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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,, lfi21.
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Quarrela would not laat lone if the fault
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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."
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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!
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Dead coyotes are better so.
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"China is " starving.' 4 Did someone
steal me chop stick?
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Leave it t a "bachelor maid" to tel!
you what's wrong with the baby.
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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."
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If the crown prince sticks to black
smithing he may yet make a man of
himself.
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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?
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v Housekeepers need no urging to com
bat the "smoke nuisance' from grand
pa's corncob.
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Forty-one- Idaho senators : ttt de
prived about 401,000 men of the wr'aege
of smoking .cigarettes.
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Documents just found reveal plans to
take the Irish war into England. Is
there documentary authority for its fre
quent invasion of America? :
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mrs. Lucy Underhill of Carlton is vis
iting her daughter, Mrs. L. Castle, In
Portland. "
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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. "
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Ray Farmer, pioneer hardware man of
Salem, is at the Oregon for a brief visit.
.
H. H. Earle of Eugene is a Portland
visitor.
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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.
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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.
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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 . ,
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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. ,
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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.
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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."
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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Ben Burton, from John Day, the old
time mining district from which mil
lions of gold dust have been washed. Is
at the Imperial.
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Mrs. H. II. Belt of Dallas, wife of
Circuit Judge Belt, is a guest at the
Imperial.
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Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Barnhltl of Cor
vallis are Portland visitors, t
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' R. G. Booth of Astoria Is at the Ben
son. " 1 '- - " -
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Roscoe Neal of La Grande Is a guest
at the Benson. '
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Miss Mildred Klien of Bend is visiting
her sister In Portland.
Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Henderson of
Philomath are visiting In Portland.
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John Alexander of Glide Is in Portland
for a few weeks.
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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, . .