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4 G THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1921. AN INDEPENDENT KEWSPAPEB C . JACKSON ...publWwr Ba calm, be confident, be cheerful and do onto thera aa you would na Uiem no- mw 1 Fobiiahed eery week day and Sunday aaoewtne;. " at The Journal RuiUlina. Broadway and Tam- Kntered at the poatofftcw at Portland, Orecon. ,. for trenerahekm throusb. the naaila aa aecond ' claai matter. . Ttu3-PHONE8 Main 71 T3, Automatic B0.-51. Alt', department reached by these nntnbera. KATtONAIV AUVERTIHIN BEPKE8ENTA TIVK Benjamin at KerOnor Co.. Brunswick Bulldini, Klfth arenue. New Tort; 000 Mailers Iluildina;, Chicago. VhVXYlC COAST HEPKESENTATITE W. R. Htnn(r Co.. Examiner Buildinc. San Fraa cltco; Title Insurance- Buildinc. I Ancelas; Pot-Intellia;encer Buildinc, Seattle. - THE OREGON. JOl'RNAL renerrea thfr rieht to -reject adrertisinf copy which it deema oo jectionable. 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Expreaa Order or Draft. -If jour nmtoffire i ;.not a Voiiey Order office. 1 or 2-cent ulampa will be accepted. .Make all remittances payable ta The Journal. Portland. Orecon. Fear God and keep Ilia commandments; for this la the whole duty of man. . Ecclcaiaatea 13:13. .ON THE OLD TRAIL LED by the governor of the state, the politicians of Washington re attempting to go back to the. old convention system. , The governor of New York is leading: a similar movement. Clamor for the backward step is audible in some other states. The old convention system made a political crook of many a good man. The purchase by the Lowden 'forces of two Missouri delegates to the national Republican convention at $2500 per, is in point. They were a single Instance that came to the surface among a multitude of such cases never brought to light. It was the corruption of govern ment at its source. It was vicious use of money in politics. Its oppo nents say the direct primary is ex pensive.. So is the convention sys tem. Delegates at $2500 apiece are costly. , The direct, primary has weak nesses. The convention system has worse faults. You cannot buy the whole people. But you can buy a convention, and wherever office is buyable, it will be bought. It has been bought and it will at times be bought again wherever conventions are in vogue. Desire for return to the conven tion' system comes from' the belief Of some men that they know better than other men how to select candi dates for office. They think the whole mass of a party is not capable of nominating candidates. It is an egotistical assumption by egotists. , Another source of desire for- con ventions, is the manipulator, the boss and the ward politician. They want to be the inner circle. They watit to be the power behind the govern ment, and, from the back door, steer its course. ' They want pickings and profit and plunder. There are also some good men who prefer convention. But they have not delved into the fundamentals of the subject. They don't know what went on behind the scenes when we had conventions. I- Blinded by drinking whiskey in which there was wood alcohol. Sam uel Greenberg has been awarded $30,000 damages to be paid by two saloon keepers who sold him the booze. " Why shouldn't the men who peddle death dealing imitations of booze be held financially responsi ble? Or, if they are financially un--able to pay, why not Jail them? EXALTING BULL RUN A BULLETIN from . the United oiuea iiuuue ucauui service con- Stains the following paragraph: .. Within the last 12 months the danger to railway travelers of Infection with typhoid fever, dysentery and other water -borne diseases has- been reduced to : .minimum throughout, the greater part of the Country by the cooperation of the United States public health service with the different state boards of health in the testing of the water used one railway v trains for drinking and cooking. :. On the tables in the dining cars of the S., P. & 8. between Portland and Spokane are attractive water bottles. On the labels, Mount Hood in the- distance towers against a , deep blue sky, and in the foreground ' are forests and fields in varying ' tints of green. Across the , picture in yeiiow tetters are these words: j i "Pure Bull Run Water." At the bot tom In red Is "Portland's Famous Supply." Other information on the label is that the water was bottled in the railroad commissary expressly for the S.. P. & S.j dining service. The plan, is leadership in the field in which the United States j public healthrvice Is workjng. It was applied to the S., P. & S. system by L. K. Owen, who came to, the road from the commissary department of the Northern Pacific, where he had a part in spreading the slogan of the "Great Big Baked Potato." Bull Run water was adopted as the slogan with which to feature. the dining car service after an ex haustive investigation as to its purity In competition with water from springs and i other sources of supply 'in the territory reached by the line. The attractive bottles and beautiful labels have proven to be a popular feature, more than Justi fying the expectations of those who originated the plan. The menu cards in the service mako further mention of the water, and the wlfole effect is to give the traveler arriving in Portland a most favorable thought of the general atmosphero of Port land as evidenced by its foresight In providing a water supply of unchal lenged purity. If other roads in the country would exalt, pure water as the S., P. & S. has done it, they would be a strong auxiliary force back of the public health service in warding off typhoid fever and other diseases among travelers on American rail roads. ! "Spot," the pet horse, who had been 'taught the trick of opening and closing doors, followed an Illi nois farmer to the barn. While the farmer was in the feed room. "Spot" closed the door and latched itN The farmer didn't get out until the after noon of the next day. A SERIOUS PROBLEM NARROW streets in the downtown district of Portland make it next to Impossible for traffic to pass through that section in anything even approximating a reasonable length of time. The streets . on which big retail and wholesale es tablishments are located are at times next to impassable. Through their congestion and the slowing up of traffic incident thereto, contiguous thoroughfares are becoming propor tionately congested. The increase in traffic was about 35 per cent last year. There Is rea son to believe that the increase will not be less this year, and the next, and the next, and the next. Port land has been able to struggle along with her congestion. But what of the future? There, iiave been attempts to re lieve the situation. Parking in cer tain streets was at one time pro hibited. Violent protests from busi ness interests resulted in abandon ment pf the regulations. Then the one-way traffic .ordinance was pre sented. It has aided traffic condi tions in other cities. But it was beaten by one vote in the city council. Now a new but practically insig nificant beginning has been made. Two score of for-hire cars have been restricted from parking in the con gested district. They are a mere bagatelle. Recommendation has been made that a two-hour restric tion be placed on a zone five blocks around the present congested dis trict. That may help. But at best it is but a temporary measure with a possibility of temporary relief. ' What is to be the permanent status and when is it to be invoked? Portland is not like other cities from the t-affie standpoint. There are problems in this city, because of the extremely narrow streets, that other municipalities do not face. Our remedy may necessitate more dras tic regulation. There is just so much roomon the streets of the congested district. Is itto be used for traffic, or for stor age purposes?; It cannot well be used for both unless the traffic area is restricted, and the only way so far found to allow free flow of ; traffic in a restricted area is the one-way traffic plan. If the space for traf fic is not to be limited, the time will come when parking must be almost, if not entirely, eliminated in the downtown district. The present situation promises in the very near jfuture to become in tolerable to business, to patrons and to all others who use the streets. It is al situation that is becoming, if not already, one that will demand immediate and courageous action. To meet it, the city commission, will be compelled jto temporarily aban don the political listening posts and face a serious situation in a sincere and comprehensive way. More than 175,000 children were brought before courts as offenders during the year 1920. What an in dictment of American home life! THE WEATHER CURE THE numerovrs correspondents i a who have seen fit to testify against j Portland's gentle rains since the roses that have been blooming in January were made the subject of publicity in these pages, may be dismissed with; a simple suggestion: Let allj who dislike Portland winter weather take a trip to almost any where else. jj f Let them go where it is dry. brown, dusty and windy and the grit mingles with food and roughens the pillow, i Let them .. go where . it is cold an shiver through drifts or pay the fuel bills of Indoor comfort. Let-them go where It is warm and lose the "pep" which renders possi ble a longer, harder day's work with less fatigue in Western Oregon than anywhere else. When they are sufficiently cured, let them return penitent and grate ful to the verdure, the. fruit and the flowers of Oregon. If they are not cured the rail roads are usually willing to refund the unused portions of round trip tickets. "I have just killed the cat, and you are next," said a 2 5 -year-old husband at Muskegon, Michigan. After sending 12 bullets into his wife's body he shot himself. That is what the pistol is for. UNJUST TO WORKERS MEMBERS of the legislature may well believe that the improve ment of North Portland harbor is an issue of Oregon development. A ship outlet for meat products of Or egon and the" Columbia basin is at stake. It will enlarge and enhance the natural market for the livestock interests of the Columbia basin. The deepening of the North Port land channel is also a payroll issue at a time when the maintenance of payrolls is recognized as vital to the continued business well being of city and state. ' The North Portland box factory which burned last summer will not rebuild without a deep channel. The sawmill and woodworking plants of North Portland, it appears from the letter written to legislators by Percy Allen, chairman of the dis trict's industrial committee, have a combined log consuming capacity of 300,000,000 feet a year, representing a value of $7,000,000 and an annual payroll of $3,000,000. Yet as Mr. Allen says: But even with the lumber market back to normal, which it will no doubt again be within a few months, these would have to hold over 60 per cent of their capacity idle without a waterway permitting off-shore shipments. North Portland has normally some 3000 employes earning $15,000 to $18,000 a day in wood working, pa per making, meat packing and fer tilizer manufacturing industries which Cannot well be located else where and which depend to lare extent for operation and altogether for expansion uponharbor improve ment. It is not Just to the industries to deny them a channel. It is not just to the workers, 1500 of whom joined in the petition for North Portland channel improvement which recent ly went to the legislature, to defer the appropriation. Among the contributions for the building of a Greek Orthodox church at Endicott, New York, was a quart of bonded brandy which sold at $60. THE WHOLE- WAY THE Oregon public service com mission has sensed public need and determination in its decision not to rest In the prosecution of the union tarminal Controversy on behalf of Portland until all freight and pas senger terminals within the city have been unified. To the public the railroads as a whole constitute merely a transpor tation agency. They provide the facilities for the movement 'of pas sengers and freight in required di rections. Their destructive competi tive struggles are of no economic value. When their terminal com petition results in such a hodge podge as exists in Portland the re sult is a loss In carrying efficiency which may vary from 10 to 25 per cent. The adjustment of the local termi nal controversy involves much more than the question as to which lines are to have the use of the existing passenger station. Trackage should be arranged to expedite the move ment of train.-. There should be segregation of freight and passenger traffic. A sufficient number of "leads" should be provided to pre vent the trains intercepting one an other and to Kinimize interruption In the flow of travel to and from the main rail lines. The unification of Portland's ter minals can be accomplished in the public interest. A better service can be established in handling passen gers. A better service can be estab lished in handling freight for manu factories and jobbers. A better con nection between rail and water ter minals can be had: An essential unit of- a general unification scheme is a belt line owned or controlled by the municipality. Such unification will benefit the railroads as much as the public. .Their competition will then be pre mised upon superior service rather than preferential j advantage. The conference of railroad representa tives in Portland the latter part of January should result in a voluntary decision oh the part of the carriers to provide Portland with an honestly unified terminal j system at the earliest possible date. If -they fall short! of complete con cession to public demand the public recourse lies! in the interstate com merce commission, which by the transportation act jof 1920 Is auth orized to csmpel the establishment of a suitable terminal. j It is doubtless also possible,' if the authority of state j law under which the Oregon public service commis sion administers its duties is insuf ficient for this particular end, that a strengthening of the Orejgon stat ute may be accomplished at the pres- J ent legislative session. MORE POLITICAL GREEN GOODS? Question of Good r Bad Faith of Con gress In the Matter of Fanners' Re lief Measure Debated by the Edi- . tors. Who Mainly Approve the Veto A Division That Is Not on Party : Lines. Daily Editorial Digest ( Consolidated Freaa Association) Although congress is apparently agreed that the war finance corporation, which it has decided to resusciat despite the presidential veto of its resolution, is the only thing that can save the farmer, public opinion, insofar as the majority of the newspapers expresses it, thinks quite the contrary. Just as Democrats in the house and senate flouted the ad ministration's stand, so many Repub lican newspapers joined with Mr. Wil son's supporters in declaring his reasons for- refusing to sign -the bill sound and sane. 1 Several metropolitan newspapers, how ever, are emphatic exceptions, in New York the Tribune (Rep.) and the Herald (Ind.). Says the Trioune: "The over whelming vote in the house overriding the dyspeptic veto of the resolution re viving the war finance committee, tolf lowing a similar vote in the senate the day before, fittingly squelches Secretary Houston's arrogant effort to lessen our export trade." The New York Herald points out that "a market demand" for crops will be created, and says : "The American farmer might not export a single bushel of wheat, and yet get a better market in his own country be cause of the increased exports of manu-' facturers. He might not borrow a single dollar more, and yet work out his own safety." From Chicago comes a justification of the action of congress through the col umns of the Chicago Post (lnd.), which answers official defense of the veto that the corporation will be an' added burden to the treasury funds, by declaring that the "increased shipments abroad" that will be stimulated "mean a correspond ing payment of loans." The Post fur ther declares that Secretary Houston is wrong in labeling the measure "class legislation," since it will "have bene ficial effect upon the whole country." The Brooklyn Eagle (Ind.), too, sees no cause to worry cmcernng the financial side, for, by the time the board is ready to function, "events are likely to temper the wind for the shorn treasury." The Boston Post (Ind. Dem.), viewing the question from a similar angle, thinks the psychological effect of creating the board will be remedy enough and "there may be little need to call upon its resources." The AtTanta Journal (Dem.) and Ihe Albany Times-Union (Ind.) both believe in the need of the board. The Journal is confident that "substantial aid soon may be forthcoming for those branches of agriculture and of other production whieta look largely to foreign commerce for the recovery of their normal mar ket strength." Two New York state papers, the El mira Star-Gazette (Ind.) and the Utica Observer (Dem.) agree to disagree with Secretary Houston when he suggests that the action of congress would mean that the "government will finance pri vate business," and though the Gazette admits that "wrong uses" of the board would result In evil, "judiciously admin istered" it might be "a useful instru ment." But to many writers the action of congress was simply the old "bunco game," as the Louisville Courier Jour nal (Dem.) expresses it, that the farm er of burlesque is supposed to "fall for." "Frenzied Finance for Farmer Votes" is the way the Hartford Times (Dem.) heads its editorial on the sub ject, and the Norfolk Virginian Pilot (Ind. Dem.) catalogues the resolution under "Emergency mania" The Duluth Herald (Ind.) believes that the presidential veto was admin istered because of a realization of the fact that congress was merely playing to the gallery. It says: "The presi dent, beyond doubt, sympathizes With the farmer and is aa eager to help him as anybody in either branch of con gress. But he refuses to be a party to a measure that will not help the farm-; er, but will only fool him, and that perJ petuates the war-born mischief of gov ernment stiffening to private industry." Both "folly and cowardice" character ize the resolution, says the St. Louis Post Dispatch (Ind.). It goes on: "The majority of congress do not stand by their convictions when votes are in the balance. Principle and judgment and conscience are thrown to the winds when the farmer vote is at stake and their political support is threatened. They- are not shepherds of the people, but sheep." Rather than having scored a hit, the Lynchburg News (Dem.) considers that the legislators have put themselves in a hole. Either they have been s "mak ing a bluff at the card table -whicty when exposed, must inevitably show the shallow judgment of the player" or else they must finish what they have started and increase "an already enorj mous deficit" and entail the country ii the "borrowing of hundreds of millions of dollars in a market that is already sadly demoralized." The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (Rep.) Credits th congressmen with having "a mentail reservation" when they opposed the president's reasoning, and also with being "quite human" and therefore re sponsive to the pressure of rural con stituencies. This "jollying the farmerj" as the Muskegon Chronicle (Ind.) calls It, will leave "the Republican majority" with a "white elephant upon its hands. The Chronicle doubts that' the measure will bring results. Results, it continues, "in the farmers' vocabulary will mean higher prices for his products," and it is "difficult to see" how this can be brought about. . j "A sound understanding of financial policy" guided Secretary Houston in his opposition to the bill, the Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.) asserts, and the1 Buf falo Commercial (rnd.), hardly an en thusiastic supporter of the administra tion, declares that the "president's rea soning is sound and cannot be tra versed." The Fort Wayne Journal- Ga zette (Dem.) believes "three years hence the message will be pointed out as one of the most courageous and wisest." The St. Paul Pioneer Press (Ind.) 's equally certain : "The president's con clusion that the war finance corpora tion scheme is impractical, that it will not benefit the farmers but will ' be in jurious to the country as a whole, is incontrovertible." ! That the measure is a delusion and a- snare,' the Greensboro News (Ind.) agrees, but it declares that the "im posture" has not been practiced by con gress, "but by those pseudo-economists'f who have brought the "farmer, to believe that congress can enact and repeal eco nomic laws'at its pleasure. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious -Places The first general use of doorknockers that is positively known was among the ancient Greeks, who probably adopted them from the Egyptians. The Greeks considered it a breach of good manners to enter a house without warning the inmates, and f the Spartans gave this notice by shooting their arrival, while Hie Athenians announced themselves by I- H , j Letters From the People . ' ' . T Comm unica tiona avfit to Th Jopmal for publication in hia department ah odd be written on only cne fide of the paper; boold Dos exceed SOO words in t length, and moat be aimed bjr the writer, wnoee'mail addreaa in full moat accom pany, the contribution. MR. ROMINGER TO MR. ANDERSON Denying Again Assertions of Non-Partl-san 'League's Foes, tender wood. Wash., Jan. 10. To the Editor of The Journal In his letter of December 17 Mr. Anderson again com plains about the Non-partisan league and wants me to retract the statement that lies and slanders have been cir culated about the Dakota farmers. I have no retraction to make, for. whether Mr. Anderson has or has not helped in this crusade of slander and abuse, the fact remains clear, solid, un alterable, that the lies about Townley and the leaguers being disloyal, - ene mies of the home , and circulators of im moral literature, have been heralded far and wide by the. . political retainers of predatory wealth and special privilege. , Mr. Anderson drops further reference) to these lies that have been so well ex posed and hits, a new trail, even the trail of Traill ccuhty itself, where, he says, - all the anti-league candidates were elected this fall, and proclaims this little county affair as the biggest defeat the league ha met since it began its career, trying to: make us believe that what happened in Traill county hap Bfned in the state and nation. Here Mr. Anderson displays ignorance. The league has more complete control! of North Da kota than ever, having elected all the state officers save one, and has gained all three members of the public service commission, which will enable It to speedily carry out its entire industrial program. And, most important of all, it has elected Dr. D, F. Ladd to the United States senate, a man of inter national reputation, who his done more than any other man in America to ad vance agriculture and protect farmers and consumers against grain gamblers, money sharks and food adulterators. It was the scientific work of Dr. Ladd that loaded the gun shot off by Townley and the league, and he is more responsible than Townley for the league program. If it had done nothing els than elect Dr. Ladd to the senate the league would have justified its existence. In spite) of the reactionary earthquake and mud slide of the last election the league re tains complete control of Dakota, elected the governor and most of the) state ticket in Wisconsin, and made immense gains and increased its representation in the legislatures in the other states where campaigns were,: made. And this Mr. Anderson would call "defeat." According to Anderson, Townley said, "To hell with our state constitution and damn the laws." That was a little strong and going: some, but it is doubt ful whether the torrid zone would wel come some laws and constitutions, for they have the devil himself outclassed and hanging over the ropes panting. Here was hot, righteous wrath, like that of Garrison and Wendell Phillips when they said the constitution was "a coven ant with death and a league with heU'.' in its protection of slavery. We now build and decorate-the, tombs of Garrison and Phillips. As the world goes the laws and the forms of Justice often become the instruments ' of oppression in the hands of the avaricious and the strong, who always He in wait, as in the Da kotas, to oppress the poor, the humble and the weak ; and their choicest imple ments are those legal forms and instru ments that are 'necessary to society. But they have their limit by a law which is above all such laws and formal institu tions. When wealth and special privi lege oppress and' tax all the people, how ever legal the form, there is a divine law above all formal laws that steps in and declares such processes must stop, and if they do not stop the op pressed multitude turn at bay, ind de stroy both their oppressors and the op pressive social fabric. H. V. Rominger. SECT AR IAN SCHOOLS Defense by One Who Esteems Them Equally With Public Schools. Portland, Jam 7. To the Editor of The Journal In this morning's Ore gonian I note the outcroppings of so called non-sectarianism voiced by an honored member of the Portland school board. He discounts "sectarian trained teachers" and holds that normal diplo mas are the chief qualification for effi cient teachers in our public schools. I confess to a degree of surprise at such prejudice on the part of one so promi nent, but it is only the emanation of a large "sect" of so-called "non-sectarians," quite as intolerant and vindic tive as are the most rabid so-called sectarians. W'hen these non-sectarians, so-called, show their liberality and mani fest their self-respect for Individual be neficence and generosity by liberally en dowing schools of learning, hospitals and benevolent organizations, after their liking, they may be entitled to a hear ing on the basis of true merit. But this gentleman enrolls himself with the likes of him in the ranks of the "tax-eating gormands, wnom the late Harvey W. Scott characterized as "brother or sister or both to the horse leech and the grave." They want to tax the whole for the benefit of a part, insisting that taxpayers must pay for the education of their sons and daughters in schools of free thought. The state schools of learning, man aged to the Hking of this director, maintain no higher standards than do the sectarian and independently en dowed schools. ! If these champions of state schools of higher education would take them out of politics and liberally endow them and manage them after their liking, they would have the privi lege wanted and enjoy all the liberty deserved on lines suited to their liking. W. H. Odell. Olden Oregon Lieutenant Wilkes' Judgment Regard ing Oregon Stands Today With the closing statement of Lieu tenant Wilkes" report on the Oregon country, made in 1842, all loyal Ore gonians agree. He said : "To conclude, few portions of the globe, in my opinion; are to be found so rich in soil, diver sified in surface, or capable of being rendered the happy abode of an in dustrious and civilized community. For beauty of scenery and salubrity of cli mate it is not surpassed. It is peculiarly adapted for an 'agricultural and pastoral people, and no portion of the world beyond the tropics is to be found that will yield so readily to the wants of man with moderate labor." Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Old Man Elkins riz right up in lodge t'other night and perceeded to buck agin so many - fellers .bein' rushed in. Billy MacDougal 'minded him that most likely other fellers talked that same way 42 year ago when Elkins jined. Billy's a new member and one of the rushers on the t r a d i t i o ns and landmarks. He hain't got that decorum and respect that Elkins has a right to expect, but he's probably as good as any of the rest of us, if not more so. "Jtdge not that ye be not jedged," is good Bible doctem, and some of us is inclined to set on the bench and not at all in tha prisoner's dock- XYLOCEPHALIC Prom tiw Detroit: Free Preie. Wooden hats are appearing in Eng land. With soma people it may be dif ficult to tell where the head ends and the gear, begins. :..." COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF 7 1 -i i ' - ' . .1. i SMALL CHANGE Moonshine. figuratively speaking. drenches the potters field. Refined sugar prices have only slight effect on cost of vulgar stock. .... Get 'em to flghUng for factory sites on the Willamette. Fine stuff! , The burglar who stole cheese was as courageous as he was criminal. It may rain more in Portland than in Los Angeles, but it doesn't earthquake. As" a promoter of fisticuffs Ihe re doubtable Anne Morgan is a regular fellow. Germany has received a gift of "800 cows. Recall the kaiser and make him milk them. The senate wants to investigate Cuba the senate's own dry laws not withstanding. a A French woman scientist declares a woman wrote the Bible. How absurd ! A woman would never credit a man's rib as her source. "Interested One" calls attention to the fact that at the time Mayor Baker took over a desk at the police station the "gentleman burglar" disappeared. "Queer coincidence.' RecalTing past events, it occurs that a revision of the one-time truism is in order: East is East and West is West, and when the twain meet the University of Oregon will win the game. t MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Captain H. E. Mitchell, assistant to the marine superintendent of tYie Stand ard Oil company, with offices at San Francisco, is at the Benson. "I am here," said Captain Mitchell Saturday, "as a soft of reception committee to the party that came out from the East to be at the launching of the Standard Oil tanker Livingstone Roe from the Standlfer ship yards at noon today. The party consists of Mrs. Antoinette L. Duffle, Frances Hidden, Mrs. Jack Salter Jr.. the Rev. Clifton Macon, Roe C. Duffie, Charles W. Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Lib bey and Jessie B. Libby. Mrs. Antoinette L. Duffie, who is sponsor for the ship, is the daughter of Livingstone Roe, for whom the tanker is named. Mr. Roe is now over 80 years of age and we had hoped to have him come on from New York city to be at the launching, but he did not feel able to make" the trip, so his daughter is here in his place. He was one of the associates of John D. Rockefeller in the early days of the oil industry. For many years he has been one of the directors of Standard Oil. He is one of the oldest directors of the company. Kvery one of our ships Is named for some present or former Stand ard Oil official. We own and operate more than 300 tankers, so you. see we have a pretty good sized fleet. They range from 350 to 500 feet In length and are of 9000 to 15,000 tons. The cost of the vessels when they are ready to take the water varies from $1,500,000 to $2,500,000. The Standard Oil com pany, from the early days, has operated its own oil carriers. The first fleet con sisted of a number of scows and flat boats that plied on the Mississippi river. The Standard .Oilompany of New Jer sey is the parent company and there is a considerable number of subsidiary companies." Mr. and Mrs. A H. Kuettner of Kil lisnoo. Alaska, are at the Multnomah. Mr. Kuettner is. superintendent of the Alaska Fish Salting company there. Their local office Hs in the Concord building. Sherwood Eddy, who has just com pleted a trip through more than 20 countries which have toppled over the brink of revolution, or are on the edge of toppling, is at the Benson. J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of public irstruction. small in size, but, like a lump of radium, radiating en ergy, is at the Imperial. ... W. P. Gray of Albany is at the Im perial. J. C. HosteHer of The Dalles is a guest at the Imperial. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley I I Of tbe Rhode scholarship and tha wonder fnl man who founded them Mr. Ickley writea today. He promiaea in a later article to treat of Oregon men who bar won these acholarahipa. Cecil Tthodes was a dreamer. He dreamed In continents, and his dreams looked forward to centuries yet to come. He dreamed of a world where nation would not lift up its hand against na tion ; where there would be no shambles; no wholesale murder of the flower of the manhood of peoples who worshiped the same God. He believed that wars come from mutual misunderstandings, from jealousies aroused through lack of knowledge of others' viewpoints. Believ ing this, he founded the Rhodes scholar ships. He believed that to bring the best of the youth of many lands to Ox ford university and let them learn at first hand the traditions, literature and purposes of Great Britain would promote peace, industry and civilization. a a Cecil Rhodes was the BOn of an English clergyman and was born in a vicarage in the county of Hertford, July 5, 1833. Four of his brothers entered the army. One brother was a farmer in South Africa. His father wanted (jpcil to follow in his footsteps and enter the church. Cecil decided to Join his brother in Africa. He arrived at Durban, Natal, September 1. 1870. He was a Blender boy of 17. He took up 50 acres in the bush and hired Kaffirs to help him clear his land. He planned to grow dot ton. In the summer of 1871 there was a rush to the newly discovered diamond mines at what is now Klmberley. He took a claim and for two years dug for dia monds, with excellent success. By 1873 he had earned enough money to return to England and enter Oxford. During the next few years he alternated be tween Oxford and Klmberley. When ever his funds ran low he returned to South Africa and earned money to con tinue his studies. He took for his life motto a sentiment he read in tne orig inal Greek in Aristotle to the effect that "the greatest happiness In life is to be derived from the conscious pur suit of a great purpose." While still in his early twenties Rhodes was elected to the Cape legis lature and later was appointed by Colonel Charles Gordon known as Chi nese Gordon, and' who was later killed at Khartoum as his assistant to ar range terms with the Basutos, with whom Cape Colony had been waging war. He organized the De Beers Mining company at Klmberley and became its president. Barney Bamato unsuccess fully tried to put the DeBeers company out Of commission but was himself ab sorbed by - Rhodes, who became chair man of the consolidated companies. In securing the charter for his company Rhodes specified that it should be em powered "to build railroads, establish factories, operate cattle ranches and fruit farms, construct and operate model , SIDELIGHTS Another thing that alls the country is jazzy feet, jazzy bodies and jazzy braina Crane American. . i That "Salem hotel man who is en deavoring to make prunes "popular could make, progress by, inducing the restau rants to give mole, than three for a dim;. Marshfield News. . . The money market is not disturbed In the slightest, according , to a financial report. Maybe not, but the people who need a little money to go to market are. - Roseburg News-Review. . The Oregon Irrigation congress was assembled in Portland yesterday, and if It took th trouble to look out of the win dow. It aot a fine object lesson in how to irrigate Eugene Register. Our people - are generous and noble hearted withal ; for they had rather pay enormous sums to repair rotten roads than to tear up the old standbys and lay pavement. Albany Democrat Rev. Couden, blind chaplain of the Tioiisa of renresentatives for many years. is to be retired on a - pension. It does look as If it would be a waste of ef fort to pray for the members during the next 'session. Eugene Guard. "--"" There are getting to be so many con founded laws in this country that it is hard for an ordinary man to obey all 6ft the laws all of the time. To be able to keep out of jail is really becoming one of the fine arts. Blue Mountain Eagle. . . " ' James J. Richardson, formerly of The Journal, but now general manager of student activities at Oregon Agricultural college, is a guest at the Imperial. He is here with the O. A, C. basketball team and took the team to see "The Bird of Paradise." When the ft A. C football team was here James spent 176 hard dollars to take the tear, to see "Chu Chin Chow." The. students are strong for Jimmy Richardson, and no wonder. Eastern Oregon guests at the Impe rial include : J. E. Beard and E. C. Olsen of Pendleton. W. K. McCormlck of Bend, G. E. Ferguson and W. E. Williams of Condon. J. S. Leavens of Baker ami G. E. Rutherford of Iron side. a - Sam H. Clark, editor and publisher at Bismarck, N. D.. ex-congressman and candidate for governor, is a guesf at the Multnomah. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. J. . Walker and Mr. and 'Mrs. W. G. Courtney of Lafayette are g"uests at the Imperial. ' ' Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Barr of Astoria are at the Imperial. Mr. Barr is sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce at Astoria. - y Mrs. J. A Smith of Mlllican, a little dot on the map in Eastern Oregon south of I'rineviUe, is visiting Portland friends. A. Wllhelm of jCorvallis. originally of Monroe, where the" Wilhelms are. the reigning family,, is at the Imperial. . James Shockley of Roseburg is a Portland visitor. W. E. Peterson of Toledo is, at the Imperial. - S. W. Lovcll, the automobile man of Astoria, is at the Imperial. B. B.' Brundage. of Eugene is a Port land visitor. Mr. and Mrs. Harley O. White of Salem are Portland visitors. j G. T. Cressey of Pendleton Is seeing the sights of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Stearns of Red mond are guests at the Benson. T. Taylor of Baker is in Portland, registered at .the Benson. . Mr. and Mrs. J.. E. Bridgewatcr of Albany are guests at the Benson. W. H. visitor. Lee Of Rainier Is a Portland villages, build and operate dynamite works and other necessary things." . In time Rhodes became premier of South Africa. He died March 26, 1902, at the age of 49. His last words were, "So much to do; so little done.'- Yet he h had moulded a continent and left his impress for all time upon Africa and the world. He' was buried on the crest of a hill in the lonesome country of the Matoppos .near where he had helped- quell the Matabele rebellion. There this man, whose all-mastering thought -created new empires from sav agery, lies, and, to quote Kipling: "'There,, till the Tision tie foresaw Splendid and whole arise '' And unimatrined empires draw To council, 'neath his akies. The immense and broodmc spirit still Shall quicken and control. LiTinj be was the land, and dead, ' Hia soul shall bo her aoul." Rhodes' thought was to secure the peace of the. world, so in his will hs tried to help the accomplishment of that end. He left two experiment farms to the- people of South Africa, each con taining about 100,000 acres, and funds to maintain them for the benefit of the public. He left public parks to various cities, and to. "Oriel," his college at Ox ford, he left 100,000. From the Interest I on Invested moneys he directed that 86 j scholarships be given to the British colonies, each of which gave the student! selected $1500 a year. Each province i In Canada was given an annual scholar-! ship, as well as each state In Australia.) Scholarships were given to New Zealand. Newfoundland, Natal, Jamaica and Ber muda, Cape Colony has four . annual scholarships and Rhodesia three. . To bring into closer sympathy and understanding Great Britain and the United States he established American scholarships, two to i each state and ter ritory. The will provides that the se lection of candidates be based upon : "First, literary and scholastic attain ments; second, fondness of and-success in manly sports; third, qualities of-man-hood. truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of -the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fel lowship ; fourth, - the exhibition during school days of moral force of character and of Instincts to lead and to take an Interest in his schoolmates, for these at tributes will be likely in after life to guide him to esteem the performance of fpublic duties as his highest aim." i The 1 board which selects the Rhodes scholars in Oregon' consists of Dr. P. L. Campbell, president of the State uni versity; A. C. Newill, , an Oxford man and president of the Civic league of Portland-; Professor C. W. Barnes of the University of Oregon i Professor Ji 0. Harrison of the University of Wash ington, and Professor C II., Gray of Reed college. . In a subsequent article 1 will tell something of the' Rhodes scholars who have gone from Oregon and what they are now , doing. - " i The Oregon Country ' Northwest Happening In nrief . Form for the ' . Busy Reader, - i OREGON NOTES Mrs. Ann IVnnle Armstrong, aged 84, Is dead at" Salem. Mrs. Armstrong had resided in Salem si nee. 1866. -Salem Is to have a corn and poultry show this year, according to a decision of the Commercial-club. The south span of the bridge across the Umatilla river at Mission has gone out and travel across it is impossible. Ttm First National bank of Klamath Falls has prepared plans for a-six story building as a new home for the bank. The First National Farm Ijoan asso ciation of Lane county has Til members and the total amount of loans held by them is $601,200. 1 Willis Love, a farmer living near Yon cclla, was pinned beneath a tr while falling timber and received ftijurifa which may prove fatal.. - . The Coos county court has agreed 'to loan the Port of Coos Bay $3r.,ooo with which tp complete the terminal dm-kb. The loan is made at 6 per cent. , The receipts of the Oregon flty.post office for the quarter ending. l-iember 31 amounted to $S5S".S1, an ex rss 'of $lS43.ii over the previous qu;irUr of 1919., Mrs. Caralay Jackson, aged 8 yearn, is dead at I .a rande from injuries re ceived in a fill!. Mm Jackson trussed ' the plains with an ox team caravan is years ago. , . Linn county's" investment in roads lant year was Joun.4si.ti7; of whicl $24ti.a;u was spent during the first. six months and $220,146.35 during the last six months of the year. . , Despondent over a debt that he was unable to pay, Charles Cox is dead at Lff? Grande from a bullet wound in tho teimpie inflicted by himself iu the pres ence of his wife. - Martin King's house at Kainela. with all its contemn, was destroyed by " fire last Monday. Mr, King is the .mayor, of Kamela and is a wt?U known engineer on the0-W. K..& N. The Lewlsberg Lumber company mill. which has been in the hands of'creditors for some- time, has been, purchased by J. A. Zyett, Sawmill man of " Jefferson, and will start operations this week; Fifteen .gallons f moonshine mash, almost ready to distill, was tuund . by the sheriff on the state game farm 'near Eugeneand Lawrence j Jemagalski, one of the employes of the farm, has been arrested. . . j. WASHINGTON The La Center Farm Loan association has 28 members and loans to the amount of S42.25U have been made tui date. Thieves entered the 'merchandise store of Walder Bros. , at Oakesdalfr and 'got away with goods worth between JluOf) and J1G00. , - ( The McLane Lumber & Shinglt; com pany's shingle mill at Kelso has . re sumed oiierations after a shutdown of several weeks. "j As soon as a site Can be. secured, thj Methodist Episcopal church will build a 350-bed hospital at Seattle at an esti mated cost of $1,00U,0U0. . j A turnip weighing 21 pounds was raised by B. F. - Anderson near La Center. The big turnip is . 20 inches long and . 28 inches in diameter. '. Victor Balm, employed at the Lehlgli cement plant at Metaline Fails, com mitted suicide in a vacant shark in Metaline Falls by hanging himself. Mra Jessie M. Lightfoot, presiilent of the Seattle Women's .Commercial club, has b?eu appointed a deputy Kher Iff for-King county by 'Sheriff Star wlch. Walla Walla police nre looking for a stranger who moved up arid down Main street last week and left worthless paper amounting to hundrods of do. Una behind him. 1 Miss Bessie - Stusser, a: student at Pullman college from Seattle, suffered concussion of the brain, and other in juries in a coasting accident on the college grounds. ' Wenatehee Is snid to be the smallest city in the Northwest with, a Kotary club, one having been organized thero last week with 25 ' business and proffs- , sional meu us nigrhbers. . j To make -a market for the cull apples of the Spokane valley, for which there In now little sale, railways have an nounced a reduction in the freight rate from 62Va cents to 37Mi cents a hundred pounds. The Washington Federation of Labor has begun a fight on the proposed measure 'tin industrial relations re-om- knended by the industrial code corfsmls- sion and approvea oy i.overmir iiari in his message to the legislature. 1 JDA1IO There are 14 cases of typhoid fever in Boise at present, with a number -of others under suspicion. Bad water is the cause of the epidemic. While working at the. top -jof pole of a high tension wire at 1 Khoshone, James Holmes was Instantly kil4od by coming in contact with the wire. Examlnatton .of the accounts of Mil holland -& Hough, the- defunct -bond house at Spokane, shows a tiet loss to James F. Callahan, the Wallace mining man. of $410,500. The Payette forest reports an average of 40 inches of heavy, snow and four, and a half feet on the-Big creek sum mit, which is more than has been rec orded for-many seasons. Under the . 2-cent bounty system for jackrabblts, which has been adopted, by Shoshone county, the county .Rt-ent has so- far received ears of fu.'Mio rabbits and $765 worth of poison has been used. According to W. I. Bales of Caldwell, from a total of 7000 letters sent into, five Middle Western states' In an effort; to Obtain an outlet for hay and honey. -less than five replies have teen received. Residents of Stanley Basin. Custer county, are circulating a petition among members of tlie sixteenth session, asking the annexation of that district to Hlainw county. Custer county is fighting the proposal. !' Ll, fNow you a,. PORTLAND Were the" Interstate bridge not re garded as a source; of revenue to Multnomah and Clarke counties it i evident that the tolls for its use could be materially reduced and yet meet they Interest ; and sinking fund charges Incident to the bonds which were issued for the construction of the big span. " i The total Income from the bridge last year was $328,183.73. The total expenditure for bridge operation was $50,014.98. The excess of income over expendi ture was. $278,163.75. The interest and tslnklng tuno charges are met by arrangements made by Multnomah" and sClarke counties. ' - But there was turned over to Mult nomah county, three fifths of the net revenue, or $166,901.23. i . There was turned over to Clarke county two. fifths of the net operating revenue, or $111.67.50. The operating expense of the bridge shows an increase of $11,665.18 over 1919. : t 1 But charged against the costs of 1920 are a $1000 reward paid In cap turing the murderer of a deputy sheriff, and $87.95 lost-In the holdup of a bridge tender when the deputy was murdered by ; the fleeing high wayman. -1 i The largest item of expense-n the operation- of j the Interstate, .bridge was the payroll, which amounted to $33,968.70 in 190 as compared with $30.49.83 for 1919 and one month additional. f ' - - It seems that the bridge Is more or less exposed to damage by flood. The repair bill of 1920 was $8110.34 ; that of 1919 was $1885.30. . (using the knocker . - . ...- .. --. r