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! THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1921. 5 AX rvpEPENUKT NEWSPAPER i U. 8 JACKSON i ...... . . Publisher t B v-Im ha eonfirfant. he eheerf ill and do MB i others yon would hare thm do unto you-) i Insbllshed .ry wees day and Sunday morning I Th Journal building, Broadway and Xam- I I f I ! fcntr.d t th. rmtsJI t- ! Portland. Oregon. for trinsmiasion through tha mail aa second clam matter. I TELi-PMONKS Mam 7173, AstomatkS 6SO-S1. All departmenta reached by tha mnmbers. NATIONAL atrVJEKTlSI-NU KEPKfcSEMTA- TIVJ& Benjamin Kentnor Co.. Braramrl Building 22o Fifth avenue. New York; 900 MaJlera Building, Chicago. PACIFIC COAST HKPKE8ENTATITB W. B. Baranger Co Examiner BuUding, San Fran etaco; Title Inauranc. Building. Los Angeles; rVwt-Intelligencer Building. Heartl. 7.UH OlikAiOS JOUH.SAL reaerree tha riant to reject advertising copy whirl) it drama Ob Jectkmabla. 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To be thrown on one own resources ia to be east on tha rery lap of fortune, for our facultioa undergo a development ana L dixplay an energy of which they were pre- THE VACANT CHAIR AMERICAN trade with China and the Philippines is thre'atened by Japanese control of the island of Tap. American rights to part of the oil supply of Mesopotamia are im periled by the British mandate over that country. Yap is an indispensable factor in the operation of any cable to the Orient. Communication with them is an indispensable factor in carry ing on successful trade with the peoples beyond the Pacific. America in general, and the Pacific coast in particular, has big expectations of profitable trade development with China and neighboring countries. Japan has present control of the island of Yap, and it is planned for that control to be permanent. The arrangement comes through the man date given Japan by the influence of Great Britain and France in the League of Nations. It was given without American consent because America's chair at the council table of the league is vacant. America has protested against the action, but with what effect is conjecture. Great Britain's mandate over . Mcopotamia is held by the British government as giving it the right to treat the oil fields much the same . as a domestic resource to the exclu sion of America if so desired. It iwas through the failure of America to continue - as a participant in European diplomacy that her right to be considered in Mesopotamia is questioned. America has vigorously protested, but with the great Euro pean powers in close agreement throush the League of Nations and with the united front they are thus able to present against American representations, the issue remains very much in doubt. Mesopotamia and the island of Yap are at the disposition of the allies because the allies won the war. It is on the fact that America helped win the war -if we did not actually win it after it had been lost that our country has a Just claim to equal rights with all other nations in the matters in dispute. That America will be at a disad vantage in many other important . matters if a policy of isolation is to be maintained, is altogether prob able. The very close contact with eacn other by the big nations of Europe will give them a community of interest in which they will se cretly if not openly throw their In fluence to one another in trade and other great affairs of human de velopment. Presently, when One vivacious veteran meets another, the exchange of compliments will be, "Ah, I see you've Just glanded; ain't it grand and glorious?" OVER THE HILL TOP AN IRON grey team of horses driven by "a sturdy farmer turned clean cut furrows of Wil lamette valley soil in near view from the electric train Thursday. . One of the horses trod the turf lightly, his neck arched, his head high, as If, looking over the nearby. low rounded summit In the "sunshine of that day, he welcomed the advent of spring.; j . But his team mate went soberly along-. his head down, his eyes upon the furrow In which he stepped. Flying near the earth and filling the air with their calls, a flock of ribald crows shaped its course for a landing field, ' where the tender green of new grown wheat .was a banquet spread. But a hawk, hold ing tight to a; middle branch of a hazel bush, was looking for a mouse and gave no sign that the warming rays were pleasant to his somber feathers. In the meadow, long Jailed tiny lambs gamboled gayly as if the play ground world into which they had Just been ushered was altogether to their liking. But their fleece-burdened parents, looking staidly on, showed, neither by leaj nor motion, that once they had been careless lambs. But the doubting Thomases of the animal world, were all at once ruled out of the court of Nature. At the side of a valley stream, with ear turned to its purl and gurgle, but with eyes only for a rod and its flickering line, a truant was yield ing to the first impulse which follows the passing of winter. The horse wlt:h head held high, the crows, the lambs and the angler were right. A new grace is about to preside over fields and cities. Clayton S. Cooper, of W. R. Grace & Co., says that no other field offers such opportunities to men of every line of training as foreign trade. Oregon's students of foreign trade today will be tomorrow's commerce leaders. HEAVEN ON EARTH? IT HAS not been long since a noted American mathematician an nounced, and cited laws of numbers and physics to prove it, that man could never fly. It was only a few months later that "the Wright broth ers, in a heavler-than-alr machine, glided into the air at Kitty Hawk and flew over the dunes of the Caro lina coast. The feats of-the Wright brothers were followed by others. Bleriot crossed the English channel. Gar ros crossed the Mediterranean. JAt wood flew from St. Louis to New York, and Curtiss rose from and lighted on the water. In those days few men were flying. They flew short distances. There Was no certainty as to their fate when they went aloft. Today thousands of men are fly ing. They have crossed bays, chan nels, oceans and continents. The element of danger has been tremendously reduced. And now we have the mail of the United States carried across the continent in 33 hours and an aviator crossing in less than 23. There are those in this country reading of the feats of the airmen who will remember their own trips by pack animal and ox-drawn wagon. They will remember days spent on boats of many forms. They will hark back to the construction of the firstgreat American highway that was looked upon as a big era in the development of transportation. They will remember the whistle of the first construction trains and the rejoicing, the coming of the bicycle and the automobile. And now they read of the airplane, carrying mail and passengers, needing no roads, no rails, no rivers, and crossing the continent in ,a day. And where will it all stop? When is the headlong rush of the world for improved devices of transporta tion, communication and commerce to be arrested? What are the pos sibilities of the future? The airplane is but an infant, born 18 years ago, but it has outdistanced old and formidable rivals. In that short period it has grown from a mere experiment to the conveyor of mails and men. Its development has not, unfor tunately, been without sacrifice. Thousands of men have died and thousands of machines been wrecked in experiments. But thousands of men were drowned and thousands of ships went to the bottom of the seas before the present state of security on the oceans was reached. In the centuries between the Santa Maria of Columbus and the giant Bismarck of today thousands of sailormen left port, never to return, Just aa bold i men fell into eternity during the few years spanning the time between the night of Wilbur Wright and the feat of the aviators this week. But perils are the Tric of progress and sacrifice the basis of civilization. We look backward today over the developments of the years and wonder how the man of yesterday ever surmounted his hardships We look forward and wonder if the man of the future will live-, in a heaven on earth. South Africa Is on of the few regions where exports .have far over balanced Imports. And it Is spoken of as one place that failed to discover the exlste'hce of world-wide business depression. THE WASHERWOMAN OHB is a washerwoman. Her face glowed and she was full of enthusiasm as she described to her mistress the pleasure she had at one of the Sunday afternoon pop ular concerts of the Portland sym phony orchestra. She was happy in the thought, that the tickets of ad mission were within her reach. The , delights of music are as precious to poverty as to plutocracy, often more sos The; soul that music fills with exaltation doesn't always dwell In marble halls. 'At' the Heilig, when the girls sang "Suwanee j River," , and ; when, with other melody, they reduced the big audience to submission at the "High Cost of Loving" performance, there was as much appreciation and re sponse In the high galleries as in the boxes. It was a Joyful moment when all of the big audience was deathly silent under the spell of the singers, followed by a great burst of applause at the finis. Music and home and country are a great triple alliance. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey where hearthstones are mixisicless and na tional" life without j folk songs and national airs. This washerwoman is a type and a priceless type. Her silent songs at her tub and the music of her soul are one great stone in the founda tion of the republic. Another marvel appears in the apparatus by which two or more conversations can be carried on si multaneously over the same wireless set. A conversation between wire less stations at Cape Cod and Avalon, Catalina islands, 4300 miles, with operators between listening in and joining In the talk, recently demon strated the effectiveness of the new invention. What will the genius of man next present to civilization? HOOVER'S ACCEPTANCE THE country may confidently ex pect an unusual and effective administration of the department of commerce under Mr. Hoover. The outstanding feature of his work will be comprehension of the business in hand. His mind in all his past endeavors has invariably ex hibited a broad understanding of the thing he was trying to do. There was no blazed trail to fol low when he took up Belgian relief. He had to chart his own course, to provide his -own organization and to carry on his work under almost In superable obstacles. But in the end the whole world marveled at the ef fectiveness with which results were accomplished. Food administration was a new thing in America when Mr. Hoover entered upon that tremendous and complicated undertaking. Processes had to be evolved, organization cre ated and the great problem of induc ing more than 100,000,000 people to conserve food and to get the savings from that conservation speedily into the hands of armies and peoples 4000 to 10,000 miles away was a task of extraordinary responsibility. Christendom knows whats hap pened. At a desk in a little room in Washington, a quiet man worked with figures, cast up balances, coolly directed subordinates, and presently vast stores of conserved foodstuffs began to flow Europeward. It was one of the great achievements of America in the war. It is fair to assume that the con structive mind that guided this large undertaking can now apply to the problems in the department of commerce the same grasp of facts, the same perspective of Amer ican business as related to the world and the same genius for organiza tion and administration that it ap plied to its larger tasks In the past. It is a fortunate incident that Mr. Hoover has been offered and has ac cepted the position. There are those who will say that the Missourian who has never taken a drink, never chewed tobacco, never smoked, neVer sat in a game of cards, never rolled the dice, never drank coffee, never flirted, and until last week had never been kissed, has missed a lot in life. But Dickens answers: "There are times when ig norance is bliss indeed." FOR THEIR OWN SAKE FRATERNITIES and sororities should, for their own sake, aban don the more rigorous forms of ini tiation ceremonies. At Salem a young woman is con fined to her bed and two pthers are suffering painful bruises as a result of the initiation rites undergone to become members of a secret society. It is not infrequent that youths are seriously injured during such cere monies. Some have died. Such eventualities reflect on the organizations. A smouldering pub lic sentiment already exists, as a heritage of past isolated abuses, against secret societies, and instances wherein members, are injured in foolhardy rites serve to awaken a more acute antagonism. Less vigorous ceremonies wherein the peril of accidental injury is min imized would not in any way work to the disadvantage of the organiza tion, and would do much to blot out opposition to the existence of secret societies. A professor of banking in. an Eastern university uses two columns of a New York paper to. discuss "Why Money Rates Are High" with out finding the answer to his own question. It can be put into a sen tence so many people want so much of it and their credits are out of proportion to the size of the loans they seek. . Ex-Governor Lowden had upset things politically. He refused to be come secretary of the navy because he had no "training in naval affairs." Next thing we know somebody will suggest that the attorney general should know something about law. BRINDELL AND HIS GRAFT Crooked Labor Leader's Sentence 'a Source of Great Satisfaction to Ed itors Who at .ne Same Time Criti cise Mc Gompers for Publicly Noting That Crooked Builders Were Merely Fined for Their Offenses. Daily Editorial Digest : (Consolidate Press Association) While most of the press of the country agrees with the Baltimore Sun (Ind. Dem.) that "nothing has happened In the country since the armistice" that will afford more satisfaction" than the con viction of Robert P. Brindell, president of the Building Trades council of New York city, a wide range of views is ex pressed as to what the effect of the scan dal will be upon labor. Mr. Gompers' complaint that "grafters among employ ers" have been let off with fines while a 'labor man" has been the only one thus far sentenced, meets with little sym pathy. The crimes of this man who rose from dock laborer to "czar" of the building trades are thus summed up by the Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.) : "He blackmailed builders. He held laboring men as serfs, exploiting them for selfish, sordid ends. He debased the whole craft of honest labor by submitting it to his manipulations and making it the uncon scious tool for his schemes of graft. He raised the rents of innumerable citizens who, in the last analysis, had to pay the cost of his depredations." His conviction the New York Tribune (Rep.) sees as a "hopeful sign" that "society is still able to protect itself from the most subtle efforts of cunning wickedness to prey upon it," and the New York World (Dem.), which had much to do in stirring up the investiga tion, rejoices that "New York is a bet ter city to live in for this justice that has been done." As to the exposure of Brindell's ac tivities and their effect upon employers and labor in general, the Providence Tribune (Ind. Rep.) believes they will at least be an "eye opener" for "members of the trade everywhere" and for con tractors "who may be willing to pay trib ute to some such grafter as Brindell, when, instead, they should help send him to the penitentiary." Organized labor everywhere, the Tribune believes, has been done "an irreparable injury." The Buffalo Commercial (Ind.) sees in the affair an argument for the "open shop" : "Here we have an illuminating exam ple," it says, "of how closed shop unions have been conducted and how their mem bers have been mulcted to enrich drones who do not work themselves but rely upon their power in organized labor circles to extort money from employers who accept the closed shop principle." The Rochester Herald (Ind.) expresses the hope that "the lesson of this will be taken at the full meaning by the work ers" and will teach them that "a labor organization which does not honestly and consistently strive to promote the mutual benefit of both employers and workers is the enemy of both." However, it add a "the employers were equally guilty with Brindell" and 'infinitely more to be de spised." A similar view is expressed by the New Haven Journal Courier (Ind.) in demanding that "a correct emphasis" be laid upon the "corrupt labor leader." H should not be accepted "impulsively, aa a type," thus establishing all labor lead ers as "scoundrels." Two "lessons" are pointed out: First, it will give builders "courage" to resist the demand for bribes the giving of which makes them share the guilt, and, second, it demonstrates that members of organized labor" must ' watch the steps of their agents." The New York Ulobe (Ind.) also feels that labor isn't to blame, for "the treachery of a labor union official is comparable with that of an elected political official. and if the labor official goes wrong he no more discredits labor unionism that the grafting political official discredits political government." The Grand Rap- ias tieraia (Kep.) believes that "orsran ized labor in the United States is stronger" for the conviction of Brindell. It is the fact that Mr. Gompers re marks sounded less like speeding the parting criminal than excusing him that aroused unfavorable comment in the press. The Worcester Telegram (Ren.) declares that this attempt to "hold up as a maryr for labor, a man who ex ploited labor for himself alone should be resented and repudiated first of all by the labor unions themselves," and the New York Mail (Ind.) sounds the warn ing that "the best thing trade unionism can do is to wash its hands of him for good and all," and what the country was entitled to hear from Mr. Gompers, be cause of his fine record in the"war, was "a clarion call to his followers to weed out from their midst any leaders who were bringing, or who were likely to bring, as much odium on the name of or ganized labor as Brindell did." The New York Times' (Ind. Dem.) "satisfaction" over the sentence is "pain fully abated" over the manner in which the conviction "was received" by other labor leaders. It remarks: "The great weakness in the cause of organized labor has been Its lack of responsibility, both financial and moral. Until It somehow makes itself responsible for the agree ments it signs, 'collective bargaining must remain a term without meaning; and until it protects itself against the seizure of its power by men of the Brin dell stamp it cannot expect its just cause and its aspirations to command general respect and sympathy." a The Times is not the only paper which, after expressing its "satisfaction" in the outcome of the trial, felt called upon to revise some of its opinions after the Gompers statement. The Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.) considers his remarks "un worthy" and the New Yprk World (Dem.) shows the difference between Brindell and the "grafting employers," who "did not invent his system" but "weakly yielded to.it when they should have fought it but the situation was none of their own seeking. The parallel to Brindell on the employers' side is not the contractors but Hettrick." Crime is punished, it concludes "for the sake and safety of the community." What good would it do to lock up hundreds of build ers "whose crime consisted In giving up graft to a crooked labor leader as a con dition of staying in business?" ; 1 Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places The lens of the Navesink (N. J.) bea con light incloses a powerful electric arc But, generally speaking, kerosene is the preferred illuminant for lighthouses. It is burned in so-called "oil vapor" lamps, which are really svonderful contrivances, with several concentrrc wicks, the va porized kerosene being supplied to in candescent mantles, a lens of the kind here referred to is built of glass prisms arranged in panels, the object in view being to concentrate the light into a beam of maximum brilliancy and range. Some lighthouse lenses are so arrange as to revolve, a contrivance of the sort, weighing perhaps 8000 pounds, being floated on mercury and thereby turned so easily that a small bit of clockwork actuated by a 100-pound weight will op erate it. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Lots of farmers in Oregon is a-jinin" these here new farm bureaus to learn how to farm better and market better. which is all good enough. Mebby If the farmers gits together awhile they'll look into the way a farmer's fined more fer puttin' a new coat or paint onto his house, or gittin him a new fence, than if he was ketched steal in' chickens or makin moonshine oi. somethln. Mebby some of them farm bureaus'll appint a committee to investigate and report on how It is that ever time a settler makes a go of it in a track of wild land the epec'lator raises nuttim but weed seeds and varmints and the price on his idle land. Ma, 'lows she's gottwo bureaus in the house and don't want to see no new ones, but she didn't stop milkin" long enough to understand the feller that was talkin' up one fer the Corners. Letters From the People Communications ta to Tha Journal for publication in this department should ba written on only one side of the paper; should not exceed 800 words in length, and must be aimed by tha writer, whoa mail address in full must aoeom pany tha contribution. ) FREE SPEECH IN HISTORY And How Certain Men, Now Revered, Were Manhandled in Their Day. Portland, Feb. 23. To the Editor of The Journal The Journal is deserving of the thanks of this city for its fearless stand for the great American principle of free speech, free press and free as eernbly. Such a newspaper is an asset to any city and should have the support and good will of those who are trying to keep Portland in the metropolitan class and out of the sinkhole of pro vincialism where the Pecksniffers .are doing their beet to place her. The suppression of free speech is no new thing. It antedated the struggle for Independence, when the colonists were striving to redress their wrongs. Then as now there were pseudo-patriots who were sounding the alarum bells every time a town meeting was held, for fear the government might be over thrown by force and violence. It would be interesting to know which side those super-patriots who are against free speech here in Portland would be on had they lived in Washington's day. Would they have been with the colonists in their fight for "no taxation without rep resentation," or would they have been with the bunch that steered its course for Halifax? Where would they have stood when William Lloyd Garrison, with a rope around his neck, was thrown into jail by a howling mob, with a mayor at its head? Would they have been against free speech and a free press on that memorable night in Alton, 111., when the newspaper of the immortal Lovejoy was wrecked and himself mur dered like a rabid dog? I for one do not believe, and will not believe, that the people of Portland are willing to sacrifice a constitutional privilege writ ten and guaranteed by the blood of those who died and suffered at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge, at the behest of. self appointed censors. No, indeed. Ameri cans who are worthy of the name will say with the Roman emperor of old, "Me you can destroy, but you cannot intimi date." In these days of misbegotten and cor rupt schemes that are springing up on every side Americanism is beginning to take on a cent per cent value, an idea that had its origin in Wall street. , a place that is base and vile to every liberty-loving American. If there Is any thing in Americanism, it is something to feel proud of, and one would no more boast of tt than he would of his re ligion : and, what is more, he would be ashamed if another did in his presence. Let us take a backward look and see If some people in Portland are not about 300 years behind the times. It followa R. Harrigan. PORTLAND AND ALASKA What an Old Sitka Paper Reveals of Former Business Relations. Portland. Feb. 22. To the Editor of The Journal As a resident of Portland who spent some two months In Alaska In the summer of 1920, I was impressed with the fact that one hears little of Portland in Alaska, and not much of Alaska in' Portland. Colonel Mears, in his recent lecture on Alaska at the Chamber of Commerce, touched on the important point of the possibility of Portland's establishing trade relations with Alaska. I was more impressed a few days ago with Portland's opportunity along this line when I had the opportunity of read ing a copy fbt the Alaskan, a weekly newspaper formerly published at Sitka, Alaska. The issue was that for Febru ary 26, 1887, and was a modest 4-page sheet, well-edited, selling for 10 cents a copy. The really interesting thing about this little sheet was the informa tion it contained to show that apparently 84 years ago Portland was pretty well known in Alaska and had considerable direct commercial relations with the Far North. This issue of February 26, 1887, carries several ads of Portland's busi ness houses, such as Olds & King, "dealers in staple and fancy dry goods" ; Woodard & Clarke, "wholesale and re tail druggists," and Corbett & Macleay, "wholesale grocers." What was more important was that the Alaskan carried on its front page standard instructions on "How to Reach Alaska," giving a list of steamers, passenger rates, for both cabin and steerage, and PorUand appears as one of the important ports for Alaska sailings, along with San Francisco, Port Townsend, Wash., and Victoria, B. C. (Seattle not being men tioned!). The Alaska mail left from Portland early in each month on the good ship Idaho, Captain James Carroll commander, and regular stops were made at Alaska ports of Wrangell, Juneau. Kjllisnoo and Sitka, while the Idaho also touched at such settlements as Tongass, Naha and Kassan. The cabin fare from Portland to Sitka was $60, steerage $35. Sitka was then the capital of the territory, and A. P. Swineford was governor. James G. Brady (later governor) was United States commissioner at Sitka, and Shel don Jackson, who later successfully in troduced reindeer from Siberia into Alaska, was then United States educa tional agent. Judging from the advertisements in the Alaskan of that date, Sitka must have been a moderately dry town, for Mr. Berry of the Mayflower billiard hall, "keeps constantly on hand the . best brands of cigars the market affords, and the most excellent quality of mild refreshments." though Abraham Cohen of the Sitka brewery says in his ad vertisement that "pure beer made and on sale at wholesale, expressly and ex clusively for medicinal, mechanical and scientific purposes !" With Portland's successful efforts to ward becoming a world port it would seem wise for her not to overlook Al aska's increasingly important trade. John D, Guthrie. INCOME TAX f Communications concerning income tax prob lems will be answered by Th Journal. All com munications should b addressed to tha "Income Tax . Editor" and should bear the; writer's name and addrena. Question Is war tax paid on railroad tickets. Pullman or any Other trans portation charge deductible? Answer' Yes. Question I am a widower, head of a family, and wholly supporting one daughter. My earnings for 1920 were $1800. Am I required to make out an income tax report? Answer Yea Question Will a person receiving In surance for sickness on which, the premium has been paid by the company he has been working for, have to pay income tax on same? Answer' No. Question I am a locomotive engineer, and am out on the road most of the time. COMMENT AND r SMALL CHANGE Mad Russians should be in Russia. The golf bug has no bite, but some times he gets badly stung. Fortunately, bursting buds will not disturb our Sunday slumbers. What a lot of mournful men there are in the world to die unmourned. In the spring a young man's fingers lightly turn the pages of seed catalogs. a A fellow has no chance to cross his bridges before he comes to them if he sleeps until noon. Bar societies haven't anything to do with the kind of bars you're thinking about. Not any more. . . a A real baseball player rather than a physician might accomplish something in training the Beavers. ... What to send a sick man is the prob lem solved In a new book. The cellar shelf might yield something acceptable. Now that Japan has adopted the "Me und Gott" program, it is said "Deutsch land uber alles" has been translated to "Nippon niche." MORE OR LESS PERSONAL' Random Observations About Town Mike Holllday, conductor on the S. P. St S. has Juat returned from San Diego. While he was there the government sold at auction 78 automobiles and trucks that had been confiscated because used m bringing liquor across the border from Mexico. Bootlegging is not always a profitable enterprise along the Mexican border. D. H. Lenox of Klamath Falls, who has been in business there seven years, has sold out and is in Portland. He was In business tn Roseburg seven years before going to Klamath Falls. C T. Cockburn of Milton, Oregon, a few miles south of Walla Walla, is at the Imperial. J. J. Kllen of Bend is in Portland, call ed here by the serious Illness of his daughter, Mrs Grace TuIL Bascom Doan of Pendleton is in Port land transacting business with the fed eral court, ... Albany people in Portland include Mr. and Mrs. Del Brown, C. -M. Dollarhyde and II. C. Jackson. . . James Henderson of the Centennial City at the mouth of the Columbia is registered at the Multnomah. i- G. A. Parkins of Bend is a Portland visitor. ... F. IL Sanborn of Astoria Is a guest at the Hotel Benson. , . John Tait, laundryman of Astoria, is at the Multnomah. ... E. L. Bobbins of Eugene is a Port land visitor. ... i F. E. Grimes of Corvallis is at the Imperial. ... Mrs. H. D. Thornton of Timber Is reg istered at the Imperial. ... Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cox of Heppner are in Portland. ... . H. D. Jenne of Ontario is at the Hotel Oregon. ... Mr., and Mrs. E. A. Palmer of Mc Mlnnville are guests at the Benson. & Mrs. G. T. Porter of Klamath Falls is visiting relatives in Portland. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Much incitement to thv seafaring way is con tained in the matter which Mr; Locale? her presents. History is drawn upon for lessons relating to the effects of sea traffic upon the great states of times both modera and ancient. 3 Oregon produces a vsst amount of raw material lumber, wheat, wool, hides, hay and other bulky but money yielding products. More and more pf these will find their market in the Far East. The millions of the population I of the vast Orient are prospective customers for our output. ThexOrient beckons. Will Port land heed the call? Now is our oppor tunity to help put the port in Portland. We have the ships and we have the car goes. It's up to us. What is to be our answer ? Andrew Farrell in the last Issue of the Pacific Marine Review tells some bitter truths about our easy-going ways. He says : "In the maritime history of the world one fact shines with singular bright ness: the great sea-going nations have been made great by their: geographical situation. Consider the great seafaring folk of antiquity. The Egyptians inhab ited a narrow, rich river bottom, closed in on either hand by unproductive sands ; the Greeks occupied a small peninsula thrust from continental Europe into the Mediterranean ; the Phoenicians had the sea at their faces, at their backs a desert. From the sea and the sea alone Tyre drew its wealth ; traders from the entire Eastern Mediterranean and be yond gathered at the city to exchange their goods for Cornish tin and other products of the West. Of the early, Babylonians, whose home-was in inte rior Asia, we hear little : the Persians, also dwellers in great areas of land, made themselves somewhat of a naval power by sheer weight of numbers, but they had one sad adventure at a place called Salamis, and thereafter did not fancy the sea overmuch. "Later peoples also serve aa examples. The medieval Italians were noted sea men ; so were the Portuguese and Span iards, all of whom inhabited peninsulas. Two of the leading maritime powers of today, the British and the Japanese, are island folk. The rise of the latter as a maritime people was one of the remark able chapters of the Nineteenth century. Repressive laws hindered and almost de stroyed maritime development for ZOO years ; once those laws were repealed, the rebound of the Japanese, aided by a wise governmental policy, . but aided more by the fact that - a hardy, adven turous race was crowded into a few, small islands, amazed the world. a - "Geographical situation alone has not mads some . peoples seafaring; but no people has become great in tha maritime world without the whip of riecessity driv ing It on. Compare China and Japan, Russia and Greet Britain. China and Russia are two of the great continental nations of the world; a third is the United States. The merchant fleets of Can I deduct my expenses while away from home, and will I have to have re ceipt for bills paid if I do? Will can celled checks be all right? Answer You may deduct as expenses the amounts in excess of any expendi tures ordinarily required for such pur poses when at home. (See treasury de cision 3101). A statement should be at tached to your return showing nature of business, number of days away from home, number of members In family de pendent upon you for 'support, average J NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS Even spring has its drawbacks. A few weeks more and the daylight sav ing cranks will be vocal again. -Eugene Register. The success of Hoover's plans would indicate that deflation has not low ered the American standard of giving. Salem Capital Journal. There Is one thing to be said for the Jap. He never gets on a soapbox, and howls against the constitution, or raises whiskers. Medford Mail-Tribune. After all, the worst thing about the Japs is that they're so darned smart. Whtch is also the main criticism Eu ropeans have always made of Amer icans. La Grande Observer. a When a man follows half a dozen women in line at a cafeteria he almost regrets that he voted for woman suf frage, especially if he has only half an hour for lunch. Roeeburg News-Review. The man who recovers first from the gloom of his bad business, or poor wages, or whatever It was that hit him. is the man who is going to have the most prosperity in the better times that are on their way.' Bend Bulletin. ' Mr. an1 Mm. c v. imr. n. rn- vallia are visiting at the home of Mr. ana jars, f j-iooert A. Hagood. Mr. In galls writes the "idlotfirialii" on th for. Vallis GaxettA.TImoia Knma nf than. topical while others are so tropical they nave to ne typewritten on asbestos paper. xn spue or the idiosyncrasies of his idio torials Ingalls Is a most likable chap. . .. a Hood River Is wall nmraMntail at tha various hotels today. Registered at the Imperial are C. C Anderson. J. W. West, C. W. West, M. M. Hill, George Shepard. At the Oregon, B. G. Davidson is regis tered, ana Leslie ttuuer is a guest at the Benson. - . .' . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunsaker, Walter Hunsaker and Mrs. D. Hunsaker, all of White Salmon, are guests at the Imper ial. ' ... Mr. and Mrs. J. H.- Beckley of Fort Klamath are at the Imperial. They have just returned from a trip by motor through Southern California. ' a Colonel C. C. Going of. Marshfield Is a Portland visitor and reports every thing going nicely in - the Coos Bay country. ... Mr. and Mrs. William Ganong of Kla math Fa.Ua are at the Imperial. Mr. Ganong is an attorney. ... Mr. and Mrs. E. Beal. Mr. and Mrs. William Turner and Peril Jackson of Yannix. Oregon, are at the Imperial. ... Wendall Thompson of Bend has felt the pull of the magnet of the metropolis and has moved to Portland. . . " Dennis Hunt of Sisters, veteran of the world war, is In Portland. . . . L. M. Foss. who handles mortgages and loans at Bend, is in Portland. Mrs. E. J. Champagne of Bend is vis iting friends in Portland. ... W. K. Taylor of Corvallis Is In Port land on business, ... Roy W. Ritner, Pendleton politician, is registered at the Imperial. ... Mr. and Mra D. Kiger of Corvallis are at the Imperial. . . C. A. Moore of Gates Is a Portland visitor. Lockley the first two countries are almost neg- "gipie; that of the United States, how ever, is second in the world and may become first. But the shipping of Amer ica has not been a thing of natural growth, as was that of Great Britain ; it dd not increase slowly and steadily through several centuries : it was created and fostered by unnatural cdndiUons, by the necessities of war. Without the war the country today would be in the situ ation of 1914, when the American flag was never seen In some of the important ports of the world. ... "In the days of our maritime suprem acy, prior to the Civil war, the popula tion of the country was largely centered in the seaboard states, or In stales Im mediately adjacent. When annexation gave the nation a clear road to the Pa irffic, and Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia were added, a merchant marine was still more necessary, because com munication across the continent was ex ceedingly slow, wearisome and danger ous. To this Intercoastal service around Cape Iforn a great portion of American tonnage was devoted : although we con tinued to send our vessels into the ports of the world. -our great -clipper fleets were engaged very largely in the Cali fornia trade. Mark what occurred after the Civil war : transcontinental railroads were built and the nation turned to the interior, developing the country between the Mississippi and the Rockies. There upon the American merchant, marine, already weakened by our devotion to the wooden sailing vessel and doubtless also by the depredations of the privateers, received its death blow. After more than two centuries the country had be come continental, not only in extent but in sentiment as well ; and our merchant marine began to disappear." During the war we have built up a merchant fleet and we have secured a tremendous volume of foreign trade. What are we going to do with-it? Are we going to let our merchant marine languish and die, or will we maintain It and build up a greater Portland by bind ing ourselves? with bonds pf commerce to the . countries bordering the opposite shores of the Pacific? Someone I do not know who telU the story of Port land's opportunity. In the following words: n v- Tha streaming lane of eommere surf a and - sway. Daring out boats to breast tan and explore. Put forth th trading tsssiII Seta th day! Hoi rac tn engines ! Seek th. farthest shore I Pnt forth to China.' Africa, and Greece. Cpt weigh for Arfeotin and tha Horn. Set all yoar ships to seek th (lolden Flea, And tot their erawa go singing down th morn. With wheat and flour, with hrmbar and with or. Let th ships sail The ocean roads ara free. Pot forth to Bio and to Singapore, And all th porta that fringe tba tmitglng aaa! Is this new as of manly sentiment In seeking and beyond a selfish goad. Tbey arr th most who waken eur.rlnanta And teach th world a braer brotherhood. monthly expenses incident to meals and lodging for entire family including your self when at home, total amount for ex penses incident to meals and lodging while absent from home, total amount of excess expenditures incident to .meals and lodging while traveling on business and claimed as a deduction, and total amount of other expenses incident to traveling and claimed as a deduction. Question Can dues paid to labor unions be deducted from income? Answer Yes. The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings tn Brief Tor Busy Header for OREGON NOTES A ear of gasoline, ordered throurh the Umatilla county farm bureau, has ar rived at Pendleton. At least 150 cars of ice will be shipped from North Powder to different points on the Union Pacific system. About 243 girls are -taking advantage or a domestic science department which has Just been added to the La Grande high school. ; The Eugene Farmers Creamery com pany has purchased for $8000 a site upon which will be erected a $75,000 creamery and powdered milk planu. The United States employment offioe at Eugene has sent out 47 men and le women to Jobs during the past week, only nine Of whom were farm hands. TThe First State and Savings bank of Klamath Falls, which was closed nome time ago. will reonen in the near future with a paid-up capital stock of $250,000.' Strychnine poisoning from an over dose of pilla caused the death of Lube Scharoff, 10-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Scharoff of Klamath Falls. The government has awarded a con tract to the Kruse & Banks shipyard at North Bend for construction of a dredge for use on the Coquille river in the port of Bandon. Thirteen directors have been chosen for the Northwest Hay and Grain show, which will be held In Pendleton Sep tember 19, 20 and 21. David 1L Kelson of Fiendleton is president. To! visit her brother in Bend. Mrs. R A. Hushes made the first 90 miles of. the iourney from her home at Alpine, Idaho, ori skis, this trip bp i nor necessary. In order to reach the nearest railroad town. s ' The Big Creek Logging company in Clatsop county, which ia about the onlv one in the lower Columbia river district that Is CUttlnir lorn, in lurnlnr nut nnlv sufficient to supply the company's mill at Wauna. Recent investigations made at Marsh rield by persons who are flfrurinr on a. pulp mill disclosed a lack of nufflcient w,eter supply during- the summer months, although there Is plenty to be had during the fall and winter. Thirty per cent reductions in farm and common labor in Umatilla countv for 1921 are assured as a result of action by the county court in setting the wage scale for common labor in the employ of the county at $3.50 per day. Mra Sadie Hart, formerly of Eugene, who was arrested in Brooklyn. N. T.. a few days ago charged with obtaining money under fal.se pretenses, has settlod with the people in Eugene and the case against her has been dismissed. WASHINGTON ' The cornerstone of the new-$l!5,0Of) state armory at Everett was laid Tues day. A tralnload of apples, consisting of 57 cars, was shipped out of Wenatcliee this week. There are still 1600 cars left. Revenues from the Street cars in Spo kane -during January amounted to ouly j $44,699, while -expenses of the company were $46,606. , Department of the Interior employes at Colville agency and vicinity met at Nes pelem recently and organized a federal i". employcs' union. Agricultural crops now held in stor age at Yakima are estimated to be worth $3,730,000, according to a survey made by railroad officials. One hundred quarts of fine old whis key, rare wine and champagne were seized by the police In a raid upon the Spokane City club. Efforts of William Anderson, aged 53 f ears, to cure a bunion cost him his life, le died at the Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane from blood poisoning. As a result of slackening of railroad traffic, 600 employes In the machine shops pf the Great Northern railroad at HUlyard have been laid off for 80 days. Crops produced in the Walla Walla " valley last year, exclusive of wheat snd dairy products, were worth $51,119.70. The apple crop alonewas worth $l,00o,- Miss Bess Slusser, a student at Wash ington State college from Seattle, was severely burned when decorations in th gymnasium caught fire from a burning candle. Recruiting of national guard units at Auburn, Yakima, Colfax and -Pullman will be completed within the nf-xt two weeks, according to Captain Italph A. Horr, state organization officer. Fifty carpenters and helpers, who vol unteered at the Bulgln revival meetings in Walla Walla, started to work Wednes day morning and before night had com-, pleted a tabernacle to seat S600 iersori8. The Pullman Chamber of Commerce is opposed to any division of the state of Washington to create the new state of "Lincoln," the movement recently start ed by the 10 counties of the Idaho "pan handle." IDAHO A shipment of signs to be used in marking Idaho highways has been re ceived at Nam pa. Five or six carloads of hay are mov ing out of Caldwell daily at prices ranging from $10 to $13 a ton. C. H. Kirkpatnck realized $82.40 pr head when he disposed of 36 Duroc-J-r-sey hogs at an auction sale near Parma, A. bill passed by the Idaho legislature seta aside 198.000 for the emnlovinir a. hrnkar tn .a11 Yia V. . v k wo ' ' . : - ... . . . i-j bonds. ; The reduction in livestock In Idaho Is 367,300 head, and tha value, which was $94,75,800 a year a&o. has dropped to' $68,828,570. Twenty-three land-owners, represent ing 30.WO acres, organized th Onwald liasin Irrigation atsociation at Idaho Falls this week. . Nineteen ' dependent children from Twin Falls and Cassia counties were taken Thursday evening to the state borne for children in Boise. Charles H. Turner, prominent. Cald well livestock man, was killed Wednes day when the automobile he was driving-collided with a passenger train. While coasting down hUl from the schoolhouse, John Hennickman, an eight-year-old boy, was struck by a train at Mullah and instantly killed. Sheriff Jesse Freeman of Shoshone 4 county declares ho has the finest as sortment of confiscated stills tn ths Northwest. havinr seized 17 in th last 15 months, together with a large amount of bonded liquor and corn whiskey. know you iv PORTLAND A part of the activities of Com munity Service were listed yesterday. Here! are more of them: Last year 41 classes for song lead era and group vocaJizers attracted attendance of 1328. There were "624 social and recre ational sings, with a total of 18.704' participants. Industrial sings num bered 102, with 23,346 representing the aggregate attendance. There were 65 religious sings for 39.225 people. The social dances reached a total of 21, with 11.800 attendants. Twenty-fix hikes and trips of various kinds were organised, with a total of 1544 tn attendance. - Some speechmaking figured In the year's program. Forty-seven talks were made on Community Service, to an aggregate audience of 10,330. , As a means of recreation,- tennis was introduced and 17 classes gave pleasure to 2491 students Banquets and rallies organized by Community Service were small in number, but large in attendance. There were only five of such events, ,but there were 1515 present. Special Chautauqua classes num bered 30, with an attendance of 997. (To Be Continued)