THE OREGON DAILY, JOURNAL PORTLAND OREGON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,, lfi21. AS IXDEPEN VkLXt" NEWSPAPER C 8. JACklHJN' . . ............. . . . FuDWti ! Be eaim. be confident. be cheerful sad to nvmt exact a yoa wiM tie them o mjw I"nliwilvrJ ererr wees day nd Sunday mamas at The Journal buiklina, Broadway and xam- hill street. Portland, Oreenn. lor trannsuaioa throttlb. tba suite as second - elaas matter. . All oVpartraents reached by these number. V' . vi. . v- r inL'L'HTUlvii . Hk'f K FIN 're. A. A ....... w . - . ----- J . .-. feflvsr U . K .ntnn. I!a.. ' HnUUWlCk Building, 22S Fifth arenae. New Tort; 900. Mailer Kuiiatng, imcacn. WCITO COAST BKPKKSENTATITE W. K. Haranjer Co., Examiner HniMin-. Han Frn- eueo; Title insurance BUiiuina. uie aw roVlireeiileraer numiinf, TUB OaEUON JOL'llNAt, reaerfee ti riant to reject advertising; copy -which it deem ob jectionable. 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Quarrela would not laat lone if the fault u only on one aide. La Rouehefoucauld. uws by minority DID you ever study a legislature? Did you ever look on and 'put together what waa Above , and what beneath the surface of the proceed- You are told that .legislation is' al ways by themajority. But it isn't. Many times it is rule by the minori ty. That seems strange. ; But it is true, too true. ' . Minority control comes about in various ways. The presiding offi cers of senate and house have . tre mendous power. '' i They . . name the committees. . .This seems a small thing in itself, but it gives presiding officers very great control. They place on Important committees members who .will cooperate with them. Sometimes, they have prom ises from those appointees relative to certain contemplated legislation. Or more often there is a sort of corn- agreement between the presiding of ficer and his appointees on certain committees to stand together. It means that the will of the presiding Officer becomes very often the com mitteemen's will. This is one phase pf the power of minority rule.. The powerful committees and the presi dent of the senate or speaker of the house are thus placed in position, though in the minority so far as votes are concerned, to absolutely, in many cases, control legislation. Thus, they can block certain legis lation that a refractory member Is particularly interested in. They can hold up the appropriation that he seeks until he surrenders and votes with him. A majority of the senate was with the teachers in the tenure fight. But the night before the final vote, or ders were issued to recall certain senate bills from " the house. The stoppage of those bills meant much to certain senators. It was pressure from the senate organization. Again, the reapportionment bill became a club and a trading asset for fighting the teachers. Senator Thomas of Jackson, for example, was a powerful opponent of the pro posed change in the tenure law. He also refused to cooperate consistent ly with the senate organization. Accordingly,, it was proposed to gerrymander his legislative district. Jackson county with 20,000 people and Josephine with 7600 each have a senator. The senator from Joseph ine Is a hold-over, and Senator Thom as from Jackson is not. So the reap portionment bill proposed that Jack son and Josephine be allowed but one senator, which would automatically make the hold-over from Josephine the member from the two counties two years henqe and make it impos sible for Thomas to be re-elected. During the fight, a proposal was made to reconsider and beat the ten ure bill if the friends of the teach ers would supply one senate vote, to gerrymander Senator Thomas out of the possibility of re-election, which would ; have meant the robbing of Jackson county of a senatorshlp for the time being. The program en abled the minority to beat the teach ers but it failed by one ' vote In the case of reapportionment. It was also attempted to force Senator . Hume into support of the ... ... Thomas gerrymander., " His son-in- law was vitally interested in the de feat of a certain jbilL Two organ ization senators went to the son-in- law, the day before reapportionment was to come up for final action, and told him that unless Senator Hume voted In the senate with the organ ization, the certain objectionable bill would be passed. The scheme failed, but it affords an example of how a minority often controls legislation. In order to minimize minority control the power of presiding officers ought 1 to be reduced by depriving them of the appoint ment of ; committees. 'If majority legislation' is the ' best legislation, presiding officers should be strictly impartial and should have no power except that derived from the right to vote in case of a tie. Prisoners at the Oregon peniten tiary have raised $70 to pay the ex penses to Salem of an aged mother to bid a last farewell to her son. The boy is to be hanged Friday, for mur der. How is it that men "with the hearts of those, who raised the money to bring the little mother to Salem, are in the penitentiary? Why were they moved to commit crime? Certainly their natural instincts did not lead them to the primrose path. How - many of them are behind prison bars because of the practices of war and peace time profiteers? How many of them are there because of flaws in our social and economic structures. THE GOVERNOR'S SALARY THIS Is not the time to raise the salaries of public officials. The people of Oregon are already stag gering under heavy burdens of tax ation. Deflation is in progress. The cost of living is returning to normal. But the salary increase of $2500 for the governor was merited. The governor of Oregon is paid $5000 a year. The mayor of Port land draws $6000. The supreme judges of the state are paid $5200 annually, and the salary of the bank ing superintendent has been ad vanced to $6000. Although the gov ernor is the executive head of the commonwealth, other officers and a mayor of a municipality within the state receive higher compensa tion than the chief. In Washington the governor re ceives $6000 a year, and in addi tion is given $7500 for maintenance of his residence and $4750 with which to conduct his office. "The governor of California is paid $10,000 annually and provided with 48850 for maintenance of his residence and $1600 for upkeep of automobiles. There are large financial demands on a governor, j His official duties incur unusual expense. His position entails extraordinary disbursements. The increase in salary of the Ore gon governor was warranted by the facts. Julius L.. Meier is a man whose high executive ability shows to par ticular advantage in the handling of large affairs whose active public spirit identifies him, with progres sive civic movements, and whose en thusiasm commands substantial fol lowing, i Mr. Meier has been well chosen, chairman of the executive committee responsible for the per manent organization of the 1925 world exposition to be held in Port land. WHINING COMPETITION IT WAS more than an exhibition of bad taste when E. F. Blaine of Seattle before the shipping board sought to establish by reflections upon Portland the claims of the Puget sound port for the allocation of shipping board vessels. The competition which seeks achievement by pulling down others is self destructive competition. It Is ungenerous and narrow competition. It discloses as petty and unbecoming a spirit on the part of a city as of an individual. , . , ' Seattle's commerce needs entitle her to the allocation of shipping board vessels. But Portland neither fears nor makes comparison with Seattle in establishing the facts of her growing commerce as a just claim for fair consideration by the shipping board. Was it envy, was it fear or ' was it merely spiteful jealousy that actu ated Mr. Blaine? DISTRIBUTING PUBLIC BENE FITS THE city of Portland allocates cer 1 tain sections of downtown streets to taxicabs and for-hire cars as stands. The drivers are permitted to operate their cars from headquar ters established on public streets. Enjoying the concession they make their living by transporting the public. ' . , To allow tho drivers first call on sections of downtown streets ia a big concession, f Whether, they have or have not a stand makes a very considerable difference in the profits of their business. The drivers, prof iting as they do from the publio con cession and enjoying, as they do, a peremptory right to a certain park ing place not given private owners, are under a very heavy responsibility to thepublic. : j ; But how many of them stand on street corners and utter remarks aloud about passersby ? How.: many of those drivers will procure liquor for a prospective patron? How many of them will, on request, de liver customers to a disorderly house or a gambling '-establishment? How many of them would obtain cocaine for one whom they might believe was an addict ? ; How many of them will drive a ear in which a terrific struggle Is taking place; to a most suspicious resort or a lonely . road without even a questioning word? How many of them make It 'their business to see, even when the most dastardly crimes are threatened, that the law is upheld? : In allocating stands ; on public streets to professional drivers, & prime consideration is moral char acter. Priority on a particular stand has a bearing, but it is insignificant in comparison with moral responsi bility. The Portland public is far more Interested in the class of driv ers to whom ; public benefits are to be distributed than in the length of their occupancy of a certain stand. Undoubtedly moral integrity is considered, when stands are to be allocated. Undoubtedly licenses are revoked when drivers are convicted of lawlessness. Those who distribute the stands cannot be too inquisitive of the personal character of appli cants, when making decisions as to who shall and who shall not be granted- the privilege of a stand on the public streets. MULTNOMAH AND THU STATE MR. KUBLI was both melodra matic and blood thirsty in his threats as to what he would do if Multnomah county was not given larger representation in the new ap portionment. 'I Because of the character of some of its legislative members, Mult nomah county is looked upon by many as the evil genius of the Ore gon legislature. The schemes and programs and skulduggery are usu ally hatched out in Multnomah county. Good legislation is usually opposed by a certain group In the Multnomah delegation. Legislative jobs and sinister proposals 1-ke the notorious "midnisrht resolution" nais- ahy have their origin in some fac tion -of the delegation from Mult nomah, all in spite of the efforts of men of high character who are al ways in the delegation. This is a natural and expected con dition. Big business is in the cities. Political financiers and financial po liticians are in the cities. The head quarters of the. profiteers and para sites and ' speculators and ' food gamblers is in the cities. They make themselves as far as possible the masters of legislation, j and being practical gentlemen, they elect as far as possible, legislators who will serve them at state capitals. If you watch the course of members you can generally tell which is which and who's who. At the present session there was the spectacle of Multnomah with two members on the house ways and means committee, the most powerful of all committees in the legislature. The power of that committee to con trol appropriations and thereby con trol members is very great. For Multnomah county to have two mem berships on that .committee is both absurd and a great injustice to the rest of the state. Multnomah county does not, as Mr. Kubli said, pay most of the state taxes. No great city .pays the pro portion of taxes that it ought to pay. :As Senator Patterson stated on the floor of the senate, 85 per cent of the taxes comes from visible property like real estate. Realty In the city, and particularly farmers in the country, pay more than their full proportion while invisible property and profits almost entirely escape state taxation. As a matter of fact the big cities do most of the governing of states, but the country produces most of the wealth. The total wealth production of the nation last year was $54,000, 000,000. of which th3 cities produced $23,000,000,000 and the country peo ple, $31,000,000,000. Ben Goom of San Francisco had a Chinese father and a ' Japanese mother. The father of Ben's wife was a Swede and her mother a full blooded Indian. Curiously enough his two daughters, who are hiph school- girls, are, in appearance, typi cal Americans, wonderful examples of the power of the melting'pot. THE NATION'S JOB A"SyPER-LEGISLATURE" is the Far "West's need, according to Sunset! magazine. The use of stream flow for land reclamation is a prob lem which may involve half a dozen states In! their division of the waters of a single stream like the Colorado or the Columbia. The reproduction of forests In order that the supply may be maintained from areas most valuable for tree production consti tutes an issue of survival vital to the s interests, of . all Western; states. Hence the proposal, for a 'suner- legislature." . When : compulsion becomes more effective than cooperation it may be time to establish an annex of the national capital west of the Rocky mountains. ; But until then let the civic forces" not only of the West but of the entire country work to train their ends by the broad intelligence of volunteer r endeavor through the medium or national laws. . Reclamation and reforestation are not exclusively Western problems. They are national problems. Federal officers asked . haiihnv for a bottle of whiskey, got It. and paid for it. The boy was acquitted on a charge of selling liquor. Pe culiar justice. DISAGREEMENT ON JAP AGREEMENT ; East Is East and West Is West In the Division of the Editors on the Ques tion of Settlement with Japan of the Immigration " Problem The Solicitous Nation Versus the Impatient State. "Daily Editorial Digest- (ConeoUdated Freaa Association) "Secret dlDlomaCV la a train iinTer fire In the ores a result a th MntraveM oecween senator Johnson and Secretary 'oy orer maiung public the Morriav Shidehara. irrwrrnt Am 1 Hmsitv ih. case in .discussing the Japanese prob lem, ui vision i editorial opinion Is chief- it areoarraiDnic - inHstenn ams Tn covenants openly arrived at" ia found in Western nanem. whll, ihm n tii. v. em editara auntMrt BMtftn- PaIk. in aim rerasaj to announce -the result of oiiictat conversations" which he 'main tains have not yet reached the stage of iormai agreement. a e . . .- Emphasizing the points that "the treaty la not eamn1,ts tr ht v... submitted : It fa. atm tion, tne -'ort Wayne Journal Gazette luem.j naicuie8 tne suggestion that it is at this time the concern of the senate: Shades of John Hay!" It exclaims, SinCj When did ft hsmma i itAin . 9 an ambassador to consult with members 01 tne foreign relations committee of the senate m u negotiation or a treaty? His chief Is the secretary of state ; with him ha eonstilts Ant Vrm v. 1 M w.u C, his instructions. Opposition to this view. hA wavar mmaa from at .least Ona nanar nn thai Atlantic coast, aa well a ?mvt t . ' mw . mmi. A. irc Express and Advertiser (Rep.) of Port- iiiu, a auric, sees in senator Johnson's request - -a splendid opportunity for demonstration" of "Pk.hM.hi . TXT I m celebrated point of open covenants open- iy Krnya parucuiariy since "there is no neted f at iTav "a... e. - -w-w WUSVIAI Johnson is right In his position that the West should be informed at. once as to what has passed between the two gov ernments." While the California unatn, nav a. "a troublesome narUI iw Meastn n insistence on light here and there," as the Wichita Eagle (Ind.) rather satiri cally suggests, .the Detroit Free Press (Ind.) finds "eood mih" fn, hi tnand that the people chiefly concerned in mese negotiations shall not be "obliged to wait until th. d beinfir discussed at length in J nan ftlf) through via Japanese news channels." cvcmuaiiy, me cpoKane spokesmen Re view (Ind. Rep.) points out, the state department, "If it Is to get anywhere mini juj rcjjuira agreement witn Japan, must "bring it into the open." Therefore : "It would seem that Mr. rdhv min. about his undertaking in the wrong man ner. An attitude of frankness and non concealment would seem more effective. certainly it wouia De more consonant with the spirit of American government" In the ODinlon of the Calumhua St"th!n1 Dispatch (Ind.). however, Johnson is merely "stirring up unnecessary friction" which may react injuriously by forcing the people of California to yield more "to the Judgment of the country as a whole" than would have been the case had they refrained "from throwing mon key wrenches into the machinery of con ciliation." . It la this appearance of an attempt on the part of California "to dictate na tional policies' which is most strongly opposed by papers not In the Immediate battleground. To the Rochester Times Union (Ind.) "it would seem that the rest of the country ought to have some thing to say about the matter," and the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Ind. Dem.) feels this way : "Senator Johnson should realise that he himself does not enjoy a monopoly on Americanism and that California is not the only state In the Union. The treaty between Japan and the United Slates is not to be considered on the basis of Johnson or . California statesmanship, but on that of American statesmanship. The questions Involved are of national and international pro portions." The question, as the Buffalo Express Ind. Rep.) sees it, "is whether the ideas of a group of California politicians should direct the policy of a nation, or whether it should be representative of the entire country." That question can be answered oniy In a refusal to allow California "to impose her special ob session on the United States." However, this theory that the Japanese Problem is the "sneoial nWlnn" nf California and the coast is emphatically rcj.ui.ea oy western writers, "it is pure ly a matter of geography that this state natipcn 10 oe. on . ine uring line in the oresent contrnverav" aava th. mento Union (Ind.). Far from being a iocai issue, tne union continues, "it is fundamentally a mitt,, fn. . n t concern, and only, the erase ignorance of tne eastern section or the nation pre vents the general realization of this fact." Preciselv hemiimi "th raaearllA IT California, in fighting their battle for ..Siamese exclusion, are out ngntina; the battle of future American civilization." the Los Antrelea ELrnreas tin A Honing. the Morris-Shidehara agreement, which 11 Deneves "is rar irom a statesmanlike settlement of the -issues involved," and it insists UDOll nesrotiatinna 'that Innvlv. no surrender, of vtfal American rights to jauaaese diplomatic trlumpo." --..-- .. What the pending agreement proposes, aCCOrdinS tO th Clevalanit Via In rvei. (Ind. Dem.). Is "general alien land ownership laws applicable to all aliens." With this settlement "the people of the United States should be more than satis fied." the- Turner tveliev.ii aln "fh. United States is really yielding nothing" and the Pacific coast secures the protec tion 11 aemaoas. jrurther, California most' of all Should wnlmma in ,mn. ment which gives her the substance of wnat snvna clumsily soua-ht." Denying that Jattan ham fveen A i o criminated against in the matter of land ownership, the San Francisco Chronicle tina." .maintains mat in any event "our domestic laws are no loritimita nn.n of Japan" and that "the California' law should not even ha riiunMti. v-ok Japan." And the Fresno Republican vina. 1 insists mat whatever the terms of the treatv mav nrnv tn V h. Jananese immierration nuaatinn niut v. determined by American statute and not oy treaty. v . , This doctrine, reiterated by California representatives and nn.u in th eas.i negotiations looking toward an equitable settlement, leads th Syracuse Post Standard (Ren.) to comment that tti. Japanese menace has its capital In Sac ramento, not in Tokio. The brewers of trouble are not the shrewd and silent Japanese, but the noisily provocative Hearsts and Johnsons." Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places Hula danclne. Inner hail itm aiataKltai.. aohnftl for tH. tralalnr rP A . n ,H - J . ... , ...m insi the suggestive dance it is today, having been a religious rite of the ancient Ha waliana. To them the hula. ArvimlAii tv.. place Of our concert hall, lecture room, opera and theatre, and was their chief means of sooial . enjoyment, i The Ha waiian Dernetuated their next an1 In- Spired pure sentiment and lofty purposes uj uiis uancing, x ne aancers were high ly paid artists, not feecause It was held In disrenute. but bateau 4h art n th hula was an accomplishment of special education ana arduous training in both song and dance, mostly for religous pur- poses. As a religions matter the hula dance was te guard atgainst profanation by the observance f various religious rite. . The entire -ceremonies were the result, of premeditation and organized effort, the dancer being selected with great care from, the flower of the land, including the most bwautiful and physi cally perfect. The actors represented gods and goddesses of old earth - come back again." , Letters From the People f Cotnmnnlcatiooa aM to The Journal for pobltcaUoa in tbia depatttaaot should be written on onry on side of the paper; abould not exceed 80S word in lenctk. and must be eigned by tb writer, wboae mail addreaa ia full must accom pany tba oootribotion. ) A REMONSTRANCE Against County Commissioners' Contract for Use of Steel Bridge. Portland. Feb. 22. To "the- Editor of The Journal Following is me text of -a protest I have filed with the auditor of Multnomah county, which I ask. you kindly to publish in The Journal, in the public interest : Portland. Or.. W.h it 1981. -Tkfr. R B. Martin. County Auditor of Multno mah County, Portland. Or. Dear Sir : I. me undersigned, for me best inter ests of the taxpayers of Multnomah county, do respectfully present me fol lowing remonstrance and protest in the matter of me payment of rent of the upper aecK or aie bteel bridge, owned oy tne u-w. it. V is . uo. and tne Jre son & California Railroad com Dan v : January 18, litis, the Multnomah board of county commissioners entered into a ve years' contract to pay a yearly rental of $4.8,867.96, or n monthly rental of S4072.S3. the owners at this time agreeing, to this contract for me total rental or Jl8.867.96 for five years. June 15, 1920, a new contract was entered into with tho railroad comoany and the present board of county com missioners, agreeing to pay mem tne sum of 162.250 annually, with a deDre- ciation clause of S700 to be naid on me' eignteenin aay oi January, izi, ana at tne ena or eacn succeeding year a sum arrived at by multiplying the $700 by me number of years-the bridge deck had been used by me county under this agreement, until .aid number reached So years; that ia to say, $1400 for the second year, $2100 for the third year. ana so on unui io years nave oeen ex hausted. I. the undersi&-nd. resTjectfullv state that I reside in Multnomah county and am over me age cf tl. and that I am a taxpayer of this county and have Dten sucn a taxpayer tor a long period, and aa such a taxpayer I believe in. all legitimate improvements and all neces sary expenses appertaining to said Aiuunoman county ana state or uregon. but I am opposed to all unnecessary expenses imposed unon the taxpayers. especially whon ih's expenses become a burden upon the taxpayers of said county and state, snd when manifestly unjust and are incurred as a special favor to any person or corporation. The original contract. &.DDarentlv. was based on m actual cost of the upper deck to me railroad company, and ir the sum of $48,Sb7.i(6 annual rent was a sufficient amount for the railroad com pany for a five-year contract, I am at a loss to Know wny tne board or county commissioners should enter Into a con tract to rav this additional amount above quoted. At the end of 35 years. under the new contract, the denrecia lion would amount tc $444,uuu, and in terest at e aer cent would add an ad ditional amount of $26,460: besides, the annual rental of SG2.250 for 35 years would amount to J.l76.7aO : adding de preciation and interest mis would amount to $2,645,210. If Vhls contract Is upheld and continued for 35 years, it will mean that the taxpayers of this county will nave paid the railroad com pany for the use of the upper deck of mis structure not cmy me total origl nal cost of the same as agreed uoon January 15, 1915, and upon which the contract or rnat date was based, togetn er with interest on mis total amount, at the same rate the railroad secured the money for, but in addition to this the new contract assures to the railroad company a nonus approximating the sum or $s3a,sto a tiay sum ror tne sorely burdened taxpayer to give up wnen mere is no earmiy necessity for it. I protest and remonstrate against the payment of mis new contract, and re spectfully request mat you decline and refuse to honor nnd pay any. amount or this claim, snd in mis l aek ail good citizens and taxpayers of Mult nomah county to forcibly express them selves upon mis matter, in the name and for me (rood and welfare of the enure community. Jttobert j. juincen. ABOUT THE FARM BUREAU Objection Raised to the Twenty Per Cent Non-Farmer Membership, ' Barlow, Feb. 21. To the Editor of The Journal I nave read in various papers mat the Farm bureau leaders freely admit that through me activities of the Farm bureau the rising tide of the Non-partisan league will be stemmed. I ' ha va. tried my best to learn all mat I can about me Farm bureau, its policies and means of oper ating ; hence, iuch ignorance as I may possess is not willful. Every article I have read about the bureau, and every speaker advocating, has insisted mat the Farm bureau is entirely non-parti san mat none of its officers can run for office while lidding positions in the Farm bureau. The Non-partisan league is entirely a political organization of men and women who are united at the ballot te elect candidatae who are pledged to work and vote for measures and plat forms that me members of me league have formulated. If I am correct In ray definitions of the two organizations, then there . is, or should be, no conflict between the two. - Rather, they should work har moniously toward a common end the betterment of the conditions of the masses. Acting under this belief, I was one of . the first to join, and pay dues in this country 1 the Farm bu reau. - There are many things in the Farm bureau that I and, I believe, many other farmers will object to when they learn the entire situation. The consti tution of the national federation al lows 20 per cent not-fafmers to join. Just why a lawyer, banker or editor should Joiri "The Karm "bureau is beyond me, unless for ulterior motives. And why should we Invite him? I know a number of these fellows,' and am a reasonably good fellow; yet, t& date, I have never had an Invitation 'to Join a bankers' club, or , a. newspaper or ministerial association., wny not 7 it is almost axiomatic that one shrewd, unscrupulous lawyer can raise more hell in a. farmer's' meeting than 99 farmers can correct. Suppose the farmers of a given lo cality decided to take aggressive steps to alter certain marketing evils, real or Imagined, and that step necessitated organizing . an exchange store, ware house, etc Wouldn't it be a delightful help to have the warehousemen, 4 ele vator men and storekeepers to me num ber of 20 per cent in the membership? It might happen that about 19 out of the 20 per cent would be in the lines along which' the farmers were taking steps. vSome help! The Farm bureau tells how it de feated the Nolan tax bill by showing me senatorial committee a . referendum of 300,000 against to 2000 for it- The senators got scared and said, "We won't pass it." Suppose they had said. as legislators have lrr the past, "Go home and slop your hogs," or Go to Hades" Would they? Or would they go home and nave another referendum and vote as the -senators say, so as to be sure the senators -were- minding mem? R. E. Cherrick. A .QUERY" AS TO BRADY1" Portland. Feb. 18. To the Editor of The Journal A few weeks ago Portland papers were blazoned with pictures and such headlines as "Billings, Alias Brady. Captured in Seattle. Held as a Suspect of the Talkative Burglar and "Shadow.' " What has ' become : of him? Is he COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Pity the poor railroads! a.-... Dead coyotes are better so. . e e e - "China is " starving.' 4 Did someone steal me chop stick? - Leave it t a "bachelor maid" to tel! you what's wrong with the baby. ' As soon as we're done with congress we'll have baseball to contend with. A Mrs. Markoot delivered a knockout when she clouted a local "masher." e If the crown prince sticks to black smithing he may yet make a man of himself. e Shopping, In the vocabulary of womanhood. . covers a vast number of pastimes. - What great and noble cause is to be' served by an endurance test for motor cycle riders? .. . e a v Housekeepers need no urging to com bat the "smoke nuisance' from grand pa's corncob. e e e Forty-one- Idaho senators : ttt de prived about 401,000 men of the wr'aege of smoking .cigarettes. ' e a .' Documents just found reveal plans to take the Irish war into England. Is there documentary authority for its fre quent invasion of America? : f If Chinese tongs are to terrorize our land with their armed clashes we should follow the home industry prin ciple by extending the license to the Elks and Masons. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Dr. Walter M, Berry of Newport Is in Portland on business. Dr. Berry has been for many years justice of me peace at Newport. He has used his spare time to good-advantage in perfecting several inventions mat are likely to make him well-to-do. One is a -waterproof match, another is a non-rusting preparation for iron and steel, and still another is a self-locking nut. All of these Inventions will prove of decided value when put upon me market. II. E. Tucker of Akron. Ohio, Is at the Benson. Mr. Tucker says the Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and other large rub ber tire companies are Increasing their forces of workmen. When operating at full capacity, these companies employ more man 60,000 men. - Wu Chang of Washington, D. C, Is at the Oregon. One of the reasons why most of the distinguished men from China stop at the Oregon is because the Hotel Oregon is owned by Goon Dip of Seattle and May Back Hin of Portland. f . a Joe Waterman and Bud Ridley of Se attle are spending a few days in Port land, registered at me Oregon. They are not in Portland to attend any pink teas, me little affair they are here to take part In being very much to me contrary. :- John Allen, brother-in-law of M. E. Nolan, the Portland policeman who was wounded by am Insane man a few days ago, is In Portland, with his wife, from Eugene. e e Mrs. Lucy Underhill of Carlton is vis iting her daughter, Mrs. L. Castle, In Portland. " w e Mrs. Fred Lowenberg of Bend Is visit ing at the home of her parents In Port land. ... . r Albany citizens visiting in Portland in clude J. B. Thompson, Mrs. G. J. Eaton. Mrs. Ethel Braden and G. H. CrowelL-'' B. F. Ware of Nam pa, Idaho, Is a Portland visitor and Is registered at the Benson. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miester of Bend are guests at the Hotel Benson. " ... Ray Farmer, pioneer hardware man of Salem, is at the Oregon for a brief visit. . H. H. Earle of Eugene is a Portland visitor. .. . . Joseph Cunha Jr. of Echo Is a guest at the Imperial. Mrs. V. O. Smith of Klamath Falls is registered at the Imperial hotel. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred f Pronheta not without honor In their own country are sketched By air. uocaier two oi til am. One baa tooaded a Bible seuooi or nose and stability; the other la -an authority on A la a Indian. Both are now valued worker in the Oregon section of tba Iord's Ttnayaro. J Eugene C. Sanderson Is president of the Eugene Bible university, which Is immediately adjacent to me University of Oregon. President Sanderson Is the founder of the school and has been at Its head 25 years. His forbears hailed from Scotland. He was born at Greenfield, Ohio. March 25, 1859. He earned money by teaching school to make his way through Oskaloosa college. He was grad uated mere in 1883 with the degree of A. B. After preaching for a year he went to Yale college to take special work. In 1885 he married Prudence Putnam. They came west In 1887, set tling in Washington Territory, where.he became a district evangelist.: Later he became state evangelist. . Realizing the need of better trained preachers, he de cided to found a Bible university. To better fit himself for- the work he went to Drake university. He took post-graduate work there and later at the Uni versity of Chicago. He received degrees from both Institutions as well ava from Willamette university. After the com- nletion of this work he came to Port land and became pastor of the First Chrts- tfin church for a year". He then founded me Eugene Bible university.: This was 25 years ago and from a few rooms of a rented house, where it started. It lias grown until It now has a building worth nearly $200,000, with an endowment of $300,000 and an enrollment of over 200 pupils. He was the moving spirit in me securing of me Home for me Aged at Walla Walla. He never felt quite satis fied.-in teaching eeoeranhy and history of the Holy Land, to get his Informa tion1 at second hand, so he went to Palestine, where he studied the history of that country and of Egypt and Syria, on the ground. He Is the author of "Bible and History Stories" and "Our English Bible." He is president of the Independent College Presidents' associa tion of Oregon. UalfWaw latf as lrtw Ar nn ma 1 It. - AAtlMTiat uu WV Va ,aav -way - Raker county. It has a population of a stUl In ' the city bastlle being sweated by the noble sleuths who ran him down, or did they find upon coming suddenly to me end of the rainbow that someone had beaten them' to their pot of gold? If he wasn't the man wanted, why not be fair enough to give him a wee bit of me notorletv in exonerating him that was so freely' given at . the time of his arrest? One . for, Fair Play. ? Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Anybody might think the experience the people gits of havin' two legislatures a-runnin' at one and the same time and a-crossin' of one another at ever turn 'd teach 'em to abolish the senaM or .the NEWS IN BRIEF . f SIDELIGHTS That's a good' Idea to exempt the president from the income tax. Anybody condemned to that job deserves every cent he gets Roseburg News-Review. - e e Senator Harding seems to be' Inclined to rub it In en General. Leonard wood. After defeating him for the presidential nomination he Insists on making him governor general of me Philippines. Eu gene Guard. i i It Is estimated that there are about 4,000,000 men in this country out of em ployment, but country editors are not In cluded. The income of me news gatherer may, decrease but never his hours of toil. La Grande Observer. i . , e e e i People who. retire at 70 will likely file In three years, eays Edison. If retiring at still earlier ages haa the same effeot we wonder why some Corvallla men are still alive. A lot ef them have been re tired all their lives. Benton County Courier. , a . ! -;.- N. B. That means "take notice." I Our kitchen and dining room la tha press room. It Is private. Just please keep out. unless invited in. Also do not read copy lying on the cases. That Is also as private as a letter until published. Tual atin Valley Newt. e ."-!.'-,-.- The Oregon Journal ia to be congratu lated on its articles on Japan, which have been a dally feature. Former United States Intelligence Officer Martl nek presents his case by submitting Ir refutable facts, and people who read these articles will fully understand- why Japan is called' "me Germany of me Orient." Hood River News. Joseph T. Hlnkle is at the Imperial. "Joe" Hlnkle and "Odd" Teel are me pioneer Irrigationists of Umatilla coun ty. . "We are feeling jubilant up obr way," said Mr. Hlnkle, "over me fact that the appropriation for the construc tion of the McKay creek reservoir has passed both houses and construction will begin shortly. - The appropriation of $420,000 will purchase the land and see the beginning of construction." a . a Rev. and Mrs. R. IL Sawyer of the East Side Christian church returned Saturday from British Columbia, where Mr. Sawyer spent two weeks giving a series of lectures on the Anglo-Israel movement. He occupied his pulpit qn Sunday morning and evening and left for New York. Tuesday, where he will con tinue his work of organization for this movement. He plans to go to London in the spring. , e Captain Robert C. Wygant, formerly of Newport but now of Salem, is in Port land, meeting old-time friends. He has just sold a story to the Red Book for $350 and bids fair to make better known the fame of Oregon as a state which produces writers of national reputation. e. e Ed Locker of Petersburg is a guest at the Imperial. Petersburg Is on Mitkoff island and is 105 miles from Juneau. It has a population of about 800 and the government school for naUves Is located mere. e . Ben Burton, from John Day, the old time mining district from which mil lions of gold dust have been washed. Is at the Imperial. e e Mrs. H. II. Belt of Dallas, wife of Circuit Judge Belt, is a guest at the Imperial. e Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Barnhltl of Cor vallis are Portland visitors, t f ' R. G. Booth of Astoria Is at the Ben son. " 1 '- - " - e e e Roscoe Neal of La Grande Is a guest at the Benson. ' . . Miss Mildred Klien of Bend is visiting her sister In Portland. Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Henderson of Philomath are visiting In Portland. ...... John Alexander of Glide Is in Portland for a few weeks. e . e e Maurice Cushman and Frank R. Prince of Bend are Portland visitors. M. G. Kirk of Lebanon la a guest at the Oregon. Lockley few hundreds and is in the center of Pine valley. All over the state. In such remote and out of me way places as riai r way, one can run across worth while people people who have plished things. Serving as the pastor of tne fresoyterian church at Halfway Is a man better known outside of Oregon than he is heee at home. His name la Livingston-French Jones. He la an au thority on the language, history, social life, customs and superstitions of the Thlinget Indians of Alaska. James Wickersham, delegate from Alaska in the congress of me United States, says his work is not only a valuable con tribution to me ethnology of the Pacific Indian tribes, but mat it will remain the standard authority on the' life history of the Thlinget. S. Hall Young, of the Presbyterian board of home missions, who for 10 years was a missionary among these Indiana and who has known them Intimately 85 years, says mis book Is an invaluable contribution to eth nological science. Mr. Jones Is also me author of a book entitled Indian Venge ance." in answer to my question, he said:. "I am a native of New Jersey, born at lucKerton. attended tbe university and seminary at Princeton, N. J., and in me spring of 1891 I was ordained a minister. ? Not long after being ordained I went to Alaska, where I served 21 years as a missionary with the Thlinget Indians. Later I had charge of a -mission field in Idaho, and for the past year I have been pastor of the Pine Val ley. Presbyterian church. I had a won derful experience in Alaska and brought back with me, in addition to my mem ories of that land of mystery and charm, a collection of slides, to illustrate my lectures I till- keep up my interest in Alaska, arid I have a large collection i-of scrapbooks on facts pertaining to that country. When I find time I like to fish and hunt. I belong te the I. O. O. F. and the -L O. O. M. I am a member of me Travel Club of America, aa well aa me Longfellow-society. I married Miss Nellie Shlnn of Sioux City, Iowa. Our only child, Veda, who is a graduate of me College of Idaho. Is a teacher here at Halfway." . house, one osj t'other, and have 'em rid of the wrangle, tangle and turmoil. Howsumever, the 'people's ' like' Breck Soldad in the Ozark mountains of Ar kansaw In me '70s, that got hiaself en gaged to two gals at one and the-same time and got into all kinds of trouble in consequence. He no sooner got lid of the first two than he got two more on the string the same way,, and the only thing he'd say was that he liked that, way of doln 'cause it was go exeitin' and dangersome. ; . IF SHE'S REAL" LUCKY ' ' -T; ., Prom tba Kw Tork .Herald A Nebraska economist estimates that a farmer's wife earns $1001 a year,' Fre quently she get the $4. . The Oregon Country Northwest Happeninca In Brief Forsa lor tb ' Busy Header OREGON NOTES The total number of agricultural stu dents at Oregon Agricultural college is now is. The Hood River county court haa in- fii?i? th "1,r of the fruit Inspector to $2500 a year. n electric canceling machine has been received and placed in operation by me Bend poe toff Ice. Scarlet fever and measles have reached the epidemic stage in several sections of Dougiae county. Plans for a new building to be built by the Sons of Norway lodge of Bend were began this week. Percy A. Stevens post of the American Legion-et Bend haa opened a free em ployment agency. Totaf tax levies in Union county for JTr. 192?.1how "n Increase from $a80.711.23 to $688,849.30. The wool and mohair grower's of T.nne county met at Eugene Monday and or ganised a cooperative Association. The city council and property owners of Rainier have decided to pave Water street, the main business street of the city. The road fund of Columbia county. In cluding some special taxes voted by sev eral road- districts, amounts to almost $200,000. The average cost of Instruction per pupil In the Bend schools for the present year will amount to $97. Last year ths average cost was $74. A new engine haa been purchased bv the Hood River flra department at a roet of $1J,000, and a new fir hall costing $85,000 has been finished and equipped. Archie Warner of Silver Lake has paid a fine of $218.30 to the district office for allowing his sheep to grass on govern ment range without a permit during laat summer. With an aim of 600 members, rf which 300 are to be obtained this week, me Chamber of Commerce launched a drive in Koseburg and surrounding communi ties Monday. Farm bureau representatives from all parts of the state have been at work the past week obtaining members 'among tha farmers of Columbia county. A total of 456 was signed. - Fellow prisoners In the state peniten tiary contributed $70 to enable me mother of George Howard to pay a last visit to her son, who dies on the gallows Friday morning. John McCtte, an- expert logger em ployed by me Weetern Export at Logging company near Cottage Grove, was in stantly killed last week when he was struck by a falling tree. WASHINGTON Yakima's honorably dlnrhargsd veter ans to the number ef lMt hag asked for their share of the state soldier bonus fund. Over 400 members have been secured In the annual membership drive of the Yakima county farm bureau, with a goal set' at 4000. Falling backward from a table five feet to (the floor, Ole Thompson of Hpo kane received a fractured skull and may lose his life. Mra Duncan McDonald, aged -25, is dead at her home in Hpokane from blood poisoning, resulting from a scratch re ceived seven weeks ago. Melon Northrop and Tony Tederson, with their wives, were arrested at We natchee on Illicit liquor chargea and fined $150 each , and casta, a total of $850. i .. Maiden and Endicott. In Whitman county, hre said to have the highest tax levy of jail me incorporated towns of Eastern Washington. The levy in each town is 72 mills. While! handling a rlfte. Mrs. Fred Rohrbach, living near Oakesdaie, was accidentally shot, me ball entering her shoulder; glancing downward and com ing out St the hip. The- Washington state board of con trol has apportiAned to Stevens county for this year 7525 grain aacks manufac tured at me Walla Walla penitentiary. The price is 12 Vs cents f. o. b. One of two men held at Everett on suspicion of having robbed the bank at Lake 8tevens has been identified as H. O. Simpson, who joined the Cen tralia lodge of Elks a few months kgo. - Ruth Howe, widow of 1L B. Howe, who was kHUd last fall In an automo bile accident near Thornton, has started suit for $25,000 against Whitman county and Peter Zounik. Howe was killed by a car driven by Zounik. Orders for men are being received at the Spokane municipal employment bu reau at the rate of 32 a day and regis tration of unemployed heude of fam ilies haa decreased from 79 on Decem ber 1 to: about 860. IDAHO - The Sawtooth Motor company has been organized at liailey with a capital of $50,000. The thermometer at Burley registered 18 degrees below zero Sunday night, me coldest of the winter. Sixty-three bushels of corn per acre Is the record recently reported by W. II. Hall, a Rupert farmer. The planing mill of the Bolse-PayettA Lumber icompany at Emmett is now running with a large force of men. D. C. O'Leary suffered Internal In juries and a broken back when he fell from a car of logs at the Humblrd mill at Sandpoint. The postal department has Invited bids for a steamed, lighted and com pletely equipped of flee, including a vault, for the Orofiuo postofflce. Frank Sikkerman. aged 40, was In stantly killed and Albert Olson, 30, was fatally Injured by a premature blast en the 200-foot level vof the Hercules mine at Burke. The annual report of the Lapwal In dian agency shows that during 1920 In come from sales of heirship lands, rent als of allotments and other revenues ex ceeded $1,200,000. Officers of me Boise Builders' Ex change announce that in an effort to stimulate the building of homes In Southern Idaho, a new wage scale will be put into effect March 1. kinow youi PORTLAND The Paylflft Telenhnne ATeleerenh company .estimates that Portland at the end of me next five years will be 27 per cent larger man at me present time. -This estimate is based upon an ex haustive survey, .The population will then be 313,315, an Increase of 65,600, me ' company believes. , The number of telephones will be Increased by 18,500. The number of telephones in use in Portland on January 1 this year was 67.843, and 2009 additional orders were then un filled. If me 1920 census accurately cred ited Portland with 258,288 people, this means there are one and a fraction telephones to every four people reel dent In the city. Every day In Portland there are 380,000 calls over the telephone and each call consumes an average length of two minutes. In other words, Port land's 'collective 'dally telephone con versations consume 12,000 hours, or me talking equivalent of 500 daya of 24 hours each crammed Into the lim its of 24 actual hours. In addition to the local telephone conversation, there are on the aver age 400 long distance calls each day. - One thousand . young women are kept busy answering and connecting Portland's telephone calls. An article tomorrow will giVe an Idea of me mechanical equipment nec essary In. order to meet the demand for telephone conversation In Port land, . .