THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1921. A INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER publisher ; R. dm. be rcnfid-nt. be cheerful arl do unto rth.r a yno would h Um da unto WM Published rrry wk ly sod mornini et The Journal building. Broadway and " f hill .tmpC Portland, Oregon. ' - Entered at the potoice at PtUKi Otb, I for traaemiaeioa through tie anaua ascowl elaaa ra&tter. 1 - j-JJ KLKPHON KJ4 Main 7118. AutoroUo 660-51. . All department reached by lha numbers. . .TIV& Benjamin K.oiir t. Jk Btt!)dln. 22IS Fifth nu. New Tork; .". j,.' M,lw Rnildine. t'hicaen. : . - S.HK OKKtiON JOUK.NAI, rr the I reject ad.erumng copy -wihci. Jeetioriabl It also will no print any OT that in any way smuUtee reading wUrr 4r that cannot readily b reoognued dTr" tiwng. KATK3 By CTrrler, City and Country DJLSlt AND Hl'ui One wk : . .IS One month.., ..9 .65 DAIIVx fOrie week. . . . . . t .10 riM. MMtih . . . - .4S 8UNDAT . 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The commission has destroyed mil , itary airplanes, heavy field pieces and poison gas machines. Thirty-five thousand cannon of all kinds have been sent to the scrap heap. More than 160,000 machine runs have been destroyed. Almost three million runs and the material for manufacturing them have been junked. . T- - - - The German people were for years taxed to purchase that arma ment. . They, paid for a large army and for its equipment. They bought battleships. The German nation was heavily armed. At the same time,' other countries were purchasing ' armaments and other peoples were strapped to pay their taxes. They were competing "with Germany. As a result of it all, European countries were armed to the teeth. They had the rifles, the cannon, the airplanes, 4nd the machine guns. They were ready for battle. ! An excuse presented Itself and the battle was on. Ten million . lives were spent and billions upon billions In wealth. Europe was stripped of wealth, of man power, of resources. to fight a conflict that would never have occurred had the nations of Europe been unprepared. . The kaiser, without his fleet and his powerful army, would never have entered Belgium. . ' . Now the army that ltcost mil lions to train, cost millions to main tain, and cost! millions to equip, is In the scrap heap. The fleet . that It cost billions ' to build and main tain and man; Is destroyed. The equipment is passing away under the direction of the allied com mission. The armarocit all came at'great ' eost. It was uced to wreck Europe And now it has all vanished. ; That is the grim story of arma ments, written in the blood of 10, 000,000 people, and paid for with the resources that would have fed the people of . Germany, Austria. ' Ar menia and China that 'are today Starving to death, j ' V If, as he alleges , in . court, Enrico Caruso was fed spoiled calves brains by his .chef, the affair is no mere episode but almost rises 'to the im portance of ah international issue. Any chef who feeds his employer spoiled brains is no gentleman. THE COLONIST MOVEMENT THE Great Northern's order to re- Jk establish homeeeekera' rates to the Pacific coast comes like the echoed voice of James J. Hill, v - Behind some unpierced curtain of futurity, since his withdrawal from mundane things, the empire builder's personality is obscured.: But could he speak again In direction of the railroad system to whfch he gave his life's energies, he would Point in direction'of the policy his successor have adopted.1.' . . '.. Hill believed that a railroad should make its living and its profits out of the country it traverses " To Jt A IT 11 ..... '. 7 , f Baranger Co., KieminerBuikung. S f I cmoo: Title fnenranee Betiding, U Angeii Po.Metelligenr'er Building. Battle. . ' t; make . satisfactory f return freight cars must ron loaded In both direc tions. When he was satisfied that a rerlon would sustain life and develop traffic, he sent his railroad line out far ahead of settlement. Then he would inaugurate a f campaign for colonists. He was as indifferent fre quently to the amount of fare the incomers paid as his railroad sys tem has at times been to the refine ments of passenger service. He wanted' the people on the land. When he had them there he would introduce superior; seed and high grade livestock. He sought tonnage and he got It in ithe Uakotas, in Montana, in Idaho.: in. Washington and In Oregon. The beneficent inci-. rint of his .vast constructive en deavor was the development of the land and Its occupancy with the homes of those J whose hunger for the liberty of eqUaJ opportunity was tnereby satisfied, t James J. Hill was a giant figure in the building of the last West. That which he left Incomplete , was the full possession of this great region by the free people whose heritage it is, and that can only be done by larger plan and large organisation capable of employing land and water, power and transportation. In the creation of a really magnificent theatre of their activities. ' The opportunity to reclaim the great areas, out of the reach of in dividual, enterprise, ! , awaits . other men with the far vision and the constructive genius of the Empire Builder. J I A Texas cowpuncher, after a visit to. New York. recently, declared that there was no crime wave in the me- trnnnlio that it Was lUSt BOme Of the people trying to get even. 1 THEIR BIG PROFITS I N THE debate at Salem on the tr rigatlon bills, a member of the house declared that irrigation bonds are very poor security. Why poor security? Mr. Bur dick asserted . that irrigation bonds are sold on the Portland market at $1.01. Mr. Gallagher declared that the Warmsprings' project bonds were sold by the brokers at $l"to $1.02. Bonds on e sound irrigation pro ject should be first class security. They are Subject to none of the whims of the public as is true of utility securities under public serv ice commissions. The security is the land, and land under production is a going concern. The bonds are a first mortgage on the farms of the irrigation district, and the farm mortgage is accounted one of the best investments In the world. Oregon has a splendid irrigation code. It has been taken as a model by other states. Water put on the land makest crops certain, and that water cannot, under any decent ad ministration ; of ' the irrigation laws, cost more than the value of the pro ducing land. Why should irrigation bonds, then, be "poor security ? Why, with the state itself guarantee ing the interest on such bonds for a period, should they not be a splen did security ? Seemingly, the big money trust that buys Oregon irrigation bonds has found it profitable to make it appear that Oregon irrigation bonds are "poor security. Mr. Gallagher asserted In the debate that the bonds of the Warmsprings project in his county were bought by a big Califor nia institution at 90 cents on the dollar and sold at to $1.02, yield ing a ; profit to the bond buyers of $155,500, in addition to a brokerage fee of 4 per cent, amounting to $57, 200. iThe -buyers' ; profits alone, in the deal were thus $212,700. The contractors' cost J plus profit added to the bond discount and brokerage totaled $427,200. The original esti mate of the cost of the project was $750,000.; The actual cost in bonds issued! against ) the project was $1,550,000. Reaping as they did, if Mr. Gallagher's I charge is true, a profit of $427,200 in the construe tion of a million dollar project, it is undoubtedly ; very profitable for financial houses to spread abroad the Impression that Oregon ; irrlga tion bonds are, a "poor security." There are transactions , in these bond deals that, should be Invest! grated. - The state is guaranteeing: in terest on the bonds and it is the' state's duty to I know,, under what terms bond deals are made and just what profits are; being"" made. out of the manipulation y of bonds. One thing is certain: It is not necessary to pay a big financial In stitution a profit of $212,700 to mar ket a million and a half " dollars worth of bonds. That ' is a far heavier profit than Morris Brothers made in.;'its bond transactions with Oregon's state treasurer, and a wild howl of protest! was raised in that C2aS "j . f., if . j-- - :' . '- There is an excellent prospect for competitive building of battleships among - the leading nations of the world. Germany and ; England en tered on such a' race and the world is badly scarred from the war that followed. THEY WHO SLIP YYWLE sanding slippery streets V for the protection of horses. whyv not do something to extend the humane Impulse for the benefit of pedestrians? Sprained ankles and bruised heads resulted from a series of falls observed on one ot the slanting- side walks, rain wet and oil filled, one day last week, i It is where automobiles are parked that" tb sidewalk's cause v'most f re- i i : quent slipping. , Oil which drops from the transmission of the motors is : carried to : the sidewalks by thousands of the feet of those who slip. ' ' ' . ' T; A Pennsylvania editor printed a scandal story about an unnamed business man recently. Puring the evening eight ; men came to his , of fice to lick him. Apparently It Is better to ' mention names. - -y: f T ; FROM A WINDJAMMER B ILLY GOODS was a sailor.. Many were the ports he entered as a seaman on a British windjammer. Then it was as purser in the British mercantile marine. ; i' He was young, adventurous, had an active brain and body, and was strong. He was ambitious, but had no obvious starting point on the road to success. He had no aid, no pow erful friends, no place made for him. He tired of 'the sea and was next found as a trooper in the Fourth cavalry, U. S. A. That didn't suit him. He tried the newspaper field as a reporter on a San Francisco paper. From there he went to New York, still a news writer. He be came city ; editor of the New York Evening: ' Mercury and during ; the Spanish-American war represented a large press association on board Ad miral Sampson's flagship. In 1904 he went to London to, be come news editor of the Standard and later joint , news editor of the Dally MalL f ' T A few years later Herbert Hoover went to Belgium. ' He needed an able assistant. He heard of Billy Goode, went over to England and got him, and 'made him his right hand man in Belgium. When Mr. Hoover returned to the United States Billy Goode was left In charge of the work in Europe, later to become an important official of the British food ministry. -Today he sits in a palatial office in Vienna, pushes a button, and sends for the premier of Austria. He is now- Sir William Athelstane Mere dith Goode, K. B. E., chairman of the Austrian section of the Interna tional reparations commission ( and chief representative of the British treasury in Austria. He is known as the uncrowned king of Austria, wielding as much power as the Hapsburgs in former days. Billy Goode combined ambition. ability and industry, and thereby rose from the deck of a windjam mer to become one of the powerful men of Europe. R. L. Sabin. L. J. Goldsmith and F. W. Mulkey are to be the initial tax commission ynder the Gordon bill which has passed the senate, if the house accepts the senate amend ments and the bill becomes a law. It is a redeeming fact that the origi nal" commission would be composed of men of such high character. Neither would be likely to abuse the tremendous power committed to the hands of the commission. STAR GAZING EVEN before the sun retires be .hind the curtains of night these days, Venus lights her torch in the western sky and strives, with at least the result of general attention, to outshine both Sol and Luna. Dickens, who suggested In hi3 "Tale of Two Cities' that the great nesses and the littlenesses of a world might be comprehended within the light of a twinkling star, may have watched venus as, ' in defiance of daylight, she led the, van of heavenly luminaries Into Omar Khayyam's "bowl of night. i Other watchers, too, have felt the earth grow small while they looked out into the limitless vast n ess of the universe. Venus is only 87,400,000 miles away, a bit closer than the sun and Mars and Mercury are ; other near neighbors. To the eastern sky are Jupiter and Saturn, giants among the planets that make their orbit around the sun, but Jupiter ap pears less bright "than Venus be cause he Is 415,750,000 miles from earth and Saturn is 792,300,000 miles. Sirius, brightest among the stars1 is blighted by Venus, brightest of the planets, but Garrett Serviss gives Sirius caste as contrasted with bulk when, he refers to the brilliant twinkler as a great celestial diamond The irreverent do not study the families of suns, stars and planets in the skies The student who gazes with naked eye or by aid of tele scope involuntarily . echoes the re frain of tDavid "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament ehoweth His handiwork. Two children, the girl 12 and the boy 14, have been arrested for bur glary. And what, is to be done with them? Certainly they can't be sent to the present state training schools. The boys institution more nearly ap proximates a breeding station " for criminals than I a reformatory,, ; i WHAT DID UNCLE SAM DO? V. ' " " '" j t'i THE fervenf patriots who plead that Europe's debt to' the United States I be cancelled in order that overburdened nations "may -not perish will be comforted by consult ing I their own national history. Uncle. Sam; after the Civil war, owed Europe billions of dollars. No one suggested cancellation of the debt to let the United States survive. Pay ing the bill gave the -nation some thing to work for.- Industry and per severance provided the ability to change the balance when the time came -"' - , DISARMAMENTS DELAYS Borah's Resolution for a Tripartite Agreement Sets the Editors Debat ing. Mainly as to Whether Action Were Best Before or After Taking the New N- " : tional Administration. Daily Editorial Di-resf Consolidated Press Aaeoclatioa The Borah resolution calling for an international conference on disarmament has started discussion in the press less over the merits of the proposal, which tne vast majority or commentators ad mit, than over the question as to whether or not action upon it should be postponed until President-elect Harding takes of fice. -' e e .- Mr. ' Root's objection to allowing the present administration to initiate nego tiations with Great Britain and Japan for a naval holiday baS many support ers in the press, who urge that it will be useless to discuss policies that have not as yet been announced, bat the New Orleans Times Picayune (Ind. Dem.) goes into more detail than most in ex plaining what it holds to be the real causes for a desire for postponement. It says: "Both (Root and Borah) fore see that a comprehensive disarmament program involves a general compact with the nations 'a league or association of some sort, call it what you will.' Mr. Borah nas set his face against any sort of league or association even though he now proposes - a three-nation compact covering naval construction. By rush ing through at this session the three nation .scheme he hopes to head off the broader program to which Mr. Root is pointing." Following the same line of reasoning in interpreting the motives pf both those who oppose and those who urge immedi ate action, the Dallas News (Ind. Dem.) declares that Borah's argument is "well grounded," for to make the agreement which the latter has proposed "would not preclude making the larger one Mr. Harding is supposed to favor." The New York Evening Post (Ind.) likewise is "not impressed" with the argument for delay, for it thinks that "no embarrass ment, will be caused to a Republican president by negotiations instituted in accordance with a resolutian introduced by a Republican senator and adopted by a Kepublican congress. The Denver Rocky Mountain News (Ind.) also "de plores delay" and hopes "that the fa vorable opportunity will not pass, that those who believe in armament reduc tion as an essential factor in the estab lishment of peace will , maintain the agi tation in Us - behalf, and that no un toward events wiU happen between this and the inauguration to change the promising complexion of affairs." Some what Impatiently the - Lynchburg News (Dem.) demands:' "In the name of com mon sense, why is it that because Presi dent Wilson happens to be president until the fourth of March, this legislation should not receive disposition before that time, but must be postponed to some time until the Harding administration has got full under way?" Many writers, however, -feel that query can be logically answered. The New Lodnon (Conn.) Day (Rep.) declares that anything that Borah- might do at this time would have abortive results," be cause it would imperil "the success of Harding's compromise plan,", and to abandon this plait for "any other prema ture" action would be "futile." The Prov idence Tribune (Ind. Rep.) and the Reno Gazette (Rep.) agree that, as the latter puts it, "to postpone consideration of the Borah resolution until Mr. Harding shall take ma seatT is probably wise. The Tribune adds: "If President Wilson called such a conference it could not meet until after he had gone Out. of office. Costly as present army and-navy programs of this country are, it would seem better to leave the matter of a disarmament con ference to be -dealt with as a part of the new. administration's general foreign pol icy." The Louisville Post (Ind.). also. feels that Mr.. Roots advice is more nearly right" and the Boston Herald (Ind. Rep), goes so far as to offer as argu ment In support of this sentiment that if a suggestion for a conference on dis armament were to emanate, from Wash ington at the present time, it could not be taken seriously at foreign capitals, al though it might be given the courtesy of acceptance in principle. . e Some writers, while they are enthusi astic over the purpose expressed in the resolution,, make it a point to mention the inconsistency of Its author. The Oregon Journal (Portland. Ind.), for in stance, while It declares that the resolu tion "deserves support." comments that "if Borah is right in his present conten tion, what else could he be but wrong" when, during the campaign, - he vio lently opposed any and all international agreements looking to disarmament?" The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Ind. Dem.) also finds "the senator's object com mendable," but ironically adds that It is "tarred with the same un-Americanism that mars the covenant of the League of Nations. Accordingly our splendid iso lationists are working in the dark to ac complish its defeat" ' e e In the resolution the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ind. Dem.) sees a "highly mer itorious" factor r in the "stampede for economy in the matter of national de fense" and points out that "it does not propose economy at the expense of se curity, but merely suggests that we look carefully before we leap." To the Sah Antonio Light (Ind.) It is an opportunity for congress to "lay its partisanship aside and take at least one step toward the performance of a service for the benefit of all nations, as well as their own." and the Birmingham News (Dem.) finds the plan "the fairest of all fair pro posals ever made seeking to minimize the possibility of great wars." The point of view of labor, as inter preted by the Seattle Union Record (La bor), seems favorable : "We are glad Senator Borah is plugging away. Labor favors disarmament, right now, under the present system; if-it -cannot be un der the present system, then labor favors the acquisition of another system. Sen ator Borah Is plugging away. Go on; we are plugging with you. t The New York Herald (Ind.) and the New York Tribune (Rep.) are hardly en thusiastic over any scheme. The former feels that "the issue which this country must settle with itself and nobody else" is not . "how many more warships we must have than Japan, but how many miles of coast line, how much - shipping population and wealth "we -have to de fend and preserve." The" Tribune thinks our navy needs, "rebalancing" rather than "expansion on the ' old one-phase basis, and in all probability Japan and. Great Britain will welcome: "the oppor tunity to shelve some of the more costly forms of construction "for a certain pe riod. . ;r: ;vcr. v -.,v; .Curious Bits of " Information 5 Gleaned From Curious Places Father Crespi, who came to California on the expedition with Portola in 1769, was the first, says rthe - Sarv Francisco Call, to write of the" redwood- tree. In fact, he christened it "Palo Colorado;" or "Red Wood.: In-r these words .he records the " discovery of the redwood : "We came, October. 10. on some tall trees of reddish colored wood, of species un known to us, having leaves very unlike those ef the -cedar, and without a cedar odor, and aswej knew not the namne of the trees, we gave them that of the color of the wood, Colorado." This dis covery of . the redwood was made by Father Creep! somewhere between Los Angeles and Monterey. Governor Fages, who came An ; 1782. later wrote in his diary of the redwoods: "Here are trees pf girth so great that eight men placed side by side with extended arms are unable to embrace them.! Letters From the People r Com m unicatioTi tent to The Journal for publication in thia department should be written on only one aid of the paper; ahould not exceed 300 worda in length, and mint be aigned by the writer, whose mail addreag is full muat accom pany the contribution. ) SINGLE TAX AT EDMONTON Statement by One on the Ground in ttepiy to one Aiieging auure. Portland Feb. 12. To the Editor of The Journal The following communi cation, for which I ask space in The Journal, was written in response to a letter I sent the Westerner, a news paper published at Calgary, Alberta: r-jLlnrv. A1t. Februarir t. 192L J. R. Hermann, Esq., Oregon Single Tax League, Portland, Or. Dear Sir : Yours of the fourth regarding the crash in Edmonton at hand. The clipping is in- t.rARtinff hut Tint (rUA. iiave you ever seen a person unucr- going a major operationr usuauy wo individual has been sick for some time. Tha da v after the oneration. generally soeakinsr. he looks stilt worse. ui course, if- an anti-single taxer came around to see him at that time be would report this in scare headlines in the dailies run by the cash register, some what aa follows: "Deachman Ruined by Operation. Doctor Nearly Causes Kuin or Prominent uiuzen. oyoiem Shocked by Ordeal. Cutting out the Big Tumor Nearly Fatal. Vast Quan tities of Blood Lost." . EdmanlAn had a tremendous oulourst of speculation. Was that the result of the taxation of land values? To tell the God's truth. In some measure it was, because when people heard of a city in which industry was tree rrom taxation they rushed to it, and consequently there wdh n hnnm in land values. - Nearly-the same thing happened at the sinking of the Titanic: there were not enougn uie- boats to save all the passengers. That in not an ararument aarainsi llieooaia. only a proof that when you have life boats you must have enough of them. But the real difficulty of Hiamonton rather a failure to collect taxes than the failure of the taxation of land values. When the war broke out Dractically every person in this country and,. I think, all over the world had sized it up as being a short and bloody war ; the most pessimistic gave it six montns. There was a temporary shock to- bust nesa, and city councils in general post poned the) holding of tax sales, thinking the war would soon be over and then times would pick up. In addition to that a great many holders of prop erty were soldiers, and of course it was impossible to force the collection of taxes from a man who was absent de fending the country. In consequence, vast arrears of taxes piled up, and now this is blamed on the single tax. Of course the single tax checked specu lation, and land values fell, but the speculation in many cases would have been worse without tne taxation or lana values, and I greatly -fear that your friend, Mr. Galbraith, judging jfrom his experience in the town of Westlock, happened to be one of those who got his fingers burned by trying to get money from other people without work ing for- it. As for his conclusion that practically all the province of Albert has abandoned single tax as a failure, this is not true. Let me say that there are modifications at some places, due to the extraordinary conditions through which we have been passing; these have just pulled up for a rest. We shall go on uutu tne thing is ruiiy estaoiisnea. I am not optimistic that it is going to be a short fight. There may be - tem porary recessions. There are bound - to be. but the current of human proeress sweeps onward, and Mr. Galbraith will hear something from Western Canada some time, and that something wilt be the death rattle of this game of land speculation. s. L. Deacnman, - S In my letter to Mr. Deachman I had enclosed a- clipping from a Portland paper which gave the Interview of a Mr, Galbraith, wherein he stated that the single tax had been abandoned In West ern Canada. J. R. Hermann. SHADE TREES CONSIDERED Over-Shading Alleged, With Special Ref erence to Growths of Maple Portland, Feb. 12. To the Editor of The Journal The talk of an ordinance to regulate the growth of the city trees seems to have had the desired effect in Irvington on a few of the streets; and a good thing it is, too, for where they have been pruned the. prop erty looks 100 per cent better, and the streets are . lighter and more cheerful these gloomy days. Let the good work go on and wipe out the Oregon maple and replace it with trees that add to the beauty of the district. One block, espe cially,. Is a disgrace Twenty-second to Twenty-fourth on Tillamook street. That block seems to have a pull, some way, : for the growth of the maples has become a nuisance, with broken sidewalks. lawns destroyed, buildings looking dingy and dirty, trees lapping across the street. making it always damp and dark and Shutting out tne street lights in some places the whole length of a block. Some beauty, that, for a fine city called "beautiful"! Mayor Baker is to be commended for bjs stand against city nuisances and pests. Visitors note all the defects in a city when on a tour, and Portland especially, because the-oses have given it a world-wide reputation. Resident. OREGON'S DRIFT CITYWARD Recapitulation of Items in the "Load' the Farmer Sidesteps. Portland. Feb. 10. To the Editor of The Journal 'That the generally be lieved reports of the great exodus from the farms to the city population is not true as to Oregon is proven by an. nouncement," etc - Oregonian, Feb ruary 9. ' uui i tne census reports, which are available to everybody, are: Oregon, percentage of rural population. 1890. 73.2 ; 1900. 67.3 ; 1910, 54.4 ; 1920, 50.1--almost an equal division for 1920, while the percentage for the while United States is 48.6. The significance of these figures for Oregon is that they display an obviously abnormal situation. Oregon's chief products are grain, lumber, livestock. dairy, wool, fruit that is, preeminently rural. The state needs a rapid Increase In rural population. Instead, it is rapid ly declining. Why? Too much Portland, too much politics, too much taxes, too much bonds, too many men "handling" real estate and too few cultivating it, too many boulevards and scenic high ways, and too few market roads. Farra 1ns: has become so' imrdmnn.Mtlv, that the usufruct of bonds and taxes is luring uie larmers to tne towns. ':- J. B. Ziegler. Uncle -Jeff Snow Says: The farmer In all countries has alius been able to stand a heavy gaff in the way of taxes and rents; He's most al ius willin'.' too, and I reckon our Amer ican farmers d hold mass meetin's . in protest if they wa to have their taxes tuck of fen their hoof critters" and work stock like they do up-in Western Can ady. When some, statesmen a few year ago toia -some larmers to go home and slop the hogs and not-try: tor be states men, there was a mighty etrone: senti ment expressed by 'lots of farmers that them statesmen was - right. ALL OF IT OLD STUFF . His Friend:' "Nice day; let's take a trip up to the zoo. . ' ' Himself : "No,, thank you ; m stay a; home. My eldest daughter does the fox trot, my second daughter talks like a parrot, my son laughs like a hyena, my wife's as. cross as a bear, and my mother-in-law says I'm an old gorilla. When I go anywhere X want a change.' COMMENT AND ' SMALL CHANGE where there's a will there is usually a lawsuit. , . ... -i. e e e Where are the lace clustered valentines of our school days ? , - - . Why make these collesre girls consider their health when beauty is at stake? Lota of women are victims of this 'talking sickness" and don't know It. e Mafbe our nersnectlve la warped, but we'd rather wear laurels as a clown than as a count. . -By the same token, we'd rather create universal smile - than discover the fourth dimension. J "Omsk" sounds like the noise father makes when baby lands amidribs from the window sill. w We know lota of folks who can Quali fy for President Wilson's new "bungalow men" classification. , If s a very nrooer term. too. while the countryside la flooded with second story men and their Ilk. m If we counted all the heartaches caused by the "comic" valentines, real folk would forbid them circulation on una day of beautiful sentiment. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Veena Outhrle. who in the old days was employment secretary of the Port- land Y. M. C A. but is now a traveling salesman and a very successful one, still has a warm spot in his heart for his old home town. In a recent letter, dated at Vancouver, B. C to -a Portland friend. he says : "Portland will have to look to its laurels if it wants to continue to be known as the Rose City. The civic bodies of thin city are planning to make Van couver the 'Rose City of the World. The Klwanla club is heading the move ment and has already raised S3500 as a start toward planting a huge rose garden in Stanley park." Mr. Guthrie does not state whether they will secure their rose bushes In Portland or borrow a few carloads of Portland roses when they want to decorate floats for civic occa sions to impress tourists. m Mrs. Florence Dal ton and Miss Opal G. Downs of Burns are registered at the Hotel Seward, J. R. Lawrence, pioneer merchant of TJkiah, in Southern Umatilla county, is at the Imperial. Bess Kilgore of . Klamath Falls is at the Seward. : . e e , Mr. and Mrs. A. King of Mount Angel are at the. Benson. - .- . George H. Graves of Salem is a guest at the Benson.. r . , . . w m w Harry Tabke, traffic manager for' the Port of Astoria, is at the Multnomah. B. F. Stone of Astoria Is a Portland Visitor. e -e . e . W. R. Coulter of Baker is In Portland. .' e - e e John L. Zenor. U. S. C G..' is a guest at the Multnomah.- - ' Jay Billings of Wallowa la at the Multnomah. - ' Arthur Putnam of Huntington is at the Multnomah. P. J. Cook of La Grande Is a guest at the Portland. . s . ? OBSERVATIONS: AND IMPRESSIONS : OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred A veteran in sea trade is quoted by Mr. Ijoekley today in the interest of market . finding in the Far Eaat- He indicate the profits, aa well as certain present perils, of trading with Chineae far in Uie interior of their great country, and predicts boundleea rewacda, too. . aa within the reach of Americana who will mora themaeWea aright.) .; -' One of the most interesting men I have ever interviewed is that veteran mariner, Captain Robert Dollar. He is of the old type, a rugged navigator of the seven seas whom P. H. Lowry had in mind when he wrote : ........ "The wild, fierce freedom of the atabbora aeaa . -Beat, in our blood; the aanlit morning comes And down the'dawn we hear great destinies -Calling our courage;, like rich distant druma. , In a recent Issue of the Pacific Marine Review Captain Dollar tells of the op portunities for American trade in the In-, terior of China.; He says:- - --',: - "The Yangtsse-Kiang river is the prin cipal 'artery of trade In Central China. From, the oldest times in Chinese , his tory there has been boat traffic on thia river, and on its lower reacnes in moq ern times ! there has ; been considerable steamer ' traffic : Of later years this steamer service has extended ,to include the upper reaches of the river. The service naturally divides Itself into three separate and distinct divisions. The first of these includes what is called the lower river, from Shanghai, or from the ocean, to Hankow, a distance of 740 miles. Fair sized modern freight steam ers can reach Hankow at any period of the year, and at time of high water ocean going freighters can easily make" that port. - The middle reach of the river, from Hankow to Ishang, has a distance of 370 miles, and on this reach fair sired steamers are running with considerable regularity. The country is so flat that at Ichang, over 1000 miles from the sea the elevation above sea level is only 130 feet. The upper reach of the river, from Ishang to Chungking, Includes a distance of 462 miles. Of the lower reach of the river there is lit tle to write of any unusual interest. Regur steamer service is maintained with palatial passenger steamers and large freighters. ; The trade here is grow ing steadily and will continue to grow as the vast population living pn the pjalns on either side of the river becomes alive to modern civilization. On the middle run intermittent schedules - and fair steamers with an increasing demand for better service are the rule. i It is of the upper run that I wish to write more particularly at this time. This reach of the Yangtsxe-Kiang rier Is practically the only communication from the outside world with the- prov ince of Sxechuen, the largest and one of the richest provinces in China, justly called in Chinese history 'Nature's treasure house. This province has an estimated population of from 60,000,000 to tO.000,000 absolutely self-supporting and having, as previously mentioned, no communication with the outer world ex cept through this upper reach of the Yangtsxe-Kiang river and by tortuous foot trails over very difficult and high mouitaina. -, ' - "The upper reach of the river is through a series of deep gorges filled with strong rapids, which make navigation very dif ficult and. dangerous and require shallow draft steamers of very high proportional horse power and oX about IS knots speed. Some idea of the nature of the gorges may be obtained when it-is -stated that the average rise of -the river in the gorges is about 100 feet from low to high water mark. To give a specific in stance, at the" high water mark pf 1920 it reached 96 feet. One of the most elo quent tributes to - the patience and in dustry of the Chinese race is the fact that for -thousands of yearg heavily ' laden river Junks- have beerwjajkillfuUy NEWS, IN BRIEF, SIDELIGHTS "" - ' Ml Plumbers- are scarce and they get shorter hours and more pay. Yet men fight to be elected to confer ess. Klamath Falls Herald. -e - Look for defects in a person and you will always find them but look for good points, and yeu will find them, too. Cottage Grove Sentinel. ." e e Few persons In this - country know what Bolshevism is. but they know what it is not, and that Is condemnation enough. Roseburg News Review. A great many people who sit In stuffed office chairs are. issuing advice to others to go back to the land and do hard mus cular work digging in the dirt. Malheur Enterprise. . m :m A German- has written a book In which he describes three future wars. Maybe he is getting a commission from munition manufacturers. -Benton Coun ty Courier. . - ' America Is suffering from what might be termed our national ailment an ai wnnmt nniv.raii iiMira to obtain some thing for as near nothing as possible. La uranae ODserver. v - The fatal tendencies of the man who didn't know it was loaded are fast giv ing place to the motorist who is alway going at a very siow ram pi i'c"v 7c he kills his victims. Crane American. Eastern Oregon guests at the Imperial Include Albert Peterson of Uklah, D. Sexton of The Dalles and Floyd Conro, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Deoch. W. A. Grampe and Rose Mayfair, all of La Grande. e Drs. W. B. Lee. J. L. Hesse and C. B Willoughby of Eugene are Portland visitors. e e Susita Espy of Ocean Park la a Pert- land visitor. s - Lydla Bowere of Pendleton is at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. ' Byers of La Grande are at the Cornelius. -, Mr. and Mrs. R. Blanchard of New port are guests at the Cornelius. e e Mr a J. J. Simor of Monument is at the Imperial, v V R. J. Carson of Spray, In Wheeler county, is a guest at the Imperial. Mra Amo Schaffer of Wasco is a Portland visitor. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Forester of Tan gent are Portland visitors. e e ' W. F. Ramsdel, forest supervisor, is in town from Roseburg. E. N. Crockett of Bend is transacting business in Portland. ,... e " Dolly Madison of Bend la visiting her brother in Portland. s. e - - Mrs. George Wllhelm of Harrisburg is a Portland visitor. e e Mr. and Mrs.- Fred Howard of Hood River are at the Seward. e e Mra E. N. Warner and her daughter Ruth of Medford are at the Seward. e Rex Underwood of Eugene Is at the Portland. . Fanny and May Sommer of La Grande are registered at the Portland. -. ,- L. E,Fry ef Condon is at the Benson. Lockley navigated down these rapids and dragged back just as heavily laden by sheer man power, the river coolies on the tow path dragging the boat over the heavy rapids by means of long bamboo cables. ; e e "Our company has recently placed on this route an American steamer, and in its navigation we have been having some experience which might be of in terest to those operators who are inter ested in the development of Chinese trade.- As is well known, interior China has been In a state of great unrest, and North and South China have- been en gaged ln civil warfare ' along the banks of . the Yangtase-Klahg river - and par ticularly, along this upper stretch of the river, so that-most of the Chinese owned steamers on this stretch have given up navigation. At first the troops on both sides were rather unwilling about allow ing us to run, but on account ot the friendship between Americans and Chi nese they decided to adopt a policy of non-interference. The organized Chinese bandits, however,, who infest the moun tain stretches of the river, saw. an opportunity-and ; between , the two armies they decided to compel our steamers to pay heavy tribute to them every time we passed. Knowing from previous ex perience that we might expect this, we arranged to have the American gun boat Kl Cano follow our steamer, and when we came to where the bandits had established their, point for collecting tribute a few shots soon had them run ning for cover. However, the captain of the gunboat very rightly concluded that he could not be following us on every trip, so he put machine guns on our steamer and gave us three marines for each gun, the guns being covered with tarpaulins. On our next trip, seeing no gunboat on hand, the bandits Immedi ately attacked the ship with musket fire. Our marines stripped the guns, and after a volley or two the .bandits decided that discretion was the better part of valor. On subsequent trips whenever these ban-. dits saw the Stars and Stripes they immediately ran for cover and we had no more trouble with them. f. ' e I Changsha the upper terminus of our route. Is a walled city of nearly 1,000,000 people. This sommer Changsha was held by Yunan troops. These were driven out October 24, 192 by Ssechuen troops after sanguinary fighting, and when theH firing ceased and our office employes naa venturea out irom unaer cover -tney found five dead soldiers on the street in front of the office. This will show a little of the varied adventures and ex perlences that are still found in the de velopment' ot American trade in distant lands and in the gathering up of cargo for our trans-Pacific steamers. - . .... , "The province of Szechuen has now quite a large export trade In bristles, hides, musk, silk. Chinese medicines, goatskins, wool and many other com modities, and this trade is capable of almost unlimited development.' Ssechuen also possesses coal, copper, gold, petro leum and salt ; In fact, is said to be one of the most highly mineralized sections in the entire world. It possesses some of the oldest engineering works known to man. many of which are still f unc tloning as perfectly as in the day of their first installation- Its people are industrious to a degree possessed by per haps no other people in the world, un less it be that r other section of the Chinese nation so much in the limelight recently, the province of Shantung. It has a larger area, a larger . population and greater natural resources than were possessed by Germany in her prime, and is one of the richest fields left in the world for development along the lines of its foreign trade." The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form (or the ; Buay Reader OREGON NOTES The Corvallls schools have installed courses in elementary plumbing and elec- iria wiring. - The Hood River tlAnlih ffl.-- r,nnrl foor cases of smallDox. and a stritet quarantine has been established. The Umatilla .count v farm bureau has a membership ot 200 at present and an attempt is being made to increase it to 400.. The Lana ennntv fair win K v,m Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday and Fri day prior to the state fair at Salem uu year. Lambing Is already under -a v In a number of the sheen camna of Umatilla county. All is shed lambing at present ana good results are reported. - The bulldlnr fever haa ninu'V MaA. ford and a number of residences will be startea as soon as spring opens. Several business houses are also In contemnln.. tion. ;, ! , At Dryden fire of unknown origin to tally destroyed the warehouse of the Boh Ike Fruit company, together with 60. 000 boxes of apples. The loss is about $160,000. The depth of snow at Crater Lake rim is II feet, and at Anna Spring camp, five miles lower down, is 10 feet. The depth is five feet more than last year at this time. . About 65 per cent of the J920 crop of wheat In Umatilla county has been sold, and while there is a noticeable tendency to hold the grain, a number of farmers have sold since January 1. About 2500 tons of ore per day is be ing fed into the smelter of the War Eagle quicksilver mine, located in the Meadows district of Jackson county. The smelter has been in operation two weeks. One hundred twenty-nine registrations In correspondence courses during the month of January is the highest record for a single month yet reached by the extension division of the University of Oregon. More than a minion dollars for import ant construction projects In and around Pendleton Is in sight and plans now well matured call for the expenditure of the most of this money during the coming year. WASHINGTON Six men, alleged members of the I. W. W., werj arrested at Spokane Saturday for selling radical literature on the streets. The Frank Graddis post of the Ameri can Legion at Woodland has established a labor bureau for the sou thorn part of Cowlitz county. Forty-eight thousand tons of ice have been cut and stored in the Northern Pa cific Ice houses In Yakima, LUcnaburg, Toppenish and Pasco. Lawrence Boulet, an employe of a grocery store at Mollne, was killed near Elma when a truck he was driving over turned, crushing him beneath it. Reports from Yakima indicate that the unemployment situation Is decidedly im proved and that within a week or two the greatest need for jobs wlU be raeL Helen Helmbigner, aged 9. of Odessa, died at a hospital in, Spokane from what doctors characterized aa sleeping sick ness. The child had been ualen two weeka. Assessors of Washington have agreed upon a rate of value of 16 for ewes of standard breeding end 4 for the gen eral run of bucks. Last year the taxes were based on a $12 valuation. Mra Lucy Jane Goodwin, ajrd 83. is dead at her home in Walla Walla. Mrs. Goodwin crossed the plains many years ago, her husband. Dr. L. .II. Goodwin, being captain of a train of 100 ox-drawn wagons. , A temporary restraining order has been Issued enjoining- the cltv of Seattla from paying interest on the $15,000,000 utility bonds by which the street railway was purchased, until wages and ODeratlnc expenses are paid. A Yakima nurserv has 1uat ahfnneA a - consignment of apple and pear grafts and year-oia cnerry trees to iiev. j. . Nel son, a missionary In the interior of China. The Centralla Mill At Kunnlv enmnanv has filed articles of incorporation at Che- nans. The capital stock is $100,000. IDAHO In a raid by revenue officers at Band point last week 65 quarts of liquor were seized, valued at over $1000. News is received at Pocatello that for mer Senator Dubois is to head the capi tal service and Information bureau at Washington D. C. I Mra Margaret J. Holbrook. aged 83, an Oregon pioneer of 1844, and Mrs. Martha Cobum, aged 80, who crossed the plains in 1866, died at Lewiston last week, i Lewiston Is entertaining for the flret time In Its history the Pacific Northwest Hardware Ac Implement Dealers' associ ation. 'Portland jobbers are In attend ance. ,''- t ' ! A freight transportation service by five automobile trucks has started a reg ular schedule between Lewiaton and Spo kane. The route is 120 miles and the rate Is $1 a hundred. i Masked bandits entered a poolroom at the town of Bruneau in Southwestern Idaho, lined up the occupants against a wall and robbed them of $1600 in cash and all their valuables. , i A scholarship donation of $100 a year has been offered to Boise Mch school students by Dr. H. N. Holverson. This will be used to send the student to med ical college at Valparaiso, Ind. . A bill before the Idaho legislature re quires the state to sell part of its Lib erty bonds and lend the money invested in them to farmers who find themselves bard pressed to meet their obligations, i The 7-year-old daughter of F. S. Cool received fatal Injuries when she was thrown through the windshield of her father's automobile as It collided with a highway construction wagon parked near Pocatello. klNOW - yoUrt P OUT LAN D.l A few mornings ago a mere man went timidly to make a talk to the librarians of Portland. His timidity was increased when, after his intro duction by Miss Anne Mulheron, chief librarian, he found himself confront ing an audience without a single mas culine countenance in lt .Do the people of Portland, and Multnomah, county realize that the most efficient library organization In the United States and Portland has just that rank has a staff composed entirely of women? , A few men. of course, are on the library pay roll but not as librari ans. They do the heavy work that doesn't require trained brains. They do such things as keep the library building clean, and wheel books from one corner to another, and move ta bles and chairs, and hang pictures and maps. . But the guiding genius and gen--luses are all of the fair sex. Among all the softly modulated voices, which are both evidence of refinement and a result of training in an Institution where the sign on the wall says "Si lence." there is not a single bass in tonation. ... The professionally trained young women who constitute the Portland public library staff doubtless repre sent in the aggregate more university training and special study than could be claimed by any other group ot -women in Portland, or. perhaps, any other city. It is to be doubted if a group of men so highly trained could be gathered from other than the uni versities and colleges of Oregon. And the man who-contends that women are not systematic and busi nesslike should become acquainted with the librarians of Portland. They do everything with "the precision and efficiency of a machine. 7