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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1D21. A I X rKIKX IK NT NEWSPAPER '- C. S JAKO.N , ..PwWianer : i ! ealni, b confident, be cheerful and Jo unto ' nr y-u wo a l1 have t lie en do wio r. i - lupU'hrd awry wee day and Sunday morning f. j at The Jonmal building. Brcadway and Tao- hill etreeT, PortlaiHl, nnc. -I. t, i r "'Ji . for tran-mi-eico thrcub the maila aeeond ''''Itl-Kl'HONfca Warn 7173, Automatic -!. All rteparfmenr rrhel ay mew iramwri 1 ':TiAL AMVUHTlHl.NU KKfliKtit-Nia-l TIVE Benjamin Kentnor Co., ISruruwK-k Ku'ldtng. SI'S ilfth itrnut, ew Yoik; 0O I Mi.lT Bu.UIng, Chicago. TAIr"iO COAST KKPUK8EXTATIVE-W. 1C j Barangrr Ce. Examiner Kuikiing, San na- ' ei-co: Titlt Innuranee Building. I o Angelas; ,ff- Vtft-lntrllntrnrT Hnilding. Seattle. "" j'JMK OjifclioN JOL'tt.VAL. r-erve the nam ma C reject advertising copy which it deem on .,! jeeUonalile. 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Portland. Oreaon. WAR Tha (ttrs of merry a hall h all shuf up; And the fleab'4 auldier rough and bard of ..heart. In liberty of bloody hand, ahall range With conscience wide as bell; mowing like gran Your freh, fair, virgins and your flowaringi infanta. j -Shakespeare (" Henry V.") AS KUROPE SKES IT "TliFi world revolution which we 1 I (are pasting through will last Jfebout 20 years; the war profiteers 4"'ftnd the rich have fattened on war, scarcity and high prices and want pit to last. President "Wilson's policy broke down, although it was the . oniy posaiDie policy ror a lasting: ... peace, because he was not strong 6, enough to enforce it and had not '"enough personality to carry the American people with him." Such Is the statement of Count ItichaelVKorolyiJ who had the Hun garian republic proclaimed, refused - to be its president and was finally forced by the Bolshevik! to resign its its prime minister. ' He says the sovernment of Hun- gary is the most reactionary that has existed in Europe for 100 years; that the real rule is by 200.000 troops, led by officers who were in the army under the Hapsburgs. The ex--ercise of power includes pogroms -againxt the Jews, flogging for petty ..offenses and all manner of cruelties. 1 "Had President Wilson's policy ! been followed." he said, "Europe's cwndition today would have been far better than It is." He-added: The cruel pity is that, at the time of the armi8tlcer America had ready all J the materials needed to enforce a Wil- Kontan peace. Ills policy broke down, J '-although It .was the only possible policy , for a lasting peace, because he was not strong enough to enforce it and had not I enough personality to carry the Ameri , can people with him. Count Korolyi's government was , put 4nto effect in Hungary by the i people In a revolt in November, 1918, 1 ,-and its policies were based on the I ; formulas of President Wilson's 14 points. From the' first his govern- y men t was under fire from the Bol f "shevists and he was finally over ! thrown by thent. He says: j Bolshevism in Russia has been kept alive by the opposition of the entente - and by the blockade. ' If Russia were opened up U the outside world again. f her people would soon find their politi cal levels That is one way of conquer ed infr Bolshevism. BolnhevUmi will leave n marK on other countries too. The imure .urope won't be. Bolshevik i : nor will it be like the old capitalistic Rumn. br pre-war days. But when it has found M-dts new level it will have something of Bolshevism and old capitalism and a r - - 4-. iRl A - ft. iS, 3 ef vi oociaiiam, r Hungary's problems are part and par cel of the gigantic problem which is shaking the world today. Not by re daction and blockade, but by the Bpirit i: f reconciliation and good will can pres- I . otiiu injustice De a ended, f Whether. America knows it or not, th t statesmen of Europe know that - President Wilson pointed the way eto lasting peace. The testimonv of Korolyt Is identical with that of most wwien of 'standink In all parts of aurope. Th ; vlsioti of reconcilia tion and. cooperation under an or ganization of nations has left so deep an- Jropres". upon European states man that ; there la still hope that America may. yet do her duty to civilization. A reforestation campaign sweena 'England and Scotland. The, forestry commission ,of the" United Kingdom j Planted trees on 1500 acres of land ; klast year and. secured x99,000 acres -for reforestation. Five" thousand ad- dltional acres will, be planted this year.. The plans' ofthe commission contemplate the reforestation of a total of 4,770,000 acres. The com mission has secured 300. acres for nursery purposes and is preparing to produce 24,000,000 seedlings an nually. British forests were greatly depleted during the war. PREVENTION PAYS THE fire at the Willamette Iron & Steel company plant yesterday morning was expensive. It was ex pensive to the owners of trio pl.-:.t; it was expensive to the employes and their families, and it was ex pensive to Portland. The loss is estimated at $73,000 to $100,000. The owners will stand the loss above that covered . by insur ance, and they wlU stand the loss from suspended operations. The em ployes and their families will stand the loss of salary for at least four weeks. And Portland will stand the loss of temporary suspension of a big business and the loss of buying power represented . by 400 workers. It is a big toll. The fire could have been prevented. Had the frame floor under a furnace been watered and cooled there would have been no fire. The furnace was highly heated, the heat was trans mitted to dry planks, and the build ing was Jn flames. That is the way most fires start. Debris is left about where a match or cigarette may reach it. Woodwork is not protected from the heat, or inflammables are deposited near stoves. When heat reaches inflammable substances there is bound to be a fire. By preventing contact of the two, fire can be avoided. Preven tion pays. When it is summer in Oregon win ter rules in Australia. The south ern continent is getting ready to send trade commissioners to the United States, Java, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, South America. Great Brit ain and France. Curing the war Australia took first lessons in manu facture and wants to dispose of her goods. A country where the seasons are ever the reverse of ours must have unusually good reasons for trade with us. COLLAPSK OF COURTS A FORMER country girl who had married, settled in Chicago, and turnd criminal, said after her re cent arrest: It was all so easv that T r-nnirin't un derstand why I had stayed In the coun try so ong. Such reasoning is undoubtedly one of the potent influences that brought the recent crime wave to America. "It was all so easy." The Jobs were easily done, it was easy to escape the police, and it was easy to avoid heavy punishment by the courts. Perhaps the least deterrent of all are the courts. A statistical expert found on in vestigation that 80 of every 81' crim inals escape adequate punishment. He found a. man in St. Louis who had been" arrested 486 times and had been convicted only once. He was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary on that occasion and paroled after one month. The statis tician also discovered the case of three boys on trial for murder, one of whom remarked that "We have committed a thousand larcenies and burglaries and our time in jail was so short as to cause no noticeable lull in our activities." The investigator finds that a few more than one per cent of criminals who come before the bar of justice itji the United States are punished and that almost 99 per cent are turned loose. If an insurance com pany were to issue policies protect ing criminals against punishment for any crime they desired to commit, the company could charge a pre mium of 2 V4 per cent on all property stolen and realize a profit, of 100 per cent on the business. The failure to punish criminals. the statistician figures, Is costing every man, woman and child in this country $60 a year. That means an annual drain on our resources of $6,000,000,000 annually, or consider ably more than it costs to run the government of the United States. Undoubtedly, the failure of police to secure proper evidence before arrest is the reason, for collapse of thousands of prosecutions. But in cases where evidence is castiron, the leniency of courts makes it possible for thousands of crooks to continue on their criminal way. Arid the cost to the people of the country is almost equal to the cost of war. Youthful Nellie had listened to the harrowing details of her own illness when a small baby, as her grand mother recited the experience. No baby had ever been called unon to go through such suffering before. according to the story, which Nellie suaaeniy interrupted with the trem ulous question, "Grandma, did I die?" i J - THE FARMER'S WIFE ONCE upon a time a dietician from th TCnst tntovi.. . - vvii a.f. vre- gon Agricultural college, said that no one ought to eat beans more than once a week, fin her audience was a man who at one time live. comfortably for four days on nothing oui Deans ana crackers, and he knew the expert was mistaken. Now comes i the home econnmw department of the Unive PRltv en XT braska with similar error. An item ized estimate of the wages due the farmer's wife for labor in field, kitchen, dairy and henyard, feeding the hired f man, nursing the sick, mending ctothes and caring for chil dren, reaches the munificent total of $4004. ; So pitiable a sum wouldn't com pensate - the farmer's wife" for . the lifetime of Sunday dinners she must cook on other people's day of rest. Without the farmer's wife there would be : no farmer and no farm. She is the. mainstay of agriculture. The fanner, the hired man and the country would go hungry but for her. She- couldn't be hired for money.. The value of her service could never be measured in terms of money. She works for love. She is never fully paid in the cur rency of her dreams sometimes not at all. CHAMBERLAIN PRESIDENT-elect Harding says he will appoint Senator Chamber lain a member of the shipping board. If he accepts, and it is hoped that he may. Senator Chamberlain will be a 'splendid addition to the board, The same broad conception of the func tions of the board that has character ized the work of Joseph N. Teal during his brief service will be mani fested by Senator Chamberlain. Both these Oregon men have the habit of thoroughness and each looks upon public position as both a public trust and a personal responsibility. In his short service on the board. Mr. Teal is known to have exhibited unusual grasp in systematizing the administration of the publicly owned merchant marine. His experience and ability -would have made them selves felt in many ways if he had continued on tho board. Since the exigencies of fate have brdaine.dhis retirement no successor would more perfectly share the full public confidence accorded Mr. Teal at home and abroad than will Sena tor Chamberlain. Senator Chamberlain's service will not be narrow or local. It will be national, as all the Chamberlain past in public life abundantly proves. which means that other ports on the Pacific and elsewhere in the country will have from him consider ation and action that will be per fectly fair and always just. MAYORS THE mayor of Portland is quoted as havinsr Kairi tho fnMm.,:nn. i a - - . v. ii. . tlx a public address to Spanish war veterans; I wish the patriotic neonlp of Tni- land would take it upon themselves to go to meetings where radicals are ad vertised to sneak and if thev &nv any thing that doesn'X square with true AmencaniBm mere should be sufficient force present to romnnntrat, in im certain way. Patriotic Americans should not be afraid to make known their at titude on these occasions. The trouble with the mayor's speech is that it can be easily inter preted as an invitation 'to the public to take the law into its own hands. Well meaning as was the mayor's language, there will be many who will see in it a proposal for men to attend radical meetings and there resort to violence. The mayor expresses the wish that peaceable people should go "in suf ficient force" to such meetings, and -if they do not like what the speakers say to "make it known in no uncer tain way." What could that "no un certain way" be but to become a mob and break up the meeting? If that were attempted what would come to pass but violence? What if some on both sides hap pened to be armed ? If violence were resorted to, just how long would it be before some hot head would whip out a revolver and begin firing? What would then happen but the drawingof pistols by others with the result that many would be hurt and somebody killed? The mayor's words could easily , lead to another Centralia affair. If that should come the mayor would be under a frightful responsibility. An Oregon law says: "Any person who by word of mouth or writing Khali advocate or affirm atively suggest or teach the duty, necessity, propriety or expediency of doing any act of violence or. the commission of any crime or unlawful act is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $1000, or by both such imprisonment and fine." If the, mayor s aavice to go to meetings in "sufficent force" should be fol lowed, and if hot heads should re sort, to violence, what could a court do but hold the mayor responsible, and, therefore, guilty under the above law ? The same statute contains other provisions, which, with those quoted, give the police and sheriffs full authority to arrest all speakers who advocate or affirmatively suggest violence, lawlessness or revolution ftnd' to hold them to the penalties of the law. It Js the business and the duty of the police to enforce this law. If any other course is pursued it will be lawlessness, and lawlessness, whether advised by a mayor or. in augurated by a mob. is a breakdown of orderly and responsible govern ment.; . i , The Journal hopes for a hihlv successful administration hv mayor of Portland. It wants to aid and support him In that administra tion, but it cannot excuse extremism in a mayor any more than in Bolshevist. EUGENE V. DEBS THE UNPARDONED Radical Divergence In Views. Expressed by American tidltors on the Prei- . dent's Refusal of Clemency, Though the Majority In dorse His Decision. Daily Editorial Difeest' (Consolidated pro Association) - President Wilson's curt "Denied," written across the recommendation . for pardon of Eugene V. Debs, has received the "okeh" of the majority of the Amer ican press. Clemency would have made "a mockery of the law," the New York Mail find.) believes, thus, reflecting a sentiment that seems to be typical. On the other hand, however, there is an emphatic minority which disagrees with the president, and, in the words of the Springfield Republican (Ind.), finds Mr. Wilson's action "inexplicable." ... The Republican says: "The reasons stated by Mr. Palmer In behalf of execu tive clemency for Mr. Debs cannot fail to command the approi'al of a large majority of people, and Mr. Wilson's view must be regarded as both ' ill-considered and deplorable. Mr. Harding, it may be-expected will reverse Mi1. Wil son's course in this matter." Some feel that holding Debs is making a martyr of him, and, urging this point, the Rock Island Argus (Dem.) states that Debs sinned no worse than most of those who, similarly convicted, have since been pardoned ; and the paper as serts that "if a referendum were taken in the nation Debs would win his free dom by a large margin." Both the New York Evening World (Dem.) and the Chattanooga News (Ind. Dem.) call for an abatement cf war spirit." as the latter, puts it- "It seems evident." it adds, "that in the commission of the of fense Debs believed himself within his constitutional rights." The World re marks: "The president misreads public sentiment if he thinks the majority of the people of the United States are not now for magnanimity rather than repres sion in the attitude of this powerful gov ernment toward a handful of irreconcil ables." It seems to the Xew York Morning World (Dem.) "that Mr. Debs has been in jail long enough to serve as an ex ample" and. agreeing with its evening contemporary, the paper states that "the president might better have commuted his sentence and ended the pretense of martyrdom." In not following this course, the St. Louis Post Dispatch (Ind.) thinks that Mr. Wilson has "forfeited a gracious opportunity," for, while Debs was "justly sentenced" it was "a war-time offense, a war-time con viction and war-time expression of pub lic opinion." Now that the war is over and other offenders have been released, "the time for lenience has come." . ... Naturally in the papers of radical leanings comment is most bitter. The Minneapolis Star (Ind.), for instance, de clares that President Wilson has "as sassinated democracy at home" by'de nying pardon of a man "who has been persecuted for his political faith," and the New York Call (Soc.) refers to the administration as "a collection of agents of the imperialistic dynasties of the Lnited States' who. like the "dealers and exploiters of slaves." will "merit the execration of posterity." More tempered is the language of the Baltimore Evening Sun (Ind. Dem.) which pleads that "what America needs most now is tO' forget the war and bring about a cooperation on the part of all elements in the country," and it doubts if "the denial of clemency for Debs and a continued agitation of the movement to effect his release" will serve this end. The Indianapolis News (ind.) declares that denial came as "a surprise to some," for "it was assumed that Debs had a chance," but it hastens to add that his offense was serious and there was a strong element of willful ness in it." . The Toledo Blade (Ind. Rep.) points out that there can be no discrimination, saying: "The president cannot let Debs go. Freedom will come some day shortly, but it must come in company with that handed out to all the draft dodgers, to all the deserters, to all the men who fell foul of the army and navy discipline and were punished lor it. A typical sentiment is expressed by tne Jew iork Tribune (Rep.), which represents the opposite view of that held by the radical writers. To the Tribune Debs is the "true fanatic" type and "un measured and extravagant speech is his second nature." His punishment "must ne administered" under "a law vitally concerning the very existence of the nation, as a warning for all time inflammatory tonjrues temDted to imneril the nation in its hour of crisis." To this the Lynchburg News (Dem.) asrrees "Debs', crime was one that deserved a heavier sentence than he received, and r-'t-os iroi oniy aoes not repent or his crime but glories in it. ' This feature of Debs' "unrepentance' is stressed by the Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.), and to yield to a drive for such a prisoner's pardon would, it be lieves, "have important and hurtful con sequences in the enforcement of law in the future." The Washington Star (Ind.) rfeels that the president's act has the "approval of the country." and the Buffalo Commercial (Ind.) thinks-"he Is to be commended" for it. With these sentiments the Port Huron Times Herald (Ind.) is in accord," as it believes is every hundred per cent American citi zen regardless of party affiliation." ... Answering the "war-is-over" plea for Debs, the Newark New? (Ind.) grants the fact but adds that '"it is altogether another thing to say that so early in the train of the cessation of armed conflict there should be bland forgiveness all round." and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ind. Dem.) thinks that Debs "has not yet paid his debt to the nation" and "Americans will generally agree" that he is still "where he belongs." The other argument, that" the offender Is a political prisoner, is scoffed at bv the Elmira Star Gazette find vi-hin declares "there are no political prisoners in tne unitea states" and that conviction of Debs "was not mari hsim. r n of tebs" political opinions but because of definite, overt acts against the govern ment ef the United States." . . . The Burlington News (ind. Rep.) ap pears to be more interested in the recom mendation of the department of justice than In the president's refusal to accept it. "The very fact that the department of justice should ever think of making such a recommendation," says the News, "much less put forward the recommends lion itself, lays the department open to suspicion and gives ground for belief that perhaps the agitation of eminent lawyers all Over the country for an In vestigation into the activities of the de partment of justice is not entirely with out foundation." Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Carious Places In Spanish California days it was al most an accomplishment Jto .write, for only 5 per cent of Spain could write. In 178L eays the San Francisco Call, the alcalde of San Jose Couldn't write his name. Only 14 oup of . 50 of the Monterev com Dan v could write in Two out of 28 in San Francisco could write In 1791. . Not a man In San Fran cisco could write in 1794. ' The com mandants at the Presidio a kerf that a man who could write his name be im ported from Santa Barbara At one lime Alcalde Tiburcio Vasquez. grand- father of the famous bandit of that name, was the only man : in San Jose who' could write. Letters From the People -1 Communications acnt to The Jonmal for publication in this department should b -written on only one. aide of the paper; abuttld act exceed 300 word in lensta, and most be aianrd by the writer, whose mail addreza in fail must accom pany th contribution. I THE STREET VACATjt)N BILL Statement Regarding an Omission From the O-W. R. & N. Measure. Portland, Feb. 18. To the; Editor of The Journal In presenting the O-W. TL & N.'s street-vacation bill to the house, Representative Kubli said that it was necessary, to make possible the con struction of additional trackage facili ties. J The city charter provides Tor the use of streets for trackage or any other ter minal purpose. Contrary to the assump tion that streets cannot be so used, the courts have decided that they can. It is strange that the first thing in laying out a common public terminal, it is assumed, must be the vacation of such tenuous public easements therein as may exist. Therein lies the secret of this bill. In section 1 it copies the language of the "Ziegler" anti-vacation amendment au thorizing the use of streets for ter minal equipment excepting the very important provision that such use must be for the public and all common car riers. This bill empowers the council either to vacate or to authorise the use of streets under such agreement as the council may see fit to make with .the corporation. That kills the common user right which applies to all streets under the present law, and makes the terminal a 'union terminal instead of a common terminal. It is a pity that the legislature cannot rise to the dignity of the common public right as freed from the yoke of corporate tyranny. , J. B. Ziegler. FROM A BEREFT MOTHER Portland, Feb. 16. To the Editor of The Journal I see an article in yester day's Journal, unsigned save with pen name, in which it is stated that "for the most part those behind the move ment to weaken the position of the teach ers are people who have no children in the public schools." Since my children were called to the beyond there has neyer , been a time since I lived in Portland that 1 have not ' had one or more children in my home, and when I do get too old to have them in my home I shall always take an active interest in things pertain- ine to their welfare and not only think it my duty but my right to line myself up with the cause I deem just. I know another mother whose treasure is in heaven, who gives more than her spare time to child welfare, whose serv ices and judgment were good enough when the teachers' salary raise was be fore the people. So far as I know, al my other active co-workers are parent patrons, while on the other side I know parents who are patrons of private schools. However, that is their privilege Kate Bon ham. CONSTABLE'S OFFICK . Portland, Feb. 16. To the Editor of The Journal Please publish whether a bill has been introduced at Salem abol ishing the constable's office, which, in Multnomah county at least, does work that could readily be performed by the sheriff's office. Subscriber. I Tin to bnia.rr 17 no bin had been intro duced abolishing the office of constable in Multnomah county. ) QUERIES AS TO DATES Question Please publish the exact date of the Rose Festival for T921. Answer June 9, 10 and 11. Question Please give the correct dates of the silver thaws at Portland. Answer The big silver thaw occurred January 27 and 28, 1907. There was a sil ver thaw in 1912, January 6 to 8. INCOME TAX Question Is an ex-service man exempt from paying income tax for one year from discharge. Answer No. Question If a man was married last October, does he come under the $2000 exemption for the entire year? Answer Yes, if married and living with his wife at December 31. Question I am a wage earner. If the wages earned by myself and children under age amount to J2000 is there due an income tax? Answer Yes. Question Does this tax hold if these children use their earnings for their business entirely separate from mine? Answer Yes. Question How .much tax is due on $2000, and is the tax due on the $2000 or on all exceeding $2000? Answer If you were married and liv ing with your wife at December 31 and your net income of yourself and depend ents was under $2000 no return would be required, and therefore no tax due. In come tax is due on all exceeding $2000. Question Please advise If a trade of property is. considered a sale by the in come tax collector? Answer Yes. Question If a party exchanges prop erty which cost him $5000 for property worth $6000 would he have to pay tax on the J10007 Answer Yes, but would advise you to write the collector for details. Question Is the interest on Liberty or Victory bonds or War Savings stamps taxed under the federal income tax? Answer The interest on Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps cannot be treated as taxes. Liberty bonds or War Savings stamps are subject to the nor mal tax, which applies to incomes less than $5000. All interest on 4 per cent Victory notes is subject to surtax. Cer tain exemptions apply to other holdings of Liberty bonds which can be better ex plained by examining the bonds them selves, which specify the exemption ap plicable. MR. WILSON From the Bo we Statesman (Rep.) It -is remarkable how much interest the American people show these days in the plans of President Wilson for the months immediately following Mr. Harding's in auguration.. The public's approval or disapproval of the president's official acts does not fig ure in iter interest now. It looks upon the man who stood out as Its leader in a great crisis; upon the man who has struggled for months with a physical in firmity; the man who is not planning va cations of exploration, like Roosevelt, or pedagogical quietude, like Taft, but the man who looks forward to rest and quiet and thought. Thought is Wood row Wilson's greatest function and there are many who believe the fruit of his brain still to be poured forth will far excel that of the past. This risy have something to do with the in terest in his plana UnIefJeff Snow Says: Ma's plum down on them there people that's come in on the lower bend of the Corners and puts fine carpets over their radiators of a cold nlgbt and leaves their calves a-shiverin' in a open pen back ofthe garage. She b'leves the preacher cad orter call on , era and ex plain Christian civilization to 'em. But the parson don't relish the job, 'cause he seen 'em a-comin from a d.nce one Sunday mornin' about sunup, and beings they only come, from Blackburn's. on the upper forks, he knows they must of put the clock back deliberate three hours and done a lot of their dancin' on the Lord's day. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE f Portable schools do not necessarily provide portable education. ., a Bet that mall boat, Venus, isn't half as "fast" as its namesake. The more storm warnings taken down, the longer our fuel pil will hold out. Wasn't It the cry for reform of the old that brought on the new in the dance? And. honestly considering the ques tion, wasn't is prohibition that brought bootleg? It's a far cry from the lion to the mouse, but they're both built on the same principle. ... The goose who thinks he's cooked to a delicate turn is the fellow who pays 8 per cent income-tax. . If a name amounts to anything these "orthodontists," who have been meeting here, ought to rank well up in front. ... "Blood test," says a headline, "is held rertain beyond doubt." Which seems to indicate that there is no question about it. A gcod range, a good cook and a good fire, with flour cheap enough, should help some in bringing down the cost of bread. ... A ' local advertiser says "tomato" Is to be a popular shade for spring wear ables. First thing you know soup color will be the proper thing for vests. A suitable prize awaits the man who invents a silencer for the raucous voiced newsboys who cry their wares under our window at 5:15 on Sunday morning. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town The annual meeting of the Alaska so ciety was held at the Portland hotel Monday evening, February 14. The fol lowing officers, were elected for the ensuing year : President, J. L. Scott ; vice president, B. E. Mauro : secretary, E. H. Collis. who was elected for the third time ; directors, "W.,H. Downing. R. A. Harris. Mrs. Johephlne Stott and W. P. Sinnott. The principal speaker of the evening was Major J. E. Walling, for merly of Fort Davis. Alaska, who gave a very interesting talk, after which dancing was enjoyed. The great event of the Alaskans for the season is the annual banquet, which will be held Sat urday, February 19, at the banquet hall of the Chamber of Commerce at 6:30 o'clock p. m. All Alaskans are expected to "mush in" for this, event and bring Uieir friends. There will be "cow cow amalukta." whioh, in the language of the Eskimo, means plenty of eats and a general get-together afterward with music and talks and dancing. O. W. Chilson, who was secretary for a num ber of years to Bishop P. T. Rowe andVl accompanied him on his extensive trav els, will be the principal speaker. Mrs. F. W. Swanton and others will give talks. The members of the entertain ment committee are L. L. Scott, Mrs. H. N. Ford, Mrs. Josephine Stott, W. P. Sinnott, Mrs. E. E. Morgan. Mrs. F. W. Swanton, J. J. Cotter and R. W. Thomp son. Stanley Umphlette, head porter of the Hotel Portland, is wearing one eye in mourning. His fellow employes claim he was trimming his trees on his ranch near Portland and, while sitting on a large limb, by accident sawed the limb off between himself and the tree. He claims the limb broke, and others Bay, "Go up to the hospital and ask the other fellow what happened." Now take your choice of the various versions. . J. F. Gilpin, who has the contract for the building of the county- bridge across Youngs river, near Astoria, is a guest at the Imperial. a - Dan W. Bush, pioneer resident of Southwestern Washington and long time resident of Chehalls. is at the Benson. Pat Foley, who casts a shadow like Mount Hood at sunset, is down from The Dalles. L. A. Bohenkamp of La Grande is at the Imperial. Mrs. B. M. Burton of John Day is a Portland visitor. . MY. and Mrs. J. H. Race of The Dalles are -at the Imperial. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley ( The founding of Port Orford. in Curry county, is Mr. Ixckley a starting; point today an event rrmantic in itself, and leading him on to the leeital of an aboriginal epinode of intense romantic interest ronnected with cher ished re lica that hare come down to this day. 1 Frank B. Tichenor lives in Portland. He Is a native son of Port Orford, in Curry county. His grandfather. Captain William Tichenor, founded Port Orford Captain Tichenor was born at Newark, N. J.. June 13, 1813. When he was 12 years old" he went to sea as a cabin boy. In 1833 he was married and left the sea for some years. In 1846 he helped recruit two companies for the Mexican war. This regiment was commanded by Colonel E. D. Baker, for whom he later worked In Oregon when Colonel Baker ran for united Stales senator. Captain Tichenor went to California in 1849, min ing for a while on the. American river After a few months he bought a schooner and plied up and down the coast. In 1851 plans were made to found a city on the coast of Southern Oregon. Cap tain Tichenor, who was in command of the Sea Gull, plying between Portland, and ban Francisco, landed a party of nine men In June, 1851, at what is now Port Orford, to found a town. J. M. Kirkpatrick and his eight companions were attacked by the Indians, but de feated them with heavy slaughter, on Battle Rock. Mrs. Isaac Lawler, daugh ter of John II. Eagan, one of those eight men, was born in Portland and has lived here all her life. The men who were back of the found ing of the city of Port Orford were Captain William Tichenor. r. B. King, collector of the port at San Francisco; James Gamble, Fred M. Smith, M. Hub bard and W. G. T'Vault. Captain Tichenor. settled at Port Orford, and there his children and grandchildren were born. a Not long ago my wife received from Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Tichenor a most uto usual gift. It was a string of beads from Port Orford, with a history. As Is well known, unusual Indian decorations are handed down frorn generation ta genera tion. This string of beads comes; from a beaded buckskin dress which for many years was on exhibition In the collection of the Oregon Historical society. They were lastenea to mis DucusKin aress with deer -sinews. When I asked Frank Tichenor to give me the history of these Indian-made beads, he said : "Most of the beads you see. -which ' are called Indian beads, are beads purchased by the Indians from the Hudson's Bay com pany. These beads, however, we ha"e traced back to the year 1770. long befoi the traders were selling .beads to th Indiana As you see, they were manu factured by the Indians themselves. In 1770 the Indians at the mouth of the Rnrnn river cave to the chief of their tribe a dress made of buckskin covered i NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS A correspondent writes to know what we think of irrigation. , We think we have had too darned much of it. Astoria Budget. . - If disarmament doesn't make us love one another, it will at least make it cheaper to hate one another. Salem Capital Journal. An 8-year-old girl is baffling Illinois physicians because they can't make her s:op talking. If she was a full grown woman they wouldn't try. Eugene Guard. One of the horrible consequences of discovering oil In the valley is that the no-account stuff will run into Rogue river, and kill the dear fish. Aledford Mail-Tribune. One may take consolation- from the fact that because the amount of water in the ocean is limited here can be no more than so much rain, anyway. Albany Democrat. -.... The Rev. Mr. Voliva says that he will give anybody $1000 to prove to him that the earth is round. Mr. Voliva says it can't be round because the Bible says otherwise. That ought to hold those astronomer gujs who have been fooling us all these years. Corvallis Gazette-Times. . William L, Finley says it is possible for the state to realize an annual revenue of $5,000,000 trom its fisheries by leasing them out to the highest bidder instead of giving them away. It would save another five millions if at the same ttroke it could keep lege I wrangles con cerning them out of the legislature. Eugene Register. . ; , Eastern Oregon guests at the Imperial include R. A. Stewart of Hermiston, D. W. Bowman of Efcho. J. W. and C. W. West of Hood Rver, W. H. Ragsdale of Moro. Andy Rood of Heppner, H. L. Mor ris of Maupln, M. M. Morris of The Dalles. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Blackwood of Pendleton, Mrs. C. J. Bright of The Dalles. W. T. Harrison and family of Pendleton. Mrs. R. N. Young and- Mrs. W. A. Rooker of Hood River and Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Curl, Glen Bushee, Law rence Bogard and W. C. Kennedy of Pendleton. ... H. S. Newins. instructor In forestry at Oregon Agricultural college, is in Portland with 11 students. The- hav in spected the pulp mill at Salem, the paper mills at Oregon City and the Northwest ern Turpentine company's plant in Port land. They will spend several days in Portland studying wood products. and by-products such as, tannin and excel sior, before returning to Corvallis. ... - Condon people visiting in Portland In clude Claude Clark, cattleman ; Charles E. Van Winkle, Mrs. Kate Russell, L. E. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Randall and Miss Miriam Keeney. ... Guests from east of the mountains at the Oregon include L. D. Kelly of Mau pin and Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Harris of Elgin. ... Mrs. A. J. Sherwood of Coquille is vis iting her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Cake. ... Robert Hendricks of Fossil Is a Port land visitor. .W. T. Curtis of Yamhill is a Portland visitor. ... Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Thomas of Elk ton are at the Imperial. ... Mr. and Mrs. F. "S. Lamport of Salem are at the Imperial. .... S. 2. Culver of Salem is at the Oregon. . G. S. Marsh of Roseburg Is a Portland visitor. -... G. R. Comstock of Whe'eler is In Port land. ... Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Matthews of Kla math Falls are at the Benson. ... E. E. Ellsworth of Cottage Grove is a guest at the Benson. . Walter E. Woodward of Cottage Grove is a guest at the "Benson. ... Dr. and Mrs. J. .1. Emmons of Med ford are at the Benson. . C. H. Packer of Salem is in Portland. with beads. This dress was made to be worn by the chief's daughter at her " ' - , " ruui l li ICMIVllieS LOOK place on the south side of the Rogue river, about where the town ct iiih Beach is now located. It was one of tne biggest celebrations that ever oc curred in this tribe. Toe Indian tribe n from around Port Orford, Pistol river and the Chetco were all invited and were present. The tradition of the feast and celebration held then was passed down, from generation to generation and is still spoken of. At the feast- they Berved elk, deer and bear meat, salmon, clams, rock oysters and mussels, "The next time this dress figured in a big celebration was in 1815, when the grand-daughter of the chief. was married and her mother presented her with the beaded dress. This r,lthr,tUn took place, according to the Indian tra dition, near where the town of Wedder- Durn is now located. The Indians -came to this celebration from as far awav n. Smith river. - 'In 1840 Jennie, as the earlv ninnr of Curry county called her, was given the beaded dres.- bv her mnthr Thf. dress by now had become ope of the ireasureo. possessions of the tribe. Again extensive preparations were made for a wedding celebration. When the Indians had assembled, and while the feast was .bout to be served. Jennl' husband. Who Was atandinir nu f suddenly dropped at her feet. A rejected suitor or jennwe a who f,d Sworn ven geance, had shot him through the heart with an arrow. Vnr Hava ,un..i. the death song resounded on the Rogue river. i ne wedding dress was taken off and sewed up in a deer skin and put away. .- - . - a - 'Jennie did not marry for many years." and then she married, a white man. She was always a friend of the whites and was much loved and respected by the early settlers. I happened to be at her house in 1890, She was quit old then. She told me of this beaded dress, which for 50 years had never been unwrapped from its covering of deer skin. She said, "Your people when they came here In the early '0s were kind to me and my people. I will not live long. In memory of the kindness of your people I want to give you the choicest treasure I have this dress. - So ahe gave It to me. My wife and I, when the beads began dropping off, restrung them and made a number of strings of beads. We have given them to various friends. among them Mrs. George I Baker, .Mrs. Oswald ;West, Mrs. Ben Olcott, Mrs. J. P. Jaeger. Mrs. I. I. Boak ot Denver. and to other friends... We have also given one to the Oregon Historical so ciety, as they are an interesting re minder of the Oregon country before the coming of the white man.' - - The Oregon Country Northwest HarpeningB In Brief Form for tha Busy Header OREGON NOTES Umatilla county this year will pay In taxes of all kinds $1,551,013.44. The new $75,000 hotel at Condon is now open and a long-felt iw ant has bccii filled. At present there are 60 families In La Grande under - quarantine for smallpox and scarlet fever. The. 1920 census shows that there are only 15 negro farmers in Urritnn. 30J Indian. 224 Japanese and 34 Chinese. Contractors for the 20 miles of Btate highway from Huntington to Durkee uow have over J00 men on the job. The campaign at Corvallis in behalf ox the Albertina Kerr babv home netted a total of $573.27, almost $300 more than the Portland managers exiwcted. Pendleton ls to have a new vaudevilla and motion picture theatre that will neat 850 persons and cost $80.00iJ. It will be built on Main street by Urt:ulici & Mat lock. . Construction work will .be started at once on a five-mile telephone line to serve the residents along the Kalles California highway from Bend to HUh Lake. Nels Nelson, mayor of Carlton, died last Tuesday at the hospital-in Mc Miimville from the effects of an opera tion which he had undergone a week previous. Alvin C. Chance, wanted at Vale for the embezzlement of several thousand dollars trom the Boise-Payette Lumber company, has been arrested at Long Beach. Cal. Claims totaling $103,000 have been filed against the city of Klamath Falls bv tyrant Bilderback. whose wife ami daughter were lost in the Houston hotel lire la?t September. - A new- strictly modern and fireproof hospital building that will cost not less than $lu0.oug is one of the important-Improvements that is promised for Actona during the coining summer. C. 1. Barr, who has been secretary of the Astoria chamber of commerce for three years, has resigned hia position to accept a similar position with the i'en uleton Commercial association. William H. Frederick, aged 43. of the Oregon Exports company at Marshfield. was struck by a haul-back line and thrown n the air. aliKhtina; on his head and receiving in juries, w hich may cauae WASHINGTON An epidemic of smallpox lias resulted In the closing of the schools at Nai.a vine. - The Battle Ground cannerv in Clark county did $24,000 worth of business last year and paid $10,0m to growers. -nf n?W. seeni certain that Yakima will retain the state fair and will re cast $l4orooae"nial 4pprupriutlon ot "l Mrs. Margaret T, BpIIqws. aced 81, and Mrs. America Chapman, uned 77. both pioneers of Walla Walla, died in that city last Tuesday, i .Chased down from the snow-oapjx-d Hills, a panic-stricken deer dashed Into the outskirts, of Spokane -and was las soed by a police officer. According to a financial statement, the .Non-partisan league has collected from 16.300 members in Washington $"69 Rfto and claims a total expenditure in the state of $290,000. vLThirty"onc "eged violators of the pro hibition law were wrreMed in a -raid at Leavenworth last Tuesday night and fines aggregating $2695 were paid Into the city treasury. I Barnhardt Schade, pioneer " Spokano resident and former brewery owner, was found dead with a bullet wound In his body in a barn adjoining his residence in Spokane Wednesday. Clinton Creveling. who disappeared from Kalama lant N w Year Tlav ha not been heard of since. Creveling wa.i an ex-soldier and -suffered a uuiiHtroko While in the ai my service. I The planing mill of the Eastern -Railway & Lumber company at Centralia resumed operations this week with limited crew. It Is said the balance of the plant will soon start up. j Marian L. Markel. 18-rnonl))s-old daughter of William B. Market, died at Yakima from injuries received when she fell into a pan of hot water which her mother-had on the floor for scrubbing. I Charges are made that of 37 nirn recently discharged at the t'uget So tid havy yard at Bremerton 35 were vet erans of the world war, and that fore men are hiring only men who are known to be radicals. IDAHO I Governor Davis has vetoed the meas ure, that would add Armistice day to the list of legal holidays In Idaho. 1 The Atlas tie mill at Coetir d'Alene. closed down since Decemher.W sinned operations this week with a fulPw-l-ew of men. ! The legislature has refused to alKliFh the state normal -school at - Albion. -thereby settling a controversy that arises biennially - - I Despairing of wheat prices advancing and fearing a decline, 11. Meiarard of Moscow sold his wheat this week- for $1.20 a bushel. ; The barn and , content?, including a $l.rio) automobile, on tha Jack KdwanH farm, near Carey, were destroyed by fire a few nights ago. A cold wave, visited the Black foot section Thurwlay night and the ther mometer dropped to 15 dKre:s below zero, the lowest for thu winter. Ten minutes after adjournment of -the city council at Blaekfoot U ediieFday night a lone bandit locked" the city clerk in a vault and took $200 in catli. The St. Maries Lumber company re sumed operations thix week at bo'.h sawmill and planing mill. TfV company nas about 3,000,000 feel of W p on hand ana more ore coming in. ) JS-months-otd daugh of Ian of Coeur d'Alene wa-if burned to The Bolish death Thursday In a fire ihich com pletely destroyed the borne during the absence- of the mother. - The Idaho state land commissioner has leased to J-. I.. Wells of Payette for five years the 92-acre tract of play ground land around Payette lakes for the price of $825 a year. kiwow you PORTLAND Part of the work of the whoo! de partment of the public library is to introduce th students of the t:nc;!iM classes in the night. M-hoolsrto the library. Each year classes are in vited to the libraries nearest the night schools. This year the evening invitations have been addressed to the students at Jefferson high school. Arleta, Neighborhood House In South Port land, where Is a class under the supervision of the school board, Woodstock and Ladd Bchools. The students from' Ladd come to the Central library, where they are wel comed, served with a cup of coffee and taken on a tour of the library. They are introduced especially to the technical and circulation depart ments. Cards are given them. Their eagerness for self-Improvement is shown by their requests for book on civics, easy histories of the United States and " stories aheut the great men of '.the country. ' While, the library offers book in their native languages to non Knglish speaking Americans, It aks them to turn to th books In English as soon v a their knowledge of the language I sufficient to enable them to read. No urging la necessary : these young men and women, after their hard day's work, go to the nlirht schools with the greatest an ticipations of learninir the English language . well, and anything which will help them In perfecting this knowledge Is eagerly sought.