelt's famous Ananias club. I . When one picks up a paper and looks vainly for "Help Wanted" ads and sees nothing but "roses" he is apt to become diner-untied. i Mayor Baker "proposes rose growing as a sedative for Industrial unrest." Ye gods ! Why not a few jobs at the "slave market"? Roses are beautiful. but they do not appear hair so beauti ful tn a. hunerry man. i : Portland ought to- be a large and good business city (and will when a few Tnor of the old conservatives die off). but such misrepresentation will do more Injury than good. It is misrepresenta tion, because it leads Easterners to be-u.-t,. tht the climate here is wonderful the year round, when as a matter of fact the winters here are miserable.. It is much easier to Keep warm isi ary snow than in cold rain. J, . Tr The Truth Never Hurts Portland is to be the slogan, then why not print the truth or enough that it may not be misleading or be aiscreeuy snenif W. A. Harshman. ' AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL T,nnn- Lodare. Jan. 9 To the Edi tor of The Journal I wish to get a thorough education in auto repairing r nt school in Portland, please inform me as to the best school, and if the state will help to ooiam sucn acoooi Ing If so, inform me how I shall pro ceed to obtain such allowance. I am an ex-service man ana neea iw ; j - - - . William i B. (If th inquirer will send hi foH nam nd potof fiST addtoo to The Journal ho will be lieen th adTK h aeeks.1 Olden Oregon Cause of Good Roads Got It First 1 Boost in 1S43. The first road work In Oregon was done by the Immigration of 1843.; - The work was done in Burnt river canyon, which was the worst road encountered after leaving the Platte river.' In order to get the wagons through the canyon some grading was required.! It was also the first occasion where It was neces sary to double teams. ' I v- Uncle Jeff Snow Says ; The reason Ned Haldlffer's gal, Nellie May, has left home, at the tender age of 16 is 'cause, bein the youngest of five sisters, she ain't never had a new dress or a new coat or a new hat nor nuthin new whatsoever, sence she was bom. So Nellie May's a-workin' down to Portland and don't buy nuthla but new cloze with her money. ; , COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Bullets for bandits. o The best way to gamble in stocks la not to. , . It's high time the night prowlers were adopting a zoning system. y Thieves departing leave behind them footprints in the snows of spring. .'. Emergency tariff would be a great thing -if we all could get a divvy. Foch is about to return the courtesy of Jack Pershing's little visit of 1917-18. e A bond in the safe Is worth' a whole parcel of Morris Bros. Interim certifi cates. i - Now. that fhe legislators have been aworn "in," the swearing "at" process may commence. , .-: f .:'.-: A cou tuple of good 'shots' will give hiccough it he's anxious to try anyone President Wilson's birdshot cure. : The height of British charity has been reached when John Bull admits that the Americans may also have fought. When " Ore eon farmers Include arold nuceets in the rerulan diet of their turn keys the holiday bird ' will be worth 75 cents a pound. While Mavor Baker! ia mittinar "oerj" Intothe police department we may, well wisAhat the department will put a few thugs into Jail. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL. Random Observations About- Town T. P. Hughes of Sixes is in In Port-1 land. Sixes in in Curry county, where a ; man can catch a mess of trout before breakfast, kill a buck during the fore noon and wash out a day s wages in coarse gold during the afternoon and never have to go an "hour's walk from Sixes. -; . Mra L. M. SchillinEmand her daughter- in-law, Mrs. H. F. Schilling, both of whom live at Condon, are at the Sew ard. ' They have been .'called here by the death of Mrs. Schilling's son at Corval- lis. H. F. SchiUing ,1s cashier of the First National bank of Condon. . Mr. and Mra S. G. Reed and their daughters Jean and Ruth are over from their ranch in the Kehalem country to see the sights of PorUand. Reed formerly was connected with a Portland bank. Franklin Wharton of San Francisco is at the Benson.- He is,up to tell the peo ple at the auto show of the merits of tne products of the Oliver Iron . and Steel company of Pittsburg. : XT ) .TonnlA Vainer' of Mooselaw and rMiss Ann Mahan of Swift Current, Sas katchewan, are guests at the.Hotel Port land. '. f ". ;.- 1 ' i , B. C. Lipplncott of New York, mem ber of the well known publishing firm. Is registered at the Multnomah.;- ' Charles E. Fisher, who pushes the edi torial quill on the Eugene Guard, is at the Imperial. Miss Helen Cowglll of Corvallis IS at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Needham of Salem are Portland visitors. j A. M. Kinney of Astoria is at the Seward. : ( I ' " i . Mr. and Mrs. R. ot Donovon of lone are at the Perkins. ! i ; - , . . . i . . j , , ' " J. K. Sbotwell of Hermlston is a Port land visitor.. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN '. By Fred Lockley ) - - :.v; - of Jo Sbelby'a old Miaaourf troopera P""',"" slant upon th famous T.wrMic-e rmW. Til trooper wa a member of most er.ordir,rT expedition that marched to Mexico ofh Confederacy, and of Una h relate moat intereatia incidents. 1 1 ""W. R. Johnston, former Confederate cavalryman with General Jo Shelby, but for the past 25 years a resident of Portland, has had a' most adventurous life "The man who iwas really respon sible for the raid oh Lawrence. Kan sas," said Mr. Johnston. -"was Jim Lane, one of the leading citizens of Lawrence. He was a man of little principle but of much magnetism. He waaa.a persuasive, trouble-making firebrand, and when he talked about the South he dipped bis tongue in vitriol. For years the trou bles between the free state settlers in Kansas and the people In Missouri who believed In slavery and Its extension had caused much bitterness and bloodshed- Finally, in one of his fiery speeches. Jim Lane ot Lawrence spoke disparagingly of the women or the South. When the word cam to us of what he had said we decided, to hang him to teach him a lesson. Thirty-two troopers from our company, of whom I was one. were assigned the task ot making a raid on Lawrence to capture Jim Lane. We were Joined by numer ous Irregulars.' who- were -in command of our officer. We traveled ,by night, riding at a good hard gait, to reach Lawrehce before" people were, astir. "We came upon their line b pickets just at dawn We rode hardj after the fleeing pickets,-shooting toe -Feds' as STey ran from their tents. Wf took the town and threw out a line of ipickets to prevent being surprised by Union troops. Searching parties went in an ! directions to find Lane. He lived in a large brick house but at the firing on the outskirts of town he had fled.; In running across ? cornfield, he fell Into an abandoned well. We did not learn-this until later. . I - -While the men detailed to Search for Lane were busy the rest of us w-ere foraging for breakfast and smokes. Our top sergeant went Into a drug store and going back of the counter, he served cigars to all the boys as long as the cigars held out. We bad been glvep orders o do as little damager as possi ble and but for an accident iLawrence would never have been burned. One of our men. while in the ; drb store dropped the match he had used to light his cigar. It fell upon some loose paper on the floor. Before he coulf stamp it out the ps-per caught fire, jand In a momeTt S sort fHfJ1 on the lower shelf exploded and .we piled out of the store In a hurry. The irregulars were glad to see ithe store burnV and soon got out of hand and set other stores afire. I am sure that out foV the accidental dropping of the match In the drug store Lawrence would not have been burned. All we Wanted to da was to catch Lane and stretch hi neck or shoot him full of botes, so he would never again have a Chance . to insult or defame the women of the South." - .: J -Ye I "knew Quantrell. He has been 'painted pretty black, but so I far as I. could see he was no better nor worse than the rest of us. "I put In about four years as a Con .rt troooer. Atlot of us felt that with the final furling of the iStars and Bars, under which we had Served so inn-, we could no longer live .wTlere we NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS How does It happen that after a man dies he always becomes a "loving hua band and a kind father"? Baker Demo crat. . --- Our observation is that a man Is un happily rich when he gets to the place where he begins dreading congress.- Ashland Tidings. . -' - .-"'. - If taxes get too high there's always the alternative of supporting the govern ment by raising the liquor fines. La Grande Observer. " -. ...- ' Building operations In Eugene in 1920 were three times as large as in 1 1919. but Just watch 1921 before it's finished. Eugene Register. " . , The tipper Rhine has gone dry.' Who expected that this prohibition w aye would spread to Germany - so soonT Corvallis Gazette-Times. : -'.. A-college professor now says the de spised dandelion is a useful plant, as It fortm-zM th soiL We know of a still better use to which it might be P"t and It has the "kick," too. Marsniieia News. - ,. ; . . . : ;'- Would it be out of order for a citizen to . BUggeet - that ways and means le found for curtailing government require ments to meet the shrinkage in wage and commodity prices, rather than to find ways of increasing taxation on re maining industries and Incomes that no longer exist? Harney County Newt- Pendleton people in Portland Include W. W. Harrah, wheat farmer M. K. Long, automobile dealer ; Geprge and DeWitt Wallace, also in the auto busi ness ; Mac Foster of Stage "Gulch; J. Montgomery, with W. H. Collins, the grain man ; Prosecuting Attorney Heater, J. R. Knight, H. M., Harrahan and Claude Miles, i ' ' Edna Bergfeld of Cordova Is a guest at the Seward, Cordova is on Orca in let of Prince William sound. The big United States wireless station, military cable station jand. custom house are lo cated there. j . . . Guests from Albany registered at the Seward are Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Mon teith, G. T. Hackensmith and Charles Buchner. j - Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Johnson of Con don are at the Seward. Johnson is one of the well-known merchants of Coo don. - I . C. C. Cate, county agricultural agent at Medford, is in Portland to attend the meeting of the Oregon State Farm Bu reau. .. ! - - C. F. Stone. Klamath Falls attorney and memberi mission, Is a of the fish and game corn- Portland visitor. II. e. Haslett and F. A. Goff of Rose burg are at ithe Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. H. J.' Barbery and baby of Flavel are Portland visitors. -i - . B. H. Winch of Salt Lake City is at the Benson. . 1 - A J. Anderson and E. Larsen of Ne- halem are at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. CA. Lockwood of Rose- burg are at the Multnoman. Mr. and Mrs. .Joseph Furlong of Salem are Portland visitors. : S. J. Cully of Weston is, a Portland visitor.- lost cause ; j so we decided to go to Mexico and! be soldiers of fortune. From Shelby's division we formed three companies for service In Mexico. The company I Vas In was 80 strong and was commanded by Colonel Elliott, but serving in this command as captain Major General Shelby became major of the battalion. We had been ln the saddle continuously nearly four years. so we mounted our - war-worn horses and struck southward toward Mexico. "We marched to Monterey, which was garrisoned by the French. Basaine, the French commander, was willing to have us join his forces, but he refused to allow us 'to serve under the officers we had selected land wanted to put inexpe rienced young French -off leers over us. We said we would fight with him under our own officers, but not otherwise ; and we stood pat The negotiations came to nothing, so lour company marched to Durango.. The companies finally broke up, the men drifting into various enter prises mining. ; cattle raising and sol diering. A bunch of my comrades and I went In together and leased a lot of land near Masatlan and decided to raise cotton.. We lived in grass roofed shacks and were soon shaking with fever and ague.- Several of us came down with smallpox. Since the French would not accept our services-to fight against the Mexicans, I decided to enlist in Colonel Dano's battalion in? the Mexican army and fight against the French supporting Maximilian. The battalion I joined consisted of 'white men, soldiers of for tune ex-Confederates, former' soldiers of the Union army, and deserters from both Union .and Confederate armies who had fled to .Mexico. We also had sa'lors who had quit their ships in Mexican ports, and a good many Englishmen who had served in the British army or navy, and also a few Frenchmen. We were a -mixed ; lot a regular . Foreign Legion and jutterly reckless. We were called the Army of Liberation and were assigned to the Mazatlan district, We. who had been under regular discipline, became disgusted with the lack of disci pline and the shilly-shallying of the Mexican generals, i Anyone who would recruit a hundred men or so became a general. : - !:" i " ',''.:--:',v:- : ''l.-'-v'e ' ..-ki v''w:'i "While serving under General Corona we trapped a company of French sol diers. There was! but one way of es cape, and they did not know of It- We were left to I cut them to pieces when they should 'try to cut their way out, We could have massacred the wliole company;. - We got! to talking about It and one of jour men said. "After all. fellows, they are white men, and I don't feel it's up to us to kill a lot of white men to accommodate the Greasers we are working for. Let's let them escape." We decided to keep mum, but to put them wise to the one unguarded way through the swamps. We got word to them, and they got away. ; General Corona pretty nearly had us shot for treason, but he couldn't prove o-ar com plldtyln their escape; so, with a num ber of others, I was fired from the Mex ican army. Shortly .thereafter I was taken desperately sick and was laid out for burial, but I failed to qualify as a corpse and was finally nursed back to health. I drifted north and wound up in San Francisco, where I landed a Job with a blue bellied Yankee -from the state of Maine, working on a ranch as chaperon and valet to several hundred hogs." .. i . .-. - The Oregon Country Northwest Hsppanian In Brief Form for, th , . . Bwj Header- OREGON NOTES The postorfice at AJax has been dis continued, as has also the star route be tween Condon and Ajax. .? i Representative citizens have unani mously voted for Medford to Join in the national community service movement Archie Philip, former county commis sioner, and his son Mike are being tried at Marshfield on charges of monoshin ing. The Jackson Countv Building and Loan association at Medford has in creased its capital stock from $250,000 to $1,000,000. T Work of completion of a new hotel at Union is going along nicely and will be finished in about- three months. Its cost will be nearly $50,000. . Total cost of building construction in Klamath Kalis last year amounted to $756.1a0. of which $166,900 wastepeut on 127 new dwellings. i . Carl Peterson, a young farmer resid ing near Junction City, is In the countv Jail, charged with passing a number of worthless checks at. KuirenA huainou . lioueea The pear industry ranks third in fruita in Oregon, with apples first and prunes seoond. The apple aoreasce is about 50,000, that of prunes 40.000 and pears 13,500. The first National bank of Harrishurg has purchased the bank building, furni ture, fixtures and accounts of the FarrrR ers and Merchants bank and th latter corporation will be dissolved. Many new buildings at Astoria are being held un on account of the hiah costs, and an effort is being made to enforce a . gradual reduction In the wages of carpenters and painters.. The Umatilla countv irrand iurv has exonerated the nherifru office, of the charge of using third degree methods on the prisoners arrested in connection witn the killing of Sheriff Til Taylor last July. . , In Euiene last frb J "NT Rn.rlit purchasing agent for the Southern Pa cific, let it be known that he was in ine market lor ties", at $18 a thousand. Several mills have taken- htn nffpr nnn for 20,000 pieces. Threshln is still In nroirress In Lak county and it is possible that it. will be imisnea cerore spring work forces a stop. Bound grain that was stacked properly is turning out well, while headed grain has been injured more or less. When a carrier nnnn whlr.h he, wa riding gave way with the result that he fell 36 feet with 12,000 feet of lum-' Wr on top of him, Ed Tlempsey. a mill employe at Mabel, suffered concussion of the brain and many other serious in juries. -' i - WASHINGTON D. D. lnnus. ' former editor of. "the Castlerock Independent. has purchased the Kalama Bulletin. The total of all taxes in Lewis countv . for 1920 is $1,548,525.50 an increase of $397,190.63 over 1-919, -' Three million dollars for the construc tion of permanent buildings at Camp Lewis is asked by Secretary of War Baker. . - ' Matthew J. Hlndman, Spokane pio neer,,, who had been blind for the latt 60 years, is dead from injuries re ceived in a fall. :. Harry J. Craig, Aberdeen hi;h school athletic coach, has been appointed first lieutenant of the Aberdeen coast guard, recently organized. . Burt Moore of Centralia sustained a broken shoulder and severe bruiaes when . his automobile plunged over a 60 foot embankment near Toledo. Local lumber business picked up a little on foreign demand last week. The export association obtained an order for 800,000 feet for New Zealand. Incorporation articles' of the Farmers' Supply' company have been filed with the Yakima county auditor. The or ganization has a capital stock of IIS.0O0, and is formed to grow, market and slur produce. . : . - - While playing with an old revolver at Ms home in Seattle. Orlando M. Bar- -nett, aged 10, shot hlmsflf through the left lung. The revolver had been in th house for years and ;no one knew it was loaded. " , At a recent meeting of the stockhold ers of the Far West Livestock company, recently organized at Centralia, it was announced that the company had made a profit -of 33 1-3 per cent in the last three months. Further -showing the growth of Ta coma and sits financial position, that city has gone from thirty-third place in the amount of postal savings on de posit one year ago to the fifteenth city In the .United Statea ; - At a recent council of Yakima In dians held at Toppenlsh, Francis A Garrett of Spokane. lrnlted States dis trict attorney, was formally adopted Into the tribe and given the nam, of Chilwit-Wop-Souk, meaning "The Dawn." IDAHO Harry McPherson has been appointed postmaster at Treff ry. in Bncwali county. , . - Mrs. Paul M. Bower has been elected a director of the Sandpotnt Chamber of Commerce." t : Fire broke out in the Belcher rettau rant at Firth Wednesday morning and damace to the amount of $15,000 was done. j - - - The Idaho legislature is asked to ap propriate $3,414,900 to operate the edu cational institutions of the state for the next two, years.- j Mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid for a bottle of medicine. John JL; Sayer, prominent pioneer of Eastern Idaho, died from the effects of the poison at his home near Idaho Falls. The Idaho Caatle A Horse Growers' association, in session at Boise, has passed a resolution indorsing the Ford ney tariff bill, with an amendment pro tecting beef and .hides. - Governor Davis has accepted the fed eral act for the rehabilitation of injured workmen. By Siis measure the govern ment advances $5000 annually to-aid In jured workmen and the state furnishes a like amount, ' Fire -destroyed the old Rupert hotel Tuesday night, rendering destitute the occupants, Mr. ami. Mrs. H. W. Pratt and their family of nine children. The building was the first hotel to be erect ed In Rupert. f know roui PORTLAND Nearly every Portland home has it electric lighting system. Most of them have-more or less extensive converting plants which turn electric energy." wired to them, into floor sweeping, clothes washing, coffee percolating, sewing machine operating, ironing, broiling, toasting and so forth. The Portland Railway, Light A Power company has 36,271 residence customers and 1709 power cutomers, with 76,000 kilowatts connected load in the latter instance. i - The Northwestern Electric com pany, without segregating between residence and power -use, has 13.800 customers with 325.93 miles of dis- trlbution line and 64.61 miles of high tension transmission line. The Portland Railway, Light A Power company has on Its system 644.065 lamps wtth an average of 15 lamps to each customer. This company also has as custom ers 3263 stores with a connected load of S884 kilowatts. It has 676 hotel and apartment bouse customers with a connected load -of 695 kilowatts. The schools, churches and other Insti tution represent 388 customers with a connected load of 1576 kilowatts. In this connection It might be re peated that we have for the Illumina tion of Portland 3756 arc lamps, and it is the general feeling that the num ber might be increased.