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A YEAR OF THE TREATY
TIE treaty of Versailles has been
in effect for one year. In the
- Paris Illustration, Andre Tardieu,
. distinguished French statesman and
. former aid to Clemenceau. sums up
the work done in 12 months under
the treaty. 4 :;
Alsace and Lorraine, originally
French but for centuries the bone
of contention between France and
, Germany, have been restored free of
all debts and encumbrances.
The Saar region, rich in deposits,
-4s under the sovereignty of the
League of Nations and has an estab
lished government with a French
president.
The Walloon cantons of Eupen,
y Malmedy and Moresnet are restored
. to Belgium.
Political and economic ties be
tween Belgium and the grand duchy
of Luxemburg are suppressed.
South Slesvig is returned to Den
mark. The Czechoslovak republic has
been created for peoples who have
for centuries .been alien In almost
every respect to the government
under which they were forced to
serve.
After years of subjection, the Pol
ish people are again free and are
functioning under their own gov
ernment. w
Posen and part of West Prussia.
torn from Poland, have been re
stored.
Dantzig is a free town)
- Upper Silesia Is occupied by the
' allies pending a plebiscite that is tb
, decide Its fate.
k AH the German colonies have been
transferred to the allied powers.
I That part of the Congo given up
to Germany in 1911 has been re
turned to France.
; Three Quarters of the Cameroon
and .the Tongo have been assigned
to France.
: The League of Nations has been
constituted.
. The allied commission of control
lias destroyed German tanks, mili
. tary aeroplanes.' heavy field cannon.
poison gas machines and S5.000 can
; non of all kinds. 160,000 machine
I guns, 2,700,000 guns and material
for; manufacturing them.
. The reichswehr has been reduced
to 150.000 men and is to be cut to
i 100,000.
. 'Conscription has been abolished in
(Germany."1...! ;;.'
All fortresses SO kilometers east
(Of the Rhine have been dismantled.
German troops have been pro
t hibited from crossing a line 6 0" kilo
J meters from the Rhine.
I Heligoland and the fortifications
on the Kiel canal have been disman
; tied, .vw, v. ; V .
i The German fleet is broken up.
Allied troops occupy the left bank
f of the Rhine and the bridgeheads.
, A reparations committee lias been
J organized. y
Goods and valuables seized by
j German troops have been restored,
s To France alone such returned goods
amount to nine billion francs. ;
Germany had" paid In cash or in
kind to the allies in reparations up
'to December, 1920, from .twelve to
' fourteen billion marks in gold.
Two bonds payable to bearer, one
of twenty billion marks and another
of forty billion, have been . turned
over to the allies by Germany. They
will be put into circulation by the
reparations commission when Ger
many is capable of paying the cou
pons. ; "
The German commercial fleet and
submarine cables have been banded
over to the allies. ;
The economic servitude forced on
France byne treaty of Frankfort
has been repealed.
The ports of Kehl and Strassburg
have : been ' united for seven years
under a French director.
German exploitation Interests have
been excluded from Alsace-Lorraine.
A customs union has been estab
lished between France and the Saar
district. :: ; ; -- 1: :
v New rules relative to International
transport have been established.
There-' is .'yet much to be done, But
during the first year of its enforce
ment . many wise . provisions of the
treaty- of .Versailles have, been ap
plied. The military power of Ger
many is broken, f Reparation pay
ments have begun. Wrongs done
France :have been ; and j are ;. being
righted. Wrongs done Belgium have
been and are being righted. Austria
is separated from Germany. Poland
has been restored. And above all.
the small peoples, of the- world are
free.'' ' . , ;
It is a splendid year's work, and
one that has been marred only by
the success of obstructionists in
America. r
A person who -walks into a, hor
nets' nest expects to find hornets.
But there are pedestrians who ap
parently think there' are no automq-
u nes on jrorxtan a streets.
ENGINEERS ASK IT
A GOOD bill killed at Salem was
house bill 181, proposed by the
.Brotherhood of . Locomotive En
gineers.
It was .a safety first measure de
signed to eliminate killings at rail
road crossings, and provided at bat
automobiles should, within 12 to 100
feet of a crossing, stop, look and lis
ten before crossing a railroad track.
There were 108 crossing accidents
on the O-W. R. & N. In fregon last
year. There were 139 on the South
ern Pacific. It was a heavy toll on
life and property.
The train has the right of way.
The automobilist is at a serious dis
advantage in case of accident, be
cause the courts hold that the mo
torist must use due precaution be
fore attempting to pass a crossing.
Here is a paragraph from one de
cision by the Oregon supreme court:
In the absence cf anything to the con
trary, those In charge of the train have
a right to assume that the traveler will
yield to it the preference and allow the
locomotive to pass the Intersection first.
The reason for this is found in the com
pany's precedence in transit. It Is only
when he has done what the law requires
of him in the way of looking and listen
ing, without seeing or hearinsj'anything
indicative of danger, that the traveler
is authorized to assume that the passage
is safe.
The proposed bill, then, would
have Imposed little of hardship on
the automobilist that . does not al
ready exist. Its passage would have
been merely emphasized warning to
the motorist and would have served
as a safety first measure. Here is
another Oregon supreme court de
cision: For reasons that THE TRAIN HAS
THE RIGHT OP WAT AND MUST
HAVE IT Jtf ORDER TO CONSERVE
THE SAFETY A'N'D CONVENIENCE
OF THE TRAVELING PUBLIC, the
truck driver has no right to claim prior
ity of passage. His own vehicle is self
propelled and controllable within very
narrow limits. Its collision with a train
is fraught with danger to many people.
with :the 'tram having precedence
at crossings as thus asserted by court
decisions, the j automobilist would
have surrendered practically noth
ing through passage of the law, It
would have been for his own protec
tion that the bill would have been
passed. It is a measure that will
ultimately be passed and put in op
eration. f
It was solely in the interest of pub
lic safety that the locomotive engi
neers presented the bill More than
anybody else, they sense the cross
ing peril. Almost every day they see
the narrow margins by which Tool
hardy drivers escape while hurrying
to cross tracks: ahead of the train.
They know the anguish and the Bub
sequent nervousness that the .man
in the cab feels after an accident or
near accident, i One engineer who
killed members of a family in East
ern Oregon was thrown Into nervous
prostration and was unable to re
turn toihis cab j for three months as
a result of a crossing accident.
The nervousness into which an en
gineer ; Js thrown by accidents or
hairbreadth escapes is an element in
the safety of the precious human
cargo in) the coaches behind his lo
comotive, it is only when the nerve
is steady and the head cool In the
cab that,.passengers on a train are
safest. Nj -; '. j t : ;
Mn matters of the kind, whenever
there is, question, it Is better for leg
islators
to err on the side of safety
first.
IN POLICE COURT
COLOMON, the ' wise, discovered
. the true mother of "the child
by ordering its equal division among
the rival claimants. But he could
take. lessons In expedients designed
to uncover fact from the daily rou
tine of the police court. '
Abraham- Lincoln had : a store of
homely anecdotes, which pointed
truth with humor. But a municipal
Judge must have the epigrammatic
racuityj of an Artemus Ward, an
Elbert 'Hubbard; and a Mark Twain
rolled Into one. :.':,
A brief sojourn In a police court
in the 'disinterested position of ob-
server or the more restless tenure
of. witness, quickly brings belief that
the Job : requires : tolerant humor,
broad sympathy with, faulty human
nature and instinctive Justice. -
Above alL I there must be ability
to follow i the thread of X verity
through a confounding and dizzy
ing i labyrinth f of misstatement,
rumor, prejudice, supposition' and
intrinsic 'fact, - all offered with an
informality unknown to the dignity
of any other court. ? : -i-x
The accused, the accusers, the at
torneys, the police officers and the
witnesses gather around the Jurist.
While they testify, contradict, chal
lenge and assert, the court must
listen, analyze, understand, ; assist
the deputy city attorney In prompt
ing evidence with well put questions,
and in the end expound the law, en
force a moral lesson and pronounce
Judgment.- This is -; his duty, not
once or twice a day, but In scores
of cases, following s- with rapidity
one ore the heels of the other.-
It. Is little wonder that few mu
nlcipal Judges want the Job for life
They fear- it would be too' short
life. .
EDISON'S PROPOSED GOAL
THOMAS EDISON says he seri
ously has 'set about an attempt
to invent an instrument which will
make it easy to communicate with
the dead, providing such communica
tion is at all possible. His purpose is
to go about the subject in a scientific
way and produce results that shall
be as satisfying as was his achieve
ment in trapping the human 5 voice
and imprisoning it on a phonograph
disc.
Nothing could happen In the realm
of psychic phenomena which could
Increase public interest in the sub
Ject more than an announcement of
this nature from Edison. Already
the people's pulse has been aulck
ened to the possibility of survival
after death because of the conversion
to that belief of many noted schol
are. Among these are Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge and
Maurice Maeterlinck. These men are
not charlatans. Doyle Is a learned
doctor and eminent writer. Lodge
Is a recognized and reputable scien
tist. Maeterlinck is one of our fore
most poets and philosophers. And
any indorsement which comes from
such sources must be seriously re
ceived. Not only have these men
inffors6d spirit communication, but
they have firmly and solemnly
avowed that they, themselves, have
communicated with the dead. So
did Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Now that
Edison's practical, intrusive mind
has been added to this galaxy, we
certainly should be able to discover
something which will either further
confirm or further detract from the
belief.
The fact that survival after death
has not been established as a natural
and known law may militate against
its tenability," but It by no means
condemns it as Impossible. Me
chanical flying, electricity and steam
were long elements of the earth that
apparently defied man's puny mind
until geniuses came who could un
cover their secrets. So it may prove
with spirit communication.'
It may be well not to be too dog
matte in our rejection of a question
which is, perhaps, as old' as the
human race Itself,; and which has
been given more or less support in
every age and clime. From time out
of mind certain persons have pointed
to themselves as possessors of the
power to hold converse out of the
limits of mortality.. But proof of it
beyond the possibility of doubt has
been as elusive as attempts to trans
mute base metal into gold, or efforts
to harness the void and' let man
chatter with the suns of illimitable
space. Tet lack of this proof will
never utterly destroy man's longing
ior sometnmg juster and sweeter
than life. Immortality, which is but
a loftier term for the psychic's be
lief, will ever be a dulcet harp that
win. wait strange, faint music to
humanity across the dismal, un
answerlng darkness. It is at once
the base of all religion and the hope
of all hearts, whether they be brown
black, yellow or white. The heathen
looks at his Image and sees a symbol
of it. For the pagan it is reflected
in his idol. The North American
Indians called it the Happy Hunting
Grounds. To the Buddhist it Is
iNirvana. to the Norseman it Is
Valhalla. The Chrisitian visualizes
it as HeVven and the Jew glimpses It
as the Promised Land. And through
the literature of all climes it runs
like a silver thread through K the
blackness of doubt. A -
Hamlet muses over it and would
rather bear the ills he has than fly
to others he knows not of.' Cato
soliloquizes over it and shudders at
death, i The Bible, both in the Old
and the New Testaments, abounds in
W- T15re Is no death In the Book,
tnerelysleep. Even Ingersoll, the
agnostic, stands at ; his brother's
grave and admits "In the night of
death hope sees a star and listening
love can hear the rustle of a wing."
, OREGON'S BIRTHDAY.
CEBRTJART is distinguished as
the month in which the anni
versaries of Washington's and Lin
coln's births and Oregon's admission
into the Union occur. ; - 1 ;
Washington's birthday on Febru
ary 22 and Lincoln's birthday on
February 12 are holidays dedicated
to honor , and remembrances of two
great personalities who stand In his
tory at the summits of national
achievement.
It is usual to make .public gather
ings the occasion for restating the
fundamental principles which, when
added to their own r genius, gave
Washington and Lincoln power to 1
become master servants of the pub
lic good.
Has It occurred to the people of,
Oregon that their state is with pe
culiar logic the scene of the observ
ance of these anniversaries and that'
February f 14, Oregon's natal day,
may most fitly be chosen for a com
bined memorial to Washington and
Lincoln?
Washington and Lincoln embodied
their lives, as have other great
Americans, the : essential elements
which have been Incorporated Into I
the constitutional structure of Ore
gon's government.
Oregon, with the initiative and
referendum the direct primary and
the - recall, has splendidly: fulfilled
Lincoln's ideal of government of
the people, by the people and for f?0 nonu ara hoping that saiva
r v .. . tion will come from London. While
pevpie. vregon is mo jeaaer
among the states where "the people
themselves are the final Judges of
-J
the laws which should govern them."
Washington was more than a great
general and president. He was errant
in his love of home. Edward Ever-
x , K. ,7 T,
ett said of him that he "lived in no-
Die simplicity. . 211s home became
an object of pilgrimages and a shrine
un(iA. . ,
of veneration that grew only the
more inspiring and attractive as the
Stone and the wood of which it was
made crumbled-under the onslaught
... 6
ui. me years. L .
Oregon is a state of home lovers
and home buildera. Th nfnnA..
!r, . th4l. , . . . underlined by Lloyd George at Spa. The
guided their ox teams through fear- best we can hope is -that they will man
some wilderness because the goal of Ke to put off the appointed period. If
their. Journey tras home home, ther9' communist danger, the re
wh thw rnirti action we are toldwill try to make
Zl a Wif Protec- Bome troubl4 to .how the allies that
tion, tne -liberty and the equal , op- their assertions , were well founded and
portunlty which are the most highly tbe necessity of preserving the special
treasured possessions of any Ameri
can. ;';.
Washington and Lincoln were rev
erent. "In God we trust," was writ
ten in their hearts. Washington's
prayer from the blood-stained snow
of Valley Forge and Lincoln's invo -
cation during the most dismal days
... , .
of internecine strife, are historic ex-
amples that have not been without
effect in the civic and governmental
M,lra, -. . . .
Idealism by which Oregon is char-
acterlzed.
It was destined that in then yntm
and eranL' thsn ai,. , T.i-.
ana crags, tnese valleys and plains
which are Oregon, in its beauty and
fertility, liberty should be less strug-
gle than achievement and less con-
. . ... .
ttina recognition, uut we Who
have a residence Jn this favored
commonwealth are not the less in-
dAhieri r y ,1,1,1.. j
debted to the sighing and the yearn-
ing, the blood and the pain, the de-
votlon and the loyalty by which the
present happy status has been
gained.
THE WOLF
THE giant timber wolf whose
range was limited only by the
vast expanses of the Cascade .moun
tains and "Whose liberty was con
tested by none of the four footed
x .
creatures of the crags and forested
summits has been brought to Port-
land iemoblv in a. box I
rrv.- ilvu , ,. . i
""'6 " xtwen. AS firm-
areas saw mm in his amateurly
. . . . . . ,
made cage he had accepted the dls-
clpllne of its metal meshes and
. i
heavy boards. He had taken the
posture merely of a big doe on an I
unthreatened veranda. He had done
-v. , .
a surgeon s Job on the right forepaw
that the heavy trap mangled and I
had amputated it neatly and cleanly
a AV. . J f a l.t 1
at the Joint Which corresponds to a
man s wrist. Only his eyes showed J
that his quiet was deceptive. They
alona w.rn vmtr-'hf'ii'l . .
aione were watchful and wild and
resentful, as the curious crowded
about him.
But was he Trine-" m.. I
powerful beast that Government
Trapper Ames succeeded In outwit-
ting and capturing in the Santiam
fnreit mnw hn . . .
rorest may have been the principal
in an anecdote related by a moun-
taineer at Whitcomb's ranch on the 1
north tributarv of th- .Cnnih c t-.
i mww., yoUiiaui
last summer.
The
upland farmer had half at
dozen young pigs which during the J
summer of 1919 he released to for-
, iui Liiciiiaei ves. j. norse or a
cow may be poisoned by wild pars
nip in the swampy spots where the
succulent teed of - the mountains
grows naturally, but the pig can in
dulge without fear,ln whatever root
or plant may please his not over-
exacting taste. I
The summer wore away. Autumn
gave way to winter. The snows fell
and the pigs failed to return.. The
rancher set out In quest of them
Up the canyons and over the Inter!
vening ridges he struggled against
the drifts, the weighted vine maples
and the salal bushes.
ipi. .i .. . i
Time after time he called "O-O-o-
o-e-e-e, pigge-e-e-e." which is the
varlety of Swiss yodellng that Oregon I
mountaineers well know how to do-
uui ue oeara oniy tne echoes of his
own voice. I
Suddenly he came upon the wide-
spaced tracks of a wolf. It had evl-
dently been running with great I
leaps. At places In the snow thr I
wfrA rrarss r - Tr,s. i
T"- .-.. tiui canny
ti,o uiMiuicuer DacK-tracked 1 1
the trail. Within a mile. In a cavity
beneath the root of a erian) tr v.
eA,. j . rr., . - . I
"""" iiief naai carried I
leaves and lined- the Tittle cayern
warmly. They had barricaded the
opening with broken limbs and even
rocks that a man might struggle to
lift.
There were traces of a recent
struggle. But the pigs were per-
f ectly hafipy. Their teamwork, j Journal Why not hold the Atlantlc-Pa-tusks
and Inherited ferocity had I cl0c Highway and Electric exposition at
been too much for the Invader. - j
But as soon as their master ex-1
hibited a bit of . field grown f 1
they started home with him, nor
Bto? V00, h
A BENEDICTION
MOST, STRANGE
Instead of "Strafe" Quite the Oppo
site Invocation May Soon Be Ris
ing Toward the Good Old Ger
man Gott At the -Same Time,
German Commerical Travel
ers and German Shipbuild
ers Are Bestirring Them- -
selves.
foreign Editorial Dl.est
Con solid ted Press Association
Has England, most' hated of Ger-
feE2Z. TT.L
lent of the cenquerors? The question
I ' raised by the Socialist, a moderate
German Socialist organ. The writer
says: -
" "God bless England.' What a change!
The same people who during the war
expressed their hate and confession of
their own weakness in the prayer, "God
tiunish Rnplsnrl 'am ntm
calling down celestial benediction on
1 head of 'perfide Albion.' The Oer
1 France demands the immediate disband
I Ins of the special police in Bavaria and
I Eaat Russia in calling attention to the
f .S Vi- a sV 4"a . - , . e
T.- X -...fl. "Tt,. 1? 21
I the detestable "nation of shopkeepers' is
I snowing indulgence. According to
?euter legram England does not wish
to use compulsion toward Germany,
"in spite of the gratitude which Treao-
nonary oermany Imagines she owes to
s1". he must not suppose that the
question of disarmament has ceased to
be an international problem. Reuter's
statement is not official. Differences of
I opinion exist in the British cabinet and
I H?f decision will be made known at
J the conference which France is now hold-
Ing; It is probable that the British gov
I ernment is not so ready to give up com
Pletely the clauses of the disarmament
police to keep order. It is more than
doubtful whether our adversaries will
accept this demonstration as conclu
sive."
GERMANY SELLING IN CHINA
With surnrislnelv small loss of time
after the signing of peace the German
1 commercial traveler appeared at the
,or . fl? Ulr' . 5
1 ular Invasion of business agents. Th
London Telegraphs correspondent re
lates how, armed with a thick skin, a
npe. a brusque swageer, a box
of samples and an order, book, he has
pushed his way well into the country,
Considerable traffic has been estab-
I lished, and several concessions have al
ready been secured. Deprived of their
m ., .Tt.t.rrinrii rirht
the Germans have been quietly but per-
sistently working out Individual "spheres
of, influence" Aid undercutting trade
I with a view to creating good will. The
Chinese forelen office. It Is understood.
is preparing measures whereby the
status of Germans in China may be le-
gall zed and resident merchants reopen
actlvltles. Strictly speaking, spe-
cial permits are still necessary, no treaty
I having been concluded between the two
vernmenta, Dut despite uus many uer-
mans have long since succeeded in es
tablishing themselves.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, discussing
a six months trading period In 1920,
states that trading in China has shown
a slow but steady improvement. The
Zeitung states: "Germany is again be
ginning to prove her supremacy every
where In the chemical Industry. Dur
ing the months of April, May 'and June
alone she has. delivered more aniline
dyes than has England in six months.
1 jr -ea? vuau ami5imv v 01 tiivuuiDi
From the beginning of the year to June
I the following are among the quantities
of goods exported to China : 2900 dozen
oaies 01 paper; oo aozen eaies or print
lns. nanor KSflO lr. . hnttnna 99. Soft
packets of needles; 1900 clocks; 500
o . r ' c- ' '
I dozen steel and Iron goods; 12,000 bottles
r'.M. '
Aiuisuta uiese items are oy no means
alarming, considered as quantities, they
are nevertheless extremely significant of
"V013 n determined "new start"
made by Germany in the game of trying
to knock out the allies In the fields of
commerce, and It can be safely accepted
that J"6 flsures for corresponding
jyOA A'-'VA Ul trAAAa JCai Will OHUW V1A KiLlUl
mous Increase in the Teotonle hold on
China, As a set-off against these goods
I c",na exported to Germany, in piculs,
I 2450 goat skins, 1000 wood oil. 25,140
LjlsM1, 1Qfi Mttnn kma tthlr Jifh
quantities of eggs, hides, wool, hemp and
raw cotton. '
The new conditions will still further
German. Such Germans as are found
by the local Chinese authorities to be
weI1 Dehaved and ngaged in lawful
business or professions and will pledge
themselves to observe Chinese law. and
can' procure the guarantee of the Dutch
0005111 or of a foreign firm of gbodl
sianamg, snau oe recognizee as possess-
ing full legal right to engage in business
entemrisea
The enormous increase In commerce
wh,cn, UW the settlement . of
aUent establisftment of confidence is too
little realized by the people of this
country. But Germany is working for
that day, silently and thoroughly. ,-
GERMAN' SHIPBUILDING
A message which the London Chron
icle publishes from Its . Berlin corre-
me German shinninr lines will not. lone
be cdntent with the position in which
were left 0n the conclus,on '
increasing its capital by 100.000,000
marks, aad.it is linking up with other
German s companies to avoid internal
T!?"tl JtlTi J?ntt
man East Africarl yne is also doubling
lta capital and reports that it will have
several passenger steamers afloat in the
next lew montns. it was not -to do
.XT)eeted. - sav tha corresnondent. "nor
would It indeed be desirable, that Ger-
mai,y nould be content to exist without
'iZj&
about her renewed activities were to the
point. It must not be forgotten that the
2? Til'iT tVfl- Ttltlt
most severely handicaDDed ' in tha em.
ployment of labor that is quick as well
relatively cheap. Our labor is dear ;
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Letters FrOITl the People
J Oomtnnnicatioa aest to The Joarnal for
publication in thi department tbonld be written
S AT A1J,5M
writer, whose mail addreaa la full most sooocb-
pany the eontribatioo. 1 .
FOR 1925 EXPOSITION SITE
Vancouver Barracks Proposed, and the
Northwest's Tourist Lures Listed.
7?' dr
Northwest - Let Oreeon and Washington
join hands and make of it an exposition
!?2Sa -5? n?,n" Make the f1 sto?lt
to pay the Interest on
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
JProbably her "vlcUms" will be well
able to fUl In a name to' fit the Initial
of the mysterious Miss '"D." .
' - - v - e '- ' . r- :
Well be satisfied when aU these Ore
gon towns have provided auto carap
grounds, if they'll also provide the autos.
.The market editor's latest headline
classic: "Only Hogs Come to North
Portland." The N. P. elect must be
elated.
It was not Lincoln who cut down the
cherry tree. Neither was It George
washington'who freed the slaves. That's
yet to be done.
If physicians are required- to ' write
their pceacriptions m Englsh well no
doubt have to swallow a lot less chalk
and water cure-alls.
Putting oil on water to make' whiskey
seems to be making troubled water
rather than' reversing the process, which
was a custom In the old days.' -
It Is very proper that the "American"
girl who married the notorious BoV-Ed,
deported German plotter, should live in
Hamburg. That's next to the best place
for her. . . -
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
W. T. Jenks, a stockholder of the Cap
ital National bank of Salem and secre
tary of the Phez company there, is in
Portland on federal grand Jury service.
"Yesterday," said Mr. Jenks, "we had
three boys up before us. Two were sol
diers and one was from the navy. None
of them was- over 18 years old. They
had stolen an auto and started for Cali
fornia, They were overtaken at Medford
and brought ' back and have been sen
tenced to 13 months at McNeil's Island.
Personally, I believe It is a mistake to
send boys to the penitentiary with hard
ened criminal. Their lives aFe wrecked
at the very start. When I was a boy in
England I remember seeing wife beat
ers publicly flogged. They dreaded such
punishment much more than a sentence
to the workhouse or doing time in jatL
If we flogged every Joyrider wflo "bor
rows an auto, there would be less steal
ing of autos."
Mies Ebba Djupe has been appointed
by the Oregon Tuberculosis association
demonstration nurse for the various
counties of Oregon. Her job will be to
demonstrate how not to get tuberculosis.
The counties she will visit, so far as her
schedule has been prepared, are Yam
hill. Polk, Benton, Douglas and Wasco.
Miss Djupe claims there Is ; plenty
fresh air in Oregon, if the people can
only be taught not to be too economical
In its use:
f Mrs. Sadie Orr-Dunbar, executive sec
retary of the Oregon Tuberculosis asso
ciation, is on an official trip to Union
county. From Lf Grande she goes to
attend a conference of health workers
at Pendleton, after which she will visit
relatives at Walla Walla for a few days.
; Mrs. L. A. Robbins of Wallowa, whose
daughter Is a student at the University
of Oregon, Is spending a few days in
Portland.
S. D. Bushnell of Powell Butte Is tak
ing In the sights of Portland.
A. M. Throne of Dallas Is a Portland
visitor.
"
C. S. Wells of Tillamook is at the Im
perial. " .
3. H. Prescott of Baker Is a Portland
visitor. -
William Wilkinson of The Dalles Is In
Portland on business. ,.
see
Harry D. Keyes of Fossil is in Port
land. ;
e e .
Robert S. Hughes of Corvallis is see
ing what he can see In Portland.
see
E. B. Hughes of Astoria Is at the
Benson.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
What the national Christian Endeavor con
vention would mean to Portland If drawn hither
for the aeasum of 1923 is indicated by a leader
in Christian Endeavor work who ia here quoted
by Mr. Lockley. A sketch of this leader'
career 1 iaaiuded, with testimonial aa to the
hiah value of the trs injur work done by tha
societies ol toe ortuivtum M represents. J
Paul C Brown of Los Angeles was a
recent visitor in Portland. He Is national
superintendent of the intermediate de
partment of the Christian Endeavor so
ciety.
As a bov I joined the Christian En
deavor society "of the Congregational
church at Los Angeles," said Mr. Brown.
After serving as president of our own
society I served as president of Los
Angeles county. I wonder If you know
that the Los Angeles county union is
one of the largest In point of member
ship in tha United States. It ranks with
such county organizations as the ones of
which Philadelphia and Chicago are the
centers. I later became general secre
tary of the state unioifc and afterwards
president of the state union. Singular!
enough 10 years later my' brother. How
ard L. Brown, was elected state presi
dent for California. Thirteen years aero
became field secretary of the Cali
fornia Christian Endeavor union. Five
years ago I took on the added duties of
national Intermediate secretary. Yes, I
am a native son of California, having
.been born In San Bernardino, February
15, 1877.
Of our more than 10.000 members of
the Christian Endeavor union in Los
Angeles county more than 2000 served in
the world war. Some of our best Chris
tian workers today are overseas men.
If the Christian Endeavor ideals had
fallen on stony "ground, the Christian
Endeavor members were unable to
withstand the temptations of France and
army life, but those who were well
grounded and real Endeavorers came
back stronger for the experience over
seas.
"For the sake of Portland, of Oregon
and of the West, I hope that Portland
may be selected as the next meeting
place of the International Christian
Endeavor convention. We meet every
two years, so that will bring the con
vention here in 1923. You have much
to offer us in. the way of Western hos
pitality, and ' every delegate will be
charmed with the City of Roses and with
your ; majestic snow-clad peaks,' your
the bonds. Start the .work on the build
ings early, so that they may be ready for
exhibits by January 1, 1S25, and give the
exhibitors plenty of time to install ex
hibits. V ;, -' ;. .l-V -,'-,. '
; With the f air at Vancouver," your car
lines v and highways . are all into the
grounds, .and there would be no more ex
pense along this line. " The pacific high
way is all hard surfaced from the Cana
dian border, to the California line, and
the : two Columbia , river highways are
completed from 'the coast to the eastern
border. Have the S. P. A S. plank Its
bridge at Celllo for auto traffic and use
one of the grades ap the Deschutes river
for the north end, of The Dalles-California
highway. - - j
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
If we have a state as well as a federal
Income tax, some of us will be swapping
our incomes for vthe taxes. Hood River
Neva, -
We used to hear the old saying, that
j'a penny saved Is penny earned,"
but now It seems to be a penny taxed.
Amity Standard.
e
x -If only the prohibition agents were
not so sensitive, the moonshiners might
dispose of a large portion of Oregon's
surplus prune crop. Powera Patriot.
There are still a few people m these
United States whom most of us would
like to see shipped out before the ocean
goes dry. Polk County Itemlser.
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'Owing' to the income tax. President
Harding will get 1 18,000 a year less than
President Wilson, but the same amount
of hell, from present indications. Med
ford Mall-Trlbune.
It Is announced that in Spokane the
cost of constructing a moderate sized
bungalow has been reduced $1000; lop
off another thousand and give the peo
ple some relief from the house shortage.
Pendleton East Oregon lan. v
Opal Whlteley of Cottage Grove Is
creating a furore in literary circles in
London with her book "Opal's Diary."
In the Bookman's Journal, published in
London, she Is declared to be "one of
the four great American authors of the
past year," Her book is praised as a
masterpiece and also condemned as a
piece of sickly sentimentallsm and bare
faced fraud. Is it' the real revelation of
the heart of a child,, or Is it a clever
piece of deception T That Is the question
that is agitating English literary circles.
John Rlnker, manager of the drug de
partment of Woodard, Clarke & Co., Is
seeking appointment as federal prohibi
tion director for Oregon. He has been
indorsed by the Spanish-American War
Veterans, of which he is a member, "I
knew Senator Harding when we were
both schoolboys at Caledonia. Ohio," said
Mr. Rlnker. . "Later he moved to Marlon,
nine miles distant. Mrs. Frank Brook,
who now Uvea on Columbia boulevard In
Portland,, was his teacher back in Ohio.
- The first time you have a couple of
hours of spare time, down to the cor
ner of Third and Market streets and
see the exhibit of the Oregon Historical
society. It Is one of the most Interest
QaVaUng exhibits of Its kind In the west Then
save another afternoon to take in the
exhibit of Indian and other curios at
the city hall. . Both exhibits are free and
are well worth, while.
Did you ever visit the Sunken Rose
Garden at Peninsula park? It Is time
you did. The -more you know about
Portland the better, citizen you will be,
for you will be proud of your home city
and Want to make It still more attractive.
A. B. Thompson, politician and politi
cal prophet from the sagebrush plains
of Umatilla county. Is down from Echo
to watch the- legislative wheels go round
and see what makes them go.
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L A.4DuBoIs, from the city by the falls
of the Columbia; is at the Imperial and
reports The Dalles forging steadily
ahead. -
J. Alley of Bay City Is a guest at
the Multnomah.
e '
Elsie Cooley of Sllvertoh Is visiting
friends in the metropolis. '
F. A. Kurts of - Salem, prune raiser
and dryer. Is a Portland visitor.
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Mrs. Bruce Dennis of La Grande is at
the Imperial.
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Ray Powers of Corvallis Is at the Im
perial. ,
a '
D. W. Watts of Phoenix, in Southern
Oregon.' is a guest at the Imperial.
Lockley
verdant fields and mighty rivers, the
Columbia and Willamette ; but, much as
you have to offer us, we have more for
you, for we will bring to you a spiritual
blessing and lofty Ideals of service and
citizenship.
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"The city which gets the convention
guarantees to raise a fund of $15,000,
all but $2000 of which Is spent in th
convention city, so that In this case you
eat your cake and have it. too. Oregon,
I hope, will send a strong delegation to
the world conventions which is to be held
In New York city July 6 to 11, to urge
the merits of Portland as a convention
city. . The world convention has been
held in the West only three times at
San Francisco In 1897, at Seattle in
1907 and at Los Angeles In 1913. It Is
Portland's turn, and I hope you people
of Portland will realize the arreat bene
fit to your community of having the'
convention held here.
.
"George Clark, director of physical
education at Reed college, is one of oar,
old Christian Endeavor members, lie
belonged to the intermediate department
of the Congregational church at Los
Angeles. The man who builds his life
on Christian Endeavor ideals makes
better citizen and a better business
man and is an asset to his community.
because of his integrity of character.
'Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, associate
justice of the supreme court of Cali
fornia, was my old Sunday school teach
er and was a, former worker In the state
Christian Endeavor work. ' Such men
as Amos R. Wells and William Shaw
show the character of the men engaged
in this work. Take the former national
secretary, John Willis Baer. He is a
fellow citizen of mine, so t know him
very welL He served for some time as
president of Occidental college. He is
vice president of the Union National
bank of Pasadena. He is a member ot
the federal reserve board and he has
Just completed a merger of a group of
strong' banks in Southern California.
With all" that, he has time for altruistic
work. - One of ur strong men, D. p.
Poling assistant president and right
hand man of Father Endeavor Clark,
Is an Oregon boy. Check up the mem
bers of any Endeavor society that has
been In existence 'a score or more of
years, and you will find the boys who
were most active in the society are the
leaders of the community today."
With highways built to and around our
snow-capped mountains, with little aids
drives : up( our trout-filled mountain
streams, and with the mountain sides
covered with wild berries and game, we
should have a tourist paradise that none
could resist. , ', ,
With our tourists would come settlers
for our vacant, logged -off and Irrigated
lands. This would give us thousands of
small farms. There would soon be but
ter and cheese factories, poultry and egg
associations, fruit and vegetable canner
ies, where there is nothing bat wilder
ness today. i
I am for a greater Northwest.
C. D. Moore, j
The Oregon Country
Northwest Happenlnn in Brief Form for the
Busy Beader
OREGON NOTES ' "
The JLane County Shipper".' susocla
tion shipped one carload of hogs to
i-uruanu last iTlaay.
. Tn,0 A. C. Junior Commercial club
has 300 active members that are ren
dering good service to the city of Cor
vallia ,
One cf the suspension cables on the
Oregon City-West Linn bridge broke
iast Wednesday, raused by the strain
of a taeaviiyy loaded truck.
The 1920 tax rolls are the heaviest
ever levied In Tillamook county, amount
ing to $805,304.08, an increase of $119,
000 over the previous year.
A further' lumber reduction of 12.50
to 35 per thousand is announced at
Hood River, a decrease for the past
12 months ot 30 to 4a per cent.
The Clatsop county court ha called
for bids to be opened on February 21
to clear the riRht of way for a road
leading from Hammond to the ocean
beach.
reople of Silver Lake have author
ized the construction of a new stone
school building, to cost $3i,000, to re
place the building recently destroyed
by fire.
Work will start immediately upon
the erection of a $200,U00 uddition to
St. Anthonys hospital at Pendleton.
The building wilt be tour stories and of
reinforced concrete.
A large majority of the stockholders
and non-stockholders of the" Eugene
Farmers' creamery are turning back
their 1920 dividends into stock to pro
vide capital for the erection of a new
plant.
The Tillamook county court has put
a steam shovel to work on the road
from Lake Lytle to Manhattan, on
Garibaldi beach, which will open up
the entire length of the beach to au
tomobile travel.
Vernon Ohlon, an employe at the
Southern Pacific roundhoune at Rone
burg, has suddenly disappeared. His
bicycle and good clothes were, left at
the j-oundiiouae, but no trace of him,
has been found since last VVedneeday,
when he was seen working on an en
gine. .
WASHINGTON
The Centralis, school board has
opened classes in Americanization and
18 aliens have enrolled to dale.'
James Ray, aged 77. who with his
brother, John Ray, constituted the old
est twins in Washington, is doad' at
his home in Sumner.
Employes of the N. & M. Lumber
company, operating near Rochester,
have gone on strike following a "re
duction of $1 a day In wages.
Resumption of work Is gradually tak
ing place In the timber induntry in
Washington. A number of mills and
logging camps began operations UU4
week.
Major Charles A. French, coast ar
tillery corps, Camp Lewis, has been
detailed as Instructor of Washington
national guard, with headquarters at
Walla Walla.
A. J. Callahan and Oscar Grend. ar
rested at Vancouver as alleged "moon
shiners," may be deported to Canada as
undesirable aliens. Both claim to ,be
Canadian citizens.
One full carload, 9800 pounds of flour,
has left Walla Walla for Kurope. the
car being decorated with -banners read
ing "Walla Walla's Christmas to the
children of Europe."
Seattle police claim to have in cus
tody leaders of an alleged ring that
have robbed Seattle, Tacoma, Portland,
Spokane and Kverett stores of goods
valued at more than $100,000.
J. C. Biles and N. E. Coleman have
purchased for $50,000 the Omak sawmill
and box factory, formerly owned by
the Omak Warehouse Ac Storage com
pany, now In the hands of a receiver.
John Batten, a city fireman, was
by friends who went to invostlgate
Hatten's failure to report for duty. He
had been kiled by a rifle ball.
Governor Hart has signed a bill which
consolidates the. functions of more than
70 boards, bureaus and commissions
under 10 departments, each suirvleerl
by a director to be appointed by the
governor.
IDAHO
A Cornell shipped a carload of onions
thi a week from Middleton to the Kast
with a guarantee of 70 cents per 100.
A nroDosed constitutional amendment
for state guaranty of irrigation bonds
nas Deen aeieatea Dy tne iciano legisla
ture. '
A lone masked robber held up the
no lice station at Black foot, forced the
city clerk, who was on duty. Into a vault
and robbed the office of
Reimbursements duo the counties and
highway districts of the state of Idaho
amount to 3815.015.65. according to a
compilation made by the highway de
partment., On March 12 the United States civil
service commission will conduct exami
nations for rural mail carriers In ilia
Lew i ton district. The salary- is 318UO
a year for a 24-mlle route.
Taxes are hlzh In Idaho. - In Twin
Falls the levy is 7 per cent. In Namna
7.50, Caldwell 6.50 and I'ocatello 6.8l.
The income of a prominent husinuea
building in Boise is $9100, and $5500 of -it
is lakea for taxes. i
Uncleeff Snow Says:
if, real mimrlsin' how many fellers
and females ia wlllln" to raise up hu
manity fer a good yearfy salary. If hu
manity fbuld be raised by creatln" a
new saaslety and plaein some charity
concern on Its feet we'd orter of got us
clean out of sight and beyond graftin",
bummln' in diamonds, land grabbing and
anv and all kinds of diseases, lncludln'
offlte-seekeritus and publicity itch.
kNow yoy
PORTLAND
Ah long as Uncle Sam Insists upon
publishing documents and books up
on every subject undar the sun
without regard to the print paper
shortage, 'the 'people might as well
get the benefit of the research and
reports.
The Portland "publio library has
perfected an organization which
enables any Inquirer to learn any
thing he desires about government
publications or their contents.
The subjects covered range from
butter and egg production to the
probable method by which the stones
of the pyramids were put Into place ;
from the best rat-killing methods to
divorce statistics and the prespects
of finding oil In Oregon.
These publications are distributed
to certain libraries throughout the
country, the Portland public library
being one- of the chosen depositories.
The farmers' bulletins alone treat
more than 1000 subjecta, and yet
constitute but one of, the many
classes of publications issued by one
office, the department of agriculture.'
There are weather reports, census
statistics, hundreds and hundreds of
the bulletins and reports of the
bureau of education, reports of
the Smithsonian Institution by
the score, geological bulletins, labor
bulletins, including the Monthly
Labor Review, the monthly
crop reports. Income tax pri
mer, .American republics review,
reports of the army and navy, for
eign and domestic commerce reports,
consular reports, chemistry bulletins,
animal Industry bulletins, reports of
the bureau of navigation, coast and
geodetic surveys, reports of reclama
tion projects, the Congressional Rec
ord and the revised federal statutes.
These are just a few of the many,
card Indexed and catalogued and
cross-referenced for the ready and
free use of all.
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