THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, i PORTLAND. OREGON
SATURDAY MARCH 19, 1S21.
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Jotimtl, Portland. rfnn
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It a not work that kill men: it ia worry.
Work ia healthy: ton can hardly put mora
upon a nan than ho. can beat. Worry ia
mat noon tha blade. It ia not tha resolu
tion that deatroya tha machinery, but tha'
friction. Fear aeeretea acid. but lor a and
truit ara awect Juicea. Beecher. ,
COST PLUS UTILITIES
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. a discredited, mpioyea in ne
united states curing tno war perioa
as an emergency measure, me prin-
clple was found to be economically
lUnSOUna.
Under the plan, unprincipled bust-
ness men found n to tneir interest 1 the city. The discussions tnat in
to increase the cost of production. I volv'tne theatres range from cen-
,The greater the cost the greater was I
.their profit.. As a result the govern- I
;ment and public were unmercifully J
burdened with excessive and watered
'costs. ' : I
The price of materials meant a I
great deal of the cpst-plusers. The
overhead meant something to those!
who held contracts and were goug- I
ere. - The higher the cost the greater I
was the return to the operator. The
.top heavy businesses paid the big I
profits. As a result, the cost plus J
'system has been universally . con-
;demned aa unwholesome in business I
and a detriment to the public I
But the public service corpora-1
Uons in Oregon are operating under
the cost plus system. They are pro-
vided through revenues from , the
.public, with the means to pay the
.cost of their service, and, tn addition.
,are guaranteed the profit. It Is pure
and simple cost plus. The heavier
the capital investment whether the
investment is necessary or not the
bigger are the profits which the
company demands and gets.
The cost' of service is nothing to
the corporations. If the operating
expense is $,000,000 a year instead
of $4,000,000 it is all the same to
the company. .There is no incentive
toward efficiency, no reason to pro -
teet the public Interest through
rock bottom economy, no argument
for increased subscribers through
lowered rates. The cost of service.
whatever it may be, is paid by the
patrons of the utility. Officials, then,
can afford to be careless of costs.
;The public pays the operating ex-
jpense regardless of its proportions,
j And after the operating, expense
jor the coBts ara cared, for, the
utilities dig a HUle deener into
Ithe patrons for the "plus" or the
,return on the investment. ; The
.greater the Investment the -greater
.the profits to the utility. Why'then.
hould officials be niggardly about
investing money? The more they
put In the more thev at Aa
Just like the Var contractors, they
are guaranteed the "plus." The fed
era! government guaranteed It to the
war eost-plusers and the state gov
ernment guarantees it to the utility
cost-piusers.
In dealing with utilities, is It sound
policy to cling to the cost plus sys.
.tem which tha people of the United
.States submitted to during the war
hACatiaet of (ha amarnnKv tmtJt .1
.
abandoned as unsound? It is hard
to believe that the public corpora-
Hons In Oregon, some of which are
tails to -another and larger kite, are
.in neea 01 tne emergency" assist-
ance or. tneir pairons inrpugn me
cost pius system. , v
For one, the American Telephone
Telegraph company, of which the
iPaeifk! States Telenhona & Tnlao-rnnh
- , u TaT o-
vLyj . ouuwuiai jr , Ia iwi m im-
" , I:,., . 1; '7. .
oiviuenusoiwiu-tjr-oauiTtuuonaouarsj
last year. In addition to quadrupllnc
its surplus and! contingency appro
priations. ' ----
Th true plan- for utilities is to
make national and universal the
system that Brandels applied to Bos
ton traa. The ? lower the rate ; the
larger the profit to the utility, and
the higher the rate the smaller the
profit.
BT GAS .
G1SSED in France!
He is now at Tucson, Arizona,
in a desperate (fight for his lifo
gainst the ravages of tuberculosis.
He is Dr. Littlef ield, prominent fig'
are in a well known Yamhill .county
family...:- , -. j :- ,'
'Under little headboards are a lot
of them who were gassed In France.
All over America are the wrecks of
strong men who: know ail too well
what It means when you are gassed
lit France. I '
f. And America is preparing, in the
next war to gas, not merely men, but
battleships. When our army planes
sail over an obsolete battleship next
June to demonstrate, that surface
craft Is helpless under a shower of
bombs, the American air service In
tends to also show that a battleship
can be forced Into submission by
the use of gas. ; .
Any kind of gas, the air chiefs
say, from the kind that puts men
gently to sleep i to the poisonous
mustard variety and the tear, gas
can, in explosive shells, - be dropped
from an airplane to fill and perme
ate battleships below and smother
all on board. . i - " s
The best chemists in the . world
are feverishly working to unlock the
secrets by which chemical com
pounds will replace bullets and
shrapnel and mere shells in hurry
ing armies into i eternity. ; To ; the
devilish secret gas which American
chemists discovered near the close
of the war, a gas which scientists
know would, when ample supply was
at hand, have enabled the American
Army4to blast its way to Berlin al
most unopposed, are undoubtedly to
be added other discoveries in which
the extinction of life will be on a
scale beside which destruction in the
late war will be aa nothing.
Then "gassed In France will be
but the dead ashes of a dim mem
ory. Gas victims will not be wrecks
of men here and there and a few
thousand . under headboards in
France, but be In piles and heaps
and rowl unmatched in the history
a tVa Aat imenAeaaH In the T-rrtrVj
V . f L ... V l . w .-
By thelr unanimous backing of
tn community Chest camoahra the
theatreg and motion picture houses
In rr.rlrrt h.v, nm, far in 'rft.
I v ' . - r
lommend themselves to the people of
sorship and the price of admission to
indictment of titles that seem to
have been selected for their sordid
(appeal, la the pow-wow the critical
segment of the public, at least, is
inclined to view the theatre heads
as mere profit grubbers, callous to
the calls of citizenship, morality and
the plight of the unfortunate. When
the theatre men turn their houses
lover to the speakers and slides of
a community enterprise and give the
Community Chest appeal prominent
fplace before an average daily, attend-
ance of 60,000 or 60,000 people, they
reveal the fact that they are as earn
est. in their public spirit and as so-
I Hcitous to do their share for the
general welfare las any other class
of Portland's citizens.
- THE FRENCH POLICT
IT IS proposed that as a measure
of national economy all American
woodsmen be sent to take a course
in forestry In France. Foresters
who went to France during the war
are said to have been thoroughly
convertea to the French policy of
planting a tree whenever a tree is
cut. As a reward of this policy, the
French had, to meet the war emer
y' 'h"mber lOge and
tauivau , viMisii UVUUH
The forests of the Columbia basin
contain some 700 billion feet ; of
j standing timber whajf appears to be
" '"8ess supply. But onceupou
a time the prairies of the United
States were over-run with countless
buffalo. ; Wild pigeons darkened th
sky with their flight, j Salmon once
crowded streams where they are no
longer known. I r
Senseless destruction without prop
aUon lay" foreshadows annihila
tion. Nature has created no re
source valuable to man which is be
yond the destructive power of man.
The forests of today In Oregon
and Washington; will be the ruins of
the tomorrow of national history, un
,eo8 reProauc"" wsjks side by side
with consumption.
Another visitor to Portland wanted
to discover the mysteries of a trick
of the "confidence men." It cost him
about $3000. Such education usu
ally is expensive.
CLARA HAMON
i rrTTiL.r. - - .
i Mniurtu every man s success or
U failure lies a woman, someone
has observed. Either because of her
Inspiration ; or because he wants to
make her regret snubbing him; ha,
succeeds. Strong men take One of
the two courses, ; Weaker men give
up to disappointment and fail. Jake
Hamon was a strong man, as such
strength is counted, and he found
in k. , i . . .
i eiuwingj cneeKSs or a young
i gin nis source of inspiration.
otrangeiy enough CTara Smith
Hamon was both the Hebe and the
Nemesis of Jake Hamon's life. She
was the cupbearer of bis success, the
witch who brewed his poison.: "Cast
me from you and through me the old
law of compensation will strike your
heart out," she said. ! - '-' i
: Her prophecy was fulfilled. The
moth whlrliglgged round the flame
with Intensity, and though its wings
were singed and Its body soiled it
ultimately ' snuffed, the '. flame to
nothingness. ,
With the blaze gone the source of
its activity
what is to become of I
the moth with the burned pinions? 1
Movies at $1000 a week? That sum
has been offered the moth to appear I
on the screen. i i 1
xocs auiywuw wuu m h, hiuu 1
etorr of Clara and Jake Hamon re- I
-rrr..-i- t,- 1
Into a movie queen glorify her too
much? Wouldn't such financial suc
cess serve to- hold her up as a model
example rattier than aa a horrible
warning? Should we be. put In
position v to applaud person for
flying on wings
moneyed success?
-of Infamy- to
The movie men are too prone to
seise upon fleeting and noisome
toriety as a. means of swelling their I
profits. It Is time that they kept I
prizefighters and sensational char-1
. - ' pt.v ahnni I
allow Clara Hamon to quietly slip J
back Into her destined place In life I
and there let tho past be lost In
forgetfulness.
STILL DRUNK?
OW much of the crime wave Is
due to America's late debauch
of extravagance ? ' ; r
How much of tumultuous passion I
in high places and low was unloosed
by that drunken spending orgy? ! j
Some workers with big salaries are j
often encountered even yet, borrow- J
Ing money to tide them over.
Why I
should they borrow? Have the ex- lbletxa9 tQP present of frlendii
travagances and prodigality of yes-1 ness, and construes' the statement in
terday become habitual to them, not j
u t 1
,u urs UK ' - I
Younsr hovs who formerly worked
in tha sriinva.rda at a hur s warn I
in tne snipyaras at a nuge ; wage 1
m ' I
have been caught still trying to make 1
easy money by burglaries. . -rney 1
bought neckties at $3.50 when wage
getting was good. They became ac- I
onotftrr. ta crirldw rnndltnrM of
... . . . . I
tne ricn, jiae siik mrxs ana oiner I
costly trifles, in those days j when j
tha. rmmlrv wa on ita wild inenfl.
w " I
ing. spree. "
Have all forgotten that it was gov-
ernment money that was supplying j
the cash in those giddy, golden days j
S.iia ut ouyyi tuuvo vwaa. 1
aa 1 - I
cut off? ; Do : men and boys and I
women and girls not realize that I
. ..(.!.. a 1
have dried up and that it is only I
by the most rigid economy that the
I
a-,, n a a r. i art .. . i A f A. a i I
ureru4"eu- 4LW5" " w "
Dins x ...... 1 . 1
lUn ji.m
Those were evil days those days
when America , was Intoxicated wltn I
Its ea ere mnnsv anil imiuA with a
' 1
desire to buy costly things. They
dragged from Its moorings the thine I
that hitnr nr. rh onimtnr th nHn. I
ciple and policy of thrift. ? They
swent minds out of their sane course. I
blew them out off their balance with
the poisoned gas, of extravagance. J
We are headed back to normalcy.
The gilded days of easy, money are I
gone. The government s cash - box I
I- closedf and locked. .There ' is
BonnKoga in cveryinniK ana mere
will be xnore in most things.!
Th. t.. n,v tha nattai 1
"w "l"" .." -" ...y ,
woriter. me woraer wno iooks aneaa, i
has hauled In sail, is abandoning the
habits acquired when the country
was arunK ana putting nis nouse in
order for normalcy.. .. ; f f ; ; I
MADE IN OREGON BUT i
IjIDS on chairs. Involving an order I
Yl thm..... I
"w,
vcniijr yiicucu ui a.11 uregua lusiuu i
titn. A better chair at less cost and I
with freight nrenald was submitted I
witn ireigm prepaia was suDmittea
by a Tacoma firm 1
At a sneech-makina? dinner -within 1
- o., ,,,, .
xr ...... u a..ii.vIU
catsup was on the tables. The pro-
prletor didn't know that Oregon cat-
i
sup as good if not better Is manu-
racturea on a large scale m port-
land 1 '
a.u.HUU... ..ao.nv.ncu
encourage i the use of Oregon-made
products.
But .it cannot do- all. Manufac
turers must do something.
They must make the price right.
There is not a reason in the world
why a, better chair can be made at
Tacoma and be sold at a price lower
than an inferior Oregon-made chair.
Sentiment, cannot govern business.
Thousands ; of buyers realize that
purchase Of Oregon i goods means
more employment for: Oregon work
-iv. i a
C1 - "iv" "
shoes - for Oregon children, more
business for Oregon dealers, more
nmn tal -,to- nrnfit. n,nra
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activity ana more general prosperuy
in Oregon.
But they want goods approxi
mately as good as the foreign art!
cle, and want them at something like
the same price. Manufacturers gen
erally realise this, but there are
some apparently who do not.
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to buy Oregon-made goods of the
existence1 Of which they have never
, . . , .
heard. The spreading of informa
tion as to- what they are producing
la mm of th first stens to success
. Z ?, a. t BUCfeSS
in buUding up manufacturing Indus-
tries.1 Only by the fullest and most
iat.inn rnniuirxinn hv Oron
aUaVevi A"- - - T f e
manufacturers with those .who are
spreading the gospel of using Ore -
gon-made goods can the campaign
be made fully successful.
WAR WITH
: BRITAIN ? V
Anonymous Hint " F"rom Abroad - Is
Viewed soberly Though Not wiw
Alarm by America's Editors
- "Unthinkable," Most Say.
". and Thence Proceed to -,
Write Recipes tor : 4 :
Keeping It So.
Daily Editorial Dift
(ConaoUdated Kewi AaaoeUtios)
That "innnvmnua and nrraterioua
warning" from an official of the British
foreign office to the effect that his coun-
ieada to war.. not t4ken Vry .erlously
by the American press. It is. however,
lac" from number of weff.The
between Great Britain and the. united
States is dismissed by the majority of
editorial "writers with the one word
"unthinkable.? But at the same time
it is felt that if conditions exist which
would justify such a statement from an
accredited diplomat, even though - the
foreign office disclaims any responsi
bility in its i utterance, both countries
should heed the warning and find out
exactljr hw ar f drifUn&
So far as the public knows now the
Kansas City Star (Ind.) believes that
t nt d th. an who It
no-"gives the impression of suffering from
high temperature and case of
o mOJlt vnter, the matter cannot be
so lightly passed over. "The St. Louis
Star (Ind.) welcomes the "salutary ef-
circumstances is bound to have, because
"it is well to have the instinctive revul
si on from It which all but a few Amer
icans and Britons must have felt"; and
the Binghamton Sun (Ind. Dem.) feels
that it was "well spoken" even if it was
intended - merely as "a plea to exercise
patience and guard against statements
or actions which might serve to arouse
feeling in America or England."
Most of the papers seek to tret back
of the "warning" itself and to determine
the points at which relations are suf-
fy. "trafned to warrant so ( extra-
fidai assumes. Naturally the Irish sit-
Vl ,wr,'bt pp?r,aftte
as la generally conceded to exist. The
Pittsburg Sun (Dem.) seems inclined to
question "as a plain warning to this
caunirjr inai me lemper 01 me snuan
rjeonle. histftrieallv alow tn wrath, la
sorely tried." Undoubtedly, in the
t .a. r a iUa a . -' s a r
vv . lu" i uu oun, v:unw Amencaa
ep0keBrnen have given gerious cause for
offence to Great Britain" and "there are
d-ouuuuiuii.5
the two countHes at swords' pointa"
since, at the same time, "systematic ef
have been made in Great Britain
to crystallise hatred of everything Amer
lean" the Sun concludes : "The Amer-
lean and British ships of state are riot
"unS xneyare arming ouna-
lv t APAthaH T1WOM tarrHfit lfnns
befocred seaa. It is time to drop anchor
VX, ST.T
negligence or stupidity equally criminal
can bring collision:
a , . 0k. a
- a. a visa auwa wuoui wilomUCIIvna
as war" the Corning (N. T.) leader
(Ind Dem.) feels that there are "un-
1 : m . . . . . . .
im.-iura 01 growing import'
States and Great Britain" which "in
the interest of friendship between the
rWA rtAlintpiae" inner ka 4 t amaiaiai aA nlr .
tiw wwtl aval Uuei tv7 UIOVUSDVU AVaVIIAT
ry and without "camouflage." especially
since, as the Fort Wayne Journal Ga
e (Dem.) . puts it. it is certain "that
Jus, w oup laUaB. with Ena.la.nd
more delicate than with any other nation
Oil UM globe.
Tha K. n-l.o. Tf ftA
r. eipresseV lUUe sympathy for Brit-
ten. resentment against the American at
lIlua " various matters wmcn are
holds, "is a protection, not a? menace to
Great Britain" and further: "Discus-
-S.tJ"enae.?.' Aeb5 '!
Irish question is one that our people as
Lover8 ,?f "b8 and as champions of
Discussion of the payment of a just
eeot is human nature. Discussion of
"7" tnfJT n. pe"
There is, as the Springfield Repub-
llcn Una.) sees it, a simple explanation
f the maladiiitmarit:.-whr-h tha
countries are discovering in their rela
"What has happened is that the
- hS
twisted by the war. They now find them
selves in touch under strange condi
tions, oien with divergent aims and in-
in- a" n.w oS."
America are whirling in - the vortex
or it."
A more positive explanation is of-
rrA hv tha K-r.rMk'VIMInln Pilnt
(uem.). Tne British official s state
ment, it finds, is but one of "several in.
ttic0n of a spirit of distrust," a largs
part of whlch doubUess arises from the
fact that "the United States has shown
a disposition to keep the world at arms'
I length, and arms' length dealings tend
to create suspicions."1 The Charlotte
(N. C.) News (Dem.) shares this view,
declaring that we are merely "getting
what is coming to us if the rest of the
world is suspicious of us, regarding us
I with envy and jealousy, and la preparing
I to lay flown tne law to us."
, Bad as relations between the two
J countries are, the Providence Tribune
(ind. Kep.l reels that "they are better
than they might be if Britons were less
patient than they are with the meddle
some attempts in this country to make
trouble," and .while "to most minds
war between r the - United States and
Great Britain is unthinkable, the world
war was just as "unthinkable' but oc
currea nevertheless. ,- other' papers
agree tnat sucn a war is not entirely
impossible." The Lynchburg (va.)
I News (Dem.) warns that neither coun
iV. -t... tne
1 pens or what nature of provocation is
I offered, dangerously strained dlplo-
I mauc relations will not result"
i Attaching more . significance to the
1 warning itself than do moat of its con-
temporaries, the Durham (N. C.) Sua
(Ind.) thinks -it 18 probably Intended to
I express the possibility, not 01 war now.
i but jf war within the next half cen
tury," when it "may easily become nec
essary."
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
The Jericho region Ms supplied with
three -kinds of water, and this prodigal
1 tha Jordan valley; has furnished a rear-
I ular formula of bathing for pilgrims to
this not oepressi on nea r quarter
of a mile below the level of the sea. Of
every tourist has to bathe in the
Dead Sea; it is the thing to do. writes
I Mayaara u. wiiuaaa, in the WaUonal
I Geographic Magazine. Lucky is the man
Jwno6e skin does not crack in the heat
I of the valley, for Dead sea water on
i cracKea nan or tne mm oi tne eye re-
; minds one of boiling oil and the Span
Ish inquisition. Having performed the
1 necessary rite and dutifully completed an
experience which can be recorded in the
diary of the trip, the poor pilgrim, laved
with a tenacious fluid that seems to ba
composed of salt, kerosene Ana lye,
drives off to the Jordan and seeks re
lief in the muddy water of that river.
Thetv aa night rapidly settle ia the
deepest wrinkle en the face o& Mother
Earth, the tired traveler rides between
the miserable hovels which constitute
modern Jericho and dismounts at the
Sultan's sorinsr. once sweetened by .11-
sha. Here the water is collected in a
large pool, boor-cold and dear, and few
indeed resist the temptation to plunge
Into it and remove forever any linear
ins sig-ns of the holy but muddy waters
of the Jordan. ....';:.",...:,.;
Letters From the People
fffoinmnnlraHana aent to Tha Journal for
publication in tfaia department ahould ba written
on only ona aid ef tha paper; ahould not exceed
800 wida nt leneth, and must ba fined by tha
writer, waoae mail addraaa ia fall owt accom
pany tba contribatioa.J , -,-. ;
THE' PUBLIC'S LOSING GAME ,
Here Likened to the Holder of a Two-
Spot, Facing an All-Trump Hand. -Portland,
March IS. To the Editor of
The Journal Referring to the discussion
of the telephone rates, which seems to
be the most important and interesting
question at this time.' 1 'wish to say
that I have read carefully all statements
published pro and con, as well as the
statements made by the public service
commission, and I have practically con
fined my impression of the whole mat
ter to the admission made by the com
mission itself. It plainly tells you that
the law; does not give it sufficient
authority to make a thorough and com
plete Investigation of the financial con
dition of any utility corporation, inas
much as it is barred from Inquiring
into the affairs of private sub-corpora
tions or sinister creations of the parent
companies. This, of course, Is admitting
that it has been sitting in the game an
of this time holding a two-spot, while
the big interests were holding a trump
hand. In a measure, the public itself
is to blame. Why did it sit idly by
and allow such a law to be enacted?
Why did not the public service com
mission say that it was helpless under
the law.; a long time ago? ; Were the
mayor and the city commissioners aware
that they were being flimflammed and
were playing at a losing game at the
time the increase rate cases were being
considered? If any or all of the com
missioners knew that the Utility servioe
law was defective, and that it operated
only in the interest of the utility cor
porations, why did they not take the
public into their confidence and shout
for help?
In view of the astonishing facts re
cently disclosed in' relation to the in.
crease rate cases. I would suggest that
a rehearing be requested in all .of the
cases acted upon favorably by the com.
mission. ; -r'.'-.;
This occurs' to me. however: What
can we : do under an admittedly 'de
fective and partial law? It seems to
me the proper thing to do would be to
prepare ourselves to meet the enemy
in a proper legal manner.
W. I Archambeau.
STRESSES CAPITALIZATION
A Matter. Largely Overlooked by the
rnrnontioru That Get Rate Raises.
Portland. March 15. To the Editor of
The Journal Involving a matter of bun.
dreds of thousands of dollars' Is the case
of the telephone system in this city.
nursed by the motherly care of a com
mission i endowed by the state with
greater powers and less limitations than
any other triad ever invested with au
thority in the state of Oregon. Tne
only one so far who has come forward
with statements that vitally affect the
relation of the telephone monopoly and
its plucked prey, the 75.000, or .80.000
patrons in this city, Is E. M. Cousin, who
has every phase of the controversy at his
fingers' ends and who probably knows
too much for the zealous city authori
ties, who wish to make us believe in their
sincerity for the welfare or tne citizen
He has plainly made it known that this
cormorant phone company serves to boi
ster three corporations.
I have not the least doubt that 2,000,-
000 honestly expended in the making of a
telephone system for Portland would du
plicate every mile of line and every im
niement now in use in this city so em.
ployed. In order to conceal the rapacity
of the triple entente before mentioned
just what proportion of capitalisation of
the Portland belongings is, so far as
the public knows, lost in the general
scramble of the hundreds of millions of
dollars of capitalization of that triad?
And to palliate this to put it mildly
transfer from meura to tuum. the pub
lic service commission has, as I under
stand, defined it to be limitation under
the law for it to take into any calcula
tion whatever the capital stock and bond
Issues of any corporation, over which it
has jurisdiction, but simply to permit
revenues ample to conduct the business
properly of any public utility seeking
its protection. With this Implication the
trinity referred ' to are very careful not
to touch on the subject of capitalization
at all, but in the prestidigitation of cre
ating rates, manage to arrange for from
6 to 8 per cent on grossly excessive cap
ital stocks and bonds in thimble-rigging
for the benefit of overcapitalization.
That we have S cent carfares is because
the PorUand Railway, Light & Power
company, with 160,000,000 of capitaliza
tion where there is not i Z5.000.000 in
value, is an illustration.
If the Interested and plucked citizen
wants to be honestly informed on this
subject, ; give Mr. - Cousin a chance to
elucidate. Charles P. Church.
PRAISE FOR CLACKAMAS OFFICERS
Oregon City. March 15. To the Editor
of The Journal Please give me space
for a few remarks regarding the excel
lent work being done by . officers in
Clackamas county. The sheriffs office
is a very buay place, and Mr. Wilson
and his deputies are making it very
unhealthy for violators of the law. Mr.
Hadley, chief of police of this city, is also
doing excellent work. Oregon City will
soon be known as' a place where it is
not profitable, to commit crimes. Take
it all around, Clackamas county has as
good officers as any county in the state
for enforcing the law. There is not an
officer here but is doing his-best to
make good and to make it mors difficult
to commit crime and get a wa,with it.
:. - f . Frank eidon,
TO BRITISHER
PorUand, March 14. To the Editor of
The Journal. I see In The Journal
where "Britisher" is complaining because
his daughters 'don't know their geogra
phy. Well, they must be very ignorant.
He also says that in Great Britain they
are taught to speak foreign languages
That must be recently, for I was born
and reared tn Great Britain, and all
got to do at school was to write, read.
count, spell and draw.
Now an American
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
; It's a mighty hard job fer our preacher
to i say anything with pep enough In it
to keep the deacons awake and f un
enough in it to attract the young folks
and at the same time not rue the oia
timers and hardshelis. Rev. Edouard
Lakes come to the Corners determined (O
do it, and sometimes he's tod peppery,
and -other times too slow, accordia to
which side jerks on the lines, so to
speak. He told Ma that if he preached
the gospel accordin to the Scriptures
regardless of whq he had tn the eon
gregation there'd be another crucifixion
in the Corners, and Z reckon the Rev,
Lakes is right.
COMMENT AND
. y; SMALL CHANGE
Onlv one more week . to buy
your
Easter bonnet, .. -
Snrlnr 'ereetis appear to be a bit in
advance of a green spring.
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That 85 -year-old Ttidgefietd parson
wants to deny that there's any - "age"
in marriage. . i
Tn there anvthlne to x prove that the
dice thrower's "bones" come from gam
boling lambs 7 ...
Whlla ambalmtnr fluids continue plen
tiful It is probable that wild joyriders
will be with us. '
These "back to the land" advocates
should be strenuously . supporting the
soldier loan bill. 4 -
And - there's nothing to -make us be
lieve that the jeker in the deck ever
had a story to teii. C
Eastern states must be recovering
their equilibrium. They're , inquiring
about our hop supply. -
Which seeminrly proves that black is
white: The Waffles at Astoria are doc
tors not breakfast viands..
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The state of happiness is profaned by
some people who claim to be "the hap
piest person in the world." - -
If thosa' Chicago visitors learned in
one day how Portland's street railway
system was operated they've done more
than we've been able to oo in live years.
JWORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
MonUe B. Gwinn. who for many years
was a resident of Pendleton, where he
Ol X CDlUCUk Va. CHUItiVli, " aa w
a banker, is at the Portland on his
to his home at Boise, Idaho. "I
was
wav
went to Boise in 1871. said Mr. Gwinn.
That was 60 years ago, ana i was
then a - boy pf IS. The first time -i
came to Portland war in 1883. X took
the stage from Boise .to Pendleton, ana
from there , came ; on to PorUand on
Henry Villard's special train. I met
him at Pendleton and-he invited me to
be bis guest for the trip to Portland.
I have spent the winter in Los Angeles,
but it is lambing time up in my country,
so I must get home. I am in the sheep
business as well as in the banking busi-
hh. In tha war years I nut in a lot
of Ume on Red Cross, Liberty loan and
Victory bond, drives. At prevent I am
head of the European relief drive for
Idaho. Some day someone should write
an article on the men from Eastern
Oregon and Idaho who have gone i to
New York - city and made good In a
big way. The list is a surprisingly long
one. - Westerners seem to have the large
ness of vision that makes for success."
L. L. Paget, banker of Seaside, is a
Portland visitor. - He reports that , the
Seaside hotel did a most excellent busi
ness during the past winter, more than
paying expenses. The sea wall is about
finished and Seaside is going out for
this year's summer resort business
vigorously, to make Seaside the most
popular, resort of the coast.
a a a
James E. Tulberton of Flat, Alaska,
la at the Multnomah. Flat is a small
town on Otter creek about eight miles
from Iditarod and about 600 miles from
Seward.
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Mrs. Charles H. Castner of Hood River
is a guest at the Imperial. She was
formerly president of the Oregon Fed
eration of Women's clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Dodge of The
Dalles are guests at the; Hotel Mult
nomah. " ' ; I :
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George P. Topping of Banden, at tha
mouth of the Coquille, is a guest at the
Multnomah.
J. A. Smith, who has a ranch in the
Spencer Creek district near Eugene, is a
Portland visitor,
A. W. Oliver of Corvallls is at the Im
perial.
Victor Seeborg and Mat Sorvan of As
toria are registered at the Mutnomah.
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W. N. Morse of Wasco Is at the Mult
nomah. '
L B. Bowen of Baker, veteran pub
lisher, is at the PorUand.
. ..... a a .a
R. C Garrison of Prineville is a guest
at the PorUand.
Mr. and Mrs, A. E. McLean of Vic
toria are at the Portland.
A. E. Robb of Hermiston
is at the
Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. V; Carmon of Eugene
are at the Imperial.
OBSERVATIONS AND f MPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
n..iitti . m thnaa who hare aaotbar
gueaa eomln are thnaa who think that rrerybody
haa beard of tha "8panih prisoner ' fake and
that nobody fails for it any more. Bead below
tba etory tnat Mr. ixtcaiey leua. j .. C..-"-. , i is.
An eirhteen hundred dollar Joke is a
rather expensive bit of pleasantry. Some
years ago E. W. Dent, whose office is
In the Xjabbe Duuaing, receivea v ien
rrnm Rarcelonau Soain. purporting, to
come f from a epanisn prisoner, ww
promised to share with him a large sum j
of money if he would send money for
the release of the prisoner. This Span
ish prisoner fake Is so old and has been
exposed so often that It seem as If no
one today could be caught by it.. Mr.
Dent read the letter and, with a smile,
handed it to a visitor, saying: VHere's
a chance to make your fortune." The
man to whom he handed it ia fairly well
known In Portland. Some months later
this man came up to Mr. Dent's Office,
and said, "I have another letter, and will
have to send more money." The Spanish
prisoner's letter had enUrely passed out
of Mr. Dent's mind, and he said, "What
sort of investment are you making?"
His friend responded, "Do you remem
ber the letter you handed me from a
man who was being held as a prisoner
in Spain? I got in touch with him and
have sent 81800, , but it seems that his
captors demand some more money be
fore they will release hlm-T
- Mr. Dent was conscience stricken and
explained te his friend that he had
thrown his money away, and he ad
vised him to waste no more on the
mythical Spanish prisoner.
Last week. Mr. Dent received another
letter from Barcelona, beautifully writ
ten, on foreign paper, and reading as
follows:
Barcelona, Feb. 1. 121. Dear ; Sir:
Being imprisoned here by bankruptcy I
beseech you to help roe to obtain a sura
of $360.000 . 1 have in America being
necessary to come here to raise the
seizure of my baggage paying to the
registrar -of the courts the expenses of
my trial and recover my portmanteau
containing a see-ret pocket where I have
hidden two checks psysble to bearer for
tbAs a reward X win give up to you the
third part, viz., $120,000. I cannot re
ceive your answer In the prison but you
can send a cablegram to a person of
my confidence who will deliver it to me
addressed as follow: "Jaime Soto, Se
pulvedor 159, Barcelona, Spain." - -.
AwaiUng your answer to instruct you
all my secrets, now I sign only "R de S."
First of ail answer by cable, not by
lette-
NEWS IN BRIEF
. SIDELIGHTS
It will ho doubt be a disappointment
to the job-hunters to learn that half the
postoff ices are already filled with Re
publicans. Eugene Guard.
Somebody wants state legislatures to
remain in "session all the year round.
Some people never know when they
have enough. Albany Democrat.
When they are dressed for the mar
ket, you can't tell a chicken from an
Old hen. We are wriUng orpoultry, you
UhoerstancL Klamath Falls Herald. ,
There Is a new face In the White
House today. The sun and moon will
funcUon as of yore, and there will still
be sand in the sugar and gravel in the
beans. Medford Mail Tribune.
. a .: a . a -Portland
does not overlook many good
'bets. Now Mayor Baker la asking the
federal government to donate to the
city the old postoffice site in Portland
oa Morrison street La Grande Ob
server, r . . . "; ;
Oovernor Olcott is now toll-collector
for the Interstate bridge. We . suggest
that tha littift toll cooDs be painted up
in honor of the new collector and that
a guard be maintained to prevent an
other holdup. CorvaUls Gazette-Times
A San Francisco poet drank poison
end then Jumped into the ocean be
cause his verses weren't appreciated
h, hla aniiialntancfia. Think Of the
.r..i mnrtaiit.v that would ensue if
that custom should become general !
Eugene Register.
Ivan Smith of . Oneida. N. T., is a
guest at the Hotel Multnomah. He is to
make PorUand his headquarters and will
bring his family here shortly. He is
Northwestern sales manager for one' of
the manufacturing firms of Oneida.
Bend residents in PorUand Include A
M. Pringle. H. M. Stephens, banker;
T. A. McCann, - lumberman : Joe Jean-
Bfette, A. Prater, Mrs. Wendell Thompson
and Miss Frances Thompson.
,-i
Fred Wiggins, Toppenish nurseryman,
Is In Portland to visit his old friend.
A. McGlU. who is In a hospital recov
ering front an operation.
J. R Dixon, for 33 years a resident of
Klamath Falls, is In Portland seeing
the sights. He is guest at the Per
kins
a a a
H. O." Prageter of Roseburg is a Port
land visitor. He came here to attend
a meeting of the fire patrol directors.
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Laigh Tount of Eugene, who claims
that is his honest-to-goodness name, is a
Portland visitor.
a a .
A. R Sweetser of the University of
Oregon is a Portland visitor. He has
come up to address the Boy Scouts.
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E. E. Livengood, for many years a
resident of Pendleton, now- a merchant
at Aloany, a rortiana visitor.
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Mr. and Mrs F. O. Noyer of Fair
banks, Alaska, are guests at the Port
land. - -
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Mrs.' Delia Burkett of Roseburg has
moved to Portland. ; " . . .'
a. a
S. M. Leonard of Medford is registered
at the Imperial.
George L. Humphrey of Klamath Falls
is at the imperial. .
a .. a :' . a . , .
H. L, Stan field of Stanfleld Is a guest
at the Imperial.
i ... a a' ' '
Frank H. Shepard of Corvallis is a
Portland visitor.
i a a a
C. C. Edwards of Salem is at the Im
perial. a a a
' Fred Harvey of Pendleton is at the
Imperial. .
J. E. Lyons of Coos Bay Is at the
Perkins . '
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Jake Slovorp of Anchorage, Alaska, Is
registered at the Perklna. -
. . a a a
J, C. Bartlett ef Ontario is a guest at
the Imperial.
a a e
W. A. Kuykendall of Eugene is a Port
land visitor. , '
a a ; a
G. M. Roberts and A. L. Hill of Med
ford are registered at the Imperial.
a -
T. D. Barclay of Pendleton is at the
Multnomah. a a
W. R. Scott of the Hub City of the
Willamette valley is at the Multnomah.
F. E. Ryus of Ketchikan is at the
Multnomah. - .
Lockley
We frequenUy wonder hew the an
cients could do such beautiful stonework
with the crude tools tn their possession.
As a matter of fact, the ancients did not
depend upon crude fbols to do . their
beautiful carving on monuments. Re
cent researches at Gizeh, in Egypt, show
that the stoneworkers who built the
pyramids used both solid snd tubular
drills, as well ss straight and circular'
saws, ' They1" also usad lathe tools with
cutting edges. . Some of their drills were
set with jewels, which enabled them to
bore through the hardest rock.
Statistics have bean published recently
telling wh) people kill themselves. The
possession pf money, it seems, does not
bring contentment nor happiness, since
last year 36 millionaires, 23 rich women
and 75 high-salaried presidents or. man
agers of big trust companies committed
suicide. The Save-a-Life league is au
thority for the statement that 8701 per
sons committed suicide in this country
last year. - The reported number is an
increase of more than 1000 in a year. Of
the 8701 suicides reported for-last year,
2604 were women, 400 were veterans of
the world war and 800 ether persons
killed themselves after committing mur
der. Suicides among children are in
creasing alarmingly.. Of" the 707 listed
in 1920. 484 were girls. One man killed
himself because his wife, refused to vote
for Cox. another because hie new suit
didn't fit, and a woman killed herself
because her husband could not or would
not eat a pie she had baked.
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The Chicago Tribune's purchase of a
forest of spruce to convert Into pulp is
the reason for Christopher Marlowe's
poem, published in the New York Eve
ning Post, after the manner of Joyce
Kilmer. He writes;
1 think that I shall serai1 see .
. Aucbt lovely aa a pnlpwood tree.
A tree that Brows throacb sonny noons
' To furnish eportins pace cartoons. .
A tree whose fiber and whose pith
Will soon ba Camps by Sidney Smith,
A tree whose fraee,' toward beares rising,
" Men macerate for .adrerUkiaa. '
A trea that Eft her arms and laacha
. To be made into paracrapbs.
How enriable ia that trea
. That' f rowuiz palp for B. L. T. !
The Oregon Country
Northweat Uappenins in Brief Form for the
buay Header -v
OREGON NOTES
Elffht cars of cattle were shlDned from
the PrlneviUe yards last Saturday.
A cold Btoraare Tilant with a canarltv of
SO tons is being built at Canyon City.
Cheese ' f actoriea at Half wav are now
shipping their product by parcel post.
The expenditure of 840.000 for improve- -
tnent of its water supply ia contemplated
by the city of Molalla.
Tha three banka of Tkevlaw. accord- .
ing to their last statement, held deposits
amounting to 81,067,386.34.
The cooperative sales aarencv at Hood
River did a total business during the last
11 months of $2,475,839.12.
A charter haa been granted to John L.
Karnoop of Portland for a new bank at
Prinevlile with a capital of 800. 000.
The election at Freewater to authorize
a 118,000 bond issue for street Improve
ments carried by a majority of 5 votes
The Coos Bay Central Labor council
is heading a movement to obtain and
maintain a publio ambulance at North
Bend, .
War on the rrav dlsrirer sauirrel. one of.
the worst pests on Lane county farms. Is
being waged by the united states Bio
logical survey.
The cost of arrowing wheat In Umatilla
county is variously estimated by Pendle
ton Danicera as ranging between ii.tu
and 820 an acre.
On March 25 tha Chiloouin district In
Klamath county will vote upon the issue
of $31,000 bonds for the erection of a
new school building.
The King's Food Products company Is
signing up a hundred tons of green pod
slringlens beans for the coming season's
run at the Salens, plant. .
To prevent the spread of near thrin.
an embargo against importation of
their roots has been established by Lane ,
county against Marlon county.
' There are 80,000 acres in the reclama
tion and irrigation project of the Fort
Klamath Mercantile company, and about
10,000 acres are now under water.
Another bad landslide haa tied up the
O-W. R. & N. line near Elgin, where the
track Is under tons of earth, rock and
trees to a depth of so reet or more.
A doe, wandering down from tha foot- -hills,
trotted along the Pacific highway
into Medford and, frightened by a oass
ng automobile, crashed into a wire fence,
breaking its neck.
fwwaWaWaW4WaBf)W
WASHINGTON
Scarlet fever has broken out at Top
penish and many homes are quarantined.
Governor Hart has vetoed the "blue
sky" law passed by tho last session of
the legislature. -
Pacific county commissioners have ap
propriated $15,000 to complete the road .
between Seavlew and McGowan.
Burglars drove a truck to the rear of
the Regal Dy e works at -Tacoma and
hauled away $3000 worth of clothing.
Plans are completed for a $30,000
armory at Puyallup, to include a drill
hall, community hall, gymnasium and
swimming tank. . .
Tacoma, Olympla and Eastern inter
ests have begun work on a complete
veneer manufacturing plant at Olym
pla to cost not less than $80,000.
Jack Jones, captured last week after
a gun fight with the Benton county
sheriff, plaaded guilty at Yakima and
was sentenced to seven years In prison.
' Men's wearing apparel valued at more
than $8000 was stolen from the Went
worth Clothing company's store at
Walla Walla some time last Sunday
night. - ''
Recruiting during the lftt four
weeks haa brought, the strength of the
Washington National Guard up to a
total of 1666 men and 116 active and re
serve officers.
Nick Manolas is in a nospltal at Aber
deen, surtenng irom a uuuei wounu
received when an unknown person -fired
five shots at him through, the frpijt.vf
a coffeehouse. ' - .r
Miss Birdie Campbell of Tacoma has
been Indorsed by the Washington con
gressional delegation for appointment as
chief of the woman's division, of the de
partment of labor, v
The University of Washington Daily,
published by the university school of
journalism, will cover the entire Pa.
-iflo coast by wireless in its intercol
legiate news service.
Warden Henry Drum of the peniten
tiary has accepted the appointment as
superintendent of the state frame farm
and fish hatchery at Walla Walla. The
appointment becomes effective April i.
The school board of Spokane haa de
cided to call a special election April 9
on the question of levying a tax cf 1
mill to make it possible to maintain the
present schedule of salaries for teachers. -
! IDAHO
The total assessed valuaUon of Ivemhl
county for the year 1920 Is $5,881,028.10,
or $516,976 less than 1819. ?
Seventy per cent of the 1930 - grain
crop on the Nes Perce and Caumas
prairies is reported to have been sold.
The Rev. Wallace a Klncald, 73. for
many years a resident of Coeur d'Alene,
died suddenly a few days ago of paraly
sis. - 1 -
Articles of Incorporation have been
ftled at Pocatello by the Lava Motor
company of Lava Hot Springs. The cap
ital stock Is $50,000.
Starting to walk across the Tortneuf
river near Pocatello on a pipe, the 6-
year-old son of William Deutsch leu
into the water and was drowned.
Mrs. Timothy Regan of Boise has re
ceived notice that the body of her son
John, who was killed in action in France,
would be sent detune tor puna. tne
near future.
Because Gbf injuries received bT Vis
5-year-old son, who was burned badly
by electric wires that had fallen down,
K. 3, CouKer is suing the city, of Welser
for $15,000 damages,
-.The American war mothers of Safmon
have .purchased a large residence and
will put It In shape for an infirmary as
a memorial to the men of Lemhi county
who served in the world war. k
While ihe two boys were playing with
a .22-callbre rifle, the S-year-old son of
Mrs. O. Conltz was accidentally shot by
a playmate. Th wounded hoy to in a
hospital at Kellogg with small chance for
recovery.
Jacob Bare of Idaho City was mourned
as dead for 27 years by his relatives
In Barnard. Mo... while unknown to them
he lived and prospered as owner of a
sheen ranch Jn the Boise basn. He re
cently wrote to his family and a re
union roiiowea. - . - - 1
klnow youRv
PORTLAND
Portland has become the Western
center of brush manufacture. Scores
'of brushes, each different from the
others, are manufactured to aerva
every Imaginable purpose.
The American Brush Manufactur
ing company f Portland estimates
.that the people of Oregon buy each
year $200,000 worth of household and
janitor brushes and that paint brush
purchases . approximate an equal
amount.
But only about 20 per cent of the
business f oes "to Oregon manufac
turers. The remainder is spent out
side the state. Oregon patronage is,
however, growing.
The "brush Industry at the present
tlme employs about 20 people and
the annual payroll aggregates $25,000
a year, .- -
A normal Increase In the patronage
Of Oregon for household and Janitor
brushes would necessitate an increase
of 25 workers and bring the payroll
to approximately $5000 a month.
Paint brush manufacture Is com
paratively new, but a fair proportion
of Oregon's patronage would prac
tically double the brush industry as
a whole, it is said.