THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1921.
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IN THE SCRAP HEAP
THE Allied Commission of Con
trol has been and is destroying
German tanks by the score.
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
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f Baranger Co., KieminerBuikung. S f
I cmoo: Title fnenranee Betiding, U Angeii
Po.Metelligenr'er Building. Battle. .
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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.
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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. -'
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. :
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Mr. and Mrs. A. King of Mount Angel
are at the. Benson. - .- .
George H. Graves of Salem is a guest
at the Benson..
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Harry Tabke, traffic manager for' the
Port of Astoria, is at the Multnomah.
B. F. Stone of Astoria Is a Portland
Visitor.
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W. R. Coulter of Baker is In Portland.
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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.
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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
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Plumbers- are scarce and they get
shorter hours and more pay. Yet men
fight to be elected to confer ess. Klamath
Falls Herald. -e
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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.
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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
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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.
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Drs. W. B. Lee. J. L. Hesse and C. B
Willoughby of Eugene are Portland
visitors.
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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.
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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.
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' W. F. Ramsdel, forest supervisor, is in
town from Roseburg.
E. N. Crockett of Bend is transacting
business in Portland.
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Dolly Madison of Bend la visiting her
brother in Portland. s.
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Mrs. George Wllhelm of Harrisburg is
a Portland visitor.
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Mr. and Mrs.- Fred Howard of Hood
River are at the Seward.
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Mra E. N. Warner and her daughter
Ruth of Medford are at the Seward.
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Rex Underwood of Eugene Is at the
Portland.
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Fanny and May Sommer of La Grande
are registered at the Portland.
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,- 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. ;
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
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