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TUESDAY, JANUARY ' 25, 1821.
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Hast thou not Greek enough to under
stand thus much: the end of man is an ac
tion and not a thought, though it. were of
the noblest Carljrle.
WITHOUT FIRING A GUN
TN 1898 the battleship Kearsarge
'I was launched. She was the giant
jof. the fleet, the pride of the navy.
Freely were predictions made that
u
I the Kearsarge would revolutionize
i naval warfare.
J Her war gear was elaborate. Her
"'great guns were mounted in her su
perimposed turrets. Her cage masts
:and steel-walled conning tower were
of the latest in naval designs. Her
-armor was thick and her engines and
jhul! powerful and modern. The cost
of the ship was more than $5,000,
000.' I Without ever having fired a shot
in actual battle, the Kearsarge is
pow bound for the scrap heapso far
as fighting is concerned. Atia cost
'-'of thousands and thousands xt dol
lars she has discharged her guns at
mimic enemies. At a cost of thou
sands and thousands of dollars she
Jhas steamed about the seas. At a
'cost of thousands and thousands of
;- jd'ollars hundreds of men have .been
;paid to man her. Fortunes have" been
spent on the KearsargeT but the
Kearsarge never leveled a gun at an
enemy. ;
At League Island navy yard the
iKearsarge is being stripped of her
war gear. Guns that have "fired
,only at friendly targets ttre going
Jto scrap. The cage masts are com
ing down, and the steeled conning
tower is to disappear. The side ar
: anor is to be stripped, and the Kear
. arge, the battleship that was to
revolutionize navies, is to become a
- crane, a Valet to the present ships of
'the navy beside which he is but a
; pigmy. . -.
That Is the way of navies. Im
proved and more expensive ships ire
constantly in course of construction.
(More contracts are let and more mil
lions spent every year for battle
ships, cruisers, dreadnoughts and
- jflestroyers. And like the Kearsarge,
nany of "them never fire a. gun at
Jhe enemy, never discharge W tor
pedo at hostile craft, never serve the
purpose for which they were built.
7litinions go into their construction,
thousands and thousands into their
maintenance, thousands and thou
sands into their operations and
thousands and thousands into prac
tice maneuvers, and the vessels go
to the scrap heap without a taste
of war.. I .
. More and, more battleships, cruis
ers, dreadnoughts and destroyers
ire proposed for the American avy.
iJore and more contracts are recom
mended, and more and more millions
are asked from the people of this
i tiduntry in taxation to build, oper-
,ate and maintain them. As we
build more ships, the other countries
fef the world build more ships, and
1 as they build more ships we build
I more ships. No nation can afford
them. ' ' ' '
'l-X It is time construction stopped. It
i Is time the people of this and other
J countries were given a holiday from
the armament burdens that are
.1 theirs. It is time that a sound agree-
rkent be made between the nations
jto eliminate the Kearsarges and kin
idred Instances of naval profligacy.
A ..
I The zeal of local pride must have
its - Innings whatever the circum
stances. The snowflakes of Monday
f
morning: were fall in 5 like fairy para
chutes the circumference of silver
dollars. - "1 never saw flakes so
large." said the- shivering visitor.
"Certainly riot, elsewhere," rejoined
the habitual booster. "Whether It
be cherries or snow! lakes, Oregon
always has the biggest and best."
WHY KILL, A BUSINESS?
IT WAS never contemplated that a
legislature should use its power
to kill a legitimate business.
That, however, is exactly what
house bill 77 i would do It would
not kill merely one but a number
of legitimate 'business enterprises,
well established, paying taxes, buy
ing supplies, maintaining homes and
fulfilling the part of good citizens in
Portland. Businesses that it has
taken them years to build up would
be shattered by house bill 77 and
the fragments be turned over bodily
to two or three I powerful banking
and trust companies in Portland.
The institutions that would be
crushed are the i several houses in
Portland that deal in. bonds. A great
deal of financing in America, public
and private, is done by issues of
bonds. Formerly only . tlje rich
bought bonds. Latterly, especially
since the great issues of Liberty
bonds were so freely bought by the
people, small investors have acquired
the habit of putting their savings
into well authenticated securities.
It Is a great savings movement. It
has been , practiced in France for
decades, and is one of the greatest
sources of national strength in that
remarkable nation. . It is a practice
well worth -encouraging in America,
for a good bond is a safe and easy
investment for a small Investor. It
is a loan that requires no special
training or financial skill and re
quires no formality of mortgage and
other legal papers incident to pri
vate loans.
House bill 77 would give to two
or three big financial institutions in
Portland a complete monopoly of
this large and growing business.. That
would not be a good thing for the
investors. It would not be a good
thing for the irrigation districts, mu
nicipalities and other bodies that
sell bonds. It would not be a good
thing for those who buy bonds to
have the handling of all securities
monopolized."
It is not a good thing for the leg
islature to run wild because, of Mor
ris Brothers failure. There is a cor
poration commissioner at Salem
whose business it is to protect inves
tors or he has no business. If the
legislature will make a few changes
in the present law and so fix it that
the corporation commissiones will
exercise a complete surveillance, in
vestors will be fully protected and
the business of ; legitimate bond
houses will not be taken away from
those who have built it up 'through
years of effort. I , -
Why create . more monopolies?
Haven't we enough?
Ten-year-old Joe of Alameda
drive, whose affections are divided
between two of the diminutive belles
of the neighborhood, said to his
father, who just now is buying three
theatre tickets at a time because of
the visit of a sisterin-law; "Never
mind, dad. jl sympathize with you,
I'm a poly-samist: myself."
FLOUR AND WHEAT
!
PORTLAND has gone back into
first place , in flour exports
among the ; seaboard terminals of
the Pacific Northwest. It is an en
viable position and one worth hold
ing at the cost of every possible ef
fort. Once Portland in prideful ig
norance was pleased to boast of
leadership in grain exportation." It
took time to show that every ton
of wheat which went foreign with
out being ground : in Oregon mills
represented a lost opportunity.
The grinding of the grain repre
sents employment for workers and
stimulus to ! industry and business.
The residue 'of the milling process
becomes one of the most important
of the foods for dairy animals.
Portland's leadership in flour and
grain exportation will be removed
from the reach of her competitors
and attract more than national no
tice when the enforcement of the In
terstate commerce commission's or
der in the Columbia basin rate issue
brings Its benefits to this city, and,
in proportionate measure, to Van
couver. '
The upper ports of the Columbia
have opportunity under the rate or
der to become the milling center of
the West, for the decision affects the
movement of 10,000,000 to 15,000,
000 bushels of grain.
Had the s Portland commission
house whose safe was forced by
cracksmen taken the trouble to reg
ister the War Savings Stamps con
tained therein that part of its securi
ties would not have been lost.
LITTLE CREDIT FOR HTM
THREE billion dollars' worth of
merchandise is tied up In New
York alone by the canceling of or
ders, says the New York Chamber
of Commerce. 1
All over America, the t slump in
farm prices has been tremendous.
The system of credits for farm prod
ucts is very meager, and In the hope
of saving themselves the farmers
have tried to hold their wheat, corn
and other products. They are heav
ily financed by country banks and
the country banks -are being carried
by city banks.. '....;, . 4...',.
They have largely been forced by
circumstances to buy little of coun
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t-.
try merchants, who buy less of
wholesalers, who buy less of manu
facturers and so on throughout the
circle. - 1 .! ---:';-'
Never was there a more powerful
demonstration of! the necessity for
the farmer to; have prosperity, if
business is to have prosperity. Never
was there a more powerful demon
stratlon of the need of a better sys
tem of credit fori the farmer In the
production and marketing of his
crops. The three (billion dollars tied
up in New York alone by cancella-
traceable chiefly b the inability of
the farmer to finance his crop until
it is finally sold. If
The most vital thing today for the
prosperity of the whole nation Is a
marketing system under which the
farmers of the country can have the
same credit accommodations that are
available to other industry and busi
ness.
The speculator, the wheat gambler,
the profiteer can borfow a thousand,
a million, for his purposes. We pro
vide inexhaustible credit for the up
per structure of our business life
but the great under structure ' on
which everything else rests must
rely mainly on the country banker
and the country merchant.
t Among the men who applied in
Portland last year for deck, engine
room and steward department jobs
on American merchant marine ves
sels were 2039 native born Ameri
cans and 645 aliens. In the days be
fore the war and before America's
young men acquired the idea of going
down to the sea in ships, the pro
portion might have been 24 per cent
American born instead of the reverse
as in the present instance. But
among the applicants of the local
office not yet cared for are 600 men
who claim America as the land of
their birth. The question is, should
600 American citizens wait while 645
aliens receive employment on the
vessels of the American merchant
marine?
AT FIFTEEN
YHEN he failed . to obtain his
VV father's consent to his mar
riage, 15-year-old Urban Hoey
eloped to Elkton, Md., with Miss
Marie Westoott,1 also 15, whom he
had known since early childhood.
And the two were married, j
They returned early in the eve
ning, and Urban went to his home.
When he heard the news, the
boy's father called for his razor
strop, and led the bridegroom to a
room upstairs, from which soon is
sued sounds resembling intermittent
applause. The father will try to
have the marriage annulled.
On a Chicago street car crowded
with high school girls four comely
misses discussed! the relative merits
of their "men." One of the "men"
got on at the pext crossing. He
looked to be fully 15, and had al
most enough fuzz on his face for a
shave. He had jthe accomplishment
of talking in both bass and treble, as
boys of 15 often do. Though his
nails needed cleaning and one ear
needed washing, jhe was quite a nice
looking "man." I
What a glorious work - for razor
strops in the hands of old fashioned
pas and mas! '
A son of the; ex-crown prince is
studying farming in Germany. Too
bad for the world and himself that
the crown prince's father didn't
stick to the soil.
THRICE ARMED
THE advocates of North Portland
harbor improvement will appear
before the Multnomah delegation
and the judiciary committee of the
senate at Salem Wednesday night
thrice armed wltk a just cause.
It will become apparent as the
discussion progresses that theirs is
no selfish or narrow pleading.
The stock raisers of Oregon ask
for the-Improvement of North Port
land hafbor as an outlet by water
transportation for their surplus pro
duction and as a means of attract
ing additional packing plants to
Portland, the natural livestock mar
keting center of the Pacific North
west. The timber owners of Oregon ask
for improvement'; of North Portland
harbor because the operation of mill
ing facilities there will result in the
annual consumption of 300,000,000
feet of logs. The sawmill Interests
of Portland, orrthe other hand, point
to the tact that their lumber, their
box shooks and other products are
denied an export outlet and their
mills the opportunity of more than
part time operation while North
Portland harbor remains unim
proved. ,
Three thousand workers in North
Portland industries, 1500 of whose
names appear on a petition for har
bor improvement, addressed to the
legislature, place their hopeXfor' fu
ture employnfent and the continu
ance of their payrolls largely upon
the. success of the appeal to connect
the industrial plants of North Port
land with ship transportation.
The industrial plants which plead
for the improvement represent an
nual transactions of ; $125,000,000,
and a large proportion are producers
of products which. If given an export
opportunity, will assure an enlarged
and continuous market.
The improvement of North Port
land harbor, compared with other
expenditures- of the port, Is not a
large item. The total amount will
be doubtless within $250,000. "The
impetus given the port's business
will, with as little question, pay
handsome returns on the Investment.
PET SIGN HUNG
ON KU KLUX I
Remonstrance All Along the Line Is All
tne Welcome the Kditors Can Give
the K. K. K. Method ol "Reestablishing-
Americanism," V hicti
In Reality Only Adds i
a New Menace. 1
Daily Editorial Digest
(Consoliadtfd Press Association)
Revival of the old Ku Klux Avian of
the South to conduct a nationwide cam
paign in the interest of "Americanism'
and "law. and 'order" quite evidently
mufet make such progress as it can
without the. support of tlpe American
press. While some papers admit the
jutification of, some of the purposes of
the proposed organisation, the move
justification of some of the purposes of
ceives neither welcome nor encourage
ment in editorial columns. However laud
able its aims, the verdict is unanimous
that there is no place in present-day
America for the "Invisible Empire" of
the reconstruction period.
"The "American people today," the
Worcester Telegram (Rep.) Is certain,
"want no secret body -whose announced
purpose is to inculcate respect for
American institutions." These institu
tions contain within themselves "means
for teaching and enforcement of the
principles of Americanism," and "for
any secret organization to assume to
take over this enforcement is not only
an anachronism, but it is, instead of
American, un-American."
Regarded mereiy as an "adventure,"
the New York Herald (Ind.) believes it
is "traveling the wrong road," on which
it will find "impassable barriers," be
cause : "No matter what the character
of the individuals behind this new move
ment of an old order, the very Amer
icanism which they seek to exalt by
their own rules and methods will not
suffer their assumption of rights and
functions- which belong singularly to
government regularly constituted, law
fully represented and duly exercised." .
It is this inference that "the govern
ment stands in need of a national secret
order or society in order to enable it to
function eff icientiy," as the Lynchburg
(Va.) News (Dem.) expresses It, that is
attacked by most writers. The News
feels, too, that the- adoption of the name
of the old Southern "K.lan" is "unfor
tunate,"1 because, while "the Ku Klux
Klan performed a service of priceless
and imperishable value to the South,"
and proved "an unconquerably defensive
force," it was inevitable that in the
discharge of that service the name should
have become "freighted with sinister
meaning" and, therefore, for the sake
of "race tranquillity, it ought not to be
revived, even though for what may seem
a good purpose."
.
While the New York Tribune (Rep.)
does not regard the revival of the old
order "seriously,'' it nevertheless sug
gests a justification for the proposed
movement, and even hints at the possi
ble success of "a nativist uprising"
against the "pestiferous crew who are
aliens at heart" and who have been
"striving to Undermine principles which
are dear to every American." Possibly
the natural effect of the doctrine i of
"the rightfulness of using force over
throw" is a corresponding "determina
tion to use force to defend , and ! to
uphold." The Knoxville Sentinel (Ihd.
Dem.) lsO regards as "foolishness" fche
talk of reviving "the ghostly and grisly
white-sheeted phantoms ot the past,"
but it agrees with the Herald that the
movement is not wholly unwarranted or
without chance of limited success.
"When we reflect," says the Sentinel,
that many localities in the country in
recent years have been made hotbeds
of many varieties of secret, criminal and
alien organizations that have advocated
every species of propaganda in the name
of American liberty, from sabotage and
arson of private property, up to the
overthrow of our form of government
by ioience, and, in fact,, .the destruc
tion of all organized government, the
state of the public mind that can harken
with equanimity to the suggestion of
reviving the secret Klan of the '60s
may be better appreciated." Further,
the Sentinel thinks, while the plan will
have no appeal in the "homogeneous
South," it may "impress and fire the
imaginations of the elements appealed
to in the North and West, where the
native American elements are so fre
quently subjected to scenes of indignity
and insult at the hands of alien organ
izations." But "the Ku Klux Klan is a step back
through the centuries, an attempt to
resurrect the methods of medieval ter
ror." which the Jersey City Journal
(Ind.) thinks might have been "potent
in the fourteenth century, but man has
traveled far since then." Now it is "a
challenge to the orderly administration
of justice" to tolerate which the Buffalo
News (Rep.) believes "is to Invite mob
rule." 1
"It is not apparent to the Knicker
bocker Press (Albany, Rep.) "that there
is any necessity for a secret society to
be organized to do what the govermient
guarantees to do," and "it is nore
probable that the activities of such 'a
society would only stir up unrest land
dissatisfaction." The Syracuse Post
Standard (Rep.) Is fearful of what such
an organization "may do in the name of
"Americanism," for that proud word j has
been made, in the vocabulary of intqler
ant men, to cover violences which (are
the very antitheses of Americanism."
And as the Minnesota Star (Minne
apolis, Ind.) sees it, in spite of the "pa
triotic professions" which are being'
made, the movement is "organized
anarchy, not only anti-negro, but anti
foreign, anti-Jewish and anti-labor."
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The element of secrecy in the organT
ization carries with it doubt-of its sini
cerity, from the viewpoint of most writ-r
ers. "If the asserted objects are the
true ones," the Baltimore American
(Rep.) feels that "every memoer could
advance them better with mask off than
on. One need not hide one's features to
be 'loyal to the original and fundamental
principles and ideas of the founders of
the United States of America." This
"declaration Of principles" sounds to the
Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) "like a
Fourth of July oration. We all stand
for those things, but we don't have to
put on a hood, a mask and a long robe
to enforce respect for the constitution
and the laws! And what is more, this
people never! will stand for any such
secret organization regardless of ltd
high-sounding declaration of principles!
because it assumes to choose its own
method of accomplishing its aims. In a
word, it implies the ineffectiveness of
law and orderly government." The only
thing wrong
with this new Ku Klux
Klan business is that it is all wrong,
un-American, j unnecessary and poten
tially very dangerous to democracy." .
Curious-Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Placee
On a summer day of the eventful year
of 1789, which, marked the fall of the
Bastile, Napoleon Bonaparte, then a
young artillery officer, was seized with
cramp while bathing in the Saone and
nearly drowned. If he had drowned.
Napoleon never would have added a
single line to the history of Europe. In
a similar way, many big "its" can be
enumerated, which, if they had mate
rialised, would have, changed the pres
ent state of world affairs considerably.
Thus, the fate of India was decided at
Plassev. where the Surajah Dowlah was
stationed with an army of 60,000, while
Clive had one of 3000. A council of war
advised Clive not to attack, but he de
cided to reject that advice and. with a
loss of 22 killed and 50 wounded, scat
tered the 60,000. If he had been a rea
sonable man and taken the advice, which
wan no doubt good, India would not now
be British. It is believed that Oliver
Cromwell was on the quay ready to
depart from his native Kngland .when
he was detained by the soldiers of King
Charles. If Cromwell had gone it is
likely that Charles mould have won the
civil war and his house might still be
in possession of the British throne. Sim
ilarly, .Canada became British when
Quebec fell, but if Wolfe had not en
countered a man who knew the way up
the cliffs from the river, Canada would
in all probability have remained French
to this day, and the whole of North
America would have been different.
Letters From the People
Communications sent to Th Journal for
publication in this department' should be written
on only cne ride of th paper; should not exceed
800 words is length, and must be signed by th
writer, wbo& mail address is full must accom
pany th contrioutn. ,
ASSAILS PRIMARY SYSTEM
And Hotly Challenges Criticism of the
Convention System.
Portland, Jan. 18. To the Editor of
The Journal I refer to your leading
editorial last evening, headed "On the
Old Trail."
Many times you have criticised the
proposals of disgusted party adherents
(Republicans particularly) to amend, or
entirely do away with, oar primary
law. You h.ave ' denounced them all as
reactionaries, or prospective benefi
ctas, or swellheads who felt they
knew hotter than the rank and file as
to what t best for them.
As to the weakness of, the primary
law as It is : Why not give specifica
tions as to changes you would make,
instead of generalizing about deficien
cies and making broad charges? Take
the law and go down the line as to
your proposed changes, so that the other
fellow can criticise you as you have
him.
Everybody, including yourself, admits
the weakness of bur primary law. Every
body admits there have been cases
where convention possibilities have been
abused. So. also, with the primary
law. No law ever has been, or ever
will be, enacted that someone has not
taken advantage of or cannot abuse it.
There are those, as good citizens ab
can be found in any community, who
believe, implicitly in the convention sys
tem, and who advocate return to it by
surrounding it with all possible safe
guards. ' Such people are entitled to
their opinions and as much considera
tion as 'are the advocates of the primary
law. They are just as competent to say
the convention is best for the rank, and
file as is any editor to say the primary
system is the best.
I feel it is up to you to honestly
acknowledge the shortcomings and de
fects of this law and to give details as
to your proposals for its amendment,
as it is the only means we now have
of making nominations for office. Give
us what you consider constructive ideas.
I have had experience under both sys
tems of nomination and election, and
personally know something of what
has taken place under your severely
condemned "boss system." Let me chal
lenge the irreconcilables ' in the direct
primary ranks to show as efficient ad
ministration of our public affairs under
this method, at as low per capita cost,
as we had during the times when party
affairs were managed under the con
vention system by James Lotan, Joseph
Simon and Walter F. Matthews. Let
them point out a single specific instance
of personal pickings or benefit or, "graft"
accruing to either " of those much
maligned political "bosses".
Any political boss knows that to re
tain his power he must make good with
the voter. His constant effort is to
select the very best men In the commu
nity to administer public affairs. -The;
full significance of this statement may;
be recognized by a comparison of for-
mer officials with a large proportion of!
those who have . flourished under the;
direct primary law. The exceptions but'
prove the correctness of the general
statement, and some good, substantial
citizens have been chosen at times under
the primary law.
We all want the best there is to be
had. By changing from the convention
system to the direct primary, many
people honesty believe we made a bad
matter worse, and the proponents
of the present system " admit it has
not produced, the results sought and
claimed for it. C. W. Hodson.
INCOME TAX
Communication concerning income tax prob
lem will be answered by The Journal. All com
munications should be addressed to the "Income
Tax Editor" and must bear the writer's nam
and address. 1
Question If a single man owns a
place and goes out to work and makes
over $1000 and then loses on his crop, is
not that loss to be deducted from, his
net income?
Answer Yes, if the loss on his crop
is over and above the amount hay put
into his crop.
Question In case he plants fruit: trees
on his place, is the cost of trees and
expense of putting them in to be de
ducted from his income?
Answer No, the putting in of fruit
Ltrees is a capital expenditure and adds
to the value of the property, and Is not
an expense deduction.
Question If so, is it necessairy to
make any report to the collector of
revenue?
Answer Yes, report must be made If
the entire net income is $1000 or over.
Olden Oresron
Historians Mourn Hiatus in a Notable
Early Day Record.
That the story of the finding of a
"missing document," possessing for the
historian all the charm of a"lost mine"
story, may one day enrich the litera
ture of pioneering on the Pacific slope, is
indicated in the following editorial note
in the Oregon Quarterly: "There Is
abundant evidence that in the late sum
mer of 1829 Peter Skene Ogden led his
company of trappers to the southward
from. Fort Walla Walla, through Eastern
Oregon and along the eastern side of
the Sierra Nevada range and into South
ern California. But there is no
record available, and it is necessary to
pass by the experiences of that year's
Journey with the hope that the original
journal will be found at some future
time."
Uncle Jeff Snow Says :
Accord in" to the papers, theGerman
Americans in convention assembled in
old Chicago wants a cabinet place with
Harding, and they've got six million
votes to kinder press the matter to his
attention.. It don't look Ta if they
thought a one of 'em voted fer' Cox.
Ilowsomever. Brother Harding'd orter
be a wise enough politician to remember
that there's : twenty million American
voters 'thout no front hyphen t the
title, and oncet in a while a few of 'em
uster go over the top in France; and
chase the German Heinies a few! mile
towards Berlin. If they ever go over
the top on the same bent in the U. S. A,
b'leve me, there'll be some tan runnin'.
FOILING THE PROFITEER
" Pros the Partington Ken
When the rag man hits our street
now we go out and see if he has any
thing in his cart that will fit ti
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
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SMALL CHANGE
Hail,' haiL the snow's all gone!
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Anyway, the iceman's bill can't pester
ua uiewj irvsiy mornings.
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TVim .I.MAn'a au ........ ' ITT.
had wished for this snow about Christ
mas. 1
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"Harding shy at publicity," the paper
says. What libel the press agents do
utter! .
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One of the things about which we
cant make ourselves worry: The
Island of Yap. i
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News of a runaway horse is fair
front page copy on any of these
motorized day a
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Think over this one In passing: In
all the category of terrors there is
nothing so awful as selfishness.
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Self-consciousness is not prevalent
among politicians, else many of them
would realize that they are laughing
SIOCK.
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DenjPsey. the champion pug-ugly,
should be among friends in Portland.
Twenty-five families of the name name
here have survived the ordeal of his
fame.
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..The gas company will expend more
than a million dollars on improvements,
it is announced. In the face of recent
rate rises, whadaya mean, "gas com
pany" will expend?
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
H. E. Garrlnger of Berkeley, CaL, is
Sit the Multnomah.' '"Berkeley is toSan
Francisco what Cambridge, Mass., is to
Boston, both being high class college
towns close by the mother city," said
Mr. Garringer. "But Berkeley is more,
as it is a resort town and a business
city, and. although near the bay, the
climate is that of Southern California
and entirely different from San Fran
cisco with its winds and fogs. Besides
the University of California, there are a
number of preparatory schools and one
of the finest public school systems in
the United States."
I
I. L. Scroggin, well known business
man of Bismarck, N. D., is at the Mult
nomah and will remain in Oregon sev
eral months for his health. "North Da
kota is getting better every day as an
agricultural country and for cattle rais
ing, all the waste lands and Bo-called
bad lands now being very productive,"
said Mr. Scroggin. "The Non-Partisan
league has set the state back 10 years,
but now that the league has lost control
in the state assembly, it is only a matter
of time before the league will be a thing
of the past and North Dakota will be
come progressive again. The farmers,
who were the mainstay of the party, are
slowly but surely turning against! it
since promises made them did not mate
rialize." ' " j
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Eastern Oregon guests at the Imperial
include J. L. Maxwell of. Wallowa, D. W.
Warnock of Joseph, W. B, Hunter and
Earl Whiteley of Lostine. Zoe Houser
of Pendleton, and W. H. Ragsdale, Fi F.
Peetz and W. S. Powell of Morrowj
. I -Eastern
Oregon cattlemen, walking
along the streets of Portland, would
come to the conclusion that there is a
livestock convention being held, as so
many Eastern Oregon stockmen are in
the metropolis. j
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Al Roberts, for .many years chief of
police of the Round-Up City, is button
holing his many friends in the lobby of
the Hotel Imperial. He is trying to fix
up his political fences to move down to
Portland. j
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Pendleton guests at the Imperial in
clude Mrs. Marion Jack and her daugh
ter Merle, E. M. Jenkins and Hazel Jen
kins, L. A. McClintock, the hardware
man, N. V. Gustinson and John Bain.
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Bandon-by-the-Sea is we!) represented
on the register of the Hotel Imperial by
the following well known citizens : G. R.
McNair, N. H. Donald, George Eastman
and J. E. Walstrom.
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Charles H. Babcock, irrlgationlst, fruit
grower and pioneer resident of Mary
hill, on the banks of the Columbia, is
transacting business in Portland.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jackson of Enter
prise, A. I B. Boyd of The Dalles and
Carl Engdahl of Helix are at the Ben
son.? .-...!
J. T. Houston. A M. Logan. Q. C.
Gray, James Cram, K. D. Huston and
Hugh Lister, all cattlemen from Prlne
ville. are guests at the Imperial. ;
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
(Her is a closa-up ot a personage whoj has
been much is th public eye and whom Mr.
Lockley draws out for details most reporters,
orerlook. His article might well be captioned
"Th Ileal Jack Jempsey." Now read it. J
Jack Kearns, Jack Dempsey, Mrty
Farrell, Joe Benjamin and Ted Hayes
are guests at the Multnomah. Mr.
Dempsey is a celebrated manual train
ing worker, his specialty being remak
ing the countenances of aspiring pugil
ists. Mr. Dempsey is in room 669. Last
night a local fight fan visited Mr. Demp
sey. In the course of the visit Mr.
Dempsey demonstrated his footwork and
did some shadow boxing. The man II n
the next room wanted to sleep, and
finally pounded on the wall and said,
"If you fellows don't cut out your racket,
I'll come In there and knock your blocks
off." It is "to be presumed that if he
had known that it was Mr. Jack Demp
sey's block he was threatening to knock
off, he might not have been ..quite so
rash with his sanguinary promises.
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If you want to know all about Jack
Dempsey, ask any small boy and he
will give you his full history. It has
been some time since I was a small
boy; so, not being up in Jack's history,
I dropped in to let Jack himself furnish
me the information.
Jack's hand is not what you would
call ladylike. His handclasp is. cordial
and hearty. He has curly black hair.
He has a rather winning smile, as well
as a winning way with his fists. He
hasn't quite so deliberate a drawl as
Mark Twain, hut from what I under
stand, his . footwork and the work of
his hands are much less deliberate than
his conversation. There is nothing up
stage about Jack Dempsey. He is cor
dial and friendly and rather modest.
"When did I have my first fight?" he
said, in answer to my question. "Sure,
I remember it- I was about 5 years
old. and it was a pretty good scrap.
Did 1 lick the other feUow? Well. I
thought I did, but he claimed I didn't,
so I guess it must have been a draw.
Was my father a scrapper? No, he was
a schoolteacher. His name was Hiram,
He- came from West Virginia, My
mother's maiden name was Mary P.
Smoot. I am five pounds heavier than
my regular weight. I weigh 10 now.
My father weighed 173. I was born in
Colorado and I wavan't born with any
silver spoon in my mouth, either. Ever
since I was a kid I have worked at
hard jobs. I worked in the coal mines ,
f5Sr
sidelights;
' Forty degrees below aero is reported In
New York. Again we say, "Let er rain."
Corvallis Gazette-Times.
The prices of eggs and butter are com
ing down but it's too late. Most of
us have broken ourselves of eating them.
Klamath Falls Herald. ;
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From the- tone of the legislatures now
in session. In Idaho, Washington ana
Oregon, the Jap is apt to think that he
is not wanted on the American Pacific
coast. Molalla Pioneer. . . ; ,
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The country is getting "back to nor
malcy" so fast that Mr. Harding is like
ly to be out the main part of his Job
before he gets into office. Or :1s this
"normalcy"? Powers Patriot.
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' TVlorei than half the DODulation of the
country lives' in the cities, according to
the' census bureau, and apparently Mack
of houses Is the only reason tne otner
half doesn't move in. Eugene Register.
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Laws are getting so numerous and
complex that nobody knows what the
Um in anrl it ia arttina- art that nobody
cares, so long as they can keep out of
jail, and tnis can ne oone wun nrcwu
legal advice. Blue Mountain fcagie.
T)A.i..Uin . 4h. .... 1 1 1 4if... atat. In
M- CIClf.t . ai,M.u a .u
Orion's shoulder, is found to be about a
thousand billion times as large as the
earth. We should think Mr. Vanderlipof
San Francisco, who got the big conces
sions from Lenin, would forget about
Kamchatka and beat it for Betelgeuse.
Albany Democrat.
Loren Roberts of The Dalles is at
the Multnomah. "Skin" Roberts is a
former student of the U. of O.. where he
was president of the college Y. M. C. A.
and also of the Mathematics club. He
specialized on form engineering and just
by looking at it he can tell if a tractor
has high blood pressure and if there is
anything seriously wrong with the gix
zard and other inwards of a combined
harvester.
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; Walter Farnley, now playing on. the
O. A. C. basketball team, former star of
the Washington high school team and
also- forme)- secretary of the boys' de
partment of the Portland Y. M. C. A
is a guest at the Multnomah.
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Registered at the' Imperial are the
following residents of Bend: F. E. Stu
debaker, H. C. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
McKay, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Barnes and
E. M. Catlow. ;
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F. S. Dunbar, Astoria abstractor. Is
registered at the Portland. Mr. Dunbar
worked his way up through the chairs in
the political lodge from recorder of con
veyances to secretary of state.
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A. Buzzard of Flora in Wallowa coun
ty, with his son Bob, is at the Imperial.
A. Sparrow of Medford also is a guest
at that hotel.
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Mrs. W. T. Phy, whose husband. Dr.
W. T. ! Phy, is proprietor of the Hot
Lake sanitarium, is at the Multnomah.
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William M. Pease, wholesale butter
and egg merchant of Seattle, is at the
Multnomah. i .' , , I
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C. ;B. McConnell of Burns Is swapping
stories with his Eastern Oregon - friends
at the Imperial.
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J. C. White, prominent financier of
Spokane, is stopping for a day or two
at the Portland. ; , i'
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"B. V. McCullough of Echo and E. S.
Butler of Redmond are registered at the
Oregon.
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Mrs. II. W. Nayley and son of Talkee
tena, Alaska, are guests at -the Hotel
Portland. 5
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Mrs. A. N. Gilbert of Salem and her
daughter, Agnes Shucking, are at the
Imperial.
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J. S. Barton, well-known resident of
Coquille, county seat of Coos county, is
at the Portland.
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A. D. Boyce of The Dalles Is a guest
at the Benson.
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Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Sinclair of Salem
are at the Imperial.
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J. A. Zachery of Reedsport is a guest
at the Imperial.
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Ben J. Howard of Monroe is a Port
land visitor T
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R. M. Cole, whose home town is Vale,
Is a Portland visitor. . "
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Ray J. Fox of Lyons is a Portland
visitor. - . . '
Lockley
and later In gold mines not placer, but
quartz. How many fights have I had?
Well, that's pretty hard to say. I had
lots of fights, when I was a boy and
a young fellow, that I didn't keep track
of. 'I guess I have had maybe 150 or
200 fights in the ring. What's that?
Did I ever get licked? When I was a
youngster I used to get into scraps with
older and stronger boys and i often
got licked good and plenty, but It was
all good practice, for a person has to
take punishment cheerfully If he wants
to survive In this game. Have I cut
out booze and smoking? No, 'I haven't
cut 'them out, for the very good reason
that I never started. I don't drink or
smoke at all, and I never have. I don't
care what ytru start for, if it's worth
rwhile you have to give up something
to te a topnotcner. no man who doesn't
keep his mind and his body clean can
become a world's charrlplon, and if he
wants to stay there he has to keep
regular hours and be temperate in all
things. No, I am not a preacher, but
take it from me, the man who wants
tq accomplish anything worth -'' while,
whether he wants to punish his oppo
nents or punish work, can't punish booze,
smoke cigarettes or run around with
womenfolk. The price of success in the
fighting game is being clean and
square."
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A few moments later I ran across Jack
Kearns, Dempsey's manager. "What's'
the matter with your taking lunch with
Jack and me today?" he said. "We'll
have a chance for a good visit." Un
fortunately. I had another date, so I
couldn't accept his hospitality, much as
I would have liked to. "Yes, Jack's
right," said Kearns. "A man must climb
on the water wagon and stay there; if
he wants to stay in the fighting game.
Jack ia expecting to meet Georges Car
pen tier on July 2. I have an. idea that
the fight will) be pulled off In London, j
I figure the gate receipts will run to at
least $1,000,000. We will split It about
65-33. . Each of . the fighters will have
one third of the receipts from the movie
rights, the promoter taking the other
third. r Yes. Jack is ' a good money
maker. He pulled down $27,500 out of
his brief meeting with Jess Willard.
What kind of a fellow is Jack? Most
people associate prizefighting with
boozing, profanity and other rough
stuff. - Jack doesn't swear, doesn't
smoke, and doesn't drink, but he cer
tainly does carry a good wallop In both
of his fists."
The Oregon (jountry
Northwest Ilsppenings In- Brief Form for the
Buay Header
OREGON NOTES
The service men of Molalla have mad
nnlfftartr.n fn. .. .. ... . 1. . t . .. ..
Legion." " " 1 " "' --;
sionr 1.,KfL-t, in Mf..'?2"i!r:
been fined $25e J
An fef Bm(nflllfti-H.Ml . 1 1 , . r- - 1 .
on F ebruary 21 for the position xf post
master at Donald. . . --',-.
tiS!! wor,d er veterans living in Stan-. '
rf..5v organised and have been
promised a charter-for a post, '
-J." ."N "Growers' union at Free
water has ordered a carload of sodium .
nitrate. The nitrate is used as fertilizer.
-Medford'S new ; postmaster Is William
J. Warner, who has been acting post
master nines the death of Colonel J. P. .
Mlms last June. -.
tfaTil!. ?resin PuJp Paper company at
saiem has been forced to elope its plant
wrf'iff 1 "boruge of slab-'
wood and other fuel. ;
,uA con!rat has been let ;for clearing -tne
right of way for the new McKenaste
h..hwl.y ov?r Lad Horse hill, near the
summit of the Cascades. , - "
tJHmatlIi ,cunty's wheat Is In excel- '
lent condition,, uay farmers. There is - -more
moisture in the ground than at this . -time
for neveral years. .'..
The Hubbard r-reamery during the past
n'd. Ptrons a bonus" of 2 per-cent
on their annual cream checks. . -
ine Brooks-Scanlon company, at Bend,
Iogffed-off Und into 40-4icre tracts.. Th 4
tiers irrigated and sold to set- -
- The onmmsiAliil is.u AaMK k--
cultural college, known as the Junior '"'
f - n n. t. . . . , ...
ujmmfrce, nas voted 10 -join
the United States Chamber of com
merce.. .
John Fetght, aped 70 years, an Inmate .
or the Mate " hospital at VenUletom
hanged himself at the institution.- using
a sheet and bedpost as the means of self
execution. The Eugene Farmers' Creamery asso
ciation has increased lis capital stock ' "
from $15,000 to $75,000, enabling the as
sociation to purchase ground and erect -a
new building.
Claude Nelson, a young man ' of
Springfield, was seriously Injured when :
his clothing became entangled in a rock -crusher,
resulting In three broken ribs .
and internal injuries. '
Central Oregon' farmers are preparing. - -a
Joint memorial to the public service :
commission, asking a temporary special -
freight rate to the Willamette valley in
order tolispose of 15,000 tons of hay- .
The etcretary.of "agriculture has au
thorized the grazing of 10.400 head 'of . -cattle
and. horses and 23,000 head of-..'
sheep upon the Deschutes national for-r
est during the grazing season of 19.11.
The Oregon Publishers syndicate, with V
a capital stock of $10,000, has filed ar
ticles with the state corporation commls- r
sloner. The purpose is to purchase in
wholesale quantities supplies and ma-".-"
terial for members of the syndicate.
WASHINGTON
Seattle suffered fire losses aggre
gating $1,397,258 during the year 1920.
Notice is given that', flhe 1D20 prune ;
pool at Vancouver, has cloBed: Sales havn
been made of 13 carloads,- or 1,040,000".
pounds.
Four youths at Arlington bound the'
proprietor of . the ' McAlplne . garage,' . .
robbed the till of $15 and drove away in
a valuable automobile belonging to the ...
establishment. . : j..
After several ; weeks' cessation of . .
work, the Poison Logging 'tompany has
resumed operations near Hoqulam with -
-a force .of about 100 men, .1 ;
City Librarian Johnson reports that"".
69.852 books -were -circulated from the
Hoquiam public library during the lant.
year, an increase of 7672 over the pre
vious year. - r
i An American Legion post has been'-,
organized at Medical Lake,. -The post
Is named for Captain J. A. Allen, h.
Medical Iak soldier who lost his life
during the! war."-.
A favorable report on waterlng-230.770
acres of Horse Heaven land. -at a total
cost of $26,513,888, or $114.89-an acre, .
has been made by LarS Langloe, Irriga
tion engineer.
'ine waivme jjumoer company nan-,
recently purchased a 35-acr tract at
Chehalis upon which they plan to build .
a big sawmill as soon as conditions
become more, normal. ,' ' ' '
Beavers are thriving' to such an ex--.,
tent In the. streams of Yakima county,
that they are becoming a pest -'to the",.
farmers. The game warden recommends :
an open season -for them. . ,
Nadine Simpson, 6-year-old. daughter
of Fred Simpson, suffered a " fractured :
skull and broken leg when she was run- r
over by an automobile at Anacortes. . : ;
L. A. Commons was run over and in
ternally injured while trying to rescue
the girl. "'! ': --':'- - ,
While taking their- 7-year-old .son.
who was suffering with pneumonia, to
a hospital at Frosser, Mr. and Mr.
Harlan Hill were seriously injured
when their automobile ran off a grade,
turned a somersault and landed at the
bottom of a ravine. .
; . " - IDAHO "-.
Twenty-three cases of typhoid fever .
are reported at Twin Falls.
The bounty commissioners have appro
priated 15000 for the support of the Ada
county farm bureau.
Idaho airaira is Deing snipped oy ina
trainload.to Tennessee for distribution:
throughout the Southern states.-
Tti Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
company of Lewiston has 1245 member
and over xs.ooo,uvu insurance in orce.
Because or the high cost of labor and
material, construction work on the five
story St. Josephs hospital at Lewiston"
has ceased. i
George Miller was arrested near Ms pie
Grove and 32 gallons of moonshine
liquor, a barrel of mash and a still in hi
house confiscated. .
Llndon G. Dell, 60 "years old, commit-
ted suicide at his home In Nam pa by.
shooting himself through the temple with
a revolver. Dell had Deen superintend
ent of the water-service of the Oregon
Short Line for several years.
know roui
PORTLANDS
Much of the book buying that ihe
individual would like to do if his
.means permitted is done by the
library for all the individual citizens
of Portland.
Rarely does! any volume, ' even a
late book of fiction, cost Jess than
$2. and from $ to $7.50 has become
the usual, if not popular, 'price per
book for works of biography and
travel. The average cost of techni
cal books is much greater. ,
One publisher has , Informed the
library that the average cost of
books has Increased 132 per cent.
Not so many books "are purchased,
consequently, as when ; prices were
less, because the appropriations for
library maintenance have not kept
up with the advance in the cost of
the printer's 'product, .
But the demand for booka has not
lessened as their" price has increased.
On the contrary, it has increased. 1
; And sometimes at the library , the
comment is heard, "I dont. see why
I can't get that book!"; It may be
one on automobillng, engineering, '
chemistry, airplanes or even B. M.
Bower. The library will always have
two copies, but it may be that, both
are out, '
One service that the public library -.constantly-performs
for lis citizen
patrons is to keep in touch with the
latest authoritative works on. every
subject and with the most up-to-date
products of fiction, and to get them
as soon as it can, or as Soon as it
can afford to.'' - "1 "