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Fools t who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man a tool to buy or sell;
Earth a failure, Godforsaken.
' Ante-room of hell. '
- a Kingsler.
"WHO IS OUR BROTHER'S
- KEEPER
NEWSPAPERS throughout the
country frequently Report that
such and such an undesirable has
been arrested, sentenced and paroled
on 'condition that he or she leave
the cifV In. which the offense is com
mitted. Most of these cases are
those of men who have been re
jected by society. Occasionally one
of these unfortunates happens td be
a -woman. A local court was con
fronted with one of the latter a few
days ago. She was 23 years old,
and her problem was disposed of
In the age-old , way; she was sen
tenced to one year and told jshe
would be released if she consented
to move on.' She quickly accepted
the alternative.
The practice is not peculiar to any
one city or town; it obtains in every
community where there, are courts
-and. police. It is this fact the fact
that the practice is widespread that
elves rise to the question: What be
. comes the ultimate destination of
these characters? If they are not
wanted in Portland are they sought
by Seattle or San Francisco? And
if neither of these cities wishes
them, surely they are not welcomed
by New York, Chicago, Omaha or
any other Eastern metropolis. Ap
parently they have no place to go
and are wanted nowhere. The com
mand, "Move on." perhaps rings in
their ears until "they reach the limit
of human power, the grave. v
i Is a community fulfilling . Its
destiny when it shuts its eyes and
hearts on these people and disposes
of them by kicking them from pil
lar to post? Is an evil, mitigated
by spreading it over more virgin ter
ritory? We are strong and effective in
dealing with collective vice and
wrong, but we are woefully weak
.When we face individual cases, the
real source of collective rottenness.
It "seems that the modern mind.
With Its wealth of psychological and
sociological equipment, should be
able to meet the Individual derelict
and prescribe for him and not cast
him off on a neighboring com
munity. ' :-t
fin biblical times they fought lep
rosy by crying "Unclean" and run
ning away from It, Nowadays the
leper is taken in hand and treated
and ( cured. Is the moral leper of
today any more,, infectious than is
the physical leper? . '
Cain's cry,, "I am not my brother's
keeper," will scarcely quash the In
dictment which " history will return
against ua for dodging our duty.
Musicians at Columbus Barracks,
Ohio, can now play jazz music with
out fear.. The music house is bomb
proof. -
AT PORTLAND ALSO
HERE Is a news dispatch:
' Seattle, Wash.. Jan. ' 26. With
one of . the largest cargoes ever taken
from Puget sound the 12,000 ton steam
ship Julia Luckenbach. first of the fast
express freighters to be operated in the
intercoastal service by the Luckenbach
lines, left here today tor Philadelphia
and New Tork. The vessel carries 1500
tons of pig lead from Idaho and 1000 tons
Of copper ore from Montana, marking
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CHRONOLOGY OF NORTH PORTLAND
. . HARBOR , : -
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tANUARY, 1916, United States engineers report; "The Port of Portland
I v it now appears, proposes
slough (North Portland harbor). It
the United States to continue this
legislation authorizing Its abandonment
Legislature, 1917, was memorialized by Port of Portland for definite
power to provide ship channel for industries on Oregon slough (North
Portland harbor). Power was granted by amending Section 6078, Oregon
Laws. ; ; ' :'
Fall, 1917. "Additional industries
tions to locate on North Portland
December, 1917. Port of Portland wrote letter to North Portland indus
tries, stating the port had jurisdiction and authority to deepen that harbor
and that it was its purpose to maintain -a 25-foot channel therein 1 Since
then ten major industries having use
November, 1918, election. No effort made by Port of Portland to se
cure funds for North Portland harbor. .
December, 1919; Effort made by
have Port of Portland deepen North
.June 1, 19204 North Portland Industries organized and petitioned Port
of Portland to deepen North Portland
June 10, 1920. Port of - Portland
authorizing survey of North Portland
port commission: to include that harbor in measure for November election
but the request was denied.
July.1920. Industries discovered
thorized the survey of North Portland
sary funds with' which to make such
July, 1920. 'Port of Portland had United States engineers demand
establishment of harbor lines in North Portland harbor, an undertaking
ordinarily requiring from 60 to 90 days
- August 3, 1920. Heads of industries met with Colonel J. R. Slattery,
United States engineer, and made showing of need of haste for. the harbor,
and being unanimous in their requirements precedent was set aside and
the harbor lines fixed in one day, the
with the survey and plans for improvement of harbor, and to provide the
United States engineers with copy of
that final details of harbor line matter could be rushed' to completion
The survey and plans were completed
by middle of December, 1920, no copy
engineers.
November, 1920. The industries of North Portland discovered that,
after the Port of Portland; had written the letter in 1917. promising the
North-Portland channel, it passed a resolution which had not been made
public before, saying: "It as no intention of committing 'itself to' a policy
as to any improvement of Oregon slough (North Portland harbor), but
expressly asserts its unaltered right fo exercise Its discretion in regard to
any such improvement.1
January, 1921. ; North Portland
North Portland harbor be made in
quest was opposed by members of
the port.
. January,
legislature.
1921. North Portland
a new movement of freight from interior
points that formerly moved eastward by
rail, but which, ; owing to Increased
freight - rates, will be sent via the Pan
ama canal hereafter. - The Luckenbach
also took salmon, railroad ties and other
general freight.
The item reads plausibly, but the
fact is that the Julia Luckenbach
was unable to get more than a "piece
of a cargo" in Seattle and Tacoma.
She took on 3500 tons at the two
Puget sound terminals and then was
sent to Portland, where, on short
notice, she was provided with 3670
tons of freight-i-more than the two
competitive ports together were able
to supply. I ,
A Spokane man. after killing a
woman in an automobile accident,
has been - found guilty of man
slaughter. Portland juries have re
cently failed to I convict drivers of
manslaughter under much more
reprehensibe circumstances.
AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE
Q EPRESENTATTVE M'ARTHUR
of Oregon Is to be commended
for .his part in defeating efforts, tO
enlarge the present national house
or representatives. He was on firm
ground when in opposing the bill he
said: - ! ' .
Our present membership of 435 is in
my judgment altogether too large -for
real deliberative wbrkt and even the
most casual observer must admit that
this i body is unwieldy and that much
of its business is transacted among
scenes of disorder ; and confusion.
Government is ndt deliberative
when legislation :1s almost entirely
committee legislation. It is not de
liberative when committee reports
are jammed down the throats of
house members without adequate
opportunity for ' debate. It is not
deliberative when a few men are in
control of the powerful committees.
-It is not deliberative when a few
men's' power Is such (hat they can
whip into line practically all of the
remaining membership. That is
government .of the few.
Mr. McArthur j waa also correct
when he said: ; j ' ,
Another point which we should con
sider in connection with this legisla
tion is the constantly growing tendency
to shirk Individual . responsiblity. The
larger the lawmaking body, the , less
the individual member feels his respon
sibility and the more he is tempted to
pass it along to the leaders. By adding
48 members to the already large and
unwieldy house we will simply take an
other step in the .direction of centralized
authority and removal of representative
government from contact with the peo
ple. . ,.
When individual responsibility can
be avoided and the few control the
course of legislation, unseen govern
ment has its opportunity. When
the acts of a few men can be cloaked
under the presence of a large mem
bership special interest congressmen
are protected.
The house of representatives has,
by defeating tha bill for Increase In
membershlp.avoided a serious mis
take. When it reduces its present
membership, it will make a move
long overdue. r,
WHAT WE WANT HERE
A CHICAGO policeman saw two
burglars walk out of a pawn
shop they had robbed. He chal
lenged them. They dropped a
bundle of loot, fled Into an alley
and opened fire, f , 5 ; r
, The policeman was a verv nmnTi
man. He dropped to his knees, re
turned the fire, crept closer r.ri
closer to the bandits, and finally
captured one. The robber was more
to take over improvement of Oregon
is therefore no longer necessary for
project, and the board recommends
requiring deep water began prepara
harbor.
for deep'.water have located there.
Portland-Chamber of Commerce to
Portland harbor.
harbor,
answered petition of industries by
harbor. Then industries requested
H
that when the Port of Portland au
harbor it failed to provide the neces
survey.
time
port engineers agreeing to proceed
survey as soon as completed. In order
and given out In Oqtober, 1920. but
had been provided the United States
industries requested, that provision for
Port of Portland legislation, which re-
port commission and the attorney for
harbor matter placed before .Oregon
than six feet, and a powerful man
but the. diminutive policeman held
him with one hand while he fired
several shots at the fleeing form of
the second criminal. The first was
landed. in jail.;
We need more of such officers in
Portland. "
IN MISSOURI
fISSOURI is going after the crap
X shooters.
A bill introduced in the legislature
of that state would not only prohibit
the throwing of dice but would make
It a misdemeanor to carry them. The
evil has grown so much that school
children and society . girls all over
the state are "rolling the bones" for
money, a report declares. But the
fascination of dice is not confined
to Missouri.
It is a pastime that thrives In
every state, . particularly in the
South. In fact, the lure of the ivory
cubes extends far beyond modern
time's and even past' written history.
In Bulwer .Lytton's "Last Days of
Pompeii," one' of the characters is
said to have spent the "afternoon in
dicing." ' '
The Missouri solons are coping
with a diversion that has- its root
deep down in human nature.
The many fatalities at railroad
crossings in automobile accidents In
Oregon last year are grim proof of
the advisability of the bill now be
for the legislature requiring motor
cars to come to a stop at crossings.
THE NORTH BANK HIGHWAY
THE motor wayfarer upon the
newlv navrl 1.
- . . v. luguiicij emeu
leads along the Washington shore of
the Columbia from Vancouver to
Camas becomes the privileged spec
tator at a splendid exposition.
He gains complete gympathv with
the inspirational lift which impelled
Lieutenant Broughton of the British
navy, In ; 1792, to refer to Mount
Hood as "risinsr beautifully conspicu
ous" In the otherwise prosaic dic
tion of an explorer's log. 1
That Broughton. upon th bow f
his primitive craft a century, and
a quarter ago, should have decided
that the "Mountain of Personality"
must oe at least.2S.000 feet high, is
also quite understandable as the
giant peak appears from sn v n-nm
of a dozen viewpoints along the
rareiy beautiful road. ; J ;
There Is a place where the high
way pierces a 'thickly grown forest
of shadowy fir. Beyond the avenue
of trees thus formed, Mount Hood
fills all the .eastern heavens. Last
Sunday, In the" sunshine of mid-aft
ernoon. Its sncwy- slopes glittered
and the depth, of the scene grew
until it seemed that the massive
bulk of a once flaming volcano had
become v the parted curtains Of the
entrance Into the Infinite.
From this Washington vantage
point the extreme charm of the Ore
gon landscape . appears with en
hanced attraction. The views of the
Columbia river are more extensive
than from parallel portions of the
Columbia! river. Mount Jefferson.
which can be seen only from a view
of the loftier points around Portland,
Jws well . above the southeastern
nortzon. and even Three Fingered
Jack,-' a lesser and more Southern
peak of the Cascade range, can be
seen.
The new. road adds an extremely
valuable asset to the travel resources
of the Northwest. It will doubtless
be as pleasant in summer as in the
clear days of winter, but it is im
possible to imagine how at any other
season it could be more ' beautiful
than during the sunny days of this
month and next. with, its environ
ment of - spring-like green and its
contrasting vistas of snowy white.
DEFY THE PEOPLE?
. . .
A BILL to restore publication of
the delinquent tax list has ap
peared in the legislature. "
Will this legislature reverse an
emphatic vote by the people? It
legislatures set out to defy specific
and pronounced mandates by. the
people, where will it end?
When they go hack to their con
stituents and ask for reelection, just
what explanation could individual
legislators make of the votes by
which they set aside a measure which
the people had solemnly ' and by
heavy majority enacted?
The delinquent publication J bill
ought to be withdrawn. Too much
is asked of members of the legisla
ture in the request of them to pass it.
The law abolishing publication of
delinquent lists in newspapers was
passed under the initiative at a reg
ular election after full discussion in
November, 1918. Twenty-eight
counties out of 36 gave majorities
for the measure. The total vote for
was 66,652. The vote against was
41,594. The majority rglven by the
voters for abolishment of publication
was 25,058.
In the face of that majority, can
any legislator afford to vote to set
aside the people's decision?
PEOPLE AND PRUNES
IN CALIFORNIA it appears that
1 people who came to tour remained
to build. The horticultural products
of that state' last year reached the
tremendous total of nearly $500,000,
000. The citrus fruit crop was worth
$60,000,000; raisins $50,000,000;
canned fruits, $129,000,000 and
grapes, $100,000,000, not to mention
the wealth expanding yield of other
important fruit products.
Twenty-five years ago the grow
ers of California citrus fruits shipped
only 2000 cars. Last year's ship
ments of oranges and lemons
reached a total of 50,000 cars.
Seven years ago, California raisin
growers could scarcely dispose of
their output. They had, in 1914,
30,000 tons unsold from a crop qf
140,000 tons. Last year they could
have sold $75,000,000 or $100,000,
000 worth .had the fruit been avail
able. '
In the decade just passed, Call
fornia's gains in population were
1,000,000, a growth of 44 per cent.
It was an increase exceeded numer
ically by- only one other state, New
York.
These facts point the way to Ore
gon's possible achievements as a fruit
producing state.. As Professor C. I.
Lewis remarked before the Ad club,
126,000 acres have been planted to
fruit. There are 40,000 acres of
prune trees between Portland and
Riddle in Western Oregon. With
favorable conditions, the Oregon
prune crop next year might reach
the very considerable total of 100,-
000,000 pounds.
California put her newcomers to
work and when marketing became
a problem, organized cooperative as
sociations that both develop and dis
cover demand for the varied horti
cultural products of that state.
Oregon "has the same natural ad
vantage for the production of ap
pies, prunes, berries and pears that
California has for oranges, lemons
and raisins. Oregon is putting- in
charge of fruit production and mar
keting a cooperative marketing or
ganization which is superior to that
of California because defects have
been eliminated.
Oregon's cooperative marketing
organization now encounters the un
pleasant fact that 25,000,000 pounds
of prunes carried over from 1919
and 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 pounds
carried over from 1920 must be dis
posed 5 of before the new crop is
ready.
The first relief move has taken
the form of an appeal to home
people. : "Prone week" begins Feb
ruary 7. .
Oregon people will have no bet
ter -opportunity to learn that prunes
are as delicious as raisins in bread,
in pie, coffee cake, mince meat and
spice cake, as appetizing as oranges
in fruit salad, and scarcely to be
compared with any other product
of the. orchard when made into
"conserve:
Professor Lewis indicted Oregon-
lans for eating more of California's
than of Oregon's fruits. .Why not
make his accusation untrue? ?
THE CLERGY AND DRESS
THE clergy Is wasting its time
trying, to bring about dress re
form among women by telling them
that the latest styles are wicked. In
what woman, will a preacher find a
concordant note when he shouts that
ultra-stylishness is criminal ?
' Lord Chesterfield's epigram that
no man should be dressed so as to
be noticeable in a crowd does not
apply, to a woman, but.
No woman ever was chic, garbed
like peacock, y
But when win women learn tnat
the true derivation of "chic" is "sim
plicity"? When men learn it.
The well meaning clergy :s casti
gating the wrong sex if it would get
results, .
Letters From the People
' IConiimmjcatfona earn to The Jcmraal toe
publication in this department should be written
T " ,id PPer; should not exceed
800 words in leneth. and most be signed by the
wr,ter. whose mail address in full most accom
pany the contribution.)
CRITICISES PAVING CONTRACTS
Alleging Specifications Too Light, and
Tricks in Bids Besides.
Portland, Jan. 29, To the Editor of
The Journal In a recent address by
Robert A. Booth, a member of the
state highway commission, - before the
State Chamber of-Commerce, he said,
in , part, in effect, that some of the
pavements laid by the highway com
mission were not . meeting its expecta
tions ; that the pavements were de
teriorating in places, due to the fact
that they were of too' light a construc
tion and were laid on too recently made
sub-foundations. This Is no doubt the
cause. ' In part, for the failure of the
pavement, but these facts do-not con
stitute all of the causes, by any means,
as there are other good and sufficient
reasons why the pavements are rapidly
deteriorating.' '
The highway commission was ; in
formed, before it had laid any pave
ments, that the specifications adopted
by it would not produce a good and
lasting pavement. I am not, therefore,
surprised at Mr. Booth's admission at
this time. This admission comes; how
ever, after spending approximately $20,-.
000,000 of the automobilists' money. Mr.
Booth further states that the commlsr
sion wiH; profit by mistakes made in
the past, and that it .will lay better
pavements in the future. To that end
in view, and in harmony with Mr.
Booth's statement, the highway commis
sion has adopted a riew set of specifi
cations for the laying of pavements
during the coming summer, and some
contracts have . already been let under
these new specifications.
I have carefully" examined those last
adopted specifications, and find, while
the thickness of the hydraulic. concrete
pavements has been increased, and
thereby adding to the, strength and
cost, there is' a provision for a variable
thickness for the bituminous pavements ;
that is, one 4s of fixed thickness and
the other is variable a clear discrimi
nation in favor of the bituminous pave
ments, which is wrong in theory and in
practice and is a direct violation of the
law enacted for the sole purpose of
creating competition between the dif
ferent kinds of pavements.
As a means for comparing the pave
ments for competitive purposes, the speci
fications provide for a fixed thickness of
seven inches, for the hydraulic concrete
pavements, and a variable thickness of
five inches for the. bituminous pave
ments, which is simply ridiculous. The
hydraulic 'concrete pavements might just
as well be eliminated entirely and con
fine the bidding to bituminous pave
ments only..
The specifications' provide for the
laying of the bituminous pavements with
a wearing surface of a possible thick
ness of two inches, and a variable (so
called) foundation of three inches. In
the discretion of the engineer. This
provision' is a misnomer, misleading and
very bad. It opens up a direct means
for a contractor to submit an unbalanced-
bid one of the commonest plug
ugly , ways of stealing In contracts.
Through an unbalanced bid the tax
payers could be robbed of vast sums
of money. From the manner in . which
these specifications are drawn it
would be impossible for the highway
commission to tell what any bituminous
pavement would cost.
The following is a copy of one clause
in the specifications which should be
sufficient to condemn the entire speci
fications : r ,
"Wherever the thickness of the pave
ment or pavement course is definitely
specified, it shall be understood to be
the average ' thickness. ;
"The minimum thickness allowable
shall be one-quarter of one inch less
than the average thickness." ' '
The clause is absolutely dishonest
and was evidently incorporated in the
specifications for selfish and sinister
motives. It- places the situation totally
in the hands of the contractor. He
could lay the pavement almost any vari
able thickness and still be within the
requirements of the specifications. The
pavement could be laid one inch thick
in one place and three inches in an
other, and the average would be two
inches, and the contractor is allowed
one-fourth inch less'- than the average
thickness. He could submit a bid for
a two-inch pavement and construct a
1-inch thick pavement, and still meet
the requirements of the specifications.
A reduction of 12H per cent, is a good
profit of Itself; if you can beat, this
you will have to exceed the speed limit.
Under: this clause the state would
have no protection whatever. Should
there be any controversy between the
contractor and the state -highway com
mission as to the thickness of the pave
ment after it was laid, the burden of
proof would be on the highway com
mission, ; and the only way to prove-
the matter would be to cut up the en
tire pavement, and this ' would be an
Impossibility. This clause- is entirely
in favor of the contractor. There is
nothing new, however, in this clause ;
It Is one of the old tricks of the pav
ing business. It seems Incredible, how
ever,, that it would appear in- the state
highway commission's specifications.
There are a number of clauses in
these specifications that are equally as
objectionable as those herein men
tioned. . W. L." Archambeau.
TAXING THE UNMARRIED
Here:' la a Proposal to Extend Bachelor
Provision to Women.
Bend. Jan. IS. To the Editor of The
Journal I would like to suggest that the
proposed bill of Mrs. Clara Sears Tay
lor, member of the Washington rent
commission, providing that congress levy
a tax on all bachelors, should be made
more complete, and Include all maiden
ladies, irrespective of age, from Z0 years
up, and the older the maid the higher,!
the tax. I base my proposal for amend
ing and completing the bill on woman
suffrage, as nowadays women say they
hav equal rights with men. And they
should have, by making the provisions
of this bill more complete.. I think It
would be justice to the equal rights of
men,: and it would nearly double Mrs.
Taylors' estimates- or the annual yield
of tax. Which was $20,000,000. From the
statistics given by her; there are 10,000,000
bachelors in the United States, appor
tioned by age and tax as follows:
Bachelors. Aa-e. Per canita, Tax produced
8,fi0,000....25 to 84.... 2.... 7.600.000
8.850,000.... 2 to 84... . 2.... 7,600.000
1,400,000.... 85 to 44.,.. S.... 4.200.000
0Utuu....a to 0.... ..,. s.soo.ooo
150.000.... 65 and orer.. 6....' 750,000
Total tax produced . ,
....... .820.000,000
H. R. Geider.
. DON'T! '
From the Colombia. (S. C.) Record. -If
you have a half hour to spend.
don't spend It with someone who hasn't.
Uncfe Jeff Snow Says:
Our public service commission, in cTre-
gon is one of the handiest things in the
whole state government at present fer
the big public service fellers to git al
lowed what's com in to "em and then
some. But when the high cost of livln'
has dura down to near zero and the
sufferin public calls fer the new deal
and lower rates. X reckon well find them
gentlemen oa the commission awful hard
to find, still harder to git together, and
so deaf In both years that they couldn't
hear it. thunder right overhead.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE ,
It's getting so we can't Seattle for the
dust of her despair.
Clean business need have no fear of
clean advertising laws.
... a e- e
About the most frequent thing the
legislature does is adjourn.
V ' e e : v-
Housewives haven't yet organized to
win an eight-hour workday.
e
There never was a grouch who could
grow fat .on smiles and friendship. . .
e e e
"Short skirts remain," fashion dic
tates. Long looks linger, mankind
echoes. . ., : 1 ...
Bergdoll's grammar is bad. We do
not "need" .him, but we "want him
very much.
e e .
The editor wants to know why police
activity is secret. It's in a dark Circle,
sir. with a Shadow , all around.
. . . ...
Peter Alexlvitch Kropotkin, Russian
rebel, is dead. Many a man has choked
en an easier name than that.
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Senator Harding's "old friends" are
mighty men. He Is surrounded by a
"handful" of them, the papers say;
Wonder what would fiappen if we
who "wake up" every morning should
some day reverse proceedings and wake
down? .
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Offensive little punchboards that gyp
us out of dimes ase taking a lot of
legislative attention that should go to
greater frauds" that get our dollars.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Mr, and Mrs. Verne H. v Moon are
guests at the Benson. They are on their
honeymoon trip. Mrs. Moon Is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Owinn
of Pendleton. Miss OllVte Gwinn waa a
popular member of the younger set .of
Pendleton. She Is a graduate of the
Pendleton high school and was a stu
dent at the University of California and
the University of Washington. She was
graduated from the University of Wash
ington in 1919 and was elected to a
chair in the department of literature.
She specialised in dramatic interpreta
tion. - She is a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa. Mr. Moon was a student at the
University of California and the Uni
versity of Minnesota and is a member
of the Chi Psl' fraternity. From Port
land the 'newlyweds will go to Seattle
and British Columbia, at "the end of
which time they will go to Pomeroy,
Wash., where Mr. Moon is district man
ager of the Pacific Power & Light com
pany. . . .-.
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Mr., and Mrs. Robert C. Paulus are
at the Seward. Mr. Paulus is one of the
men who has helped the lowly prune
to take its rightful place as pne of the
delicacies ,of the table. He has for
many years been waging a war of ex
termination on crooked fruit and crooked
fruit growers. He has helped to put out
of commission many a middleman and
commission man who preyed upon the
producer.
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Judge N. G. Wallace, one of the most
ardent boosters for good roads in East
ern Oregon, is down from Prinevllle.
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H. R Lakin, who operates a hard
ware store at Prinevllle, is a Portland
visitor. - -
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Ralph Jordan, county treasurer of
Crook county, is, taking in the sights of
Portland. -.. ' " . -.'
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Herbert J. Flagg. highway engineer, of
Olympia, Wash., is a guest' at the Im
perial. e e -
E. B. Fritz of the animal husbandry
department of Oregon Agricultural col
lege is a Portland visitor.
.
E. L. Swartzlander, agent at the Uma
tilla Indian reservation,' near Pendleton,:
Is transacting business In town. .
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J. E. Stewart, grocer of Prinevllle, is
at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. K. O. Blanchard of Hood
River are registered at the Hotel Seward.
Harry Kockley and Clay Kelly of Red
mond are-at the Seward.
.-see
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Belt of Eugene
are guests at the Seward.
B. G Cooper and wife of Corvallls are
Portland visitors.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OR THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
milS. mm Ul ITI V .1.1 HUh.in uuw f -
bl .hi. 4. tha .rul MM.,)Un
more jfujw mwv " - - ,
br an eminent expositor whom Mr. Lockley here
quotes. near 7. nan, asm uie
every name and order.
D. D. Altken. president of the Ameri
can Holstein-Frieslan association, of
Flint, Mich., is a guest at the Hotel
Portland. Mr. Altken was a member of
congress from Michigan from 1892 to
1896
"How does it happen that I am Inter
ested In cattle?" said Mr. Aitken. "Be
cause I was born on a farm near Flint,
and as a boy milked cows. I had no
opportunity to go to college. Farm
hands were paid $15 a month. I thought
myself very fortunate when I got a job
as a teacher in a country district nearby
at 2 a month with board, thrown in. I
boarded around at the homes of the
pupils. Such a thing as purebred dairy
stock was then almost unknown. If a
man in those days had paid $5000 for a
bull a committee of his neighbors would
have had him examined for his sanity
and he would have been railroaded to the
asylum. I don't know what the people
of that day would have thought of a
man spending $106,000 for a bull, as E.
A. Stewart of the Carnation company,
near Seattle, did. I don't know what
they would have thought of a cow being
entertained in the Crystal dlninar room
of the Hotel Benson, as Mr. Morris' fam
ous cow, TUly Alcartra,. was.
"You want to know why I am Inter
ested in eliminating the scrub cow In
favor of registered stock? One of the
reasons is that a pure bred cow eats no
more than a scrub and yet is a mint for
its owner and a benefit to the commu
nity. Pure bred stock pays because of
the quality and quantity of milk given,
while the scrub cow is usually a star
boarder. Let's forget all this argument
that the more milk used the greater the
prosperity of the alfalfa raiser and of
the farmers; for, after all, that is the
smallest end of It. The -big thing s
that the more and -better milk we use
the more babies will be saved to .become
better citizens. It will be worth 'your
while-to look up a survey of the schools
of Detroit. When I was there recently I
discovered that most of the cases of tu
berculosis i in children occurred in chil
dren of 1 to 2 years of age. and then
again In children from S to 10. Seventy
five per cent of these cases. I was' told,
occurred from malnutrition. To put it
into plain English, they don't'get enough
milk. : Many families with three or four
children take one quart of milk, only
enough for the coffee and mush. No
mother should think of giving her child
less than a pint, and preferably a quart,
of milk a day. -
.NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS.
If a "Shadow" can cause a. furore In
Portland police circles, what are the
possibilities of the substancw ? Molalia
Pioneer. , ' . . p
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Portland is having her trouble with a
"bond house,' while Astoria is bavins:
trouble with the "bottled In bond'1
houses, Astoria Budget.
1.
Why- hot let those who will benefit
directly by the war finance corporation
and other special legislation provide
funds to finance it? .Albany Democrat.
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It Is said that dairymen aro making
a study 01 overproduction, wnats m
matter? Have tha cows been demand
ing time and a half for overtime ?t-
(Jraj.de Observer. , 1
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It la nredictorl that the 1 1921 session
will be rollowed by another special elec
tion, and if anyone wants to find out
why the legislature is unpopular, here
is a clue. &ugene Kegisier.
Tha man who r1lreotd that a copy of
hla f avnrit newanatter be left beside his I
tomb every day for 20 years certainly (
ueserves jirsi piat-e ne u jroiomwu, -"
loyal subscriber, Marahfield News,
Financial experts now forecast a 'fall
In interest rates, and it is up to the
money-lenders to frame some sort of
protective tariff legislation that will
prevent such a catastrophe. Eugene
Ouard. : . . i ,
in -the shipbuilding scandal and graft
a voucher for e259,543.63 vanished. If
an ordinary citizen stole 53 cents from
the government, he might escape hang
ing, if exceptionally lucky. Medford
Mail Tribune.
Otto Walker is spending a few days in
Portland, visiting oldtime f rlends. He
is well known in Portland and on the
Pacific coast, as for many years he has
been one of the crack racers on the Har-ley-Davidson
team. He has just finished
a lecture tour, in which-he has been
showing moving pictures of the world's
championship i races, one of which was
held at Dodge City, Kan., and the other
at Marion, Ind. Mr. Walker has been
In the racing game six years and has
made other racers eat his dust in al
most every state in the union.- From
here he goes to Fresno, where he will
take part In the Taces held there . on
Washington's birthday. His wife, who is
a Portland girt, will accompany him. ;
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C B. Trulllnger of Astoria is -at the
Benson. The Trullinger family are pio
neers of Oregon. : Mrs. I. T. Qeer.was a
Trulfinger. One: of her brothers is a
distinguished painter. They have wit
nessed the making of much Oregon his
tory and have helped make history. .
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'.Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beymer of Heppner
are at the . Imperial; Mr. Beymef for
many yfars waa one of the large stock
men ofiy Morrow county. Finally he got
so muck money, from the. sale of his
cattle and sheep that he started a bank
and is now dividing his attention be
tween his cattle, sheep and banking in
terests. . t. .'!''''.. ' i
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Rev. James E. Condor of Roseburg Is
at the Seward. He is advance agent for
Rv.. Louis Albert Banks, formerly4 of
Philomath but now of New York city.
He is national lecturer of the Anti-
Saloon league of America.'
James Snipe, who formerly had a flour,
feed and giist myi at The Dalles, but
who is new connected with the Lewlston
Land & Orchard company, is a Portland
visitor.
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Judge G. W. Parman, well known
wheat arrower of Condom and W. , N.
McKay, an attorney of Condon, are at
the Seward.
A. B. Robertson, wheat and wool buyer
from Condon, is taking In the sights of
Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Wilson of White
Horse, Yukon territory.
are Portland
visitors.
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E. P. Berry is in Portland from Hepp
ner.
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J. J. Chisholm, hailing from .Pendle
ton is a guest at the Benson, -
Dr. J. Rosenburg, registering from
PrlnevUle, is at the Benspn. .
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T. Ito and K. Watanabe, tourTsts from
Japan, are guests at the Hotel Portland."
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E. S. Isaacs, a flour mill man from
' Walla Walla,' is a Portland visitor.
Lockley
When I was at Walla Walla a. few
days ago the superintendent of the peni
tentiary there told me that when he
took hold of the penitentiary they had
an average of 25 men reporting for
sick call dally. They had milk for only
the officers and guards. 1 It was not
given to the prisonera The superintend
ent persuaded the board to allow him'
to put in a herd of Holstein cow so
that every prisoner could have from a
pint to a quart of milk a day. Now the
average number of prisoners reporting to
the hospital daily has dropped to eight.
Milk is taking the place of other more
expensive foods, so that the cost Is less
and the results are greatly superior to
those under the old regime. .. 1
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We all - eat too much meat. We
should eat more vegetables and drink
more milk. Did you ever stop to-con-sider
what the relation of nourishing
food Is to crime? It seems like an In
credible statement, but the use oX plenty
of milk is one of the greatest preventives
of crime. I'll tell you why. A good deal
of crime is caused by persons whose
nervous systems crave drugs. Drusr ad
diets are one of the great sources of
crime. The drinking of plenty of milk
Is a cure for nervous troubles. That's
why we have sanitariums where the milk
cure is used and where the treatment
consists in drinking milk and taking ab
solute rest. In Seattle they furnish the
school children 4000 half-pint bottles of
milk daily, and the chiidren.have shown
a remarkable advance in mental capa
city. One of the best examples of what
lack of milk will do to children is to
be seen in France, Belgium, 'Germany
and the other countries in Europe, where
the children have had to do without
milk. Malnutrition, through lack of milk
or other nourishing food, has caused
thousands of the children to have rickets,
and future generations will 'pay the cost
of the war in increased mortality and in
decreased efficiency. 4
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"Why am I so strong for - Holstelna?
Well, I am strong for any cow that will
give a large yield of rich, puife milk, for
the Increased consumption Of milk by
children will result in a decreased In
fant mortality from consumption. With
me milk is merely a means to an end,
and that end is the better care of chil
dren, for. better children means better
and more efficient citizens. If more milk
means stronger .children and better
minds,' then we are safeguarding the
future, because these children are to be
the parents of the coming generation,
and if it . pays to eliminate the scrub
stock and have pure bred cattle, surety
it will pay to Increase the efficiency of
human stock" I
Olden Oregon
Northwest Happentnr In Brief Form fer the
Bur Header
OREGO& NOTES "
The nitv 9 .1 , . 1 1 .1 1 -
addition to its city hall to cont $iiOoi.
inree, mercantile establishments at
night n ere rol,bed Wednesday
. The. Iron Dyke
irnproves dW" UntU th coPlr majket
""'fa 192- 568 ks were addd
1. tn,ibrarv of the-University of Ore-
100.000 volumes. -.
nLnioM Saubert mill at Ounhman Is
ln eperation. New machinery has
been added and the mill now has a
capacity of 60,000 feet.
T -W&rk J18", beelV- nearly completed by
nt)i' iBnrr,a,nV eupertntentlent of the
Butte Falls fih hatchery, on an egg
depository at Eagle Point,
f T?m J."bst driver of the Knterprts
Chico Btafce, killed a fullnrown coyote
With an axe. He took the currant in
. n tar prise and collected a bounty.
Organisation of the Deschutes Public
Health association, has been completed
5y, ,n.ua Hartley, acting KMvUory
nurse of the state bureau of nursing.
Charles tW. Glasgow Is the champion
coyoite trapper of Wasco county.' He
took; the nlts of 81 coyotes to Tha Dalles
thlsiweek and collected $112 bounty on
Wklter Wood., an Amity boy, linn Just
Men twnnUH n ' -,. ... . A . .1 ., 1 r 1. ; ..
act In saving two women bathers from
"'""'""a- tie was only li years old at
the time. .
Iiii the recent death of II. J, Meade
of Smtth river, one of the oldest and
fstiknown pioneers of the Umpo.ua. vl
VL ha" Paa"d .away, lie was nearly
100 ,yeara old.
. The Jackson cotmty court hn author
ised : the sale of $2SO,000 worth of road
bonds. Bids will b. opened MHrch 8
and i no bids will be 'accepted for less
than par value.
A move Is on foot to get ' a market
road through from WilsonvlIIe to Hher
wood. A preliminary survey has heeii
made, and the' road can be put through,
on a grade not to exceed 4V per cent.
Corvallis will have a mint refinery at
some time not far dUtant, accordion to
plans of the Oregon, Mint Growers' Co
operative association. There were 600
acres of. mint raisod In Oregon last year.
The city council of hend tabled a peti
tlorrrslgned by 7!2 residents asking for
the reestabliHhment of the women's pro
tective division, and a petition is being
circulated calling for1 an Initiative vote
on the question.
WASHINGTON
W. E. Potter, well known Clarkaton
business man, dld from a paralytio
strike after 20 m1nutesillness.
The Tacoma llpht department did a
gross business of $1,107,393.19 during
1920. producing a net income of J63.ri,
420.81.
Explosion of a stove In a service par
age at Wapato resulted In a fire that
destroyed the building and stock, caus
ing a Ions of $10,000.
A contract has-been let for paving
Simpson and Park streets in Aberdeen an
part of the Olympic highway. The con
tract price was $125,443.
. A Holstein cow owned by Ualph Tuttl
of Walla Walla, holds the world's record
for butter production among 2-year-olds,
with a mark of fig pounds in 30 days.
Fifty fruit jrrowers of the Wenat-he
district have invested $35,000 in stock in
a lumber company, which will furniKh
material for the manufacture of boxes.
Walter F. Edrls. postmaster at Spo
kane from 1900 to 1914, and more re-
ntlv manage nf t h. Mnnlr a n rimi.
mills, died suddenly In that city of heart
disease.
By request of the slate board of control,-Thomas
F. Horn, for three years
superintendent of the state training
school at Chehalls. has presented his res
ignation. . .... , 1
The shortage of the Seattle railway--fund,
which a few weik ago amounted
to more than $400,000,1 has been wiped
out by the increased revenues under the
new 8 1-3-cent fare.
' More than 3000 acres' of lowland will
oe mciuaen in tne arainase niairiri neinif
formed to raise bonds with which to
finance the dredging of the Chehalls
river to prevent overflows.;
A. - E. Wteliind, discharged from the
army after three years' nervlce, has se
cured the first contract let this yrtir by
the city council of Wenatchee, the lay
ing of new water mains at a coHt of
$26,000. . ! '
Louis Rossi, aged 45, a miner, was In
stantly killed by a cave-In In the pacific
('oast Coal company's mine at Black
Diamond. .Four men ' were killed in-, a
similar accident in the same mine De
cember 22.
The lifeless body of Nets Nelson, 81
years old, was discovered in his room at
the Vlllard hotel In Tacoma. He had
turned on aqsras Jet after stuffing tho
crevices around the doors and windows
of tils room.
IDAHO 1 "
Nearly 250 persons In Canyon county
have signed a petition to the legislature
u rein ir an open season for quail in that
county. ' '
'Fortv federal' employes met 'at Bolus
this week and organized a local of the
National Federation of Federal Em
ployes.- ' '' f
The nronosal to vVte a $15,000 bond Is
sue for the purpose of providing: a new
school house for Bliss was defeated by
a large vote. j
The bodv of a man named Clark, mlss
Ing for the past tHree weeks, was found
on the Idaho side of the Knake river
Washington county.
Mrs. F. S. Parkinson of Rexbure- hss
been chosen president of the: No Tobacco
league of Idaho. Ki?ht counties have
already been organized. -
Mrs. Christiana Anderson, need 74, of
Pocatello was. so badly burned when her
clothing caurht fire from ; dropping a
match that she died a few 'hours after
ward. . ... ' ' , ..;
Wavne Ferrell of Wetacr has been se
lected by the state swine specialist as the
state champion in the feeding phase of
ria club work. There were, more than
250 competitors for this honor.
Deficits . of the various departments
and Institutions of Idaho have been filed
to the amount of $221,844.02, and this
doe not Include the educational Institu
tions, which amounts to many thousands
more. v
KNOW YOU
PORTLAND
The ordinary map' room Is con
sidered a 3ry-as-dut place where
maps are stored away to be forgot
ten, principally, and to be looked at
with inevitable soiling of the fingers.
- Not so in the Portland ; public li
brary. . r , . j
"Where is El Capltan?"
"Have you a map showing the lo
cation of the schools In Portland?"
Where In the Columbia river Is
Puget Island T'
May I see a map of Ltncbln
county a township mapT' t
All these and many more questions
may come to the map librarian any
day. She answers them all. The map
room contains an unusually large as
sortment. 1 It is equally facilitated to provide
answers to questions concerning , the
Isle of Pines, Honduras, Brazil, the
Zambesf river, the Philippine Islands,
the Taurus mountains or the Berlln-to-Baedad
railway.
Or It may be something like this:
"What kind of soil is to be found In
the vicinity of 5an Dlegbr Or, "How
high are the five highest mountains
In the United States?"
But it Is not alone questions about
modern things that are asked. If the
Inquirer , wants a map of ancient
Greece or of the American colonies
'during the time of the Revolution,
the map room attendant finds It.